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. I wish I could bottle how strong I feel right now!

Congrats, ICU

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...

Kelost, 72 lbs that is amazing!!

This morning I was down to 155 ... even with a glass of wine last night .... 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 ...