Don't you just love a Challenge !?!?!?!

Perfect, let's keep the ball rolling!!!

Info needed: Surgery status, losing/maintaining, weight, goal (challenge specific)

Basic rules: No junk foods (listed ?) because you're worth the very best

Start February 1st -Starting weight

End March 1st - Ending weight

There will still be incentives!!!

Adding a few fun rules I found on Pinterest (Pink) and a few exercise components you can throw in (only if you want) to maximize participation!!!

Let's keep it fun!!!

Choose from the ones that you enjoy!!!

Stay engaged and accountable. Participate as much as you like! (but check in so I can remember active participants)

Even pre ops can participate with the Challenge as well!

Edited January 28, 20197 yr by GreenTealael

Apart from having a craptacular week - so many bad choices, so little energy to do anything. Plus I put 1.6 kilos of my precious loss back on! Have realised giving in to Carb cravings just makes it worse. The more carbs I eat, the more I wanna eat. So have gotten real about keeping my carbs under 30 net a day. Have done it two days running and I'm starting to feel better.

But anyhoo

11. I'm actually really happy where I am, I love rural Ireland. The scenery is breathtakingly green and beautiful, and the people are kind and friendly. But I'd love to revisit the old city of Sana'a in Yemen if there wasn't a devastating war on. I went there years ago to study Arabic and it's an amazing place. All the alabaster framed stained glass windows light up at night and look magical. I also loved living in far north Queensland. Tropical weather and rain forests FTW.

Catching up!!!

Feb. 10th:
No makeup selfie!

unhealthy habit... hmmm maybe makeup lol

but childddddd we gonna keep it

Edited February 12, 20197 yr by GreenTealael

Feb. 11th & 12th:

Pic of me with someone I love... Pass

Place I would go right now- Brazil to visit my friend before she heads off to Spain.

We keep missing each other, and i fear we have horrible timing. I may not travel abroad this year.

creative artistic trait pic attached and doubling for second portion of challenge of taping a pic in my (digital) journal (lol)

I like it because its current mood. I'm sooooo tired of the cold and dreary snow, I'm basically just wearing dark

hooded clothing until spring.

Let's keep it going Team!!!

DAY 12

• Starting to get the hang of this! Surprisingly doing pretty well on the "No junk food challenge." Even though temptation is everywhere!
• Did some different exercises today. Trying to branch out a little.
• I have a picture of myself with my sisters, that I thought I looked pretty good in. It's amazing how heavy I looked, but I didn't think I was that heavy at that time. If that makes any sense.
• NSV today. I had flats on that I haven't worn in awhile. Started walking and they flew off my feet!!? Who knew, you could lose weight in your feet! LOL

FEB 10: I only wear makeup about twice a week so although this is my regular face, I never take pics without makeup. I wish I could wear it every day because its fun but my skin has been changing over the last couple of years and it gets angry if I do that

FEB 11: These are the people I love most in the world

FEB 12: I am creative and it comes out in many ways. One of them is my baking and homemade bday decorations! My daughter's 7th bday was space themed this year.

Also, for the record, I am also doing the writing prompts but keeping them private. I'm more honest about things if I do it that way.

12. There is a picture of 16 Yr old me at a party with a school chum. It was taken at the one time I was a healthy weight (due to Weight Watchers and a crush on an aerobics teacher which meant I was at the gym everyday). I can see what healthy me looks like, because all my other photos (except for a scuba diving license) I'm overweight or obese.

sleeve 2014/maintaining Starting weight 136 - today weight 137. goal 130

Day 13 # copy a poem.

2 minutes ago, Healthy_life2 said:

sleeve 2014/maintaining Starting weight 136 - today weight 137. goal 130

Day 13 # copy a poem.

Beautiful!! You had me at hello!

Ooooh...a fellow diver! [emoji4]

That's one of my weightloss goals - to start diving again.

13. Short poem by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, rahim Allah:
My heart has become able
To take on all forms.
It is a pasture for gazelles,
For monks an abbey.
It is a temple for idols
And for who circumambulates it, the Ka'bah.
It is the tablets of the Torah
And also the leaves of the Qur'an.
I believe in the religion
Of Love
Whatever direction its caravans may take,
Love is my religion and my faith.

Feb. 13th:

A Poem I absolutely love is Cotton Candy on A Rainy Day

Don't look now
I'm fading away
Into the gray of my mornings
Or the blues of every night
Is it that my nails
keep breaking
Or maybe the corn
on my second little piggy
Things keep popping out
on my face or of my life
It seems no matter how
I try I become more difficult
to hold
I am not an easy woman
to want
They have asked
the psychiatrists . . . psychologists . . .
politicians and social workers
What this decade will be
known for
There is no doubt . . . it is
loneliness

by Nikki Giovanni

I fell in love with her work during Grad school. Poignant and unapologetic.

Somewhere I'd love to be right now is Jamaica, warm with the fam.

Edited February 14, 20197 yr by GreenTealael