That is FABULOUS news that you are maintaining within your set goal range!! Talk about livin!!! Yay!! Enjoy, enjoy!
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They were finger licking good !! 
Definitely thanks 
Letās Gooooo
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Omg!!! 
well done thatās an amazing drop!! Oooh youāre so close now! 
Nice to see you back @Truckinmonster21 I was wondering how you were doing. 
@Dazercat looks like youāve got maintenance down now! Iām a little bit worried about how Iām going to handle that when I get there, I really like your idea of deliberately going below your goal to give yourself a little leeway, much better than being bang on goal then going over. Thatās so discouraging and can just lead to a āwell fuck itā mindset.
Iām still trucking along, dont really have anything interesting to say with it all really itās all the same day in and day out 
lost 1lb last week.
This Thursday will be time to take my monthly measurements so looking forward to seeing how far Iāve come this past month.
Iām in a bit of a weird place with it all in that although Iāve lost 29lbs I dont feel all that greatā¦ I do, but also dont Iām guessing itās just because Iām not exactly where I want to be so suppose itās good not to get too comfortable and complacent. One lb at a time!
29lbs lost so far.
13lbs to goā¦
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Iām right here not going nowhere here to stay 
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29 pounds is amazing though! I remember getting to some plateaus like that where not much was happening and it wasnāt very encouraging to say the least. It seems like youāre doing so well.
Youāll get there. Maybe you can walk a little extra. Or get in a couple more glasses of water.
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Hey guys,
First time checking in here about my weight loss journey. Iām 5ā6"- In October when I decided to quit drinking I weighed about 166 and now I weigh 131. Been down at this weight for a probably a month. When I came back from rehab in Jan I was maybe 5-7 lbs heavier. So the weight came off quickly and naturally- which gives you an idea of the insane amount of alcohol I was drinking every day. I really need to step up my game as far as nutrition and physical activity (right now there is none). My nutrition isnāt terrible- itās just the insane sugar cravings that I canāt help but give in to every single time, which is usually late at night. Two years ago in Feb of 2019 I had drank myself all the way up to 180 lbs so I consider my total weight loss 49 lbs since then. I really want to become more active and healthy as I move forward in my recovery- so thatās my goal! Iāll check back in as I hopefully make progressš Good luck to all on your journeys as well!
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Checking In March 24 2021
Just woke up have not started my meals yet more then likely going to fast until Dinner time with some Ensure protein shakes for the meantime there about 220 calories each bottle letās see what the scale says this week 
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THANK YOU SO INCREDIBLY MUCH!!! Also, my apologies that it has taken me a little more time to.reply back than I usually like. Been busy with our 17 year old back at our house! I am definitely starting to feel stronger and leaner although my abs, my absā¦ I need to keep up with losing the fat/inches. I can also move around easier as well, just bending over and simple tasks that you donāt even think about when one is at a normal weight and isnāt carrying an extra 20 lbs most if not entirely around the middle. It was seriously like looking and feeling pregnant all over again only when I was like that 4 months ago there was no baby at the end of 9 months! Just a belly of fat made of beer and wine. What a mess I made of myself and my body. But NO ABSOLUTELY MORE!!
Yay for your 1 lb loss! I actually started my monthly cycle (sorry if TMI!) So Iām wondering what sort of impact that will have on my weigh in on Sunday?! I wish I would had taken the ONE measurement I am aiming to lose the most ofā¦ my waist, but ahhā¦ well, no use looking back and beating myself up over it. Iām sure youāre going to have some GREAT progress and success with your meaaurements!
I know that not so stellar feeling too, even with such a great weight loss behind the both of us. I just try to stay focused on it and meditate when I can. Everything we are doing now with our bodies are SO much better than what we were doing to them before. So I try to keep that in mind at all times, but I slip up and forget too!
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Awww thank you
Yeah I guess itās just the case of keep going, like even when we reach our goal weight itās not over then, itās still going to take effort to maintainā¦ itās like that saying though, ābeing fat is hard, being fit is hard. Choose your hardā Iād rather choose this way, I felt really horrible before, it was more psychological than anything so at least its one less thing off my mind!
