Anyone trying to lose 10lbs want to motivate each other?

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Anonymous wrote:Ok here is who we have so far - if you're new please add to this list so we keep one compiled list. We can use it for a weekly update to have to have accountability against what we originally said. Feel free up update / change your at any time, just please use this whole list so there is always a compiled up to date version.

Kate - 35y/o, 5'3, 130lbs - goal is 120.
Exercise: Running 2x/wk and 30 min interval workout 5x/wk. Died: One week of no booze, chocolate, or added cheese

Jenna - 5'6" / 165 lbs CW. Goal weight is 135 lbs.
Diet plan: Need to eat less carbs and cut out sweets and junk food. Remove 90% of processed food.
Exercise: Do something! Plan is to walk 30 minutes a day to start.

Lucy - 39F/5’4”/CW: 135ish
Diet: eat around 1200 calories/day with goal of 100-140 grams protein
Training: 4-6 days/week weight training. Heavy weights, low reps to maintain strength. Incorporate steady-state cardio depending on time. (Thinking around 40-60 minutes stairclimber or incline walk 3x/week).

Rachel - Stats: 5’7”, 195 lbs. First goal, 185
Exercise: 5 classes / wk
Food wise I’m just trying to cut out mindless snacking and eat fewer simple carbs and sugar.

Cary - 5’ 124
plan: exercise 3X week, track food, drink 60 oz water, eat 1200 calories
goal 115 and keep it off

Jan - 5'2, lose 7-10lbs
Plan: decrease carbs, stop snacking after dinner (chips), walk once a day, increase water intake.

Summer - 42F/ 5’3/CW 128lbs/Goal 120lbs
Track food for the month of January to see where I can cut down. Up my veggies and water intake.
Exercise Goal: Run 3X/ week, bike to work 2-3X/ week- take long weekend rides during warm weather months, lift heavy weights 2X/ week, take a full-body workout class 1X/ week

Louise , 54, 5'4", 136 and would like to loose 10 lbs.
Plan to follow Weight Watchers and add classes to my workout. Also need to eliminate alcohol since the holidays!


Lisa: 49; 5'4", 140. Want to get down to 130
Exercise - spin a few times a week and balance that with weight classes/ pilates. Also, walk 30 mins per day (with dog outside weather permitting).
Diet - cutting out snacking altogether and drinking more water is helpful.


Jennifer - 37F/ 5’4/CW 150lbs/Goal 140lbs
Diet Plan: cut out junk food and sweets, I call it my "no wrapper challenge"
Exercise Goal: Gym (Cardio and Weights) 3 - 4X/ week, min 10K steps per day

Hi I'm Courtney.
5'4" 143 lbs
Goal weight 133 lbs and stay there
Diet plan: make healthier choices, cut down on junk
Exercise plan: cardio or yoga most days

Charlotte here!
5'4, 135lbs, Goal weight is 115-120lbs
I do orangetheory 4x a week and will try to cut down on sodas & sweets.

Rose
5'4 160lbs Goal: 135
Diet plan: Mediterranean Diet, reduce sweets
Exercise: At home with weights, videos, bike & row machine 3+ days/wk

Isabel.
5'0' 143 pounds.
Goal: 115-120
Diet Plan: tracking calories/macros. Adding protein. Cut out late night snacking. No alcohol in January.
Exercise: weights at home, increasing steps, add in yoga/stretching

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Happy Friday! Looking forward to updates this weekend on how they week went. Any plans on how to stay on track for the weekend?

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Jennifer here - The New Year has been way too stressful with work and the kids out of school for snow. It wasn't part of my plan, but after eating too much junk Monday and Tuesday, I did a day of 16/8 Fasting and made my 10K steps and am back to my starting weight

Heading to the gym this afternoon feeling refreshed and looking forward to getting back on track.

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Anonymous wrote:Happy Friday! Looking forward to updates this weekend on how they week went. Any plans on how to stay on track for the weekend?

I definitely don't plan to stick 100% to my diet on the weekend. I plan to eat less during the day to save my calories for dinner. Generally stick to things like omelettes or poached eggs with vegetables for breakfast/brunch, maybe protein shake for lunch, then go out or takeout for dinner. For dinner, my plan is to make sensible choices - the protein/vegetable option, definitely not fast food or pizza/burgers.

Also I plan to do more cardio to balance things out.

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Lucy here. 134.5 on the scale this morning. Did three cardio sessions and three quick lifting days from Wed-Saturday. Didn't stick to plan 100%, but not too off track.

Goal is to get to 133 by next Sunday.

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This is Summer. Congrats Lucy! I lost .3 lbs but I haven’t been doing cardio as planned since it’s been so darn cold outside. This week will be better. A week of tracking my food has been such an eye opener, I’m already making adjustments.

BTW, what type of scale does everyone have if they’re happy with it? I’m in the market for a new one. Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:Ok here is who we have so far - if you're new please add to this list so we keep one compiled list. We can use it for a weekly update to have to have accountability against what we originally said. Feel free up update / change your at any time, just please use this whole list so there is always a compiled up to date version.

