Congrats 2FatCats!! That's amazing

Fabulous, 2FatCats!! I love your new signature!! And also your new avatar -- cute!

Oh my goodness... I had sooo much idle time at my hands today. I did walk for 5 miles, clean my house, weigh lifted, run errands, made dinner, washed laundry, but I had no where to go today and it felt odd. I did my guilty pleasure today, surfed the web, a lot

Congrats on making goal 2FatCats! If I'm honest, I don't know if I will ever be able to say that.

I went for a 2 mile walk today, am within calorie range, but feeling sluggish. I just feel flabby and not my best. I don't know how to get back in the game. I haven't changed my ticker to a lower weight in many months. It's kind of scary.

Have a great evening, everyone!

Congrats 2fat Cats!!!

I was out of town for 9 days, and didn't overeat, but I guess it is hard to make progress without exercise. I may not get there by May 1.

Sum..I want your life!

LOL Zumba But get into trouble when idle!! I am sure I p1ssed off someone today

There are two things in this life that I hate doing/ being in middle of it...but love the outcome.

These two things, and I will say if any woman they say they LOVE IT; they all lie!!!!

I hate weight lifting. I hated being pregnant.

Sum38 Really?? I loved being pregnant. No lie. Especially the first pregnancy when everything was all new. (I was lucky, my pregnancies were textbook easy)

Sum: I'm with you--hated being pregnant. In fact, I had both my kids naturally with no meds, and I'd rather do that again than go through another pregnancy! I'm not so opinionated about weights because I don't really do them. I know I need to add strength training to my walking, but I can't seem to get motivated to start!

Well, today the seesaw that seems to be my weight was at 177.4. At the beginning of this journey I was losing a little everyday. Now I seem to be fluctuating all over the place. I'm trying not to be discourages though because its going down overall. It's never as fast as we would like, is it?

Heidi you did? I felt so big and clumsy; everything was so hard and my body just ached. I had two back to back pregnancies because I knew if I waited, we would only end up with one child.

Jennifer it seems like the less one has to lose, harder it gets I look at myself and even though I carry a lot of extra fat, it does not want to just melt off.

I am feeling yesterday's weight lifting session; this is a feeling I love -- I will be thankful at the end, that I incorporated toning into my routine right from the start. Because once this fat leaves, I hope there will be a hot bod left behind I apologize in advance because I will b1tch and moan about lifting...lol But I am too stubborn to stop doing it.

My first pregnancy was great and I loved being pregnant, my second pregnancy was HADES from beginning to delivery.....I can easily see how a woman can either love or hate being pregnant...at the end of the day if you had a healthy baby it is all worth it

As far as weight lifting goes it makes such a big difference in your body...I'm guilty of just doing cardio but over the years when I weight trained it made a big difference. Now that i"m older everything is mushy and saggy...I know that weight lifting is necessary, but sometimes I think if it will even make a difference. I always had a difficult time building muscle....people tell me that they stopped lifting because it was making their thighs too big...what? I wish......

SUM do you do machines at the gym or are you lifting free weights? Are you following a program a trainer made up for you or are you doing it on your own? The gym I want to go to to lift has a good circuit which takes the guess work out of lifting, although functional training is better. I'm surprised that you hate it, because I would rather lift weights than walk on the treadmill or use the elliptical.

Even though I have a goal number in my ticker, a number on the scale has never been my goal. Instead, it has been to hit my 48th birthday, look back, and be able to say that 47 was the year that I turned things around. Well -- today I hit my goal!! Happy birthday to me!!

I'm 49 pounds lighter and have gone from a very very tight size 18 (should have been a 20) pants to a size 10. I've gone from having difficulty getting up off a deep couch to doing an 80-mile trek. I've gone from dreading having to find something to wear to an occasion to being delighted that I can choose something I like rather than something that fits. I definitely feel like I've turned things around! And, I've accepted that there is no end point. I don't get to meet my goal and be done. In fact, I have a new goal every day, which is to be able to say "I kept the weight off yesterday" Uggh to that LOL

Have a great day, everyone.

(Yeah, you may see this twice; I'm going to cross post it into the April chat)

GUAC: hang in there honey. my weight has either stayed stagnant or went up the past several months! Its so discouraging.....Im starting to lose a bit now but its still a see saw because my head isn't in the right place. Stress is making me eat. Not sure what the issue is with you, but try and visualize you being smaller, wearing something slinky this summer....I know that is what motivates me.. .... find what is going to give you that little push to make this happen!!!! You did this before, you can do it again!!!

Zumba then driving to the lawyers office......this has been the most stressful few weeks of my life, other than when my Dad had a stroke and was on life support. i'm trying so hard to have a normal life and do normal things (like worry about my weight) despite everything that is going on, but believe me it is so very hard. Thanks for being here every day ladies.....talking about this stuff may be trivial but I need a little bit of that in my life.....