Hello All,

I saw 259.8 on the scale this morning so that means I'm officially in the 250's club! Yeah!

Any other members of this exclusive club want to chat their weight away?

I'm trying to get to 255 by Feb 1st and 247 by March 1st. I do very general calorie counting and portion control and try my best to keep a work out schedule of 2 days on, 1 day off, and do mostly elliptical. I want to casually work toward a 5K in 45 minutes and then am planning register to participate in a race!

Can I join? I'm not down to the 250s yet but hopefully this week (I'm at 260).

Can I join too? I'm 260 too but the end of this week I will be in the 250's

I was so hoping to weigh in at 259.8 just so I could be in the 250's but weighed in at 260.2. I'm glad you started a 250's thread.

Haha this is an all inclusive group! We can just call it "Working Toward 250!"

Does anyone have big challenges coming up this week? We have Sharks season tickets, so we will be going 3 times this week. Every time I go, it's a struggle. I want nachos so bad!!! I always eat before I go and I know I can have cotton candy if I really want a treat as it's 200 cal per bag, but it doesn't help the fact that I want nachos. I try to tell myself nachos are not worth being fat!

Some of the things I want to do when I lose a bunch of weight are skydiving (if I make my July goal of 215, I'm going!), and going to a theme park without worrying about fitting on all the rides. I scuba dive, so the more weight I lose means less weight I have to wear to make me neutrally buoyant and as I get in shape, I'll get to spend more time before I deplete my tank of air. I also want to be fit enough to hike with my dog on some of the off-leash trails.

I just keep reminding myself of all these things when I want nachos, or french fries, or chicken fingers! Tonight we are going out to Red Robin and I am going to have the bruchetta chicken sandwich with a side salad with italian. No fries! It's a total of 750 cal and with my frozen pizza I had for brunch, it's going to be an 1180 calorie day, plus 30 min elliptical

I think my biggest struggle for the week is not eating any of the left over New Year's food in the fridge.
I am also a big fan of nachos!! Luckily I hate spending money on food so that helps me.
I have always wanted to go to theme parks and not have to worry about fitting on the rides. I have had so many rides where I would get on them and the bar didn't want to come down or you had to slide into the seat or if it's a boat ride the boat actually started to roll to the side. I have always had to use the excuse that I was afraid of heights or the rides make me sick. Once I can get under 200 pounds, my reward for myself is to get a season pass to Cedar Point.

I'm 258.6 now for two days in a row, so i'm pretty sure I'm here to stay lol.

How is everyone else doing?
Do you guys have myfitnesspal?

I ended up going up .8 lbs, so I'm at 261. My official weigh in days are Friday so I don't really take this gain into consideration.

I have never heard of myfitnesspal, what exactly is it?

Yesterday I weighed in at 260.2 but today the scale was nicer and gave me 259.2. However, I ate really lightly yesterday because I felt so terrible about the gain.

Tonight we are going to Olive Garden so I'm trying to prepare myself to not get on the scale tomorrow. If I have soup, salad, and 1 breadstick, I can stay under 700 calories for the meal, but the salt will cause me to show a gain. I'm doing well so far today, oatmeal with bananas for breakfast and a salad for lunch. Although I did have 4 peanut butter M&Ms!

I had the day off from the gym yesterday so I'll be back at it tonight and tomorrow. I'm trying to get my 2 miles under 30 minutes this week

I hope everyone is doing well.

Hi guys! I started this journey on the 1st and so far I'm down 7 pounds. Lots of water weight from all the crap I've been eating the last few months. I'm at 261 but hope to be out of the 250's by the end of the year.

Good luck everyone! 240's here we come

Weighed in at 259.8 this morning! Thank god!

good job!

Good job! I weighed in at 259 too

That's Great!

Weighed in this morning at 257. I've lost 11 pounds since Sunday. Man I must be made of water or something because that's just crazy!!