I’m back and I had a fabulous time! As I earlier mentioned, the purposes of my vacation were to plan my daughter’s wedding, which will take place next year in Italy, to attend her graduation from Oxford University which took place last Friday, and to have fun! I was in Italy for 5 days and in the UK the rest of the time. I remained on plan except for a few days when we celebrated, including the day we did the food tasting with the Italian caterer (yummy!) and my daughter’s graduation day when we had both a celebratory lunch and supper. Plus there was the day when we found and ordered my daughter's wedding dress, following which the store gave us each a glass of champagne and we then went out for a celebratory lunch. The dress is beautiful! To combat the extra calories, I did a LOT of walking when I was in Europe. All in all, I’m pretty happy with my diet results. I’m down 2 lbs since I left two weeks ago, and I’m in good shape to make goal this month (fingers crossed!).

SW (A31): 147.75
S1: 148.00 (+0.25)
S2: 148.00 (0.00)
S3: 146.75 (-1.25)
S4: 146.75 (0.00)
S5: 147.75 (+1.00)
S6: 147.75 (0.00)
S7: 147.25 (-0.50)
S8: 148.00 (+0.75)
S9-21: DNW (on vacation)
S22: 146.00 (-2.00)

GW (S30): 144.00

Turtle: I hope all is well with you. I will keep my fingers crossed for a whoosh in your near future!

Jacqui: Congratulations on reaching the 180’s and on making goal early…that’s fabulous news and definitely deserving of a few dancing carrots!!

Pixi: Good luck with your tests and with getting back on track.

Joy: Nice woosh!

Emme: You’ve made good progress so far this month. I hope you enjoy lunch with your folks today.

Sum: If you stay on track, you just might make goal this month.

Leah: Glad to hear you’re back on track. I hope your weekend at work is not too psychotic!

fluffygrover: It’s great when you’re able to fit back into clothes that were previously too small!

Cheeriloos: You’re having a great month and you’re in good shape to make goal!

cincorn: Congrats on making goal for the month and I hope you see ONEderland very soon!

SouthernBell: Great success on the exercise front…keep up the good work.

Rhiko: Congrats on getting out of the 66’s.

9/1 - 156.5
9/2 - 157
9/3 - 159
9/4 - 157.5
9/5 - 157.5
9/6 - 156
9/7 - 155.5
9/8 - 156
9/9 - 154.5
9/10 - 154
9/11 - 154.5
9/12 - 153.5
9/13 - 153.5
9/14 - 153
9/15 - 154
9/16 - 152.5
9/17 - 152.5
9/18 - 153.5
9/19 - 153.5
9/20 - 155
9/21 - 154
9/22 - 153.5

Tuscany It was pretty psychotic but in a decent way. My shift flew by because we were so busy. My only problem was that we are supposed to close at 9:30pm but we still had paying customers at that time. Finally at 9:50, I spoke to the closing manager and told her that I had a train to catch or I would miss my connecting bus which would mean I would have to wait close to midnight for the next one. There were still people in the shop when I left.

Tuscany!!!! I'm so glad you are back and it sounds like you had a fabulous time! Congrats on your daughter's graduation! You must be just beaming with pride! And great job in losing 2 lbs while on a European vacation! Who else could have done that? Lol! It's great to have you back!

Rhiko, my fingers are crossed for you to have a post-TOM drop!

I am up 2 water-weight lbs after my cheat day, as I expected, so I'm back to 191 temporarily, and that's okay! That should drop off in the next couple of days, and I'll be back to my goal weight! I'll be stealing Cheeri's idea today of drinking green tea, which I always drink in the fall and winter months anyway, so hopefully that will help it along!

I may make this goal yet!

SW: 78.45kgs
CW: 77.1 (-0.35)
GW: 77

Welcome home, Tuscany! Love hearing about your European adventure! You sure did something right to lose 2 pounds on vacation.

congrats jacqui on meeting goal!!!

