Thats awesome keep it up!!!!

No weight loss here, I think im considered a Greyhound

Good job, NotASFast! You know, you've already won. You took the first step in making a positive life change.

Nothing like you. I started at 146 (OMG, I where did that come from?) After the 'Summer of Malts', I'm down to 132. I'd like to be 128 by HyVee.

Way to go!!

Congratulations! 30 pounds is stellar.

I just have to say, though - you menfolk have it kind of easy.

I started trying to take weight off in Feb. I've lost 6 pounds. Repeat - 6. I'm eating way less and training more and 6 is the number.

I just keep telling myself 6 is good! That is 6 fewer pounds to drag around on race day.

Patience is a virtue, right?

I graduated college 2 years ago at 255. I am now at my lightest since my freshman year at 205 and still working to lose more. I work in the Food and Beverage industry so it takes a lot of will power to not snack all of the time. I keep small little snacks with me to help me from snacking on all the fried foods that are always around. My goal is to be at 185 and between 10-12% bodyfat. That would put me right back where I graduated high school at.

To everyone trying: Do not give up. In May of 2004, I was very out of shape and weighed 280 pounds. I had tried for a couple years to lose weight, but always got frustrated with a lack of results. No idea what it was, but something finally clicked that year. I started eating better and running (well mostly walking at that time) for 30 minutes a day. No special rules, just being smart and no beer or fast food. And I worked out EVERY day. About a year later, I was 185 and training for my first triathlon. (I needed to stay motivated to work out somehow). Since that time, I have competed in about 3 triathlons a year. Not a crazy schedule, but still fun. And I have kept the weight off. I am about 190 right now and that' with a lot more muscle mass than before. Keep trying. The concept is as hard as people make it seem: Spend more calories than you take in. It just takes the discipline to do it.

congrats

Men do have it easier dropping weight. But 6 pounds is great and my guess is that you did it in a healthy way too. Also remember that muscle weighs more than fat. So you could have lost 12 pounds of fat and replaced it with 6 pounds of muscle! The scale says 6 pounds but we all know it was way more!

Something I've noticed about this thread is how easy it is for men to say the actual number of pounds they weigh. Women just don't do that. So I'm going to do it because I'm liberated!

I started at 136 and I'm down to 129. I'm 5'2" According to the standard BMI calculators (which are not very accurate) my BMI is 23.6 which is 'normal'. I want better than normal, though - I'm trying to achieve "lean".

I'm looking forward to 125 and hoping that eating the way I do and training the way I do will eventually lead to 120 but I expect that to take a really long time and I have no intentions of pushing it. I made some significant but very livable changes to how I eat and I'm good with that.

My real difficulty is in finding the balance between trimming down and not running out of fuel on a long hard ride. So far, so good.

I am gaining weight! Up 12 pounds since last year. Even though I am at 122 , 5'4". I have hit the weights hard this winter and gained some muscle. I had my first Tri of the season last weekend and improved by 10 mintues from last year! Good enough for 1st in my age group. 25-29.
I feel good but my clothes no longer fit very well in the legs. I guess since I have put on muscle i would be "thicker" but it is still kind of hard for me to deal with. I always here people getting down to their race weight after the winter.. but i have seemed to go up. Is that bad??

After having 4 kids in 4 years, I was trying to figure out how to lose the weight. Last summer, my friend convinced me to try a tri with her, all women, so I wasn't too intimidated. I was already running and swimming, I borrowed my sister's bike. I did the race as an "athena" at 175 lbs. I got hooked on the training, the racing etc...and did my next tri a month later, where I placed 1st in the "Annie Oakley" division- at around 165.

I did 2 half marathons in the winter and my weight steadily came down (all those long runs, I think) and then I did my 1st olympic in March, where I again placed 1st in the Athena division. At that point I was really hovering around the athena qualifying weight of 150. Last month, I joined the age groupers (weighing 148- I figured it was only right) at a race and still placed 3rd. I think I want to stay at this weight as my mother keeps getting this concerned look on her face everytime she sees me and says I'm too skinny blah blah...but I keep explaining to her that I feel strong and I eat constantly etc...

I started with a sprint last fall and weighed in at 240 before I began. Was 225 when I raced the sprint. This week, before I'm headed for my first race of the season, I'm weighing in at 205-208. I'm pretty happy, as it has made me feel much better, and I know I'm much healthier.

The funny part is that my 5 year old is just about 40 pounds, and now, when I carry him up the stairs, I'm thinking... "wow, I used to carry that much weight every time..."