Hi everyone! Weighing in today at 235.5 (-2.3) - so on my way to 229!

I'm having a good month so far, down to 146.6 - normal BMI, woot!

No weight loss this week to report but I know I'm retaining water, yuck. So next week I should see a decent drop.

To jump start my weight loss I joined a boot camp class in my area. I start tommorrow. I'm super excited for a couple reasons:
1. I'll have to go otherwise I'll have wasted money and I'm way too cheap for that.
2. The class is at 6 am. I'm a early bird and I function better if I get moving early. I have to break out of the lazy spell I've gotten into.

I wish I could bottle this excitement to last me all month, lol

Steph7409: Yay for normal BMI! That's a great achievement!

I've had 5 days below 75.1kg (of the 14 days in April that's my goal). Today I hit a new low!

Really sorry I'm so far behind, all. Passover begins tonight, and I've been cooking up a storm! Working right now on try #2 of one of my three desserts for tomorrow night; adapting desserts for passover is tough enough, plus there's the added challenge of one person who can't have any dairy and one person who is allergic to sugar. Oy. (Argh, and the plum kuchen is not looking right in the oven!!! I can't freaking figure out how to modify it to make it work. Will have to try out another variation again tonight, grrrrrr.)

minoja: I looove tomatoes with salt too, mmmm, especially some nice large sea salt crystals. I usually want olive oil on them too though, lol. Congrats on the 3 lbs!!

philana: I totally understand the on the stuff your mom has. Seriously, my biggest problem with eating is that I will STILL eat, or want to eat, just about anything that's in front of me, whether I really want that food or not, and whether I'm hungry or not. Sitting at a dinner table that still has food on it feels like torture.

SBD Sass and MonteCristo: Welcome! I've added you both to the goal list below. :)

loose seal: I'm glad you're back with us again. :) I know how frustrating it can be... I'm just keeping my fingers crossed for you that this d*mn plateau is over soon!

dcapulet: Woohoo, nice loss!

Steph: Congratulations on the normal BMI!!! SO huge!! :carrot:

KymmLynn: Have fun with those early mornings!! I am SO not a morning person, lol - a class that early would kill me!

gardenerjoy: YAY on the new low!!! That's fantastic!


OK, I'm going to try try try not to way overeat tonight. It's already been a not so good day (I had intended to eat SUPER lightly before tonight, but I'm probably at 600 cals already), and the holiday meal is going to be rough, but I'm going to do my best to keep it within reason - well, reason plus a little bit of wine. :)

Hope everyone has a great weekend!! If I don't check in tomorrow (so much baking to do) I will be back on Sunday.


Updated April Weight Loss Goal List

minoja75: Get to 229 lbs
InControl2Day: Get and stay below 125 lbs
aniela26: Get under 205 lbs
philana: Get to 135 lbs
PaintedButterfly: Lose 4 lbs
viklane: Get to 222.1 lbs
nicolae: Get to 174 lbs
dcapulet: Lose 8 lbs
Aunrio: Lose 1 lb per week
KymmLynn: Lose 8-10 lbs
Jester: Lose 5 lbs
JayTee: Lose 10 lbs
hbr777: Lose 3 lbs
AilsaPearl: Get to and stay below 145 lbs
ItsMyTurn: Get to 187 lbs
ashori602: Get to 166.6 lbs
Marniadec: Lose 4.6 lbs
amanda1230: Lose 5 lbs
delyn: Get to 150 lbs
gardenerjoy: Be under 75.1 kgs for 14 days or more
LeeciesLosingIt: Lose 10 lbs or more
chickadee32: Get below 140 lbs
KaylaxoLynn: Get to 244 lbs
sun: Get to 168 lbs
PrincessSophia: Get to 135 lbs
Steph7409: Get to 144 lbs
SBD Sass: Lose 10 lbs or get to 160 lbs
loose seal: Seeing the scale go down!
MonteCristo: Lose 7 lbs

Down 1.5 lbs at this morning's weigh in for a new low of 206.5 - well on my way to my April goal of <205!

Good luck to everyone trying to stay on track this weekend!!

chickadee -- thanks for adding me!

I am having a really bad time this weekend! I have been on the verge of binging since thursday and I am just trying really hard not to! I have overeaten the past two days, Friday, and even though its only 12 PM saturday i've already eaten all my daily calories and then some. Hmph, no wonder the scale isn't moving down. being alone at college when my friends are celebrating easter with their families at home has really just made me want to do nothing but eat. but I will not let these 2 bad days turn into more than that. tomorrow I will be back on plan, actually right now I will be back on plan, and I will forget about this overeating frenzy. grr

AlisaPearl: yes, this: actually right now I will be back on plan. Although, I suggest a light supper, because you don't want to put yourself in a position late tonight of being too hungry.
It sucks being alone when you're friends are all off for a holiday. Is there any way to turn that to a good thing? Something that you enjoy doing alone or that none of your friends enjoy? Some possibilities: a long walk, a trip to a botanical garden or a park or a museum, hours on Pinterest or some other cool website, a good book, knitting or some other handcraft while watching a marathon of movies or old TV shows.

Thank you so much for the response gardenerjoy, I just worked on some homework and ended up alright. Tomorrow is a new day and I am going to work on taking it one day, one meal at a time! sometimes it's stressful and exhausting thinking i have __ amount of lbs left to lose, so i'm going to tackle each day and celebrate the small(er) non scale successes! :) thanks so much

OMG I am so freakin behind! I have been socializing soo much lately! Its unreal. Which means I was not eating well. aRGH~ I am almost afraid to weigh myself on Monday! Well aleast spring break is over and things will go back to normal next week. Sorry everyone for not catching up on the personals. Will check in tomorrow.

Arghhhhhhh! Not gonna lie, only dropped .5 this week. TIME TO GET SERIOUS and return to journaling consumption. Like Allison Sweeny said in a recent article, "if you nibble it, scribble it" Oh well, 9.5 to go this month...git r' done!

Finally gave up my stone age scale and bought a new one and wouldn't you know it my old one was almost 10 pounds off...and of course not 10 pounds heavier but 10 pounds lighter so I really have had almost 10 more pounds on this body since the start. Had to change all my goals, ticker and attitude. I won't give up because of this no matter how negative I feel right now. :(

Just to be sure of it's accuracy, I weighed myself on a few other scales which I haven't done before or else I would have known a for a while that it was wrong.

Just keep swimming just keep swimming... ... ... ...

The only other thing that is really keeping me going is my inch loss...that is awesome!

Happy Easter Everyone!

Chickadee - I totally understand working around food restrictions with cooking. Youngest DD and I can't do dairy (lactose)...and my DH can't have anything creamy due to a preservative in it that he is deathly allergic to (so no mayo, cream cheese, or even a ranch dressing, etc). It does make things challenging - but impressed you are doing so much for your Easter :)

I had also made a goal for myself to do 60 miles this month and am totally on track after doing 4.2 miles yesterday added towards it. However, get on scale today and up 2 lbs??? You would think as busy as I stay, that I would be a rail by now, :lol: It's cool though, there is something holding me back and it's not my fitness. My body is obviously still reshaping - over 7" just off waist since my plateau started...and yesterday my DH actually referred to me as skinny. Just about peed myself laughing, but love that his "old eyes" see things in that way, :rofl: Here is hoping some more tweaking will make the numbers fall a bit next week though :)