ROLL CALL!! 8/25/08

My weight today is 150, I've continued to maintain this whole challenge like I wanted to do. 

Halloween challenge

starting  150
Goal   140

Yep I'm ready to lose the rest........lol

The Scale says 157 this morning I rounded down to keep things simple. I'm only 3 more lbs away from goal so this week I'll be hitting the gym every chance I get.

As for the Halloween Challenge, the weight estimator is saying 143 Yikes!! That means a stretch goal of 14lbs starting today and 1.48lbs per week for 9.5 weeks. It's a long shot but thats my halloween goal

Halloween Challenge goal 143 

Current Weight = 192
Goal Weight= 190

Halloween Goal = 184

current wt: 141#

Don't think I'll be joining for Halloween. I think I'm going to stop losing. I'm almost at my goal now so I think I'll leave the challenges up to everyone else. It's been real fun, Lea. Glad you do this for everyone.

Current weight 180lbs 
Goal weight 177lbs. 

Don't think I am gonna make it.

Halloween goal - - 175lbs.   Seems like this should be a piece of cake but it just isn't.   I can't seem to loose to save my life.  My body seems to be very happy and content right where it is.  The surgeon told me that this would happen but I was sure I could prove him wrong.....lol. 

Sally

Sally,
 I just read your comment here and I feel like we are having the same problem.  I am stuck in the 160's for months now and want so badly to reach my own personal goal of 148.  But the scale is not moving!  I wanted to prove to the doctor and myself that I could do it too!  Why do you suppose some people can lose so much more than you or I can?  Am I not trying hard enough?  Or does my body just want to weigh this much?  What do you think?  How are you doing?  Are you trying anything new?  Our WLS dates are pretty close.....and we seem to be in the same boat.  How much more would you like to lose?  Maybe we could try something together!

I wonder the same thing about why it seems so much easier for some people to loose so much more.  The surgeon told me not to expect to loose much more, that this is where my body is probably going to say enough is enough but my gosh I wanted to get to my own personal goal of 155 at least.  I don't think that is ever going to happen.   I have gotten into counseling and am trying to learn congnitive behavior therapy but it is a long slow process to change the whole thought process I have used for the last 46 years of living.   I know that I do not exercise like I should and I have no one to blame but myself in that area.  One thing at a time though.  I sure do know it gets discouraging and I just fight the urge to eat all the time.    Maybe we could become e-mail buddies and encourage each other in the struggle.   Let me know.

Sally

Better late than never!  Been so busy at work.

Well, I"ve GAINED weight this week WT...???  So I"m 175.8 this week.    Not sure how cause I'm eating the same. 

I'm hoping I can lost 9.2 lbs by next Monday  to meet my goal j/k.

Oh well, I've come short of my first challenge...but there's always the next one.

HALLOWEEN GOAL:  165 (THE SAME AS MY FREAKING LABOR DAY GOAL).  hopefully I can adjust it in mid-sept to 160.

OK. I have done it.  sort of...

Goal: 192

Current Weight (2 mornings in a row) 192   !!!!!

Lost: 3 lbs....

Today evening weight: 192.5 ... so, by the next week... I will meet my goal ( I should) morning and evening!!!!. 

 I am happy... 

I rushed in and did not posted my Halloween goal:

I want to be realistic: The further I go the more difficult it may be.  Based on my doc I should be losing 1-1.5 lbs a week. 

So,
labor day goal: 192  (met)
Halloween goal: 180.  

Thanks!!