Momtopanda glad to hear about your daughter and your keeping up the weight loss with the added stress.

Well this is week 4 at basically the exact same weight. It is frustrating but I can’t complain too much since I was away last weekend and ate and drank whatever I wanted. At this point it will be a real challenge to meet my goal next month but I am going to give it my all.

SW 218
4/4. 217.0
4/11. 215.2
4/18. 214.3
4/25. 211.8
5/2. 208.4
5/9. 208.2
5/19. 208.2
5/23. 208.2

Gah, Gigi!! I hope your plateau is over really soon.

I am not doing that well with my diet, so holding-steady (if I can do that) would be a really good thing this week! I just have too much going on - so, I am getting my workouts in and I am monitoring my sleep. But, I am eating on the fly, blah, blah, blah and not all my food choices have been good ones. Sigh.

momtopands - yahooooo! "no hospitals" is a RULE in my house, lol.

Originally Posted by ange82much:
CW: 125

Good idea to check this thread Panda - i'd also forgotten my targets and had to dig back to find them. Looks like i'm ahead of schedule and i'm almost at GW. The trick will be to keep on going even when I get there, and make sure I don't slack off and gain by 21st June.

GW 123
CW 122

Just dug out this old thread from 2nd May (page 9) and it just shows how impatient I am. Been whinging the last two weeks that I've been on a plateau, but only a few weeks ago I would've been happy to be at 123 by 21st June. Now i'm complaining i'm not less than that already. I was right the first time, I would be very happy to still be 123 by 21st June, so lesson-to-self is that I need to stop myself being grumpy for not getting to ever-changing targets, and appreciate more what I've already achieved.


Probably true for a lot of us - it's easy to criticize where we are now and what we want now, but if we look back at where we've come from, or have a look at old posts, it can give a different perspective on the situation then and the situation now. Bet most people would hand over the money to be where they are rignt now if they could've made the bet back then. Well I know what I mean anyway :dizzy: :)

Hiii! I hope you are doing well. I have to do this super quick. I started working this week as a commercial agent, I have to go door to door for hours. Now I can not do my exercises but I walk a lot of kilometers, and I climb and climb stairs constantly. I hope it leads me to lose weight.

SW: 200
3/28: 197.7
4/4: 196.6
4/11: 195.3
4/18: 193.1
4/25: 190.6
5/2: 187.6
5/9: 186.9
5/16: 184.3
CW: 182.3
GW: 178

So true, ange82....I am in a good spot, relative to where I was at the start of 2018. So, I am going to spend June, July and August HAPPY. I promise!!

I.wanna.be.cute - I hope the walking and the movement helps you with your goals. I do know that my sedentary day job is really BAD for my health, so I do force myself to get up every hour, drink 1 glass of water and have a pee break. It at least gets my body moving, a bit, and the water-ingestion is always good for me!

I lost 0.2 lbs this week and 0.5" on my hips (from my month ago measurement).

I think I will cool it in the challenges. I am finishing off one and in the middle of one that goes until August.

so, sure, I would like to be four more lbs down, 0.5” up on shoulders, 1” down on waist and (of course...) 3+” down on hips, lol.

BUT, I can feel myself wearing out on the full-throttle approach. It is summer. I am going to try to be mindful of what I put in my mouth, and how much, but otherwise going to ENJOY. It has been a stressful time - I am PROUD of holding it all together, and feeling healthy in my (nearing) 50-yr-old body. My shape is good. It is not great, and maybe that wasn’t in the cards, for me. I have worked hard and I have the best shape since Feb/2016, for sure. I am not ”giving up” - just going to aim for “steady”. And maybe attempt another cut in Autumn, 2018.

GW: 123
CW: 120

you're doing great Beeps if you can stay steady or keep losing a tiny bit and still feel unrestrained through summer that will be a big achievement. Nice to hear you appreciate what you've already achieved! Nice size-loss too. That's something I've never done this journey is measure myself.
We've got another 4 weeks ish technically till this challenge ends, so would be good if we all check in around 21st June when the final day is supposed to be and reminisce on how we've gone then! :)

wanna be cute it sounds like your new job is ideal for weight loss!! How is it going? Do you feel to be getting a lot more activity done than before? Is it showing on the scales yet?

After a super-whoosh this last 5 days, I've now really done all the losing I need to do, but haven't quite got my head around how to change my habits to experiment with maintenance mode. Not that I don't want to eat more, just that i'm comfortable doing what i'm doing and scared that if I start to eat more i'll want to eat more and more and more...……….

