Weekend Thread 6/14-6/15

[destiny's mom]

Hope everyone is having a great OP weekend!

I found some motivation to do well. I went and tried on bathing suits last night. Let me just tell you that I will be within my points range EVERYDAY!! We are taking DD to the beach for her birthday on the 21st of July so I need to get it together by then!

[Christen83]

WOOOOHOOOO!!!!! I lost 2.0 at weigh in this morning...which puts me at 152.6.....which means I met my 10% goal of 153 :bcb_bigsm I'm a little excited.

Nikki : I feel you on the bathing suits. I'm actually going to work on finding one I like today, I keep have issues w/ the tops. Every Saturday after W/I I go to the mall and try on clothes :bcb_blush I usually end up buying a little something that actually fits, but I try on a bunch. It keeps me on target seeing how things are starting to fit better, or seeing that I'm still not comfortable in this or that.

[destiny's mom]

WHOOOOOHOOOOO!! WAY TO GO!!! YOU ARE DOING AN AWESOME JOB!

[GaPeach]

Awesome loss Christen!!! WTG!!!

Nikki- I feel you on the bathing suits! Late July gives you plenty of time though and you are really very close to goal, you can get closer at least and feel great!!!

So, I am totally struggling right now. My weight is up this week about 2lbs right now. I've totally given in to temptation too much. I even ate a cookie yesterday....something I would not have considered a month ago! So I am giving myself today to eat reasonably but not too strictly since it is fathers day and we have dinner plans. But starting tomorrow, I am totally going to forget I hit goal and back to 21 pts each day until I leave for vacation mid July. I'd like to be at least 5lbs below goal by then so I have a total buffer zone. So going forward for the next 3 1/2 weeks.....eat well each day (21 pts and healthy 8's) and get my exercise in at least 4 times a week!

[destiny's mom]

Abbie: You promised me a long time ago that you would stop being too hard on yourself. One cookie isn't going to make you gain 50lbs!! Enjoy your one cookie and move on. You couldv'e eaten the whole pack but you didn't. I am sure during this lifetime you will eat your fair share of cookies. I agree that you shouldn't get too relaxed since you have made it to goal, but don't be so hard on yourself!!!

[Melissa73]

Good evening ladies,

First and foremost I have to say NIKKI, I got your comment on my myspace page and I am here for you girl. We need EACHOTHER this week and I"m totally motivated to have a loss and get past 205. I know i'm at 206 this week, but I haven't budged and have only gone UP this past month. NOT GOOD! AFter talking with my mom and posting that thread about her helpful tips, i've found a new motivation. I've eaten pretty much anything and everything i've wanted the past 2-3 weeks and I don't feel any better for it. I actually am a bit disappointed because I totally could have been in Onederland by now! Oh well, I can't beat myself up over it, all I can do it pick myself up and move forward and try to be in Onederland by July 4th. I can do it if I work hard for the next three weeks! If I can stay on track, plan and get my exercise in...SO CAN YOU!!! So we need to post here every day, as often as possible, plan our meals and post those too, and then check back in at the end of the day with an update. I also can NOT eat past 9:30pm. I WILL NOT PUT ONE MORSEL OF FOOD IN MY MOUTH PAST 9:30PM. I SAID IT AND I"M DOING IT!! :bcb_up

With that said, I today was my 2nd OP day in a row and I have my day tomorrow (all meals, and exercise - have 9 pts for a few snacks). I am on to day # 3 OP tomorrow!

I only have 2 1/2 days left of school. WOOHOO!!! Tuesday and Wednesday are going to be a bit of a struggle for me since I have a picnic to go to after work. My principal is throwing an end of the school year party and I have no control over what is going to be there. All I can do is hope that there is salad and fruit....and other than that...I will have very little of anything else. Wednesday I am going to see my friend Eddie in the broadway touring show of The WEdding Singer with two good friends of mine. We are going out to dinner before the show and out for a few drinks after the show. I still have about 12 waps for drinks and i just need to make smart choices at dinner! Thursday and Friday I have to get a good workout in and maybe a hike, since I'll be home by myself. Saturday, DS is going to Six Flags with his dad and DBF and I are going to go to the beach for the day, just the two of us, since he won't have his kids either. I can't wait!!

Well that's it for me. I am ready to have a great week and a great rest of the month. Hope you all had a great weekend. I hope you all post a little more often this week. It is sooo helpful when we are all posting our goals and menus and really motivating eachother! Let's not weaken our group over the summer, it's the time I really need eachothers strength!

XOXO

[destiny's mom]

Yes, Melissa.. You are soo right! We can do this! Look how far we have come! I have been a regular for the past two weeks on beachbody's forums and I have finally found a coach that has given me some great motivation. I tried on a bathing suit and it was all I needed to do. I have GOT to get to goal!! So, my coach made a rotation schedule for me for the next four weeks and I have finished day one today. It was HARD, but I know it is going to work!!

Today was my high day since it was Fathers Day and I know I used every last point that I allotted myself. I earned 6APs tonight as well. I am planning out my meals for tomorrow and I am in it to win it. I am heading to the beach the 21st of July for DD's birthday so I want to be in the 150s solidly(is that a word?) by then!!!!

ACCOUNTABILITY!!!!!! This is the key! Let's do this ladies!

[GaPeach]

Whew Nikki I know. I keep going back and forth between telling myself to get over it and move on but then I panic and think, it has been wayyyyy too easy this week to say, it's just one cookie, or okay so I'll use a few WPA's on this....when I know full good and well that I can't use those pts without gaining weight.....it doesn't work for me! So I just don't want to slip up too much. Right now it is somewhere around 2-2.5 lbs up. I know weight fluctuates a good bit during any week but I don't want to let the 2lbs become 5, then 10, ect. So deep breath time-lol.

Anyway, today turned out to be pretty good. I used 22 pts- one pt over my goal, but still okay and reasonable. It's when I go 3 or more pts over it tends to make a difference. Tomorrow is planned out and I am going to get a workout in Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of this week. No more slacking off in that department either!

So it's regroup time for me- no more beating myself up- but moving forward!

[Melissa73]

So here it is ladies. Christen, Abbie, Nikki and ME!! I'm not sure where everybody ran off too, but I do know that the four of us have eachother to held eachother accountable and to motivate eachother. So let's vow to come here every day and make a plan, and make sure that we end our evening coming back here and giving eachother an update and another plan for the next day.

Hopefully, if we get this thread hopping again, everybody else will fall back in and follow our lead. WE CAN DO THIS!! WE all have mini goals that we want to reach. LET"S DO IT!! :bcb_up My plan for tomorrow is posted in the daily food journal! Do we want to post our plans for meals and exercise there, or do we want to make another thread for the FAB FOUR? ha ha ha