Thinner for Thanksgiving! 7 week challenge
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@ Joy - that's good progress! And it sounds like you have a great plan for Thanksgiving!Well, I am 149.4 today, which is a 1 lb loss from last week ~but I had gained 2 last week. Slowly, getting back down to where I was...and hoping to see a drop by Thanksgiving. I'm already trying to mentally prepare myself for all the Thanksgiving temptations. If I decided ahead of time what I will/won't eat, I think it will help--especially if I not only promise myself but others as well. And I'm gonna make myself continue some sort of exercise every day I'm out of town visiting relatives.
Hope you all have a great next week! Looking forward to seeing all of your victories!0 -
@ Wimberly - good job!124.4 as of this morning, but it was after breakfast and I was feeling slight bloating. OH well still a loss!0 -
The updated spreadsheet is finally posted! http://www.schmole.com/myfitnesspal/results.htm
***Week 7 Mini-Challenge*** A tiny workout to squeeze in as extra: jog in place 1 minute, 30 lunges (your choice of style - alternating legs), jog in place 1 minute, 30 crunches (your choice of style), jog in place 1 minute. I just did this and it took me about 5 minutes. I never do crunches, so this will be good for me!
Boy, sorry for the messages about this week. Feel like I have been on a roller coaster about feelings about food and weight. I have just been trying to figure out how to balance "life" with eating for weight loss. I thought maybe I should just give it up and switch to maintenance. But, no, after a lot of thought, I just need to figure out some way to push on during this holiday season. We have visitors from now through early January, but this is about me and doing what is right for my health, body, and mind. I started off pretty rocky this week - already over on Friday and today. My goal for Thanksgiving is to maintain my weight from last week. If I work hard Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday along with eating in moderation on Thursday, I think I can do it.
@Mimi - Your determination to take care of yourself keeps me inspired. Thanks for all your encouragement. You rock!
@Dave - Another week of loss! That is just so sweet to see!
@Maria - Loss again this week - slow but steady is the best, right??
@Wimberley - Great job shaving a bit more off. And congrats on your race, too!
@Kelly - So good to see you back - have missed you!! (Do you want to send a weight for yesterday to benchmark for this coming Friday?)
@Joy - Way to come back, kid, with that loss this week!
Joe? Sam? How are you guys?
What are you guys thinking about weigh-in this week? For a New Year's challenge, should we start the day after Thanksgiving?0 -
Thanks Mandy! You're welcome -- and thank YOU for your constant encouragement. You've done a great job of keeping me constantly motivated throughout the challenge! :flowerforyou:@Mimi - Your determination to take care of yourself keeps me inspired. Thanks for all your encouragement. You rock!
There's nothing to be sorry about, finding a good balance is tough! Congrats on deciding to persevere through the holidays. Maintaining through Thanksgiving is a great goal -- you can do it!Boy, sorry for the messages about this week. Feel like I have been on a roller coaster about feelings about food and weight. I have just been trying to figure out how to balance "life" with eating for weight loss. I thought maybe I should just give it up and switch to maintenance. But, no, after a lot of thought, I just need to figure out some way to push on during this holiday season. We have visitors from now through early January, but this is about me and doing what is right for my health, body, and mind. I started off pretty rocky this week - already over on Friday and today. My goal for Thanksgiving is to maintain my weight from last week. If I work hard Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday along with eating in moderation on Thursday, I think I can do it.
As it turns out, I already celebrated Thanksgiving last Friday (we did it early since various family members had schedule conflicts this coming week), so I don't have any big food challenges this coming week. However, maintaining emotional equilibrium and avoiding stress induced binging will be a big challenge. Anyway, this week I'm going to try to stay under my calories every day through Thanksgiving. My goal is for my weight at the bonus weigh-in this Fri. to be close to my weight at the end of week 6 (128 lbs). Basically I'm going to try to lose the ~2 lbs of fat that I had gained from having stress induced binges almost every day last week..
