Just finished a transformer& hope this will keep me from backsliding!

The pot is now $70

Hooray! Okay, still not loving my seemingly inescapable middle-aged lumpiness, but I do feel a lot better & look a bit better, too! And I’m grateful to be rid of some extra weight in the heat of the summer in my AC-less home. Good luck, everyone. :)

Hooray! Made it!

I was feeling pretty good until I looked at my all-time diet bet chart (on the website under profile, if you’ve been doing diet bets for a long time & you’re curious about yours) and realized it looks like an EKG, up and down every year. At least the highs are a little lower than my original starting point (but the lows are also trending higher). The older I get, the greater a struggle it is to keep it off, ugh.

My plan for the rest of the bet and beyond is to actually do my weekly weigh ins, then do maintainers to avoid backsliding. Hopefully I can hang in there. I’m still heavier than ideal, but my hips no longer hurt, so I’ll feel good if I can maintain this weight. (I’d love to lose another 5, which seems my magic weight for minimizing foot pain, but that’s for later.)

This month really got away from me, so I will be losing this round, but congratulations to everyone who made it!

My big plan to use my membership to weigh in every week and stay accountable fizzled, but hopefully I’ll be back on track for the next round!

Yay! Made it this round after missing last one. My clothes fit better, but I feel like I look the same. :( (Except my turkey neck looks *worse*—had to take a dozen pics before I got one that didn’t completely mortify me.)

Good luck, fellow stragglers!

Currently I’m 1/2 lb under my goal today which means I’m pumped, yeah!!! My concern is final weight in starts day after I return from a 5 day cruise 😩 I have confidence in my ability to make the best choices on the food they offer but it still tends to be more sodium than I normally eat. Plus I like to have a margarita. I’ll see if they’ll make it with lime juice & agave. I wonder what drinking one a day will do with my weight. Anyone dealt with a similar situation? Any advice would be much appreciated.

If I don’t make my goal, I don’t have to actually weigh in today, correct? I lose around but stay in the running for the rest, yes?

I haven’t thrown in the towel, but it’s not looking good, and I have dinner plans with my family…

After spending six months last year to get down to my goal, it took me less that 3 months to put it all back on, so I’m back. This time, I’m going to get the membership afterwards and do the maintainers. Last time I intended to do that, but balked at the price (you can’t do the five dollar add-on with maintainer bets). But now I wish I had made the investment, because starting over stinks. Apparently I have no internal self control mechanism, sigh.

The pot in Round 1 is now $1,120