The last 10 pounds challenge (closed group)

Sorry I'm late checking in.

No weight loss.
Did run 5 extra miles, all at once on Saturday!
Only did 100 crunches.

2 days of strength training (upper and lower body)
1 day of cardio.

Rough week.

Back on track today!

Congrats to everyone else!

Uh oh!

Remember a couple of weeks ago the in-laws came to visit and I blew out with calories?

To quickly recap... they are all lovely but big people with huge apetites. Everything, all day long revolves around food. What are we having for breakfast? Tea, scones, cream or biscuits and cake anyone? What did you want to do for lunch. Should we go out to dinner? These are what the days revolve around. Ok. I get it. They like their food and that's the focus of their lives but my father-in law can barely walk. He has bad knees and the weight doen't help. My mother in-law has diabetes and gets infections under the skin fold on her stomach. It isn't pretty people.

At meal times, I feel like I have two heads. I feel like they think I'm a non-eater, weird, difficult and vain. All because I don't want to eat pancakes, toast, porridge, egg and bacon for breakfast followed by chinese food for lunch and a big 5 course BBQ for dinner. I feel out of place when they tell me I'm too skinny, that I need to eat more, that I'm being silly, that their food is good for you etc.

Sometimes when I'm there I make poor choices. We sit around the food-laden table for hours and there's so much of it that keeps being brough out and placed in front of me! Sometimes it's from lack of choice. Sometimes it's because they all eat so much at breakfast time, lunch isn't until just before dinner when I'm just about ready to gnaw my arm off (seeing as I only ate cereal and a peice of fruit for breaky). Sometimes I just have too many excuses for blowing my healthy eating!!

Well... This weekend... my hubby and I are flying up to stay with them for 3 days. 3 DAYS. Staying. With. Them!!! Now don't get me wrong, they are lovely people but the constant food thing is stressful. Especially as we are staying with them and they organise when we ate and where we eat.

I need a plan of attack.

*I will excuse myself from the table during dessert and am taking up my own little treats that I can have with tea rather than eating the cake, ice-cream and scones with cream.
*I will take little meal-fillers/snacks for those big stretches between meals
*I will order my own dish at meal time rather than share all the other chosen dishes
*I will limit alcohol to 2 glasses of wine
*I will go for a walk when everyone else is having their day time naps

I am sick of chsing my tail after weekens. Losing during the week to put on during the weekends.

These people are my weapons against failure. Wish me luck!!

Your plan sounds wonderful!!! Do not let them dictate what you eat or make you feel bad. You are making the right choices for yourself. I know its hard with family, you don't want to offend anyone or hurt anyones feelings, but they are family and you should be able to stick up for yourself. And when they say your are too skinny, you just smile and say THANK YOU :happy:
Good luck Girl!!! We all know you can do it!!!!

My knee is not so good this week. I hurt it alittle sunday and now I can not jog at all without pain. Hoping the elliptical will be kind to me tomorrow morning, since treadmill and step mill are out for now. I did the bike this morning and that wasn't too bad, but the step mill killed me, only got 9mins into it before I quit.
I got 4miles down for the challenge, and depending on how I feel tonight I'll try and get another 2 in. If its still bothering I might just hold off until saturday, where I am guaranteed atleast 4miles of walking (gonna bring my pedometer with me to make sure).
90 squats down so far and 60 push ups....I was able to do 1 regular push up this morning....baby steps!!!

Have a great day everyone!!!!

Valerie, I hope you have a great vacation!!!!! Stupid TOM better not get in your way of a good time...I'm sure it won't

Thanks for the advice. My knee feels alittle better today. Elliptical was good on the knee and I walked SLOWLY on the treadmill this morning with a slight incline. No gym workout for me tomorrow, but we will get lots of walking in.

The scale was REAL nice to me today, lets hope I can keep it down over the weekend and I took some prelim measurements and I have to say I am pretty happy.
I'm doing good with the challenges this week!! How about everyone else???

ljb and valerie, have safe and wonderful trips!!!!
And everyone else I hope you all have a great weekend!!!!!

See you at check in :happy:

Your plan for the inlaws seems like a smart one! I hope it goes well! Eeek, it sounds like everyone had some setbacks this week. I hope you all heal and overcome them soon!

I just wanted to tell everyone I've had a NSV! woo! I ran for 25 minutes straight, which I haven't done for two years, so it feels pretty awesome. The day before that, I ran for a mile and a half on the road down by my house (pavement and hills). Which, even when I was running 5 miles a day two years ago- I couldn't run it. I know it was a mental barrier, but it feels really amazing to finally break through it. I have shin splints to show for it, but I'm doing the whole icing thing and relishing in my small victories.

Things are a little hectic here. I'm packing up for my senior year at college in three days (how is it senior year already?!). That is where I'm going to have a heck of a time keeping my diet in check but I should be alright on the exercise category. I'm also doing the grad school thing so I am stressed out just thinking about it. GAH. I hope I can stress exercise rather than stress eat....

Uhhhh....so weird...I checked in and then came back to find it didn't post, strange!!!!

Here is it:

Weight: 129.2 (down 1.4lbs)
Waist: 26 1/2
Hips: 36 1/2
Legs: 20
Arms: 10 3/4
Lower Waist: 30
Bust: 32 3/4

Sunday: Cardio mixed with Strength-Wii Fitness Coach
Monday: 2mile walk
Tuesday: Cardio and Strength
Wednesday: Cardio and Strength plus 2mile walk
Thursday:Cardio and Strength
Friday: Cardio and Strength
Saturday: Cardio plus 4mile walk

I got in all 8 miles, 100 push ups and 165 squats!!!

