20 lbs. by September 1st motivation group *CLOSED to new members*

I really need some help staying motivated to take off this last 20 lbs.  So I thought maybe some people would like to join me.

Weigh in will be every Monday morning starting this Monday May 24th (this will also be our starting weight).

Everyone will alter there original post for weigh in's so the thread doesn't get too long and confusing. Any new posts can be for rants, venting, questions, concerns, motivation and so on.  We will use this format for your weigh in post...

5/24: 154.4  (Not sure how much of this is water weight...  I had a weekend of BAD eating.)

5/31: 152.2

6/7: 148.2

6/14:

6/21:

6/28:

7/5:

7/12:

7/19:

7/26:

8/2:

8/9:

8/16:

8/23:

8/30: 135

6.2 lbs out of 20!!!

That gives us 15 weeks to take off 20 lbs (or whatever goal you want to set for yourself.)

Who's with me?

Last night-not too bad.  Yes I had my cheat night but first I had to fix the lawnmower and mow the front lawn. Yes, big effort and extreme sweat.  I live in S Fl and the heat and humidity are running rampant here right now.  So I weighed myself 1st thing this morning and I was up 3.6 pounds.  Pissed off!  I did not eat that much!  Just some baked chips and animal crackers. After my weigh in I went jogging-2 miles.  Came back and *she coughs delicately* used the bathroom.  I was down 2.4 pounds from 45 minutes before.  Who knew?  So I'm feeling better about my cheat night and I think I'm still on track to be under 160 by Monday morning. 

Todays goals:  As always no junk food, if I eat it-it has to have meaning.  I will exercise tonight either at the gym or I have some new exercises to try out at home and I will run tomorrow morning.

Original Post by floridabonz:

Last night-not too bad.  Yes I had my cheat night but first I had to fix the lawnmower and mow the front lawn. Yes, big effort and extreme sweat.  I live in S Fl and the heat and humidity are running rampant here right now.  So I weighed myself 1st thing this morning and I was up 3.6 pounds.  Pissed off!  I did not eat that much!  Just some baked chips and animal crackers. After my weigh in I went jogging-2 miles.  Came back and *she coughs delicately* used the bathroom.  I was down 2.4 pounds from 45 minutes before.  Who knew?  So I'm feeling better about my cheat night and I think I'm still on track to be under 160 by Monday morning. 

Todays goals:  As always no junk food, if I eat it-it has to have meaning.  I will exercise tonight either at the gym or I have some new exercises to try out at home and I will run tomorrow morning.

Sounds like things are going better!  I think your body must retain water when you are out in the extreme heat, we were out Saturday in 110 heat index for a lot of the day and I noticed I "gained" the next day.

Last night I did well.  It was a fight though.  I stayed around 1370 calories, which is awesome, once 8:00 hit, It was a fight to the end, all i wanted was something sweet.  I ate one of my frozen gogurts, but that just wasn't doin' it.  Thank god I fought it off because I weighed in this morning at 143.8!!!!  WOO!  I don't know if it will stick, but I'm hoping! 42 days down, 8.8 pounds to go.

daily goal:  I'm still burnt to a crisp and I don't think I can deal with the pain of sweating and a sport bra on my sun burn, so I'm shooting for a good calorie intake day and staying positive.

I am still here all.. haven't been able to weigh in 2.5 weeks (been on an unexpected vacation). Have to report that I have kept up very well with the workouts almost everyday. Calories have been a bit too high lately, but still having decent deficits. Going home tomorrow, which is great- time to get back to it! AND WEIGH!!

Ahhh, back to reality for Kassay.  It sounds like you did just fine though.  Keep up the good work!

5/24: 156
5/31: 155
6/7:   153  - WOO HOO!!  Progress, finally!
6/14: 152
6/21: 150
6/28: 149
7/5:   149
7/12: 148
7/19: 148
7/26:
8/2:
8/9:
8/16:
8/23:
8/30: Not sure.

 I actually don't have access to a scale because I am housesitting for my boss and he doesn't have one.  I did go to my house on Monday and weighed myself and was 148 (that was the middle of the day, I had just eaten lunch) so I don't think it was accurate but I am sure pretty close.  Sorry I didn't post until now.  I always THINK I posted it and then look back and its not there.  So...I think just reporting the same weight is a safe route.

