TE Fall Weight Loss Challenge - Sept/Oct

[Over50Newbie]

This is not fun - 143.0!

Lynette

[jesvetmed]

OK... 170.2 this am.
But... I have not been doing what I should, and I know it. Actually this week I was able to run 3x, and have dropped a pound since last week. And already am feeling better. So hopefully this is the trend!

Dex, Aggie and others - -EXCELLENT WORK reaching your goals! Can't wait to join you!

I've set some specific goals for the next 6 weeks, and am ready to WORK HARD!
Jes

[wolfak]

226 10/17
225 today, which is good because I crested at 229 sometime last week. Either my scale is f'ed up or something else is really wrong - that's a lot of flux.

[dex]

Well, I do set very modest goals. Heh.

I'm really bad at "dieting". Usually what I end up doing is sticking to my food plan (which is definitely not that low in calories anyway) for a few weeks, and then take a break for a week or so. During those breaks, I let myself eat whatever I want, when I want...even if it's kind of junky food, and I never let myself feel guilty for it. This means that I only average a small caloric deficit overall--enough for an average loss of ~.8 lbs per week over the last six months.

So, it works for me, but it's definitely not fast. And it keeps me sane, which is way more important to me than anything else.

226 10/17
225 today, which is good because I crested at 229 sometime last week. Either my scale is f'ed up or something else is really wrong - that's a lot of flux.

When you see big fluctuations over short periods of time like that, it's usually just water. Try not to let water upset you. I know I can climb over six lbs practically overnight if I have too much wheat in one day, and then it takes me about five days to get that water back off--faster if I really clamp down on all carbs. It's not fat, just water...and water is easy to manipulate (but unless you're competing in a sport with weight classes, or trying to win a prize for weight loss, water manipulation is pretty useless).

[Grits]

139. Yay! Below 140 so I can officially do the happy dance, even though it may very well be back up next week. [picture me, dancing around the table]

This weight loss business is very strange. I work hard all summer training to do the MS 150, still doing strength training, doing more pushups than I've ever done in my life- and I mean all the ones combined I've ever done in my life- not overfueling. Do I lose any weight? no, no, no. In fact, I fight not to gain weight.

I take a week off because I'm fighting a cold, don't diet, don't exercise at all, and drop 2 pounds.

[Aggie_Ama]

I just ate about 10 twizzlers. Lord help me put the rest away for another day. Good thing breakfast and lunch were light. Ugh!!

[martinkap]

151 lbs. I knew this goal is going to be much harder. But I am getting closer and closer!

[Possegal]

179 for me. life has been so complicated of late, but i know i would feel so much better if i got better about my food and my working out. UGH.

[Miranda]

I'm totally starving chewing salad as I'm typing because I'm determined to at least not be heavier than I started. Today on the gym scale I think I lost a couple to do that. Fridays a couple days away, so gotta hold steady until the official weigh post day. Gheez, Halloween is Friday. Lots of candy. DS said "why don't we buy our treat pass out candy now?" Umm, cuz mother will eat it before it's passed out. See no evil... eat no evil.

[3for3]

I think I dropped off the face of the earth for a while. We were gone camping, then my daughter was sick and then...of course I got it. So I haven't done much as of late. I'm at 125.2. I guess I'm just glad, at this point, to be a LITTLE down from where I started. Are we doing this again during the holiday season?

[jesvetmed]

Are we doing this again during the holiday season?

I think we should! I need accountability!

[Possegal]

I hope so too! I need to find a way to get active again and this does help. Now if only the weather would stop being so windy!

[Candie607]

I've been too busy to post the last couple of weeks, but i was back up to 140.6 on Friday. UGH!! Hopefully I can get under 140 by Friday. I've certainly had to downscale my goals!

[Miranda]

Are we doing this again during the holiday season?

I think we should! I need accountability!

Ya know... I was thinking about that too. My "realistic" goal through the holidays was always to just ***maintain***. With all the stuff the holidays brings (& my b-day is thrown in there too, in a word: cake) that is a huge goal, IMHO.

[tulip]

I just ate about 10 twizzlers. Lord help me put the rest away for another day. Good thing breakfast and lunch were light. Ugh!!

I made the big mistake of buying Tootsie Rolls for Halloween treats--I should only buy things with nuts, because I hate nuts!

I'm not on this challenge, but I'll post here because hopefully it'll inspire some folks. I had creeped up to 131 a few weeks ago and really noticed it in my clothes. I've been fairly inactive over the past month or so--just lazy I guess, but also traveling for work a bit. Mostly lazy. Anyhow, I took a good look at myself and my creeping habits and I'm happily back down to 127, just about where I feel just right, almost. It can be done! Eat an apple every day!

Another interesting thing, I was at the dentist yesterday, and they had me fill out a questionnaire about my eating habits. I realized that I rarely snack, which is a surprise to me. When I worked in my stressful job, I would snack alot--from the vending machine. I think little things like that go unnoticed until you really think about them.

Keep up the good work!