Is anyone [15lbs by aug 25]

interested in starting a group to lose 15 lbs by August 25th?

Just let me know, thanks!

Okay....I'm weighing in a week later still at 150 lbs. BUT I felt pretty good about my bikini this weekend on the beach!!

I'm going to cut my portions a little. I think my perception is a tad distorted.

Didnt do so hot over the holiday weekend! Gained 4!!! pounds!!! But Im over it and moving on. I dont know if I'll make the 15lbs, but Im shooting for at least 10!

Weigh in day is approaching!
Hopefully it will be okay though! I was down today, so hopefully I'll be down again!

I've worked pretty hard this week!!!

I am not looking forward to weigh in.  I was really bad over the 4th weekend I had 3 BBQ to go to.  Way to much drinking and potato salad.  And this week has not gone well either.  I worked out today and have been eating OK today.  I may have to post a gain and that scares me as 8/25 is quickly approaching and I still have 9 lbs to lose.  I need to stay focused; any help or advise?   

 

hey july29, i know what you mean! im scared too, but we need to keep motivated, yesterday was a great day excercised and ate well, felt so good, but thats only one day, but still do whatever you can to motivat yourself, if you want a treat tell yourself you can only have it if you excercise the whole week and eat properly, im trying to do it, i know its hard but we have to try our best, im weighing in on saturday, gluck!

Alrighty, you know what today is - weigh in day! I had an unusual result that is unexplaineable except that I may have started water bloated, I may be underestimating my exercise and overestimating my calories or my scale may be broken. So here goes with the weigh-in parade:

Starting weight of challenge: 192

July 3 : 191.6

July 10: 184.4 (7.2 pounds in a week?? Checking to see if all limbs are still attached . . . . Whew!)

GW for challenge by August 25: 177

Second weigh in:

SW: 161.4

7/03: 160.4

7/10: 158.6

GW: 146.4

Lost 1.8 lb!  Yay!  Hopefully can keep up this rate; now only 12.2 lb. to go.

Okay second weigh in day...........

SW- 166

7/3- 161

7/10- 159

GW- 147

Yay, finally out of the overweight BMI category and into the normal!! Woo hoo!!!

4th of July did a number on me  But the scale still moved down... and I felt good in my bikini at the beach!

 

Starting Weight on 6/26: 120 lbs

7/3: 117 lbs

7/10: 116 lbs

Goal weight 108 lbs...... down 4 total, 8 more to go 

 

Let's keep it up!!

Great work! Congrats!!

LAST WEIGH IN - 142.4

TODAY - 141.4

Thats pretty good. :)

Everyone is doing brillaintly!

Weigh-in timmeee.

SW     06/26     07/03     07/10  
130    129.4     126.9      126.2

0.2lb loss? Man, my weight fluctuated like crazy this past week! It went from 126.9 to 124.8, 127.8, 124.6, and now 126.2. I don't know how to explain that stupid fluctuation, but at least my weight is a little bit lower than last weigh-in!

Great job everyone! :D

Hey Everyone,

Great job this week, and I imagine having the holiday out of the way next week will be even better!

Here's my stats:

May 5th- 161 (start day on CC)

July 1- 155 (first post here!)

July 3- 154

July 7- 153.5

This week I am actually shocked I lost at all.  I drank like crazy over the weekend and ate pizza TWICE!!  But, I kept on track with my running, which I guess was my savior!

Can't WAIT till I get to 150, I have a medical scale, so I can move the bottom (heavy weight) to 100, instead of 150!! wooohoo!

Ok, so here it goes.. second weigh in!

SW 06/26 - 172 lbs

1st 07/03 - 173 lbs

2nd 07/10 - 171.4 lbs

GW 08/25 - 157 lbs

Down 1.6 lbs from last weigh in... whoo! I want to break the 170's so bad.. it's been a while since I saw the scale at or near the 160's!

Good job everyone!!

Thank you you the pep talk magicallydelicious but just as i feared here is my weigh in:

 

SW: 129

7/3: 124.2

7/10: 125.6

GW: 115

I gained :(

What sucks the most is I have done a work out everyday this week so far.  I think I need to come up with some better dinners.  I find myself eating really well all day and then just eating what ever I can throw together for dinner.  Oh well I will keep at it and hopefully I do something right and can lose this weight. 

Good luck to you all....It looks like so far I am the only one who gained. 

 

hey girls, i lost one pound, maybe its from going to the bathroom this morning lol but i have been really unhealthy this week, eating great one day, and binging the next, so i really want tp keep with my 3 small goals this week, i just really need to keep myself from watching tv because it causes me to binge, but ive identified the problem and i know thats the first step, so now i need to work to solve it, so im going to try and go the whole next week without tv and really stick to eating well, oh girls i was thinking for some encouragement, we should set a deadline for half of our goal weights, for example i want to go down 10lbns, well 9 now, so by august 1st i have to be down by at least 5 lbs, i think that way we'll be a little more encouraged, because that way it doesnt seem like theres so much time from now till august, also july29 what kind of workouts are you doing? what are you eating for dinner, maybe telling us we can all help you, compare it to what we're doing, and to everyone else, for example: durgy! 7 lbs thats amazing! could you maybe tell us all what your routine was for the week, maybe it will help us, if we can share what works or didnt work im sure we can all help each other reach our goals faster and more efficiently!

durgy! 7 lbs thats amazing! could you maybe tell us all what your routine was for the week, maybe it will help us, if we can share what works or didnt work im sure we can all help each other reach our goals faster and more efficiently!

