Monday Morning Weigh-Ins

Good Monday Morning My January Lovelies! I know I am likely talking to myself(as is often the case! lol) but I need to keep the habit of posting.

So, here goes:

Surgery/high: 251.5
Two weeks ago: 139.4
Today: 139.2

Still down a little too low, but it seems to be where my body wants to keep itself. Emotion/personal issues still seem to be dictating how I'm eating...and it sucks. Unfortunately, a glass of wine seems to make it easier to eat and sleep. Not a good thing. I don't "have" to have it...but it definitely takes the effort out of getting food down. I know none of this sounds like a good thing, and I am searching my soul and heart for a better answer to all of my life's burning questions. In the meantime...I keep plugging along.

Make it a great and productive week ladies!

~Suz

Hey Suz  it's Tuesday and I weighed and I'm up!  Of course it was after a protein expresso malt and a bottle of water...but it did bum me still.  I was doing so well!  Anyway that glass of wine to sleep get's me too!  I have to stop it and wish I was at where you are.  I'm 20 pds from goal and up and down the scale.  Crazy.  I just have to get it in my mind to do it!  Yesterday I was great but not so great over the weekend.  I exercised today at curves and jogged a little around my long house then walked fast.  This is all before weighning ....I will do better!  I can't weigh on Mondays because LOL I work and leave the house around 5am and get back around 7-8pm so Mondays is out but Tuesday's I will check in with you.  Love Patty B

Fantastic to see you, Patty!

Now, about that goal...are you absolutely sure that is where you need to be, or is it where you want to be? I have found that sometimes what we see as our ideal is nowhere close to what is actually maintainable. I think you look wonderful as you are, but I do understand the desire to lose more. I still struggle with that mindset even though I have no business losing another ounce...the mind just plays tricks, ya' know?

My advice(though you didn't ask for it! lol) is to just stay active, take your supplements religiously, and eat as well as you are able. Above all else, make sure you do something to make yourself feel good everyday! The weight really is just a number. My weight chart says I should weigh as low as 130! My gawd, I'd look and feel like a skeleton! I look and feel my best @ 140-145.

In any case, if you truly don't feel right at this weight and are absolutely willing to struggle to keep a lower weight...then I say go for it! You'll get there in good time if it's what you truly want. Just do whatever makes you feel good for life!! And I look forward to seeing you on Tuesdays.

~Suz

Oh yeah...about that wine...
I just don't know what the heck I'm doing with regard to that stuff. I only have a half a glass****asionally two half glasses) each night and I am toasted and ready for bed. I think it is just so easy...drink a few sips and off to the land of nod with no effort. It's just not a good habit. But, I guess I'm not ready to change it yet, or I would have. *sigh* It's always something with us, right? lol

Hello ladies - Checking in - looking around at the plastic surgery posts again.  I am really ready for that, but just taking the first steps and hoping that I can actually afford it.

Glad to see that Suz and Brit are faithful to post.  Looks like your weight is stable and on track!  Myself I have been stable, unfortunately, because I still want to lose this last 20 pounds!  I find that my weight fluctuates quite a bit through the month.  I range from 160 - 168, I hate when it gets to the high end!

Keep up the good work!

Marilyn

It's great to see you around, Marilyn!!

I am always amazed how much my weight can fluctuate in a month or in a day. All we can do is take it a day at a time...sometimes even a meal at a time. Keep reminding yourself how far you have come...we are soooo much healthier than we were before, and that=success!

Sorry so late...
last week was away with the triplets... not fun to fly alone with them- they took off on 2 different moving walkways and I was like- CRAP!!!  I guess you grab the slower ones first?  Then they would see me and started circling back.  It would have been kinda funny if they weren't my kids...
Then I had to seperate them on the plane- 2 in front of me and one with me.  Well the dvd player wasn't charged and so they couldn'****ch it as planned or I would NEVER have sat the boys together- they got out their markers to color and when I checked on them next- they had colored each others faces...  if I didn't think they would outwit me I would have drank on the plane...

Anyhoo....
I'm up 2 pounds- but am okay with it- barely!!!
HW- 250
LW- 127
TW- 129

About the wine- about 6 months ago I was having a daily glass and was loving it.  I think I may have gone up to a glass and a half at times- but then it just stopped.  It's funny.  It was like my nightly ritual for awhile and then it just totally stopped.
Suz- how are you doing?  I've been thinking about you tons!!!   Keep plugging!!!
Brit

I'm doing okay...thank you for thinking of me...I really didn't want anyone to worry. Things are kind of topsy-turvy for me right now with my marriage. Not quite "danger zone" territory yet, but just not right, either. It can be so difficult for both parties to know and follow the rules of a marriage...when one person doesn't, it reeks havoc!  I think the wine is part-in-parcel with all of the emotional drama around me right now. And, although I know that I am using it as a bandage for my feelings, I do see the day when I will be through with using any crutch to get me through. I'm so grateful to have ladies on this board I can talk to...others that understand what I'm trying to say and don't judge or scold. It means the world to me, especially right now!

Sorry about the triplets...I'm giggling picturing the scene. Just think of it this way...you made a fun memory! Plus, you gave me something to smile about today.