Yay, I can finally join this thread! After being stuck in the 180s since March, I finally decided to accurately calorie count and 23 days later, I went from 183 to 179.6! So my toe is just over the line for now, but I am going to work on inching in further by the end of the month, the end of the year. I haven't seen the 170s since college. And in a few more pounds, I'll have achieved some very significant milestones such as weighing less than my husband and I will no longer have an obese BMI. I'm very excited to be here, but I'm hoping not to stick around too long

Hey lilkel244 and all lurkers! (Come post and keep me company :-)

I whooshed a bit--down to 178.0 this morning. The drops are really motivating me and my goal is to be at 170 by my New Year's party. (Which happens to be January 3-5, but calendars are just guidelines, right?

I started this journey on January 7th, so being down 60 lbs in a year sounds great to me. I know lots of people manage it faster and I'm a bit envious, but I've made great progress and we all need to ride our own ride.

I have a couple of big difficult hurdles coming up--tonight we're going out for Vietnamese with a friend from out of town who is here on business. Friday is our Thanksgiving carry-in at work (I'm bringing a Caesar salad). Saturday, I'm having a party at our house and there is always too much food. Those 3 are all challenges--but they get progressively harder, so I just need to get through one at a time.

Hey lurkers, I'd love it if you stopped lurking and posted so we can encourage each other!

bethFromDayton - we posted almost at the same time yesterday! I just made it into this thread and I check the website roughly once a day. You have some amazing progress, and I hope you can achieve your goal by New Year's. I just want to get to 174 then out of the 170s.

Beth I am hoping to join you here soon maybe in the next week or so if I can be good 180.4 today and yesterday … but I ate off plan and the sodium monster was out of control today so not sure what I'll see on the scale in the morning.

Congrats gretl! We'll fight out way out of here together! It's fantastic that you've reached a weight that you haven't been since college! There's something really great about weighing less than your husband--when you get there, I bet we'll all hear you cheer from wherever you are!

When I started out, DH was 212 and I was 230. I was 177 this morning--and he's 189. He'd still like to lose more weight--but isn't quite ready to make the various sacrifices to make that possible. He looks much hotter now, though!

Although I know I could stand to lose another 50 or even 60 more pounds, I'm trying to really rejoice in how far I've come and how much smaller I am!

Do you project your weight loss ahead and try to figure out where you can get by when? I try not to, but I do it all the time! 175 by Thanksgiving, 170 by New Year's, 150 by our cruise in May. I know I'm optimistic...

Beth - I have given up following a schedule since I have been on this journey for 7 years already. And I would be completely thrilled if this part of my journey is sidetracked with a pregnancy. My little girl is 2 already and we would like to have another. Life tends to get in the way of my progress but I will take the good with the bad. I'm ok with how slow of a journey this has been because even though I have gained back a few times, I have never gone back to my high weight.

love2b150 - Did the scale move far enough yet? Weekends are killer for me so I only weigh in once a week on Fridays.

179.2 this week...I was hoping for more but I'm still not 100% after being sick and it will probably be another week before my digestive system gets back to normal. Now we are getting into crunch time...Thanksgiving for me next week!

How is everyone doing here? I briefly stepped on the scale and saw 179 point something this morning. I'll officially weigh in on Thursday. So, Thanksgiving wasn't too bad if I didn't gain or lose, but I'm frustrated that I'm now a week behind where I would like to be. I hope everyone else hasn't lost any momentum

174 as of this morning. I cannot wait to see the 160-something on the scale...that will be the weight i was when I graduated from college!! Next stop high school haha... good luck to you all

Time to jump in here, I'm 177.3 as of this morning, not just over the line but well in 170s land.

I am totally not a 30-something (40-something here) but there are dismally few 170's threads. Can I crash your thread? I'm at 177.2

Hey, I'll join this thread as well. I guess it could be said that I'm battling the 170's as my set point is around here. I'm 176.2 now. I have been in the 160's after a tough diet, but I was really dry then, so I haven't been in the 160's with water weight since forever.

I'm pretty sure you can :-) Age is nothing but a number. Then again, the same goes for weight...

I'm happy to have company but I'll be happier to see you all in the "lighter" threads! I didn't have an official weight over Thanksgiving, because of the all of the food and whatnot. But I did weigh in today, and I'm proud to report 177.4! That's 1.8 pounds lost since 11/21 and it means that any gains that happened over Thanksgiving were temporary.

I doubt anyone will mind if a 40 something joins us, after all we're all in this together and the challenges faced by a 30 something is probably not that different to a 30 something when it comes to weight loss.