It is the last Weigh-In for March. Wow! The year is cruising by! So March yourself onto that scale and let us know how you’re doing! As you step up, just remember that the number you see is only a mile marker…a little signpost to let you know where you are. It is not your destination or your valuation! And no matter what news you get from your scale this morning, you might find this quote helpful…I know I do!
Success is not final,
Failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.
~ Winston Churchill
Report!! And don’t forget to let us know if you achieved the five-a-day challenge!
210/175/160
Down three pounds! Oh yeah! (Doing a happy dance)
Must be all those fruits and veggies I ate as I completed this week’s challenge.
Guess what I did? I put on my old size 14 jeans! Granted, I couldn’t sit down in them, but that will come.
Comment by Jana — March 26, 2007 @ 6:37 am |Edit This
I have no change for the week. And, I did eat all my fruits and veggies. Let’s have a cheer for spring produce!!
Comment by lady laura — March 26, 2007 @ 6:39 am |Edit This
200/1732./160
Down 0.4lb. Small change, but in the right direction.
I ate my fruit and veggies too.
Incidentally, lookng at my BMI and height and weight charts, I’m now teetering on the edge of the ‘healthy weight’ band, which is exiting. When I started, I was at the very top edge of the ‘overweight’ band.
Comment by Bekki — March 26, 2007 @ 6:44 am |Edit This
D’oh! I mean ‘exciting’ not ‘exiting’.
Comment by Bekki — March 26, 2007 @ 6:44 am |Edit This
330/304/304
No change this week. GRRRR!!! I did complete my challenge.
Comment by Kellie — March 26, 2007 @ 6:45 am |Edit This
147/135/130 down 1 pound. 5 more go. That feels weird.
Comment by Anita — March 26, 2007 @ 6:45 am |Edit This
Oh dear, typos galore. I weigh 173.2lb. 1732 would be very worrying.
Comment by Bekki — March 26, 2007 @ 6:45 am |Edit This
143/135/120ish
Slow and steady wins the race….
Down 1.5 pounds this week. Not much for still being in phase 1 but I am happy with it. I am especially happy that last summer’s “snug” shorts are so loose that they won’t fit much longer!
Yes, I met the challenge….sooooo easy! Never realized how easy it was to eat 5 servings a day. And mine were ALL veggies!
Comment by Brandi — March 26, 2007 @ 6:46 am |Edit This
144.4/139.2/124
Up one
maybe because I didn’t complete the challenge, didn’t exercise (except the 8k yesterday) and fell back into some old eating habits.
This week is a new week, thank goodness!
Comment by anne — March 26, 2007 @ 7:06 am |Edit This
126/121/110
Still no change from last week.
Completed last week’s challenge - love those fruits and veggies
Comment by Sarah — March 26, 2007 @ 8:00 am |Edit This
198/185/140
Yea, down 3 pounds! I think I ate at least 5 servings of veggies everyday by noon - challenge completed!
Comment by Missy — March 26, 2007 @ 8:08 am |Edit This
239.8/228.6/200
Down 2.4lbs
Yipee! I’m so excited…I’m in the 220’s!!! I just pray that I have the strength to keep this up and keep working hard.
I was so worried that I’d gain or stay the same. My husband’s family was in town last week, 11 of them! I stayed on track all week, except one night…I met them for dinner at The Cheesecake Factory and could not say no to the chocolate cake. Oh, I paid the next day…my stomach was not happy!
I completed the challenge as well. I got 5 servings of fruits/veggies in 6 out of 7 days. I never realized how easy that would be.
Comment by Cristina — March 26, 2007 @ 8:11 am |Edit This
187.2/183.4/168
Down 3.8!!! I finally lost some. I did OK on the challenge. Looking back at my records I didn’t get all of them every day.
I can’t wait to get in to my size 14 pants!!
Comment by Kristi Whitaker — March 26, 2007 @ 8:13 am |Edit This
221/195/160 (for now)
I’m up two this week. bummer. I did great on exercise, but with all the sick kiddos, the eating was tough. I did get all the fruits and veggies in though. Thanks for the great challenge!!
Comment by Karen — March 26, 2007 @ 8:20 am |Edit This
210/170.8/135 - I am down 1.2 this week and I easily got in my 5 servings of fruits and veggies. I think it would be hard for me not to get them (seeing as how I grew up with parents who were produce farmers…)
In other news - I am a bit sad to report that there is no baby in my future. =O
I also celebrated my 29th birthday on Saturday! This is my last year in the 20’s — so I’d better make it a good year!
