Plan for the week:
Working-Monday, Wednesday, Thursday nights
Tues & Fri-sleep!
I might have to grace the gym with my presence because it is quite frigid atm where I live.
It's a chore to get out of bed to exercise in the cold ~excuses ~excuses!!
Water Bomb Challenge: Basically 1 gal/day, but if I do 3/4 gal I consider it a WIN!!

Wow! You're all doing great! Yesterday I did day 1 of week 3 of couch to 5k. I've been dreading this week from the start because it looked like such a big jump up in difficulty, but I did it!!! Thought I'd be working on week 3 into February, but now I'm pretty sure I can put it to bed on Friday!

K9owner - I hate the itchy legs! During the winter I hardly ever take our dog for long walks. I'm doing my training indoors now that it's (finally) cold here in Philly.

Lesgetfit - Congrats!!! I'm waiting for my big whoosh from my Christmas and New Year's gain. I keep sabotaging myself with wine.

ap14 - love your doggie avatar! I don't think I've worn a sexy looking bra since my oldest child was born 19 years ago. But ya know - I really don't miss them. I'm down to a 38B and I could probably find a nice bra if I really tried, but the older I get the more I just crave comfort. And the more weight I lose the more comfort has taken over my wardrobe. I've begun to dress by *feel*. Unless I'm going out for some special occasion, I've been living in stretchy clothes (like fleece) and - if you can believe it - velour. That's embarrassing even to type. I'm 49 - I'm not velour old.

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Daydreamer - Can I ask you how old you are? Something changed for me when I hit my late 40's. All of a sudden it was not about how I looked, but about my health. This might sound weird but I had four healthy kids and a husband who loved me as I was and I just wasn't motivated to lose weight. Not that my weight didn't keep me from stepping out of my circle because it did. Just that when I didn't leave my very comfortable circle I really had no motivation to lose. There were old friends I wouldn't call up and see because I was so much fatter than when they'd last seen me. But like it or not, those lost friendships weren't that motivating to me because most of my life exists in my comfortable circle of today, where everyone knows me as fat.

Anyway, once I got into my late 40's, I started facing my own mortality I guess. I started attending funerals as frequently as weddings and baptisms. I knew that if I didn't start eating better and exercising, I was going to die young. And leave my husband and children. And that became my motivator.

And I'm not going to lie. I really LIKED being skinny. I LIKED looking in the mirror and seeing myself in a pair of tight fitting jeans. It just wasn't enough of a motivator for me.

Anyway, maybe I'm rambling, but my point is that you have to find what motivates YOU. For me, it was my health.

There is so much I agree with here!
I LIKE being thinner, to be "skinny" is just NOT realistic to me.
A younger colleague who I helped get into getting healthy after baby #2 told me a couple days ago "I can now get into a size 4". I told her I went from nothing to a 38C literally overnight in 7th grade, and since I have my mother's family genes (broad shoulders, big bones, big boobs, thighs, and a butt), I can just HANG UP a size 4. Just not happening. And I'm ok with that.

I do believe you have too find your own motivation and discipline. Trying to gain discipline from others is just non-productve. Train for the body YOU want! Eat for the body YOU want!

This sounds something like what my mother would say!

And I will give the same scripture encouragement to you that I give to her::
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
1 Corinthians 13:11

"So a man thinketh, so is he." Proverbs 23:7

When I was first getting into running (in my 30s), I attended an all women's running workshop. There was a gentleman who was teaching a nutrition class that taught me about "Positive Self Talk". He said, "In order to BE a runner, you have to tell first yourself 'I'm a runner'. So, go home, look in the mirror and for 3x/day tell yourself: "I am a strong, fit runner. I train 3x/week. Today, I will eat to run ___ miles." (in our case, it was 3.2 miles)

I took his advise! And he was right!!

As long as I tell myself: "Krystal, you're fat. You're ugly. You're worthless. You're ____." That is what I will be to myself!!

What do You want to be to yourself?
Are you telling yourself this is what you are OR are you telling yourself one thing and really believing something else??

Daydreamer The struggle IS real!

Daydreamer26 - I understand what you are saying. Hope this process helps you find the happiness you are seeking!

My weight today: 158.6

I would like to jump in, too. It's nice to see an active thread!

SW: 150
CW: 144.8
GW: 125
H: 5'8
Age: 27

I also use MyFitnessPal and stay under 1,200 cals/day with 30-minute strength-training exercises almost daily. (Once I lose the weight, I want a toned body to emerge rather than a soft one...) I also refrain from eating after 7pm.

Haven't been in good shape since early high school. Looking to lose some very stubborn, very vice-like weight around my midsection.

I joined this site a few days ago and I really feel like friendships like this will help me stay on track. I am currently in the most disciplined time of my life I have ever been in and I dread that it is merely a fragile condition that could be easily ruined...

thinwhiteduchess - welcome. Don't be hard on yourself. We are all fragile in some way. Just take the knock and get up, keep going.

Current weight: 156.8

Hi you bunch!

I haven't seen you all since before Christmas, i'm so sorry! I've been yoyoing since early December but I've managed to maintain my losses and i'm a few days into progressing again. Hoping to break into the early 250s/late 240s this month.

We have new people! Hello!! *hugs*

I hope you're all well and sparkly. x

Welcome to the new ones and hello to the old ones! I hope everyone is doing really well.

CW: 168.2

Well my weight seems to be fluctuating between 158 and 160, so I am listing:

Current Weight: 160

Hope everyone is doing well!

Hi everyone! I'm back. I've been off plan since November due to a lot of stress going on in life at work and at home. Back on plan this week after meeting the MF coach on Monday. She was surprised that for as long as I was gone, I hadn't gained all my weight back. Before the winter holidays, I weighed 181. Monday, I was at 190. Seeing some of you do well while I was gone has given me an extra boost in my 2nd try. I know it will be harder.