<p>Good for all of you who have lost so much weight! I lost 11 lbs on this thread as of last fall. Then life got busy and stressful and I fell off the wagon. I got back on, and this is my 3rd day of MyPlate tracking, and I’ve gone to the gym the past two evenings. I weighed myself Tuesday morning and I was up 5 lbs, so I’m still 6 lbs down from when this thread started.</p>
<p>NYMomof2 - that’s a win! To congratulate myself for every little victory, I think of it this way: if I carried a purse weighing six pounds around all day, how would I feel if I put it down at the end of the day. </p>
<p>Congrats to you, and keep on plugging away.</p>
<p>edited to add: Jym, lol. I’m glad you enjoyed it. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the welcome, hayden. I hope I can keep on track this time. </p>
<p>I can’t face reading all 248 pages of posts, so I’ll have to catch up with everyone’s progress as we go along.</p>
<p>I’ll bring you up to date on me, NYMomof2. After a yearlong change of lifestyle ending in June 2012, I reached my goal of losing 80 pounds. I cut and colored my hair and got a new wardrobe. But a friend told me that you don’t really own your new weight until you’ve been at it for a year. I’ve just finished 2 months of maintenance/new lifestyle and I’m still OK. </p>
<p>I did it by keeping track on Livestrong.com’s My Plate feature. In maintenance mode, I’m weaning myself off keeping track. So far, so good…but if I start getting off track, I know that I will need to go back to keeping an account of my input.</p>
<p>ellemenope,
I am still in awe of your weight loss! And nymomof2, you’ll get back on track.
As for my very tasty snickers bar (full size candy bar, I might add), I am pretty good about logging into livestrong, so didn’t throw in the towel for the day when I snarfed down the snickers bar. I just documented it for the day, saw the numbers go in the red (they have several times lately, but I am still eating not a whole lot of calories overall) and started again the next day. That said, I do think , since this really is a lifestyle change, having a pig out day/night ebery now and again isn’t so bad in the scheme of things - in the big picture.</p>
<p>That’s fantastic, Ellemenope! Congratulations! I’m using MyPlate, as well. I hope that in a year I will be at my goal, too. </p>
<p>I agree that an occasional indulgence has to be part of the plan, jym626, if it is to be a lasting lifestyle.</p>
<p>JYM - yes to the occasional indulgence! I am actually impressed that you had a snickers bar from Halloween!</p>
<p>I had an indulgence the other day. Stressors coming in from all directions, so I stopped for a chocolate milkshake on the way home. The only bummer was they didn’t have any malt. I haven’t had a milkshake in at least three or four years. It won’t become a habit - but I just sat and savored it all by myself. </p>
<p>My hunch is that for all of us, we do much better when life is stable. When we are busy caring for others, sometimes it is just so nice to comfort ourselves with a treat. I know it makes a lot more sense to do something like schedule a massage or take a walk - but once in awhile I just need someone to take care of ME and so it is easy to just indulge in food. Funny, JYM, both of us reverted to kid treats - you with your snickers bar and me with my milk shake. Not to get too analytical - but it is interesting that we picked something from a time when our moms were taking care of us and we had few responsibilities. </p>
<p>Anyway - this is why it is essential for me to walk EVERY day and weigh myself EVERY day. It would be so easy to slowly get off track.</p>
<p>I’m getting a massage today so that will be my treat! This time of year, the ice cream is the problem. We have a new place in town that makes it homemade. The goal today is to get the massage and skip the icecream.</p>
<p>Okay, I officially signed up for livestrong.com … day 1 food logged. Thanks for the tip, ellemenope. This 10 pounds is coming off come hell or high water.</p>
<p>Ug. I’m so discouraged. I’ve been doing the WW thing for about four weeks and was down almost four pounds and now, today, I’m back up two. WTH.</p>
<p>I am falling back into the evening snacking. Still keeping calories around 1500 or so, but I wont lose at that rate, and still have 4 to go…</p>
<p>… no more snickers bars around here. I indulged in nutella. That stuff is dangerous.</p>
<p>What?! I thought Nutella was part of a nutritiously healthy breakfast!</p>
<p>Snowflake-I also like the way you can log in the exercise you did that day and see the calorie limit go up on Livestrong.</p>
<p>Livestrong’s main screen pages seems to have changed. What do you folks think about it?</p>
<p>EPTR, don’t be discouraged. Please don’t worry too much with one single day weight.</p>
<p>In the past 12 weeks, I have lost over 15% of my body weight and I had many of those lb gain in a day cases alone the way. </p>
<p>I do my weight in the morning before I start to put on any cloth. Took an average of 3 weights. From here on, I will adopt Idad’s 7 day moving average to smooth out single day event.</p>
<p>Dad II,
How do you do the seven day moving average?</p>
<p>^^ EPTR, you take an average of your last 7 days. Every day you get a new weight, you remove the the oldest datapoint in the 7 days and use the newest in the average.</p>
<p>In other words, it is an average of the latest 7 data points. This will tell you if you are on the right track. Bets of luck.</p>
<p>I know my lighting is alway Saturday morning and heavist on Monday morning. But week after week, I am losing about 1%.</p>
<p>I’ll try that, Dad II. Thanks!</p>
<p>I weighed myself this morning after 1 week on my resumed plan. I’m down a pound, exactly what I set in LiveStrong. I’ve been to the gym or walking just about every day, and I have been eating the extra calories. It seems to me that Livestrong gives too much “credit” for exercise. But it seems to be working out.</p>
<p>A pound seems like a drop in the bucket, but I have these 1-lb shrinkwrapped packages of ground beef in the freezer. I’m picturing a chunk of fat that size. Looking at it that way, it’s a huge accomplishment!</p>
<p>I do think it’s safe to assume that I am losing only fat, because I’ve done 300-400 calories worth of exercise every day, and I drink tons of water, and my goal rate is only 1 lb per week.</p>
<p>I’m liking the LiveStrong site so far. I’m still loading up my unique food items each time I use myPlate, but it’s pretty easy so far, and eventually I’ll have some repeats. I will start using that exercise button as well … unfortunately, yesterday was mostly sitting in an office, so will have to change that.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, the visual of the 1 lb package of ground beef is too conservative. Fat is lighter than muscle, so my 1 lb of fat would be bigger!</p>