So this is a challenge for anyone! Anyone and everyone is welcome! You do not need to follow this plan. You can start anytime! and weigh in as often or whenever you can.

This challenge is to see who can lose 5 lbs the fastest! If you do YOU WIN! (more ways than 1)

SW : 198.6
CW : 198.6
GW : 193.6

Sarah!!!!You ROCK!!!! Welcome to Onederland!!!!!!!

I can't weigh until Friday is it ok if I say my starting weight is from yesterday 172? Then my goal is 167!

Sara WTG!!!
My Sw: 206
CW:206
GW: 201 but really I'm working hard to get 199

SARAH! HOOOOOOORAYYYYYY!!! and to top it off ONDERLAND Again in your life! So THRILLED for you! weeeeeeeeeeeeeee and Yahooooo!

SW 237.0

GW 232.0 First time to be in a challenge where all the numbers are 23's

Way to go Sarah!!!

I am using yesterdays' number (if that is okay) since I did not weigh today. I had a lot of sodium for dinner. I did not want to post a higher number and then have a sudden whoosh down. lol

SW: 241.4
GW: 236.4

Yay Sarah!!!!

SW: 242.2
GW: 237.2

SW : 198.6
CW : 199.0 (+0.4)
GW : 193.6

198.6 Jan 29
199.0 Jan 30

Small uptick no worries...

Wonderful thing about this 5 lbs challenge... we ALL will be in new territory WHOOOOO RAY!

SW 237.0
1/30 236.6 (-.4) yay

GW 232.0

Sw: 241.4
Cw: 242.4
Gw: 236.4

I’ll share here a most amazing moment – I’ve been wondering when anyone around me would notice my weight loss and say something. I’ve lost a good chunk of weight since September, and other than my husband saying something after I’ve prompted him, radio silence. Not a huge surprise or problem for me – it’s tricky for people to comment on someone’s appearance, I rarely do too. So I’ve been waiting with curiosity, not impatience.

This morning my toddler started the day :

Oscar (2 1/2) : “mama getting little?”

Mama : “no, mama is big. You are little.”

Oscar : “mamas belly is getting little.” (Yes, mama is apple-shaped!)

Mama : “oh, that’s so nice of you to say! What a nice boy to say that!”

Oscar : “papas belly still big”

Mama : (laughs, despite herself)

For what it’s worth, my husband weighs considerably less than me, but he does have a beer belly (except he’s French and it’s a foie gras, wine & cheese belly)

I’ve been floating around on this all morning!

awwww that is sooo cute sarah!!!

so drinking 30 oz of water at 2 am is not conducive to a good weigh in lol

SW: 242.2
CW: 243.4
GW: 237.2

Count me in. I weighed this am and I am at 254. I am excited because I have trouble getting into ketosis enough to lose weight. I am keeping track of everything and I eat 2 cups lettuce and 1/2 cup of celery/cucumber a day, so minimal 5 carbs and 113 grams of protein and 130 grams of fat to bring my calories up to RDA level. I should be losing weight but the scale has not moved in 2 weeks. Yesterday I cut my protein down to 60 grams which was what I was "supposed" to get at least when I had the lap band. So I am excited to see if this makes the scales move.

Hi Janie, welcome! I have been losing fairly consistently but need to keep protein limited to around 65 grams. Apparently our bodies, marvelous and sneaky, convert excess protein into glucose, and that holds some people back (women over 40 in particular).

SW : 198.6
CW : 198.4 (-0.2)
GW : 193.6

198.6 Jan 29
199.0 Jan 30
198.4 Jan 31

Wasn't hard to exercise today as I weighed in at 174! I went back over my food and figure it is the 2 days of blood pressure medication I missed because I forgot it at home!! So I'm calling it water retention....I feel like missing my blood pressure meds is worse than if I had eaten off plan!! Happy Friday!!

Hi Jane!!

Sarah - Out of the mouths of babes!! Give Oscar a kiss from all of us!!! You are ROCKING it!!

Sarah...I love that conversation that your Oscar had with you! WOW... Kids sometimes are the best barometers!

Lulu.. oh SHOOT.. I am sorry... but it is water and it will go away! Less stress now that you are home again! Tomorrow will be better....

Welcome Janie!

Pixikat.. are you holding that water in your cheeks??!! LOL It will woooooooshhhhhhhhhhhhh

SW 237.0
1/30 236.6 (-.4) yay
1/31 236.4 (-.6 total) yay... slowlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

GW 232.0