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Thank you guys! With regards to the addiction aspect- I don't always think about food, only when I first get back on MFP. When I am so hyper-aware of logging and planning my meals out. When I am not logging, or when I have been doing it (well) for a few months I lose that sense of urgency and that "countodown" mentality.…

Shelley, I feel your pain as well. My SW is 241 and I had been down to 207 once- long, long ago... Mary, I cannot pretend to know what you go through physically, mentally, or emotionally with MS, but we are here for you. I am actually going on vacation as well- in less than two weeks!! Yea- don't think I'm not aware of the…

Now... in terms of our team challenge: please send me your start weight. Do we want to do measurements? I think we should. I think that there may be times where our weight plateaus but the inches may change.

Just to clarify- by using google docs it is a shared document and we don't have to actually email it to you, correct? Mallorie

I would love to do the challenge and I can be a captain. As long as my team doesn't expect me to fly across the US and show up on their doorstep :laugh: Mallorie [/quote] GREAT!!! Do you want to build your own team or would you like me to message you who your other 4 team members are? [/quote] You can just message me and I…

I would love to do the challenge and I can be a captain. As long as my team doesn't expect me to fly across the US and show up on their doorstep :laugh: Mallorie

I did day 3 today and struggled a little more in some areas, but did better in others. I have a bad shoulder, so doing both sets of all of the strength can sometimes be rough. BTW- just for honesty's sake. I woke up on the second day and didn't know if I would be able to WALK I was so sore. I started this DVD about a year…

Excellent!!! And let's all remember, being told to just take the stairs is a "False message of lethargy!!" :sad: Monbeaucher: I saw it in walmart last week as well.

I had actually just started a thread today about needing motivation to stay disciplined. Is it too late for me to get in on this challenge for the July 1 pic? I am going to the beach the last week in August and wanted to get in bathing suit shape anyway, so this way I hope to get some self-encouragement from seeing the…

Hmmm, why is it so easy to see beauty in others and so hard to see it in yourself? 1. My eyes- they are a blue/grey and sometimes have a bit of teal (plus- they twinkle! :laugh: ) 2. My legs- they are long and pretty lean. It makes wearing short skirts and dresses fun and easy. 3. My cheekbones- I was once told that I have…

I actually did not have a bad food weekend, but I only worked out once. That DID get me to the completion of the challenge, but I spent most of the rest of the weekend in bed.

I met the workout challenge and the water challenge. Slipped twice on the candy (oops!- darned peanut m&ms!) and I forgot to get on the scale this morning. I will have to weigh tonight- which doesn't make me happy, but it is what it is.

I was doing great with the challenge- 30 day shred on Sunday, kickball games on Mon and Tues, walking at lunch on Tues too. Too bad I took a bad tumble at first base on Mon's game and messed up my quad. I thought it was just scraped, but the walk on Tues HURT and it was throbbing. I pushed through and played Tues night,…

This is one challenge I know I can master! I had a kickball game last night, and will have another one tonight (and yes, my co-ed league is QUITE competitive- in fact, I was trying so hard last night I took a tumble once I got to first and landed in the dirt. No blood, no foul, safe at first!) and then I want to get back…

I have been continuing with the water challenge, but I forgot that I took a B-vitamin this morning. Ummm.. yea, bright, flourescent yellow pee!! It freaked me out for a minute until I remembered the vitamin! :laugh:

Dina, yes I have had this happen. There are several possible reasons (and it probably is a combination of them). 1- calorie intake is important but so is the TYPE of calories and when you eat them. Example, carbs after 5 or 6pm are harder to work off than carbs early in the morning. 2- muscle weighs more than fat. I know,…

I will totally do this! I have tried C25K a few times and always stall out around week 3 or 4. Maybe using a different method will give me a push past the plateau.

Yes! And I just did the 30 Day Shred!

Ugh! I went to the doctor today and I was up 2lbs. Then again, it's TOM so i guess I am actually even? Still, it's frustrating to work so hard and see that.

I fell off the walking train this weekend, but I'm going to get back on today!

I think it is easy for all of us to feel that we "slipped up" in one manner or another over the weekend. My food wasn't TOO bad, but I didn't workout either day. So, today I have to start that up again, and that should be interesting since I'm feeling the bloat. Hoping to take care of the water weight by weigh in on Friday!

I did no soda and no candy (which was hard since I had a board meeting with lots of Diet Coke available- but I stuck to water). I was still over calories for the day- BUT I did a 2 mile walk/jog when I got home last night and per my RunKeeper app I burned 230 calories during that, so it made me happy. Today I walked to…

I am not usually a toot my own horn kind of a girl, but in this case I want to brag, and maybe provide encouragement. I have started walking to work (just shy of one mile) and a group of us walk at lunch. Last night when I got home I hit the new RunKeeper app on my phone and did 2 miles of "wogging". So, if I keep this up…

I ended up going to Friday's for lunch today. That worried me, until I saw the endless lunch (soup and salad and breadsticks). While I cannot say that I stayed away completely from the breadsticks, i CAN say that I did not get any soup (it was either cream based or SODIUM!) and I stuck to the salad and unsweetened iced…

This thread is also motivating me to get back into exercising. I have convinced a friend to start the 30 Day Shred with me today. I WANT to do Insanity, but I already have the Shred, and I think I should go ahead and get used to that before I start Shaun T. :love:

I found the new thread! Thanks for posting the link. I hope you are all as excited to start this week's challenges as I am! I think that water and tea will be my friend. The harder part? No candy- just because people at the office have it laying around and that is a deep, dark, temptation for me. BUT- what is more…

Getting under 200 has been a goal of mine for about 10 years now. Yes, 10 years. 7 years ago I got to 207 and I was SOO excited because i could taste it. Then I let the troubles in my life derail me and I have not been able to get a handle on it again. But I know I almost did it once and I am confident I can do it again! I…

Oh no, I think I missed the 25 person mark. If not, i would love to. And even if I can't be on your tracking, I can still see what challenges are posted. BTW- this is a great idea, a definitive goal and deadline. The deadline is what keeps people motivated!

That has been, and continues to be, a difficult challenge for me. I tend to wrap my sense of worth into my appearance and as such have never felt that anyone would want to be with me. I am slowly breaking that mindset and truly trynig to start from the inside out. The first step in MFP? LOG LOG LOG! Even on the days where…

I have the same story. I had been on MPF and lost close to 20 lbs. Then I had a bad few weeks of vacation and before I knew it I had gained it all back and was so angry at myself that I gave up- AGAIN! But I can see the difference in pictures of myself and I want to get back to what I looked like, and I want to feel GOOD…