Hi all!! Hope everyone had a good Halloween! Mine was a big FAIL. I started the morning with my workout ( which ended up saving my butt) and ate very light during the day. Come nightfall with the trick or treaters my goodness there was no peanut butter cup safe! Strangely, I woke up this morning down in weight? I have a hate/love relationship with my body rewarding bad behavior but sometimes you need that little bump I guess. Accept it as a blessing and get back on track!!

54 days till Santa Comes to Town

mmmm. Know what you mean, this sometimes happens to me too.

It's frustrating because you'd rather take the punishment straight away - but no, it's going to punish you some time later when you've been good and feel you should be rewarded instead!

Hi everyone!

So way back at the end of September I went away for a weekend gained back every last pound I'd lost in this challenge, then I was too embarrassed with myself to come back here and admit it so I dissapeared for a few weeks! But I'm back now, and ready to step it up to lose this weight by Christmas.

Now, that's the spirit!! We can do this! Less then 8 weeks till Christmas!

Congrats LilJJ and Lop!

Welcome back Eryn! We all fall off. Don't worry! You're back, that's all that matter!

Square - I agree with the others, you shouldn't set such unrealistic goals for yourself because you may be setting yourself up for disappointment, and as a veteran of diets here and there and plans and unrealistic goals.. that's the reason that I never made it through and always gained it back. This time is different... obtainable goals.. if it's slow, that's ok.. as long as I'm going in the right direction, it's all good. Good luck!!

Been having a terrible week.. just in general. Stressed out to the max.. I am seriously close to losing my mind. Trying to keep my head on and keep going. I just need a break. Ahh!! (venting is good).

Just poking my head in to see how everyone is doing. We had a smaller results group last week, are we losing some people? I'm here til the end! I need this!
Sorry, I cannot come up with any good challenges this week, maybe we should have a challenge to come up with next weeks challenge?
Hope everyone is having a great week!

I love that suggestion Jomatho!

I will try to get back to posting more soon, just soooooo busy, meh!

Hope everyone is having a good week

xxx

I'm still here! I weigh in tomorrow and am nervous ... I would love to see a nice number on the scale. Preferably in the 164-165 range ...

Can we do an exercise challenge next week? Maybe to try a new form of exercise???

i'm here too, but not been home for 10 days so no scale. I'll weigh in this week though but i'm not looking forward to it as i've lapsed a bit since i've been away

it's saturday here and i'm home again and i've updated my stats. I always weigh myself first thing in the morning but tomorrow i've got a very early start out of the house so i won't be doing a weigh-in then!

(Have split the % difference over two weeks again to make up for not weighing last week). I've gained a little during my time away, and was down lower than this before i set off, but happily overall i'm still down 1lb compared to my last weigh in 2 weeks ago.

Updated measurements since a month ago too and have lost about an inch in most places!

Really need to get the discipline back though. No excuses now and that's my mission for the week ahead.

No change here, pretty pleased it's not a gain after an over indulgent bonfire night last night!

Given myself a good talking too, and I really hope I'm back on it for a few weeks!

Well done on the inches Ange, I refuse to remeasure just yet, been far too off plan!

Shanhat, exercise challenge sounds great. I NEED to get back on it, but I say it every week and then nothing happens, I'm just not good at exercising in the UK it seems!

There's a few more hours to weigh in, I'll do the results sometime tomorrow, 16 hours time ish I guess.

I hope to see lots of people weighing, it's the last push guys, let's keep it going!!!

Slimmer down, just seen your post, hope your week improved, rant away!

Maybe if more of us used this post for ranting we'd get some members back being active!!!

...me too!!!....

Just posted my weight from yesterday, almost forgot. I am glad to have that post to look at, it encourages me seeing my weekly weights slowly but surely inching down. I log my daily weights on my computer, but they look all over the place and I get frustrated thinking nothing is moving. When I look at my weekly weights from the weigh in thread, I see a definite trend, so it is so nice and encouraging. Makes me think I should just weigh once a week. I have such a hard time not looking in the mornings though.
Gonna try to make it a good week, I have been unmotivated the last few days, hoping it is just the tail end of TOM hormones messing with me. I hate feeling that way!
Hope everyone has a great day/week!

jomatho i'm the same as you in that my weight plot looks all over the place. I normally weigh approx 3x a week ish. What's been a real revelation to me this time is that i've joined the monthly weightloss challenges too since i started on this challenge, and have had very moderate aims (3-5lb per month). BUT i've achieved them all, and it's really helped me to look at this thing over a much longer time period than i have before. I knew i was in this until Christmas, but breaking it down and setting a month-by-month 'easy' goal has been great for me. All those little fluctuations are ironed out over a month. I'm still happy to weigh as often as i want, but i'm not disheartened if the number's higher than i expect for a while, and that's a bit of a change for me! If i'm not too happy with my weekly progress then i look back to a month ago and i'm definitely a different weight.

Anyway, this is nothing new of course and probably what everyone else already does to some extent - but it's just finally struck home and seems to be working for me (only took 43 years).