Lose 5 Pounds a Month September 2011 Challenge

I weighed in at 300.7 this morning. WOOHOO!!! I'll be 2-riffic in no time flat, then I have a long journey to being 1-derful, but I'll get there! I'm seeing so many changes, wish I'd measured pertinent areas before starting 3 months ago. Oh well, I can see and feel the changes, I don't need to see numbers on a page to prove it to me! Keep it up everyone!

Great job! Isn't it great when you break through to another number on the scales. I started calling them decades, which drives my friend nuts!

My TOM has been visiting so it seems that food is not safe around me. I lost a pound (YAY!) and gained it back (YUK!). I'm hoping next week I will have better control. Never give up!

9/1--175.5
9/8--173.5
9/15-172.5

Hang in there guys, everyone's doing wonderfully! Hang tough for these last two weeks and let's see how much we can lose as a group!

9/2: 120
9/9: 117.6 (wow!)
9/16: 116.6
9/23: ?
9/30: ?
Total Lost: 3.4 pounds so far!

I beat the number I set for myself, which was just to get to 117 even so I'm very happy. I'm aiming for at least 116 by this time next week, hopefully 115.6 so I can use the final week to slow down a bit and since with my anniversary coming up I know I'll be eating more then. It feels great to be slipping further away from the 120's, even after I dressed this morning I was below 120 which was a great motivator!

I didn't do as well as planned food or exercise wise this week though, so I'm thankful to have gotten the full pound off. I definitely splurged more than I should have, with lots of snacks Saturday and a split McDonalds meal on Sunday, but I've been clean through the week itself (and the fact I split a meal rather than eating my own was a huge improvement over my past self). I'm telling myself my blood donation Saturday made it okay since they took weight away in blood Only 1.5 pounds left for the month, I've got this!

9/2/2011 ~ 193.6

9/9/2011~ 192.4

9/16/2011~ 188.8

9/23/2011~

9/30/2011~

Okay! Doing better than I thought! 3.6 pounds this week! Not quite sure how I pulled that off! lol!

STILL at 148/149.

Went for a run Wed night, did the same loop as last week, and shaved off 2 min (31 instead of 33). Due for another run tonight.

Really struggling with cravings the last day or two... probably hormonal.

urgh... I have even added an extra workout class (or 3) to my weekly exercise regimen. I now do purebarre and gentle flow yoga mon, wed, fri, with just purebarre on sun and Hot vinyasa yoga tues, thurs, with short form ashtanga on sat.... I would be thinking that I would be losing instead of gaining!... Getting very frustrated

On a side note.. (sorry, a little gross note, also) I feel very... :embarassed: uhm, stopped up. Any quick remedies? Yes, I have been eating veggies, and activia... and drinking about 4-6 cups of water a day... So, I am a little confused as to why..... thanks in advance!

Weighing in this week at 215 lbs even steven. Down 0.4 from last week (2.4 lbs total this month). I'll take it! That's 2 less butter sticks of me.

p.s. Today's profile picture = my motivation to exercise this weekend. This is what 5% body fat percentage and 48% muscle looks like . (The rest if water, tissue and bones = my triathlete son.)

Sep 01: 191.4 lbs
Sep 09: 192.4 lbs
Sep 16: 190.6 lbs
Sep 23:
Sep 30:

Finally the scale is going in the right direction, but I never would have dreamed it would be after the week I've had. I'm not getting any time to do my workouts and only got a run in Saturday & Tuesday - 5K both times. Other than that I've been SO freaking busy & emotional. A very dear friend had an aneurysm on Tuesday and the visitation is today, with the funeral tomorrow. Then right after the funeral I have to go to a wedding that is over 2 hours away. Plus TOM is here so the scale going DOWN really is a shocker! I've been eating treats pretty much every day - you know the sweet cravings are here! I really need to get running since I have to run the last 6.2 miles of a marathon with my friend Jen next Sunday (25th) for support to get her to the finish! I was hoping to get a long run in today of at least 6 or 7 miles, but since I have the visitation, I don't forsee that happening. I just hope I'm ready to run with her next Sunday!

Also I haven't seen CJ all week with our schedules & he's been extra busy with the sherriff's office and his regular chief job, then he had a board meeting and I did too....so anyway its just been one heck of a week. Then he calls me last night & knows I'm wearing a dress to the wedding tomorrow, but he really wants to wear jeans & a polo shirt - I'm like :noway: REALLY? I've never known him to EVER be difficult, but this week I cannot take it. I finally gave in & told him to wear his new jeans and a dark blue button down long sleeved shirt. Do you think that will be ok at a wedding? I personally don't, but what do you ladies think?

It's my TOM and I gained back 2 of the 2.5lbs I lost last week. I'm trying to drink a ton of water and hopefully in the next couple of days I will be back down.