And actually… I’m thinking of making my goal to lose another 6lbs… purely to bring the loss to a nice even number of 50lbs 
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Hey all. What a week it’s been so far. I just thought Id pop on and give a quick update while I had the chance.
SO, I haven’t officially worked out. I need to admit it here though that because I haven’t done anything specific I am feeling guilty yet trying to be kind to myself. I have been working on repainting my dining room and kitchen and it is a full time job. No joke. Hubby can not stand painting so it’s just me and honestly that’s how I prefer it, LOL! No one to get in my way or for me to be too picky how they are doing things, haha. I’ve prepped morning until night on Monday (10:30-9), prepped from 9:30-2:30 on Tuesday and then started priming about 3 (first coat) until 8:30. Then yesterday primed the second coat from 11am until about 6pm. Finished off with touching up a bit too. So today I’ll finally be getting to the “fun” part of actually painting the color but after I prep the hallway. I didnt prime that area since it’s off white not dark brown or burnt orange like the other rooms.
So anyway, that’s the day I have on deck for myself. I have crossing my fingers that I will get it ALL done today, but I did originally plan to do the kitchen tomorrow. So if it takes until then that will be ok. I just want it done before our 17 year old comes back because the house is tore up and thr kitchen is a mess!
I’m looking forward to getting back on track with my workouts definitely this weekend. I already have another paint job on deck either next week or thr following week of our bedroom! Oh to be sober, aware and motivated to get jobs done around here!! We also ordered a dumpster and it gets delivered 2 weeks from tomorrow. So we finally are going to get to work in our basement. It is SOOOO long overdue! It feels good to finally be getting to doing all these things. We actually also decided to refinance our home mortgage as well.
So lots and lots of good things happening. I’m going to keep on chugging along on this journey called sobriety. I still have 8.4 lbs to go (as of Sunday weigh in) so hopefully come this coming Sunday I won’t have gained but lost even a little would be good. I just hope to continue to go in the right direction since I haven’t been putting in the sweat and steady time on my workouts this week.
Have a good one all!!!
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Checking In May 13 Thursday
I weighed myself this morning iam 176 pounds
In the morning I had oatmeal peppermint tea
Lunch had chicken tuna sandwich with jalapeños in it and peppermint tea 
I noticed how I checked in on May 10th 
I’m guessing that shift in just 3 days maybe water weight I’m very proud and very determined to get to my weightgoal I havent even started working out I start next week let’s gooo 
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Weighed in at 71.1kg. The numbers aren’t going down, even though I’ve worked out 4 times thie week and I’ve been eating clean. Odd.
So todays breakfast is at 10am. Coffee and scrambled eggs with spinach and tumeric.
I think I need to find a dietician or nutritionist or some one that can help me figure out why I’m still so ridiculously bloated 
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TGIF one and all! So, the hallway and dining room are now done (painted the same color). I decided to forgo a true second coat in the hall as it is just that, a hallway. LOL. I did do some.tandom touch up where it eitherbrushed on light and streaking or where it rolled on a bit light. The only thing left is to have hubby switch out the light fixture and the 2 toggle switches and plate covers at least on the surface! In the dining room there are a couple outlets and plate covers that need to be switched too (going from basic white to brown/antique bronze). I got painting about 1pm yesterday and finished with the second coat about 8pm. I did break for about 15 minutes and scarfed down dinner and an ice cream sandwich, LOL around 6 when hubby got home. Taping off the hallway where there are 5 doors proved to be a royal pain in the butt though. That alone took me nearly 2 hours (9:30-11:30). I was getting frustrated how it was going and was cursing all morning long to myself that if I’m this close after working and prepping all week and this is going to be the thing that gets to me!!! It’s funny now… now that it’s behind me! Haha!
Anyway, the paint covered really well. I was quite pleased. But that’s a big reason I do tend to buy the good stuff. Our house is high traffic (with 6 animals one being a 110+ hairy Shepherd) so I need stuff that will hold up well and wash up with ease. I got through the hallway and thr dining room and with 1 gallon. I was like oh shit… I had 2 gallons tinted this color! So much like the hallway there were spots on the walls and ceilings as well as some of the trim that were a bit light so I just gave it a full on second coat since I had PLENTY of paint. I only ended up using MAYBE a quarter of the second gallon. A quart of it might had been even enough… but there has been a paint shortage and when I went and bought the paint earlier this week I had it in mind it would surely take 2 gallons of whatever color. Anyway, we may try to find a use for it eventually. It is a nice color.
