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147.2!!! :D
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147.2!!! :D
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My weight took a roller coaster ride this week. I went up 2 lbs practically overnight on Sunday. I'm sure it was because I rode every single day on my last week of vacation, overloaded my muscles and my body was holding onto water. I had 2 rest days from exercise when I went back to work Monday, my legs recovered from feeling like lead weights, and I am back down to just below where I was last week: 127.4
My goal for the challenge is 126... What do you all think: if get down to 126.8 will it count? (my real goal is 120 - which I hope to reach by the end of January, at the rate of about 1/2 lb a week, which seems to be my average)
I didn't even bother weighing myself (I did last monday and was at 242.8) today. I have had a very rough week... my friend sarah...age 30 just got diagnosed with a reocurrance of breast cancer. (she was 25 the first time). Her and her husband are my main biking partners. This has brought my own battle up close and personal.......even though I am fine...is the shoe going to drop?
I have had a hard time eating right....I will try to get back on track next week.
Tina
Txred9876, so sorry to hear about your friend :(. I hope she responds to whatever treatment is next for her. And I understand your own apprehension. My DH has been in remission for 18 years (had a bone marrow transplant in 1991 for a recurrence of non-Hodgkins's lymphoma), but hardly a day goes by that I don't think about it and wonder if it's gone for good.
I've been feeling kind of blah for the last week. Sort of like I'm on the cusp of a cold, which would be my first in years. No motivation for any kind of exercise, so I've been a sloth since Monday and eating stuff I shouldn't. I dreaded getting on the scale, but - surprise - it read 133 this morning. I don't get it, but I'll take it. Maybe I just needed the rest.
I'm taking a pass this week.
170.8
I say if you get within 0.9 of your goal, I change the color of your square. :) Close enough for me!!
I understand the need to take a pass, folks should not worry about doing that when they need to.
And I'm very sorry about your friend Tina. I don't think that 'is the other shoe going to drop' feeling ever quite goes away. But I can only imagine what it is like for you to have your friend dealing with a recurrence.
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Sorry, I am late.
180.2.
sorry, a bit late weighing in this week. Put me down for 214.8.
152 for me.
No such thing as late ladies, worry not! :)
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144 for me...
154.5 ... I think I am bewitch - cannot go lower!
Hi everyone! I haven't checked in here in a while since my accident and injury a couple of months ago. Yesterday, I stepped on the scale (first time I could do so weightbearing and w/o a cast). I have lost 6 lbs in the past two months. I knew I had lost a couple, but this was a total shock! I know I'll probably regain a little as the muscle mass improves in my legs, but that's OK. So, to date I have lost 82 lbs, two below my official WW goal. 138 lbs. It's been at least 25 years since I've weighed that little.
Hooray! :D
Congrats., skinimini! Given the seriousness of your injury, I would be overeating too much if I was set back like you.
You must have great self-discipline. :)
Congrats indeed skinimini. That is outstanding. I too would have only gained. In fact, that's why I am in the position I am in. It is a lot of excess weight gained when I dislocated my knee and took way too long to get it working right again and get me exercising again. The depression of the knee made me eat even more. Too many years ago for it to be an excuse now though.
Glad you are healing and congrats on the weight loss. Hope you are back to 100% real soon!
Adding my congrats. Sounds like a great motivator too, as you are healing and getting back to more activity.
Hi all!
I kind of fell off the weigh-in's. In fact I have no idea of my weight. I suspect I am about 123--that is where I tend to stay. Add or subtract a pound or so--depending on the day!
I just had 2 weeks of vacation--enjoying micro brews, hiking and biking. (Ok, had the micro brews AFTER the hiking and biking).
I am just trying a new approach--and it does not involve the frequent dates with the scale--those always discourage me.
My new approach is to stick w/ the marathon training plan. Yes, I know, training for endurance is not the best way to lose weight. But IF I do all the runs as prescribed and I don't "over eat"...it could/should work.
And my once a week total body conditioning and/or pilates and maybe a spin on the bike.
And I am not "dieting". I am cleaning up my eating. I can do it. I have done it.
Eating out is only once a week. (not like 2 and 3 times or more!)
But not great sacrafices that just lead me to then over-indulge. Being smart. I do know what I should and should not eat!
And insteaad of the scale, I am going by how I feel and how my clothes feel. (In fact today my pants are comfortable!--and they are not even my "fat pants").
Go kudos to all that has lost weight and good luck to all. I think I'll sit the nex challenge out. Maybe I'll be surprised (one way or another) when I step on the scale at the end of the month!
K
There go my pretty blue cells.
Back up to 239, alas.
Okay, excuses: I just started a new blood pressure medication that's not as effective a water pill as the one I was on last week, I'm a day or two away from my period, I traveled by plane cross country on Thursday to my mother's house where healthy eating means there's fresh peaches in the cobbler.
