claire0412 Congrats on completing the thesis! I have a friend who is working on hers and hating it. She almost didnt even want to complete her PhD because she was dreading the thesis so much. Huge accomplishment!
I am 129.2lbs this morning... again. I won't sweat it though, I know I ate well yesterday and burned calories and blah blah blah, it'll show up on the scale soon, I hope.
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krampus - OMG, you're ridiculously hot! I love your new avatar. I end up watching the food network or looking at recipes online when I'm hungry as well, it's like porn.
sumire - P90X, wow! I'm totally impressed. I keep meaning to check it out, but I am such a weenie, I know it would kick my arse.
OhThePlaces - I betcha you will have a little whoosh on your next weigh in if your muscles were just holding water.
ann71 - Thank you for your compliment! It happens about 2 days a year that I wake up with good hair, and that happened to be one of those days. I love being a (faux) red head! Great job getting motivated to run, would love to see a picture of you as well!
claire0412 - I am a chocolate FREAK lately. I don't know whether to let myself have some or not, because once I have a taste I seriously just cannot stop putting it into my mouth until it's gone. Congrats on finishing your thesis!
skinnyelle39 - Thanks! I always liked your avatar a lot, I think you have the most gorgeous smile!
krampus - love the new picture! And ditto to what you and Dorian said... I watch the Food Network when I'm hungry as well! I also go to thisiswhyyourefat.com and just look at all the ridiculousness... Haha.
Dorian - LOVE your hair! I used to be a (faux) redhead as well but I just couldn't pull it off as well as I can my blonde hair. I need a new picture, though. Haha
THE SCALE MOVED!! Finally, after being stuck at 128.4 for a bit and then going up to 130... I'm at 128.0 this morning!! Ok, so it's not a huge jump or anything but I will take ANY movement right now.
krampus! dorian! Beautiful new pics! kat Congrats on maintaining at 115! What a lovely place to be. I'd love to get there... eventually claire Hi! good idea on the chocolate... I'm trying to do something similar to curb my peanut butter addiction.
Everyone else, hello hello. Sorry for being a flyby poster on here these days. So many people who have joined since I took my hiatus!
Ok so I'm not checking here every day like I said I would. But I've been much more accountable on my diet- not grazing, counting everything (er... almost everything. I've never been a super picky counter. I usually don't count the tsp of sugar in my coffee, or the rice vinegar and soy sauce on my salad. But at least I could the big things).
I think I'm about 124 right now, according to the Wii Fit. Anyone know how accurate these things are?
I do need to buy a scale. I have gone since mid-April without one, as many of you know, when it went to meet its scalemaker. It was nice to take a break, but I really do need it to stay accountable. Some people do much better without one, but I've learned I'm just not one. If it's not in my house I won't weigh myself and will allow the 'ignorance is bliss' mentality to take over.
Good night to all my fellow eastern hemisphere friends and those of you elsewhere have a great day
bamagirl Hahaha I love thisiswhyyou'refat.com, it makes me feel sick though. People can't actually seriously eat that stuff!
indiblue hi! I used to eat dark chocolate covered in peanut butter for a while, that was yummy! Probably not helping either of us to bring that up though!
everyone else Hello!
Just a quick one from me today because I have a million things to do! I am off to the History dept secretary to get all my exams recognised so I can give in my thesis, then I'm going to get waxed, then I'm going to cook my boyfriend dinner because I have been a moody cow recently (with the thesis stress) and he hasn't complained too much.
Eating all on plan and I'll cook something on plan (he loves healthy food anyway! Thank god for that!)
Yesterday I had a "bad" eating day. But when I wrote in all down, I realized I'd gone only about 200 calories over "budget" and I'd still eaten 6 fruits and veggies. It's very gratifying to see that I'm really invested in healthier eating. Let's hope it keeps up!
Hi everyone, sorry I've been wearing my grumpy hat lately. I have been following and cheering you on in my head but feeling discouraged at my own lack of drive/progress...of course a happy and possibly erroneous weigh-in of 129.85 lbs this morning has kicked me into "anything is possible" mode.
