Canadian "AUGUST" Challenge

[jude048 0]

Congrats Mandi!!!!!!

That is just an awsome stat!!! You may not be able to eat much right now but the reward is awsome!!!

jude

PS: The ticker is still a lie!

[CLOE 0]

:scalesno: Yaaaaaahhhhhhhh, WTG!! :)

 

Mandi, that is SUCH great news!! You have been patient, and you've been a good patient, and now its paying off!! Good Going!! Get that ticker up and running, we wanna see it NOW!!

[kimmason 0]

Waaaaaay to go Mandi!!!Ye haw!!!!! I am down though and not happy. I have stuck with fluids, ( 'cept one day, but not much) and I musr be consuming maybe 800 or less calories a day and I have GAINED>.........How does that work? I was 297 , now 300, this is sooo frustrating...... I have gained and I am drinking just fluids, I have soup....tomato, yogurt or fat free pudding and . I don't frigging get it. I mean if I am gaining so early in the race....then what will happen later when I am allowed to eat????

[argon 3]

Thank you guys, it's nice to see such a huge jump in the numbers.. and like I said, that's about a months loss in one week for me, so it's pretty crazy.

Believe it that I WAS on the scale everyday, just to confirm that I wasn't insane and the scale was going down. I've almost missed the 230's completely, and that's the numbers I was looking forward to, cause that about where I met Dan, and the last weight I actually remember being. The 220's and less are whole new territory for me!

Kim = I'm gonna yell at you. Don't worry about losing weight right now, seriously. *They* say if you lose anything at all before your first fill, you should take it as a bonus, cause that's not what you're aiming at doing right now for the first 6-sh weeks. I didn't lose very much at all before my first fill... like maybe 10 lbs or something, and that was mostly in the first couple weeks. 2 weeks before AND 2 weeks after my 1st fill, I stayed exactly the same! Then it started, and I lost pretty consistantly, but slowly. 0.6 here, maybe 1.4 there... sometimes I'd gain 2 lbs.

It's gonna happen, just give it some time, and be as patient as you can!

Now I'll hug you for yelling at you. :hug: It's tough love.

[kimmason 0]

Wow, I've never been hit by a fish before...thats a new one for tough love for sure! I guess i am frustrated because I am eating /drinking rather approx 8oo or so calories a day, so I don't understand why nothing much. And with a fill and eating something, I can't see how I will be eating so little/less than what I am drinking now that is...although heh heh, I haven't had a BM for days, and maybe I am just full of S**T!

BUt most importantly WEIGH to go Mandi!!!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

[argon 3]

HAHA, I think you are!!

Also... I know people get mad when they're told this... but why not trying eating around 1200-1300 calories a day, for a week, and see what happens? I really think 800 is too little, maybe you're starving, and holding on to everything you take in?

[Yoda 0]

*nods* I fully concur with all Argon has said, Kim!

[kimmason 0]

well yes and if Yoda says so, then I must be doing something wrong...lol...( I watched all the Star wars too) hey argon that new ticker is beautiful.

[CLOE 0]

Thats one hell of a ticker Mandi! It's beautiful in every way. Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!

[loriely 0]

congrats.mandi on your weight loss that is awesome. make sure you drink the nutritional shakes.< /p>

[Yoda 0]

ya...nutritional shakes does NOT mean Ben & Jerry's cookie dough chocolate chip ice cream made into a shake...

mmmmmmmmmmmmm cookie dough.........................

:hungry: :hungry: :hungry: :hungry: :hungry: :hungry:

[CLOE 0]

Okay Guys........final week of challenge!!

I think everyone has had a pretty good August, No?

I for one will definately reach me exercise goal, but unless I get something chopped off I doubt I'll reach my weight-loss goal, however I still feel good at what I did do......4 more days!!!!!

[argon 3]

Well... I've not been successful with the exercise part of what I wanted to do. I won't make excuses.. I just hate it. I didn't want to. That's why!

*jumps behind a tree waiting for the sh!t to fly* LOL

But I'll be able to say I lost as much as I wanted to.... and a tad more.

Next month, I'm sticking with purely a weight challenge for myself.

Cloe, you've still got a week, I'll cross my fingers for you on those last 5 pounds!

[Yoda 0]

Hmmmm well I did have "chips" (ie. pringles) 3 times in August...*sigh* (only a wee bit though). And I have 2-3 more lbs to lose to meet my Aug weight goal of an 8 lb loss. I don't weigh again until Sat (2 Sep) so I will give myself until then. maybe with my new fill I just might be able to make it.

Yeah, I can't "forbid" myself any foods for any future challenges....I hate being "deprived" of anything even if I'm the one saying I want to be deprived...it makes it so much worse for me. Who knows, I may not have had any chips at all if I hadn't have made it a big deal...ya know? So, future challenges will not involve deprivation for me!! LOL. Good habits yes.....absolutely.

all in all...not bad....course I'll be happier if I meet my weight goal next Sat!

Good luck all.....keep at it; you got a whole week left!

[Irishmist 0]

I have not been succussful with my excerise, not because I was lazy, I think I overdid it,tried to increase my time before I was ready for it, pulled a muscle in my back, and have been in agony for two weeks now.

Next challenge I hope to do better, you did great Cloe.:clap2: :clap2:

Maria:)