Motivation

Hi, my name is Suzanne and I am 23 years old. I weigh 258.3 pounds(yikes) and would really like to get down to between 140 and 150. I was wondering if there was anyone else out there in their 20's who has about that much they want to lose. We could work together and stay motivated to reach our goals!!! Also, if there is anyone in their 20's who has lost that much and wants to share their success story, I would love to hear it! Thanks!

GRR!, just stepped off the scales from my thrid weekly weigh in and apparently ive put three of the pounds i thoght i'd lost back on?

i'm trying to console myself with the fact that ive lost 3lb's a week since ive started but i cant help bt feel a little cheated.

I have been keeping to around 2000 cals but i suppose i have been quite lazy this week,(ive got an eliptical trainer in the next room that have only used once, motivation to exercise is a real problem for me.

meh, ah well i sppose ill try to eat healthier cals (yes i did eat a macdonalds meal one day!) this week and attempt to exercise, actually that shouldnt be such a big deal as were moving house in two weeks and i need to crack on with the cleaning/packing, oh the joy!, my new hous, that right house, not a crappy student flat, is beautiful!

hmm, i seem to have ranted a little, oops, well anyway, well done to all of you for losing/maintaing/staying on track! xx 

Hi Ladies,

I hope you all had a good weekend.  I had a pretty good one.  I went to WW and weighed I ended up losing 2 lbs so I am officially in the 250's (258.2).  I never thought I would be happy to be in the 250's now I can't wait for the 240's.  I do have a problem with my eating on the weekends,  I do really good during the week while I am at work but on the weekends I don't get as much water in as I should or as many fruits and veggies as I should.  I have changed to where I only eat one big meal a day on the weekend days instead of 3 big meals so I guess that is good. 

Mladdy - Hang in there you will get through this valley.  I am really sorry to hear about your grandpa.  On the other hand congrats on getting under 200, I can't wait for that day. 

allydan - you are so very nice and helpful not to say that the rest of you ladies aren't because you are (you are all great)but Allydan just seems to have a gift for saying just the right thing.

Ennazus520 -  Thank you for being so encouraging and sweet. 

Lyssy311 - I totally understand where you are coming from with not having a lot of time. I am 29 married have a 2 yr old little girl and I work about 40 min from home and most days work 9 hours.  I try to get in walking when I can but just changing how you eat and the amounts you eat can really help get the weight off.  I have lost 12.4 lbs in 4 weeks mostley from just eating better.  I really think you will find this group helpful.

Liz78 & tarawands - Welcome to the group and good-luck with you weight loss.

turkngrl - thanks for the encouraging words.  I had a better week than I thought and I am sure you will have a great week this week. 

missfaybel - You will get those 3 lbs off again we all have our ups and downs.  And congrats on the new house. 

I hope all of you have a wonderful week and I will be checking in as often as I can.   

 

 

Good morning ladies. So it's been a few days since I've posted. My family is going through some tough times so I've been busy trying to be there for my parents. I'm also going through a bad roommate situation, so hopefully that will be resolved by the end of the month. I'd explain in more detail, but I am tired of being upset about it and I tend to cry every time I go into it. Send good vibes my way if you can. I would really appreciate them.

So I took a CC quiz that tells you what kind of eater you are, and I'm a Functional Eater. Which basically means that I eat only when it's convinient or fits into my schedule. The result of my drastic weight gain in the last 4 years has been because I don't exercise and don't eat very well. This past week I really had to work to NOT fall into my old "functional eater" ways. Most of the week I did ok having all three meals and snacks. But man was it hard. I really had to force myself to fix meals and eat. However over the weekend I fell off the wagon so to speak. Saturday morning I got up and I procrastinated eating. I couldn't decide what I wanted to have so I decided not to have anything. But by 11am I was starving, since for the last month I have been eating 3 meals and having snacks. Instead of going to eat something I spent an hour debating with myself weather to eat something healthy or just caving and making myself a fattening cheesy omlet. Reasoning won and I made myself a BIG salad with chopped up hard boiled eggs, carrots, and ham. It didn't hit the spot, but at least I wasn't hungry anymore. Then Saturday night went out to dinner with some friends to a Mediterranean restaurant. I ordered a chicken kabob sandwich and we all shared an order of humus. I didn't eat the rice, but I ate the entire sandwich (which had a lot of this yogurt dressing they put on it) and more than my fair share of the humus (with the pita bread). Had 5 alcoholic beverages, which probably have tons of calories. And the worst is that at midnight I was hungry since we were still out. So since we were at Old Chicago, I had one of their chocolate chip cookies with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. And my justification for having it was...."It's midnight, my calories have started over and I'm going to do 90 minutes of zumba (which burn 750 calories) in the morning." On very little sleep I had to force myself to get up, have my regular 1 cup of cereal and go work out. Sunday was mostly ok as far as food goes, but although I was eating like my new "normal" is. I felt hungry most of the day. I think it was because I only had two meals all day Saturday.