6 weeks about until I move back to America. I'm extremely anxious about what that will imply as far as my weight is concerned. I figure I'll go one of two ways,
1.) Realize I'm not "fat," relax all standards and become fat
2.) See people and feel even more motivated to stay not fat
ann71 That's great! I have noticed similar patterns, for me an "off" day is sometimes too much fruit. Glad it's sticking!
claire So glad to hear your weight is down and your thesis is done. 2 treats in one day - wax and dinner! Lucky guy
indiblue Thanks for the compliment! I do the same thing, I wish I could live scale-free but I really can't or I just gradually expand. No idea re: accuracy of WiiFit scales, but I'm sure you're doing fine with the heightened awareness and accountability.
Dorian5 I LOVE your new avatar, you are a serious total bombshell. I bet you were the most drooled-after thing at the con you went to (it was a con right?). Don't sweat the scale, you'll be back to the swing soon.
bama girl I love thisiswhyyourefat.com probably because I could and would willingly eat almost everyone posted there. Congrats on the scale move!!!
skinnyelle Thank you! Hope you're doing well and feeling good.
sumire Getting off the pill was great for me. While I don't think it affected my weight or physical shape much, it cleared my moods. I was, to put it nicely, unpleasant and frigid on it, but now I feel human. I hope you experience positive changes getting off it.
krampus YAY! USA! USA! Excited for your reentry. I was worried about my 2-week trip back home last month after being overseas for a year, but it went so well. I only craved really healthy foods that I can't get here: Wasa, Skinny Cow, natural pb, greek yogurt, sprouted bread etc. I think your two motivations are good ones and make sense. A third is that it's SUMMER and I think it's much easier to eat healthier in the summer because a) it's hot and appetites tend to be a bit lower and b) shorts, bikinis, etc are huge disincentives to eating more/gaining weight.
ann My day yesterday was similar- I thought it was awful but I ended up at 1390ish, technically not "over" if I counted my calories burned through exercise. I usually don't 'eat back' calories, but I do feel better about eating more than 1200 if I got in pretty good exercise that day.
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Today has been fine so far. Grazing a bit. According to my training schedule I'm supposed to do a 2mi easy run, so I'll try to get that in. All of our guests who have been in town and/or at our house for the past two weeks are gone which = NO MORE EATING OUT. Finally. Homecooked meals for us for a while.
Ate too little yesterday considering I had an excellent run. (for me, anyway) -- I'm very drained this morning, and trying to figure out what to have for breakfast out of the vending machine since I forgot my greek yogurt.
Slept at the boyfriend's last night, but hid my big clunky scale in my book bag to weigh in this morning (I seriously felt nuts doing so.) At any rate, I'm at 128.0lbs and I'll take it, and slide my ticker on up. I genuinely thought that I wouldn't gain THAT much on vacation. But it makes sense because I was seriously shoveling food into my mouth when I wasn't even remotely hungry.
Looking back on my my paper where I keep track of my weigh ins, I seriously have been struggling with 127-129 since April 22nd. WOW. It also occurs to me that this was when my boyfriend starting having weekends off and we started having eating free-for-alls. If I want to start knocking off a pound a week again like before, I've got to commit to ONE free meal/day each week, and exercising on the weekend.
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bama girl - Thank you! I used to be blonde too, but I have big boobs and people would talk sloooowlllyyyy to me when I was really super blonde. Ugh. I generally change the color every few months because I have ADD or something. Congrats on 128! We are weight twins! Yay! Haha. Glad to see that you saw a drop!
indiblue - From what I understand, people tend to find the Wii Fit very accurate, assuming it's on a flat even surface. (Some people wonder why they're getting a different reading on their Wii Fit sitting on carpet than their bathroom scale.) I don't count every single thing either, like when I have a green salad I just count the dressing, or if I eat ONE cookie and split it with my puppy I won't count it. Yay homecooked meals, too!
claire0412 - Lucky you! My boyfriend doesn't like healthy food so we have to figure out where to eat that we can both get something we want. Pain in the arse. Good luck getting waxed! I got a bikini wax once and cussed the woman out during it because I'm a baby about pain.
ann71 - Great job! 200 extra calories in good, healthy food is definitely not like 200 calories in bad food! Sometimes if I'm a little bit over, I squeeze in some exercise just to balance it out.
krampus - Aw shucks, you are sweet. It was a con, for Transformers. Pretty sure most of the people there had not been out of their basements for a while -- but who am I to judge, I'm a super geek too. Congrats on the 120's, that's awesome! You will be much smaller than most other people when you come back here, hopefully that pushes you to continue focusing on your health instead of letting up since most everyone else is fat anyway.
