I haven't had the time to do much checking up over the last couple days. It's been pretty hectic, Mother's Day, Kentucky Derby, etc. I have been spending time with family & my fiancee as well.. It's a wonderful thing, being with family, but seems like spending time with family also equals bad food choices. I need to master making smart food choices in a social situation. I still haven't been able to conquer that quest. Seems like whenever the weekend comes around, or a birthday party, etc.. I'm making excuses to go over & calling it "free day" .. Im trying to stop that. Also, I've been eating way more candy then I'm supposed to .. All in all, I've taken a couple steps back. The scale moved a little {in the RIGHT direction} , but I still haven't lost the other pound that I gained. I hope this week I can finally get it off.
As far as Memorial Day Challenge, I am still pushing & I haven't given up, I just dont see how Im gonna be able to reach my goal at this point.. I'm gonna try as hard as I can though .. Better portion control, smarter choices & more exercise ..
Im at work right now, so I hope you all have a wonderful day.. Will do personals later ...
I'm on my phone, had to take my laptop in to be fixed, so no personals...it's too darn hard to type on this little screen. Anyway, I weighed in at 236 even today, which is the lowest I've ever seen (since I started paying attention to my weight) and yesterday was the worst due to a serious toothache: no water (any liquid near the tooth caused pain) and I ate, IDK how much, I am going to try and get my water in and go for a power walk. I am praying hard to see at least a 2-lb loss this week, but any loss will be great!
Phat - I know what you mean about it being hard to stay on plan in social situations. I have the same problem. If I'm out at a bar with friends I want to drink. And, having one drink when everyone else is having 5 or 6 isn't fun. And, then there are occasions where you're conditioned to eat and it's hard to break that habit. My boyfriend and I like to buy movie tickets at the Icon Theatre here in Chicago. It is the huge leather (probably pleather) seats with the table tray for your food and drinks. We have always gone early, sat at the bar and ordered dinner and drinks. The whole point of going there is to eat while watching your movie, I think. But, there are no healthy options!
Eventually we will just have to train ourselves for different behavior on these occasions. My thin friends seem to handle it. My sister and one of my other friends that is a runner always remove their top bun when they order sandwiches out. Why is that so hard for me to do?!
Anyway, yesterday I hit just over 1300 calories. Not bad! My eating was very on plan. And, I had a great workout yesterday morning.
I have an incredibly healthy lunch packed, so as long as I hold it together when I get home tonight, I'll have another very on plan day again today. That would be three in a row.
I can't figure out how people are losing so much weight each week. I ate almost perfectly last week (save for Sunday) and weighed in with only a 1.5 lb loss. I was happy with it until I saw people here losing 4 lbs at a time!!! Lol. Oh well. Slow and steady wins the Amber race I guess.
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Ok not sure why I have took forever but with dial up I can't go back at the moment & read all the post I missed~So sorry~ hope everyone has been doing well...I am still on maintaining mode & holding strong at it. Weighed 129.0 this morning.... And trying to stay 127 to 137 So thats great.~Anyways I think with having asthma the weather has kept me out on days I was able t get out (since I am stuck in during the winter) & when It is cold & rainy lately it's been depressing to me So I have been watching the dvd seasons of Lost on those dreary days ~never seen them before & I am glued to them~Can't wait to see what the ending is!.~So I wanted to come post on a great day~It's suppose to be 77 here today with sunshine.(FINGERS CROSSED) Hope all u momma's had a great mothers day.~Other than getting my 3 to take a pic with me ~(LOL) I had a great one~I had to threaten to take away a cellphone ect...... To get a pic took~we all laughed about it all last night.~anyways...Just wanted to post~say I am still here & doing well....Hope everyone else is too.~HUGS TO ALL
SOOOOOO much to talk about! But i will definately start off by saying i am having a WONDERFUL DAY! i'm sure you can guess why but i have to type in order to get to there.
