My shirt/tutu by request of kim =P

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Haha, it's totally hideous, but I love it, and I want to wear it!


My last "Ah-ha Moment" when I found 3FC and got committed, was after a ride in the car with my mom, and we were making jokes, and she was like "Oh yeah, well you're fat", at the moment it was funny, but later...not so much. I don't want to be the fat daughter anymore! :^:

Today's question: The first time around I never really had a moment. I'd been dieting on and off forever and the only real difference was my husband wanted to lose some weight so it stuck for awhile. This time my big a-ha moment was when I stepped on the scale and I was over 280 pounds. I couldn't believe it. I knew I'd always been big, but in my head 300 was a whole new territory and I was sooo close to it. I cried and felt so disgusted with myself. I've still had stops and starts since then, but I haven't gained a single pound (except for during TOM, it's evil!) since then.

stacylambert – Are you feeling any better today?

toastedsmoke – How’s the exercise coming along?

JennieLovesKisses – A trip to Cali sounds awesome. How long are you going for?

KimL1214 – I have the exact same problem when I get bored. It makes it hard when you can’t get away from the temptation at work though.

Jelbelle – Haha.. That’s an awesome half tutu/shirt combo.

I think for a lot of us it takes seeing a photo to really see just how much we’ve changed. Photos were never enough by themselves to give me that extra push I needed. I’d always just pretend that the horrific snaps of me didn’t exist. My moment came this time around after the end of a relationship and having one too many medical problems piling up because of my weight. I don’t need to be the fastest at losing the weight but I’ve come to realise that it’s something I have to do even if I’m not always perfect.

Todays question I'm not sure that I really had an ah ha moment but I do remember sitting at work one day and looking down at my belly and seeing it starting to rest on my lap. I knew something had to change because if not my weight was going to slowly creep up and who know's where or when I would have stopped. So, I decided that my new years resolution would be to lose the weight and get to my pre-preg. weight. Failure was not an option and thankfully I'm here 40lbs lighter and so much healthier!

Kim - I think everyone is getting the flu! I was sooo bummed when a few weeks ago I got sick and didn't work out! But now I am happy I got it over and out of the way!

Try Cold-Eeze, it definitely helps, but don't overdose on it! Just four a day!

as for today's question: Tuesday Question~ Everyone trying to lose weight has an "ah-ha" moment when they realize that their weight has become a problem. When was yours? What brought it about?

Two years ago I realized I was overweight and because I was covering the DNC and RNC and knew I was probably going to meet Obama (I DID!) I wanted to lose weight quickly lol so I lost 30lbs in 2 months and umm, it wasn't very healthy, after meeting him I put it all back on, but dang did I think I was cute!

Two years later, I realized wow...I've gained those 30lbs back plus another 10...what the ****. THIS was my AHA moment. I don't want to die. I sat there and thought about how much I love my family and my boyfriend and how my dad died from diabetes and then I saw an ad for a boot camp in my area. I joined, albeit reluctantly, and the rest is history. Started looking at healthy things to eat, I'm still learning, I think we will learn for the rest of our lives...I have yet to drop 30lbs but I'm doing it the HEALTHY way and I feel really good about it. =)

Hey everyone, sorry to hear about the flu going round for some. Stay healthy team Phoenix!!!

stacylambert: hope you're feeling better! My a-ha story is very similar to yours so I 100% relate. And TOM IS evil!!!

KimL1214: I was reading something about "all or nothing" syndrome in the 100-lb club and I think it's so easy to get bogged down and overwhelmed by one single decision an I think it's so great and inspirational that ur attitude is the opposite of that! Plus, I think I love ur workplace, pple always ready to be work out buddies. Hope u have a great work out with your boss!!

Jelbelle: I actually don't think it's hideous. I can see how it could be styled to be kinda "goth ballerina." I kind of am digging it too in a weird way.

JennieLovesKisses: have an awesome awesome time in Cali!!!! And a 27" waist ... <sighs dreamily> always inspirational!!!

Peanut: I'm supposed to be starting the big push to 400mins by this weekend today and let me not lie, I'm not feeling it. I should go to the gym after work but I don't want to. I WILL go though. I'm supposed to jog 40mins at least, that was my goal. But right now I'm telling myself I don't have to jog today, I can just walk, and it's helping a bit. We'll see how it goes. I'll post later to let you know what went on after work. <dun dun dun!>


Today's question: My a-ha moment actually came last January when I stepped on the scale and saw I was 275 lbs. I mean prior to that my highest had been maybe 260 and at that weight it turned out I'd had a 15-lb tumor misdiagnosed as PCOS, removed (so in my mind I was in the 240s-250s maybe) so it was a real shock to me to realize I was close to 300 lbs. Because I was camera shy, there were very few pics of me so i didn't have that trigger and in spite of being mostly sedentary, I didn't really have problems with stairs yet or walking to class or whatever at the time so there were no overt physical/health triggers yet other than a borderline high BP which runs in my family anyway. So my trigger basically was seeing that I had gotten to te point that I had an over 40 bmi and was over 100 lbs overweight. I cried my eyes out and then decided to make a change. And it's been start-stop since then but even during the stop periods I've always at least maintained the weightloss achieved to that point.

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^^My progress pics from a 90-day FIT Challenge (Jan-Apr 2010) at a dance studio. I took various pole dance fitness and zumba classes. There were 10-15 women in the challenge and I think it helped us all: having a place to workout with other women; we made friends and encouraged each other (a sisterly positive feeling). (Too bad I live over an hour from that studio, or I'd still be going).

My "ah-ha" moment would be when I weighed in at 150 lbs (and wasn't 8-9 months pregnant). This was maybe in 2008 (rough year, breakup and move, then having to move back)... this was some time after we'd moved back. Until that point (not counting when preggo), my highest weight had been 130 (battling that number since '06; kiddo born in '05). That was my weight when I found 3FC (150lbs), about 2 years ago. This forum has been a wonderful support system and has helped me a lot in losing over 20 lbs (challenges and journals, Q&A, encouragement). Photos are an eye-opener as well, because they don't lie..

I enjoy reading everyone's posts and hope everyone has a great week :D Good luck girlies :cheer2:

toastedsmoke: yeah, I think so too =) I bought to wear to Warped Tour, but I didn't fit in it XD but it was like $4 so I thought what the hey, right?

Kim: Yeah, I'm sick of being the biggest one in my group, or looking absolutely ENORMOUS next to my husband. I want to look at us and think we actually go together. I don't want people to assume I'm his sister or something because a girl like me would never get a guy like him :mad:

Glad you guys liked the pic =P I do love it! I just think it's hideously cute haha

Kim: It's good you're going irrespective of whether your boss can go or not. Sending you thoughts of motivation to go to the gym at the end of the day.

princessdi86: Congrats on your run and doing it at your goal speed! Excellent!!! And what a nice compliment! Kind of a NSV, no?

ferretgirl: You look amazing!!!! Wow, girl!!!!


Update on the gym: I ended up going to the gym. I got there and was in the changing room and had the worst headache and just didn't feel like and thought to myself: "this isn't going to happen." But I was too self-conscious to just walk in, change and then walk out. So I committed to walking for 20 minutes on the treadmill b4 leaving. By the time I did the 20mins, I felt much better and ended up doing a 40-minute jog and then walked for 10 minutes at the end. So total: 70minutes! Yay!!!! I was fine whilst exercising but kind of have a low grade headache now. I know it's lack of sleep related. So I'm going to eat dinner now and try really hard to go to bed early tonight.

oOPeanutOo: Not yet, unfortunately. This cough is still hanging on. I thought about going to the doctor but I read that antibiotics won't help since it's caused by a virus. Just have to tough it out.

ferretgirl: Wow! You're progress pictures are wonderful. You're very pretty and you look so happy in your "after."

toastedsmoke: AWESOME job at the gym. And yes, our a-ha moments are very similar, but I wasn't in as good of health as you. I was very sedentary at the time so I did get winded on stairs or even walking for any length of time. I also have high blood pressure. I've always had borderline hypertension (I'm a very high strung person) and my lifestyle pushed it way past the line.

I have a couple tiny little NSVs to share, both food related. First is that for the past week I've had oatmeal everyday for breakfast! I'm normally a no breakfast or maybe some Lucky Charms kind of person, so this is a pretty big step for me. The other is that for the last two nights I didn't eat anything after dinner. I'm very much a night person and usually I end up eating a ton of food late at night even though most of the time I'm not physically hungry. I'm very happy that I was able to go two nights without eating and hopefully a third tonight!