Lol, poor Bella, this thread has seen busier days!
It's okay, I'm here to pitch in commentary and encouragement now!
Nicole: CONGRATS! It looks like you're doing amazingly, and... gotta love seeing those "lowest ever" numbers. I know they always make me feel amazing. Keep at 'er!
Bella: Ohhh dear god. I think it may have been... 154. 154.1.... 154.4.... 154.0.... 154.3.... I was 154-point-something for like... two and a half weeks. And as someone who's blessed with a body that tends to drop pretty frequently in tiny increments EVERY DAY when I'm being really good and healthy... 2 and a half weeks at one number was a STALL.
I'm sure you've read about plateau breaking jazz, but just in case you haven't, I always throw
these kinds of links at people, since they helped me.
Ironically, the plateau breaker that worked for me was the one I tried first because it struck me as being the most enjoyable. I was being perfection personified eating-wise, and working out religiously during my plateau... and the slightly scary plateau-breaking option I chose was a controlled binge. For ONE DAY, AND ONE DAY ONLY... I ate high-calorie junk that I wanted to eat. I still worked out... and the next day, I went back to my strict, low-calorie, good-food diet. The scale jumped up the next day due to excess sodium... and the day after, it moved back down
below 154. (Thank GOD.)
I don't recommend this to people who have binging issues if there's a possibility that it'll be harder to go back to being good after a day of resting the diet... and if people aren't being really good about calorie-intake in the first place, this probably isn't wise either. But it COULD be worth a shot if your body's like mine?
Either way, it sounds like you've got a fabulous mindset. Keeping up with the working out, and being meticulous about what you're eating is great. The fact that you can pinpoint bad snacking habits shows a lot of self-awareness, and that's just what you need to make this happen for you! I wouldn't necessarily say NOT to have snacks at all... cutting out snacking usually makes me eat more at mealtimes... but maybe you can find lower-calorie options than chocolate covered ginger and cornchips? (Those sound awesome tho, btw.
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KEEP GOING! I'll hang around and post more often now, hehe.
As for me...:
I'm staying in this thread, 139 or not. I like it. And when I was in the 160s and 150s, I looked at the "getting out of the 130s" thread, and thought, "...pfft. WHINERS!"
But I don't want to get out of the 130s anyhow, I think at 129 my body might start to protest a little. I'll get down to my goal of 135, then work on toning. If the weight drops off after that... cool. If my body's not meant to go lower than 130-135... that's fine too. Long as I look and feel good.
I'm 139.8 as of this evening.. usually I drop to a lower number in the morning. I have no idea why I decided to weigh myself arbitrarily this evening. Boredom after my long-distance boyfriend went to bed, probably. I've been very very good in the past week and a half about going to the gym, and limiting my calorie-intake, and the scale (which had been creeping ever-higher up back towards 144-145 for a few weeks) has now settled back down and is creeping in a direction that I much prefer.
I'm going to Florida with the family in a little under two weeks, and I went bikini shopping the other day. Talk about a scarring experience. I chose the WORST people to go with, too. A size 2 and a size 6. It was like asking for someone to fire a blow at my self-esteem. Their dressing room opinions seemed marred by the fact that my brain kept spinning around the fact that they're probably not used to seeing this much fat on a human body, having themselves as comparisons.
I mean. I've hit the point where no one would look at me and say, "Wow, she's FAT," I'm now just in that touchy area in between "normal" (A size 8-10 in my mind) and "a bit chubby" (size 12-14).
But I bought a bikini! And I mean... who am I trying to impress in Florida? I'll never see those people again. So, despite going with my size -1 sister in law, I fully intend to WEAR that damned bikini and get some sun on my translucent stomach. Any whiter and you could probably see the food going into my stomach through the skin. Eesh.
