Hubba Hubba for the Holidays! (CLOSED GRP) - YES!!

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Mine is a salad dressing i came up with

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I eat ALOT of salads and had a very hard time balancing fat/ calories/ taste/ sugar, until I started experimenting in the kitchen with non-fat Greek yogurt... I mix it with pickle juice and ketchup for a tangy dressing with ground turkey... I adapt it with some feta cheese and pepper for fish and the possibilies are just starting to evolve......

yogurt with pickle juice and ketchup......sounds like a version of 1,000 island dressing? I don't really have any good recipes to share just now. I've been cooking just the way I always do, just keeping my portion sizes a whole lot smaller. Mostly I've been avoiding cooking all the things I really love and I know I would have a problem with overeating. :laugh:

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Great job to beefluv86, petiteerrant, Scarlettdawn764, shickam062604, and gmomlyn for being this week's Biggest Losers! Gmomlyn you are so AMAZING!

Kristen the chart is so festive as always!

Good luck to all of you this week!

Bluiz- hope you get a break from work sometime soon and get back some "me time". I always do better when I'm well rested and have some down time!

Shickam- I've never done the 30 day shred. At the moment, I"m lifting weights and waiting (rather impatiently) for my new treadmill to come in so I can get back to running.

Two NSVs this week- 1) today I am wearing a pair of my husband's long johns under my jeans- this is good because I have always been heavier than my skinny hubby, at one point I was 50 pounds heavier and I'm now down to 5 pounds heavier (he's starting to sweat that I'll overtake him, LOL)

2) Last year I bought a new pair of snow pants. They were a size M (10-12) which is what I should have been wearing as I was a loose 12, tight 10, but I could not zip those snow pants up. By the spring, I could zip them up, but it was not comfortable. This week I put them on for the first time this season and not only did they zip up, there was some extra room for layers under there, woo hoo!

Ya'll have a great weekend!

~~Veronica

Well I am down to only needing to lose 10 pounds until I reach my goal weight, and I know the last ten pounds can be the hardest. I'm thinking my weeks of 3-4 pound losses are pretty much over. I am however going to start the 30 Day Shred today so that I can start toning the areas I've lost.

Hi All,

I've really been struggling the past few weeks. I need to figure something out & get back on track. Have a feeling the scale is going to be SUPREMELY ugly on Monday, but I will have to face it, accept & move on.

Hoping for better results in the coming weeks.

Many hugs to all,

Amy

Ok so hopefully I can get this to post right. I went to a wedding exactly a year ago, and I went to one today. I made a wedding last year/wedding this year comparison pic that I wanted to post. I had had a few drinks in the more recent one (today) so just ignore that lol. :drinker:

Veronica: Thanks for the motivation to keep on going. I usually finish all challenges
no matter how poorly I do. We can motivate each other. I feel better this
week. :bigsmile:

Kristen: I have Crystal who is my friend on here and we are going through the same
things. I see her posts on the main board and we keep up with other.
Thanks for the tip. It all comes down to myself, I am the one who has to do it.

Okay now today I am down but I wanted to wait until tomorrow to weigh in. We are meeting up with friends
later today and I am a little worried on where are going and if eating and drinking will be involved. I was going
to eat well today and I have already walked for 35 mins. this morning. So if I eat healthy and watch I should be
okay for tomorrow. Wish me luck.

I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO WEIGH IN LAST WEEK!! and it was an important one, too!! ONDERLAND!!! anyway, here's LAST WEEK'S weigh in, and i'll be back tomorrow with this week's! :bigsmile:


09/05: 204.6
09/12: break
09/19: break
09/26: 204.0
10/03: 201.6
10/10: 200.2
10/17: 199.4
10/24:
10/31: <<< 192.6 >>>
11/07:
11/14:
11/21:
11/28: <<< 186.6 >>>
12/05:
12/12:
12/19:
12/24: <<< 180.6 >>>

Current Weight: 212.8
Challenge Goal Weight: 175

09/05: 212.8
09/12: 210.0
09/19: 210.0
09/26: 207.6
10/02: <<<mini goal weight>>> 205 and I hit it - 205.0 on the nose today!!!!
10/10: 201.4
10/17: 200.8
10/24: 199.0
10/31: <<<mini goal weight>>> 195
11/07:
11/14:
11/21:
11/28: <<<mini goal weight>>> 185
12/05:
12/12:
12/19:

ONE-DERLAND Here I am!

I need some advice and encouragement. I feel like I've lost my motivation to exercise the past couple weeks. I still watch what I eat and stay under, but I've went from working out 5 or 6 days a week, to maybe 1. College has been extremely stressful lately with midterms and other tests. Any advice on how to get my motivation back? Or some new, fun exercises to try?

Whenever my motivation hits a low, I re-evelaute where I've been and where I'm going. I sit down and physically write out my goals. Seeing them on paper and watching myself write them really forces me to connect to them better than typing them or speaking them or thinking them. Every Sunday (today included) I write out what I'm going to eat and what exercise I'll do for the whole week. I also write out two or three other goals to keep myself pushing for something. For example, I've got all of my meals and exercise planned for this week in Excel so I can easily change it if something comes up. I also have a little notebook that I write my weekly goals in each Sunday and then write one sentence each day about what I did to accomplish them.

I have found that planning EVERYTHING before the week even starts makes it really hard for me to derail during the week. I want to make this as easy as possible on me -- not something that will stress me out. That's my two cents. I find that the more I plan, the more successful I am.

Good luck! Just remember that this is something that needs to fit in your life long term. One week of slipping shouldn't derail the AMAZING progress you have made. Tests happen, work stress happens, family stress happens. All you can do is wake up tomorrow with the resolve and determination to continue on this journey and become a healthier, happier, more fit person. You can do this -- the 30+ pounds you've already lost are proof enough of that. You've got this.

Current Weight:248
Challenge Goal Weight: 208
09/05: 248
09/12: 244.2
09/19: 242.6
09/26: 239.6
10/03: <<<mini goal weight>>>238 238.8
10/10: 235.6
10/17:233.2
10/24:230.0
10/31: <<<mini goal weight>>> 228
11/07:
11/14:
11/21:
11/28: <<<mini goal weight>>> 218
12/05:
12/12:
12/19:
12/24: <<<challenge goal weight>>>

Down to 166 this week. Only 1 lb but its all good. Didn't get to exercise as much as I wanted to. Tom is here so I hope I can keep ahead of it and not get dragged down this week.