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mollymoo24
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 Posted: 27 May 2009 02:43 am
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meteorites49 wrote: Up to 134.4

I'm doing well at getting in the exercise... I just keep eating too much!


Me too!  Hang in there though.  Exercise erases mistakes!  :grin: 

 







Jess185
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 Posted: 27 May 2009 11:10 am
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125.2lbs

Hiker
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 Posted: 27 May 2009 11:18 am
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mchen01 wrote: 159

I'm finally in the normal weight category.  :grin:

Hey Mchen, getting to the "normal"  category is a huge accomplishment. I don't know where you started but it doesn't matter, hitting that milestone should be celebrated...non food celebration of course :wink:.

BJD74
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 Posted: 27 May 2009 02:46 pm
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Hiker wrote: mchen01 wrote: 159

I'm finally in the normal weight category.  :grin:

Hey Mchen, getting to the "normal"  category is a huge accomplishment. I don't know where you started but it doesn't matter, hitting that milestone should be celebrated...non food celebration of course :wink:.


I agree with Hiker... I WOULD LOVE TO BE IN THE NORMAL CATEGORY! That is huge! Enjoy it! Relish in it! :) Just have a yummy sugar free treat! :) Or a spritzer with fruit juice to celebrate! :)

As for me, I finally have a change in my numbers. 165 today!!!! Amen!!! I am only 6 pds from being in the normal wts.......go go go go go go!!!!:thumbsup:

Nancy_in_GA
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 Posted: 28 May 2009 01:59 pm
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Thursday weight log in:  121.1 lbs

chinkiri
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 Posted: 28 May 2009 02:46 pm
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Hello again everybody! I dropped out last year, probably about this time, doing pretty well, but of course since then my weight ever so slowly but ever so steadily crept back up again to 74kg, 163 lbs. I have to take my eating habits (and drinking habits - those lovely glasses of red wine with dinner and fattening quantities of cheese, olives and other nibbles don't help) back in hand, so, if that's OK, I would like to join the challenge again. I'm happy to see many of the same names still here - I hope you've done better than I have!

I got rid of the first 4 lbs and am now at 159 but would like to get down to 150 by Independence Day. Not being American, I don't celebrate, but if I reached my goal, I would! I actually need to get down to 136 lbs - I have dodgy legs, much better with less weight! but slowly slowly catchie monkey, so I'll make do with 150 by 4th July to begin with!

OnceUpon-A-ThinGirl
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 Posted: 28 May 2009 06:50 pm
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167.5

 

mchen01
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 Posted: 28 May 2009 08:18 pm
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BJD74 wrote: Hiker wrote: mchen01 wrote: 159

I'm finally in the normal weight category.  :grin:

Hey Mchen, getting to the "normal"  category is a huge accomplishment. I don't know where you started but it doesn't matter, hitting that milestone should be celebrated...non food celebration of course :wink:.


I agree with Hiker... I WOULD LOVE TO BE IN THE NORMAL CATEGORY! That is huge! Enjoy it! Relish in it! :) Just have a yummy sugar free treat! :) Or a spritzer with fruit juice to celebrate! :)

As for me, I finally have a change in my numbers. 165 today!!!! Amen!!! I am only 6 pds from being in the normal wts.......go go go go go go!!!!:thumbsup:


 

Thanks Hiker and BJ!!  I was pretty excited myself as this comes at the one year anniversary of my lifestyle change.  I started at 205 lbs, joined this site in June at 195 lbs, and here I am today with a 46 lb loss so far.  It's been super slow progress for me, and I still have a lot of bad habits to break (hence the weekend challenge :smile:).  Thanks to you all and to this site for helping me get this far.

artistjohn
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 Posted: 28 May 2009 08:45 pm
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Chinkiri I will presume you are 65" tall until you tell me different.

Please post weight in RED

Thanks

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chinkiri
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 Posted: 28 May 2009 08:55 pm
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5'6" - not sure about how many inches that is, I'm a European metric! Will post weight in red in future, sorry! 159!

artistjohn
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 Posted: 28 May 2009 11:09 pm
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Youv'e got UK next to your name. So am I and  I fight the metric system like mad. Give me pints, pounds and inches anyday:grin:

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artistjohn
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 Posted: 28 May 2009 11:22 pm
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GREEN TEA AND CRIMSON  you both need to post this weekend or you will get the dreaded chop from the table:shock::shock:

John

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 Posted: 29 May 2009 07:14 am
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Hi Artist John

I'm trying to get the colour to change to red. I don't know if it's my computer but I'm highlighting the part I want in red increasing the size and when I send it it's still black and the same size.

Apologies it's just not happening....

Anyway I want to record a fantastic result I lost 5lb and now weigh

150lb

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Jess185
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 Posted: 29 May 2009 09:13 am
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124.4lbs

 

Seems the weight has started to come off again. :shock::tongue:

kekkiemonster
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 Posted: 29 May 2009 09:39 am
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Weigh in day...not so good this week. Honestly I am bouncing up and down like a yo-yo! Still, I am still less than when I started. Must try harder for next week! Congrats to everyone who has lost.