Ya, c'mon durgy, share with the rest of us! :P

SW: July 4th - 205

CW: July 10th - 199

Lost: 6lbs

9lbs to go!

Since you asked.

Hypothesis - I think I may have just busted off a plateau and I may also have been recovering from some over consumption of sodium. But the scale said what it said. What follows is the basic plan that I've used to lose about 5 stone 10 this year.

Overview - I am trying to eat about 1800 calories per day and exercise or otherwise be active for two hours per day. My base eating and exercise plan comes from the abs power diet along with elements of the flat belly diet and the Mediterranean diet. I calorie count and log what I eat. If I cheat I am only cheating myself.

Calories in general - I will try to figure out a way to cut and paste a typical meal plan into my journal. My calorie counts and breakdowns this week were:

1. Date logged   Calories     Grams     Fat    Carbs  & nbsp; Protein
2. 2008-07-03    1,688      1,989     68      174        112
3. 2008-07-04    2,425      2,593     101    192        168
4. 2008-07-05    2,340      2,445      93     234       122 
5. 2008-07-06    1,855      1,907      63     224       124 
6. 2008-07-07    2,087  &nbs p;   2,327      89     235       106 
7. 2008-07-08    1,721      1,783      74     161        98 
8. 2008-07-09    1,618      2,259      39     248        83 

Pre-workout - My day starts a little before 5. I wake up, weigh myself, eat a banana (or mango or other sweet pulpy fruit), drink some water and make my lunch and snacks for the day. I log my weight and try to let my food digest for at least 20 minutes and preferably about a half hour before exercising.

Exercise - I did (and do for the most part) exercise every day. On Mondays and Wednesdays I do about 15 minutes of abs stuff (bicycle crunches, crunches, leg raises, oblique V-ups, plank and superman raises) then 20 minutes on the treadmill with a bit of an incline then 40 minutes or so of circuit training with nautilus machines and dumbells (squats, bench press, pull downs, military press, bent over rows, tricep pushdowns, leg raises, biceps curls, leg curls, rest two minutes, repeat two more time) (NB: all gym stuff is available in a workout room in my apartment building, though variations of all can be done with dumbells at home). I warm down with 30 minutes on the stationary bike (every day). On Tuesdays and Thursdays I do an hour on the treadmill at about 5+MPH with varying incline (cardio mode) and warm down on the bike. On Friday I warm up with a 20 minute run, do circuit training with some extra legs stuff (lunges and step ups) an warm down on the bike. On Saturday I do interval training on the elliptical for about an hour and a 30 minute bike. I took a run on Sunday and a bike.

Breakfast - After my workout I eat breakfast. Usually oatmeal or other hot cereal with berries (blue, black and/or rasp) and walnuts (5 halves broken up). I drink a glass of skim or unsweetened soy milk. On days that I lift weights I add an egg fried in light canola oil. On Friday, I had an omlette with 2 egg whites and 1 whole egg with some fat free cheese, garlic and jalapenos. I am apt to put black, white or cayenne pepper on  about anything. There was some melon with some of those breakfasts.

Snacks - I snack a lot. During work I may have low fat bio live yogurt; an apple and almonds; apricots and brazil nuts or pumpkin seeds; an orange with chocolate. I used to eat every snack I brought. Now I usually try to not eat one thing, and save it for the next day. I try to incorporate some monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA) into about eating event (snack or meal).

Lunch - I had a salad of lunch every day this week. Romaine, tomato, cucumber, radish, green pepper, either avocado or green olives (remembering my MUFA) and 1 teaspoon of olive oil (more MUFA) and 2 teaspoons of balsamic vinegar. On top was either 3 or so ounces of chicken or tuna.

Dinner - On the fourth and another day this week I had steak (leftovers from the 4th). I made incredibly tasty mashed sweet potatoes which I had as a side dish on the 4th and other dinners until they were gone. I had salmon a couple of nights. Chicken a couple of nights. The night before the weigh in I had pinto beans instead of a meat item for my protein. I have vegetables at dinner - broccoli/cauliflower or green beans, corn and carrots or brussel sprouts with dinner. Sometimes I do not have an extra starch at dinner. Sometimes I will have a half cup of brown rice. I had two glasses of wine during the week. I logged everything that I ate (except spices and water and green tea).

Liquids - If I drink calories (beside my daily soy or skim milk) it will usually be a healthy juice. This happens less than once a day. I drink a lot of water and green tea. If I break down and have a skim latte at the costa coffee, I'm going to not eat some other item. I practice portion control.

Extra exercise - Almost every night after dinner I walk to the market or the video store (about a half a km each way). On the weekends I get out and shop or walk around and do stuff out of the house. I never look for a space up close to the mall, store or shopping area. I have a stress ball that I squeeze at work and when I remember to do so, I will randomly and consciously fidget (move my legs, toss the stress ball from hand to hand while reviewing documents, do dips in my chair, stand up while talking on the phone, etc.)

Night time - If I am watching a movie at home I might have some sunflower seeds (MUFA)with dates or prunes or apricots. I don't generally eat after 8PM. I try to get (and usually succeed in getting) 7 hours of sleep every night.

Summary and outlook - I think it all kind of combined right this week. We'll see if the weight stays off.

Peace!

Wow, that's so helpful and detailed. Thanks durgy! I'm definitely gonna take some of your points and try to work them into my daily routine.