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.

Hey Ladies!!

I'm so sorry!  I completely forgot to update! 

1200 cal/day didn't go so well.  I was hungry all the time and I actually gained weight - so...back up to 151.  I found myself eating snacks so I wouldn't be hungry. 

This past week I actually purchased EA Active for Wii.  I tried it out for the first time on Friday and it was amazing!  I burned 120 calories the first time and 160 calories the second time.  So I decided to use that everyday and eat 1300-1400 calories/day.  So still creating a deficit while working out at the same time!  I'm doing the 30 day challenge and I'm definitely enjoying it so far.

Surfer - just a quick mention I looked at your photos and you can tell there's a significant weight loss - you look really good! 

I'll be better at posting more often!  Sorry I guess the weekend kinda got away from me

so. nothing has happened for me on the scales since i "came back on the wagon". i find i'm super more hungry now so i eat a lot more... however i'm eating healthier.. which evens out... but still means i'm breaking even on the scale. i am finding recipes that are pretty good to make on your own... however, last night i made a recipe that was a two serving recipe... and i was like... no way is two sausage links and two potatos going to serve two ppl.... so i doubled up the recipe. and you know what... i was wrong lol. doubling it made it gigantic!!! lol. well... not gigantic... but a bit more than two ppl should handle. i think maybe i should have made the full serving and a half and it would have been good instead of two... but i'll know that for next time i make this recipe. which has now become one of my fiances favorite meals :).

i found good healthy food the little bunny likes!!!! i'm so happy!!! it took awhile but i found some! now i don't have to worry too much about him leading an unhealthy short lifestyle lol.

not really anything to update. just bored at work and i know how blink likes coming on here and reading stuff lol.

i totally understand about that whole 1200 a day thing ocean. uggghhhhhhh. i think my rabbit eats more than that. i'd proally die of starvation lol. oh well. here's to a brand new day!

Alright I vow now to start counting everything that goes in my mouth again.  I have been slacking/guessing far too much for far too long now.  I've still been losing, but I feel that if I start counting again it'll happen a bit faster.  I'm only a few pounds from the 130s and I can almost taste it.  So here's to battering down the hatches and going for it!

i know what you mean ocean girl!!! i thought i was doing SOOOO well since i've been back "on the wagon"... eating all things healthy and what not.. but i started to go back to counting today and WOW. my lunch was over 800 calories alone. all completely healthy... but there are some sauces and what not... and i found out my tuna is packed in oil and not water which added like 200 calories alone to it!! so i started to coutn today and almost died lmao. it's ridiculous. so back to counting i come!! i've printed out these special coutn sheets for myself.. as well as tables for daily percent for fat and fiber intake. that way i kind of see where i'm going wrong.. like eating 1500 calories but 230% of it being fat calories... etc. lol. and making sure my fiber is high.. since that is so so important for my IB. I'm also keeping the binder i put all these sheets in directly in the kitchen!! that way there's no.. "i don't know where my book is so i can't enter the calories" going on. :) hopefully this all shows a bit of success in the future.

my friend who has had a bit of weight loss success.. like over 40 pounds.. but is on a plateau is going to be my work out buddy now!! only about once a week since we live in different cities.. but our days off are on the same days now!! yay! so it'll sort of be like a comptetition to catch up to her.. i don't want to be the fat friend anymore lol.

anyways. i'll let you know how it's going in a week...or a few days.. whenever i get a bit bored lol.

pink, oh my gosh, we may be the same person almost! one of my besties is my workout buddy and she's lost about 40 pounds! maybe more - it's crazy, she's done soooo well (but i'm afraid she's beginning to go down the not-eating-enough-on-purpose road, which scares me) but she looks and feels a lot better and you can tell. she's about 5'4" and started at 205 pounds and now hovers at 160 ish. it's a huuugggee motivation to work out with her and such, we try to go every day. she's in MUCH better shape than i am too - lol, damn it. 

surfer, i agree with harl, definitely. you can tell that you've lost weight! girl, you look great! i am so jealous of your freakin internship. it looks like so much fun and the animals are adorable! i'm going for an interview at the container store corporate office tomorrow (eek) and i'm meeting the VP of accounting, the controller, and the director. i'm freaking the **** out. oh well, it's not really an interview, more of a meet and greet, but still, ahhhh. 

