Alright ya'll I'm IN!! I've been on and off for 7 years. I have been in denial and now realize I am the biggest I have ever been. :( Getting serious and healthy for me and my family :)

SW: 309
GW: 300 - Met 2/8/16
New GW: 295 - Met 2/17/15
New GW: 291

2/01: 309
2/02: 304.8
2/03: 304.8 UGH Move!!
2/04: 304
2/05: 303.6
2/06: 301.8 new scale
2/07: 300.4
2/08: 299.6
2/09: 298.8
2/10: 298.6
2/11: 297.8
2/12: 297 Aunt Flo
2/13: 297.6
2/14: 298.2
2/15: 298.8
2/16: 296.2
2/17: 295.2
2/18: 295.4
2/19: 295.8
2/20: 295.6
2/21: 293.6 dehydrated
2/22: 298.8 retaining water
2/23: 297.2
2/24: 293.4
2/25: 293
2/26: 292.2
2/27: 291
2/28: 292.6
2/29: 292.8

Kukkie, I noticed that most of you had not checked in yet. I want us all to be together also and I guess some are just use to what they are use to. I too posted on SmallSteps thread. Then I went ahead and set up this thread due to a few wondering why I hadn't kept with my norm after all of this time :) I kinda felt happy/good so here's the thread. :hug:

Everyone post where you like :) I believe that accountability is the keep to our success ... we can do it together :)

Day 1 of 28
 

Quick check in ...

B~ green smoothie, coffee
L~ cabbage soup smoothie 16oz (very good)
gym 30 minutes on the treadmill
S ~ 1 piece of leftover fried flounder (not a lot of breading), 1oz Utz caramel corn (not allowed) 1/4 honey crunch cashews (should have been plain)
D~ tilapia
gonna try to do a quick 15 minutes on the treadmill before bed

weigh in this morning 176.6

love2b150 I'm here, thank you for trying to get everyone together.

imthegoddess a huge congratulations on the 8 pounds gone! Keep it up!

Hi again to everyone :wave: Wishing all of you great success in February.

The last couple of nights have been horrible. On Saturday, I had to get up in the middle of the night to let out a night crew at the store. And yesterday, as per my frequent pattern, I slept 5 hours, then woke up and it took forever to get back to sleep. And the number on my scale this morning put me in a really foul mood. But I ate well, that's the only good thing about this day.

01: 231.6

Hi Everyone, and thanks for the update Love2b,;)

Well here we are at February,,,,,:carrot: wishing the best for all of us....

Start date Feb 1st,,,,weight 176

Replying from the January thread
 

Joe you did wonderfully last month. Keep up the great work. :high: I'm loving your new goal. GO YOU! :carrot:

DayDreamer, WOW 14.6lbs is great. Keep up the great work :high: GO YOU! :carrot:

missypanda, you had a great month also :high: GO YOU! :carrot:

DanaRae :welcome: to the thread, we are quite active, lots of <3 here in my opinion :) Glad to have you :)

Hello everyone! A bit confused about where to post too...so I'll just copy and paste everywhere :dizzy:

I weighed in at the clinic today and since beginning my program I've lost 4.8 pounds -- that was only last Thursday, so I'm tickled pink!

My food today was absolutely delicious and I had enough...still have room for some fruit today if I'm hungry later:

Rennie...as requested, here was my menu for today

Breakfast (437 calories)
3 oz flank steak, 1/2 medium orange, 1 apple, 12 slices cucumber, large coffee with cream

Lunch (320 calories)
1 Joseph's pita, 3 oz chicken breast, 2 tbsp salsa, tomato soup (homemade)

Dinner (404 calories)
2 Mama Lupe tortillas, 2 oz flank steak, 2 oz chicken breast, 8 oz grilled onions and peppers, romaine, 2 tbsp salsa, 2 tsp ff cream cheese
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Please don't be confused. I will post here for sure.

Thanks Angie great weigh in :high: ... I'm happy for you that's only 3 days right? GO YOU! :carrot: I'm also loving your menus. I need to get some ink so I can copy, paste and print. I love that the calories count is there. It definitely helps. I did well today, minus a one hiccup with caramel corn. I only ate a serving but still I should have resisted.

Ok Love2b,
I noticed you said your with me on the 15 minute exercise perday start.....I'm gonna do it today. We actually weighed in the same. And is this diet your on actually a 1 pound a day dropper, or did I read that wrong?

Ok now catching up on this thread :) my first post was replying to you all that posted on the January thread :hug:

DayDreamer, you had a great month, that's 1.25lbs a week. I wish I had done that. This month will definitely be better :crossed: Nice weigh in this morning YAY YOU! :carrot:

Joe, I love the treadmill. It is and always will be my go to. I am gonna start trying other machines. I know they will help with toning and I do need to ease away from my comfort zone of the last 5+ years. :)

Kukkie do you think that you'll be able to do the 28 in 28? You eat really well. I think it's just eating out that gets you (lunches). Let's give it a shot together.

imthegoddess, great loss for January :high: GO YOU :carrot: I did well one of those January's but I am finding that with age nothing is as easy as before. I am also noticing that what worked before definitely doesn't always work again :dizzy: It's so good that you and your husband are doing this together. It does help. My husband walked with me n 2010 but he loss weight and that wasn't a good thing since he doesn't need to. So I found others to walk with but I lived in another state. I didn't get my first snack in today and I ate a not so great one after I got home. I'm just proud of myself for actually measuring it and not eating out of the bag. :) I'm trying to plan especially when I know I won't be coming straight home from work. It is a disaster for me food wise when I do that.

