Challengers! Post your FINALS!!

We're heading into the end of the month.

Use this thread to post your finals and to let me know if you are interested
in joining the July Challenge!

Also, share how you actually DID during the month and what your real goals
are for July.

~Carol Ann
www.lowcarblosers.com

Carol Ann wrote:
| We're heading into the end of the month.
|
| Use this thread to post your finals and to let me know if you are
| interested in joining the July Challenge!
|
| Also, share how you actually DID during the month and what your real
| goals are for July.
|
| ~Carol Ann
| www.lowcarblosers.com


Hi Carol Ann,

I've lost just 1 pound this month (practicing maintenance?) :-)

Now weigh 215.

May and June have been weird months for me in many ways. I started a new
job that involved relocating, and have been staying with friends since early
May. It makes low-carbing more difficult without my own kitchen. Although
my loss rate has slowed, I've been towing the line and keeping my blood
glucose (T2 diabetic) completely in normal range with just my diet. My
clothes continue to get too big and my appearance is still changing despite
the weight loss slowdown.

I would like to join the July challenge with 3 pounds, with 213 as a goal.
I'm vowing to redouble my efforts.. My longer term goal is to reach my goal
weight of 180 by my birthday: 12/26/2004. That's seven months and 35
pounds away; it's doable!
--
Peter
270/215/180
Before/Current Pix:
http://users.thelink.net/marengo/wei...htlosspix.html

Carol Ann wrote:
We're heading into the end of the month.

Use this thread to post your finals and to let me know if
you are
interested in joining the July Challenge!

Also, share how you actually DID during the month and what
your real
goals are for July.

~Carol Ann
www.lowcarblosers.com

At 179, which was my goal for the month.

--
JJ.
275/179/175 - as of June 10, 2004
Atkins since Sep 1, 2003
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jjsmythe/my_photos
1, 2, 3...92, 93, 94, 95, 96...almost there

marengo wrote:
|| Carol Ann wrote:
||| We're heading into the end of the month.
|||
||| Use this thread to post your finals and to let me know if you are
||| interested in joining the July Challenge!
|||
||| Also, share how you actually DID during the month and what your real
||| goals are for July.
|||
||| ~Carol Ann
||| www.lowcarblosers.com
||
||
|| Hi Carol Ann,
||
|| I've lost just 1 pound this month (practicing maintenance?) :-)
||
|| Now weigh 215.
||
|| May and June have been weird months for me in many ways. I started
|| a new job that involved relocating, and have been staying with
|| friends since early May. It makes low-carbing more difficult
|| without my own kitchen. Although my loss rate has slowed, I've been
|| towing the line and keeping my blood glucose (T2 diabetic)
|| completely in normal range with just my diet. My clothes continue
|| to get too big and my appearance is still changing despite the
|| weight loss slowdown.
||
|| I would like to join the July challenge with 3 pounds, with 213 as a
|| goal. I'm vowing to redouble my efforts.. My longer term goal is to
|| reach my goal weight of 180 by my birthday: 12/26/2004. That's
|| seven months and 35 pounds away; it's doable!
|| --

IMO, you're at goal.

JJ wrote:
|| Carol Ann wrote:
||| We're heading into the end of the month.
|||
||| Use this thread to post your finals and to let me know if
||| you are
||| interested in joining the July Challenge!
|||
||| Also, share how you actually DID during the month and what
||| your real
||| goals are for July.
|||
||| ~Carol Ann
||| www.lowcarblosers.com
||
|| At 179, which was my goal for the month.
||
|| --
|| JJ.
|| 275/179/175 - as of June 10, 2004
|| Atkins since Sep 1, 2003
|| http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jjsmythe/my_photos
|| 1, 2, 3...92, 93, 94, 95, 96...almost there

You do realize that you've been at your overall goal for a good while now,
right? Well, perhaps that JIMO

Roger Zoul wrote:

You do realize that you've been at your overall goal for a
good while
now, right? Well, perhaps that JIMO

I think that's a good thing, right?

I've been very focused on exercise and maintenance lately,
more so than I have been focused on actual weight loss. I'm
currently eating too many calories to drop, but not so many
as to gain, other than what I hope I am gaining through
exercise. I want to hit 175 just to say I dropped an even
100 pounds (that vanity streak I suspect) but also, I think
I'm looking for a long term maintenance weight of about
177-180, I already know I can't maintain that weight unless
I first drop down to 175 (possibly as low as 171) or
below...this water thing ya know. If I bump up the carbs
now I go to 185-187 pounds very quickly where I stabilize.

