CHALLENGE!!! 4/10-8/31 Who Can Reach Their Goal?!?!?!

Our loyal little group consists of these wonderful ladies, who are dedicated to moving forward with a healthier, more vital lifestyle.

• pinkpinkotter (a.k.a Pink)
  
• aperfectblink (a.k.a. Blink)
• ocean_girl88 (a.k.a. Surfer)
• loveitmm (a.k.a. Love)
• moonlight_liz (a.k.a. Liz)
  

and a few other ladies that are not mentioned who are just as important.

gah I don't really wanna weigh in cause I had chineses on my bday and leftovers yesterday  BUT here goes....

holy water weight batman! uhhh back to 151 from almost 148?? ouch.  that hurts.  BUT i know it's just water retention so I'll hold back on the frustration :).  Now that finals are almost done I can finally get back to exercising (which will hopefully take this weight right off).  My guess is all the extreme stress is not doing wonders for my weight loss either.

Good luck with your final BLINK!

thank you surfer!  i will need all the luck i can get.  accounting is my shiz though, so i hopefully i got this :)

i only managed to get 2 hours of sleep last night which is usually a recipe for disaster in the food department, but it won't phase me! it's all day studying AGAIN. i have a lot of errands to run too, so i should be out and about more than yesterday, maybe i won't comment fifteen hundred million times on here. hehe. yesterday while studying at the library, this guy was handing out final's survivial kits that had a water, mtn dew, snickers, beef jerky, lollipops, and all-bran fiber bar. i gave my roomie my snickers and ditched the mountain dew! i'm so proud of myself. chocolate is a weakness, as you know! i hope everyone is doing well.. can't wait to see more posts in here, haha.

weigh-in. *drumroll

123.6 pounds! the weight is falling off, so it can't be real weight. it must be water weight. or else this would be super unhealthy! gettin back down to where i need to be finally. woot woot!

Ah you beautifully independent and vivacious women. You keep me on track. Truly. I always love coming here and seeing you all doing so well!!!! I ate a home cooked meal this weekend but I was very much in portion control. I will weigh in around two since that is when I go to exercise and lunch. I went jogging for one full an hour and a half yesterday and was able to maintain a steady jogging pace for 30 minutes. I jogged until the sun went down until the stars came up.. It was amazing. I felt like crying truly. I feel myself getting healthier. My family is quite literally aligning theirselves around being healthier slowly but surely. Along with other news.... I went from having waist length hair.. to having hair that just barely brushes along my shoulders. I LOVE IT!!!!!! I'm rooting for you ladies like no body's business!!! You guys are going to smoke those finals and leave burning dust trails. It's special K and a bit of Kiwi for breakfast. I'm going to get a couple grapefruit over lunch. Still taking the water pills. I'll know by two if they are working since it's been a full week. Gotta run to the Post Office and I'll check back in soon!!!!!!!

ah ha! victory! I just finished my human phys presentation, and now I have time to go to the gym (for like the first time in so long I can't even remember) before I start studying for my last final!  I'm so excited!  Actually, maybe I'll bring my psych notes with me so I can work out even longer while gettin some studying in!  Gah it's going to feel so good.

I love working out. I see my trainer again today. And i love weight training and getting that lovely muslce burn. But i'm still 215. Nothing doing ladies.. i'm not really eating that bad... i'm working out 4 times a week...  it's just so disheartening :( ... and my doctors appointment isn't even until the 27th, to see if there's some fat problem with me... lol... ok thyroid problem. but it's just so sad... it's almost like... what's the point if i'm going to work my butt off and eat healthy for a month and nothing is going to change? I know it's not good to think like that... but you can't help it. Especially since you're supposed to lose a chunk of weight right away due to water, and the fact your body doens't know what's going on.. and then it slows down after the first week or two to be healthy weight loss. but i've just got none :( ... i know it's not good... but i'm thinking i should start eating LESS than my recommended 1700 calories a day?? i mean... eating 1200 is practically starvation for a girl my size... especially if i'm working out every other day.. but what else am i supposed to do until i go to the docs??

i've been trying to do some research... and all i keep coming across is ppl on meridia (which is what my doc will proally put me back on).. and on phentermine?? or something like that. anyone ever heard of this stuff??

i'm a sad panda :( welcome back blink!!! missed you and your million posts!!! lol lol

i paid 68.15$ CAD today to find out my rabbit is a o k. perfectly healthy.

that's what? like 54 american?? lol i dunno.

yay posts! my final went fine this morning, but it was one of those one's where it could have gone really well or not so great. but i'm over and i don't care! haha. now i have to start studying for my final tomorrow. boo. oh question? i weighed myself nakkie and it came up at 123.4 pounds and i was like hmm.. and then i weighed again with my shorts and a bra on and it said 123.0 pounds... what? i guess i'll just see what it says tomorrow. 

