Okay, looks like I need a kick in the rear. 116.8 this morning. It's been rainy here so I've only gotten about 23 miles in and I've been making fudge and no bake cookies. Need to get back on track!
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Okay, looks like I need a kick in the rear. 116.8 this morning. It's been rainy here so I've only gotten about 23 miles in and I've been making fudge and no bake cookies. Need to get back on track!
well, up one pound to 143..not too bad considering my back went out on me yet again on Monday and today was the first time I could get dressed without the help of my husband. Talk about pain and not being able to move. Yuck...
Are you sick? I saw you were thankful for Rudy Project helmets and wondered if you had an accident. Or, I am reading too much into posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Muirenn
I was thinking the same thing!
Solo, ow... are you okay?
Muiren, I hope you feel better soon.
127 again. I'm happy with the 127-130 range.
105.8
Slowly creeping up. This was my lowest weight all week. Had a good eating week this week, no going out commitments, but still not maintaining as well. Next thing to try is cutting down on my almost daily glass of wine for awhile. We are going to friends' for dinner tomorrow, but other than that, I can have a "clean" weekend. Unfortunately, next week my son and his wife are coming, so there will be some going out, etc, and I think they will expect some grains in their meals! I will try and be good, but am feeling very deprived right now. This seems to happen every winter, but at least my starting point was 5-6 pounds lower than last year.
Another little creep up to 128.2 :( I blame this on my lack of cardio as I wait for my bruised ribs to heal... I am tempted to really cut my calories but THAT won't help my body to heal. I've cut back a bit but I don't want to cut them too much.
I am a bit nervous over my visit home in a week. Their diet is about as bad as it gets, and my mom is already stressing over having the "perfect" meal, ugh. My sister understands why I eat the way I do, and I am bringing a duck that I will cook so at least I will know the source of our meat. I will be taking some of my own food for breakfast while I am there - and I've done that before so they won't think anything about it.
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Originally Posted by Catrin
I know what you mean. My mom is a great cook but everything is butter!
Kennedy Baker just did a great post on this on her blog: http://kennedybakernutrition.com/201...urvival-guide/
Hope that is helpful!
I am much better. It still is a little twingey..if that is even a word but at least I can move around and lightly ride my spin bike. :-) I also have been going on several daily walks after work to help loosen it up.It goes out every couple of months. grrrrrr..I actually now have a reacher and sock aid to help me out the next time. Glad I am an OT and know about this stuff!!Quote:
Originally Posted by indigoiis
Weight is 142 for me which is down 1 #. Woot woot.
Hey, my weight is back down to 104.6, a day after weigh in.
Not sure what's going on, I ate very carefully on Thursday and Friday, and I just don't know if I can live without bread for the rest of my life. I guess I'll just keep going the way I'm going.
Back down to 127.2 today - I've been weighing in on Saturday most of the time recently so this will be my official weight for the week. My ribs are almost 100% so I will ride this afternoon and start getting back to my normal activity level tomorrow - there is still hope that I might actually hit my target weight by 1/31, we will see...
My weight is going up and down all the time... The difference between the days is 2-3 pounds and it's changing EVERY DAY. It's not the PMS, it's not the food (I eat almost one and the same thing) and I don't know what it is. I count calories and I keep them down to 2000 while I tend to burn 2500 but I haven't seen a steady weight decrease.
Well, my workouts are very different. For example from ten and a half hours biking on Saturday to half an hour swimming today and half an hour home workout (squats, push-ups, planks). Maybe the endurance workouts get in the way because I had to fuel the 230 km 40 dgrees F winter ride and then my muscles became full with water.
If I eat less than 2 000 calories I starve and I don't want to starve my body because I remember from last winter that I lost weight thanks to a fat burner but then when my season started, I began intensive training and racing for which I needed fuelling and recovery so I gained everything back.
125.8 this morning!!!! I've been trying to get to 125-anything for quite some time and I did it :)
Anelia - I hear your frustration, and you are right about keeping your calories where you know they should be. We have to figure out what works for our bodies and run with it. I've found, at least for me, that it is good to mix things up in both diet and exercise (and it sounds like you do this). The biggest thing that did it for me when I got stuck on a loooooong plateau was to give grains up totally - but I am not telling you to do that. I feel so good not eating them that it has become a permanent change. My workouts vary from lifting heavy things that focuses on compound lifts, tabatas, metabolic conditioning, and riding inside/outside. Injuries have kept me from endurance riding for well over a year, but I think you nailed part of the problem as water retention from the really long rides. Hang in there, you will figure this out!
