**April Weigh Ins**
 

Ok people, its a new month to meet some goals! Please join me and lets keep each other motivated!
SW: 186.2
GW: 182
4#s. I wanted to aim for 170s, but i have to travel for a funeral and a family get together. I'm keeping it realistic at a lb a week.
4/1: 186.2
4/2: 186
4/3: 184.8!
4/4: traveling
4/5: traveling
4/6: 185.2 not too bad :)
4/7: 186.2
4/8: 187, ugh! TOM should be starting today
4/9: 186.8 Ovaries are in the house, and I must have made them angry
4/10: 186.2 TOM
4/11: dnw sister in labor
4/12: 184.4 TOM
4/13: 185.8 TOM. :/ dunno, been doing everything right
4/14: 184.6
4/15: 185
4/16: 185. I wasn't behaving well last two days. Some deaths at my job got to me. :/
4/17: traveling
4/18: traveling
4/19: traveling
4/20: 184.6
4/21: 184.6
4/22: 183.8!! Finally progress!
4/23: 183.8.
4/24: 182.6. Heck yes!
4/25: 183.8
4/26: 181.8. Shock....
4/27: 183.8
4/28: 182.4
4/29: 180.6. Dehydrated though...
4/30: 182.2


April Loss: 4 lbs
End weight: 182.2
Not bad, almost to goal and I had a lot going on this month.

I'm with you!

SW: 154.4
GW: 147

4/1: 154.
4/30:


April Loss:
End weight:

To a successful April...

SW: 192.7
GW: 188

4/1: 192.7
4/30:

OK...I got a bit off track in March but I'm ready to rock 'n' roll!

SW: 202.6
GW: 195

4/1: 202.6
4/2: 202.4
4/3: 202 (Please Onederland - come to Mamma this week!)
4/4: 204
4/5: DNW
4/6: DNW
4/7: DNW
4/8: DNW
4/9: DNW
4/10: 201.6
4/11: 200.6
4/12: 200.8
4/13: 201.2 (Grrrr....onederland seems so far away!!!)
4/14: 201 :(
4/15: 200.0 (come on, I couldn't be 0.2 less?)
4/16: 201.2
4/17: 200.0 - I think my body is playing tricks on me!!! Gaaaah!
4/18: 199 - Onederland!!!!
4/19: 200.2
4/20: 199.8
4/21: 199.2
4/22: 199
4/23: 199
4/24: 198
4/25: 198
4/26: 197.8
4/27: 198.2
4/28: 197.6
4/29: 198 - sighhhh :(
4/30: 198


April Loss: 4.6 lls
End weight: 198.0

I'm getting over a long plateau and haven't totally figured out what my body needs yet. I'd like to get out of the 170s this month, but who knows.

SW: 172.2
GW: 169

4/01: 172.2
4/02: 172.2
4/03: 173.0
4/04: 172.6
4/05: 172.0
4/06: 170.2
4/07: 171.0
4/08: 170.0
4/09: 169.6 :D Finally out of the 170s after 5 months
4/10: 171.4 :shrug: Wow, that didn't last long...
4/11: 171.0
4/12: 172.0 TOM start
4/13: 173.4
4/14: 174.6
4/15: 174.6
4/16: 173.8
4/17: 172.2
4/18: 172.8
4/19: 172.8
4/20: 174.4 10 days left. Better step it up.
4/21: 173.4
4/22: 172.2
4/23: 170.8
4/24: 169.4
4/25: 168.8
4/26: 167.2
4/27: 167.0
4/28: 167.4
4/29: 166.6
4/30: 166.0 Ending the month with a nice round number

April Loss: 6.2 lbs
End weight: 166.0

Overall I'm very satisfied and incredibly relieved. I had not lost any weight at all in Jan and Feb and most of March. It feels great to have lost weight again at the rate I was losing when I started my journey. I kind of wish I had hit 165 just so I could claim no longer being obese, but I suppose that accomplishment can wait for next month.

I fell off the wagon so hard but here I go again..

SW: 198.0
GW: 190.0

4/1: 198.0
4/2: 197.8 (TOM)
4/3: - (TOM)
4/4: - (TOM)
4/5: 197.8 (TOM)
4/6: 197.4
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Yay lets rock this! :)

I'm in too!!!

