My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 220 lbs (This would put me in the obesity stage 1 category)
Milestone: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Current Weight: 282.6 lbs 10/10/19
Loss this Week: +0.5 lbs
Total loss: -92.4 lbs


What's Working/What Needs Work: I'm recording today's weight just to get the entry in, but I'm considering this more of a maintain than an actual increase since I'm coming off TOM and was out of town earlier this week with out to eating again, all which I believe translates to water weight.

I saw my regular doctor on Monday, and she was very encouraging. Her thoughts are that its incredible that I've managed to lose about 10 lbs this summer even while being badly hypo-thyroid, and her thinking is that the Wellbutrin hasn't been having much of an effect because it's being muted by the hypo-thyroid state, and wants to stay on it for a while longer to see how it works once I get my TSH levels back down where they should be. I am very much hoping that as my TSH falls where it should be that the Wellbutrin will kick in and get the hunger cravings down!

Meanwhile, after talking with my general doctor this week, I'm going to try to swap my evening and morning medications. I was taking my thyroid meds in the morning and then taking my meformin, multivitamin, and now the wellbutrin of an evening. But she said that Wellbutrin can be known to cause insomnia, and I have been having trouble being wide awake at bedtime, so starting yesterday, I decided to take the synthroid at night and everything else in the morning. Thyroid medication is so sensitive!

Anyway, there is a plus side to the swap: thyroid meds have to be taken on an empty stomach, so you either take it 30 minutes to 1 hour before you eat (including coffee which I admit I was failing on miserably) OR you take it at least 2 hours after you eat or 4 hours after you take any other medication. So to be on the safe side, I'm going to try to stop eating 4 hours before time to take my synthroid and go to bed. So basically, I have to stop eating by 7 pm.

This means evening snacking has to come to an end, which is actually a good thing! I'm hoping that the need to take my medication will bolster my will not to eat after 7 pm where trying to stop eating for general calorie counting failed, and I'll do better at sticking to my calorie limit, especially if i continue to put off breakfast until at least 9:30 am - that gives me an IF window of about 9 hours or so.

The second thing I really need to work on is the stopping for fast food for lunch or such. Besides the fact that I really need to stop spending the money, even though it really is my only vice and not nearly as expensive as some others could be, it makes staying under my calorie limit while also hitting my protein goal harder. Course, will power has been in the tank and I've been tired and wanting comfort food hence the stops nearly every day at Arby's or McDonald's, but I'm hoping that as the meds bring my TSH down that my energy levels and my will power get better.

It takes time, I know, but here's hoping that I start seeing some improvement by the first of November!

My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 220 lbs (This would put me in the obesity stage 1 category)
Milestone: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Current Weight: 281.1 lbs 10/25/19
Loss this Week: +0.8 lbs
Total loss: -93.9 lbs


What's Working/What Needs Work: and I continue to ratchet up and down in my weight numbers - one week I'm down a little; the next I'm back up a little. The only thing keeping me sane in all this is that when I go back and look at the month's trend, it is trending downward (at a snail's pace but it is heading downward). Still, getting solidly back into the 270's is being very elusive right now. It doesn't help that I'm back to having trouble staying within my calorie range; its proven to be very, very difficult to wait 4 hours after my last meal to take my medication as evenings are a high time for me to want to snack. If this keeps up, I may have to consider switching the two sets of medication - I've got a choice - either forcing myself to wait at least 2 hours and preferably 4 after eating the evening meal to take the thyroid meds and go to bed, or force myself to wait at least an hour after taking them first thing before I can have my morning coffee. Both are very difficult for me to get myself into the routine of doing.

My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 220 lbs (This would put me in the obesity stage 1 category)
Milestone: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Current Weight: 278.6 lbs 11/07/19
Loss this Week: -2.8 lbs
Total loss: -96.4 lbs


What's Working/What Needs Work: a good week for once; though of course part of this is water-weight loss (TOM was last week), but I'll take it! The weekend, as usual, was over limit but for once, I stayed well under maintenance. I was under calorie goal a couple other days this week as well. Tuesday, while an over day, was a good day for me because I had to go to the corporate HQ for a meeting and they provided pizza for lunch, but I had managed to hold breakfast calories down and stuck with only 2 slices and picked the cheese and croutons off the salad and used very little salad dressing. AND I stayed out of the big bag of candy my boss brought in! So over all, I consider that a win day!

Yesterday was a good day - I stayed under calorie limit and I stayed completely out of the big candy bowl in the break room. It was a close one there at the end of the day, but I survived, and the good news is that when I came in this morning, all the good stuff that would tempt me is gone So I managed to make it through Halloween without candy! Helps that I don't have trick-or-treaters, too

So here we are, once again, under 380. My hope is that I can keep it there through this weekend and next week. This weekend will be a bust, I know, because I have a craft show starting tomorrow and going into Saturday. I'll do my best to mitigate the damage, but there's something about being stuck in one location for several hours that makes a person hungry! It's my Sunday for dinner, so I'm looking at recipes now that I can use to help on Sunday keep things down, too, so we'll see how next week goes.

My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 220 lbs (This would put me in the obesity stage 1 category)
Milestone: 275 lbs (this puts me at 100 lbs lost again; then I'll go back to the 260 milestone)
Current Weight: 275.8 lbs 1/9/20
Loss this Week: -4.5 lbs
Total loss: -99.2 lbs


What's Working/What Needs Work: I knew that weight reading last week was skewed by water weight gain!

Unfortunately, while I managed to shed the water last week, I picked up more in the last 24 hours because I was on pace to be under 275 today as I've been really good this week. I was under my calorie goal 6 out of 7 days and under the last 3. Sunday I was over calorie goal, but under maintenance levels, so was still in deficit. I've cut sharply down on the amount of fast food eating out I was doing, even if I was sticking with salads and chicken. Yesterday, the scale was down to 275.1, and I was really hoping that it'd come down to 275 today, but instead, today's reading popped back up to 275.8 *grrrr*

I absolutely know that 3/4 lb is water weight - I feel bloated and I know why. But until I can get my body to do what its supposed to be doing, that water weight is going to be skewing my results.


However, on the plus side - I WAS in deficit for the entire week and under calorie goal for 6 out of those 7. that's a huge win. As I noted, Friday's weight was 277.9 which I think was a realist weight for after the holidays, so that means I had a real weight loss of ~2 lbs, exactly what I've got my calorie limit set up to lose as I'm still over 100 lbs overweight. So that tells me my calorie limit is realistic for my goal. My drive for the fast food has dropped down after the holidays, and I'm doing well at keeping breakfast and lunch at a minimum if I stay out of the fast food joints which in turn leaves me calories for the evening snack drive. I've also minimized what I have to snack on, and have been doing well in staving off the cravings. Over all, the intense mental hunger drive I was fighting before Christmas seems right now to have backed off to a more manageable level, which may be due to the over-eating in December which amounted to a diet break. I was eating more at maintenance levels or slightly over during the holidays more often than not, and that may have been enough to provide the benefits that a diet break usually provides.

Mom is being somewhat sympathetic at my renewed desire to try to shed some more weight, as she did give me the ingredients she used in last Sunday's dinner and didn't quibble when I took the apple salad, weighed the entire thing, and then careful measured out a serving for myself, which in turn showed her what a serving size should at least look like. My sister, for once, just keeps her thoughts to herself (which is actually pretty unusual for her!) Dad, however, thinks I'm being ridiculous. His "what, are you dieting again?" comment when i weighed my salad serving out what extremely snarky and sarcastic. However, I don't care what he thinks. The comment was irritating but I also know that's just my dad being dad.

but none of this is really anything new; my efforts at weight loss have always been my battle alone. I'm not giving up and perhaps the next few months will provide me with a little stronger will power control to try to get at least 25 lbs off this year - preferrably by mid-summer. It would really be nice to finally, after 2 years, get down to that 260 goal point I've been striving for!