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

Did a 46 minute walk today and did a plank for 30 seconds twice so 46 minutes total today.

I am unable to drink 10 glasses of water but I am at 4 glasses as of 4pm so may be able to achieve 6 glasses of water before the day is through.

I got outside and spent 2 1/2 hours working on my yard today. It's been wet here for the last couple of weeks, so I desperately NEEDED to get the mowing, fall fertilizing, and over-seeding done before it gets any wetter and colder-- all DONE now!

I'll say it again, I can SEE where my exercise calories have been expended this past year--I just look at my yard and smile! This winter, I plan to work on the inside of my house, painting and getting it ready for sale in the spring. With luck, in the next year, I'll be moving to where I can have my horse again and spend tons of calories doing my favorite exercise.

Ailene, glad you are choosing to re-discover your mojo, I totally am at that place where I need to get back there myself. My weight loss journey is almost over, but my get healthy journey, that's for forever, and I don't want to lose that passion I started with when I got on MFP to get slim, fit and strong!
Challenges for week of 10/25, Week 7
Food: In the spirit of trick or treating fun, find a fun, healthy treat that you enjoy, something you can eat without feeling guilty. We all need some sort food treat that is good for us and that we enjoy having that we can reward ourselves with. Share your treat ideas on here
Fitness: Increase your intensity. Vamp up your workouts this week, go harder.
Lastly, as it seems that some of us have lost our way and our trying to find our mojo, share with the group what was it like when you made the decision to get healthier and lose weight. Maybe it was when you got on MFP, maybe before, but share what lit the fire under your butt to get up and get moving to really make a change in your life.
Hope everyone is doing well! Looking forward to refinding my way on here with ya'll!
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Check in....Last week 145.4

This week 145.2 Down .2

Hope that y'all have a great week!!!!

154.4 this week Going in the right direction for once!

168.8 Up this week.

That's better than I thought it would be. Spent Sunday nigtht/Monday morning at the casino playing blackjack with my mom. I didn't count calories until I got back. My choice of oral fixation at the table is small pieces of dark chocolate. Not great but way healthier than the oral fixation of everyone else at the table. Plus we ate out at a restaurant on the river. Best Calamari I've ever had.

Todays weigh in 191, down 2 lb this week. Only 1 lb till my goal, I am so excited!!!!!! Can/ should I change my goal?

holding off on weighing in until tonite. My number is a little high and I think it's because my muscles are so sore from running all weekend, so they're holding water/lactic acid.

Starting Weight on September 6, 2011: 158.4lbs
Goal Weight by November 22, 2011: 143.0lbs

Week One on September 13, 2011: 156.4lbs
Week Two on September 20, 2011: 154.8lbs
Week Three on September 27, 2011: Didn't weigh in. TOM.
Week Four on October 4, 2011: 153.0lbs
Week Five on October 11, 2011: 151.8lbs
Week Six on October 18, 2011: 150.6lbs
Week Seven on October 25, 2011: 150.4lbs (or 149.4lbs)

I kept getting either 150 or 149 every other time I'd step on the scale this morning (and I did it 10 times!) I'm logging it at 150.4 because it is my TOM so I figured I won't see much of a loss anyways.

Parvy, congrats on the pregnancy! It is so good that you are more fit this time around...it is helpful so that after the baby is born you can get right back into the swing of this weightloss journey!

174 this week. Down one pound from last week.

CW:198.5
That is up. I can't seem to get back on track. Have been thru so so much the past few months and some times feel all alone. But helps to see that there are others going thru situations simular to mine.
My mom passed in June, my son went to Kansas in July and moved in dorms and started school in August.
Which has been more tramatic for me than him.
About a month ago the little girl that we have been keeping on and off since she was 2 has come to stay with us. Her mom who has 5 kids (all girls) got the oldest 2 taken away and given to their dad by CPS .She voluntairly turned her other 3 over to the people who have watched them. This baby has gone on vacations with us spent Christmas and birthdays.
I would never want her to go to a family that didn't know her. I love her as my own. We all do.
But then I think "I have a son in college and a daughter that is a junior in high school it's supose to be my time." Then I feel guilty for thinking like that. Then there comes the money issue. Struggling as it is now I have a 4 yr old ( will be 5 on Nov,1).
So my food and water intake have been crappy,
Oh yeah and did I mention a week before my son's graduation in May I tore my menisuis. Couldn't straighten it out or walk on it for over a month. So can't really do much in way of exercise.
Sorry for the long whiney post.

Patty

Well, I'm not sure if today's weight on the scale was good or bad.
Guess it was both.
It was bad as I am still 0.2 pounds up from where I was 2 Tuesdays ago
but it was good as I lost 0.7 pounds of the 0.9 pounds I was up last Tuesday.

Last week I moved from green to yellow.
Hopefully in November I will move back into green.

Weighed in at 141.9 pounds this morning.

Did 242 minutes of exercise last week which is less than the challenge of 270 minutes
but my own weekly exercise goal is 180 minutes so I beat that.