Healthy for the Holidays Challenge - 9/06 - 11/22

Good morning:) I've been on vacation since last week and last week I got my house super duper clean. I haven't worked out as much as I"ve liked but I've really been watching my food intake. Anyway, my weight is down 1.2 this week from 140.8 to 139.6! Yah, I have finally broke into the 130's!!:):)

Hey everyone, I need some advice. I'm going to be in my friend's wedding in May, and she's been bugging me for a while to get measured for my bridesmaid dress so she can order them all together. I'm gonna go get measured today because I don't want to make her wait any longer, but what would you all do in this situation? I still have about 10 lb to lose, and hopefully that will happen between now and May... I think that's probably a little bit too much to trust the measurements I get today, but I don't want to put off losing this weight just to fit into a dress. What do you think?

Hey everyone, I need some advice. I'm going to be in my friend's wedding in May, and she's been bugging me for a while to get measured for my bridesmaid dress so she can order them all together. I'm gonna go get measured today because I don't want to make her wait any longer, but what would you all do in this situation? I still have about 10 lb to lose, and hopefully that will happen between now and May... I think that's probably a little bit too much to trust the measurements I get today, but I don't want to put off losing this weight just to fit into a dress. What do you think?

get fitted for it now and if you lose the weight get it taken in. May? why are you ordering dresses now though? if it can be put off until a month or two before the wedding I would go that way. Is she ordering them early and getting them cut from the same batch of material?

Ask her if this is the deadline because 7 months is a long ways away...

Thanks for the advice. I went and got measured today, and I'm a little worried because using the rule of picking a size based on the largest measurement, the size is 2 sizes bigger than if I used my other measurements.... hopefully I'll be able to get it altered without it looking too weird.

Yeah I had a bridesmaids dress in colleges that was fairly tight fitted everywhere. The skirt and top were separate pieces, but you still had to order them in the same size. I measured needing an 8 on top and a 14 on the bottom and ordered a 12 (thinking I would lose weight). I swear I don't look THAT bottom heavy.

End result - I still had to have the top altered because it was obviously way to big and the skirt was so tight I'm lucky it zipped - it did not look good.

Do you have a tailor you trust right now? It wouldn't be a bad idea to find one ahead of time. With your weight lost I'm sure you have stuff in your closet that is too big. Test a few tailors out on that stuff now.

I was MIA and AWOL for a couple weeks because I was really struggling with my weight loss journey. This is a summary of my weigh ins since the challenge began:

Sept. 6: 144 pounds
Sept. 13: 143 pounds
Sept. 20: 143 pounds
Sept. 27: Didn't send a weigh in but "checked in" on Sept. 28th
Oct. 4: Didn't post a weigh in
Oct. 11: 141. 7 pounds

My Confession: I didn't send weigh ins as I was going through a rough time with my weight loss and my health and I ended up gaining weight and didn't want to post that I gained weight.
It was not the right thing to do but it was easy to do as with the challenge, if you don't send your weigh in you just disappear off the list temporarily so there was no one or nothing to hold me accountable and when it seems as though there are no consequences it's very easy to avoid posting a weight gain.

I have looked at the spreadsheet and I know our weights go up and down and the spreadsheet shows just that but I was always mad at myself when I had a gain, especially on a weigh in day as I I felt I was letting myself down and I would think if other people are posting losses I should be able to do it too but I kept falling off the wagon.

So, here are ALL my weigh ins:

Sept. 6: 144 pounds
Sept. 13: 143 pounds (lost 1 pound)
Sept. 20: 143 pounds (maintained 1 pound loss)
Sept. 27: 147.3 pounds (gained 4.3 pounds, my low point mentally and emotionally and partially out of my control due to TOM and endometriosis and medication I was on that had me eating meals when I wasn't hungry and frustration that led to more eating)
Oct. 4: 144.1 pounds (lost 3.2 pounds as TOM and endometriosis were getting better and I was slowly trying to get somewhat back on track)
Oct. 11: 141. 7 pounds (lost 2.4 pounds as I worked harder at getting back on track)

Overall Weight Loss During Challenge So Far: 2.3 pounds

So, I am working to stay on track (but as many of you know that is not an easy thing to do) and I don't want to have to post any more gains but if a gain happens I won't hide out and you can call me out if I do!

Now you're like, "Who is this person?" as I didn't post on the thread a lot previously and then I disappeared altogether but I hope my name will become familiar as then it will mean I am active on my weight loss journey!

I believe this challenge is to be healthy for the American Thanksgiving (and maybe for Christmas too?) as it ends on Nov. 22 and I think American Thanksgiving is on Nov. 24 but I am Canadian and just celebrated Thanksgiving on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday with dinner at my parents' house and dinner at my aunt's house and dinner at a restaurant and leftovers from my mom and am happy to report that although my weight fluctuated over the weekend and I did allow myself some desserts I didn't go overboard with the food and I did some exercise and I am able to report a loss today and not a gain which even I am shocked about! I did wake up hungry though as I didn't eat a lot at my aunt's house last night!

So, I am wishing you all success on your weight loss journey and I am wanting to live up to my username: inshapeCK!