Hey, guys. I'm Penny. I NEED to get down out of the 170s and into the 160s. I'm so tired of the 180s and 170s. It has been way, way too long!

178.8 today, but TOM arrived so...probably up tomorrow.

I totally get this too. When I approach only a couple pounds left in a decade, it skips around there forEVER. Not fun. I don't know why it does that.

176.4

I noticed, via my ticker, I have officially passed the halfway mark.

171.7

Congrats MauiKai! At your height you must look amazing.

Awesome Penny105! You're on your way!

No, at my height I still look fat. I don't start looking better until between 150-160.

Welcome Penny! I so know how you feel.

Third week in a row at 177.4. GRR!

178 today. Surprising since I'm in my TOM.

MauiKai, congrats on being over halfway there!

Thanks, Chubabub! I hope I'm on my way! You're almost out of here - hopefully I'll be at the end of the 70s soon, too. :)

Thanks for the welcome, NNS! Yep, that bounce up and down and end up at the same weight for like two months is always fun. Here's hoping we both break out of the 170s soon!

172. Apparently the 'almost out of the 170's bouncing' starts now...

The 170s have been the absolute worst 10 lbs I have had to get out of, literally everytime I get around 171, I lose it and start gaining.

Weighed myself today at 174.5 and so depressed about it.

I have started cooking myself and have stopped eating out but of course still gaining, not sure what else I'm supposed to do. blah

Just popping in to say hi! Hoping to be joining you guys this week!! :)

I was 170 when I weighed this morning! I was nude and hadn't eaten yet though (so I'm a little hesitant to believe that's exactly where I'm at). I still did a little happy dance when I saw it though ;) :cheer2:.

172.6
slowly but surely I will get into the 160s again
key for me is exercise. I feel better already.
Good luck everyone:)

175.6

175.4

I am making good progress through the 170's. I am at 173.

175.2 this morning

179.6!!!!! Officially joining!! I'm sure there will be bounce backs but I finally hit it!!!

Yay!

179.8 today after bouncing back into the 180s again. Hopefully that was the last time.

You're all making amazing progress!!

179.6 -- hope that means I'm done bouncing!

174.6

I'm 179.2 today.

178.2.

Woooo Penny!



174.4 today

Penny, you're flying through the 170s! Has all of your loss been this fast?

Maui, at your height you must look fantastic!!

179 even for me today, so hoping my bouncing days are in the past.

Nope, still wide and lumpy!

173.4

177.4 today.

Welcome to the thread, nickilaughs! :welcome2:

Crow - Nope. My loss comes in waves (you should see my weight loss graphs - it reads like a crazy EKG). I'll drop a few pounds, stick to about a 5 lbs range for quite a while, and then repeat. It's pretty irritating. The reason I dropped like a pound in a day was because I'm at the end of my TOM and I'm shedding the 3-6 lbs of water weight I always gain.
And congrats on the no-more bouncing! Welcome to the 170s!

MauiKai - You're over halfway through the 170s! Great work!

May we all be in the 160s sooner than we think.

Yeah, I'm pretty stoked about that. I can't wait to see 160 on the scale.

I sometimes have 1 pound mini-whooshes too (like today). I think I just finally release a bit of water or swelling/retention from a workout and *poof* a pound is gone. It also sometimes comes with a bounce though. Like tomorrow, it could go down again, OR I could get as much as a .5lb bounce. I never know.

Those of you who weigh in regularly via a digital scale remember to recalibrate it regularly! (!!!)

Maui, you can practically smell the 160s now!! I'm a foot shorter than you and I've always thought that tall women carry their weight much more elegantly. Me, I just look like a bowling ball.

Penny, that's the only good thing about the TOM water weight -- it feels good when it slips away again. I still think you're making fantastic progress.

Still bouncing -- 179.4 today -- but at least now I'm bouncing inside the 170s. That's progress, right?

The issue with me is that while tall, I have a very small frame. If you look at the info below, you'll see that since my wrist is 5" around even, which means even if I were under 5'2" I would have a small frame. At 6'1" I have like...I don't know...a micro frame or something! That means that I have to weigh significantly less than you might think in order to not be fat.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...ages/17182.htm


•Height under 5'2"
•Small = wrist size less than 5.5"
•Medium = wrist size 5.5" to 5.75"
•Large = wrist size over 5.75"

•Height 5'2" to 5' 5"
•Small = wrist size less than 6"
•Medium = wrist size 6" to 6.25"
•Large = wrist size over 6.25"

•Height over 5' 5"
•Small = wrist size less than 6.25"
•Medium = wrist size 6.25" to 6.5"
•Large = wrist size over 6.5"

173.2

Still hopping around the 170s/180s line. Last week was tough between some personal matters and scheduling and PMS.

