May/June Weight Loss Challenge

[surgtech1956]

179#. Dang

[Possegal]

More updates.

https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spr...UE&output=html

[GLC1968]

150.7 for Saturday's weigh in. Totally forgot to post it!

[angelaslc]

Hello - I haven't been connected until today. This was my weigh-in:

150.5

So I'm going up....but my clothes are fitting looser? Some sort of plateau maybe - but it's been a month since I've lost weight.

I have to admit, I haven't been as strict with my diet because I figured my body needs the fuel for these long rides....However - I need to drop the last 15 pounds and I know I need to go back to being very strict with my diet.

So - I've made a decision to start logging my food again on the Livestrong web-site. It has a great database of foods and it's free and pretty easy to log food and exercise. I do eat really healthy foods but I tend to mindlessly eat things....like nuts

I will cut out the coconut yogurt and stop snitching my boyfriends chips....those Whole Foods wheat tortilla chips he buys with the cilantro jalapeño hummus is amazing but I know it's taking away from my calorie deficient and preventing me from losing the weight..

So maybe it's a plateau and maybe I'm overdoing it on the snacking....maybe both. Either way, I think using the Livestrong web-site will help me be more concious of what I am eating.

[RadicalEdward]

Good Luck! I found that logging food made it easier to stop snacking on the bad stuff- knowing that even if I only had a 'little' bit I would still have to log it at the end of the day was enough motivation to not have any
If you're dropping sizes though it's quite likely that there's muscle gain there!

Missed the last weigh in - have ben curled up in a ball on the couch with flu Just starting to come good now though! (But oh goodness have I eaten some terrible things this last week!)
Muscles are itching to get back out there - as soon as my sinuses clear enough for me to breathe standing up I'll be back on the bike.. It's taking ForEVER....

[carolync]

I totally forgot to check in last week.

Scale finally dropped. 129.6. Woohoo! Nice to be out of the 130s, even if barely

[jennyrc]

164.4....slow but steady I guess, so no complaints here.

Ready for the weekend! I'm hoping exercise will counteract some junk food I plan on eating while out camping. Heading of to yoga this am, then hopefully a run this afternoon, then golfing this evening. Tomorrow I'm hoping for short ride before heading out to float the river and camp. Got to love Alaskan summers when the days go on and on!

Hoping everyone enjoys the long weekend and has beautiful weather too

[Catrin]

136.4

I know there is a diet/calorie and exercise imbalance going on here - though with the weather as it has been there is little surprise I haven't been able to get out there as often as I need/want. My diet isn't bad, by no means, but have probably gotten a little lax...

[angelaslc]

Well...logging food the last couple of days but I haven't been able to train since Saturday...I pulled a muscle in my right calf- or over streched it?...not sure but it hurts....even walking has been painful...cycling and stairs are very painful.

I weighed in at 149. At least I am back into the 140's....but not by much.

[chryss]

158.0

Slow and steady, though there's still a lot of day-to-day bouncing. Clearly my water retention fluctuates widely, but then I've been leading a hectic life, including fishing trips starting at 11 pm (it's not getting very dark any more at night and sunset is now at 11:50 pm). I have no complaints -- one pound a week would be ideal if it's steady (revised goal for the July 1 weigh-in is 154 right now, by the way, in line with a 1 a week goal).

[extra-vert]

back to 138, quel domage

[Jones]

201

[channlluv]

I'm really embarrassed to post this: 227.4.


Apparently I'm not one of those people who can eat whatever they like and not exercise and not gain an ounce.

I'm really hoping this is just my body's coping with the onslaught of white flour and other less-than-ideal...okay, really bad...food choices I've made the last two weeks. My first actual salad I've been able to get down my very sore tongue/throat (post-surgery) was Tuesday.

The last couple of days my face and chest have been breaking out everywhere I got a little too much sun last weekend. I'm breaking out in these tiny little red bumps, some of which have pinhole white heads. Yesterday I couldn't even wear my usual powder foundation because my face actually hurt. My chest, too. Everywhere that was sunburned. It's like my body is purging toxins, but I'm not sure what they are. Unless it's all the bad food that I'm not used to eating.

I'm wondering if it's some medication that I'm on and I'm not supposed to get into the sun.

I'm also very bloated. I practically slosh when I walk.

So I go from 218 and feeling hot, to 227 and feeling like a slug in the matter of three weeks or so.

argh.

Roxy - I can get back on the treadmill now, but nothing too strenuous, per the doctor. Nothing that would make me breathe very hard -- my nasal passages are still raw from the surgery on the 6th. Gross and gory details from the follow-up visit on Thursday have been omitted.

[Possegal]

I'm wondering if it's some medication that I'm on and I'm not supposed to get into the sun.

I have to say, as a doctor of pharmacology (ie, drug doctor), that was what was going through my mind when you said it.

Hope you are feeling back to your self soon!

[channlluv]

Thanks, Possegal. You know, I was on a really strong antibiotic up until a week ago. Augmentin or something like that. Is that an antibiotic?