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Good morning everyone! (I almost said Happy Friday, but realized it's only Tuesday. Time doesn't exist anymore!) So my eating choices have been a big ol' two thumbs down. Tomorrow I move out of my apartment so in the meantime it has been eating out or finishing up whatever bits of food I have left here. My scale is packed…

Good morning everyone! Hoping all of you who are under the weather feel better soon! I have decided to officially Take A Break from weighing until after I've moved. I will do my best to eat mindfully in the meantime, but weighing right now is just a stressor I don't need (plus now I can pack up my scale). I am in a much…

Hi everyone! So.. I feel like I'm completely losing control. This month has been absolute chaos and there are still two weeks left until I move in to my new place. I'm not feeling as fatigued from covid, except for in the evenings I end up passing out on my couch for several hours pretty much every night. My food situation…

Good morning and happy Friday! I finally started tracking some food again now that I had a chance to go grocery shopping and get some healthy stuff and not just snacky junk food that my mom brought me toward the end of my covid isolation (though the junk food was definitely welcome after last weekend with very few…

Hi everyone, I feel like it's been forever since I've really posted in here since covid has completely thrown me off track. Good news is: I tested negative last night! It was so nice to be able to leave my dungeon apartment for a bit today. I am feeling SO much better today finally. Smell and taste are back, and I was…

Covid is making everything taste and smell absolutely awful, like burnt garbage. Sweet stuff tastes like nothing and savory stuff tastes like trash. Literally the only thing I've found that tastes normal is cinnamon applesauce. I almost cried when I ate it last night because it just tasted SO. GOOD. I'm barely eating…

So you know in my last post when I said I was glad I didn't have covid? Just joking! I lost my taste and everything smells like burnt toast, so I tested again and came up positive twice. 🙃

Good morning, I'm super late to the party because I've been dealing with a really bad head cold since last week. Because of that, I took about a week off from tracking and just ate what I wanted. I'm about 90% back to normal now so I'm starting up with tracking again, though I'm still taking a break from exercise for now.…

Last time I was losing weight was fall 2020-spring 2021. We were still in full pandemic mode so I was working from home and barely ever going out. This actually really helped me lose weight because I didn't have that temptation to go out and eat and drink and socialize. I had to eat the groceries I bought and that allowed…

Jamie, 37, 5'6", Pennsylvania SW: 248 6/1: 239.6 6/6: 241 6/13: 238.8 6/20: 239.8 6/27: 238.6 Happy Monday! My giant whoosh from Friday(?) is almost all back, but that's okay. I'm still a pound down from last week, and that's progress. Yesterday I volunteered at a craft beverage expo in town, which got me a lot of steps…

Happy Friday! I have been at 239 and change for most of the month, occasionally a bit higher. So imagine my surprise when I stepped on the scale this morning and it read 235. Excuse me, what? I dropped four pounds in two days? I've been eating a lot of extra junk the last week, and yesterday, despite my headache, I got…

Woke up to an over 2 lb. whoosh overnight, which was a nice surprise! I didn't track what I ate for most of yesterday, but I tried to make smart choices. Also, between moving offices and apartments, I'm being more active taking apart stuff, moving furniture, and scrubbing my place down. I was up at 6:45 this morning…

Jamie, 37, 5'6", Pennsylvania SW: 248 6/1: 239.6 6/6: 241 6/13: 238.8 6/20: 239.8 So I'm going to chalk the weight gain up to two things: 1) TOM arriving three days early yesterday, and 2) not tracking at all over the weekend. The weekend was just go go go and honestly, it was just a PITA to track with everything going on.…

Update: We got the apartment!

Happy Friday everyone! What a week it's been. I'm finally feeling back to normal as of yesterday. My boyfriend and I have been apartment hunting and we checked out a place yesterday that has one of our favorite parks literally in the backyard. This would mean no excuses to not go outside and take advantage of the…

Jamie, 37, 5'6", Pennsylvania SW: 248 6/1: 239.6 6/6: 241 6/13: 238.8 I'm feeling pretty crummy physically today. My bf was feeling off earlier in the weekend and had a negative covid test on Saturday morning. Then yesterday I started feeling off and I just took a covid test this morning to be safe, also negative. I ate…

I just started doing HASfit videos on YouTube and really enjoy them. I am a total beginner and have been sticking to shorter videos, but they seem to have a wide variety of skill levels available.