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the holiday weekend. I have another day of indulgence today, getting ready to head to the gym now to try and offset some of the martinis I'll be having today :happy:

Just corrected a typo :blushing:

So glad to hear people's weeks are going well! I had a fantastic week and held my weight at 156.5 lbs for days. Then one cookout last night, I gained right back to 159. The worst part is, I went in ready to be really good. Water bottle at my side and I brought healthy food along. When we got there, a friend asked me to try an insanely hot pepper with him. Why not try it once, right? It was tasty too! However, it was so hot that it made me sick to my stomach and I had to eat like crazy to get my stomach to calm down. Then, being off the wagon, I drank a few glasses of wine, had some cake, and on it goes. I am too embarrassed by how much I really ate to put it in my food diary. Hopefully my efforts will recover quickly because I was really motivated.
I walked and ran a combined 10 miles this week.
I was up to 40 squats and realized I hate them, so good luck to everyone else who appreciates them. :-) I will cheer you guys on. I saw at least one crazy high number so far.
I was stoked with the push up challenge, but didn't quite finish.
20 - Sunday
20 - Wednesday
20 - Thursday
20 - Friday
5 - Saturday <-- The only reason I did that many is because I was waiting for someone on my walk and did them while waiting. I just plain forgot to do the last 15 when I got home.

32" * Waist (same)
38" * lower abs (same)
39" * hips (same)
24" * thighs (same)
10 3/4" * arms That 1/4 is lost is probably just muscle. :-P
If I get back to 156.5 this next week, I'm writing it on here, even if it's not Sunday yet. Maybe that way, I'll have no choice but the keep the weight off. ;-)

* Waist: 25.0 inches
* lower abs: 32 inches
* hips: 38 1/2 inches
* thighs: 22 1/4 inches
* arms 10 inches

Hey all! Someone please explain to me this friggen fat reorganization. I feel like I didn't actually lose any fat, it just moved around. >.< Anyone have any insights?!

Waist: 25
lower abs:31
Hips: 39
thighs: 23
Arm: 10

Sunday: Rest
Monday: strength training and cardio
Tuesday: Strength training
Wednesday: Cardio, and strength training
Thursday: Cardio
Friday: Cardio
Saturday: Cardio and strength training

I totally didn't track my squats/lunges/pushups! I don't know why! I just do them until I can't anymore and don't bother counting. I feel like if I'm lunging with forty extra pounds in dumbbells then it's totally fine to do three sets of 12 per leg. I dunno.

Oh, and at 133 this morning. I'm feeling kind of helpless at this point. Nothing seems to be changing.

bprague, do you tend to do the same workouts every week? I noticed that when I ran every day last year, I managed to gain weight. I had great legs, but my waist and chest seemed as uncomfortable as ever. One day someone got me out on a bike ride for an hour or two and my body responded. Try doing something your body hates doing every once in a while. It might be poor advice, since you seem to work out hard anyway, but it's all I have.

Same as last week. 127.5, Inches also the same.

Exercised everday and met water goal everyday which was a first.

Well... I too just got back from a weekend of food. Weighed myself last night and the damage wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. A gain of only 2.2 Ib which may have been due to weighing in the evening rather than the morning. Next Friday when I do my official weigh in, it should be better (I hope! Fingers crossed!) I'll do my measurements then too.

So... the weekend of food with the inlaws started with a massive feed of chinese food on Friday followed by no thanks for a big breaky fry-up on Saturday morning (opted for weet-bix instead). Lunch consisted of BBQ meat, chicken, pork, salad, bread, bread, bread (did I say bread?) and two serves of pavlova. Dinner was a small steak and salad. I am totally breaded out. Sunday, me and the hubby escaped and had fish with salad followed by a shared caramel slice and Chai for afternoon tea. As we were getting ready to head to the airport the mother-in-law surprised us with a farewell dinner of lasagne and marinated chicken breast with bread (no salad) at 5.30pm. I'd barely eaten my afternoon tea! I almost lost it! Made my own salad, passed on the bread, halfed my lasagne slice and took a tiny quarter piece of a chicken breast. Afterwards the desert was immediately pulled out! No joke. I had barely cleared the dinner plates. For goodness sake!! I politely said "no thanks" and was asked another 5 times. My partner too. Until I said "look please don't force us". She lost it at me. Saying "they're only small, I bought small custard tarts with cream on top and muffins and strawberry tarts so you could have one of each. They're not so bad because they are small". To which I replied "actually there is at least 150 calories in the custard tart, 100 in the mini muffin and 100 in the strawberry. Thats over 300 together before adding the cream".

I know I may seem a little rude they know we are trying to eat healthy. They constantly try and make us fall off the wagon. I ate everything I was given all weekend to please them until that final dinner on the third night. Enough was enough! I may have crossed the line but I just hated that we were constantly told to just eat it, eat it, how nice it was, how we were missing out etc etc. It annoyed me how she almost forced hubby to eat and justifed it by saying; it's small, it's only one, it's the weekend, it's fat free etc etc. Argh. I've put my foot down. I'm not going to let other people ruin my hard work and pull me into THEIR eating habits.

On another more positive note...over the weekend I ended up doing a run which I was pleased about because I thought it wouldn't happen.

And...

NSV today! After eating all weekend, I had two people comment from work about how much weight I have lost :happy:

Plus, shopping was pretty cool. Mostly bought xsmallsizes in tops and trousers/shorts and even one xxsmal top and trouser pants. I have NEVER been a small. Not. Ever. I also got properly fitted for a bra and have gone down a strab size but not cup size, got to be pleased with that!

Hope everyone's happy with their measurements... and don't let anyone else dictate what you eat!!