First Name: Jennifer
Geographical Location: Nebraska
Age: 24
Marital Status: Married 5 years
Children: 2, ages 4 and 21 months
Occupation: Nurse Aid/Med Aid
Pets: 3 fish, 1 bird, 1 dog, 3 cats
Hobbies/Intrests: Reading, shopping, listening to music, good movies, spending time with my husband and family cooking
Height: 5'2"
Eye/Hair Color: Blue, depends on my mood, currently dark brown
Starting date of weight loss journey: May 25th, 2005
Starting weight: 231
Current weight: 220
Goal weight: 130-140 depends on how I feel and look
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Boredom eating and chocolate-love my Hersheys with Almonds and Chocolate Covered Raisins.
Following any specific plan: Counting calories, avoiding bad carbs, eating lots of fruits and vegitables, and Tae Bo,
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts: This time I feel that I really can do it. I just have to believe in myself, I have done it in the past. Now I am looking to the future and to a healthier me. I am trying to avoid diabetes, it is rampant in my family. I am also a role model to my girls and I don't want them to struggle with their weight. I want healthy choices to come naturally to them.
Anything else you want to share with us? I am afraid of failure, I always have been, this time i'm not evening going to consider what if I don't make my goal, because I condemn myself thinking that way, I have also posted my weight, which forces me to stay on track. I want to see my tracker moving and I want everyone else to see it move.
Hobbies/Interests: shopping, cooking, reading, arts and crafts, movie-holic
Height: 5'6"
Eye/Hair Color: blue/strawberry blonde
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: this time? March 1st
Starting Weight: 171
Present Weight: 161
Goal Weight: 135
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: laziness, lack of willpower, my work schedule is terrible for planning meals and excercise--who wants to excercise after a 12 hour day of work?!?
Following any specific plan: I am currently tracking calorie content and trying to eat better. My husband does most of the cooking and has been plumping me up with hamburger helper the past three years, since he doesn't like to wait until I get home from work to let me cook...! I am considering starting one of the Anne Collins diet programs
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: I am looking for support and not trying to do it alone
Hobbies/Interests: Web design, genealogy, walking, reading, shopping
Height: 5'3"
Eye/Hair Color: brown/brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: I've been on and off since Jan 2004
Starting Weight: 168
Present Weight: 155
Goal Weight: 125
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss:I like to eat out (a lot of pizza & chinese) and my fiance does too...Also he likes to eat a lot of food, and it makes it hard for me to not.
Following any specific plan: No...just eating better & trying to be more active
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: Augg....WHERE DID MY WILLPOWER GO! I need to regain it this time!
Hi there. I'm a first time poster to 3 chickies, originally started as a SDP (Skinny Daily Post) lurker and eventually wandered over here.
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First name (if you want to tell): Lisa
Geographical location: Central New York
Age: 23 (24 on 7/22 )
Marital Status: engaged for 4 years, living with fiance
Children/Ages: none
Occupation: Americorps*VISTA in non-profit Human Services program
Pets: Spaztic American black cocker spaniel named Rosie (the carpet swimmer)
Hobbies/Interests: reading, shopping (much more now that losing weight, I found it's more fun), being outdoors (in selected areas), looking at new fitness equipment, videos, toys, etc
Height: 5'5"
Eye/Hair Color: hazel-brown / coppery-auburn red (all natural)
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: This one Dec. 26, 2004 (pre-New Years Resolution)
Starting Weight: 265
Present Weight: 225
Goal Weight: Working on 200 right now; then in 20 lb. increments eventually down to 160. I'm big boned (wide hips) with a heayish frame and I build muscle easily. I'd rather be a really ripped fit 160 lb. amazon than try to get down to my suggested ideal BMI ~130, which would be waifish and unhealthy for me (also would make me look like a bobble head doll , I have a big skull )
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: My sweetie is an excellent cook and loves to cook for me. He also likes to wait on me hand and foot and give massages ( I know, it's a hardship). I have a ridiculous sweet tooth, especially for home-made baked goods (my moms way of showing love).
Following any specific plan: Modified version from "Fill Up to Slim Down" (more protein, slightly more fat), lots of fruits & whole grains and exercise!!
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: Shortly after graduating from high school but prior to college (I took one year off), I got sick of being fat. My weight was then ~230. I switched to diet soda, reduced junk food and slowly added exercise. In less than a year (freshman in college) I was down to 190. I met my sweetie in August of that summer right before start of sophomore year, and lost another 20-25 lbs (mostly by dancing and not eating right) by New Years. My sweetie is same height (and hand and foot size), but naturally a thin little hardbody (very muscular). He has this ridiculous metabolism that let him eat bags of candy and fast food all day and still be a sz 28"30". I let myself go ... and brother, did I go.
I finally got sick of being unhealthy again in December 2004, and asked by hard-body exercise-freak cousin to help me out. I started working out, and changed my eating habits. I'm making much more of an effort this time, especially in working out regularly. I wasn't too healthy about losing weight last time, especially near the end - and I'm determined to make this time work!
