Yay, nicki rose98! Looks like you are off to a great start! Keep up the good work!

bee optimistic - Yes, I'd certainly say all of your hard work is paying off! Great job!

Blcarter84 - WOW, I feel like I just remember you hitting Onederland, and now you're so close to the 180s!! AWESOME, girl! Good luck with your Wednesday weigh-in... May it bring you lots of good news!

jahjah1223 - Congrats on the 25 lbs and meeting your 2nd mini-goal!! Woo-hoo! Now get your eyes set on the next one, hehe.

hiimnatalie - Out of the 150s, **** yeah, get it girl!! Lol that is so awesome! You are frighteningly close to your goal; I'm so excited for you!

Chele615 - Congrats on the 1.8-lb loss! You're moving along quite nicely, hehe. Now come on over to Onederland, lady!

OnlyWomanInTheHouse - 2.4 lbs is awesome! Well done! And it's funny, even though it's such a random number, for some reason 186 lbs felt like a big milestone to me... It just seemed like such a small number, lol. Congrats!

leighish - YAAAY, you're in the 170s!! I am simultaneously sooo jealous and SO proud/happy for you!! Okay, so you beat me in the race to the 170s (as I knew very well that you would, LOL) but I'm still putting up a fight! I'll see you there veeery soon.

As for me, I was 181.4 lbs today for my Monday weigh-in! Yeehaw! That's 4.4 lbs down from last Monday--cuz last weekend I had a bit of a gain due to some severely off-plan eating, hehe. I can't believe I made it through an entire weekend without a gain! Here's to another week of losses, and, omigawwd, maybe I'll even be in the 170s by Friday!! Wish me luck!

Ps. About the weighing every day thing--I used to do it religiously, and I totally understand why a lot of people do, because it's great to see the day-to-day ups and downs (and especially great to see a loss the moment you have it, lol!)... But ultimately it just drove me crazy when I started losing much more slowly. Now I try to weigh only on Fridays (to see how my work throughout the week paid off) and Mondays (to see the effects of the weekend, LOL!). Though of course I sometimes take the occasional peek--usually only at night after a day that I think was "bad," more as a reassurance thing to remind me that, no, that little bit of chocolate didn't make me gain back the 80 lbs. But that way I can still have a surprise at my next "real" weigh-in because if I weigh myself at night, it's bound to be a couple pounds heavier than if I were to weigh the next morning.

Down to 195.8 today!!! 1.8lbs since last week!! Its actually working this time. Today is a good day.

down another half pound (i use one of those beam scales, so it's not super accurate, but i love it). that brings me to a total of 6 pounds. so close to being in the not overweight category.

I lost 3.6lbs this week! Yay

Congratulations to everyone else on their weight loss!

Congratulations to everyone!!! I weigh in on Sunday....I'm mad at myself cuz I snuck in a weight in and I don't even know why I did it and I was up a pound. Ruined my mood for the whole morning. Never will I do that again!

krock614 - Awww, I love good days! I haven't had one of those in a while... [/whining] Congrats on the 1.8 lbs!

JadeBlue14 - Oooh, I'm so jealous that you're almost out of the overweight category! That is truly spectacular. My height gives me a slight advantage as far as BMI is concerned, but even with that I'm still a good ~20 lbs away from being "healthy." Booo... Hehe.

Bee20nine - Wow, 3.6 lbs?! That's awesome! You always seem to pull such good numbers--you are really rocking this! Well done.

nicki rose98 - Ooh, I know what you mean--I weigh in Mondays and Fridays, and it's so frustrating when you take a "peek" and the number is less-than-thrilling... I'm sorry that it ruined your day, but I hope you were able to brush yourself off and get on with things, heh. Good luck on Sunday!

As for ME, I'm feeling a little disappointed in myself today. I good eating habits all this week, then suddenly last night I (apparently) decided to flush my plan down the toilet and eat like 50 million cookies... My a cappella group was performing at a mass concert with other groups on campus, and it was catered by Trader Joe's--soooo many yummy cookies, and all free! Gah. I didn't even stand a chance... Especially since I've been craving cookies really badly all week, AND I'm PMSing really bad right now. But I'm so mad that I did that, even though I knew that I would have my weigh-in today, and that eating all those cookies would definitely screw it up. And it definitely did, cuz today I weighed in at 181.6 lbs, and I have no idea what I would have been if I hadn't eaten those stupid cookies. Even though I technically lost 1 lb since last Friday (one pound; whoop-de-freakin'-doo ), I gained 0.2 lb since Monday!! Grrr!! And of course it doesn't help that I'm about to have TOM, so I'm probably retaining water like crazy... I dunno... I can't help but feel very frustrated. I hate that I seem to be losing at such a glacial pace all of a sudden. But on the bright side, I tried to be extra-good today and I'm probably going to weigh myself over the weekend to see if it goes back down. Hopefully it will.

I really wanted to be in the 170s today, though.

I'm really screwin the pooch this week. I ate more birthday cake tonight than I care to admit and I'll probably do the same tomorrow.

I weighed in today, another 3.8 Lbs down!! So in two weeks its up to 10.8 lbs. I am so excited!! I know it most likely be like this forever but wow...I wish I had my ticker I want to see what this looks like on screen...:smile: I am just so giddy!!

148 today. I think I am down 2 pounds for the week.

I did horribly this week. It was my birthday, and it's my own fault I didn't just get back to exercise and eating really well (I didn't eat incredibly poorly either). I am, on the other hand, thrilled that one of my friends has decided to come to the gym with me a few times a week, so hopefully next week will be better.

I don't actually have a weight to tell you all, but I will soon. I just needed to post because confessing to this weeks diet and exercise sins makes me accountable for them in a way I am not if I just think to myself that this week could have been better.

By the way, congratulations everyone who is making progress, and whatever support I can give to those who are struggling. Know you are not alone.

I am down 6lbs in my first week! YAY!!!!!

Meredith, it probably is water weight if you're going to start TOM soon. also, cookies can be really high in sodium, making you retain even more water. look foward to how much the scale will probably drop once your done with the TOM.
congrats on the loses, everyone. those stuck, you can do it, just stay with it. one bad day want throw you off as long as you get back on plan.

me, I finished my TOM yesterday, and this morning I was down another half pound. brings me to a total of 6.5. 18.5 to go.

Down another pound!! So that makes 11 down!

Well, I weighted in on Saturday and I was up 2 1/2 pounds. I had a really strong feeling I would be cause I have a really bad week and I act some items that I shouldn't have. But I am back on track, I am not loseing focus but starting new!

186 this week, down from a gain from last week.