do the SELF Challenge!

I’m 26 and I have a 2.5 yr old and a 1 yr old. I’m 5’5” and about 150lbs. I want to lose at least ten lbs! Help!

i’ve signed up for the 1st time. i am 5’6” and almost 130 lbs and i feel totally flabby these days. my belly is hanging over my pants…also i drink & smoke too much and i am 38 and too old for this behavior.

I do the Self Challenge every year. I love it!

I want to do this, and every year I flake out. It may just not be meant to be!

I’ve gotten in much better shape anyway, so it’s not a total loss I guess.

Well, after a half-assed attempt at the challenge, I lost a whopping 4 pounds. Better than nothing I guess. Im still going to try to follow the game plan of the challenge though, because even though I didnt really lose much weight I’ve been exercising much more, so thats good.

My goal was to have lost 10 pounds by today, and that didnt happen. I have lost 5 pounds, so thats not too bad. I have three weeks left of the challenge and hopefully I will have lost 10 by the end of it. I’m doing really well the with the cardio and strength part of the program, but when it comes to eating I’m not doing to well. This week I really want to keep my calories at about 1800 each day and drink lots and lots of water.

I did pretty good during week 6, yet I still didnt lose any weight. I did three days of cardio and three days of strength, I ate well 5 days and the other 2 not so great at all. My sisters graduation is next Sunday and afterwards we are going out to eat at a nice italian resturant so I hope I do really well with exercise and eating this week so that on Sunday I can just enjoy myself and not feel guilty.

Today I ate around 1750 calories, not bad. My goal was to eat only 1600 calories being that I wasnt very active today, but then I went to a friends house and she had chocolate covered cherries (I had two) and chocolate covered nuts and cranberries (I had a couple handfuls), they were all very delcious so oh well. I didnt really exercise today, but walked to work and waitressed for 5 hours.

Yesterday I did pretty good. I ate around 1600 calories, woohoo!, and even though I didn’t do cardio or strength I did walk to and from work, about 2 miles, plus I waitressed for 7 hours, so I was moving around a lot all day. Today was my boyfriends birthday so I ended up eating a bunch of cake and didnt really watch what I ate during the day either, so diet wise I did horrible, oops. I did do both cardio and strength today though, so thats good. My goal is to stay under 1800 each day for the rest of the week and to get some cardio in every day as well.

I did pretty well during week 5 of the challenge. The strength part has gone up to three times a week, but I only did it twice, but I did cardio 4 times when I only needed to do it 3, so it evens out I guess. Diet wise, I ate well 5 out of 7 days, whereas during month 1 I was only eating well on average 4 out of 7 days, so its an improvement. Over the weekend 2 people told me that I was looking thinner, and they didnt even know I was trying to lose weight, so that is very encouraging! Im hoping that this week I do all three days of strength plus at least 4 days of cardio, the weather looks like its going to stay nice for a while so it shouldnt be too hard to get outside and get some exercise.