Cheryll's Journey

3rd Year Maintenance Stats

Date	Weight	Change	Total Lost	BMI	Remark
10/01/2009	136.5			24.2	Starting 3rd year of maintenance.
10/08/2009	134.8	-1.7	1.7	23.9
10/15/2009	145.8	+11.0	9.3	25.8	TOM and bad eating. 11 frickin lb. gain. Why do I do this to myself.
10/22/2009	147.5	+1.7	11	26.1	Sigh.
10/29/2009	138.2	-9.3	1.7	24.5	My body retains so much fluid it's ridiculous.

2nd Year Maintenance Stats

Date	Weight	Change	Total Gained	BMI	Remark
10/02/2008	128.7			22.8	Starting 2nd year of maintenance.
10/09/2008	128.8	+0.1	0.1	22.8
10/16/2008	131.8	+3.0	3.1	23.3	TOM gain.
10/23/2008	132.6	+0.8	3.9	23.5	This was a MUCH deserved gain after a horrible food weekend that started with Happy Hour on Friday. I'm actually kind of surprised that the gain wasn't more. 'Nuff said. LOL
10/30/2008	134.0	+1.4	5.3	23.7	Another rough weekend -- anther deserved gain. I've learned that all I can do is keep trying.
11/06/2008	128.2	-5.8	0.5	22.7	Amazing loss. Obviously I was retaining a huge amount of water -- but it's also amazing what happens when I actually stay in control and not lose it on the weekend.
11/13/2008	130.7	+2.5	2	23.1	TOM gain.
11/20/2008	132.2	+1.5	3.5	23.4	I have no idea about this gain. I thought I had a pretty good week. Bleh. Sometimes I hate my body.
11/27/2008	130.3	-1.9	1.6	23.1	I decided to add 4 maintenance points back in even though I haven't made it back to my personal goal yet. I'm tired of being frustrated by a number on the scale when I look and feel good at this weight.
12/04/2008	132.6	+2.3	3.9	23.5	Since the Thanksgiving holiDAY turned out to be a holiWEEKEND this was a much deserved gain.
12/11/2008	134.9	+2.3	6.2	23.9	TOM and a trip to CA -- double whammy.
12/18/2008	133.3	-1.6	4.6	23.6
12/25/2008	132.4	-0.9	3.7	23.5	A loss -- even after a HUGE Christmas-Eve dinner last night. YaHoo.
01/01/2009	134.9	+2.5	6.2	23.9	Dropped my points down from 23 to 21 and started back with exercise. Eating more and moving less is NOT the key to success -- as is evidenced by this lovely gain today. Thank goodness the holidays are over and life can return to normal.
01/08/2009	134.3	-0.6	5.6	23.8	Even with TOM this is a loss. Excellent.
01/15/2009	135.2	+0.9	6.5	23.9	I am dropping down 1 point to 20 dailies. I am DETERMINED to get back down to 130. I am more stubborn than the darn scale.
01/22/2009	133.7	-1.5	5	23.7	The scale is going in the right direction. Whew. 20 dailies plus all WPA plus all APs.
01/29/2009	131.7	-2.0	3	23.3	Another great loss. Apparently 20 daily points and consistent exercise are working for me.
02/05/2009	135.7	+4.0	7	24.0	TOM plus SuperBowl plus no exercise for a week -- a very bad combination. Back to business this week.
02/12/2009	136.3	+0.6	7.6	24.1	A much deserved gain. It's a continual learning process and weekends are my downfall.
02/19/2009	136.8	+0.5	8.1	24.2	Great. Just great.
02/26/2009	135.3	-1.5	6.6	24.0	Good loss and will now drop down to 19 daily pts. I am committed and determined to see a downward trend for the month of March.
