Gonna Get To Goal. Wanna Join Me?

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

Escape_Pod it's on! Just got back from renewing my membership at the gym and did some weight lifting....

Me and DH are going to Hawaii in August and need to build up my stamina and stuff...

Gonna leave him in the dust.... LOL

This is gonna be fun.....

How about if we weight in tomorrow morning and post....

See what we can do....

Anyone want to join us?

[Escape_Pod 358]

You're on!

This morning's weight: 152.3 (boo! - I hate it when the scale does that, I suspect it's a bit of Water retention from higher salt intake).

Anybody else want to join our challenge?

[coops 1,790]

Girls I would love to join in... but... after not losing anything for over a year and struggling at the top end of my bounce I think it would be a little foolish of me... I say this because, if I do a challenge and don't see results I get soooo disheartened! It is bad enough at home seeing the scale move for the hubby and not me! I ain't being mean and I will cheer you both on!! x

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

Well I'm at my high bounce of 147.1. So it's all up hill from here on.

Coops I completely understand. You are even in the middle of changing your eating habits too which is very stressful to boot....

Take it one day at a time and just know that I am here for you.....

[coops 1,790]

thanks Skinny!!

Not seeing any progress on the scales though... cut out the sugar in my tea and coffee this week and so far so good... reducing milk too - see what happens!

Been eating pretty well, had a blip yesterday that included biscuits but back on course today. I haven't eaten bread for over two weeks so that is really good for me!

I just gotta keep on keeping on...

[coops 1,790]

just gotta say though, escape and skinny - I would love to be either 152 or 147, in fact, I would probably call that goal for me! You are both doing great and you both have a normal BMI, that is something I don't think I will see as it is 28lbs away!!

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

I went shopping today and all I could think of buying was Protein, protein, and protein. I really need to get some veggies in. However, I do love bread so I avoid eating it at all cost. Every now and then is ok.

So lets do this healthy eating stuff for our healthy bodies.

[Escape_Pod 358]

Coops, you're my hero. I hope I haven't offended you, if you'd rather I started a new thread do let me know. You just work so hard at it, and you look fabulous! I know you're not where you'd like to be ideally, but I think you've done an amazing job.

[coops 1,790]

Oh God noooo... I didn't mean that... no stay so I can cheer you on!!! x

[feedyoureye 3,087]

I feel a little bit up in the air as well, Im not very confident that I can lose any more weight, but I am trying some new and old things...I want to cheer you all on as well though! I will chime in with my journey if anything interesting comes up or I just need to brag or b***h! Its all good. I am so much better off than I was two years ago. (my two year surga

versary is on the 18th of Jan) Down 70 pounds. I have never been able to do that before.

[Escape_Pod 358]

You're so right FeedYourEye, it's easy to get wrapped up in the number on the scale or on our clothes tag or whatever measure we're using at the moment and forget to take time to appreciate how very far we've come from where we started! I was thinking the other day about the last time I lost a substantial amount of weight. I got down to about 160 and started to climb again, and there seemed to be nothing I could do to take pounds back off again or stop the regain. This time, I feel like I have a fighting chance at staying where I'm at. I want to do better if I can, but not at the expense of appreciating what I've achieved. It's still a journey, whether we've reached goal or not!

[Escape_Pod 358]

Well, crap! I was up yesterday, and now I'm up again today! 152.9. Not sure what's going on, my calories yesterday were right at 1200, about 400 burned in exercise (I track with a heart rate monitor, not the machine readout). I'm in physical therapy for neck / back issues, and a recent change they made to my exercises left me REALLY sore, so maybe I'm retaining Water in my muscles? I usually associate that with a really hard workout session and the resulting soreness, but I suppose it's the same concept.... Regardless of the cause, it might be time to get off the scale for a week, as I have a bad habit of letting bad scale news have me throw in the towel completely and get off track. I am NOT doing that this time - today's day 12 of being on track. I know if I just keep doing what I'm doing, the scale will start going down again. So, I put on the cutest outfit I can fit into this morning, pasted on my game face, and I'll keep on keepin' on today. I've been REALLY hungry the past few days, so it's time to focus on making those calories count with extra veggies and dense Protein. Sigh....

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

This is totally amazing. In the afternoon I found that my ring is about to fall off, the next day, I had gained 2 lbs. Now today I went down to 146.1 lbs.... Didn't change much of my eating patterns, in fact, I ate a little bit more. _

Escape_Pod I truly believe that this is Water weight. I know that I did some weight baring exercises 2 days ago and my muscles were torn down and repairing the tissue which cause inflammation. So I guess when exercising, it would be expected to add some extra weight. But I'm still going to work this. Just wish I could get to a low point of 143 lbs and I will be happy. Just found out that my bone structure is medium and so my goal weight is between 130 and 144 lbs. So I'm shooting for 135 lbs.

I think I want to get on the scale each morning for at least 2 weeks, write down my weight each morning to see what by body is doing. Then I'm going to average that out and see where I stand.

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

OK, today is a totally new day. I weighed in at 147.1 lbs today, up 1 lb from yesterday. I believe that I need to stop eating peanuts for a while. The salt is messing with my system. Water retention....? I struggle with understanding why my body is not shedding little bit of weight I have left. According to my fitness pal, the low calorie diet I'm on, Haha, couldn't eat more if I tried, I should be down to 130 lbs months ago. By weighing myself daily and posting it here, gives me a pattern of the ups and downs of my weight. I do eat about 1200 to 1300 calories daily and it's high Protein with few carbs........ Hope you guys don't mind that I share this stuff, if so, please let me know and I will stop. Have a great day.......

[Escape_Pod 358]

Great.... I'm up another half pound. I've gone from 151.1 on Monday to 153.4 today. Unfortunately, I think Monday was an artificial low, but CRAP! I've been exercising, staying within my calorie range, and avoiding carbs and I feel like someone up there is trying to teach me a lesson about being cocky that I can do this.

Pity party at my house - Snacks will NOT be served!