TS7 - great work!!!

Goal for March- 120 lbs on my higher scale/20-25 miles per week
(118-122 lb)
Lower Scale- 1 lb less

3/1/15 121.2 lbs (LS)
3/2/15 121.8 lbs ran 4 miles, walked 1
3/3/15 121.7 lbs
3/4/15 121.8 lbs ran 5 miles, walked 1
3/5/15 120.5 lbs shoveled snow
3/6/15 119.8 lbs ?? I have no idea why my weight is going down

Starting weight in January - 85kg
Current weight - 81.6kg
End of March goal - 78kg

Feb 23 - 83kg (-2kg)
March 3 - 81.6kg (-1.4kg)


I've been trying really hard to maintain my healthy eating/binge free diet and so far it is working. (I usually give in after a few days)

I really hope I can keep the momentum. I've bought a crosstrainer and having it around has really helped me achieve at least a little bit of fitness everyday.

Goodluck everyone! Lets make this month a good one.

Thanks for sharing that about grains. I was wondering if my experience was unusual, but, from what I've read, it's not. I guess the scientific term is "sticky," lol. At least, that's what I call them. Maybe that's why they call these type of foods "stick to your ribs"! Clean foods, like veggies and fruits, are processed more efficiently, perhaps, and don't leave any traces lying around that aren't needed for fuel.

When I read your second paragraph, I thought "She is a naturally skinny person!" At least compared to me. I was 117 in high school, and have fought overweight since then. I definitely never decided to be 105 or 102, until the last three years.

Know why? Because that would have entailed using a scale. Now, the scale is my best tool. Even though sometimes, like this morning, it does NOT give me good news (and one of them was a little wonky - more about all that later).

Happy Thursday!

That's a big jump down, from yesterday to today. Congrats!

Glad you're here! It all starts with a data point...

Amazing workout, Jen!

Another fine feathered friend - yay! You have really lost a lot since January - your dedication paid off. And a crosstrainer - I actually had to look that up. Do you mind sharing how that is different from an elliptical, if you feel like it and have time?

O. k., I'm officially dubbing my approach the "Scientific Method Diet." I dont' advise anyone else to adopt my exact regimen, because personalization is key.

The good thing about the Scientific Method Diet (ScMD) is that it is based on cold, hard facts (e. g., scale readings, observations of what works and what doesn't). Conversely, the bad thing about ScMD is that it is based on cold, hard facts!

Bad news for today: I weighed in at 112.6. My goal weight for this week is 111, straight up. So, in order to hit my half-pound loss for the week, and NOT have to do an excessive amount of exercise, either today or tomorrow, I'm going to do another quasi fast today. I say "quasi" because I am going to have a cup of coffee with stevia and one tablespoon heavy cream, and maybe a piece of the old Bubble Yum I found in my desk, lol (found several packages, actually - but when they're gone, they're gone ).

This is the tail end of my weight loss. At 111 pounds, I will have, at most, 10 pounds left to lose. Hubby has been telling me, oh, so helpfully, "That will be harder to lose than the other weight." Why doesn't he just give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice in it (Princess Bride reference)? But he was right, dagnabit!

Can I deal if I have to quasi fast one day a week? YES. DEFINITELY. The alternative is to be a weight I don't want to be, and that time is over, and I'm SO over that time. We're done. So, day of fasting, here I come. I have a lot to do anyway, and that will free up, ironically, a TON of time!

hi thread!

3/4: 135
3/5: 135 <- back on moderate/low carb diet

I know I'm a little behind, but I so want one of those Vegetti things. I would so make pasta with zucchini and squash all summer if I could get away with it. My husband is coming around to my veggie kick; he ate cauliflower breadsticks last week!

Official weigh-in ('cause it's Thursday): 158.5 lbs
Today's exercise: 25 minutes on the treadmill, but I'm pushing myself to run 3 minutes, walk 1 minute. I'm kind of there
Still snacking on broccoli and hummus (I really like hummus)

Yesterday, my father-in-law made baked mac n cheese with sausage for dinner and everyone at the table looked at me, like "What are you going to eat?" The thing is, I made a pot of kale and chickpea soup (from the Reader's Digest Diet) earlier in the week in case this ever happened and I only need 1.5 cups to fill up. And it's only 258 calories. So they all ate the heavy mac and cheese while I slurped up healthy greens.

It made me feel better about myself.

3/1/15 - 149.8
3/2/15 - 149.2
3/3/15 - 149.2
3/4/15 - 149.4
3/5/15 - 149.4 (arrrrgh!!!!!)

3/1: 133.4
3/2: 134
3/3: 132.4
3/4: 131.4
3/5: 131.4

Re carbs and the scale, it's likely water weight. From LIVESTRONG:

After your body converts carbs into glucose, any leftover fuel gets converted into a polysaccharide carbohydrate called glycogen. Your liver and muscles store glycogen as energy and quickly turn it back into glucose as needed. The issue is that glycogen tends to make muscle tissues hold on to extra water, ultimately making the number on the scale go up. This is why when you severely cut back on carbs, you might lose weight rather quickly. You’re just using up all of your glycogen storage, forcing your body to release extra water weight

This is actually part of the reason some athletes like to carb-load before a big event like a marathon. The water retention from all the carbs helps prevent dehydration.

It's also why you lose so quickly in the first few days of a low-carb diet (and why my little loss over the past few days will likely disappear after I go out tomorrow night! )

Hi! It is an elliptical they are the exact same thing I'm pretty sure, just different names. I have simply grown accustomed to calling them crosstrainer because some people don't actually know what I'm talking about when I say elliptical hehe.

I will say this though, the one I got is a front wheel machine which has a different feel to the rear wheel machines I have personally used at gyms. (Also I was told by someone at a fitness store that front wheel machines target different muscles but I don't really think so. As long as I'm getting fitter!)

It's actually the best thing I've ever bought because now I've gone from a typical no-exercise kind of day, to exercise everyday! Big or small. So I am thrilled.

Plus I have started Optislim shakes and have been replacing my lunch with one of those a day which has really helped me - someone who can't just eat fish and salad for lunch without going on a snack binge.

I'll figure out how to get back to regular lunches later, I just need to focus on getting all this weight off first!

oops sort of trailed off from the crosstrainer discussion didn't I.. But yes the excercise is really helping me reach my goals

3/4: 135
3/5: 135 <- back on moderate/low carb diet
3/6: 134.25