Comment by Mandi — March 26, 2007 @ 8:22 am |Edit This
275/275/250
Yep, UP 4 and back to the starting point. :O(
Bummer.
But the man repairing my BRAND NEW ellitical trainer is coming tonight. ‘Bout time - I’ve had it for more than 2 months and haven’t gotten to use it yet….grrrr
Comment by Christy L. — March 26, 2007 @ 8:52 am |Edit This
198/182/140
Hi everyone,
My name is Caroline and I have been a lurker for quite some time. Blest mentioned weighing in on Mondays, so I’m hoping to join you. My habit is to weigh myself everyday - I know that’s a no-no, but I just feel better seeing it everyday. I’ve been on the South Beach Diet for about six weeks, and it feels like it’s been going slow. But for reasons unknown, this week I lost 4 pounds, so of course I’m thrilled about that. I certainly don’t expect to lost that much every week, but wouldn’t it be nice?
So I’ll be seeing you all!
Comment by Caroline — March 26, 2007 @ 9:50 am |Edit This
This week was a bad week. Life got really busy and I didn’t manage to stick to my diet. In fact, I pretty much threw it out the window and waved goodbye.
I’m up 4.6 this week to 265.6
Hopefully lesson learned - I wasn’t eating those things for a reason.
Comment by Debs — March 26, 2007 @ 10:49 am |Edit This
However, I did complete the challenge this week.
Comment by Debs — March 26, 2007 @ 11:21 am |Edit This
Sorry, comment overload, but just to clarify. In my first comment I meant that when on the diet I wasn’t eating particular things for a reason, and when I gave up on the diet and ate them (for example white bread) the consequenses were loud and clear.
Comment by Debs — March 26, 2007 @ 11:28 am |Edit This
I don’t understand how it is that the scale goes up so quickly when you eat something you’re not supposed to (heck, sometimes even if you just smell it or pass by it), yet it goes down soooooo slow when you try to be good. SO NOT FAIR!
Comment by Cristina — March 26, 2007 @ 11:47 am |Edit This
212.8/147.4/135
No change. I can live with that! I’m finally back to exercising this week, so look out scale!!!
Comment by blestwithsons — March 26, 2007 @ 12:02 pm |Edit This
215/194/160 Down 1.5 I didn’t really eat good, but I am taking my herbal thyroid supplement on a regular basis now, and I think it’s helping.
I started back on my diet today, and I feel like I’m starving. Now that I’m working and don’t have access to food during the day I think it may be easier to stick to it. I really need to lose weight FAST! I met a really nice/handsome guy at church and he weighs 180 pounds! YIKES! I can’t weigh more than a guy I like! Talk about incentive…
Comment by Kimberly — March 26, 2007 @ 12:20 pm |Edit This
220/185.8/175
Down 1.4 which is slow but ok as its still down.
Completed the fruit and veg challenge easily. I love fruit and veg.
Still not fitting in much exercise but I did swim, and do a 30 minute walk between my 2 jobs because the car was in the garage and I saw the bus disappearing so it wasn’t worth waiting for the next one. I think I took that as God knowing I needed the exercise.
And I finally did some housework this weekend which is also good exercise. Life has been so busy that the general house-cleaning hadn’t been done for weeks.
Please note we aren’t in much as all 3 of us at home work so it doesn’t get messed up like when you have kids around. However there does come a point when the dirt gets obvious and it had more than passed it so the place feels much better now.
Debs has been really busy this week too and she is very tired. We are looking forward to our 2 weeks off school which starts on Friday. Our spring forward time change was this last weekend and I find it very hard to cope with. Debs only realised when we went to bed on Saturday night and she nearly cried. I hope I am being encouraging tp her but I really appreciate all you ladies out there. Thanks for all your love, prayers and encouragement.
Comment by Elly — March 26, 2007 @ 1:17 pm |Edit This
216/190/145
Down 1. Sooooooo sloooow! And I met the challenge. Wasn’t a bit hard!!
Comment by Bethany — March 26, 2007 @ 2:34 pm |Edit This
Ooooh! I should hopefully be in the 180’s next week! Yea!!
Comment by Bethany — March 26, 2007 @ 2:35 pm |Edit This
215/209.5/150
Down .5. Slow and steady may win the race, but it won’t win QOM!
I’m still frustrated by this slow loss, but maybe once my husband is deployed I’ll have more time to work out. I’ll have nothing else to do in the evenings!
