LSB Weight Loss Daily Goals and Accomplishments

I have skipped Pilates the past two weeks because Stuff was in the way (birthday and then too damned much stuff to catch up on after my band's show), so I have no idea what I weigh right now. But I ordered a scale (that will arrive on Monday) so soon I'll be able to track progress even on the days I am not at Pilates. It'll also help me be more accurate about BMR and calories burned while exercising.

I've had a few days recently where I went over—after all, it was my birthday recently AND I've had my period—but overall it was not too egregious. According to the spreadsheet I created (to try to figure out whether the numbers the app was giving me were any good), my intake was sufficiently low that I should still be losing, albeit slowly. I'm actually not sure that I am, though. My measurements were up last I checked, not down. I guess I'll see on Monday, when I receive my scale and also go to Pilates—then compare my scale to the Pilates scale.

I have a sneaking suspicion that I am not burning as many calories as the app thinks I am, either through BMR or exercise, or both. Hopefully soon I will have enough data to adjust. Like, if my body burns calories at the rate of a 110-pound person when I am actually 125 pounds, then I can work that info into the spreadsheet so at the very least I am not disappointed by my progress.

I don't think I'll actually be able to tweak the amount that I eat daily very much, even if that is the case. In aiming for 1200 calories per day since 8/29, even with a few total cheat days in there where I did whatever I pleased, I've still averaged 1326 calories per day. That's little enough that I *should* eventually lose, even if I was totally sedentary. I don't think I can realistically aim for less than 1200 each day. And I don't think I could live without the occasional moderate cheat day for special occasions. So if that's not little enough to make me continue to lose, then I guess I have to look at more activity instead.

I've been thinking about building ten to fifteen minutes of body-weight strength moves into my daily routine—push ups, crunches, and lunges. They say muscle burns more calories than fat, so if my metabolism is underperforming for my age, sex, and weight, then maybe it's due to being flabby!
 
So, at 124.1, I am actually less than a pound over what my spreadsheet has calculated for me! Less than two pounds to go before I hit the upper limit of my happy range. I've got a 15-pound range where I feel OK about my weight, and it's exciting to think that I am almost within reach of it. I've been losing at about the rate of a pound a week, so maybe, if I'm good, I'll be smack in the middle of ideal range by the end of the year.

One thing I noticed, though, is that I am SUPER sensitive to bloating. I can be absolutely fine one day, and then the next day I have a giant pot-belly that just HAS to be fluid, gas, or some combo. There doesn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason to it. I've considered salty-snack intake, hydration, hormones, etc., and I just can't figure it out. It makes me feel super self-conscious, though, like everyone can tell how rotund and puffy I am.

I've vaguely considered the idea that it might be a food allergy of some kind, but I can't really afford to get tested, and I am FINALLY on a food plan that is allowing me to lose weight and feel satiated most of the time, so I am really loath to shake it up much with any sort of elimination diet to figure it out on my own. Maybe once I've hit goal...
 
Reverie said:
So, at 124.1, I am actually less than a pound over what my spreadsheet has calculated for me! Less than two pounds to go before I hit the upper limit of my happy range. I've got a 15-pound range where I feel OK about my weight, and it's exciting to think that I am almost within reach of it. I've been losing at about the rate of a pound a week, so maybe, if I'm good, I'll be smack in the middle of ideal range by the end of the year.

One thing I noticed, though, is that I am SUPER sensitive to bloating. I can be absolutely fine one day, and then the next day I have a giant pot-belly that just HAS to be fluid, gas, or some combo. There doesn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason to it. I've considered salty-snack intake, hydration, hormones, etc., and I just can't figure it out. It makes me feel super self-conscious, though, like everyone can tell how rotund and puffy I am.

I've vaguely considered the idea that it might be a food allergy of some kind, but I can't really afford to get tested, and I am FINALLY on a food plan that is allowing me to lose weight and feel satiated most of the time, so I am really loath to shake it up much with any sort of elimination diet to figure it out on my own. Maybe once I've hit goal...
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I've noticed bloating, as well, and it is almost always the result of greasy food. Pizza, anything fried (even pan fried, if I don't make sure to sop up extra oil), etc.

I was 160 before the weekend. 163 after. Back to 161 this morning. Ha. I ate poorly, obviously.
 