This morning has not started off well. We had donuts brought in and I had TWO, with sprinkles. That is half my daily alloted calories! Now I'm freaking out because I don't know what I should have so that I'm not eating the rest of my calories for lunch! And since I'm about to have my monthly I'm craving sweet! I just want to walk over the donut box and have a donut for lunch!   

Hey everyone!

Okay, check this out. I had brought a Lean Cuisine today for lunch. However, one of the chicks was ordering Chinese for lunch today. They pressure you so bad so I said hey, I will just have a salad for dinner. So I order some chicken chow mein. Now, I thought chicken chow mein was the noodles with some veggies and chicken. So, the chick comes back and my jaw dropped.

Why am I currently staring at a container that is holding a ton of celery, onion and cabbage with some chicken pieces throughout? It doesn't look like there is anything to be worried about calorie wise with this. I would say that it was cooked in chicken broth with some cornstarch to thicken it some so at most it has a lot of sodium. I am laughing because this is what I get. I should have just eaten the Lean Cuisine.

Okay, tasted this concoction and it does not taste bad, kinda like a watered down chicken vegetable soup. They could have at least put some carrots in here for color though....

Oh well, serves me right. Someone somewhere is watching out for me

I need some meal ideas!!! What is everyone eating today?

Original Post by ingy12:

Good morning ladies. So it's been a few days since I've posted. My family is going through some tough times so I've been busy trying to be there for my parents. I'm also going through a bad roommate situation, so hopefully that will be resolved by the end of the month. I'd explain in more detail, but I am tired of being upset about it and I tend to cry every time I go into it. Send good vibes my way if you can. I would really appreciate them.

So I took a CC quiz that tells you what kind of eater you are, and I'm a Functional Eater. Which basically means that I eat only when it's convinient or fits into my schedule. The result of my drastic weight gain in the last 4 years has been because I don't exercise and don't eat very well. This past week I really had to work to NOT fall into my old "functional eater" ways. Most of the week I did ok having all three meals and snacks. But man was it hard. I really had to force myself to fix meals and eat. However over the weekend I fell off the wagon so to speak. Saturday morning I got up and I procrastinated eating. I couldn't decide what I wanted to have so I decided not to have anything. But by 11am I was starving, since for the last month I have been eating 3 meals and having snacks. Instead of going to eat something I spent an hour debating with myself weather to eat something healthy or just caving and making myself a fattening cheesy omlet. Reasoning won and I made myself a BIG salad with chopped up hard boiled eggs, carrots, and ham. It didn't hit the spot, but at least I wasn't hungry anymore. Then Saturday night went out to dinner with some friends to a Mediterranean restaurant. I ordered a chicken kabob sandwich and we all shared an order of humus. I didn't eat the rice, but I ate the entire sandwich (which had a lot of this yogurt dressing they put on it) and more than my fair share of the humus (with the pita bread). Had 5 alcoholic beverages, which probably have tons of calories. And the worst is that at midnight I was hungry since we were still out. So since we were at Old Chicago, I had one of their chocolate chip cookies with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. And my justification for having it was...."It's midnight, my calories have started over and I'm going to do 90 minutes of zumba (which burn 750 calories) in the morning." On very little sleep I had to force myself to get up, have my regular 1 cup of cereal and go work out. Sunday was mostly ok as far as food goes, but although I was eating like my new "normal" is. I felt hungry most of the day. I think it was because I only had two meals all day Saturday.

This morning has not started off well. We had donuts brought in and I had TWO, with sprinkles. That is half my daily alloted calories! Now I'm freaking out because I don't know what I should have so that I'm not eating the rest of my calories for lunch! And since I'm about to have my monthly I'm craving sweet! I just want to walk over the donut box and have a donut for lunch!   

Ingy, I feel you with the family stuff - just read my journal if you're interested to know what's going on with me.

