Hi there Blue Team. I am so excited to see our total for this past week. I really want to win!

I am having a horrible day. Just horrible. Kind of day you want to cry and drink hot chocolate all day. I made some sugar free homemade hot cocoa instead. Comforting.

Hi Bluezers. I started this morning, joy!, and so the scale is back to being rude and saying I'm up some again. I hate that. No control.

So mayyybe in a few days I can drop that all off and lose a whole lb next week.

I hope you all are having a good Monday and that your week goes well.

Selina

Oh, pish. How many OP days? You are one of the most in-control women I know. Don't let a little slip cloud how you view the real Selina.

Hey, thanks. I didn't slip tho. Not yet!! Its in the 150s now, for OP days. (Even tho so many were spent white-knuckling it in the worst way and many nites I had to go to bed at 8pm with the kids so I wouldn't go over.) I meant no control over the scale when I'm at TOM. Uggh. Hate it too! I shouldn't even get on the darn thing but I need to see it. I know it will go up then but still doesn't help to see it on there.

Thanks for the encouragement. I need it horribly. Well, I hear Emily, she's awake, gotta run. Be back when I can.

Hey everyone,

I had a bad weekend and am having trouble staying on plan since wisdom teeth out almost 2 1/2 weeks ago. I was down .2 today at least not a gain. I suppose. I plan on staying POP for a while so I can get this weight on off. I hope everyone has a great day.

Is your goal realistic?

Are you shooting for a goal that you believe you can maintain? Are you trying to recapture a happier time in your life through a magical number on the scale? How will you feel if you don't reach that goal, but find one that is a more reasonable?

My original goal after DS was 125. Folks, that ain't happening. I got to 142, was a size 8, good BMI and was happy with how I looked. I realized that I could get to 125 but 1) I would be miserable in the process and 2) I would never be able to keep it up.

Hello Blue Team!

Marianne, Dixie, Rosalie, & Heather...hugs to you ladies, hang in there.

QUESTION of the DAY...

My goal is very realistic...although, I don't have an ultimate goal yet. I am not sure what I will feel comfortable at. I was about 175 for years and felt great but I am aiming for 150-160 and once I get to 160 Iwill know where I want to be. But for now my goal is at least 1 pound a week. If I set my goal too high I feel like I am definitely setting myself up to fail.

to all in need of one.

Is my goal realistic? To be honest, I just don't know. I weighed 160lbs when I graduated high school in 2003, back when I was eating my mum's cooking, walking everywhere, and playing basketball competitively. I was fit and healthy. I thought I was fat then, too, which now I think is hilarious!

But... is it reasonable to expect myself to get back to what I weighed as a teenager? I don't know. Even with great fitness and nutrition habits, that might just not be practical for my body as an adult? It's JUST a number for me, though, not an indicator of my health or fitness or worth, so if I don't get there, it won't be the end of the world. I think I would truly be happy ANYwhere under 185lbs if I were fit and well-nourished, so I'll cross that bridge when I get there!

Is your goal realistic?

Heck no! My goal is to be able to jump up and down and not see anything jiggle but my boobs. No wait, that's not my goal, that's my fantasy.

My goal is to walk into my family reunion and have people tell me I look like my Aunt Julie (who is 54 and wonderfully fit) and not my Mom (58 and well, flabby). I don't have a specific weight goal in mind, anything under 145 would be in the "healthy" range for me, so I set that as my goal with the expectation that I would revise it when I got there. I remember being 106 pounds when I graduated high school, then suddenly I was up over 150 pounds at 23. I don't have a clue what happened in between, except a whole lotta drinking, late nights, and bar food. So I really have no idea how I'd look under 145. Maybe I'll think I look fantastic and stop there. I think I have some old pictures of me at around 120, maybe I can dig them out and see how I'd look and have a better idea of what my body would look like, and if it's realistic.

My goal is totally realistic, and actually a little higher than my doctor said I should aim for (she says 140, but since I'm wearing a size 8/10 at 165, I think that 140 might be a little crazy).

I'm aiming for the top of the BMI "healthy" range for my height. This was the original "grand" goal that I set for myself when I first started trying to lose weight. At that time, I weighed 286 pounds, and I had weighed 250 or above since I graduated high school. If you had asked me then if 150 pounds was a realistic goal, I would have been much more iffy about saying "yes" because, to be honest, I had doubts as to whether or not I could do it. But now, it seems not only realistic but totally attainable.

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I had some test done and was told my ideal weight range was 178-188 for my build. Which is what I was aiming for anyway. I'm 5'10" tall and have a big build under the flabbiness so the ideal weight most websites say of like 140 is crazy. My lean body mass is 143lbs which is basically everything but fat. Unfortunately my percent body fat is 41.0% so that needs to go down. So I don't think my goal is unrealistic. I'm never going to be skinny. I'm not built that way.

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Are you shooting for a goal that you believe you can maintain? I also don't have a number set in stone. I'll see when I get closer. I do think that beween 150-160 will be doable.

Are you trying to recapture a happier time in your life through a magical number on the scale? Nope, I've honestly never been happier. Sure, I've been happier with my body in the past...but not my life.

How will you feel if you don't reach that goal, but find one that is a more reasonable?I need to reach my goal this time. I got down to 172 10 years ago. Not my goal, but I got stuck there and then eventually let go. I was wearing size 10's. But I didn't feel "done", and obviously that is still overweight for someone who's 5'6.5". I think 150-160 is a good reasonable number for someone with my build.

What kind of test and where did you get it done at? I'd love to have someone tell me if I'm being realistic.

I was happy to see the - 2.2 pounds this week. I'm trying really hard to stick to a plan. I feel like being on the team I'm not just doing it for myself anymore I'm trying hard to do it for myself plus my team.

I was hoping to see us come in as the BL this week, I hope we still do I saw that we had some stay the same and some who gained. Try to hang in there next week you should lose if this was a gain due to water gain that women sometimes get durning their monthly.

Hope everyone works out a little harder this week! If your not doing it for yourself come on do it for the TEAM!

I'm heading out the door to take a nice long walk.

Are you shooting for a goal that you believe you can maintain? My goal is a 'healthy BMI'. That puts me at 153 says the charts. I am a hair under 5' 6" so I do think that is very doable. I think I have a small frame buried under all my flab. Most of it sits right in my abdomen though so my other goal would be anything small then a size 10 no matter the weight.

Are you trying to recapture a happier time in your life through a magical number on the scale? I have no magical number memories. Starting in 6th grade every year I got larger and larger. I have no happy memories of a great weight to compare them to. Just people and places and those are irrelevant now.

How will you feel if you don't reach that goal, but find one that is a more reasonable? Even if I never reach the 153#, size 8 goal I think I can be happy at any size that doesn't come with a W. Since I have seen 14W I guess I want to be smaller than that.

In the grand scheme of things though every day is a new day and as long as I am make some progress I am happy. I don't need to be the hare in this race. The most weight I have ever lost is when we were trying to get pregnant. I dropped 20 pounds in about 5 months by going to Curves 5-6 days a week and doing extra workouts there with the trainer. I still ate what ever I wanted so after I had the kids the weight came right back. I am looking to create a better, healthier me that will be around to see my babies grow up. I'm happy with 1-2 pounds loss a month. Any more than that is a bonus and to me means that I have learned something new in this way of life.