The NEW Getting out of the 170's thread
 

There was a very slow-moving 170's thread in the 100 Pound Club and another thread a tiny bit livelier in the 30-somethings forum. But a few of the 170's fit neither category, so it was suggested that we all meet out here in the general weight loss support area so no one feels like they don't belong.

So, calling all 170's!

Today I weighed in at 174.6. Halfway there! I wanna be out of the 170's by Christmas.

How about you?

shr1nk1ngme - Good to see you here! Glad you opened a new thread, I hope it's a hit and that everyone finds it. I just simply love the idea of working through these 'decades' together with support for one another. <3

I would love to be out of the 170's TOMORROW. But I know that's not going to happen. I weighed in this morning at 178.4 which is one pound down from yesterday (yay) I am hoping tomorrow is pretty for me, too. I woke up this morning with my TOM so I wasn't thinking my scale would be happy with me this morning even though I stayed on plan for my diet yesterday. And it was :] I guess I need to stay positive. I am hoping for something good tomorrow morning.

My biggest problem is I get let down and disappointed when the scale doesn't budge LOWER than before. :| I just got to learn to keep at it.

shr1nk1ngme thanks again :) I PM'd a moderator so we shall see what happens with the old threads. I also put this link at the end of the old threads.

Danielle I did the same thing. I hit 178.6 TOM arrived. I was on plan and today 177.6. I feel a little more bloated than yesterday and I had more carbs than yesterday. I made some chili that was supposed to be low carb but those beans are a killer regardless. :) I use to get disappointed by the scale but I have truly learned that tomorrow is another day to get it right. So I just hope for better the next day :hug:

Hope we all have lower numbers tomorrow :crossed:

Rennie - Good luck on the scale tomorrow, I'll let you all know how my morning goes. I am hoping I have a lower number tomorrow, too but we shall see. I keep trying to make myself wake up early in the morning to walk on the treadmill but am unsure if this week will be that kind of a week. :|

Thanks Danielle and back at cha' :crossed: I know what you mean … with TOM the scale is quite unpredictable :D

shr1nkingme, I just re-read your post. WOW 174 you go girl :high: You will definitely be out of here by Christmas :high: I'm so jealous … no I'm not, yeah I am :D but I'm happy for you also … Keep up the good work :)

I don't know. I just got back from a my Spanish class party at a Mexican restaurant. I ordered a vegetarian salad and they put greasy fried onions and fried green peppers all over it. Who puts greasy fried stuff all over a salad? Ugh! I really only ate about half of it, but it wasn't on plan and now I have no good way to calculate the calories/carbs. In my software I entered a half cup each of onions and bell peppers along with a tablespoon of butter. Hopefully that at least approximates what I ate tonight.

Now I have to modify the rest of my food today to compensate. And I was so looking forward to indulging in a diet cocoa, but now I think I will pass. :(

Oh I'll join you guys! I'm hovering between high 170s and low 180s right now and the 170s are my nemesis. I'm dying to be back in the 160s.

Hello everyone!!! I'll be joining you guys today as well :) after a long brutal battle with the 180's i weighed in at 178.6 today, as ive been in the 170's for two days in a row so im officially moving in here,,,, i hope the 170's are not as cruel as the 180's were,,, i battled some major craving issues and made some bad food choices in the 180's... good luck to us all!!!

Exactly the same as you :-) 174.6 this morning.

Though even if I'd manage to be out of the 170's by Christmas, I'll most definitely be back after Christmas. My body can put on water weight like a huge sponge. I mean, I could even be back at 180's after Christmas! That's how much water weight I can carry :-)

I'm hoping that I'll be in the 160's by January 1st and stay there. I was in 160's last year for a short while, but haven't been able to stay there for prolonged time in years, so 170's is where I keep gaining and losing. So getting out of the 170's and staying out would be the first true achievement for me (when it comes to managing weight that is :-))

I was thinking today that I would love to be out of the 170's by New years. I haven't seen the 160's in a very long time.

Welcome aboard everyone, so happy to see everyone joining in here! YAY!

This morning I surprisingly weighed in at 177.6, I am hoping I keep going down this week, but I think that's the problem with weighing daily. O.O You always have a few days where you get disappointed, but just got to keep on track! (thats me trying to motivate myself, haha)

The 170s are so frickin' tough. I have been bouncing out of the 160s back into the 170s for months. I wanna stay in the 160s. And I am going to b!tch about it here until I do!

