Hi hi!

Yesterday I had a couple of NSV's. The first was I went on a long walk during the day, huzzah! It felt so good to get out in the sun shine and get some fresh air. I'm cooped up in my apartment all day, every day these days. The second is I'm a step closer to beating my sugar cravings. Last night after dinner I was really craving for something sweet, but we didn't have anything for me to eat/drink so I just had to sit and suffer. I drank a bunch of water instead and I made it through the night. I was actually considering going to the store to buy something, it was that strong of a craving! It made me realize I need to stop buying sugary things (mainly Chai Tea Latte mix!) so I have to deal with my cravings cold turkey style.

A bit of TMI, but when I went to pee before bed my urine was still pretty dark, so despite all the water I drank I still wasn't completely hydrated before I went to bed. This morning I weighed in at 185.8 lbs, a 0.4 lb increase, probably due to that water weight. Clearly my body wasn't used to that much sunshine and was longing to be filled with water!

Week Two
09: 185.4 lbs
10: 185.8 lbs
11:
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14:
15:
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Total Loss for Week Two:
Total July Loss: 1.2 lbs

ange82 - I hear ya. Weekend splurges are a real killer, especially during big events with loads of treats. Ultimately, while I'm a huge believer in giving yourself a break and living a little, a healthy living is a full time life choice. It can't be an on/off switch, because the stress it'll put on your mind and body will become too much to handle. What I like to do (when I'm actually good!) is eat really really slowly. I'm talking about chewing food until it's completely broken down, putting my utensils down as I chew, taking a sip of water between bites kind of slow. That way I get to enjoy the rich food but because I'm eating at a snails pace I tend to feel full a lot sooner. Also, it sounds obvious, but stopping when you're full makes such a huge difference. I think because we're social creatures by nature when we see other people eating we instinctively want to join in, but it's so important to stay strong even when people are telling you to join in. Just a couple of things I like to implement but admittedly fail at miserably these days (which is why I'm now this heavy!).

Cattails - You're so right, I remember kicking a bad Coca Cola (when I say Coke people think it's the drug ) habit way back when I was a teenager and after I got through it food tasted so much better. I did notice that after a slew of sugary drinks drinking my usual green tea didn't taste the same. It was a sign that I needed to cut down! I'm curious why your husband maintains that extra weight? Is it for a sport? My SO is more interested in drinking than he is eating, so I'm lucky in that regard. He used to be huge into candy and junk food, but once he started Muay Thai he tends to eat a lot better. He just genuinely enjoys good alcohol, whereas I'm way more picky about alcohol! He always jokes that if I drank more I'd love him more because of the delicious drinks he can make haha.

My Second Month of Maintenance
SW: 115.5
TW: <119

July 3: 117.5
July 4: 116.2
July 5th: 115.3
July 6th: 115.3
July 7th: 116.4
July 10th: 117.5
July 11th: 116.4

Ok, two days of healthy stuff, and the scale is showing it. Sitting a bit more comfortably under my target now. At least i'm getting direct feedback from the scale as to how my choices have been during Maintenance which makes motivation easier. I think something I need to watch going forward is the temptation not to weigh when I think I might be up, so for me a daily weigh-in, or at least very regular, is the way to go.

Thanks Riestrella and Cattails for your encouragement and suggestions. Agree with both of you - I definitely eat too fast, and journaling would help me in the future I think (although not sure I can be bothered to write more than I do!) I do jot down a few 'Reminders' every now and then as per the Beck Diet Solution.

Gardener Joy - 1kg off. Great work!!! I"m confident you'll get the rest done too, now you've made some new progress. Well done!

Hello! Quick fly by. It looks like I'm at 20 posts, hopefully I can use the sig function and profile picture feature soon!

Start: July 1, 2018 ~ 143.40
Weight loss goal for the month ~ (4 lbs)
Exercise goal for the month ~ do something every day in July

7/1 ~ Intro class at Club Pilates
7/2 ~ Full body stretch
7/3 ~ Full body stretch
7/4 ~ Yoga class at my local studio
7/5 ~ Full body stretch
7/7 ~ Pilates class
7/7 ~ Full body stretch
7/8 ~ Full body stretch
7/9 ~ skip – medical reasons
7/10~ Full body stretch
7/11~
7/12~
7/13~
7/14~

Did not do well yesterday. I was tired all day and ate a muffin and half a can of coke. Then I came home and cooked but it didn't turn out how I wanted (chicken with garlic sauce). I used to order it at a restaurant in NYC all the time and it was so delicious. I still ate some but it was a disappointment. There is not much good chinese food where I live and I really miss it sometimes!

Today I am prepared though - I have lunch plus an emergency protein bar if I feel snacky (the lunch is a frozen meal and it's 250 calories of chicken and cauliflower rice - I'm pretty sure it won't be satisfying enough.) Plus I'm feeling rested.