I'm so puffy I can't get my rings off, so I know it's just water weight, but jeez. This up and down is wearing me out. This morning my face was so puffy my eyes were swollen shut. I'm not kidding. It took hours for that to subside. I looked like I'd been stung by a hive of bees.
Roxy
You'll get back there Roxy, I'm sure of it! Hang in there.
Now I am up to 139 - this is so discouraging!
Lynette
Hi all. Forgot to post my weigh in from Friday am...
167.8. Right direction, but Im worried it's up -- long work weekends are detrimental (but at least I got my workouts in). The staff has so much Halloween candy there now! Ugh!
are you guys starting a new challenge in November?
Yep, there will be a new 8-week challenge as soon as this one is done!
I know it's not Friday yet unless you're in Australia/NZ... but I was too happy to wait until tomorrow. I've been 126.4 for the last two mornings (my goal for the challenge was 126).
Bonus: I fit into all the size medium shirts/blouses I tried on at the store last night. (not bike clothes though- they seem to have a different concept of medium and large).
Yay! That's great!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by azfiddle
Excuses, excuses, excuses:
I'm not looking forward to tomorrow AM. Last week I ate horribly and then started my (.) on Friday. Then I took DD to Chicago for a fun girls trip--lots of eating out. Yesterday I had a 10 hour photo-shoot at a Brewery. Lots of pictures of beer and food . . . and we couldn't let it all go to waste.
Today we are having 5 trees taken down in our yard. Tomorrow we begin demolition of our garage (damaged in a storm). And Monday the new garage begins construction.
I'm really hoping life gets on some kind of routine soon. Much easier to get on a healthy diet/exercise regime.
YAY indeed! Shall I post it to the chart today for you? Complete with color changes. :)
And limewave - you have a way better job than mine. :)
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Looking at the spreadsheet- doesn't e.e.cummings get to change to blue too?
I've only been changing if you get within less than a lb of the goal. And clearly, my math skills need work. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by azfiddle
124. can't seem to get below that consistently :mad:
I've been out of town quite a bit the past month, so have not been checking in regularly.
129 for me.
233.6
Some thoughts on this, this lovely almost-Halloween morning:
1. I get naked every Friday with you people on my mind.
2. I'm back in the pretty blue cells range. Yay. (thanks to a return to the other medication - 6 pounds gone since Wednesday night.)
3. I would like to make a weight-loss goal that is not helped along by pharmaceuticals - seems like cheating - but at the moment, those are what is keeping my blood pressure under control, so I need the medication. The weight loss (it's only water, anyway) is just a bonus.
I'm trying to figure out what the next goal should be. 225, I think.
Anyone tried the Eating Clean program?
Roxy
I lost a bit on the "sick and don't want to eat" diet plan. It is sure to not be a lasting change. Maybe I can use it to get myself back on track. After a weekend visit with a friend. :)
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channlluv,
What is the "Eating Clean" program?
K
I was in Florida the last few days with my father, who has terminal cancer, and his wife, my stepmother, is trying all sorts of things to try and help him. He's under hospice care and is on some pretty heavy duty pain meds, but she's also giving him Essiac Tea (based on the alleged cure of cancer patients in the 1920s by a nurse who never wrote down her recipe and who supposedly got it from an old Indian cure -Dr. Andrew Weil discounts it as not supported by clinical studies, but they're drinking it every day), and other herbals, and this Eat Clean diet, which is supposed to be great for weight loss, as well as chock full of cancer-fighting nutrients.
She gave me the book. It's low on bread and such, high on fresh, organic veggies and lean meats, and frequent small meals. You fill a cooler every evening with your next day's meals and carry that with you to work so you're never tempted to eat out while you're on this program. I haven't read it all, but it seems well-balanced (unless you need the carbs for long rides or something - it's not designed for high-level athletes, I don't think).
There are at least three levels of commitment, depending on your needs, but it's pretty much a non-clinical detox using food.
Roxy
Roxy, is that Tosca Reno's book? GREAT recipes in it. I use them ALL the time! It's a super sound way of eating for life - truly. When I'm on track, that's how I try to eat. I have trouble eating as often as she recommends because there are parts to my day where I just cannot have food with me, but the meals/nutrition are extremely healthy. I now have all of her cookbooks and so far, every single thing I've tried has been delicious! (and the photos are great, too!)
I'm making a batch of the clean eating granola this weekend, actually. :)
170.0 for me this week - back to where I started!:rolleyes:
Yes, that's it! I was trying to remember her name. I don't have the book here with me to check it. Thanks so much for the recommendation. I think I'll read it more carefully and look at starting it as soon as we all recover from the flu here.
Roxy
169.6