20D by Halloween Challenge: WEEK ONE

Hello everyone!! I hope y'all are having a great day!!

Today has been great for me!! The days I am stuck at home are always my best because I'm not out driving near FF restaurants hearing them call my name...or shopping at Target instead of Kroger just so I can stop at their cafe and get a HUGE soda (full-sugar, of course)

And the 112 degrees (!!) here in Vegas today is responsible for my hibernation

So now that y'all see my demons...lol...onto today...

I've stayed quite a bit under my goal for today...so much so that the red print yelled at me when I tried to "complete" my meals for the day. So I added some grapes on that I'll have tonight after the kids go to bed.

I've already had 7 glasses of water today and its only 4:30pm, and I'm super proud of that. I'm not very (AT ALL) "regular", if I may, so I'm REALLY hoping this extra water & better eating (++fiber) will help out. It has to, right?!?!

I also worked out this am. Not as hard as I would have liked, but 350cals are 350cals. So I'm good with it.

I'm trying my best to remember this:

The taste of that food (whichever I shouldn't be having) is NOT greater than how uncomfortable I feel in my skin.

Also, back when I used to attend WW meetings, my leader once said (in reference to blowing your whole day just because you ate one bad thing) - If you ran a red light on your way to work one morning, would you then say "screw it" and run the rest of them? Or would you shake it off, and stop at the next one? SO TRUE!

GO TEAM 4!!!!!

Hello Everyone!

I want to give this one a try..If i stay really focused, and stay positive, I believe i can lose 20, which will bring me down to 159lbs. My GW is 140, so it's not too far off! :bigsmile:

My only current struggle is food binges. I have my good and bad days.

I usually weigh in on Mondays, if thats ok.

Feel free to add me, or stick me on whatever team! Or i can go solo, and just report in my weight and/or how my days are.

Took a walk on my lunch break even though it hurt and now my leg muscles are twitching. Burned off 164 calories so I'll only be over in the neighborhood of 220 for the day instead of 340. Still wishing I would have had a better day, but oh well. Not every day can be a winner I guess.

There's always tomorrow! :smooched:

This week has been good for me. I've gone to the gym every day. And my biggest moment was yesterday, instead of openign up a bottle of wine because I was upset, I just went for a run. That felt so much better!

But on a sad note, I have to switch trainers because mine is leaving next week. So sad because I'm almost at a 50 pound loss. My goal is to drop these 2 pounds in the next week so we can share that goal.

Team ONE! I'm down 3lbs from when we started =] YAY! It isn't 3lbs total from starting MFP...I totally gained some back. BUT NOT NOW!

Reporting in for the day--Well, the past couple of days been having this annoying cough, and feeling some stuff in my chest. It's mild, not too bad. I do fear it's getting worse just a tad, so I'm keeping my eye on it. Today, I took a long walk and it felt nice. Just because i have a cough, does not mean the exercise stops. If i sit around and recoup, that just gives me the excuse to eat more. I have really toned down the intensity for a few days, just doing my walks. I am doing my C25K (4 day break--till Mon) and Jillians Ripped in 30. So..i hope i feel better soon. I was doing a lot worse with my calorie intake--sometimes i do obsess..but im getting better.

Hi, I hope everyone had a good day. I didn't work out today, I'm terribly sore from working out with my trainer yesterday, had to count this as a rest day. My food was good all day, till I had chicken alfredo. The sauce was light but still don't like to eat that much carbs for dinner. What day are we trying to weigh in? Everyone sounds like they are doing great!! Keep up the hard work, we all know it's going to be worth it. Take care!!


Go team 6!!!!

Hiya Julieash and welcome to team THREE! How did the BBQ go for you today? I had a baby shower and ended up skipping lunch to give myself more calories to work with, but instead I ended up being ravenous and overeating at the party. Felt kind of gross, relieved that I didn't make it into any of the pictures already posted on FB. More motivated now to have a great day tomorrow because Monday is my first weigh-in in a week. Crossing fingers!

Not gonna lie. I feel like my motivation is going down. I'm not eating the healthiest foods lately and just feel that I'm meant to be heavy.

Happy Sunday! Tomorrow is the beginning of a new week! An exciting week for me. Thursday morning I am flying down to Pensacola to visit my fiance, and we are going to a wedding in Jacksonville on Saturday, then coming back to SC on Sunday. He has to go back to Pensacola on Monday, but it will be nice to spend 4 days with him. I haven't seen him in 2 months. He is in the Air Force.

I had a really good week with eating. Probably my best week ever. I stayed within calorie goal all week, eating at least 1300 but no more than 1600. It has helped that I finally understand that the deficit is already factored in and how you should eat back calories you burn when you exercise. I also made pretty good choices with what I ate. I had a couple splurge moments, but mostly did good. Are Mondays going to be weigh in days? Just want to know what day to track my weight!

Come on Bee, you know how your hormones wreak havoc on your motivation when TOM is here! My TOM came 4 days early, so I know how it is. I have not felt like working out at all this week, and I know I have to do some kind of exercise. I kinda feel like I have to prove to myself that it is how I eat that holds me back. You can totally do it and you'll be yourself again in a couple days!

I personally weigh in on Sundays because thats what I did when I was on Weight Watchers and it just stuck.

Do we have a WEEK TWO thread yet?

I thought there was a Week 2 thread.

Anyway, my day in a nutshell:
-did Spinning for about 3/4 of the class because riding a bike while having your period can be a pain. Try that while wearing a pad and not a tampon makes things worse.
-bought a new pair of sneakers, which was a size smaller than usual (can you feet go down a size?)
-eat at a buffet place because I was hella hungry
-went to the bank and post office
-went to Old Navy and can fit to 16's and L's comfortably now. YAY! However, didn't buy anything because I'm waiting to lose a little more to go clothing shopping.
-bought a Minnie Mouse dress/costume for my niece
-Oh and I didn't go over my food for today

So I didn't weigh myself due to PMS but lost a couple of inches, went down a dress size, and a shoe size!

I thought there was a Week 2 thread.

Anyway, my day in a nutshell:
-did Spinning for about 3/4 of the class because riding a bike while having your period can be a pain. Try that while wearing a pad and not a tampon makes things worse.
-bought a new pair of sneakers, which was a size smaller than usual (can you feet go down a size?)
-eat at a buffet place because I was hella hungry
-went to the bank and post office
-went to Old Navy and can fit to 16's and L's comfortably now. YAY! However, didn't buy anything because I'm waiting to lose a little more to go clothing shopping.
-bought a Minnie Mouse dress/costume for my niece
-Oh and I didn't go over my food for today

So I didn't weigh myself due to PMS but lost a couple of inches, went down a dress size, and a shoe size!

AND YOU WERE GOING TO GIVE UP!!!

Way to go, Bee!