Yay on that big loss retiredone! Congrats on all that weight lost.

Glad your move went well Sgirl! Sorry to hear about the scale. It happens to all of us (as we all know!) and will be over with before you know it. If you're anything like me, moving is crazy, stressful and includes some salty food.

Jammy, I so want to try out BFL, but am honestly scared to change anything right now. Your beach day sounds lovely. Did you walk 6 miles in the sand? Regardless of the surface, after that walking and skating I'd imagine your legs are tired! I love LB days. One of my favorites is pliets with a 45 pound plate.

WTG Rain Dancer! Your will is admirable, I'd be trying it on everyday.

I stepped on the scale this morning and saw my Labor Day goal weight! I was shocked! 199! So shocked I stepped on again and saw 200.2. SHOOT. Not counting it yet.

So freaking close....

Oh, FB, soooo close! But congrats on the sneak preview... you'll be there for real soon!

Jammy, you're on fire! Great walking and workouts. Like FB, I am curious about calorie cycling, but afraid to try it. Let us know how it goes!

Congrats on the smooth move, SGirl. I'm sorry the scale isn't cooperating. Moving the scale, or the new surface it's on, may have affected its readout, so maybe you did make a little progress that just isn't showing.

Also congrats to RainDancer, Isabella, and Layri for making good progress and to everyone else plugging away at it!

Hi everyone - just checking in. I think I will probably make my Labor Day goal - 153 lbs. - if I stay on plan. The scale has been bouncing around between 155 and 157 for the last two weeks. Hopefully I will get my act together enough to make it read 153 by September.

My goal this week is to stay on plan, without any slip ups.

Good luck everyone! Keep on keepin' on!

Well, the boy deserves another bonk on the head- tonight he was just craving KFC, so off we went. Breaks my no fast food goal, but I got online and checked out the nutritional info ahead of time. I got a snack size popcorn chicken and side of mashed potatoes, which was about 600 calories. Not great, and not a lot of food for the amount of calories, but I could have done worse.

And I'm 4/6 for my labor day goal, so yay to that!

nice restraint and planning. sometimes, that's the key to being sucessful, and not feeling guilty.

Morning, ladies! I finally, finally got to see something under 193 today: 192.6! Maybe the BFL can help break this plateau. I might see my LD goal after all.

Rain Dancer, maybe on the day, you'll find out the garment is too big..

FB, we were walking on the boardwalk, which is paved, for most of it. Still a good walk, though, and walking always wears my legs out...for some reason, it's harder on my legs than jogging...different range of motion, I guess?? I wouldn't change anything, either, since what you're doing is working great right now. I'm only making a change because what worked for the first 40 lbs wasn't doing the trick any more. I think part of it was straying off plan with food too often this summer...too many unplanned cookouts and "special" occasions...blech! The free day for food is definitely helping me to stay on track this week. Also, I'm just seriously motivated to get out of the 190s and see some new numbers on the scale. Speaking of scales, congrats on being so close to your goal. If I saw that, I would have been scooting that scale around the bathroom to find the magic tile that makes it read lower, lol. Tomorrow, I bet you'll see ONEderland, baby!

Asynchronous, my boy loves KFC, also. We go there for a mom/son date (only occasionally, now), mainly for the freeplay oldies jukebox...nothing like an evil gravy-dipped biscuit and Little Richard cranking out "Lucille".

K I am not sure if canada Labour day is the same day as usa but ours is september 1st so I am going to jump in with a mini goal for myself thats 3 weeks so I am going with 165 so 6lbs by september first.

Cool, what do you get? Or do you just close your eyes and pray? ;-p

Thanks yoyo!

You're awfully close to target Ursus! Keep it up!

Hey Irish! Good to 'see' you in the challenge!

Nice planning Asynchronous!

Jam, I should really pick up a copy of BFL and see what I can apply to me. It sounds great. Another I've recently started looking at is Tom Venuto's Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. But I've only given it a few precursory glances.

Oh good gawd! Now I want KFC. You people make me crave things! It's not a bad thing. I love food, even the thought of food. MMMM, popcorn chicken dipped in gravy.

I haven't weighed yet today, but as of yesterday no goal yet. I hit my legs too hard, hard and hard at the gym on Sunday, now I'm walking around like a stump-legged sore pirate. I never lose when I'm sore. No loss, no gain. That's a good thing too.

If I hit it when I weigh in today you KNOW I'll be checking in here. That'll be a huge milestone for me.

FB: hey long time no chat

didn't lose anything today but that could be because I had a wendys salad yesterday and even though wendys salads are only 430 cals I assume they have alot of salt so I think I may be retaining....water must drink lots of water lol

Irish! Great to see you again! I thought you became a rock star and ditched all us John Q types.

Asynchronous, you got a nickname, a super secret spy code name...anything shorter than that user name? I have no idea how to shorten that! Anyway, if I go to (FB...close your eyes, so you don't get a craving) KFC, I don't try to stay on plan..I just get what I want and enjoy the experience. If I was going some place where I did NOT want to partake of the calorie/sodium carnage, then what I'd do is plan to eat at home just before, either a good protein/carb meal, or a meal replacement shake with protein powder, since a megadose of protein keeps me feeling full for hours.

Lol, I realized after I made the sn that asynchronous was a bit lengthy, and hard to shorten. But my RL name is Wendi, and once I can have a sig I'm going to put that in there, so you could go w that =)

Wendi, that's much easier to type (and spell, lol), thanks!

Well, I had a good day today, on plan, anyway. I did 60 mins of running this morning, in the zone and feeling strong, it was great! Then, I did UB lifting late this afternoon, and just was not feeling it. I hit the wall not even halfway through my workout, ugh. I switched to circuit style to finish it up, but it was a slog the whole way. Glad that's over. I've had that happen with running before, so I know it's just a blip, but I pushed on through and finished the workout, and that's what counts, right?

SK8r- I've been feeling ugh the last couple days too. This morning I had to drag myself out of bed, I'm not sure how my run later today will go, but I'll push through it!

I haven't been around much to check in due to tons of traveling I have been doing. I visited some friends in Toronto last week and on Friday I am off again to visit my sister and my soon to be born new niece or nephew. I am so excited!!! My sister's actually being induced tonight at midnight, so the baby should be here before the weekend

As of the last weigh-in, I was at 225.5 pounds!!! When I started eating better and everything, my goal back then was to be 30 pounds lighter when we came back to school in September. With a couple weeks to go, I am almost there It will be interesting to see what the scale says on Friday when i weigh in again.

My actual Labor Day goal for this thread was 210-215 pounds, so I will have to see if I can hit that goal....maybe, maybe not.