G's Weigh-in: 155.6

Holding steady. I'm not sure how (I was expecting a gain) but I'll take it.

Next week is detox week! Difficult because my Waterloo peeps want to feed me cheese all the time, but I'm laying down the law, at least today, in my head. We'll see how it goes.

C's weigh-in: 134.2

That's more like it. I guess I'm still vaguely targeting 128, but I can get there slowly from here. I just bought a few pairs of size six jeans, I would not have thought this was possible a year ago. So, I'm trying to be happy with where I'm at.

B Weigh In: 142.6

No real change this week which considering my Vday spread (which included at minimum 5 egg yolks) I can't complain. The really story this week is how I got weighed at the doctor yesterday and my nightmare scenario where I stepped on his scale and found out my scale was broken and that really I weigh 160lbs did not come true. Huzzah.

G's Weigh-in: 155.6

Don't even talk to me about it.

I did learn something, though, which is that it's pretty much all about how you eat. Sure the exercise is important, for "health" and stuff, but just to give you a sampling of my week: On Monday I worked out (TT), Tuesday I did a yoga class at lunch, ran home from work (4.something miles), THEN did a 45-minute spinning class, Wednesday I did a regular TT workout, and Thursday at lunch I did a spinning class.

I ate badly last weekend (more on weekends later, seeing as we're kicking one off!) but I definitely didn't go overboard during the week.

Mainly I'm blaming stress hormones.

Focus

Maintenance freaks me out. Losing weight is fine, I can pass up the ice cream or pizza or whatever because I'm losing weight, it's just temporary. It's the forever of maintenance that's a problem for me. Like all of us, I love food. But, I can't maintain this weight and also eat whatever I want whenever I want it. Settling in to maintenance is hard because a lot of the time I still have to choose something healthy that tastes fine but is not the Oh My God Delicious thing I really wanted. I think I'm going to try eating exactly what I want three times/week and eat for health and lower calories the rest of the time. Do you guys have strategies about this?



Also, I need a new goal to focus on. I still can't do chin-ups so I bought a chin-up bar, we'll see how this goes.

C's weigh-in: 135.8

Last week I exercised every day and ate 23 points/day except for Valentine's day when I had a good dinner at a brasserie and a regular serving of ice cream afterwards. I'm really, really discouraged that I gained weight. It's hard not to get all melodramatic and think that if maintenance means I can never eat ice cream then screw it.

B's Weigh In: 142.2 -- I'll take it.

Down one pound, good news, right? Yeah, it would be if my scale wasn't a huge dick. Here's what happened:

I wake up this morning 15mins before my alarm goes off and think "well, I might as well weigh myself." I'm even a little happy about it because I know I was super good all week. So I get completed naked and step on the scale (least my underwear be the 2 oz of weight that push me into the danger zone) and the scale blinks and says "146.3." I step off, begin reviewing everything I ate all week and wondering if it's actually possible that the oil I rub on my dry legs has been absorbing into my skin an creating a layer of lavender scented fat. I'm so baffled that I decide to step back on the scale where after a little more blinking it announces "142.2! hahahah wasn't that hilarious when I acted like you gained 3 pounds? I am the comedy master!" I stood still for a full 30 seconds to make sure the scale was sure this time and then decided to step away and accept 142.2 as gospel.

Time for a new scale?