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Look for us in the forum! Under weight loss challenge…20lb challenge

Starts Sept. 1!

Our first 10lb challenge ended quickly…CONGRATULATIONS TO DOLORES with a tremendous 14lb loss her 1st week!
We will be starting a second challenge Saturday 8/22. Anyone is welcome to join. Just to go the forum and look for “10lb Challenge #2″ http://www.weight-loss-forums.buddyslim.com/weight-loss-challenge/5469-10lb-challenge-2-a.html

Be sure to send us your starting weight so we can add you to the roster!

Anyone interested in joining us on our 10lb challenge please check the forum.

Fun and simple little challenge to help some of us get a ‘jumpstart’ on things. Starts Saturday 8/15. First one to lose 10 wins

Good luck!!

 Go to the forum and check it out if interested: ~10lb challenge~ is the title

http://www.weight-loss-forums.buddyslim.com/weight-loss-challenge/5441-10lb-challenge.html

I’m taking suggestions on how it should work but I think we should just jump right into it and start today!

Thanks everyone!!! 

I need some extra motivation. I think I need to start weighing Thursdays to keep me going all week so I was hoping to join some group that weighs in Thursdays or maybe someon interested in adoing a little 10lb challenge…like 1st one to lose 10lbs wins?

Someone else out there has to be struggling too…right? Please tell me I’m normal

Anyway, let me know if anyone’s interested or I can butt in on anyone’s party. Thanks

How do I send all my buddies a booster note at the same time? I see people doing it all the time but I cannot for the life of me figure it out!

I found it when I was cleaning yesterday. One of my new buddies mentioned halloween to me so I shared this rather boring story with her already but I felt like writing again. It’s October 2008…I’m in Target. I have a 4 month old baby and a 2 year old. I’m fat. So fat. 220 range. I had just decided for the umpteenth time to make yet another lifestyle change and try to get healthy. So I see this Halloween Tshirt that’s on clearance. They only had an XL left. I really wanted to buy one for this Halloween but I knew I’d be too thin to wear and XL…I really needed a L or a M. Well, I bought the XL anyway. I figured it’s only $2 and an XL was smaller than I had on at the time so I’ll take it and if it’s huge next year I’ll gladly treat myself to a new one. So it’s August now. August, September, October. Barely 3 months. The XL Halloween shirt…not happening. Well, I don’t want to sound so negative. It wouldn’t happen if Halloween is in August. I have about 10 weeks to kick my ass in gear so that it can happen. No, I don’t want a fat Christmas but…I don’t want a fat Halloween either!

Today is weigh in and I’m scared. Scared and relieved I guess at the same time because it’ll truly be a fresh new startover day…new day…new week….still working towards that new me. Baby’s up now but I’ll be back on later

Last Christmas I  had just started weight watchers and was doing well. I was too heavy to feel comfortable but I knew I was making progress towards changing that. I vowed I would not have another fat summer.Spring things went downhill. Now here it is summer and I while the official numbers aren’t in it looks like a 6 pound gain this week! I started buddyslim again when my 195ish weight soared back to 207. I lost a few the last couple weeks and here I am again at 207. I cannot go back over 210! That is a sad number for me. I never wanted to be over 200 again but we can see how that goes.So here it is. I’m telling the world. NO FAT CHRISTMAS! I want to be comfortable and have fun. Dress in a corny holiday themed mom shirt and look hot. I want to run around crazy taking my kids to a million different activities and enjoy every moment of it. It sounds crazy to some but I just do not want another Christmas.I had started to do well the last couple weeks. Started a new daily walking routine and joined the most wonderful group of buddies in a weight loss challenge team. They were so kind and welcomed me with open arms and then I got sick. And even I will say it’s an awful excuse and there should be no excuses because we all do it to ourselves but I got sick. I didn’t feel up to cooking and takeout seemed like a wonderful solution. Well, I can’t do anything ‘just a little’ so between all the crazy sales Dominos had and the ever convenient drive-thrus it was just a terrible week. And it shows…today I was up 6 pounds from last week. So sad.So here we are faced with yet another new day. New day, new week. Need to have a great Christmas. I will not have another fat Christmas. I’m definitely going to need help but hopefully I can get there…hopefully

I actually have a few minutes so I decided to read a couple blogs. Funny. I don’t know any of you…we’ve never met, never had dinner, never even called on the phone. Yet, I have so much in common with every person on this site! Now, I have to admit there are a few out there who seem to be trainers looking for business or folks selling a pill but a good 98% of you are honest hardworking people who may be ‘fat’ or may be ‘thin’ but definately want to make some changes/improvement to your life and maybe just aren’t having the easiest time. It definately makes me feel good to know I am not alone.

So here I am. Saturday. Supposed to be cleaning. I weighed this morning for FAB and am up a whopping 4 pounds! 4 pounds in 5 days. That’s practically a pound a day!! Week started out okay and then I got sick. And really is there any reason I couldn’t eat healthy while sick? No! All my fault. Yes, it was nice to not cook and I am glad hubby got take out but did we need 1 of everything Domino’s sells? Did I really need to eat the gigantic sandwhich from Burger King yesterday that was so big I even said to myself halfway through ‘wow, I’m full…I should save this’ (as I quickly take another bite). I was physially sick at first now I seem a bit mentall sick. What’s the worst part of all of this??? I’m freaking sitting here thinking about how wonderful some Chinese food would be for dinner! What the freak is wrong?!!

Ugh so I’ve got to get back to cleaning. We’re trying to have the entire house ’spring cleaned’ by Tuesday for when the duct people come. Should be a fun week. If anyone’s reading this I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!!

So i’ve been sick the last few days and since I am a total baby when i’m sick i haven’t done a whole lot of anything. I love all the responses i got to what people are doing to lose weight. i did just check out the calorie counter on here and it says “Keeping your total calories to -250 to -750 calories per day will result in 0.5-1.5 lbs of weight loss per week”. Now, -750 calories a day??? So obviously something is not right there. for the moment i’m going to stick with my ww points because it’s easy for me to track and it seems to count everything like everyone else is pretty much doing. Perhaps we’ll change in the future though.

So husband tried to be helpful yesterday so i wouldn’t have to cook and he went and got everything domino’s sells. it was like an all day buffet of pizza, cheesesticks, chicken kickers and desserts. i totally pigged out. i was so sick it wasn’t even like i thoroughly enjoyed it…it was just convenient so i ate (and ate and ate). Totall feeling remorse today and hope to get back on track with stuff.

had to open the windows and turn the air off. seems we may have some mold in our air ducts. house is SO hot but it’s better than breathing in some nasty stuff. i’m supposed to be having someone come out today and check everything out. Seems the reason we all suddenly got sick when we turned the a/c on for the summer may have been a direct cause of the ac. So hopefully we figure that out, it’s not too expensive and we move on. i’m going to be so devastated if they tell me i let my kids breath mold all weekend!!

that’s all my drama at the moment. Still tired and week and just yucky feeling. hopfully some fresh air today will help me get back to my normal self. so happy i joined the elements…so sad i had to get sick during my 1st week!