New Weight Loss Challenge

[Starfish]

OK. I've been seeing this thread, and avoiding it, because I have really, really been off track since I lost 10 pounds in November/December. I had really been on track. Since then, I have tried 1000 times to get restarted, but I am struggling. I'm working out lots...but the eating is not sane at the moment.

I would like to join the non-reward challenge. I almost hate to join, because I don't like lying to myself, and honestly, I am not sure I am motivated to stay on track at the moment. But, I really, really need to lose some more weight. I haven't been this heavy, for this long, for a long time.

So, here we go. Deep breath. Starting weight for this challenge: 162lbs.

I would like to lose 10 pounds in this 8 weeks. But, even if it was a solid 5 pounds, that would be an improvement. Good luck, everyone!

[jesvetmed]

It's definitely not too late -- we'll take you all! I'll get our progress chart posted tomorrow and can then update it weekly after each Friday weigh in! No worries to you all....I've already put on 1 or 2 lb since weighing in Friday.. .is that possible!?!? Time to get back to work!

[Tiffany]

Okay, I was out of town all weekend so I weighed in first thing this morning. I'm at 161 lbs right now. Trying to get to 150. This weight is a little heavy since I normally weigh in around 158 +/- a pound, but that's okay. Anyway, I'm joining the non-reward challenge.

[motochick]

If it is not too late, please count me in. I have been reading this thread all weekend but was too chicken to do anything about it. I am 134 and would like to be 129. I have already lost 28 lbs in a year, but would like to hover at 130 instead of 135.

Brenda

[jesvetmed]

I'm attaching the participant list and starting weights as a TEXT file... couldn't upload an excel or word file. I'm not sure how to just put the table into an entry here, so this will have to do!

Welcome to everyone....
Friday is next weigh in! Good luck

Stay away from evil girl scouts... they are everywhere right now!
(OK.. buy the cookies, but give them away!)

If there is a "?" under REWARD by your name, it means I am unsure whether you are in to get / give reward at end to loser of the most weight by percentage... please let me know your preference. And, NO, you can't wait till the last week to decide!!!!

Jes

[bambu101]

I could use a little TE WLC support today. The week has been going great, diet-wise, until today, that is. The 4 boxes of GS cookies I ordered 2 months ago are here. I put a box of peanut butter Tagalongs on the community table nearby, but there are 2 boxes of Thin Mints (150 calories for 5 cookies) and 1 more box of Tagalongs (150 calories for 2 cookies).

By about 4 PM, they will be very difficult to resist. If I bring them home, I am doomed. How can I resist the temptation?

[kerrybelle]

Maybe little more info on the Girl Scout Cookies will help. I found this article interesting



(CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney.


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Well, my Girl Scout Cookies came. Usually I just eat them, but
this time I've been trying to find out more about them. Harder than I thought it would be.

The Girl Scouts buy them for about 85 cents a box. They sell them for $3.50 a box so the girls are pretty good businessmen. Last year they sold 200 million boxes - that's $700 million. As I understand it, The Girl Scouts get to keep about two thirds of that. I don't know exactly what they do with it. All kinds of good things they tell me.

One box label reads "Made for The Little Brownie Bakers in Louisville, Kentucky." Not "made BY" Little Brownie Bakers but "made FOR" Little Brownie Bakers. They're actually made by the giant cookie company, Keebler. Keebler is owned by Kellogg's but their name isn't on the box, either. Nothing simple about this.

The other company that makes Girl Scout Cookies is ABC Bakers. ABC Bakers is owned by Interbake Foods in Richmond, Va.

I've tasted most of these and they're pretty good.

One variety is called the Reduced Fat Lemon Cooler Cookie. I don't think "Reduced Fat" belongs in the name of a Girl Scout Cookie
but they've had complaints about the fat content and I suppose they're trying to address that. "Lemon juice solids?" I don't understand that, either. Is it juice or is it solid?

"Tagalongs" are peanut butter cookies. I like peanut butter and I like cookies but I've never liked peanut butter cookies.

A new variety, called a Cafe Cookie, is very good.

Everyone's favorite Girl Scout Cookie is the Thin Mints.

As much as I like Girl Scout Cookies, there are some things about them that I don't understand.

I read the labels and I liked the cookies better before I knew what was in them.

They all have partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.

I made a lot of cookies in my lifetime and we don't have a drop of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in our kitchen. We don't have any lecithin or niacin either. The Girl Scouts put what they call "reduced iron" in them. How would a girl reduce iron?

The Cafe Cookies have caramel coloring in them. You shouldn't color a cookie.

They all have riboflavin.

I looked up cookies in my Fannie Farmer cookbook and Fannie Farmer doesn't use riboflavin.

Next time a Girl Scout tries to sell me cookies, I'm going to ask her about partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and about riboflavin.


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