Motivation, Success and Frustration Sharing!

I'm so excited. this morning when I weighed I'm 149.6! I was 150-152 in the mornings for about 2 months & never thought I'd lose anymore. I was 150 20yrs ago. So it's possible, don't anyone lose hope, steady prodding is the way to go!Rachel0778, my rescue sends little dogs to Minnesota regularly, I heard there's a shortage of small dogs there. I'm in California, central valley. It doesn't snow & our version of a cold winter is when it gets down to the 50's during the day & 30's at night. I love the winter. I'm always so hot. I go to bed in a light night gown with 2 lite blankets & after a few minutes I have to take one blanket off. During the middle of the night I get so hot i have to get up & change into my summer night wear which consists of just underwear & sports bra. I've always been hot, even in my 20's. My normal body temp is in the 97's maybe that's why. Today is my work day taking care of a disabled lady. I take her to Bible study & that takes up most of my time with her. On Sunday afternoons I take her to the 99cent store & each time I of course stop at a fast food place for her. Yesterday I roasted a turkey. I love turkey. I'm going to take her some. She loves home cooked foods. It's a 12 lb turkey so me, hubby & the dogs are going to be eating it for a few days lol. I also made a variety of winter squash. I'm obsessed to take my dogs out every day so I'd better get going, have a good day everyone

I'm excited for you gymprincess

@mama1971 For me it only takes 1 gym session or another activity to remember how endorphins felt and working out generates new energy. Just find a class or sport that excites you so much, you would go there even if it didn't burn any calories.


Good morning!
Day 6 of my Christmas challenge! I've started pre tracking and planning out my meals the evening before. Really works, I have to think about food even less now.

1349kcal is what LifeSum gives me in order to have 500kcal deficit/day. I don't track my walking/working out, so I don't eat anything extra, but that's the only way I actually lose weight. When I ate 1349+workout calories, I would lose only like 1kg per month, that's too slow for me, I get discouraged when I don't see progress, especially now when I've been losing and maintaining and struggling for 1 year next week.

Welcome mama1971, meant to post yesterday but I was too tired to post lol.I'm a medium energy person & I'm tired a lot too. I take my 6 dogs out every morning for 1hr +, either dog park or walk but that's part of my "light activity" & don't count it. take heart, the scale didn't move for nearly 2 months for me until 3 days ago, of course, I didn't change too many things either since I have only 10 more lbs to lose & ate at more of a deficit than now for almost a year so have been eating at 1500-1600 cal/day Gymprincess, way to go, it's great when we discover ways to improve our lives, good things always take effort. Harder some days than others for me.
I'm so wiped out today, like I said, I'm not a high energy person although I do stay active. Yesterday I did't have to care for my grand dtr after all, so I went to our animal rescue at 2. Who ever can ,takes some of the dogs for walks every morning(I'm with MY dogs in the mornings so I don't go) yesterday they decided for a walk at 3pm instead due to the cold morning. We walked for 1 1/2 hrs! my legs are so sore today. I did some intermittent jogging with the dog I took too. I'm not planing to do much today. After I take my dogs out & do a little cleaning, I'm going to the animal rescue for a few hours then my hubby requested I make some vegetarian lasagna for him, I'm not having any so I'm making a smaller portion of it. Have a good friday everyone

I'm new here! I just started using MFP and a Fitbit a week ago. I started at 173, 33 pounds to lose, and am down to 171.4. I'm a beginning runner, and go to a strength training class twice a week and Zumba twice a week. I also just started the plank challenge here. Losing weight has been very hard for me as I take a medication that messes with my metabolism. I've been very discouraged, so it's great to see some progress. I've been exercising daily and only eating back some of the exercise calories. I've also found it useful to log my calories for the day in advance when I can. Unfortunately, winter has just arrived here, and I won't be able to run outside until spring.
I'm very nervous about Thanksgiving. We'll be going to my husband's family, where eating is an Olympic event. Thankfully, we will be in a hotel with a gym for most of the trip, so I'll do my best at portion control and then try to burn some of it off. Anyone else worried about holiday eating?

We've never had a special Christmas dinner. Our 4 kids are grown & 2 live out of town, another usually works Christmas so we sometime go over our youngest son's for celebration around Christmas. We see him the most & he always grills something so we end up eating but I still eat at a deficit. They are into eating healthy , alot like us so it's easy not to over eat there. Thanksgiving is the big holiday for us & I do plan to eat more that one day

@Aarjono I don't know where you're from, but isn't Thanksgiving just one day and Christmas season just December? Maybe don't go into the 'holiday eating' mindset yet if you don't have self control and try to snap out of it as soon as the Christmas tree is gone.



Good morning!
Week 2 day 2! Going strong! And time seems to be flying! Starting gym next week, so stoked to get my bum back round! Eating has become very easy, my body has adjusted and some days I even find it difficult to eat my calories, cause I eat so much greens these days.

hey!

Week 2 day 3 and started my gym membership today. So happy,it's very commercial and crowded, but gets blood pumping and calms me down, and burns calories and tons me up. plus, had -0.5cm in my hips today And a NSV - went to buy a new winter coat and I've dropped 3 sizes in coats since last year!
I guess at the moment I'm on a high horse weight loss, fitness and motivation wise, only wish life was a little bit less stressful, but should get a lot better in 5 weeks once I move away.

Yes! Went from UK 18 to 12 (US 10 I think).

Good morning, sunshines!
Week 2 day 4, so I'm halfway to -2nd kilogram! So far it looks like it's all coming off my upper body, my collarbones seem to poke out more every day I want the fat to go from the bottom part, but hey, as long as something is melting, I'm happy!
As I have such limited suitcase space and I find shopping quite pointless while still losing weight, as I had to get rid of a lot of almost brand new clothes falling off of me already, I hadn't been shopping in absolute ages, and exactly for 1 year regarding winter clothes. Now it's very cold, so it had to be done, and boy, it's so much fun when everything fits! Should do this more often, don't even have to buy it all, just try on and see how your body is at the moment, it's amazing, plus you get multiple mirrors, so 360 view to see where you at.

Bought a new body transformation journal, so pretty! I find journaling and making tables and goal lists so motivating.

Getting back on track. Fitness pal food tracker, imperative for me. No gym membership, but working to get better about using 'walking videos'. Lots of weight to loose, but no time like the present.

Hey all,

Hope everyone is doing well. I just joined a new gym and hope to do Hot Yoga 3-4 times a week. Fingers crossed I can stick with it.

good morning all. Rachel0778, I used to have SO many of those busy days mostly when I was working full time. Now a days I try to do only one activity/event a day(doesn't include taking my dogs out or working out) It's usually volunteering at animal rescue, visiting my friend, going to bible study, visiting one of our kids, or grocery shopping. I'm not social at all. I'm more of an introvert & rarely get lonely or bored but the past week I did feel lonely. Not sure why.Today it's going out to lunch with some ladies from dog park. we try to get together once a month for lunch. Gymprincess, that is so great! that's a lot from a year ago! I usually buy my clothes now a days from the thrift store, do you have thrift stores there?
I lost another pound! This morning I was 148! I'm sure i'll fluctuate for a while like I normally do before it "sticks"
Does that happen to anyone else? It takes a while for it to be consistent.

I could really do with some motivation..could i please join this group

Hola!
Day 5 already, I'm shocked how time flies! So close to -2kg Just had a delicious seed bread with hummus for breakfast and going for a raspberry tarte for lunch with friends, have to eat French food while I can, only 5 weeks left here!