May/June weight loss challenge

[kacie tri-ing]

Ok--posting today's weight because I am leaving for a race tomorrow!

165.6 --told you my weight was totally unpredictable these days So strange....alas, hopefully that number doesn't mess up my race number tomorrow!

[uk elephant]

207.8 this week.

[Catrin]

139.8 this week - I finally broke that 140 boundary

[jp4995]

157.2. Apparently my body thinks that I'm in a weight gain challenge. It's funny because this week my pants are feeling looser.

[limewave]

Same as last week. 170.2.

[abejita]

142 for me, with a goal of 120.

[GLC1968]

I'm going to go with 'no change' for me this week since I weighed 161.something both Friday and Saturday (even though both days, my routine was messed up). Today I'm down a little, so I'm hopeful for next week.

Here's the interesting part. About three weeks ago (when I first hit 161 on the scale) I tried on all the clothes in my 161 bin (I'll explain in a minute) and only about 1/2 of them fit. Yesterday, I tried on all the rest and everything fit fine even though my weight is the same. I am definitely smaller. I'm wearing my belts on different holes and I've moved some of my 'fat pants' into the 'donate' bin. I also had to buy a new pair of work pants yesterday because my fat pants were too big and looking very unprofessional and I'm not quite small enough for the next set of work pants. Yay!

So, the bin thing. My weight has varied by about 40 lbs over the past 3-4 years. Because of this, I have LOTS of differently sized clothing. When we moved here, I put everything into my main closet (which is huge, yay!) but it got very depressing looking at all these clothes that I was too fat to wear. About 3-4 months ago, I went crazy trying on and organizing my whole closet. Everything that didn't fit went into bins and the bins were labeled based on what weight I needed to be to fit into them. Easy enough to do since most of those scale weights were quite recent and I could remember what I weighed when based on where I was living at the time. So now, I just cleared out the 161 bin. The next one is a 155 bin which contains most of my shorts - so I need to get there soon before it gets too much warmer here! I have bins going all the way down to 130 lbs where the clothing size dips into the 4's and 2's (now I'm in 10's & 12's). It's cool because this way, I don't see the clothes every day and when I do get to open the bins, it's like Christmas for free! Plus, many of these clothes have good memories tied to them, so it'll be fun to be able to wear them again. AND, my closet feels WAY bigger now that it's not stuffed with useless items anymore.

[Susan Otcenas]

139.8 this week - I finally broke that 140 boundary

Congrats!! It's always an extra bonus to pass one of those big milestone numbers!


Holding steady at 131.