Well, I'm at 60lbs right now, but this week (thanksgiving) will probably be a 0 or possibly even a small gain.

SM and I aren't going crazy at all our meals (I'm making sure I am on task for breakfast and lunch), but we've decided that for family dinner's we're just not worrying about it.

And that's the key: it has to be real and livable.

Saturday it is back on the band wagon until Christmas.

Not a good week this week. I have been ill this week so I haven't been at all active and have gained a pound in weight. I now weigh in at 15st 7lbs.

Ah well I hope that next week treats me better.

I managed to keep the weight off during Thanksgiving, it was hard, as of yesterday I am down 57 lbs to 218..

Great job everyone, esp Lebell hitting 60 lbs lost!! Now is the season everyone brings in food to work...must resist....

216 this morning, which matches my previous "low point" from a few weeks back. I guess thats good considering I have let the diet slip quite a bit in the last week or 2. I decided to throw caution to the wind on Thanksgiving, it was great.

Allright, this thread has re-inspired me to continue with my plan. I had lost some weight earlier this year and even had to start wearing a belt with a pair of my pants. However I couldn't keep myself motivated, I didn't excersize and cheated on my diet.

I was 203 lbs (BMI of almost obese and Body Fat of between 17-19%) when I last weighed myself, and I'm not shooting for any specific goal, but to lose some weight and tone up. Hopefully skiing and longboarding will start to tone me up, and I need to stick to my diet more stringently, cut out soft drinks, eat more protein and whole grains. I don't have access to a scale here at school, but if I eat right and excersize I know I'll be on the right track.

Thanksgiving was a bust, but SM and I expected that and decided to not worry about it (nor Christmas). Now I'm back to 60lbs down.

If I can lose 5-10lbs during December, I'll consider it a good month.

Keep up the good work everyone!

The key to this whole deal is to make it real and to get back on the wagon no matter how many times you fall off!

212 today. The end is near! Well, the end of losing weight, that is. I realize this has to be a life-long change if I want to keep it off.

After a little more than a week on back on the wagon, I'm up to 67 lbs lost...I suspect that thanksgiving was sitting in my bowels last week (a pleasant thought).

I'm on task for December :)

Hadn't read this thread in a while. You're all doing wonderfully, but SF!!!!
Your attitude is defeatist right out of the starting gate! Instead of 'I suppose it's less'....try thinking 'WOW! Down 4 this week!' It took me 6 months to lose 45 lbs, strictly following Weight Watchers, no exercising, and I purposely went off it on weekends. Two lbs or less lost a week, but if I walked out of the store thinking like that, I'd probably have quit.

SF, you alone have to give yourself the willpower and set your goals. Know that everyone here is riding the same train with you, some are in the front is all. Be kind to yourself, ok? :icare:

Been a rubbish week for me as I was still ill for most of it. Down one pound back to 15st 6lbs. Hopefully next week will be a good week. Fingers crosses.

Well, after a lot of half assed attempts, hubby and I have gone on the Body for Life program. We've done one week, and I'm down to 140 from 144. Most of it was probably water weight, but I'm very happy about it and I'm still as enthusiastic about the program as I was when I started. :)

So, I guess I'll be making my weekly weigh ins here, and posting my before and after pictures when I'm done.

I am pleased to announce that as of this morning my weight loss has crossed into the realm of triple digits. Yep, that means I've lost 100 lbs!!! Hard to beleive, but true. Only 10 lbs. to go. Once I reach that goal I'll be posting pix in the exibition section.

HUGE congrats, Mr. Coaster!!!

Gratz Coaster!! That's a huge accomplishment!

That's one hell of an achievement Mister Coaster. Too you I take my hat off.

As of today I am 15st 4lbs. So another 2lbs down then.

Small loss this week, up to 68.4 lbs lost.

Down to 213 lbs

so far my total is 62 lbs lost...

Bad week for the diet. I have been drinking too much, and even indulged in a cheese sandwich, which is a big no, no on the Gi Diet. I have pretty much resigned myself to going up over the crimbo session anyway, so I don't feel too down about it.

Which is why I got a shock when I weighed myself this morning to discover a further two pounds and gone and I was down to 15st 2lbs.

