"Free Skinny Me!" - Week 5

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I have truly been wasting my money lately as I haven't been using Weight Watchers Online at all.  I haven't used it for tracking, for pointing nor for logging my weight for the last couple of weeks.

I haven't pointed any foods I have eaten.  I haven't kept an eye on what I have been eating.  It's all a waste of money, and I hate to do that.

I really think this is the wrong time of the year to be trying to lose weight.  All I do is think of the once a year treats I allow myself at Christmas time.  Things that wouldn't normally make it to the shopping basket every week because there is no room left in the budget.  I love evenings in late December, spreading brie and cranberry sauce on crackers.  Oh, and pate!  We can't forget the mince pies either!

I think I am slowly coming to the conclusion that Christmas time is not for dieting. So rather than backing myself into a corner, making myself feel bad for not sticking to the diet or not making as much of an effort as I should, I am going to give myself permission to relax for the next couple of weeks.

I am not going to point, or track.  I will weigh myself and I will keep myself aware of what I am eating.  I will try to stick to eating a little of what I fancy and not gorging for the sake of it and I will keep myself aware of the effects on the scales.  I will not deprive myself of having something as a once a year treat and I will not admonish myself if I gain weight, because let's face it, a way of eating "bad stuff" and not gaining weight hasn't been invented yet.

I can then get right back into it after the festive period is over.  By then I should be able to incorporate some exercise back in, hopefully having recovered enough after the caesarean.  I am still looking out for the best weight shifting exercise or dance games for the Wii.  Any recommendations?

Despite not tracking or pointing I have lost one and a half pounds this week which was a complete surprise.  A welcome surprise to have, I hasten to add.  This makes it a total of three pounds so far.

Here are my results:

Week 5's result: Lost 1½lb

Current weight: 12st 5lbs (173lbs)

Mini goal: To lose 19lbs by week 18

Starting weight: 12st 8lbs

Goal weight: 8st 11lbs (123lbs)

Total to lose: 50lbs

Total lost to date: 3lbs

Are any of you joining in?  How are you doing?

If you are trying to lose weight too why not join the quest to "Free Skinny Me!"? You don't need to be following Weight Watchers to do so and your weigh in day doesn't have to be a Monday. Just grab the button at the top of this post or in the right sidebar of this blog (the code to copy and paste on your blog is in the text box under the button) and put it on your blog, then come back each Monday to report each week's weigh in result. You can also write a post on your own blog and leave a link back to it in the comments below so we can visit and leave a message of encouragement or support. You can choose how much or little info to disclose.

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"Free Skinny Me!" - Week 4

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I have had a real problem with motivating myself to since starting this challenge.  It's like my heart really isn't in it at the moment.

Whilst I do want to lose the weight I am finding it a bother to point and count and even to log on to Weight Watchers.  Yes, I downloaded the app too, but it's still too much hassle to remember to fill it in half the time, or, if last week is anything to go by, any of the time.

I'm tending to stick to a bowl of fruit (melon, mainly) in the mornings for breakfast with a mug or two of coffee .  Lunch, as a rule, is a salad or a sandwich if I'm out of the green stuff.  Dinner is whatever the rest of the family is having.  Sometimes it's a low pointer, sometimes it's not, but I figure if I'm more careful about what I'm sticking in my mouth the rest of the day it should be ok.

The theory this week has sucked because I have added half a pound.  I am getting fed up of this.  I'm a month into trying to "Free Skinny Me!" and I'm only a pound and a half down from where I began.

I need motivation.

Are you trying to lose weight too?  How are you doing and how do you keep yourself motivated?

Can anyone share any tips or encourage me here please?

Here are my results:

Week 4's result: Gained ½lb

Current weight: 12st 6½lbs (174½lbs)

Mini goal: To lose 19lbs by week 18

Starting weight: 12st 8lbs

Goal weight: 8st 11lbs (123lbs)

Total to lose: 51½lbs

Total lost to date: 1½lbs

Are any of you joining in?  How are you doing?