well, i haven't been on here as much lately. i've been working way, way more than usual and it's not fun but it'll be a nice paycheck. surprisingly, i've stayed on track and i've been doing so well. my mom doesn't buy unhealthy food at all, which sometimes sucks, but it turns out being great because i'll crave potato chips and end up eating celery and peanut butter because i can't find anything else. there's never any ready-to-eat food it seems like. BUT it does make it easier to go out to eat when i'm super hungry and don't want whatever my mom cooks, which is where i get in trouble. burger street - yes, please. mustang donuts - yes, please. avocado sushi - three rolls just for me, please. haha, seriously! i'm setting up shop at 115.4 pounds today, which is NICE. nice nice nice. i CANNOT remember the last time i was here.. but i have a little craving that keeps poking my brain mush and asking for satisfaction. it's name is on the border. me and on the border go way back, i could eat two bowls of queso with unending chips and tortillas, by myself. oh, how i miss those gluttonous days. okay, not really, it made me sick sometimes, you know, the i ate wayyyy too much and my stomach is not okay with it, so full you can't move sick. i've been to on the border a couple times this summer, and i did so well, like ate a normal portion of chips and queso and got out of there feeling great. i'm hoping that IF i do end up going today (chances are actually kind of slim), i will behave myself around queso and not go hog-wild. okay, end of retardedly long post. hehe

i'm doing good! lol. no big noticable weight loss yet sadly. HOWEVER!!!! i've started to go back to the gym, sincei took some time off lol. and my counting of calories and watching what i eat is going on SOOO well.i pretty much eat the saem thing every day. half a pita pouch with something stuffed inside (tuna or peanut butter and banana or ham lol), a small caesar salad and a bowl of fruits!!!

dinner is always different... but i'm trying to make things better. i ate spaghetti the other day and it had whole wheat spaghetti, sauce and the meat in the sauce was lean ground turkey! yay for healthy!!! i also eat healthy sloppy joes and healthy other stuff lol. love it.

anyways. i'll let you know any numbers on monnnddaaaayyyyy!!!

ps. i caught a coworker thieving at work!!!! OHHHHH!!! i wish i could get a reward lol. better yet... i wish i didn't work with thieves lol.

pink, that is crazy about your coworker! i can't imagine anyone trying to steal from TCS, well at least not coworkers. what did you do? grats on going to the gym! i always feel that working out helps me - even if i'm not on track in terms of dieting. i think my body is truly starting to change too - tonage, baby, hell yeah! oh, i also suggest finding more things to eat! i don't want you getting bored and jumping out of our limo. i've decided that we aren't on a wagon. we have a limo. we roll in styyllleeee.

i just had sushi for lunch - yum. my new fave is the cucumber rolls. they aren't really sushi since they don't have any fish in them, but they're so good. its just the rice, seaweed, and cucumber in the middle! they're healthy and about 155 calories for a whole roll (8 pieces), or at least that's what i've found online. yay! i want to go shopping but dealing with the mall isn't very fun and i'm supposed to go work out soon.. i'm gonna try and run a mile at 5.0 today! wish me luck.. hah

well i only like caesar salad so i can't actually change that. lol. it's the only salad i can eat. i change my fruit every few days though... i'm on cherries and celementines right now. but i miss my strawberries and grapes... cherries go bad SOOOOO quickly! i also change what sandwhich i'm going to have. last week it was tuna. the week before was peanut butter and banana (my favorite) and this week it's ham!!! woo! my sandwhiches are small though!!! i eat 1/4 a pita pouch!!! carbs are a huge part of my problem lol. and i just can't get rid of them. i love them so much!! my big bunny (nibbles) has gone and had his nuts chopped off today!!! he amde it through ok!!! i hope he just doesnt' look at me with hate in his eyes from now on. .. :(

i'm going to try to go to an aqua fit class tonight!! nothing more fun than doing exercise in the water!!!

soooo i'm down 4 lbs!! yayy!!! celebrate!! lmao. ok so it's 4 down from the 5 i originally gained back. but that means one mroe pound to go.. and then the real weight loss can come off!!!