Hmmmm well if your weigh in day is on sunday Iād say you would be fineā¦ generally itās the week BEFORE your totm that you gain weightā¦ Iām always at my lightest the week afterā¦ which is nice after feeling like a bloated whale the week prior 
ah to be a womenā¦ so magical
Ok so measurements are in!
I lost 3lbs this week 
This past month Iāve lost 8lbs and 5 inches over all and thatās without exerciseā¦
Soā¦
32lbs lost so far
11lbs to go!
Itās true about what they say with weight lossā¦ never linear! One week I lose nothing or just a 1lb and Iāll be all ābut why Iāve tried so hard!ā Then the next week I drop 3-4lbs 
This is why its SO important just to keep going. It all catches up eventually.
Heres a picture of my progress, some weeks I didnt lose at all but itās all a downward trend and thatās whatās important.
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Oh and see the spike?? Well that was Christmas and I take full responsibility 
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Hey!! Yup, we just need to keep on keeping on even once we reach our desired weight. Iāve done this enough times to know that I canāt just become complacent and itās going to be something to keep maintaining the healthier lifestyle, otherwise the weight will pile itself back on. Usually (well always) it included me going back to drinking alcohol like I was a fish. āOh look at me I lost all this weight and I am closer to the old fitter me and I can drink now and not exercise etc etc, Iām normal, hooray!ā And boom, the
vicious cycle begins AGAIN I am NOT going to repeat the umpteenth time!!! This time Iām going to stay on here and remain accountable. You all have been SO supportive to me over the last4 months. Just amazing!
I certainly hope youāre right about my weigh in day! Crossing my fingers!! Sometimes life can be super unpredictable though, so Im going to keep a level head and perspective too! When I start complaining my hubby looks at me and says, āI love you so much, but Iām so glad Iām not a woman!ā HAHA! All the shit we gotta deal with usually for far too long!! Ahh wellā¦ such is a womanās life!
HOLY MOLY!!! 3 POUNDS TOO!!! YAY!!! You are knocking it OUT OF THE PARK!! I am so happy for you!!! Letās keep this weight loss party going strong! Amazing!! And you havenāt even worked out, thatās just WOW!!
And YES YES YESā¦ I have had so many 1 - 1.5 lb weightloss weeks and a couple of gains too, but those 2-3.5 lb weight loss weeks, just feels AMAZING! Like DAMN this shit works and makes all thr effort of drinking water, exercising, eating right just feels so worth it. And you are right, it is definitely a downward trend which is definitely the right way to go in our cases.
Just one more time, AWESOME JOB!!
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Oh Iāve been here many times tooā¦
*āOh look at me I lost all this weight and I am closer to the old fitter me and I can drink now and not exercise etc etc, Iām normal, hooray!ā *
(Sorry Iām not sure how to do the fancy quote thing) Iāve done this so many timesā¦ in fact I was speaking to a friend the other day and said I have to be careful now, Iām so close to where I want to be and dont feel too bad in my body now. So in the past Iāve sort of gone āoh well Iām kinda where I want to be, whatās the point in putting in all this effort when Iām āokā with how I lookā then bad habits slowing creep in along with extra weight.
Fact is, although I AM ok with how I look (in general I try not to beat myself up about my physical appearance, and if Iām not happy then I know I can only blame myself and I know how to fix it, so itās the case of āWELL GET TO WORK AND CHANGE IT!ā but I want to be fully happy and content with how I look and feel. Not just āOkā with it.
Like you, Iāve done this enough times now to know that if Iām not keeping up with exercise and watching what Iām eating (and tbh its something I enjoy when Iām doing it so I dont know why I go back to old ways anywayā¦) then it slips back into a place Iām not happy withā¦ and Iām just so SICK of the yoyo rollercoaster of it all. Itās not good for me physically or mentally to be doing that and it ends now.
