No Sugar New Year Challenge (Page 24)

Congratulations and Great Job to Ray and Abbie!

Abbie, if you don't mind, how tall are you? With your weight and BF%, you look great...I am about the same weight, don't know my BF%, am just 5'1" tall, and, let's just say my weight is distributed a lot different than yours!!! I am SURE that my BF is terribly high; I've just recently started working out faithfully...again. I'm with you on wanting that sub-20%...I love that rather ripped look (although I've never seen it on myself!)

Down 7.6! I was stuck for over a week..finally moving a little..but I'll take it.

I didn't sleep well last night and finally got up and came down to sleep on the couch as I feel I'm coming down with a cold.  I really really wanted to eat something sweet like chocolate or caramel or ice cream. I felt like screw this stupid challenge, I want something yummy.I thought I'll eat whatever I want and drop out of this challenge...it was amazing how my mind could justify and come up with a plan to deal with my craving and trying to talk myself into it. One thought I had is I didn't want to have to post I got a ding.

The desire to eat something was so incredibly intense..I had a couple cashews and hoped it would go away and it did. A real major victory.

It was incredible how strong the desire for something sweet was and how within 10 minutes it was gone.  It was a good lesson to learn.

I bought a box of Tangerines and they are better than the Clementines I have been getting lately.

Thank you!  I am 5'3".  In addition to cardio I am making sure I'm doing strength training, even if it's just using my own body weight like lunges, squats, push-ups, etc.  I want to be ripped!!!!

I'm doing "body weight" exercises for strength training (then just walking and biking)...My word, if you're just 5'3", you must have great muscle tone; I HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO!!!

You're doing IMKY? In Loiusville, right? I live a couple hours south of Louisville and hope that I can go up and be a spectator!

"great muscle tone"....not so sure, but I'm working on it!!  I am starting to see more definition in my legs, abs and back.  Arms...well....1 thing at a time

Yep, IMKY is in L'ville....come and volunteer, volunteering at IM is a blast!!!!  I look forward to meeting you.

Down 7.6! I was stuck for over a week..finally moving a little..but I'll take it.

I didn't sleep well last night and finally got up and came down to sleep on the couch as I feel I'm coming down with a cold. I really really wanted to eat something sweet like chocolate or caramel or ice cream. I felt like screw this stupid challenge, I want something yummy.I thought I'll eat whatever I want and drop out of this challenge...it was amazing how my mind could justify and come up with a plan to deal with my craving and trying to talk myself into it. One thought I had is I didn't want to have to post I got a ding.

The desire to eat something was so incredibly intense..I had a couple cashews and hoped it would go away and it did. A real major victory.

It was incredible how strong the desire for something sweet was and how within 10 minutes it was gone. It was a good lesson to learn.

I bought a box of Tangerines and they are better than the Clementines I have been getting lately.

I love weighing myself. I was 145.8 this am, after breakfast, and a cheeseburger for lunch (ok, ok, oops), and I had ran 20 min, chased a lost dog for an HOUR, rode my horse for 25 min, and did an intense 1:42 min spin class, I'm at 146.8.

Must be that cheeseburger.   oh well. I seem to have one good day then one bad day.

Incidentally, I had greek yogurt yesterday, which was yummy and creamy, but it was 12 grams of fat!  I just on't know if thats smart?

There is non-fat greek yogurt out there, I have Fage.

oh, I have to find that! I think I tried that...I'm not sure. will be looking for that! thanks!

Whole foods and Trader Joe's both carry it.

Whole foods and Trader Joe's both carry it.

Down 7.6! I was stuck for over a week..finally moving a little..but I'll take it.

I didn't sleep well last night and finally got up and came down to sleep on the couch as I feel I'm coming down with a cold.  I really really wanted to eat something sweet like chocolate or caramel or ice cream. I felt like screw this stupid challenge, I want something yummy.I thought I'll eat whatever I want and drop out of this challenge...it was amazing how my mind could justify and come up with a plan to deal with my craving and trying to talk myself into it. One thought I had is I didn't want to have to post I got a ding.

The desire to eat something was so incredibly intense..I had a couple cashews and hoped it would go away and it did. A real major victory.

It was incredible how strong the desire for something sweet was and how within 10 minutes it was gone.  It was a good lesson to learn.

I bought a box of Tangerines and they are better than the Clementines I have been getting lately.

I'm at 161 now.  That's down about 3 from the start.

Not as impressive as lots of other people, but I'll take it.