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| Foods | Cheating all the time?? | Apr 10 2009 07:19 (UTC) |
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Start weighing yourself every morning and tracking it on the caloriecount weight tracker. I've been doing this for at least 200 days pretty consistently. I've noticed that while weight jumps all over the place (three steps forward, 2 steps back type of thing).. it almost always goes UP the morning after If I cheat the day before. It makes me think twice before scarfing down an entire bowl of bread at dinner.
Also, I made a rule for myself that if I REALLY want to at something that isn't on my diet, that I'll do it at Lunchtime instead of dinner. So when it's 8pm and I feel like I'm tortured because I "shouldn't really" have < insert food here > .. I rationalize to myself that I'll wait until tomorrow so I can have it for lunch. 90% of the time, by the time lunch rolls around the next day, the craving/overwhelming desire is gone. |
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| Motivation | An OMG moment | Mar 29 2009 06:18 (UTC) |
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| I took some pictures of myself today.
And for the first time, I didn't hate the pictures, because I didn't cringe at my double-chin. After losing 30 lbs, it wasn't there anymore. It was pretty amazing =) |
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| Motivation | 5', 178 lbs. Looking for a weight-loss buddy. | Jan 21 2009 19:05 (UTC) |
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Hey guys! 176.6 this morning, so.. not doing so great. I've started doing part of my workout routine again though, so hoping to build back up. I also did reasonably successful last night with dinner.. very low carb, resisted bread. Glad to see the progress and new faces!
-Aeao |
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| Motivation | 5', 178 lbs. Looking for a weight-loss buddy. | Jan 11 2009 17:44 (UTC) |
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| Alright, 176.6 this morning.
That's better than what I feared. I gained 5 lbs over the holidays, but I had visions of 10 lb gainage horror flying around in my head. Time to get back on track |
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| Motivation | 5', 178 lbs. Looking for a weight-loss buddy. | Jan 09 2009 20:04 (UTC) |
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Okay, now that I have some time I feel I can respond to everyone!
schatzigirl- Welcome! I've heard that eating 5 times a day is a great idea, because it keeps yoru blood sugar normalized and makes your stomach smaller so you feel more satisfied earlier at meals. At work I used to always try to keep some mixxed nuts handy so I'm not starving and make bad decisions at lunchtime. When I had this habit, it really helped me. Anyway, looking forward to hearing from you!
mandapanda92187 - Welcome, and Congratulations on your wedding plans!! It's nice to have someone in the same boat I'm in, especially with losing weight and needing to step it back up. At one point I had the routine down so solid I didn't even think about it, and I was losing consistently too.. now it's really difficult, and I find myself eating Pad Thai at lunch today... I'm always up for a daily weigh. I think folks should weigh-in here as often as they wish. Share your progress! That's what we're for, to congratulate each other and it feels good to share accomplishments, even if it's .2 lb. I took the advice a while back of these forums and started weighing every day, and I feel like that really helped me. Because on average everyone loses weight in a yo-yo pattern.. it was almost like a.. three steps forward, two steps back, type of thing. But, once you got used to the fact that your weight yo-yo's, you look at that increase (after a good day), and say "That's water weight fluxation, it will go down tomarrow if I'm good". I also agree with the whole routine thing. It takes a while to build it slowly, so you can stick with it. Part of me wants to just "leap" back into what I was doing in October, but I know that I can't... I have to take it one baby step at a time until it's no longer agonizing to smell that fresh bowl of bread from Carrabas and say no, and it's no longer hard to choose water at meals, and no longer even a decision on whether to run errands after work, or go to the gym. And right now, it's a struggle.
neveragain125 - Welcome ! I agree with the 135 goal. My doctor told me that at 5', I should be 105. I think I would look disgusting at 105. I've always been kind of big boned, and chunky all of my life. I would be super happy at 135. Heck, I think I'd be proud of myself if I could just get 150. 145 would be a dream if I could accomplish that for my wedding in July. I also agree that you have to work in some sort of flexibility to a diet, so that you don't get too depressed to get back up after tripping up a little bit. My flexibility has been.. if I'm going to eat something carb-y, I'll do it at lunch. So, If I'm DYING for some Indian Food and I can't imagine not eating it without a huge healthy reaping of rice... I can do that at lunch, where I allow myself to have some carbs, instead of dinner. I'm not sure if it's true, but I've heard that you burn off some carbs during the day.. so by having that "bad" thing for lunch, I can tell myself that I'll burn some of it off, and not feel like I failed.
