OhThePlaces, the same thing happens to me. If I eat carby garbage all weekend, I am almost guaranteed to have a great super long run on Sunday night/Monday. It's hard to balance!

I've binged on junk food the past couple nights. Same old same old. How do you get out of a binge-restrict cycle? I can't keep this up forever!

Hi guys

I've been mostly MIA for a while but I think I need to come back to stay accountable. I went back to the US last month and ate super on plan- got all my lovely health foods in and it was glorious- and was I think about 123. I came back to India and have been struggling a bit without my avocados, cottage cheese, greek yogurt, ezekiel bread, wasa crispbread, tempeh... oh I miss it!

Anyway I've indulged in a terrible habit of eating about 2 tbs of peanut butter each night regardless of whether or not I have the calories for it. Not real pb, the Jif sugary kind. I found some natural pb at the import grocery store recently and bought it, but the seal looks like it's been tampered with and it tastes funny. Oh India you're killing me...

So I think I'm at 124ish now, according to the questionable scale downstairs and my boyfriend's Wii. Not bad, but a gain is a gain and I know it's directly caused by my laxness in calorie counting and nightly peanut butter ritual. I should be at 1200 a day and do well on 1200, but have let myself creep up to 1300 and 1400 just out of laziness.

This morning I put a note on my pb jar telling myself I'm not allowed to eat any today.

Though diet has been so-so, exercise has been great. Consistently running 3x a week (including a lovely 40 minute run yesterday outside, the longest and best I've had in years) and lifting 2x, with one extra day of cross-training. So that's good.

Ok I'm ranting. Hope to continue posting here like I used to for accountability, and to see how everyone's doing and support you all!!

Bornthisway I don't hike very often either, despite living in Austria! Every now and then we go to the mountains for the weekend and go hiking. That one was particularly hardcore for me, seeing as though we don't really have mountains in England! I agree with you about gym cardio though, I hate it. I love running outside (can't at the moment, boo ), swimming in rivers and lakes, cycling and hiking.
indiblue welcome back! Have you tried making your own peanut butter? I make my own and now we won't eat anything else. You just mix peanuts (dry roasted) with peanut oil and you're done! I tried it with natural peanuts once and it was too bland.
Oh the places Yeah that is defo is the low carb effect. In the early stages of my half marathon training I experimented with Atkins and my tempo dropped quite dramatically. Once the training got over 12km there was no way I could have done it without some carbs (fruit or a small serving of oats).

I'm on day 4 of the balance myself out plan and have gone from 70.4kg (that was the result of the weekend and TOTM bloat) on Monday to 68.9kg today. Pretty good for 3 days! I'll move my calories up to normal level (1,600) tomorrow so I'll weigh myself tomorrow and then not again until next Friday. I really want to see my weight lower than 68.5kg by next week, I haven't seen that for ages!!

I'm off for a swim and then more thesis writing (( One more chapter about genocide to go and I'm done!

x

Just popping in quickly to say, 68.4kg this morning! Lowest I've seen for ages! I am going away this weekend and there will be a BBQ tonight but I'll try and use the success from this week to keep me within limits Have a nice weekend

Hi! I'm still pretty new here and haven't had enough time to commit to reading and writing posts. I think you all are doing fantastic! I have the same trouble with low-carb dieting. It sets off carb cravings for me that eventually leads to binging. It also makes me sluggish: mentally and physically. Did you know your brain ONLY uses carbs? So you do need them, if only to THINK. LOL The balance is the key, but a low-carb diet will jump start you if the quick loss gives you motivation. I exercise a lot and would not be able to keep up that pace without carbs for fuel.
We had very hot weather here early this week and now it's only 60 degrees out today! Feels like October, but I'm going to take advantage of this lousy weather day and give myself a much needed 'rest day' (no exercise) - and get some dang laundry and house cleaning done tonight. What an exciting Friday night, huh?
I haven't had a rest day in 10 days, so I think it's much deserved. My tired body says it's much needed.
I hope you all have a great weekend. I have a wedding to attend tomorrow - so I know I'll be dealing with that dreaded 'cake temptation' as well. UGH!

Hello,
I'm not really quite "featherweight" by weight, but I am in the normal BMI range, so maybe that counts. Looking to lose about 20 pounds and tone some things up.

I like daily chat threads and yours looks active.
Happy Friday!

Welcome to both of you! So good to see new people coming around.

