Team Skinny (Aug 2008) Turning the Corner

Goals for August:

Get and stay consistent

Start getting in some serious mileage

Aggressive weightloss goal: 205 by months end

oh and kick Sailing's old butt head to head beginning Aug. 11

my goal is 245 and to log as many miles as i can took the day off yesterday and felt like a slacker. I just need to keep moving and keep eating clean

thanks to all for the support and friendly competition, it is amazing how much it helps.

oh yeah I almost forgot go BLUE let's make it happen this month

Hey, ya'll!  Looking forward to a great month.  Since I joined the challenge last month, I only lost .5 pound in the end, which is still a loss and commendable nonetheless.  HOWEVER, what was even more great was how my training started kicking butt (except the last week).

Starting: 125.5

Goal: 122

Still looking to get under 160. August start 167.5# Goal 159.5# Lose 8#

This month I'm going to try and cut my calories by 100 and see how it goes, and cut it another hundered if needed in a couple of weeks.  Also going to cut out the soda-I'm addicted. All ready tapering down my consumption. This weekend will be tough and tempting as we're on the road traveling. Also going to actually swim this month and try to stay on top of workouts and not use the heat as an excuse.

Jenni4:  I was a soda addict as well.  So I understand,  but you can overcome.  I started out drinking 5-6 soda's a day (64+ oz), then went to 64 oz a week and lots of water,  then went to a soda on Sat as a reward.  Now if I have a soda once a month I am surprised.  Try some flavored water or if it is the caffeine you miss drink black coffee.  Good luck and I know you can kick the sugar addiction.

100 cals a day equals less than 1 lb in a month.  So your training will have to bump up to cover 24,500 cals.  To put that into perspective,  It is an extra 245 miles a month running....whew.

i need to weigh in tomorrow morning and report back.   hopefully i'm still at 188...or near it

regardless i'm looking to get down to 184 before the month is out...

will report back in tomorrow morning sometime with starting weight

I lost a total of 2# in July...hoping to double that for August.  Main goal for distance and time is to do more that I did in July.  Food goal will be to cut out alcohol 5 days per week. 

 I hope to join you at 160 by the end of the month...

...but I must say Go White Lightning

well not a good number on the scale this morning....

191 lbs.   doesn't really surprise me since i've been working alot this week and have only worked out minimally.   plus eating dinner at 8pm doesn't help.

so.....

starting at 191 this month and the goal is to get down to 186.

Go Shermbelle!!!!!

Have a great race today!!!!