Chilly Challengers... checking in....

Brrrrrr..  I think my flowers are freezing!!!!!

Ok, ladies and gentlemen...  you could say we are half-way through the month, half-way through our Flower Power challenge...    how is everyone doing????  

To keep myself accountable, I'm doing good this month!!!!   I'm four pounds away from my goal, and I've got a couple of weeks.  So, if I keep up my average of 2 pounds a week, I'll make my goal, or atleast be really close!!!

How are is everyone else?   If you can't remember your goal, PM me, I've got it on a spread sheet. 

HUGS

I've lost 7 pounds.  Its a far cry away from my goal of 20 pounds this month.  Things have been slow, I don't really know why, but I'm still going to the Gym and eating right, so I'll let the body do what it is going to do and be happy with it. 

 is exactly the right attitude!!!! 

HUGS

 I'm down 10 lbs for the month, still well within reach of my goal of 18 lbs. I'll have to start hitting the gym harder because if I can lose 19 lbs for the month, I'll no longer be obese, just overweight, that would be a great feeling.

I hope everyone else is doing well with their goals.

You have been doing amazing, and I'm sure you will continue to do amazing! 

HUGS

Hey Amy. I hope you don't mind if i highjack your thread for just a second.  Or minute.  I  took my scales to work about 7 weeks ago.  We had a 6 week weight loss program that we sometimes do just within our office (about 7-10 folks) and this time I volunteered my scale.  After all, my weight holds steady and I weigh once a week at home.  I figured that it would not be a problem, since I'm almost 3 yrs postop and not "tied to the scale" anymore...   OR SO I THOUGHT. 

Let's backtrack a bit...  at home, when I weigh, I have always done it the exact same way.  Get up out of bed at the same time each day, go to the restroom, get on the scale in my birthday suit.  EVERY time.  But at work during these 7 weeks total, I have to wait til I get to work, after I've drank my morning protein shake, and weigh with clothes on...  but i have tried to wear the exact same outfit each Thursday for weigh in...  

This past month or so, I have felt really bad about my journey.  I have not truly had an accurate reflection of where I am/have been these past 7 weeks because, my morning routine is broken. I KNOW IN MY HEAD that you weigh two or so pounds more with clothes on, plus after you've drank etc...  but it has been very hard pressing for me. I still need my scale.  I didn't want to admit it...  but as long as my scale sits in my bathroom where I can get up any day of the week and continue my weigh in ritual, I am fine...  once that scale is removed, I find myself very unnerved....  

So at that thought, right now I don't know how much I TRULY weigh but I am bringing my scales home this week and once again, monitor my weight closely like I did.  I'm not displeased with the number on the scale "with clothes on", just not terribly impressed either!  I want my old number back.  Now whether or not we ever really get over our love/hate relationship, or dependency on the scales...  I don't truly know...  but at this point I realize about myself....  I need my scales!

Not a highjack at all!!!  Something us "newbies" all need to hear!!   It is good to see that even after three years, the journey continues!

I'm sure things will get back on track for you once you get your scales home!

HUGS

Burrrr...is right...although, things turned around this afternoon and...it isn't rain!!! Yippee!

Are we half-way through our challenge already?....wow...this month is going fast.  I am going to revise my goal.....I thought things would be slowing down for me because, on May 4th when I signed up for the challenge, I had a couple day stall, so I said my goal was 10 pounds....that would have taken me from 245 to 235. 

Well, I am at my flower power goal of 235 (actually, this morning I was 233, BUT, that was the second step on the scale....don't ask....I am such a freak about exactly which tile in my bathroom the scale has to be on & which foot I step up with first--so OCD--even to the point where there is a spot in the faux paint design on the wall that I look at each time---okay--it looks like a man's....well, you get it....around here with three little kiddos we call it the "pee-pee"---the paint wasn't intended to look that way--although it would be histerical if I was brave enough to tell the painter I wanted little "pee-pees" worked into the faux paint.....anyway.....if you look closely that's what it looks like....so, I stare right at it and then, after a minute I look down for the number.....insane, but that's my method....of course I do it three times & make sure it's the same weight each time...today, the second one was 233.2...but the first & third were 235...so, that's what I am going with)........and so....

I am going to add six more pounds because my goal is to be in the 20s by the end of May!!!  So....if you can update your spreadsheet & put me in for a total of sixteen flowers I will keep working!!

xo, Micheala (P.S.....the white jacket they make me wear at the institution is fitting so much looser these days...and I can bounce off the padded walls and get so much more rebound than I did 50 pounds ago....lol.....)

I think we definately need a picture of your wall!!!!   LOL!!!!!

I've got you down for 10 more pounds!  AMAZING!

HUGS

My goal for this month was 20 pounds which would put me at 100 pounds post op and 145 pounds total.  I have not offically weighed myself in a couple days but the lst time I weighed i was at 10 pounds for the month so I can keep chugging along and hopefully I will be down the last 10 by the end of the month.