Hair Growth and Weight Loss Challenge 2013

I'm in too!!

Hair Goals

Current Length: longer then SL not quite APL
2013 Goal Length: Full APL
Relaxed, natural, texlaxed: Relaxed
Hair type: never been able to figure this out
How you will achieve goal: Stretching 12 weeks,DC's, Co-washing, Castor oil and Vitamins (and staying away from the scissors if possible)

Weight/Fitness Goals

Current Weight: 186lbs
Goal Weight: 130-140 lbs
Current Dress Size: 16
Goal Size: 8-10
Fitness Goal: To be able to incorporate exercise into my everyday life. Learning to have patient
 
Hair Goals
Current
Length: grazing SL
2013 Goal Length: Full APL
Relaxed, natural, texlaxed: Natural
Hair type: 4b???
How you will achieve goal: Braids, sew ins, no heat, vitamins
Weight/Fitness Goals Current Weight: 189
Goal Weight: 165
Current Dress Size: 14
Goal Size: 8 - 10
Fitness Goal: Not tiring so easily during workout
How you will achieve goal: Exercising at least three times a week and less junk food.

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Killed cardio and abs yesterday! Coughing and laughing is now painful. Ready to hit weights at some point tomorrow. Maybe an am workout?!!

Got a good protein and deep conditioning on Friday and did a braid out. Needed my hair stretched to bun this week. Relaxing on Friday!!! Made this 12 weeks easily with putting S-curl at the roots. Staying soft and moisturizer.
 
Weighed myself today lost 2lbs. It inspired me to go to the gym to weight train arms and legs and I did 30 min cardio in elliptical.

I been keeping up with vegan/ vegetarian diet over the weekend.

Hair: I been wigging it, I'm thinking about a sew-in at the end of the month.
 
IT'S A NEW WEEK!
Today's Weight: 170 lbs.
Gained 1 pound.

What a crazy week for me. I weighed myself after two days of dieting, got discouraged, then ate badly. Gained like 5 extra lbs. Then lost 4 lbs of it.

So today, I am off to a fresh start for this new week. Hopefully I"ll nail it. I am basically aiming at just 15-20minutes of exercise 6 days this week, while I eat a low cal/carb diet.
 
aliyah7 said:
IT'S A NEW WEEK!
Today's Weight: 170 lbs.
Gained 1 pound.

What a crazy week for me. I weighed myself after two days of dieting, got discouraged, then ate badly. Gained like 5 extra lbs. Then lost 4 lbs of it.

So today, I am off to a fresh start for this new week. Hopefully I"ll nail it. I am basically aiming at just 15-20minutes of exercise 6 days this week, while I eat a low cal/carb diet.
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For every setback there is a lesson learn for a better comeback... We are all on this roll coaster with you
 
thanks guys. i needed to find a way to keep myself amped the whole 30+ pounds i need to get off. i think i found things i actually will look forward to.

i weighed in today i'm 174.6 down from last week 178.2. it may be just water weight, but i think a lot of the weight i've gained recently is water weight (first birth control- implanon- progesterone- driving me crazy).

i've been doing a ton of exercise and a lot of water, so i think it will have long term effects. plus, i'm a half hearted vegetarian, but after this, i'm going to be a bit more strict.

hair--
i need to rebraid my hair. its been about 2 months, but i'm going to continue being lazy for another month or so lol.
 
aliyah7 said:
IT'S A NEW WEEK!
Today's Weight: 170 lbs.
Gained 1 pound.
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i agree with strawbewie... its like jumping on a trampoline. you come down to be able to jump higher. just don't be hard on yourself. it could have been much worse. you didn't quit. it will get better and you'll make it.

we have to make sure to have healthy options readily available to grab and find some healthy things that we actually enjoy.. if we all haven't already.

eta: grammatical corrections
 
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Body: I'm still waiting on my corset to get here (i should've just paid for shipping and it would've been here by now) anywho I'm down 6 lbs since Jan 1st

Hair: been braided up under a wig for the past few weeks I think I'm going to bun tomorrow and I've been applying my sulfur oil mix nightly

So far so good

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strawbewie... i LOVE that your vegan. i eat some vegan meals, but i'm barely vegetarian.. let alone vegan :).. are you on myfitnesspal?... do you have a blog or pinterest for your vegan meals?
 
