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@bloominbutterflies - You can catch up. Just keep at it.

I'm the same too. First 2 weeks was a lot. and then it kind of stalled. I'm now on my 6th week. My goal was to be 160 by end of April. Hopefully I can still do it. Need to be strict with the diet and less going out.

Thing is I'm kind of stuck with cooking dinner everyday and being around food doesn't help. You have to cook and taste these dishes to see if ok. That still adds calories.

Anyway, no need to beat myself up over it nor make excuses. I just need to man up and be diligent at working out and sticking to the food plan. I'm regular with the working out. It's the eating that's slowing me down. Sigh.

Butterflies: It always seems to be that different scales have different ideas about how much we weigh. Just another piece of evidence to prove my personal philosophy: all scales are dirty rotten liars. ;) Best of luck on your catch-up time, and we look forward to seeing you again when you're ready to come back!

Reboot: :congrat: on reaching your sixth week!! That's a big milestone! I figure the first six weeks or so of starting a new lifestyle are the hardest, so sticking with it for so long is a big achievement! It's only up (or perhaps down?) from here! ;) Good luck on your goal to reach 160 by the end of April; I'm rooting for you!


As for me, I'm still around, and still at 169. Shrug. It's not because I've been bad, either; I'm still eating right and exercising, but for a couple of weeks now, I was stalled at 170, and even (frustratingly) bounced up towards 172 once. I don't know what it was... right now, I'm tentatively thinking that it was a combination of my cycle and the stress of performing on the last couple of weekends. Now that those are over, though, I've seen a very encouraging decline. Here's hoping that decline continues, and I can log in at 168 in the next couple of days! ;D

Yee-ha! 168.4! I'm finally officially broken through this plateau!!

"Official" weigh-in today put me at 167.9! Huzzah! And now I'm going back to only stepping on the scale on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I've been saying that for a while now, and I just can't seem to stop myself from checking every morning. That's an indication I need to "scale" back, I think.

Congratulations Keika!

I'm kinda bummed. I haven't been binge eating but i haven't been strict with what i ate the last week. It's just the cravings were overwhelmingly strong. It's that time of the month. So I weighed myself this morning to find myself at 168. :( I seriously need to double down. I hope it's just period weight/bloat.

I think I need to weigh myself every morning again. Lately I decided to weigh myself once a week. And I find that I lose slower because sometimes I think I'm doing well, but I guess I wasnt.

Anyway, going to hit the treadmill in a bit. Thanks for listening to me moan.

Great news to hear Keika! Bodyreboot you can do it! Maybe a bunch of it is just water...

Anyway, I'm back to the chat already because my whole catch up plan idea isn't working for me mentally. All last week I felt really bad about myself, and it's so stupid because I just got a new scale...a new instrument that is telling me I weight 1.5 lbs more than I thought, and probably didn't even gain any actual weight. I know a 1.5 seems like nothing for most people, but on my diet plan that is almost 4 weeks of work. When I was focusing on losing 0.4 lbs every week it was a little challenging but almost always attainable. I was feeling really positive and looking forward to next week where I'd be just a little bit skinnier...

So I guess what makes sense for me is to just accept the 1.5 lbs "set back" and re-adjust my schedule. Last week I weighed 165.4 lbs, so I am hoping to reach 165 this week.

:( I'm sorry, bloomin. That's rough. Scales suck. Don't beat yourself up over it, though! It's just a number after all, and you're much more than a number on a scale!

As for me, yeah, forget only weighing twice a week. I felt blind when I wasn't weighing daily; I've liked knowing where my weight is every day because it lets me predict my cycle and see trends in the way my body behaves. It seems science disagrees on whether daily weighing is good or bad, so since I don't obsess over daily fluctuations or feel bad about myself when I see upticks, I'm going to weigh myself whatever day I want, without guilt. Official recording day is still only Saturday, though.

As far as progress goes, I was 166 right before my period started today, so even though the scale says 167 today, I'm staying mentally at 166. That extra half a pound is almost certainly just water anyway. I'm still not updating my ticker until the scale agrees, though.

