September/October weight loss challenge

[Veronica]

10 or 20 or 25 pounds of extra body mass are minuscule in the greater scheme of things.

Actually that's not minuscule when it's fat pounds. Too many Americans are obese and seem to be content to be so. They don't seem to understand what those extra fat pounds are doing to their health.

Veronica

[DonnaS]

Weight this AM is 135.

This is a double challenge for me as I'm (hopefully) going on one of the WomanTours' Outer Banks bike tours the end of October. I've lost 10 pounds so far since signing up.

[Ambikes]

I'm back after a LONG break. Thanks to Susan and the rest of you for sharing your stories because it's inspired me to give this another go. My backstory is fairly similar to a lot of you. I lost 25 pounds through diet modification and A LOT of running about 2.5 years ago. I wanted to lose 5-7 lbs more at that time, joined this challenge, and failed to lose anything. I realize now that my body is probably just happy at 135 lbs, not at 128 or 130. I am at peace with that BUT the scale is now reading 140. In addition to that, I have had some bad things happen in my personal life recently that make it really difficult for me to motivate to exercise and eat right. After allowing myself 3 weeks of a massive pity party, it's time to refocus.

So, I am resolving to clean up my diet, get back on the exercise wagon, and lose the 5 lbs I let creep up on me last winter (and failed to lose over the summer).

Current weight: 140
Goal weight: 135

[carlotta]

Current: 181
Goal: 170