It's 2017, and past time for a new thread. Happy Valentine's Day to all! Try not to eat all the chocolates! Lol

I've been off my diet since the Christmas Holidays. It was just supposed to be a short break, but the tasty snacks were too much to give up. My last achievement was 166 lbs; I'm starting again today from 172 lbs. It could have been a lot worse!

I'm still doing my level best I try to have four "good days" (with no treats) and three "treat days" (with treats in moderation!) a week, except for celebrations etc. At the moment I'm just over nine and a half stone, so my aim is to be closer to nine stone by Christmas Onward and upwards, good luck to all xxx

My gym instructor put me on a new diet, changing the food rather than the amount. It is the first diet I've ever been on I wasn't hungry so can use indefinitely. Basically half my food is replaced with salad/veg fruit and nuts and I've lost four pounds in a month to get below 12 stone at last.

Hello there Lady C, it's not just about the weight, it is about BMI (see the one for women!) You could look very good to me, but a pic is required
Ottawa, eh? My sis lives there.
Don't be too hard on yourself, remember some of us prefer the `curvy chicks'!
G

I lost six pounds then let the intake slip and put a few back. At least I've proved the method works if I actually use it.

My new diet was derailed by an injury that left me unable to go to the gym and sunk me into a depression that I, of course, soothed with food.
Started yesterday at 176 lbs and hoping to stay focused!

Not doing as well as I'd like, but I'll take a small success. Down 1 lb this week to 175.

175.2 for official weigh-in day. Up a bit, but not very much.

This is a day early than my 'official' weigh-in day, but I've been doing so well that I wanted to share to keep up my positivity.

Down 2.2 lbs this week to 173.0.

172.6.

I'm particularly pleased with this week's result, as I had 2 birthday dinner parties to attend last weekend and I did NOT order salads. . But I went to the gym 4x last week and I've been 3x this week already and plan to go again Saturday, and I've been doing well keeping to my diet aside from the parties. I thought I might be the same or up a bit this week, so down 0.4 is amazing!

170.8

Have a great long weekend!

Great job, LadyC!

I weighed in at 188.2 today. I weighed 212 a year ago, so I've come down a lot since then. I had lost down to 203 by December, and I've lost the rest since then. I started actively exercising and counting calories the week before Christmas. I haven't been doing anything the last month or so because of all the work I've had to do, but now that it's summer break and my work is winding up, I'm going to get back to it. So, I'm going to start posting here again (though it's been years since I posted in this thread!) to help keep me accountable.

I wasn't home this morning to do my official weigh-in, nor did I want to be, LOL. The past weekend was a holiday weekend in Canada, and I had some friends over for BBQ and other tasty things that I'm not really supposed to eat on my diet.

You have to live a little sometimes, though.

Went back up to 176 after the BBQ party for Victoria Day (followed by more cheating), but weighed in this morning at 168.8. 166 is the lowest I've been since I began my diet last May, so I'm getting pretty close to a new low.

LadyC, excellent job!

Jane, you always inspire me

I've been in hospital for the last 7 weeks. I came home last Wed, but I've a bit more healing to do. I lost 50 pounds. It's not the way I would have chosen, and I don't encourage this method, but I'm using it as a springboard to continue losing the weight I need to lose.

My sister and I are going to Scotland next summer, and I have a definite goal in mind for that trip. I'd love to meet a few of you if it can be worked out. We will most likely fly into Heathrow, so a mini London meet would be amazing!

I've struggled since I last posted and got really frustrated when I seemed to be gaining and losing the same 3 lbs over and over. Today I'm feeling good, weighing in at 168.

I also have another personal victory, in that I've managed to stop biting my nails. At least for the last month.

Down 1 lb to 167

Up .8 to 167.8. Boo. But I feel I've kept to my diet well and after today I'll have gone to the gym 4x this week. So I'm chalking it up to gaining muscle. :P

I've still not been biting my nails and this week I painted them and put on design stickers I bought 3 years ago to reward myself with when I managed to grow them long enough to be worth decorating. Overall a good week for me.

Well! Last Friday I felt I did well for the week but still gained 0.8 lbs; this past weekend I felt I did poorly diet-wise since I had some unrelated health issues and treated myself to a soda and chips (crisps) for a spot of happiness, and I've lost 2.6 lbs since Friday down to 165.2, which is a new low for me!

I don't understand my crazy body sometimes.

I know I haven't been around for a few months, but still doing good with the weight-loss smile And today is fourteen - yes Fourteen !!! years since I started my Healthy living. Most of my Funtrivia friends have been with me from the very, very beginning
Fourteen years ago, I made my enormous life-changing decision, to change my eating habits. Back then I was fourteen stone ... and more than probably more! - and my quality of life was more or less zero. General aches and pains, rarely a week went by when I didn't visit my doctor, then using a manual wheelchair for getting about on long and short journeys. It couldn't have been easy for Dad to be pushing me, or Mum either. I snacked on pastries, biscuits by the handful and chocolate bars. I must have known I was overweight - I was certainly more than a little depressed - but didn't "want" to do anything about it. Until I had a blood-test to see if that brought up anything - a trial in itself since I was terrified of injections. What the test came back with was seriously scary - I was borderline diabetes and if I didn't stop my "unhealthy eating" almost at once, I would be injecting myself every day.
It was a massive shock to me, Mum and Dad, and the immediate family. But, the next morning, I decided it was going to be a brand new start. All the goodies were taken out of the house and stored outside, in the shed, to remove temptation. And slowly but surely, with determination, the pounds started to fall off. And the beauty of it, is that I don't do a diet as such, I just try and cut down on the treats. Before, I was having "treats" six or seven times a week - these days its maybe three times a week. When there's a family celebration, Easter or Christmas, I eat what I want, but then cut down the rest of the week smilee
Today I weigh 9 stone 12 and a quarter pounds. The down-side to this is that I'm about six pounds heavier than I was this time last year. But I have to think on the up-side ... I've lost at LEAST four stone in fourteen years ... and kept it off
Dad was so proud of my weight loss - as is Mum - but all my friends on Funtrivia have helped me with their support too. Many thanks, one and all xxxxxxxx

Well done! I'm very happy for you and your success!

Down about 1/2 pound to 164.6. I'm very pleased!

Another 1/2 pound for Friday weigh-in, 164.0.

Weighed in this morning at 161.8! That's a total of 38.2 lbs lost and I'm 11.8 lbs away from my goal of reaching 150 lbs by my birthday in late November.