Welcome! I really like this site the most because you can read all of the success stories from everyday people, and become inspired. Plus, you kind of learn what everyone does that "works" for them, since not all diets work for all people.. some are carb sensitive, some are calorie sensitive.. some have time to cook, others have to find fast alternatives.. etc. It's just this whole realm of support that seems more real than what you'd read in a magazine.
Keep up the good chats!
-Aeao
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| Motivation | 5', 178 lbs. Looking for a weight-loss buddy. | Jan 09 2009 19:37 (UTC) |
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Hey guys!
I'm so exicted there were so many responses! And especially fellow wedding-count-down-er's. I have a feeling this is going to be a great group, so keep it up!
Okay so, to start things off. My biggest problem is that, I lost some weight before and I had a routine that worked..but now that I've completely fallen out of that routine due to the holidays, it's hard to switch it back on again. A routine is just that, a routine, something that you build on until you are working out and pushing away bread without much inner turmoil or thought. As said above, going from 0-100 is a surefail because routines are made one step at a time.. so if something else comes up in your life, or a plan change, that adds a new element.. you don't have that full routine there to support you.
So heres what I think we should all do. If you're like me and you've lost weight in the past following a plan, tell us what that plan or routine was. That way we can get out all the little details about our plan, and that can be our goal to work up-to. It should be fun to read what's worked for everyone in the past, or what their plan is. Then we'll set some small goals for ourselves for the week. Trying to work back into the routines we know will work for us.
I'll start,
- First thing in morning after RestR, weigh unclothed. - Breakfast, throw slim fast shake in purse, chill in company freezer for an hour. - Buy bottle of water to drink during the day at work. - Have mixxed-nuts in a container at work desk to kill hunger between breakfast/lunch. - Have a reasonably-low-carb Lunch. Usually a Wawa sub with wheat bread, 8pc Chik-fil-a nuggets, Quiznos Chili, or bowl of Panera Soup. Drink Water with lunch. - During 15 min break at work, walk up and down the company's deserted stairwell. - After work, refill water bottle at company water fountain, put in purse to take to gym. - Have clean workout clothes, socks, and shoes in a workout bag in my car. - Drive directly from work to Curves gym for workout (Avoid going home, because then you'll just stay there..) - Change back into work clothes at Curves, so I can keep my workout bag w/ clothes in car at all time. - Once home, change into second set of Workout clothes, and do Dance Dance Revolution for 40 mins. - Eat a dinner with as little carbs as possible. Skip Bread, Pasta, Rice. Think Meat + Veggie. Make *a* roll with dinner to give to fiance, though, as lack of bread makes fiance cranky. - If time, do 10 push-ups, and 10 sit-ups.
This is the most hard-core version of the diet I did in the month before I went dress shopping (Oct). I think I only did DDR and Curves 3x a week though, and only used one break for walking stairs..but I was really, really determined to try on the "Misses" dresses at the bridal salon instead of only plus sizers. Problem is, that mode switched off at Thanksgiving, and further switched off after I got my dress (sz 14, woohoo!!!). And I'm sure I've balooned back up. The scale I used to weigh on every morning is in the closet, so I need to move that out.. Anyway, I'm not doing ANY of the above stuff right now, and I need to get back, but I'm finding it difficult.