If you are trying to lose weight too why not join the quest to "Free Skinny Me!"? You don't need to be following Weight Watchers to do so and your weigh in day doesn't have to be a Monday. Just grab the button at the top of this post or in the right sidebar of this blog (the code to copy and paste on your blog is in the text box under the button) and put it on your blog, then come back each Monday to report each week's weigh in result. You can also write a post on your own blog and leave a link back to it in the comments below so we can visit and leave a message of encouragement or support. You can choose how much or little info to disclose.

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"Free Skinny Me!" - Week 3

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After last week's terrible result I was left feeling a little disheartened.  I really do want to lose this weight yet to have hit such a stumbling block so early on in the quest has made me feel really pessimistic about continuing.

This didn't help when I ended up tracking barely anything at all last week.  I know that the problem there is that I don't track as I go, tending to go back in the evening or the next morning to update.  The issue is that the Weight Watchers tracker does not save the information if you go back and complete it the following day.  Is this just an issue with my computer or does this affect everybody?  I then get frustrated at having spent time adding a days worth of foods, the info for which cannot be saved to the system and so tracking doesn't work anyway.  This then leaves me feeling unhappy about paying out my money for something I am not using.

Rather than pointing everything and making different meals for myself to everyone else in the family, which isn't always cost effective to do given that we have a budget we need to try and stick to, I am sticking to having a bowl of fruit for breakfast and a huge salad for lunch. I will then eat anything the rest of the family are having for dinner without any guilt or worry, knowing that most of my points have remained intact.

Now the days are getting colder I am settling down with a mug of low calorie hot chocolate once the children have gone to bed.  I have even added some low fat squirty cream to the top as a treat.

Anyway, to summarise, I managed to lose the weight I gained last week plus an extra half a pound so I'm happier!  I have now lost a huge 2lbs from my original starting weight.  Ok, so not fantastic considering I am on week three now but I would rather be 2lbs under my starting weight than half a pound above it, so I'll take the successes where I can.

Here are my results:

Week 3's result: Lost 4½lbs

Current weight: 12st 6lbs (174lbs)

Mini goal: To lose 19lbs by week 18

Starting weight: 12st 8lbs

Goal weight: 8st 11lbs (123lbs)

Total to lose: 51lbs

Total lost to date: 2lbs

Are any of you joining in?  How are you doing?

If you are trying to lose weight too why not join the quest to "Free Skinny Me!"? You don't need to be following Weight Watchers to do so and your weigh in day doesn't have to be a Monday. Just grab the button at the top of this post or in the right sidebar of this blog (the code to copy and paste on your blog is in the text box under the button) and put it on your blog, then come back each Monday to report each week's weigh in result. You can also write a post on your own blog and leave a link back to it in the comments below so we can visit and leave a message of encouragement or support. You can choose how much or little info to disclose.

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"Free Skinny Me!" - Week 2

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I debated not bothering with this weeks "Free Skinny Me" update this morning.  I had prepared myself for a gain.  What I hadn't prepared myself for was how much of a gain I have had.

I have no excuse.  It is all my fault.  It turns out Haagen Dazs isn't fat free.  Neither is hot chocolate with whipped cream.  Who'd have thought it, eh?  Would any of you like to make a note of that for future reference?

Not only did I overeat the non-healthy stuff, I also failed to track anything at all.  This annoys me now because:

1) I am fatter than I was

and

2) I am paying for something I am not using properly.

Lb's and £'s.

Except I'm losing the £'s and gaining the Lb's when it really ought to be the other way around.

I logged onto the Weight Watchers tracker this morning to note my weight with a new determination to track and count every, single thing that jumps into my greedy mouth, when a message flashed up on the screen.  It stated something along the lines of Weight Watchers constantly doing their scientific studies and they have now realised that they can change the daily points allowance from the 29 point minimum to 28, 27 or even 26 points.  They said my daily points may have changed.

They did.

To 26.  

I immediately felt vindicated and promptly forgot my piggerish sessions with the ice cream tub and the lack of self control I possessed for the last week and blamed Weight Watchers for giving me the wrong points allowance.

Yes, it's all their fault. 

So now I have laid the blame firmly on their doorstep I can wipe the slate clean and start afresh.  Bigger, fatter, wobblier and kicking myself firmly for ending up heavier than I started and it's all my own Weight Watchers' fault.