Ange - I need to weigh every day. It's too easy for me to ignore gaining weight otherwise - because it takes a while for your clothes to stop fitting! One of my NSVs is that I've only missed a few weigh-ins - most of my DNWs on here are just because I did not record my weight that day.

How is everyone else doing?

CW: 146.0
GW: 140.0

Week One end weight: 146.0

Week Two

08: 145.2
09: 144.8
10: 145.6
11: 145.8
12:
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14:
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Total Loss for Week Two:

Day 2 = 194.6
Day 3 = 192.7
Day 4 = 192.2
Day 5 = 192.6
Day 6 = 189.9
Day 9 =191.4
Day 10 = 192.2
Day 11 = 191.7

jenyreddy: You are probably losing fat and gaining muscle at about the same rate, which is why the scale isn't moving. That is a good thing. The muscle will keep your metabolism higher, which will keep your base metabolic rate higher, making it easier to keep burning the fat. Keep it up. I remember once, when I was riding my bike to work every day, I ended up losing an entire pant size, but gained 5 pounds. That's why you can't depend just on the scale.

nicoley: I get it about food not coming out the way you want it. I've never been a good cook, and nothing I make ever tastes the way it does in a restaurant, or even "the way mom used to make it". It's something I really need to work on.

Riestrella: Great job on those NSVs. My sugar cravings can be brutal too. Once you kick the processed sugar habit, you may find that a piece of fruit is sweet enough to satisfy the cravings.

gardenerjoy: Great progress this month. Under 100 kg is a big milestone. Congrats

Week Two
08: 239.6
09: 239.6
10: 239.2
11: 237.6
12:
13:
14:
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Total Loss for Week Two:

Finally got a whoosh. Hopefully I get to keep it tomorrow. I'm only 0.2 off from losing 30 pounds, so I'm excited to hit that marker. I'm beginning to see a pattern in my weight loss. I looked back at May, June and now July and all 3 months, I've had a stall or a gain for the first 10 days of the month, when I am so busy at work, and then starting the 11th, I start dropping weight again. Not really sure why, but that is 3 months in a row that that pattern has held.

I started doing some strengthening exercises on my ankle last night. I'm really feeling withdrawals from my twice daily walks. I'm going to give it one more week of strengthening and then start off with easy treadmill walks, so I don't get exhausted when I'm far from home. In the meantime, now that my knees are healed, I may start doing knee pushups and knee planks again.

Jumping in late! Daily weigh in thread is not really active and when I used it in 2015 it was really helpful, so I'll try this thread!
Start Weight: 270 (started weight training with a personal trainer)
GOAL WEIGHT: 262 (1-2 lbs a week)
​​​​​7/3 268.7
7/4 269.4
7/5 267
7/6 271.5
7/7 270
7/8 267.3
7/9 268.3
7/10 268
7/11 266.8

My Second Month of Maintenance
SW: 115.5
TW: <119

July 3: 117.5
July 4: 116.2
July 5th: 115.3
July 6th: 115.3
July 7th: 116.4
July 10th: 117.5
July 11th: 116.4
July 12th: 115.7

Another good choices day yesterday and the scale agrees. Almost had a bad-choices day - we were just about to go to the pub for dinner, but then remembered there was a big rugby match on, so pubs would've been blaring tv's and really busy, so stayed in and had thai prawns with spinach instead, and made some good progress with the jigsaw. (2000 pieces, map of world). Up at 0350 this morning to watch England lose in World Cup semi, so that's sad. On the plus side, no more 3am mornings!!
Not really planned food today - i'm definitely getting slacker with that, but as long as I have a heap of veggies in the fridge I can throw something together at the last minute and I've not been bored with that so far, so it's working ok.

hi LGW- good to see you here!
Nice Whoosh Lacerta!

Hello everyone, another fly by! Prob do a fuller post this weekend. I hope everyone is doing well!

Start: July 1, 2018 ~ 143.40
Weight loss goal for the month ~ (4 lbs)
Exercise goal for the month ~ do something every day in July

7/1 ~ Intro class at Club Pilates
7/2 ~ Full body stretch
7/3 ~ Full body stretch
7/4 ~ Yoga class at my local studio
7/5 ~ Full body stretch
7/7 ~ Pilates class
7/7 ~ Full body stretch
7/8 ~ Full body stretch
7/9 ~ skip – medical reasons
7/10~Full body stretch
7/11~Stayed with my food plan. Full body stretch.
7/12~
7/13~
7/14~

Working another extra night so just a quick drop in!

Week Two
08: 246
09: 247.4
10: 244.7
11: 243.8
12:
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14:
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End of Week One: 246
Total Loss for Week Two:

wow momtopands you're going well! Should hit 50lbs off very soon?

Have a good day everyone!

