I just got done to 144 this morning, too! It's bizarre-we have nearly the same stats and everything! Hopefully we can meet these weight loss goals in the near future :dizzy: 139 by the end of the month would be AMAZING!

Boy I really love this thread. My goal is to get into the 140's. You are so inspiring. I'm visualizing being in the 140's and getting into the 130's, just like everyone is here. My HEROES!

I thought it might be good for me to jump on over to this forum since I don't have much left to lose :) Hello feathers! Hopefully we can all shed the pounds we want!

148 today, so I'm trudging on through the 140s!

Hey cmwelp yeah we totally have the same stats! I really really want to get out down to 139. We have the same goal weight too. Have you ever been 125?

Welcome sontaikle!

LisaTcan-the lowest i've been down too since being a pre-teen was 133. So 125 is like the ultimate ULTIMATE goal for me :-) I usually stick within the 138-135 range, but gained 12 pounds while abroad for a semester! So, now trying to get back to that range, plus some!

What about you?

I am not sure if this is the right forum for me, but since I am 145.5 I figured I'd post here. I still have quite a bit to lose to get to my goal, but I am struggling to get out of the 140's, too.

I was on a plateau for a few weeks and then, DISASTER hit. I was invited to a Paula Deen potluck. Paula Deen! Sheesh, it's like my friends are conspiring against me. So I went off plan for the day, ate a little, and the next day - I had LOST weight. The extra calories must have knocked me off of my plateau? It was weird. Since then it has been going steadily downwards, but agonizingly slowly.

I am so glad to be able to fit back into some of my clothes again, but there are still more clothes I can't wear in my closet than clothes I can. And the Holidays are coming. O_o

I'm in the same boat cmwelp, the lowest I've ever been as an adult was 132 and I was hard to maintain. I was also around 138 for a couple of years until knee surgery caused me to gain 15 lbs. I'd love to be abe able to maintain around 128 but we'll see what happens.

Welcome shr1nk1ngme and congrats on getting through that plateau. I really never understand how they work!

Does anyone have to fight with their friends in order to stay within their plan? One of my friends got really miffed that I didn't want to go to a buffet with her. While I was sure I could control myself, it was more of a cost thing. Why would I pay $20 for a little bit of food when I could go to Panera and pay $8 for the same amount (and know how many calories are in it!)? She was actually the only one who wanted to go to the buffet in the group...

She was VERY angry about the whole situation, but I put my foot down and refused to budge. Apparently she trash talked me the entire time with the friend who DID go with her...

My friends are always going to food-related events. Lately I haven't been going at all, same reason as you, Sontaikle. I figure, why pay a $20 fee for wine and cheese tasting and then eat only a Medifast bar and a few broccoli sticks? So I just don't go. Nobody gets mad at me, but I can tell they think I am just too committed to my diet plan. I'm thinking, I am having so much success; all it takes is a little indulgence to completely derail me and sometimes I don't get back on track for YEARS. Why chance it? When I reach my goal weight and I go on maintenance, then we can talk about all-you-can-eat buffets and wine & cheese tasting.

I've been turning down certain events too. It just seems so silly to spend all of that money! You're lucky though that your friends don't get mad at you; I seem to have a few friends that just either don't care about my progress or are resentful.

I'm lucky that most of my friends now see my progress (It seems like ever since I hit 150 people noticed a lot more) they're more willing to accomodate me if I want to go somewhere where there are low-calorie options, etc. Fortunately most restaurants have this so I don't have to be picky.

It's just a few friends here are there that will suggest buffets or places where I just don't even want to be tempted. If everyone else wants to go, I will (or I'll just decline and meet up later) but most of my friends will say "Oh hey Nicole looks awesome now, let's go somewhere healthy!" and then the one friend who wanted to go to a buffet or something will get annoyed :?:

Recently I went to cold stone with some friends and didn't get anything as it would have put me over my calorie count for the day (didn't know we were going! I would have allowed for it if I knew! :dizzy:) and my friend would not shut up about it! She said I must think I'm "better" than everyone else. :mad:

It's just so frustrating. I'm not trying to be "better" than anyone—I'm just trying to be healthy.

Today I weighed in at 139! How weird, yesterday I was at 141.5. I think it's probably water weight, and I won't be surprised to weigh in at 140+ again tomorrow (yes, I'm a daily weigh-er). But it's a small victory, so I thought I'd post here and say, this just MAY be goodbye 140's! For good! (Crosses fingers) :)

Does anyone have any advice on getting the scale to move? I've only been stuck this long one other time (wayyyy back at 180) and it's been exactly two weeks since I hit 146. I'm not sure if I should just ride this out and see what happens or try changing things up.

I know it's not really a long time, I just really haven't gone this long without losing before. I'm doing everything: exercising, sticking to plan, etc. I eat 1200 calories so I'm not sure if it's even safe to lower my calories (I wouldn't feel hungry if I did though; sometimes it's a struggle to get that last 200 in). Has anyone safely lost by eating 1000 or 1100 calories a day?

I'm six pounds from a healthy weight at this point, should I just expect slower losses now?


I've never been through the weight loss process before so I'm a total newbie when it comes to all of this. I don't know what the heck to expect :joker: I just have my earlier experiences in this journey to go on.

WOOO! When I went to bed last night the scale read 143! I was so super happy! I was wondering what it would say, because I had gotten up yesterday and put on a pair of jeans expecting it to be a tight fit but had no problem buttoning them up. That just made me extra super happy all day long. So I wasn't surprised to get on the scale and be below 145! Which has been a rare occurrence. I've been hovering in the 147-148 range lately (ugh, talk about frustrating!)
I signed up for fitocracy at the beginning of the month though and it's REALLY helped me stick to working out more. Especially my october challenge with one of my groups (a group of military wives and GFs) and trying to get to #50 on the 3fatchicks group (just checked and I'm currently at #45! Didn't expect that!) I also recently (just this week) changed my eating pattern so I'm having light lunches and snacking a little during the day, and then having a typical dinner, instead of trying to watch all my food all day. Guess I'll keep with this and see if it keeps working!

~Katy

I weighed in at 142 this morning! It felt pretty good, should be able to hit my goal of 140 by Nov. 11th. I'd like to make a goal of being at 130 by valentines day but I don't know if that's to ambitious over the holiday season. I've been losing pretty slowly, like 1 lbs a week.

Kakers - another person with the exact same stats as me :)

I hit 139 in maybe early June, but then went up to 140-141 and am stuck there. When losing the weight (down from 180 in January) I was measuring everything and doing dancercise most days; have to admit that now I just eyeball my food quantities and don't do the dancing, just my mini-trampolining. If I want to get out of the 140's, I had better get back to my routines that used to be successful.

Alongside that, I take comfort in the fact that my eating is in good control, not waaaay crazy like it was before I started counting calories. I'm hoping that if I just ramp up the effort to what I used to do when more motivated, I can leave the 140's behind for good and stay around 135.

Good luck to all of us trying to welcome the 130's!