HAPPY FALL!

Thank you everyone for signing up. I love seeing so many people who want to work on being healthier now and not waiting for a New Year's resolution.

I'm starting the season right where my weight has been averaging for the last 2 weeks, at 176.2. I'm hoping for a whoosh sometime soon.

I set my goal for just being in the 160s, but I'd really like to hit 100 pounds down by the end of the year, which is 167.4, so I'd want to be as close to that as possible. That would be 8.8 pounds from where I am today, which is not out of line for what I've been doing.

I hope everyone is off to a good start!

SW 178.5
GW 160

9-23 178.5
9-29 176.8 (-1.7) weighed in early because of travel plans
10-7
10-14
10-21
10-28
11-4
11-11
11-18
11-25
12-2
12-9
12-16
12-21

I had slowed down a good bit, so last week I decided to lower my calories by 50 and it looks to have worked, hopefully this just keeps up! I can't believe I am on track to meeting my goal I set last summer! My new goal will be 150, I never thought I would get this far so I set my first goal of 180 pretty realistically, but here I am!

Well, Lacerta, I'm back for another go at this :lol:. Thank you for continuing this thread and challenge. Fall is a glass half-empty, half-full season for me. I'm grateful for the beauty of the season, and the cooler temps that allows me to walk from here to there without sweating all over the place. At the same time it is the season for comfort food, my birthday, and the holidays. My goal for this challenge is 190.

Wishing everyone much success and good luck!

Love seeing all of the progress so far! :) Also, yay it is FINALLY October. I am so looking forward to cooler temperatures...though cool here is like 70s. :lol:

I really like these quarterly challenges. It is gratifying to see weight slip off.

I traveled the last 6 weeks of the Summer to Autumn Challenge and basically maintained during the travel period - but that makes me feel so good! Honestly, I thought I'd gain back at least 5 pounds, but I lost two! I really loved writing that loss down in the last challenge. Hoping to get to 209 by the end of this challenge. Two pounds a week is tough for me and I'm not sure I'll make it -- but I love writing a lower number down every Sunday morning. Thanks Lacerta.

Good job everyone!

I had a cheat day Thursday, it was my last test before my final and I just felt like I deserved it lol I have been craving a sausage egg and cheese mcgriddle from McDonald's so I had that for breakfast, then my lunch was a funnel cake at a festival, then dinner was pizza and cheesey bread from my favorite pizza place. After the fact I really didn't do that bad, I ate way less on my own and I was satisfied. If this was a year and a half ago I'd have probably ate 4,000 calories that day but instead I was around 2,300!

Way to go everyone getting off to a good start. I had a really good week this week and got a substantial way toward my goal. But historically, my pattern is to then stall for a few weeks. Plus I don't normally lose anything the week of the 10th due to stress retention from work anyway. So my hope is to just hang on to the 173s this upcoming week.

Oh, and because we have so many participants this round (awesome!!), I am going to move anyone who doesn't update at least once a month down to the inactive list at the bottom. For now, I went ahead and moved sgregg, as she posted in another thread that weight loss in on hiatus due to being pregnant (grats to her).

If you get moved to inactive and then come back and update, I will happily move you back up to active again.

I'm down a total of 4 lbs so far, since starting this challenge!! :-)

Kstrong: I made a mental note on you, since you mentioned it, but I'd say go ahead and just add a note in advance "Traveling" for the weeks in question would be perfect.

Denise: Great start, way to go!