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Starting Benchmark   183 pounds
2010 Goal:  160 pounds

Week                     Current                Down for Week     +/- Benchmark                    To 2010 goal
#1 (Jan 3-9)           182 (Jan 8)                    NA                        - 1.0                                  22 lbs
#2 (Jan 10-16)
#3 (Jan 17-23)
#4 (Jan 24-30)       181                                   -1.0                      -2.0                                 21 lbs
 
Weight lost for January __2 pounds_


Hi all....sorry I've been MIA.  Life has been hectic with out of town travel for work, an out of state funeral for DH's grandmother, DH injuring his shoulder and possibly needing surgery, etc.  It's been nuts.  I'm weighing a bit early this week as I will be traveling for work again and will miss my regular weighin day.  It's coming off slow.  Just need to be patient with myself.  When I get back into town I will resume being a regular visitor to this forum.

Thanks so much for your response Lisa.

This board has been much quieter than I thought it would, but that is okay. I did celebrate this weekend with Christine and I'm paying for it at the scales this week. I'm literally telling myself that it is okay if this comes off 1/2 pound a wee****il I get back down there. Christine and I both had terrible bloating from all of the poor food choices so we are both glad to be back to our veggies and protein.

Thanks for your words. I hope that things are going well for you this week.

John

Welcome back Gayle. I've been MIA too... just super busy, but nothing like what you have been dealing with. I'm sorry to hear about your mother, I pray she will be ok.

Glad to hear you lost a pound in the midst of your ordeal. Hang in there and keep up the good work.

Cheers!

Monday morning, time to report in for the week, take account and survey the damage...

BenchMark  141 lbs ( this was my weight on 01/01/2010)
Week                     Current                Down for Week     +/- Benchmark      2010 goal
#1 (Jan 3-8)               140                                 1                                  -1             reach 125                       
#2 (Jan 10-17)          138                                 2                                  -3             reach 125
#3 (Jan 18-24)          139                               +1                                  -2             reach 125
#4 (Jan 25-31)

Weight lost for January :


#5 (Feb 1-7)
#6 (Feb 8-14)
#7 (Feb 15-21)
#8 (Feb 22-28)

Weight lost for February :


It was a tough weekend for me, visited my 90+ yrs grandparents, really hard to say no to all the food my Grammy put in front of me for the last 6 days...Was not very successful and had no gym to work it off, really crappy cold & wet weather, tried to burn some off at the mall but the distractions kinda put a crimp in that plan , man I hate REAL shopping malls ( NOT)...

Any way, happy to not be TOO out of control and reeled it in on the road home, so hope to see a loss of the 1 lb regain + 1 extra this week, will be applying myself at the gym for a little longer workout and going extreme low carb for the next 5 days to re-jump the downward trend...

Week                     Current                Down for Week     +/- Benchmark                    To 2010 goal
#1 (Jan 3-9)           180   (Jan 8)                    NA                         +22                                    22 lbs
#2 (Jan 10-16)       176 (Jan 17)                    4 lb                         -4                                      18 lbs
#3 (Jan 17-23)       171 (Jan 22)                    5 lb                         -9                                      16 lbs

I'm not sure if I'm recording this right but I did say I would be sure to post this week.  I didn't really start the first of Jan. but the 180 was my weight at my four year weigh in at the surgeon's.  That's when it hit me that 20 lbs over my lowest was just too much.  Why is it always more powerful when it is at the doctors? 

I really started to refocus the second week--that's when I started a challenge at work.  I did really well with sticking with my exercise and keeping my eating in check. 

I started re-reading "Winning after Losing" by a woman who lost over 300 lbs. with wls.  It is all about maintaining.  I've read it before, but I find that reading such books helps keep me on track and motivated.  Kind of keeps it all in the forefront.