Saturday, 9th of January 2010 at 07:49:31 PM 
In our infinite—okay, nearly infinite—collective wisdom, we here at Five Full Plates have decided that as part of our endeavor we should do a weekly check-in to see where we’re all at, and what we’ve learned in the past week.
I don’t know if any of it will count as a Very Special Message, but feel free to imagine meaningful music in the background while you read.
As you may recall, we are not interested in actual numbers here at FFP. That’s humiliating, and like the good friends we are, we prefer to humiliate one another over things like dumb things we say or do, rather than on what a stupid scale says to us. Instead, we are each measuring in pounds lost, keeping in mind that the goal is losing 10 pounds and we are ladies so we are only discussing those 10 pounds.
With the first week completed, here’s how our plates currently stack up:
Joshilyn has lost a whopping 3.8 pounds! She says, “This week I have learned that working out 1.5 – 3 hours a day cures the living HELL out of insomnia. I fall onto my face and pass out for six hours at a stretch. Unprecedented! I also learned that working out 1.5 – 3 hours a day makes your butt hurt. You’re welcome.” (Indeed.)
Gray is still holding at 2.4 pounds down. This week she learned that you have to be VERY HUNGRY to still lose weight without exercising. (Here let us all do a special salute to the broken-toed who are nonetheless kicking some butt.)
Kira has lost 1.8 pounds. Her wisdom from this week is, “If you are PMSed and cranky and seriously carb craving, do not troll your favorite cooking sites and look at all the delicious food pictures and read the descriptions. Jerk.” (I always learn something from Kira.)
Lydia has lost 1.6 pounds so far, and she transmitted a complicated mathematical equation to sum up what she learned this week. Let me see if I can get it right. It’s something like SparkPeople(shrieky, invasive) < Livestrong.com(technological geekery) = Happier Lydia, I think. She can let me know if I got it wrong.
Mir (that’s me) was at 1.4 pounds lost at the one week mark, which I am totally blaming on water retention because I am a sore loser. This week I learned that it really is going to be hardest for me, obviously. Hmph. Just kidding. Really what I learned is that eating meatloaf for dinner and snacking on salty popcorn the night before weigh-in is stoopid. So.
One week down, nine to go. How did you do this past week? At the very least, please tell me I’m not the only one who gained a little back and desperately wished for a bathtub full of cookies in which to drown my sorrows….
I seem to have lost a whopping total of NADA this week but I’m okay with it because I just spent 2 weeks with my family, eating my mother’s scrumptious cooking and dining out with friends. The fact that I didn’t gain 10 lbs is a win for me!
I’m 1.6 lb down. I was hoping for more. This makes me realize that I have to try harder. My Wii Fit is still mocking me. “Do you find yourself tripping when you walk?” Grrr….
I am down just over 2 lbs, but I’m very cranky due to the reduced alcohol intake and constant salt & carb cravings. Lightly salted nuts just aren’t a good subsitute for a bag of chips, but I’m trying. Haven’t been able to start on my exercise yet since the kids were home on Monday and Friday. Plan on starting the exercise portion on Monday, but with freezing temps here in Georgia, the outside walking portion of my plan will have to hold off a bit. The Wii Fit will have to do for now.
What I learned is that I need a better scale (no really, mine is an old dial one, not very accurate!) and that this time, it’s not about being thin, it’s about not being told by your doctor that he wants to do a glucose test because there was sugar in your urine when really all you went in for was just a little UTI. *sigh* Stupid brownies. And cookies, hot chocolate, caramel popcorn. Carrot, anyone?
Honestly, I forgot to weigh this morning, so I don’t have a clue. I suspect I haven’t lost anything, though, since my exercising has been scant.
I’m claiming 3 lbs. Cautiously optimistic. Good news is the 5 of you ALL lost, meaning you won round 1! So did I!
I’ve lost 2 lbs. Yay! I’ve learned that it feels GOOD to go to the gym, surprise, surprise. And my Wii fit asks me that thing about tripping, too.
