[poppyseed32]

Okay, now in the 180s (189) and hoping to keep my downward trend going! Jubilee and Audri are you still around?

[qtee]

Hi ..I'm 183..was in the 180s then gained weight twice..now I'm back..hoping the be in the 170s really soon..

[qtee]

Weigh in this morning 180.8.... Almost out of the 180s.. NSV I was able to close my size 8 shorts.. Under my stomach but hey I'll take it WOOT WOOT

[donijo23]

Hi, I am somewhere in the 180's. I will find out Tuesday on my first day of WW.

[qtee]

I weighed in today at 179...I'm excited to b moving on....

[poppyseed32]

congrats qtee!!! donijo23 keep us posted.

i'm at 184 now, slow but steady wins the race!

[donijo23]

Well I did what I swore what I wasn't going to do and I got on the bathroom scale (which I need to hide). It showed 184. After tomorrow I will only go by the WW scale, but I got curious and wanted an idea. Now I am bummed because in a month and a half I have put on 9 pounds.... I attest it to the new relationship I am in going out to eat and not paying attention to what I was eating. Now I have to pay attention lol

[poppyseed32]

183 today, woo.

donijo23, what did the WW scale say?

[donijo23]

WW weighed me in at 186.6
I hope some of the extra weight was from my shoes....lol
I went to the store and got everything i need to do simple start yesterday and I am starting today. It is sad to say but I think I am only going to do WW officially until i learn the point system since it has changed and then I am going to follow it on my own because I cant afford it. Once I learn it I am going to teach it to my friend and we are going to do it together. So with her support and everyone here, I think I will do great!

[poppyseed32]

Shoes/clothes/time of day matter a lot.

On any given day I know I vary in weight between 1-2 pounds at different times. Some people suggest only weighing yourself once per week, for me what's working so far is to weigh myself every 1-2 days and put it in an excel spreadsheet. Because I can see my patterns, I know that often times I hold weight or go up a bit before losing it "all at once" and this pattern helps me feel better when I know I'm doing things right but it's not reflected on the scale.

Sorry that you won't be able to keep doing the WW program but I think you will be able to use the tools and indeed social support here to keep you going.

I have struggled with my weight for years, up, down, up, down and hope that this time the pattern will be different, but so far I'm enjoying what I'm doing in this round, some new stuff I haven't done before (calorie counting, eating less processed food and waaay more salads and brothy soups, drinking lots of coffee, tea, water). In the past I have tended to do extreme diets or extreme exercise and never could incorporate those things into long-term lifestyle patterns. This time things feel more "doable" and I'm okay with losing weight more slowly. I've been losing about 1 - 1.5 lbs / week without being miserable. Obviously I wish it would go faster sometimes, but I think that's been a trap of mine in the past.

[donijo23]

Poppyseed,
I have literally hidden my scale because I am afraid of getting on it more than once a week. I don't want to see the increase and feel defeated.

As far as WW, I am not crazy happy with it. They push the simple start, and
I am not fond of it. I am a very picky eater and trying to figure out ways to eat only what they let you eat at the beginning is a pain in the tushy. I wanted to just start on the points, but they didnt want that because "it has been proven" that if you do simple start you have a better jump start on weight loss. Also, I feel like I get much more support here than I do at the meetings. I was not impressed with that either. I guess I will have to see how the next one goes before I make too big of a decision on them, but I just didnt see the support from it.

Well that was a lot of complaining lol

[poppyseed32]

if it helps, complain away. i'll do my own share of complaining... a week and a half before my period or so i actually get an appetite increase and that sucks so hard b/c what i thought i was accustomed to eating doesn't seem like enough. so annoying.

last night my spouse and i had a lavish meal out and while i didn't eat as much as i once would have, i probably overdid my calories by at least 1500 yesterday... ugggh. i have a hard time being more restrictive beyond my normal afterwards to so i can't even make up for it... just put that in the bank i guess. bleh. but... it was delicious and fun so i shouldn't complain too much. i'm trying to treat this as a lifestyle where i go out once in awhile, not as deprivation, so feeling guilty about splurges every so often is probably not healthy.

[donijo23]

I just feel so restricted on what I can eat. and I have been following the rules. I just feel hungry. A lot lol

[coffeeshopgirl]

183 today, and that was before dinner. Yay!! Working on getting to 180 and then some...

[donijo23]

Second weigh in at WW 181.2 = lost 5.4lbs!!!!!!