Congrats, Catrin. You have worked really hard.
I may do my weigh in tomorrow, as I have a weekend of heavy eating, with my son visiting. Well, we'll be going out a lot, including Friday night to a Puerto Rican restaurant before going to a play.
Good idea Crankin, I think I will just make today my official weight for the week. My group training schedule has changed today is my rest day rather than tomorrow - hard workouts for the next three days plus office holiday lunch - and I WILL have a beer tonight or tomorrow night :)
Well, I can see this is a bit late in the day for me to join The Challenge but I hope there'll be a New Year one... I'll certainly need it with Christmas coming up! Anyhow, I thought I'd at least make contact with you all as we clearly have some things in common (like cycling and weightlosing...er, gaining... ah, and then losing again :-)). I'm 145 lbs, having gone from 168lbs to 133lbs between Jan 1st and Nov 1st 2011 (Thanks to WW). So creeping upwards again but very keen to keep the creep as minimal as possible. Have just got a turbo so am trying to work out how best to use it during these winter months. Best of luck to you all on the final days of the challenge, especially with that HUGE obstacle in the way called celebrating Christmas! (Here in the UK we seem to make Christmas span a very long time, from early December till January 5th/6th (depending on when you think 12th Night is!) and, as society here has become less religious, the eating and drinking has become a more central part of the whole period... making a tough challenge to WW like me.
I am using yesterday's weight and that was up a bit from what I ate on Wednesday night.
105.6
Not as much variation this week. Mostly in the 105 range. My son is here now and last night, after 2 beers and eating at Redbones, where my other DIL is the GM, I decided to try to be watchful, but enjoy myself with my son and daughter in law. I did a super hard boot camp class yesterday and I think I am taking a rest day, as I haven't had one in 10 days, for some reason. Next week will be more normal for me, with the exception of my annual Jewish XMas meal of Chinese food.
113.6. I've been restricting my calories now for about 3 days. See if I can dump this ten pounds that crept up on me.
Doing lots of riding. Doesn't help. Or maybe it does. If no riding maybe it would have been 20 pounds.
Did not meet my goal for this challenge.
140 today. Woot woot!!
108.5 yesterday, which is high for me but not nearly as bad as it could have been after 16 days of eating and drinking our way through Mexico!
Fortunately, we did walk LOTS and LOTS and carried backpacks to/from bus stops, etc. Otherwise I'd be looking at 110+. Only splurge coming up is a Christmas potluck at friends', which I plan to enjoy thoroughly, and then right back on the horse.
Back to the bike yesterday and yoga today. Would like to get back to 105 by the end of January.
Okay, I'm joining in. After injuring my ankle on November 8th, and learning that I have zero cartilage left, along with other not fun stuff, I'm taking dropping pounds seriously. Since I was in a cast and on crutches, not really exercising, I went strict paleo with a 1200 calorie count and lost 17 pounds since that day. I started up weight training again a couple weeks ago, and since I got my cast of yesterday, I'm slowly going to start doing more cardio (didn't want to sweat and stink up the cast; been there, done that, not good at work), get back on the bike, add a bit more healthy carbs in, etc. Today, I was 162.6, which is a good 20 pounds from where I need to be. My goal is to be in the 150s by the new year, and hopefully, lose about 2 lbs. weekly until I'm at least at 145, which was a weight at which I was always happy. I'm pretty muscular, and I don't like to look skinny, but I'm also 5'5" and fairly small framed minus the hips. Since I haven't been below 145 in at least 15 years, I don't even know what a healthy low weight might be for me. All I know is that I need to get any extra weight off my ankle now. The plus will be I might get better on my bike :)
BTW, all the holiday goodies are killing me, but I haven't had a one. I keep telling myself that there will still be good food left in the world and I don't need to eat it all today. :)
127, happy with it.
Had a week of TTOTM, Holiday parties with lots of sweets, family in town, and college cafeteria 2 nights, so I was surprised it stayed 127. I did try to really watch my portions, eat S L O W L Y, and enjoy each and every bite. I'm in week 8 of marathon training so I'm not dieting, but I have pretty much stopped eating dairy and I think that has helped a lot.
125.9 this morning, I am happy that my weight is still below 126! It's taken me a few years to get here. It wouldn't be bad to lose more but as I am actively trying to change my body composition I am not sure what to expect from my weight...
