Pink Team Meeting Place For BLC 10

Hello Pink Team!  Here is a place for us to chat and support one another:

Here are our Week 0 Stats:
buggyhair (W0:146)
chrisbaptiste (W0:191)
deliciouss (W0:163.5)
fred232323 (W0:226.9)
healthmd (W0:176.6)
judikitty (W0:247.6)
librarianlisa (W0: 153.5)
papa3169 (W0: 268)
pokeylvr (W0: 145.5)
salmander23 (W0:126.6)
sheltonmath (W0:148.2)
wesmoot (W0:143.5)

Please introduce yourselves and let's help one another out.

I am a 33 year old mother of 3, trying to lose all that baby weight.  (Even though all my kids are well past the age of being called babies.)  I started this journey at 220 pounds.  I hope to attain a healthy BMI by the end of this challenge.

(To find out more about me you can check out my profile, but it is only viewable by friends.  Feel free to send me a message and I will add any of you, since we are all friends here on the pink team, right?  Well, hopefully we will be by the end of this challenge.)

Hey! I'm Steph. I am 21 years old, and currently in college. I have been overweight pretty much my entire life. I was always just above the normal BMI. Sometimes it was a bit more than "just above normal", but that's my reality. I was 170 when I started. Today is the first day of week 4 for me. I think I have lost about 5 pounds or so over the course of three weeks, so pretty much a normal rate, I figure.

I write lots of journals, to help me stay on track. I also read all my buddies journals, and comment, so feel free to add me as a buddy if you wish, and drop me some comments :).

Hey guys, Kat from Blue team here- just saying hi-  hope ya guys are bringing your A game!  We all wanna lose right...i mean win???

PAPA, where are youuuuuuuuu??? Ya look good in pink!

 Hello pink team! I'm married,  mother of two, a very active 7yo boy and a 20yo daughter in college. I've been obese for too long, I started my new lifestyle journey last May (almost one year!). I have lost 78lbs so far, and to be honest I never thought then that I would actually do it. I really surprised myself! BLC9 was a lot of fun, I met incredible people that inspired and motivated me (and lost 10lbs). Hello papa and judikitty! Hope you got that bball trophee papa! I'm so excited about BLC10. Good luck to everybody, one pound at a time we get there.

Drops Peanut M & M's and Reeces peanut eggs in the room....

Heelllllllooooooo, Pink team! I think Alle put me on the Pink team on purpose! Hey it don't matter to me. I am confident in my manhood enough to wear pink if needed!

Anyway, most of you should remember me from the last challenge. I am here to motivate and encourage (I promise to be on here more often) I TRY to make it on each day. But life in the Navy sometimes gets in the way! If you want to read my story go to my profile and you can check it out. Long story short though is 82 lbs lost, at least 18 to go!

On a quick side note, those of you in the last challenge that knew that my Special Olympic Basketball team had been invited to go to the State tourney, well that was last weekend. Before I tell you what happened, let me give you a history lesson. My team has not won a single game in 7 years, and my goal for this season was to teach them right way to play the game and build on that next year. If we went to Regionals and one a single game I would have been happy. This team came together and won two games and brought home a Silver medal in the Regionals. The Gold medal team played down a division to make sure they went to State and eventually were UNINVITED to go to State, which led to my team getting INVITED. We went to State this past weekend far surpassing my goals for this year to begin with. Saturday we won one and lost one, we went back into the gym on Sunday and again won one and lost one. So this team that again has not won a SINGLE game in 7 years have now won 4 games in two tourneys, now here is the great finish! I didn't even realize it until half way through the third quarter, but this little team from a little town in Washington won the Silver medal at the State Basketball tourney for their division. Not only that but a parent from the winning team paid me an awesome compliment. He told me that he has never seen a Special Olympics coach command the game as well as I did and how I demanded respect of both players and coaches alike. Teaching my athletes sportsmanship and respect. Sorry, got a little off track, but thought I would throw in a little about something I am passionate about!

Anyway, this week will probably be up a little, but will be gone next week. Two days worth of pizza and pasta will do it to ya!