After going out for Mexican last night and making breakfast for some extended family (waffles, sausage....) I'm not surprised that I gained. I did good with the breakfast, but I have no idea how many calories/points are in taco salads... And when I don't know my portion size I go over. Going to make sure I do my 80 oz of water routine today

SW (August 31st) 165
GW 159

Sept 1: DNW camping
Sept 2: DNW camping
Sept 3: 166.8
Sept 4: 166.0
Sept 5: 166.0
Sept 6: 165.8
Sept 7: 166.0
Sept 8: 166.2
Sept 9: 166.2
Sept 10: 165.4
Sept 11: 165.2
Sept 12: 166.2
Sept 13: 165.4
Sept 14: 164.8
Sept 15: DNW traveling
Sept 16: 166.2 ugh
Sept 17: 165.8
Sept 18: 164.6
Sept 19: 164.0
Sept 20: 163.8
Sept 21: 164.2
Sept 22: 164.6

Tuscany - welcome back!!! It sounds like your trip was unbelievable. A wedding in Italy sounds so romantic.

Tuscany welcome back! It sounds like you had an AMAZING trip! And you did SOOOOO well congrats!

SW: 247.2
GW: 242.0
01: 250.0
02: 251.2
03: 248.8
04: 248.2
05: 246.6
06: 246.2
07: 248.8 (fully clothed @ Doctors)
08: 248.6 (ate out)
09: 247.4
10: 246.0 (I expected to still be up, had tons of sodium yest.)
11: 244.0 (apparently I WAS still up lol)
12: 246.2/244.6
13: 245.6
14: 245.6
15: DNW
16: 245.6
17: 245.0
18: 244.8
19: 247.2
20: 249.4
21: 248.2
22: 245.2

Sept 11th-187.4
Sept 18th-184.4

Hello all

My weight last week was 251.
This morning 250.8

Does not sound like much, but had one WIERD week. On Monday, following my Sunday weigh in last week, for some reason I was super hyper. Just could not slow down until late afternoon. And was continously THIRSTY, drinking water and drinking water. All day. Drink 12 oz bottle of water and twenty minutes was dry as a bone, sucking down another one, all day long. And only urinated a few times. It was very hot, but I was not sweating all that much.

And afterwards I was hungry. And ate. And still hungry and ate more. Ate the most calories since starting this, some 1800 Monday. The next morning I weighed again because I was certain I must have retained that water. I did. 258.8 lbs, some 7 lbs of water retention. And it has been all week coming back off, slowly. And I have ate about 400 calories a day or more than I had been taking in. My maintenance calories are supposed to be about 2900 a day, but I really think it is less than that. Anyway, for the first few months I held down to around 1000 calories, now eating around 1600. I am losing size, shirts and pants getting very loose, and I fit into any booth at a restaurant, have extra room behind the steering wheel (like over 3 inches now) so I know I am downsizing. I think over the next couple of weeks it will turn loose and start down again. Meanwhile, this week only not even a lb according to the scales, .2

All of yall are looking good, keep it up

B F R

Start weight:234.2 Goal 10.2 lbs 8.2down..2 to go
01:235.2(+1.0) that's from sushi,tea,ice cream,noodles.
02:235.4 (+.2) it was only one slice of pizza seriously!&2 chick nuggets
03:233.8 (-1.6) yay!! New low,now let's keep going!!
04:233.6 (-.2)
05:232.2(-1.4)
06:232.2 Polly would had a good loss here, but we went out and I just let go,, I mean bad.
We are going to a brazillian street party in Boca , I'm going to avoid the food as much as possible to get back k on track.
07:
08:237.4 (+5.2)i know its bad but i had chinese and been a bad girl,willbe off soon
09:234.4. (-3.0)back in business! 100% OP til I stall , bellydance tonight.
10:233.0 (-1.4)
11:232.2 (-.8) bittersweet to hit this # wish it was less that`ll teach me!!
12:231.8 (-.4) finally said bye to 232.2! New low! I am in it for the long haul !
13:230.2 (-1.6)fridayfest downtown,clubbing! No booze though
14:229.0 (-1.2)Bellydance party,ate like crazy
15:229.6 (+0.6) tomorrow going to be worse, I'm having a bad day
16:229.0 (-0.6)wow i lost?gonna go hard this week
17:229.6(+0.6) idk why i gained,
18:229.2(-0.4) i wanna see 228, I'm feeling so sick my throat hurts
19:228.8 (-0.4) yahoo!
20:228.8 (0.0)
21:227.2(-1.6)bday cake, fatoush, taouk, lots water,bellydance, clubbing,look cute, feet sore!
22:226.0
23:
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25:
26:
27:
28:
29:
30:
Goal weight:224

Leah, good for you on the 1/2-lb drop, especially during such a hectic weekend!