CW: 146.0
GW: 140.0

Week One end weight: 146.0

Week Two

08: 145.2
09: 144.8
10: 145.6
11: 145.8
12: 145.6
13:
14:
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Total Loss for Week Two:

Welcome, LGW! This is definitely a good place for recording daily weights.

ange82much: maintain <119
boatingmommy: 8 lbs
Cattails: 4 lbs
Chunkahlunkah: 2.5 lbs
gardenerjoy: 2.4 kgs
Jeanex: 9 lbs
JenyReddy: 6 lbs
Lacerta: 7 lbs
LGW: 8 lbs
momtopands: 8 lbs
nicoley73: 6 lbs
opheliaphoenix: 5.6 lbs
PERUNNING: 10 lbs
Rainbow123: 4 lbs
Riestrella: 2 lbs
SnowMama: 8 lbs
Stefania: 8 lbs
Tesni: 6 lbs
TooManyDimples: 10 lbs
VickieLou: 10 lbs

LGW: Welcome! This is a very active thread. Good job so far this month.

momtopands: You are really rocking it this week. Way to go.

Week Two
08: 239.6
09: 239.6
10: 239.2
11: 237.6
12: 237.6
13:
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Total Loss for Week Two:

No additional loss today, but I got to keep the whole whoosh from yesterday, YAY. I feel like I'm actually in the 230s now instead of hovering around 240. Looking through my Fitday history, I think this is the least I've weighed since sometime before 2010.

Hi y'all!

Had a rough couple of days since I fell ill AGAIN after spending some of the 4th and all day of the 5th sick. Tuesday in the early evening time I got hit with a mega head cold that not even advil and DayQuil could help. I ended up going grain cuhrazy because that's all we really had in and I really needed sustenance. I think I had a sandwich, pasta AND rice. Oh boy, the scale didn't like me in the morning that's for sure, since I shot up to 187 lbs. However yesterday my boyfriend and I went to do a mini-food shop (we're both sick unfortunately!) and we got some Sudafed and it's helped a bunch. I didn't eat as much yesterday and I'm back down to 186 lbs this morning.

As for life, I feel like I'm finally getting caught up with work! It's taken a good week and a half but I'm very pleased that my work load is lightening. If I could just stop getting sick then I'd actually start developing a healthy routine again! Feels like every time I want a big restart life says NOPE and throws something my way.

Hope you're all having a good week!

Week Two
09: 185.4 lbs
10: 185.8 lbs
11: 187 lbs
12: 186 lbs
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Total Loss for Week Two: -0.6 lbs
Total July Loss: 1 lb

ange82 - Yass so glad the scale is co-operating with you after good choices. I'm contemplating starting to average out my weekly weights like I used to, since I think it's a better representation of our efforts. I did a quick calculation of your weigh in's from 3rd - 11th and your average weight is 116.4 lbs, I'm not sure if that makes you feel better about your progress, but sometimes it's nicer to get a roundabout number instead of ending the week on a high number! I think it also helps with making those lows not something to get TOO excited about, since our weights fluctuate constantly. Sorry for the rant, it's just something that's on my mind!
I'm not a huge fan of keeping a food journal, I'm like you, I just can't be bothered! I know it works for a lot of people though so I don't like to discourage people. Keeping a master list of reminders sounds like a good idea. Maybe we can write those down and before we go out over the weekend? "Remember to chew" would be my number 1!
I love puzzles too! Have you ever heard of Liberty puzzles? They're a bit pricey but amazing to put together! Highly recommend one of those. I'm a bit bummed out that England got knocked out too, my Dad was so excited about them getting into the final .

nicoley - Ughhh isn't it the worst when you put time into cooking and it's meh? Chinese food is hard to replicate I've found.

JenyReddy - Oh, so you're doing intense workouts and you're finding clothes fit better? That's gotta be because you're building muscle!! My advice would be to focus on your measurements and how you feel/look. When you workout, do you eat back some of your calories? You could be burning 500 calories + with that type of workout, so you're only eating 900 calories on workout days, which would create a stall as your body scrambles to store away the food you give it to stay functioning. The best analogy I heard was your metabolism/weight loss is a fire. The air is your exercise, the wood is your fuel/food. Too much of one and not enough of the other will cause your fire to dim, so make sure you're creating an equilibrium between your food/exercise i.e. eating enough to keep your body going.
Oh wow, that's so useful about the Chai tea latte!! I'll definitely have to keep my eyes peeled for masala tea, we have a large Indian supermarket that I've never been to but maybe it's a good excuse to go in

Lacerta - Yup, that's my hope too! Thanks for your support! So excited for you to almost hit 30 lbs lost! Stress has a huge effect on our bodies. It's surprising how much it can affect your weight loss. Make sure you take time for yourself in those first 10 days in the month, maybe come home from work and do some relaxing yoga, meditate (if that's your thing), dance around to your favorite music or anything to shake off the day at work!

LGW - Welcome and good luck!