Well, I am about 15 pounds over my red line, and although most of my clothes still fit (some are tighter than others), I am uncomfortable. My tummy is too roly-poly and pooches over my belt when I sit down. Not exactly a muffin top in my jeans, but there is enough love handle that I'm not happy. Granted height is a great asset, but sometimes I use that as justification for weighing more and I just shouldn't do that.

We all have a healthy weight range mine is less than yours because I am short, same with calories I do not need as many to survive as taller people.
I sometimes like to use a poster named JohnP as an example. I believe he is 6'9" tall. I have never met him but if he and I were to walk into a restaurant together and order the same meal we would get exactly the same amounts served us. Isn't that ridiculous ? It would be too much for me , I don't know about him it might be enough or not enough. We definitely are not created equal in our calorie requirements.

Bargoo - Congratulations! Height makes such a difference, doesn't it? I also often wish to be taller. Except when on an airplane.

alinnell - Good job on your healthy start to the day. I love fresh berries, especially strawberries, and rejoice when fresh Florida strawberries start appearing around here. Unfortunately, they're almost gone now.

You mentioned exercising after dinner? I've tried that but always end up feeling either too lethargic to actually do it, or too uncomfortable to work out hard. Thankfully, with my teaching schedule, I'm able to have time to exercise before dinner. I feel for you that don't.

As for me, this morning I weighed in at 124.6. That's .2 pounds MORE than 2 weeks ago, when I had my 5 days in a row of overeating. So, the damage could have been worse. On the plus side, I had a good weekend of activity and balanced food, and feel set up for a week of good choices.

Haven't I said that before?

Jen - we've all said it before.

Bargoo - take the vanity weight and enjoy it. I have a range like that too, I just haven't seen it in a while. LOL

Allison - enjoy the berries!

I'm at the same weight today as Friday. Actually, a little lower than Friday. Still so much higher than I want, but I'll accept that it isn't higher after the weekend and try to be happy. Got a lot of work done in my garden yesterday and feel good about that. I only exercised 4 of the 7 days last week (3 weight workouts with cardio chaser for about 1-1.25 hours per session, one good run at the park), but spent 3 hours in the garden yesterday, so I'm going to choose to feel good and not like I failed last week.

Congrats Bargoo!!

Thanks for the birthday wishes, JenMusic!

Well, I mostly kept things under control for birthday weekend. Boyfriend asked what I wanted to do on b-day (Saturday), and I said take dog for a long walk, then go for a trail run. Nice guy that he is, he went for an 8 mile run with me even though he's still coughing from a bad cold. Then we went to a concert. We were too busy to eat anything other than a sandwich all day.

Yesterday, met up with boyfriend's parents for brunch, then drove across CA to meet up with my extended family for dinner. Did pretty well for meals - had a salad with crab for brunch, then liked it so much that I had the same thing for dinner. Love crab season on the coast! Did eat too many sweet potato fries. And my mom bought a gorgeous cake from an Austrian bakery, and I had a, well, "healthy" (substantial) piece.

Anyway, no terrible damage done over the weekend, I think. The real danger is that they sent a giant piece of the cake home with us. It is sitting in the fridge. This morning I swear I could feel it through the fridge door, vibrating slightly with deliciousness.

I'm glad that you had a good birthday, jayzeejay! Happy belated.

My scale read 152.6. That's the highest I've been since March 2011.

My attempt to listen to my body and my hunger cues over the past two weeks, inspired partly by some of the threads here, was noble & idealistic, showed compassion toward myself -- and has completely backfired.

Back to restriction.

We live and learn. With your determination you will succeed. Good luck,

Saef - how's the body feeling and looking? You've been going great guns on weight training whenever I call by. That will probably make you smaller in some places. (I did read the bit about arms and shoulders and I know about the size of some "vintage" clothing.)

Sub-text: if your body is feeling and looking good, then the number could drop down the priority list.

Silver, so good to hear from you. Please stop by more often, if only to say hello.

I am at the low end of my maintenance range, consciously trying for a deficit to break out of it (< 123 has only ever been seen for 2 days when I was sick) in preparation for summer/music festival in late May.

I just ordered some pb2 (regular and chocolate). Please give me some ways to use it!! I think I remember someone saying they used it in a protein drink?

Stir it into plain Greek yogurt!

Bargoo - usually v pressed for time & brain space. It's a different phase of life from when I used to post here more.

I love PB2! I use it in oatmeal - it really keeps me full the whole morning.

I also use it to smear over bananas.

It freezes well. I have mixed some up, spread across a low fat graham cracker, topped with fat free whipped cream, top with the other half of the graham cracker and freeze. YUMMY!