Hello, I know last week I said I started working. Well, I am not working anymore. I also have class and they changed the schedule without prior notice. So I had to left the job. The good part is that I will have time for my workouts and studying. It was supposed to be a 6-hour job, but in the end we always worked between 10 or 13 hours a day, plus the work that had to be done at home.

Beeps you are doing super well, in the end it is preferable that the changes are noticed in inches than in pounds.

Ange you are doing well if you keep your maintenance. I'm afraid of eat more, not in case that I'd want more and more, but in case I start gaining weight again. I' m pretty afraid of my scale...

Last week in my job, I did tons of exercise, I couldn't eat properly, just a salad and tangerines everyday. I'm actually scared of the effect that it can have next week in my scale... This week I'm following my diet again and I eat more than that.

SW: 200
3/28: 197.7
4/4: 196.6
4/11: 195.3
4/18: 193.1
4/25: 190.6
5/2: 187.6
5/9: 186.9
5/16: 184.3
5/23: 182.3
CW: 5/30: 179.6
GW: 178

ange82 - maintenance is something I have never really mastered. Partly, I think, because I am tall I can gain 10 lbs and nobody notices...I can lose 10 pounds and nobody notices. Even 15-20 isn't really noticeable (except, of course, 100% I NOTICE IT).

Your losses are VERY impressive i.wanna.be.cute

This week, I am getting in all my workouts. I am totally focused on NOT stress-eating.

It has been a stressful time - my husband took a job in Toronto for (permanent) work, in a commute situation, while I wait here for at least two years for teens to graduate high school.

I am very grateful that he found work so quickly (he parted ways with his old company 8 weeks ago). And I am grateful that my job can likely re-locate to Toronto, too.

But, we miss him, already. And, we have tried (unsuccessfully!) commute-for-work situations before. So, I am a bit apprehensive.

wow Beeps that sounds a really tough decision about the Toronto job. It's not really a commuting distance! How often will he be travelling back and forward? Do you want to live in Toronto? Maybe you can review how things are going after a few months and decide whether it's really working or not - and really give yourselves another proper opportunity to change things up again if you're not happy. If you can get used to it though, i'm sure the two years will fly by.


wanna be cute yep, you're doing great with your weight loss. Shame you weren't able to keep the job (although if the hours were twice as long as you expected that doesn't sound good), but it sounds like the studies have priority. Good luck in settling down to a sustainable diet this week

Sw: 267.2
cw: 252.6(-14.6)
gw: 240.5

I am cutting this close!! Not impossible though

SW: 166
CW: 162.6
GW: 155

Same weight. Again. That’s week 6 of plateau. That means I need to lose just over 8 pounds in 3 weeks to reach my goal for this challenge. I just want to be below 200 for the start of summer.

Hi gang! ... I am trying to take a REAL break from a whole bunch of social media stuff, just now.

So, I am eliminating anything having to do with "streaks" because it was taking over my life. (Except I am permitting myself to check-in with mfp daily.)

I am eliminating (online) "challenges" for awhile. I am stuck in one for about 6 more weeks, but have decided I will just keep recording the same numbers over and over again and forget about it.

I want my social media to be focused MORE on "connection" and less on "compare my accomplishments to yours"....which is what it had become, I'm afraid.

I did survive week one of husband's new job. And, I feel like this could be a really good thing, actually.

Something shifted. Don't know what.

But, I now realize that instead of reviewing "all that may be lost", I can actually envision "all that may be gained"....and that has made ALL the difference!!!

So, sure, it is not going to be an easy couple of years, but I don't think it is going to be fatal, either. When hubby and I truly focus on team-work and partnership, frankly, there is NOTHING that we cannot do. So, if we are building our life in Toronto, when it is time for me to move, it will be a totally exciting life to jump into - of that I have no doubt!

I have been looking VERY forward to being "empty-nesters" for several years, now....and since we are going to be faced with it whether we stay here, or whether we choose to go there, I kind of realize I will have a LOT more adult-fun in Toronto!!

For more than thirty years I have fantasized about "what it must be like to be an adult in the world"....maybe it sounds crazy, but I have NEVER been an "adult in the world" - I have ALWAYS been an "adult-with-child in the world". I don't know what it is like to live an unencumbered life! I had my first son when I was 18!!!

Sooooooooooooo....yep, I am going to grab that brass ring and figure out how FUN life can be as an adult-in-the-world and I get to do it with my amazing husband by my side. So, yeah, I totally think I can get into this. Totally.

BOOM!