Thanks Lemon & Ubee!

I think that's good advice Ubee, I'm going to try to post more often. And I also decided to start doing daily weighins again for a while. I put it out to 2 times a month because the scale was annoying me, but I think that might have back fired on me a bit because I kept getting into the mind set when I messed up that "Oh, I still have 1.5 weeks till I have to check the scale again, that's plenty of time to get back on track." And repeat. So yeah, I'm going back to daily weighins to help keep me more accountable at least until I'm solidly back on track.

Lemon, only having 1 cookie is definitely a win if you ask me. It sounds like you're going to have a busy weekend. Being busy is always an advantage for me because if I don't have down time I tend to not even think about food. Half the time people seem to over eat just out of pure boredom. We might go to our pool this weekend too. Have fun!

Hope you have a productive, non-backtracking weekend Ubee!

As for me I had a great overnight wooosh and am back down to 244 this morning. My head is definitely in a good place right now and I'm weeks away from the usual hormone battle so hopefully I can make some great progress before than which will help give me motivation to stay more mentally strong through it.

Hey all!!

So I'm less than a pound away from 240 and inching closer to the next decade!! Ubee, not many plans for this weekend, though my husband and I are having a date night at the movies tonight. I have to work on Sunday afternoon, so it limits what we can do. Been feeling really lazy the last two days and I need to kick my own butt. I didn't sleep well the night before last and took something last night to help me sleep and I was really tired this morning as it hadn't quite worn off I think. I'm hoping to not stray too far off plan because I'm only 1 lb away from a total of 60lbs lost and I'm so excited!!!

Onward and downward all!!

Laura one more pound to another ! That is so exciting! Date night sounds nice. What movie are you going to see?
I have to share my sleep story. One morning I got up at about 4:30 and I weighed myself. I got the wonderful opportunity to go back to bed for a change and slept in until 6:00. I decided to weigh myself again out of curiosity and I had lost 1.5 pounds. (Yes, I have a good scale.) So now if the scale is not where I think it should be and I am not well rested I don't sweat it. Also as I've stated before humidity also makes the scale stall. I find it all fascinating.

Kim over the years I have noticed all the losers keep posting through the thick and thin of it all. Posting helps me to stay focused. As for the hormonal battle, that brings back horrid memories. (Best thing for my health was my hysterectomy.) In December I was explaining to my Dr. about my weight history and I told her that I think I would not be obese if it weren't for my PMS eating. We talked about my PCOS and she said that I had hormonal obesity. That Dr. is what started me on this last loss. Then I found Dr. Fung when I looked up hormonal obesity and again when I searched weight loss surgery (Too hard...) I had never heard of hormonal obesity before. I decided I would give fasting a try and here I am today.
I weigh daily on Diana's thread. It is more of a journal kind of thread without all the chatter. I have found that I take 5 steps forward and then 4 steps back. I am OK with it because it shows a loss every month.

WOW am I chatty tonight! I did well with my food today and I did not have one sweet thing! Go me!

Ubee that sounds like me. A lot of times unless I'm really in control of my mindset, when TOM comes around things fall apart. Dr Fung! I'm doing Intermittent Fasting as well and following Keto so I'm very familiar with Dr Fung. I'm very interested in fasting and autophagy. I would love for my skin to naturally get tighter as I lose and not have to consider getting a tummy tuck or anything someday. I haven't heard of hormonal obesity though so I'll have to look it up. Are you doing low carb? I always have the best success when I knock down my carbs and this year has been my most productive weight loss year in a long time even with several set backs. If I can just stay focused I know I can make a lot more progress before the year is over.

Bounced up to 243.4 this morning.

Kim I try to do low carb but I have a powerful sweet tooth. I am eating much lower carb then I was before.
I am finding with fasting that I am losing more inches.
I too am curious of how much skin I will be left with. That one women in the blue dress in the success stories at dietdoctor.com was over 40, started at 300+ and had no loose skin. While I know I will have skin I am hoping it won't be as much as I fear.
I am hoping the autophagy takes care of any unseen stuff going on inside my body.
I need to focus and remember that I need to do better for the health benefits.
Thanks this helped me a lot this morning.

Have a good day everyone!

Ubee: remember they say slow and steady can help too with the skin retracting, I think I have read it's when you have quick and great loss that the body has more issue recovering. I'll have to look into your doctor, you never know what you might learn.

Morning all!

AM: sorry for not doing many personals my brain is on the run this morning and I'm not quite catching up. I get my haircut so I'm trying to find a quick style for it. I'm way past due and when I get to that point it gets all crazy and clumps. I'm also trying to decide if I will let it grow out a bit for the winter months. Oh the joy of crazy hair.

My scale was down 5/10s so nothing earth shattering. I was hopeful but unsure as yesterday I was more bump on a log then anything else. I did hear back from my PT. I can return to my movement but no more than 10-20 minutes every other day. Well maybe I can make hay in that short time and keep a pound moving and get out of this decade that continues to plague me.

