February Challenge!

[PassionateFire]

Originally Posted by Trillex

Hello, Challengers!

I'm not a member of the Challenge, so please excuse me for butting my chubby nose into your business. But I see that you guys are feeling a pound-loss crunch this month and I just wanted to say something that I'm sure you all already know: weightloss is *tricky* and the scale isn't always the most accurate gauge of how much fat you've lost over a given period of time.

I'm writing this note because I had a weird experience a few weeks ago. I go out walking on weekdays and I wear a pair of windbreaker pants. One Friday, a few weeks ago, I ran into some friends and one of the snaps on my pants popped open while I was talking to them. I wear wool thermals under the pants and winter running tights under the thermals under the pants, so there are layers that bulk the pants out. But I was MORTIFIED that my pants unsnapped while I was talking to people! So when I was getting dressed on Monday (I don't wear the pants on weekends because I don't take my walks on weekends) I was planning to fasten the pants with a safety pin to avoid potential embarrassment. When I put the pants on -- over my thermals and tights -- there was at least an INCH of extra space around the waist!

Here is a photo of me wearing the pants with thermals and tights underneath:



Over the course of TWO DAYS, the pants went from a snap popping open while I was standing still and talking to looking the way they look in that photo. I didn't eat any differently during the weekend. And I'm sure I didn't just *suddenly* burn that fat during those two random days. I think it just took a while, for whatever reason, for the progress that I'd been working on to *show*. The pants had been tight since I first fit into them, back in November. And they've been loose since I put them on that Monday morning for my walk. I *appear* to have simply dropped half a pants size in two days, after being essentially the same size for two months.

Big Stevie, my partner-in-crime over on the Induction Babies thread, recently went six consecutive weeks at the same weight. Then, last week, he got on the scale and was 12 pounds down from his previous week's weigh-in. Sometimes, the body takes a little while to show you that all of your hard work has paid off. I'm sure that none of this is news to you. But I wanted to say it because I really admire you guys and I think you're all doing much better than it might currently *feel*.

Cheers to all! I only weigh and measure my body once per month, so your daily progress on the Challenges keeps me motivated. Keep up the good work, y'all! You're all wonderful inspiration.

Thanks for this! I do realize I'm losing inches, after wearing the skirt that didn't fit before my vacation in late Jan/Feb I tried on every single pair of pants that I had in my 'too small' pile. I'm very happy to report that even though the scale is not budging, I was able to put 8 pairs into my 'now fits' pile. The pile of pants that I have that are too small has gone from 20-25 to 5!

[princessmommy]

Julie I felt like that the other day! I was Starving All day!
Well it looks like we here in Arkansas are in for an Ice storm! We haven't had a winter yet here but looks like that's gonna change! We're up on a mountain so they say maybe about an inch of ice with snow and sleet too! Ugh! Thank God for a wood stove so if the power goes out like it did back in 2009 w/ that ice storm we will stay warm! I stocked up on eggs, bacon, and the staples for my non-lc family.

[kempmuhlbauer]

Feb. Goal is 248 (goal reached)
Feb. New goal is 244

Feb 10 258
Feb 11 259.4
Feb 12 257.0
Feb 13 255.0
Feb 14 253.8 20 pounds gone
Feb 15 252.0
Feb 16 DNW(did not weigh)
Feb 17 DNW
Feb 18 DNW
Feb 19 249
Feb 20 248 (goal reached) changing to new goal of 244 for the month.

Day 23 of plan, down 26 pounds. I am going to stick with my current plan of 2-5 carbs a day. I only drink water and have not had a caffine type drink since day one. Literaly I only drink water. (except for sat. night beer at the funeral) I also have stayed all natural, no atkins products or bars or anything. I have stayed with just meat, eggs, and cheese. That being said I want an atkins bar, and some sugar free candy so bad I cannot stand it. But the results are so good right now I am too scared to change anything. I did add 10 almonds a day this week and so far has not affected anything yet.

