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

4 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

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.

incredible photograph

DAY 14

• Happy Valentine's Day! No chocolate candy, cookies or cake has passed these lips today!
• I don't have a favorite poem, howeverI have another favorite quote. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Mae West

DAY 14

• Happy Valentine's Day! No chocolate candy, Cookies or cake has passed these lips today! [emoji14]
• I don't have a favorite poem, howeverI have another favorite quote. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Mae West

Love It!!!

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incredible photograph

Thanks !!!

[emoji738]

Basically half through the Month so placing Challenge reminder!!!

And unofficial check in

How is everyone doing?

Feb.14th:

I did walk quietly to my support group. Lol it was wonderful to listen to the know it all tell everyone what to do. NOT. There is no picture of my anguish.

Bariatric prayer:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE never let me get too cocky, especially in the face of great successes and failures.

Amen.

I'm going to sleep early...

Edited February 15, 20197 yr by GreenTealael

DAY 14

• Happy Valentine's Day! No chocolate candy, cookies or cake has passed these lips today! [emoji14]
• I don't have a favorite poem, howeverI have another favorite quote. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Mae West

Hah! She was some gal!

Basically half through the Month so placing Challenge reminder!!!
And unofficial check in
How is everyone doing?

MUCH better this week. No junk food here. Haven't been doing the specific exercise plans but I did up my daily walk by another km.

DAY 15

• Exercise: Did a short walk this morning. Legs are a little sore from the walk/jog that I did yesterday. One of my goals is to run a 5K. (I'm a secret runner!)
• No Junk food: So far so good. Someone's always bringing in some sweets on Fridays. Makes today a challenge!

10 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Basically half through the Month so placing Challenge reminder!!!

And unofficial check in

How is everyone doing?

DAY 15

sleeve 2014 maintaining.

Valentines with my husband. Wine and food. Feeling hungover this morning. I'm off to the gym to sweat this out of my system. Back to plan.

Feb. 15th:

Edited February 15, 20197 yr by GreenTealael

I noticed on the ?You section there was Take a New Selfie, well on Valentine's I did its not a" facial selfie", instead it is of my upper tummy, I wanted to give it some b love and a shout-out here. You see I feel one of SELFIES beauty is noticing the beauty where maybe others couldn't see it. Well my belly went along with me on this Great Bariatric Exposition. It received its 7 obligatory slits, healed up without infection and has now teeny tiny silver scars,band although I was fearful with all the stretching, scarring already, and the stretch marks are a legacy since I was 11 years old, 110 pounds, turned out they came from a skin collagen defect, not frank obesity, a nasty heredity all 3 children received, sorry Babies! But back to me , I thought my skin would give up, did not,my skin still keeps the outsides out and my innards in, just having to stretch less daily as I lose weight. So although to many viewers it is NOT beautiful, to me it is a thing of joy and beauty, a vision of success, each skin Mar is a battle ribbon of success, I maybe be 73 but the woman within is strong, committed to success, best of all still living, starting to do it with a little more vibrance, Thank You God, Thank You Bradley J Needleman MD and Thanks Bariatric Pals for your emotional underpinings as I found my way there! So Blessings be upon you My Abdominal skin, you've never failed ME yet!?????❤?

4 hours ago, Frustr8 said:

I noticed on the ?You section there was Take a New Selfie, well on Valentine's I did its not a" facial selfie", instead it is of my upper tummy, I wanted to give it some b love and a shout-out here. You see I feel one of SELFIES beauty is noticing the beauty where maybe others couldn't see it. Well my belly went along with me on this Great Bariatric Exposition. It received its 7 obligatory slits, healed up without infection and has now teeny tiny silver scars,band although I was fearful with all the stretching, scarring already, and the stretch marks are a legacy since I was 11 years old, 110 pounds, turned out they came from a skin collagen defect, not frank obesity, a nasty heredity all 3 children received, sorry Babies! But back to me , I thought my skin would give up, did not,my skin still keeps the outsides out and my innards in, just having to stretch less daily as I lose weight. So although to many viewers it is NOT beautiful, to me it is a thing of joy and beauty, a vision of success, each skin Mar is a battle ribbon of success, I maybe be 73 but the woman within is strong, committed to success, best of all still living, starting to do it with a little more vibrance, Thank You God, Thank You Bradley J Needleman MD and Thanks Bariatric Pals for your emotional underpinings as I found my way there! So Blessings be upon you My Abdominal skin, you've never failed ME yet!?????❤?

Brave! But I couldnt/didn't see the pic...