Joy, yay, so close! I think you have this! (Knock on wood!)

Thanks Turtle! I'm thinking you are due for the whoosh fairy! It's time for those mid-160's to go now and that 159 to come into the picture!

Wow, Pixikat, a 3-lb drop! Way to go!

Sara, yay! Congrats on your 3-lb drop!

BFR, way to stick to it and move that scale! (You must have been quite dehydrated on Monday.) And congrats on the lost inches! It's always fun to see that kind of change!

Cheeri, good job!

Oops, lol, posted my exercise in the wrong thread! Moving it now, lol!

No change for me this morning, but at least my 2 lb vacation loss seems to be sticking, which is a plus.

SW (A31): 147.75
S1: 148.00 (+0.25)
S2: 148.00 (0.00)
S3: 146.75 (-1.25)
S4: 146.75 (0.00)
S5: 147.75 (+1.00)
S6: 147.75 (0.00)
S7: 147.25 (-0.50)
S8: 148.00 (+0.75)
S9-21: DNW (on vacation)
S22: 146.00 (-2.00)
S23: 146.00 (0.00)

GW (S30): 144.00

Turtle: I had a fabulous time, especially in Italy. The UK was nice too, although the weather was miserable…rain, rain, rain...so I couldn't do as much as I wanted when in the UK. Good luck getting to the low 160’s!

Jacqui: I’m very proud of my baby (my 32-year old baby)! Good luck in shedding the extra 2 lbs of post-cheat weight.

Pixi: Thanks for the welcome back...and congrats on your 3-lb whoosh!

Joy: You’re almost at goal…way to go!

cheeriloos: Nice loss…and only 2 lbs to go to goal…keep up the good work.

Leah: Being so busy that you don’t notice the time is always a good thing…glad to see your weight continues to drop and I hope you managed to catch your train.

SarainMN: That’s a nice loss for only one week!

BFR: I hope this week is not as weird as last week and that you lose the rest of the water weight.

Start weight:234.2 Goal 10.2 lbs 8.2down..2 to go
01:235.2(+1.0) that's from sushi,tea,ice cream,noodles.
02:235.4 (+.2) it was only one slice of pizza seriously!&2 chick nuggets
03:233.8 (-1.6) yay!! New low,now let's keep going!!
04:233.6 (-.2)
05:232.2(-1.4)
06:232.2 Polly would had a good loss here, but we went out and I just let go,, I mean bad.
We are going to a brazillian street party in Boca , I'm going to avoid the food as much as possible to get back k on track.
07:
08:237.4 (+5.2)i know its bad but i had chinese and been a bad girl,willbe off soon
09:234.4. (-3.0)back in business! 100% OP til I stall , bellydance tonight.
10:233.0 (-1.4)
11:232.2 (-.8) bittersweet to hit this # wish it was less that`ll teach me!!
12:231.8 (-.4) finally said bye to 232.2! New low! I am in it for the long haul !
13:230.2 (-1.6)fridayfest downtown,clubbing! No booze though
14:229.0 (-1.2)Bellydance party,ate like crazy
15:229.6 (+0.6) tomorrow going to be worse, I'm having a bad day
16:229.0 (-0.6)wow i lost?gonna go hard this week
17:229.6(+0.6) idk why i gained,
18:229.2(-0.4) i wanna see 228, I'm feeling so sick my throat hurts
19:228.8 (-0.4) yahoo!
20:228.8 (0.0)
21:227.2(-1.6)bday cake, fatoush, taouk, lots water,bellydance, clubbing,look cute, feet sore!
22:226.0(-1.2)
23:225.8(-0.2)
24:
25:
26:
27:
28:
29:
30:
Goal weight:224

SW: 247.2
GW: 242.0
01: 250.0
02: 251.2
03: 248.8
04: 248.2
05: 246.6
06: 246.2
07: 248.8 (fully clothed @ Doctors)
08: 248.6 (ate out)
09: 247.4
10: 246.0 (I expected to still be up, had tons of sodium yest.)
11: 244.0 (apparently I WAS still up lol)
12: 246.2/244.6
13: 245.6
14: 245.6
15: DNW
16: 245.6
17: 245.0
18: 244.8
19: 247.2
20: 249.4
21: 248.2
22: 245.2
23: 245.0