Dorian, I had to laugh thinking about you smuggling in your scale! I can totally see myself doing that! It sounds like you have a good plan with limiting your weekends to one free day. My husband comes home from a 6 month deployment next month and I'm nervous about what that means for my weight loss when it comes to eating out, vacations, etc.
Claire, congrats on completing your thesis!
All of your avatars are so pretty! I don't even have one! Maybe I'll figure that out today. lol
The scale finally moved! It's been bouncing around between 138-139 and this morning was 137. Wooo! I'm only two pounds away from my original goal of 135 when I'll be able to say that I've "lost my toddler"... He weighs 30 lbs and when I pick him up and realize how heavy that is, I can't believe I was carrying that around on my body!
Ohtheplaces I love that... " lost my toddler." I have a nephew who is about that weight also. Im just shy of losing 25 lbs or so and you are so right. Its amazing to think we have carried/ shed that much weight when you look at it in that perspective.
Dorian5, Krampus Thanks for the compliments and well wishes. Ur awesome! Krampus, good luck with you move!
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Krampus I'm moving back to the UK in September, and am worried about the same thing. Everyone in Vienna is a normal, healthy weight and sadly, you can't say the same for the UK. I know I am now among the skinniest in my group of friends, and I don't know anyone who is going to want to go hiking/biking/swimming/running with me when my boyfriend isn't there. I'm gonna have to join some clubs (maybe a triathlon training session!?) to a) make some sporty friends b) prevent me ballooning!
ps: I too was an unbearable, moody, frigid cow on the pill sometimes! Stupid hormones!
skinnyelle Thanks! I feel a lot better now it is done, I was dreading it. Hope you are well!
Dorian I've been around the 68-69kg mark since April too. It is driving me mad. It seems to be on the move again now though, after a few weeks of being stricter.
Thanks to everyone who congratulated me about my thesis, I am so relieved! I have minor corrections to do this weekend and then I can hand it in. I have to defend it before I can graduate, but I should be able to get that done in the summer hopefully.
We ended up going out for dinner last night instead of me cooking but I only ate a turkey breast salad (and drank cocktails, ahem). It was quite salty so my weight was up a bit this morning, I'll do my weekly weigh in tomorrow instead!
I don't have overly much planned this weekend, other than thesis corrections and enjoying all the swimming / bike rides / walks I can fit in before the operation on Tuesday, so I should burn a fair few calories ;-)
Hey feathers,
So sorry that I haven't got time for personals, but wanted to say HELLO and that you all look great!! I've been keeping up with everyone's progress, and it's totally motivating me.
I'm hope hope HOPING to get myself down another pound in the next week or two... and keeping my sights set on my overall goals of getting under 120 and then to to goal.
Very slow process... but I'll get there.
Keep on posting, love to hear how you're all progressing!
krampus: good luck with the return to the US. I think feeling thin will be a good incentive to stay that way. We'll give you encouragement!
dorian: too funny about the blonde hair. I'm approaching salt and pepper myself and am finally considering dying it. We'll see. Maintenance sounds like a pain and I'm lazy.
sorry for limited personals, posting at work.
I've been long aware that I eat when stressed or just because it tastes so good, whether I'm hungry or not, and I've been trying to increase the times that I actually wait for my stomach to growl before eating. It's also teaching me which food are filling or less so. Was surprised that my little Luna Bar for breakfast made it through 2.5 hours, including biking in to work. I eat it for the sugar, but I guess it really is a protein bar!
I am proud of myself for sticking to the new fitness bootcamp program I started at the beginning of the month. The first week I was so sore but I can tell that my body has responded well, I am no longer sore and I can run a lot better now.
Researching whey online, anyone drink whey?????My trainer says I will get faster results if I drink a protein shake after workouts.
Ok, so it's not a huge jump or anything but I will take ANY movement right now.
Yay homecooked meals, too!
