Tonight will be my weigh-in night, and I don't think I'm going to be pleased with the number on the scales.

I'm hoping that I will have stayed the same. But I think I'm up a bit.

I'm trying to not let it set me back emotionally. This is what I'm trying to focus on:

I've worked out everyday since I got back from vacation.

I've had a lot of ice cream (I'm on a ice-cream kick for some reason!), but I DIDN'T have any last night after dinner, I was able to "self-talk" myself out of it. I had a milkshake at noon, so I wasn't depriving myself, but I sure didn't need to over-in-dulge, so for the first time since last week, I listend to myself and choose my goal of losing this weight and being satisfied with myself long-term, instead of going for the instant gratification.

And this morning, I packed my lunch instead of thinking, oh well, I'm up so I'll just go ahead and get something out (which I wouldn't have chosen to make a healthy choice) and deal with it all tomorrow. No, I'm dealing with it now!

This is a journey and sometimes we take the wrong turn--I know I did..I turned left at the ice cream sign! but I've circled back around and I'm going in the right direction now.

Thank goodness for this board and the fact that we can be real here and share our ups and downs.

Have a good day everyone. I'm going to, even if the scales don't say what I want tonight..they can be changed

Way to go MyChoice, what a wonderful way to look at it. You know, that ice cream sign is a dangerous one, it's so easy to make that detour! You just convinced me to get off my bottom and exercize today--thus not breaking my streak. If you can resist ice cream, I can resist the temptation to be lazy. I know that if I were faced with ice cream, I'd probably have trouble today too!

Jenn-- ^_^ thanks. Just gotta dust myself off and keep trying, thankful for wonderful people who help me out when things happen ^_^

I'm off to kick my exercize bike into shape! I hope all are doing well today, good luck with the weigh-in MyChoice!

OMG OMG PPL!!!!! I think it's time for a new goal!!!!!!!!!!!

I got on the scale today, and do my eye's deceive me or did that scale say 251?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

OMG OMG OMG! Lol! That's 69 lbs for me. I'm 2 lbs. from my first goal!!!!! My next goal is gonna be 220 (if I make that, it'll mean I've lost 100 lbs!!!!)

I officially am wearing a 1x or 20 (down from 3x and 28). My bra size went from 44D to 40C (don't like the cup lost, lolol). My underwear is down from a 10 to an 8...dear lord! And my ring size from a size 10 to 7 1/2. I almost can't believe it. I love shopping at the cheap plus girl size (instead of the good stores so that the material is cut bigger). On the flip side I look in the mirror and still go "yuck". I don't know if I'll ever stop doing that. But at least I don't have a double chin to match my yucky feeling anymore.

Hope everyone is having a good day, and sorry about the flat tire too. That's a serious bummer.

Congrats Tardy! You have to feel wonderful about how far you have come. You WILL reach your next goal. We all have faith in you
Well, my weigh-in did show a gain. I was up .75. I know it's not a lot, but that's two weeks I gained so I'm getting with the game plan, and I've decided that I want the weight loss more than I want the ice cream.

Kamitwi: How did the ride on the exersise bike road go? It's hard to get going sometimes, but usually I find that when I just start then I'm ok.

Hope everyone has a good day. I'll check in later.

Angel - awesome for you!!!! It's nice to reflect back and keep your mind on track! I'm very happy for you!

My Choice - Keep on trucking along! There will be good weigh-ins and bad ones!

Speaking of bad ones lol...

I haven't weighed. I'm hoping to on Sunday. I have only gone to the gym 2 times this week and I planned on going Sunday evening to weigh, but we are going out of town but we will be swimming while we are there so that will be nice. Maybe we can still get home in time for me to get a weigh-in at the gym.

I'm glad to see everyone moving along. Summer is a hard time for me. I just want to sit in my house and hide. I've got a softball game tonite and DH might take me to the local fair...walking. Let's see if can resist eating much of the funnel cake!

Girlie

Ty all!

As far as a present goes. I bought myself a "flattering-form" fitting shirt and sandals. So when I came in today people have kept coming over to my desk saying OMG, lol. I guess I hid under my old clothes long enough, lol. But amazingly, I still feel yucky. Summer is rough for feeling good about yourself when you're overweight. But I just am trying to keep it in perspective as "Summer...more opportunity for me to exercise and change that."

