I joined yesterday and so far I love it I never thought of making excursive as a date I think it is a very good idea so I will not think as it as a burden. I joined weight watchers about 3 months ago lost 12 pounds but I think I could have done better have a friend in the gym she has lost a lot and it is killing me my husband say I look grate but I don’t think so. I will be 28 in august and will love to loss at lest half my size.

p.s.

I made the hot ham and cheese sandwich from the food menu for my husband and myself for lunch today it was fantastic and only 5 points for those of you that are on weight watchers.

yolanda2tt

Hello all!

I have posted before but it has been a while. Again I am in search of a buddy I'm not picky I'm just looking for someone who can understand my struggle's and my hopes and dreams and someone who will let me be there also for them. Ill tell you a little about myself....

My name is Viana I go by Vi for short, I am 27 years and am and have always been overweight since puberity. I was in a long term relationship untill I found out my boyfriend was cheating on me and looking for other ladies to spend time with. After I found out and talked to him about it he moved out and said he did not love me and needed his space. Fastforward 3 months and here I am. I am still struggling on getting over him he was the man I wanted to marry little did I know he was a complete fake. I joined a gym right after he left and 2 months latter I desided I was going to change mylife and start going to the gym and eating healthy. My goal is to take off 155lbs after 4 weeks of hard work im only down 11lbs I am not seeing the results like I have hoped and am becoming very discouraged I have turned to the one person I figured would always be there for me (my sister) and she flat out told me I will alway be fat so live with it.

So it brings me to here and now I am is desprate need of a buddy, a friend someone that can kick my butt into gear and make me see what I need to see. I despertly do not want to give up however I am feeling I cant go on like what is it worth.. I work 10 hrs a day then go to the gym for 1 hour and 45 min and only have droped 11lbs. and am seeing no results

Thank you for the time
Viana

Hi Everyone!

I really need a buddy or 2 or 5 to motivate me! I will be the first one to admit that I am lazy, well I wouldn't say lazy, but the more I gain the more I hurt and the less I feel like exercising!

Between my husband and myself we have a total of 6 kids. 5 are boys! They are all involved in sports. The oldest moved away to college (Long Beach) but the 4 younger ones and my daughter are all very active. My daughter's car broke down so I drive her to and from work, I am so glad that summer is here my schedule is a little less hectic w/the kids out of school! But the boys all play sports so I am constantly on the go because my husband commutes so he can't help out!

I work but I work a lot from home so that I am available for our kids. I am lucky to have a job that I can do this. But it has also made it hard for me to meet people we have only lived here for 2 years but I have not made 1 good friend. My life is so involved with the kids I don't get to many chances to do adult things. We have all of our kids week on week off. So one week we have all of them and the next week they are at their other parents, except for my daughter, she does not go to her dads with her brothers.

Anyway I joined Curves about a year ago, but I do not go anymore. Don't ge me wrong, I loved it. The problem was they were never open when I have free time.

I have gained so much weight over the past couple of years that I do not even recognize myself in pictures anymore! I am so embarassed it has dropped my self confidence to below zero. Since I am self employeed ( I am a Loan Officer) I have to get out there to meet people, but I am so embarassed I don't even try! As of today I weigh 214 I have never weighed this much in my entire life! The heaviest I have ever been is 179 and that was when I was in labor with my daughter who is my first born and is now 18.

I have tried slim fast, ww, ......... I only last a little while on them and then something happens and BOOM I stop doing it.

So anyway I really want to lose the weight. My husband and I would like to go to Hawaii for our 6 year anniversary in February if I can get the money saved but I can not go like this! My goal is to get down to 125 - 135 again. Even my sex drive is suffering from this.

I need daily motivation and I am hoping that this forum will help. I would love to find some buddies that are even close to me so that we may possibly get together which would really help me!I am even open to exchanging phone numbers and e-mails so that we can stay in contact!

Please I really need the help with this!

Thanks for listening,
Annette

OHMOMOF3, I just sent you a private message. go to the top of your page where it says private messages thats where you can check it. Hope this helps.

Annenette-HUGS to you. We are here for you! I know what you mean about Curves. I wish my location was open EARLY in the am-but it’s not. Instead of Curves what about a water aerobics class-local gyms, or the Y might have them. I went to some in NY and I really liked it. Do you have time in your day to do a tape at home? Walk Away the Pounds is great. Ahh…you’re a loan officer…….we were trying to get a mortgage for the house we are renting…but the payment would have been much higher than our rent and I don’t think we can swing that right now.