Later,
Papa

Oh Papa,

Thank you so much for the compliments.. oh and the choco donut holes..mmm my favorite..raises her glass of ice lemon water to the effort!

My youngest is doing awesome settling in at Tech school. His career selection was not exactly what he wished for, but I think better in the long run. Bioenvironmental Engineer..great  opportunities on the outside, even in this poor economy.

On to the challenge....Orange Team is on the move to the top!!

Hi everyone!!  I am Chris =)  I have 3 kids 14,13,and 3.  I started this weightloss journey almosy 2 years ago now here on CC, i did great lost 40 pounds rather quickly 4 months, and since then i go back and forth cause i hit my plateau mark, and its like i give up, well i AM gonna work through it this time No pity binge gonna happen =)

Ok gl guys on weigh in this week!

Hi there, Pink Team ladies.... I'm Lisa.  I am 42, have two kids (15 and 12).  I lost 30 pounds on the South Beach Diet a few years ago, but slowly gained most of it back.  This time I'd like to lose the weight for good.  I loved the way I looked--and the way my husband looked at me when I was 140.  So that's my goal...I'm at 151 today, started the day after Christmas at 164.  

So....do we put our stats on this page or on the original link--or both places?  This is my first time to try this!

librarianlisa: put your stats on the challenge site so alle computes all together, she won't see them on this thread. By the way great job on your loss so far!

papa: Wowwww! Congratulations on the State silver medal! That's an amazing story, I have no doubt you're a wonderful coach for your bbal team. From last BL challenge you've been also a great coach to our team supporting, motivating and kicking our butts to stay on track!

lory: I can't believe you're trying to sabotage the pink team dropping some goodies here and there. Ok ok, we take the little tease to motivate us even more to beat you. Although it's a tough cookie (oops), you did awesome on the last challenge. Keep it up and the challenge is on sister!

 I must say I had a rough start tough, I'm 0.4lbs up this week. But I've been really good, it's friggin' ttom trying to throw me off but I hope to lose in double this coming week. Hope you had a better start teamsters.

Oh Health,

All in good "sporting" fun! I truly had to steer clear of the baked goods isle at Walmart last night!!! Them choco donut holes were calling my name, I settled for a sugar free chocolate swirl pudding instead!

Keep up the good work Pinkies!!

Hi Pink Team!

My name is Nana. (Friend calls me this way but I'm not a grandma.)

I have been wanting to loose last 10 lb for... well....lets say.....past 3 years?

Usually at 140 lb, scale u-turns. So I never ever made my goal.

Then, I found CC site and found people shares same goal and experiencing same difficulty but positively moving forward to achieving their goal.

I feel people here are very supportive and challenges are fun to participate in....and I can possibly loose weight. Then definitely.....I'm loosing weight again.........!!!

I'm very excited to be in PINK team.

I'm 46 years old and my weight fluctuates week to week but it is downward. So please be patient with me for awhile. I won't let the team down!!!!

I just want to stop and say Hi to all.

Go PINK!

Hello Pink team! we've been quiet lately, how's everyone doing? 

I noticed many of you didn't weigh in this past week! tap tap tap (tapping foot on the floor with arms on waist). Well? Come on people! We need you all! I hope you are doing fine and just too busy to show up. I know it's a very busy time for everybody. But I hope you make an effort to log in either on good or bad weeks. Someone wrote once that team= together everyone achieves more. We're here for each other, we're a TEAM!

Let's go Pink!

I wrote my weight-- cringing all the while!  My weight trend is slowly, slowly going down, but the specific, daily weight fluctuates about 3 pounds at any given time.  I was actually up on the high end this week after being on the low end last week, so it looks like I gained 2 pounds and hurt our team.  Hopefully, though, the net loss will be significant by the end of the time period!  Let's be patient and supportive with each other!!

I'm doing pretty well with meals right now--sensible and fairly low calorie--but I'm not doing as great with snacks.  Now that spring break is over and the kids aren't home making cookies, I'm hoping I can stay with reasonable snacks again!  Also, I find breakfast and lunch easy, but dinner harder because I'm trying to please everybody....and everybody wants bread, potatoes, and yummy sauces.  Hard to ignore that when it's on the table.  Some days I'm more successful than other days.

I'm committed to losing weight, and slowly making progress, though.  It does help to be part of the PINK team.... I feel I'm not just in this for myself, but as part of a group.  That has helped me walk away from the freshly baked chocolate chip cookies several times!!

Lisa

Hi Lisa, weight fluctuations drive me nuts! That's why I stopped weighing myself everyday. Now, I hit the scale twice a week only. I'm glad you wrote your weight even if it was not as desired. Good job walking away from the cookies! Next week your weight should go down if you keep your healthy snacks. It happened to me too on the last BLC9, one week my weight was up for no big reason and the next it went way down.

My son has his spring break in two weeks, and I'm worried with the brownies and cookies he'll want to make. But most of the time I resist the temptation, "most" of the time, but I'm just human... At dinner, when I prepare a richer meal for my family I sometimes have my own meal prepared. But most of the time I try to prepare a healthy meal that we all can eat. Potatoes are fine without the sauce, skip the bread though. And I load on salad and veggies to compensate for my reduced portions of starchy foods.

However, last Sunday I made a mistake when I ordered food at Applebee's, I chose the fiesta lime chicken and I found out later that it has 1200 cal!!!! Argh, fortunately I scraped all the cheese from the chicken and ate only half the plate. Still, I gotta make better choices when we go out. Hope it won't hurt me too much when I weigh in tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Hey Health, you're a great cheerleader!  I'll try to be better about posting and interacting.  I think it helps. 

I've been soooooo tired lately.  Staying up too late.  Then last night I could have gone to bed earlier (10:30) but my 15-year-old daughter was staying up to finish homework and I couldn't go to bed before her.... it was pure guilt.  Does anybody else experience that??  This is a new thing for me.  Last year we made her go to bed at 9:30, homework done or not.  But this year we're letting her use her best "judgment"--which isn't always so great.  But so far I haven't ever gone to bed before her.  It's almost like I want to "feel what she's feeling."  Does that make any sense?  Like when the doctor told her she had to stop taking all ibuprofen for her headaches, I stopped too.  I'm not in competition with her--just don't want her to suffer alone, I guess.  Anyway, I'm struggling with this. 

And being tired hasn't been good for my diet.  I find I eat more to stay awake.   Yesterday after dinner I had 200 more calories to eat to make 1400, so I had a no fat, no sugar HealthSmart Fudge ice cream bar.  But then this morning when I stood on the scale I wasn't as low as I thought I would be.  Haven't broken the "weigh everyday" habit.   I have tried to weigh every other day to wean myself off the scale obsession.  My weight log goes ALL over the place.

I have another question.  Do you all think that calorie intake shows up in your weight immediately...i.e. the next day?  Or does it take a few days to catch up to you?  Tuesday, (two nights ago), I didn't even keep my food journal because I ate out for lunch and then ate....I can't even remember what for dinner (see what happens when I don't journal??) but I know KNOW that I went over my allotted 1400 calories.  But the next morning when I got on the scale, I had dropped a pound.  Then last night I was actually at 1300 calories by the end of the night, but when I got on the scale I had gone up .5 pounds.  So I'm wondering if it takes a day or two for those calories to "show up."  I know I'm obsessing, but it's just a curiosity. 

Okay.  I'm not much into work today so I'm piddling....but the boss will start to notice that my book truck is not shrinking, so I best shut up now!

I'm absolutely 100% determined to lose 2 pounds and drop below my 150 WALL that I've hit against for weeks and weeks now and help our poor team do better!  Maybe I should try the cleanse that someone in the other team used and lost 7 pounds!!!  Or not.  That doesn't sound very fun.

Oh, Health, be strong for Spring Break with the kids!  One thing I did was put the cookies and stuff they made in an opaque container so I wasn't tempted every time I walked in the kitchen.  I did know they were there, but at least their yumminess didn't scream at me every time I walked by!

Okay.  Signing off.