Welcome Ian, we will totally listen to your complaining about it. I can't wait to get down to the 160's, so I hear ya!

shr1nk1ngme I'm sorry about the salad and the grease, hopefully your weigh in today will be good despite that. And at lease you added it in the best you could. You tried :hug: Do you like Coke Zero? No sodium or anything there. I prefer Pepsi Max but if all they have is Coke Zero I'll get it … that's when I want a soda which is not very often. Let us know what the scale said :crossed: for a good weigh in :)

gymrat :welcome: to the thread … I've been in the 170's only since Sunday, (I hope) I am safely here for awhile no more 180's. :)

hamlette I'm right here with ya' hoping to not have the same issues I had in the 180's either :) We can do this :high: no more 180's :goodluck: to you also :)

SparklyBunny :welcome: to the thread. I got down to 165 on 9/27/10 and have not seen that number since. So like you I would love to get out of here but I know it won't be by January. For one I'm not disciplined enough for that but I am going to try to stick around here through the holiday for sure :) We can do it, no more 180's :high:

Danielle motivate away, whatever works :hug: we're the same weight now. Let that be your motivation (that's what I use to do with the people I started on 3FC with). I would try to keep up and go beyond what a member or more were and I did well with that moivation until I got to 165 then I think I got too comfortable with the way I looked and decided I could eat what I want, not so of course and look at me now :) How long do you think it will take to get to 169? Are you counting calories? exercising? Let's see if we can set a goal together.

ok no change in weight today 177.6 I really want to see 175 and I think I will really feel like I'm in the 170's. Anything about that just seems to close to 180 and I'm afraid of the bounce back. Danielle, I'm waiting on you … :D

Ian :welcome: to the thread :) Diana is the GREATEST isn't she. :) oh and Sum also :)

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Welcome everyone. So nice to see some new peeps in the 170's with us!

I weighed in at 173.6 this morning. Keep sending those happy thoughts my way, I think they are working! :coolsnow:

At least now I know a little bit of fried onion and peppers on a salad doesn't always hurt. ... And yes, I had my diet cocoa anyway! :coffee2:

I weighed in this afternoon at 181.2. Granted, I'm feeling bloaty and it *was* the afternoon...and I'm sleep deprived because I'm in exams right now...

But still, I'm mopey. Lol.

shr1nk1ngme - I am so happy for you to get lower, but we will miss you here! I'll have to rush my way out of the 170's so I can join you in the 160's thread next! :] I hope your salad was yummy AND also your diet cocoa. :]

Rennie - Hi! I actually really really like that idea! We can each be a motivator to one another. I am really hoping to be atleast 170 by new years - but I'm unsure if I am going to have the discipline enough to do that. We shall see. When do you think you'll be around 169?
I am not exactly counting calories - I read Dolvett Quince's book "3121 diet" (the trainer on "The Biggest Loser) it's new, and he kind of lays out how you should plan your meals and even gives you examples of meal plans for 21 days and some of his recipes that he recommends, etc. But basically he lays out how to choose smart protein, smart carbs and smart fibers to eat per meal and also the best part about it is that it includes two cheat days in the week. (which I am hoping I don't go too crazy. Tomorrow is my first official cheat day - I just started monday!) It goes 3 clean days, 1 cheat day, 2 clean days and 1 cheat day. I am planning on going to bagel world for lunch and am also planning on bringing myself some veggies for a side instead of chips, but will also be eating my bagel sandwich prob for lunch & dinner along with a salad at dinner. Instead of eating a bag of chips and the full bagel sandwich for lunch and just eating way too much (oh yeah and NO soda!) He also has his own workout that he wants you to follow - but I have a very hard time with it. It hurtsssss, and I know thats a good thing, but OW. I hate squats and lunges so badly. So as of right now I don't exactly have exercises in plan but yesterday I did do my treadmill half-heartedly for 25 to 30 minutes, and the night before I did a weird dance routine for 30ish minutes. :\ What about you? What do you do for exercise?

Right now I'm participating in the '21 day challenge' which is to continue one thing for 21 days straight. And my challenge is drinking at LEAST 90oz of water a day.. today is day 3... man is that hard! Do you have a hard time getting enough oz of water in?

Also totally know how you feel about not really feeling there until you hit 175... I'm there with you! I am hoping this goes fast before I lose my motivation.
:wave: Hi to everyone else out here, too! :hug:

I think I'll jump in as part of the "b!tch about the 160s" segment of this thread.

I struggled with 170s and got out and am holding steady at about 164, but I would like to move on to b!tching about the 150s now.

