It's a struggle, I can tell you that! DH loses weight just eating what I cook. I wish it was that easy for me! My son is the tough one...I've stopped saying anything to him. I'm scared to death of giving him a complex and think I already have. But that kid will not get off his rear end!! It's a FIGHT to get him to walk with us. I keep trying to find fun things for him to do, but he doesn't LIKE to do anything. I feel on the one hand that it's my job to educate him, and the other hand I feel even more strongly that it's my job to show him that it doesn't matter to us what size he is. Both messages are true...I just want him to be healthy.

Ignore my previous "Whoe is me" post. I'm over it. I work out because I love to. My muscles are more toned and my body has shrank. Fu-get-about the stupid scale. (still want to see 185 tho. :] )

Ladies, I have come to bid this thread farewell. A few minutes ago I weighed in and saw 184.2 :carrot::carrot:

I never will again step on the scale and see 185. My goal is to be down to 179 by months end, so we'll see how that goes.

I'm so close...187.4

Hopeful - good bye sweetheart! I'm proud of you!!

Weebles - we are both so uber close!! I actually have seen 185.6 twice this week, but 186.0 today. I would be happy with that come monday as that would be -1.2 and I'll take it!

We ordered Jimmy Johns for lunch today so I had a few more calories than usual. I got a Turkey Tom with no mayo and it was about 325cals. Grocery shopping tonight, yay!

Mortonpixie it's been so fun tag teaming with you. :) We've been together since...what? 209?
I just WI'd again today & got 186. :) LoL. I get to WI whenever I want, that's a rool (silly rule). :)

:hug: for Weebles!! Yep, I think we've been pretty darn close since 209 or so. :)

I weigh every morning - but I'm not speaking to the scale today - 187. Sticking to my plan and still not cheating, exercising and even added time to my workouts (from 45-60min). Upping protein, making sure I incorporate rest days. I swear if I don't loose THIS Monday I'm going to get a different scale.

Hopeful, congratulations!! Sweet victory!

Finally, something to report!! About 10 lbs away now...I finally feel like I belong!

Sw: 202.2
Cw: 195.6
Gw: 185

I saw 198 again today - that's a good feeling!! I have my eyes on 185 for sure!!

Congrats, Eliana!!

Eliana, my 6 yo DD has a box type of body. My hubby doesn't like us to say anything about it in front of her. We just try to encourage her to go outside and play and be active. She would rather watch cartoons. As she gets older, if she is still a little hefty, I plan on talking to her about the need to exercise for health reasons. We know what it feels like to be over weight. I DEF don't want my DD to age prematurely because she doesn't want to move her body. Has he tried paintballing? It is a great workout and it is tons of fun.

I wish I would've listened to my mom when she told me not to eat so much pizza! It's hard getting through to kids. I never thought I would have weight issues now. I definitely want to get my kids to have good habits early on.

I'm in for the 185 goal! I'm hoping to reach it in a little over a month. I'm at 198 now.

197.8 this am!! WOOHOO! :yay:

I am inching further and further away from 200. As frustrating as March was for me, I did lose 7lbs this month. Most of it was at the beginning and end of the month. The time when I was bordering on Onederland was the worst plateau. I wonder if you guys had the same thing?

Congrats BeachBreeze! 7lbs in a month is great! We weigh the exact same amount right now.
I was so happy to get out of the 200s too.

Beach, I personally think there's some mental thing about the #200. I have noticed that quite a few of us hit a plateau around there. It has to be mental.

I'm sick of the 190's now. I sound like a spoiled baby, but I want to see the 180's NOW!

I've been MIA and I have to say that was largely due to denial. But I have to say sometimes a little bit of denial is justified. I was sick a couple weeks ago and missed my WW Weigh-In. Since that was the week after my birthday I didn't want to have an official weigh-in anyway, but I really was sick.

So last week I went to WW and got weighed in. I expected it to be higher than it was two weeks prior, but even I was disappointed in the number I saw on the scale. Back in the 200s! Sure, that was with clothes on and everything, but I had gotten down to 195 in clothes!

So I got firmly back on plan the next day and a couple days later I weighed myself at home and suddenly, 5 pounds gone. Then Sunday I was down yet another pound! I really do believe I had been retaining water for that week or two. Usually I know to expect some weight gain with AF, but this did not fit my normal weight gain/loss pattern at all. I really think it all had to do with being sick. I guess there have been threads here even, bemoaning bloat when you have a cold. Or maybe it was the different meds I was trying.

In any case, I should be able to walk into WW with my head held high this week...and feel like I am finally ready to dive to 185. (Of course, AF is really going to be due soon, so that may not happen as planned).