The last time I weighed myself, I was 168. This was before the new year even began! I've been a gym regular for months since the weigh-in, but only really started eating healthy two months ago. I was so depressed from seeing 168, since a little over a year ago I saw 132, that I haven't weighed myself since. I think I'm going to weigh in next week. Any advice if it hasn't moved or has gone up? I'm nervous, because I don't want to feel depressed or discouraged, but seeing everyone log their weight makes me want to do the same, since I'm dedicated this time around!

Update. I think it was just pre-period weight. I weighed myself yesterday at 165lb. Yay! Highly unlikely for me to hit 160lb goal by end of April but I just have to keep pushing myself. I've decided to weigh myself every other day instead of every week. I find that it lessens the chances of "surprises" whether good or bad. And I can like seriously monitor better.

This morning I was super craving and I couldn't stop myself so I ate a small size bag of Cheetos. :( Oh well.

I'm stuck here for a while longer. Hope everyone does great and we can all move to the 150s soon.

Welcome, Lynnfit!!

My advice? Tell that scale who's boss! Remember, your weight is a number, nothing more. It's not a measure of how pretty or attractive you are, or how other people see you, or even really of your overall health. It's the combined weight of your bones, organs, fat, muscle, water, glycogen, etc., but that's all it is.

My money's on it being lower than the last time you checked, but even if it's not, don't get down on yourself. You are definitely not lazy or less of a person because you might be overweight; on the contrary, you're the stronger for it, because you're committed to changing your habits and becoming a healthier person, something many people who don't struggle with their weight may never experience. Just put it down as "day one" (or "month 3/5", as the case may be) and in a few more months, you're going to look back on that number with pride: look how far I've come, and where I will never be again!

Always remember that there is waaaay more to you than a cold, impersonal number could ever represent!

-Thanks for the encouraging words Keika! I'm glad we have you around :). It's amazing how much those scales can alter the perspective of ourselves.

-Bodyreboot congrats!

-Lynnfit, I would be dying from curiosity. But I think you should wait until you're ready, maybe really think about how you'll react if it's good or bad. Have a plan in mind, maybe that will make it easier.

Well guys, I got 165 even today. Met my little goal for the week, it feels great to be back to doing what feels good/normal for me. I actually just joined a gym too! It was a very spur of the moment thing, I bought an outfit for it Tuesday night and joined on Wednesday! I'm going to be doing on my own LISS (Low Intensity Steady State) for several reasons (really seems to fit my life best). I might venture into higher intensity later if I notice my metabolism stalling, but really hope I can do LISS for the duration of my diet :).

I weighed in today at 167.4. I am sticking to a 1200 calorie or less diet, and trying to get at least 15 minutes of excercise a day. I switched some medication to 5 in the morning, then going back to bed for a few hours. It's really been working. It made me hungry to take it at 8. I do fast for at least 12 hours. Usually from 7 at night to 9 In the morning. I went through the cupboards and threw out a lot of stuff. I kind of want to start over with my food supply.

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hello there. my goal is 169. I weigh 200 right now. How much should I lose per week for it to stick? Is it only one pound? I weigh myself every day. It's a habit.Even though everyone says weigh once a week. Any thoughts on this? Love, Tricia.

Good work harry potter! Sounds like you found a good plan that worked for you.

-Cali: I think 1 lb is generally a good place to start, you'll be able to see if it's too easy or too hard for you. I weigh 165 and shoot for 0.4 lbs a week, my life is very busy/unpredictable and I can't exactly act like a shut in with strict control of my diet :/ (full time work, graduate school, living in 2 places, and now a gym membership!). And then there are people who lose/gain faster or slower. I'm actually not sure what side I lean on or what my metabolism is like, and I don't count calories. But many people here do, there are SO many ways to plan your diet. So you can tailor it perfectly to you :).

Also, I weigh myself very often, almost everyday! Some people find the scale very discouraging but I'd rather know the damage than not. Especially since I don't count calories it's the only way that I can really know if I'm doing well/screwing up.

Yep, 1-2 lbs a week is very healthy, Cali. :)

Official weigh-in today put me at 167 still, but I'm also only halfway through TOM. Looking forward to that post-TOM whoosh!

