Easter to Memorial Day Challenge 2016

[awood08]

Welcome to the next challenge!!!

Our challenge starts Easter March 27th through Memorial Day May 30th. (USA holiday)

To be part of the challenge you start by posting your initial weight stats and what you would like to achieve by the end of the challenge. You can then check in as often as you'd like with a weight update, to share a story from your week or start a conversation about a topic you'd like some advice on.

Welcome to all our new members, old timers, and anyone who is just following our challenge! Let's continue to work hard, meet our goals, and most important, give each other the encouragement and positive thoughts to keep all our spirits up!

Thanks to @saraj91 for the last challenge! Hope to see you again in here 🙂

 
A little rundown of terminology for anyone who is new: 

USW- Ultimate Starting Weight

CSW- Current Starting Weight

GW- Goal Weight

UGW- Ultimate Goal Weight

PW- Previous Weight

CW- Current Weight

MFP- My Fitness Pal

Here is a link for our group! Thanks @Brujita

https://www.fitbit.com/group/22KZ7F

[babin]

Here's my stats:

USW- 177

CSW- 156

GW-   157

UGW- 189

Good Luck to all of them!  Newbies you will find this group very supportive for your health fitness

[SunsetRunner]

Checking in:

CSW: 153 lbs (3.30.16)
PW: 150 (4.20.16)
CW: 148.8 (4.27.16)

CGW: 145 lbs

UGW: 130 lbs

Finally! broke through my 150lb plateau. I actually went 3 days in a row with no exercise due to a busy weekend and wasn't tracking my food either. Sometimes I think my body just needs a break from routine, as it's happened before when I've taken a few days off from exercise/tracking I seem to lose a pound or two.

@HelenKr Congrats on breaking under that 150 mark! Way to go!!

@Bogdel Congrats on earning the 30lb badge! It's inspiring!! 🙂

[Bogdel]

@SunsetRunner, Congratulations on breaking the 150 plateau! Way to go! I am heading that way, as well, and hope to catch up with you soon (smiling). Thanks for your kind note. 

Best wishes!

[Bogdel]

@awood08! You are such an inspiration! I have read your story on another blog, and was amazed at your progress and determination. You say that you are are at about 160 lbs., size 6, and are not sure what your ultimate goal should be. May I ask how tall you are? 

I am 5'5", age 62, and I am 152.6 lbs. right now ( I just received my 30 lbs badge from Fit-bit the other day ... smiling). I am also not sure about my ultimate goal, either, but I remember that my ideal weight in my 20s was about 136 lbs. I am thinking about reaching 145 for now, and see how that feels. 

Again, reading your story was an inspiration, and I wanted for a long time to write and tell you that. 

To health and good looks! 😉

Ellie

[Bogdel]

@babin, I am confused about your ultimate goal (are you planning to gain?), but I appreciate your comment about this group. I agree. We have some wonderfully encouraging and supportive people here, and we celebrate each other's success. 

Best wishes!

[OCDOC]

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@Bogdel wrote:

@babin, I am confused about your ultimate goal (are you planning to gain?), but I appreciate your comment about this group. I agree. We have some wonderfully encouraging and supportive people here, and we celebrate each other's success. 

Best wishes!

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@Bogdel, agree that the 'stats' make no sense 🙂

Moderator edit: wordchoice

ETA....fixed 🙂   RK

[HelenKr]

@SunsetRunner -  Thanks!  To say getting under 150 was exciting is an understatement.  I'm very happy, still a little ways to go, but enjoying that landmark.  Congrats to you too!  Feels good - right?

@Bogdel- You'll be there soon!  I am very impressed with how quickly you are losing weight.  You are obviously very disciplined.

[EmilyEL]

Hey all! This is an awesome, encouraging thread; let's keep it productive and on-topic.

@OCDOC Just to clarify, users may have links to personal blogs or websites contained within their community signatures, as long as the sites linked are not advertising, malicious or otherwise in violation of our Community Guidelines. Thanks!

[OCDOC]

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@EmilyFitbit wrote:

Hey all! This is an awesome, encouraging thread; let's keep it productive and on-topic.

@OCDOC Just to clarify, users may have links to personal blogs or websites contained within their community signatures, as long as the sites linked are not advertising, malicious or otherwise in violation of our Community Guidelines. Thanks!

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Thanks @EmilyEL  for the clarification; I hope everybody on this thread achieves their ultimate goals:)

USW 246 Jan 1' 16

CSW 212

LstWk 204.2

Today 203.0

CGW 200

UGW 189

[Jcamp]

Kind of a late start... But I'm usually late for everything! 😀 This is my first challenge! I want to be at my goal weight by Independence Day, I just might make it!

USW- 243 (as of October 2015)
GW- 173
UGW- 160
PW- 190 (as of March 27)
CW- 183

[Samalama217]

@awood08 It's best to focus on how you feel instead of a number you have inside of your head.  I've set my goal to 130, but I always say that depending on how I feel if I ever get to that weight, I may or may not want to lose more.  Seems like you're really happy in your own skin and that is fantastic!  Great job!  I understand how hard it is not to focus on the scale, but I'm sure you will get to a place where you don't need it anymore.

[Samalama217]

So I have fallen off the wagon a bit.  Last week I did not work out at all and ate out too much.  I've also been seeing someone new and that means a lot of dinners and ice cream and such!  Gah.  Need to step it up.

