:welcome3: Rosinante! I don't whether the others are awake yet. Sleep is so good for weightloss.

There was a racing start to the day and I haven't planned my food yet, beyond protein and veg. That's my next task.

Rosinate, welcome!!! :wave: A noble quest indeed, great challenge thou hast laid out before thee.

Congratulations, Silverbirch, and JoJoJo2 for thy noble work and success on this challenge!

Yea, I am up though, going back to bed. Had a successful day 4 and am on day 5 and intend it shall be a good one. Doing a weigh-in today.

See ye, I just got up to do something for work, need to sleep.

Yea, Silverbirch, sleep IS good for weight loss, methinks. I need to do better on that. Woot!

I'm up, too, although I am probably the last one up since I live in the Mountain Time Zone and I am retired! :) However, here I am, ready to take on a new day.

Welcome Rosinate!! I'm so glad you joined us, and I wish you well on your streak.

Silverbirch - Seeing you posting reminds me of a time many years ago when my DH and I toured Wales. We were with a tour group and we traveled through England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, seeing all the sights. It was a wonderful experience. I waved at you, I remember that well.

Tess - May your weigh-in be one that puts a smile on your face. Remember, smiling is great exercise.

It continues to be hot, hot, hot here in the mountains where I live, but it is the right time of year for HOT! Let's make today the best of all possible days, and keep smiling. :) :wave:

JoJoJo2! Woot! I think I am in Mountain, too, but we don't have DST, so the time is different and I never know lol.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Tess/Am wimped on the Friday weigh-ins. Got home from the meeting after midnight last night, which is when my new eating day always starts for logging purposes but usually don't eat that late. It was, however, a stressful session and did have to eat a small meal, so this morning, after sleeping since the last post, Tess/Am decided to move her weigh-ins back to her traditional Sunday and will accordingly hold the Sacred Ceremony o' the Golden Scale on that day again.

She doth not want to discourage self by a fluctuation and she is almost sure if she did it today, there would be a gain as she ate and is also feeling somewhat waterlogged from exercise.

So, that be the dealeth here in Tessland right now.

Woot~!

A good Day Three. I saw the physio who says I'm getting stronger. Good! I've eaten according to plan. Good! I am reasonably rested. Good! And I've sawn up a load of wood for the winter which always makes me feel Good!

Rosinante - hope the weather co-operated when you went for your walk. Walking is so rejuvenating.

Jojojo2 - now is my chance to wave back. :wave: I'm pleased to bring back happy memories. A happy day to add to your streak, I trust. The Mountain Time Zone sounds so romantic.

Tess - yes, so good to rest. And necessary if you got back late. Does Am/Tess only weigh herself once a week? I know some people do. I Just Do It and put the Data into the Information Machine which is Feeling-Neutral.

Day Four tomorrow - I like the way this is going.

Tess/Am to Silverbirch: Woot! Good work on the Day 3! :wave:

In the various guises in which my fantastical weight loss and/or fitness initiatives have presented themselves over the years in my wee brain, mostly to amuse myself but for the very serious reason of having lost the weight (more than 100) and kept it off for a long time except for this wee blip o' stubborness (but that be another tale) in regain, I have mostly conducted the sacred weigh-in only once a week officially and log it and blog it here and there, but I do hop on at various other times and I also change the weigh-in day of the week sometimes to fit my schedule.

My career recently took a different direction so I do different things on different days now. Oddly, what jobs I do on a set of schedules has an impact on how my weight fluctuates, so I try to maximize my happy scale days to times when I have learned the weight will be less than it is on other days (e.g., if I've worked a festival in the heat or conversely worked a late meeting and needed to eat at night, that affects my weight).

When trying to lose as I am now (verra hard btw!) versus maintain, I want to be careful not to sabotage my mood by sliding back up officially.

Lol, hope that makes sense. It probably only does to moi.

Wow, I am having a nice rest day and just about to go read on the sofa again.

Woot!

Day 1 closing successfully.
Got 3 count them 3 short walks in.
Didn't eat between meals. Apart from Migraleve but my head's still exploding.
Good luck, all.

Woot, Rosinate, congrats on the successful Day 1.

EDITED TO CHANGE THE DAY AS I AM ON DAY 6, NOT 5! :)

Tess/Am just slipped back in to say she has had a lovely day 6 and is finished eatin' at 1720 and callin' it good, day is checkity check.

On to Day 7!

Day 2 dawns. I am mentally girt.

Loins girded here. (And face washed.)

I am at work with a very long report. I would like it just to be the two of us but it isn't. The person in the office next door (yes, it's Saturday) has the radio on. The next-but-one field has a rock festival going on. Full-scale. Drum and bass. Etc.

I have just raided a Crunchie bar from my colleague's drawer. I don't even like Crunchies. So Day 4 is not going to be the glorious unbesmirched day I'd hoped for.

Shame. But that will be that in that department.

I'm up and facing the new day with a smile on my face and a song in my heart, more or less. Yesterday I got the "munchies" and did a little damage to myself. But that was yesterday, and this is today.

Onward with a renewed focus on what I must do to maintain. This is Day 5 for me.

Silverbirch - Unfortunately things do happen in life. Stay strong -

Rosinante - Hope your day is going well for you.

Am/Tess - Any plan of action invariably needs to be "tweaked" so tweak away.

Me - I plan to forge ahead with my shoulder to the wheel, my nose to the grindstone, etc. You know the drill. Anyway, I will do the very bestest I can. Woot! :wave:

Never a truer word was spake! Thank you. I did stay strong anf fought off a bowl of muesli so I'm going to bed with that slightly hungry feeling that bodes well for the morn. I claim a success. So onward to Day Five. Not streakety streak as Tess/Am sometimes goes but more like squeakety squeak under the wire. Boff to Crunchies. Never again.

Hope all is well on your paths to freedom.

Huzzah, JoJoJo2, Rosinate and Silverbirch! Woot, Tess/Am am not sure what a Crunchie is exactly but t'was good to stop at one, methinks.

Havin' a work Saturday (and Sunday) also but I do mine at 50 percent at home, chugged away at it for awhile this morning after an abbrevated streakity streak entry.

Had a nice lunch by self at Subway where the steak, egg white and cheese muffin sandwich is quite good and low cal. Eating sugar free and cals good.

Bagged work, going to read. That is my Day 6 so far.

Rosinate, mentally girt seems a good state to be in! Woot!

JJJ2, yea life be good.

Onward to the next round!

Please send any nice scale angels ye know 'round here on Sunday morn', all I want is a pound down (or even a maintain lol).

We'll see.

Silverbirch, I love thy avatar.

Day 2 has ended well. I could wish it had ended a might earlier but I'm waiting for a washing machine cycle to finish, Dog #3 having elected to pee on his dog duvet earlier this evening. (Dog #3 now one of only two left but I still give them their pack numbers in my heart. Got #3 and #5 still to hug).

Got a goodish walk in.
Didn't eat between meals.

Went a bit mad with lunch, probably, no, definitely ate too much "to make up for not eating between meal" but I felt so yukky afterwards that I won't do that again. See, I'm learning.

Keep fighting!