November/December Weight Management Challenge

[Cyclingfun]

Well, I can see this is a bit late in the day for me to join The Challenge but I hope there'll be a New Year one... I'll certainly need it with Christmas coming up! Anyhow, I thought I'd at least make contact with you all as we clearly have some things in common (like cycling and weightlosing...er, gaining... ah, and then losing again :-)). I'm 145 lbs, having gone from 168lbs to 133lbs between Jan 1st and Nov 1st 2011 (Thanks to WW). So creeping upwards again but very keen to keep the creep as minimal as possible. Have just got a turbo so am trying to work out how best to use it during these winter months. Best of luck to you all on the final days of the challenge, especially with that HUGE obstacle in the way called celebrating Christmas! (Here in the UK we seem to make Christmas span a very long time, from early December till January 5th/6th (depending on when you think 12th Night is!) and, as society here has become less religious, the eating and drinking has become a more central part of the whole period... making a tough challenge to WW like me.

[Crankin]

I am using yesterday's weight and that was up a bit from what I ate on Wednesday night.
105.6
Not as much variation this week. Mostly in the 105 range. My son is here now and last night, after 2 beers and eating at Redbones, where my other DIL is the GM, I decided to try to be watchful, but enjoy myself with my son and daughter in law. I did a super hard boot camp class yesterday and I think I am taking a rest day, as I haven't had one in 10 days, for some reason. Next week will be more normal for me, with the exception of my annual Jewish XMas meal of Chinese food.

[goldfinch]

113.6. I've been restricting my calories now for about 3 days. See if I can dump this ten pounds that crept up on me.

Doing lots of riding. Doesn't help. Or maybe it does. If no riding maybe it would have been 20 pounds.

Did not meet my goal for this challenge.

[solobiker]

140 today. Woot woot!!

[emily_in_nc]

108.5 yesterday, which is high for me but not nearly as bad as it could have been after 16 days of eating and drinking our way through Mexico!

Fortunately, we did walk LOTS and LOTS and carried backpacks to/from bus stops, etc. Otherwise I'd be looking at 110+. Only splurge coming up is a Christmas potluck at friends', which I plan to enjoy thoroughly, and then right back on the horse.

Back to the bike yesterday and yoga today. Would like to get back to 105 by the end of January.

[murielalex]

Okay, I'm joining in. After injuring my ankle on November 8th, and learning that I have zero cartilage left, along with other not fun stuff, I'm taking dropping pounds seriously. Since I was in a cast and on crutches, not really exercising, I went strict paleo with a 1200 calorie count and lost 17 pounds since that day. I started up weight training again a couple weeks ago, and since I got my cast of yesterday, I'm slowly going to start doing more cardio (didn't want to sweat and stink up the cast; been there, done that, not good at work), get back on the bike, add a bit more healthy carbs in, etc. Today, I was 162.6, which is a good 20 pounds from where I need to be. My goal is to be in the 150s by the new year, and hopefully, lose about 2 lbs. weekly until I'm at least at 145, which was a weight at which I was always happy. I'm pretty muscular, and I don't like to look skinny, but I'm also 5'5" and fairly small framed minus the hips. Since I haven't been below 145 in at least 15 years, I don't even know what a healthy low weight might be for me. All I know is that I need to get any extra weight off my ankle now. The plus will be I might get better on my bike

BTW, all the holiday goodies are killing me, but I haven't had a one. I keep telling myself that there will still be good food left in the world and I don't need to eat it all today.