Over 200 New Year New Me Part 52

I used to be 218. Does that count?

Thank you I feel like I have so far to go...

Currently at 285...Count me in

Thanks for the new thread Momma!!

I am weighing in at 230...and hoping to be in Onederland by Dec. 24.

Love to join you all. I am over the 200 mark by a considerable amount. Restarting after being gone for over a year. Finding hope and joy in life change. We can do this together! One day at a time...one bite at a time...one pound at a time!

Oh and about the sugar/splenda thing... Have you tried stivia? All natural, processes evenly in the bloodstream and after a little getting used to it, is quite enjoyable. And now you can find it in most grocery stores in several forms. Brand name - Truvia. Most health food stores have several brands and types.

YAY! Thanks Momma!

I'll check in too - for those of you who are joining us (YAY!!! and welcome! :flowerforyou: ) we have been checking in with three things - Calories, Water and Exercise. The idea is that you can give very specifics if you like - did you make your calorie goal - did you drink at least your 8 cups of water and did you meet your exercise goal (or get any exercise etc). Some of us have other things we're working on and we add them in here. Not everyone checks in each day. Our weigh in is on Fridays but if you weigh in on a different day that's fine - we just announce them on Fridays and who ever has lost the most (percentage of before weight) gets to come up with a challenge for the next week.

Due to summer we haven't been sticking to this exactly but it's the general idea :bigsmile:

So here I go -

Friday:
Calories - over by a few hundred (cheese and wine:ohwell: )
Water - good
Exercise - Nada It's the first time I've skipped the Rec Center on a work day -

Saturday:
Calories - bad
Water - horrific unless we agree that American lagers are really water?
Exercise - nothing

Sunday:
Same as Saturday

Monday:
Calories - close!
Water - better
Exercise - just lots of stretching and reaching as I washed out the cabinets at the cottage.

We spent the weekend at the lake cottage with some family and lots of friends. I tried to make healthy food options like Saturday we had a really good pasta dinner with whole week pasta and a red sauce made with fresh tomatoes and lots of mushrooms, garlic and onions.... and then ground pork. OOOOOPS! Sunday night I used the smoker to smoke hot dogs then cut them into MacNCheese.

But it was the wine that put me over the top.

magllhn and momma - I love Stevia too! I've tried a few types of it - some is more like sugar and some is fine and powdery - but all of them work well for me.

I wouldn't object to adding sugar to my coffee except that for the first time in my life I'm developing a real sweet tooth! It seems like any sugar I eat just drives up my desire for it!

Good morning, everyone!

As an intro, I've been with this group of gals for over a year now and love them like sisters...weight loss sisters! I'm 29 years old and started my journey at 218.9 lbs and currently hover between 176-178. I'd like to get down to 150 eventually, but am currently focusing on the exercise piece and Intuitive Eating. My free time is spent volunteering as a therapeutic horseback riding instructor, volunteering as a Special Olympics coach, riding my horse, spending time with my friends and family, singing karaoke, reading, running and hiking. I'm active, but my body is used to most of my crazy running around, so it's getting harder to lose the weight without putting in some serious exercise time. I'm always trying to come up with new, fun ways to exercise so that it doesn't sound like work.

I look forward to "meeting" all of the new thread members and cheering everyone on! If you're new to the thread and plan on sticking around for a while, feel free to friend me. Just include a message that you're on the Over 200 thread.

Sherry (Momma24): Thanks for hunting me down! I'm back from a wonderful holiday weekend and ready to get back to it. I failed myself in that I didn't write down what I ate this weekend, but will try to catch up sometime today....after I catch up on work from being gone on Friday.

Mstahl, LittleSpy and Jess: Glad you're still with us! You girls better not go anywhere!!

Julie (LittleSpy): I plan on signing up for a half marathon this fall yet doing the Galloway Method (run 2 miles, walk 1 mile throughout) just to see what it's all about. I'll be trying to find an official training plan for a "real" half marathon soon. We're so going to do this!

Here's my check-in for the weekend: (For those who are new, I'm not logging calories at the moment, so my answers there will be vague guesstimates)
Thursday:
Calories: Over
Water: 64 oz.
Exercise: None, unless I can count laundry and packing

Friday:
Calories: Over
Water: 16 oz.
Exercise: Dancing, singing and laughing at the Ke$ha concert?

Saturday:
Calories: Over
Water: 48 oz.
Exercise: Just Dance for the Wii

Sunday:
Calories: Over
Water: 48 oz.
Exercise: None

Monday:
Calories: Over
Water: 24 oz.
Exercise: None

Hope you all have a great day. I'll check in again when I can!

Thanks momma24 for stalking me and starting the new thread! I was down in the dumps all weekend because I have been slipping back into some bad eating habits, and because all I did all weekend was work on bills and budgets. Which was depressing since we are in the negative every month. I've got to figure out how to spend less money each month without it hurting too badly. We spent double on groceries last month than I had budgeted for. We are eating a lot of fresh foods, so that's good for our health - but harder on the pocketbook. Hmmm. I guess I will have to get better with coupons. The weather was gorgeous over the weekend and that made me even more depressed since I was stuck in the house on the computer most of the time. whine, whine, whine.
Ok ... I'm done. It's a new day, back to school day.... and back on track for me day.

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Water check!!!

How much water has everybody had today!?

Great job Momma!!

I'm at 48oz at 4:26....I've been soooo busy today I haven't hardly had any time to think about drinking my water!

I love that your going bike riding with your daughter tonight and Wii Fit. A good friend of mine and I were talking the other day about how growing up our parents never really taught us about calories. How you are supposed to eat so many calories or even try to teach us how to be aware of how much we are consuming. I never thought twice about eating 2 sometimes 3 meals a day out. Guess that's how I shot up to 261!

Oh a challenge on water drinking huh!?!? Dang you are way ahead of me already!! I'll see what I can do!!