Hi Kellost! You should be proud! That's awesome work!

Age and treachery? "Hey ... you! Little stray pound? You come back around here and I'll kill ya."

I was down another partial pound today to sit at 133.8! Yay! I get another smilie on my ticker!! That's all from me for now. Gotta go help dad make pies for the big meal. He had surgery on his hand so he's a little dependent right now...can't even use the can opener. Poor guy!

I'm still hovering from that weekend weight!

Another thing I've noticed is that if I get enough sleep, I don't seem to be quite so plagued by fluid retention. For instance, if I'd been off the last few days (and slept longer) this salty weekend stuff would have been gone by now.

I find that sleep is a huge factor as well. I'm heading into tomorrow with a plan. DH and I are hosting his family for Thanksgiving at our home as we do every year. Here it is:

1. Make sure that I get a good night's sleep tonight!
2. Eat a filling breakfast.
3. Spend more time visiting with family than snacking & drinking
4. Start the dishes ASA (socially)P
5. Send extra deserts home with others

We'll see how I do. :)

Some of my best cozy family chats have been over holiday dish washing :D

Wishing all the Chicks a lovely, thankful Thanksgiving!

We'll see if I can even get this to post ...

Happy Thanksgiving. Everyone be safe driving.

:)

Hugest, jumbo major victory of my journey: Thanksgiving Day ends with a calorie total of 1550. :D I wish I could bottle how strong I feel right now!

Congrats, ICU :D

I have no idea how many calories, as I don't count. I ate more than I needed to, but definitely no binging. I brought home apple pie for breakfast (which is my little tradition that I love), but the rest of the leftovers I brought home are salad (greens with pears and gorgonzola and almonds), and a gallon baggie full of leftover crudite to stirfry with - including broccoli, zucchini and asparagus tips! Oh, and some plain sweet potato, and ok, a little orange pineapple jello with marshmallows. :)

Well, I ate more than I planned today (mainly messed up on the Thanksgiving desserts because I have a sweet tooth) and tomorrow is looking like a questionable eating day as well. Hopefully there is no gain at my Tuesday weigh in! But Saturday I have to be back on track. It's so much harder with the holidays, isn't it???? I'm determined to maintain at the very least, but I really want to continue to see losses through New Years. Darn holidays! LOL.

oh no, what a week i have had. My mother is visiting me, so every night we go out for dinners. Teachers day was on Tuesday, so all my students gave me chocolate, and in Turkish culture it would have been rude to not except and eat in front of them. Yesterday was thanksgiving, which my mother and i prepared and ate. Today is the first day of the Muslim Holiday Kerbam Byram, and i have to go to a feast for it. i know all my favorite Turkish food will be there, none of it very healthy. I weigh about 127 still, however, I feel like a useless blob.

I need some new goals. I need some motivation.

ICU, I wish I had your resolve. Congrats for staying OP!

I know that I overate, but we did have fun. I did have a smaller but filling breakfast. But I ate too many snacky things. I did eat too much at dinner and of course had a piece of pie. But I got right up after desert and started the dishes. SIL joined me as we did have fun. I sent alot of leftovers home with others. I think that we had 7-8 pies and I only have 3 now. I sent a whole pumpkin pie with SIL's fiance's DS15 along with a package of buns and croissants that MIL brought.

After everyone left I finished the cleanup, I went upstairs and took a long hot bath. I had planned to go back downstairs to talk to my family (and the leftover chocolate chip cookies were calling to me) but I was too tired. I went to bed instead. Today I'm back on track. I've already ridden my bike for 30 minutes this morning. I wish the gym was open, I'd love to do my regular weight training...

:welcome: Kelost, 72 lbs :bravo: that is amazing!!

This morning I was down to 155 :dance: ... even with a glass of wine last night :cheers: .... Now let's see if I can stay there for the weekend.

The plans for the weekend are a 5k race on Saturday morning and a Christmas party Saturday night, it's a buffet supper so I should be able to make good choices... lotsa salad and a protein... no desert, no white carbs... We'll see how it goes...

Here's a couple of really bad pictures. Clothes are fitting, I'm getting stronger, and there's just a last few trouble spots that may or may not go away in the next few pounds. Man, I wish I'd gutted it out and taken some "befores" ...