Trina, I didn't do my exercise this morning but I did go to the gym after work. I worked up a good sweat. I didn't have time to make the lemon water but I have already juiced the lemon for the morning. I had my coffee also and breakfast was my green smoothie :)

ap14, 10lbs, GO YOU :carrot: I have to say, I admire all of you that are disciplined enough to go to a restaurant order a sandwich and not eat the bread. Bread makes me :drool: seriously. I can eat an entire loaf with butter or peanut butter, ha or just plain if it's fresh and moist, smh. :)

Hi Kris :hug: How are you?

FinallyFree we are neck and neck :) I'm liking this :) Ok just saw your post, yes it's supposed to help you drop a pound a day with the lemon water in the morning/through the day, exercise in the a.m. (30 minutes) I need to start off slow (still not sure I can get up a little pass midnight to exercise) I'll have to go to bed at 6pm and 7pm is hard as you can see ;), sensible meals though out the day, protein and veggies, no carbs and then another 30 min or exercise in the evening and get all of your water in (I'm working my way up to half my body weight). OK really gotta go to bed, good night :hug:


OK it's 45 minutes pass my bedtime but I wanted to report I had a good loss also, not sure how or why but I am happy.
~down 1.2 to 176.6.
~gym 1.56 miles, burned 208.5 calories, in 30 minutes, treadmill
~water only 6 -16.9oz bottles
~one (two) unplanned snack but both counted on MFP caramel corn and honey crunch cashews

Hopefully all of this will get better as the month goes on

Good night :hug:

I'll catch up with everyone in the morning. I'm so tired tonight. I had my math class and photography class back to back. Argh. The math prof is great though - much better than last semester.

:welcome2:

Great Drop, congratulations.:congrat:

You've been my buddy for the past year, so here I will be.

Martine, thank you. I'm sorry you are not sleeping well. I hate that.

Your meals sound great. Congratulations on the huge weight loss.:woohoo:

Yay, great loss, and great NSV :cheer3::cheer:with measuring out the snack. You've got this. And, I'm way older than you. LOL

Hi to everyone I didn't address personally. I'm looking forward to everyone's wins this month.

Good evening, all:wave:,

I join everyone else in thanking Rennie for gathering us all together. February already and with a leap year, 29 days to get it right! I've been down with a stomach virus most of the weekend so I'll do a more complete check in tomorrow.

A good evening and restful night to everyone.

Thanks everyone :D

I couldn't fall asleep last night for the longest time and I feel like a zombie right now.

I was pondering ideas to celebrate my first mini goal. I want ... not a prize but lets call it a small celebration for my efforts. Hahaha I don't want it to be food related (AKA I'll have a donut :drool: or maybe I should :p). Was wondering if you guys had any ideas. I want to get a nice hair cut (maybe even dye my hair) when I reach goal 4-5.

OMG! I saw THE CUTEST socks the other day, we were at a shoe store looking for shoes for the husband and I SO wanted them... They went up to your thighs and had ruffles (actual socks not pantyhose). I have ALWAYS want to wear stuff like that... But of course, there is NO way they would fit me.. I mean my thighs are HUGE, no even bigger than that :o! So I might do that as a later goal reward.

Anyway no where near my bed time but I am exhausted. So, night night. :yawn:

February 01, 2016 Weigh In: 287.2
February 28, 2016 Weigh In:
Total February Weight Loss:
~ TOM: February 5-8

Week 1
01. ~ 287.2 Vitamin D Level: 25.3 (Flagged Low) Normal 30.0-100.0
02. ~ 288.8 ↑1.6
03. ~ 288.6 ↓0.2
04. ~ 289.6 ↑1.0
05. ~ 292.0 ↑2.4 - TOM
06. ~ 288.0 ↓4.0 - TOM
07. ~ 286.6 ↓1.4 - TOM
Weekly Weight Loss: ↓0.6

Week 2
08. ~ 288.0 ↑1.2 - TOM
09. ~ 288.4 ↑0.4
10. ~ 287.2 ↓1.2
11. ~ 287.0 ↓0.2
12. ~ 287.0 ↓0.0
13. ~ 286.4 ↓0.6
14. ~ 285.2 ↓1.2
Weekly Weight Loss: ↓2.8

Week 3
15. ~ No Weigh In
16. ~ No Weigh In
17. ~ 284.6
18. ~ No Weigh In
19. ~ No Weigh In
20. ~ No Weigh In
21. ~ 285.8
Weekly Weight Gain: ↑1.2

Week 4
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Weekly Weight Loss: ↓

Week 5
29. ~