So today it will be onward to the kitchen. Our kitchen is small, MAYBE 10x10, but its still a pain to paint as it’s difficult to get into tighter spaces in comparison to the living and dining rooms where it’s more open and moving around is much easier. The hallway was tight even… moving my ladder and light this way and that way and then my expandable stick bumping into the wall behind me etc. Oh the joy!
I guess my drops cloths actually leak is another thing. I’m going to need to spend a while cleaning up thr paint and primer off the floor for a while once the jobs are all done. I might as well not had even bothered. On second thought yeah, it probably did save me a time or 2 or 10!
Anyway! That’s my report of how yesterday went. There was no time nor did I have much gas in thr tank for a workout. I do miss it and look forward to getting back on track with my exercising and continuing on the road to my weight loss. I fretting (as I’ve been ALL week) already what the scale is going to be reading come Sunday! I know, that’s silly as I already have accomplished SO much today, but STILL! I need to be honest and true to myself and those are thoughts that are rolling around in my head.
Enjoy your Friday all and your weekend!!!
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153.6 today… I think in the very back of my mind my goal weight is 145 but will be happy with 149. My old id’s from the sheriff’s dept. has the 145 as my weight, lol
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Forgot my weigh in yesterday
I’ll live.
But I’m at 199.2. High end weight range.
Pretty sure it’s from the extra chocolate.
Can’t seem to just stick to my 2 peppermint patty’s.
Could be substituting it for the booze I usually drink out here in Santa Monica. I can live with that.
Oh and day 499 AF 
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Owwww big one tomorrow 
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Another Sunday, another weigh in day for me. Although I have been anything BUT consistent with working out this week, but instead spending countless hours painting my house, I managed to only gain .2 of a pound, so I am actually ecstatic and very pleased with closely maintaining my current weight. I weighed 118.6 lbs today while last week I was 118.4 lbs. I ONLY worked out officially on Monday of last week and it was only for an hour. So I’m pretty damn happy. I still want to lose the 8.6 lbs but as long as I can hold steady until I get back to hitting it hard with the running and biking and weights (which I fully plan and intend to SOON!) then lol be kind with myself and not best myself over it. I’m getting SO much done around our house. It is still sorta a mess, but Im making big strides and it all feels great and is so much overdue.
Besides my weightloss, yesterday was SUPER busy. But I should baxk up to Friday. I got the kitchen all done and it took 2 coats. I was nearly scrapping the bottom of the can and pan as the paint went fast with the kitchen. I was highly surprised! I had enough so that’s all that matters!
Saturday hubby and I headed out and got a bunch of things on its way! We decided to get a King bed so that will be getting delivered on Wednesday. We also ordered a filing cabinet for our dining room to house our bills, our wifi router, and printer. We currently have a small desk and another stand with the printer so we will consolidating all that to just 1 smaller piece of furniture. It looks much nicer than the standard metal type of filing cabinet. That comes in on the the 25th. I have been trying to find a bedding set to get in my hands that I like by tomorrow since ordering the bed, but no luck. I would like to repaint (yes, I said it) the bedroom now. But as it is right now it is in dire desperate need to be deep cleaned so we will be diving into that in preparation. The bedroom should go pretty quick when I get there in comparison to the recent repaint jobs I’ve completed.
Anyway, I guess that’s all I have to update for now! I can’t emphasis enough how glad I am that I only gained .2 of a pound though after this week. I’m starting to feel pretty good in my skin and comfortable. I still want to lose a bit more but I feel more confident and mobile too. So all positives.
Have a great Sunday!!
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Weighing in at 199.6. Up .4 but still under goal weight range. Going out for a really nice steak tonight but will get back in line the rest of the week. I hope.
Living it up in LA.
But at least I’m getting a ton of walking in. And since I’m sober I do have control over what I eat.
