Steady under my red line (140lb) for two weeks

I've actually been under 143lb for two months now, and under 142lb for a month, but had a few bloated days that popped me over 140lb and 141lb two weeks ago.  I'm now at 136.5-138lb.  I'm shooting for 130lb now, to give me a little breathing room below 135lb.  I still have a little fat pad over my abs, so I know I can still go down a little more. 

I've been experimenting with what I suppose is Intermittent Fasting, either not eating until 1 or so on weekends, or then making sure I don't eat too late during the week.  I think that helped jump start my loss from the last plateau.

I feel really good being under 140, it's such a relief!  I can fit into most of my smaller clothes.  I can re-evaluate if I even want to keep them, since now I can check the fit.  I tried on a skirt from my college days, it's a size 8, with a waist measurement of 26.5".  That's a size 2 now I think.  I can close it, but I can't breathe!  This time I'm going to work on maintenance.  I know I can't suddenly eat whatever I want.

As for exercise, I've been doing a leg lift challenge this month but I haven't been as diligent as I was with the squats.  I wanted to do some triceps exercises, but I've really not done very much.  I'm going to go back to pushups next month, and then supplement with extra triceps and shoulder and back work once or twice a week.  Still have to start my pull up attempts.

Still moving downward, lost 13.5lb since Christmas

I've now gotten below my red line of 140 for the fourth day in a row.  My vacation in February derailed me significantly, and I've had several plateaus.  Participating in the two DietBet Transformers has helped me a lot this time.  I haven't reached my goals in rounds 2, 3 or 4, but I was always off by only one pound, more or less.  In fact, today I made yesterday's goal!  Unfortunately, if you don't make the monthly goal, you don't get the payout.  I hate losing money, which has kept me going. My goal weight for both Transformers is 137.2lb, so this round I have 14 days to make that for the first DietBet, and 30 days for the second DietBet.  That's only 1.3lbs I still have to lose!  That seems doable.

I did increase my exercise this spring.  I did a squat and pushup challenge in March, then did a curtsey lunge and another pushup challenge in April.  This month the challenge is leg lifts, and tricep exercises.  I feel like the extra pound or two of muscle probably caused me to lose my DietBets, but I'm getting smaller, so that's my consolation prize.  I'm also back to long walks after work, now that the weather is so nice.

I've been eating Primal most of the time, except for the trip to Scotland (haggis is delicious!), and when I went to visit my daughter at her college last weekend.  I didn't eat wheat, but I did eat a lot of gluten-free cookies, ice cream and candy, and ended up with a hangover last Sunday from all the carbs!  Since I only had one beer, I know it wasn't from too much alcohol.  I still have my Dukan galette most days, so I'm wheat-free, not gluten-free.  It seems to work for me.  Not having the beer (barley only, no wheat) really messes my digestion up, so I'm sticking with having one beer 2x a week.

I've been more mindful of not eating too late into the evening, which I think helped me break out of my latest plateau.  Yesterday I didn't eat until 1:30pm, so I guess that was intermittent fasting (15hrs of no food).  I was trying to make my goal weight, but it wasn't going to happen.  Today I'm going to a friend's for dinner.  She is serving steak & baked potatoes.  I'm having no carbs the rest of the day to minimize the damage.  I have some goat butter that I can put on the potatoes, so I don't have to eat margarine (ew) or have regular butter and suffer with the allergic reaction for the next three days.