Comment by Christy — March 26, 2007 @ 3:20 pm |Edit This
Good job to all of you hanging in there! Everyone is bemoaning 1 pound losses. Hey, 1 pound is 1 pound and it counts. Just ’cause Bird lost 9 pounds the first week…
Don’t be discouraged. You guys are doing great by just sticking with it!
Okay, that’s all I have to say…
Comment by Anita — March 26, 2007 @ 4:24 pm |Edit This
Is it true that losing one pound of fat is the same (in size) as losing a pound of butter? If so, that is encouraging!
Comment by Brandi — March 26, 2007 @ 4:39 pm |Edit This
You know, I think it’s really important to look at averages. Take Bethany, for example. Yup. She’s “only down 1″ this week…But last week she was down more than THREE! That averages to a nice weight loss of 2 lbs a week. Which is a GOOD loss. And Elly, you’ve been steadily paring off more than a pound a week for the past three weeks! You’re reported a loss for four straight weeks! That’s something to be happy about!
And did you know that you’ve lost 45% of your goal?! Woo Hoo!
Oh and Debs, I read something recently someone was making the point that when we binge, it’s typically on higher sodium foods. So you probably didn’t really gain 4 pounds - there’s probably some water there too. Take Courage! It’s a new day, Sweetie!
And Anne, I think only gaining one pound after such a tough week is REALLY AWESOME! I’m proud of you!
C’mon ladies!! One Weigh Or Another! If today isn’t your weigh, next week will be!!! We can do it!!
Comment by blestwithsons — March 26, 2007 @ 5:04 pm |Edit This
Blest, thank you for that encouraging comment!!
Comment by Bethany — March 26, 2007 @ 7:08 pm |Edit This
253.6. I think that’s up one. Not happy about it, but not surprised.
I did eat all my fruits and veggies. That one is actually easy for me. I have no problem getting enough of the healthy stuff - it’s the other stuff that is hard.
And I didn’t get to exercise at all for the past week - between my sickness, then ds13, then ds3, then dh… ah, excuses, excuses.
would someone please make the tree pollen go away at least?
Comment by Tracy — March 26, 2007 @ 7:08 pm |Edit This
Man-oh-man it’s been a loooooong day. Ok, here I am, ready to report:
231.5/219.5/160
I dropped 3 pounds this week. It’s kind of a bummer after losing 9 last week. I thought, “Heck, let’s go for 10!” Of course, that didn’t work out.
I’m still happy with my 3.
Comment by Bird — March 26, 2007 @ 7:31 pm |Edit This
Bird also met the 5 a day challenge but probably doesn’t even know…does that count?
Comment by Brandi — March 26, 2007 @ 7:42 pm |Edit This
Does that mean I ate a lot of veggies? Yikes! What are you feeding me, woman?!
Comment by Bird — March 26, 2007 @ 8:01 pm |Edit This
194/183/155
Just down 1 this week. I’m with the it stinks to work hard and only be down 1 gang!! I don’t ever over eat and I never eat things I shouldn’t. As I said befor I know some of the problem is that I get going with the day and then don’t eat anything at all. Most of the time I only eat 2 times a day. Yesterday I had a tomatoe at 11:00am and didn’t eat again until 10:00pm. When I ate at 10:00 I had a small salad with about 3-4TLB of taco meat and a little salsa. NO chips with it. I don’t think I got all my veggies this week, even though thats about all I eat.
As Blest has pointed out I am thankful to be down that 1 and not up one!! I will work harder at making my health more important and eat more often.
Comment by Katherine — March 27, 2007 @ 3:46 am |Edit This
katherine, it almost sounds like you might not be eating enough? you might lose more if you eat more…
Comment by Anne — March 27, 2007 @ 6:46 am |Edit This
Oh, I forgot to say that I met the challenge this week!
Blest, thanks for the encouragement
Comment by Christy — March 27, 2007 @ 10:42 am |Edit This
212/185/175 up 3 pounds but I was that last Friday. I am suprisingly pleased with this because of all the cardio and weights I did last week, the water weight I am holding just because I am woman and the 3 1/2 day hospital stay.
Ahh…it’s a new week. Bit concerned for Sissy though. She has decided not to drink this morning.
Oh yes, I did complete the challenge.
Comment by Tami — March 28, 2007 @ 4:55 am |Edit This
because I am woman hee hee hee…
Good to have ya back, buddy!
Comment by blestwithsons — March 28, 2007 @ 6:37 am |Edit This