****Sending AWESOME vibes your way!!!****

Hi everyone!
I hope everyone's doing well today, and that you all had a good weekend.  I'm expecting a visit from Aunt Flo in the next few days, so I have to fight the temptation to put everything not tied down or inedible into my mouth.  I don't know what it is about that time of the month that makes me ravenous, but it sucks all the same. *sigh*
missfaybel - Try to stay optimistic... I know it's hard but even if you gained three pounds back, you're still down from where you started.  Plus moving into your fabulous new house will be a great workout!
jpetty5 - Thank you so much!  That's possibly one of the nicest compliments I've ever gotten! It's so awesome for me to have such a great community of totally cool girls who understand all the stuff I'm going through.  I'm glad I can help out little!
ingy12 - Try to keep your head up.  I've been through both the tough family stuff, and the bad roommate stuff, but I'm sure both at the same time makes each seem ten times worse.  I'm definitely sending a bunch of good vibes your way!
ericka1031 - That's totally hilarious about the chinese food!  But I totally get you about the office pressure.  It's ridiculous!  We had pizza last week for my boss's birthday, and I had to sit there eating reheated stir-fry while everyone chowed down on the most delicious deep dish pizza in the world.  As if I wasn't feeling tortured enough, they kept sending comments my way.  "Surely you can have ONE piece!  It's not that bad for you!  You have to enjoy yourself sometimes!" I almost wanted to cry, it was so hard.  Why do people feel the need to make something that's already hard even harder?
kelly27 - I'm making Chicken with Asparagus and Roasted Red Peppers tonight for dinner.  It's on Allrecipes.com, and actually their Healthy Living section has a lot of great recipes with the nutrition info already on there.  You can even do an ingredient search for recipes using only stuff you already have.  I absolutely love it!

Hi lyssy311 (Melissa)!Welcome to our group! I can tell you that I don't have any kids yet, but my husband more than makes up for that, so I can see how he would be your 3rd child! My husband is my first, my brother is my second, and sometimes, my mom is my third! One way to start is to play a lot of games with your 2 and 1/2 year old! I found a website that has circuit training for kids that you can set up in your house. If you do it too, it will probably help your cause! Plus the circuits are really short and easy, so your kid will probably stay focused for a while. You just play really loud music and then put colorful pieces of construction paper on the floor. You make it a race, and at the first paper you do like 5 or so jumping jacks, then quick to the next paper where you try to touch your toes 5 times, then quick to the next paper where you lift your 2.5 year old 5 times over your head, then quick to the next paper where you pretend to ride a bicycle with your legs in the air.....and so on. I used to play it a lot with the kids at the daycare I taught who were between 2 and 3 years old. It was fun for them for 15-20 minutes at a time, but it's better than nothing and you can play more than once in a day. It's not the gym, but it does help and it's fun. Sorry to run on so much!

Allydan- The tortellini was delicious! She mixed it up too, instead of making it with chicken, she made it with steak. It was really good, and I even kept my resolve and didn't eat seconds!

Liz78- Welcome to our group! What kind of doggies to you have? I love doggies! Good luck reaching your goal!

Mladdy- Dinner was great, a lot of fun and good food. I don't know how many calories are in what she made (probably a million!) and I tried to eat light all day prior to it and all day yesterday to compensate. I got on the scale this morning, and I didn't lose any weight, but I didn't gain anything either which I have to see as a good thing. I will just work extra hard this week! I am glad my mom's song can help! By the way, I am going to follow your advice of keeping good snacks in the car when I go shopping on Wednesday. Yay for shopping! And congratulations on 199! I hope to get there by July!

tarawands- Another hearty welcome to our group! I am sure you can reach your goals, and also I hope that as you lose some weight, your joint pain eases up for you! Glad to have you as part of our group!

trukngrl I am aiming for about your size too! I would love to be a size 9! Also, I understand the pressure of losing weight when other people around you are heavy....they aren't ready to make the change, so they want you to stay fat with them so they feel better. I am glad we have such true support in this group!

missyfaybel- Congratulations on your new house! I am sure you will lose your 3 lbs and more with the move!

jpetty5 - Yay! I knew your could do it!   can't wait to get down to the 240's either! I am floating around 256 right now! Congrats on making this weeks goal! I too need to be more careful on the weekends so I can completely relate. It's harder on the weekends for some reason!

ingy12-GOooooooOOOOd ViiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIiiiiiibes your way! Good luck handling the roommate situation! Don't cry, your roommate can't possibly be worth it.  Don't give in and have a donut for lunch, you can do it! You can eat healthier today!

ericka1031Lol, I think you wanted to eat chicken lomein! But chow mein I am sure is much better for you so fate just wouldn't let you cheat! Way to go!