Anything else you would like to share with us: I love success stories, and I hope to be one someday!
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Reason: numerical error
Hobbies/Interests: reading, currently i'm starting to get into shopping as well~ which is really weird for me..
Height: 5'0" - a little on the uhm..petite side...
Eye/Hair Color: brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: This time, I'm starting TODAY! (June 21).
Starting Weight: 132
Present Weight: 132
Goal Weight: 110
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: constant craving for chocolate and breads; looking for quick meals (aka drive thru' fast food places)
Following any specific plan: none, just trying to reduce calorie intake and trying to slowly add exercise (increasing amounts) to the daily routine
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: that's what I'm here to figure out. I feel like I should work on just living a better life...
Anything else you would like to share with us: well I'll need a lot of help, I think. I keep breaking down and giving in to the urge to just head out for brgers and fries, even when i don't want any.
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Reason: typo earlier - i wrote 16 when i meant 26!
Geographical location: Philadelphia (PA) and Seattle (WA), depends on the time of year.
Age: 20
Marital Status: perpetually single
Children/Ages: none
Occupation: I used to be a vegan cafe goddess but now I'm unemployed. haha, student is sufficient.
Pets: my roomates cat that hates me.
Hobbies/Interests: I'm a singer (I know, aren't we all?) I love a cappella performance. songwriting, acoustic guitar, acting, all kinds of dance, especially hip-hop. Any and every reality TV show.
Height: 5'0"
Eye/Hair Color: blue/dark brown with blond highlights
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: February 1st, 2005
Starting Weight: 248
Present Weight: 210
Goal Weight: 130, I'm short.
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: addiction to food
Following any specific plan: LA Weightloss
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: I'm doing it on my own! my only success in the past came because I was shipped off to camps specifically designed for fatty kids like me. But, now I'm taking control and making a change for myself, and it's making all the difference.
Anything else you would like to share with us?: I'm elated to have found this forum. its perfect.
Occupation: Consultant for a Management and Consulting Firm, and a student working on a Masters degree
Pets: Zero
Hobbies/Interests: Playing tennis, shopping, traveling, and teaching
Height: 5'5"
Eye/Hair Color: Brown and Brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: Started late March of 05..got serious after my 23rd bday in April
Starting Weight: 285
Present Weight: 240, as of June 1, I ONLY get on the scale 1x a month
Goal Weight: 140..my boyfriend would be happy if I didn't go below 170
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Busy lifestyle...my office is like a grazing field for candy cookies chips and just junk in general
Following any specific plan: Cut the "white" stuff, make sure I get in at least "5 a day", take a multi-vitamin and do something active atleast 6 days a week
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: Umm...I am not being so hard on myself this time, and I reward my self for the little milestones I reach.
First name (if you want to tell): Cait
Geographical location: Eastern MA
Age: 22
Marital Status: boyfriend
Children/Ages: zero
Occupation: Walgreens Management
Pets: Cats: Stinky, Manny, DJ, Juan Valdez, Dirtbag, Spooky (3 separate homes)
Hobbies/Interests: Tae Bo, baking
Height: 5'5"
Eye/Hair Color: Brown and Blonde
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: Day after graduation: May 22, 2005
Starting Weight: 170
Present Weight: 166
Goal Weight: 140
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Boyfriend's eating habits
Following any specific plan: No white stuff, mindful of WW points, chill out
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: Not going crazy psycho, living with it, doing it with my 40's and 50's in mind instead of tomorrow and the day after.
Hobbies/Interests: Karate, Yoga, and Comic Books (collector). Love to read everything.
Height: 5'4"
Eye/Hair Color: Brown/ Blue Black (dyed)
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: June 28, 2005
Starting Weight: 260 lbs
Present Weight: 260 lbs
Goal Weight: 128 lbs
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: My own lack of motivation.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: I want to lose weight for me this time and not anyone else.
Following any specific plan: Eating: The 90/10 Weight- Loss Plan by Joy Bauer. It's where you eat 90% of healthy nutritious foods and 10% Fun (junk) foods. It's a very balanced diet that includes all the food groups.
Exercise: In home gym. Member of Curves, Member of the local YMCA. Beginners Karate. Soon to purchase a bike so I can go riding.
Children/Ages: none, have had 5 miscarriages. We will be trying Clomid when I've lost some weight.
Occupation: Librarian
Pets: Callie the Cat...and I want to get a dog soon.
Hobbies/Interests: Read anything and everything, yoga, cooking (learning to do it more healthfully), crocheting, travel
Height: 5'6"
Eye/Hair Color: Brown/ auburn
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: June 25, 2005
Starting Weight: 218 lbs
Present Weight: 216 lbs
Goal Weight: 150 lbs and then we'll see
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: I love to eat and I am an emotional eater. I'm a bit of a glutton...where one piece of cake every once in a while might not be bad, I can't stop until the cake is gone.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: I genuinely want to be healthy...not so weight focused, although I'm hoping that will be a tangential benefit! I also want to try Clomid and have been advised to lose weight first.
