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Looks fantastic! Thanks Cherirana! Carolyn

There are some awesome goals on here. Mine are, first and foremost, to be kind, particularly to my MIL who has dementia. Next, to continue to lose weight at a rate of ~3 lbs/month, with an end goal for the year of 154, and an ultimate goal of 140. To that end, I plan to walk ~3 miles/day->~87 mile/month, for at least 1050…

Hi all. I'm a day late...it's the 2nd. Wt. 1/1: 185 Challenge GW: 170 Ultimate GW: 140 Have a terrific weekend everyone!!

Hi maginsky, The spread sheet will not let me edit it to enter my beginning weight or 1/1/2015 weight. Thanks for building it. Best of luck perfecting it. I know these things can be tricky. Carolyn

I must be missing it entirely. I don't see the spreadsheet. What's the address for it? Happy New Year everyone! As far as goals go... I weighed in up this morning... 185. So my goal weight for the challenge is 170. As far as other goals go, I intend to walk 1050 miles in 2015 (a little more than 200 more than in 2014).…

Hi everyone! Thanks to Cherirana for pointing out this group to me! My goal is to lose about 15 lbs. 12 is probably more realistic, but I'll shoot for 15. I'll weigh in on Thursday and let whoever is doing a spreadsheet know where I am to start. I am so excited that it looks like there will be a spreadsheet. I find that so…

Thanks Cheri!

Jwildeboer: as Cherirana implied, we still made great progress! Cheri, would you repost the "150 days til summer" link? It came up as the Easter one instead of the summer one. Much obliged!

WTG Cherirana!!! I didn't make it (missed it by 3 lbs), but in the first 3 months did lose weight nicely. Then I plateaued, and I'm still stuck. This has happened before. Some of it is poor choices (simply eating too much--a couple hundred extra calories a day here and there is a problem). But some of it is just plain…

Oh, Cherirana, so close! And you've lost so much!!! Good for you! I'm close too, but I just don't lose with any rapidity at all, so I don't think I'm going to quite make it. Still, I've made good progress during this challenge, and I'm pleased. SW: 197 LW: 185 CW: 184.6 CGW: 182 Have a great week everyone. And best of luck…

HoHoHo starting wt.: 197 LW: 185.6 CW: 185.8 X-mas GW: 182 I hope (and suspect) I'll be able to lose 3.8 lbs. by Christmas, but I'm getting a little tired of not being able to break past 185. I know it'll happen soon...I feel this about every mini-goal...200, 190, now 185... Too bad no one has a magic wand for weight…

MFP (as you say...of course!), MapMyWalk, and some program on my kindle that I can't remember the name of on which I record weights and weights only. I also keep a log in googledocs on which I keep a running total of my weekly and monthly mileage for walking (MapMyWalk keeps a lifetime total-since I started using it). On…

Terrific gaylan! You're only 5# away from goal!! WTG!

My husband found an old photo from years ago, before I started this very gradual process of losing weight. I weighed ~300 lbs. and wore size 24-26W jeans. I just bought size 16 misses jeans (3 pair because I don't intend to be in them for too very long) a few weeks ago, and one pair is already getting pretty loose. When I…

You all are doing wonderfully!!! I'm having trouble with the spreadsheet too...November isn't available, and no months except October are visible. Sure miss Ms Poo Poo and Shmu! Can Mule fix it??? This moderately low-carb thing seems to be getting me somewhere. I'm making a little progress again, finally! 10/17: 190.4…

Finally! A loss worth mentioning! SW: 197 10/3: 189.6 10/10: 188.8 10/17: 190.4 10/24: 189.4 10/31: 186.8 !!! Christmas GW: 182 Looking like I might actually make it.... :D By-the-by, lookin' good cherirana!!!

I'm bipolar too. Walking is a godsend. Try to get outside every day, for your soul as well as for your body, even if it's just for half an hour. Of course more is better, but get what you can...every day! Walking the treadmill at the gym isn't the same. I live in the South, but walk even when it's snowy and icy outside (it…

1 lb down from last week, but only 0.2 lb down from 10/3. Decreased carbs and increased fat and protein in my macros. We're trying to eliminate wheat and sugar at my house, or at least cut them way way back. What a challenge!!! Hopefully that will speed things up a bit!

Have you every really had influenza? Not just a stomach bug that lasts a couple days, but the flu? The aches, fever, headache, cough--lasts a couple weeks. Can easily develop into bronchitis or pneumonia. If you ever have it once, you'll never miss a flu shot again. And if you care about your kids and your older in laws…

I'm up this week. Well, actually, I'm up today. My low this week is the closest I've come yet to my low adult weight in 1988. But my husband brought Dill Pickle Potato Chips home yesterday and I had zilch in the way of willpower. So I need to drink a bunch of water and curb the sodium intake! I hope everyone has all the…

Right Place Wrong Time-Dr. John

I'm 50, but a returning college student. I earned an ADN over 25 years ago and am returning now for a BS. I've lost ~40 lbs in the last year and overall ~110 over the last several. I have about 50 to go. Feeling much better about myself and my ability to set a good example for cardiac patients. Feel free to add me :smile:

I used to live in the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound. Didn't need to go anywhere for vacation because we lived in paradise. Whales, eagles, water, mountain views, what more could you want?

Peace, I have just under 5 lbs to go to be "not obese." I am so excited! I guesstimate Thanksgiving for when I'll finally get there...I've been losing very slowly. About 8 lbs to go for Ho ho ho challenge, and 50 to go for UGW. But I'm just really focused on that 5 lbs right now. Congratulations in advance on that last lb…

Not necessarily funny, but thought provoking: "My Child Is"

I am so glad you took it seriously and got it checked out. It could have been so much worse. I am very pleased that it is something straightforward! As a cardiac patient (genetic arrhythmia) and a cardiac RN, I salute you! Carolyn

I very curious to hear more. Sounds magical!

chicken breasts pickles eggs and a bunch of other stuff too and coffee. it's a drink, but who can live without it????

There are some great posts on here, with lots of things that I don't like about being what my mother-in-law calls a "big, beautiful woman." Emphasis on the big. But I've lost ~110 lbs, 38 of them since joining MFP. And one thing I can do now that I couldn't before, even 40 lbs ago, is get up and down off the floor. I…

9/12: 192.? 9/19: 190.2 2 point something lb. loss. I'll take it! Seems like I don't lose for weeks, then bam, two or three lbs at once. I now weigh what I weighed when I got pregnant with my eldest. He will be 31 in two months. I'm a lot flabbier than I was 31 years ago though. And I can't take three flights of stairs two…