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@sleepymom5 of course I will post a photo. I spent a few hours today practicing making gumpaste flowers, I have never been that good at them but decided now is the time to get better! @minstrelofsarcasm I am so happy you are feeling a bit better. I would volunteer to be co-captain but I've learned my lesson on…

Weigh in for Sunday, week whatever it is? PW: 244.4 (110.9 kg) CW: 244.4 (110.9kg) No change there, which I will take. My kitchen has at points looked like yours @kandi3570 with cookies everywhere! We have more to make before Christmas day, we always drop some in to the neighbours, and I promised my mother I would bring…

Checking in. Week on track, 2.5 days of work left until 3 week break. Not that I am counting 😁 Something cute from forever ago... have a few pics of my twins. Aged 2, 5 (first day of school) and 6 or 7 I think. They're 12 now. "Are they identical?" Absolutely. I have told many people that after being asked with them at…

xX_phoenixrising_Xx Weigh in week 3? PW: 246 (111.6 kg) CW: 244.4 (110.9 kg) LTD: 95 lbs (43.1 kg) I'm too tired to comment much. Happy with that loss. I didn't realise that my twins finish school for the year on Tuesday so I spent today sewing teacher gifts. Our school year runs to the calendar year so they won't be back…

80s Xmas party was quite awesome. I was really worried that something would trigger a migraine and I would have to leave early but I was fine. All the trigger point release hubby and I have been doing is really helping. I was dancing (so much dancing), singing (how can you not sing along to 80s hits?), there were strobe…

My weekend goal is to check in and comment... I have only glanced through all your posts. Still crazy at work in the lead up to Xmas shut down for 3 weeks. Currently Friday morning, 6.50am, just finished a spin session. We have our work Xmas party tonight, it's a buffet so I'm pretty sure I can make good choices. Also, 80s…

@1theresamcvean Okay, with total loss, my LTD is 42.5kg / 93.6 lbs. I decided to take that from my highest non-pregnant weight, which is actually a little higher than what I used to use as "start weight". Because bugger it, the F2F way is right - that is all weight that I have lost. Puts this year into perspective. Thanks…

xX_PhoenixRising_Xx Weigh in Week 2 Weigh day: Sunday PW: 246 (111.6 kg) CW: 246 (111.6 kg) LTD: 30 lbs (13.6 kg) I will take that, I know I wasn't on track for quite a few days this week and I posted that my weight jumped up 1.4kg, it finally came back down yesterday and stayed there today. At this point in this very very…

Friday check-in - the weeks are flying by. Two more weeks of work and I get three weeks off (yay!) We have our 80's theme xmas party next Friday night. I survived lunch the other day, chose kumara (sweet potato) gnocchi, turned down ice cream afterwards in favour of an iced Americano, but I had a bad few days in general…

You know I love love love my spin bike, and I have a love/hate relationship with the scale. With things like Isagenix I am on the fence. There's not a lot of science that shows replacing meals with shakes works in the long term, but it will likely reduce calories for the time that you're on it. That said, just doing…

No, it won't over the long term. It's just a matter if you want to use your calorie allowance on it. It will likely cause some fluctuations in the short term, but that's nothing you didn't know :smile:

Thanks, I do agree with you. It's just that the list of foods I'm avoiding is getting as long as my arm lol. And most of the people I work with eat crap, then I come along with my borderline-vegan low-sugar avoiding-mystery-ingredients self and they don't know what to do. Then to top it off I can't drink alcohol or…

I have a work lunch out tomorrow and I'm afraid I've turned into *that* person... I need to see the menu beforehand because there is so much that I can't/won't eat because of migraine triggers, and I want to plan ahead with calories as well. Of course, nobody has decided where we are going yet, so let's see how this goes!…

Hi guys and gals, posting my weigh in to kick off December. xX_PhoenixRising_Xx Weigh in week 1 Day: Sunday PW: 245.8 (111.5 kg) CW: 246.0 (111.6 kg) LTD: 30 lbs (13.6 kg) Ugh, there's a typo in my last weigh-in, being on account of how I'm not American and don't think naturally in lbs. Nor did I proof-read properly, to…