AlwaysGrowing said:
I've noticed bloating, as well, and it is almost always the result of greasy food. Pizza, anything fried (even pan fried, if I don't make sure to sop up extra oil), etc.
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Hmm, for me, I noticed that the greasy tacos I ate Friday night actually seemed to get rid of my bloating! I was terribly bloated early Friday eve., then I ate tacos and went to sleep, and I woke up Saturday morning looking fine. Maybe it was the seitan I had for lunch. I am going to be so upset if it's a gluten problem—seitan is so high in protein, and baguette with brie is one of my favorite splurgy treats.
 
Reverie said:
According to the spreadsheet I created (to try to figure out whether the numbers the app was giving me were any good), my intake was sufficiently low that I should still be losing, albeit slowly. I'm actually not sure that I am, though. My measurements were up last I checked, not down.
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Unless you've had your TDEE professionally calculated using one of those fancy body fat scanners, and then rescanned periodically as you lose weight, anything you come up with is at best an approximation, and I think your own tracking would be a much better measurement (i.e. whatever the app says, follow your weight and measurements, and ignore what some app or website says you "should" eat to lose).

I don't think I'll actually be able to tweak the amount that I eat daily very much, even if that is the case.
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Is there room to tweak what you eat? More and more research is showing that the "calories are calories" mantra is total bullshit, and that for example calories from refined sugar contribute to fat storage much more readily than say calories from whole fruit. Another study put two groups head-to-head, one eating 100% plant based and the other eating a typical "healthy" diet with lean meat and some dairy/egg, but same number of calories, and the meat-eating group gained weight while the plant-eating group lost weight.
 
Thanksgiving weekend was rough and I fell all over my face. I'm blaming my husband. We went out for dinner on Friday, I ate a perfectly respectable amount of my plant-based curry, and he had his steak and lobster or whatever. Then he wanted desert, but he didn't care for the vegan cake option, so he ordered some caramel monstrosity that he couldn't finish, so he brought it home. That meal was meant to kick-off a 48-hour fast, but that damn cake in the fridge was too much. That broke the fast, so then husband decided to order a large deluxe pizza. Well that smelled so good, resistance was futile. Later in the weekend, I found the last of my junk food and baked up some cheezy garlic bread or whatever it was.

Suffice it to say, I managed to gain 7 lbs over 5 days of binging. Ugh. So I contemplated another fast, but I think it's healthier to just stick with my IF and eating plant based every day. So far I'm down 3lbs since that ended, so I'm making my way back.
 
SchrodingersCat said:
Is there room to tweak what you eat? More and more research is showing that the "calories are calories" mantra is total bullshit, and that for example calories from refined sugar contribute to fat storage much more readily than say calories from whole fruit. Another study put two groups head-to-head, one eating 100% plant based and the other eating a typical "healthy" diet with lean meat and some dairy/egg, but same number of calories, and the meat-eating group gained weight while the plant-eating group lost weight.
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I am MOSTLY super good about what I eat. I am mostly vegetarian (excepting a bit of fish every couple of weeks) and have been since 2005. I have been eating pretty high protein lately, with most of it coming from Quorn (mycoprotein) burgers, whey protein powder and soy milk in frozen-fruit smoothies, and my own concocted recipe of high-protein trail mix (roasted edamame, peanuts, and dried peas, along with higher-protein fruits like dried unsweetened coconut, dried apricots, and raisins, with a teensy bit of 85% cacao chocolate thrown in for interest).

I do have a bit of a sweet tooth recently, so occasionally I will have a small, measured-out bowl of ice cream or piece of chocolate if I have the calories left, but by and large, there is not a ton of refined sugar in my diet.

My big news today is this: REAL PROGRESS!

I stepped on the scale this morning and it read 119.1! Yes, I am only about a pound away from the upper limit of my perfect ideal range! I actually mostly LIKE what I see in the mirror lately, and I feel GREAT. Riding my bike is even easier without lugging that extra weight on board.

For my progress, I can credit having a crazy-busy weekend of clubbing and running around a theme park, not getting a lot of sleep and kind of forgetting to eat. That's not a tenable strategy for weight-loss EVERY weekend, of course—it would be super unhealthy to do all the time—but it's just kind of what my life cooked up for me this past weekend.

I spent three hours standing in a concert venue on Thursday, three hours standing in a nightclub on Friday, twelve hours walking around Disney on Saturday, followed by another four hours in the club Saturday night, and then ANOTHER six hours in the club Sunday night.