I hope those of you joining the "Free Skinny Me" quest with me have had a better week.

Here is the damage in all its glory:


Week 2's result: Gained 4lbs

Current weight: 12st 10½lbs (178½lbs)

Mini goal:  To lose 19lbs by week 18

Goal weight:  8st 11lbs (123lbs)

Total to lose:  55½lbs

Total  lost to date: 0lbs  - gained 4lbs instead.

If you are trying to lose weight too why not join the quest to "Free Skinny Me!"?  You don't need to be following Weight Watchers to do so and your weigh in day doesn't have to be a Monday.  Just grab the button at the top of this post or in the right sidebar of this blog (the code to copy and paste on your blog is in the text box under the button) and put it on your blog, then come back each Monday to report each week's weigh in result.  You can also write a post on your own blog and leave a link back to it in the comments below so we can visit and leave a message of encouragement or support.  You can choose how much or little info to disclose.


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"Free Skinny Me" - Week 1

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The first week back on the Weight Watchers plan hasn't gone too badly at all.  I didn't actually begin my diet until last Wednesday, needing to get the shopping in (and to finish off the last of the ice cream in the freezer), but it went ok.

The thing I like about Weight Watchers is being able to save points through the day and still have a little of what I fancy.  I think everyone has their "nibbling time" where they develop a case of the munchies.  My time is normally in the evenings when the children are in bed.  In order to make sure I have some points left so I can still enjoy a treat or two I tend to stick to fruit and veg for breakfast and lunch and use as few points as possible.  I then have a normal meal in the evening and allow myself a pack of Snackajacks or (or even and) a couple of meringue nests with Greek yoghurt and grapes.

I didn't use all of my extra 49 weekly points this week but did dip into them.  Unfortunately the Weight Watchers tracker on their site won't save info that you enter for the previous day(s) even though the save button flashes.  This is a long time technical problem that I had the last time I was following the plan so I am disappointed it still hasn't been rectified.  I often don't track my evening snacks on the tracker until the following morning so it would be handy to be able to save this information.

I am still unable to take part in much activity at all so not able to exercise.  I am looking forward to dusting down the Wii again and resuming the Wii Active Sports challenges, and Caitlin can't wait for me to be able to compete against her on "Just Dance" (ooh, just noticed "Just Dance 3" is out!) .  I am looking for something else to add to my collection though as it can get a little repetitive doing the same things over and over.  I want something that will burn the fat but still be fun to do.  Can anyone recommend anything?

Anyway, my first week back on the plan has resulted in a small but effective one and a half pound loss so it's moving in the right direction.  I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping for the usual big(ger) weight drop that normally happens the first week but then again I am bearing in mind that that is due to water loss rather than fat.  I am hoping that I'm getting straight to the fat of things!

Here is my breakdown:

Starting Weight:  12st 8lbs (176lbs)

Week 1's result: Lost 1½lbs

Current weight: 12st 6½lbs (174½lbs)

Mini goal:  To lose 19lbs by week 18

Goal weight:  8st 11lbs (123lbs)

Total to lose:  53lbs

Total  lost to date: 1½lbs


If you are trying to lose weight too why not join the quest to "Free Skinny Me!"?  You don't need to be following Weight Watchers to do so and your weigh in day doesn't have to be a Monday.  Just grab the button at the top of this post or in the right sidebar of this blog (the code to copy and paste on your blog is in the text box under the button) and put it on your blog, then come back each Monday to report each week's weigh in result.  You can also write a post on your own blog and leave a link back to it in the comments below so we can visit and leave a message of encouragement or support.  You can choose how much or little info to disclose.

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I'll rescue you yet, Skinny Me!

Anna and Libby - 18 days old

The twins are almost three weeks old already. Three weeks! Can you believe how quickly that has gone?  This means that it's time for me to be thinking seriously about getting back into trying to lose the couple of excess pounds I've gained.  Once I've lost the couple (can you believe I just typed "losed"?) of excess pounds, I'll then need to focus on losing their friends and family who have joined them in abundance on my hips, thighs, face.  In fact they are squatting on every part of my otherwise lithe and lean body.

