Good for you. I've been feeling stuck too, so decided to give myself a break about it and just focus on overall fitness and getting back to good logging and hitting my goal numbers.

This week's goal is to get in all my running and strength workouts again and also add in some swimming (which I've been having trouble with--too cold to want to get in the pool, sigh). Also going to start tracking sleep again to see if I can manage to sleep a bit more. Did okay last week despite too little sleep, but made it harder than it needed to be and I think it would help me recover better from workouts, too.

bm1409 wrote: »

Up 2.2 pounds. Frustrating, but when you eat everything in sight, its bound to happen. I wonder if I just sabotage myself. I got down to 136 and every time I get to that point I go right back up. I usually go back up to 145+ and then start the cycle all over again. Words are very powerful. This time I will NOT keep going back up, and I will break that 136 mark and continue to lose the weight until I reach my goal!!

You can do it you know the triggers just stay away from them.

tress29 wrote: »

My goals this week are to stay within my calories, get 7 hours of sleep, 8 glasses of water and 6500 steps daily. My average last week was 6088 steps a day, which is 500-750 more than usual.

Getting in your steps can be challenging at times I do well over the week but I don't do so well when I am on a rest day from work it is something I need to work on.

Trying to make some changes to my daily routine. When I started "the process", I created a new routine that worked for me. Tried to change it up a bit last year, but the habits weren't ingrained enough yet. This year, I feel stronger and more solid in what I've been doing. Sleep, stress management and real food (I eat almost no highly processed food) is pretty much a solid part of my lifestyle. It's like, "Okay, I'm ready to start living again." This year I'm focused on adding back into my life some big things like "regular exercise" and some smaller things like morning prayer/Bible study, learn a new language, remember to look at my calendar/to do list each morning, read a book, have a regular office schedule and regular home cleaning schedule and spend more time with friends and family.

While I have to do office work and cleaning of some sort each week, I think that as far as new habits go, for the next couple of weeks I'm going to work on:

1. morning prayer/Bible study
2. check my calendar/to do list
3. practice a new language
4. exercise 3 times this week
5. do something specific with or for friends/family members (call, text, email, snail mail...)

The office work has to get done and most of the cleaning has to get done. I can get more organize with these as scheduled habits in the future. (You know, that kind of schedule where you don't get behind in the first place. Not sure I'm there yet.)

I'm trying an experiment. Since I've been pretty consistent with getting increased step count I changed my profile to Lightly Active. I equate that with at least 5000 steps a day. I set it to no exercise and a half pound weight loss. It's giving me a higher calorie allowance, but as I'm nearing my initial goal weight it feels like a "test" for maintenance. Obviously, some days I'll actually exercise but there are days I'm doing good just getting my steps in.

Only lost 0.8 of a pound Stuck to my calories rigidly too so very disappointed. I haven't been exercising this week as I've developed a problem with my foot. My right foot is turned out for some reason and its affecting my balance. Going to the doctors tomorrow to see what's causing the problem. At my weight the pounds should be falling off pretty easily so I was shocked when I saw the scales this morning. Plan for this week is to stick to my calories everyday again and exercise lightly if I can. Really need to do something about my sleep too but I don't know what. I started tracking my sleep with a Fitbit about three years ago and in all that time my average has been about 4 hours a night. I go to bed early enough to get at least 8 hours but I spend every night tossing and turning. I've tried everything I could find online but nothing seems to help. I do sometimes fit a nap in during the day to try and compensate for it a bit.

whiplashy wrote: »

Only lost 0.8 of a pound Stuck to my calories rigidly too so very disappointed. I haven't been exercising this week as I've developed a problem with my foot. My right foot is turned out for some reason and its affecting my balance. Going to the doctors tomorrow to see what's causing the problem. At my weight the pounds should be falling off pretty easily so I was shocked when I saw the scales this morning. Plan for this week is to stick to my calories everyday again and exercise lightly if I can. Really need to do something about my sleep too but I don't know what. I started tracking my sleep with a Fitbit about three years ago and in all that time my average has been about 4 hours a night. I go to bed early enough to get at least 8 hours but I spend every night tossing and turning. I've tried everything I could find online but nothing seems to help. I do sometimes fit a nap in during the day to try and compensate for it a bit.

Congrats on the 0.8 lost! I think the global weight loss process is not linear and (although it can feel disappointing when you've put a lot of effort into something, not to see immediate results- happened to me 2 week ago-) it helped me to think "how will I feel about this in 1 year, when my weight is way down because I went on with my plan for all that time?" --> I won't care

bm1409 wrote: »

I hope you find answers about your foot. Have you tried magnesium to help you sleep? It has helped me sleep through the night. Congrats on the .08 pounds lost. I know you wanted more ... but thats not bad at all.

Yeah I have restless leg syndrome so I take magnesium for that. It does stop my legs from jittering around the place at night but does nothing for my actual sleep.

taniajoh wrote: »

Congrats on the 0.8 lost! I think the global weight loss process is not linear and (although it can feel disappointing when you've put a lot of effort into something, not to see immediate results- happened to me 2 week ago-) it helped me to think "how will I feel about this in 1 year, when my weight is way down because I went on with my plan for all that time?" --> I won't care

You're absolutely right of course. I was really down about it yesterday but in the long term it doesn't really matter. Previously that would have upset me to the point where I'd think "why bother" and eat all around me. But I'm here for the long haul and I know if I stick to my calories the weight will shift. Some weeks will just be better than others. It all adds up though

I found pants I loved on clearance, one size smaller than I've been in. I can get them on, they look decent, just can't zip them yet!