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165.8 this morning!! My post-TOM whoosh has started early!! I knew I was dropping water yesterday with how much I was having to get up to visit the bathroom, but WOW! :D

Now if only this had happened yesterday, on official weight-recording day...

We can do it fellow 160-ers.

Great job Keika! The whoosh finally came. :)
Bloominbutterflies, you can do it. I've resorted to weighing myself everyday again. I was like that the first 2 weeks. And then I didn't. Now I'm back to doing it again. I think this will keep us on track.
Harrypotterrocks, Lynnfit, cali47, one step at at a time. one pound at a time. Don't get discouraged. Just need to stay the course.

Weighed today at 165. not much change but at least it didn't go up.

Let's rock it this May!

Thanks, bodyreboot! :) I'm right there with you: still sitting at 165. After that whoosh, though, I'm perfectly happy with the normal =<0.2 small steps each day. At least I'm going down!

Thank you all so much for the encouraging words! I plan to weigh myself Friday morning!

:goodluck:!!!

congrats on all your hard work ladies! You can do it Lynnfit!

Yesterday I hit a fun little milestone, I've decided it's time to size down on my pants. When I was in the 170's around Christmas last year I got a size 16 jean to fit comfortably, I was so sick of squeezing into my 12's like I was gonna die. But now the two pair of 16 pants are so big on me and I can take them on and off without unzipping/unbuttoning them. The next size down I own is the dreaded size 12 in American Eagle jeans, but I still can't get those on without a prayer. So I treated myself and got size 14 jeggings from AE, I usually get all my pants there but bought the size 16 Levi's in a rush. Well, technically they are a size 33, I was confused for the longest time what size they really were. I don't love my size 16/33 jeans, they aren't what I'm used to and I feel kind of sloppy in them. Glad to get back into a pair of sleek dark jeggings and a size smaller too!

Congrats, bloomin! It's such a great feeling to go down a size!! I have to ask... it may be because I've been out of the country for a couple years, or it might be because I'm just not fashion forward, but what are "jeggings?" Something crossed with leggings... maybe jeans? Anyway, they sound really cute, especially if they're "sleek!" Congratulations on your NSV!!

I popped in here to mention that I just hit 164 this morning (huzzah!), but now I want to talk about pants! :lol: Pants are a problem for me. I came to Japan wearing size 16s at 200 pounds (5'10" *eyeroll*). Japan is a country of people who are generally shorter and slimmer than I am. Even without the extra padding (so to speak), I'm also much curvier than the average shape, so even now that I'm almost 40 pounds smaller, my hopes for finding pants in the store that fit are slim to none. It's an issue. When it got to the point that even my belt was too big and I had to cinch in the waist on my work pants with safety pins, I finally gave in and ordered pants from online. They are sooo much more comfortable, and sooo much cuter, and sooo much more expensive than buying in a store. >< I can't wait to move back home in a few months, if only for the clothes shopping!

YES! 163 even this morning! Whoosh weeks are the greatest. :carrot:

I can only imagine trying to fit into Japanese clothes, I worked at a restaurant making sushi with immigrants for 5 years and even the men are TINY. I got to know a lot of exchage/language students. One of my good friends Emma matches your description, she is 5'10 as well and not a stick. She said clothes shopping there was next to impossible. My 5'7 friend who IS a stick even had trouble over there. It'll be so exciting to replenish your wardrobe I'm sure, I'm so excited for you!

Oh I almost completely forgot: jeggings are a cross between jeans and leggings, the good ones IMO are more on the jean side, they are almost like skin tight extra elastic jeans. They can make your legs look amazing the same way those really tight fitting leggings people wear to work out in do.

whoooosh week!! :flow2::flow2:

Yup. Yup. All you say is truth. It is next to impossible to clothes shop here. :dizzy: I am so excited to get back home to go shopping, you have no idea. I feel so sloppy in half my clothes now.

Interesting on jeggings! Hm, I'll have to look those up. They sound great!

Also, 162 this morning. Officially 40 pounds down!! :carrot:

161! I'm seeing the 150 light at the end of the 160 tunnel!