During that time, I was fueled mostly by caffeine and NRE, barely stopping to eat. That last night, Sunday night, digging through my closet for something to wear, I found a little extra-small mini-skirt that I haven't fit into for two years and decided to give it a try. It fit almost perfectly, so I totally wore it!

If I can lose another five pounds, I'll officially be back to my pre-drinking-age weight (stupid, fattening booze!), and that will give me enough leeway and room for error to start figuring out what my maintenance routine will look like without gaining too much back.

When I started Pilates, I was at 133.5. When I stepped on the scale at the end of August and was freaked out by my lack of much progress, I was at 130.5. So this means I have lost more than 11 pounds since I got serious about stuff. That's about a pound and a half per week. If I keep this pace up, I should be on target to meet my goal by the time I fly back East for the holidays next month. (Just in time to stuff my face on holiday goodies and probably gain some of it back, haha.)

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I'm up a little higher (120.7) than I was in my last post nearly two weeks ago, but given that I just got back from a business trip where I couldn't exercise and had to eat out for every meal for four days, plus I am premenstrual right now, I am going to choose not to view a pound and a half gain as a setback.

My challenge today is going to be to not eat everything in the world, as it is a PMS bottomless-pit day and I've already eaten my normal breakfast and one of my snacks earlier than I usually eat breakfast...AND I'M STILL HUNGRY! :mad:

Tomorrow marks three months since I've been tracking calories. I did make exception my business trip days because honestly there was no way to estimate what was in all that restaurant food without being off anyway. Rather than drive myself mad trying to find the closest thing in the app, I just did the best that I could about making healthy choices and/or dividing rich things up into two meals.

Over this past three months, I've determined that the rates it gives me are more or less close to accurate. I've felt discouraged and doubted them occasionally, but zooming out to look at the big picture, I think most of that was fluctuations in water weight. By even the most conservative measure, I have lost around ten pounds of actual fat since then. I've also learned a lot:

Since the calculator appears to be accurate, my maintenance calories will be somewhere between 1500 and 1900 each day, depending on how active I am that day. Since I'm used to aiming for 1200, 1500–1900 sounds downright luxurious!

It's really not difficult to stay under 1200 most days when I'm not drinking, especially if I don't eat out and if I make sure to eat good protein sources like hard-boiled egg whites, Quorn burgers, and my protein shakes (which are mostly whey protein, soy milk, and frozen strawberries). Sometimes I actually end up quite a bit UNDER when bedtime rolls around, and then I'll treat myself to some ice cream if there's time. :rolleyes:

When I *am* drinking, hoo boy, all bets are off. Of the five days I've gone over 1800 during the past three months, four of them have been days I've allowed myself to drink. The day of my birthday dinner and fruity tiki drinks, I had about two days' worth of maintenance calories in one day. Thinking back to how I was doing things before I decided to pay closer attention, it's really not very surprising that I had gained a bunch of weight. Alcohol has a double-whammy of being fattening in itself PLUS lowering my inhibitions around food so that I eat more and worse.

Restaurant food is mostly a disaster. The calories themselves aren't even the problem, since I am good about portion control and have never been able to eat too much volume at one sitting. The problem is more that as a mostly vegetarian person, I can't find much that is high in protein at restaurants, so I have to settle for fat to steer clear of too many carbs. If I eat a bunch of carbs without protein, I get all out of whack with hunger and cravings. So that is no good.

Still, treating myself from time to time with Indian food, nachos, ice cream, bulk candy, etc., has been important to my progress. I can tell myself, "If I'm good, then I can afford to splurge a little once in a while," and I really never feel deprived. I feel a sense of accountability to myself—like logic-me is on the same team as desiring-me and we are working together to make me overall happy and healthy. This is as opposed to times in the past where I have rather felt like the two sides of myself were demanding parent who wanted perfection and naughty child who felt deprived and then justified in being really bad sometimes.

All in all, it looks like if I stay on course, I should expect to meet goal by the end of the year. The pure numbers say six weeks, but I'm traveling a lot between now and then, so I'll throw an extra two weeks in for wiggle room. :p
 
You're doing awesome, Reverie! Way to go!

I, however, am not doing so awesome. My comfort zone is 124-128. I'm at 132. Not surprising since I'm drinking so many calories (one soda and a ton of coffee, mochas, lattes.) I'm also not exercising or eating well. The longer days at work also mean I'm less likely to cook, more likely to eat out. On top of that, because of the longer days, I've not been exercising regularly.