Day 9, 41 to go.  Scale says 143.4.  I'll take it. I ate about 1400 calories last night.  I just haven't had time to exercise, life has been hectic but my intake has been good.

Daily goal- as always stay positive, watch what i eat, and try to get on the treadmill,  I'm going to try to do it tonight, I haven't been able to on lunch because of errands.

I suck.  I'm under a huge amount of stress and frustrations because of work, and home and boyfriend so I ate my stress last night.  I did not run this morning and I didn't exercise after work last night.  Damn I can preach but I can't practice. 

Today at the office they're celebrating birthdays by ordering pizza and I refuse to eat it!  I brought my lunch and I will eat that.  Last night I didn't get home until after 7pm and when I got there I was STARVING and frustrated so I refuse to allow that to happen to me again today.  I will exercise tonight.  I will control my eating at home tonight.

Original Post by floridabonz:

I suck.  I'm under a huge amount of stress and frustrations because of work, and home and boyfriend so I ate my stress last night.  I did not run this morning and I didn't exercise after work last night.  Damn I can preach but I can't practice. 

Today at the office they're celebrating birthdays by ordering pizza and I refuse to eat it!  I brought my lunch and I will eat that.  Last night I didn't get home until after 7pm and when I got there I was STARVING and frustrated so I refuse to allow that to happen to me again today.  I will exercise tonight.  I will control my eating at home tonight.

It happens to the best of us.  It's always easier to preach than practice.  I found that last week when I restricted the whole week and then let my self eat whatever I wanted for my meal Saturday It kind of gave me a recharge and I didn't crave food as bad. We usually eat out on Saturdays so I wasn't going to fight it.

Just an FYI-  I am a HUGE pizza eater,  A 12" thin crust cheese pizza has about 1000 calories. So about 225 a slice (my math sux).  You can have a peice of pizza, just not the whole thing. :)

Just curious... do you live alone or with the boyfriend.  If you are alone, don't buy the food you binge on!  I only buy low cal, super filling foods like strawberries and grapes to keep in the house.  2 cups of grapes is a 100 calories, and that is a lot of grapes to sit and eat 1 by 1.

Original Post by stargazer1:

Original Post by floridabonz:

I suck.  I'm under a huge amount of stress and frustrations because of work, and home and boyfriend so I ate my stress last night.  I did not run this morning and I didn't exercise after work last night.  Damn I can preach but I can't practice. 

Today at the office they're celebrating birthdays by ordering pizza and I refuse to eat it!  I brought my lunch and I will eat that.  Last night I didn't get home until after 7pm and when I got there I was STARVING and frustrated so I refuse to allow that to happen to me again today.  I will exercise tonight.  I will control my eating at home tonight.

It happens to the best of us.  It's always easier to preach than practice.  I found that last week when I restricted the whole week and then let my self eat whatever I wanted for my meal Saturday It kind of gave me a recharge and I didn't crave food as bad. We usually eat out on Saturdays so I wasn't going to fight it.

Just an FYI-  I am a HUGE pizza eater,  A 12" thin crust cheese pizza has about 1000 calories. So about 225 a slice (my math sux).  You can have a peice of pizza, just not the whole thing. :)

Just curious... do you live alone or with the boyfriend.  If you are alone, don't buy the food you binge on!  I only buy low cal, super filling foods like strawberries and grapes to keep in the house.  2 cups of grapes is a 100 calories, and that is a lot of grapes to sit and eat 1 by 1.

Thanks for talking me off the ledge LOL!  Yeah I could eat the pizza but the kind they get is really greasy and it won't satisfy me so I refuse to eat it.  If I'm going to eat pizza it has to be good pizza. So I can hold my ground on that one.

I've been going to the bfs on the weekends cause he had foot surgery and can't get out.  But he's depressed and we can't go anywhere so I get bummed and then I eat.  See how it goes?  I live alone right now but my daughter and granddaughter usually live with me.  They're out of town for a month.  I bought animal crackers and baked chips over the weekend-impulse buys.  And that's what i binged on last night.  i guess it could have been worse, I just did the calories (estimated) and for the day I was at 1758.  I'm just pissed that I keep coming back to this eating habit and can't get away from it.  I have to conquer it!

