Thanks MellyWag!
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Originally Posted by MaryOjo
Luddy, whao! u're doing great! What did u do to lose so much within the short time, can u please share some of what u did as an encouragement?
Thank you! I got curious, so I looked back to see when I started, how many pounds in how many weeks I've lost since I joined this thread.
I joined this challenge back on Aug 9 so as of last weigh in, it has been 10 weeks and 22.8 pounds (2.28lbs a week on average-which I am more than happy about). Some weeks were great, others not so much. I had food poisoning a couple of times in the beginning so even though I don't recommend that route, it certainly got me off to a quick start for this challenge.
I'm just a devoted calorie counter (1200-1400 a day) and hardly ever stray. I walk/jog a few times a week and do exercises in my house (hula hoop, free weights, resistance cord, etc). When I do stray, I make sure to try & not go above 1400 and never ever go above 2000.
Really wish I could give you a better, more enlightened answer in how I've been doing it. But I think this quick success is probably because I really never gave weight loss a try before so when I started and stuck to it, my body just wanted to respond. It finally clicked that I needed to do it now for the sake of the rest of my life. That has been a huge, ginormous motivation...more than any of the small goals (but those are important too and fun to have and achieve).
This thread has really helped. It helped to put things in perspective and to let me know that if I can get through to Christmas with putting in the effort, I can make it to initial goal weight and beyond in the next year.
I hope this helped in some way.
Best of luck to everyone!
That's...13.2 pounds since 18 August. So I guess if I get some woosh I could be lucky? But then again...I might fall a bit short! 
