bringbackthejoy wrote: »

I changed focus to fitness goals and that has been helping a ton.

Same. It's always been so difficult for me to stay motivated when I view my workouts just as a way to lose weight. Seeing it as training for something bigger is super inspiring. I'm a cyclist and a lot of the group rides I do are coed, so for me the biggest motivator when I don't feel like working out is thinking about training as a way to keep up with (or beat) the boys. Actually, was so close to skipping a workout this morning and then stumbled on this video and got immediately hyped: https://www.tetongravity.com/video/bike/all-female-bike-crew-perfectly-parodies-kendrick-lamars-humble

I'm new to blogging. I've struggled with my weight for years. Now I'm being patient and remaining consistent with my healthy eating and exercise. I fell off the bandwagon taking two vacations over the summer but I'm mentally ready now.
BW: 150
CW: 146
Goal weight: 135 by Christmas then <130 by 2/28/18. My birthday gift to myself. I'll need lots of motivation.

Height 5'10"

HW- 183.1 lbs
SW June- 180 lbs
SW July-177.9 lbs
SW August- 174.2 lbs

September 1st- 168 lbs
September 4th- 172 lbs
September 8th- 169.1 lbs
September 11th- 169.8 lbs
September 15th- 166.4 lbs
September 18th-
September 25th-
September 29th-

End of September goal weight 164 lbs

Hi everyone! I was really not feeling like myself at the beginning of this week. I was really low and anxious. I am happy to report I am feeling much better. It looks like opting for the stationary bike some days, to take the pressure off my joints wasn't a bad call!
I have been noticing some weird aches and pains as my body has been changing throughout this journey. I feel hyper aware of everything. Heres to breaking through to the 165 and below range!! Today is my last day of working in an office. I will be heading to campus to start my graduate school journey on monday. I have a feeling there will be a lot more walking in my future! LOL

@keyfoot72 welcome to the group!

@KelseyRL you are crushing!! @rachls77 way to go on getting in those steps.

HW- 186.4 lbs
SW August- 177.4 lbs

September 1st - 173.2 lbs
September 6th - 175.4 lbs
September 8th - 174.4 lbs
September 12th - 171.8 lbs
September 15th - 171.4 lbs
September 19th -
September 22nd -
September 26th -
September 29th -

September Goal- 169.9 lbs! (I'd be really happy to get out of the 170s)

I just posted yesterday so I don't have much new to say. I'm trying to get back into the habit of posting though so I figured I'd post anyway.

Things are going well with weight loss. I feel like I'm well on my way to reaching my September goal. However, the last week of September I'm going to a conference in a city I used to live in and I think I could eat/drink a lot that weekend. I'm honestly not as concerned about the food/potential weight gain as I am about the money we're probably going to spend. I live in a much smaller city now and I'm excited to spend a week in a bigger center with all my favourite restaurants and bars. I have lots of friends from there too so there'll be lots of socializing.

Part of me is so excited to go be a downtown city girl again and indulge in everything the city has to offer, but part of me knows that it'll be hard on my pocketbook and waistline if I go all out. Knowing me, the indulgent side will win out, but I'm hoping to at least keep it in check. We'll see. I know I can get back on the weight loss horse if I take a week to party, but I can't just make all the money I spend reappear. Oh well. I'll keep you guys posted.

@rachls77 - good job on keeping it in check. One bad day doesn't really make any difference. It's when you let one turn into 3, turn into 5, turn into forever. Being able to just start the next day fresh is so important!

@2tall4thisworld - I know that feeling of just being restless and uncomfortable. It does pass but it sucks when it happens. I know I'll feel better if I do something active, like go for a walk or a bike ride, but it's so easy to let yourself wallow and hide out and eat and be lazy. I'm glad you got through it and got some movement in. Good luck with grad school! That's such an exciting change!!

@keyfoot72 - Welcome to the forums! Being mentally in it is the biggest thing. If you've got that, then you've got this!

Height 5'8.5"

SW September 1 - 157.5lbs

September 1st- 157.5lbs
September 8th- 157lbs
September 15th- 154.5
September 29th-

September Goal- 149!

Doesn't look like I will make my September goal but I definitely want to lose at least 5lbs this month.