Sounds good to me!What are you guys thinking about weigh-in this week? For a New Year's challenge, should we start the day after Thanksgiving?0 -
Yeah, I am fine with our starting weight to be the Friday after Thanksgiving. I had early Thanksgiving with my family yesterday and am only up like 1/2 a pound from my weigh in on Friday, but I also didn't do so well drinking my water yesterday. I did have a little left overs today, but none of the sweets. I work hard most of the time, so I'm going to induldge during the holidays, and just work it off the week after. I have a goal in mind as to where I want to be at on Friday after Thanksgiving (basically stay under 230), if I do that, I will be happy with myself and can continue on until the next go around at Christmas time.
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Trying my hand in posting a picture to the message boards. This is me with my 4 siblings. I'm all the way on the right in the plaid shirt. Love the way I'm looking and am ashamed at looking back at pictures of me over the last 8 years or so. I waited too long for this! Hopefully it uploads! This photo was from this weekend for my families Early Thanksgiving. I'm only .2 lbs heavier than I was on our weigh in on Friday, and I definitely enjoyed myself in the eating department on Saturday. Going to be good and work hard the next few days so I can enjoy Thanksgiving day (as well as my 5 year wedding anniversary) on Thursday!
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Nice photo -- thanks for sharing! Its easy to see that all of your hard work has paid off!Trying my hand in posting a picture to the message boards. This is me with my 4 siblings. I'm all the way on the right in the plaid shirt. Love the way I'm looking and am ashamed at looking back at pictures of me over the last 8 years or so. I waited too long for this! Hopefully it uploads! This photo was from this weekend for my families Early Thanksgiving. I'm only .2 lbs heavier than I was on our weigh in on Friday, and I definitely enjoyed myself in the eating department on Saturday. Going to be good and work hard the next few days so I can enjoy Thanksgiving day (as well as my 5 year wedding anniversary) on Thursday!
Great job on maintaining your weight through your first Thanksgiving dinner! Hope you have a great Thanksgiving and anniversary!0 -
Forgot to post on Friday...
Sept. 30: 269.8
Oct 07: 269.8
Oct 14: 267.8
Oct 28: 268.8
Nov 04: 267.0
Nov 11: 265.4
Nov 18: 265.0
Only 0.4 pounds gone, but it's 0.4 lbs I'm not wearing anymore so that's the silver lining I'm holding onto. I hope I can pull a few more ounces off by Friday :-D0 -
Black Friday is as good a day as any to start the next round. I'm in.0
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Thanks for the congrats...it's been harder and harder the smaller the number gets and especially with my sweet tooth...I may start doing my own 10k once a week to stay on top of things. Especially with the hills out here on this base...WHEW!!! Good luck on this week everyone! I look forward to the next challenge Mandy puts together.
Mandy- you are exceptionally great at making these challenges and sticking to them!!! THANK YOU!!!!!0 -
Yay for that bit of weight gone last week, Joe! I need to get that on our spreadsheet here soon...
Wimberley - I hear you on losing the last bit. I still want to get about 11 pounds off and it's tough. I find I have a really hard time sticking to 1200 calories of eating without doing exercise to earn a few more.
Dave - You look AMAZING!! I LOVE seeing this new you! Thanks for posting that pic!
I had date night with my husband tonight (every Monday - the one night we are away from our boys each week). He had a caramel vodka milkshake with bourbon-soaked cherries. Woah - it looked incredibly good. I had one taste, but that was it. I stuck to my pickled veggies, arugula salad, and mussels. They were yummy, too. Still went over my calories today (had to estimate dinner) since I coudn't get a workout in. But tomorrow I hit the gym and try to burn some of those away!!
Hope everyone is doing well this week!0 -
Dave - You look AMAZING!! I LOVE seeing this new you! Thanks for posting that pic!