04/01 - 211.4
04/02 - 212.2

Start: 168.4 lbs (some time this past week)

April 1
April 2
April 3 - 169.8
April 4 - Did not weigh in
April 5 - traveling
April 6 - traveling
April 7 - 171.8 (travel and TOM)
April 8 - 171.8
April 9 - 171.8
April 10 - 170.4
April 11 -
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April 13 - 15 - Traveling
April 16 -
April 17 -
April 18 -
April 22 - 170.4
April 23 - 170.4

April 25 - (last day I can weigh in before the end of April)
End weight:

Sw: 188.0
Gw: 184.0


4/1: 188
4/2: 188.6
4/3: 187.0
4/4: 187.0
4/5: Dnw
4/6: 190 ??
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Circa, congratulations!!!
Clever I'm feeling your pain on the scale,hopefully it's just some water weight that will drop over the next few days. I gave into my hormones and had a nice Italian dinner out with hubby and son. I still kept it somewhat in check though as i didn't really eat much other than a small tuna salad earlier today. Hopefully it won't be too damaging, but after this frustrating week I wanted a break meal.

Thanks. I'm up today, but I'm stressing out over car repairs and TOM will start in a day or two, so I'm not totally bummed about the gain. I'm glad to have hit that number though. I'm going to go a little easier on the carbs and salt next week and maybe it will help me reclaim it faster.

I'm realllly struggling over here....but hopefully I'm back on track and into Onederland soooon!

Congrats on hitting Onederland, Laura78

Started on April 20th.

4/20: 202.2
4/21: 199.0
4/22:196.8 :cheer2:
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20/4: 95.1 (209.6)
21/4: 94.7 (208.7)
22/4: 93.7 (206.5)
23/4: 93.3 (205.7)
24/4: 93.3 (205.7) had my one wine night of the week last night & dinner out, also TOM
25/4: 94.3 (207.9) :( TOM hits hard....
26/4: 94.1 (207.4) creeping back....
27/4: 93.8 (206.7)
28/4:94.1 (207.4) - urgh, full of cold, feel bloated and horrible.
29/4:93.1 (205.2) - great day refocusing yesterday has paid off, hoping my body will play ball for a few days!
30/4:

I also stated on 20th April and would like to be 92 (202.8) by the end of April........

Paulitens, you've made a great start, congratulations on the 100's :)

Keep it up guys! We've got over a week to make #s!!!

Started on April 20th.

4/20: 202.2
4/21: 199.0
4/22: 196.8
4/23: 196.8 TOM
4/24: 196.8 TOM
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Circa, Pauli, Step and Laura, you guys are killing it!!! :)

Not anymore.... damn you tom, really hoping for a whoosh to up the motivation!

Don't let the bounce backs get go you. If you are doing what you know you should do, then it will fall into place. Time and patience are probably two of the biggest assets you can have. Daily weighing is not going to be always down, but watching the trend is what's important! :)

You're killing it too, nickilaughs

It's been a stressful month for me, but my weight has me feeling happy and motivated right now.

Thank you, nickilaughs! You're not doing too bad yourself! ;)

Started on April 20th.

4/20: 202.2
4/21: 199.0
4/22: 196.8
4/23: 196.8 TOM
4/24: 196.8 TOM
4/25: 195.4 TOM -- and that's after a little splurge last night with the hubs, and without using the loo in two days! :lol:
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Lol i wont lie, if i go to the bathroom half hour after i weighed in. I will re weigh. :)

:lol: Me too! But only if I haven't eaten before that (if I go early in the morning between getting up and weighing and before breakfast).

Started on April 20th.

4/20: 202.2
4/21: 199.0
4/22: 196.8
4/23: 196.8 TOM
4/24: 196.8 TOM
4/25: 195.4 TOM
4/26: 196.0 -- Not sweating it much, I know I've been splurging a bit. Not binging, just getting a taste here and there of some yummy stuff. For some reason I still don't comprehend, I rock the diet Monday - Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are a struggle, Saturday and Sunday are a battle. :shrug:
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Paulitens, I feel your pattern! I am so uber motivated today, but that motivation wavers each and every week!

However, if each and every week I lose overall I will take that!

With 3 days left I'm not going to make my super optimistic goal but I am going to stick at it and see what the numbers give me!

I'm picking along....had a bit of a set-back yesterday but only gained .4 so hopefully I can get my act together. I am aiming to lose 11 lbs by the end of June when I go away so I'll be 40 lbs lighter.

In my case it is mostly because I have my husband and kids, it's the weekend, they want to treat themselves to something yummy... and so it goes. I ate two chocolate chip cookies yesterday (one raw :lol: I love chocolate chip cookie dough!), didn't have my salad for lunch, got super busy and ate sugar free cookies in the PM, by dinner I wasn't hungry and didn't eat my salad with chicken... it was a mess. But the scale was good to me this morning despite of it.