I'm gonna weigh in next payday (7/29) and see if I passed my first goal of 250. If I did, I'm getting myself something little again and setting my new goal of 220. I won't weigh in again then until I go to the doctor's in October and we'll see how I did. I'm hoping to have lost 10-20 lbs. more by then. I'd love to see 230 on the scale. That's puts me 31 lbs. outside of my "I can live with myself goal (which is 199 of course), lol".

I wouldn't sweat a small weight gain, but I like how proactive you are being about it. It's always good to grab control back again before it's lost (I know how easy that one is). I'm gonna put a bunch of prayers out for the two of you! I know you can do it!

Have a great day everyone...(darn Jenn and her cute self ;) ) 3 lbs. away girl! Come on you can do it!!!!

can i join?
 

hey everyone. i am kinda new, just to this forum, but i saw it and was reading some of the stories on here and thought maybe i should join. Icurrently on my diet again for the third time, i really mean this time because i am writing on this board for support. i have lost a lot of weight before and hope that i will can lose it again. I went from 272.5 down to 207, be happy with myself i began to eat, now i weigh myself monday and weigh 222.5 but since monday i lost 5 pounds now down to 217. i really want to get below 200, once i get there i will be so happy.

hw- 272
cw-217.5
gw-160

You all are such a supportive group!

Jen: You are an inspiration to us all...just 3 more lbs...you can do it..I know you will!

Tardy: You should be so proud of yourself! Tell us if anyone commented on you new shirt...I'm SURE they noticed the change in you.

Girlie: If you want to resit that funnel cake, you can....it's going to be tuff though! (at least for me..I love them!, maybe you can share one with someone else)--at least you will be up walking around..that counts towards exercise.

Volly: Welcome! This is a great place to be; you will find a lot of support here. Looking forward to getting to know you.

I didn't get ice cream at lunch--even though I feel hungry and I'm sure that would get rid of it...nope...not going to do it...now..where's my water?! :lol:

Hello everyone. Hubby and I had our weekly weigh in today. We loss the 2 pounds we gained celebrating his birthday, so hopefully next week we will have another loss. Will catch you tomorrow night. Have a wonderful weekend and God Bless.

Hi everybody!
 

I've started my new job and it's killing my free time! :( I've really missed you all- it looks as though everyone's doing really well! I see we have some new folks too (Hi!)
I've been a good girl on eating, but my workout time is taking a beating this week. My drive time is just taking alot out of my day- then when I do get home, I have to take my daughter to her job. The good part is that I am doing alot of walking (like 8,000-100,000 steps on pedometer) at work, so it's not as though I'm at a desk. Will be in home store, and not training store, this coming week. That means I will be able to go to Curves right after work for my 3 days. I really felt lousy on Friday, because I really wanted to go to Curves- but got out of work late, so didn't make it. This is the second week in a row I didn't get in all 3 workouts. Well, this is a new week- so I just have to start again!

Getting closer to 199- at 200 even as of this past Thursday! Yippee! 35 pounds gone forever!

I must share this story with you....one of the days I got out of work, I was totally spent. Long drive home, really tired, my back hurt, my knees hurt, blah, blah, blah. Well, I had the devil on one shoulder saying "Barb, you worked hard, you don't have to workout...what will it hurt to skip one day?" The angel on my other shoulder said "You hush over there! Barb, you're tough- you can do it! Besides, if you skip one day, it could lead to skipping more!" This debate went on for the whole ride- luckily, the angel won- I went! And you know what? I felt better when I was done! More alert and my body didn't hurt! I was able to go home and do what I had to do for the next day. I was never a believer in this "exercise gives you energy" business, you know? Well, I admit here before you, I was wrong!

Barb64: You will get those 3 workouts in this week. You sound determined! I'm lucky to be one of those people who like to workout..but sometimes when I'm tired or I have so much to do, I can confess to just wanting to stay home. But you are right, it gives so much back to us. That's why I go, even when I don't want to. Today was one of those days, but after I went I felt so much better about myself. In fact, I've been struggling a little with wanting to overeat, but after today's workout (I was alone, without my workout partner, so I was really, really concentrating on me) I could feel my resolve coming back around and I'm reay to go at this again..full tilt.

I even tried the dip machine today. I haven't tried it in a long time, but today, no one was in the weight room and so I tried it..and I did them. I was breathing hard, my arms were shaking, but I did it...Feels GOOD!!

Pray: Congrats on your weight loss! You are back on track..keep it up!