USW: 163 lbs (March 2015)

CSW(3-28-16): 141 lbs

CGW: 136 lbs

UGW: 125 lbs

3/30/16: 140 lbs

4/6/16: 139.6 lbs

4/13/16: 137.8 lbs

4/27/16: 138.4 lbs 😞

So 2.6 lb loss for the month. 

[saraj91]

Hello everyone!

So another week of maintaining. I'm still working out & eating good, fresh & healthy food so I'm hoping I'll start to see progress soon. It's getting frustrating & a little disheartening as I've really kept my snacking in order & not really indulged in anything major (a couple of glasses of red with Game of Thrones on Monday was a must though lol).

To keep my head up I've been looking at one of my favourite sayings to keep me motivated:

'If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started, I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.'

Not sure who said it originally or where it's from but I like it, it keeps me going.  

Have a great weekend all! 

USW 23/3/15: 186

PW 22/4: 135

CW 29/4: 135

GW 30/5: 130

UGW 23/6/16: 126

[lusry]

I've got some good news this week! I'm finally back at the weight I started with! AND I measured today and I've lost an inch or a half inch everywhere!  I probably won't make my goal weight this time, but I'm going to try and get as close as I can. I didn't start running yet, and now there is about 6" of snow on the ground with it still falling so it doesn't look like I'll start this weekend....but I've kept up with my DailyBurn exercises and I went to the gym with a friend on Monday. I've bought a lot of veggies with the plan to cook them this weekend. Neither me nor my husband cook much at home, so we are trying to do it more. 

USW: April 2015 - 185lbs

CSW: 3/27/16 - 176.9lbs

PW: 4/1/16 - 175.7lbs - 1.2lbs

PW: 4/8/16 - 177.1lbs + 1.4lbs

PW: 4/15/16 - 178.5lbs + 1.4lbs

PW: 4/22/16 - 178.7lbs + 0.2lbs

CW: 4/29/16 - 176.9 lbs - 1.8lbs

GW: 5/30/16 - 165lbs

UGW: 120-125lbs

Net loss - 0.0lbs

[SunsetRunner]

Hubby and I have started snacking on veggies and dip at night instead of chips and ice cream or chocolate bars. I know that activities like housework is exercise (which for me it really is) but I don't see anything on here about it when I log it.

[awood08]

@Bogdel & @Samalama217

Thank you! I'm 5'4 (all this time I thought I was 5'3 but had my most recent medical exam and I must have grown an inch! lol) I found my old pictures from high school and I'm exactly the same weight, but more lean and toned. Even my grandfather couldn't believe how much I look like I did in high school (minus the face aging). I know all the charts and "recommendations" say 130's for me but the amount of muscle on my thighs and legs honestly trump what any chart says. My health and how I feel, is telling me where I should be 🙂

You guys are amazing as well, seeing your posts you are awesome people and so motivated 🙂

[Bogdel]

Hi, @saraj91. Keep it up! This may be just a plateau. You will get over it. As long as you don't go back and stay on track, you are a winner already. You've been an inspiration to us all, already, and we owe you much of our own success through the previous challenges. Thank you for that.

[Bogdel]

Thanks, @awood08, for your reply. Yes, with all the work-out you have done, you must have built a lot of muscle. I need to work on that, too. With all the weight I lost, my upper arms have gotten flabby. I really hope that can be corrected, because I have a lot of sleeveless dresses that I really like. 

Any way, back to you! You did an amazing job. I bet your kids are proud of you, too. 

I am assuming that you will stick around and keep it up, right (smiling)? 

Best Wishes!

[RubyH]

Greeting all and a hearty congratulations to all for the advice, the information and the encouragement, you are really an awesome group of people, keep up the good work !!

USW June 1, 2013 84kg 185.2 lbs BMI-35 

CSW Apr 2, 2016   61.6kg 136.8lbs

PW    Apr 23           61.1kg 134.7 lbs BMI 25.4

CW   Apr 30            60.8kg 134.1 lbs BMI 25.3 still a tad overweight but getting there, my body of late has been fighting me as I try to get rid of these last few pounds but with a paunch and a muffin top still to be shed I know I have a little futher to go and so I am pushing on, I will never have an hourglass figure my short stature and broad structure of my build as well as heavier bone structure are well defined and I accepted that years ago and know I will never have a waist as such as my ribs sit directly on top of my hips, lol, but I will persist in losing the spare tyres lol.

UGW                       57kg     126 lbs BMI 23.7

Remember, " The successful have failed more times than the spectator has even tried !'

[bluenose1962]

PW - 190 25/1/16

CW - 163 27/3/16 160.5 02/4/16 158 10/4/16 156.5 17/4/16 154.8 30/4/16

UGW - 145 (subject to revision based on BMI)

Did not post last week as the wheels sort of fell off a bit.

My GP ordered a pair of un-appealing support pants, that I hoped would allow me to do some light running, but they came slightly too big, and offered little help, so had to buy another pair a size smaller.

Not ideal, but I find that doing little or no excercise really makes me lethargic and bored.

Have my hernia consultation on Wednesday, that can't come soon enough, as any proper excercise has been restricted.

I managed to put 4lbs on in about as many days, as I felt totally un-interested, as things had been going so well. Fortunately I managed to resist any alcohol, as that would have made it worse.

Managed to get back on track by about Tuesday, which set the tone for the week and now managed to get below my lowest of the year. This will set things up, with a nice Bank Holiday weekend as well.

Off to gym, although my PT is wary about me doing too much, but at least it is positive.

May post tomorrow if there is any slight loss, but hope that next week sees me break the 11st - game on !! (again)

Have a great weekend everyone !!