lose 10 pounds by Christmas

:brokenheart: :brokenheart: PolliesGirl:

Sorry you've had a terrible week. Hope the weekend is better.

**** hit the fan at work this week....
so my team is a lil lost at the moment and waiting for the next shoe to drop

thus resulting in a BAD eating week/weekend for me.

why why why why do i let **** like this give me reason to self sabotage.???? :sad:

thanks, just feeling down on myself for letting the stress affect my eating, hard to get back on track after a whole week of slip up i feel like 1 step forward 2 back....

did good yesterday and today so far with cals. home sick for the afternoon so prob no workout... the stress and the bad week of eating has taken a toll on my colitis. get some sleep and rest today, and then back to zumba tomorrow (no zumba last week has thrown me off too as i was working those nights).

:frown: hope i can still lose a few before xmas.., no baking here! i soooo wanna wow my bf when he picks me up at the airport!

thanks for listening to all my whining t his past week:flowerforyou:

ok... as of last Friday I was 165... that's another pound down and a total of 20 pounds lost!... yay!

I would have posted earlier, but I had a teaching conference on Friday and was gone the rest of the weekend.... and then I had parent teacher conferences yesterday and today, so I haven't been on in a couple of days

joa827- did you go over on your sodium? because that could be part of your gain... and it might help to "go" to... lol

Hi everyone. I just joined yesterday, and this post interested me. I think I'm a little late in the game to lose 10 by Christmas, but if I go with the 1.5 a week til then, my goal would be down 7.5 lbs by Christmas. So if you guys don't mind, I'd love the support and to keep up with how everyone else is reaching the goal. Speaking of which... Thanksgiving. Ominous overeating potential. I went ahead and planned out my Thurs. and Fri. meals and they are within range (and if I do some intense step aerobics I could maybe even have an extra slice of pumpkin pie ) but gosh I hope I stick with my plans. How is everyone else planning to do for T-day?

happy thanksgiving!

I've been doing okay. I ate plain sweet potatoes and 4oz of turkey no gravy blah! lol Fat free cheesecake cupcake.

Joa827- I had that problem..you know the pipes clogged. Try Yerba Mate tea. its all natural. It really works. The tea also gives you natural energy with no jitters like diet pills. I brew one teabags to 3 cups of water because its very powerful. I drink once a week and I've been good ever since.

hehe oh! im in Canada so my thanksgiving was in oct. just had a subway salad for supper

joa827 today is a new day and it will be great! Do not get discouraged. Since I joined MFP, about 5 weeks ago I have given myself one day a week when I do not count calories. I have found that even on my cheat day, I do not eat as much as I used to. I cannot help looking at the nutritional information on products! The one day cheating a week has not hurt me. I have reached my goal of 10 lb. by Thanksgiving, and I am now 155 lb.

I also have problems with the water intake and the plumbing, I guess they go hand in hand! We should start celebrate with glasses of water.... I found that drinking some warm beverages help (water, diluted apple juice or grape juice...)

PolliesGirl Good job in keeping up with your exercise. Try to distress a little, I have read somewhere that stress and not sleeping hinders weight lost.

jrbowers Welcome and keep posting your progress.

iris6466 I was impressed by your Thanksgiving choices. Did you make the fat free cheesecake cupcakes?

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, let's concentrate on getting back on track, both with eating and exercising. I hope to be 150 by Christmas. I have lost my first 10 lb. using MFP quickly (5 weeks) and I expect this next 5 lb to be harder to loose. 150 will make me at a healthy BMI, and I do not remember last time that I was not overweight.... I have been as much as as 30-40 lbs over my weight. I cannot believe that I am almost there!

Hey everyone. I did great on Thanksgiving, stuck with my meal plan and all. Fri was harder, snacked on leftovers a little too much. Sat I got invited to a dessert party and totally indulged! But I did my check-in today, and I am down 1 lb., 1 in. in my waist, and 4 in. overall. Yea! So I just have 6.5 lbs. to go til Christmas.

Good job joa on dropping some weight and getting closer to your goal.

Iris, I hope your check-in goes well. What 8 week program are you on?

And good luck to everyone else as well.

ok, so i am at my cals for the day, just a couple over the 1200 mark. not excercising today because i have to go back to work here in a few min, so I need to resist anymore food for the rest of the day. go back to work, do my brief, comme come get into comfy clothes, wind down and then bed. NOOOOOOOOOO snacks!:noway:

if i absolutely need a snack, im only allowing an apple, and as much tea or water as i want. thats it!:grumble:

ok i think i've convinced myself for the time being.

hope everyone is well and had a good holiday weekend.

PG:flowerforyou:

Happy December ladies !!

Haven't weighed in since T-giving. My weigh in day is Friday, so I skipped it last week since I had just consumed mega food the day before. Hoping to have a good weigh in this week.

Anyone have a solution for a bladder infection other than cranberry juice ? I've had an infection a couple of days and am drinking tons of c-juice which is LOADED with sugar.......not gonna be good come weigh in day I'm afraid.....:(

BTW: where are my little smiley faces that I usually have to choose from on the left side of the screen ? Did anyone else lose them ?