So friday was OP but most likely a bit over because dinner was a subway sub that wasnt the best for me. Saturday was fine calorie wise but not really healthy. i didnt eat anything all day, just a medium iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts and a flat bread. Then dinner was pretty awesome though. I made homemade pizza on Lavash bread. My cheese pizza rang in at about 450 calories for the whole pizza and i only ate half and was stuffed!!
Soooooo sunday started out awesome! I weighed in sunday morning at..
213.6 wooo! thats down 3.9lbs! Its slow progress but i didnt really exercise at all and that means that my calorie counting was EXACTLY right! i feel just awesome that its actually working. I was pretty much betting on the fact that the scale was not going to show a loss and it did. Thats about 2lbs a week since i started. So i'm THRILLED with that!
I cooked all day sunday and managed to not eat any of it while i was cooking. But that also meant i ate NOTHING sunday during the day. Really not healthy. All i had was an iced coffee. Got 2 appetizer recipes off skinnytaste.com that i made for my mom. I made the crab cakes but made them mini ones and i made shrimp salad on cucumber slices. I only had about 4 mini crab cakes (less than one serving) and about 4 cucumber slices or one serving. Dinner was pretty good. I made a seafood pasta bake. It wasnt that great for me but i only ate half of what my serving was... So i was pleased with that! Dessert was a disaster. It tasted wonderful but was just awful for me.... But once in a while i suppose its not that bad.
However, I am completely at a loss how to calculate my calories for the weekend! I at least need to figure out sundays calories because that starts the new week for me so i need to know what im working with here. lol But ill figure it out some how... Today starts Turbo Fire. Which means im upping my water intake to 3 liters starting today! Dropped the ball with cooking dinner ahead of time for today so we'll see how that goes. Turbo fire will be happening every day this week after work with my sister and on saturday. And then i will be running with my friend at the gym tomorrow and thursday and possibly saturday as well! So this sunday coming up should hopefully see and AWESOME weight loss again if all goes well!
My goal is to lose 12.5 lbs by memorial day. I am down 3.9 which leaves me 8.6 lbs left to lose in about 21 days! Totally do-able i think! I am just PUMPED! i cant even explain how happy i am today! Its just awesome!
Is the weekend over already? We had a great time camping & 4-wheeling, can't wait to get back out again! I didn't count calories this weekend, but I think I did pretty well. Probably ate a little more than usual overall, but we're also a lot more active when we're outdoors most of the time, so I think it all works out.
Having an OP day today so far. Hoping I can keep it up the rest of the week!
Everyone here seems so motivated! that is one thing I can not seem to be. All I want to do is sleep and eat anything sweet. I did just have a small surgery so it could still be anestesia and pain meds making it hard on me. But yea, I just want to eat honey nut cheerios all day long. it's 4pm and I only have 100 calories left for the day. I have eaten mostly snacks and very small meals. Anyone else ever feel this way? I can't wait to get some energy back and a little more motivation.
^^yes i felt like that a lot during winter and last couple of months, i binged and gained almost everything back. now i told myself that i don't have to lose it now, not untill i'm confident and prepared but in the back of my mind i wish to do it now. so i'm just trying not to binge anymore and usually exam period is the hardest for me but so far it's going great. i'm not so obsessed with calories and what i eat and that caused me the opposite thing...i'm eating healthy, normal meals, only when hungry and i think i even lost a few pounds since. so for now i feel great. the only thing is that i'm so depressed when i see myself in the mirror. nothing fits anymore and i don't want to buy new clothes. when i go to school i feel embarassed so i'm skipping some classes and counting days till the end of may when it ends.
so just to let you guys know that i'm on plan and hope i don't jinx it.
Yesterday was a really bad day as far as dieting goes, but all in all it was worth the 5 lbs gain! I'm hoping it comes off quick, I'm back on plan today. Had 1196 calories, walked for 36min. Going strict all week- nothing processed, all natural!
taramade & missunshine: Yes, I definitey feel like that at times! I've been doing "OK" this challenge, but I'm not as "on fire" as I was for the last one. Still sloppy with my calorie counting and not working out as much as I had been. I'm done with school/work in about a month, and I'm just ready to go into "vacation" mode already. (Last summer I took a "break" from CC. Ate intuitively and "spot checked" for calories on things I wasn't sure of...stayed active, etc. Weight loss slowed down but still lost a little.)