Thanks Mandy - I'm finally starting to see this. Although I have a lot of belly left to lose, I'm finally starting to feel like a normal human beeing (haha, and one that actually looks like his siblings!). I haven't seen my one brother (shorty in the photo) since July when I was 40 pounds heavier as well as my brother-in-law (not pictured). Both had great things to say and I enjoyed hearing it. Gives me strength and motivation to keep going!0 -
By the way, here are some links that have good tips for staying on track during the holidays -- I think a lot of those tips can also be applied to your situation!
http://www.tomvenuto.com/articles/holiday_survival_guide.shtml
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/10-tips-to-deal-with-holiday-weight-gain.html
Great links, thank you!0 -
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!0
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Today's weigh in = 228.8 (back up a little bit). Still keeps me in my goal for the challenge.
Goal weight for New Years Challenge =221 pounds. That will officially take me from "OBESE" to just "OVERWEIGHT" according to the bmi calculator.
With today's weigh in I am not updated my ticker as hopefully some of this is just water weight. I'll update next week no matter what (gain or loss).
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I'm off to work!
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Today's weigh-in was 128.5. Holy Schmole! That's a 3.5 lb gain in two days! I am going to assume it's a lot of water from the salty foods. Back on track today, though! Already negotiating with my husband about when I can get my exercise in during the next few days. I learned a lesson last night - overeating sucks. I felt so unbelievably full and uncomfortable. Ahhhhhh. Knowing that I have actually changed my eating habits is such a comfort for the long haul.
For the next challenge, I am starting at 128.5 (but keep in mind that I weighed 125 two days ago!), and my GOAL is 123.5. I want something that is realistic during this holiday season.
****IMPORTANT*** I am starting a new thread called "New Year, New Me!" for the continuing challenge. I am not going to do the mini-challenges since I am fresh out of ideas but we'll keep it open for anyone else to suggest. Look forward to ending this year of 2011 on a strong note!0 -
Happy Turkey day everyone!!! Hopefully everybody enjoyed their family, friends and those delicious meals :happy: Not sure if we were supposed to weigh in yesteday but I gained a lb 205.5 I didn't get to my goal but that's ok with me...I'm happy that I lost as much as I did. For the New Years challenge I will keep the goal from this challenge. See you guys on the new thread!:drinker:0
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Looking good Dave! Glad to see that you are able to enjoy the benefits of your weight loss...Congratulations!!! :drinker:0
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Weighed in at 148.8 this morning, which is still up from 2 weeks ago...but almost back down to where I was before the gain! And that's after a week of temptations and lots of good Thanksgiving food, so I'm happy with that! Didn't quite make my goal of 146 though by T'giving though. Excited to get back on track with the new challenge! I think we all did great overall, and I look forward to a few more weeks with you!
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Forgot to post on Friday...
Sept. 30: 269.8
Oct 07: 269.8
Oct 14: 267.8
Oct 28: 268.8
Nov 04: 267.0
Nov 11: 265.4
Nov 18: 265.0
Nov 25: 265.0
Managed not to mess it up on T-Day!!!0 -
God I forgot to post..this weekend was CRAZY i worked fri-sun and babysat on the side friday night and saturday night. craziness! I stayed the same weight wise this last week. So I went from 128 to 124.4! Yay!!!!!!!0
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Mandy when are you starting the new years challenge you want to do? I already said I am in and I am definitely looking forward to it!0
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sorry i have been unable to post for quite some time. I hope everyone else made it through Turkey day. We had 23 people to consume a 24 pound turkey, a roast beef and a lasagna... did I mention my wife is a little Italian?0
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Hey, old pals! After hearing from the majority of our group, I posted our final Thanksgiving results today.
Biggest congrats to Mimi and Dave for hitting their goals - even ahead of schedule!
Huge congrats to Maria, Joy, Joe, Wimberley, and Sam for their awesome losses!
ALL who participated made it a great challenge.
As for me, I am a little embarrassed by my net change of ZERO for the challenge. Doh. However, I have gotten two pounds off (and kept it off) since Thanksgiving for an overall loss of 2 pounds. Slowly but surely, I will get to my optimal weight!
If you haven't already joined the "New Year, New Me!" Challenge, come on over!
Good health to all,
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I can't find that thread for the life of me, can you post a link here so I can find it and book mark it??
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