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

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ahhhh.. where is everyone?

Blink- If it makes you feel better I only havea BM every 4 daysish.. and i DO drink metamucil every day as well as ingest B vitamins, and make sure I eat 100% of my daily fibre...... it's distressing for sure.

It's called..... .... .... ... ... shoot... hold on... starts with an M i think? Meridia. It's prescription. You can only get it through your doc.. and you have to have some extreme measures... me being 214 at the time and borderline diabetes allowed for that to happen.

Don't give up :) eat many small meals throughout the day maybe??? it makes me less hungry to eat something small every 2 hour

what are the pills? not that I'm looking for a shortcut maybe a combo.

Oh GOd not meridia, tried it , had blowouts without any warning  lol. had to get off those quick.

 I think that small meals a day wil be the best for me. Is water really that important? i don't drink enough of it.

what are blowouts?? i was on it for about 8 months... no problems... only weight loss lol.

sun: water is very important! in fact, sometimes people believe thirst is hunger and eat, when their body needs water. so drink up and it also helps keep you full and satisfied, you'll eat less and be full longer. 

pink: yeah i feel like i've been irregular for a long time, but it's annoying. i never started taking the metamucil cause i always forget! 

i'm about to go out with a friend and possibly drink a lot.. eek! i've been preparing myself for drunchies all day and have alloted extra calories tonight. i'm going try* to only have a couple drinks, but i'm a weak college student, so we'll see :) . hope everyone is doing well! weigh-in soon... STAY STRONG OVER THE WEEKEND!  <3

WEIGH IN TIME!!!! I'm still 210. I did cheat a number of times this week... but i thought they were all in moderation.. and I exercised 4 times last week.... Oh well. I guess 5 pounds the week before is good enough for now. Who knows... maybe i'm like that recent girl in the sucess stories... I shed lots of pounds one week... none the next. Or maybe I'll just cheat a lot less lol. At least I've maintained this week and have not gone up. I'll let you guys know how it goes next week :P .

Today I also have my first day with a personal trainer riding my backside. so i'm sure I'll lose weight for next week.

weight in time and I am STILL at 151.  grrr.  I am just holding on to the 150s like there's no tomorrow.  I think what I really need to do is push my schedule/life around and get myself to the gym.  Maybe that'll be the kick my metabolism needs to get to the 140s again and STAY there.  I'm going to aim for a cheatless week because this coming weekend is our huge spring concert/all out drinking fest at school.  So the better I do during the week, the less guily I'll feel about going all out on Saturday.  I'll keep you posted!  How's everyone else doing?

I'd figure that you can't join enough motivation groups.  And this group is also in line with my final goal.

Age:  25

SW:  155 - when I started CC about 3 weeks ago I think...

CW:  150.5

Goal Weight:  135

Calories/day - 1300.  i think I'm doing pretty good considering I sit at my desk all day for 8.5 hours and I drive almost 2 hours to work and back each day.  So needless to say, I'm sitting down alot.

I read through the topics - everyone seems to be doing great!! Keep it up!

Ladies!!!
I'm so glad to see you all moving forward!!!! I am so sorry for my late post. Truly. You wouldn't believe the long weekend I had. I'll just make it short and welll... not sweet but... I drove 2000 miles in three days and on the last day I got food poisoning, three hours from home. Was tough. I picked my friend up in SC and took her home for a day, took her to Augusta for them to tell her she had a one day pass, took her home again, then took her back to Augusta. Needless to say my diet has suffered terribly. I didn't binge or anything but I let her have whatever she wanted. I had pizza at one point. I nearly passed out from taste overload. On the very last day I took her to a breakfast buffet and I ate two (what I thought was-slightly-wangy-but-delicious-from-having- denied-myself-so-long) strips of bacon. But, alas, Karma has bitten me in the @ss again. I got food poisoning. I had to miss work yesterday as I couldn't move from the stomache cramps but, aside from a few glitches here and there I'm on the move again. I am quite excited to report that I will be transferring closer to my home soon(I HOPE). Which means I will have two hours extra in the day for school. Meanwhile I have yet another busy week/end ahead of me. Relay For Life is this weekend and I volunteered to face paint. I am not a Picasso but... anything will help I am sure. I am nervous that I will be terrible and no one will come to me but... lol only one way to find out. I plan to practice on my husband and his co-workers a bit tonight at the Sheriff's Office. They owe me for all of those late night food runs.

