Threatsofpizza, I'm so sorry about your dog. It must be really difficult. At really challenging times I think the best thing is to step back and just try to maintain. That being said, I would really encourage you to try and eat whole foods and limit the junk. I find when I am insanely stressed and eating junk, I feel 10 times worse and end up in a ****ty cycle. I find my moods are even worse and I struggle to get into good habits. Best of luck!

I had a friend visiting on the weekend (I live in the UK and am from Canada) and I took her around the city. Of course I had to show her all of the delicious (but terrible foods). We had haggis, neeps, and tatties, sticky-toffee-pudding, haggis burgers (soooo good), full breakfasts, caramel shortcake etc. We also went out on the town and had drunken chips, cheese, and curry sauce after (I call it Scottish poutine). We did loads of walking but certainly not enough to offset that weekend. I'm waiting until next weekend to weigh in so I can get the water weight/sodium out of my system.

I'm really trying to be relaxed about weight-loss this time to make it sustainable. I've set myfitnesspal to 0.5lbs a week and will try to eat up that amount (but not eat-back exercise calories). I want to try and de-stress, sleep well, and get relaxing exercise in.

I hope everything is going okay, Threatsofpizza. Ham hugs!

My exercise is still non-existent. My eating was going well (no bingeing for two weeks!) but has worsened in these past few days. I ate up all my healthy food and haven't been to the store to get more... so its been too many handfuls of popcorn and chocolate chips The feeling of needing to binge has been lingering now that school started back up and I'm stressed outta my mind. I always take my stress out on food.Yesterday was seriously about 2x my daily calorie goal, today isn't looking bright so far, and this weekend we have family/Labor day events that rarely include healthy options. Pity party for me today.
On the bright side, I'm still logging everything, even the bad days!

The last few days have really sucked. I haven't been working out (except for the 30 day challenge) and have been eating all kinds of crap. Fast food/junk food since Wed. And now my gym is closed until Tues so there's no chance that I'm going to have a good weigh in Tues morning. I think I'm going to skip it because I know if I gain or stay the same, I'm just going to get really discouraged and want to give up for good.
On a better note, I've eaten well today and am about to go grocery shopping so that I can cook and plan out healthy meals for the next few days. And I may run later if it's not storming. I'll run in the rain, but not if there's thunder/lightning

avskk/Sara, thanks for the support/encouragement. You're right I do have 3 more days so I should make the best of them and get over the 3 days that I "screwed up". Like many other people have said, it's the all or nothing mentality and idk why it's so hard to not be like that.
I should have come here and posted on Wed when things started going downhill, but I'm back on track now and that's what I'm going to focus on. Went grocery shopping and made tonight's dinner and enough for the next 3 nights. Will make lunches tomorrow and figure out what I want to do for breakfast.
I didn't make that run tonight, but definitely will tomorrow.

YOU GUYS. You can do this! Holiday, schmoliday! Sleep in, guzzle some coffee, have delicious breakfast if that's your thing, and then hit the dirt!

I will totally pep-rally your *kitten* tomorrow morning. I'm off work and not to be messed with.

I have had a terrible food weekend after losing 4lbs, mostly because I caught viral pink eye from my son and then while rubbing the pink eye scratched my cornea. So, I've been one eyed and miserable and turning to food and I need to learn not to do that. Sigh. Tomorrow is another day right?

This has been an indulgent weekend. I treated my boyfriend and his family to Nanaimo bars (Scottish people love them) and definitely ate my weight in them as well. We also celebrated his brother and fiancee booking their wedding venue with loads of wine. Today my boyfriend starts his full time job while I am still waiting to hear back about work. I'm trying to be positive about being left at home by using the opportunity to eat salads for lunch (with soup) and healthy stuff that he normally doesn't go for. Now, I'm going to go for a walk and try and make this day a good start!

I've decided to take a step back from tracking for a while. Which probably sounds like an excuse, but it was starting to do my head in. I have calories and macros running through my head constantly. How many I have left, how many can I burn. I'm definitely not going to let myself use it as an excuse to pig out or skip workouts- I still want to make healthy choices, but I'm just *so* tired of weighing out portions to the gram and exercising for X amount of calories- I need a break for a week or two. So that's what I've been doing the past couple of days, and I'm feeling pretty good about it. The less I'm stressing out over calories, the less I'm thinking about food, and the less likely I am to get cravings and want to binge on things. Last night my housemate broke out the chocolate biscuits as usual, and I didn't want a single one.

Does anybody else feel this way sometimes? I just need to stop thinking about numbers for a while...

I am now over my gross gastro virus and today was the first exercise in a week (32 mins of gentle workout at the gym) I weighed yesterday out of curiosity and it said 125lbs but I have not recorded it as I suspect that's down to barely eating anything much for the last week. I think I am maybe 126lbs but I will weigh again on Friday.

I can see I am really close to my goal shape, and that feels encouraging. I still don't know if I have another 5lbs to lose, or another 2lbs but I will take it as it comes.

I have had a few good days so far! With the boyfriend gone at work all day I am making really healthy food decisions at lunch (instead of chicken and cheese toasties with soup everyday). I weighed in this morning at 152 which is the lowest I've been since puberty! I'd upped my calories to 1600 because I was tired of ending up in a binge/restrict cycle and it seems to be working for me. Weight-loss should be about 0.5lbs a week which I'm ok with. I think this is a really sensible approach for me since I'm dealing with a lot of stress from unemployment/moving to a new country/living with my boyfriend's parents.

Off for a walk to the grocery store!

I've taken time off from tracking too. We just moved 150 miles away and I am a student again (for the 8 millionth time), so the week before the move and the days after I slacked and probably ate way too much. I don't own a scale right now, and I'm not going to buy one until I've been consistently working out again. Which starts today!

I had to chuck my scale because the floors in my new rental are super uneven and if I move it like an inch, it'll give me variations of like 10lbs. It's a little frustrating not to be able to rely on that or to track it-- I weighed myself every day at the old place and it really helped keep me on track. Like feelgoodnic said though, having one less number to worry about is kinda freeing. I still track calories and try to make good choices overall, and I rely on clothing fit, belt loop and progress pictures on my phone.

I wish weight loss was just a matter of cutting calories.
I've come to the realization that my weight is fine (okay, a little higher than my ideal), I just hate that I'm not toned at all. I am the definition of "skinny fat". I have cellulite all over my body.. boobs, *kitten*, stomach, legs from gaining so much weight in such a short amount of time.
I avoid seeing myself naked in the mirror, but today I went shopping and totally broke down. My body looks worse than a 70 year old woman.
The only thing that will help is exercise but I dread running (but love walking and I do walk a lot!) and have no idea where to start with weights. Mostly because I hate to go to the gym. But I would consider doing weights at home if I can! Where do I start?
Somebody haaaaalp

I wish weight loss was just a matter of cutting calories.
I've come to the realization that my weight is fine (okay, a little higher than my ideal), I just hate that I'm not toned at all. I am the definition of "skinny fat". I have cellulite all over my body.. boobs, *kitten*, stomach, legs from gaining so much weight in such a short amount of time.
I avoid seeing myself naked in the mirror, but today I went shopping and totally broke down. My body looks worse than a 70 year old woman.
The only thing that will help is exercise but I dread running (but love walking and I do walk a lot!) and have no idea where to start with weights. Mostly because I hate to go to the gym. But I would consider doing weights at home if I can! Where do I start?
Somebody haaaaalp

There's a lot of bodyweight exercise routines that you can do if you don't want to use weights-- for instance there's a lot posted on backonpointe.tumblr.com. Actually they're all I do for strength training and I've *definitely* become more toned. As my fitness level increases I increase reps, hold planks for longer periods of time, etc. Best part is, they're super easy to do while you're watching tv and usually take 20 minutes or less to do even if you repeat circuits.

Good Monday morning!
Over all the last week was okay. Not brilliant not horrid. I've been focusing more on portion control since I kind of just was too exhausted from life to focus on eating mainly whole foods. I still lost another pound and a bit. I keep joking that I am the tortoise of weight loss.
Today a male coworker suddenly was like "whoa..you've lost weight!" in total since I've started I've lost 13lbs so I guess it's noticeable!

I start tap dancing this Saturday again so I'll be getting an extra hour of exercise in which will be nice.