liz, i cut all my hair off like that before spring break and i LOVED it! i used to be terrified of cutting my hair, i would only get trims ever so often, but the last time i went in and just said chop it all off. it grows back anyways :), but now i want to keep it short! i'm also thinking about going blonde. i'm a brunette btw. we'll see though. good job on portion control, i struggle with that sometimes, especially with home-cooked food! way to go!

surfer, i hate presentations. public speaking is NOT my forte. ew. that's awesome that you're heading to the gym, exercise is a good stress reliever. 

pink! glad to see you. working out is definitely sweet, i'm damn impressed with your dedication. i tend to work out in cycles. i'm currently in the middle of a no-exercise slump, but have a work out buddy once i head home. yay. also, there is a good chance you are gaining muscle, which is why you may not be losing weight. just keep on chugging! imagine where you would be now if you had never started CC? oh oh also, are you measuring your food? sometimes people underestimate the portion sizes or the amount they ate. i wouldn't say to go under 1700.. it may work against your weight loss, and you've done so well thus far! remember: this is a lifestyle change, and you are doing this for YOU! work them buns girl!

and wait, what happened to your rabbit? :( that reminds me of a time when my dog was sick for about a week after we got home from a vacation. she wouldn't eat or drink and didn't move much. we were really worried.. spent over $750 on x-rays and visits to the vet... turns out... she was just really constipated from all the horse poop she had eaten at the dude ranch where we vacayed. hahaha!

gahhh does anyone else have a crazy problem with keeping their salt intake within the like 2400 mg/day max that you're supposed to have??  cause lately it's been killing me.  I try so hard to keep it down, but SOMEHOW it always finds its way WAY up.  ::growls at salt::

nothing is wrong with him blink. he just had to go in for an exam before getting his nuts chopped off. i think it's there way of getting more money from me lol.

i only find that i have problems with salt if i eat soup that day.. other than that my salt is pretty fabulous. although i have a real drinking water problem... from 745am-5pm i struggle to get in one bottle of water. not good. i really only drink water when i work out... i don;'t drink pop or juice or anything... i just don't drink... which is insane... because i used it drink like 12 glasses of somethign a day. i need to start more for sure.

Hey Ladies!

Glad to see that you are doing well! 

I'm down to 148.5 - so down one pound which isn't bad...but I'm sure I'll be up again at the end of the week considering it's TTOM soon, but as long as I keep my sweets down it will be all good. 

blink...good luck on your final tomorrow!  I'm sure you will kick butt.

Surfer - that sounds like an awesome internship, is that what you want to do full-time?  Also, when you weigh your self, do you do it at the same time during the day?  You should also weigh yourself once during the week, unless your are on maintenance.  Sometimes it can get disheartening if you weigh yourself constantly and not see any results.  but Good luck with your internship! 

pink - are you getting enough calories?  maybe with the amount you are working out, you need more than 1700/day?  I don't know what the calculator says for you.  But as blink said, look at portion control, because that's what used to throw me off in the beginning.  and definitely make sure you increase your water intake...it's to drink a lot of water throughout the day, but remember a lot of foods you eat have water in them too.

Liz - you should post a before and after photo of your haircut...I'm sure you lost a pound just from cutting off your hair!  did you donate all of that hair? 

ooo good idea Harl!!! I'm not sure if my stylist donated it or not, if I had any sense I'd have made sure she did. It's great, because it is SOO easy to deal with and I love just running my fingers through it. Of course it takes some getting use to looking in the mirror but I was SOOOO tired of having to wrestle with it on top of getting up at 5:30 and driving an hour and a half to work. My weight is 149.4 We are on the move ladies. I was 151 last week so I have kicked almost two and a half. Water water water run run run. Gotta get some paper work done and get home and run before it begins to rain... on second thought I'll take my umbrella and hope it isn't an electrical storm.

you guys..... i have gotten 2 hours of sleep each of the previous nights. i am so delirious, but i have SO MUCH STUDYING TO DO. ahhhhh.. i'm a wired maniac right now. my final is at 7am (ridiculous, right?) and if i went to bed now i would only get 3 and 1/2 hours of sleep and i would fail my exam. i wonder how bad this is for my body. miraculously i haven't gone too far over my intakes. i figure if i studying real hard and being awake and doing things for longer than the "day" then i should be allowed a little extra :) .. well i have to get back to studying so i can maybe catch a nap later. hope everyone is doing well! I GO HOME TOMORROW! oh and PS tomorrow is going to be the day from hell. so much to get done, and not enough time at all. 

I have a very nice food weight scale, measuring cups, spoons. So my portions aren't that bad... i have bigger portions in the evening. but i have smaller ones in the morning. since i'm not hungry at all in the morning... i just eat because i know it's not good for you to not eat lol.

