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Hi Gayle! I'm on extended hold with customer service so started looking up websites... and found my way back to MFP. Good to find a familiar face! It's almost time for my annual questionnaire from the National Weight Loss Survey. The most difficult question is how many flights of stairs (defined as 10 steps) I went up in a…

Happy New Year to you all!

My daughter came by today. She weighed herself at home and then on both scales at my house. We all really like the numbers on the old white scale but the glass one matches with her home scale. So all this scale back and forth may seem silly to those who follow the 1/wk or even 1/mo schedule but once I started on MFP I…

9/8/2018: 132.4 OR 137.8? My longtime digital scale in the master bathroom, aka the white one, saw me through my whole weigh loss journey. When my son moved I nudged him to take the analog scale in the hall bathroom. I bought a new digital scale, aka the glass one, for the hall bathroom. It seemed to consistently read 1/2…

8/21/18: 136.8 Orange and pink are a perfect summer combination! Oddly enough my dogs have favored eating echinacea leaves. I think they picked it up from Soleil - she also liked yellow dandelion flowers. We don't treat the yard so there is plenty to choose from! My sea turtles are a embroidery collage using batik fabrics.…

Gayle - your circle series is wonderful! I realized I'm often drawn to working in circles too!

8/3/18: 136.8 I find it interesting.. I like variety in my diet and enjoy baking - freezing in portions keeps in under control most of the time. But my sister eats what I call the "Dog Food Diet". She eats twice a day - eggs and toast for breakfast and veggies and ramen noodles for dinner - same thing every day. Except for…

Oh, that so delightful Gayle! I had to look up Moon Carrot. I could see a resemblance to Queen Ann's Lace (wild carrot) and just learned a lot more. My older son came for a weekend visit as part of a business trip. We hadn't seen him since Christmas. He is 36 and the past few years had probably been just over the BMI obese…

Hi Mary, You must be feeling discouraged... Do you have any idea what is sabotaging your efforts? There is an endless overwhelming supply of hints, strategies, fads to loss weight as you probably know online. Start simple. For one day eat 3 healthy meals and snack that fit in your chosen calorie range. And don't start with…

Good to see someone else here too! Today my weight is 138 lbs. the highest since achieving my goal. My happy range is 133-136lbs. Doesn't seem like much but that's the way to go off track. Since my pregnant Turkish friend arrived on April 4th we squeezed in a lot of fun (and food) activities. I was there in labor&delivery…

4/27/18: 136.2 A co-worker is using Weight Watchers and doing well. I'm surprised to hear that fruits and veggies are considered "zero" points since everything adds up, but it must work out for him since he has lost 42 lbs since January (he is 6'5" and over 300+lbs). He also is a fan of kimchi. I gather friends and we make…

3/30/18: 139.0 DH heard a few seldom heard words out of the bathroom that morning. Too much birthday celebration. I haven't seen a number that high since January 2015. 4/8/18: 136.8 Back in my happy range, though I would like to see 133-135 consistently. I kicked up my activity level and realized I was snacking a bit too…

3/21 135.6 It's been a week now sharing this headcold and coughing from DH. Getting better. I've been on the treadmill, taking it easy, for a couple times just because I can't stand being a slug. Otherwise I'm still pinned to the couch with two dogs and binge watching kdramas. We're also having a ice/snow storm in the…

Sorry to hear you're so sick. Impressed that you still managed to weigh yourself! Give yourself plenty of time to recover. Some people push themselves to get back out to work and then it takes even longer to get back their strength. Coincidentally on Wednesday I came down with the upper resp infection from my DH who said…

3/9/18: 135.2 Every year we like to give our house a birthday gift. This year it decided for itself what it wanted! Problem with our ductwork has meant that we haven't turned our heat on since Monday morning. With a heat-dish and my computers running my small office can get up to 70 degrees and the propane fire place gets…

