SW: 195.8
GW: 189.0

9/01: 196.0
9/02: 194.4
9/03: 193.8
9/04: 193.4
9/05: 193.8
9/06: 194.0
9/07: 194.0

cheeriloos, good luck at the street party! There is a food truck locally that does Brazilian food and the flavors are fantastic. At least the few things I've tried. Of course one was chicken hearts and although I didn't love the heart the flavoring was so good.

gardenerjoy, that's a great attitude. Weighing and posting when things are going well is easy but when things take a downturn is when you need to do it the most. I hope I have that strength when I slip.

pnkrckpixikat, I am OP. The only change has been a small uptick in exercise. I just need to be patient. Not my strong suit. Meanwhile, you are slapping September around. Great job!

Emme, glad you are feeling better. A water toast to us! :cheers:

LovelyLeah, yeah on your loss! Bigger yeah for being strong!!

Gotta run. Will be back a little later to finish my personals!

Jaqui, I might give that a shot.

9/1 - 156.5
9/2 - 157
9/3 - 159
9/4 - 157.5
9/5 - 157.5
9/6 - 156
9/7 - 155.5 <-- I'm a little surprised considering the amount of sugar I ate yesterday. But I suppose when all the sugar was being used to regulate my blood sugar, and not idle, I guess it doesn't hurt. Not that I can afford to allow myself to use that as an excuse whenever I'm feeling mildly hypoglycemic, only when it's necessary.

Good morning, everyone! It's a nice, rainy day here and I got a quick walk in with my husband, daughter and dog before it started drizzling. My weekend posts are kind of "post and run" since we're home with the baby on the weekends all day and it's go-go-go.

I was extra hungry yesterday and I ate more calories than I would've liked, but I ate mindfully and chose the right foods. I'm assuming my weight loss will start leveling off and slowing down now. The first few days are usually always water weight and the body adjusting to fewer calories.

1: DNW
2: DNW
3: 207.6 (1610 calories)
4: 206.6 (1730 calories)
5: 205.2 (1695 calories)
6: 204.4 (2019)
7: 204.0

Have a fantastic day!

tavvy, I hope you and your son can get some good sleep soon. Congrats on moving up your goal date by a whole month. That is impressive.

Jacqui_D, I think my body might also not be quite ready to rumble. Hopefully soon for both of us.

TrayTeam, there's always time for a nap.

mzshaunna, if you can't or just don't go to the gym, you could always find a way to exercise around the house.

SouthernBell02, a great loss when you think that is a 4200 calorie deficit in just a week.

Tuscany, you are already on your way, but I figure I would post one last "Have a wonderful trip" just in case you see it.

Sum38, that little bounce won't be around long.

First of all, way to go for all those who have lost and are achieving their goals so far this month! :)

Second, although my scale is still showing 66.7 kgs (I can't seem to move past this number! :( ), it is obvious in the mirror that I've lost weight this month. And after measuring my waist to see just how much I've lost overall, my partner and I found that in the past 11 months 16 cms (6.29 inches) has gone. :D

I don't know if this is worthy of a new thread in the Mini-Goal forum. Tell me if you disagree. For me, it's just a 'Yay' observation lol

Therefore, September 7th and 8th: 66.7 kgs.
I did, however, have a belated birthday party which included a strawberry width slice of cake :D

SW: 195.8
GW: 189.0

9/01: 196.0
9/02: 194.4
9/03: 193.8
9/04: 193.4
9/05: 193.8
9/06: 194.0
9/07: 194.0
9/08: 193.6

Rhiko, happy belated birthday! Scales are stubborn, unmoving, lying liars who lie. Especially when they won't move.

SW (August 31st) 165
GW 159

Sept 1: DNW
Sept 2: DNW
Sept 3: 166.8
Sept 4: 166.0
Sept 5: 166.0
Sept 6: 165.8
Sept 7: 166.0
Sept 8: 166.2

I seem to be moving in the wrong direction

Well, here it is Sept 8 and one week slid by, time to weigh in My starting weight on last Sunday morning, Sept 2 was 256.6 lbs.

