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Always nice to go home to friendly faces and friendly scales :smile:. Great that all the shopping is done - should give you time to squeeze in those last few workouts.

so far so good. When it comes to weight loss, being busy seems to be an easy way to go for me:smile:. Except that I actually prefer a slower paced life. oh well ! just do the best i can each day. At least the scale is going down.

Definitely agree that stopping insanity was the right thing to do. I for one certainly don't heal as quickly as I used to. and prevention is much better than cure. Can be annoying when you just want to go for it, though !!! Oh, and I have to say that food vendors outside the front door would certainly challenge my…

what a great start to 2018 !

Hope the new job is going well :smile:

Life is still very busy so the weight is still going down. I could try to improve on my weekend snacking but in all im happy, and i dont really feel motivated to change because its just too much effort and the improved rate of weight loss would not be big enough to justify the effort. I guess that the current plan is good…

I love Baking. I have to avoid it because I would go way over on my calories. But sounds like taking them to work and then managing to avoid them is a win/win.

Ive been busy which makes it easier as I'm more active and have less time for mindless snacking. Im Still slowly losing. I would like it to be faster - I feel like I am going to so much effort, and I want to see results !!! But ultimately as long as the scale is going in the right direction then thats ok.

started to slip on the weekend, and still slipping now. not good. but i dont feel motivated to change. i remember one time writing in here all the reasons why i wanted to do this. I dont have time now but might come back to do that as i think it helped. *sigh* must shake myself out of this.

glad to hear that you're feeling better

Welcome back :smile: I did much the same - gaining back about 1/3 of the weight i had lost. It took a lot of work but i am (mostly) back on track and slowly losing again. As you said in one of your posts - You can do this !!! You can lose the weight ! and before long you'll be an expert on those machine, too :smile:. Good…

still doing well. occasional hiccups but thats ok. received a lovely compliment that Id lost weight :smile:.

thanks for all the great answers.

Thanks for the reply. Another question, then. In the same person is calories burned at a given heart rate consistent (even if you don't know exactly how many calories) ? eg I run on a treadmill and keep my heart rate at a certain number for 30 mins compared to me swimming with my heart rate at the same number for 30 mins.…

another weekend... another chance to control my snacking. weekdays are doing well. I feel that my meals are about as good as they are going to get. I don't think I can sustainably reduce my calories to anything less. If I am going to increase my rate of weight loss then it will have to come from exercise. But even if it…

Glad you found something that helped :smile:

still going well :smile: . Feel like I've found my groove. Even the weekend was ok - not through a specific plan, just by making smart choices and limiting my snacking.

good few days - even with the Halloween candy !

love the 'matching outfits' :)

I'm going to preempt my weekend CICO struggle by starting my Saturday with a really long walk. Not exactly what I meant when I said 'come up with a plan' - I was after a way to control my calories in rather than increase my calories out but since I've got time today...why not ? It buys me another week to figure out a plan.

love that badass feeling :smile:

good few days

Its been a good week. Weekdays are easy and the plan is working well. i'll do one more week like this and then reduce slightly again. Weekends are a challenge. I don't really have a plan for weekends and it shows. I still get by eating at maintenance but I end up having to stop eating after lunch on Sunday or go for a…

I have a routine that works for me and I am sticking to it reasonably well. I have a slight deficit on weekdays and am eating at maintenance on weekends. I plan to gradually improve on both of those. The challenges now are the impulse choices that I make. Grabbing something on my way out of the supermarket or coffee shop.…

good few days

good first day.

Saturday was not so good but I managed to turn it round in the evening and in the end it was probably around maintenance. Sunday went quite smoothly and was also around maintenance. So I am going to start to reduce calories monday to friday but for the weekends I am just going to eat at maintenance because even that is a…

the last few days have been good. I have now managed 2 weeks of being around or below maintenance each day. I feel like I have a good routine which works for me and I am eager to start to improve on it. Its funny that breakfast is usually the meal that I can most easily do without and yet looking back over the last couple…

Hope you're wrists feel better :smile:

another good day.