Edit: oh hi censoring, let me adjust the cursing better.

shr1nk1ngme you are shrinking :D :yay: you :high:

gymrat get your water in and flush that bloatedness <--- is that a word, :shrug: flush it away :)

Danielle, I think it will take a ton of discipline for ME to get to 169. I did it before (got to 165) by walking 3 miles a day and eating right. I drank only water ate 6 meals a day and I did it in 3.5 months. That was 3 years ago and I didn't know I was diabetic. My church does a fast at the beginning of the year and last year I gave up bread, rice, potatoes, junk and sweets. I have already done thata with the way I am eating now except I'll have my first cheat day on Saturday. Your plan sounds good keep us posted as to how it goes. I don't know if I could eat a whole bagel. I think it would cause me to binge. I'm gonna do healthy toast with breakfast, probably a snack bag of chips with lunch and a burrito with a low carb tortilla on my cheat day. So it still shouldn't be too bad. Oh and a half slice of my bosses pound cake :drool: I'll whine on Sunday and pick myself back up on Monday :D We were going to the gym faithfully but we haven't been this week yet. Hoping to go tomorrow. I only walk on the treadmill. I'm trying to do 5-6 miles in an hour, right now I only make it to 4. I know if we would consistantly go I could do it eventually :). I don't like squats or crunches which is what I need to do for sure. I am good about my water when I'm home. When I have to go out it doesn't happen. I mainly drink water so it's not a problem for me. A 20oz soda will last me 3 days (my kids usually get to it before I finish) they always say it's been in the fridge too long :D. I just started drinking green tea again, thanks to a friend on another thread. I don't know if it helps or not but it's a change. We're gonna do this and hopefully move on together. :hug:

I'm hopping in from the 30-somethings thread. 177.2 today! only a 0.2 pound loss this week. Still, better than nothing. We had a cookie swap party on Saturday and I'm sure that had something to do with it. My goal is to get to 174 before the end of the year so I can do a happy dance for being out of the obese BMI range and into the overweight. I am starting week 3 of Ripped in 30 tonight and I think it's still very possible to lose the 3 pounds yet this year.

Hi Lucas, Nice NSV :) good job on the loose jeans :high: I'm right there with ya :) What are your stats? If you don't mind sharing.

gretel I'm right here with ya. My goal is to get to 175/174 by Christmas or the New Year. Idk which one I just want to be well into the 170's not the high end of the decade. I'm going to the gym today and I usually have a good drop after a brisk 4 mile walk so that should give me a good start. We can do this :)

weigh in today 177.4

I know, right? Who invented those? None of my social groups has started up a Christmas cookie exchange, thank God. I'd have to decline and they would probably think I was being rude. But come on, they can't really expect me to bake a million cookies and sample theirs if I am trying to lose 70 pounds, can they? Ugh.

This was the way to do a calorie conscious cookie swap though. There were 8 participants and we each brought 2 dozen cookies. So we got like 3 cookies from each person. It was amazing!

I just wanted to say that all I did was walk on my treadmill for 2.25 miles last night and this morning when I did my weigh in I was down to 176, I am inching closer to the 175.. what I really want to see is 174, then I'll feel even better.. heck to see 170 would be real nice! ;] my whole weight loss struggle so far has basically been in the 170's... when I stepped on the scale back in September and I was 181 thats when I started, then I weighed myself a little more recently after my sprained ankle and was 184 I was like "you've got to be kidding me" because I always told myself I'd never be in the 180's and it was a heartbreak, and thats when I knew I had to make some serious changes for the better. So as you all can imagine, and as you are all probably experiencing too, I just can't wait to be out of the 170's and I really hope I don't get like you were Rennie and feel comfortable with how I look at 160 and then end up losing my motivation [I only say this because I can see this happening to me, too]. I really think me getting in atleast 90oz of water is what is being a major contributor to this whole thing right about now, and that just gives me more motivation to drink it up! <3

It'll only get better once I get serious about exercising more and everything.

Today is my first 'cheat' day on my new diet I started this week. I am hoping for a good outcome tomorrow, and still a little nervous. :| We will see, hope you all are doing well here in the 170's!!

Danielle stay positive, you'll be fine :hug:

Well I'm not necessarily being negative or not positive I'm just speaking how I feel/see. ;] I am staying positive in the fact that I'm keeping it up... but if I was to honestly be negative that would mean I'd be so down in the dumps and I wouldn't be keeping it up, that's for sure. I'd be right back to square one. I can't wait to physically see a difference. Tonight I need to do measurements so I know where I am in the 'beginning' of my weight loss journey.

For lunch I had some steamfresh snap peas and my half of my delicious bagel world sandwich - I am looking forward to tonight's half for dinner with my salad :D

Aww, Danielle, so sorry you are struggling! Once you start to see a difference it will give you the oomph you need to stay on track, but waiting for that first little taste of success, whether you are just starting, whether you are starting back up, or breaking through a plateau, can be sooo hard. Hang in there. It will come. :hug:

Danielle, I'm sorry I didn't mean it to sound like you were being negative. But I know how easy it is to get discouraged on these journeys, we can talk ourselves into things also and one small derailment can lead to a gain that totally throws us off. I'll be more careful with my words.

