Low carb is a long term lifestyle change for me, Cat Whisperer. I don’t just want to lose weight; preventing diabetes is also a goal. I’m getting to the age my father was when he developed type 2 diabetes, and I take after him, as far as body type is concerned. I don’t metabolize carbs very well, so I also take chromium supplements, and use cinnamon a lot. However, the dream about potatoes, besides being funny, makes me wonder if I’ve cut too many carbs out of my diet.
I think you just felt sorry for potatoes, realizing that starch can be detrimental to the health of many people, so in your dream you were trying to be nice to potato farmers everywhere by coming up with a new use for them! 
Since last year I’ve been hovering anywhere from 3 to 9 pounds above my goal weight of 130 after losing more than 30 pounds in 2010. It’s frustrating because I feel so close but it’s definitely a lot harder to lose any weight. I seem to get closer only to gain back a few pounds every few weeks. I know I really need to concentrate on my diet and cut out the little cheats but it’s hard and I’m weak.
check in today, down 1 kilo and 1/2 an inch around the waist.
Nice one! That’s over 2lbs, right?
2.2 I believe
Yes- 2.2 lb. Even though we have metric here, I have decided to use pounds as they are easier to notice when you lose 1.
Still doing my 30 minutes on the treadmill every day. However, there is no noticeable loss after the first big drop (and subsequent regaining of 2 lb).
I know with me it takes forever to shed weight. And it’s not like I eat a lot of junk food that I can cut out.
Apart from the weight, I want the exercise as I have stopped cholesterol tablets and I want to keep it in check.
After a lovely visit with the family last weekend, I gained 1.6 lbs. When I was visiting, I did not overeat, but I didn’t track, either. It was great to hear all the compliments about how good I look, which gave me the opportunity to practice getting compliments.
YAY!!! For getting compliments. And for accepting them gracefully. Hope you have many more occasions to practice receiving them.
Visiting my parents, so away from gym, had to go for outside run instead. Was optimistic and went for my longest planned route and managed 7 miles in about 75 minutes, which will go some way to mitigating my night out tonight avec beer 
Well, I just joined Weight Watcher’s online. My official starting weight is 143, my first goal is 135. Wish me luck!
I just got out of a weigh-in. Down 2.4 lbs this week, so all of the yo-yoing I did over the holidays and the weight I gained when we went to Texas is gone! Time to knuckle down and get some exercise.
Thanks olives - yup, I can only chance using my parents possibly-dodgy bathroom scales, or use the hi-tec one at Tesco’s that measures my BMI too.
And I’m currently in favour of the parents scales, as they tell me that even after another weekend of wine&pizza I’m another 2lb down - 3lb gone, 25 to go, woohoo!
(I’m trying not to think about how much better I’d be doing if I was eating better AND doing all this walking/running.) 
Oh, and that was with heavy outdoor shoes on too, so it might even be more than that. Whew 
It depends. My “official” weigh-in is Tuesday, when I go to my WW meeting. I don’t have to weigh in every week; I can skip one weigh-in a month and just go to the meeting. I weigh in every week because it keeps me honest about what I’m doing and how I’m doing it. If I gain one week, I know I need to work harder at managing my food the next. If I lose, it’s a victory. That being said, I may weigh myself at home once or twice before the official weigh-in. This just helps me gauge how I’m doing overall. If I don’t like the number, I know I have to be more careful about what I eat; if I do, I know I’m on the right track. So it’s a progress report more than a fixation. That’s all it is.
I think I’m stalled already, which is bumming me out big time. I’m still eating low carb without straying, still working out 6-8 hours a week and still eating around 1700 cals a day.
I think maybe I am not drinking enough water, so that is my goal this week. Nine x 8oz of water a day instead of 2 cans of diet soda and 6 glasses of water.
Over the weekend I went to a film marathon and ate more calories than usual but I drank probably 2 gallons of liquid in a day. I was peeing like a fiend. When I got home the scale was quite favorable. It’s bounced up since then already 
So, more water it is.
Oh I am also suffering from nearly debilitating heartburn and it is bumming me the fuck out. Water helps that too. And drugs.
For the science-oriented: NYTimes article on cold and exercise increasing brown fat to burn up the white fat we want to get rid of. I suppose it explains why, when I was younger, I was always thinner in the winter and fatter in the summer.
hooray for cold weather
I’ve gotten back on track with my eating, and ramped up my exercise. I got 14,000 steps on my pedometer yesterday, and intensified my weight-lifting.
I’m lifting weights as I type.
10 ounces a time.
I hear you about the stall, ZipperJJ. So frustrating. I think you’re right to quit the diet soda and drink water instead. There’s a book called The Secret to Low Carb Success! by Laura Richard, that devotes a large section on breaking a long stall.
Keep up the good work! hands over a packet of Tums
Are you taking any other measurements? Are you losing inches even though you are stalled omn the scales?
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Room for one more?
Hello! I started doing WW mid-September last year. I started at 129.4kg and as of this morning I am 118.2kg. I’ve known for ages that I needed to do something about my weight, but my head just wasn’t in the right place. This time it feels completely different. I’m ready to lose the weight and I’m prepared to put in the work that goes with doing that. I haven’t sent myself an end goal or timeframe, and I probably won’t.
My immediate goal is to get to 95kg, so that I can ride horses again. I have found a riding centre that has heavy horse breeds that can take a higher rider weight. I’m also keen to weigh less when my parents come over from New Zealand to visit in July. I haven’t told them I’m doing WW so I want it to be a nice surprise. Worst case scenario would be if they didn’t even notice! But hopefully they will.
I was hanging out on the WW forums but they weren’t really my sort of people. There are so many diet myths being touted as fact, and so much misinformation, it bums me out a bit. So I thought perhaps I could join in these threads and get/give some support here!