The thing is my next goal is HUGE...100 lbs lost. If I can get there, I'll feel like I "deserve" a break. But I'm not pushing very hard to get there very quickly. I don't know if I'm self-sabatoging or what...or if I'm just tired of the old routine day in and day out. It was a VERY long winter here and maybe I'm just sick of the same old (indoor) exercise routine, same lunch every day, same dinner "rotation" pretty much every week, etc. (I know I should really start exploring some new recipes and stuff, but ugh! I'm just stuck in a rut)
Like Sunshine, I think I'm just counting down the days until I'm done. I know I should make the best use of my time in the meantime, but I'm just not. Ugh.
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I lost another .2 this morning, it should have been more but I think TOM is preventing that. I'm still very happy because the scale is going down not up. And I feel skinny today, I seriously feel like I weight 20 lbs less than I do now. I'm excited doing Alli one day at a time.
Softball was good last night, I rounded first headed towards second and the girl tried to throw it to second...ya she missed and hit my ankle! Let's just say I shouted some foul language there. I was happy with the exercise but very tired, we didn't end the game until after 11pm last night and didn't get to bed until 1.
So as I stated before, I feel pretty good doing what I'm doing now, I know I need to exercise more but Im focusing on my eating now and I will add more later. I'm hoping to lose another 8lbs by the end of this challenge so we will see.
Last night I made baked chicken, sweet potato fries, and green beans. No butter just salt free seasonsing. And I felt like I ate so much, but I didn't. I was looking at the nutrition facts for sweet potatoes and they seem healthy but they fill me up as if i was eating alot...are they good or bad? anyone know?
Northern: You go girl! I know you will make it to 100lb loss. Its ok being in a rut, good luck finding new recipes.
fruitlady: you'll lose that 5lbs in no time!
Everyone else, i'm so sorry I didn't get to you i'll try and check back in later. Seems like everyone is working very hard and I'm proud of you
Hi all. Things are going well for me. I actually think I need to up my calories a bit. I mean, I've been switching back and forth. Over the past 7 days I've had 3 days at 1300, 2 days at 1200 and 2 days at 1800 (one of them was likely more, actually). But, this morning I was pretty beat when I started exercising. I felt very low on energy. I ate 1192 calories yesterday, so I suspect that was the reason.
I've worked out at least an hour for the past 12 days. Though, one of those days was an hour of just stretching.
I've packed (and including breakfast) about 850 calories worth of food. I have a cooking class tonight, Seafood 101, where we eat what we cook. The good thing is that it's seafood. But, I'm nearly certain it will bump me over the 1200 calorie mark EASILY. I'm not going to let it bother me, though. I was so low yesterday that as long as I don't go over 1600 I'll be happy.
Tomorrow night, though, I'm going to Wrigley field to watch the Cubs. Can you bring your own food into a ball park? I have no idea what to do for dinner!
The thing is my next goal is HUGE...100 lbs lost. If I can get there, I'll feel like I "deserve" a break. But I'm not pushing very hard to get there very quickly. I don't know if I'm self-sabatoging or what...or if I'm just tired of the old routine day in and day out. It was a VERY long winter here and maybe I'm just sick of the same old (indoor) exercise routine, same lunch every day, same dinner "rotation" pretty much every week, etc. (I know I should really start exploring some new recipes and stuff, but ugh! I'm just stuck in a rut)
But you have lost 95 LBS!!!! Are you kidding me?!?! You are rocking, so you're having a rough patch, a few of us are (me included) but when I look at all you have accomplished so far, it makes me feel awesome, like I can do it....and if I can I know you can, because you inspire me, you rock, kick that last 5 pounds @$$!!!