03/05/2009	138.7	+3.4	10	24.6	TOM gain. I hate TOM....and Aunt Flo....and all of their relatives. I hope this temporary gain is gone soon.
03/12/2009	134.7	-4.0	6	23.9	Kicked that gain to the curb plus some. Go me. lol Now onward and downward.
03/19/2009	134.4	-0.3	5.7	23.8	A small loss and I wish it was more -- but a loss is a loss is a loss. So I'll take it and be happy.
03/26/2009	135.4	+1.0	6.7	24.0	Small gain. TOM came 10 days early -- the biotch.
04/02/2009	134.7	-0.7	6	23.9	Up and down -- down and up. I am doing everything right and still 130 eludes me. Sigh.
04/09/2009	132.2	-2.5	3.5	23.4	Excellent loss.
04/16/2009	130.4	-1.8	1.7	23.1	Now THAT'S what I'm talking about. Haven't seen this number since November.
04/23/2009	139.5	+9.1	10.8	24.7	This is ugly...R-E-A-L-L-Y ugly. TOM plus a big food weekend. Sigh. 130 looked nice for a while.
04/30/2009	135.3	-4.2	6.6	24.0	Got rid of a lot of the water gain. Now to get rid of the rest.
05/07/2009	134.2	-1.1	5.5	23.8
05/14/2009	133.3	-0.9	4.6	23.6	Was wayyy over points this week so this is a GREAT weigh-in.
05/21/2009	147.9	+14.6	19.2	26.2	WoooWeee. Vacation plus TOM -- not a good combination. This is ALMOST comical.
05/28/2009	139.1	-8.8	10.4	24.6	Back from vacation and back on program. Water weight gone.
06/04/2009	138.5	-0.6	9.8	24.5	Now working on getting the 'real' vacation gain off. Scale is going down. Good deal.
06/11/2009	136.8	-1.7	8.1	24.2	Another loss. Gearing up for TOM next week though. lol
06/18/2009	138.2	+1.4	9.5	24.5	TOM due at any moment. This gain was expected.
06/25/2009	138.8	+0.6	10.1	24.6	I should have shown a loss this week but overindulged on Father's Day -- and I'm not even a father. Sigh.
07/02/2009	139.4	+0.6	10.7	24.7	I had a PERFECT on-program week and still a gain. I'm discouraged and frustrated. Need to figure out how to break this plateau. Gonna bite the bullet and drop my daily points to 18.
07/09/2009	135.7	-3.7	7	24.0	The scale is FINALLY going in the right direction. Whew.
07/16/2009	135.4	-0.3	6.7	24.0	Was hoping for a bigger loss but I'll take it. Next week will be a gain with TOM and then we start the downward trend again. Sigh.
07/23/2009	136.4	+1.0	7.7	24.2	TOM gain. Very happy it was so small.
07/30/2009	136.7	+0.3	8	24.2	Perfect week. Another gain -- albeit small. Go figure. I think I'll try eating only half of my APs this week.
08/06/2009	132.5	-4.2	3.8	23.5	Awesome loss. Ate all weekly points and half of my 23 APs. Will try to do the same this week.
08/13/2009	137.0	+4.5	8.3	24.3	Had a really bad food weekend-week. And gearing up for yet another gain with TOM coming. Such is life.
08/20/2009	141.2	+4.2	12.5	25.0
08/27/2009	143.0	+1.8	14.3	25.3	Dealing with stress and depression - I really got off track. Time to refocus.
09/03/2009	136.4	-6.6	7.7	24.2	Wow. Look what happens when you refocus and actually follow the program.
09/10/2009	136.5	+0.1	7.8	24.2
09/17/2009	141.9	+5.4	13.2	25.1	TOM and bad week. Must refocus...again.
09/24/2009	139.7	-2.2	11	24.7
10/01/2009	136.5	-3.2	7.8	24.2	This completes my 2nd year of maintenance. I'm 7.8 lbs. heavier, but still maintaining a 110+ lb. loss overall. Yay me!

