Hi everyone. The scale said I was up 3 pounds this morning :( Surely water weight from the weekend. Plus I think I'm PMS'ing. Ahh the joys of being a woman, LOL.

I really didn't do "badly" over the weekend. Maybe ate a little more than usual, but definitely didn't blow anything out of the water so to speak. But seeing that +3 gain was disheartening none the less.

Anyway, it's a long day for me at work, since yesterday was a holiday. Working until 9pm, an hour commute home thereafter. Same thing goes for tomorrow. But Thursday is my Friday!!!

Just wanted to pop in... I hope everyone has a great day today :)

I had a s'more last night and didn't want to face the scale this am! But gee that smore was good. With the festivities out of the way I'm focusing this week as best I can. I'm going to add back in to my day chia seeds. I had been using it before when I was able to get into the 230s I guess I just tired of it before I was mixing in my yogurt and I know I didn't find myself as hungry in the afternoons if I had for mid morning or lunchtime. So I will try again because the afternoon is where I have been having issues. I gnosh when my kids have been.

Hope you all had a lovely 4th and yes I so didn't hit my goal of 229. Here's to a new month and trying to escape again!

ooo chia....I have some of those, but forget to use them. They remind me too much of caviar....which I do not llike...

Well, after complaining about the consistency of my scale, he paid me back with a gain...for no good reason...must remember to say kind, appreciative words about Mr Scale.

never had caviar, not a fan of most fish products except in the bad diet form of beer battered and fried! Of course that's usually like once a year as well, I come from the land of fish fries and supper clubs. :D

Thus far doing pretty well, had the chia w/my yogurt and since I threw in blue berries, it was no different then their seeds. Will see if helps w/my afternoon hunger. I have to finish a home project when the LO sleeps (if he ever does!) as I had been busy w/it yesterday and sweated a bunch. Probably gained those pounds w/the s'more, oh well. You do as you go!

SeeMyFeet: Dang. Those scales and their hurt feelings! :) Always be supportive of your scale, at least when you are in the same room! Ha!

Lemonthyme: You'll hit that goal this month for sure. I know it! We are done with holidays for a little while anyway, and can focus again. As for chia seeds, I haven't ever tried them. I know that sometimes we all get tired of what we're eating, so I can understand putting them on the shelf for a little while! Maybe they will kickstart some good losses!

JesikaBeth: Sorry about the gain, but I'll bet that it will come back off quickly. Sounds like you are going to be super busy the next couple of days, so hope you see some losses!

For me, I made my weekly goal this time, after not getting it last week. I probably would have done better, but I indulged a little too much this weekend. Overall, it wasn't horrible, but a little more off track than I should have been. So, I set a new 2 pound goal for this week. I'd love it to be more and I could get back into the 220's, but that would be pretty aggressive. But if I can get it closer and have it be in range at least, that would help!

I didn't start out well with exercise this week, missing body pump this morning, but I will be going running after work. I was awfully tired this morning, but that is not going to be acceptable tomorrow. I WILL BE AT SPIN CLASS! Looking forward to seeing some losses this week!!! (I hope!)

Thanks! Me too!!! Best of luck with your weekly goal! I miss going to exercise classes, but my schedule is so hap hazard it doesn't mesh :(

Hi all!

Just finished catching up. It sounds like everyone is making progress in one way or another. Which is wonderful news! Come on ladies, let's all move down to the next thread together!

Sorry I have been MIA - between work stress and the cat, my car, finances and just life, I've been feeling pretty down the past few weeks and I do tend to isolate when I am blue. That's something I am trying to work on (along with 87 other self improvement items).

A week and a half ago I unintentionally and unknowingly got in the middle of a stand off between my cat and a couple of strays outside the screened patio around 11 pm. Thought Marcos had ruptured his internal sutures from the sounds he was making so I went running out without turning on the light and went to pick him up. 2 mistakes. Always turn on the light and always look around you before grabbing a cat from behind. He went ballistic and attacked my arm - turns out there were 2 strays outside the screen and he must have thought I was one of them. Once I dislodged his teeth from my arm, I got some water and tossed it on them all and broke up the party.

Went to urgent care the next morning and got antibiotics. It seems I should have gotten about 10 stitches as well, but was past the window of opportunity. 10 days now on antibiotics and the infection still isn't gone. But that is due to the meds I take for RA which suppress the immune system, so another 14 days of a different antibiotic.

I've not been doing well with my food plan - am eating more carbs than I should, but primarily from either protein bars or vegetables. Although I did have a packet of Lorna Donne butter cookies yesterday. After 6 months without sugar - they didn't taste like I remembered.

Anyone else having a wonky time with TOM? I guess maybe I am getting to that age. As I am losing weight it takes longer and longer for TOM to show up. at 36 days now and still waiting. Thing is I still get really witchy. :devil:

Oh - silver lining is that I am just starting to fit into some clothes in my closet ( a few shirts) and had to buy new pants. Went from a 24 to an 18. Down 43.2 pounds so far. Little bit at a time... it adds up, although i still don't see it when I look in the mirror.

Wow - that was really long. Sorry for the length and hope I didn't bore everyone! :dizzy:


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Restart 270
Current 227.2
Goal 130

Now this is odd
 

When I logged in this afternoon for my phone I didn't see all of the messages from today. If I had I wouldn't have made the comment that everyone was doing so well since I'm just seeing that people had a rough week. I guess I can only see all posts from my iPad since that seems to refresh or something.

So my apologies if my message seemed callus or disheartening. Definitely was not intended that way.

Now to try to fall back to sleep. Have to love insomnia.

Kat: don't worry about it - I read it as you were cheering us all on. I hope things settle for you some. Beware the Lornas! They usually can sneak back to calling your name when you don't want it too.