Go me!

I missed last week, but after three weeks, I'm down 7 lbs to 137. Whoohoo!

Man Strange Famous you shoulda told me about this thread. Anyways, I'm glad this was started. I need to buy a scale before I can participate, though. :(

206 this morning, down another 4 lbs. Just 6 away from my goal weight!

down to 185, bringing my total weight lost to 60 pounds, not bad for 4 months. My girlfriend is loving it too :)

Keep a look out in the bookshops for my forthcoming EZ Weight Loss With Donovan DuVal. It's called 'Get too pissed to eat!' I have been out on the lash all week which I was under the impression was a massive no no, and the quick way to get my weight back up. As of this morning I am 14st 10lbs. So six pounds gone on the booze replacement diet. It's simple. Just a delicious pint of strong larger for breakfast, one for lunch, and then several in the evening. Getting so drunk that eating is no longer an option is the way of the future. Join us at alcoholics unanimous.

209 today down 4lbs over 2 weeks, been tempted to much by Holiday foods so my loss has slowed, on the flip side I set a goal of 210 by year end and only 19 lbs from my goal weight!!

Ohhh, can I join if I'm trying to gain weight?

Up 4 pounds since I started, weighed in at 108 yesterday. 7 more to go to get to my goal weight where I can start maintenance eating again.

Gilda

ahaha! you have to say what you do to gain weight if you're gonna post here. hehehe. i'm trying but it's not working. i'm 6'2 and at 146lb. if i eat, 150lb. if i eat dessert, 152lb. that's my range. never changed in the last 5-10years. (i dont remember when i was smaller)...

Lots of high calorie, high fat, high carbohydrate foods. Fried chicken, milkshakes, cheesecake, cookies, regular soda etc.

Gilda

^ The problem with that is the fact that he will be putting on what I call "cheeseburger weight." In other words, just a layer of useless flab. Sure the scale will be going the direction he wants, but it's not the healthiest way to do it.

A rather buff guy that I used to work with a long time ago told me you have to eat A LOT, but the right things, protein mostly. Lots of lean beef and white meat chicken. If you have a very high calorie intake (3000 calories a day or more) making sure at least 40% of calories are from protein, and are working out regularly (lifting weights) you'll pack on muscle, not fat.

Speaking of adding a layer of useless flab, the diet was off, WAY off for the last week of holiday celebration. As of this morning, I gained 10 pounds since my last TFP weigh in. Oof. I expected 5-6, but not 10. Back on the wagon I go.

The holidays and being home from school is kicking my ass weight-wise. There's too much bad food around me all the time.

I'm a she. I don't want to "pack on muscle", ugh! There's nothing wrong with looking muscular, it just isn't a look I want for myself. That extra layer of fat that I'm adding with my diet is exactly what I want.

Gilda

I was refering to mexicanonabike, assuming you were giving him advise.

Ah. No, he asked what I was doing and I reported back how I was gaining weight. I didn't intend that as advice. Sorry about the misunderstanding.

Gilda

Bugger, I knew I forgot something.

I have hovered around 150 lbs for the last x months. however, I have recently acquired a truly excellent set of free weights and am therefore altering my diet and beginning some strength training. I'm expecting to up my calorie intake to 2500-2800 along with a dietary supplement. I already eat roughly 40/30/30, so that just needs to be maintained.

New goal, 165-170 lbs by the summer.

Current weight as per my bathroom scale : 148 lbs.

i wouldnt take it as advice anyways. i've been doing that for a fucking long time. it's why i stoped eating junk food cuz it wasnt working. i almost gave up on pop and fries. now, i'm back to healthy food but 2times more than i usualy eat.

Well it couldn't last and Christmas has caught up with me to the tune of 2 whole lbs. I am now 14st 12lbs which is fine by me. I will still be partying this week so I expect to be back up to 15st by the end of the week, with the diet and regime' kicking back in then.

The weight gain/loss rollercoaster ride of the Holidays continues. I lost 6 of the 10 I had gained around Christmas. As of yesterday, I had gained 5 of those back. THIS morning my scale tells me I lost those 5 again and was back to 210.

I'm not sure if its the cheap-ass-ness of my scale or am I really fluctuating that much in a day? I know I overdid it (food and drink wise) around New Years. Also the weather has been cold and rainy, so I haven't been walking as much. Another gain was somewhat expected, but to lose it in a day seems strange.

I'm 5' 5" and i weighed in at 134lbs this morning, my BMI is 22.5 , i'm not overweight, but i want to really trim down this year because i have a big vacation in Florida coming up in early April and i want to look smokin', not just good. Plus i want to just feel a little heathier.

I would like to lose about 10 pounds and be about 124lbs.

I excercise regularily on an Eliptical machine, about 4 times a week for 30 minutes. And i eat very healthy... so i think the biggest change i need to make to lose the weight is to cut down on portions...

Today i had a small decaff. mocha for breakfast (hey, it's seattle, i can't go without my coffee!) ;) and for lunch i had a 5 inch tortilla filled with two small peices of broiled chicken and some beans, with a spinkle of cheese. For dinner i'm going to have 1/2 cup of rice and a half of chicken breast, also broiled.

I'm going to focus on keeping my protein intake up, eating protien at, at least two meals per day.

Putting my goal here in writing is going to help me stay focused : )

Wish me luck! :D

sweetpea

I pretty much came out even over the Holidays, weighed in at 208 (total 67 lbs lost), managed to lose a pound since Xmas. Considering I was home all week and fell off the exercise bandwagon a few days I was surprised I still lost. Got back on the right track, but the gym is damn crowded this week...

Don't know how but I have lost a further pound this week and am now 14st 11lbs. Nice when the flab falls when I'm not even trying, gives me an enormous sense of well being.

It's my first weigh in day tomorrow! Although I have been ill I am pretty sure I will still have lost something!! :)

Weekly weigh in... No change this week... still 134 pounds. Really focusing on pumping up the workouts in the coming week and see if that makes a difference.

sweetpea

Hi, my name is sportswidow and I am a carbohydrate junkie.

Before my son was born, I lost 30 lbs on weight watchers. Apparently, it is creeping it's way back. I need help to stop it before it gets worse.

1/11/06: weighed in at 142 (ultimate goal: 125)

ok, from Monday Im gonna be posting in this every week.

Welcome and good luck :D

It is also suggested in this thread that you post what you are doing to help with the weight loss (or gain for some members) so that we may learn what each person is doing and what is working or not working for them. :)

That way, if you're doing something that's really successful that I haven't heard of... i can try it too :D

sweetpea

Thanks SweetPea.

For starters I am going to count my points again. I was very successful prior to child #2 using Weight Watchers, so I am going to try that first. I am also going to increase the amount of water I drink, from none to at least 6 glasses.

I think the biggest problem I have is finishing the kid's food when they are done. I have to stop that!

I woke up this morning with a few questions.

Do you weigh your self every day?

How do I know if my scale is accurate?

ugh, there were other questions I had. Coffee is not working yet.

I have a cheap $18 dollar scale that has somehow stayed accurate for the past two years and registers the same weight that the fancy scale at the doctors office does. I have the one on the left: http://www.northshorecare.com/dial-p...or-scale.html#

However, my sister-in-law (who lost about 40 pounds recently) swears by her digital scale, something like this: http://www.scalesgalore.com/pbath.htm

In short: if your scale is of the cheap variety like mine and pretty old (over 2-3 years), it probably needs to be replaced.

I weigh myself everyday (cuz i'm neurotic) ;) ... but for the purpose of this thread, i post official Weekly weigh ins.

hope that helps

sweetpea

Hurzahh! 14st 7lbs. Which is four pounds down on last week. Oh yeah.

On the subject of weighing myself I think that's best done once a week at the most. If you do it everyday then you can end up fixating on the times that you don't lose weight, which if you loose on average two pounds a week is going to be most days. Whereas if you do it once a week then it's more likely to be a loss and you get to feel a little boost about heading in the right direction. But hey whatever works for you.

Ok, it's been about 3 weeks, and I've gained my seven pounds as of this morning's weigh-in, so I can finally go back to my normal foods and eat to maintian rather than gain.