Weigh in: 246lbs

MichelleP
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 Posted: 29 May 2009 11:41 am
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Friday weigh in = 176

That's a 3 pound loss from last week. :grin:

cportwine
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 Posted: 29 May 2009 11:46 am
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Ok, I am still holding at 133lbs. That's a small miracle the way I have been eating. :pig: Going to try real hard to keep it together this weekend. Then maybe I can lose something next week instead of making up for a bad weekend. :dizzy: It's worth a shot.

Skinnieme
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 Posted: 29 May 2009 03:16 pm
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Hi,

I am holding steady, too. 

Current weight:  146






Skinnieme

 

 

chinkiri
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 Posted: 29 May 2009 03:34 pm
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artistjohn wrote: Youv'e got UK next to your name. So am I and  I fight the metric system like mad. Give me pints, pounds and inches anyday:grin:

John

Yes, but I grew up in Holland with metres and kilogrammes and for me a stone is just a heavy thing. However, I really took to pints ... :yum: I'm now trying to lose both stones and pints as they add up to what I still cannot pronounce: lbs, 159 of them.

greentea
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 Posted: 29 May 2009 05:48 pm
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John:   I don't understand, I post EVERY Friday!!!!!!

today, Friday, May 29th   12:45pm

176  

 my weight for today......same as the start of the challenge......I am on a plateau it seems but good that I am not going up.....

 

artistjohn
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 Posted: 29 May 2009 08:20 pm
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Chinkiri. Thank you all is now clear. Dutch eh:grin:

Greentea, Apologies. I look at data base and funny things happen to the dates coloumn. Got you last week at  176.:cool::cool:

BJD74
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 Posted: 29 May 2009 09:09 pm
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MichelleP wrote: Friday weigh in = 176

That's a 3 pound loss from last week. :grin:

EXCELLENT JOB MICHELLEP!:thumbsup::ribbon:

Nir
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 Posted: 30 May 2009 07:44 am
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Holding at 55.5kg (122.2lb). I think it is fair to say that the calorie intake estimates I've used for the last few months were wild underestimates and the more potatos featured in my eating, the less reliable they were and given this I had done pretty well! Yesterday was day 11 under the '1700' calorie scheme (with the caveat just described) though I have changed the way I account for potatos so I have a bit more confidence in this now. Oh, I just realise we're halfway through the challenge period! Here is my graph.


artistjohn
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 Posted: 30 May 2009 09:40 am
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Down 2lbs

197lbs 

Artist John

 

 

 

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 Posted: 31 May 2009 02:44 am
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150

artistjohn
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 Posted: 31 May 2009 09:45 am
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Well done Grace915 a 3lb drop:grin::grin:

Artist John

 

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 Posted: 31 May 2009 01:09 pm
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BJD74 wrote: MichelleP wrote: Friday weigh in = 176

That's a 3 pound loss from last week. :grin:

EXCELLENT JOB MICHELLEP!:thumbsup::ribbon:

Why thank you very much!  I believe it's due to the reduction in carbs that I was doing the past week.  The 4 weeks prior to that I was losing only a tiny bit and that loss was mainly seen with the tape measurer.  During those 4 weeks my calories were low and I was exercising but I was eating a lot of carbs.  So I dropped those down and voila I'm getting more of a loss. So cutting down my carbs (not drastically though) seems to be working for me. 

musicfanatic2071
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 Posted: 31 May 2009 03:40 pm
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Good news again this week! I'm down 2.5 pounds. Finally my dieting and exercise is resulting in consistent weight loss.

CW: 186 lbs.

artistjohn
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 Posted: 31 May 2009 05:55 pm
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Well done musicfanatic with 2.5 loss.

We are on a roll now.

John.

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 Posted: 1 June 2009 08:07 am
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I must fess up. Gained. 63,4kg (139.48pounds)

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 Posted: 1 June 2009 06:00 pm
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158.2 :smile:

mollymoo24
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 Posted: 2 June 2009 04:07 am
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125.0.   

Put that pound back on.  Not surprising, given everything that went into my mouth over the course of the past week.  However, I had a good day today and hope to be back down to 124 by the next weigh-in.

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 Posted: 2 June 2009 07:04 am
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Not bad so far!  I'm down (almost) a pound.  This week I'm at:
182.8

My eating habits haven't been very good this week but the warm weather we've been having has kept me out and active so I guess it evened out in the end.  Next weeks weather forecast isn't very good so I'd better be more careful with my diet.

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 Posted: 2 June 2009 11:34 am
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Current weight 127.1, down 1.1 from last week. I have really kicked the exercise up a notch and I think it is showing on the scale. Now if I can just keep at it. I am actaully finding some classes I really like and that obviously helps.

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 Posted: 2 June 2009 03:16 pm
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Sorry didn't post last week but the WLC didn't meet last week. 

