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mscocoa is our biggest loser today. Andrea came in a close second. Good Job Girls

mscocoa pick our challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


snowflakes, really happy your son is home for the weekend. You will have to tell us about c.e.r.t. sometime.

lildebbie have a nice dinner girl.

Wow...hmmm ok I have no idea what kind of challenge I can pick. I know that water consumption is one of my biggest challenges. Personally, I don't like water and I hardly ever get thirsty. It's really weird. I rarely get in 4 glasses of water per day. Does anyone else have a problem drinking water? I just bought some fresh lemons and was going to make it my goal this week to drink more water by hook or crook. So, can we do some sort of water challenge? Maybe post our water oz per day or something? If anyone has a suggestion for the challenge, please feel free to chime in.

Thanks,

~Jay

I am just like you, I never get any water...thank you for posting this, I am going to try to drink that water with you. Lemons make water easier for me to drink too.

Welcome to the newcomers!

check in today -
food - 1700 calories (under by 435 with my exercise calories today)
water - 80 oz
exercise - long walk, lots of hills - 517 calories
proud today because - Didn't really want to go out and exercise today, but I did it!

Check in for 11.06.09
Calories: 1,189... not quite enough (but I ate so much!)
Exercise: 525 (30 minute slow walk & 30 minutes on stationary bike)
Proud: Still proud for keeping my cravings in check (TOM & work related stress). Oh, I'm also proud that I bought a 6-pack of my favorite (absolutely jam-packed with calories. I would think 250 for 12oz. or so) beer last Saturday and I still haven't had a single one.

Momma, that's not silly at all, it's great! I can't wait until I'm just overweight. I don't think I've weighed just 175 pounds (I'm 5'4") since I was about 12. :ohwell: I have a large frame & I'm pretty muscular so the regular bmi chart doesn't work so well for me. My goal weight is 150 which I think will be an extremely healthy weight for me, yet according to the bmi, I will be overweight.

I picked up my treadmill today. I LOVE it. I've decided to start training to start couch25k. I was attempting to do week 1/day 1 tonight but I found out I'm not quite fit enough to even start there yet so I ended up doing a 5 minute warm up at 3.5mph, jogging at 5.5mph for 60 seconds & walking for 90 seconds 3x (which is the couch25k plan for w1/d1 plan to do for 20 minutes) but I couldn't keep it up so I had to switch to jogging for 60 seconds, walking for 120 seconds 2x and then I couldn't keep that up so I just finished up the 20 minutes of training walking 3.5mph and then added a 5 minute cool down at 3mph for a total of 30 minutes (confusing enough? :laugh: ). My hrm says I burned 457 calories so that's pretty rad. Anyway, it was definitely the best workout I've gotten since I started working out 2 months ago. I my treadmill! I just heard on the news there's a 5k and a half-marathon coming up in my city in February. Maybe I'll register for the 5k -- so what if I'm not able to run it all yet, it'll be something to work toward.

Also, my bf is trying to sabotage me. :laugh: He wanted to order chinese food for dinner tonight... and I didn't put up too much of a fight against it. But, I ordered off the "lighter fare" menu and was pretty proud of myself for making that choice. I got steamed chicken and veggies with sauce on the side. No oil on the veggies/chicken, no msg, and lower sodium and oil in the sauce. I ate about 1/3 of it. Quite tasty and I don't think I went over my calories for the day (especially since I just burned 450). I'm not doing great with the water challenge today which is unusual for me. I still have several hours left to get it in, though.

my check in today is zippo i was horrible today.

Went to a bday party that was at a place with a buffet...i did have a salad, then some pizza..then a few cookies...then mexican food for dinner followed by ice cream...dlon't know what got into me today

Oh well it is over ...

Momma - what bmi calc you using...every one i find just puts me at obese..but I am sure i am morbidly obese. When I do the on on MFP it is 46.3 :sad: :sad: I know that is horrible...I am a larger frame, and 5'7 (wear size 11 shoe) so I could loose weight still won't be petite...It says my healthy weight is 118 -159...118 come one...that aint' happening. My goal weight is like 150 but haven't been that small in my adult life, the smallest i was about 165-175. Funny it says i am still obese at like 191 but i would love to be obese at 200 right now :sad: :sad: :sad:

Hey everybody. I am posting kind of late as I work on the weekends. Here's my check in:

Calories: 1,586
Exercise: Yes (burned 866)
Water: 40 oz..

Not too bad. I have to drink more water and plan my food choices a little better.

~Jay

I killed my exercise goal this week. 470 minutes so far and I'll probably get another 30 minutes in some time tonight. Since I haven't seen the scale budge in several days (I'm assuming thanks to TOM), I added up my inches lost and I've lost 13 inches from my chest, waist, hips, and thighs in 2 months (today's 2 months exactly). :happy: 4 inches off my hips alone.

Can I join your club? I have a LOT of weight to lose and need some motivation. It all seems so overwhelming, but I know I can do it if I put my mind to it.

ok...I am soooo happy now

We had an old hard drive that we had been saving for years...well i booted it up and there they all were...from the delivery room till 4 yrs old. I never thought i would be soo excited.

I was just in tears and my daughter was crying which made me cry more...nothing more sad that a 6 yr old saying why would someone want to delete all my baby pictures, why do they just want to erase me. I am soo glad, i am taking them all of there and finding several places to save everyhthing.....I can tell you this, I will never ever use dotphoto again.

lildebbie: HAPPY DANCE!!!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

zorahope: Just type it in every day. You will see that I really abbreviate the statements. Next question is not silly at all! This MPF is all about you and your goals and how you decide to become healthy. This group will support and encourage your goals. The reason we post daily is that we have found that it is a good motivator to be accountable each and every day. Many say that the way to permanent weight lose is slow... Remember exercise is not just at the gym or on a piece of home equipment. It is anything that gets you off the couch. A leisurely walk around the park, taking stairs when you can,
house cleaning, walking to the mailbox, just move some. You will get stronger, listen to your body.
The calorie diary is fantastic, use it faithfully every day for every item you eat and you will see results.

mscocoa: Did I miss the challenge? I have not been in my regular routine for a few days. I scrolled through the posts and nothing jumped out at me. thanks.

Hi gals,

My weight hasn't changed in 5 days. Is this a mini plateau?

Here's my check in for today.

Calories: 1,500
Exercise: Yes (burned 738)
Water: 56 oz.. (Still working on this, but getting better. Bad part is, drinking all of this water, I nearly peed my pants today. :embarassed: I think my body has to adjust to the increase in water.)

I'm really trying to be good, but I LOVE food. Today I had a McSkillet Burrito (went over my cholesterol and sodium limits) and a spoonful of mac and cheese. I was doing great, but lately, I have been sneaking in a thing or two slowly. This scares me because the small things can turn into big things. Anyway. if you take a look at my food diary for the past couple of day, you'll see how I've been dabbling here and there. :devil: