New Year, New You: Week 1

freeofweight

I lost a a little bit of weight! 255.5!

My SW (before I joined MFP) is 264.5
Prior to today I was 258.

miriamtorason

Hi, again!

I'm a late start, sure, but I'm apparently determined. I've been making a point of walking all over and back again. Plus, instead of just walking around the house, I've found myself dancing around with my son, it makes the day a lot of fun! I was surprised!

I'm finally coming out of a two month rut, and I really hope it sticks. ^_^ Today, I'm getting all my household stuff done, plus hopefully going for a walk this afternoon. I'm cleaning, doing laundry, making pasta sauce from my roma tomatoes in the backyard (I need to do a better garden plan for next year, including putting cages around the green peppers as well as the tomatoes and turning over all the dirt while it's still cold outside to keep slugs away!!), and I might get around to my pie pumpkins today, too. We could use some yummy pie in this house. Maybe I'll track down a recipe for a crustless pie... The crusts seem to be where the bulk of the calories in a slice of pie are anyhow... Hm...

freeofweight: Congratulations on your loss! 2.5 pounds is nothing to sniff at! (UGH! I need more smileys! Maybe a nice "happydance" smiley or something!)

GeckoJari: I know just what you mean - I had my wakeup in two parts. First, my knees are starting to go. Happened to my father at my age as well, so I wasn't surprised, but when I went to the ortho, she confirmed it was early arthritis! Then she mentioned that stairs (which my house is FULL of) put five times your weight of pressure on the knees - so going up and down at my high weight, I was putting 1125 pounds of pressure on my knees multiple times a day! Then it was reinforced when I was carrying my 30# preschooler up the stairs and could barely do it! This weight NEEDS TO GO! For me, I'm pretty strong from the go, but you can't really tell for all the extra. o.o;;

Hope you all are having a great Sunday - tomorrow's check-in!

freeofweight

@miriamtorason

freeofweight: Congratulations on your loss! 2.5 pounds is nothing to sniff at! (UGH! I need more smileys! Maybe a nice "happydance" smiley or something!)

Thank you so much! I'm so excited to be sliding the numbers back on the scale! Such a great feeling!

Good luck with your weight loss too!

miriamtorason

Thanks so much! I'm really hopeful right now - this challenge seems to have been the kick in the pants I needed to get back into the game. Now I just hope I don't pick up where I left off (3 months on a plateau, UGH!). ^_^