First thing will be first.  Weighing myself.  Then I'll need to shop accordingly.  No more ice cream splurges for me.

Much.

Exercise is out of the question for a while longer, thanks to the surgery but there is no excuse that I can drag out any longer that is preventing me from getting back on the diet wagon.


Then I need to sign back up with Weight Watchers Online and re-familiarise myself with everything.

Finally, I need a catchy title for the weekly update posts.  The jury is out on that at the moment.  I'll need a brainstorming session.  Then I'll probably just settle for anything.


Right, I've just returned from weighing myself and the starting weight is...

12st 8lbs (that's 176lbs).

It's not actually that bad to be starting off with when I compare it to my starting weight last year after the birth of Joseph when I weighed in at 13st 1lb so I'm half a stone lighter already than I was then.  Not bad!

My goal once again is 8st 11lbs.


By week 17 and 18 of my last "Skinny Me" quest I had lost a total of 1st 5lbs (19lbs) and got down to 11st 10lbs (164lbs) although unbeknown to you at this point I was already pregnant again (and unbeknown to me, it was twins) which explained the weight increase of the couple of weeks previously.  I might use that as a benchmark for a mini goal.

So who is with me?  Anyone?  Anyone want to join me?  It'll be fun!  We can update here weekly, we can motivate each other, we can celebrate all the way to the Land of the Skinny People!  Have I convinced anybody yet?  Umm oka-ay... I'll just wait.... here.  Let me know when you're ready.

Here are my stats to kick things off:

Starting Weight:  12st 8lbs (176lbs)

Mini Goal:  To lose 19lbs by week 18

Goal weight:  8st 11lbs (123lbs)

Total to lose:  53lbs

Can I lose it?

Yes, I can!


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This is what a pound of fat looks like

In yesterday's post I wrote about how I was okay with the weigh-in results for the week.  I'd lost a pound and was fine with it.  Well, I was fine with it by the time I sat at the computer to blog.  When I first weighed myself and saw that it was a pound loss I was disappointed.  After all, I'd stuck to the ProPoints plan like superglue and  did an hour and a half of workouts a day for six days of the week.  Even though I knew it was TOTM and was expecting a slow down of weight loss I still dared to hope for at least two or three pounds to have magically disappeared.

Then I went to the fridge and took out a pound of butter.  Didn't seem like such a big deal.  Then I put them into a pyrex measuring jug and put them in the microwave.  A great deal of splattering later and the whole pint jug was full of a hot, yellow, buttery liquid.  Still not convinced, I put it in the fridge.

When it had solidified enough to turn out onto a plate I was finally convinced. It no longer looked like a beautiful, smooth block of butter that makes yummy cakes but resembled more something I could imagine stuck to my thighs making the crater sized dimples on my once fairly toned but now extremely wobbly skin.

Bigger and wider than an apple.  That's what my "just one pound" looks like.  Weighing almost four apples.  That's what I'm carrying less of this week.  The first couple of weeks of dieting normally shows a speedy loss.  That's mostly water.  It takes a couple of weeks before you get to the nitty gritty important stuff.

Shifting the fat.

So next time you get on the scales and your heart sinks because you've only lost one pound, come back and look at this picture, or just look at four apples and imagine them as oozing, greasy lumps of lard.  It's not only a pound.  It's much, much more.

Monday Weigh-In (Free Skinny Me!) - Week 7

If you're expecting an upbeat and positive post from me today you may as well stop reading now because I'm fed-up, disheartened and not at all upbeat nor positive.

I've gained.

I've gained a whole half a pound.

It may not seem much and you're probably laughing at how such an insignificant amount can make me so moody but I am just so frustrated!

I have been so careful with what I'm eating. It's normally muesli for breakfast (all weighed out and ProPointed correctly), a big huge salad for lunch and then my evening meal and hot chocolate and snack before bed... again all ProPointed.  I'm well within my limits and I'm not even using all my extra 49 points per week. 

So why aren't I losing?!
I am resigning myself to being fat forever.

Forever fat.

Polishing off the apple crumble this morning after I weighed myself probably won't help this weeks efforts.  You may as well not bother coming back next week.  It'll only be a gazillion pound gain.

