rebelq Member

SW: 181 CW: 181 GW: 173 Weigh in Dates: 10/1 181 10/8 10/15 10/22 10/31 Good to have a little fun motivation, really need to keep losing as the "evil trio" of goodies, (my hubby calls it), comes: Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas!!

Central Texas

Wow- 77 days! I am somewhere around 44, and I think you really put it well, several things you said. Its a lifestyle change, put in everything, and as soon as possible!! Great advice!

Sweet, and good message, that there are things to bring you up after losses in your life!!!

Yup, ditto. But its keeping the goal on your mind, seeing everyone's losses is so inspiring!

Um, no kidding. When I was on a plateau, the great MFP comm. gave me the same advice, (I mean the understandable ones), as I stick really close to my cal. goal, even going a little bit over, the weight is coming off so steadily. 1 or 2 lbs. a week doesn't seem like much, but wow, it starts adding up! I keep saying to…

MFP community helped me when I had a plateau, the great advice was: be careful you are counting everything you eat, up the calories, be sure not to eat less than your goal. I didn't up my exercise, I wasn't burning it up, but was walking 20 min. every day. The eating more did it, right away I went down 2 lbs. Good luck,…

My husband suffered alot with it, the cure for him was getting really good shoes for walking, ex.... He stretched on a step every morning and every night as well. Hope it goes away fast for you!!

Whoa, cool pic!!!

I'm a little shy of 5'8, but just to "weigh in", someone might get discouraged seeing all you girl's low weights. It makes a difference if you are large frame. I started July 31 at 201, now down 16 lbs, (yay), I want to get to 170. When I went down to 155, people did not say, "You look great", they said, "Have you been…

Dancing with my sweet mom at my 35th anniv. party. Now she is dancing with the angels. Makes me smile.

Good points- especially the part about it wasn't helping me lose weight before! Thanks for taking the time to give me advice!!

Someone brought in yummy bread treats to work- blueberry, pumpkin... I took a small corner of a piece and ate it SOOO slowly. I was happy, didn't hurt all my hard work and I got to enjoy the flavor!

I never drank water as a kid, always milk. Really cold, filtered water, through a straw. MOST importantly, my competition with myself to "fill" the glass on MFP!! My weight loss is going better than in YEARS, a big change is, drinking water. I also learned to drink de caf tea w/ no sugar. Not fabulous, but helps when I…

I can't wait to try it! You said you make cookies- so do you drop a 1 Tbl. size dollop for cookies?

Thanks Kiachu. I do use the scales to measure my success, for the first 15 lbs., I don't feel or look much different. I am blessed/cursed, (depending on which way my weight is going), I lose or gain all over. Ican lose 20 lbs. and still be a size 12, just more comfortable of course. I know as I lose more that will come. I…

SW: 201 GW- 180 for now... 1st wk- -4 2nd wk-2 3rd wk-3 Loss: 9lbs. Thanks for the motivation!

My problem is my impatience! If I have a bad week or day, I used to get discouraged. I am trying to: 1. only think of smaller goals- right now all I can think about is 20 lbs. 2. When I feel discouraged I'm saying to myself-"Get mad, get determined, not discouraged!" I was on a week long plateau, (the MFP community gave me…

Thank you again for the encouragement, great advice. I took it to heart: Its a life long commitment, change up your exercise, eat more calories. I did it all and dropped 3 lbs. I chose to get more determined, instead of discouraged, exercised every day and it worked!

Thank you so much, so many good points and I appreciate the encouragement! Just what I needed to "stay the course". Feels like having friends in my corner!

Wow, appreciate the physiology graph. Now, that's incentive to keep going, that week after week the % of fat burning goes up. NICE!

Had NOT planned on going to the store, till I saw this yumminess!! Thanks, I needed some sweets ideas!

Wow, how interesting- thanks for sharing that article!

SW 201 CW 195 Goal (for now), 180

SW 201 CW197 GW 180 (To start, couldn't handle looking at the whole amount I want to lose, so I'm taking a baby step. I've only been on MFP one week. I'm encouraged by losing 4 lbs. after the last year of losing and gaining the same 10 lbs. Seeing so many of your losses makes me hopeful!