VI-WELCOME! :wave And to your sister-a kick in the butt! Hey 11 lbs. is AWESOME!!! You are probably losing inches! Have you changed your eating habits? Are you drinking water? I’ve read in a MAYO clinic article that you should drink ½ your weight in ounces---for example I’m at 280—ahh---I should be drinking 140 ounces of water a day. I’m not up to that---but I do try to drink at least 64ounces. Do you have a trainer at the gym? What do you do for an 1hr and 45 min.? (I didn’t always like going to a gym-ex Bally and ex Women’s Gym member). I had a doctor who once told me that ½ pound a week was good. Remember…you don’t want to come off too fast. We’ll be your buddy!

Yolanda-Make your date? It’s nice to meet ya! I’ve always put exercise off. Like it was a chore (I still think that at times). I know from my past weight loss experiences that I was successful when I exercised and ate right. I have a lot of exercise tapes/dvds and I recently joined Curves. I really don’t have any excuses to not exercise—except my laziness! I might have to cancel my date on Saturday. My husband is trying to reschedule our church directory photo so we can go to the beach (west coast). Although I can swim. My son will spend HOURS in the gulf! LOL. WHERE did you get a food menu from? I haven’t discovered everything on this site yet. I told dh it was like ediets-except you don’t get meal plans and it’s free! Oh yeah…I was a member of ediets from 2000-2004(half the time I didn’t even use the site when I was on a downward slope).

Kathy-That’s great on the 130. SO it really can be done? That gives me hope! Did your husband go with you? That’s great that he is going. My husband does support my efforts. He has done Walk Away the Pounds with me and I think Richard Simmons. He’d kill me if he knew I confessed that! LOL. He doesn’t really need to lose weight-just tone up. He has gained weight since we meet-but he was a skinny thing. Instead I’ve gained 100! ARGGG.

I didn’t mean to confuse you with the terms-I get confused too! It is nice having the summers off. I worked summer school last year. I’ve moved from FL to NY during one summer and then from NY to FL during another one. Oh…had my son during one also! I usually do training or inservices. I only have one week this year. I will be moving…packing mostly. I really wanted to be settled by the beginning of school-but I’m not sure. I hate moving, yet I do it a lot……one day we’ll get our own house! I will be doing lessons and planning-which I won’t get paid for. No work in the summer-no pay! I think many people think we get paid in the summer…not the case. I only get a paycheck because I had my salary extend for 12 months instead of 10. Last year I didn’t do that……hence why I worked summer school.

I dunno know what happened-I tried to make names bigger, different fonts, smiles.......oh I am so tech NOT.

I'm going out to dinner with one my coworkers. We are going to the Olive Garden so I'll look online to see what I can eat.

I forgot about my date....so I might meet my husband at my exercise "date" so I can cut off 15min. I'll need to be back home by 5 in order to get ready. AHHHH!!!!!

Have a super day everyone. I'm going to hang out around my house. I have housework to do.

Have an awesome day everyone!

Again...welcome to you newbies.

GOALS.....GOALS.....GOALS.....GOALS.......for the WEEKEND
What are your healthy lifestyle goals for the weekend? Post what you are going to do-or that you intend to do....then come back and post how you did!


Friday-exercise, eat right, drink at least 100ouncs of water!
Saturday-no beach-then exercise, eat right, drink water--if beach--pack healthy snacks and water. Do as much leg and arm exercises in the water as possible**try to swim like a real person.
Sunday-Pilates tape and ab tape....have a nice healthy dinner.
Think only good thoughts...and get my dates scheduled for next week and my meals....be prepared!

Debsturn~ Thank you for your response I have changed my eating habits extreamily and have not fallen off the wagon as of yet, I am eating 3 meals aday with 2 healthy snacks usual fruit or vegies. I am totaly pushing water I was always drinking soda but I have stopped that and am drinking around 160oz of water a day no caffeen(sp) no sugar no fried foods nothing like that Ive been keeping track of my food in my diet/food notebook of cal's and fat Im also taking trimspa and apple cider vinegar (just started). At the gym I do have a trainer and she seems happy with what im doing, I do 1 hour of cardo that consists of 30min on treadmill, 30 min on bike and 30 on Eplical(sp) the stairclimber/glider thingy..lol Then I do around 40 to 45 min on the weight michines (so dont know the names) then I do around 15min of floor excersises like crunches and bottom lifts. Ive been working so darn hard but i feel like its worth nothing. And as for my sister I think she is jealous that I am finally starting to do something about my weight and she is not at the point yet.