Well, I *was* down 1.2, today I’m down 0.8, but tomorrow is my official weigh in (since I started on Monday). Now thinking that a Monday weigh in is really stupid and I should weigh in on Thursday or Friday, since I seem to do better during the week when I’m on a good schedule. I did read about the sleep diet on The Huffington Post and that’s an idea I can get behind. Even if I don’t lose a ton of weight, if I’m going to get up early to exercise, I should make a more concerted effort to go to bed earlier.
I’ve done good. I’m weighing myself but I haven’t missed a single workout and my eating has been much better than it was in December. WIN!
I am a big fat (metaphorically speaking) cheater, and came down with some form of the stomach flu. Dropped 4.5 pounds. Of course, now my appetite is returning, so we’ll see how the next week goes.
Down about 3.5 lbs…even with my free day! Makes it so much easier to be REALLY good all week when I can eat whatever I want on Saturday. I am hoping to lose 30 lbs by June. The next 10 weeks will be easiest since I have you all to encourage and empathize with me!!
I don’t know because I started the challenge on TUESDAY so my week is not a week yet. YES! Will report back to this post on Tues to be accurate.
2.6 for me. . .
I worked out four days in a week for the first time since… um… pre-kids so like four years ago. And I gained a lb. Hmph. This week I’m adding in actually watching/planning what I eat – amazing concept. And goal is to do six days of my shred.
Hmmm… I don’t know really as I don’t know when to peg ‘starting.’ Was it Monday when I really committed to exercising every weekday again? Or was it Tuesday when I actually weighed myself (for the first time in a YEAR, thanks. That was fun)? Or do I count from the actual start day for everyone else as I sort of knew it was happening so I weighed myself THAT day too? Anyway, down over 2 lb, five days good cardio workout, full week of actual real no-cheater eating well. Feeling pretty good actually!
3.6 pounds for me and I haven’t started working out yet so yay! On the other hand, I think I was extra puffy from gorging myself over the holidays including the weekend after new years, so I imagine my rate of loss is going to slow abruptly now that I’ve lost that bit of “water-weight” and also emptied out the really full tummy.
I’m at zero…I think. Didn’t even feel like dealing with the scale this morning. I’m just having trouble getting started. Stress is getting the best of me.
I’m down about 3 lbs (I say “about” because my scale is wackadoo, and I’m taking the average of three weighings since I can’t get the same response twice in a row. Really must get a new scale!) and my clothes are looser. Overall, I have to say I’m feeling good. Strong. Oh, and sore as hell thanks to Jillian’s “No More Trouble Zones” workout which I did yesterday. Ouchies.
Down .8, which I will take. Better week this week! More Wii Fit. I’m totally addicted to the Hula Hooping– that is a workout!
Okay. I’m down 3.8. And I wish it were more. It should be more, but I’m not fully committed yet. No exercise. No real watching what I’m eating. I just cut out the extra non-stop snacking and binging. Oh, and I’m not having soda all day long. Coincidentally, not as perky. Huh. Go figure.
I was down about 1.5-2 lbs (I also have a dial-up scale which I can maneuver into saying I weigh less, so prob should exchange for a digital that I cannot BS). I didn’t exercise as much as usually because of the deep freeze, and I agree with Gray that you have to be HUNGRY to lose and not exercise. Also, you have to be hungry to lose while exercising.
Ok – today’s weigh-in showed a change of 0! Maybe cuz I didn’t take it seriously till Sunday? I think to make it easy on myself I’ll just go with a Sunday end week and say this is week one, since last week consisted of me adjusting to reg life after holidays and vacation. *nods* The rationalization, how it piles up. So technically, I’m a week behind in the challenge, I can live with that.
I cut out sugar and have been doing some form of exercise each day (though today only managed 10 min of yoga. I’ve lost 3 lbs. I’m mostly just happy with getting the constant sugar/soda cravings under control, so if I can keep that going for awhile I’ll be delighted.