25 pound challenge (Closed)

I’ve got about 50 lbs to lose, but I really need to break it up a little. I was thinking about doing a 50 lb challenge, but I didn’t want to shut out losers who have less to lose! So I thought that a 25-to-lose group would be a happy medium. I’m looking to start a support and accountability group whose main goal is to lose 25 pounds by the end of June. That’s about 1.5 lbs a week, which I think is very doable. I’m looking for folks who are losing with healthy diet and exercise, any plan is fine, but no “cabbage soup” fad diet nonsense, no pills, etc. Just healthy lifestyle changes.

Goal: To lose 25 pounds by June 30th.

Motto: Who dares, wins!

Members: Anyone with 25 or more pounds to lose.

Post: Daily if possible. Post goals, daily food and exercise stats, problems, anything related to your weight loss journey. Post tips, articles, stories, anything helpful or motivating. Post recipes and exercise routines too, if you want.

If you’re in, do an introductory post, and here’s mine!

I’m Pook. I’m a 43 year old woman who lives in Louisville KY. I’m 5’ 7”. I started at 230 lbs, and I’m presently 199. My plan is to eat healthy food, lower fat, higher fiber, and daily exercise. I mostly walk, but I also enjoy yoga, water aerobics, weights, bike riding and dancing. A year ago, I got down to 175, but then I got stupid and went back up to 205. I’m back down to 199, and determined to make up lost ground.

Hello Everybody and welcome to all the new folk!

Fly ~ Yes the vitamin idea was a very bad one!  I won't be doing that again EVER lol! 

Pook ~ Good job on the brownies!

Onetwothreeme ~ I can empathize with the nightime munching!  I gotta stop!  Right now one of my saviours is a Breyer's Real Fruit popsicle ~ only 25 cals and 2 grams of sugar.

misty ~ welcome, sounds like you are on the right track!

jltoffer ~ I'll post the recipe. 

girlfighting27 ~ recipe to follow

mamamia~ sucks that you lost your stats.  Re: Biggest Loser, I felt so ripped off!  I wanna know now!

ana~  there ain't no shame in wanting to be hot! 

fab~ way to go on working through the pain!  I am still talking myself into a workout after yesterday's workout but I will get there.  The weights are calling my name.

nananj ~ Awesome job on the ff!  I still have junk in my house so I am always tempted by burgers, fries, hotstuff pockets....Grrr.  Just last night my hubby and son were eating burgers while I had a salad with turkey and wholegrain bread.  Son didn't finish his burger but guess who did .

Myself:  I am doing pretty good.  For the last two days I have packed a lunch and snacks for school which has helped with my diet and wallet!  My school's food is overpriced and it is easy to spend $10.00 on a sub-par lunch.  I have felt a little more hungry than I did on the break but I attribute that to being more active by going to school.  I just had a week break so I spent most of my time around the house.  Exercise as always could be better but my diet is going great.  I am getting plenty of fibre and protein and I think the protein is really helping with my strength training.

I lost two pounds since last week!  I am going to post my stats tomorrow because that is my official weigh in day even though I weigh everyday out of curiosity.

Sounds like everyong is doing pretty well!  Keep it up!  Bread recipe to follow for those who dare lol!

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This was my first time making it and I had tweaked my old banana bread recipe to make it.  The bread is a little denser than regular banana bread and this recipe isn’t quite as sweet as I have cut back on the normal amount of sugar I normally use.  It still tastes and looks like banana bread though.  I gave some to my son and hubby and they were none the wiser that it had avocado…My son HATES avocado lol!

I will make it again but next time with Splenda instead of sugar and cut out the vanilla. I don’t normally use vanilla to make banana bread but I saw it in a recipe and thought I’d give it a whirl but am not sure if it is really needed.

Makes 16 servings

Avocado Banana Bread

Makes 16, 50g Servings

Ingredients

1/2

teaspoon vegetable shortening

1/2

cup (100g) avocado, mashed

1/4

cup (51g) sugar

1/4

cup (36g) brown sugar

.4

cup (69g) egg beaters, original about 6.5 tbsp (or use 4 egg whites)

1

cup (149g) all purpose flour

3/4

cup (100g) whole-wheat flour

3

(318g) bananas, mashed

1

teaspoon baking powder

1

teaspoon baking soda

1/2

teaspoon salt

1/2

cup (94g) fat-free yogurt, vanilla flavor

2

tablespoons orange juice, squeezed

1

teaspoon oats, optional

1

teaspoon vanilla extract

2

tablespoons flax seed, ground

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5" loaf pan with 1/2 teaspoon of shortening or your favorite low-calorie spray.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the avocado and sugars. Add the eggbeaters and vanilla, mix well. In a second bowl, mash together the bananas, orange juice, and yogurt. In a third bowl, mix together the flours, baking soda, salt, flax seed and baking powder.
3. Stir flour mixture into the avocado mixture. It will form a firm, greenish dough but don't worry! It will moisten and lighten up once the bananas are added and it will look like normal banana bread once done.
4. Finally, fold in the yogurt and banana mixture. Spread evenly into the greased loaf pan and sprinkle the top with one teaspoon of oats.
5. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Cool loaf in the pan for ten minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Nutrition Facts

115 Calories, Total Fat 1.6g, Saturated Fat .3g, Sodium 170mg, Total Carbs 22.6g, Fiber 1.5g, Sugars 8.9g, Protein 3.1.

If you enter this into the Recipe Tool it will tell you a serving weighs 63.8g but my servings were only 50g.  I am assuming it is because of the water loss as it cools, but that is just a guess.

Hi everyone, Just a quick check in now that I am back from a thankfully short day at work (cuz, 12 hours is short in my world...ugh)

Well - I had my "official" weigh in this morning, and I'm only down 1lb :( I know a loss is a loss, but i was really hoping for 1.5-2 this week. So, new stats:

Starting Weight: 160

Last Week's Weight: 152.2

Current Weight: 151.2

Goal Weight: First goal 139, Final goal 128

Otherwise, I've been doing really well with food.  Fortunately I don't have enough of a life right now to be tempted when out to eat so much, and my BF is long distance.  So just me, my cat, and my kitchen, and my week of prepared-ahead-of-time food.

Anyway, time to go off to the gym!  Last day of week 1 for C25K!!

Oh, and I TOTALLY agree that it was lame for Biggest Loser to no finish last night... I mean, I had to sit through 2 hours !!  I figure he wasn't able to lose enough, and they held it to next week because they didn't want it to be a downer at the end of the "giving back" and "we're all in this together" episode.  But who knows.

No idea why it came out the way it did ^?  Maybe because I copied and pasted?

DILEMNA!!!!

So, I have this huge project that's due on Friday. The gym closes in an hour. Do I...

A) Go to the gym now for 30-45 min, and then come back home and work

B) Work out twice as hard tomorrow and finish the project now

C) Go to the gym and forget about the project. It's not due till Friday!!

I never can seem to find the balance between work/school/life and fitting in time for the gym. I guess in the time it took me to type this out, I could have gone ;) I always look at this quote I have posted, and feel the urge to go work out.

"If you think you could just work out tomorrow, remember you said that yesterday. another one: if you went to go work out the moment you started thinking about doing it, you'd already be back by now..."

Emerald--Those are some great quotes.  I have the same issue with time management.  Lately, I've just been lazy with going to the gym and haven't been doing any cardio besides my kickboxing and kung fu classes (and because there's a belt graduation this week, the classes have been all talk and very little workout).  

As an update, I've been having some food issues these past two days, but it might be because of being bloated and crampy (hint, hint).  Yesterday I had counted my calories carefully, spacing out my small meals throughout the day, and by the time I got home I was ready to settle in with a nice bowl of oatmeal.  Then a friend called, and was complaining that she was hungry and wanted to go out to eat, so instead I put away my oatmeal and invited her over to have some Indian Food in a Box (Target, Archer Farms).  It was delicious, but put me over 500 additional calories for the day (my target this week is 1200).  I felt so bad, so worried that I made a terrible mistake eating that I swore to make up for it today.  I guess I managed (1300), but it was pulling teeth to keep myself from eating a full extra meal this evening.

Sometimes I just resent watching my calories.  As I stare at my little boiled egg snack, tonight is one of those nights. 

Just a quick check in.  I had a rough day.  Got lots of walking in, so that was good.  Over 13000 on the pedometer.  Slipped up, and had a small piece of pie today, but other than that, I ate healthy.  I'll try to do more catching up tomorrow!

Hang in there, everyone!

nana: yay!! it's the small things that lead to the big pay off! Congrats! wow you saved nearly 600 cals!! I would have never guessed it would be that much!

mamamia: sometimes your body just needs more cals. At least you didn't go over your limit. I do feel bad for Mike, he's seems like such a sensitive soul and I don't think he can handle the pressure.  ANTM is entertaining in a catty girl way. I'm just really excited that next season they are changing the rules and you need to be 5'7'' and under to qualify. I'm thinking I might fill out an application, what do you guys think?? 

sweet: packing lunch really does save loads of money! It may be more time consuming but it's worth it. Good job on the loss! And the recipe sounds delicious!

butterly: good job on your loss! Hmmm.. you may have the right idea about the not being a downer thing for TBL.

emerald: well I know it's too late now, but I would have gone to the gym for alittle then came home and started the project. But that's just cuz when I take unscheduled days off I keep giving myself excuses to take off more days. So what did you do??

misty: keeping the cals right isn't always easy. A good way to get you back into the workout routine is to think that if you were working out you could be eating more. How tall are you?? cuz 1200 is very little unless you are very short.  Use this calculator http://www.phord.com/cc/ I set to to sedentary and it give you your BMR I always try to eat that, and that still keeps me at around a 250 cal deficit even if I do noting at all.

pooka: sorry you had a rough day, good job on the steps though!

Me: lifted and pilates yesterday, have to run today, boo I really don't feel like it.

Thanks girlfighting,

The site was really informative, and I had all the data since I'd just gotten my body fat percentage this past monday.  It's hard to really accept that I should only be losing 1.28-1.62 lbs per week, though.  I want to see results, but mostly I'm worried about the days that I can't eat within a good calorie range, then I just mess everything up and don't lose at all for the week (which is what happened last week).  My rational is, when you can cut back significantly, do so, because you never know who or what will mess you up tomorrow.  Is that really bad, you think? 

About the exercising and being able to eat more--I learned my lesson on that.  It didn't work for me.  I would eat the amout I burned (while still cutting back on calories in general) but I ended up eating too much (or maybe the calorie counter budgeted too much from exercise).  I work out just for working out now, and don't take that into account with my calorie intake (but recognize that I can go over 100 or so if I had a good workout). 

To everyone else, I had recorded Biggest Loser and tried to watch it yesterday, but it was dragging along a bit and I kept falling alseep!  When I did wake up to haul myself to bed, I was looking at one of their scenic shots with views of the ranch and trees, and I was like, really?  Biggest Loser can get so cheesy at times. 

It's miTSy by the way...which is my name.

Original Post by mitsyblue:

It's miTSy by the way...which is my name.

 haha! sorry I've been spelling it wrong

OMG... that caluculator says I'm obese. 

I got on the scale this AM - that was a mistake.  I GAINED a half a pound!  This SUCKS!!!!!!!!   I have had a few slip-ups (like the McD cheesburger when I should have ordered a salad).... but come oooonnnnnn!!!!!!  It says I should be eating 1200-1300 calories a day.  That's nothing!  I have cut my food consumption to a fraction of what I've been eating!  And I gained? 

Mitsy & all - I hear ya on resenting watching the calories.  This weight thing has been a battle for me my whole life.  And everytime I do this, I try to not "diet" but change the way I look at food.  I recently came to the realization that that will ALWAYS be a way of life for me.  I will NEVER be one of those people who can just eat what they want.  Very depressing, but once I realized that... it made it a little easier. 

Still sucks tho. 

Original Post by nananj:

OMG... that caluculator says I'm obese. 

I got on the scale this AM - that was a mistake.  I GAINED a half a pound!  This SUCKS!!!!!!!!   I have had a few slip-ups (like the McD cheesburger when I should have ordered a salad).... but come oooonnnnnn!!!!!!  It says I should be eating 1200-1300 calories a day.  That's nothing!  I have cut my food consumption to a fraction of what I've been eating!  And I gained? 

Mitsy & all - I hear ya on resenting watching the calories.  This weight thing has been a battle for me my whole life.  And everytime I do this, I try to not "diet" but change the way I look at food.  I recently came to the realization that that will ALWAYS be a way of life for me.  I will NEVER be one of those people who can just eat what they want.  Very depressing, but once I realized that... it made it a little easier. 

Still sucks tho. 

 http://www.phord.com/cc/ 

use this calculator I think it gives you a better idea of how much you can eat.

Hey yall!

I am glad everyone is keeping their goal in mind!

Even though we all have our slips it's awsome that we get back up and keep fighting!

I had a great work out this morning and I am eating very very healthy. I am really proud of my self! I am starting to be able to see some changes! Go me! But I am not going to get too happy about it cuz it is not my goal!

And my baby is so happy to get out of the house that wen I put her in the stroller to go to the gym its like christmas for her ;]

Alright let me go back to work.

Hey guys!

Hope you all are enjoying the nice weather...it went from ~30 degrees yesterday to ~60 today where I am!

Mitsy--I totally get where you're coming from!!! I am so jealous of my friend right now. She went to Wendy's and got a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger, fries, a Frosty, and chicken nuggets. I did the calorie count for all of that--nearly 1200 calories!!! And none of it sticks to her--she is absolutely tiny! GRRRR. It's times like these that I absolutely hate calorie counting. Here I am, killing myself to avoid all of these foods I like and she can eat as much as she wants with no problem.

Girlfighting--I ended up going to the gym (yay!) but then I got back and was super tired and didn't do much work on my project (boo!). Now tonight, I want to go to the gym but this stupid project is still not done, so that's not even a possibility. At least I got in a lot of extra walking today and didn't totally blow my calorie goal!!!

Nanaj: Sometimes, the scale just hates you! I mean, I had a great day yesterday and the scale told me I gained like 2 lbs. I'm trying to only weigh myself once a week, cause otherwise I would go insane! The fluctuations in weight from day to day freak me out, and I find I can see a better trend of loss/gain from week to week.

anamaciel--Cheers on your good day!

Me: So, today was okay. I didn't eat a lot of food, but I ate a lot of calories (a few hundred more than my goal). I had to do a lot of walking today, and I tried to make it useful walking, but I couldn't make it to the gym. I WILL go tomorrow, cause I'm still trying to fit in 3-4x/week. Next two weeks are going to be hard, cause I have reading week and finals. Last semester, I gave up trying to eat healthy and super-over-indulged. This time around...things will be better! *fingers crossed*

See you all tomorrow!

Hey everyone!

It's crazy how fast this forum goes if you turn your head for even a day! haha. I just had to spend a few minutes catching up!

Anyways, the step class was alright, but I've been really into spinning classes lately.  The instructor at our school is really really into it and inspired me to get a heart rate monitor, so I got to use it in class today and burned 600 CALORIES!! Woohoo!!! You should all look into getting one!

Sweetandbrown: thanks for that recipie!!  

Everyone else: I'm too exhausted to type it all out but you're all doing fantastic!

Just heads up: this is probably the last time I'll get to post for the next 9 days or so...my school is on spring break so I'm leaving my computer at home and going away! Yay! Much needed vacation!

Talk to you all in a week or so (unless I post my weight loss tomorrow morning when I weigh in).

Night!

hi Everyone.  Sounds like a lot of you had a hard few days :(

Nana - I wouldn't worry about the label "obese."  You are working towards a goal, and it will happen, no matter what you are called.

Mitsy - Agreed that TBL can be a complete cheesefest.  I can't watch it live because I honestly can't sit through it - DVR has saved me! I don't have to deal with the build up then commercial, then 2 min recap of the build up, then the weight, or whatever.  Awesomeness.  I do secretly love the product placement commercials with the trainers though.  It's so old school 1950's style TV when the characters would talk to each other about some great product in the kitchen and hold it up.

Anamaciel - it's okay to be happy when you make progress! no such thing as too happy!

Kiwi - you have finals in march?! What kind of crazy school is that and how do I sign up?!  I find going to the gym ASAP in the morning is a lot easier to fit into a busy day.  Then you don't have to make choices at 11 at night if you should go or do a project (I'd go with doing the project, but I need to go to bed at a reasonable time or else I can't function!)

Me: I had an okay day.  Long and hard, but food worked out pretty well - even had calories left tonight for some Haagen Dazs sorbet.  Made it to a yoga class.  I LOVE yoga, but I'm really picky about the kind of class I like, and this was my first time at a class at my new gym, and I was a bit disappointed.  I'm going to keep going, because at this point it doesn't make a difference what the instructor says, I can amp up the difficulty myself (and wear layers so I can pretend it's heated), but I wish I could go back to my old yoga studio!  It just got way too expensive. :(

Tomorrow is going to be a mini food challenge.  I have a required school meeting that will have food for lunch, and it's normally super yummy catered from somewhere.  But I'm going to bring my own food, and sit among my hundred or so classmates smelling their yummy food and eating my own healthy stuff!  It's times like these I am thankful for my dozen or so food allergies and intolerances.  Most people know about them, and when they see me eating something different, they just assume that's why!

Hiya groupies!  It's 11:30 at night, but I couldn't let another day go by without catching up.  I'm not going to go by name, I'm tired, but I wanted to share some thoughts I had on what I was reading.

It's always tempting to try to speed up weight loss.  The hard truth is that 98% of people who lose weight quickly gain it all back.  Slow and steady wins this race.  And cutting calories too low just slows down one's metabolism, and none of us want that!  Want to be gung-ho?  Eat the level of calories you should, and throw in a little extra exercise.  Here's a story from my online support group.  One of the women doesn't understand why she isn't losing weight.  We're having a fitness challenge, where we post what exercise we do daily.  She has one post for March 1st, and nothing since.  The folks making progress are the same ones that have posts every day, or nearly every day.  Shocking coincidence, isn't it? :D

I started out at obese.  that is depressing, no lie.  But it was a red letter day when that meter went from obese to overweight!  If I can do that, ANYONE can!  One of these days that meter is going to tell me I'm at proper weight!

I have found that the best trick to sticking with this long term is building healthy habits.  It really is true that the less I eat crap, the less I want it.  And McDonalds, that food just makes me more hungry.  If I want a burger, I make it myself, so I can have one that's reasonable health wise, and tastes better to boot.  That pie slip up of mine, and during TOM no less, just made me want more crap today, but I persevered.  I'm not saying one can't have treats, I have treats!  But not everyday, and sometimes not every week even.  And when possible I make even my treat as good a choice as I can make it.  Eat more healthy food and you honestly will want and crave crappy food less.  Then those treats are just an occaional treat, and not a week blower or a binge starter.

And, as for those people who can eat anything that sometimes make us all feel sorry for ourselves, let me cross post something I wrote for another group.  (Be warned, long bit of info ahead!)

There are days when all of us feel sorry for ourselves.  Change is difficult, do-able but difficult.  Changing to a healthier life style and losing weight can be a long journey, filled with changes that we have to continue for the rest of our lives.  Some days it seems too much.  Some days it seems unfair.  Some days you’ll find yourself thinking, “why do I have to put so much work into this while “normal” people can just do what they want?”

Now, there are some magical people in the world who really can be lazy, eat whatever crap they want, and not gain weight.  But those people are rare, very rare indeed.

Let’s take a look at all those “normal” people that we find ourselves envying when we are having a rough day.

 65% of Americans are overweight.  That’s a 2005 statistic.  Several sources suggested that this number might rise as high as 73% by 2008.  That’s nearly 3 in 4 people overweight in America.

 Almost 30% of Americans are clinically obese.

 24 million Americans have type 2 diabetes.  An avoidable condition.

 1 out of every 2.8 deaths in America is from a form of heart disease, despite the many methods known to radically reduce one’s risk with healthy diet and daily exercise.

 Only 32% of Americans exercise daily.  Only 24% eat at least 5 servings of vegetables and fruit a day.  Only 14% of Americans do both.

 86% of Americans do not get enough fiber in their diet.

 75% of Americans do not drink enough water.

 The average American eats the equivalent of 30-40 teaspoons of sugar a day.

 The average American eats up to 55% of their meals from fast food.

 The average American gets 45% of their daily calories from fat.

 Most Americans don’t get a healthy amount of sleep, and 25% of Americans are taking some sort of sleeping aid.

 So take a good look at those “normal” people that we all sometimes envy.  That normal person is overweight, tired, unhealthy, and has a really good chance of getting type 2 diabetes and of dying of a heart problem.  There’s nothing to envy about that.  So feel proud of yourselves!  Yes, a lot of work and will goes into getting healthy, but you are doing something that most Americans are not, and they should be!  I don’t know about you guys, but I read those statistics and I have no desire to be “normal” anymore!

On a personal note, I had a great day.  The theatre I work at is in financial crisis, so there are going to be lay-offs, which was the cause of my rough day yesterday.  But you know what?  Brian and I have been through tough times before.  If I have to take a two month lay off, we could do it no sweat.  If I lose my job completely, we'll work it out one way or another.  So no sense worrying over it, or eating pie over it!  So today I resisted the call of baked goods, walked 1:30, did 15 minutes on my mini-tramp.  Had a good calorie deficit for the day, got enough fiber, and I feel pretty good about myself.

SAY WHAT!?!?!?!

liver is very healthy yoohoo BUT I NEVER LOOKED AT THE CALORIES

:''((

I totally went over board with healthy food, if I wanted to go over my calories i'd done it something I really wanted to eat...

My husbands family is coming in this weekend and I look terrible, I am going to embarrass him with my weight and to make it worse I go over board with my calories?!?!?!

I am so under stress, my husband keeps telling me to calm down but his family already hate me and... agh I just needed to get it out there...

Stupid liver...

Hi All

I don't know how people stick to 1200-1300 cals a day, I would be hungry and frustrated.  I think I've accepted the fact that weight loss is going to be slow, but  I'm keeping it off. 

The scale has been up and down this week but I think I'm probably at a half pound loss.  I've been sticking to my work outs and continue to work on the night time eating. 

The weekend is always tough for me- I have 2 birthdays to celebrate this weekend and I'd really like to keep my calories at 1800.

Do others struggle with weekends?  How do you all deal with them? 

Anamaciel- The best thing about logging here, is that it really opens up your eyes about what calories and fat foods really have.  Don't fret about the liver.  You got a nice iron boost with it.  Use it as a lesson to look more things up ahead of time, so you know what you are getting into.  If you go into meeting your hubby's family thinking you are looking terrible and an embarrassment, then of course you won't have a good time.  Don't fret so much about looks, looks aren't important.  If you don't get along, it's not because of how you look, but it might be because of how stressed out you are, and how down you are on yourself.  Don't worry so much about what they think, you didn't marry them, you don't have to live with them.  Just be yourself and try to have the most pleasant time you can.

Lurd- I could not stick to 1200-1300 a day.  Not as an active 200 lb woman.  Luckily, I don't have to.  I'm like you, I try to stick to 1800, a little more if I hav a big exercise day, and that works for me!  About weekends, that's a trouble time for me too.  The best thing for me is to stay busy, have plenty of healthy food choices in the house, and plan my exercise ahead of time.  It's way to easy for me to be a lazy slug on the weekend!

How about a weekend challenge, groupies?  On sat and sunday, post how you did with food, and what exercise you did.  With a little effort, I bet we could all do well with food and do exercise both days this weekend!