Went to Body Pump this morning. Good workout, but we didn't have our regular instructor. Evidently she'll be out for a couple of weeks due to an injury. That's too bad because I really like her. The other one that is filling in talks WAY too much. Oh well. I'm planning to go running tonight after work. Kind of looking forward to it this time. I am going out to lunch today, so need to try to keep it in check and then hopefully running will help burn a few! I saw another loss on the scale, down .8, so finally back to where I ended up at the end of December. Not sure why the increase happened, but at least that is gone. I do think that weighing in every day is helping. I do think about it when I'm wanting something extra.

Nurse Dread: I just like the "dread" part of your user name, so I'll keep using that! And, must honor the recent achievement! Had to laugh at what you said about competing with the cute, skinny chicks. They are the ones that I will beat. And honestly, it hasn't been hard most of the time. They must not want to sweat too much.

Laurie: I like what you said about reconsidering how far off plan you were. Sometimes if we aren't perfect, I think we tend to be just a little too hard on ourselves. So, way to go! Keep it in perspective. And you can comment on my working out anytime. It is the one thing that is going strong for me!!

Mind if I jump in here? I'm a regainer - used to post here faithfully 5 years ago but have fallen off the wagon. I lost 70 pounds but have regained 50 now. I've avoided posting here because I go through phases of not being very chatty or social (let's just say I'm a touch autistic, my son has been diagnosed and he didn't fall far from this tree) and feel guilty when I get "lurky".

Also, I am also named Diane and feel really inadequate exercise-wise when I see the other Diane's posts. I just use my elliptical in the basement and that's just boring compared to her posts!

Ugh, what a day. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan (HUGE), and Alan Rickman passing away hit me pretty hard in the childhood feels this morning.

Weight is all crazy today. I think I'm retaining water because of upcoming time-of-month and because I ate a chicken sandwich around 1:30am last night. Picked my friend up from the airport and hung out for a while...by the time I left for home, was overcome by the munchies and Jack in the Box was just calling to me! Resisted the urge to get a huge meal, and satiated the craving with a small chicken sandwich and a small curly fry. Not optimal, but not the absolute worst decision I could have made. So! Going to chug water, sweat it all out at the gym, and hope for the best. Not gonna weigh myself again until after my period is over next week. Getting mad at myself for things not completely in my control isn't going to help, so all I can do is work it out and make the best decisions possible until then. My goal is to be down into the 250's by the time I weigh again!

Diane-Slash: Congrats on getting back down!! And yeah, they don't tend to be all that hard to "beat." Not gonna lie, makes me feel good And I'm pretty partial to my screen name too, I love that movie lol. Still loving my nickname!

Diane-kuchick: Welcome back and congrats on getting back on the wagon! I have several autistic people in my family, and I'm no stranger to being less than social. So glad you decided to come back!

Made the mistake of complaining to the boyfriend that even though it's only been two weeks of solid workouts, I still feel fat and like I haven't made any progress whatsoever. He then laughed and put me through a very intensive hour-long workout. My whole body hurts! We did a lot of floor work doing core, weights for the arms, and then elliptical/treadmill for the legs and cardio. I think we're going to pair up during our workouts more often from now on, because he said working out with me pushed him further as well.

Went running last night. It was pretty good. I didn't feel very good, just from something I ate, but thought I better go anyway. I'm glad I did. Then, went to spin today. It was a pretty good workout, but the instructor was a substitute, and she was distracted at best. So, pretty much had to motivate myself. The regular instructor is way better at keeping you on track and pushing harder. Still going to try to workout tomorrow, but we'll see how it goes. I know that one of the instructors will be out because of an injury. I'm sure they'll have someone fill in, so I just need to go. Stayed on plan fairly well yesterday, but I was up .8 this morning. I knew that can happen when you weigh every day, so I wasn't too freaked out. Hopefully it will come back off. I kind of wonder if running caused the increase, just because my legs were pretty tired/sore this morning. Oh well, no one really understands weight fluctuations!!

Kuchick: Welcome! Glad you posted. I can always go with "Slash" instead of Diane. I've always liked Slash from Guns & Roses, although that's not why my user name is slashnl. In fact, funny story... I dressed up as Slash for Halloween last year. Ha!

Nurse Dread: That might be a really good thing, to workout with the bf every once in a while. For me, that's why I do the classes rather than working out on my own. I have trouble keeping up the intensity when I'm by myself.

Ooooh, I'm so full (but it was sooooo worth it). Had a banana and some string cheese for breakfast and a fruit and yogurt shake for lunch - saved all my calories for the day for two delicious bowls of homemade spaghetti for dinner. It had ground beef, onions, garlic, mushrooms, all sorts of tomatoes and spices....OH, it was SO GOOD. I'm such a good cook lol. Even better is that because I held out all day, I'm comfortably full instead of feeling like bursting. It's a very nice, not-guilty feeling. So good.

Slash: I get the same kind of increase the day after a workout! I wonder if it has to do with the soreness and the lactic acid in the muscles? Or maybe the body retaining water because it lost so much sweating during the workout...hmm, I'll have to look this up lol.

Nici: Man, y'all's willpower is super impressive lol. I'm getting better, but it's one of my goals to be as strong as you guys are! And I loved him as Hans Gruber! He was so good at playing the bad guy.