i'm so proud of you ocean!! you're really hunkering down and making this happen!!! being busy always helps!! lol. i can't wait till september.. it's my busy time!! yay!

my back and arms are killing me from my back and arm work out on sunday lol. that means it works right?!?!?!

how you making out blink??? haven't heard from you in a while. how'd that run go?? i ran for like... a minute on the tread the other day lol lol. but everything counts right???

the thief is caught and fired!!! what an interesting week!!! i can't wait to weight in next monday! (i'm eating pizza today... but whole wheat crust and skim mozzerrella cheese!! yay for healthy! lol). it'll be epic. i swear lol.

pink! four pounds! that is freaking awesome! look at you, back on the wagon and showing us all up. haha, hope the bunny isn't too angry at you for taking away his manhood. how was the aqua fit class? i've always wanted to try one. yesterday i ran about 1 and 3/4 miles at 5.0 - 5.3 !!! i'm so happy, it's getting easier and easier! ceasar salad is really the only salad i like as well, i don't know, salads just don't do it for me. 

so, has anyone ever done online dating or anything? i'm having kind of a dilemma. first off, i can never meet guys that i'm interested in.. and i meet a lot of guys i feel like. i've had opportunities to date a lot of them, but i'm just not into them. SO, i've been messing around the internet on this free dating site (one that isn't all ads and spam) and i've met a couple guys. they all want to meet me. i want to meet them. but i'm such a wimp! i've blown off a couple already..  but i just don't know what to do. i don't answer their calls too, but i can IM and text them until the cows come home. i don't know what's wrong with me. i'm finally trying to move on from the boy who broke my heart, and i'm self-sabotaging EVERYTHING. gaahhh.. what do i do? i'm just nervous that it won't work or it'll be awkward or i won't be what they thought i'd be. i don't know, i guess i'm worrying too much. any advice? have y'all ever meet anyone off the internet? oh, and don't worry, i know to be safe and meet in public places, etc, until i really know them and am comfortable with them.

i have i have!!! looottssss of success!! i have met some REALLY nice looking guys... guys with good jobs... and i've even met some reallllyyy weird ones. and obviously ones that just wanted sex. it's the same as meeting ppl normally, you don't know if they're weird until you talk to them.

but the best part is... you can talk about ANYTHING and forever!! because you guys don't know each other. i find dates with ppl i know more weird.. cuz you're like... ok... well... you already know my life... ummm... and now we're on a date.. lets just talk about the movie lol. in fact!!!!! one of my good friends now... well we were working for the same company but i only saw him once.. and never talked to him (hundreds of employees, and you work with different ones every day)... but i came across his profile in plentyoffish.com and i didn't know it was him... his picture was 2 years old ... weirdo. anyways i was like.. hey whats up? lol lol. anyways.. we started talking and HE was the one that recognized me... anyways... he;s the best guy in the world... but i'm engaged to his friend now.. (we had no romantic interests). but it goes to show that you can meet anyone and they're not all bad!! internet dating is mainstream now.. everyone is looking for someone but it's so hard to meet outside of your coworkers and your circle of friends.. and their circle of friends. dooo it!! but do something fun. like mini golfing or glow in teh dark bowling or something... expecially if you're not good at either of those things lol. it makes it better if you can joke about it.... or gloat. i did do some awesome gloating on a mini putt field once... mind you i've had many mini putt dates lol lol lol.

if the guy doesn't offer to pay... run!

equality and independece is nice and all that... but it doesn't mean the man can't be chivalrous. if he EXPECTS you to pay for your share.. it's just not cool. lol.

i pay sometimes for my fiance and me on dates.. and he pays for us as well other times. but the first date the guy HAS to pay. know what i'm saying? lol

anyways... i'm tired and thats why i'm ranting on and on about nothing.

plus you're really cute blink!! so you shouldn't have that much trouble!! these guys will just be smitten with you at first glance!! lol

:(

so sad that no one has been on in awhile.

