Im in an interesting space. Work and family life is incredibly insanr right now. We never had a slow season this year. Ive shifted to maintainence for a bit. I hav never been successful when i try to maintain. In this limited time i have been. But, im also making some less than stellar choices. For example I chose 4 mini peanutbutter cups ad my breakfast snd provided I eat no carbs today I'll stay within all my self determined acceptable ranges.

So I've set the first of May as my reset and back to weightloss mode date.

So far so good. Day 2 is mostly over and I'm on track

Day 4 done and nothing but success. I'm so thrilled. Two dinners out and neither time did I make a not good decision on food.

I went on a fast yesterday, eating below 500cals. I'm a good lb lighter today! Going to celebrate with some McDonalds (big mac large fries) Pizza express double-stack Pizza, and clotted cream banana cheesecake, followed by Buffalo grill sweet and sticky spare ribs, baked potato with beans and black forest gateau!

Yes, I am kidding.

Am just having my morning BPC, and won't eat anything again until this evening, when we are dining at Mother's. She's really great - making melon and Prosciutto starter, with coq au vin, and button mushrooms main, and 'cavolo nero' side veg, followed by zabaione - but I will eat very little of that, so she's really doing her best to keep things on a level!

I'll join in!
Had a great 8 months on low carb and lost 70+ lbs, then plateaued for a year, and then the last three months I was really lax and creeped back up 18lbs, so started back on the weightloss plan last week. Down 8 of the 18! Now just 10 and then another 70lbs to go!!

Starting today with toastless French toast (egg, 1 Splenda, 1 cinnamon, maple extract) and 2 slices of bacon, with 2 tbsp cream cheese!

Starting a 4 week keto challenge on another thread, but am always looking for accountability stations.
Day one yesterday was great with an unexpected, totally thrilling 3.8 pound woosh. Man, I luv it when i actually do it!
That said, my plan is to lose 16 -21 pounds overall back down to a new, more realistic goal for me, then desl with the mystifying maintenance issue again. I hope to make a big dent in the loss part during the challenge.

Another thing i want to accomplish is to make doing 60 minutes of very varied, enjoyable activity part of my lifestyle. Yesterday, I did 2 minutes of stretching...not exactly stellar...but this is harder than weight loss for me. SO MUCH RESISTANCE! just dont like doing it...would love to hear others' strategies and mindset to break through this mental barrier.
I have tapes, l bought cute clothes, I have machines and gadgets galore, joined planet fitness......
Crickets. Nada. No wee-oh.
Any suggestions for this perplexed couch potato?

This weekend was not so good.

Today I have coffee with heavy cream, coconut milk/chia pudding and egg salad (our chickens and mayo I made with avocado oil) over spinach with pickles. Not sure for dinner yet.

So far so good on induction, sort of. It's not without temptation, and it's only been two days...so who knows. Both days I was below my set calories and set carbs, so that’s something. Though I think I need to increase my fat levels and decrease my protein on days when I’m not doing weight-stuff at the gym.

Today when I walked home from the gym I actually gazed so longingly at the pastries in the window near the crosswalk that I missed when the lights changed and had to wait longer. UHG. An overweight person staring at pastries, how cliche. Well done, me.

Had spicy chicken wings for lunch (one of my favorite meals), and a bite (7g, so really a bite) of super dark 92% bitter chocolate to soothe my sweet tooth a bit.

Don't do it. It won't be as good as your head is making you think it will be. Truly.