Praise the Lord!....so happy to see you on here...so sorry you have been ill....I have missed your guidance and mentoring so much...I knew something seriously must have been wrong for you not to be here...welcome back!......huge hugs and get well wishes sent your way!

Missed you, glad you're able to post and will be cheering whatever recovery is needed is swift.
The group hasn't been working for me so I've moved on to a great group for 50+ pounds on my fitbit app (I've now lost 80 with under 40 to go so it seemed like a great fit for me). But for whatever reason I checked back in today. Very glad I did. I hope you see this as I'm unlikely to be back here. Though if you need anything you can connect with me and message me directly. Or find me in the fitbit group.

Welcome Back @NovusDies ! Sending you best wishes for a speedy recovery. We missed your voice and your inspirations.

As I said above I'd check in at the 100 pound mark and I've achieved that. I was under a pound to that by July 15th (156.6), the next week stayed even, and was out of town the week after that so today is my first weigh in since the 22nd and I clocked in at 151.7 for a total loss of 104.3 since I began my journey. What I enjoyed the most is that I've proven I can maintain this. No weird foods, no weird times to eat, no restrictions (literally ate what I wanted on my trip including cheese fries, crab cakes, all the pizza, ice cream, and tons of alcohol) and I fully enjoy my indulgences. Then get home and be more reasonable again, but never deprived or restricted. The biggest weight is the mental weight that I've lost, the games played around food. I can eat anywhere I want and just about anything I want, just not all the time. It's just that simple.
I am under 13 pounds to my goal, to be in the 130s. I have no clothes (literally 4 workout shirts, 3 workout pants, 6 t-shirts, 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of cargos, 1 pair of shorts, and a denim dress....nothing else). I haven't set a specific number for a bottom, maybe 135, probably not the 120s. But in general my plan as of now is to set the 130s as my forever high water mark. Keep logging, keep weighing and if I creep to the 139s then back off whatever it is I'm doing so I never get heavy again. It'll be hard, I am still losing so I don't know what my maintenance calories will be (which is why I may lose to 135 and so I have a few pounds to play with to figure that out without popping into the 140s again).
As always if anyone wants to friend me here and see my diary or message me, feel free or find me on myfitnesspal in the 50+ pounds to lose group. And yet again here are my full stats since the start.
Good luck to everyone.

Congratulations!

I haven't checked in here in a while, about 3 months. Since my last post of weighing 151.7 (loss of 104.3) I'm now down to 140.5 (loss of 115.5). I am just about at my goal range. I'll go to 137 so I have some flexibility...my goal is 'the 130s' so 135, 6, 7, 8 is all the same to me. But as I see the scale getting close to 140 I'll buckle down again. I'm still guessing on maintenance calories for the week (having 2 large calorie days, 5 moderate ones) so I will need some time for that.
My clothes are all over the place. I bought a hoodie and denim jacket at Kohls in Small, a winter coat at Sam's in Small, a dress at Target in Medium, and a new leather jacket in Large. Okay, not frustrating at all.
Jeans I found a stretch size 6 that looks okay but I need to find a nonstretch pair so they don't wear out in 6 months. That stretch is annoying. I am old enough to remember jeans that just 'were', no stretch to make us think we're smaller than we are and when they got tight they didn't expand with us...they dug into our waist so we knew we should do something asap. Any input is welcome - I thought good ol' Levis would be good but they are 100% not what they used to be...they are thin and very stretchy. I have a size 6 skirt from the early 1990s and it is NOT the same size 6 as the jeans - way smaller. So again we are all just kidding ourselves with these labels. So annoying.
Here is the big ol' spreadsheet. I expect to be in maintenance by Thanksgiving and I have a game I've made for that for me and my boyfriend (he's lost over 60 pounds) so we can celebrate staying in range and help each other if we pop out of range. I made the first leg of this a fun challenge, made the second leg to goal a little fun too, so maintenance needs to be a game too since there are no more WOW moments when you've gotten to size and everyone has seen you. It's weird.
As before, if you want to communicate more often I'm happy to, just DM me here and I'll help you find me on the Fitbit app. That is an awesome community and the 50+ pound group is great and I've found some separate closed groups too that rare wonderful.

Looking good! Remember to continue the sheet.... cause maintenance is just as intriguing!

FitByFifty1970 wrote: »

I got to the 130s today, 139.4 to be exact.

Congratulations!

Please come back and visit and let us know how maintenance is going. This past year, since I made my "3rd" goal, has been tough. It will be good to follow along with you as you go down this trail!

Me too, Yooly. I made a WORD table for the first bunch of months, but it does take a lot of time and energy. But I gave that up when I hit goal number three last year and hoped to somehow lighten things up as I slowly coasted (lol) down to my new "final" goal. Well that didn't work.

Your spreadsheet is inspiring, FitByFifty1970, it might be time for me to return to more "hands on" record keeping?

I am so horrible with numbers….I can add, subtract,multiply and divide….fractions and percentages and that is it….in our business you had to be good handling money,making change, profits and losses, etc….but after that I am lost….all of your charts and graphs amaze me!…give me some spelling,writing,languages or a book!