well i'm back up tw0 pounds... buuuuuutttttttttttttttt... that's because of my horrible weekend lol. saturday in particular.. i find i go down some pounds during the week.. and up some on the weekends... which means i have to find some hobbies for the weekend so i don't go stir crazy and eat myself out of house and home. hehe. (i'll be back down those two pounds by tomorrow.. so the trend goes)

yesterday i went to zumba class. it wwas so fun!! although it's always more fun if you go with someone.. that way you both look like fools lol. and i'm going to go work out tonight on some weight training.. followed by aqua fit!!! i can't wait!!! i love water... even if it is filled with chlorine.

and of course... the awesome muscle conditioning class on thursday (which isn't awesome... i hate it lol.) But i figure that... if i have fun classes two times a week...it's working out but it's not REALLY working out. so i need that death work out class once a week just so i know i'm actually doing something lol. and i'll do some weight training on tuesdays (before water fun!!) and on saturdays... just so i'm not being one of those ppl who are lazing off... which i kind of was doing there for a bit. but back on track i am!!!

i eat really really well during the week... i'm even not that hungry during the week and so i cut my calories in the day.. and eat them more in the evening... but apparently my weekends are horrible lol. i'll have to try to fix that... maybe go out on weekends and walk around.. walk to friends' house etc.

i also paid off a credit card!!!!!!! get exccciiittedddd!!! lmao lmao lmao. i know i know... but it's taken me FOREVERRRRR.

on top of everything else!!! no one told me plums were sour!! i bought a bucket full!!! ughhhh i can't even eat one lol.

come back ladies... come baccckkkkk.

as i thought!!! i'm back down!!! yayyyy lol. i knew i would be by today... such as the cycle goes eh? lol... all i have to do is stop that weekend habit from kicking in and going back up... that way i can actually get DOWN in numbers. sooo what's my plan? well i don't really have one lol. i work both saturday and sunday... but it's short shifts.. 4 and 3 hours respectively.. so perhaps what i can do on saturday is go to the gym a few hours before work.. or clean or something lol lol. sunday won't be that that bad. and the following weekend i start working all day sunday!! but i also stop workign saturdays... which means i'll have to start going out and doing stuffs lol. hanging out with friends... or whatever where there's no bad food lol. i'm sure i'll figure it out!!!

other than that.. no real reason to be on here. just bored at work.. as usual lol. where all you ladies at?

hey now!!!! where the heck is everybody?! i'm a very sad panda.

i joined weght watchers online. yes i did. and i must say.. i'm eating the same things i am now... but my dinners are a BIT smaller... i guess my dinner portion wasn't REALLY completely in control... though not bad!! plus i love the fact that it does the math for everything for me.. instead of me trying to figure out the calories... and what calories i SHOULD be having (apparently i was under eating for a few weeks and over eating other weeks)..

the best part is that on saturday i DID go over my points... as usual.. but i didn't go over them by THAT much. just by a 4 oz steak lol. but i DIDN'T GAIN WEIGHT!!! and what's even better... this monday i am down 2 lbs from monday last week!! so every monday i'm tracking my weight and measurements on there... and every day i'm obviously tracking my eating habits and exercise habits.

yay!

but i'm still really upset that none of you guys have been on here in awhile.

I'm here!  Damn I'm really sorry guys.  So before it was just my internship keeping me busy, but the past few weeks I've also been working at the aquarium gift shop on my days off...so that's 45+ hours with the whales and then another 18 at the gift store.  Absolute craziness.  I'm exhausted like all the time, but it needs to be done :).  SO.  Everything on my front has been fantastic!  Everything is extremely slow going BUT it's going.  Excitingly, today, for the first time, I weighed in in the 130s!  139.6 but hey it counts!  I don't even remember the last time I was there.  So freakin excited.  And the best part is I'm not really counting here on CC, but am doing more counting in my head and I'm still losing.  I think I'm going to end up going back to counting when school starts up again because I won't be as active as I am now, but it's nice to know that I can still lose without having to count everything I put in my mouth.

And pink, good for you for hanging in there!  You're doing fantastic!  Sorry I haven't been around...but in 3 weeks the internship will be over (which will be like the worst day ever) and I will be back at school with plenty of time to be on CC!  Keep on truckin girl!

