Any More Chubby Twenties?

Hi everybody, looks like everybody is doing awesome!!! Good job MercuryBlue!!!!! You are seriously inspiring me
The past two months have been really hard for me. My huband and I bought a house and my commute increased by over an hour. I had a great routine going where i would hop on the train in my workout clothes and hit the gym at my work before my shift started. but now w/ my extra long commute that will put me at getting up at 4:30 am and getting home a little after 6pm. SUCH a long day, but i started today!! I feel great, I love love love working out in the morning, it gets me on the right track for the rest of the day, and you can't beat that endorphin rush, for some reason it feels stronger when i work out in the morning. I am going to keep this routine up 3 days a week for weekdays and workout saturday and sunday too! Thank god i don't have kids, I don't know how you working Mom's do it, I have a yellow lab puppy and I feel like that is more than i can handle!!! I want to lose a full pants size by February... and my hubbys birthday is feb 6 so that is my goal date!! I have a pair of super cute designer jeans that I ordered from RueLaLa that are a size to small (on accident) so those are my goal jeans!!
Well good luck to everyone the rest of the week!

I am 25 years old.
CW:170
30days: 160
60days:150

I would be oh so happy to be 150-155, but ultimately would like to be 145-150. I am currently in Teachers college and it is waayy more stressing then I thought it would be.....and I really need to come back on this site to help motivate me to finally DO THIS!!!

Newcomers, I'll third the general welcome! This is a great group, I've found it really helpful so far and I hope you do too!

kerimcdonald -- is that na hour on the eliptical ON TOp of everything else you do? Oh man, you're intense! I just do not have the strength.

patricia85 -- your commute sounds like balls, I remember when I was in school it was about 1/2 an hour to get there, but luckily I rode my bike so my commute WAS my exercise. I hope your new routine works for you! Good luck


Check in day! Another week, another inch or so smaller. Hips are now down to 40in, waist down to 35in (down 5 and 6 inches respectively in the last 7 weeks) BOOM!

My freestyle pool sprints are progressing well. Shaved about 10s off my fastest sprint and kept all of them under 50s today. I felt like I had to dig a little deeper on a few of them, and I was overall a little sore (I'm guess both from the strength training I've been doing, since I ahve a little less recovery time between pool days) but I still feel pretty awesome in accomplishing my goal of improving/maintaining speed.

AND, I was cleaning up last night and figured I'd put on my jean jacket just to see how it fits (I haven't needed to wear a jacket since i got to PR 7 weeks ago) and HOLY CRAP. It fits better than it has in YEARS. When I came down here, I couldn't do it up at all on a couple of the buttons (would never replace it though, WAY too much sentimental value) and now ALL buttons do up, and only two or three around my tummy have that pouchy "maybe I should be undone" thing going on. SO HAPPY!

This week, Tuesday ROCKS! Hope everyone else is finding little things to be as happy about

I measure my waist at the narrowest point, so it shifts a tiny bit, I suspect, from week to week. I measure my hips at the crest of my hipbones (just below my belly button) and then take another measurement at my widest point, around where my butt is (usually there's only about an inch difference between those, though...)

I'm pretty high-waisted, though, and it's not helped by the fact I'm a shorty but have fairly long legs. Right now, EVERYTHING pools in that "spare tire" area, everywhere else I'm starting to notice a little bit of tone (shoulders and chest, and even my thighs this week) but I still have a bowl of jelly for a belly.

Only thing to do is keep truckin, though.

Where do you tink he might have measured wrong? I find that I rarely see a difference in measurements for my legs and arms and neck (bust, waist, hips and chest for sure though) sounds like you're still making good progress!

I finally got my vega whole food optimizer powder today! It's a plant based protein shake, but it's protein plus, plus plus. It's got all the vitamins and nutrients you'd need as a vegan/vegetarian that might be hard to get from your diet (B12, iron and others) I looooove having one as a snack to keep me going and it's a good way to get some extra protein in, as sometimes it's hard for me to get all that I'd like to. I find I feel AMAZING when I'm taking them regularly.

What is it about a protein shake that'll make you lose more, did they say? Is it just that you'd have more protein to build muscle, or is there something else? Just curious!

Hi everyone. I'd like to jump in and join the group. After losing some weight over a year ago (with the help of MFP), I have sadly added some back on. Now, I want to go the distance and be rid of the extra pounds for good. I haven't weighed myself in a while (probably out of fear of disappointment), but I vow to do so on Monday (that's when weigh-ins are, right?)
I have about 40 pounds to lose.
I'd like to lose 30 in 90 days. I know it might be tough with the holidays, but I'm recently unemployed and I have nothing but time on my hands to go to the gym and shop for healthy food. Don't let me tell you otherwise!
It great to see so many people with similar goals and for the right reasons. Good luck to everyone.

i'm a chubby twenty

Today we are having our holiday party at work... we ordered Olive Garden for lunch... I know there is no way to do this healthy since even one serving of their house salad has 350 calories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At least i got my workout in this morning!!! I have been good all week, so I am not going to feel too guilty over it. Just going to stay awat from the fettuccine alfredo Wish me luck!!!!

Carrie-when you premake you chicken how do you prepare it and how do you store it? I need to start doing that!