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

H4H SW 156.2
9/13 154.6
9/20 153.4
9/27 153.0
10/4 151.2
10/11 150.6
10/18 151.2
10/25 148.4
11/1 148.8
11//8 149.2
11/15 148.0
H4H GW 150 (met 10/20!)

down 1.2 this week, and finally heading in the right direction again. Going back to 1200 net calories, laying off the Halloween candy, and watching sodium more closely seems to be the answer.

@Michelle--another great week, congrats!!

Weighing in at 156.0
I have been so busy that I have not really watched what I have been putting into my mouth! UGH!!!!

Weighed in today at 138.8, so a 0.2 loss. I kinda lost my motivation this week, so I'm kicking it back up. I wanna finish this challenge off strong!

SW: 186.6
Week 1: 183.6
Week 2: 180.2
Week 3: 179.4
Week 4: 178.6
Week 5: 177.0
Week 6: 176.0
Week 7: 174.5
Week 8: 175.4
Week 9: 173.0
Week 10: 170.8
GW: 171


Whoo hoo! Hit my goal. Now, gonna try to make it to the 160s by next week.

I wasnt going to post my weight but if others can admit it, so can I! 210.6 again! Since joining this challenge my weight loss has been a total flop! But I have enjoyed the challenges and without you all most likely the scale would read much heavier! I am looking forward to continuing the battle. Count me in for the next round! BWT- maybe the extra weight this week can be blamed on TOM! We'll see next week!Happy last week everyone!:happy:

Today's weigh-in: 174.6 - so I'm down 1.2 this week. I won't quite make my goal for the challenge, but I keep moivng in the right direction anyway. I'm in for the next challenge as well. I like having the accountability, even though I haven't been really active on the board. Works been crazy busy, and along with life in general, I've been happy to just be able to continue eating in a healthy manner. I haven't been able to get my favorite Zumba classes or the gym for the last few weeks, so I really hope to finally have the money to get back in the swing of things next payday. :happy: Here's to a strong last week for everyone. :drinker:

quick post: 189 today :bigsmile: Waaaay better than 195 last week!

I weigh in every morning. I used yesterday's weight for this challenge and I was happy with that drop. I am in the first cycle of the 17 Day Diet and finally seeing movement on the scale.

Today I weighed in at 195 and I am so excited.

My goal for this challenge is 194 and it looks like I may make it!! Working hard this week!!

Next challenge name idea....

I like Ailene's idea of it being until the new year...which is five weeks...

Five 2 THRIVE!!!!

That's my idea, and I'm sticking to it! :glasses:

By the way...I love you all and couldn't do ANY of this without you! God's blessings for all of you

Next challenge name idea....

I like Ailene's idea of it being until the new year...which is five weeks...

Five 2 THRIVE!!!!

That's my idea, and I'm sticking to it! :glasses:

By the way...I love you all and couldn't do ANY of this without you! God's blessings for all of you

Love the name leslie!

I love the name.
I don't want to lose this group.....I am looking forward to the next challenge!

Have a good day,
Sally

Oh shoot, I totally lost track, I think that maybe I was supposed to do the last challenge, but I forgot because I had done one earlier. Ok, off the cuff, here I go....

Exercise: add the following to your regular workout. You can spread them out, 1 for each day all at once, break them up throughout the day, or do them all at once as a circuit - whatever you want. Report in when you do them:
20 push ups
50 jumping jacks
90 seconds of plank
5 minutes of running up and down stairs
1 minute of sit ups

Food: I just went with a work buddy to weigh-in for my work's "hold the holidays" challenge (meaning you want to maintain not gain during the holidays), and as we were walking back she said "if only my hubby and I didn't drink a bottle of wine each night as our wind-down routine I wouldn't be putting the weight back on." I gave her this suggestion that I have used a lot in the past, but have slacked on lately:

Burn the extra calories from alcoholic beverages and/or dessert BEFORE you consume them. This causes you to think about your junkfood and plan ahead. it's also a great habit to get into before the holiday challenges are up you and help you exercise a bit of self-restraint when the temptations are there and you don't have the extra burned cals to spare.

And word-to-the-wise: this doesn't have to be big burns well in advance, for example, even if I want 2 oreo cookies, I make myself jog in place or around the house when picking toys to get that little extra burn in so I can eat those 2 little cookies guilt-free.

So far Leslie has the leading name suggestion....."Five to Thrive"

We've got 'til next week to start the thread...or is it a group?...I'm not sure how all that works, either. Olivia, can you share with us the secret?

My opinion...we keep it going as a thread, like we always have. Seems to me the 'groups' is more permanent, and we wouldn't be able to come up with these faboulous, motivating thread names :bigsmile: (and NO, I don't just mean mine, lol)

:drinker:

we can go either way with it. The negative of staying with a message board is that we eventually run out of room, but the positive is that we know the format. The positive with a group is that you can have a number of message boards for the same group, so the weekly challenges are easier to identify because you can make new boards in the group, and have other conversations running, like recipes and workout secrets and chats about your problem areas so that others can give input, etc. I'm ok with any way we want to format it. Speak up peeps, because I'd like to get at least the teaser info up and running for the next group this weekend. Helen - will you still do the spreadsheet? You are such the queen of this!

I think "groups" gives more options for separate threads--just call the group by the challenge name, and start a new one when we begin each new challenge. Separate threads for weigh-ins, encouragement, chat, check-ins, recipes, sounds like great fun!