I had a serious bout of self motivation. My friend, this may seem horribly shallow. But we have always been the same weight. I'd gain she'd gain, she'd lose, I'd lose.... only now...  she's lost a serious amount of weight. And I don't want to be the "fluffy friend".  I am seriously proud and exuberant for her but I feel that extra 'push' that I need. I confessed the same her, and she understands. I can't go running today as I can't really trust my stomache at this time, TRULY. I ate plain cornflakes with 2% milk this morning. I ran out of Special K and bananas. I had a Spinache and Artichoke with Chicken Lean Pocket, topped off with sparkling water and a hand full of grapes that I sliced into( seems like more). Still exhausted from the weekend and being sick. I will climb back onboard with the exercise after my body recuperates a bit. I am so proud of you ladies, you are all my Muses. My inspirational motivation. I am proud of our little group. Remember to not be so hard on yourselves. I know I can seem a bit fanatical about staying on track, but it's not to be overbearing. I just don't want us to end up like some other threads that felt they had let anyone down and just quit altogether. I'd rather we all fall down and get back up than one of us fall down and stay down. Stay strong ladies.

P.s. My weight this day is 148

       my starting wt was     156

       my goal weight is        125

I gained two pounds. But I am not going to sweat it. I know it is the salt. I will pour on the water when I am better. I just want sleep and rest at the moment. Take care ladies!!!

well. i had a HORRIBLE weekend. this is becoming a trend isn't it? crap. well, i'm back on the wagon and trying to get back to where i was. i didn't think i had gone ridiculously over calories, but we'll see. there was a significant jump on the scale, but a lot of it has already fallen back off. i've got my chin up though, pressing on!

moonlight, that sounds terrible! i hope you're feeling better! :( missed you over weekend.

looks like everyone is doing fab! keep up the good work ladies. we got this! i'm starting to freak a bit because i go home in 15 days.. two WEEKS. i wanted to be 115 by then.. i thought i was even giving myself extra room to go slow and get there and possibly even under, but now i'm not sure i'll be able to! hopefully, it'll keep me in line. get to see my semi-boyfriend, which is motivation enough :)

This thread is going to be moved to the Games & Challenges section of CC.

moonlight_liz -

so sorry you got sick over the weekend! 

You are truly a nice friend for driving your friend 2000 miles over the weekend.   Plus, gaining two pounds over this past week is truly not horrible, considering all the food you just ate. 

btw...I don't think it's shallow that you want to lose weight simply because your friend did.  I'm the same way when it comes to my cousin and my mother.  I was always weighed less than the both of them, over the past 2 years my cousin has lost a good amount of weight and has toned up - she looks really good and it makes me jealous - which gives me motivation to do the same.  As for my mother, she asked me my weight before I started CC and I said 155 - she's like oh we weigh the same.  Don't get me wrong she's probably lost over 25 pounds doing weight watchers and she really worked for it, but I thought to myself, "Not for long are we going to weigh the same..." I  know that may sound horrible, but I'm a competitive person and I'm also 2 inches shorter than her, but with a much larger bust, she looked much slimmer than me, so I just want to slim down. 

Hope you feel better soon!  Looking forward to hearing your progress

aperfectblink - good to hear that even though you had a bad week - you recognized that and decided to get back on track!  Often times it's easier to give up then to continue.  Although you may not hit your goal in two weeks - don't do anything unhealthy either - you're still motivated to reach your goal weight.

Ah Blink- don't worry. Like I said I'd rather we all fall down and get back up than one fall down and stay there. As you said, we just need to get our chins up and move forward. I had the EXTREME pleasure of trying out my newest face painting techniques on my brother and mom. My husband chickened out. They turned out pretty good I think.

Blink- if you need to drop pounds quickly, not exactly the healthiest of ways. Only in seriously drastic situations would I recommend this but you might try sustaining salt and taking water pills. Because salt causes your body to retain more water and if you were just taking in more salt it would defeat the purpose. It would relieve ALOT of the water weight your body stores and (this last part may be weird but) one of my ex's was a serious athlete and he needed to lose eight pounds a.s.a.p. I can't remember why... but he slept with a trash bag (I told you it was strange) on for five days and I don't know exactly how but he lost ten pounds. I've been tempted to try it. Who knows. He did that on top of sustaining from salt though, so maybe that is the key. 

I don't know about you guys but our managers here at the bank have upped our sanitation procedures big time. Germ-X on every counter, spray Lysol after every customer.... People are terrified of this "Swine Flu".
Anyway I'm going to begin a new thread right now. I'll give you guys the link. Hang on!!!

http://caloriecount.about.com/challenge-reach -their-goal-ft137235

There you go ladies. Our new home. Food's in the fridge, blankets in the closet. Welcome home!!!

liz has a pic! yay!

i'm back in the teens today, which is good. i'm gonna be back where i was by the end of the week. MARK MY WORDS! lol. i've actually heard of people putting on trashbags under their clothes and stuff when they work out so that they sweat more.. or something. i think salt is definitely a big problem for me.. 

BLINK!!! LOOK AT YOU!!! That's EXCELLENT!!! I have read that diuretics aren't the best way to go unless you get Potassium sparing one's. It releases all the sodium stored by your kidneys which causes your body to store water, through your urine. Lovely I know. We have be out of this 'space' by Friday because the threads gonna be locked. I'm not sure exactly... but yep. I'll see you guys in the other thread!!!

http://caloriecount.about.com/challenge-reach -their-goal-ft137235

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