Back to peppers and carrots for snack foods (eating healthy is so much more expensive than junk food), diet soda when I drink it at all, but mostly water otherwise, and grilled fish and chicken breasts for my protein, with the bulk of my calories coming from brown rice and vegetables.

Today: 115 lbs. at 5' 7", BMI of 18 even. Back to my standard 1200-1500 calories a day instead of 2500. Woo hoo!

Gilda

I weigh myself neuroticly like sweetpea every morning. It's the ritual, get up, take a leak, step on the scale. It may be better to do it DonnovalDuVal's way, only once a week, but I can never wait that long. The longest I have gone without weighing myself since starting the diet was 3 days.

This morning, I have finally gotten past my previous lowest of 206, I'm now 203. And that officially puts me (according to some height/weight chart I saw online) on the high side of the "Ideal" category. I'm 6'4" and if I have a heavy bone structure, that chart says 204 was the high end of it. I think I'm medium or possibly light structured, however. I'm not splitting hairs, I'm on the chart for the first time in 8 or more years!

Congradulations!! :)

Good work(out)!

First, congratulations. That's a lot of determined effort paying off! The view at the top of the mountain belongs only to those who climb it!

I find this doesn't work for me. If I weight myself only, say, once a week, it can just as easily be at a time when I've bloated up for a day or something. If I weigh myself every day and chart it, then I can see, with my eyes, the over all trend (hopefully downward) inspite of daily fluctuations.

Oh, yes. I wanted to add. I came to a great realization today.

I'm not over weight. I'm under - tall.

May i say congratulations on reaching your goal!! :D

sweetpea

That's wonderful!! :D good for you!! :D :D

sweetpea

I was 230ish in May.

Got down to 202 in November (-3 from my goal of 205)

Went on vacation and came back about 209 or so, and stayed around there.

Now I've been sick for 2 weeks, almost ate nothing last week, and I am back to 202.

NOT a method I recomend :rolleyes:

I bought a new scale this weekend. Today I weigh in at 142.6. I am trying the Special K plan, which is to lose 6 lbs in 2 weeks. We shall see if I make it for 2 weeks. The plan is to eat 1 serving of any Special K cereal with 2/3 skim milk for breakfast and lunch. 3rd meal is normal (but I plan on measuring everything out as if I am on Weight Watchers). Snacks consist of fruit, veggies, and the Special K bars. I started this on Sunday, so today is only day 2.

edited to add: Congrats to all those who lost and/or reached their goal! :thumbsup:

scales say I have lost 80 lbs in last week

think scales are broken!

Sounds like a good program! Good luck and keep us updated :D

sweetpea

Down to 206, total 69 lbs lost. I've been a little loose in what I've been eating (about 2500 cal/day) so Monday I started back on my 1800-2000 cal/day.

Since the 1st of the year, the gym has been a pain in the ass to go to, as its been packed with the New Years resolutioners, but this week it's getting less crowded...

No harm no foul. I guess. I'm still 14st 7lbs, so I aint crying, but neither am I jumping for joy. Oh well, onwards I guess.

Wow, I'm bad at posting here.

155 lbs as of today, just weighed myself after my workout. I'm really happy that I'm seeing some gains already. I'm starting to look healthy again (I didn't look unhealthy, but not nearly as fit as I did).

Gilda, congrats on the weight, even if it means I no longer have a weight gain buddy. ;)

EDIT - Also, remember that BMI is a guideline only. According to it I'm at a healthy weight, with a BMI of 21.6. The reality is, I need to gain at least another ten pounds to be healthy and would be better with twenty (this according to my dietician).

I cannot do the special K thing anymore. I was getting way too hungry during the day and then eating too much for dinner. Back to trying to count points and doing Weight Watchers again.

Weighing in at 141.6 today.

Well, i think you're smart to do what you know works for you.... and indeed, it's not good to be starving one point of the day and then overeating, being really hungry is hard to sustain ;)

the point is you're still at it :thumbsup:

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I'm doing pretty well with week... i've decided to go with what others suggested and weight myself only once a week, that way, i can see more progress than the mico. amounts i loss on a daily basis...

My boss (who is Iranian) and the tinest woman, gave me the recipe for this rice, with Lima beans and dill weed, so i've been eating that primarily this week, with a couple slices of cheddar cheese on the side for calcium... i had a couple small bowls of low cal. ice cream this week, but i've been working out 45 minutes a day on the eliptical ... i weigh myself in two days, so i will post the results for this week then and hopefully i won't still be stuck at 134 :)

sweetpea

Day 1 of counting points. I blew it this weekend, it was my daughter's birthday and I was on an emotional downswing. I ended up gaining. I weighed in this morning at 143. But today is a new day, a rainy day, but new none the less. Time to get serious.

That whole special K diet thing seems like a bad idea. It's not that Special K is all that great, I mean if you had only 2 bowls of anything, say Froot Loops, you'd lose weight because you are eating practicly nothing.

I weighed in at 202 on Friday, and 204 yesterday. I'm just about at my goal, but I keep stumbling on these last few pounds. Realistically, I am at my target, but I just once want to see the sacle register 200 or less.

Well, you've accomplished a lot! But i understand what you mean about the last few pounds... those are the most stubborn, but somehow become the most satisfying ;)

Keep up the good work! :)

sweetpea

hey, no worries SP... we all have days where we fall off the wagon... but the good thing is you got back on :)


sweetpea

Down to 204 this week , 71 lbs so far! -2lbs from last week.

I agree with ya Coaster the last pounds are the hardest, past month has been rough, but hopefully I can get below 200lbs in the next couple of weeks..

excellent job on the -2 pounds... every little bit gets you closer :thumbsup: Keep up the good work!!

sweetpea

14st 3lbs. Well that's four pounds down on last week. Which makes up for not losing anything the week before. I don't think that I have weighed this little since I was 15 years old.

Back down to 202 today, down from a mid-week high of 205. This week for sure I'll get into the 190's. Although I'm going to a poker night tonight, and that means pizza and beer. I could abstain, but it just wouldn't be the same. ;)

That's great!! way to go! :D

sweetpea

good job on the 202!!

Well, i never give up on a fun dinner party for those couple extra calories... i mean, who cares all the time? :) it's good to stay on your diet... but i agree, you gotta LIVE too :thumbsup:

sweetpea

Hey all... weigh in.

Still 134 pounds (height: 5'5").
I'm at a plateau, it's happened before... so i just gotta keep at it and not get discouraged :) Although i haven't lost any weight yet these past two weeks, i can certainly see a lot more tone on my ass and thighs... so not all is lost ;)

Kicked it up another notch, started a raw veggies, salmon and one 'yummy' food a day diet yesterday... it's going well and it's actually quite tasty. I hope to be posting some good loss results next week :)

sweetpea

new scales

314 lbs

wow. pretty bad.

try to tell myself that this is the heaviest I will ever be, and that the great loss programme starts here....

hey, don't be so down on yourself...

Knownig that the weight loss program starts here... I think that's a great attitude! :)

good luck, keep us updated! :D

sweetpea

either Ive lost 9 lbs in 3 days, or the new set of scales I bought arent very reliable...

Kinda thinking the second if the most likely...

I lost 11lbs my 1st week of dieting, a lot of that was water weight, just keep in mind that your weight can fluctuate, I've seen a 3 lbs swing from one day to the next. I weigh myself on 2 consecutive days (at the same time each day) just to be sure that the reading is accurate.. I may be way off but seems to work for me.

Yeah, always be sure to weigh yourself at the same time each day, morning is usually best.

I'm reading through a lot of these posts, and wondering if anyone ever does a body fat percentage count? I mean, I weigh rather a lot for my height (5'8"/155lbs), but I am very muscular and lean *enough*. If you have a lot of muscle tone, it doesn't really matter how much you weigh. Body comp. is much more revealing of fitness levels than a number on a scale.
Just curious.

you know... i had been thinking about that same thing.... since i work out a lot, that must affect my weight... and someone in my family made a comment about that recently too, that i wasn't taking my body fat into account when i read 134lbs.

anyway, I think you look PERFECT, so, whatever you're doing Sultana, it's working for you... :crazy:

sweetpea

My roommate recently sent me a picture she took a week or so ago. Looking at it, I felt really upset and sad. I just look too big. I've always felt that I could probably tone up a bit have talked about working on that. But I've never been too concerned because I've always been ok with how I look and what size I am. I'm going to print off the picture and use it as some motivation to actually go to the gym and stop eating so much chocolate.

Has anyone else had a point or specific reason why they decided they needed to be watching their weight and getting some exercise in there? How do you motivate yourself?

Down to 201, total 74 lbs lost and down 3 lbs from last weeks weigh in.. Only 11 lbs away from my goal weight of 190!

Agreed. I figure that I'm about 25 pounds over my ideal weight -- but if you went by a weight chart alone, you'd think I'd have to lose much more. That's because I've been lifting weights forever and carry a lot of extra muscle. For a woman, 5'8" , 155 pounds, with a lot of muscle is healthy. You may be carrying 10-15 pounds (or more) of muscle than the average woman.

Other factors are involved, too. My wife is 5'4", and in her youth a doctor told her that 150 pounds or so was her target weight, because her frame is heavy and broad. Her bones are very, very, thick. I'm eight inches taller and male, and her wrists are the same diameter as mine!

I have seen people lose muscle as well as fat when dieting, because they weren't careful or were obsessive about weight and didn't care if it was fat or muscle -- all weight was bad. Some people try to shape up, change their diet, and start exercising, and freak out when they gain a couple of pounds from weight training. But that's "good" weight, and frankly makes you more attractive -- shapes the body, changes the proportions in a good way , and so on.

When I first started weight training seriously, I put on about 15 pounds in six months -- and not all of it was muscle. But a few people actually asked me if I'd lost weight -- because much of the new weight was in my chest and shoulders and so made my upper body larger in proportion to my lower body.

I just got fed up with being overweight and one night after eating way to much at a restaurant I felt disgusted with myself, and decided to make a change. The next day I wrote down all the food that I liked and then went through and marked off the unhealthy foods, I decided that I would only eat the foods that were good for me.

Needless to say, it was a small list and giving up junk food, pizza and fried foods hurt, but I wanted to do this for myself first and for my family second, and didn't want to get to the point of health problems that could easily be avoided. So I sucked it up and did it, I also decided to join the gym, it was awkward at first as there are many toned and fit bodies in there but it didn't matter I wanted to do this.

Losing weight is a slow process and there is no magic bullet, it took a couple of months before people started noticing (I only told my immediate family and close friends) and the comments and the complements keep coming, that gives me a boost, not to mention I feel better both physically and mentally. I had to buy almost all new clothes, I've dropped 6 inches off my waist.

I found this is a pretty good link for dining out http://dietfacts.com/fastfood.asp it gives nutritional value of some menu items at quite a few restaurants, most don't publish their whole menu but some do.

You just have to find the trigger that MAKES you want it, and its all or nothing, you can't partially want to lose weight or get in shape you have to give it 100%..

Catdaddy33:
Amen! I can't tell you how many people at my work are "on a diet" either recently or for several months and haven't lost a pound. They see my results and ask me how I did it. When I respond that it was a drastic lifestyle change (all low-fat foods, give up drinking, excersize) they all have the same response. "Well, that's too hard core, I'll do it my own way." And guess what, their way still includes a doughnut for breakfast, or a big cheeseburger for lunch, or perhaps a giant salad SWIMMING in an oily dressing.

It's obvious to me that they simply haven't fount that trigger to kick them into high gear.

holy crap! you're almost there :D :D excellent work! :icare:


sweetpea

well, don't be down on yourself! :icare: no one is allowed to down themselves in here ;)

Also, keep in mind, everyone has pictures where they just don't look good... even if they are perfectly fit and beautiful/handsome...

Don't let a picture change how you feel about yourself... but if you do want to tone up a bit... then hit it to the gym or walking or jogging outside :)

As for motivation for myself... i've always been a type A personality... so i've been working out consistently since i was a young teen... i think some call it obessive compulsive ;) :lol:

Just focus on cutting out the sugars and also trying to get more excercise and you'll start to feel better about your apperance in no time :)

let us know how your doing and feeling :D

sweetpea

Upon reading Sultana's comment here... this got me to thinking.