My sister found a discount on the floor model Precor that had been put in the store in January - definitely didn't get used that much yet. She was told that otherwise they are backordered currently. She's in Florida. Worth calling around locally too. Our first treadmill, Bowflex, we got from amazon in 2006. We were very…

LOL decades ago I remember finding TastyKake wrappers in the trash.. DH would pick up something in a convenience store while he was on the road. Probably why he gained weight after we married, that and my regular meals being better than what he grew up with. I don't think he has a stash now - though I have chocolate in…

Don't give up! You're so close to a new centa-weight. That's what my sister and I call it when we hit a new number range, ie 170s to 160s is a new deca-weight. How is your tendon? Are you able to walk every day? When I started MFP I went with the calories suggested for losing 1lb/week, and most times ate some of my…

I've read many of James Clear's articles - this one seemed very appropriate. Success can be between saying "I can't.." and "I don't..." jamesclear.com/how-to-say-no

When I have that munching feeling it is more likely due to trying to avoid one thing that I feel wouldn't be a good snack... and then end up eating it eventually anyway! So sometimes I just go ahead and eat 1/2 of whatever it is and get over it. A good resource for successful behaviors is The National Weight Control…

Cooking Light Here's Why it's so Hard to Stop Binge Eating at Night I think article has similar info on night time eating. I know that sometimes I can almost skip lunch or eat it really late and not miss it. But some nights I find myself nibbling before bedtime - like I'm trying to find what I really want to eat. 2/2/18:…

Great progress Gayle! so my evening suggestion... Dump out a kitchen drawer, vacuum out the crumbs, only put back what you really use, temp store useful (but not used recently) items in a bin to see if you miss them. Donate/recycle/trash the rest. Repeat. Keeps you busy till bedtime!

So I've been thinking about this... If it was easy everyone would be able to do it, but on the other hand, if it's so hard, no one would succeed. So, it's somewhere in between. How bad do you want it? You really need to define that. Because that is your response when junk food is in front of you. That is your response get…

1/20/18:135.6 A step in the right direction... I increased my activity level this week and there is less temptation laying around after the holidays. I completed my annual Weight Control Registry survey, but forgot to count my trips upstairs for a week and had to do an estimate. They count a flight as 10 steps. My house…

Happy New Year! 1/5 137.0 The holidays were challenging. I'm a bit more than I like to see (133-135). It may not seem like much but I don't want to let it slip by. It's great weather for soup - filling and healthy. Some of my activities have been cancelled due to winter storms so I'm glad to have the treadmill. Folkdancing…

Mary - it's good to see you back! In re-reading your post I see a lot of strength. You quickly were able to squash the procrastination of putting it off - putting your foot down and saying NOW! That is the way I felt on 11/12/2013 when I started my journey using MFP. Keep that feeling! Wonderful to picture you discarding…

10/2 135.6 Gayle: I burst out laughing when I read about your scale excuse - it just struck me so funny! I have no excuses. I bought a new scale for the hall bathroom last spring but much prefer using the one in our master bathroom. The new one runs about 1/2 lb more. Let the guests (meaning competitive sister) deal with…

9/15/17: 136.6 An Amish luncheon and retirement party this week. Not my usual food choices. I'm heading to the treadmill when I get off of the computer! Gayle: Thanks for the author lead. My library has Still Life, so I will pick it up this weekend! One of my favorites is the Alan Bradley series with Flavia de Luce - the…

Maney - Canada is wonderful! First night in Montreal I went international folkdancing outdoors by Beaver Lake for 3 hrs. Mondays are beginner night, but we weren't going to be there on Thursday for the advanced group. Although it was all in French I knew most of the dances from our Delaware group - even the same recordings…

7/28 135.8 Thank you so much Marney for your insight and recommendations! We'll be stopping near Albany to visit friends and then heading north, perhaps Toronto will be another destination sometime (and maybe the site for a kdrama too!). I think we're going to enjoy Canada. DH has often said he'd rather move north.…