Kate - 35y/o, 5'3, 130lbs - goal is 120.
Exercise: Running 2x/wk and 30 min interval workout 5x/wk. Died: One week of no booze, chocolate, or added cheese

Jenna - 5'6" / 165 lbs CW. Goal weight is 135 lbs.
Diet plan: Need to eat less carbs and cut out sweets and junk food. Remove 90% of processed food.
Exercise: Do something! Plan is to walk 30 minutes a day to start.

Lucy - 39F/5’4”/CW: 135ish
Diet: eat around 1200 calories/day with goal of 100-140 grams protein
Training: 4-6 days/week weight training. Heavy weights, low reps to maintain strength. Incorporate steady-state cardio depending on time. (Thinking around 40-60 minutes stairclimber or incline walk 3x/week).

Rachel - Stats: 5’7”, 195 lbs. First goal, 185
Exercise: 5 classes / wk
Food wise I’m just trying to cut out mindless snacking and eat fewer simple carbs and sugar.

Cary - 5’ 124
plan: exercise 3X week, track food, drink 60 oz water, eat 1200 calories
goal 115 and keep it off

Jan - 5'2, lose 7-10lbs
Plan: decrease carbs, stop snacking after dinner (chips), walk once a day, increase water intake.

Summer - 42F/ 5’3/CW 128lbs/Goal 120lbs
Track food for the month of January to see where I can cut down. Up my veggies and water intake.
Exercise Goal: Run 3X/ week, bike to work 2-3X/ week- take long weekend rides during warm weather months, lift heavy weights 2X/ week, take a full-body workout class 1X/ week

Louise , 54, 5'4", 136 and would like to loose 10 lbs.
Plan to follow Weight Watchers and add classes to my workout. Also need to eliminate alcohol since the holidays!


Lisa: 49; 5'4", 140. Want to get down to 130
Exercise - spin a few times a week and balance that with weight classes/ pilates. Also, walk 30 mins per day (with dog outside weather permitting).
Diet - cutting out snacking altogether and drinking more water is helpful.

Brienne (of Tarth) Because I resemble her, tall and big-57, 5'10" 173lbs would like to lose 15, have already lost 20, but have plateau'd and then began to gain over holidays.
Excercise-yoga twice a week and weight lift twice a week for 1 hour.
Diet-Went way up on carbs between New Year and Xmas--shifting back to fish and veggies and lots of water and almost no sweets--trying to cut back on red meat

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Brienne here--Going to go to Yoga near Tenley today. Have been going since June. This thread is great for instilling intention for the day. But for me, it almost has to be an HOURLY posting or whenever I start to cave to weakness, which lately is often. So forgive me if I post too often.

I will have an all veggie an salmon day, in spite of my plan to cook meat-based spaghetti for my 3 teens and DH. I have 2 boys who eat like horses so it is really so hard to resist whatever delicious thing I cook for them.

Oh god, I may be back crying on this thread before lunch-time.

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Brienne here. Just wanna say: too much cardio will make you crave eating like crazy in the beginning of weight loss--I lost 20 since April but never did anything but moderate yoga and all veggies for 5 weeks (okay I binged on like 50 crackers twice in the first month, it was pretty funny in retrospect) But then I settled into fish and veggies SO MUCH SALMON AND COD.

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Sunday Eating:

Breakfast: small steak, eggs and two marble sized pieces of hash browns

Lunch: 3 cups of peppermint tea, lemon and 1/4 teaspoon honey

Dinner: small (ish) bowl of curried lentils and eggplant. Two small 1" german cookies.

Didn't feel too terrible about this.But need to leave out the steak and go with fish in the AM, for sure.

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While losing my 20lbs in 8 months, I maybe looked at the scale 4 times total. Minor fluctuations just depress me, so I just go by how my clothes feel over the week and how my exercise felt energy-wise that day.

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What's THE PLAN for today everyone?

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Anonymous wrote:Fellow evening snackers, instead of grabbing that bag of chips we love, make a cup of hot tea with lemon.

This so much this. And at 57 I have that menopausal insomnia that plagues some of us--also internet addiction and that is when I want to go to fridge to snack. But NOT TODAY, REFRIGERBOMB. NOT TODAY. (sorry for all caps)

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ADD YOUR WEEK UPDATES TO THIS THREAD.

Kate - starting 130, now 131.4 -wtf?!? Trying to not get discouraged about it bc I do feel I’ve done better this week and there is no way I truly gained a lbs of fat
EXERCISES RECAP - did 4 of my 5 interval workouts and one of 2 runs. Thrilled with this - trying to find ways to fit them in and get started again was a huge step. General movement was way down though due to cold
DIET RECAP - had some cheese, wine, and chocolate but not as much as usual.
PLAN FOR WEEK - not sure yet on diet, same exercise goal

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Lily here. Had a terrible weekend and feeling discouraged. Are way too much. Hoping to get back on track today with a healthy dinner and good workout.