Sigh.

Woe is me.

Not a pretty pity party going on here, is it? 

My report for this week is as follows:

Starting weight: 13st 1 (or 183lbs)

Week 6 results: Gained ½ lb

Current weight: 12st 3lbs (171lbs)

Total loss to date: 12lbs

Amount to lose before freeing Skinny Me: 48lbs (still).

I'm off to wallow.  Pass the chocolates.

Monday Weigh-In (Free Skinny Me!) - Week 5

 

I was hoping to be able to provide feedback on Weight Watchers new and supposedly improved weight loss system, ProPoints.  I can't.  Unfortunately the online planner you are meant to use to calculate your ProPoints  and track your consumption hasn't been working or saving my changes.  It has also become apparent that the Weight Watchers automated email's promise of aiming to get back to my query within 24 hours is optimistic to say the least.  It's been five days so far and I've yet to receive a response.  While I'm quite sure that the ProPoints system does work, after all, I doubt WW would jeopardise their name for something that didn't have proven results after extensive research, I'm not too pleased to be paying out money for something I can't use.  Hopefully, someone from the customer service team might, perhaps, be of some service and reply. 

I've been trying to track in my head as I've gone along under the old weight loss system given that I'm familiar with the approximate points for most of the things I've been eating.  Well, apart from the odd biscuit or several which were efficiently consumed on Saturday.  I blame my friend Amanda's visit for that lapse.

So despite an online weight loss system I couldn't make use of, a selective  failing memory when trying to remember points values of foods I've been scoffing and a momentary loss of self control over several digestives and chocolate chip cookies, I've still managed to weigh in with a 2½lb loss this week. 

Yay me!

Five weeks after starting and I'm a pound and a half away from losing a whole stone in weight, averaging a loss of approximately 2½ per week.  I hope I can continue at this rate as I'm quite happy with it and I can see some noticable changes taking place.  I'm hoping I can get down under the 12 stone mark during this next week.

My report for this week is as follows:

Starting weight: 13st 1 (or 183lbs)

Week 5 results: Lost 2½ lbs (*cheer!*)

Current weight: 12st 2½lbs (170½lbs)

Total loss to date: 12½lbs

Amount to lose before freeing Skinny Me: 47½lbs

Monday Weigh-In (Free Skinny Me!) - Week 4

This week went well until yesterday when I had a blow-out on mince pies.  Having said that, I had been everso good the rest of the week and didn't use up my entire points allowance on any day, so I'm hoping I had enough carried over to allocate to the mince pies (which were delicious).

I use the word "hoping" because I've been terrible at logging everything I've eaten this week.  Or, to use the correct Weight Watchers term, I've been terrible at "tracking".  Call it what you will, I haven't done much of it. 

My excuse is that having followed Weight Watchers not long ago, and having got to memorise the points for the foods I eat or recipes I make, I can pretty much keep track of the points in my head.  I must get back into the habit of recording everything though, because I forsee that this will be where I stumble in the future. 

I suppose that now it's neither here nor there as Weight Watchers have today launced a new program.  They've bid farewell the the points system they've had since, well I'm not sure since when but you understand me when I say "since forever" and have replaced it with the new ProPoints plan.

To explain it in a nutshell, the folk at WW have taken the developing scientific research into how our bodies process the food we eat.  Foods are given points according to how full they keep you.   To better explain this I'm going to use this example from the Weight Watchers website.  One croissant with 2 teaspoons of butter comes to 300 calories but would be 8 ProPoints.  However, 2 eggs and 3 slices of lean bacon, although coming in at 300 calories also, only have 6 ProPoints.  This is because you're likely to be fuller for longer on the latter than you would on a medium croissant. 

As before you have a certain number of ProPoints allowance per day (it's different to the old points system, so the allowance will differ to that you'd have had under the old system).  Unlike the old system, you can't carry points over to the next day.  If you don't use them up each day you lose them. 

However, you do have an extra 49 points per week for extras, be they toward a daily treat such as a glass of wine or, in my case, ice cream, or a weekly blow out if you just can't go without a takeaway or you know you have a party to attend.