So, today is Day zero for me! With Blue gone and no kids at home this weekend, it will be easier to get myself back on track by eating healthy and working out every day...which I really need since I have the holidays coming up, a long work trip, and a vacation at the end of the year. Current weight: 132.6, goal: 125. That's 7.6 lbs in 9 weeks. Usually very doable. I will give up the one soda/day and limit myself to regular coffee, no specialty coffees.
 
My own pwrsinal journey and deamons

So my story starts out about June of this year, when I finally took a long hard look in the mirror (something I have an extremely difficult time doing for several reasons). I hated what I saw: a paunch 31 year old goth, who didn't feel attractive, didn't look attractive and surely couldn't fake it till he made it any more. It was truly a blow to both my ego, and my own self respect.

I came from the military, fractured my spine in several places, destroyed my arms and left sholder, and the more in thought about it, the more it dawned on me I was using it as a crutch. I was too tired or two sore to go excercize and be active. That had to change. I wanted to feel attractive, I wanted to be attractive to my wife. I needed to feel wanted (she never once made me feel un loved or un wanted over the years, it was just a feeling I had).

I began looking into calorie tracking apps and found MY Fitness Pal (free cause I'm a cheap ass). It let me input my weight (237) asked me what my goals were, I wanted to be 200 then move from there (I expected this goal to take a while to achieve, and be the journey of a life time, which it has been). I calculated what I should eat every day bases on my activity levels (which you can input). I chose sedintary (spelling, little physical activity).

First thing I noticed was I simply wasn't eating enough to meet my calorie goal of 1500 per day. So I had to adjust my diet to meet that goal. It took several weeks as I'm honestly a fairly healthy eater to begin with. Then I decided to get a fit bit, and use that to help me figure out my daily calorie burn.

Through research I found out the fit bits can be up to 10% off, so I decided to multiply my daily calories burned daily by .9,then I would add them to the my fitness pal app, as well as tracking what I was eating.

To my surprise after my first 3 weeks doing this my daily calorie deficit was close to 700. I decided to begin adding workouts to augment my daily activity. I have always been a cardio nut, so added an hour on the eliptical. My daily deficit shot up to 1700 calories.

The calorie tracker (Mfp) demanded I step on the scale after the first month. I saw a massive change. I had lost 9 pounds. I decided to motivate myself more by ordering a new wardrobe that was too small to fit into. Now I was eating healthier, meeting my daily calorie goal, and working out more. I wanted to push myself more, and added light weight lifting to my routine.

Now I was spending 6 hours each week in the gm, eating right, and doing the small things to make myself more active (parking farther away from the store, taking the stairs ect). I began to notice my average daily deficit was 2000 calories (eating my 1500 per day goal, and burning 3500 throughout the day). Month 2 rolls around. Mfp demands I weigh myself, to my shock I'm down to 221.

I continue this process, adding different foods, adding multi vitamin (picking good food at 1500 calories to meet macro nutrient needs was a challange). Month 3 rolls around, and I'm down to 210. Month 4 I hit 199. I blew my goal out of the water, and my new clothing needed a belt.

I was feeling great, I had to order an entire new wardrobe, more shirts and pants, and some kilts, cause murika *uck yeah. I decider to look at older clothing from nearly a decade before that I hadn't had the heart to throw away, and made it my personal goal to fit into my old 1920's style zoot suit (in weighed 190 when I purchases it).

End of month 5, 192. I could fit it. I now officially weighed less than I did in high school, 13 years prior. I was astounded st the changes bother in energy level, sex drive, and confidence. Friends were telling me how amazing I looked, I wasn't embarrassed of being naked. For the first time since I was a teemager, I was happy (ish) in my own skin.

Now I know I'm still a guy with a bit of fluff, but it's not super obvious any more. End of month 6, 181, and I need to order more clothing, because I need belts that wI'll hold up my second replacement set. It's been a crazy 51 pound journey, and I want to see if I can hit a crazy goal of 160 (the navy pegged this as my ideal MAX weight) after 51, another 21 doesn't seem like a huge stretch. However with school starting (engineering degree) I'm slowing a bit down and trying to find the ballance again, between family, full time school, home work, part time job, and gym time.

Guys, and gals I believe in each of you being able to meet these goals you set, I truly want to help motivate you. If my broke *ick self can do it, I have no doubt that you can.
 
My weight has plateaued at 160-162. Probably because I've been skipping the gym. That changes today.