*tip-toes in... looks around...

HEY!! alright, so i went on vacation and haven't been on since i've gotten back (aug 2) .. but that's NOT OKAY! of course, i gained a tad while i was away, but i'm not fretting it! workin out and losin the pounds, baby! haha, fast food has been calling my name lately though, BAH! but yeah, i'm back! hope everyone's past couple of weeks have been good.

let's see, i spent $500 shopping yesterday. most money i've ever spent in one day. and damn that's a lot. but i really needed it, and back to school shopping was also appropriate. none of my clothes fit anymore. well, now they do :) happy!! 

pink, thats such a good way to look at things - you don't each other and you can talk forever about anything. i've never realized that.. i'm always like oh ****, what if it's awkwarD? you know.. but i guess you may never see that person again anyways, so why care. glad you've kept the thread going! looks like you've been doing well, i always tend to slip up during the weekends, but i make up for it during the week. i'm alright with the gain afterwards cause i know it'll go away. oh! i did weight watchers a couple years ago, i really liked it, but i didn't want to have to pay and the friend i was doing it with quit, so i decided to just join this and do it myself. i like the meetings and booklets they give out. it's nice to talk about it and have that support, but CC has been good for me. oh, WW is SO GOOD about accountability.. cause each week you HAVE to be weighed in, so there's no hiding and it's always no fun to gain. 

surfer, that is fantastic! i can't believe your schedule, you really must be exhausted. i get tired after my work that's half of the hours you put in! congratulations on reaching the 130s!! that's awesome, girl! 

YOU GUYS. I JUST REALIZED WE HAVE 21 DAYS TO REACH OUR GOALS (if we can...) CRAP! i totally pooped out on this challenge. lame. i've made progress though.. i think? i've gone forward and back and forward and back, but still.. it's something? haha..

helllloooo!!!! well just to let you ladies in on my update!!! since agusut 1st i am down 5 pounds!!!

i have been sticking to weight watchers for the last two and a half weeks (not going over and cheating.. though i eat treats every day lol). and i have been exercising at least 3 times a week!!!!

and it's clearly paying off!

:)

though i'm not going to reach my goal anytime soon lol... give it another 2 months (for my big mini goal).

how you ladies doing so far now that you're back?

pink! that is so freakin exciting girl! 5 pounds.. way to go! so glad you're back on the wagon :) even if you aren't reaching your goal soon, look at how far you've come! i think we should focus on the progress we've made throughout this challenge rather than the weight loss aspect. also, weight watchers is very good about helping you do everything the healthy way, and it teaches you to make lifelong changes rather than temporary dieting changes. i'm so happy for you! keep up the good work!

don't know where everyone else is... but hope you guys are making healthy choices! hehe

i'm mostly on the wagon.. haha, mostly. i've been moving around weight-wise, playing a game of gain and lose, but i think it has a lot to do with the exercise i've been doing. i think i'm still gaining muscle and it's changing the way i'm losing weight. i know that i'm looking better and probably losing inches, but i'm not losing as many pounds. yesterday i ran 1.25 mi straight (that's what i've been trying to do lately, i started with just trying to get to 1mi and at 4.5mph) and at the end of it i was running at 5.5 mph.. that's the fastest i've gone yet! i wasn't even too exhausted afterward!

hmph.. i'm still 10 pounds away from my ultimate goal.. pretty much where i started (and have been this whole time), but i'm being healthy and not worried about that part yet cause i'm starting to like how i look. i've been thinking about posting actual pics on here.. i don't know, i never wanted to before but now i'm like hey! i'm doing it! let's show it off! but who knows.. i have to go to work soon and i have quite the head ache.. not excited. 

today has been an "ah, **** it, i'm gonna eat it" day. not good. i've tried to keep it under control and i think i've been relatively good. i mean, things could have been a LOT worse. for instance, instead of getting a second package of oreos, i managed to go for diet coke. i've probably eaten half the jar of peanut butter though. damn. i was doing so well! off to the gym to burn off these calories. aw poo.

YOU GUYS. WE ARE ALMOST DONE WITH THE CHALLENGE. LET'S AT LEAST FINISH STRONG!