I finally started getting back on a regular work schedule today. Retail = standing up/walking all day, so maybe I'll burn a few extra calories! :P
I've been at 128.4 for 3 days, so I'm hoping to see some downward movement soon. I seem to be doing that more lately- staying at the same weight for a few days in a row and then dropping a significant amount.

thanks for the welcome bama girl,

Today I'm making cupcakes to take to an event tomorrow. I'm not great with treats around the house, but I'm only planning to make myself one extra, so I'm hoping for the best!

Hey everyone!

Had an indulgent, way off-plan day today. Tomorrow involves an outdoor festival and treats there as well... so my plan is to get my run/weights in early, and then walk, walk walk as far as my legs will take me!

After this weekend, my goal is to stay relatively on plan until after the wedding I'm in.... which, I think I can do.

Resisting the urge to berate myself and be nasty. Instead, thinking ahead for ways to balance out tomorrow. Hope you're all well!

-FPSJ

Welcome jacymacy and ann!

Friday was good until the evening, when I ate my bodyweight in bbq food and drank so much peach/fizzy wine punch that I fell asleep at 1am and my boyfriend had to carry me upstairs more or less. Classy. Yesterday was not much better in terms of food because we ate out twice (good choices though) and then got ice cream.

Back on the horse today and managed to burn nearly 2,000 on a bike ride through the mountains (I nearly died on the uphill bit!!) Eaten a bit of chocolate since then but apart from that I've stuck to plan. Only up 0.6kg as well, so I'm sure I'll manage to sort it out before weigh in day on Friday!

Have a nice weekend

Wow claire, that sounds like quite a bike ride! I went 5 miles on my bike yesterday.

Did get in a decent run today. My food has been junky, but not overly much of it. looking to get in a bunch of fruits and veggies by the end of the day. I have a fabulous cantaloupe and cherries.

Hope everyone's having a fabulous weekend. I've been out of sorts as my computer died Friday night... but because it was JUST within the warranty (by like a month) and the manufacturer doesn't repair the model of my old computer anymore, I got to get a new, better one for free! And it's pink!

I went to see my grandparents this weekend and ate restaurant food so here's hoping all the salt didn't blow me up like a balloon. I'll be weighing myself in the morning.

Gearing up for the Semi-Annual Sale at VS, which means I'm working 32 hours this week. Hopefully all that standing/walking will burn off a few calories.

Moving, stressed, way off-track. This plateauing thing really got to me. I don't know how to believe I can lose weight using the same old formula anymore. Not sure I can or maybe I just haven't been strict enough lately :/. Either way the stall made me feel guilty for not making progress, which made me eat my feelings, which of course ultimately does nothing but make me feel worse and eat worse again ugh. Gonna take a lot of strength to move forward from this one ladies. Need to love and believe in myself again. I am trying to remember that this is what happens to ALL of us, that it's not about how many times I fall & fail to reach my goals in time, it's about how many times I pick myself up. I know now that the root of my weight gain, and really the majority of stress in my life, is rooted in my guilt. Learning to be forgiving of my imperfections will be the determining factor in my ultimate weight loss/maintenance journey.

I think how hard I am on myself to do well at school (I work my butttt off to make sure im on the dean's list every semester at my ivy league university) affects how I approach losing weight :/

I had a pretty indulgent weekend but I didn't binge eat junk food, which sadly is something to celebrate. My weight is up and will go down again. I think I have settled into the 59-61 kg range which is not unacceptable, but I still feel like I've let myself go. A friend brought photo prints from our trip to Berlin over the holidays and despite it only being 5-10 lbs difference, I felt so sad looking at my "thin" self.

I ate crap food all weekend. Ugh, I hate that. No idea what I weigh this morning. I really need to get back on track -- I have been pretty bad for a while now, since vacation was a free-for-all and I came back just to continue that behavior. I do fairly well all week and then spend the weekend with my boyfriend eating pizza and cheeseburgers and drinking beer and taking shots. Sheesh. I think this would be awesome if I was trying to maintain, I could eat healthy all week and be more lax on the weekend. But I'm not TRYING to maintain, I've got ~10 more pounds to lose!

Plain greek yogurt with a handful of black berries for breakfast today, salad at Whole Foods for lunch. I want to start seeing some loss on the scale again.

Started playing Dance Dance Revolution a little bit again (haven't since high school!) and that is actually a pretty good workout if you have enough arcade tokens.

WELCOME to everyone new! I'll be trying to post more again now since I've been MIA from vacation, trying to get back on track!