My goal is to lose just over 100lbs from my highest weight sooooo maybe this is the/a place for me??

I'm a bit of a chronic rebounder as well...

I generally make forward progress but it's like...seventy pounds off, thirty on, thirty off, fifteen on...back and forth....longer intervals of maintenance as I go on, though! So...focus on the positive and all that ****.

Currently (I mentioned this elsewhere, sorry for repeating if that's annoying), after getting down to 195 after years of being mid-to-high 200s, just before Christmas, I have regained up to 210ish and I'm having a hard time leveling out and getting back on track. January is always a drag for me, following the holidays. It's cold and dark and blahh. So it's all too easy to curl up in the warm with a pile of something stuffing and comforting, night after night. I really want to knock it off, though.

I'm dreadfully fearful of regaining all the way back up to 280. I have twice rebounded that far, or nearly, in the past ten years, and I just cannot do it to myself again. :s

On the flip side, I had not been below 200 since I was a teenager, and I'm still within range, and that is positive. Meh. I don't feel positive, tonight. lol.

PS: DreadPiratePanda - I was really affected by the death of Alan Rickman as well :/. I'm also a massive Harry Potter fan, and have always felt that Rickman was just a genuinely good person...69 is way too young. Mortality is balls.

OMG, I totally forgot to mention - there is an animal in the attic of my apartment and it SCRATCHED HOLES IN MY BEDROOM CEILING. UGGGHHHH, I was so freaked out! I heard these scratches and walked in just in time to see something poking holes in my ceiling. I screamed and my boyfriend ended up spraying the holes with wasp spray just to get whatever it was away from the area (literally the only anti-pest liquid/aerosol we have in the household). Maintenance came out today and looked around up there. They said it was building a nest by digging into the drywall and insulation (ergo the holes) and from what they could see, it was probably one of the feral cats that wander around our complex. A trap was set up in the area of the nest with some kitten food from my kitchen and they said to call whenever we hear a wild rumpus and crying from above us. Fingers crossed it happens during the day and not in the middle of the night. Right now we have duct tape covering the holes. /sigh

Bookmark: Welcome! You're absolutely welcome here! And going back up to 210, especially when you've come so far from 280, is definitely still within the "do-able" range. You're still so close!

Thanks! Yes, it helps to remember the big war rather than focusing on the most recent battle. I have come far.

I usually don't get to this site on the weekends very much, but keeping with accountability and discipline, I'm posting! I admit that I didn't go to workout today. I will get back to Saturday workouts, but for now, I felt like I needed to rest my legs some. I might go for a walk if it doesn't snow today, but no workout. I weighed in and lost .8. Again, not sure why the fluctuation, but whatever. I just want to keep on top of it. Food plan was on target yesterday, even with eating pizza last night, so I'm happy! I think I'm doing better.

Bookmark: Welcome! You are really close to going below 200, so that's great! There's a few of us with that goal for 2016. I know what you mean about fearing gaining the weight again. I put on some weight over Christmas... alarmingly fast... and it was an eye opener. Scary!

Nurse Dread: Yum! Sounds like an awesome dinner! I did the same thing yesterday, conserving calories to make room for pizza! Love it! Sorry about the animal issue! Hope that gets resolved soon.

Nici: Yeah, Myles and Slash sound great together. I would really like to see GnR get back together. They had some great music together. Sorry you are in a funk, but it sounds like you are also muscling through it. Way to keep going even when things aren't perfect! That's a good attitude.

Thanks, Slashnl.

I'm not entirely sure I have caught it, exactly, Nici....today has not gone as hoped. Well done on staying within calorie range. That's usually my bottom line...if things don't go exactly as planned or I have a few less healthy things, or even don't work out..I'm not allowed to beat myself up if I stay within a healthy calorie range. Not that I should beat myself up otherwise, but it happens.

Had a less-than-ideal calorie kind of day, but it wasn't anywhere near disastrous. Bowl of cereal and banana for breakfast, plate of leftover spaghetti for lunch, and a plate of beef tips and gravy and roasted red potatoes for dinner. Went over my calories and had a lot of sodium, but I also went to the gym for a while so I'm not feeling TOO guilty lol. Might have small bit of apples and spice cake for dessert, because my boyfriend is making it in the crockpot and the delicious smell is filling my apartment.

Slash: Rest all you need! With that loss, you're definitely doing something right

Nici: UGH, sodium. So tasty, so water-retaining. The bane of my existence. That and cheese! lol

Bookmark: You got this! It usually just takes a minute to really get back in the swing of things. You can do it!

I can!

Maybe posting a plan for tomorrow will help.

Quick post before the Bronco game. Down today by 1.8. Weird. Well, hopefully it will be a good "official" weigh in tomorrow. No workout today.

So not weighing in every day really paid off for me! My previously achieved lowest weight for 2016 was 261.6, and I weighed in this morning at 261.2! This is after jumping up to 264lb earlier this week, which just makes it that much sweeter. I think I'm going to make weighing in on a weekly basis my new policy. So much less pressure!

Bookmark: I saw your plan post! I think it's a good idea, getting it laid out that way.

Nici: Boooo, my TOM is coming this week. I'm looking forward to the same great water retention :/ I've never had much luck with portion control, so this is seriously taking all of my will power available lol.

Slash: Congrats on the loss!!!