I've been doing the math... my highest weight was 329 lbs, my lowest around 167.5 (in 2016) before life happened and I learned first-hand how less than 5% of morbidly obese people manage to lose the weight and keep it off. So I gained more than half of what I lost back. I am only tracking my loss this time around since I…

xX_phoenixrising_Xx Weigh in week 4 Weigh in day Sunday PW: 247.1 (112.1 kg) CW: 248.5 (111.5 kg) LTD: 30.2 (13.7 kg)

Saturday here so hubby and I did another 5km walk. Still on the beach because I never get sick of the scenery! I've attached a photo of our seagull friend who watched us intently today. And one of me with beach hair (don't care) 😝 In other news my work Xmas party is 80s themed so I've been looking for an outfit to wear.…

Ugh - how do I edit from the app? It should say I CAN'T take credit. My incredibly talented mother made all the quilts in my house. She has most of the ones I have made.

Beautiful quilt, and cat! I have about a million cat on quilt (or fabric) photos, but I can take credit for the quilts, my mother is a quilter. My first job was working in her quilt shop. I only dabble. There are maybe 30 quilts in my house right now? I have more in storage. Mum has many many more.

I think 5km on spin bikes is a great idea (maybe because I do at least that every morning lol) I walked 5km on Sunday, I aim for at least 5km on one weekend day.

Hi guys, sorry it's a bit late... xX_phoenixrising_Xx Weigh in week 3 Weigh in day Sunday PW 246.9 (112kg) CW 247.1 (112.1kg) Today is the first day in ages that I didn't wake up with a headache or any significant eye/face pain, so that was nice. Took my car for repairs - I don't know how it works in other countries but in…

Fat-bottomed girls make the rockin' world go round. Also, I too would like to avoid injuring myself.

xX_PhoenixRising_Xx Weigh in: week 2 Day: Sunday PW: 247.5 (112.3 kg) CW: 246.9 (112.0 kg) LTD: 29.1 lbs (13.2 kg) Guys and gals, this week was rough. I normally get around 10 hours of exercise per week and I stick to my calorie goal of 1750 + roughly half of my exercise calories (more if I need it because I learned the…

So the past few days have not been great. I haven't been able to exercise and I've eaten too much, but I've learned to accept that this happens sometimes and fighting it just makes me feel worse. I had today off work so I could go on a school trip with my son, but that got cancelled due to weather, so I spent much of the…

@kandi3570 Sad to say the shake weights won't do anything to tone your arms. It's normal to have some flab/sag there. There's no way to target specific areas for weight loss either, the body loses where it will. What you *can* do is try to build some muscle in your arms which can make them look more toned than flabby (for…

Hi everyone, and welcome newcomers. I'm Kristy, 41, from New Zealand. I've been married to my husband for 18 years, and we have four children - 17, 15 and twins turning 12 in a few weeks. I have a boring day job where I work in payments compliance for a company that designs outdoor payment terminals (mainly used at gas…

xX_PhoenixRising_Xx Weigh in week 1 Weigh day Sunday PW: 248.0 (112.5 kg) CW 247.5 (112.3 kg) LTD: 28.4 (12.9 kg) Not bad, not brilliant. But less than I weighed at the start of last month, so I call that winning. 😃 Same goal for November!

Started the day getting up early as planned for the gym, and tweaked my back while getting dressed 😂 So today is the first proper rest day I have had all month. Can't exercise when it hurts to walk. I don't think it's all that serious though, just my body telling me to take a break. Ended the day with being offered a…

@melaniedscott and @GingerPwr - the top is a sample for my business, I've been slowly designing and setting it up in all my spare time :D I don't have an online shop up yet, but it won't be too far away. :smile: @debbiewsharpe interesting rainbow brain! Mine must light up a lot, I'm always moving. Also re the…