Julie: Hunger is not part of this WOE at all. If hungry eat. Does not have to be a steak but eat. I learned real quick that not eating enough is the fastest way to stall. We are all such dedicated dieters that we think we should just be hungry sometimes. I ate like a pig yesterday and still lost a pound. I do exercise a lot so that helps, but I eat when hungry. Just my two cents. And yes breakfast is very important meal, I am never hungry in the mornings but force myself to eat 2-3 eggs and some sausage.


Princesmommy: Nice to see you trending back down. Way to go!!

Passionfire: You are having a great down trend this month it is very motivating.

Avy: That is impressive loss and way to keep it off and way to keep moving down each month. That is awesome to see.

[LoriAS]

Feb goal - 165

Feb 1: 172.0
Feb 2: 171.2
Feb 6: 172.8
Feb 7: 173.8
Feb 12: 170.6
Feb 13: 171.6 GRRRRR!
Feb 14: 170.8
Feb 15: 170.4
Feb 18: 172.2
Feb 19: 172.6
Feb 20: 171.4

Ok, so even though I have bobbled up and down 2-3 pounds this month, I went shopping last night and found that I have lost another pants size! Very nice!

[DairyQueen]

kemp -- you are our poster boy- congratulations !! i bet we'd all love to see some before and after photos!
avy - congrats on your milestone
passion-- way to go
and everyone else-- we will all weigh less on the last day of February than on the first day - so let's do it!

Feb. 1: 146
Feb. 5: 145.25
Feb. 6: 145.25
Feb. 7: 145
Feb. 8: 145
Feb. 9: 144
Feb. 10:144
Feb. 11: 145
Feb. 12: 145.5
Feb. 13: 143.75
Feb. 14: 143.75
Feb. 15: 144.25
Feb. 18: 143.75
Feb 19: 146
Feb 20: 144.5

[roxysmum]

Even though the scale isn't budging, I finally got my first "You are really looking good" comment this morning at bootcamp. It's really what I have been wanting to hear. I am losing weight for my children, myself and my husband, but regardless, I needed someone to notice and say they see the difference. Like many people say, the scale isn't the entire picture. This week I am finally wearing my button down shirts to work. No more maternity shirts!

February Goal: 144! <---changed to something more realistic

2/1 - 152
2/2 - 150
2/3 - 160
2/4 - 155
2/5 - 154.6
2/6 - 153.2
2/7 - 153
2/8 - 152
2/9 - 148
2/11- 152
2/12 -151.2
2/13 - 146.4
2/14 - 150.2
2/15 - 146.6
2/16 - 149.2
2/18 - 153
2/19 - 151.2
2/20 - 152

Even

[HarmsWay]

Happy Hump Day!

Today I dropped that couple pounds of dang water weight I had picked up yesterday, but looking back I just realized that I weigh exactly the same today as I did on Feb 1st. Strangely this would normally make me give up, but not this time. I actually started one week before on Jan 27th @ 218.4 and I've gone from being a couch potato to working out at least 3 times a week! I will get to goal, my body just might have a different schedule than my mind does.

Today:
B - coffee w/ CO, farmhouse scramble
L - TBD (prob beef merlot w/extra broccoli)
D - taco salad w/homemade avocado ranch!!! YUM

coffee, lemon water & 1 green tea to drink

February goal: 203.4 (I also think this is too ambitious)
2/1 - 210.8
2/2 - ?
2/3 - ?
2/4 - 210.8
2/5 - 212.4 gym
2/6 - 212.4
2/7 - 212.2 gym
2/8 - 210
2/9 - ?
2/10 - 214.2
2/11 - 211
2/12 - 210.8
2/13 - 212.2 WTH (up, down, up, down)
2/14 - 210.8
2/15 - 210
2/16 - 210
2/17 - 209.4 Yay! On the way back down again!!!!
2/18 - 208.8 (prob a lil dehydrated from drinking last night)
2/19 - 213 (holy cow!!!)
2/20 - 210.8

[KatieJo]