I woke up shortly after 5am. I've shortened my morning routine, so I will leave the house by 6 to go to the gym. It'll be a short workout, but a 15-20 minute run/walk and some weights then a nice hot shower will be invigorating, right?

Diet this week is iffy - Thanksgiving leftovers. It was mostly healthy food, other than the desserts which I limit to one a day (most often half a serving as well since I'm already mostly full from dinner or lunch).

Traveling this weekend, so hopefully family is making good decisions diet-wise so that I don't splurge too much or anything. When I get there, I think I should go to the store and pick up some healthy snacks to keep in the diaper bag so no matter where I go I can grab some nuts or fruit or something instead of relying on the home I'm at or going fast food or something.

Oh! I finally got myself some bluetooth headphones to make music and running easier! I was going to do a 5k next weekend, but the budget wasn't able to swing the fee. Maybe after we get a couple of things sorted out. Training for it has been massive motivation, so the time I realized I wasn't going to be able to do it was the time I started skipping the gym. Time to find a new goal.
 
Bumping This Thread

So, thanks Reverie for starting this last year :)

I wasn't in a place of even trying to maintain, I was wilfully gaining so I lurked but didn't post. I figured you all didn't need my negativity floating about.

But now I see a few of us in the blog sections are back on healthy eating tracks and so I thought i'd bump this for us.

I rejoined Pilates online to do before I move. I have exactly 1 month until the move, so I want to lose at least 5-10 pounds and work on getting strength.

I too get sciatica, and I find the best pilates moves from this are called clams. and side leg lifts. They really hurt to do on sciatica while doing them (especially clam for me) but then afterwards it seems to melt the pain and I don't get it worse through out the day. I'm not sure why that works for me and I'd be interested in seeing if it helps anyone else.

So I made a graph of my general weight pattern from 2011 to present, and where I need to go from here. I'm hoping in the future it will be not be such big dramatic ups and downs but jus 5 pound corrections either way. Most of 2015 was this way I just didn't post the upward blips on MyFitnessPal.

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The only way out is to admit to where you were and work through it. I guess. So..yeah I'm almost back where I was at over 6 years of downward or maintenance progress. But it's OK i'll get back down. I know how. Less calories, intermittent fasting, and weights/cardio/pilates, and just persistence.
I'm currently at 13.3, or 186. I fast once or twice a week depending on my energy levels. And I eat 6 days a week at a deficit, betwee 1k-1400k and on maintainance between 1400-1800k. For my height weight and age. :)

Anyone else fancy being accountability partners on here with me, and revitalising this blog? :)
 
The worst thing about going low-carb is the cravings the first few days. Today's monster: I would kill someone for caramel corn. Instead, I went to the fancy cheese shop and bought a crystally 5-year gouda that was one of the best things I ever tasted.

But now I am craving chocolate for dessert, lol. NO.
 
After having quite the unpleasant surprise when I stepped on the scales this week, I am refocusing on what I eat and trying to up the steps. I def lost the plot with the crème eggs and mini eggs. A crème egg after dinner every night and very decreased walking. At my last job I used to walk around the block at least twice a week and that block is over a mile.
The god awful weather doesn't help but the clock change does, so been out with the loaner dog and kids either at the dog park or playing in the street (cul de sac) after work and the odd 20 minute at-home yoga workout. Looks like I am close to where I was when I decided to lose some weight! So I need to keep going. Less chocolate, 0 margaritas and any type of movement or stretching that I can squeeze in.
 
I did great maintaining my weight all year, and then the winter weather and the hot cocoa broke me, and I've gained 5 lbs since Christmas :( I'm at 131 now, I'd like to be back between 125-128. That's a 21.5-22 bmi for me, it's where I feel the best.

Weirdly, as I get older, my extra pounds no longer go to my belly but hang out in my boobs and butt. On the one hand, cool, my size 27 jeans still fit loose at the waist even with the weight gain. On the other hand ... So dangerous when I shrug off gaining weight because it's in less annoying spots. I fear waking up one day and realizing I've gained 50 lbs :cool:

I have so much admiration for those of you tackling low carb. You are stronger women than me! There is literally NOTHING low carb that I like, and I get miserable on that type of diet.