I'm operating under the belief that, if I can get to 175 or
slightly below, I will ultimately stabilize around 180 or
so. I know from sitting at this weight level for a couple
months now that 180 or so is an excellent weight for me in
terms of appearance and how I feel.

Are you and Carol Ann still planning on doing the fall get
together in Atlanta?

--
JJ.
275/179/175 - as of June 10, 2004
Atkins since Sep 1, 2003
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jjsmythe/my_photos
1, 2, 3...92, 93, 94, 95, 96...almost there

Good morning, Carol Ann!

How are you doing? How is Morgan? Bet she's growing like a weed!

Put me down for a final weight of 221 for June. Made goal plus. Phewww!
;-)

My weight loss is really starting to slow down, although lately I've been
'stepping' up my exercise. My real goals are to increase my
exercise/activity level, to stop trying to force my body to lose too
quickly, and to stop obsessing over a bunch of numbers on a scale. I'm just
going to try to enjoy being active this summer and let the pounds fall
'when' they may.

Please sign me up for July, but put me down for 3 pounds. If it comes off,
so be it. I'll just keep plugging away.

Thank you so much for being the keeper of the Challenge. This is such a big
incentive and help to me!

June final: 221 pounds
July goal: 218 pounds

--
Linda
296/221/160
LC since Oct. 13, 2003
http://home.att.net/~lewis_linda/index.html

"Carol Ann" wrote in message
news:IN6Ec.109259$2i5.77419@attbi_s52...
We're heading into the end of the month.

Use this thread to post your finals and to let me know if you are
interested
in joining the July Challenge!

Also, share how you actually DID during the month and what your real goals
are for July.

~Carol Ann
www.lowcarblosers.com

Use this thread to post your finals and to let me know if you are
interested
in joining the July Challenge!

Also, share how you actually DID during the month and what your real goals
are for July.


for the sake of honesty .......


john V

up 5 pounds to 245 for the month ...... expecting a more rewarding July


For July challenge .... let's keep it simple ...... five pounds

thus,

262/245/240/180
LC since 1/2/04

JJ wrote:
|| Roger Zoul wrote:
|||
||| You do realize that you've been at your overall goal for a
||| good while
||| now, right? Well, perhaps that JIMO
||
|| I think that's a good thing, right?

A very good thing! Congrats!

||
|| I've been very focused on exercise and maintenance lately,
|| more so than I have been focused on actual weight loss. I'm
|| currently eating too many calories to drop, but not so many
|| as to gain, other than what I hope I am gaining through
|| exercise. I want to hit 175 just to say I dropped an even
|| 100 pounds (that vanity streak I suspect) but also, I think
|| I'm looking for a long term maintenance weight of about
|| 177-180, I already know I can't maintain that weight unless
|| I first drop down to 175 (possibly as low as 171) or
|| below...this water thing ya know. If I bump up the carbs
|| now I go to 185-187 pounds very quickly where I stabilize.

Well, you won't bumpt the carbs back to prior, almost 100 lbs ago, levels.
And if you do it very slowly while exercising hard, you might not even
notice the water weight increase. That's assuming you lose some fat to
counterbalance the water.

||
|| I'm operating under the belief that, if I can get to 175 or
|| slightly below, I will ultimately stabilize around 180 or
|| so. I know from sitting at this weight level for a couple
|| months now that 180 or so is an excellent weight for me in
|| terms of appearance and how I feel.

Yes, I agree as far as the appearance part, and I'll take your word as far
as how you feel

||
|| Are you and Carol Ann still planning on doing the fall get
|| together in Atlanta?

Yes! We had a lovely time last October and definitely plan to do it again.
I hope you and your wife, and others here, can join us.

Carol Ann,

265...hit my 13 pound JUNE GOAL right on the number (by .4 pounds
according to the digital scale) and one day early. Yee haw - that's
127 pounds gone with just 40 more to go!

Since it's been getting tougher to lose the last few pounds, let's set
a JULY GOAL of just 12 pounds. That would get me down to 253. And it's
been a long, long, long time since I've been way down there.

Thanks!

Zoofer
Atkins since October 19, 2003
6'1" 392/265/225


"Carol Ann" wrote in message news:IN6Ec.109259$2i5.77419@attbi_s52...
We're heading into the end of the month.

Use this thread to post your finals and to let me know if you are interested
in joining the July Challenge!

Also, share how you actually DID during the month and what your real goals
are for July.

~Carol Ann
www.lowcarblosers.com