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Hi everyone! I've been away from MFP for a while, but back for now at least! I come and go a lot - I'll log in faithfully for a few months, and then I get lazy about logging in and spend a few months away… So I'm back once again! I'm not far from where I would like to maintain, so that's good. I have a wedding coming up in…

Missed a few days. Busy and stressful, but have been doing relatively well with keeping up exercise and not going totally overboard with food. Day 12: +1.0 (-0.7 overall) Day 13: -0.6 (-1.3 overall) Day 14: +0.7 (-0.6 overall) Day 15: -0.5 (-1.1 overall) Up down, up down, up down. Seems like all I'm doing lately. But at…

Day 1: benchmark no loss Day 2: -0.4 Day 3: +0.4 from yesterday (0 loss overall) Day 4: +0.3 from yesterday (+0.3 overall) Day 5: -0.7 from yesterday (-0.4 overall - back to where I was day 2!) Day 6: -0.7 from yesterday (-1.1 overall!!) Day 7: +0.5 from yesterday (-0.6 overall) Day 8: -0.2 from yesterday (-0.8 overall)…

Day 1: benchmark no loss Day 2: -0.4 Day 3: +0.4 from yesterday (0 loss overall) Day 4: +0.3 from yesterday (+0.3 overall) Day 5: -0.7 from yesterday (-0.4 overall - back to where I was day 2!) Day 6: -0.7 from yesterday (-1.1 overall!!) Day 7: +0.5 from yesterday (-0.6 overall) Day 8: -0.2 from yesterday (-0.8 overall)…

Day 1: benchmark no loss Day 2: -0.4 Day 3: +0.4 from yesterday (0 loss overall) Day 4: +0.3 from yesterday (+0.3 overall) Day 5: -0.7 from yesterday (-0.4 overall - back to where I was day 2!) Day 6: -0.7 from yesterday (-1.1 overall!!) Day 7: +0.5 from yesterday (-0.6 overall) Day 8: -0.2 from yesterday (-0.8 overall)…

Day 1: benchmark no loss Day 2: -0.4 Day 3: +0.4 from yesterday (0 loss overall) Day 4: +0.3 from yesterday (+0.3 overall) Day 5: -0.7 from yesterday (-0.4 overall - back to where I was day 2!) Day 6: -0.7 from yesterday (-1.1 overall!!) Day 7: +0.5 from yesterday (-0.6 overall) Day 8: -0.2 from yesterday (-0.8 overall)

Day 1: benchmark no loss Day 2: -0.4 Day 3: +0.4 from yesterday (0 loss overall) Day 4: +0.3 from yesterday (+0.3 overall) Day 5: -0.7 from yesterday (-0.4 overall - back to where I was day 2!) Day 6: -0.7 from yesterday (-1.1 overall!!) Day 7: +0.5 from yesterday (-0.6 overall)

All of the talk of renovations and windows/doors is making me realize that I really need to get on mine. We started researching companies for windows and doors in the fall, but haven't started it yet. So that meant that when we had a cold snap a few weeks ago and spend 4 days in the negatives, we had sheets and blankets…

Day 1: benchmark no loss Day 2: -0.4 Day 3: +0.4 from yesterday (0 loss overall) Day 4: +0.3 from yesterday (+0.3 overall) Day 5: -0.7 from yesterday (-0.4 overall - back to where I was day 2!) Heading back in the right direction!

Day 1: benchmark no loss Day 2: -0.4 Day 3: +0.4 from yesterday (0 loss overall) Day 4: +0.3 from yesterday (+0.3 overall) Going the wrong direction, but I'm confident that it will turn around. This is still within my normal daily fluctuation range, so I'm not worries (yet!l

Day 1: benchmark no loss Day 2: -0.4 Day 3: +0.4 from yesterday (0 loss overall) So I'm back to where I started hahaha. I expect a nice dip sometime this weekend (hopefully!) because my diet has been very sodium-heavy for two days. Our usual chick fil a date on Tuesday and then yesterday I wasn't feeling great (time of the…

Weigh in updates for today: back down to 3.1 lb total loss. That's where I was in mid january, and I've been looking and gaining the same 2 lb over and over since then. I really have not been on track wIth eating, so it's time to get back to it and start really losing again.

