Our Collective Weight-loss Challenge Progress Blog

Welcome to our weight loss challenge! We are collectively trying to lose 14 lbs by Bastille Day (July 14)! We are Weight Watchers members and we began counting from May 12. We will also be challenging each other to accomplish fitness or nutritional goals during these weeks. This is a never-ending journey for both of us and we welcome as much support as possible!

Friday, May 28, 2004

So long as Memorial Day doesn't kill me...

This week can still be saved! Really! I think I can still eat dinner tonight and only use 4 flex points! I used about 9 flex points last night in random eating and the all you-can-eat sushi bar- what happens when I wait until after the fact to write everything down. Tomorrow and Sunday should be (theoretically) easier to control, same with Tuesday. Monday I'll be at my Aunt's house, so we'll see.

I finished workout #1 of the 15 min. challenge. One day down.

It's already been broughten.

Sadly, I am in the best shape of my life. Why on Earth am I so winded from walking briskly from the 2nd floor to the 10th and down again? 5 minutes of stairs should not wind me this much.

5 minutes of office excersise #1 done.

Bring it. :) Challenge Accepted.... New one declared.

Ok. I can't do the part where I pull myself in to the desk on my rolly chair. I discovered this through trial and error- instead of pulling myself in across the carpet, I pulled the crappy table I use as a desk toward me, computer and all. But I shall do at least 15 minutes of silly office excercises at least 3 times this week.

So, Ms. Abigail. Your challenge should you choose to accept it, sounds simple... perhaps too simple. When you are watching television this week as you are prone to do, I challenge you to either do 5 sit-ups and 5 pushups for every half an hour of television that you watch. This will either make you do a lot of pushups and situps or watch less television (in which case you'll presumably have to do something more active than sitting in front of the tv would have been). Or you'll just read a book and my challenge will be for naught. But there it is. Plus, I got to use the word "naught" in a sentence.

Thursday, May 27, 2004

You win some, you lose some...

Yesterday was definitely way over my points. I weighed in yesterday and was exactly the same- neither up nor down. Since I lost 3.8 lbs last week, I figure it's me balancing out. My normal weight loss pattern is bigger loss, no loss, little loss, etc. At least that's the way it was last time I was following program religiously, so I see no reason why it should be different this time. My main goal now is to keep journaling and to find a way to fit excercise into my new work schedule.

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Blogging our way to Bastille Day....

I just ate a chocolate-chip cookie-brownie (I have no other way to describe it). But did not go back for seconds, which I think is at least a step. Our collective total at the moment is 5.2 lbs. We'll see how I do at weigh-in tonight considering the caloric extravaganza that was today. I may face the wrath of Melvin!