May Challenge!!!!

Last week wasn't such a good one for me

2044/2100 calorie burn which was just short but bad considering my aim was quite low.

Eating was good for most of the week and 1lb loss on the scales, when I checked in on my own weigh in day on Thursday.
Tried out a new home exercise programme with weights etc but didn't manage to achieve 'not nice but twice' things.

Completely lost the plot since Monday and I'm not sure if this challenge is giving me enough of a kick to keep going....
Done very little exercise, struggling to keep within my cals and got nothing new or 'not nice but twice' planned.
Quite demotivated as the scales are showing a hike in pounds and I don't think its just the time of the month!!
Its very hot here at the moment and not easy to exercise, but I'll see how the net few days go.

I will get back to healthy eating tomorrow but I don't think I will aim for much else at the mo.....

Hey, don't give up! Even if this challenge isn't the one for you, today is a new day to start again. Everyone struggles now and then so keep trying. Remember why you are eating well and exercising! Oh, and thanks for your honesty about your struggles. Remember, you're not alone.

Last week wasn't such a good one for me

2044/2100 calorie burn which was just short but bad considering my aim was quite low.

Eating was good for most of the week and 1lb loss on the scales, when I checked in on my own weigh in day on Thursday.
Tried out a new home exercise programme with weights etc but didn't manage to achieve 'not nice but twice' things.

Completely lost the plot since Monday and I'm not sure if this challenge is giving me enough of a kick to keep going....
Done very little exercise, struggling to keep within my cals and got nothing new or 'not nice but twice' planned.
Quite demotivated as the scales are showing a hike in pounds and I don't think its just the time of the month!!
Its very hot here at the moment and not easy to exercise, but I'll see how the net few days go.

I will get back to healthy eating tomorrow but I don't think I will aim for much else at the mo.....

Every week is a new week, and a fresh start. I'm sure you'll get your exercising back up. I'm not able to make my not nice but twice thing this week either, so I decided as long as I do something twice I don't really like, I'm still good. You could do the same.

If this challenge isn't working for you, start a new one! You can do it! Do you plan your food out the day before, or as you go through the day? I try to plan mine the night before so that I know that I'll be staying within my calorie budget. Don't worry, the scale will budge. Are you eating enough calories? I found that I wasn't. I upped them, and started losing again.

I like exercising when it's hot, I find that it makes me a lot more flexible and sweating is very good. Just keep plugging away taking it day by day and you'll be just fine!

Last week was not the best, but I am not mad with the scale because I've realized that stomach isn't working to well (trying not to going into detail, it'll be TMI), so I'm thinking that the number I've seen is not really the truth.

This is the last week, so I hope everyone was able to achieve their goals and those that may have not, you were able to find a place or area that you can improve. For me, I learned I've started making better choices over the weekend and still drinking water too. (used to be my biggest problem).

This week I burned 2136/2428 calories this week. That's not very good. I'm a little confused about Saturday cuz I did quite a bit of walking, but my fitbit said I only walked 1000 steps that day and showed 0 calories burned on MFP for that day. The reason I'm confused is because, for example, I did less walking yesterday and had 6,200+ steps. Oh well, hopefully I'll do better this week.
I did do my Denise Austin videos this week, as well as Ballroom Learn and Burn & Biggest Loser 2. I'm mad at myself that I missed exercising two days this week, yesterday and Saturday.
I didn't get the two days of Tilapia this week, but then I decided that I had done something else I highly dislike, and I did it three times this week. Lunges. I don't know what it is, but I have a strong dislike for them. But they're really good, so I do them anyway.
On the plus side, I lost 1.7 pounds which is what I was aiming for, and was a little worried I wouldn't achieve.

This week, the last week :
As of today I can eat 1410 calories so I have to burn 2410 calories this week.
My new activity to burn calories is Chalene Extreme. This will really kick my butt and make me sore. Though, Yoga made me a little sore, and Biggest Loser made me moderately sore.
For my not so nice twice thing I will do burpees. I absolutely HATE them. But they're in my videos and people seem to think they're beneficial.

Thanks for letting me join late. Wish I started on time, don't want this group to end!

Hey everyone,
So, as many of you saw, even those that are so very motivated to start a challenge can fail, have second thoughts about this whole thing and make the decision to move on or out.

My exercise wasn't up to par this week. Honestly, I'd be ashamed to even add it. My eating was beyond horrible. I could blame work (I have) but I know it's me. I let the stresses of life get the better or me, gave in to food and now weigh more than I did when I started MFP. I am almost past the point of my heaviest weight and I don't want to go back there.

June 1st is Friday and I'm wondering what you are all doing for the last days of May to make it count.

As for me:
I am not weighing myself every week anymore - it will only be on the 1st of the month.

During the last few days of May I promised myself to get back on track. I NEED and WANT this for myself. I have way too many thinngs to be happy about and don't need the added stresses. When I have uncontrollable stresses, I have to find a healthy way to work things out. Food has been my friend for the longest time - now it needs to be my fuel.

I look forward to reading all that you have learned about yourself during this month of challenges. I hope I have encouraged you as you have encouraged me and hope you'll join me in a challenge again one day!

I was having the same problems, and I still struggle with cooking at home as much as I should. I just recently started losing weight since joining this group. Until about two weeks ago I only gained. Hang in there and you will be able to do this for yourself. I also tend to go for food when stressed, especially chocolate. I've been working on fixing that too. I also need to made food my fuel rather than my friend.
In this challenge I learned that I must log what I eat, cuz when I wasn't logging and letting myself eat what I want on "cheat days" I was damaging my efforts. You have given incredible encouragement, and I really thank you. I would love to join you in a challenge again one day!

Hi everyone,

sorry for not having checked in earlier!

The no-motivation bug is circulating, I suppose - it hit me on Monday or Tuesday this week, after a great weekend... I had some stress at work, on top of this my TOTM, ate more than I should, and did very few exercises since then, and of course I gained some weight back. And it went so well before - talk about stupid!

But I decided today that this will have to stop - as of tomorrow I will start fresh, motivated and ready to lose some kg again! So any nice words of motivation are appreciated ;-)

Generally, this group and the group challenge has been helping me a lot in the past month - I finally moved away from the plateau I had stayed on for some weeks. The last slip should be just a bounce in the road.

So I really think we should extend the challeng for June as well - what do you think?

I personally think that's an awesome idea!!

I would say create a new thread, but the only way I can get through this one is to go through mosneakers's page. If we don't keep this one, maybe we could create a group?

That's awesome!! Thank you so much!!! :flowerforyou: