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CHALLENGE!!! 4/10-8/31 Who can reach their goal?!?!

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alright, ANNDDD THE RESULTS...

SW: 120 lbs

CW: 117.2 lbs 

ahhh! i am ecstatic! i knew i could do it! my mini-goal is to be 115 by friday, but we'll see. that may be a little fast for me. but STILL! 117 AIUGIEJAL;KFJV! alright, i'm heading out to soccer. hope everyone's weigh in goes well. 

ocean: i bet once you get the retained water off, you'll have lost another pound or two :)

pink: as always, you're doing great! keep up the good work!

moonlight: damn girl! shin splints? ouch. looks like you worked off your little splurge. don't beat yourself up about it, and just get back on track. you've done really well!

once i graduate, i'm going to move to our ranch, and get two jobs, who knows maybe i'll become a stripper, and i'll pay for that barn apartment myself. and i'll buy my own horses and do my own thing. i'll be alone with my horses for the rest of my life, and i am a-okay with that. sorry, rant. i'm in a horrible mood and have been crying all morning and i'm just a pathetic little crap today. i did get a pretty good work out in soccer though, so i that's nice.. i still feel like poo though. UGH.

aww blink cheer up!  look at your amazing weight loss so far!  focus on the goodness of that .  smile...listen to a fun upbeat song...watch a funny tv show.  always seems to work for me!  that's so cool you have a ranch though!  I used to ride when I was younger and I miss it sooo much.  It's just way too expensive for a poor college student like me to afford right now.  maybe later though!

pink:  awesome job girl!  way to be awesome and dedicated!  definately inspires the rest of us to keep up the hard work!

liz: ooo ouch! take care of yourself!  take a few days off from the exercising...you don't want to run the risk of possibly permenantly hurting yourself.  that would be no good!  but have faith...you'll get back on the track and be amazing as usual.  Don't be to strict on yourself with goals either.  just focus on being good and healthy and you'll get there eventually.  A lesson I've learned from training animals is that you have to set yourself up for success, not failure.  Not that I'm saying you're going to fail because you're not, but if you give yourself goals that you KNOW without a doubt of any kind that you'll succeed in, then you'll feel better about yourself and have way more confidence.  We don't try to get our animals to do a complicated jump right off the bat!  They'd get frustrated and lose confidence in thier ability and eventually give up all together!  That's why we break things down into very small approximations towards the ultimate goal.  That way they can feel successful all the time with each really small step which gives them the confidence and actually gets them to the end product faster!  haha sorry for the animal training/behavior rant.  I just felt it applied. :)

Awww... Thanks guys. Was just really in a bad mood but I'm doing a bit better now. I didn't wallow in my self pity on my break as I had planned. I went to the park and ate some cheese and grapes and stretched listening to some good tunes. I probably looked funny on my little blanket in the shade with my toes in the air lmao. Kinda the good thing of working out of town. I can be silly and no one will ever remember. I am still a little sore, I think it's just a minor stress injury but some studies say to rest while others say to continue exercising... I dunno. I'm going to do some light walking this afternoon. Then I'll veg out. Kinda doing both.

(((BLINK))) Don't feel bad. I made the mistake of looking too far ahead this weekend and it brought me down alot. Just focus on what's right in front of you. Enjoy the days as they come and don't worry so much about what's on the horizon. Just do what you can today and let tomorrow bring what it will. You are not going to be a stripper. You are going to be some sexy, gorgeous, highly intelligent business woman/rancher.  Just remember to enjoy yourself hun. Let's remember to enjoy the rain while we wait for our rainbows. At the end mine is a home in a cooler, more peaceful place, when I'll be managing my own business.  Stay strong girl.

Anyone else have goals other than weightloss they're struggling with? School, a big move, a vacation, a home?

Ocean-- Thanks so much. It's as painful as it sounds. It is said it is slow to heal. Doesn't sound promising. But I know 143 is a bit of a stretch. I know I can do it though. I have been trying very hard on the diet end of the deal, I can up the exercising a bit though. I'm about to get off of work. I will stretch before continuing my walking this evening.

Pink--CONGRATS!!! Five Pounds is AWESOME!!!!!

Blink-- EXCELLENT!!! You guys are doing WONDERFUL!!!!!!!

lol i won't really become a stripper, i was just being angry. i'm going to become a CPA and make good money so i can afford ponies :) .. and being at the park and looking looney is only the greatest! i'm gonna go have me some ice cream and PB to celebrate my loss! hahah.. hope this doesn't backfire.... just kidding. i have self-control now :) teehee. 

GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT! i just got a huge bowl of ice cream and PB... i know i know.. but its a celebration! annddd i'm not even halfway through it and i DONT WANT ANYMORE! my eyes are much bigger than my stomach. yahoo!

la la la la la la... i post too much. i'm somewhat scared to get on the scale today. i know i will though, i want to see if anything has changed. 

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Thoreau

oh crap, so after wanting to be in this challenge, i kinda went away from any good eating habits...ive been grazing like crazy...ok, starting tomorrow (again) ill weigh in and see what next weeks results will be....

BUTTTTTT, i have been going to the gym and trail walking 5 days out of the week..bad part is, i usually buy a donut on my way home....i suck....

ok, for realz, ill be back on track starting tomorrow!!

have a good day!!!!!!

working in front of a dairy queen is killing me...

No no no guys stay focused!!!!!!! I know it's tough but just imagine how great we're going to look and feel in those sexy new bikinis that we will never fit into unless we stay on track!!! We can do this!!!!! Remember it's okay to treat yourself in small increments but you must stay in control. Don't think "one candy bar won't hurt" or "just one sundae never hurt anyone". That one entire candy bar or that one entire sunday just put you over your calories for lunch and dinner. Now what are you going to do? You can't starve yourself and you can't take back eating something in any healthy way. You get home, and think " well I've already gone this far off, what does it matter now?"  And that's where we go wrong.  If you fall down, do you stay in the mud and wallow, or do you get up, brush yourself off and keep going? I'm not sitting in the mud, and I'm not going to let you guys either. We're going to get through the cravings. Count to seven and let it go. A craving, as proved, only lasts seven seconds. Seven seconds. In the time it takes to count to seven you can drive right past McDonalds. Or walk right past that ice cream palace. or get out of that convenient store before your hand takes a mind of its own. Stay strong ladies. It helps to tell what's wrong every now and then so let's here it. What is making it hard for you and what are you going to do about it? Pink- Take sorbet to work with you. Half the calories and fat of ice cream still delicious. If you haven't got a fridge there I'm sure there's a store or even dairy queen must have some fat free or lowfat soft serveRemember those delicious pudding pops. Dairy Queen is the most evil place, that and Sonic. Imagine them laughing as they draw up those advertisements and how they don't care how it effects peoples health or happiness. All of those restaurants pride themselves on tempting people beyond their control. Don't give in Pink. Remember all that hard work and that forty dollars you'll have to pay if you don't meet your goal.  You guys be strong!!! Don't get discouraged!!! We are only months away from our goals. MONTHS. Keep up the good work guys. BE IN CONTROL!!!

-Liz

months! yessss! good words, liz, as always. i ate a lot of salty salty foods yesterday so i'm up a bit on the scale, but surprisingly i'm not freaking out about it at all. i'll weigh myself again friday or saturday and see how it goes. 

once i give in to temptation and eat that sundae or cheeseburger or tator tots, or what have you, i always get the most guilty feeling in my gut EVER. its like after i've eaten i realize what i've done and how IT WAS NOT WORTH IT AT ALL. getting healthy, getting back in shape, those are truly worth it. your goals are attainable, and just think, that bad food will forever be there, you don't know it now! if you really really really really want one, sometime down the road you can have one. for now, pass it up, be strong, continue on your way. i dont remember the exact quote but i always think of this one saying: 

i know what it tastes like, i've had it before, i'll have it again, but not right now.

it's official. i am on here WAY too much. hope everyone's day is going well. BE STRONG! i'm bored as * and i don't know what to do with myself. 

gah blink I totally understand the whole eating something and then realizing it was totally not worth it.  although sometimes I need to have something that one last time to realize that it's actually not as good as I thought and then I kinda stop having the desire to have it in the future.  my scale is still showing back in the low 150s...taking longer than i thought to get rid of this salt :(.  oh well it'll get back to the 140s soon enough!  but i'm being pretty darn good this week so hopefully by the weekend!

I cheated!!!! ahhhh!!! haha and oddly enough it wasn't the ice cream that i crave so much throughout the day... it was a & w... and really... the only reason I ate it was because I arrived 30 minutes early for my drum lesson and the only thing beside my drum lessons building to sit in (since it was raining) was an a & w.... i only had a little mama burger and half a small strawberry shake.... then i went on the websit later and punched in their info and BLAM!!!! a freakin small shake is 850 cals!!!! OMG!!! ... it was likea  punch in the gut... thankfully i only had half (it wasn't very good anyways). I did spend an hour in the gym today though... feeling kinda light headed...

No more fast food for me for this week...

I also just got promoted!!! only bad news about that is that i'll be sitting all day... the good news though is i'll have stable hours... so i know when i can work out and when i need to eat etc to plan my day out before i just go get mcdonalds or whatever.

i crave ice cream always. my 7 seconds is a lifetime. i suaully let myself have some so long as i'm within my range to do so. sometimes i just don't have the time to eat it too lol. those days are god sends i think lol.

It's ok liz!!! I kinda fell off the wagon... but i'm back on!! i worked out extra hard *not really.. just normal* :) :)

Ocean and blink.... that salt will stay in your sysem if you keep feeding it a little salt here.. a little salt there... come on girls!! you've done it before!! you can do it again!!!  really good quote blink... oh and sorry for the story lol.

pink:  so you cheated? big whoop. hop back on the wagon! :) i like to have the occasional cheat day and you were actually very good. my cheat days consist of 24 hour long binges. no joke. ok not *really binges.. but i will eat sonic for breakfast, carls for lunch, and chili's for dinner. hah! always a good time. half a milkshake and a small burger shouldn't set you back much.

ocean: salt is a b*tch.. but we'll be back soon. keep watching what you eat and i'm sure the scale will be nice. you've got a GREAT attitude. keep up the good work!

I would like to join this forum, I know you've already started, but it gives me more of a challenge. All of you have such enthusiasm and ENERGY. you're great motivators, which is what I desperately need.

PInk you are amazing! you keep it real.

Liz,

Most of you weigh a lot less then I do. I am 183lbs I remember when i was 148 LBS. I feel like I am starving. and the scale just keeps moving up. I am eating fruits and fiber filling foods. can't get the scale to budge. Even went to a doctor, did lab work, everything is normal. I am a stress eater and eat empty cal, even though there is a lot of good nutritious food, around me.

Suni- I weigh 210 so I weigh a lot more than you currently lol. The scale hardly moves for me as well, I eat healthy (but probably mora than I should), I'm starting to work out but the scale has always been difficult. I went to my doctor and he put me on pills that helped me lose weight... but they're 160 a month canadian. And i am so not that rich. Without them though It takes me a VERY long time to shed. but it does come off.. slowly but surely. I've gotten a personal trainer to help put on muscle to burn the weight my body can't on it's own. Maybe this is an option for you??

And welcome!!!!!!!!!!!

I will accept!!!

I am 5 ' 4" . My current weight is 174 and and I hope to be around 135 by the end of august. I will try to post back and weigh in every week. 174 was on Sunday, and I am weighing in today hopefully at 173 =).

pink: what pills did your doctor put you on? i was considering getting an off label prescription for adderall, after some research, but haven't been sure enough to go through with it. i am this [] close to going eff-all and eating everything i want right now. i mean, i haven't eaten that much today because i save calories for later, when i tend to snack and eat more. i also think my small weight gain has to do with a lack of BMs lately. hmph. what to do. i'm gonna start taking metamucil again.