Actually, the week did not just slide by, it was purt rough for the most part. On Monday, the 2nd and second day of this challenge I got up as usual, feeling fine and ready to take on the world. While drinking my morning 12 cup pot of coffee, I played a few games of spades online, read up on all the world news, wrote Obama to keep us da hek outta Syria, did my part for saving the world ya know Then about 10 I could feel tinges of hunger, just enough to let me know I ought to eat something. Had a breakfast of a chicken sandwich made on two slices of whole wheat bread, mayo, lettuce and a slab of grilled chicken, which I thought was about 4 oz, (240 cal) and half a cup of pinto beans with jalapeno. Total calories of 360. But since then I got in the kitchen digital scales which I purchased online for a very reasonable amount. I found out that 4 oz of chicken I thought was really less than 2 oz, 100 calories less.

Anyway, back to the rough part. I bought some sweetener, Truvia, supposedly made from the best parts of Stevia. I do not drink sodas nor other any sweetened drinks. Tea and coffee for me is sugarless, cannot stand sugar in them. I bought the sweetener to put in home made jamaica so to take a bit from the tart. I actually like it without any sugar to quite a degree, but wanted to remove some of the tart edge off of it. After I finished all of my 12 cup pot of cofee I wanted I switched to jaimica with a little of that Truvia in it. That stuff was supposed to be made from the best parts of Stevia.

An hour after drinking the jaimica I started getting a head ache, tightness across my shoulders, a type of pain but more just on the bothersome side. And my eyes started hurting and I got VERY drowsy. So I went to take a nap and see if that fixed it. YE GADS got up still with all the symptoms intact. Figured it would pass. Lasted like that all day, plus I just felt crappy.

Got up the next am, feeling mostly OK. Had my coffee etc, reg morning things. Finally made something to eat, about 300 calories worth. I was OK until I drank about half of a glass of jaimica sweetened with Truvia again. Same thing as the day before. I started to make the association between that and the Truvia, the only thing different that it could be attributed to. And I also felt my blood glucose as not right, and figured that was the reason for my eyes hurting. Tested my blood glucose and nearly fell over, it was over 200, extremely high for me. Got online and googled Truvia. Did not like what I found. It has less than .002 stevia in it, the sweetening part comes from erythritol. Truvia has a long list of side effects, and all of mine were listed, from increasing the glucose level, aching shoulders, headache, drowsiness, and more. On a very long list of postings my symptoms were mentioned countless times. And our FDA approved it???? Coca Cola and Cargill owns Truvia,......... big money..... money talks bull crap walks........... that sorta thing???? whewwwwwwwww ouch

I ordered some xylitol online which should be here in another week or so............ Anybody know of any complaints about that one? If so please let me know.

Back to the third day.... The foul aftertaste I had from Truvia bothered me, and once again I had the headache, shoulder pain/tightness, hurting eyes.......... and the blood glucose took most of the week to get almost back to normal. Last night for the first time since drinking some of that Truvia sweetened drink my blood glucose got down to 110.

That evening I went into town and ate at a Mexican restaurant, a small mom and pop place whose owners are Mexican immigrants who dish out authentic Mexican food. I like and had cheese enchiladas with beans and rice. LOL and had some jaimica drink Twice the usual daily calorie intake that day, but I was desperately trying to get out of those miserable feelings.

It took all week to get back to near normal. Friday night I relented and bought a quart of Dyers Cherry Vanilla ice cream which was making faces at me in the store and ate half of it as soon as I got home. Turned out to be 1 1/2 quarts, 1660 calories LOL Oh well. And yesterday I finished it off. But I did the calcs and though I went way over the daily calories I aim for, I was still under the amount of maintenence calories so I knew I was still losing weight.

Well, with a bit of trepidation, I stepped on the scales this morning, the first time since last Sunday morning. I knew from the last time I lost weight for three months the huge variations that are seen in daily or several times a day weighing. I will just take what it says on Sunday mornings. Here it is.

last weeks weigh in 256.6
this morning 250.2

Down 4.4 lbs

I was 279 lbs exactly 3 months ago, July 8, when I started this weight loss after a visit to my doctor who told me to lose 10% or 28 lbs. I achieved that goal this week
I plan on adding more limited exercise this coming week so hopefully it will result in more on the loss side.

Hope the rest of you had a better week and thanks for being here for me

B F R

BFR, 256.6 - 250.2 = 6.4 lbs. You ate a qt of ice cream and lost 6.4 lbs! I need to go on your diet, lol! I'm sorry you went through all that with the truvia. I'm glad you're feeling better now!