So i'm going to change me goal weight, and just lose about 5 pounds. I'm doing great this week! I won't do my weigh in yet until sunday... but i feel like my clothes are fitting better this week! :D

height weight charts put me at 127-141 as the range i should shoot for. So at 134 pounds... i think i'm right in there... but i want that last bit of perfect toning... so i'm shooting for about 129-130lbs.

:)

sweetpea

Weight loss goal = ACHIEVED!!!

For this morning's weigh in I was finally able to crack the 200's. I came in at 198.5. I almost couldn't believe it. I had to get on and off the scale several times before I finally realized that the "weight loss" part of my diet is officially over. That's 111.5 pounds lost, which is actually a pound and a half over my goal. Look for some before and afters in the exhibition section sometime in the near future.

Now comes the maintainence part, which I have to admit, I'm a little nervous about. I do realize that my "diet" is not over, but it does have to change. I can't go back to my old habbits, nor do I even really want to. As I mentioned previously in this topic, I know how to lose weight, and I know how to gain weight. For my entire adult life, I have never actually maintained my weight at any point for any real length of time. I was either slowly gaining or quickly losing weight.

To the rest who have not yet reached their goal, keep going!! You WILL get there with hard work and dedication.

Way to go Coaster!!! 111 lbs is awesome man!

I've been thinking about the maintainence part myself as I get closer to my goal. You arent the only one wondering how to go about it. I actually like going to the gym, it gives me an hour or so just to think and reflect on whatever, so that will stay constant in my life, but as far as my diet...I'm not sure..

I was even thinking of continuing on my diet past my goal, I stopped really missing all the food I use to eat and even passed up the free pizza slices they were giving away in Kroger this afternoon, and as long as I'm happy and still motivated..what the hell...

Let us know what/how you plan to maintain, I've seen folks at work do the yo-yo dieting plans and I'm going to avoid that..

That's awesome!! I'm mega proud of you :D :D :D

sweetpea

To you sir, I take my hat off. That is amazing, I am really impressed. Good luck with the maintenance.

This week I weigh in at 14st 3lbs, which is exactly the same as last week.

Woot! :)

-2 pounds this week at today's weigh in. I'm at 132. 4 pounds away from my goal of 128lbs.

i've been eating a lot of raw veggies, salmon and yogurt and it's really working nicely!

Gigantic Congrats, Mr. Coaster. That is really terrific!

*performs the Happy dance*

:)

Oh, and sweetpea? I missed that part previously where you said I looked perfect (isn't that just like a woman? LOL!), thank you darling!
I think you look damn good yourself. I think you look better than me (and I have a high opinion of my looks, ROFLOL), therefore you should not think poorly of your looks! :P
Come to LA. We need to do dinner (real dinner, real food) together!

I just restarted tracking my food intake with my computer program in preparation for Lent, which is coming up at the end of the month. Each Lent I attempt to make a positive dietary change. The goal isn't necessarily weight loss, but rather an awareness of "you are what you eat". This year's goal is decreased sugar intake by eliminating sources of excess and refined sugar (think soda, candy, cookies) as well as things that have high fructose corn syrup hiding in them (lots of commercial breads).

My goal is to use Lent to bust through my weight loss plateau (I lost 20 lbs last spring, went from 185 to 165, mostly from illness) and drop another 9 lbs. to get down to 155 by Memorial Day.

This morning's weigh-in: 164.

I would love to have dinner with you...

And i eat sushi... a lot... isn't that real food? :D hehe

i'm 'almost' perfect... just a couple more pounds and i feel like i'll be there in my own perception. ;)

thanks for being a sweetie!

sweetpea

Welcome to the Tfp weight watchers! :D

sounds like you've got a good solid goal and for a good reason... Lent is difficult (i was rasied catholic, and i always used to give up something i didn't like, i cheated) ;) hehe

anyway, welcome and come here anytime you want to talk about how it's going, shoot the breeze or just be your sexy self :D

sweetpea