Lisa

Hey Lisa, that's a new one, I've never thought of myself as a cheerleader. Now that I'm getting in better shape, maybe a should get one of those outfits with pompoms, LOL at least hubby would like it.

About your daughter, I think it's good to let her manage her own time to a certain point. Maybe set the time a little later than 9:30 but not beyond 11, at least not very often. In a few years she'll be in college and you'll have no idea of her bedtime or studying habits, so it's best that she learn while at home. My daughter is in college now and she is very independent and responsible, but she was always like that. When she was in HS is was up to her to decide her schedule, as long as she slept at least 7 hs and her school grades didn't suffer. But I don't think you should go to bed later because of that. I keep reading how sleep is very important for weight loss. Apparently, people that sleep more tend to eat less during the day. And calories eaten at night just before bed are the worst because you won't have time to burn them actively  and it's more likely to go directly to fat. not good. And she'll appreciate your trust on her by going to bed without waiting for her (it may come across as control and not solidarity). Try and see how it goes.

You have to remember that everything you eat or drink weighs on you until processed. Yep, pee and poop do weigh up until you get rid of them. Furthermore if you drink too little or eat too much salt, you're going to retain water, which will show up on the scale. And there's muscle weight too. Bottom line, stop weighing yourself too often, you'll go nuts. I don't know about cleansing, I've never done it. it might be good to detox your body but not necessarily good for weight loss. I think you'll mostly lose water during a detox.

You'll have to be patient and look at the long term picture. At least that's what I'm doing. It may be taking a while to break the 150 wall, but if you stick to the healthy eating and most importantly exercise, you'll surely break the 150 wall. I eat 1600-1800 calories a day but I exercise a lot at least 5x a week. I've been losing in average 4 lbs a week now. It's not much, but it adds up, I don't obsess about food anymore and I'm very fit. Like everybody says it's truly a lifestyle change.  And from what you said you're eating 1200-1400 cal a day, it might be too low if you're also exercising. You don't want your body to think you're starving and start storing fat and slowing metabolism. One more thing, phew! I write too much, I heard Bob Greene from the Best Life diet recommending people not to eat too much at once even if within their calorie limit because you may trigger a shoot in insulin level that will also trigger fat storage. Eating often and carbs with low glycemic index will avoid the spike in blood insulin. the body is a mystery but in the long run if you eat moderately and exercise, the weight does go down. Be patient, you'll get there!

Thanks for the support. I'll try to do outdoors activities with my son and avoid the kitchen altogether. Let's hope spring does show up, it's been so cold since spring started. By the way, I'm 0.4 lbs up this week :(, damn applebee's!

Correction when I say i've been losing 4lbs a week (I wish!), it's actually 4lbs a month.

Original Post by healthmd:

Hey Lisa, that's a new one, I've never thought of myself as a cheerleader. Now that I'm getting in better shape, maybe a should get one of those outfits with pompoms, LOL at least hubby would like it.

You are a terrific cheerleader, it really helps out the rest of us. Thank you. 

Despite actually being sick and gaining all the weight I lost during this challenge back.  I am commited to doing better this week.  Thank you for always cheering us on.

Thanks sheltonmath! Buddies are so important in this tough and long journey. I've been cheered many times in my down moments, and I try to do the same when I'm in my upswing. Buddy system! 

Don't worry too much about the weight this week, when you get sick you have replenish your body to get well and strong. And most of it is water anyway. Get back to the plan and the pounds will melt away.

Give me a P! Give me an I!... hehehe Ok that's a bit too much but  GO PINK!

Oh, guys, I am SOO frustrated!  I am stuck, stuck, stuck.  I lost 13 pounds quickly, which is nice, but I am having so much trouble with the next 10!!  It's like I go down a pound one week, back up, then down.... I won't take in less calories because I don't want to starve myself, so I'm ramping up the exercising.  I did the elliptical machine yesterday at lunch--it totally whipped my butt, too. Trying to increase my deficit every day--of course, it's hard, because I'm SO busy.

Anyway, I just wanted to express my frustration!!  I won't give up, and I know I'll eventually break free of this plateau, but MY GOODNESS it's discouraging!!