I weighed in at 197 today. Going the wrong direction. I'll write more later, everyone, I have a migraine headache right now. Darned hormones!

Hi all!

I'm in, a week late, but that's OK.I'm shooting for an 8 lb loss which is fairly demanding for me, since I can't seem to lose. Well, I lose the same 15 lbs over and over and over. By now I should be model thin lol.

My weigh in day will be on Tuesdays.

SW: 154.4
GW for the first week: 153

My photo is me at my goal weight - a reminder on why I want to get there!

Welcome, hbr777!

Tuscany: 3.75 lbs
mygirlvj: 5 lbs
Sum38: 6 lbs
seaurchin: 8 lbs
pnkrckpixikat: 5.2 lbs
Stay_Puft: 6.8 lbs
Bridget37: 8 lbs
lene1974: 5 lbs
cheeriloos: 10.2 lbs
SarainMN: 9 lbs
Jacqui_D: 6 lbs
SuperHeroTeacher: 10 lbs
tavvy: 11.4 lbs
Rhiko: 2.8 kgs
chunkie89: 12 lbs
Changergirl: 4 lbs
emurph: 2 lbs
SLahti: 11.6
OK_Lizzy: 15 lbs
LovelyLeah: 4.5 lbs
gardenerjoy: 3 lbs
Tereh0527: 12 lbs
muses: 8 lbs
j0ndysse: 8.5 lbs
VikiN: 5.5 lbs
firegirl441: 10.1 lbs
SouthernBell02: 8 lbs
Big_Fat_Rooster: 12 lbs
MixedColors: 10.3 lbs
gossamer: 18.4 lbs
rastalove: 26.5 lbs
sburleson89: 5 lbs
cincorn: 7 lbs
Turtle11: 6 lbs
Emme: 4 lbs
TrayTeam: 7 lbs
Angelique32: 10 lbs
RachelAnne: 4 lbs
mjmelwel: 10 lbs
nitrus29: 10 lbs
mzshaunna: 3.9kgs
hbr777: 8 lbs

SW: 78.45kgs
CW: 78.85 (NC)
GW: 77

Happy Sunday. Hope you all have had a great weekend.

1: DNW
2: DNW
3: 207.6 (1610 calories)
4: 206.6 (1730 calories)
5: 205.2 (1695 calories)
6: 204.4 (2019)
7: 204.0
8: 203.8

Hey all, I was crazy busy yesterday so didn't manage to post.

Looks like y'all are doing pretty great!

SW: 247.2
GW: 242.0
01: 250.0
02: 251.2
03: 248.8
04: 248.2
05: 246.6
06: 246.2
07: 248.8 (fully clothed @ Doctors)
08: 248.6 (ate out)

We ate out, which has been our ongoing struggle. We have decided to let ourselves eat out on saturdays. And stay within maintenance cals. Hopefully having a set day we eat out it will help us not eat out other days.

!!!!! disregard the weights I posted both last week and this morning. The only ones I consider accurate now are the ones at the doctors office.

I posted this morning that I weighed in at 250.2 somehow, I am sure I read it at 251.2 instead, a pound diff. When I checked in while ago to see how others were doing I saw Jaqui's post saying I lost 6 lbs and stated 250.2 lbs. I checked my post and saw I mis-posted. But that is only the start of it. I got my scales out and stepped on them for another check even though I knew the weight had changed somewhat after drinking coffee (11 cups) and eating breakfast.

The scales said 260 something.

I was a bit taken aback at that, then started adding it all up. Noticed I had my shoes on, 2 lbs. 11 cups of coffee.... 5.5 lbs
my breakfast, about 1 lb. Did I use the bathroomlbs once or not??? Don't remember (at 72 and after a mini-stroke, I tend to forget a lot)
If I did, subtract one lb from the coffee 5.5.

Took off the shoes, weighed again. Stepped off, then back on again after it turned off. And again. Got weights varying over 4 lbs.

My scale is unusable for this weight thing. Sorry. However, I know I lost some but do not know how much. UGH such is life.

I will either get some better scales (any suggestions?) or have to find another way of doing this. My apologies to all

B F R