Carrots: good for you! Let's hope it's just a blip for you to be with us. I aim to get out of the 230s, but it's been slow going this time but I aim to kick it in the fanny.

Dina: Glad exercise went well for you. I hope you find that comes easily.

Ennay: I hate when things don't sprout when you'd like them to. I just repotted new plants as I side plant annuals and I lost the bottom row in one trough. However, replanted and looking good now. Garden is getting really green - fantastic! We are to be hit by storms this aft/evening, so that will either help or cause issues, but I hope more on the helpful front. I need to see how my romaine is doing, always nice right out of the garden.

slash: Ok were on - I'll weigh tomorrow morning and we try to loose 2 lbs each. Maybe that will bring us back into line and finally getting that darn scale to move down. Is it your DH that plays or your kids for ball? I secretly hope for rainouts when my child has games, I have never been a good bench sitter and have done it a lot.:D

AM: My clinic has a new mammo machine, this one I discovered has a screen you can see peripherally that tells how much poundage/force is being used to turn your boobs into a pancake. Today I learned that 17lbs was the magic number, I am fairly certain that's what it was showing as it fluctuated as the scan finished and pressure pulled back. Alas, that's a piece of trivia for me today.

I have been pretty good with calories today, I have logged what I will make for dinner and i have strawberries to cut up for dessert. So I may come in under, which would be fantastic. And if I can add in some movement, even better.

Can I say - I have an odd neighbor. He rides a harley, around his back yard a few times and then shoots out the front to take it on the road. Not sure why, he does it at least once a week, the rest of the time its in and out of the garage. I liken it to training wheels - hah.

Happy loss.

Slash: Well my weigh in for my challenge with you: 237.2. I seem to forever be bouncing right back to this crappy number. Let's see if we can both shift and find our way to the 220s. I am more than ready and happy to leave this darn decade WAY behind.

AM: Moving, the suns out after a huge rain storm last evening. My weight I suspect is a bit down from where it was yesterday but I start afresh w/a clean weigh in as I made it a point to do this morning. TOM found me as well. Splendid. I will do my best not to say chocolate is my main food group during this time. :D I kept under calories yesterday, good thing there were a few times I thought I needed food and worked through it by ignoring or having water. Changes to be made, that's for sure.

Wishing you all a good day.

Lemonthyme, silly question here but what does d.h stand for?

dina: DH for me is dear husband - I used it in the past on other forums. Sorry if it's not the usual, I fall into bad habits! :D

Hi everyone! It's been a long time since I have been here and yes, I did have to "up" my ticker a few pounds but not too bad considering that when I first found this site I weighed in at 306! I have kept most of my weight off for the past 3 years but have a bit of catching up to do. Glad to find this thread again... I just made it out of the 230s so here we go again!!!! I look forward to catching up on all the posts.

Misti: welcome!

Slash: how's it going? I weighed this morning and I am happy to report its moving off.

Hello everyone!

AM: I hopped on the scale this am and even w the arrival of the monthly season of wanting to eat chocolate I have been doing well avoiding it. I've had a few moments where that feeling for need crept into my day yesterday but I did fairly well. So with that: 235.8 so 6/10s to loose for my 2 lbs. I hope I can do this and more so.

My little app I'm using to track my weight I hit my mini goal (again as it resets if I gain back) and the new one is 229. I guess it's easier to shoot for smaller group of numbers and then the 100 lbs doesn't seem so daunting long term and this has been long term.

I'm working on a quilt for one of my kids so today I will have to make sure to get out and bike or walk for a short but less I sit on my bum all day. Any movement is a help. I also need to check my garden out and see what needs to be done and the progress of growth.

Happy moving off the pounds!

Lemonthyme: Sorry I didn't post yesterday. So busy. I started at 239.4. Jeez.... Anyway, not seeing much of a change yet, but you sound like you're killing it! I have a feeling that I'm going to have a rough time of it this week. This baseball tournament is the Junior College World Series. They have it here every year and although I don't have a child playing in it, I just love these baseball games. So, I go every night... which means I stay up late... so I haven't been working out much this week just from being so tired. I hope to kick it up on the weekend and get back on track though. I hope to make some progress with our challenge, but I'm hoping for another challenge next week and I'll be a lot more focused on meal prep and exercise. Gotta get this weight off again.

Misti: Welcome! Glad you're here!

Well, as I said, baseball is all encompassing right now. But the championship game is tomorrow night, so only a couple of more days. It also has been crazy busy at work. One of my coworkers has shingles and will be out for quite a while. I had shingles many years ago and I remember the pain, so I'm feeling for her. But that means that I'm taking on a bigger load at work. Makes it difficult to do anything else. But we'll make it through.

I need to really focus again. The last month has been a little crazy, but mindless eating does not cut it.

