Let's lose together

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love this idea! In the past I have focused on:
No sweet treats (candy/ice cream/baked goods) except designed times with my kids (so no binging after they are asleep!)
Cutting back carbs at lunch and dinner (which I eat separately from my family) and then eating normal dinner with my family.

I’m going focus on those for a couple weeks and tell you every day how I did. Please encourage/yell at me to keep me on track! Tonight I have a birthday party I’m going to and I will not eat cake because I’ve had plenty of treats this week! I can do it.

Ok I did pretty well yesterday (did not eat cake!) but I did have some coffee cake with my kids. Trying even harder today.

How did you guys do?

[Anonymous]

I'm doing intermittent fasting and it's working great--only been a few days and already done one pound. I don't eat until 5PM which sounds crazy but I'm so active during the day that it works for me. Going to do this for a bit to jumpstart things. I have about 20 pounds to lose.

[Anonymous]

Started IF - no food restrictions, just healthy eating. Already down 12lbs. Goal to lose another 20lbs.

[Anonymous]

OK. I am in. I am 131lbs. 5'2", 57 yrs old. My aim is to lose 10 lbs in 2 months. Starting from today. .

I have had 1 cup of tea with no sugar, a heaping helping of quinoa salad with veggies (zucchini, tomatoes, mushroom, spring onions, corn, cilantro) and two eggs for brunch. I intend to have something similar for dinner at 6. Maybe one or two glasses of lemon water.

[Anonymous]

Did great this past week (finally dipped under 150 lbs!!), and when we went out to Mexican food tonight , had the fajitas with shrimp, skipped the rice and beans (but ate the guacamole--it was too good!). Now to stay on track another week. Bit by bit, right?

[Anonymous]

Great job, everybody!!
I'm still under 130, but last week I had a procedure and it messed up my exercise and eating schedule. So, back to "normal" today!!

[Anonymous]

I’m in the midst of my weight loss journey. Since early May I’ve lost 31lbs. I started at 179. Mid 40s, 5’6”. I’ve been at a plateau for a couple weeks and am trying to push through that frustration, but seeing a number in the 140s on the scale is helping to keep me motivated. I haven’t seen that number since the early 2010s.

My next goal is 8 more pounds to make it to 140. I’m hoping to get there by Thanksgiving. I want to see what I look like at that weight before I decide if I’ll try to push further behind that into the 130s. At my thinnest in my adult life I was 132, but I was in my mid 20s then and hadn’t had any children.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been doing well so far this week - lots of veggies and lean protein. I only had 20 minutes to work out today but managed to still get in a good arms and shoulders set. No scale changes but it’s slow going. I’m 40 and trying to get more muscle definition in my upper body and abs.

[Anonymous]

I will try this too! Need to cut way back on the wine and stop grazing at night. I have 30 pounds to lose. 😞

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've lost over 75 pounds in the last year or so and have another 25 to go. Hoping to get there by January or February.

I care about my weight on a scale, how my clothes fit, and how I feel. I'm at 178 right now (I'm 5 ft 7), so on this last year I've gone on a journey from morbidly obese to just obese to just overweight now, and I'm trying to get down into that "normal" range still. Trying to lose about a pound a week, slow but steady.

Good luck, everyone!

I've had a great week -- down to 175.8 today from 178 just over a week ago. I came back from vacation a week ago and I think the vacation weight has dropped off because a lot it was just retained water from salty foods. Two pounds is lot of weight for me in one week and even with this I haven't lost 5 pounds from my weight at the beginning of the month, only 4 (because I gained over vacation). But it wasn't hard to get back on track after vacation, just decide to do it. I also just crossed my 80 pounds of weight loss mark -- I started last summer at 256.

What do folks do when they hit plateaus? Usually I just wait it out and stay strong. I also noticed that sometimes a plateau will break right after my cheat day -- I'll go up a little and then down quite a bit more. Maybe the body needs to be tricked sometimes, heh. Good luck, everyone!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've lost over 75 pounds in the last year or so and have another 25 to go. Hoping to get there by January or February.

I care about my weight on a scale, how my clothes fit, and how I feel. I'm at 178 right now (I'm 5 ft 7), so on this last year I've gone on a journey from morbidly obese to just obese to just overweight now, and I'm trying to get down into that "normal" range still. Trying to lose about a pound a week, slow but steady.

Good luck, everyone!

I've had a great week -- down to 175.8 today from 178 just over a week ago. I came back from vacation a week ago and I think the vacation weight has dropped off because a lot it was just retained water from salty foods. Two pounds is lot of weight for me in one week and even with this I haven't lost 5 pounds from my weight at the beginning of the month, only 4 (because I gained over vacation). But it wasn't hard to get back on track after vacation, just decide to do it. I also just crossed my 80 pounds of weight loss mark -- I started last summer at 256.

What do folks do when they hit plateaus? Usually I just wait it out and stay strong. I also noticed that sometimes a plateau will break right after my cheat day -- I'll go up a little and then down quite a bit more. Maybe the body needs to be tricked sometimes, heh. Good luck, everyone!

I agree, I don't have a cheat day, per say, but sometimes I just eat more. And sometimes the day after that I have a drop! But I have to have been being good for a while. I'm stuck at my current weight (+/- 2 pounds) for about 2 weeks, thought, so grrrr.

[Anonymous]

PP mid 40s woman in the midst of my journey checking in.

I’m down another 2lbs for a total of 33. 179 down to 146 in exactly 4 months.

Will check in again next week. How is everyone else doing?

[Anonymous]

Last week was hard for personal reasons. But I'm back and focused! It was just a blip in the long game!!!

[Anonymous]

I think coming off of Labor Day and back to school (and what was a really long weekend for some people) a lot of people went off plan or had special hardships.

I was doing great last month but something threw me off this week (could it really have been that SINGLE piece of terrible pizza I had with the kids last Sunday?!) and I went up a pound then -- and it took forever to come back down. Almost there and looking to keep going.

From now on I'm reserving my cheats for actual delicious food only!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love this idea! In the past I have focused on:
No sweet treats (candy/ice cream/baked goods) except designed times with my kids (so no binging after they are asleep!)
Cutting back carbs at lunch and dinner (which I eat separately from my family) and then eating normal dinner with my family.

I’m going focus on those for a couple weeks and tell you every day how I did. Please encourage/yell at me to keep me on track! Tonight I have a birthday party I’m going to and I will not eat cake because I’ve had plenty of treats this week! I can do it.

Ok I did pretty well yesterday (did not eat cake!) but I did have some coffee cake with my kids. Trying even harder today.

How did you guys do?

I am doing very well at these initial goals although I could probably do better about carbs. I think I need to completely cut out chips; twice I’ve grabbed big handfuls and probably eaten 150-200 calories which undoes so much of the other hard work! I did well at meals though so I guess b- for the past week or so. Scale hasn’t moved much but slow and steady I guess!