Stick with it! Think of this "eating healthy" thing as the only way to live there is; there will be ups and downs, mood swings, days when, like me, you will mess up... but in general, that's how life is too. A lot of people say they "fall off the (diet) wagon"... what wagon? This is a lifestyle! If you're on a wagon, you're going somewhere, and once you get there you stop moving forward. We can't afford to stop moving forward even if we reach our goal. We have to be constantly moving forward to a better life and a healthier lifestyle. This isn't a wagon we can fall off of. This is life. :)

Great way to look at it Paulitens. At the moment I'm struggling with my scale number, woke up Sunday full of cold, bunged up and congested. Work is super stressful at the moment, I'm stressed, sick, TOM and I'm not losing weight. BUT, that's okay, I'll keep making good choices and then when the time is right the weight will go.

4 days off work now for national holidays to focus on getting well and eating well.

This is a life thing, even if it's slow we will get there.....! If that means treats with your family at the weekend Paulitens, so what? That's what you're going to want to do forever, so make it work in the plan and you'll stick at it, right?

Have a great day everyone, keep focused!

Exactly. Yesterday I had a big fancy meal. Woodford reserve whiskey souffle with salted caramel sauce...Like I need to say anything else. But I compensated by eating light the rest of the day, because the reality is that in life there are going to be those sort of meals. If it costs me my goal weight this month, I will live with it.
I've got this coworker who does meal plans for people, and they look great when they stick to it. However, if he sees pics of them on facebook at a wedding eating a meal, he goes nuts. "You aren't sticking to the plan and blah blah." Well..of course not, it's a wedding, it's not like they're going to pack their own lunchbox and eat dry chicken and green beans there.
It's long term small changes that make the difference.
It's also why I record my weight daily. Seeing all these big fluctuations, but still progress over the month helps me maintain that motivation. :)

Hahaha! nickilaughs, you made me laugh with packing a lunch of dry chicken to a wedding... :rofl:

I was 196.8 this morning I believe (I don't remember, I was very tired :lol:; maybe I was 197.4? I don't know). Not surprised whatsoever, given that hubby went grocery shopping and he bought all sorts of protein bars and sugar free candy, and I just felt like I had to try it. :dz:

So anyway... I'm doing a wonderful job staying on track today.

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Oh I would never do that at a wedding, but this guy at my work would!

Love this forum for keeping it real! I've been that obsessed person before who would think about missing the wedding because of the meal, and where am I 3 years later? Fat. It doesn't work. SO, it's great to be surrounded by a bunch of people who are doing great by doing it right most of the time :)

After a day of catching up on sleep from my stupid overstressful job and trying to drink out the vile cold I've got, woke up today feeling a million times better and back at my lowest weight thus far, yippeee! The best thing is, I've got another three days off work, thank you public holidays!

I'm no way going to make my original aim of 92.0, but I am hoping for a 92.9 tomorrow...... Today is all about maintaining water intake to flush out this cold and eating three tasty and healthy meals, I enjoyed everything I ate yesterday and it totally stopped me from eating in the evening or snacking unnecessarily.

Today I am also taking out my new scooter on the scary streets of Ha Noi, it is crazy out there so I've put off getting my own wheels for 8 months.... however the holidays means it's quiet so I'm giving it a go! 3 weeks ago it would have been to go from bakery to bakery, not today!


Have a great day everyone :)

20/4: 95.1 (209.6)
21/4: 94.7 (208.7)
22/4: 93.7 (206.5)
23/4: 93.3 (205.7)
24/4: 93.3 (205.7) had my one wine night of the week last night & dinner out, also TOM
25/4: 94.3 (207.9) TOM hits hard....
26/4: 94.1 (207.4) creeping back....
27/4: 93.8 (206.7)
28/4:94.1 (207.4) - urgh, full of cold, feel bloated and horrible.
29/4:93.1 (205.2) - great day refocusing yesterday has paid off, hoping my body will play ball for a few days!
30/4:

You guys are doing amazing!

I'm not going to make my April goal.....and I don't even know why. I've been doing everything right - minus a day here and there where I went over *slightly* - so I feel like I need to re-evaluate my plan because it just isn't working.