Feb 1: 206
Feb 2: 205.6
Feb 3: 205
Feb 4: 204.4
Feb 5: 204.6 TOM
Feb 6: 206.6 TOM blah
Feb 7: 205.2 TOM
Feb 8: 204.4 TOM
Feb 9: 203.2 NEW SCALE
Feb 10: idk, was not able to weigh in
Feb 11: 202.2
Feb 12: 203.3
Feb 13: 202.6
Feb 14: 202.4
Feb 15: 203.2
Feb 16: 202.6
Feb 17: 202.2 Beyond frustrated!!!!
Feb 18: 202
Feb 19: 201.8

[DairyQueen]

harms and roxy be focused! you will succeed! katiejo look at that drop!

[princessmommy]

Yay Lori!!! Yay Katie!!!

[Bethanyblondie]

Sigh...I was TOO busy yesterday and let myself get WAY too hungry by the time I got home last night...and I wound up eating a bowl of macaroni and cheese.

So I'm definitely not doing so hot this week. So far I'm on plan today and am going to make an effort to stay that way. I had low carb things I could have eaten in my hungry desperation last night, but I just didn't.

Here's to a new day, right?

[Kizz4k]

Has anyone ever typed up a long message and responded to everyone, put stats only to lose the whole dang thing before posting? I hate my Mac laptop, I would rather be able to right click, copy and paste instead of all this confusing apple comands. Grrrrr......

and on that note, I am just going to put my stats because I am too frustrated to rewrite everything!

Feb. Goal 190:

2/1: 196.4
2/2: 196.0
2/3: 196.8
2/4: 196.4
2/5: 197.4
2/6: 195.2
2/7: 195.8
2/8: 196.8
2/9: 197.0
2/10: 196.4
2/11: 195.4
2/12: 195.0
2/13: 195.4
2/14: 194.8
2/15: 194.0
2/16: 194.4
2/17: 194.8
2/18: 194.4
2/19: 194.4
2/20: 193.2 Yay meat and egg fast!

[DairyQueen]

i have that same problem when i use my macbook. frustrating!!!

[Cheshire girl]

Originally Posted by KatieJo

Feb 1: 206
Feb 2: 205.6
Feb 3: 205
Feb 4: 204.4
Feb 5: 204.6 TOM
Feb 6: 206.6 TOM blah
Feb 7: 205.2 TOM
Feb 8: 204.4 TOM
Feb 9: 203.2 NEW SCALE
Feb 10: idk, was not able to weigh in
Feb 11: 202.2
Feb 12: 203.3
Feb 13: 202.6
Feb 14: 202.4
Feb 15: 203.2
Feb 16: 202.6
Feb 17: 202.2 Beyond frustrated!!!!
Feb 18: 202
Feb 19: 201.8

Going in the right direction!!!!

[Cheshire girl]

Originally Posted by Kizz4k

Has anyone ever typed up a long message and responded to everyone, put stats only to lose the whole dang thing before posting? I hate my Mac laptop, I would rather be able to right click, copy and paste instead of all this confusing apple comands. Grrrrr......

and on that note, I am just going to put my stats because I am too frustrated to rewrite everything!

Yay meat and egg fast!

Yes I have the same problem using my iPad

Well done with the fast!

[Cheshire girl]

Food today

Ham and cream cheese roll ups
Canned tuna with avacado and peppers with LC dressing
Chicken with stir fry veggies with some creamed coconut - yummy!
Coffees with cream
20 almonds

[HarmsWay]

Originally Posted by HarmsWay

Today:
B - coffee w/ CO, farmhouse scramble
L - TBD (prob beef merlot w/extra broccoli)
D - taco salad w/homemade avocado ranch!!! YUM

Lunch was turkey, green beans and cottage cheese w/cajun seasoning.
2.5 hours later and I wanna eat. POUT. PMSing sux. I can't wait for dinner!

