Mother's Day Challenge. Lose 20 by Mother's Day! Who is with me?

[Shelley]

Being involved in a challenge helps keep me motivated and it seems like it works for others too.  It also helps to have a goal and a deadline to get there.  Let's all get healthier for ourselves and for our families.  Let's do this for our kids, or our grandkids, or for our own mothers as well as for ourselves.  Come join me and let's do this!

[dancefoxtrot]

Welcome You are in. We have an open door policy. Set a reasonable goal for the 11 weeks to M.D. and post to this section. We all have different goals as we entered at different times, & have different exercise abilities. A lb a week is reasonable by burning 500 more cals than you eat.

Best,

Barbara 

[dancefoxtrot]

Jump in set attainable goals for food and calorie burning.

Good luck,

Barbara 

[moesy23]

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[Igotwillpower]

Loose 15 lbs by Mother's Day

[shelbean]

I am in!  15lbs is exactly how much I need to lose and am training for a marathon which is on Mother's Day.  Usually, losing weight isn't something that is done while training for a marathon (most people put on some, actually), but if I am conscious of the extra calories in junk and beer - SURELY, I can reach my goal.  Joining this group and having accountability will help as well.

[Carolhg]

I'm down seven pounds. Love my FitBit, love walking, working on not loving junk food!!!

[shelbean]

Awesome work! 7 lbs is significant!

[Cynthia50]

I am in! What do we need to do? So excited!!!!!! need the support

[Johnsonmama]

Hi I would love to.join this group

[broadwey]

Hello All...I know the Mother's Day challenged started a ways back but I would like to join the group...Please let me know if there is any thing that I need to do in order to do so...I am new to fitbit a week ago today!!  I have reduced my caloric intake to approx 1200 calories a day and my target is 10k steps daily 😄

Dawn

[Johnsonmama]

I would love to join this.


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[Kimm255]

Hi!  This sounds great!  I need to get in shape for my wedding in September so this would really be helpful for me.

Count me in!

[dancefoxtrot]

Cool Carol hg

Junk food makes us sick. Kick it to the curb. It is full of bad fats, simple carbs, chemicals, and empty sugar. All crappola that makes us fat and sick. That is my mantra.

Lots of great tasting healthy foods. We don't need the crap.

All the best,

Barbara G

[dancefoxtrot]

Think lose the fat and make the muscle to run the race. That may not show up on the scale but in your waist line. I think that carb loading the day before the race is standard practice. Are runners still doing that? 

Best of luck,

Barbara 

[dancefoxtrot]

welcome Johnson and Cynthia,

9 wks to M day so we can lose weight. Eat healthily, and dance, bike, walk or run the extra off. 

Burn more than you eat so log your food. Come back and post your wins and losses and challenges. We are doing this together. 

Barbara G

[dancefoxtrot]

You are in Broadway. Sounds like a plan. We are doing this together. 

9 weeks to Mom's Day. We are losing.

Barb

[dancefoxtrot]

mmichaels

You are in. Set goals, eat healthfully and post. Log your food so that you don't fool yourself.

Welcome.

Barbara 

[Bobbinyc]

I am finally down 2!  of course, one look at a piece of chocolate and I'll be up 4, but, let's not go there.

I'll be so happy when the number goes a bit lower, into the next lowest "tens".  I also walked over 5,000 steps yesterday without any foot pain!

How are the rest of you doing?

[kamiller]

I hope this is inspiration to you. I went to the doctor 1/30/2015 weighing in at 204 lbs. I was panicking because my old eating disorders  (anorexia/bulimia) was coming back. I had tried Weight Watchers, I was working out in the gym but I was building up muscle over fatty tissue and was not changing my lifestyle. I was still eating donuts (2 in a sitting-check out the calories for a sugar twist and a maple bar) + 20 oz coffee with 2 cream and 2 sugar. Then you top off piling up my tray at lunch and eating very complex carbs and not exercising very much. Well, I hit the bottom when I could not walk due to my knees, hip and back as well as ankles were in terrible wincing pain. I went to the doc like I said and she said, you have to make a contract or commitment to yourself that it's not a diet that you have to set on. It's a LIFESTYLE CHANGE. Not giving up everything...well you might want to not eat as much or eliminate certain foods out of the diet. I lost the first 10 lbs. by arresting addiction to Coca-Cola. (24 can case + approximately 5 refills@20 oz. each and 200 calories or more) knew that my body doesn't need that. I need lots and lots of water. over 120 oz/day. I burn about 2600 to 3200 cal/day. I watch everything I put in my body and I do portions, no starvation. I do protein shakes for workout and sometimes a shake after to re-plenish, but water is also key. I eat low carbs, but I  still eat carbs. I just work out if I go over my calorie intake. I have FitBit set at a 750 cal. deficit. It's really a way to lose about 1/2 in the beginning to as much as 2 1/2 lbs. the first week of change after the initial 10-lb loss. I am now 173.5 lbs. BMI 29.5%. I have to lose 53.5 lbs. I don't have a goal. Just work on the way I think and the way I am approaching things in this life. (Behavior modification & cognitive behavioral therapy - self therapy. Well it is obviously working. I have gone from a size 22 to a size 14 in jeans already. Don't set too big a goal if any. Let's allow for them to succeed. I have so many people rooting me on. You will get that if you don't tell your mind you are dieting.. In time, you will stop believing you are dieting, and eat healthier and eat for life and eat for energy and fuel for your body. Just one foot in front of the other. Take the time to just re-evaluate how much you need to lose and do it with no expectations. I will root for you and keep going!!! You'll get there.

[debb21]

Congratulations kamiller!  I had a life changing motivation too.  On January 13th, I had rotator cuff surgery and I realized that I am going to be sitting around for at least 6 weeks in a sling and I didn't want to gain any more weight.  I was already 40 pounds overweight!  So, on January 18th I joined online weightwatchers, very skeptical I might add.  As of today, I have lost 25 pounds and I am still in awe that ww works for me.  I, too, have learned so much about my eating habits.  I also eat what I want, I just keep track and eat more healthy.  I never dreamed that I would like tracking my food, but I do. 

     The week after I joined ww, I also realized I had to find a way to move.  I started dancing and walking around the house with my granddaugher. I then bought a fitbit, not sure if I would like that.  I bought the zip, cheapest one, and I love it.  I started just keeping track of steps, and then made a committment to 10,000 steps a day!  Next I walked 2 miles a day at the Y and then made sure I got to 10,000 steps.  In March I increased my walking to 3 miles a day.  I miss a day every once in a while, but I try not to.  Now I am working on trying to walk faster, but that's not easy for me. 

   Like you, all of this is new for me, and I never dreamed I would be so dedicated.  I no longer make excuses for not walking, or for not following ww.  It is now part of my life, and I am still amazed that I am following a program.  I have learned so much about myself, and I am 60 years old!  I still wonder why I waited so long to lose weight! 

   **** WHAT HAS AMAZED ME THE MOST IS THAT I HAVE LOST 25 LBS FOLLOWING WW AND WALKING.  I DON'T DO ANY OTHER EXERCISING AND I WALK A 20 MINUTE MILE. *****

     Before my surgery, I was fairly active, played golf, and believe it or not, hockey (love it, not any good). I gained my weight over 25 years, 10lbs each from 2 babies, 10lbs from my breast cancer medication, and then 10 lbs from just whatever.

     I don't usually write stuff like this, but I wanted to share my story.  I hope that all of you can take something from my story.