Kelly27- I am having a pot roast for dinner tonight! So easy! Stick it in the crock pot and come home to delicious. ( I have no clue how good it is for you though)

Good luck to everyone sticking to it tonight! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

allydan - I am in the same boat as you are getting ready to start that time of the month. It's one of the few times I really crave sweets. But other than the sweets cravings I don't really get hungry, so I don't eat a lot and I still somehow manage to gain like 5lbs and then loose them as soon as I'm done. Thanks for the good vibes!

missfaybel - Don't stress about the 3 lbs. I'm obsessed with seeing if I've gained or lost weight, so I weigh myself almost every morning. Some mornings I weigh 3 lbs more than I did the day before. On those days I try to walk around more and try to be a little more strict on what I eat. But even if I don't manage to do more physicall activity or eat better, the following day when I weigh myself I find that I'm back down to my original weight. Even though I weigh myself almost everyday, the day that really matters to me is Friday. If on Friday I am the same as I was the Friday before I really don't stress it. If I've lost, then I'm happy. If I've gained then I revisit my activities of the week before and review what I ate and adjust. Just keep at it and don't get yourself all stressed over 3lbs. You want to be healthy not miserable.

ericka1031 - Totally understand office food pressure...I think it's okay to have something as long as it's in moderation. However, it doesn't always work out that way. Hence I had TWO donuts this morning that were worth half my daily calories. And while I freaked out after doing the calorie math, I made sure to eat something a little more healthy for lunch (campbell's select chicken noodle soup). It doesn't counter act all the bad calories I had for breakfast, but at least I didn't add too many more bad ones. Now if I just have something healthy and sensible for dinner I figure I will be ok calorie wise.

kelly27 - I'm going to grill a chicken breast, cut it up into strips, and put it in a salad that will consist of romaine lettuce, baby carrots and light ranch. I may add a little cheese to it. Depends on how many more calories I have left by dinner time.

mladdy - Sorry this is so late in answering...Zumba is an aerobic-dance program that has a lot of latin dance influences like merengue, salsa, flamenco, samba, tango, reggae, ****, calypso, cha cha, belly dancing, hip-hop...basically a bunch of different dances all rolled into one class. I really like it because I get a full body work out but it doesn't feel like a work out. It feels like I've just been out dancing, and I love to dance!

ericka1031, you were thinking of chiken LO mein. Lo mein is the noodles, haha :) I'm a chinese food fanatic :P

ooo all this talk of chinese makes me hungry... make it stop... ha

Ingy12-Don't feel bad, Iended up cheating this week too.  My son got into the babypowder and made it snow in my livingroom.  While I was cleaning it up, my daughter woke up from her nap and I had to take care of her.  In the end, I forgot about dinner cooking in the oven, and burned it to a crisp!  I have never done this before in my like.  My grandfather was a baker and so I learned to cook at a very young age.  In the end, I sent my husband out for mcdonalds.  We also have a ton of "junk food" and snacks in the house for the kids and husband, and to keep away from them I have been doing housework with a vengence and trying to pour myself into everything else.  This is also helping with activity.  squatting to pickup toys, going up and down the stairs at least 100 times a day.

ennazus520(Suzanne)-Thanks for the tip on the game!  He'll probably love doing that!  I seem to be losing weight rapidly, without even doing any exercise.  Just with the diet change.  I know it's abnormal, but I've lost 6 lbs in 3 days.  Don't know why, and it scares me a little because I understand that the quicker it comes off, the more it will come back on.  We'll see.  I've cut my calories to between 1450-1750 depending on what I'm doing that day.  I was so busy the other day, I only got 900 in.  If it goes this way for a while, I'll be fitting into something other than my leftover maternity clothes soon!  But I'm not going to count on it, Iknow it's unusual and strange.  It's also TTOM.  Which is even stranger.  Women gain weight, not lose!

Anyways, great job for those who lost!  Time to go to the grocery store now, so I gotta go!

Can I just skip over this week? Aunt Flo arrived this morning. Needless to say, I feel like crap. While I worked through my eating issues for lunch, for dinner it was a different story. I had two of the string cheese sticks (80 calories each) for dinner last night around 9pm. I was just feeling too lazy to fix myself anything. This morning I woke up totally late so I had burger king for breakfast, (710 cals for the sandwich, the tots and the OJ). I'm now having a ham sandwich and another string cheese stick. I am craving a coke so bad!

My friends divorce is getting finalized today and I promised I would be there to get her drunk and take care of her. So we're going out to dinner and having drinks. So not really dieting today. Oh well. I will just make up for it tomorrow. I will make sure I stick to my calories AND get at least a 60 min cardio work out in.

On the good side, I weighed in at 243 this morning! Woo hoo! I am down 11.4 lbs since January 11. Go me! (Doing happy dance ).

lyssy311 - I don't have kids or pets to keep me busy, so I have to find other ways to get some sort of movement in my life. At work instead of paging the warehouse for someone, I try to make sure and walk back there as often as possible. I've also gotten into doing housework more often to get some extra movement in. I can just picture the mess of the "snow". Makes me giggle since I'm not the one that has to clean it up. 