However, I do have a NSV! I ordered some new clothes for work, which included a pair of Dockers. The last time I wore Dockers I was a freshman in high school buying clothes for my school uniform. I very vividly remember buying a Size 12 (and I remember being disappointed about that).

Well, I'm wearing Size 12 Dockers for the first time since I was 14! I've never been one to remember my weight at certain points in my life, so it's kinda cool to at least be able to compare my size this way.

177 today.

MauiKai, I get those bounces too. Like I'm pretty sure I'll see one soon-ish. I can often feel when they're coming (and still they're annoying).

How do you calibrate your digital scale???

Wow, you do have a tiny frame. I think I have a medium-large frame. It's a bit hard to tell when I'm still in the high range of overweight, though (my wrists are definitely chubby).

Thanks, Crow. I hope I make good progress. You'll probably see my weight loss slow, stall, bounce up a couple pounds, stall, drop 0.2 pounds, bounce up, stall, and then drop a couple pounds and repeat. Gotta love bounces.

Congrats on the new size, NNS! :yay:

Well all scales are different. Mine is really simple. You activate it, then I use my toes to lift it up on to the front two legs, then set it down. This starts a calibration. It says CAL, then goes off, then you hop on it, and it'll be a inaccurate number so you ignore it. It uses that to test it's cal, then it says CAL again. Then when it goes off, it's all done. It takes like 15 seconds to do.


Yes, I do have a really small frame, which makes being fat even less fun than it already is..! I wear size 4 rings.

You can also measure your frame by the width of your elbow bones too.

175.4 today.

I looked online at my type of scale and apparently it recalibrates itself. It shows these lines across the screen, which supposedly mean it is recalibrating itself. I didn't know that, but it's a good thing I think (it gets recalibrated pretty often if that's the case). At least, that's what the online instruction manual says.
Although, I'm a bit offended. It does say, "CAUTION: Weight exceeding the capacity of 350 LB may damage your scale. This scale is designed for personal use only, not commercial/industrial use." Kind of insensitive to assume the 350+ lbs is for industrial use and not a person. I've never been 350+ lbs (though I easily could have gotten there), but there are plenty of people who are.

My elbows are even chubbier than my wrists. I remember when I got down to the 140s years ago, my wrist was almost an inch smaller than it was at my highest weight, ditto with my elbow circumpherance. That moved me from a large frame to a small-medium frame, and I was barely under the "normal weight" mark. It's hard to get a read on most of my bones with all the insulation around them.;)

That's good. Mine recalibrates on it's own every so often as well, but with digital scales they say any time it's moved it should be recalibrated. Mine is in a high traffic area, my kitchen, and gets bumped and moved often. I even found the dog standing on it once. So I make sure to do it a couple of times a week. Like I said, it's 15 seconds. I learned this with my old on. It told me repeatedly that I was the same weight...for days and days. I was baffled because I had been eating well, and I felt lighter! Finally I looked up how to recalibrate it and boom, I lost like 4lbs in an instant.

You don't change frame sizes since it's based on your bones, not weight, so if it changes it was merely inaccurate measurements. No worries. Frame size might not be as helpful to everyone as it is to me. It's probably more useful if you're on one end or other of the extremes like I am. It helped me figure out why other people of similar heights and weights were wearing much smaller clothes than I was. Turns out, they had larger frames than I, so even though we weighed in similarly, I was still fatter than they. I've had tall friends of similar weights wearing 6's when I was a 10, and 10's when I was in a 14. I couldn't understand! Now I get it. My fluffy fat did it. :( Alas, I am still fluffy, but getting less so!

173.0 today

Look at you guys! It's like a collective "woosh" - suddenly everyone is moving down!

I'm at 170.2. So close I can taste it, yet not quite there. Killing me!

178 today.

I think I'm a medium frame, not particularly on either end of the spectrum. I'd never thought about how much frame size could skew how a body looks.

Chubabub, you're so close! Hope they have the 160s thread warmed up for you.

172.8

175.2. The whoosh is over. Dang. It was a nice ride.

Chubabub - you're SO close! You'll be leaving us soon! Congrats!

Looks like you're firmly in the 170s, Crow!

But with fat around the bones, that adds to the measurement, doesn't it? You can't get under the fat. If that's not the case, how does it work? (Sorry, I've just wondered about this for years - I never got how an accurate measurement of bone size could be gotten from someone who's obese).