Looks like I am finally starting to slow down, though. Since Thursday (Thursday? Thursday.) I've seen 0.4-0.6 kg drops every day. That's, like, 0.8-1.3 lbs daily. I was 167 last Saturday, and today (Sunday morning, so 8 days later) I'm at 161. Cra~azy. Today I only had a 0.15 kg (0.3 lb) drop, just enough to drop me to 161.8. It's not as satisfying as seeing whole numbers disappear every day, but I knew that rate wasn't going to stick, and it would be very unhealthy in the long term. So I'm plenty happy about this. It was probably just dropping a lot of water retention anyway. April was a very slow month for me comparatively, I think between stress and a very odd cycle, and it's possible that my body is finally letting go of all the water it was holding onto.

Hi guys! I just kicked myself out of the 170's and into this thread at 168.4. Keika, like you, I have now officially dropped 40 lbs! Congratulations to both of us. It feels great doesn't it?

Now I have to think about my end goal. I have it listed at 160 but I will play that by ear. I am pretty muscular for a female so I would not be able to maintain anything too low. 10 years ago, I stayed at 145 for a couple of months but almost killed myself doing it. However, I still was eating carbs and sugar and this time around, I've totally changed the way I eat so the weight loss and maintenance might be easier/different/better. One can only hope.

Sheila

Ahaha... maybe I haven't slowed down after all, and I talked your guys' ears off with my theories about my weight loss rate for no reason. 160.9 this morning!!

CONGRATS on joining us here, Sheila!! I've been reading the 170 thread, and it was so exciting seeing your losses! Yes indeed, 40 pounds lost feels great. ;) You're so close to goal now! Congratulations!!

Congratulations Keika. I was on holiday the last 4 days and thoroughly enjoyed myself. My only consolation is that I didn't go up. So I'm working doubly hard to push myself to lose because I will be on another holiday in another week. OMG.

April was pretty slow for me too. I don't know what I should change to get my whoosh. I'm still at it and not giving up but I've kinda been stuck in the 160s for a while. It's a bummer.

At my heaviest last year, my driver's license weigh-in was 94kg :sumo: So I'm still happy I am where I am now. I really need to push myself for the last 25lbs.

Keep up the good work everyone. Hope my next post will announce that I am at 160. lol!

Thanks bodyreboot! :) I'm sure you'll be out of the 160s very soon!

I've gone and bounced to 161 again, since yesterday. :/ Frustrating thing is, there's no reason for it lifestyle-wise. The tape measure says I've lost since Saturday, so I'm not sure if it's actual regaining or just water. I guess we'll see! Either way, I'm just happy to be where I am. ^^

Alright! I'm back on a downward trend! My dumb cycle came in and gave me four days of water retention. I was at 160 on Monday, and by Friday, I was all the way up to 163. Luckily, that gain is confirmed just water, and after two days of huge loss, I can confirm my body is getting rid of it. Yesterday I was down to 162, and this Sunday morning, I'm back to 161. Here's hoping for 160 again tomorrow!

160.0 this morning! 150s, here I come!

You're all doing a fabulous job, very inspiring to see! Special congrats to you Keika if I don't make it say it before you go, no doubt you are on your way to the 50's very soon!

I haven't been doing so hot myself. To rewrap my story to those who don't know or forgot I had the slump of getting a new scale that weighed me in heavier than I thought I was. I did manage to lose the weight that made up that difference, but I have a very rough past...10 days? (I think). Where I had both the serious munchies and very slow motivation. I did get myself into those size 14 jeans and they are fitting great which did make me feel good, but idk I had a spin out I guess.

I had a lot of Easter candy...wine...and I ate fast. It wasn't a full blown binge but it was too much. Last week my lowest weight was 165.2, but today I was 166.4...eww.

The silver lining of this is, as much as I know I feel off the wagon I feel oddly really refreshed after my week of being bad. I haven't felt this motivated since when I first joined 3fc. Last night I kicked so much butt at the gym and burned more calories than I ever have there. I feel up for a challenge too, and I want to see how much weight I can potentially lose this summer (still safe amounts for me though). I don't want to set a number, but I want to see if I can get into a size 12 by my September vacation.