Most of the time . But that’s on me.
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Checking in May 19th
I weighed in this morning at 175 lbs
Iam very proud of how far I’ve come in less then one year I was 224 pounds I’ve got 30 pounds to knock off then I’ll be at my weightgoal feeling amazing went to the gym today it was great plan on sticking with it let’s goooo !!
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Weighing in today at 222 been killing it and doing my best, but I could probably be doing better than that 
original goal was 225 now it’s 215 and if I hit that I’m going for 200 but that’s gonna really be pushing it cause I have like 175 lbs of muscle on my body and I honestly don’t think my body eill like me if I try getting too lean 
its all about what’s on the inside right people?
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Thats awesome man you’re already on a huge drop keep going! Personally I just keep feeling better and better about myself its not like the visual is what matters but it doesn’t hurt to be in good shape and look good right bud? keep it up trucker
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Hey April have you gotten your bloating figured out did you see a doctor about it?
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I really appreciate that @anon83587935 definitely not wrong about that I also see your making progress congrats !!!
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Not yet, I have an appointment on Friday morning with my doctor. I think I’m going to have an ultrasound to make sure there is nothing medical going on inside, cysts etc. Because that can cause serious bloat etc. Then I will get a referal for a dietician and nutritioniest to try find out whats going on. I will get a second blood test done to find out if I’m gluten in tolerant. It came up negative last time, but a second opinion is always a good idea
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Well whatever it is I hope it gets better for you I think seeing a nutrionist would be important, they could setup a diet for you that works for you, I do know for me if I eat a bunch of sodium I can gain like 10-20 lbs in like a day. Like you said who knows, allergies to food are terrible and its really hard to know what agrees with our bodies and what doesn’t, but I know you will get it figured out 
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Hi everyone! Sorry I’ve not been around much, I’ve just been doing my thing. Got my second vaccine the other day, I was fully prepared to be feeling like death for a couple of days due to the first one completely knocking me off my feet but with the second one I was fine although quite tired so just been sleeping more. Little worried about the blood clot risk as I got the oxford/AstraZeneca one but I just keep telling myself that it’s such a low risk and I’m really not that special 
Weigh in today; another 1lb down!! And I’m now officially in a healthy BMI category for my height 
(not that I pay a lot of attention to BMI as I’m quite muscular anyway but it’s nice to get there knowing that medically I’m not overweight, and it’s been… something like 4 years since I was a healthy BMI…)
Still working out and going for walks etc diet pretty much as perfect as it can get, eating tons of fruit and vegetables.
Stats:
45lbs lost 
5lbs left to go (I want to be able to say I’ve lost 50lbs also that’s quite a low weight for me but taking something from what @Dazercat does, I think going a little below my goal is a good idea because it’ll give me some wiggle room incase it goes up a few pounds, which no doubt at times it will. Better than being exactly at goal weight then it going over that.
I’ve said before I have no intention of getting skinny (and I’m far off that at currently 156lbs) because it just doesn’t suite me AT ALL, I just look weird and like I’ve got a gaint lollipop head if I do
I need to buy more clothes and have been… kinda pissed off to learn some shops do what’s called vanity sizing now (where they will label some clothes a small size even though they’re bigger) because I bought some really nice Jean’s that I cant return in a uk 12 and they’re baggy 
I was really looking forward to them being a nice slim fit 
but oh well I’ll know for next time.
This is me now… feeling good just need to trim up in some places.
I keep getting side eye looks at the school gates when I take/pick up my daughter no one there has actually said anything (disappointing ) but it would be rude to as they dont really know me. I’ve had lots of compliments from friends and one of my best friends who I hadn’t seen in a while… my god his reaction was hilarious he was all but was quite cute actually 
Anyway well done everyone!! I’m so gald I joined this thread when I did, you’re all amazing. Just look at us killing this thing!! yeeeeahhh!
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Checking in May 21 2021
Weigh in at 174 pounds this morning
For breakfast I’ll be having a egg and spinach on 2 slices of bread with peppermint tea and for lunch a salad for dinner I’ll see ! Let’s Gooo !!! 29 pounds to loose out of almost 80 pounds that I started with very proud of myself
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