I'm back on meridia *sad days*... so far i've noticed nothing... except that my mouth is always dry now... i guess that's incentive to drink more water :) lol. but it's soooooo expensive... and i think i have a high tolerance for it. i go back to my doctors on the 27th to see if there's any real headway... if not then what??? iiii dunnnno.

i think working out with my trainer is really helping though. i ache all over all the time :) lol. that good working-out ache :)

hopefully i tone up real good under my fat. lol. and hopefully meridia... or prefereably something a lot cheaper helps me out.

big day today for you blink!!!

I'M DONE WITH FINALS!!! hooray! i'm pretty sure i bombed the last one, but what can ya do. i'm back home in texas (yeeessssss!) and i'm already feeling more on track. i saw all my friends tonight and i can't help but want them to be like ... you've lost weight! but oh well. i'm gonna get up and go for a jog tomorrow morning. i really want to get into running. i'm golden on the elliptical, but put me outside and i can only go ten feet. that's what i'd like to work on this summer. also! i plan on making some investments, namely, horses! horseback riding is great exercise, not to mention the other time spent grooming, cleaning out stalls, chasing them in a field to catch them, etc. can't wait!

yay blink! that's very exciting!!! I chase my rabbit sometimes... he doesn't go very far though lol lol. So horses should be fun to chase around!! I hope you're plans all take hold! At least you're reaching for something and trying for it!! I hope the jog goes well as well!! let us know how it is... It's so different runnign outside than in.. the best thing to do is run... then walk when you get winded.. and then run again... etc... eventually you'll just be running and not walking.

One pound is pretty good harl! especially when you're retaining a lot right now due to the dreaded TOM.

my other message got cut off apparently... what i was going to say is htat nothing is wrong with my bunny... he just needed to go for an exam before getting his nuts chopped off.

ocean- i really only have a problem with salt intake if i have soup. soup kills my salt. other than that i don't consume that much. are you trying those water pills like liz is???

i'm on day 8 of meridia... and i have a really dry mouth.. started yesterday... so my water intake has increased a hundred fold... being my mouth is soooooo dry. but i think it means it's working... and my scale finally did move down a few pounds :) ... uggghhhh.... i hate my metabolism. pills are do expensive... but i suppose when i get down in weight i'll have the knowledge with food, and the knowledge with weight training at the gym to KEEP my weight down... and be able to not be dependent on pills. instead be dependent on working my ass off lol. oh well. i guess it'll mean that much more if i have to work that much harder just to stay in shape right??

oops.... apparently my post WASN'T cut off lol. it just looked like it was on my screen a second ago for some reason... maybe it didn't download the page all the way???? sorry for repeating myself ladies :D

SO.  I'm back!  Sorry I've been a bit absent lately but things have been CRAZY!!  I finally finished finals on Tuesday and jumped right into my internship yesterday!  And lemme tell you, this is going to be the best summer every.  I mean, come on...I'm working with whales.  Yesterday and today I've been learning the routine, watching feeds, getting stuff explained to me, what their expectations are, etc.  TOMORROW I get to start feeding!  Pretty pumped for that.  It's going to be such an intense internship but I know I'm going to love it.  It does definately shift around my eating though since I have to get up early and shove something down for breakfast, then something quick and easy that I can bring for lunch, and then dinner late.  Hopefully within the next few weeks I can iron things out.  That and there's like no time to get water in since I'm so busy like every second.  I guess I'm gonna have to try to get my 2L in during the afternoon/night! OH man.

Grrr....Granted I just had my period...but still I gained 2.5 pounds...so unfortunately back up to 151...hopefully I can drop the weight and the weight that is gained from TTOM is not permanent. 

Also, I'm getting married this Saturday - so with going out to dinner on Thursday, Rehearsal dinner on friday night, and wedding on Saturday...god only knows what my weight will be next week!

My weekend was good...very busy...so granted I ate like crap.  went to a BBQ - had a cheeseburger and a hotdog (the cheeseburger was great, but not a fan of the hotdog - guess my taste changed).  Sunday I had chicken parm for dinner - sooo bad...but sooo worth it!  This also contributes to the fact of my weight being higher. 

I hope everyone had a great weekend! 

sorry i've been MIA, i have a lot going on at home, so i tend to not be on my computer as much.. been maintaining lately but am gonna start trying to lose again now. hope everyone has been doing well! where are you guys?

LADIES!? WHERE ARE Y'ALL? i need yoouuu.. i've been being really good lately, and i started lifting weights today (gasp*), i actually enjoy it a lot and my semi-boyfriend goes every other day so i figure i'll go with him on those days and just run alone during his off days. please come back :( i miss y'all!

Oh wow we died!!! What happened!?! Ok we all need to get back on this RIGHT NOW!

So on a good note I may have begun to break though my body's fight with the 150s because I've steadily seen 147 the last few days and even 146 at one point!  Phew!  Hopefully I've left the 150s behind for good.  I think my internship may have helped b/c I work my ass off 8 hours a day when I'm there so I'm probably gettin some serious exercise.  But I love it soooo much.  I mean, I get to work with whales!  Can't get much cooler than that. 

Let's come back ladies!