I'm doing better than I thought I would this month. I don't know if my metabolism is out of whack or if it's doing what it should have been doing the whole time. I just feel backwards because I've been eating more sugar lately because that's what broke my plateau. I have a small fear that I could get sugar addicted again, but I haven't gone back to sweetening my tea and when I have something sweet it's pretty much my only source of carbs for the day outside of vegetables. I'm trying to have that lifestyle change mentality where I'm not too restrictive day to day. A bad day is when I have a baconator combo with sweet lemonade. A day where I have a serving of oreo cream pie is not. I guess it's up to each individual to find out what their limits and triggers are and work towards finding a sustainable balance. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. The bad days and the gains still suck, but at least it's not permanent.

4/20: 202.2
4/21: 199.0
4/22: 196.8
4/23: 196.8 TOM
4/24: 196.8 TOM
4/25: 195.4 TOM
4/26: 196.0
4/27: 197.4
4/28: 196.2 - Started working out :cheer2:
4/29: 193.8 - It was 195.8 before I worked out and 193.8 after, I'll take that.
4/30:

So... last night I was not feeling very good about dinner, although it was healthy and a decent portion, so I got on the treadmill for a little work out. But then I discovered a way to use my time productively while on the treadmill, and now I'm learning French with Duolingo on my phone while walking briskly for a workout. It gives me double the motivation to lose weight and learn that language I love, and I can never find the time to study. :) Plus I might save myself some time and money studying a third language in order to graduate.

Laura you've lost quite a bit of weight overall, don't let the bad weigh ins get to you.are your clothes looser? Sometimes the scale doesn't reflect progress.
Pauli, you are rocking it this month!
Circa, I understand the fear of sugar. You seem to know the balance you need.
Step you still had a lot of progress this month. I spoke with a trainer and he said a consistent weight loss I the right direction slowly is the best approach. Losing it too fast will increase the likelihood of regain. You don't appreciate the hard work as much if you lose rapidly. So your just doing it right!
We've got a new month just around the corner, so time to start planning our next goals!

Thanks nickilaughs! My clothes are definitely loser and I know 30 lbs is a great number to reach but it's like my weight hasn't budged for a couple weeks now. I guess a pound here and there is better than nothing....but at my current rate I won't lose 10 lbs in 2 months which is my goal. I am eating about 1500 cals and working out 200-300 cals of that off so I should be dropping and I'm just not....

Laura, if you don't meet 10lb in 2 months.... so what? You have lost a lot of weight forever..... if you lose 6/7lb in two months forever and the other 3/4 take another couple of weeks/months, that's okay. Is your current lifestyle one you can keep up for the longterm? If it is, enjoy the ride, be patient and the results will come and come to stay. You've done so well so far, that pound here and there will soon add up :)

Paulitens -tres bien :) you're doing great..... now exercise, that's my next battle to start. I love it once I'm in, but getting in isn't so easy. I need to start by deciding what exercise will mean to me living over here.


Nickilaughs - yep slow and steady and real are my mottos this time. E.g. went to my friends last night, last minute thing and everyone was ordering pizza and drinking. I was making really weak wine sodas on the drink front, but decided to join in with the pizza. It was delicious. I don't regret it. I ate two great meals otherwise yesterday and am back on it today, this way weight loss will be slower, but it will also be surer!

Looking forward to May already!

20/4: 95.1 (209.6)
21/4: 94.7 (208.7)
22/4: 93.7 (206.5)
23/4: 93.3 (205.7)
24/4: 93.3 (205.7) had my one wine night of the week last night & dinner out, also TOM
25/4: 94.3 (207.9) TOM hits hard....
26/4: 94.1 (207.4) creeping back....
27/4: 93.8 (206.7)
28/4:94.1 (207.4) - urgh, full of cold, feel bloated and horrible.
29/4:93.1 (205.2) - great day refocusing yesterday has paid off, hoping my body will play ball for a few days!
30/4: 93.3 (205.6) - after a pizza night, I'll take that!

Thank you, nickilaughs and stepbystep! I need to keep that motivation going.

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4/20: 202.2
4/21: 199.0
4/22: 196.8
4/23: 196.8 TOM
4/24: 196.8 TOM
4/25: 195.4 TOM
4/26: 196.0
4/27: 197.4
4/28: 196.2
4/29: 193.8
4/30: 195.8 - not surprised at all. Yesterday I went to town at Chick Fil-A on before going to class and they make these AMAZING chocolate chip cookies that are massive. And I ate two and a half times what I was supposed to. Plus Coke. Plus a smoothie because my professor decided to have our last class at a bar and I don't drink alcohol, so that was my drink of choice. I know, shame on me right? It sounds like a massive binge, or a good splurge, or whatever. But it was all really good, I enjoyed my Wednesday dinner with my family, and my smoothie with my professor and classmates. So... yeah, I totally expected this bump today, and I'm back to my good life. :)