Following any specific plan: South Beach Diet and exercise: run 30 min a day, lift weights and, hopefully, I'll buy a bike soon.
Marital Status: Not married, living with BF for 2 years
Children/Ages: none of my own, but BF has 2. Ben 8yrs and Phoebe 10 yrs. Giving me good practice for my own kids
Occupation: Personal Assistant, Market Research (jack of all trades at the moment in the one role)
Pets: Two puppies, 5 months old. Lily and Lulu.
Hobbies/Interests: Reading, scrapbooking, knitting at the moment, training the girls (puppies that is), cooking. I want to start making my own earrings and jewellery.
Height: 5'10"
Eye/Hair Color: blue/blonde
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: July 1st 2005
Starting Weight: 265 lbs
Present Weight: 265lbs
Goal Weight: 160 lbs - will see when I feel comfortable
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Emotional eating or just eating because there is nothing else to do. Getting my big bum out of bed in the morning to exercise. I have just found a rut and need to improve my life.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: I want to get healthy for my BF, family and future children. I hope to have kids within another 4 years. I want to be confident to go out in the evening and be able to find something nice to wear and not break down in tears when I can't. I want to be a better person and be a good example for my children and BF's children.
Following any specific plan: Looking to follow a low GI diet. This way I really don't stop myself having the things I like, I just need to do it occasionally, not every day. I have been considering heading back to vegetarianism and a low GI diet has legumes, etc, so it would be easy to follow. As for exercise I will pick up with Joyce Vedral for weight training and walk the dogs EVERY DAY!! I promise
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: March 1, 2005
Starting Weight: 145
Present Weight: 121
Goal Weight: 105-110 (I'm small-framed)
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Keeping my binge-eating in check, boyfriend who LOVES to go out to eat (4-5 times per week), eating healty at work and in social settings.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: It's not a quick fix- I'm learning how to be healthy for the rest of my life.
Following any specific plan: Pilates 3x per week, Cardio (mostly walking) 2x per week, making sure I eat my fruit and veggies, cutting out all fast/friend/sugary food, etc. I treat myself occasionally with some french fries, though.
Occupation: Cashier/Dietary aide in a hospital; Accounting student
Pets: Mackenzie, a stinky beagle/basset hound mutt
Hobbies/Interests: Music, good movies, good reads,sweepstakes
Height: 6'0"
Eye/Hair Color: brown/black
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: June 30, 2005
Starting Weight: 200? (I don't have a scale yet)
Present Weight: 200?
Goal Weight: 150-140?? (looking more toward losing inches!)
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Boredom eating and healthy eating @ work (I must keep lots of fresh fruits and veggies near). Oh, and living in the South where GREASE is KING!! (I'm not classifying chocolate as a hurdle--it's necessary for life)!
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: No more quick fix pills, fast food, or refined starches/carbs/sugars. I know this takes time.
Following any specific plan: Run/walk 4x/week, strength training 2x/week; huge amounts of fresh fruit/veggies; chocolate every day (either fat free pudding-sometimes w/ fruit-or a couple of squares of dark chocolate); 1 indulgence meal/week (usually healthy except for small fries). Also, I keep my food diary @ nutridiary.com-it's a very detailed site.
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Resisting the tasty not good for me food i love, but it's getting easier
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: This time it's easier somehow, i'm more committed and that makes it easier to stick to the plan when i'd rather just eat whatever i want.
Following any specific plan: I use weight watchers to track my food, walk/run 5x per week and do pilates and/or yoga several times per week.
First name: Jenn! Lots of Jenns here, I see. We'll start an army and take over the world one Jenn at a time.
Geographical location: West Coast.
Age: 24
Marital Status: Single
Children: Nada
Occupation: Graphic designer.
Pets: One cat, whom I absolutely adore. Funny, considering I swore to myself I'd never become one of those women, ordering 10 tons of powered milk a year to feed the 800 cats they have roaming around their dimly lit houses in little cat tuxedos and cat cardigan sweaters. But now I totally, TOTALLY am. And that makes me sad for myself. I cry about it a little while I snuggle with Mr. Poo Poo Kitty and pick the lint off his cardigan.
Hobbies/Interests: Music and movies.
Height: 5'2
Eye/Hair Color: blonde/brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: End of December, beginning of January.
Starting Weight: 207
Present Weight: 147
Goal Weight: 130
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: I live with a bunch of skinny people with high metabolisms who buy and eat nothing but crap 98% of the time. Yeah, a fat chick's nightmare, RIGHT? As you can imagine, it's terribly hard to avoid all the treats they stock the house with and fattening left overs from meals I can't touch with a ten foot pole. Although, they've taken it down a notch, thank GOD.
Following any specific plan: Just your basic low calorie/low fat self-made plan. I eat around 1200-1300 calories a day. (Again, I'm 5'2, so that's a good number for me.) I jog/power walk for around 45-50 minutes a day and do free weights.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: My determination, I suppose. The first attempt lasted a mere 2 months before I gained it all back. On this attempt, I've been at it 7 months and going strong with no plans to quit now.