I've always found it easier to increase calories burned than cut calories consumed, anyway. So right now I'm focusing on that, making sure that Monday-Friday I work out twice a day, one hour of cardio (running, bike, or pushing the lawnmower) and 30 minutes of Pilates or dance for toning. I'm eating 1300-1500 calories a day - that 200 cal difference is the drink I can't always resist at bedtime - which is a maintenance amount for me. Crossing my fingers the extra workouts are enough to drop a few pounds by summer!
 
We got a dog, so I've continued to slack about going to the gym BUT I've been running with him 4-6 mornings each week so at least that's happening.

Little girl isn't nursing as much so I'm starting to cut calories to make up for the decreased caloric burn.

I'm trying intermittent fasting 4 days a week - only eating from 1030/11am-730pm. Those are the only days I allow any kind of sweet/junk food. I'm also doing no processed sugar (honey is ok, then) until mother's day. At that point the sugar addiction should be gone so I can enjoy the very occasional ice cream without giving in to eating it every day. Lol

I had gone back up to 165 and am now hovering near 160 again. Everyone thinks I'm still losing weight, though, and my endurance is much better so I'm still making fitness progress even if the scale isn't really changing! Works for me!
 
I ate all the cheese in France and gained 5 lbs during the two weeks of my honeymoon. :cool:

It's about time to start behaving again.
 
All right, bumping this thread again because in the past two months I reversed nearly ALL my progress. First it was all the food and drink on the honeymoon. Then it was moving apartments less than a month after we were back (and so dishes packed and all of that meant eating out almost every day). I've crept back up to 130 and it's time to whittle all that back down again. How is it that I've spent most of my adult life gaining and losing the same damn 15 pounds over and over?!

This week I have some crazy work deadlines, so I'm just doing the best I can, but next week I'm going to be a little stricter with myself.

I have not yet decided if I want to go back to using the calorie counting app. It is SUCH a pain in the ass—inputting recipes for whatever I cook, trying to judge what proportion of that recipe actually ended up on my plate, trying to estimate the ingredients of what I've stuffed in my mouth while out, weighing everything. It's so time-consuming, and it stresses me out. Ugh! I know from experience that if I cut out or cut down on the booze, don't put a bunch of sugar in my face, and focus on trying to get sufficient protein, I often come in under calorie goal anyway...

Goals for activity:

- At least an hour of cardio each weekday (biking to work and back will mostly cover that; I can hit the hotel gym or go for a run if I'm traveling)

- An hour of strength-related exercise every Tuesday (either Pilates if I am at home or at the hotel gym if I am traveling for work; maybe some basic calisthenics if I'm away from Pilates for a non-work reason)

- One active weekend day: hiking or walking a neighborhood or a protest march

Goals for diet:

- No booze till July 4th

- After July 4th, limit booze to happy hour dates (with partners or friends) and weekends—no sitting around drinking wine in front of the TV in the evenings!

- Lots more sparkling water

- Lots more salads with hard-boiled eggs

- Lots of vegetarian (and limited seafood) protein, including a small whey protein shake after my bike ride so I don't eat everything in the house when I get home from work

- Lots of lightly stir-fried or sautéed veggies

- Limit refined carbs to a couple of special exceptions per week (perhaps a sushi roll, tacos in taco shells, popcorn at a movie, or a biscuit with brunch—stay away from sweets!)

Goals for lifestyle:

- Be staunch about getting 8 hours of sleep—I always eat better when I'm less stressed, and I'm always less stressed when I'm well rested

- Start cooking dinner nearly every night again and taking leftovers or salads to work for lunch; related: do grocery shopping on Sunday for the week so it seems like less of a pain in the ass each time I want to cook

- Keep healthy, relatively low-carb snacks around (seeds, strawberries, olives, Trader Joe's cheese crisps, seaweed snacks, salmon jerky) at home and work
 
I'm in the same boat...back up to 130 due to poor diet choices. For me, it's the same 10 lb yo-yo :/

My exercise plan:
Walk 4 miles x 2-3 days/week​
One barre class per week @ 1 hour​
One yoga class per week @ 1 hour​
Use my weight bench x 2 days​

Diet wise, I'd really like to do a sugar detox. I'm such a sugar addict!
 
I can't say I've been making much in the way of progress, but I'm trying to do better. In two weeks I'm going on a trip (to include a pool) with a new guy I'm really into, and I am gonna try to lose like 4 pounds by then if possible. Usually if I'm really "good," I can manage 2 pounds per week. We'll see...

Last night I tried interval running for the first time. My bike has a flat tire and I won't have the new tube for a few days, so I guess running is the main choice I have. :cool:
 
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