ICU, you look just great! :)

Great pics, ICU! I hear ya' on feeling like I have problem spots. Thighs and belly are basically my bad areas. I'm not sure if they will ever go away, either. I tell myself it's a lot better than it used to be, and nobody is ever really perfect. I feel pretty good in clothes lately, but shorts and swimwear are a little more difficult. I'll probably never feel completely comfortable in a swimsuit, but who does, really?

Thanks, Julie and kellost! I was feeling "featherweight" when I took those - I looked in that mirror and was thinking, geez, what an amazing difference, I only want to lose just a couple more, but don't really need to... Then I was trying to remember the last time I was happy with how I looked ... and I couldn't! Not when I was in HS, at 125 lbs, not in college in the 130's, not just after my son was born when I went from 172 to 145 in the span of 3 days ... it occurred to me that right now, I have more inner contentedness then at any other point in my life. It's going to be tough to top 2009!

Oh, but you will :)

I was pretty surprised to lose a pound this morning! That makes me a half pound lighter than my lowest weight this past spring, before I gained five pounds. But ... I've only just started exercising again, so I may be lighter, but not smaller. Here's hoping to see some muscle next month :).

Snacks, snacks, snacks. I've been too "snacky" today! The closer I get to goal, it seems the more I mess up on snacking. It's like, I feel good with where I am, so losing the pounds isn't as much as a priority as it should be. But I DO want to lose and make it to goal!!! Sigh..tomorrow is another day!

ICU, your pics are awesome!! We are really our own worse critics, because I think you look beautiful in those pictures, I see no flaws at all...

I had a wonderful two days, DH and I left yesterday and came back today, I know I will pay with the scale number tomorrow :rolleyes: ...

Kellost, I'm right alongside of you. Too many yummy leftovers at my house! I spent Friday & Saturday "resting" from Thanksgiving at my house. I should know better than that. Yesterday we went to the Vikings vs. Bears game and I literally dove into the kettle corn... I'm up 2 lbs today, not surprisingly.

ICU, you look awesome in your pics. I understand the longing to lose a few more but being perfectly happy where you are at.

Morning!

The last week has been hard. I don't really know why. I either had a really good day or a horrible day. Mostly mindless scarfing of inappropriate foods :o

I'm beginning to think that that 135 was a fluke. Most of the time lately I've been hovering around 137-138. Ick.
I'm not sure why any of that makes a hill o'beans difference. I wore my little suit to church yesterday and got all kinds of compliments and encouragment.

Aren't we featherweights hard to please???

Are you all making a plan for December?

Susan, your 135 is my 134! Just relish the fact that you looked awesome in your suit. Nobody knows the number on your scale. They just know that you look great! And think about it, mindlessly scarfing inappropriate food (just like me), and we are still looking good! I think that we need to get over ourselves and just try to stay "in the range". Today I'm at the top of my "range". By Friday I should be back in the middle of my "range" of 134-137.

Maybe I'm starting to talk more like a maintainer here...

Hello all! I enjoyed my Thanksgiving out-of-town weekend very much. I made good reasonable choices up until last night. I ate horribly, but one meal out of the 4-day weekend is better than I've done in the past. I didn't bother weighing today since my rings were tight and I knew that meant major retention. I'll weigh tomorrow and see what damage I've done.
I'm trying to decide what to shoot for in December... I'd like to see a few pounds go, but I may shoor more for inches lost or something to keep the focus off the # on the scale and more on consistant exercise. I'm not sure yet.

I had a good weekend but because of the wine it showed on the scale this morning... So I'm working on those 3 lbs yet again...

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving holiday...I've been MIA because my mother was in town visiting from Germany so I didn't have much time for the computer. I did good over the long weekend, my mom is also dieting so that was a big help, we were looking out for each other the whole time lol. I got down to 104.2 but this morning I was back at 106.4....not sure if it was what I ate or water weight...I'm guessing water. Hopefully lol. I didn't exercise at all while my mom was here so I'm looking forward to a nice jog after work today. I feel so much better when I at least get out in the fresh air a little!

Here's the new thread for December gals.
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/feat...-december.html

What have you been planning?