New You for the New Year Challenge- A 12 Week Personal Chall

Yes! This an open challenge. Glad to have you.

You guys are doing great! I'm down .3 lbs. Baby steps! Haha. I'm hoping to step it up this week.

Still concentrating on drinking water and getting my work outs in.

Week 3 Challenge: Work out at least 30 mins a day

Week 3 Personal Reflection:
1) What do you do when you lack motivation to continue? When you have “cheat meals” that turn into “cheat day(s) or weeks”?

2) Who do you go to for support and motivation?

Sounds like a good challenge, however, i missed yesterday so what ill do is move that to 45mins a day until monday.

Week:3 Challenge: work out 45 mins a day

Week 3 Personal Reflection:
1)Not to toot my own horn, but i honestly havent hit the "I dont wanna" days yet. And my cheat meals.. i plan out my meals way to specifically to cheat. However, i know that once i do eat the wrong way, i will definitely be reminded about it the second i have to log it into MFP. So that will be my way to realize what im doing and stop it.
2) All of my MFP friends are my support program, ive noticed im more into losing weight this time, cause if i dont , it feels like im letting down everyone and not just myself!

Its always tough when you go to log that "cheat meal" or just a day where you didn't do as well as you'd like. Its okay though! We're all awesome!

I'm up for the challenge - but I see week 1 and 2 are already gone and we're at the end of week 3. Guess we just jump on in.
Name: Judy, San Jose, CA, and I'm on MFP so I know EXACTLY what I'm eating and how I'm doing. Need to know the truth in order to adjust food and exercise.

I'm 5'4", about 160 now, started at 165 about a month ago. Need to weigh in since I haven't done so in 2 weeks.
My goal is 140 - size 12.

I'll take this challenge: *Drink 64 or more ounces of water (I am NOT a water drinker)

Thanks for the motivation. Always like hearing positive stuff. Judy

I am starting in the middle of week 3, but at least I am starting. I am about to reach 265 which is where I usually freak out and give up. So I am hoping this will help me to stay on track and know I have a little support group out there...

Starting Weight Wk 3: 266.6

OH and the reflection!

Week 3 Personal Reflection:
1) There are a couple things I do to get motivated. I use visualization a lot. I imagine how I'll look and feel when I get to my goals. I imagine doing push ups. A lot of push ups. I imagine putting on jeans without jumping and wiggling into them Sometimes I journal to get motivated. It helps to get thoughts on paper. I read success stories here. I encourage others and I'm in turn encouraged.

2) MFP is a huge source of support for me. It's one of the main reasons I joined. I've had eating issues for a long time and I still don't feel comfortable discussing them with friends and family. But here everyone is working toward the same goals. And everyone is so friendly!

A realization I've had lately is that it may seem like getting in shape and losing weight will take a really long time. But six months will pass whether you're trying to lose weight or not. And if I don't focus on how long it's taking, but the fact that I am finally doing something about it, the time flies

Ddboone- nice job hula hooping! I never really could hula hoop. I do like the hula game on wii fit plus. Keep it up!

I see that this challenge started two weeks ago but this sounds like a group that would work for me...is it too late?
If not...
My name is Allie, from MA and I joined MFP as a way to keep track of my calories because I started working with a nutritionist. I REALLY need help with motivation and staying on track and everyone on this website has been great! I've done WW several times but always seem to "fall off the wagon" and go back to my old habits and then gain all of the weight PLUS more.

SW: 163
CW: 160
Goal: 135

My question is... is there an easier way to get to this thread besides looking through Message Boards? Still learning my way around this site.

THANKS!!

When you're on the message boards you'll see the links at the top - Home, Recent Posts, My Topics, Signature and Search. Click on my topics and you'll find all the threads you've commented on recently!

I lost 4lbs this week. Unfortunately I have been really sick and all food (even talking or thinking about it) is making me nautious so I did not eat as I should have. So I expect it to come back on. Just more motivation to push through this week and do what I can to keep it off. I did at least 30 minutes of exercise each day.
1. I have not found myself losing motivation. There are days I do not want to work out, and on those days I will just watch what I eat. Tracking my food as become a habit and it not hard to do. I know that if I simply track everything I put in my mouth I will be successful and if I add in the extra workout time I will see bigger results and potentially faster results. I am so close to being under 200 lbs for the first time in years it keeps me going. I seem to set subconscious mini-goals that are in 5 or 10lb increments. These mini-goals are not set in stone, but each time I see that little extra weight gone I feel so much better.
In the beginning of my journey I did not have scale at home. We have an industrial scale in the back to weight pallets on and that was what I was using. I also would weigh myself at a friends house I was at on a regular basis. However, I was told her scale showed 5lbs heavier that the actual weight and discovered this was not true. This was a setback and upsetting but I knew that I needed to keep going for me and no one other than me can fix the issues at hand.
2. When I need support and motivation I go to my roommate. She is noticing all of my changes as I am. If she notices I have not worked out in a few days she will suggest we go for a walk/jog, do a video together, or play the Wii or X360-Kinnect. Anything to get me up and going. The other huge motivators are my MFP friends. If I'm having a bad day I have never been given anything but constructive criticism and positive comments. It helps to know that we are all in the same battle and in different point of the journey so there is the motivation from the people who are close to their goals and the ones you want to succeed because you're around the same point and those I support myself as they are just starting or have a longer journey than myself.

Keep up the great work everyone!! We can all do this!!! Just stay focused and think about how much happier and healthier we can be together at the end of this journey and beginning of our next journey to the new people we have become inside and out!!!

Hello Everyone!

I am doing well! I am still working on the water challenge, getting much easier/better.

As far as workouts, I bought the Zumba video game for the playstation move last week, so my challenge this week is to do AT LEAST a 20 minute routine everyday I don't have a full Zumba class to go to. I think that would kick start so more loss!

I missed a week too, but here I am! For my check-in, I lost 2.6 lbs this week! I am 2 lbs away from my goal weight.

1) What was your breaking point, your “ah-ha” moment, the point that made you sign up for MFP?

I was on MFP for a while but I refused to use the food diary. One day, after reading an article about surprising places where high-fructose corn syrup is used (yoplait light yogurt!!!) Did some more research about how the body processes that stuff. I started using the food diary and reading ALL labels. I have lost 19 pounds since that day.

2) The scale can be the devil (for me anyway… I REALLY hate it last week and this week) so lets focus on a NSV for this week. At the end of the week post all NSV’s that you have accomplished or felt for the week :

It's not the end of the week but I had a NSV...my Mii on the wii fit shrank when I weighed in this week. She jumped up and down, and turned around and checked out her butt. it was very exciting as I have had an overweight Mii as long as I have had the wii fit. (3 years)