It's never too late to join in and there will definitely be another 2-month round starting in January.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...TMmxYQnc#gid=0
Nice re Jan/Feb round. I'm in need :)
I rarely post to this but now at 166, think I was near 180 at some point. Now wearing size 10 jeans. I was in the 18-20 range before.
I will be in for the next round, I just need to decide if there will be a target weight or maintenance since I finally hit my target this time...
I will be in for the next round, and not for maintenance.
Target weight is 104.5
Right now I'm at 106.8, but I imagine this will be higher on January 1st.
It's been a year since I joined this challenge, and it really motivated me to lose 5 pounds and maintain.
Weight this morning: 161.2
My trainer killed me this morning. My arms are shaking as I type. Right now, the plan, other than sticking to my diet, is hard-core strength training four days a week, and riding two days a week until my ankle/calf/cardio ability is back up to a place where I can start pushing things a bit more, then switch back to two days of interval training on the bike during the week, one long ride plus one recovering medium-length (30-40) ride on the weekend, and drop down to three days of strength training. That's what I had been doing the two months prior to my injury. It felt good, and I was starting to see results. The Sunday "recovery ride" is really just me having fun with my friends with a lot of goofing around, like kids on our bikes again, and ending with a fun, big breakfast at my fav restaurant by the beach, which I always considered my "free meal" of the week, eating and drinking anything I wanted.
So I feel like I'm just starting out new again. I got my cast off one week ago, did a seven-mile ride last Sunday, but after three miles, my calf (the casted one) started cramping, so I turned back. On Christmas (gorgeous day out), I did 20 very slow miles (11-13mph), and was shocked on how fast I'd lost all my conditioning. In just two months off the bike, I'd gone from being able to comfortably ride 80+ miles solo at 16-20 mph, depending mostly on wind conditions with my heart rate in the 130s-140s (I can't maintain distances with anything higher). At the speed I was going on Christmas, my heart rate would have been in the low 100s to maybe 118ish, but it was in the 140s, and I was struggling at about mile 15. Ugh. I guess it is what it is.
Anyway, blab blab blab. My goal by the next weight-in is to get into the 150s, with preferably a 2-pound loss to 159.2. Since I haven't seen the the 150s in a few years, it will be a HUGE psychological boost to start of the New Year.
My goal for the next two-month round is realistically 152, but my secret fantasy goal is to see the 140s again, even if that's 149.999999.
I just want to thank you ladies for starting this thread. I know checking in will help keep me motivated and at least give me a place to hold myself accountable other than just in my head, which tends to have a....er....elastic accountability system when I get discouraged or just plain tired.
My final weight for this challenge is 106.
That's higher than I've seen for the end of a challenge since maybe the first one I did.
113. This challenge was a failure for me. In the next two months I want to get down to 110. I don't want an aggressive goal. Mostly I just want to quit gaining weight.
105.5
Very happy as this is the lowest weight I've seen in several months and 3 lbs. less than last week's post-Mexico vacation weight. However, I came down with a cold last Sunday and thus have been a slug, so I am sure I've lost muscle, and my appetite was suppressed from being sick. I am hoping that I can keep from gaining once I start feeling 100% again -- that is usually when my appetite comes roaring back, and even though I'm more active, I eat more than enough to maintain my weight.
Though it's not weigh-in day, I just want to say that this morning I woke up to 159.2! This, psychologically, is huge for me. I haven't seen the 150s since 2007/8. It was my little secret wish to get there before New Year's. I tend to bounce up and down for a couple days before any loss holds, so even if I bounce back up a bit, it's nice to see the 150s peeking out at me. I'm really happy and motivated.
Congrats murielalax, that's fantastic! Especially this time of year when most people are gaining. Good on ya!
Happy New Year to you all :D - Is this thread going to continue for the next challenge period, or will a new one be starting? Whatever, I'd like to join in in order to lose the 14lbs that's crept up on me over the past year... So, starting from 147lbs, I need to get to 133lbs... I'll find any tips on keeping the balance between exercise and diet regimes very valuable. I've proved over years (and years) that I don't stick to exercise regimes in the strictess sense but have a turbo-trainer and am willing to do my wayward best on that till the weather improves ( cold high winds very off-putting :( ). Does anyone use cycle-training videos with turbo/roller exercising? Can you recommend anything attractive (I've got one cheap one but the landscape is so mind-bogglingly boring it seems rather pointless.)