Afternoon ladies,

I just got back from a small walk.  I walk 1/2 mile (well its a little more than 1/2 mile) 2 times a day on my 15 min breaks at work.  I had a bad day yesterday I was so hungry all day and I ate about 500 calories more than I should have.  I seem to be doing much better today.  Just wanted to check in.  I hope everyone is having a good day.  Oh and ingy12 I am sending you lots of good vibes.

Hi everyone!

I hope you guys are all doing well today... It's my weigh in day, and I feel like a cow, and I'm terrified of seeing the numbers go up.  I lived the nightmare last night of going out to mexican food with some friends when I had no calories left for the day... I was thinking if I ate before I went I could have a margarita or two and I wouldn't touch the food... Yeah, fat chance.  So know I've got massive guilt and it's put me in a bad mood all day. Grr.  Stupid delicious mexican food...

lyssy311 (Melissa) - I'm glad things are going well for the first week!  Be careful about getting too few calories, though.  Too many 900 calorie days will actually slow your metabolism, which sucks.  Don't worry about it coming off too fast in the beginning, though.  Weight loss tends to be pretty quick for the first week or two before leveling off to 1-2lbs a week.  Just keep working on it, I'm sure you'll be wearing non-maternity clothes soon! Congratulations on the 6lbs loss!  

ingy12 - I always just tell myself on my "bad" days that they're necessary for my mental health...  Don't feel bad about having an off day; we all do it from time to time.  And congratulations on being down 11.4lbs!  That's totally awesome!

jpetty5 - I'm glad you're doing well today!  It's so cool that you get a chance to go walk during work... I wish my job was that way! 

Hi all! Could I be a part of this group? I don't have 100 pounds to lose, its more like 50-60 but I noticed this group has a few short gals in it I'm 25 and 5'1 myself and right now weigh around 171 I'm looking to lose hopefully down to 115-120ish. If this is not the right group for me maybe someone could point me in the right direction :) I like the fact that this is a gals only group. Reading all of your posts has really motivated me. I work at home and have for about 4 years and I think I started at around 140 and over the years have just gained up to the 170 range. The problem for me is eating too much and not getting enough excercise, but now I've joined a gym and I track my calories on dailyplate.com. I want to be healthy and look cute in clothes again,and to feel better about myself and be able to look at pictures of myself without wanting to cry! Anyway just wanted to introduce myself and let you all know that I totally understand what you're going through and I hope we can go down this road to weight loss together. (ohhh that sounded sooo cheesy!)

Hey all!  Just wanted to say Hi and check in with a some good news!  Today marks 20lbs lost!  WOOHOO!  Very happy and proud of myself!

ennazus520...I have 2 doggies...a shep/huskey mix, her name is Stella Blue...and the new addition is Iris Tigerlily...she is a black lab/ border collie mix.  They both are rescues.  I love them to death..lol!

I hope you all are having a great week! 

 

 

hi ladies!

how's it going? i haven't posted in a while, but i just wanted to say hello, and congrats to everyone on their success.

ingy12- great job on the weight loss.... woo hoo - that has got to be great for your vibes

Vintagebetty- welcome... glad to hear you are on track to weight loss... and although this is for 100lb's i am quickly closing in on your number!! yeah... so i think there are a few of us that are in different stages or weight loss. we could always use one more supportive voice... again welcome

Liz - sweet deal on the 20lb marker.... nice work

Last night I did not do so well. my 2 girlfriends went out with me and we shared..we went to the melting pot (fondue) and we shared wisconsin trio with bread apple and veggie, I had a strawberryy lemonade with vodka, we also had brie and fruit with crackers... THEN..... we went to el Gaucho (expensive steak house) and had a 1/3rd of a hamburger (amazing juicy hamburger) a few fries, 3 BBQ ribs and a lemon drop, then off to one last bar for a washington apple (cranberry/crown) and called it a night.....before the night I did 45 min on the tread mill and had only had a yougert and cereal so hopefully I didnt fare to worse for the wear.... I dont want to loose any ground on the 18 i have lost and want to keep heading down ...... grrrr  

I know I hate the medical charts...I feel like they don't account muscle or bone structure.  At my lightest I was a size 8 and I was still considered over weight  and everyone was telling me I was too thin!  

 

Now I"m a size 18 and I've stayed around 230 for over a year.  I need A LOT of motivation to diet!!  I have arithris so I really can't excersise at least not to loose weight.   For now I want to get down to 185.  Is there anyone here that could be my "sponser"?