Have any of you had a decade that just fell off easily? Or one that you worked hard at and it was gone quickly? Oh I'd long for one of those. That happened exactly once when I was swimming/loosely dieting for my wedding. I swear I lost 10 lbs in a blink. Maybe I was just too busy to really pay attention but I wish once you hit the 5 mark the last 5 should just go immediately 😊

So maybe next week is our week Ladies to shove off the 240s. Yes I'm one of those who vanished from here last year when the weight went back up. I guess in my head I could still cheer everyone on but I knew musing about my scale going up and not doing much about it didn't seem worthy of my input. But I find that when I become active in the posting I tend to do better as an active participant. The weight may not slide off but I'm more aware of working it off. Perhaps this time through the ups/downs we can all remain. Will have to keep at it.

Happy weekend all. Today is pizza night so here's hoping there may be a salad there with it. I aim to do my best! Maybe more thoughts later. Enjoy the time with your families.

I think you guys are right. Coming here and posting more often seems like it will definitely help with accountability. I'll have to make it a priority, especially when TOM is raging and I really want to give in and go carb crazy.

Lemon I've vanished from here repeatedly since joining many moons ago. I think it really is important to stick with it and try to stay accountable when things aren't going perfect. I didn't used to post in the decades threads but now I'm starting to think there are a lot of really great benefits to communicating with people who are in the same place as you.

Ubee that whole gallery of success stories is inspiring. Thanks for Sharing! I have a raging sweet tooth myself. I was doing some of the keto desserts and fat bombs but it turned into a slippery slope for me so I've cut them completely for now. The only things sweet I have right now are sugar free syrups in my BPC and berries occasionally. I just picked up some blackberries today. Hoping it's a good pack!

For me I was only down .2 to 243.8 today. Not bummed considering I saw a big whoosh yesterday morning. Was planning on going to our pool today but it's closed! Apparently they over chlorinated it and we're going to have to stay out until it balances back out. And it's supposed to rain most of the day tomorrow so my weekend turned into a bit of a bummer. Going to try to get some extra cleaning and organizing I've been putting off doing instead. I can't believe school is only a few weeks away from starting.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of your weekend!

Kim cleaning and organizing are so good for weight loss. It gets our brains working on what we want and what to toss. It helps with deciding foods to eat... I believe it all goes hand in hand.

lemonthyme the easy decade is the one you start out in. To be honest the 240's has me scared. I have not been in the 230's for decades. I am going to get there no matter how long it takes me.

Posting on Diana's thread is helping me track my hormones since I only have my ovaries left. Yep, I am hormonal. Very emotional day today. Good crying mostly and a couple sad ones. Ate too much but not as bad as I used to. Moving forward. Will weigh tomorrow and then keep at it.

So glad to have you all here for support!

What do you all do when you've told your DH your dieting, what you can eat if your out and then all of a sudden he comes to the car w/an ice cream cone for you as a surprise because it's hot and muggy out and an ice cream in the past has been a summer treat?

I ate it. I ate it because I felt bad if I returned it to him and made a huge deal that I'm trying to avoid this type of thing which is why I'm in the 240s - I like sweets I can not lie. I liked seeing his smiley face as he thought he had this great surprise prior to handing it to me. But geez how do you politely discuss avoiding adding to my calories? He means well. Do any of your SOs do that to you occasionally?

The party went fine - I did fairly well with keeping to what I had planned. Alas I'm not expecting the scale to be super kind tomorrow. I'm sure I slid back up. However if I have my druthers I will find myself weeding flower beds. I have 4 large beds that need the summer rain weed growth curtailed not to mention the garden and a row of flowering bushes that weeds invaded. Maybe that will help with the loss too. I plan to be out there by 530 am.

Ok my kids need to get to bed. Its talking time with the oldest just because. I aim to please and give the attention warranted. More tomorrow. Good luck, don't fall prey to the rogue ice cream cone!

lemonthyme I would thank him for the cone eat some of it and then explain that it is really filling and ask him to finish it. Then when he is nearing the end of it say maybe next time we could just share one. Explain that since you are eating healthier you can no longer enjoy that much without feeling uncomfortable. Then I would cut back on food the rest of the day. It takes our husbands a while to switch gears. Mine is better at saying no for me now then I am. If I want something he will just get one and expect me to share with him.

I weighed in all the way back up to 244.4 today. I am not upset because thanks to finally tracking weight, food, and emotions I know it is my hormones. Like others I will have to make the best out of my non hormonal days.

Lemon my ex did things like that all the time. Ubee gave great advice on suggesting sharing one or whatnot. But it shouldn't be hard to be able to tell your partner that you need their help as well. You tell him how thoughtful and completely sweet you think it is, but that if he wants to surprise you to please find ways that aren't food related. Having a good heart to heart with the person you care about shouldn't be hard and hopefully he understands and realizes how important it is to support you and not set you back. Mine didn't.. one of the reasons he's now my ex.

