[TooManyDimples]

Starting Weight 1/1/17 ~ 265.8
Challenge Goal Weight ~ 251.8

1/6/17 ~ 263.2 (-2.6)
1/13/17 ~ 260.2 (-3)
1/20/17 ~ 260.2 (TOM)
1/27/17 ~ 257.6 (-2.6)
2/3/17 ~ 255.2 (-2.4)
2/10/17 ~ 256 (+.8)
Challenge Final:2/14/17 ~ 257.8

Did not end the challenge on a high note, but I'm 8lbs down and will take that. Back on track and hopefully I'll stay more focused through the next challenge.

[alleggsinonebasket]

So happy to wake up this morning to find that I was one pound under goal weight for this first challenge! Yippee!
Goal Weight: 240

01/01/2017: 256
01/08/2017: 249
01/15/2017: 246.8
01/22/2017: 245.4
01/29/2017: 244.0
02/05/2017: 242.0
02/14/2017: 239.0
Total lost: 17 lbs.

I realize the going from now on will be slow, averaging around one and a half pounds per week, if that, but I don't care. I'm eating now the way I want to eat when the excess weight is gone. I'm done with yo-yo-ing. I'm focused on changing my attitude about food and about unreasonable expectations as well. Above all, I realize that good goals shared by many tend to be more successful than solo journeys.

toomanydimples: Hang in there -- you have much to be proud of.
onebyone: That's the spirit! It's not so much the number as the direction, right?
KayG: I really relate about the initial water weight loss. . .but we will lose "snail like" together, OK?
Laura and Traveller: one word: WOW.

aaaand... on to the next challenge! Let's everybody stay together and move on to the next thread!