The pot in Round 1 is now $1,680

For those who win, how are you celebrating? For those who don’t win, how are you preventing yourself from boomeranging out of frustration/sadness/disappointment/whatever you’re feeling?

I’m not one to often write posts, when I’ve done diet bets before. However, I lost the last couple, so I need to do something different. My main problem is when I have access to unhealthy food (out to eat, parties, etc), I have trouble resisting. Generally if I stay away from junk and such, I’m good. But when it’s in front of me it’s a different story. So when I’m in a situation where the urge to indulge is overwhelming, I’m going to get on here and post. Something to mark the moment, and the feeling that I need to overeat, but to keep a rational and objective attitude towards the feeling, and then releasing it so I can make the best decision for myself. I just figured I’d put a warning out there, in case I start posting a lot! Best wishes to all.

This has been the hardest month for me with all the Diet bet challenges I have done over the years. I only needed to lose 2 lbs in 10 days to achieve my goal this month. Normally during this time of the year I gain 10-15 pounds from all the stress but this year I decided to join this 6 month challenge to lose weight and it has been a challenge. This month has been extremely stressful (you know when you wish you had 10 extra hours each day to get everything you need done) between work (year end as an accountant) and both of my boy’s hockey schedule. Then my hot water tank broke (no hot water for 48 hours), two weeks later my furnace stopped working when it was -20 C outside (thankfully my dad was able to fix it at 11pm while I was as at the hockey area). Then two days later my car wouldn’t start (thankfully it only needed a new battery), then I got a last minute call that my son had to go for surgery. I was able to get through all the hurdles but my stress levels were through the roof for the whole month and I have never struggled so much to lose 2 pounds (I guessing from all the cortisol in my body). I have been eating my protein bar for breakfast, oatmeal with fresh apples mixed in for lunch, and vegetable soup for supper for 10 days to try and lose those 2 pounds. I added minimum 10,000 steps for the past 4 days on top of my strict diet. Last night I was still 1/2 lbs away so I drank a lot of water and danced in my living room for 90 minutes and the scale rewarded me this morning by achieving my goal with .4 lbs to spare………..if you put your mind to achieve a goal you can do it.

First time posting here. At the end of February, I fell while spending time outdoors and fractured my lower back, which forced me to stop all physical activity. Because of the intense pain and medication, my old unhealthy eating habits returned—I ate whatever was around, which only made me feel worse mentally. Fortunately, my back is finally healing, and I feel confident enough to go for walks again. I’ve also managed to stop snacking and overeating. Now I’m heading into a new month with more energy and more positive mindset!

Submit my weigh in today! Already met my round 3 goal and working towards round 4! How’s everyone else doing??

I DID IT! I don’t know how, and I don’t think I deserve it, ☺ but I made it and got my weigh-in verified!

March 1 really sneaks up on you! Was glad to weigh in today low enough to also hit my goal for my Monday weigh-in, which means I should be able to reuse it (assuming no DB glitch like happened in another game last month).

I have no plans to self-sabatoge before then,
but it's nice to not have to deal with the whole process too many times.

Anyone else have that Process? Gotta move the rug, move the scale to the mirror, open up the shades and turn on the lights to get it bright enough, etc! And I shouldn't even have to move the rug but one time my weigh-in was rejected because something about the angle of the photo made them think the scale was on the rug, even though it wasn't. So since then I make sure it's very clearly distant!