Welcome to The End of Summer Challenge!

This is a fun, motivating, stress free way to set personal goals for the month.

If you'd like to join us, please complete the template below then weigh- in each Monday, August 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th.

Larry wiil do our stats. THANKS Larry!

I hope you join us!

Joan

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Name, real or screen~

Age~

Weight on August 1st~

Goal Weight for August 29th~

Exercise Goal for August~

Dietary Goal for August~

Personal Goal for August~

Date Banded~

Total Weight Loss Since Banding~

Heidi here weighing in at 209.2. Not sure what the loss is since I haven't checked in since we started this.... but i'm down I know that!

Well folks happy to say I have maintained.....still kinda unwinding from the week at UCLA, don't have much energy for my morning walks either. Next week we have more appointments, and another trip to UCLA........ I will be happy to maintain, seeing I do tend to stress eat. Hmmmmmm gooood thoughts, goooood thoughts

Kelly sorry to hear about your mom. Don't forget to take care of yourself!

Joan praying the band slippage corrects itself.

I am 215 today, down 2.25. Had a fill on Thursday.

I also had a NSV today that means a lot to me. Acouple of years ago family and I were swimming in a lake. Everyone swam to a floating dock and got out. I couldn't pull myself up the ladder. I had to swim to the shore. I was so humiliated. A little biy ago I climbed out of the pool at the YMCA using the ladder! Yay me!

Hey everyone! Checking in super late here. Was on vacation last week, missed my weigh in. Came in today at 264. Hope I make it to goal this month!

Megan

Well folks happy to say I have maintained.....still kinda unwinding from the week at UCLA, don't have much energy for my morning walks either. Next week we have more appointments, and another trip to UCLA........ I will be happy to maintain, seeing I do tend to stress eat. Hmmmmmm gooood thoughts, goooood thoughts

With the stress you're under, maintaining is awesome. I'm sending you good thoughts!

I'm a day late and I'm not happy to say I gained a pound. I'm at 175.5 spent the weekend with the kids before they went back to school and snacked when they did. I will be back on track this week.

175, finally lost one lb. I have been going to the gym and hope I can lose a couple of more.

No change this week. Still 232.6

Age~ 31

Weight on August 15th~ 214.8

Goal Weight for August 29th~ 199

Exercise Goal for August~ to get any exercise I can

Dietary Goal for August~ Don't cheat

Personal Goal for August~ don't have one

Date Banded~ July 28, 2011

Total Weight Loss Since Banding~ 8 lbs

It's beed a tough week. I was retaining water most of last week so I only lost 0.2 lbs. And this week is going to be tough too because I will be starting regular food and my kids birthday party is this weekend. (My son will be 6 tomorrow and my daughter 3 next month! ) I am going to try not to over do it though. Planning on one small slice of cake and one small slice of pizza at the party. I am doing well so far with not drinking while eating and at first that was a HUGE challenge for me so I am proud of that.

I forgot to post on Monday. Today I had my fisrt fill and weighed in at 213. Happy I lost 2 pounds considering the junk I ate at my kids B-day party over the weekend. Can't wait to go back in 2 wks and hopefully get another fill.

We will keep our fingers crossed. Did you have any indication that your band had slipped?

I wasn't aware my band had slipped. I have had off and on problems for months with being too tight and vomiting then needing a deflate. Crazy since I hadn't vomited since 1988, LOL! I never overeat but have vomited from drinking too fast, not chewing well, wrong food that has been OK before. I wonder how many slips go back on their own VS needing surgery? I am trying to eat only liquids and mushie foods. If I hadn't had a fluoroscopy exam I wouldn't have known I slipped.

Thanks again for being part of our group and keeping our stats!

Joan

The new table is up, you can find it here.

End of Summer Challenge

Good luck to everyone.

Thanks Larry, you are awesome! Are you up to the task again for September?

Any suggestions for the name of our September challenge? The challenge will start September 1st. Tomorrow is our last weigh in for August. I hope this was a successful month for all!

Joan

Hello everyone...checking in on the last Monday of the challenge!! I'm checking in at 230 this week. Down 2lbs from last week. I'm only 1lb away from my goal of 229 by the end of the month.

Checking in this morning at 268.8. Doesn't look like I will make my goal, still 4.8 lbs away, but at least I seem to have gotten over that 270 hump I have been stuck at all month. The bad part is here comes another long holiday weekend with two parties and a music festival planned. I am just going to try to maintain.

Cindy checking in at 175.6. I didn't hit my goal of 172 but I got half of it. That's good enough for me! 3 pounds is more than I've lost in a month in a long time!

JulieG (nu2ywg) checking in at 214. I didn't make my goal but I did lose 5 lb this month which is better than gaining. I will probably join the September challenge but I'm going to have a personal goal to be below 200 by the time I go on my trip to the east coast in November. I haven't been there since we moved away in June 2010 when I weighed well over 300 lb and no one there (including my mother) knows I've had the band. My mom knows I've lost weight but no one else even knows that so I'm excited for the reactions.

Congrats to all of you who have made your goal for the month! Joan, wow, the band slipping doesn't sound like a good experience at all. I'm sorry that you have to be stuck on liquids and mushies, I hope that fixes it for you.

hey all! I didnt quite meet my challenge but I set it kinda high! I am at 191.4. I lost 8 for the month, which I wil take in a heartbeat. good luck to all, see u on the september challenge!