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^^yes i felt like that a lot during winter and last couple of months, i binged and gained almost everything back. now i told myself that i don't have to lose it now, not untill i'm confident and prepared but in the back of my mind i wish to do it now. so i'm just trying not to binge anymore and usually exam period is the hardest for me but so far it's going great. i'm not so obsessed with calories and what i eat and that caused me the opposite thing...i'm eating healthy, normal meals, only when hungry and i think i even lost a few pounds since. so for now i feel great. the only thing is that i'm so depressed when i see myself in the mirror. nothing fits anymore and i don't want to buy new clothes. when i go to school i feel embarassed so i'm skipping some classes and counting days till the end of may when it ends.
so just to let you guys know that i'm on plan and hope i don't jinx it.
See below...
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Originally Posted by taramade
Everyone here seems so motivated! that is one thing I can not seem to be. All I want to do is sleep and eat anything sweet. I did just have a small surgery so it could still be anestesia and pain meds making it hard on me. But yea, I just want to eat honey nut cheerios all day long. it's 4pm and I only have 100 calories left for the day. I have eaten mostly snacks and very small meals. Anyone else ever feel this way? I can't wait to get some energy back and a little more motivation.
Okay Taramade and Missunshine, I have to get a little tough love (keyword: love) on ya'll: I know that it kinda sucks right now (it kinda sucks for me too, all of my friends are fit and I can't wear what I want and blah blah blah) BUT how is sitting around and eating all day helping the situation? It's not! You gotta get out there and get moving!!! For me, if I do some kind of exercise, I usually eat better (and Taramade I hade a growth in my brain that had to be surgically removed in October 2010...so I know how medical junk gets in the way) and a member on here once told me this: It's hard to get in shape and stay OP and live healthier, but also it's hard to stay fat and be out of breath and be unhealthy...so pick your hard.
And missunshine, please tell me you are not skipping a WHOLE MONTH of school, education is soooo important and I would hate to see you miss out or mess up!!!
I want you both to succeed, so I'm not trying to sound harsh, but I believe in both of you, if I can do it (I used to eat pizza everyday, NO working out, at least a king size candy bar everyday, Chinese food, Burritos, you name it, I ate it and quickly and all in one day sometimes!!! Topped off with a Venti Caramel Frappucino...yea) then I know you guys can, so here's your motivation: get out there and make it happen!!!
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Hello ladies!
Is the weekend over already? We had a great time camping & 4-wheeling, can't wait to get back out again! I didn't count calories this weekend, but I think I did pretty well. Probably ate a little more than usual overall, but we're also a lot more active when we're outdoors most of the time, so I think it all works out.
Having an OP day today so far. Hoping I can keep it up the rest of the week!
Awesome, I love 4-wheeling.
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SOOOOOO much to talk about! But i will definately start off by saying i am having a WONDERFUL DAY! i'm sure you can guess why but i have to type in order to get to there.
So friday was OP but most likely a bit over because dinner was a subway sub that wasnt the best for me. Saturday was fine calorie wise but not really healthy. i didnt eat anything all day, just a medium iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts and a flat bread. Then dinner was pretty awesome though. I made homemade pizza on Lavash bread. My cheese pizza rang in at about 450 calories for the whole pizza and i only ate half and was stuffed!!
Soooooo sunday started out awesome! I weighed in sunday morning at..
213.6 wooo! thats down 3.9lbs! Its slow progress but i didnt really exercise at all and that means that my calorie counting was EXACTLY right! i feel just awesome that its actually working. I was pretty much betting on the fact that the scale was not going to show a loss and it did. Thats about 2lbs a week since i started. So i'm THRILLED with that!
I cooked all day sunday and managed to not eat any of it while i was cooking. But that also meant i ate NOTHING sunday during the day. Really not healthy. All i had was an iced coffee. Got 2 appetizer recipes off skinnytaste.com that i made for my mom. I made the crab cakes but made them mini ones and i made shrimp salad on cucumber slices. I only had about 4 mini crab cakes (less than one serving) and about 4 cucumber slices or one serving. Dinner was pretty good. I made a seafood pasta bake. It wasnt that great for me but i only ate half of what my serving was... So i was pleased with that! Dessert was a disaster. It tasted wonderful but was just awful for me.... But once in a while i suppose its not that bad.
