Cassa's Monday

Day 1 of the 50 pound campaign began bright and early.  I did 3 miles around Sherwood Park.  I probably was able to jog 1 mile of it off and on.  Then I went and did body flow at Crossroads.  I also ate well.  I had steel-cut oatmeal with truvia and almond butter for breakfast, almonds for a snack, protein shake post workout, salad for a late lunch, and eggs and sausage for dinner, and sugar free chocolate pudding for dessert.  I still haven't been able to grocery shop, but I was sick and tired of waiting.  I didn't weigh myself mostly because I forgot to do it at the gym because I don't have a scale at home.  I had a diet soda and a good amount of water, but probably not enough.  Despite the bad day I think I did well....The bad day consisted of being rear ended and my dog tearing apart my blinds.  Tomorrow is a new day!!

Mallory's Monday

So I gained this weekend. Not sure how much of that is salt so I am going to drink some water and weigh again tomorrow. I am hoping that it wasn't really an 8 pound gain. On the plan for today: track, drink water, Zumba

Cassa's Progress

I am going to begin the South Beach lifestyle on Monday when I have more money to purchase good food.  Which means I will take the weekend to prepare my kitchen and make a menu.  My sister left today so I feel like I can get back to my normal routines.  Today I went to the gym and did the treadmill, with lots of hills, for 40 minutes.  I wanted to do 60, but I couldn't do anymore.  I feel pretty accomplished with the 40 minutes.  I haven't been eating very good today, but it all goes on Monday!!!

Eat Less, Move More! Hilarious!

Cassa's Goals

I am so glad we are doing this again.  I really enjoy reading what everyone else is doing, because it gives me hope to keep going.  I am currently at 190 pounds and I have  goal of dropping 50 pounds by December 31.  My sister and I have an arrangement that if I lose 40 pounds she will stop drinking coffee, 50 pounds will be the coffee and she will read 1 chapter of spiritual reading a week, and any pound over 50 will be attendance to an additional religious activity.  This really gives me great motivation to make better choices.  I did the South Beach diet starting January 1 and I did really well on it.  I lost 4 pounds my first week!!!  I was so excited and kept going for several weeks then some emotional stuff came up and it overwhelmed me so I stopped.  That's going to be my hardest thing, not stopping when emotions get high.  I need to stay centered.

My other goals will be to blog each day, stop drinking sugared sodas, workout atleast 3 days a week, and train for a half marathon.  (I HATE RUNNING)  My kitchen isn't ready yet for South Beach so tomorrow my 2 year old is spending a couple of hours at his Grandma's, so I will be doing some preparation.  I will let you know what I am doing along the way.

Carrie's Goals!

It feels so good to be able to try to lose weight again! Being pregnant was wonderful and I enjoyed it thoroughly (as much as you can), but I'm ready to get this party started. Lucky me, I weigh less than before I got pregnant. Unlucky for me, I am still very overweight!
I had a breakthrough this last week. I keep trying to figure out where the need to eat comes from, why I am constantly running from being and feeling healthy. I don't know about any of you guys, but I have been chubby since I was 8 years old, and that is when my mom put me on my first diet. Since then I got made fun of for my weight and it resulted in failed diet, after failed diet and getting fatter and fatter. I have now figured out that I associate dieting with feelings of inadequacy's and being miserable, feeling like I was never going to be worth anything unless I was a size 0.
Now that I am an adult my thinking has changed from being thin to being healthy. That is my goal, I want to be healthy. I want my BMI to be where it is suppose to be and in order for that to happen I need to lose at least 100 pounds. Wow, that seems CRAZY! I figure baby steps is the only way this is going to happen. I am definitely not planning on losing all this weight by the end of the year, but I would like to have at least 50 of it gone.
I am now a stay at home mom and so there is no excuse to not be going to the gym and eating well. I have the time to put towards this goal and now is the time to accomplish it.
My start weight at the beginning this week was 270. I have decided to only post my weight on Mondays, but I will still be weighing everyday. My goals are to get to the gym 5 days a week and do 45 minutes of cardio and muscle specific weight training. I am excited to be on my journey to getting healthy! I hope everyone has a good week.

Lori's Goals

So I'll take this minute to post too. I technically have 36 lbs to lose to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight. I started back at the gym two days ago. I am not technically cleared for exercise, so I'm just doing the elliptical and taking it kinda easy. I'm hoping that I'll get some calories burned and some endurance back before my OB apt (March 1st) and then I can start back with my classes (although I know it's going to kick my butt!). Since I'm breastfeeding, everything I have read says not to cut calories too low or your milk supply will suffer. I tend to not lose weight, or at least much, until I stop bf-ing, so I'm sad about that but don't know what to do otherwise.

Anyway, my goal is to get back to pre-pregnancy weight, which was 152, which is losing 36 lbs. My goal is July 13th, since that's six months after Gage was born. I believe that's about 8 lbs a month, which seems a little high for me still breastfeeding, but nonetheless, it's my goal. I'm cutting out processed sugars, drinking lots of water, and keeping my fiber and protein up. I also plan on going to the gym a minimum of 3 times a week, hopefully 5.

Mallory's Plan and Goals

So my plan is to eat 1250 calories, track, blog, weigh daily (for now unless I get discouraged), cut out processed sugars and drink 3-4 bottles (which are 4- 8 oz glasses each). I gave up caffeine about 2 weeks ago so I am staying away from that and I think it has helped me not have so many sweets cravings.

I also am going to try to incorporate things I like into my eating plan. The last weight I lost I ate pretty much egg whites and chicken and let's face it, nobody really wants to eat that for the rest of their life. So although I plan on eating some of that I am going to try to eat other things too. At the suggestion of a facebook post I ate a granny smith apple with 2 tbls of peanut butter. When I went to track it I was saddened by the amount of sugar (18.4 g and almost half of my goal for a day) but it was all in the apple except 1 g in the peanut butter. I was surprised at how full I feel now.

I am going to Zumba 2 times per week and walking or doing an exercise video 2 times per week. I was reading on livestrong about eating back your calories from exercising, does anyone have any opinion on that? My opinion was why would I ruin all of the hard work I had just put in. But they were saying it's not really so much about exercising to burn calories as it is exercising to raise your metabolism and build muscle and then you will burn more calories everyday. They also compared exercising without eating more to writing a check on an account that has no money in it. It will hurt you in the long run and be impossible to build muscle because your body won't have enough fuel and will eat muscle instead of building it.

I guess we all just have to find what works for us because there are so many different opinions out there. Anyway. My goal is to be under 200 lbs. This means a 41.2 pound weight loss. I am not going to set a date I would like to have the weight lost by yet because I need to think about it. Anyway those are my thoughts for today! I hope everybody has a great day!!

Hello out there

Hi ladies,

I'm sorry I really fell off the band wagon.  I have been setting some new expectations of myself and wanted to see if you were still out there.  Which I see the last post was last September.  I have a goal to drop 50 pounds by December 31 and would love some cheerleaders in the background.  Is there anyone else that would like to continue this blog???

Cassa