Hello everyone. Just checking in and catching up on posts. Thanks for the welcomes.

great thread, keeps everything in perspective for me, I have been heading higher lately and need a turn around

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Thank you;) now I know. Lol :o

slash: 235.6, not much difference, but getting there. Tomorrow I do fasting bloodwork at 10am (you'd think I learn fasting until the 10am hour is a pain in the butt! especially when everyone else can be eating). So the weight off is a good thing. I hope your's is looking down, the weight that is. Have fun at the ball games! I know my family in the long past loved going to Rosenblatt in Omaha for the college world series, fun I am sure.

dina: hey shorthand is a plus, I am still learning emojis and of course sending the wrong ones!

keepn: welcome and good luck to you may these 20 lbs be a quick loss for you!

Hello all!

AM: As said above fasting tonight into tomorrow, I know I am a poor blood sugar responder in the morning, doesn't matter if I have the healthy snack before bed - my number is always higher upon waking - not bad, just over where they'd like it. I found that out in pregnancy, which is the only time I had gestational diabetes. So that means for the rest of my life I get to be checked. I will pack my breakfast with me (hardboiled egg, string cheese and 1/2 a pepper) to eat when I am done. Oh sure, I'd love a meal out, but said meal will get stapled to my bum.

I got an hour in of weeding yesterday, I don't know how to count that, there isn't a "very slow" tab for that when marking yard work, so I did burn some calories. You should check, my app has one for housework as well - in case you are looking for ideas of movement, that one is a secret help!

A year in August when I started this all, I kept telling myself that I could be goal weight by May. Well, life got in the way and I am still struggling with being 100% focused on weight loss, but I try as best I can as I go along. The good news is I have stayed in the same decade for so long (since Feb) but have fluctuated with those 10 lbs so much I am ready to give the old heave ho!. So this morning was nice to see a bit smaller number, though I have been there lots before. I will try to stay the course and move ahead.

Happy weight loss to you all! May the pounds be going down for all of you. :broc:

Lemonthyme: Ugh. I'm not good at fasting at all. Hope you make it through!! Ha!

So, the way it worked out, we have tonight and tomorrow for games yet. I will need to get some stuff done this weekend, so I need to be disciplined during the day to get it all finished. Oh boy! I could skip the games, but I know I'll miss them when they're gone.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Slash: I loathe the fast that's when every crazy craving hits me! Have fun at the games are you cheering a local team? Your love of sport or your DH? Keep tabs on the snacks!

AM: just a fast for 8-12 hours so I'll stay up late and sleep in a bit hah w a LO the sleeping in wont happen. I'm loading up on veg and baked chicken tonight. I will be sure to have a bedtime snack to keep the sugars as level as I can. Drinking my water to begin plumping the veins because I won't be able to tomorrow.

I'm hopeful on the weight today. My mini goal is to be comfortably in the 220s by 4th July. Of course that'd be super great if I was further but since I plod along so nicely it'll be that small goal.

Horribly thick thunderstorms for us right now. It will be all evening. I love the smell of rain. Welcome to warm weather is oh so nice.

Hi all, hope everyone is healthy and doing well.

I took last week off as vacation and consequently spent 6 visits at the vet, including an emergency room visit on Sunday night. My cat couldn't pee, which is bad news as his bladder could have potentially exploded. So - 6 vet visits, a ridiculous amount of money, and a week later and he is finally at home recovering from surgery. He is on lots of medications, and is really groggy and grumpy. I can't say that I blame him. Yay, vacation... silver lining to me was that at least I was home all week and could do what was needed for the little guy.

I am truly surprised that I didn't stress eat this week. Could be that there was nothing in my house LOL. I swear it is because of the supplements I take. They have been life saving for me. I don't get cravings any more and my appetite stays in control.

I was super excited when I weighed in today. I am 1 pound from being 2/7ths of the way to my goal weight :) 39 lost and counting... 101 to go. I was 231 today. That was a really nice surprise. Wish it was moving faster - but it is still moving in the right direction so I am not going to say no to it.

I wish you all were near me - I would buy your veggies from your gardens! :)

Oh - and back on the Goodwill question - I look there, but there are never plus size clothes. So I go to Walmart and can get knit shorts for 5 bucks (the Just My Size label) and T shirts for 5 bucks. Unfortunately I lost the 135 pounds, but gained back so much so fast - I have clothes that will fit me from 210 to 140 pounds. When I got back to the 270, I bought only the very bare necessities. I have 2 pairs of dress pants for work, a bunch of tops that will be wearable for 60 pounds LOL and that's it. I hang out at home in 2 pairs of shorts and 3 tshirts. SO I only have about 20 pounds to go, and I have a brand new wardrobe waiting packed away in the spare room.

That is awesome Kat! :dancer: