My Second Month of Maintenance
SW: 115.5
TW: <119

July 3: 117.5
July 4: 116.2
July 5th: 115.3
July 6th: 115.3
July 7th: 116.4
July 10th: 117.5
July 11th: 116.4
July 12th: 115.7
July 13th: 115.5
July 14th: 114.6
July 15th: 114.8

Food was good yesterday, but a bottle of wine opened last weekend was in need of finishing, so I undertook the task. Paying for it with a bit of a hurty head this morning, and anticipate paying for it on the scales in the next day or two. A few jobs around the house this morning then we're walking from home to Bondi Beach (will take about an hour), and we'll find somewhere there for a nice lunch. Beautiful weather at the moment - cold (17C max) but sunny. Depending on how my dodgy knee's going we'll either walk back again (different route) or get the bus.

Riestrella, as to why my husband 'maintains' his overweight, the easy answer is because he is unwilling to change his bad eating habits, pure and simple. He got interested in trying SB when I was about halfway through the first time, and he quickly lost around 20 pounds, his jeans got loose and his snoring massively improved. But he wasn't willing to continue eating that way and went back to lots of rice, pasta, potatoes, greasy food, ice cream and candy every day. So the weight came right back and here he is. If only it was for a sport! I looked up Muay Thai; that looks really interesting, wow! Pretty neat that your SO is into that!

Congrats to all who've made some progress this week, whether in inches or pounds. Just keeping at it is a big success. Welcome, LGW!

I'm still firmly at 135, maybe just a smidgen below that (my scale is not that precise). Hoping for a whoosh any time now. Implementing some exercise may have cramped the losing for the time being, but I feel like my body is getting a little stronger. I did an upper body strength routine, just a 10 minute one, but trying to do pushups after a couple of years off was torture and I could barely lift my arms for the next two days. I repeated the routine last night with a lot of modifying (wall pushups) and that was better. The nice thing about this month is fitting into some of my smaller jeans, yay! The larger ones I was wearing a couple months ago are ridiculously big now. Also, my face is starting to look leaner again - it tends to show any weight gain right away.


Ignore the ticker, it's not been updated.

Week Three
15: 237.4
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Total Loss for Week Three:

Not back to my low yet, but down from yesterday. As I thought, it was mostly water retention. Got on my treadmill and managed 0.75 miles before my ankle was getting tired. But much more slowly. It took me 20 minutes to do that 3/4 mile. Before, I was doing 2 miles in 33 minutes. So I'll have to work on both distance and speed again.

Had a crap day yesterday, I was just mega lazy and not productive. I woke up feeling groggy, had breakfast, then napped for a few hours. Then I just slobbed out until I made dinner (Japanese chicken curry, so good but a long process!) then slobbed out some more with the boyfriend. I was supposed to finish up some work in the morning but I put it off until today . If I don't have plans my default mode is to be a couch potato!
S/O also made a delicious honey mustard dip and bought pretzels so we snacked on them until too late in the evening. I was preparing myself for the worst this morning but I wound up at 185 lbs which isn't too bad. Going to do my best to be better today

I've also decided to calculate my average weight per week for the challenge going onward, so I'm going to change my chart to reflect that! Hope you have a nice, relaxing Sunday y'all

Week Two
09: 185.4 lbs
10: 185.8 lbs
11: 187 lbs
12: 186 lbs
13: 184.6 lbs
14: 184.4 lbs
15: 185 lbs
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Average Weight for Week Two: 185.4 lbs
Total Loss for Week Two: 0.8 lbs
Total July Loss: 1.6 lbs

momtopands - Congrats on the loss!

ange - Sorry about your slight hangover! There are these electrolyte pills that we take called Reviver, they're supposed to be for hard workouts but it's also inconspicuously advertised to help with drinking! They don't get rid of hangovers, but they lessen the blow significantly. Hope you have a nice walk and that is lovely weather! I always forget the seasons are flipped in Australia.

JenyReddy - Yesss, so glad you're seeing a drop after eating some more! It is SO important to fuel our bodies otherwise we do see disappointing results on the scale. Keep it up!

Cattails - Sounds like my Dad! He's quite happy being a larger man and never wants to be thin because he equates that with being miserable? I do worry about the toll the weight will take on both of my parents, who are obese. I imagine it's difficult for you to see your husband treat his body that way? I know my boyfriend gets worried about me because he knows the health risks that come with being overweight and he told me he "wants to have a long life" with me. He's not pushy about telling me to lose weight, but he tries to encourage me whenever he does see me make changes. How does your husband view your weight loss since you've done so well at it? Yeah, Muay Thai is intense, but he loves it and I won't deny that I love how it's transformed his body! He's always been more of a slender man, but now he's got those big thighs and toned arms so I can't really complain
Congrats on your loss both on the scale and off! Fitting into smaller jeans and growing too small for larger jeans is the best feeling. Oh lordy, I hate push ups with a passion. And planking. I hate them!

Lacerta - I think it's easy after an injury to compare our times/results to how we were before, but consider this a fresh start for your walking pace due to your ankle. It'll take some time, more than you would like, to get back to your original pace, but you will get there!

Still working a lot and going back tonight but dropped a bit more and now at my lowest!

Week Three
15: 243.6 TOM
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End of Week Two: 244.3
Total Loss for Week Three:

Week Four

My Second Month of Maintenance
SW: 115.5
TW: <119

July 3: 117.5
July 4: 116.2
July 5th: 115.3
July 6th: 115.3
July 7th: 116.4
July 10th: 117.5
July 11th: 116.4
July 12th: 115.7
July 13th: 115.5
July 14th: 114.6
July 15th: 114.8
July 16th: 114.6

Would've expected scales to go up this morning, but it didn't happen. Maybe later. Did the walk to Bondi beach yesterday and found a nice café right on the front for lunch - a bit touristy, but it's good to pretend to be a tourist at home! Then walked half way back and got the bus the rest of the way, so probably about 2hrs walking all up which my knee was mostly ok with. It was so nice to be out. Back to the working week now, and no major distractions in sight so I should be able to get some sensible eating happening.
Hope everyone's doing well and is pleased with their weekend choices (whatever direction they went in!)

I just joined this site yesterday and my goal is to lose 2pounds a week.

I have an additional goal to eat 3 healthy meals a day and exercise 4 times a week.

I have a tendency to skip meals and then overeat late at night. I also currently exercise twice a week, so I need to increase that.

Hi, all.


LGW - Well done both on your weight training and abstaining from fast food! I'm sorry about your knee. I know what you mean about the walking adrenaline rush. Do you think you'd be able to do 10 min a day, or is the pain too much at this point? Congrats on your drop so far this month! I usually see a gain for a few weeks when I start a weight training program due to all the water retention, so it's great that you're already losing. You must have a good amount of weight loss going on too so that losses are still showing up through the water retention.


Frustrated - Great plan!


ange82 - What a fun day and in beautiful weather too. I'm glad your knee didn't hurt too bad.


momtopands - Congrats on your lowest!


Rie - You've been so productive with your work, maybe your body and psyche just needed some lounge time. I find if I go hard for a while, there's nothing like a nice day of slobbing out for balance.


Lacerta - 0.75 in 20 minutes is a great pace coming off an injury.


Cattails - Congrats on the smaller jeans!


JenyReddy - Yay, that's fantastic that the scale is dropping!

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Still in the 138's today. I had a bit of a NSV this weekend. I had my usual small get together on Saturday night. There's usually a ridiculous, mismatched hodgepodge of food present bc most people bring something, but we don't coordinate what we have. So, for example, this time I ate some of the olives I provided and a very small piece of chocolate cake that someone else brought. Not the best combo, but I didn't eat it back to back, so it was ok. Anyway, my NSV that night is I stayed under my maintenance calories (and had no gain this morning). I'd gotten into a bad habit of making that my free-for-all-night and almost always eating up to 500 calories above maintenance. That's fine when I'm in maintenance (it's how I ate for years and it never led to weight gain; my weight gain was from other changes). But what's fine in maintenance isn't fine when losing, so socializing will remain maintenance or below-maintenance days until I'm at goal weight.


Similarly, today a group of us went to this cute, hipstery French cafe for the World Cup. We shared a lot of food, but I took only small samples of a few things. So I stayed under (or maybe at) maintenance again today. I consider this a successful weekend of fun socializing. I'll probably be up a bit on the scale tomorrow from the restaurant food, but at least maintenance weekends won't have me stuck in a loop of losing during the week the damage I did on the weekend. I'm really happy with this method and could keep it up forever.

Day 2 = 194.6
Day 3 = 192.7
Day 4 = 192.2
Day 5 = 192.6
Day 6 = 189.9
Day 9 =191.4
Day 10 = 192.2
Day 11 = 191.7
Day 12= 191.1
Day 16 = 189.7
Back from a weekend of camping. No alcohol yet this month!!! Have a great Monday everyone!

I'm surprised the damage isn't worse - I ate out three meals this weekend. Watched the World Cup and had some drinks. It is very hot here right now but going to try to start doing walks in the evening with my neighbor. I do usually make my step goal because of my dogs but sometimes get lazy and just take them to the dog park for a runaround.


CW: 146.0
GW: 140.0

Week One end weight: 146.0

Week Two

08: 145.2
09: 144.8
10: 145.6
11: 145.8
12: 145.6
13: 145.4
14: 145.0
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Total Loss for Week Two: 1 lb

Week Two end weight: 145.0

Week Three

15: DNW
16: 145.6
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Total Loss for Week Three:

boatingmommy: Congrats on seeing 180s

LGW: Do you stretch regularly? I had bad knee pain that was stopping me from walking too, went on for about a month. After watching a few Youtube physical therapy videos, I decided it was either tight quads or a bound up kneecap. I started doing quad stretches as well as manually stretching my kneecaps in all 8 directions. I don't know which one did the trick, but the knee pain disappeared within a few days and hasn't come back.

Frustrated2: Welcome, never too late to join

Week Three
15: 237.4
16: 236.6
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Total Loss for Week Three:

New low this morning, finally rid of the water weight from Friday. I was exhausted last night, so went to bed really early. Woke up feeling pretty good this morning.

Oof, had a bit of a snack attack day yesterday. I was doing reasonably well in the afternoon, but then when I went to hang out with my friends I started munching hardcore on the snackage they provided. If I see food in front of me, I feel a compulsion to eat it. I wasn't even that hungry! That's the frustrating part. I also knew that we were going to be ordering pizza, so I should have known better for sure. sigh. Something to work on. I managed to eat 2 slices of pizza, when usually I would eat 3...maybe even 4 in one sitting. I actually listened to myself and said "SLOW DOWN!" and chewed my food. It took me so much longer to finish and by the time I was done I was full. So, despite the hiccup with the pretzels + dip, I managed to introduce ONE good habit into my weekend.

As expected, despite the copious amounts of water I drank in order to battle bloat weight, I am up a smidge to 185.8 lbs, a 0.4 lb gain. I think the water definitely helped. Today I'm feeling ready to start introducing exercise into my routine after putting it off because of work. I'm all caught up, clients seem to be happy, so I've got no excuse not to! I'm going to do Insanity Max, but do the modifier track (so useful that he's included that now!) so that I don't injure myself after being inactive for so long. I might see if my boyfriend wants to do it with me, it really helps me when I know he's there since I'm less likely to give up during the video!

Facebook reminded me today that it's the 6 year (whuut) anniversary of when I reached my lowest weight. I managed to get to 149 lbs and even though I wasn't at my goal I posted a before and after picture on Facebook and it was apparently my most commented on post for 2012. Part of me felt kind of sad that I'm closer to the "before" picture right now than I am to the "after", but it also made me realise that I managed to lose a significant amount of weight because of my determination, so I know I can do it again!

Hope everyone has a good Monday and good luck for the rest of the week!

Week Three
16: 185.8 lbs
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Average Weight for Week Two: 185.4 lbs
Average Weight for Week Three: 185.8 lbs
Total Loss for Week Three: -0.4 lbs

LGW - Strength training really sculpts your body, but doesn't do much on the scale for a long time, but if you get out a tape measure instead I'm sure you'll be thrilled with the results! Good job on no junk food for 2 weeks

Chunk - You're right! I think my mind needed that down time for sure. Wow, good for you for keeping your eating in check over the weekend! That's what I aspire to do, just take teeny tiny pieces of food instead of a giant handful Your gatherings reminded me of when my friends got together for cinqo de mayo and I made a corn salad and then my friend walks in and announces "I've made corn salad!" His wife said "this is why we co-ordinate!!" It was ok though, we both made it slightly differently (his cheesy, mine spicy!) so it worked out!

Jeny - Not sure what could have caused the bloat, could be something not related to food?

Rie - @ two of the same dish. One spicy and one cheesy sounds delish though, so I'd agree that it worked out well! We've somehow managed not to have doubles yet, unless I'm forgetting a time. I think it helps bc the ones who bring stuff tend to have their own area. I usually set out something of the antipasto variety, and then there's the booze person (I rarely imbibe), the dessert person, and the snack food/chips person. A couple of times, we've had two people each bring main courses (which no one usually even brings). That was way too much food.

I hope you get to the small pieces point soon. It makes it so much easier when you genuinely don't want more. I'm not sure why taking more stopped appealing to me; it just did. Sorry about the snack attack, but well done eating only two slices!

Welcome, Frustrated2!

ange82much: maintain <119
boatingmommy: 8 lbs
Cattails: 4 lbs
Chunkahlunkah: 2.5 lbs
Frustrated2: 4 lbs
gardenerjoy: 2.4 kgs
Jeanex: 9 lbs
JenyReddy: 6 lbs
Lacerta: 7 lbs
LGW: 8 lbs
momtopands: 8 lbs
nicoley73: 6 lbs
opheliaphoenix: 5.6 lbs
PERUNNING: 10 lbs
Rainbow123: 4 lbs
Riestrella: 2 lbs
SnowMama: 8 lbs
Stefania: 8 lbs
Tesni: 6 lbs
TooManyDimples: 10 lbs
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