Morning~I am going to vent for a few minutes. I did a sneak peek weigh in this morning. I should not have done that. I have been taking my tags. I have honestly worked 30 minutes for each one. I have not cheated doing them. I had one crappy day of eating on either Tues or Wed. Don't remember which day it was. The scale said 184. I am so very frustrated (FRUSTRATED) I could scream, catch and kill the scale goddess, toss her scale out the door and forget this whole weight loss business. Of course, I will not do any of that. I will continue on trying to break through in to the next decade. I just don't understand how a body can do 90-120 minutes of sweating your butt off and not show any results!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally understand the calories eaten versus the calories burned/used concept. Eat more burn less you gain. On the other hand eat healthy burn calories loose. I am ranting in circles here, but I am frustrated!!

Okay, I bought new makeup to go with my black dress. Now I need to get to the mall and find the perfect dress. A knee length dress, umpire waste, with a vee neck line. I have the jewlery, hair do, make up, shoes. Need the slinky dress. I may need a body shaper to help pull off what the scale goddess didn't bless me with. If the shaper pushes the excess up to the bust line I would be ever so happy ;-)))))). Pat

Good morning everyone!

Yesterday the scale moved again in the right direction, back to 239.

Pat, hang in there! I've noticed a lot of times it takes about a week for your workout results to show up on the scale...

How's everyone else holding up?

I am sucking, but I know what to do to change it. I will hit 149 something by Friday, then it's on the the 130's for moi.

Out of the 150's!!!
148 yesterday, 148.6 today, 147 something by Sunday!!
139 by Christmas, probably not, but doing everything I can to get out of the 140's now that I made it back there!!

I am SOLIDLY in the the 150's now. It's on to the 140ville for me now! GO ME!

WOO HOO! Great job Thighs!

I did some massive self-sabotgae this last week - and back slide into the upper #180s AGAIN! I could shoot myself! UGH!!

I had been plateauing since November. I gained about 8 pounds and then 6 pounds and I have been stuck in the 250's for the last 3 weeks. I finally broke that plateau. I read somewhere on the internet that our weight will hit a plateau between 4 to 6 months after initial weight loss. I have been stuck in the 200's since my son was 2 years old. I was 22 years old and he is now 16 1/2!!!!! I am now ready to get out of it permanently and NEVER GO BACK!!! My 20th high school reunion is next year and I am going to look DARN GOOD!!!!

Erricah - I'm glad you've joined us! I know that if I actually stuck to the plan, and WORKED OUT EVERY DAY that I'd get out of the #180s! For some reason everytime I make progress, I sabotage myself! UGH! Welcome aboard!

Yay Thighs Be Gone. Chase me! Mothermavis, you are gonna pass me

Me: 145.5 143.5 145.5 143.5

While I am frustrated by that, I have to admit I am very happy to have seen 143.5 three times now

well i am down to 182 and i am going to weigh in again on monday in the hopes that i will not go the opposite direction. i have found that i lose during the week gain two pounds over the weekend then by friday again i am down another pound so i lost the two that i gained over the weekend plus one more. i am hopoing to take out the 2 steps backwards and take 3 forward.

Julie, 143.5 sounds wonderful, I am going to try and catch you, I was at 147.8 this am, so moving slowly in the right direction!!

MrsAugie, I usually gain on the weekend too, I was so happy today when I lost .2, that's huge for me on the weekend.

Erricah, I am with ya, weighed 203 when I came home w YS, he is now 18 and I still weighed over 160 last year when I started this in earnest. Baby fat is no long a viable excuse.
I weighed 98 in HS (bulimia, so not a healthy 98) and 112 when I got pregnant the first time (OS is 21) then 132 when I got pregnant the 2nd time. If I can get back there, we'll see how it goes,

Hi everyone!

I see a few people mentioned goal weights by Christmas, that's what I have and I'm pushing myself to get there. I have fluctuated between 169 and 179 for the 7 years, since 2001. My short term goal is to get to 159 and that's all I'm focusing on right now even though my actual goal is 144.

So, I gotta get to 159 and right now I'm at 164.4. And I would like to do it before Christmas. I'm doing the 30DS and yoga and walking/running.

142.5 for two days in a row! TOM is looming though

i did it again i am up 2 pounds from the weekend. my goal for next weekend and is to at least maintain my friday weight. any way other then that every thing is fine over here.

OH so slowly moving scale...I am at 147.7 today. I have the day off and am going shopping, not an excuse to eat badly. I am going to be doing a lot of walking so I need to pay attention to what I eat so I can see 146 something tomorrow and maybe closer to the 130's by New Years Eve!!

River, are you doing a walking /running program like C25K or doing your own thing?

Julie, I so badly want to catch you!! I just saw on another thread that a girl I used to be very close to in weight has made her goal of 125, if I only stay focused, I could get there too.

MsAugie, keep at it! I usually gain on the weekend too.