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@pwnstar: yes

@Raspberry: weight, 169...middle number is "6"...

@Mrs D: Are you eating back the exercise calories it indicates you burned (which is my guess in that you mentioned you struggle to sometimes eat 1200 calories).

@Mrs D: Do you log your exercise in MFP? If so, it subtracts the calories burned from your total. That might be tripping you up? If you're eating 1200-1400 calories and day and regularly working out I would definitely expect to see some movement on the scale. I workout daily and if I stick to my macros (which add up to 1530 calories, without giving back exercise calories burned) I do lose slowly, but consistently.

Joining in! Just joined Weight Watchers after trying to lose weight by "just eating healthy" for months now. I'm 15lbs heavier that my heaviest pre-pregnancy weight (now 15 months pp), and that was up 10lbs after going off birth control (I'm one of the freaks who gained weight after quitting the pill). Time and energy to exercise is tough to come by as I WOH and DS is only awake for about 2 hours after I get home. Trying to work in exercise after he goes to bed and before dinner is tough. I'm trying to do the Scientific 7-min workout (NYTimes from years ago) daily to just create a new habit and I'm hoping that I can add to that in the future.

I'm hoping your success stories will help keep me motivated!

If anyone has WW experience, I'd love some tips. I've done WW once before (pre-wedding) and it was an incredibly slow process for me that required me keeping at or below my daily points allowance and still only losing 0.5-1lb/week, and that was with running and kickboxing 3x/week. I did lose 25lbs, but it took 10 months and I was living alone and cooking for only myself. I'm curious to see what my experience is like this time around.

@gingerbebe: Nice, thanks for the tip! Also, nice job on your weight loss in January! I've stalled for the moment but am working on trying to get my motivation back, haha.

@Mrs D: I would just keep at it. Consistent working out and under 1400 calories a day will be pay off in the long run.

@BUNBUN: The new points system on WW is hard for me to get my mind around. Chicken, for example, is 0 points, but so is a serving of cucumber.

So, I am counting calories this time around.

@looch: Yeah, it's freaking me out too. I know I have to watch how much of the zero foods I eat (had to watch fruit intake last time), but things like eggs and non-fat yogurt could trip me up. Less of a danger for plain grilled chicken, for me!

@BUNBUN: My preference is to work out in the morning. Eaaaaarly-4:30/5 am timeframe. But my youngest (almost 18 months), doesn’t consistently wake at the same time-currently, he has reverted to waking at 5 am. So for now, workouts in the morning just don’t happen.

I also WOHFT, and yes, it’s hard, but immediately after my oldest goes down (typically around 7:30), I change my clothes, put on my shoes, and knock out a workout. Sometimes I get distracted and I do it later (I have hopped on the elliptical at 9 or even 10), but 20 minutes of a tired workout is better than no workout. I typically have a workout planned (because it helps me to know what I’m doing), but just doing something really does help to create the habit and make it easier to do it at night.

I can either choose to wait until my youngest is consistently sleeping later to workout (which may not happen for quite a while), or, I can choose to workout at night after bedtime. Only one of those choices gets me closer to my goal which makes it a no brainer for me. Reframing the situation from what I can’t do to what I can do really helps me focus on what I want and how to utilize the time/resources I do have to make it happen.

Eta: Being in shape/working toward my goals helps me manage every aspect of my life better, which in turn makes it easier to find the motivation (and most of it is really just creating a new habit) to keep going. I’m not always happy about it beforehand, but I am afterward. I hope you can find a solution that works for you!

@pwnstar: thank you! All great suggestions!

Ok - new month new goals for me! You all saw my "why wont the damn scale move" drama last week. I am going to try something different this month - try super hard not to focus on the scale. I'm setting up my goals for workouts for the next 23 days (sh*t February is short!). I'm going to keep my calories in the 1300-1400 range and focus on continuing my clean eating.

Goal Workouts:
-Body Boss HIIT circuits 8
-Yoga (doing Yoga w/ Adriene's True 30 day series) 9 sessions
-Cardio 9 sessions

If I can accomplish all of those I will count February a success no matter what the scale says. I know I will be seeing improvement with that much commitment.

I am jumpimg into this! I am 7 weeks postpartum and trying super hard to lose the baby weight. I gained more with this pregnancy then i did with my son. I do at home workouts, but really trying to focus on what I eat since that is my biggest struggle.

I know the group started a few weeks ago, but how has everyone been doing?

After a sweaty work out this morning the scale showed exactly 40lbs down for where I started at the beginning of Sept so it was great to feel like I crossed a hurdle! I need to get 2.5lbs lighter than that to meet my goal for our vacation on 3/3 which should be more than manageable. We're getting together with friends tomorrow for a kid free night which will include pizza and booze, but I'm going to do 2 classes at the gym in the morning and eat light the rest of the day to balance it out.

@tinyperson: thx!

@Truth Bombs: Thats awesome progress! Sounds like you got a good plan in plave that is working for you.

@Eko: I'm going to enjoy myself for those meals/activities, making sure to not overdo it, not feel like I have to finish my plate, and to load up on veggies and other healthy options for other meals. In other words - I'm not going to sweat it too much.

@Truth Bombs: Nicely done!

@looch: Thanks!

@gotkimchi: I don't count calories down to the last calorie. I try to be more conscious of how much food I eat as a whole. So, it depends. Sometimes you can base it off the serving size and count from there. I will start measuring when I cannot take an educated guess on how much it is. I did a lot of measuring when I started because I just had no idea. The more and more you measure the less you need to over time. Now, I tend to only measure meat because that to me is the hardest to get accurate.