Happy Friday everyone! My weight finally dipped back down under 240, so I'm pretty jazzed about that. I woke up this morning with bad muscle pain in my right outer hip/upper thigh area. I've really been pushing myself with walking speed this week, so it's totally possible that I overworked it. Since I plan on doing a lot…

@sandielewis2001 Holy moly, what a transformation! You both look amazing! That's got to be so nice when you can go on this journey with your partner. My boyfriend and I will be moving in together in a couple of months, and I'm trying to convince him to do strength training with me (he did a long, long time ago before we…

Like a number of others have said, I've been changing things up incrementally. First thing I did was pay attention to calories and eat at a deficit using foods that work for me. Once I was comfortable doing that, I added in walks as many days as I could, just to get moving and get my heart pumping more, even if it was just…

Morning all! I've been hanging out at 240 and change all week, which is a little annoying after having dipped into the 230s last week, but I've been starting to strength train as well which I LOVE. I have been doing HASfit videos on YouTube. They have such a wide variety of videos, and I love that I can choose ones that…

Hi everyone! I'm definitely late joining June's thread, but I made it! Jamie, 37, 5'6", Pennsylvania SW: 248 6/1: 239.6 6/6: 241 Okay, so I forget which of you ladies said this, but muscle pain = weight gain. I just started some strength training, and I have been SORE the last few days. As soon as started feeling sore, my…

Jamie, 37, 5'6" SW: 248 (April 2022) 5/2: 243.4 5/9: 243.6 5/16: 241.2 5/23: 241.2 5/31: 240 I guess I've done okay this month, but I'm not losing at the rate that I normally do (around 5 lbs./month) and can't help but feel a bit frustrated. I'm trying to figure out what's different this time around - new medication, more…

Are you me?? Emgality in the same week and now TOM arriving unexpectedly (mine came three days early today). I also just hit the 23Xs this week!

Oh, I clicked on your links and realized I have seen him before! He seems really fun and I might give him a try when I am feeling a little better. It's day 2 of migraine but I feel like it might go away today so fingers crossed! Tomorrow and Saturday are supposed to be stormy outside so those might be good days to try it…

Good morning! It's been a while since I've checked in. I took my monthly Emgality injection for migraines last night and my head is absolutely pounding this morning. Naturally, my landlord is being noisy upstairs so I had to escape to my parents' for the day. @rockitwell86 I am on Goodreads! I'm not quite sure how to add…

That's so interesting because I had the exact opposite experience. I was initially prescribed Ajovy and it wasn't approved by my insurance, so I gave up for a while then went back and they prescribed me Emgality, which was eventually approved with a bit of a fight. After I wrote my response to you, I realized I've never…

Granted, every body is different and different drugs will work differently, but it is possible to lose weight on antidepressants. I've been on various antidepressants since I was about 17 or so, and I've been on the same combo for at least 5 years. In late 2020/early 2021, I was able to lose 35 lbs (and then I got lazy…

Jamie, 37, 5'6", Pennsylvania SW (4/18/22): 248 5/2: 243.4 5/9: 243.6 5/16: 241.2 5/23: 5/30: It looks like I had a nice drop this week, but aside from a big drop my very first week of tracking, I've been fluctuating daily between 241-243, which is getting pretty old tbh. I've never had this much trouble in the past losing…

Good morning everyone! Jamie, 37, 5'6", Pennsylvania HW: 250 SW: 248 4/19: 248 4/26: 243 5/3: 243 5/10: 242 I feel like I'm not losing at fast as I have in the past, but then I look at my progress and realize I've lost 6 lbs. in 3 weeks (although most of it was that first week). In the past, I've averaged about 5 lbs. lost…