September/October weight loss challenge

[Possegal]

I usually hate giving myself a definite goal since I stray a lot and wind up with massive guilt trips, but what the heck!

Some folks join in but don't put down a goal. That is totally fine and completely understandable. This is to help folks in any way that works for them. So if it is better for you to just track the weight without any goal in mind, that is totally fine!

Here is the link. Let me know if it gives anyone any trouble. There are some blank lines that have whited out names of folks from last go around. I'll clean it up in a couple weeks once I'm sure those folks are just taking a challenge break and not that I missed them signing up.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...5tYkE&hl=en_US

[channlluv]

231.4 for me this morning.

Goal: 220. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it.



Roxy

Fast food-free since August 7, 2011 <g>

[Susan Otcenas]

Thanks, ladies!

Ok, deep breath.... starting weight for this challenge is 144. (I guess that 139.5 I saw on Monday was just dehydration from the long flight. ) That's pretty much consistent with what I saw on the scale before I left for France (and consistent with the lastt couple of days, too),so at least all the croissants and cheese didn't do too much damage!

Ok, so goal weight for the challenge... Hhmm, I want something achievable and realistic, that will make me work for it, but not so optimistic that I disappoint myself by missing the goal. Eight weeks. I'm going to say 6 pounds. Enough to see progress, but not so much that it's unrealistic. So, 138 for my goal.

Thanks, Possegal!

Susan

[GLC1968]

Wow, Ellen - that's a lot of lost weight already! Good job!!


My starting weight: 151.0

I'm going to adjust my goal to 142 for the end of October. It's what I weighed exactly 10 years ago (I know this because it's what I weighed when I met my husband and we met 10 years ago on Monday ).

[ny biker]

147 this morning. Dammit. Stupid sedentary vacation.

Goal remains 140.

Tomorrow is the Civil War century (metric). Normally any ride >60 miles earns me a trip to Five Guys for a giant burger and absurd quantity of fries. However if the Antietam Dairy folks are back with their ice cream, I will have that tomorrow, and no Five Guys.

[oxysback]

Wow, Ellen - that's a lot of lost weight already! Good job!!

Thanks! And happy early anniversary.

[Aggie_Ama]

Posse- Please use my Monday weight of 158, I try to stay off the scale in between my WW weigh in days because in the past I will tend towards OCD and weigh many times a day.

Blueberry- I lost nearly 50 pounds on WW online in 2004-2005. I am the type if I really commit to something I can do it. At the time I also regularly followed a similar type of board as TE and I told all of them so I had to be accountable to them. I am using WW online again, I also don't think meetings are for me. I of course have my husband to know what I am doing and a few close friends. So I feel like for my personality I have enough of a support system. Let's see if I succeed in getting back down in weight.

[azfiddle]

I successfully used WW online to lose almost 40 lbs. I have gained back about 5 but am getting back on track before too much damage has been done.

There are benefits to the groups- but it is a big time commitment and more money. We have a group on the WW forums (on the fitness challenge, "Biking Babes and Guys" that acts as a good motivator. (Maillotpois occasionally checks in there).

[maillotpois]

We have a group on the WW forums (on the fitness challenge, "Biking Babes and Guys" that acts as a good motivator. (Maillotpois occasionally checks in there).

yes. . I wish I were a more active participant. The format of that forum is somehow less conducive to regular participation for me than is TE. But it is a solid good group of people on that thread, very very supportive.

I have to say - I joined WW in 1988, lost 50 lbs plus, became lifetime, and kept the weight off til I got pregnant (so about 8-10 years). I have tremendous loyalty to that company in general , and the recent changes to the program made it a lot more sustainable for me last year.

I go back to meetings Sunday. look out world.

[maillotpois]

Blueberry - I have typically had more success with WW meetings. But it all depends on the leader and group. If it is not a good fit for you then online may be better..

[Catrin]

135.4

[Possegal]

Just an FYI for folks, technically this is a 7-week challenge since that takes us to Oct 28th. So 7 weeks from today is the last weigh in. Just in case that impacts any goal weight you may have chosen.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...hl=en_US#gid=0

[Possegal]

I'm a little late here - will get caught up now.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...hl=en_US#gid=0

[channlluv]

I'm late, too. I was traveling all day Friday and sick all afternoon Saturday (bad shrimp from Thursday), and just now had the courage to step on the scale.

231.4


I took my first Zumba class yesterday, and my first hatha yoga class in years. I also download the C25K app and will start that this morning. I'm already dressed for it.

I've been watching a reality TV series on Netflix called Heavy where these severely obese people face the psychological issues contributing to their obesity and food addictions, and they spend a month-to-six-months at a residential health spa facility working out five hours a day...

I can't help wondering if my health insurance would cover a month at a place like this over a gastric bypass surgery, which the head weight loss honcho doctor told me is my only real choice. Feh.

Roxy

[ny biker]

I'm late, too. I was traveling all day Friday and sick all afternoon Saturday (bad shrimp from Thursday), and just now had the courage to step on the scale.

231.4


I took my first Zumba class yesterday, and my first hatha yoga class in years. I also download the C25K app and will start that this morning. I'm already dressed for it.

I've been watching a reality TV series on Netflix called Heavy where these severely obese people face the psychological issues contributing to their obesity and food addictions, and they spend a month-to-six-months at a residential health spa facility working out five hours a day...

I can't help wondering if my health insurance would cover a month at a place like this over a gastric bypass surgery, which the head weight loss honcho doctor told me is my only real choice. Feh.

Roxy

Well fwiw, my sister is a nurse in a post-op unit of a hospital. She told me about a patient who had gastric bypass surgery and was readmitted to the hospital a few hours after being released, sick from eating french fries at McDonald's on the way home from the hospital. Any food-related psychological problems need to be dealt with before the surgery.

And if that doctor is a surgeon, that might be the reason he says surgery is your only option.