@Ree13x I'm sorry for your loss, hon. And coping mechanisms are what they are. My dad went into hospital on Thursday night, is still in there, after only being home for maybe 2 weeks from a 10 day stint in hospital. He's a very poorly man but he's never been hospitalised so much until this year and my natural reaction is to eat, it's my whole family's natural reaction. So I've stopped buying the processed stuff and as an extended family, my mum/brother etc, have decided that we're not going to buy this kind of food because we're not helping ourselves and we're not going to enable each other.

My point is, draw a line in the sand, what's done is done and try your best going forward. That's all anyone can ask of you.

Height 5'10"

HW- 183.1 lbs
SW June- 180 lbs
SW July-177.9 lbs
SW August- 174.2 lbs

September 1st- 168 lbs
September 4th- 172 lbs
September 8th- 169.1 lbs
September 11th- 169.8 lbs
September 15th- 166.4 lbs
September 18th- 165.6 lbs
September 22nd-
September 25th-
September 29th-

End of September goal weight 164 lbs

Ended up being down to 164.2 over the weekend which was great to see when I stepped on the scale. However, I am much happier with 165.6 today. Over the weekend I felt myself going back to some old habits of not eating enough. As many of you know I do occasionally binge as well. However, the past couple of days I know I haven't been eating enough throughout the day. I will probably write a longer post about this on my profile, but I wanted to bring it up because I think (just like with binges) I need to be held accountable for not eating enough too. I went climbing yesterday on only 700 calories and did not do well. That was my wake up call. I got home and luckily my amazing roommate was there. I admitted to her that I haven't been eating enough, in part because I know there are a lot of changes in my life coming up. And being strict with my diet helps me feel in control. She gave me a big hug and then gave me a huge serving of her veggie quinoa dish. It was SO GOOD. So all of this is to say, 165.6 is ok with me today. I'm just looking to maintain for a couple days now. A couple non scale victories- my climbing harness fits me wayyyyyyy better. The straps now overlap around my waist and before they barely touched each other. I also have been doing well keeping up with my outdoor runs

@Ree13x I am very sorry for your loss. @glassofroses I'm so sorry to hear about what you are going through with your father, and all of the physical/emotional pains you must be experience. My thoughts are with the both of you.
@rianneonamission thank you for calling me out about "fasting" it made me reassess what I was doing
@bringbackthejoy thank you so much for the support love!

Hi. I am 50 years old. 5 ft. 6 inches and currently weigh 134 lbs. Started at 142. I want to weigh 130 by Thanksgiving.

Thanks @2tall4thisworld and @Ree13x. Honestly you become desensitised at a certain point, as bad as that sounds. Like my mother, she has had a bad foot for well over 18 months and the doctors kept fobbing her off and fobbing her off because of her situation (she's a terminal cancer patient). I mean, one doctor told her in the appointment that she made to talk about it that she [the doctor] didn't want to talk about that but my mum's blood results before proceeding to tell her all this stuff that was wrong with her -- all of which down to her medication for her cancer treatment. Now she has atrophy of the muscles in her foot, and also a kind of arthritis of the muscle, and may never wear a proper shoe again. Currently she has to wear this boot thing for 4 months and hope for the best while they sort out an accompanying steroid injection for her pain. I can get angry and stressed or I can just move on because what's done is done. I do what I can, forget what I can't. I mean, I kick up when I have to but I generally don't think about these things unless they're the problem of the day.

And @2tall4thisworld I think you've learned a valuable lesson about low calories and exercise. You were lucky you didn't pass out. Health isn't a number on a scale, it's the knowledge that you can go out there and do what you need to do and be okay. You have to take care of yourself. No one is invincible and you need to give yourself your best chance at life /gets off pedestal. I really don't like to get all martyr-y on people but I'm going to crack down on a b*tch if I think you're being stupid. That being said, I'm happy about your harness. That's pretty darn cool.

Let us know how you're doing, @Ree13x. I know we can't do a lot from the internet but you've got people you can talk to in us.

@karinschoultz You can't spot reduce, i.e. choose to lose from your belly, you just have to be in a constant calorie deficit and the weight will come off where your body wants it to. It can be sucky, but thems the breaks.