Daily Maintenance Weigh In - Friday, September 20

178 again - very stable the last week or so.  Not a bad thing... 

Commencing carb-up for 200km ride tomorrow. Should be a lovely fall day - low of 50 a the start, high in the mid-60s and sunny.

All day quarterly sales meeting today, so some fun brainstorming... 

Have a great Friday!

Hi there. 120 for me. Planning a mountain trail hike close to home again this weekend. Worked really well for weight control this past week. Hoping that hiking on weekend and my regular exercise routine during the week will become my new normal. Happy Friday everyone.

Morning everyone:

Up two pounds so 6 above goal.  I was three above goal and have come to the conclusion that am self-sabotaging.  The old tape of:  ' you don't deserve to get to goal ' is going around and around.

So for the past day am back to the basics of water and protein.

This is a journey. 

Have a GREAT weekend.

Stay encouraged. I deal with the same thing. Thinking of you.

151.8 - been slacking on the cardio.  lack of focus and direction.  Who am I waiting for to tell me .....

IMO, it's time for you to set up some new non-scale goals. Maybe you make a goal to try 1 new sport every year. Maybe you try out for a play like MacMadame. Maybe you just try to do 1 new thing each year that takes you out of your comfort zone.

Many of us are so hyper-focused on goal that we forget about everything else, which is completely understandable given that we just had major, body-altering surgery to lose weight. But, many, many people forget about life after goal. Elina has written volumes on the subject. I was lucky to be a slow loser, so I was able to multi-task my weight loss along with my brain ****** up thinking. Trust me, my crazy still runs deep, but losing slowly curbed the maintenance freakout a little for me.

The goals don't end because the scale says you're finished. They just change to a different goal.

Take a deep breath and tell yourself that like weightloss, you are allowed to learn and grow during maintenance. It's all part of the ride, babe.

With all of this said, you may want to just completely ignore me because, technically, I'm still in weight loss mode.

Not posting the weight (I shall not invoke the evil) but I am up 6 lbs from 1 week ago.

Something weird going on, I will carry on and see how quickly I can right things.

Have a good weekend everyone!!

148.6

My daughter got a part in the play again. Speaking part. Pretty cool for her. My son lettered in Academics (I didn't even know he could do that) and TSA. Also pretty cool.

You all have a wonderful day!