When I started this new way of life I weighed in at 285.5lbs my heavyest ever as of this morning at 7:00am I weighed (naked) 269.00 I know that is down 16.5lbs but I phically dont see a change when will this happen??? when will others (besides my family who know im on a diet) start to say somthing....

Well Im trying to hang on for dear life here and Im trying so hard not to give up...

Thanks for your time

Viana

Deb: Thanks for the words of encouragement! I think you have one of the greatest jobs in the world! Teachers are WAY underpaid as far as I am concerned! As for my exercise program (or lack of one I should say ) I have problems with my neck and bone spurs in my back so I have to be very careful what I do. I live in a very small hick town (we just got Starbucks about a year ago!) I am thinking of seeing if one of the local gyms here has a pool so that I can do water arobics! I will keep you all posted!

Vi: WOW you have my respect! You are really trying and you probably don't see the changes but remember you are building muscle at the same time. So I bet pretty soon you are going to start feeling little muscles! Keep up the great work. I only wish I had that type of willpower. I am lazy I tend to come up with every excuse in the book not to do something!

I have a hard time sticking to a diet. I also have SEVERE migraines and I take 3 different prevention medications every night, I think that has a lot to do with my weight gaing (besides that middle age thing).

Well this weekend I have a very busy schedule I have 2 double headers Saturday with our boys so I will be at the baseball field probably from 9:30 am until around 8:00 pm. The one good thing is that there is no snackbar at this field! My neice and nephew are also flying in from South Dakota for the summer (my brother is in the military and he is divorced so the kids come here first then he comes and gets them) and of course Sunday is Fathers Day. My kids are going to their dads for the day (except for my daughter she chose not to go with her brothers to her dads house she wants to go with us instead, she is 18 so her dad can't really say anything, besides he didn't even invite her in his plans anyway) so the rest of my clan (my 3 stepsons, hubby, daughter and me) will be heading to San Francisco for the day. I think that we are going to the zoo. I haven't been to that zoon in years and the walking will be great for me (I think I will wear my pedometor so I can see how much I walked).

I plan on going grocery shopping this weekend, I have been reading up on all the different diets and I kind of like the southbeach one. But I think that I am going to just kind of make up my own. A little from each one. Part of my problem is I usually don't eat breakfast and sometimes I skip lunch too, so this is what is storing my fat! Well when I go shopping this weekend I plan on getting quick healthy things that I can eat. Plus I am drinking green tea at least 3 times a day right now since I read an article that this helps lose the weight! We shall see! I plan on going full steam come Monday! I am changing companies next week and I hoping that this will also help me get motivated!

Plus all of your support I should be ready to take on the world! I hope all of you have an awesome weekend!

Annette

Hello ladies

Sounds like we have a great bunch of people to use for support here. Thank goodness!

My day has been kinda sucky. Woke up late, tried to iron my shirt but the iron leaked rusty water on it , didn't eat breakfast because we're out of milk and I won't eat anything but cereal (childish I know... whatever! LOL), wore a short sleeved shirt to work and it's cold and rainy,work geeks were invaded my office, and I did sales calls with a big jerk.

BUT, now I've eaten my lunch, work geeks are gone, hubby brought me a sweatshirt, this is my last day of work here (I think), and it's Friday!

Tomorrow is my free day and I think I'm going to eat a chocolate muffin and mounds of pasta.

I did my 2 miles of walk/jogging last night and even though it's a little chilly I'm going to do it again today. I'll be glad when I have this extra 50 lbs of fat gone so running will be easier!

Have a great day guys!
Kathy

Kathy-sorry to hear about your day—you said it was your last day…..are you getting a different job? Awesome on your 2 mile walk! YOU GO GIRL!!!!

Annette-thanks for the comment about teachers. One of my students made a statement last year that he couldn’t believe I make less money than a garbage man. I said yes, I do. It is hard work. I sometimes wonder if I could get another job with less responsibility. The NCLB law and FCAT-I find myself wondering when does the fun come back into teaching! WOW on all the kids at your house. Family seems like it is very important to you.---changing companies? Work companies? Good luck with finding the water aerobics class. I’ve also looked for aquatic centers in the towns near me.