[KatieJo]

Thanks everyone!!!!

today so far
B-Went out with my son *Omelette:Grilled bacon, chicken apple sausage, smoky ham, sautéed mushrooms, caramelized onions and three cheeses*
S-Rotiserie chicken leg
L-Probaly chicken salad
D-Not sure yet

[labmini]

Hi everyone- way to hang tough. Just keep on truckin! It's the only thing we can do right?

The weight from the weekend came off, I am starting to wonder how much weight is coming off from LC vs weaning my LO. I dropped from 2 to one pump this week and saw a whoosh. I was one of the lucky women who held onto weight while nursing, instead of burning a bunch of extra calories. I have pumped my fool head off and have a freezer full, but now it's time to stop, happy mom, happy baby right?!

Continuing to stay on plan hoping to continue the downward trend. I need to work on water, vegetables and cutting all artificial sweeteners out except my one stevia in the morning...again happy mom, happy everyone else!

Hang in there everyone!!!!!

[Julie1972]

Kemp, amazing progress so far and much appreciate your input! Congrats to all who had a dip on the scale! So motivational!

Regarding my recent hunger issue, I have been eating consistent quantities of food since I started this so it seemed weird that my appetite would increase so dramatically overnight! Today was a little better, but i still had a few snacks (which I normally don't need or want). I typically skip a traditional breakfast because I put about 1/4 cup of HWC in my coffee. Also, I find that I am more hungry during the day when I eat a bigger breakfast. I will try to add some eggs though tomorrow if this ridiculous hunger doesn't go away soon!

Have a great evening! Getting on the treadmill to burn off my extra LC snacks today!!

[kempmuhlbauer]

My computer does that some times, as far as losing a whole reply after typing it all up! Very frustrating

[Avy]

February-01-13 196.00
February-02-13 198.40
February-03-13 196.80
February-04-13 195.60
February-05-13 195.00
February-06-13 194.60
February-07-13 194.80
February-08-13 194.60
February-09-13 196.00 Load day 1
February-10-13 197.80 Load day 2
February-11-13 202.60 VLCD 1
February-12-13 199.00 VLCD 2
February-13-13 196.60 VLCD 3
February-14-13 196.00 VLCD 4
February-15-13 195.40 Vlcd 5
February-16-13 194.40 Vlcd 6
February-17-13 193.80 Vlcd 7
February-18-13 193.40 Vlcd 8
February-19-13 192.00 Vlcd 9
February-20-13 192.20 Vlcd 10

[straphe]

February goal: 199

Feb 01 - 216
Feb 11 - 210.5
Feb 14 - 210.1
Feb 16 - 208.5
Feb 18 - 207.4
Feb 21 - 208.7

Went to the gym on Tuesday and going today. Even though I'm up 1.3 pounds since Monday, I feel lighter on my feet somehow.

[PassionateFire]

Goal for February - 199

Feb 6 - 208.2
Feb 7 - 204.4 Woohoo!!!!
Feb 8 - 203.6
Feb 9 - 203.1
Feb 10 - 202.3 Officially lost all of my Mexico weight + .6 lbs
Feb 11 - 203.5
Feb 12 - 203 TOM
Feb 13 - 201.5 TOM
Feb 14 - 202.3 TOM Not enough water yesterday!
Feb 15 - 201.5 TOM
Feb 16 - 201.2 TOM
Feb 17 - 202.3 TOM Had a migraine yesterday so had a few too many pepsi max - only thing I can think of!
Feb 18 - 201.2 TOM
Feb 19 - 202 TOM Argh!!!
Feb 20 - 201.5 TOM My body is really fighting me to stay in the 200's!
Feb 21 - 201.2

[kempmuhlbauer]

Feb. Goal is 248 (goal reached)
Feb. New goal is 244

Feb 10 258
Feb 11 259.4
Feb 12 257.0
Feb 13 255.0
Feb 14 253.8 20 pounds gone
Feb 15 252.0
Feb 16 DNW(did not weigh)
Feb 17 DNW
Feb 18 DNW
Feb 19 249
Feb 20 248 (goal reached) changing to new goal of 244 for the month.
Feb 20 248 same weight as yesterday, had to happen some time.