Also not drinking is going to help with all of this, it always was the drinking that ruined everything and now thats been taken out of the equation, itās going to be so much easierā¦ with drinking not only do you have extra calories from the alcohol, the days after you eat badly and bearly moveā¦ for days at a time Iād do thatā¦ at least 50% of my time was dedicated to either drinking/being hungover which then = inactivity and bad food choices 
it all seems so ridiculous nowā¦
Back in the summerā¦ when my drinking really took off againā¦ (this is embarrassing btwā¦ ) I found a takeaway on just eat that also sold alcoholā¦ so although I wouldnāt drink during the day as I had mother duties, obviously didnt have alcohol in the house eitherā¦ it would get to around 9pm at night and Iād be bored and lonely and just think fuck it and order someā¦ now because it was a takeaway, you HAD to order food to get the wine as they wouldnāt just deliver wineā¦ so Iād order a pizza with the two bottles of wine (I only wanted the wineā¦) but after drinking the two bottles of wine Iād end up eating half the pizza anyway 
and I did that about twice a week for a few months 
yeahā¦ so you can see why my weight went up during that timeā¦ Iād otherwise be eating quite well and although I didnt perpously exercise, I was and am still pretty active. It was the wine and late night pizza eating that did itā¦ and I wouldnāt have bothered with pizza IF I didnt want the wineā¦ letās not talk about how many calories is in wineā¦ never mind two fricken bottles of it 
So anyway yes. Now the alcohol has gone, itās all so much easier to keep on top of.
Life is much better this way
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Curse you Rice Krispy Treats.
Curse me for eating them all in 2 days. Thatās the way I roll I guess. At least they are gone.
Weighed in at 199.6 so Iām 4 oz under goal weight range. So Iām good. It was fun and theyāre gone.
I havenāt done any reading here yet. But I wanted to check in. Will catch up after lunch.
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Great job sticking to your weight plans Deb and Jen
Welcome Traci @TraciL
Glad your back Mr J. @Truckinmonster21
Good luck on your weigh in on Sunday @DMW . As I was reading your posts I was thinking Iām glad Iām a guy. Then I read what your husband says. We do have some things sooo much easier. And we loose weight easier. So I been told, at Weight Watchers. I was the only guy there and thatās what they said.
And great job on the big picture @Solanaceae. That really is all that matters. And being careful with the āfuck itā attitude. I get that way with food sometimes but not nearly as often as when I use to drink.
And forgive me for chuckling at your pizza and wine story. We have definitely done that before. Im not proud.
Oh and I love your avatar peacock 
. So cool. Have you ever seen a white one? Peacock that is. Saw some white peacocks once at Amberley castle in England. Coolest thing ever. Didnāt know they came in white.
Keep up the great work. Iām all out of tempting snacks around here so I feel confident in maintaining or getting back to my lower end of my goal range. It truly is so much easier when we arenāt drinking. Attitude and wasted calories.
Have a great weekend yāall.
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I too am starting to feel like I may be feeling ok in my body as well. Granted I have more work ahead of me still, but Iām feeling much more āhumanā lately, so I just can not go back to where I was just 4 plus months ago. Iāve worked so hard to get to where I am now and it has not been an easy go, so I just canāt just let it all go. Alcohol
All of what youāve wrote, I could have wrote myself. Seriously so. Oops! Pushed post before I was done!
Continuing onā¦ LOL!
Drinking is just so not worth the destruction it does to our bodies, our lives, our bank accounts, our families, our marriagesā¦ no āgoodā can come from it. Drinking has ruined so much for me and Iām trying to claw myself out of the black hole and into the light and positiveness. Experiencing the hangovers and anxiety stricken panic attacks paired with elevated blood pressure and an increased heart rateā¦ knowing that my dad suffered from heart disease (and he lived until he was 80, but had a massive heart attack when he was 43/44 and I was 3-4 years old back in the 70āsā¦ it is lucky he even survived and I was able to grow up with my Dad around) and my brother passed away at 43ā¦ just why would I keep doing this to myself!!! Makes no sense.
Wow, that would had been a find for a place to deliver pizza and wine. That would had been my go to each and every time!!