Original Post by floridabonz:

Original Post by stargazer1:

Original Post by floridabonz:

I suck.  I'm under a huge amount of stress and frustrations because of work, and home and boyfriend so I ate my stress last night.  I did not run this morning and I didn't exercise after work last night.  Damn I can preach but I can't practice. 

Today at the office they're celebrating birthdays by ordering pizza and I refuse to eat it!  I brought my lunch and I will eat that.  Last night I didn't get home until after 7pm and when I got there I was STARVING and frustrated so I refuse to allow that to happen to me again today.  I will exercise tonight.  I will control my eating at home tonight.

It happens to the best of us.  It's always easier to preach than practice.  I found that last week when I restricted the whole week and then let my self eat whatever I wanted for my meal Saturday It kind of gave me a recharge and I didn't crave food as bad. We usually eat out on Saturdays so I wasn't going to fight it.

Just an FYI-  I am a HUGE pizza eater,  A 12" thin crust cheese pizza has about 1000 calories. So about 225 a slice (my math sux).  You can have a peice of pizza, just not the whole thing. :)

Just curious... do you live alone or with the boyfriend.  If you are alone, don't buy the food you binge on!  I only buy low cal, super filling foods like strawberries and grapes to keep in the house.  2 cups of grapes is a 100 calories, and that is a lot of grapes to sit and eat 1 by 1.

Thanks for talking me off the ledge LOL!  Yeah I could eat the pizza but the kind they get is really greasy and it won't satisfy me so I refuse to eat it.  If I'm going to eat pizza it has to be good pizza. So I can hold my ground on that one.

I've been going to the bfs on the weekends cause he had foot surgery and can't get out.  But he's depressed and we can't go anywhere so I get bummed and then I eat.  See how it goes?  I live alone right now but my daughter and granddaughter usually live with me.  They're out of town for a month.  I bought animal crackers and baked chips over the weekend-impulse buys.  And that's what i binged on last night.  i guess it could have been worse, I just did the calories (estimated) and for the day I was at 1758.  I'm just pissed that I keep coming back to this eating habit and can't get away from it.  I have to conquer it!

I'm not very good at talking people down... LOL. I think I was trying to talk myself into pizza...

Ok, so now we know animal crackers trigger you.. so don't buy them!  Another thing I think helps is when you buy stuff you have to prepare.  My example is my strawberries, I know If I want strawberries I have to get off the couch, go wash them, cut the damn things up, and then walk back down stairs, IT'S TIME CONSUMING. BLAH, who the hell wants to miss 5 minutes of the movie to do that, so I find I eat less.  100 cal bags of popcorn work for me too because I have to weight for them in the microwave, grapes, I have to wash and pull them off of the stems to put them in a bowl so I know how many cups I've had.

Well you're making me think and I have nothing in the house thats good for me right now.  I think i need to shop after work tonight and get a few things that won't trigger me.  Then I need to stick with my plan.  One of my problems last night was I was very hungry when I got home.  If I hadn't headed for the cookies I would have worked out and then I wouldn't have binged.  So I need grape tomatoes, those work for me and maybe celery or carrots.  Haven't had them in the house in a long time so those would be ok.  And definitely the 100 cal popcorn.  I like that and I don't have any.  Thanks for being here!

Original Post by floridabonz:

Well you're making me think and I have nothing in the house thats good for me right now.  I think i need to shop after work tonight and get a few things that won't trigger me.  Then I need to stick with my plan.  One of my problems last night was I was very hungry when I got home.  If I hadn't headed for the cookies I would have worked out and then I wouldn't have binged.  So I need grape tomatoes, those work for me and maybe celery or carrots.  Haven't had them in the house in a long time so those would be ok.  And definitely the 100 cal popcorn.  I like that and I don't have any.  Thanks for being here!

No problem!  We all have those days!  I personally fall off and on the wagon ALOT!  It's finding the little tricks that make things better.  Cucumbers are another good snack if you life them.

40 days left...  Today the scale was at 144.4.  I'm up a pound of water.  I know this because yesterday was chilli night and my sodium was through the roof.  My calories were right around 1200 which was good because I didn't get to exercise yesterday.  Today, I am going to get moving. I know it probably won't happen but I'd really like to see that 142 range by monday...