- Get back into having breakfast. (Make this easy by storing shakes under cubicle desk at work and chilling on the fly)
Whew! Alot to say.. can't wait to hear from you guys! -Aeao
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| Motivation | 160's club | Dec 05 2008 03:44 (UTC) |
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| Congrats on 170!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for why I'm sparce.. Work work and more work... I'm so busy I can't let myself relax, but I'm so stressed out that I find myself procrastinating and doing other things... Anyway, 172.8 this morning. |
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| Motivation | EATING!!! What's going on?? | Dec 02 2008 03:58 (UTC) |
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| Same =/
I've eaten horribly since Thanksgiving. I was doing so well, I lost 23 lbs and I was turning away all sorts of delicious steaming white bread and rice and sweets... But then Thanksgiving came along, and at first I wasn't going to cheat, and then I decided that I would just have Thanksgiving dinner as Thanksgiving dinner.. which snowballed into me having the ice-cream and cheese ball with a million crackers the day before.. and pretty much ended on Sunday. Today I started to do well, but my routine seemed so bland compared to the horrible-for-me food I'd splurged on all weekend. So I finished off tonight with a nice big portion of apple pie. I'm sitting here with a stomach-ache, feeling guilty, wondering why. It's just a slippery slope. A slippery slope! Blerg! An endless sea of "just this one more cheat" Last time my really strict-phase started with the really difficult choice of throwing my white-rice that came with my Thai food into the trash. It sounds crazy, but just making that choice and tossing it made the next choice of turning down bread at a restaurant easier. Tomorrow I'm going to try and turn this on it's head, and say "Just one more time, I'll turn down that ______", "Just this once". We will see~ |
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| Motivation | Is it ok to let SPITE drive me to lose weight?! | Dec 01 2008 23:24 (UTC) |
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Heck yeah it's okay. Spite is a very effective motivation tool. I made my biggest jump in weight loss the week after my future mother-in-law very nicely told me not to bother getting my engagement ring sized down because getting it sized-up again is expensive. (She later apologized for the comment)
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| Motivation | 160's club | Dec 01 2008 05:59 (UTC) |
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Yeah I heard about the Wal-Mart thing. Crazy =/ I weighed in this morning at 173.5.. I was setting myself up to see like 176 or 178, so at 173.5 I felt a little relieved, believe it or not.
All in all, to jump back on the Christmas thing.. I'm feeling.. I don't know..anxious, about Christmas shopping. I feel like the weeks are melting away faster and faster and faster.. It feels like just yesterday it was April and I was watching the pear tree's downtown bloom. Now I'm scraping my car with a snow-claw.. argh! I feel like, in a blink, Christmas will be here.. so I need to get all of my shopping out of the way ASAP! There just seems like so much to do, and so little time.. I'm freaking out and it's barely December.. haha |
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 29 2008 22:08 (UTC) |
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That's awesome!!
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| Motivation | Key to success? | Nov 26 2008 05:42 (UTC) |
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Take Baby Steps
Routine is Easy
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 25 2008 16:18 (UTC) |
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At work, can't type long.
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 23 2008 05:33 (UTC) |
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| I think the water-goal is a good one. I was trying to drink 60 oz's of water a day, and I was losing..but that tapered off.
So, my goal for this week: 60 oz of water a day. No/Low Carbs at Dinnertime. Those are really my biggest crutches. Sometimes I'll buy a bottle of water at work but forget to drink it, and Dinner is my hardest meal decision. I've (thankfully) gotten into a breakfast/lunch habit that's healthy and enjoyable. I do the slim-fast shake, and then have my whole-wheat sub & coffee for lunch. It's the later night.. saying no to pizza, or warm, soft bread.. or the rice that comes with my meal.. or not eating the rice I make for my fiance.. or to warm.. soft bread. Tonight I did well at dinner.. I had a panera salad and a cup of creamy tomato soup.. it came with a hunk of bread, and I handed it over to my fiance who is calorie sensitive (and not carb-sensitive like me). He can eat bread all day and still lose weight!! (growl!) |
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 22 2008 15:22 (UTC) |
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| Okay, I ate really strictly tue/wed/thur.. and most of Fri.. kind of slipped up late, late last night at IHOP eating a few carbs..My habitual "saying-no" wasn't as strong after cheating in Florida. I did manage not to eat the rice that came with my thai-dinner though.