1st Year Maintenance Stats

Date	Weight	Change	Total Lost	BMI	Remark
10/04/2007	125.4			22.2	Starting the maintenance phase of my journey!
10/11/2007	126.8	+1.4	1.4	22.5	1st week of maintenance and TOM is here. This week I added the standard 4 extra points.
10/18/2007	127.3	+0.5	1.9	22.5	2nd week of maintenance completed. This week I went down to 2 extra points.
10/25/2007	123.6	-3.7	1.8	21.9	3rd week of maintenance completed. Stayed with the 2 extra points.
11/01/2007	120.4	-3.2	5.0	21.3	4th week of maintenance completed. Went back to 4 extra points.
11/08/2007	122.2	+1.8	3.2	21.6	5th week of maintenance completed. Went up to 5 extra points. TOM is also visiting.
11/15/2007	124.6	+2.4	0.8	22.1	LIFETIME!!!!! 6th week of maintenance completed. Stayed at the 5 extra points. May need to drop down to 4. I'll wait and see what happens this week and see if my weight stabilizes or continues to go up.
11/22/2007	119.5	-5.1	5.9	21.2	This is a crazy loss and not sure how it happened. I'm going to add 2 extra points and see if that will help to stabilize my weight.
11/29/2007	118.5	-1.0	6.9	21.0	I will add 1 more extra point this week (for a total of 8) since I lost again.
12/06/2007	122.5	+4.0	2.9	21.7	TOM and added 1 more maintenance point last week. Very happy I didn't lose again.
12/13/2007	123.8	+1.3	1.6	21.9	I'm going to drop 1 maintenance point just to be safe. This is 2 gains in a row. Still below 125, which is good.
12/20/2007	122.4	-1.4	3.0	21.7	I lost dropping down to 7 maintenance points. This is good. I quit smoking last night so it will be interesting to see how my weight shifts with the change in metabolism.
12/27/2007	122.4	0.0	3.0	21.7	My first REAL maintain. This is WONDERFUL since (1) I overindulged a bit at Christmas; (2) TOM is due in a few days; and (3) I quit smoking one week ago.
01/03/2008	126.1	+3.7	0.7	22.3	TOM is here. Not sure if the gain is due to TOM or the change in metabolism from stopping smoking. Going to go down one point.
01/10/2008	125.2	-0.9	0.2	22.2	Went down.....good deal.
01/17/2008	124.0	-1.2	1.4	22.0
01/24/2008	122.6	-1.4	2.8	21.7	Even with quitting smoking I seem to be maintaing well on 25 pts. I think my body is adjusting well - all things considered.
01/31/2008	126.3	+3.7	0.9	22.4	TOM gain.
02/07/2008	123.9	-2.4	1.5	21.9
02/14/2008	120.8	-3.1	4.6	21.4
02/21/2008	117.8	-3.0	7.6	20.9
02/28/2008	127.4	+9.6	2	22.6	TOM plus trip to CA equals huge water gain this week. Thankfully I understand it for what it is and am not freaking out thinking it's a real weight gain.
03/06/2008	124.1	-3.3	1.3	22.0
03/13/2008	123.8	-0.3	1.6	21.9
03/20/2008	122.4	-1.4	3.0	21.7
03/27/2008	125.3	+2.9	0.1	22.2	TOM is here.
04/03/2008	124.9	-0.4	0.5	22.1	Switched to Core 3 days ago. So far I'm really liking it and feel much more satisfied throughout the day.
04/09/2008	120.3	-4.6	5.1	21.3	Weighing in a day early because today is plastic surgery day and I will be in the hospital tomorrow.
05/08/2008	130.8	+10.5	5.4	23.2	First official weigh-in since I had my plastic surgery on 04-09-08. I'm still retaining a LOT of excess fluid so I'm drinking water like crazy trying to flush that out.
05/15/2008	128.5	-2.3	3.1	22.8
05/22/2008	129.3	+0.8	3.9	22.9	Slight TOM gain. Normal.
05/29/2008	126.6	-2.7	1.2	22.4
06/05/2008	127.0	+0.4	1.6	22.5
06/12/2008	132.5	+5.5	7.1	23.5	TOM is coming and made very poor food choices this past week. Thank goodness for new weeks.
06/19/2008	131.9	-0.6	6.5	23.4
06/26/2008	131.6	-0.3	6.2	23.3	Started exercising regularly this week, so I think there's some water retention. I'm going to give Core a couple more weeks and make a decision on whether I need to maybe switch back to Flex. The scale needs to go DOWN.
07/03/2008	129.4	-2.2	4	22.9	Switched back to Flex 4 days ago. My weight just kept creeping up and up and I realize I need the structure of counting and recording points.
07/10/2008	130.8	+1.4	5.4	23.2	Not sure if this gain is due to TOM coming in a few days or the fact that I added one point. So I'll drop down to 22 points and see how it goes.
07/17/2008	135.6	+4.8	10.2	24.0	TOM and I'm struggling big time. It's time to figure out WHY I'm struggling and get back on track.
07/24/2008	135.2	-0.4	9.8	23.9
07/31/2008	132.9	-2.3	7.5	23.5	It feels REALLY good to be back on track.
08/07/2008	127.4	-5.5	2	22.6
08/14/2008	132.4	+5.0	7	23.5	Huge gain due to TOM plus I had that ridiculously huge loss last week. Eh -- it all evens out.
08/21/2008	133.3	+0.9	7.9	23.6	Biting the bullet and dropping down to 19 points again -- like I did this time last year trying to get to my personal goal of 125.
08/28/2008	132.1	-1.2	6.7	23.4
09/04/2008	131.0	-1.1	5.6	23.2
09/11/2008	131.7	+0.7	6.3	23.3
09/18/2008	132.1	+0.4	6.7	23.4	Slight TOM gain plus 3 weekends in a row of overindulging. If I would just stick with the program and be consistent with my exercise I know I would see the consistent losses again.
09/25/2008	132.4	+0.3	7	23.5	I had a perfect WW week. Made good food choices and got in consistent exercise. Hopefully next week will show the results of my hard work.
10/02/2008	128.7	-3.7	3.3	22.8	After 3 weeks of small gains and 2 weeks of TOTALLY being on program and exericising consistently, the scale went down. Yay!!! I will most likely see a gain next week since TOM is coming, but seeing that "2" back in my number feels so good! This also marks the completion of my 1st year on Maintenance. What an exciting and enlightening year it has been, full of learning and self-discovery. Now on to the 2nd year!!

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