Hey Ro! I'm almost done with Week 4, I had a few slip ups this weekend (our 17th wedding anniversary), but have tightened up today. I took a page from your book and try to keep things in an IF 16:8 window - it helps to cut down on my late night snacking urges. For some reason myfitnesspal account isn't working today....I'll go check out your YouTube channel tonight!

Hi Liz!
This is a test as I responded to you twice last night and encountered errors both times ugh
I don’t know what’s going on here. I’ve now tried 3 long responses to you and all 3 encountered an error!!! I don’t know if 3 paragraphs is exceeding some size limit or what but how frustrating!
Anyways, Congrats on the anniversary and congratulations on getting right back on!

Finding my way back - is anyone around??

yep, I’m here.
week 11

Hi Ro - it sounds like you are doing great! I have been on and off for a while, thoug have kept off most that I have lost. All alternatives. Getting back on tomorrow, 2/10. I will try to post daily - at least to check-in. Would love some company!

Take care.

Ro, Liz and OneUh2 - hope you are all around! I will private message just to let you all know that there is someone here and I would love some company! Come on - we can do this!! I remember when this was such a great, busy group!!

Good for you! Wish I could say the same!
But, no, my weight continues to wildly swing; always tied to orthopedic injuries/surgeries. I’ll get to my goal and I’m feeling this time will be the last yo-yo. But, not thinking about that much right now as I’ve got months to go before I reach my goal. Losses have slowed the last 3 weeks but did bloodwork and it shows an infection as well as Vitamin B deficiency. I immediately started supplementing for the B deficiency but not sure about the infection. I have a doctor looking at the results and hoping when this gets addressed I’ll start to see the 3+ pounds per week loss I had been achieving for first 2 months.

Oh gosh - I hope all is well!

Thanks!
I consult with a dr on Wednesday so we’ll see what he says. I’m going to guess my Vitamin B supplementation is working as I lost 4.9 pounds last week which was Week 11 for me.

Oh that's great news!!

I have been hoping that LizRR and OneUh2 come back!!

I'm back...apologies for the absence... Well, I finished my dry January (besides anniversary), and then - we got ICED IN for a week!!! Literally we couldn't leave the house and I got a little triggered/bored/etc and went off track for a little over a week, slowly corrected course a few days ago and I'm back to "IP baseline". I updated my signature to track my swings (you can see my week I didn't WI), I guess it's "good" I only managed to gain +1lb in that time (WI was yesterday). I want to keep that as my running tally and update at least my weekly Tuesday WI's.
One thing a little different is that in the past I would have thrown in the towel "for good" and gone on my terrible way, but I'm finding resolve to get back on the horse and tighten my belt again. Back to keeping everything logged on myfitnesspal to keep myself honest...and it's a good meal planner (and I do like to plan!).

I like your "breakfast sausage spice mix" in your Breakfast Scramble video - I use fennel, sage, garlic, thyme, s&p for "sausage" flavor too...funny thing happened a few weeks ago - I went to sprinkle on fennel and the cap was undone and I spilled ALL my fennel seeds in the pan!!!

Thanks!
Yes that was great news - I had been having conversations with myself as a pep talk to not let that get me down and glad I did! I’m still ahead of my goals as I had Feb set for next “decade” and hit that on Feb 13 so I have a chance to hit March’s goal in Feb if I lose a total of 5.2 lbs over the next 2 weeks.

Wow - that would have made me go stir crazy!
I agree with you that weighing having gone through that is a good accountability tool and without it, it would have been easy to throw in the towel. Now, you have your data and in a week or so after you lose, you won’t give that week any attention as it will have been just a blip so way to go!