VI-wow 16 lbs. in 4 weeks is great-that’s 4 pounds a week. Are they taking your measurements at the gym? I bet you are losing inches! Have you been to your dr.? I’m not in the medical field at all so I’m just asking…have you had your thyroid checked? I have hypothyroidism (sp) and it makes losing weight so hard! It runs in my family-I developed after my son was born. Sweetie you are doing great---and hey I’ll take the 269! As for your sister-yes, she could be jealous of you-don’t let that interfere with your goals. You are doing this for YOU-not your ex, not your family-but for YOU! Also, changing your habits and taking it off slowly is the best thing. It’s hard when you hear someone say-I lost 20 lbs. in 4 weeks---but is what they were eating realistic? You keep at it—you are doing great!!!

Well we didn’t go to the beach. Instead we are going to go to the pool. My husband hasn’t been there yet. Then we are going to the $.50 movie theatre to see Kicking and Screaming. I have some things to clean up and I should probably start packing! AHHH!!

I hope everyone has a great Saturday! Enjoy!


Debs

Wow...seems like I have found what I'm looking for. I need a group that understands this is a constant battle for me, at least now at this point in my life.

Anyone else need a buddy?

PHEW! What a weekend! I am so tired after all the running around I did that it's bedtime at 9pm for this girl.

Mojjo, we're all here for you as a group. No need for just one buddy here Welcome.

Friday evening I went and did my 2 miles at the track like normal. Then I was back at it Saturday morning. Except instead of jogging the last 100 yards I did walking lunges. Holy crap that hurt... and still does!!! I took hubby to lunch for Fathers day then did some cleaning. Around 4 in the afternoon my hubby, myself and our neighbor went dirt bike riding for about 3 hours, and that my friends is a tough workout! But incredibly fun! Today we decided to take it easy and go for a little hike. Yeah right. We went to the nearby mountains and hiked about 1 1/2 miles up a hill, then 1 1/2 miles back down. My legs were screaming the whole time because of yesterday's abuse. I just got done playing with my dogs for 45 minutes outside. Now I am resting my butt doing nothing and it feels good

My one small victory this weekend. We were going to Coldstone Creamery to get some ice cream and I decided not to get any. Yeah for me!

How did everyone else do this weekend? Do anything fun? Have any small/big victories.

Debs, did you keep your dates? Oh, and about my job. I am going to go to training starting in August to be an insurance agent and I want to take some time off before I start, but because of finances *dang it* I'll need to stay at my current job a couple of more weeks then I'll take most of July off to do nothing.

Take it easy ladies,
Kathy

Welcome Mojjo!

Kathy-whew girl my legs hurt just listening to your adventures. That's awesome that you are getting so much exercise and including hubby!


Quick post-I didn't do formal exercise on Sat. or Sun.-but I did swim at the pool.l I tried to do some "moves". I'm going to Curves tonight!


I'm going to spend time this week packing....plus I have to go into work on Tuesday and Wednesday (only for 3 hours each day-but yuck...work )

Cleaning today and some shopping....

talk to you guys later!

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!

Good Monday to all in the group!

I want to thank everyone who have given me support, just when I was about to give up you all came threw and saved my life thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Well my weekend was pretty good, I like everyday went to the gym and worked my butt off.lol Its kinda strange I weight myself one moment im down 16 then the next im up 10 I just dont get the scale thing its driving me nuts Anyway I finally got up the nerve to measure me again and from May 31st to Yesterday June 19th My "gut" went from a 55" to 49" not sure if that is good or not but Hopefully alot more will come off. I have started taking Apple Cyder pills and Maybe they are working not sure, In highschool I was told I had a theryoid problem however I dont any more (thats what the dr said)

On the topic of my sister she is still being a pain in my backside, she still has not said one positive thing about what im doing It really breaks myheart.

Today has made this new way of life 5 weeks this is the longest I have been on a diet so maybe I can do it....

Hope you all have a great day!!!

Thanks again
Viana

VI,
That's not good.... it's fantastic! A 6" loss in size is a great accomplishment, don't doubt yourself. Prove your sister wrong, you won't always be overweight and you're now on your way to show her you CAN do it!

I'm still sore today, so I might have to take a day off to rest. (phew) But I'll be back at it tomorrow.

Have a great date with curves tonight Debs!

TTYL ladies!!
Kathy