Ubee I'm sorry to hear yesterday was rough for you. I completely understand. Last month my hormones were really rough and I honestly believe it's because before I started I was doing lazy Keto and not focused enough. I'm really hoping when the August hormones hit and I'm firmly in Ketosis that I will see a huge improvement. I get what you mean about the decade scaring you. I have felt the same way so many times it's ridiculous. It's like I'm almost afraid of actually achieving the goal of making it into a decade I haven't seen in a loooooooong time. I don't know if it's because I'm afraid of getting there but messing up and going back up in weight or what, but I have gotten so close to graduating a decade and then going the wrong way numerous times. I think half my struggle is the mind games I play on myself. Getting to see the 230's has been a struggle for me as well. I know I haven't been back that low since before I had my second daughter and she's 2.5 now. And I don't remember exactly, but I may not have seen them for a year or 2 before that either. We will get there, and then hopefully we will fly through them!

I was pretty surprised this morning. Down another 2.2 to 241.6. Gotta love the first week back on low card. That's 9lbs since I restarted on Monday. I'm going to restart me strength training today and I know I'm going to have sore muscles for the next week or so. It still could be a while before I see the 230's because the water retention is out of my control. I am going to partner it with starting a fat fast tomorrow though. Since my calorie burn should go up quite a bit this coming week I figure it's a perfect way to get back to being fat adapted quicker. Hopefully it works out.

So I'm off to do my workout then get some laundry and cleaning done. Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday!

TooMany: Thanks for the input. no - we usually have no issue talking things out - but he just sometimes is one who loves by sharing food. Sounds like you are finding success with what you are doing diet wise! I had gestational diabetes with my last and I was put on a low carb diet - I actually had a hard time eating what I was suppose to with my daily intake. It's a fairly easy diet to follow, however I strayed from it after delivery.

Ubee: Sorry the tears found you. But sometimes a good cry is just what we need to keep on going. I have them every once in a while. Besides, I view it as periodic tear duct cleaning time! Hopefully today is a better day for you and you find enjoyment in at least two things.

Hello all!

AM: I weeded. I got up at 5, got outside at 520 and came back in at 820. I got three of my beds done, two dogwoods pruned back and got eaten by mosquitos - darn things ate up my face and ears. I couldn't find the bug spray. Tomorrow I hope I have the zest to do what remains - the perimeter of the yard - we had a neighbor last year cut down the bushes to regenerate (she didn't say how low she planned to take them - let's just say drastic!). So right now as they regrow, so do the noxious weeds. The good news is at a slow and steady pace, my app said I "burned" 1080 calories for that time frame. I had a few moments of coffee sips but kept moving. Maybe with that and with eating lightly today I will find myself back on track. I purposely stayed off the scale today as a result.

I talked with DH about the sweets - I said yes I'd love them but I need to be good. He's good with it - maybe as time goes on he'll decide he wants to join in the loss too. We can both work at looking better for Florida.

I got my hair cut yesterday - why is it that I have wavy hair and the stylist always always puts stuff in it to straighten it out even when I say let's embrace the waves. ARGH! I'd so love a stylist that listens to me well locally. I haven't found one. I miss my old one but we both moved and now we are bout 250 miles apart. So I will work with the new hairdo and eschew all the flat irons and creams she used and let it go wild once again.

Do any of you have a hobby or two that you enjoy?

Well onward and downward group! Maybe we can all hit 239 by Friday this coming week. Anyone on board for that to work towards? We can all do it! I have been more than ready to give the 240s the old heave ho.

Happy Sunday!

Can I also just say it's totally wrong to have the populating ad in the last message on this site to be for DONUT SHOP coffee? With a big illustration of a chocolate covered donut w/sprinkles (for KCups)? I'm just sayin' . . .

Power of suggestion or bad mojo?

Back up to 242.6 today. I knew it was coming so I'm not sweating it. Starting my fat fast today so hoping I end in a good place by the end of the week despite an water retention from starting my strength training back up. Lots to do today! Have a nice Monday everyone.

Catching up from the weekend and this was timely for me. My husband and I went to McD's for cones the week before last, and I was just eating the soft serve and not the cone (I had room in my diet bank account for it, and didn't want the extra carbs in the cone). As we sat eating ours, my husband offered the notion of sharing one cone next time. I was so proud that his programming is shifting!

I too ticked up this weekend. We went to see Dunkirk on Friday night and I enjoyed one too many dirty martinis. This has been a really salty food weekend for me and by Sunday I was back up to 243.7. Today saw 242.4 so it's back in the right direction. My TOM is looming so I figure between the salt and PMS, I hope to shed some water weight by mid-week.

WE CAN DO THIS!!! Onward and downward!!