ctleonard9 wrote: »

Hi. i am new and am glad I found a weekly weigh in group. I am hoping it will help me with accountability. I lost 40 pound in 2 year then gained 20 pounds back in one year after I quit counting calories.

SW: 200
CW 217.5
GW: 165 (my first goal since I am only 5.2 feet tall.)

Personal goal are to get to the gym 3 times per week for weight training instead of 2. Do cardio 3 times per week starting at 5 minutes on the elliptical (i had a prior injury with cardio so I need start slowly) and keep slowly increasing. Thanks.

Cat

Hi @ctleonard9 welcome to the group. There is a thread for weekly weigh ins and an Introduce yourself/FAQ thread here

Congratulations to @MegansMom2011 biggest loser for January.

Welcome back @tanyanie11 and welcome to our newbie @patriciabrusseau

Congratulations to @conniewilkins56 biggest loser for March!

Congratulations to @thomasjohnlynch our biggest loser for June.

thomasjohnlynch wrote: »

probably not said enough (if at all? :-) but thank you tinkerbellang83 for putting this together and herding us cats its inspiring and motivating and stirs the competitive juices to see how we are doing and stacking up on a dashboard.

THANK YOU!! Much appreciated!

~ Thomas ~

Thanks @thomasjohnlynch you guys also herd me in the right direction to, you are all inspiring in your own ways! Keep it up! I hope as well as burning the competive fires, it also helps people to see the bigger picture, it's sometimes easy to be disappointed with the odd week when there is no loss or a small gain, but sometimes looking at the month as an overall it can help you see it went just as expected or wasn't as bad as you thought.

October progress reports - congratulations to @prehistoricmoongoddess who had another great month with 9lbs lost. Welcome also to noob @Dante_80 who has a 6.3lb loss during his first couple of weeks with us.

It's a challenging time still with many countries starting to go back into various "lockdowns" I hope you're all managing as best you can. Here in Ireland we went back into our highest restrictions a couple of weeks ago for a period of 6 weeks, I've made myself some goals for this period to try and keep myself on track:

1. Do 30 mins of exercise per day - even if it's just a couple of short walks around the block.
2. Log all my food - good days, all out binge days and everything between.
3. Avoid buying easily bingeable food - it may not stop me bingeing as I've been known to binge on anything from Broccoli to Chocolate over the years but hopefully if it's more of an effort to eat it'll put me off.

I have already had a couple of days where I haven't achieved all 3 but that's ok, it's what we do most days, not every day that counts!