Original Post by stargazer1:

40 days left...  Today the scale was at 144.4.  I'm up a pound of water.  I know this because yesterday was chilli night and my sodium was through the roof.  My calories were right around 1200 which was good because I didn't get to exercise yesterday.  Today, I am going to get moving. I know it probably won't happen but I'd really like to see that 142 range by monday...

 Hey what happened to positive thinking? Tell yourself it will happen and it will! Have confidence in yourself, I do!

Original Post by floridabonz:

Original Post by stargazer1:

40 days left...  Today the scale was at 144.4.  I'm up a pound of water.  I know this because yesterday was chilli night and my sodium was through the roof.  My calories were right around 1200 which was good because I didn't get to exercise yesterday.  Today, I am going to get moving. I know it probably won't happen but I'd really like to see that 142 range by monday...

 Hey what happened to positive thinking? Tell yourself it will happen and it will! Have confidence in yourself, I do!

LOL.  I only said that because it would be like 4 pounds in a week?  I'm happy with staying in the 143 range :)  but 142 would be nice!

Did you go get yourself some healthy snacks to keep around?

Not yet.  I went home to take care of the dog and my neighbor caught up with me and talked and talked.  I really wanted to work out so I went and did that.  Thought I'd reward myself for all my control and went by McDonalds for their sw chicken salad.  I was behind an obnoxious lady in a van full of kids.  I know she was obnoxious because our windows were open and I could hear her screaming and cussing at the kids.  Anyway their order took forever and I finally get to the food pickup window where the girl tells me their out of my salad!  Do you want another salad? No that's the one I wanted.  As it was I  resisted ordering their damn 3 for $1 cookies.  No way was I going to eat a higher calorie salad.  So I went away without my salad that I really wanted and I knew if I went to the store at this point I would impulse buy so I refused to go to the store and went home instead.  So there you go, no I didn't get my healthy food.  But I didn't screw up yesterday despite all the challenges so I'm still happy.

Today I'll do ok because I brought my lunch.   I won't exercise because I'm going to Shakespeare by the Sea tonight.  Tonight I'm bringing my dinner to the play so I'll control myself there.  So today is going to be a good good day!

Original Post by floridabonz:

Not yet.  I went home to take care of the dog and my neighbor caught up with me and talked and talked.  I really wanted to work out so I went and did that.  Thought I'd reward myself for all my control and went by McDonalds for their sw chicken salad.  I was behind an obnoxious lady in a van full of kids.  I know she was obnoxious because our windows were open and I could hear her screaming and cussing at the kids.  Anyway their order took forever and I finally get to the food pickup window where the girl tells me their out of my salad!  Do you want another salad? No that's the one I wanted.  As it was I  resisted ordering their damn 3 for $1 cookies.  No way was I going to eat a higher calorie salad.  So I went away without my salad that I really wanted and I knew if I went to the store at this point I would impulse buy so I refused to go to the store and went home instead.  So there you go, no I didn't get my healthy food.  But I didn't screw up yesterday despite all the challenges so I'm still happy.

Today I'll do ok because I brought my lunch.   I won't exercise because I'm going to Shakespeare by the Sea tonight.  Tonight I'm bringing my dinner to the play so I'll control myself there.  So today is going to be a good good day!

Sounds like you did very well yesterday!  Good for you!  It's easier to stay motivated when you have those days.

Shakespeare by the Sea?  Are you in the Daytona area?

No I live in palm beach gardens and in Jupiter at Carlin Park they put on a play every year.  This year is Macbeth which I've never seen performed before.  Are you in Daytona?

Original Post by floridabonz:

No I live in palm beach gardens and in Jupiter at Carlin Park they put on a play every year.  This year is Macbeth which I've never seen performed before.  Are you in Daytona?

No, but we go there every year.  I know they do a Shakespeare by the sea as well.  I'm actually getting married there in... 88 days. (hence the diet countdown... lol) I'm always keeping my eye out for locals who know the go to spots in that area. 

40 days to go.... weight 144.6  WTF?  I think it's about to me ttom because I don't see why else my water weight would keep going up.