but.. 172.6 this morning... That's less scary than I thought.. I can kind of pretend it didn't happen, but I've pretty much stayed stagnant with my goals for 2 weeks.. blah |
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 22 2008 01:53 (UTC) |
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| Okay, I didn't weigh in this morning. But I am going to tomorrow. I think I've eaten reasonably healthy, so hopefully it won't be awful. I haven't worked out super-hard though, I barely broke a sweat at Curves and I skipped my DDR workout today because we had company coming over. It's so hard to workout when it's freezing outside and all you want to do is huddle up under your bedsheets. My apartment has NO insulation.. it was built in the 1800's =x
Oh well, hopefully I can give some good news tomorrow!! I hope your weigh-in went well too Momof2funykds! |
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| Motivation | 15 pounds to lose or more, who's with me. Support group.... On going! | Nov 19 2008 02:24 (UTC) |
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Hiya!
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 19 2008 02:11 (UTC) |
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| I'm not weighing until Friday! I'm horrified to get on the scale. Maybe if I eat strictly all this week I can pretend it didn't happen. I had a 5-day break from my diet while down visiting. ugh!
I hope your back feels better soon, at least you have a decent excuse. I have no excuse, I just cracked under pressure. I had such a horrible day dealing with my Mom that when my brother had his head in the fridge "Hey, want a beer?".."Sure".. Or when he was making hot cocoa (26g carbs), "Sure".. 2nd cup? "Sure".. Anyhoo, I bought some pants today. I bought some petite 14's that I can barely, barely squeeze into.. and some 12's that are my *Goal* pants. It's so hard to find good work pants that don't need to be dry cleaned, so I took advantage! |
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| Motivation | How do I stop snacking? | Nov 19 2008 02:05 (UTC) |
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| Jennifer,
Reading this post, I know exactly where your coming from. I used to snack and snack all day while at work. About two years ago, I decided I would be 'healthy' and put some chocolate special-K bars in my desk. I would eat one for Breakfast, but 30 min's later I'd feel hungry again, and so I'd have another.. and another.. and eat the entire box of bar's in one workday. They were 100 cals each..but after eating 6.. that's 600 cals! Then I read about how snacks that are high in carbs (even though they are low in fat) are bad to snack on. Aka, my cereal bars. Because the carbs in these foods convert to sugar once eaten and cause your blood sugar to spike. It's when the blood sugar comes back down that you feel hungry again, so you grab another snack. So here's what you eat to feel satisfied: Beef Jerky (protien) Cheese Stick (protien) Mixxed Nuts (protien and good fat) Once I started to snack on Beef Jerky and Cheese slices/sticks that I'd put in a zip-lock at work, I wouldn't feel hungry anymore. Plus well.. I really like beef jerky and cheese ;) Now I've kind of weened myself off the snacking, not by sheer force of will.. it just happened. But, for the longest time even after I stopped remembering to take cheese to work.. I had a jar of nuts at work. If I forgot breakfast, or felt hungry, I'd put pour out some mixxed nuts (about 20) on a napkin at work and put the jar in a drawer so I couldn't see it. Then I'd slowly eat the nuts, one at a time, savoring them. Usually that killed my hunger pretty fast. Oh, and I also agree with the drink lots of water thing.. Hope this helps! |
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 17 2008 16:52 (UTC) |
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Okay, an update. I haven't weighed because I've been in another state visiting family. But, because I've been stressed out dealing with my Mother, suddenly alot of foods that I would have avoided like the plague have become "okay". I've tried to exercise a little bit, but I just feel so miserable around certain family members. The guilt trips, the pressure, and neediness, and the drama. It's driving me crazy, and it's back to the days when the only real relief I had came from food... I guess what I'm realizing is. Moving 4 states away from my family made it alot easier to lose weight...lol. Glad I'm going home today, sorry to say ..but going to need a week of being strict to make up for this damage. |
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 12 2008 18:47 (UTC) |
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Yahoo! 171.6 this morning! I'll take it!