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I am so glad you have been able to stick within your given maintaining weight zone! Thatās fantastic!! And yes, men do seem to lose weight so much faster overall. Talk about maddening at times!! But also yes, sometimes I even wish I was guy when all the womanly things creep up. It all just gets tiring after awhile especially once you are past the having kids chapter of life. Haha!
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So it was weigh in day today! 1.2 lbs down for me, bringing my grand total loss to 22.2 lbs in 17 weeks!! So I am now just below 130ā¦ weighing in at 129.6 lbs officially!! Last week I was 130.8 lbs. So I am just simply thrilled with my results! Granted I didnāt experience a HUGE loss (ie 3+ lbs) this week like I did the week prior, but I never expect those weeks actually let alone to sustain such a dramatic loss on a week to week basis.
My tentative goal I set for myself at as embarked on my journey 4+ months ago was and still is 120 lbs. So slowly but surely the vision of it is coming into viewā¦ its still a little ways off, but feeling positive and motivated to get there. Hopefully Iāll be able to wear some old of my skinnier cute summery clothes this year. But I guess we will have to wait and see how the weight continues to come off. My abs and obliques have a long way to go as for conditioning, but with 20+ lbs of weight gone, I feel like I may have actual abs or core and not just something I use to call my belly.
Thanks to all of you for being a great continued support system. You guys are awesome!!!
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Weigh in day. 196.8
Very low end of my maintenance range. So pretty darn happy about that. It does help so so much being sober. I enjoyed my treats last week. Rice Krispy Treats. Check weight on Friday. No treats over the weekend and here I am. Hopefully getting this down. I think it helps me a lot weighing in on Monday and Fridays before luck to see where I am before the weekend and before the week.
And I been able to do the dog walk 45 minutes. And with the lovely weather. Finally! Iāve been able to do my 3 1/2 mile walk after. A lot of times I stress about not working out. I do reformer Pilates and so light resistance free weights. But I hate it. So I been power walking my ass off with my music on the last 4 days. 14 miles total. And it makes me feel so good. So if I donāt āworkoutā who cares. The power walks make me feel good emotionally and physically so thatās what Iām doing presently. Maybe tomorrow Iāll work out. Maybe just walk.
Way to go!! Deb @DMW on the 1.2 down. Thatās great! Keep up the great work. Slow and steady is great 
I hope your old clothes fit nicely. I know it will feel good.
Couldnāt do this if I wasnāt sober. Thatās one thing I do know.
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Hey guys ! Checking in March 30 the 2021
Yesterday was a success with eating I choosed to eat healthy had healthy snacks so Iām greatful about that itās really tough trying to find time to workout out here because all you want to do is catch up on sleep when your over the road alot ! When I get home I will weigh myself this Friday as part of my Friday weigh ins I started my journey last year in December at 224 my goal weight is 145 pounds iam currently 189 so I consider myself to still be in victory mode just on a hard platue and standby mode because of trucking but I should find a way !
Congratulations to the ones loosing the weight and achieving there goals very very proud of you guys
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Hey GREAT JOB maintaining your weight in your goal range!! The nicer it gets here Iām hoping the easier getting moving and staying motivated will be even better and easier. Im excited for the future and what it may hold for me. I havent felt that way for such a long time.
Thank you so much for the congrats on the weight loss!! Iām starting to feel a lot better physically. I havenāt came close to really trying on my old skinnier clothes, but hopefully by once the warm weather hits and decides to stay Iāll be A. Brave enough to try them and B. That they will fit me properly and Iāll be ok with how I look! Thatās my hope anyway. Maybe by end of April early May perhaps.
On Sunday I actually did a 90 minute endurance ride class on my Pelotonā¦ it was not meant to be a MAJOR sweat session, but I rode the whole time. That alone was such an exciting accomplishment for me. Now when I do it again it wonāt be nearly as daunting. My butt was pretty sore by the end though as I donāt have padded shortsā¦ yet! I should get some for long(er) rides. It would probably help more than I realize!
I also agree with you wholeheartedlyā¦ I could NEVER had accomplished all that I have thus far if I wasnāt completely sober. No way. This is the way to a much happier and healthier life!
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