It seems pretty straightforward, and at least it'll make me track my eating again as I don't have a clue any more about what my foods are worth under the new points system.  I had a bit of a shock as my muesli which was previously 3 points under the old system is now calculated at 8 points! That didn't seem too good even though I keep telling myself that I should really forget about comparing and just get on with following the new system.

No matter, all I hope is that it works!

My report for this week is as follows:


Starting weight: 13st 1 (or 183lbs)

Week 4 results: Lost 4½ lbs (*cheer!*)

Current weight: 12st 5lbs (173lbs)

Total loss to date: 10lbs

Amount to lose before freeing Skinny Me: 50lbs

Monday Weigh-In (Free Skinny Me!) - Week 3

Well, the chocolate is no more in this house.  This would be much easier if Mike stopped buying Tesco's Oatie biscuits, their own brand equivalent of Hob Nobs only much cheaper and just as tasty.  It would also be much easier if Asda delivered a whole section of chilled products I'd ordered which included my WeightWatchers yoghurts.  (BTW, Asda, because I know you read my blog, I'm still waiting for almost £13 to be refunded back to my card for products you charged me for but failed to deliver).

Being the serial weigher that I am I expected a much better result than I got this week.  At one point the scales went all the way down to show a lovely 6lb loss.  Talk about lull me into a false sense of security.  Not that I pigged out after seeing that but was looking forward to reporting the loss of a hefty chunk of body weight.

Not to be.

Still, I can't complain too much as this week has resulted in a 2lb loss.  Not as good as a 6lb loss in one week but a 2lb loss is more likely to stay off for the longer term.  Common sense needs to prevail at some point I guess.  It doesn't stop me wishing to wake up as Skinny-Me in the mornings though.

Nevertheless, I'm 2lbs closer to releasing Skinny-Me from her flubber and cellulite walled confines.  I hope I can continue the downward trend this week.

My report for this week is as follows:

Starting weight: 13st 1 (or 183lbs)

Week 3 results: Lost 2lbs (*cheer!*)

Current weight: 12st 9.5 (177.5lbs)

Amount to lose before freeing Skinny Me: 54.5lbs

Monday Weigh-In (Free Skinny Me!) - Week 2

Skinny Me is not going to be happy in there.

Dad and Steph visited on Friday. We had a roast. And chocolate brownie cake made by Cait. And they brought a big tin of chocolates. Plus it was my birthday yesterday. I got chocolates. And finished off the brownie cake.

Despite being wonderfully good the rest of the week, the weekend undid my hard work and then some.

I gained 4 and a half pounds.

!!!!!!!!!

Not good.

Skinny Me must be sobbing and screaming at me in there.

Luckily for me there are innumerable layers of fat between us which means I can't hear her. There had to be a bright side somewhere, didn't there?

My report for this week is as follows:

Starting weight: 13st 1 (or 183lbs)

Week 2 results: Gained 4.5lbs (*shame*!)

Current weight: 12st 11.5 (179.5lbs)

Amount to lose before freeing Skinny Me: 56.5lbs

Not good.

Monday Weigh-In (Free Skinny Me!) - Week 1

Week 1, as last year, has got off to an excellent start.  However, as last year, I'm under no illusions about it.  I know that much of it is water rather than fat hence the relatively large weight loss that the scales report.  But you know what?  I'll take it.  It's encouraging and goodness knows, I like to be encouraged.  Don't we all? 

Due to Joseph only being three weeks old and delivering him by caesarean, I'm as yet unable to exercise at all.  That's a good excuse as any eh?  It's true though.  Exercising is the last thing on my mind at the moment.  I'm just thankful to be back to walking normally.  Well, as normally as I have been in the last three weeks.  Maybe I'll dust the Wii Fit off in another few weeks.  Or perhaps I'll have thought of another excuse not to by then.  Who knows?

My report for this week is as follows:

Starting weight:    13st 1  (or 183lbs)

Week 1 results:    Lost 8lbs (*cheer*!)

Current weight:    12st 7 (175lbs)

Amount to lose before freeing Skinny Me: 52lbs

Is anyone out there joining in? 

(Shouldn't the question be simply, "Is anyone out there?!")