Remember me???

Hey there, I haven't been on the boards for ages but have my 1 year follow up coming up in 24 days so I'm trying to get back involved again.  My weight loss really slowed down around 9 months.  I got down to 183 and my goal weight is 165.  This morning the scale read 191!!!  Which really scared me.  I had been away over the weekend and that is part of it but I didn't regain 8 lbs in one weekend.  I know WHY, I have gotten lax about observing the "rules", I don't have as much restriction as in the beginning and I don't dump (sad that I wish I did!).  I haven't been great about committing to exercise either and it's all excuses and I know if I don't make changes NOW then next year I'll be right back where I started or worse.  I refuse to waste this tool I have.  Starting today I have begun writing down everything I eat again, I am drinking water by the gallon and started keeping a journal.  As much as a lot of my issue is bad habits I also know that there is a reason WHY I do what I do so I'm hoping the journal will help me with that.  I think being mindful is really important.  I signed up at sparkpeople.com and they have an 8 week 5K training program that looks really doable.  I am going to do that and see how it goes.  I am taking a weekly yoga class that I love and am looking into what else is available.  On the plus side I feel really good, people really notice the difference and I am loving new clothes.  My goal by my 1 year appt. on April 8th (which I thought about changing to give me more time but then I decided that they are there to help me not to yell at me so I need to go) is to be at 180, I think I can do 11 lbs in 24 days.  I'll try to be better about checking in here.  I hope everyone is doing well.

Tami

Hi  Tami

glad to see you.   I  also gained  5 pounds this winter and it is hard to take it off.   I went back to weigh****chers and  i also need to start writing everything down.

I still have lots of restriction  but  i also snack to much and that has been my down fall at thanksgiving and christmas.   Back to the grind.

take care

Patty

Hi, good to see you again.  I don't think 11 pounds is do-able in 24 days at this stage of the game.  You would need to have a 1605 calorie deficit daily to burn that many calories and if you burn 2000 daily you would only be able to eat 295 calories a day. So don't beat yourself up if you don't get there.  (Unless a lot of that weigh is water retention from a weekend binge, you might be able to!)  Good luck.

 Nice to see others talkinga bout caloric deficit.  :-)