Berry: If you walked 20 miles, I'm gonna still go ahead and say you can count it! You said you were down 1.6lbs, that's great for going on vacation! Well done. Most folks throw it all out the window and gain on vacations.
I'm with you though, exercise goals are what it's about. If the loss happens, it happens. If not, well, at least I'll be able to say I can jog a mile in my chubby state, which is more than I've ever been able to say in my life, even when I was in great shape.
Congrats on everyone's losses! Especially you, berry! I'd have a very hard time losing weight on vacation so kudos to you i'm at 259.2 this morning so a total loss of 9.4 for the month of July! Yay! If I keep going at this rate I can be at my lowest adult weight by Christmas. I'm worried about staying on plan this week, though. My son is gone until Thursday and DF works second shift. So I can see myself deciding that it's not worth it to make dinner for only me and DD. You know, just scrounging through the cupboards. So that's my goal this week. To keep making healthy dinners even if I'm the only one that eats them.
good morning! my very last week home from work for the summer....i weigh monthly on the 5th of each month, just because that's the date i first weighed on when i began this back last spring...so my goal is for very good eating this week and we'll see what the scale says on friday...which is also my last day of home childcare for the summer....son's cousin spent the night last night and both are awake...i get the other kids soon
and hopefully my friend debbie will be in to check in with us soon...she's new here but we've been friends for ages!! so excited!!
I'm new to this thread but I need as much accountability as I can get. I lost this horrible 40 pounds 2 years ago and freakin gained it back. UGH...I'm replacing two meals per day with salad and walking/jogging at least 4 times per week beginning 7/30. My goal is to be 135 by 1/2012.
Well my scale was completely insane this morning. I am up 2.2 to 187.8! Really, scale? Really?? Stupid scale!
So I celebrated (not really) my year anniversary of being on this journey!!! I have never stuck to anything this long and this determined before! I am proud to say that I am doing it!
There are all kinds of reasons. I ate well yesterday after not getting enough calories for the day on Saturday and being dehydrated. I also did not get nearly enough sleep for the last few nights. I did pretty good last night but will be able to do better today.
My eating is on plan today and it will be fine for supper. My exercise this week will primarily be cleaning the $%^& out of my house. It's not horrible, I'm just tired of the too many unfinished projects that I have going on in EVERY room!!! So, going to work on that a bit this week. Going to try and get a Yoga workout at least once a week this month.
I'm claiming my loss for July as 4.4 lbs. Not as great as I'd hoped but very happy with a loss at all! I really can't complain about losing a pound a week.
Height: Just because you put a pretty shirt over your muffin top, that dose not make it a cupcake!
Good afternoon ladies!
I'm feeling great today! Glad my visitor Tom is no longer with me maybe I can get back on track. My weight hasn't changed in the past few days. I'd rather stay the same than gain. Still at 184 when I woke up this morning. My hubby talked me into eating a cookie last night! So we did some "extra" activities last night to make up for the extra calories. Hope to get back on the downward spiral this week.
Checking in for the accountability. Losing weight is so hard after age 50. I do not like to exercise except for walking my little fur boys.
I am still down my original 2 pounds. That's a good thing! I am watching what I eat more closely and portion amounts and I realize that 1200-1500 calories add up quickly.
I a looking forward to my ticker so I can get extra motivation of seeing the ticker go down. Surely....I have been here at least 20 days and 20 posts.
I am discouraged. Weight loss was never this hard in the past.
wannabe- I'm only 25 but losing weight is so much harder after kids. I was just remarking to my husband yesterday and 7 years ago I could eat, drink party, sleep, lounge and so on anything and anytime I wanted and I balanced between 130 and 135 depending on Aunt FLO.
NOW!! I look at the bowl of icecream my husband is savoring and I feel 10 pounds heavier! So here I am..back for the second time after losing 40 pounds in 09/10 and gaining every last pound back after almost 2 years.
i went through my old photo albums in search of inspiration this morning...here are a few photos-of-photos that hopefully show some progress....these start in 2002, jump to 2006 and then current....
here is a photo of my face in 2002 when i weighed somewhere in the 250s, i'm guessing, the first time i really truly started battling my weight 2222ruth don 2002.jpg
and here's my face now at about the same angle 2222ruth05-2011.jpg
here is a photo of me at 247 right after my son had been born in 2006 2222ruth02 2006.jpg
I went out and bought myself a charm bracelet to celebrate my weight loss. I'm going with a colored bead for five lbs and a charm for ten. So I bought three colored beads and three charms i bought a little tiny heart box charm that I'm going to put my son's first lost tooth in (a reminder of why I'm doing this), a tiny crystal ball to help me think of how great the future will be, and a little cupcake to replace the ones I shouldn't eat.
I'm new to the website, but hoping it will give me some support that I need. Its a new day and hope that it will be a great week. Its lunch time, so on my way to make smart choices (hopefully). I know I dont have as much to lose as some people, but its a big deal for me and hard to get it together.
Wow, loving hearing about everyone's progress...yes, even those who maybe feel they aren't progressing as they would like...it's still progress just taking the time to focus on yourself and acknowledge that you are going to keep at it. Working on dinner plans...looking through low fat cookbook.
I went out and bought myself a charm bracelet to celebrate my weight loss. I'm going with a colored bead for five lbs and a charm for ten. So I bought three colored beads and three charms i bought a little tiny heart box charm that I'm going to put my son's first lost tooth in (a reminder of why I'm doing this), a tiny crystal ball to help me think of how great the future will be, and a little cupcake to replace the ones I shouldn't eat.
You said you were down 1.6lbs, that's great for going on vacation! Well done. 
Most folks throw it all out the window and gain on vacations. 
just to jumpstart my metabolism.
i'm at 259.2 this morning so a total loss of 9.4 for the month of July! Yay! If I keep going at this rate I can be at my lowest adult weight by Christmas. I'm worried about staying on plan this week, though. My son is gone until Thursday and DF works second shift. So I can see myself deciding that it's not worth it to make dinner for only me and DD. You know, just scrounging through the cupboards. So that's my goal this week. To keep making healthy dinners even if I'm the only one that eats them.
Really, scale? Really?? Stupid scale!
So we did some "extra" activities 
last night to make up for the extra calories. Hope to get back on the downward spiral this week.