As of yesterday afternoon my weight is 322.6

 

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no idea why it went twice. sorry
 

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 Posted: 2 June 2009 03:20 pm
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129

Yayyyyyy. Put me in the @%$& pink.

 

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133.2

artistjohn
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Ok last person I upset was Greentea, still humbly begging her forgiveness having wrongly accusing her of not posting:shock:

Lets try again; Missing persons Stuchsara and Nicole. According to my records you are due to be cut and are overdue a post or two!!

Please put me right and I will amend my records and beg more forgiveness:grin::grin:

Artist John

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 Posted: 4 June 2009 06:24 am
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Yes! 70 kg, 154.3!

 

 

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 Posted: 4 June 2009 11:26 am
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chinkiri wrote: Yes! 70 kg, 154.3!

 

 

Hey Chinkiri, you are doing great, moving that sexy high heel right through those tulips.

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 Posted: 4 June 2009 12:58 pm
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Hiker wrote: chinkiri wrote: Yes! 70 kg, 154.3!

 

 

Hey Chinkiri, you are doing great, moving that sexy high heel right through those tulips.
Thankyou Hiker! Yes, heel gets sexier every day as the kilos - sorry, lbs! - drop off! Nice thing about lbs is that they are a lot quicker to lose than kgs!

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 Posted: 4 June 2009 08:16 pm
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Weighing in Thursday unstead of Friday. May not get to check in tomorrow. 

Weigh in = 173  :wink: 

That's another 3 from last week- moving some more of this fat OUT! Yes! I see the group as a whole is moving the fat out too.  That's awesome you guys.

Busy, busy busy!!!!

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 Posted: 4 June 2009 08:22 pm
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MichelleP wrote: Weighing in Thursday unstead of Friday. May not get to check in tomorrow. 

Weigh in = 173  :wink: 

That's another 3 from last week- moving some more of this fat OUT! Yes! I see the group as a whole is moving the fat out too.  That's awesome you guys.

Busy, busy busy!!!!


GO GIRL! that is AWESOME!!!!!:ribbon::caution: :thumbsup:I wish I could do the same...somehow i am still sitting in this 166-165 range, and its making me Completely Insane!:nono::dizzy::confused:

You said you are cutting carbs...good girl...i think my mistake has been that i am eating a little more because i am exercising so much away...but i gotta stop because its keeping me in maintenance and not loss. I just need to eat 1200 a day and not deduct any exercise away and maybe then i will start to lose again!!!! Ugh! Its so hard to do this dieting thing! Even to make a life change its so hard! I just gotta keep pluggin! Me and Once upon a thin girl will get thru these 170-160's!!!!! :down_arrow::caution:

 

Keep up the hard work MichelleP, i think it is fantastic and inspiring!

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sqzee wrote: I must fess up. Gained. 63,4kg (139.48pounds)

its ok sweetie.....we are all there with you:grin::smile::wink::yum::cool::dog::horse: (all of us six weekers.....) each day is hard to do sometimes! Good for you for being honest with us and with yourself...that is half the battle I feel. :)

Have a good time this weekend with your friends and parties, dont worry about the dieting and you will probably do just fine. I did last week and stayed the same...surprise surprise! :) If I can you can too!!! :)

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 Posted: 4 June 2009 09:53 pm
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NEXT UPDATE OF TABLE WILL BE SAT 6.6.09.

Having away day:wink:

John

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 Posted: 4 June 2009 11:07 pm
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Thursday update:   No Change

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sorry i haven't been posting. been a real stressful week, with school ending and exams coming up. with this stress i managed to pack on an AMAZING 4 POUNDS!!!! :shock: which leaves me at 146!!! AHHH!!! idk when this happened...:nono:

but i WILL lose these last 11 pounds before bikini season!

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 Posted: 5 June 2009 12:16 pm
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Alright, I have to report a gain this week. Thank goodness it's only a pound over.... 134lbs for me... Put me in the pink....:tongue:

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 Posted: 5 June 2009 02:20 pm
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BJD74 wrote:

GO GIRL! that is AWESOME!!!!!:ribbon::caution: :thumbsup:I wish I could do the same...somehow i am still sitting in this 166-165 range, and its making me Completely Insane!:nono::dizzy::confused:

You said you are cutting carbs...good girl...i think my mistake has been that i am eating a little more because i am exercising so much away...but i gotta stop because its keeping me in maintenance and not loss. I just need to eat 1200 a day and not deduct any exercise away and maybe then i will start to lose again!!!! Ugh! Its so hard to do this dieting thing! Even to make a life change its so hard! I just gotta keep pluggin! Me and Once upon a thin girl will get thru these 170-160's!!!!! :down_arrow::caution:

 

Keep up the hard work MichelleP, i think it is fantastic and inspiring!

 

Thanks again for the words of encouragement.  I'm still blaming the losses on my lower carb way of eating especially since I've exercised less and ate more fat this past week and still managed to drop 3 pounds.  I can find no other explanation.  So I continue on this journey.....

I too intend on getting through the 170's and on to the 160's and beyond.  Keep working hard and you will succeed!





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