Hello all!

AM: been outside since 530 working on my front door as I'm stripping it and then will repaint it. It's been fairly nice all the last week and of course now that I'm working on that its hot and humid and I can't turn on the air because our only door is the screen door. So I'm hurrying asfast as I can. Wouldn't it be great if sweat reduced our weight tremendously?

I haven't been on the scale yet. I felt adding the chia back in did help my need to gnosh in the afternoon. I felt I wasn't as hungry and I hadn't had a heavier bit of protein at lunch. So in my mind the chia helped.

I also got in about 80 oz of water. Yeah! I just need to keep up with that. Do any of you add lemon or mint to your water? I usually will add some lemon to break it up in taste. Right now it's coffee. I never used to do coffee until I hit 40. Now it's a daily thing. More for a warm tummy then anything else. Tea doesn't do it for me.

Here's to good scales I'll try to hop on tomorrow and post and keep going over the weekend I was 238. Not happy with that which is why I feel I will forever be in this thread. But until I stick to it all I expect it won't change so much. I just have to keep working with it.

Happy day to you all!

Ahhh, stripping in the morning...the best time for stripping! Look at you, Ms LT, and your home improvement projects! You go, girl! (my house next??)

srsly, I have so many home projects waiting on me...work and weight loss gets in the way...Magic wand! Where are you?

Ouch! Kat! Take care of that wound! What meds do you take for RA? (comparing)

It's great that you have weekly goals, Slash. I should do that too, but realistically, I can expect only 1.3-2.1 lb per week, based on how slowly I lose, and I find it difficult to accept such a slow rate of loss. I'm trying to be the rabbit in this race, but should accept that I'm really a turtle. Turtles win! Turtles win!

Down 2lb from yesterday's bloat....and pleasantly surprised I didn't have a bigger bloat today...watermelon, and all...

Watermelon is actually a good one for water retention leaving I have found. Sure it's sweet but the right type of sweets I'd think.

Kat: Ouch! Animal bites can be so bad sometimes. I hope everything clears up for you on that front soon! As for TOM, I'm almost to the end of it, so I may not be much help. I seem to go a few months, and then one big one. I really thought I was done for good, after not seeing it for 4 months or so, but it came back a couple of weeks ago.

SeeMyFeet: Glad you had a drop on the scale! Those bloat days can really suck the wind out of your sails! Glad it went back down.

Lemonthyme: Whew! What a project! Hope it goes well. On water, I am not a fan of lemon, so I usually go with plain water. But, I saw that someone in our office brought in some limes, so might try that for something different. I never thought of mint, that might be good too!

JesikaBeth: Sometimes when schedules get crazy, it is so hard to make exercise happen! Hope you get some time soon!

For me: I did see a nice loss this morning. I went running last night and that usually helps me have a good loss. I looked back at my weight recordings and Wednesday seems to be a good day for weight. I'm sure part of it is the running I do on Tuesdays, and probably getting back on track for the week shows up on the scale by Wednesday. :) Going hiking with my son tonight after work.

the door is in process, hopefully tomorrow morning at 530 it will be dry and looking good so I can do it's last coat! It's been a project a long time in the making, I just figured we'd better keep up w/the home projects less we let them stockpile.

I think I am finishing 120 oz of water. I am sure my weight will be high tomorrow, I have been famished after sweating a good deal working on my project. It's hot - like 95° and humid out. It'd be so nice if sweat equaled loss, however I know it will not and I am replenishing my fluids quite well. :D

Perhaps if I keep this 530 going then maybe I will make that my gym time again. I just dread thinking about winter and 530 in the am. Oh well, changes can be made. Right now I am trying to accommodate my DHs hunting schedule and that has been right after dinner. I am not gung ho to go at 9 at night, I found the lunkheads lurking at the gym and they never follow posted gym rules - you'd think you were at a bar w/their bad music blaring, their horrible grunts, their look at me attitude. Let's just say I have never been into the gym scene.

Happy evening to you all. May scales give us all a good surprise tomorrow.

I quit. I need to quit. Quit eating quit being tired quit finding every excuse and thensome. My scale was not kind and frankly has started my day with a funky cloud hanging over my head. I will admit I struggle w wanting to continue tracking calories and I'm not getting to the gym. I do pretty well if I keep to that but I've not been. Maybe I should just log off until I get my head on straight. I see myself thinner, I like it when the scale is down and I feel better so why do I just allow myself to keep the weight on?

Sorry. I'm just really frustrated about it all. I guess these last few weeks I've been kidding myself that I'm actually doing ok. I'm not so more thoughts and hopefully more action to make changes.

Later this morning: Ok, I had a serious mind discussion with myself (always enlightening!). I have to make a change, I hate the 230s, in fact I hate the 200s and there isn't anyone that will make me loose but myself. SO - I began with my calories in earnest today, everything in the mouth will be tracked. I have been doing good with my water, I have done this before, I CAN DO IT AGAIN. I am also going to tell DH that I will need to go to the gym tonight too. Even if I cycle for 20 minutes, that's more than what I have been doing and he can take care of the rest while I am gone, if I am allotting for his hunting afterwork, he can accommodate my gym time, we might not see each other for a few hours, but heck, I have to get this off. Here's to focusing!

Hello, and whoohoo -- how cool would it be to move down to the next thread as a group :carrot:

And OMG, sounds horrible about the cat fight. I hope you are feeling better!!!! How scary.

I'm sorry that you have been struggling with the food. I know that can be disheartening. Something that helps me is remembering that I can choose to start my day over at any given point -- any second of the day. I do not have to wait until the next day ;) I know personally I get into black and white thinking easily.

AND BTW, congrats on being in an 18! That's fantastic!!!!! Keep on Keepin' on :) Have a good day!