However, I am completely at a loss how to calculate my calories for the weekend! I at least need to figure out sundays calories because that starts the new week for me so i need to know what im working with here. lol But ill figure it out some how... Today starts Turbo Fire. Which means im upping my water intake to 3 liters starting today! Dropped the ball with cooking dinner ahead of time for today so we'll see how that goes. Turbo fire will be happening every day this week after work with my sister and on saturday. And then i will be running with my friend at the gym tomorrow and thursday and possibly saturday as well! So this sunday coming up should hopefully see and AWESOME weight loss again if all goes well!
My goal is to lose 12.5 lbs by memorial day. I am down 3.9 which leaves me 8.6 lbs left to lose in about 21 days! Totally do-able i think! I am just PUMPED! i cant even explain how happy i am today! Its just awesome!
Hope everyone has a great day!!!
Whoo...IDK how to help you with the calorie-counting thing; I usually just try to find something as similar as possible and guesstimate, lol....and WTG on the weight loss girl! That is totally doable wth the way you've been rocking.
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Phat - I know what you mean about it being hard to stay on plan in social situations. I have the same problem. If I'm out at a bar with friends I want to drink. And, having one drink when everyone else is having 5 or 6 isn't fun. And, then there are occasions where you're conditioned to eat and it's hard to break that habit. My boyfriend and I like to buy movie tickets at the Icon Theatre here in Chicago. It is the huge leather (probably pleather) seats with the table tray for your food and drinks. We have always gone early, sat at the bar and ordered dinner and drinks. The whole point of going there is to eat while watching your movie, I think. But, there are no healthy options!
Eventually we will just have to train ourselves for different behavior on these occasions. My thin friends seem to handle it. My sister and one of my other friends that is a runner always remove their top bun when they order sandwiches out. Why is that so hard for me to do?!
Anyway, yesterday I hit just over 1300 calories. Not bad! My eating was very on plan. And, I had a great workout yesterday morning.
I have an incredibly healthy lunch packed, so as long as I hold it together when I get home tonight, I'll have another very on plan day again today. That would be three in a row.
I can't figure out how people are losing so much weight each week. I ate almost perfectly last week (save for Sunday) and weighed in with only a 1.5 lb loss. I was happy with it until I saw people here losing 4 lbs at a time!!! Lol. Oh well. Slow and steady wins the Amber race I guess.
Yep, social situations kinda suck...when I have money LOL, the BEST diet for me is being broke. I am saving up for a car and I am not trying to spend money on anything frivolous (which is only half way working) and the last 2 times I went out, I ate nor drank anything and it felt awesome..and then I had a sandwich and water when I got home LOL...WTG on thehealthy eating and great workout, you are on such a great path...I am confident that you will make it to your goal.
Okay you guys, I am losing a lot of weight these past few days and IDK why; my "OP" has been dodgy at best and my exercise is spotty, I'm still getting out there but not has hard as I could be. And my water?!?!?! I'm ashamed of myself for the water thing, BUT something is happening in my body and it has to do with my digestive system, I have a messed up one and lately it's been really smooth and eay-going, WHY??? I'm suspicious (of my own body!!!) I HAVE been drinking pure Aloe Vera Juice everday with lemon as a hot tea, so that might be it, however I'm back on it with a butt and ab workout today and at leat 90 oz of water...you ladies are rocking it and oh yea, I changes my goal, it's just not coming off as fast, I just want to get to 229 (out of the 230's) by memorial day and since I weighed in at 235.6 today, I may just make it!!!! Have a good day, I know I will
Let's just say I shouted some foul language there. I was happy with the exercise but very tired, we didn't end the game until after 11pm last night and didn't get to bed until 1. 