Congrats on your .5 loss! Can't write a ton though, because I have a huuuge pile of work on my desk >_<
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 11 2008 15:18 (UTC) |
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Of course I celebrate x-mas! I've been trying to get some shopping done early, but not as much as I want to. Traffic is horrid here after black-friday, and I get pretty peeved waiting in long holiday lines to check-out. Worse, I wanted to be shopping for "the" dress in December, which will eat up some of my holiday shopping weekends. (note to self, get on the ball). Well, I'm 172 today, for the second day. No loss, no gain. I blame the fact that I cheated just a tinsy-bit last night. I try to eat a healthy low-carb-south-beachish dinner.. which I did. But my roomate had her sister over for her 21st, and so I took a shot of vodka with them in her honor. Those calories probably didn't help me much. :P |
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| Motivation | Wanted: Competitive person | Nov 10 2008 04:09 (UTC) |
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| Hiya!
This thread sounds like fun. 40 mins of Dance Dance Revolution 100 situps Est. 400 cals |
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 09 2008 17:37 (UTC) |
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Momof2funykds, Yep, I sure do. I didn't before, but then I read a thread on this board that said weighing every day was really helpful.. and I really think it is.
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 08 2008 23:10 (UTC) |
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Yay!!
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| Motivation | 160's club | Nov 07 2008 18:27 (UTC) |
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Hiya! I *want* to be in the 160's club, does that count?
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| Motivation | Cold weather work outs?????? Any suggestions???? | Oct 25 2008 01:24 (UTC) |
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| You can do Curves if one is in your area. It's a women's gym that's inside and fun.
If your looking for an in-home workout, I definitely recommend DDR (Dance Dance Revolution). If you have a PS2 or your son or daughter has one.. you can play the game in workout mode, and it's a pretty fun cardio workout where you can track how many calories you burn (which I always like). |
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| Games & Challenges | 10 lbs by Halloween... | Oct 13 2008 01:58 (UTC) |
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| Oh right
Starting weight: 177.2 lbs |
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| Games & Challenges | 10 lbs by Halloween... | Oct 13 2008 01:58 (UTC) |
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| Short answer: I'm in.
And here's why (going to ramble on a bit, hope you girls dont' mind) I became newly motivated today. I've been losing weight very, very slowly because I have a wedding next year. Today I lost (and found later, thank god) my engagement ring. It had become looser and looser but I just thought it was because of the cold. But today during the (warm) afternoon it had slipped off, and I put it back on.. and then two hours later I lost it again. (I found it at the bottom of my purse after a short freakout) Anyway, I started talking about how I should resize it since I'd lost close to 20 lbs already, and how I had planned to resize it as I lost weight.... So then my future-mother-in-law very politely (and nicely) tells me that basically I shouldn't bother. She said sizing a ring back up after you size it down is expensive. That I should just tape it for a while. She was very polite about it, not exactly venomous. But it's clear that she doesn't think my weight loss plan is going to be either successful or permanent. She tried to say that every bride baloons back to their original weight after the wedding.. but I've been overweight all my life. And while a wedding is good motivation, I had planned on staying thin. I understand that women get a little extra baby weight, but we hadn't planned on having babies for a few years either. But, with all that aside. I decided I can do this. And not for her, or "to show her" or anything hateful like that. She didn't mean it in a hateful way (although I wish she would have been more supportive.. it was a little rude =/). I just need to do this for me. You know, to believe in myself.. and all that cheesy crap. So.. long answer. I'm in. -Aeao |
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| Motivation | 180's club | Sep 26 2008 13:50 (UTC) |
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This morning I just weighed at 179.8
Goodbye 180's club!
Good Luck Ladies! |
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So you can log your weight -- which allows you to do the following:
- Plot your weight curve
- Analyze the trend of your weight (see under Recent in the figure above)
- Determine the projected target date (see under Overall in the figure above)