So I promised myself I would check in weekly regardless of the results so here we go...

Hair - I used a selenium sulfide shampoo (2.5%) this week to treat a skin condition I have. I have tried natural solutions for about a month but the condition worsened. So I decided I would use what I know works for now. When the flare-up goes away I will try the natural remedies again to prevent future flair-ups. My hair strands are more stripped but I am trying to be as carefull as posssible during detangling to prevent breakage.

Weight - No progress. But I did get some great ideas that I want to incorporate into my healthy eating plan. While watching "The Chew" it was suggested that you eat vegan one day a week to help with weight loss and vegetable intake. They had some really good looking recipes! So this week I will try to eat fruit/vegetables for one day and see how it goes...
 
Whelp, it was great while it lasted, but my weight loss has slowed down to the normal pace I have given myself to take off this excess weight. I did manage to lose 19 pounds in 13 days, so I am thankful for that boost, even if the majority of it was probably water weight. :ohwell:

I've got my eating plan pretty much in place, having adopted a fitness/bodybuilding style diet, consisting of a 45% protien, 30-35% carb, 20-25% fat for my total calorie intake of about 1200-1500 calories a day. I weight train for 30 minutes hard 3x a week, do at least an hour of cardio a day, and I have started riding my bike to work (3 miles each way) at least 3x a week. I should consistently lose 2-5 pounds a week for the first 100 pounds or so (I have at least 180 to lose), then I may have to make some adjustments to get the rest off.

I've been slacking off with my hair though; I've only co-washed since my last (not too successful) attempt to self-relax two weeks ago, and my scalp is crying out for relief. I've had very little shedding/breaking though, because I am keeping it in moisturized buns and braids and out of my hands, so that's good. Tonight I will definitely give it some TLC, with a good wash with moisturizing shampoo, deep condition and maybe even a keratin treatment.

Still another two weeks before I attempt a corrective touch up to deal with all the underprocessed new growth, alough I am not feeling the relaxer I used (ORS lye). I think it's better suited for textlaxing; even the properly processed parts of my hair don't match the smooth, silky texture of the parts straightened by the (very expensive) Paul Mitchell relaxers I have been getting for the last 3 years. You get what you pay for, I guess. :ohwell:

If it doesn't work out this time, I will just suck it up, save my pennies, and go crawling back to my stylist. I don't want to lose all the progress I have made by slipping up with a product my hair doesn't like (been down that road before). And I want to enjoy wearing my hard-won hair out sometimes, which is not possible with all the crazy textures going on up in there right now. I'd have to resort to using heat to even things out, and I can't even do that if I wanted, since I gave away all my heat tools last year except for the hood dryer in order to stick to my no heat plan. :perplexed

That's it for now; will update again at the end of the month. Happy hair growing and body shrinking ladies!
 
koolkittychick that's amazing progress! Don't get discouraged. The skinnier u get the harder it is to lose the weight.

I remember the days I could just walk to lose weight. Now, no way.
 
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I walked for 50 minutes, did 12 minutes of kickboxing, and 15 minutes of weight training today. My hair is currently in minibraids for the next 5-6 weeks, a picture of them is in my siggy. Just really getting back into the swing of things after some setbacks. The rest of the week will be a mix of walking, aerobics DVDs, kickboxing, and weight training.
 
apple_natural said:
strawbewie... i LOVE that your vegan. i eat some vegan meals, but i'm barely vegetarian.. let alone vegan :).. are you on myfitnesspal?... do you have a blog or pinterest for your vegan meals?
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I use myfitnesspal but not religiously. I'm on a vegan/vegetarian diet but its not my lifestyle. I'm doing something similar to the Daniel's fast to give myself a boost into losing weight. I love meat. 1-2 a week I have Greek yogurt which is not vegan. I'm on Pinterest, same name. I find recipes on there.
 