Not worried just water I am sure. Will keep on doing what has been working. Busy morning will check back in later.

[kempmuhlbauer]

My new goal may be a little lofty but not going to stop working towards it. Today will try and work out and going to actually try and check my calorie intake. Yesterday was probably 2500 calories.

This is what I ate yesterday;
B-3 eggs and sausage -480 calories
l- 16 oz rib eye, sauteed spinach -1200 calories
D-12 oz pork chop, chicken thigh with skin, pork rib - 700 calories
snacks: proscuitto, pork rinds, cheese - 400 calories at least.

Well that explains the same weight at least, once I think about it.

[DairyQueen]

Good morning all! I'm running late this morning!!

Feb. 1: 146
Feb. 5: 145.25
Feb. 6: 145.25
Feb. 7: 145
Feb. 8: 145
Feb. 9: 144
Feb. 10:144
Feb. 11: 145
Feb. 12: 145.5
Feb. 13: 143.75
Feb. 14: 143.75
Feb. 15: 144.25
Feb. 18: 143.75
Feb 19: 146
Feb 20: 144.5
Feb. 21: 144

[princessmommy]

Feb Goal- 145

Feb 1st- 151
Feb 2nd- 150.6
Feb 3rd- 151 maybe not enough water
and had 2 LC bars!
Feb 4th- 153.2!? Ugh! Not sure how That
came about! Oh well onward!
Feb 5th- 154.4!! Wth! Have No clue
Feb 6th- 153! Yay! Hopefully i'm headed
Downward!
Feb 7th- 154.2
Feb 8th- 152.2! Yay!
Feb 9th- 151.2!
Feb 10th- 151.6
Feb 11th- 152.4! Ugh! I guess to many
pork rines making me retain water?
Stayed really LC yesterday And drank
water but apparently Not enough!?
Feb 12th- 151.6!
Feb 13th- 153!! Wth! I ate more yesterday
because I was hungry All day but Geez I
stayed really LC all day!
Feb 14th- 152.8 I didn't do to well
yesterday at Lunch. Mexican food is my
down fall! Ate way to many chips with salsa! Did try hard to take the innerds out
of my chicken enchiladas though. Drank a
Lot of water last night! Gonna drink even
More today!
Feb 15th- 153.4. Ugh!
Feb 16th- 152.8
Feb 17th- 153.4
Feb 18th- 154.4! Ugh! That is all
Feb 19th- 152.8! Finally! Hoping it
Feb 20th- 152! Happy with Any loss!
Feb 21st- 152.4

[2f2f]

Happy Thursday! I'm still trying for my February goal of 235, but every time I weigh - nothing (I'm either at 240 or 242). Therefore I have decided to wait until February 28 - to weigh and measure. It was really hard trying not to step on the scale this morning - but I did it - LOL.

Hope everyone is doing good and staying on plan! I can't believe February is almost over!

[roxysmum]

my weight is all over the place! What causes all of these 3lb ups and downs? Regardless I am finally seeing a change in how my clothes fit. I am wearing my pre-maternity clothes again. Into them after 4 months since the baby was born is outstanding to me. With my first baby, it took me well over 1.5 years to get to this size. I am still know where close to my pre-pre pregnancy weight (125), but I'll get there! Anyways this morning it felt like I had been shopping. I actually got to choose what I wanted to wear. Instead of the past few months of the same 3 maternity shirts.

February Goal: 144! <---changed to something more realistic

2/1 - 152
2/2 - 150
2/3 - 160
2/4 - 155
2/5 - 154.6
2/6 - 153.2
2/7 - 153
2/8 - 152
2/9 - 148
2/11- 152
2/12 -151.2
2/13 - 146.4
2/14 - 150.2
2/15 - 146.6
2/16 - 149.2
2/18 - 153
2/19 - 151.2
2/20 - 152
2/21 - 149