WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE - 7 Weeks-10#'s

[NoNo]

Arg! The scale doesn't want to budge now. Stuck at 124.4. I've been eating well and did my hour on the elliptical yesterday, then finished putting the lights on the tree. Despite the lack of evidence from my scale, my pants feel looser, so I must be doing alright. Maybe it's being replaced with muscle. A girl can dream, right?

[limewave]

Five One--I'm with you. Had the chest cold. Lost my voice. Stayed in bed. It was awful. I'm finally doing better and this morning did my first workout in almost two weeks. I'm back at square one too

AND, I'm also one of those that weigh more than SO. DH is 6' and weighs 150. My dream is for us to weigh the same :-)

I'm at about 175 right now. My goal is to inch under that 170 mark by Christmas. Those five pounds should get me back into my favorite pants

My Estimated Cals for the day (unless I stray from the plan):
Cals: 1500
Fat: 50g (all good fat though)
Carbs: 187g
Protein: 93g
Fiber: 44g

Workout:
50 minutes on the Trainer--Intervals
30 minutes of stregth training

[five one]

Down again slightly to 134.4 this morning, but this is a result of cutting back calories as opposed to exercising to burn them. The cold is gone, but the asthma symptoms remain to a degree. Still using Qvar and albuterol, which are helping somewhat. Did weights this morning and will try an hour on the trainer tomorrow. Hoping to get out on the road over the weekend if it's not too cold. That cold air really bothers my lungs.

I've managed, so far, to refrain from eating the treats that people have been bringing in to work.

Wishing everyone good luck over the next few tough weeks. We can do it!

[Flybye]

Well, I have had bronchitis since the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I finally feel halfway human today.

I ate two Thanksgivig dinners, one at my families house Thursday and one at my husband's families house on Saturday.

I think the combination of two dinners plus the fact that I have been taking a lot of alka seltzer cold medicine with lots of sodium in it is the reason for the gain. I am hoping that most of it is water weight, because I have really been great with watching what I eat. I may not be getting enought calories, either, food just doesn't sound as good when you can't taste it! I haven't eaten much this week.

Overall, I am not too disappointed in the gain. I just want to feel well again and get back on track with eating and exercising.

By the way, I have had my share of sickness for the winter season. I had puke-flu after Halloween which lasted over a week and now bronchitis. I am done. Hear that????

Monday will have better numbers, for sure!

Congrats and keep plugging away!!!

[NoNo]

Still stuck at 124.4. I've been eating well and exercising plenty, so I'll just keep going along. Got through 30 minutes on the trainer last night when dad stopped by to tell me our friend had passed away I never did the rest of my exercises, and baked some cookies to busy myself. There's nothing awful in them, but I brought the extras in to work so I wouldn't eat the whole batch myself. This weekend we're delivering toys to Make-A-Wish and I hope to get out on the mountain bike for a bit, so I'll be busy and not eating through my grief. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Make the most of it.

[Over50Newbie]

Just a quick fly-by for me.

My weigh-in today was 141.0

I plan to be "140 point something by Monday"

Lynette

[Tuckervill]

I weighed at the gym today. Last time my BF% was 43, and today it was 41.9. By their scale I'm down 4 lbs since I weighed there, probably 4 weeks ago, I think. By mine, I'm up one pound. I've been feeling depressed lately, with winter closing in (gray skies really do a number on me). But I have a busy weekend so that should help me out.

I'm glad about my BF%. I have some muscles and I can do all the plank moves that I couldn't do when we started the boot camp. I found out today that we have enough interest so they will do boot camp through December! YAY! That should help my BF% and my depression!

Karen