Hello I did couch to 5k today week 3 day 1. I though I was going to have an asthma attack but I pulled through. Running for 1 to 2.5 minute intervals was rough. I also did a 10 minute ab video from Pinterest. I'm exhausted.

Still wiggin it.. Thinking about a sew-in next week.
 
11 daily workouts so far this year. Down 3.5 pounds last week.

Trying to either roller set or damp bun my hair only. The roller sets so far are very curly but not very shiny.
 
strawbewie said:
I use myfitnesspal but not religiously. I'm on a vegan/vegetarian diet but its not my lifestyle. I'm doing something similar to the Daniel's fast to give myself a boost into losing weight. I love meat. 1-2 a week I have Greek yogurt which is not vegan. I'm on Pinterest, same name. I find recipes on there.
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oh.. still cool. maybe you'll end up incorporating some vegan meals into your lifestyle. i did that when i did... i mean attempted the scarsdale diet. i still eat the lunch sometimes.

eta:

I made my lazy self get up and do an insanity workout. i did the recovery week video. every time i do it, i'll progress through the schedule it comes with, but i know i won't be doing this everyday. i'll do it when i feel like i need a bit more exercise than what i've been doing.

hair...
I took my problem child piece of hair in my back left down from the braid it was in. i call it a problem child because i pull this section unintentionally, so it is usually broken off or gone entirely. i straightened it and it is a bit past collarbone!! the excitement is because 1. if the problem area is this long, then the rest of my hair is much better... 2. i haven't been pulling it long enough for it to have grown!! .. usually when i realize that its growing the next time i see it, its gone. i hope i don't bother it. when i catch myself pulling at it, i just put a little oil or water on it, so that i'm not breaking it.
 
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I have been hitting the gym hard!!!. :yay: I am on a mission and will not let 30 sneak up on me with this excess weight still hanging on my thighs and belly. :trampolin I have been to the gym 5 times in the last 7 days and will go at least 5 days a week. I currently upped my time on the elliptical to 35 minutes (ultimate goal is 45 minutes to an hour). I am also weight training by doing the following:

100 bicep curls at 30lbs (50 reps each)
50 hip abductions in both directions at 50 lbs
50 tricep extender thingies at 30lbs (I can't remember the name of the machine lol)
50 pec lifter things at 30 lbs (I really need to know what machines I'm using lol.
160 torso twists at 50 lbs (I love this machine because it works my ENTIRE core and obliques)
30 glute lifts on each side at 30lbs

It's only been a week but I can feel muscle definition where there wasn't any before and I don't look as bloated. :dance7: I haven't weighed myself yet though and still won't until the February 1st. I'm in this for a life style change as much as to lose weight so I don't want to get too caught up in numbers.
 
Weighed in this morning. I'm 2.4 lbs from last week and 10.4 lbs total. I won't weigh in again until January 31.
 
Not feeling well today. Mentally or physically. Do idk if I will workout.

On the bright side I found a nice wash and go technique that will come in handy this summer. :-)
 
Forever in Bloom said:
Since August, I have lost 10 pounds. I weighed in at 144 and am now 133.8
The bulk of my weight has come off recently since I started a raw food detox. I have only had 2 cooked meals this week and don't miss cooking at all. The only thing that takes a long time is juicing, but it is worth the wait once you take a sip of all that clean healthy goodness.
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How do u juice foods through the blender? What's a good mix? I want to try it. My goal is to be in my 130s I'm 155 now
 
I completed week3/day2 couch 2 5k today and ab ripper X.

Fitnesspal gals do you eat your workout calories?

I did a garlic treatment and cowash today...
 
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I am not officially joining this challenge but I have my own personal challenge and this among a few other threads keeps me motivated. So, please keep up the good work so I can keep up the good work.
 
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