[TracyLangford]

Wel done Jegs, great loss and welcome to the group - i see you live in Bristol, where abouts?

Tracy

[jegs]

thanks Tracy
i live in Horfeild

[cat90]

Well Done jegs

[BritinNJ]

Well done Jegs. Welcome, come and join us in the hello from thread for a natter about your weight loss and day

[stef]

Welcome jegs.

Congratulations on the loss. Keep on coming, we all love to hear everyone's good loss stories, makes our oopses seem a little less tragic!

[stef]

ah! ah! ah! ah! notice me! notice me! notice me! OI YOU - LOOK OVER HERE!

So I got up this morning and stepped on the scales. Wasn't feeling too brave but I have done it. After last weeks chickening out I was feeling stoopid!

I seem to be back in control, another 1lb, according to schedule, no sudden, unexplained extra loss. Just the pound I was aiming for!

But the DH seems to have hurt his foot, so I can hear a pizza calling out to heal him, and me!! Well perhaps not then!!

[BritinNJ]

Congrats Stef Well done on that pound.
I am THE SAME!!!! Why? Oh why? I have had a good week, stayed within points and exercised, and drank all of my water.
I can't be stuck on a plateau.....I don't want to stay at thiis weight, I want to get into ONEder land. I do, I do.
We'll here's to another week of working on it, hopefully I'll be visiting that place this time next week
Good luck to everyone else too.

[cat90]

Well Done Stef

Oh Chris is'nt that maddening? maybe you should try adding a 100 or so cals and see if that has any effect remember Ali ? thats what she ended up doing

[stef]

Hi Chris,

2 theories for plateau, according to the rules I work by in my weight management sessions:

Your body loses weight in cycles of about 14 weeks: 14 weeks loss and 14 weeks maintainance. In the Maintainance weeks your weight loss will dramatically slow or stop altogether.

You may now need to increase kcals a day if you have increased your lean tissue mass. The more muscle you get the higher your Basal Metabolic Rate, so you need to eat a little bit more to stop going into ''save everything' mode.

If you really have been very very good and aren't scared at gaining a pound or 3 try adding in a bit more food for about 4 weeks.

If it all goes horribly wrong I'll ring up the COunty Nutritionists and shout!

[BritinNJ]

Thanks Cathy and Stef. It is a tad frustrating, but I like the sound of the 14 week thing. I last lost poundage Christmas Eve week and since then have stayed the same although I wasn't overly good at Christmas
I think I will try to add a bit more daily then, and see what happens. I'll let you know

[veggie]

I lost 4 this week yes I'm back losing

[BritinNJ]

Well done Veggie, what's your secret then?

[Superwitch]

Starting again at 11st6. Just weighed myself, I think that I can know at least half a lb of for thhis flimsy satin chemise that I am wearing - lmao.

Ideally I would like to lose 2lb a week for 6 weeks (to make up for my weeks of being weak - lol) and then 1lb a week from then on.

[Smiling Sal]

I will weigh in on Wednesday, weighed myself yesterday and that was scary enough

[veggie]

Originally Posted by BritinNJ

Well done Veggie, what's your secret then?

Eating less! It's my magic secret I may write a book about it