Here is the new chat thread for week 7.

Well I'm getting ready to call it a night here in SK. Hope you all have a great Monday and don't forget to get your weigh ins posted. Good luck to everyone who still has to weigh in for this past week.

i unofficially got to post a 1.6 loss so i'm hoping for another great week good luck to everyone on WI today

Shannon - hope they can figure out whats going on with you and correct it. I'm thinking of you.

ArmyWife - congrats on your loss!

Shan84 - congrats on your big loss this week - that is awesome!

Well, I was up a lb today - which wasn't entirely unexpected. I was technically POP, but spent most of the weekend at one party or another, so that is where the bulk of my weekly points were eaten. After a 4 lb loss last week, I was hoping for another loss, but this seems to be the pattern for me. Interesting. Lose a few, gain one, lose a few, gain one. The end result is still a loss, so it's all good.

Sending 'loss' vibes to everyone this morning.

Gosh, that discussion question is a tough one for me in a way. There's not just ONE person who has inspired me. I think the 3FC family has probably made the most difference for me. I love having others who are going through what I'm going through and feel like people understand what I'm dealing with, not to mention those who have already succeeded and shred their stories. I've been doing challenge threads almost since I joined 3FC last November and it has REALLY kept me on track when I normally would have given up or gone off the deep end somehow. So, 3FC and a few good books have been my main inspiration.

Well, shortly after I had our daughter in 2003 - I found the WATP system by Leslie Sansone - and I started using her DVDs and watching my calories and lost weight that way...till I got pregnant with our son lol But I really didn't have anyone to look to for weight loss success...I have several in my family who are overweight but never workout (never have)...and growing up I was always active (never formerly working out though), so the concept of exercise was a foreign one to me (and my family). But when I had such success with the WATP last year, it spilled over into my family I sent a DVD to my MIL and also sent a few to my mother this year.
My mom had never formerly exercised - except to take walks around the neighborhood. But this year she is on track and doing wonderfully. She started the year at 215, then changed her eating habits, then slowly worked up to 4-5 miles of WATP per day and is on Nutrisystem - and is in the 170s now I'm so proud of her for getting healthy - she wants to have a long life to live and be around the grand-kids (my kids)
So originally, I was inspired by Leslie on the WATP - and now I am inspired by my own mother in her successful journey to getting healthy and losing the weight that has troubled her since she first married my daddy (they've been divorced now for 20 yrs).


Sorry, didn't mean to get so long winded lol

Monday's Discussion Question

Who is your greatest inspiration in your weight loss journey?

Wow, tough one...I don't really have any one person, I guess, who has inspired me. I think actually Tara from the last season of the Biggest loser seemed very inspiring to me, probably because we have a lot of similarities. I don't really know many people in real life that have lost a lot of weight without getting surgery. I know I want to be an inspiration to my children to keep an active lifestyle and stay fit and healthy, so I guess they count as my inspiration too, in some ways.

Rainy weather here, but I'm feeling very positive this week. I didn't drop much more over the weekend, but every little bit helps, so I'll take it. I went swimming this morning, and am planning out the rest of my week to maximize my exercising and staying on plan with food. Go Red team!!!

Ok so I probably need to be posting considering how I'm doing...

This has happened to me in the past where I stay really motivated for a couple of months.....then it slowly gets less and less.

Right now I am REALLY struggling. For about a month I stopped even downloading the GWF. Now I am, but I am now and I am back up to 155 (I started at 158, lost 7 lbs and the plateaued) So now I am back up and the last 2 weeks have been almost identical. Wonderful Monday-Friday. I eat great, drink all my water and life is good. The The weekend. I am typically away from home (saturday working) its insane and stressful and I eat whatever. Then a social event and I start drinking....(this weekend included jello shots) and Sunday is not as bad but includes football usually at a bar because the dolphins aren't on tv locally so ..... And then monday is my fresh start.

Honestly I don't know what to do. Alot of my friends think that because I'm 155 and I "carry it well" I should just not worry about and move on. But I really want to see the body I know I'm capable of.

So yes, lets get this group going. I need support and accountability especially this time of year. There is no end to the excuses to be "bad" Just this week I have a women's group on tuesday, halloween party on saturday, football on sunday and monday. Then in 3 weeks is my 30th birthday, then 2 weeks after that is thanksgiving.

Speaking of my 30th birthday....For the first time since I turned 21 we are trying to plan a party. But I don't know what to do. I'm more used to thinking about other people not what I want. AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! I'm a bit stressed out

I don't think I have anyone who inspired me to lose weight....I don't know anyone personally who has lost a bunch of weight. (Well, my MIL has just lost over 120 pounds, but she had surgery to do it and doesn't exercise at all, so no inspiration there). I get inspired by Biggest Loser though. Watching everyone lose weight there is inspiration for me. I downloaded all the seasons recently and started watching them through and it is just amazing to watch people transform.

Okay, it looks like we need a slight modification on the QOTD. So here is the updated version.

Who or What inspires you in your weightloss journey?

Is that better?

QOTD:

I guess for me, I have to attribute my current inspiration to some unknown person on the WW boards. Someone posted about how they have this and that issue and was seriously asking if they should just give up on WL. What she got in return to her question was a LOT of tough love. That is what has inspired my "motto" and has been keeping me going through the ups and downs of this journey so far.

I have been very successful at weightloss in the past, but those efforts came fairly easy to me and ultimately I never learned to maintain. By last January, I'd seen the scale climb back to and above my previous all time high. I fought and struggled for many months and saw little (mere ounces) in the way of progress. It was so darn frustrating. I had that and other reasons to suspect that my thyroid might be out of whack but I had to beg my Drs. to test it. I finally convinced the nurse practitioner to order the test and sure enough I was hypothyroid. This was last November and my Dr actually commented that "no wonder you feel like crap!". While it is so much harder now than it has ever been for me, I am keeping with it and seeing progress. It's slow, but it's progress none-the-less. We're continuing to monitor and adjust my meds when needed. They still aren't stable. I want to reach my health goals and make this a lifetime solution; not only am I capable, dangit, I'm worth the effort!

There are no silly answers to the QOTD. Everyone is different, so we will all have different things that motivate us. Take me for example. I started this whole journey because I desperatly wanted to be a special agent in the FBI, but I knew I could never pass the entrance exams in my current state. So I went to work to change that. I lost over 50lbs and got up to running a full 5K, then I decided that I didn't really want to be an FBI agent after all. Was that a huge waste? NO! I'm thankful that it encouraged me into becoming a much more healthy and fit person, even if I decided that career didn't really suit me. To anyone else it might be wacky, but I'll always have a soft spot for the FBI because of the motivation it gave me.

Monday's Discussion Question

Who is your greatest inspiration in your weight loss journey?

This may sound funny, but it's a friend of mine who really believes in me. Every time I mention something like "I want to run a little farther" or "eat a little better" she is always right there with "You can totally do it! You're awesome!" She inspires me to believe in myself, cause I know she believes in me.