Sheesh, why is breaking out of a decade so hard? I sat for two days at 160 exactly, but then I had an anxiety attack. That did all kinds of wacky things to my body, and I woke up with a two pound "gain." Considering all the stress my poor body went through, I can't say for sure how much of that is water and how much is actual fat gain, but at least I know it'll eventually go away. Internet says anxiety attacks spike up your cortisol levels (among other things) and cortisol triggers you to store water, so I'm hoping that's all it is. I was really looking forward to seeing the 150s. :/

Hello.... I am desperate to get out of the 160s.... I am 20 lbs overweight.... last weight I was at 164.... 167 my heaviest weight ever.... I am having a super hard time losing weight.... I hit 40 years old and it's been extremely difficult and frustrating to lose the weight. What are you all doing to lose the weight? I workout about 5 times a week.....

Hi, Carla! Welcome to the thread! Since you asked, I exercise 6 days a week (optimistically... I've been having life and emotional issues lately that have been conspiring against me getting exercise in every day, and I've been averaging 4-5 days a week lately ><), I hydrate, and I try to eat better. Smaller portions, more vegetables and otherwise healthier food choices, treats are treats and not every day foods, that kind of thing. Hey, you're already down 7 pounds! That's almost a third of the way there! You've totally got this! :)

Bloomin, I see I missed your post. So sorry! Thanks for your words of encouragement, congrats on the size 14s and on losing the extra weight the scale switch gave you! I'm sorry you've been having a rough time lately. I hope things are going better for you now, or if they're not, that they will in the near future!

I'm still kicking around here at 160.0, two weeks after I hit that mark. >< Story goes, the first time I dipped that low, I started ovulating and gained a couple pounds in water, which had to come off over the week. I was finally back on a downward trend and got back to 160, and then I had the anxiety attack mentioned above, which threw my body way off kilter and put me back up to 162 *again.* I got my emotions back on track and relieved a lot of stress, and I once again got back down to 160.0 yesterday. Guess what happened today? Started TOM. WILL IT NEVER END??

So.... I am still lurking around the upper 160's... BUT, I just returned from 2 weeks out of the country and did not gain a single ounce! What a NSV! Two days later and I've lost another pound to find myself at 167.6. I was very careful about what I ate. I was traveling with my mother who is petite and a light eater and decided to model her eating style. Evidently, it works. Now I am home and back on schedule although the holiday weekend holds a special challenge as we will be at the family lake house with far too much food, drink and opportunities for falling off the wagon. This will be another big test for me.

Keika, You are so close to being in the 150's, it will happen any day now. Decades seem to take, well, decades.

Congrats on the NSV, Sheila! Ooh, an out-of-the-country trip! That sounds awesome! Good luck on the lake house adventure! :) Thanks for the words of encouragement, they were very kind! :D

As for me...

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Turns out, all it takes to finally break into the next decade is to come on here and complain! Even though I'm on my second day of TOM, I managed to drop 0.3 lbs down to 159.7 this morning!! :carrot: So excited!! Considering how long I stagnated and the fact that I am in fact still on TOM, I probably shouldn't go to the 150s thread already... buuuuut I'm going to anyway. ^^ Can't wait to see all of you there!

Hello all mind if I join in???
I have been hovering between 158.2 (lowest) to 164.8 (highest) since February....so frustrating. I have even added exercise now--8 weeks in 5 days a week! Still this up and down back and forth. whine whine whine. :dizzy:

Ok I follow atkins pretty close and only recently allowed myself over 25 carbs a day ( I have not had bread, pasta, rice) since October 2016. I did try a flour product this past weekend and it just made me feel awful. The bulk of my carbs come from veggies (and that darn wine) calories between 1150-1500 depending on the day. I am up for suggestions :D really

I have even gone so far as to write my body a nasty letter telling it how it is betraying all my hard work by not letting that scale budge or teasing me to dip down into the next decade only to jump up 3-4lbs the next day.

ah such a life

Keika, You are so close to being in the 150's, it will happen any day now. Decades seem to take, well, decades.[/QUOTE]

Hahaha so TRUE! You can do it Keika, you've done so well, you deserved to give yourself a little break just to get it together for a bit. CONGRATS ON THE 50's Take care! :D