Christmas Challenge 2011-Chit Chat

Happy (or not so happy) Weigh in day!

I am down 1.2 from my Start weight... but I am down 3.4 from last weeks rediculous gain! I'll take it!!! I worked out 5 days this week and I stayed under my calories for 3 of those days. And if you know me, that is impressive cuz lately I have been overeating non-stop (hence the weight gain!). I did a 5K this morning, and I averaged 10:03 miles! I was sooooo proud of myself

Congrats to the already many LOSERS! And if your a GAINER (like I was last week), just post the weight, stay accountable, and bust AS$ this week. We have to think long term and just admit when we had a bad week!

Thanks for all the motivation and support!

Would like to do this but just started 9/29 and haven't done a weigh in since then was going to wait until Thursday is it too late to start and if not when should i weigh in and where do i put my results? Thanks new to this and not so computer savy to know all the lingo and how to move within the site. Thanks!

Happy Sunday!

I'm down this week which is a miracle because work was Stress City and I've always been a stress eater. I owe the loss to logging my food every single day. Doing so always helps me make the right decisions. I also ran (walk-to-run interval training) 3 times this week and walked on one or two other days. It's been VERY cold here this week which makes it abundantly clear that I need to get a plan in place for winter. I'm not a fan of the treadmill but I also hate being outside in the cold. What to do, what to do? ;-) Suck it up perhaps?

Good Morning Everyone :flowerforyou:

Well my killer cold is still lingering :grumble: . The good news is I feel much better today. The bad news is I ate like crap on Friday and yesterday was not much better. My body is saying REST, REST, REST :yawn: so that's what I've been doing. I'm still to heavy to weigh my self on my scale at home :blushing: so I will have to log my gain (YUP . . . that's what I assuming) tomorrow when I can weigh my self at the gym. I so need to clear this cold out and stay focused on my strength training so I can make it though the Kettle Worx class that starts Oct 17 :bigsmile: .

My plans for today are to eat my protein, drink my herbal tea, and stay away from the junk food. I'm just going to sit back, relax, and watch the Packer game (GO PACK!) minus the beer and chips! :laugh:

wow there are 117 people on the chart sweet. we should add all the pounds lost at the end of the challenge and see what we lost in total

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Fantastic idea!!!

Hi y'all! Hope everyone is doing well. I have to get focused on eating better on the weekends and stick with the c25k plan (I skipped working out this week eek)!

Oh my goodness...now I'm accountable...and I'm nervous! I look forward to a healthy, sexy Christmas!
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LOL! I felt the same exact way!!! You will do fine with all of the support here!

I can't believe it four pounds! I am so siked. This was my first week on MFP so it may be some water, but I was so so excited! Way to go everyone - keep at it because you know its worth it.

My little man is getting huge - if I could lose at the same rate he is gaining....hmmm

Good Morning Everyone :flowerforyou:

Well my killer cold is still lingering :grumble: . The good news is I feel much better today. The bad news is I ate like crap on Friday and yesterday was not much better. My body is saying REST, REST, REST :yawn: so that's what I've been doing. I'm still to heavy to weigh my self on my scale at home :blushing: so I will have to log my gain (YUP . . . that's what I assuming) tomorrow when I can weigh my self at the gym. I so need to clear this cold out and stay focused on my strength training so I can make it though the Kettle Worx class that starts Oct 17 :bigsmile: .

My plans for today are to eat my protein, drink my herbal tea, and stay away from the junk food. I'm just going to sit back, relax, and watch the Packer game (GO PACK!) minus the beer and chips! :laugh:

I've been fighting a killer cold too. Been week for days now. It is the season. You can do this. I love classes....always find I work harder. Keep it up doll!

Oh and despite a couple slips and hardly any exercising due to my bronchitis, I managed to drop 4 pounds for the week!!! Super excited!

Soooo STOKED!!! 2 pounds lost this week, was hoping for more, but not gonna complain but I also took my measurements again and I also lost almost 3 inches! Hoping I can do as good this week considering it is suppose to rain for half the week and I LOVE going for my long walks and just getting to the point where I can do jogging sprints Hope everyone has a great week! Keep up the good work EVERYONE!!!!

The spreadsheet does look excellent, I've stayed the same this week, I have gotten off lightly, I haven't eaten well or made the right food choices, from the birthdays there's too much cake and chocolate around in the house, I need it gone. So rubbish at after dinner I start munching, we've frozen one of them, and nearly finished the other and then yesterday my son came back with more bloomin cake. I feel terrible giving it to him and also putting it in the bin, I need an end so I think it will be the bin. I did go to swim training last night and omg now I've got the HRM I am getting accurate calorie readings, its shocking I thought in an hour of hardcore swim training with coach I'd be at 400-500calories, last night 301!!!!!!

This week, I will be doing 30DS, part of a challenge for Oct, I'm much better at the exercise than I am at food, this is the part I need to work on. Am reading Jillian Micheals book for inspiration.

Hey all,
Well, it's a good thing that I weighed myself in the morning, because last night I COMPLETELY fell off the horse. I took my nephew to Chili's as a treat and went WAY overboard. I logged it all because I figure if things are going to be different this time I have to be honest with myself. I see A LOT of exercise in my future!

I hope you do better than I did. Word to the wise: don't get the new molten lava cake (or whatever it is called) - that is really where I went overboard...

Found this new thread. Entered my info on the spreadsheet. No change for this week. Considering the week I've had I'm just glad that I didn't have a gain. I understand salvarado08 about Chili's. I might be going there this weekend with my mom. Hopefully I'll make some decent choices while there. If not, I'll just have to do 4 hours of non-stop exercise to make up for it! I've lost all of 5 pounds since mid-August. Time to really rev this thing up. I do enjoy all of the support on here. I need to form some kind of balance with my eating and exercise to see more results.

My NSV for this challenge was to log 200 miles. So far completed 14.5 miles so only 185.5 to go -- woohoo!

Wooohoo down 5.1 lbs this week and loving it:happy: I have been losing lbs every week and want to take advantage of the loss because I know that I will plateau sooner or later!! I have a very very long way to go BUT I am so so so happy!!!!!!

I need to look into my calorie intake :huh: and see what to do about exercise calories:grumble: I know my calories are very very low, but I dont feel hungry.. something I need to work on really hard because at times I look back at the end of the day and I am below 1000 calories. So if anyone has any suggestions, more that glad to hear from you