Lose a turkey by turkey day

Hi all, My name is Corey! I'm completely up for completing this challenge with every one of you

I am starting up again after months of not being on this site. I quit smoking and gained back a ton of weight, so I'm back on the track again and I think something like this would help me tremendously.

I am at work this weekend, and this morning I had a bowl of cheerios, but I failed in my decision making and had a Mcdonald's Sausage Mcmuffin and hashbrown after my coworker offered to buy it for whomever wanted something.

For my mid-morning snack I had two celery sticks with peanut butter.

I haven't had lunch yet, but I brought a turkey sandwich on wheat bread and a yoplait light key lime pie yogurt as a side. Lots of water today!

I'm starting The Firm Express workout on monday, so this weekend (after work) will be filled with various workout dvds such as 30 Day Shred, Zumba or a workout game for my Xbox 360.

I am in the military and I HAVE to lose 10 lbs by October. For now, that is my biggest goal, but I would like to lose 25 - 30 lbs overall! I look forward to the motivation and support from you all as we trek down this journey together.

oops double post!

Gobble , Gobble, fellow turkeys


It's Saturday. Well my friday night was a major disater. I ate well at home but joined a friend i hadn't seen in a while for a drink and music. I started with water . Then was talked in to spliting a Texas sized margrita. Big mistake. That thing was huge. Of course I couldn't keep an accurate count. I went way over my calorie goal. I felt bad but when i got home i felt even worse. I had stomach pains out of this world. When you start to change your life habits you really can't go back to old ways. I hadnt felt like that ever and I've drank way more in the past. I love my family and friends but I love me more. At this point in my journey I must stay away from these outing for a while.

Do you have trouble staying on track on the weeks? Do you find it hard to get friends and family to understand your choices? What will you do differently?

Yes, weekends are so hard. We have friends over, drink, hang out. I cook all weekend and friday nights we normally would order out. Its so hard. My family (husband and kids) are fine to eat healthy 90% of the time, but the other 10%, they want treats. And they are thin. I need better control, I just don't know where to get it from.

This week I passed up an outing with the girls. I don't want to go and eat crap and drink too much. Unfortunately, I think turning down these events is the only way I can not do it for now.

I want in (if it's not too late). This site was helping me considerably (I mean I used it consistently....not sure if I really lost any but anyway) then I got lazy, ate more, stopped exercising. Saw and episode of "Cook yourself Thin" last week and got motivated again, to home cook at least. Thought I'd enter in today's foods (a guestimate). My rough guess suggested I had eaten over 1000 calories by lunch time sigh. A discouraging reminder that weighing my food is a good idea. I definitely need someone to be accountable to/share the struggle with.

I like the weekly weigh ins (although I hate my damn scale!) My goal is for 25 lbs (a large turkey!) by then.

8/19
8/26
9/2
9/9
9/16
9/23
9/30
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/11
11/21

8/11 - 211.8
8/18 -209.8 (-2.0)
8/25 -
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awesome! i'm down 2 lbs!! i'm gonna have to get ALL NEW CLOTHES for thanksgiving!!

I wanna join! Is it to late? This is my exact goal date not only because of it being Thanksgiving, but I'm getting married on November 26! This would be awesome to have people with the same goal date! I want to be atleast 40lbs down, fingers crossed!

Depends on how many people you are feeding! My personal turkey is 25 lbs!

It's not too late to join! Welcome to everyone!

Feeling upbeat, committed to a mini one week challenge of 10 minutes of cardio every day (I know that's not a lot but I'm angling for the regularity, from there I can increase). Invested in a heart rate monitor (I'm in love), think having this numerical representation of how hard I'm working (or how not hard enough) is going to help me a lot with exercising :-)

Also being more thoughtful about food quantities, recording food intake and not drinking Farmers union Iced coffee (my favourite drink in the whole work and an integral part of my identity).

Laurapm: I find telling myself what food I can't eat very hard, conversely, telling myself what exquisite, delicious foods I Can eat I find much more manageable. Have you seen any episodes of "cook yourself thin"? It's damn cheesy but a good approach and kinda motivating. 4 absurdly glossy, thin, young english women help one person who struggles with food by identifying their favourite fatty foods and devising delicious substitutes they can make at home, most of the things they make look darn tasty (generally hover between 400 and 600 calories but always less calorific than the take away counterparts so you know, take their ideas and mix with your own common sense). Other slice of advice, more vegetables, in everything :-) (example, why make curry with just chicken when you could add carrot and cauliflower and peas and tomatoes and ... *starts salivating*, or, why make spaghetti with meat alone when you could add mushrooms and celery and carrots and zuchini and so on) (disregard if you already bulk up with veg). Hang in there :-)

would love to join. Hope am not too late.

I weigh in on Fridays because its before the weekend, when I tend to have more things to eat/drink etc... so I give myself to week to work off any extra.

8/12- 268.4
8/19 -267.2 (loss of 1.2)
8/26
9/2
9/9
9/16
9/23
9/30
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/11
11/21

Back to class next week! I am hoping it will help since I will only be able to eat what I bring with me! I am going to resist snacks at the food place there!

Today I did good at orientation and resisted the pizza and ice cream they had for lunch and the soda they had at snack. Though most people understand. It is a nursing school and we had just had a prof talk to us about making sure we still work out so we don't add the junior 15 to the freshman 15 and sophomore 15 and another one lecture us on energy drinks and smoking.

I haven't weighed in so I am being bad about that.

8/11 - 211.8
8/18 -209.8 (-2.0)
8/25 -208.2 (-1.6)
9/01 -
9/08 -
9/15 -
9/22 -
9/29 -
10/6 -
10/13-
10/20-
10/27-
11/03-
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