@sandpiper2014 I hope you are feeling better from your cold soon! @abp1025 I think I've accidentally started intermittent fasting as well. I have been focusing on better sleep, so I've been trying to cut out any eating after 7 pm. Since I don't eat breakfast, that puts me at pretty much an 8 hour eating window. Not eating…

So far so good, even though sometimes Wednesdays are heavier days due to salt in my Tuesday chick fil a dinner (Tuesday we both work late and have evening activities so my husband gets us dinner in between). I am going to try to update my body measurements today so that I have ac urate data on that changing as well…

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well! Last week was very stressful at work and home, so I didn't check in here at all or track calories very accurately. Overall weight has been fluctuating a little bit but overall staying 2-2.5 lb down since start of January. Now that last week is over and I'm feeling a bit less stressed,…

Hello everyone! I've often seen this challenge, but never wanted to join unless I could start on day 1. So now I am here in time to start this round! I have a little to lose still,, but mostly working on keeping up good habits and body recomposition at this point. I prefer not to disclose exact weight, but rather my +/-…

Hi everyone! I missed posting on Wednesday (although I did weigh myself). Weight was down almost 3 lb overall last week, but now it's up again (still down 1.5 from where I started). Kind of frustrated, but I'm going to blame the extreme cold that we've been experiencing. We've been in the mid 20s temperature range for most…

@supersparklyk As a science teacher, I LOVE your glacier comparison! I feel like I need to steal that for my classroom when the kids are feeling discouraged by slow progress! @MaryM6316 I agree with how encouraging it is to be part of a community to share this with! My husband is super encouraging, but he just doesn't get…

@Rainbow2300 Yes! I turned most of my grass in the side and back yard into wildflower meadows, and they are messy but beautiful. I also try to grow lots of vegetables, and sometimes the groundhogs let me eat the veggies too. It's a constant battle against the wildlife here, even with a fence. But it is a lot of fun to…

@Rainbow2300 I was having the same thoughts of spring today at Walmart. They have their seeds and gardening stuff out already! It's also freezing here. We're supposed to get into the mid 30s this weekend, and that seems warm and cozy compared to the past few weeks in the teens and 20s.

Good morning everyone! Weight-in Wednesday had good results this week! Down 2.9 lb overall. It's been fluctuating a ton all week, but this is the lowest it's been since I re-started on MFP. Scale sensors say that I'm down 0.2% fat and up 0.2% muscle over the 2 weeks of January. I'm sure the sensors aren't totally accurate…

I hope everyone had a nice weekend! I got frustrated yesterday, because I felt like I had been working so hard and the scale hadn't budged in days. So I temporarily gave up (on food at least; I still did a 25 minute run in the cold and shoveled snow as usual) and ate whatever I wanted for the rest of the day.... Scale was…

Happy Wednesday! Weight had been trending slowly downward all week, but now is back up today. Might be sodium (Tuesday is always chick fil a night, because we both stay at work late and are hungry by the time we leave) or exercise (maybe I'm adding muscle??) Or maybe just random daily variations. I weigh daily and…

Happy Monday, everyone! I hope that everyone had a nice weekend! I have been continuing to keep up the exercise, even though it has been very cold here. Will likely have to shovel snow again today, plus I have been trying to add some dumbell exercises and things inside on days that I am not running/walking. Yesterday was…

Good morning, everyone! I hope that you are all doing well going into the first weekend of the year! NSV: I'm back on a good habit of regular exercise after not doing enough between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Other notes: Not back to calorie counting yet, but I'll get there! Once I get into the habit (much like exercise),…

Happy New Year, everyone! Hoping that this challenge gives me some accountability and keeps me on track with my goals. January Start Weight: 126.8 lb End of Challenge Goal Weight: 120 lb (I know that the challenge is supposed to be 10 lb, but I'm not too far from my goal at this point, and I'm trying to be slow and steady…

Hi everyone! I hope that everyone has been doing well! Stopped using MFP sometime in April when things got crazy at work... My usual pattern. Just got back from my 3 year late honeymoon (micro wedding during covid, so we delayed our honeymoon... and then just kept procrastinating on planning one), driving across the…

Hi everyone! I'm back (for now at least hahah). After backsliding for a lot of April, I gave up completely for pretty much all May. This is pretty much what happened last year around that time, too. The last few months of the school year are always so hard, and we end up eating out and snacking a lot more to cope with the…

Enjoying reading everyone's successes here! I am stuck. Not really gaining, but also not losing. And I definitely know why. I've been slipping back into old eating habits, and slipping workouts more often. Ive been in this rut for over a month, so I really need to figure out how to get myself back on track. I always start…

@SherryRueter I had never heard about sugar and night sweats, but I feel like that could explain some of my sleep. I'm not over 50, but I do have night time hormonal hot flashes. I'll have to try keeping track of evening snacking and see if that is what's causing it for me.