I need to take my measurements also. I keep forgetting and when I don't get enough sleep for some reason I have in my mind that they won't be right. But I really want to see because I know there is a change.

shr1nkingme hope you had a good day :)

Been stuck in the 170's for a year
 

Hello! Long time lurker, first time poster. I maintained this past year at around 173, then in October slowly inched up to a high of 178, got up the initiative to try to lose again, and weighed in today at 170.4. If I see the 160's by New Years I will be SO happy! I changed my eating strategy and focus on getting more protein and am eating frozen steamed veggies and spinach (better than before - no veggies, lol). Tracking in MFP.

Trying to be more active to lift my spirits! The holidays can be tricky for me. Will keep y'all in the loop! Good luck to everyone! :carrot:

I "officially" weigh in on Mondays. It's not like I have a ceremony or anything, but that's when I write down the current situation in my spreadsheet :-) Anyway, I did step on the scale this morning, and the current high protein diet seems to be doing wonders. I was at 172.4lbs.

I'm really skeptical about me going through the 170's this fast though (I started at 180.2 on Nov 25th). Obviously there's a lot of water weight, so I'll be back the moment I eat a carb. I'm just thinking that if the 170's are this "easy", then the 160's are probably going to be a pain.

I have been going back and forth in the 170's and I think my setpoint is somewhere in the upper end of 170's. So my body will probably want to drift back there if I don't pay attention. Then again, I'm doing my 6 month project, so I will be consciously working on my body composition. Hopefully the setpoint will be lower after that as well. Not that I actually really care about what I weigh, but I do want to fit in the same clothes for a few years after reaching my goal :-)

:welcome: to the thread Gwendolyn … you'll be out of here in a blink. :)

SparklyBunny nice weigh in :)

weigh in this morning down .6 to 176.8

With my cheat day yesterday I ended up weighing in this morning at 176.8, I'm still really happy about this. I only gained .8lbs and that's with the yummy stuff I ate and also with no exercise! <3 I am pretty positive.. the only thing I'm kind of in a slump about is just trying to get myself into some kind of workout routine. :|

I definitely agree - I think I keep putting off taking my measurements because I mean really, how embarrassing is that to do? But I have to do it so that I know and I can see the progress that way - eeeh. This weekend it'll have to be done!

P.S Rennie we're at the same amount again :P Funny!!

Sparklybunny - Congrats on your amazing weigh-in! I have tried in the past to weigh in only once a week, but I find myself weighing in everyday and so far it's getting me motivated to keep eating right as I'm seeing the numbers go down.

Gwendolyn - Welcome, so happy to have you here with us! Look forward to supporting you even though it looks like you won't be on this thread very long because I am sure you'll be getting down to the 160's very soon. :] Your plan sounds good! The frozen steamed veggies are so convienant :D

ok I took my measurements awhile back not sure when exactly but I think it was in July since that is the sheet in my bathroom that it is recorded on with June. My measurements are down a bit from that time …

41.5 - 37.0 ~~~~~~ 2 inches above belly button (waist?) -4.5
48.0 - 45.5 ~~~~~~ hips -2.5
37.0 - 34.0 ~~~~~~ under breast -3.0

:yay: Danielle :) my cheat day is tomorrow and I so don't want to blow it with a pound or two gain :crossed: you did great :)

Weighed in at 181.2 today. Exactly the same as last week. (Don't kick me ouuuuut...*Cries*).

Anyway, I'm bloated this week and I know it and I have been super stressed out. Hoping things will resolve by next week. Tonight I'm having wine.

Hi there! I'm new (again) here! I went to the doctors a few days ago and was 178! I haven't been in the 170s since highschool! And I can't remember the last time I was under 172 so I'm really looking forward to this! :)

175.2 this morning. ??? !!! ???

I am getting soooo frustrated this week. I have been 100% on plan and I am suddenly stalled. I am still in the induction phase this go-around and only in my third week of weight loss. I didn't think it was possible to have a week long stall in the third week.

To remedy this, I am adding JUDDD (a type of intermittent fasting) into the mix starting with a DD today. I will be giving JUDDD about two/three weeks and if it doesn't work, I will have to try an Atkins Fat Fast. Ugh. I was really looking forward to some hefty success at the beginning to sustain me when things leveled off in three months. Not three WEEKS. Grrrr.

gymrat bloats go away thank goodness so you'll be back in the 170's in a couple of days :)

RedSavvy welcome :)

shr1nk1ngme sorry about the stall :hug: Best of luck with your new plans. Where did you get your avatar and your signature ladies from? I'd like to see what that looks like for me.

I used model my diet dot com.

@shr1nk1ngme: I did Lyle McDonald's Rapid Fat Loss 1,5 years ago and actually did phenomenally well. It still was incredibly gruesome diet where I basically ate around 700kcal every day of mostly protein with trace amounts of fat and carbs. There was a structured refeed as well, but the point is that it was a very tough diet with very rapid results. Still, like clockwork, every month (I did this for several weeks) I would stall 1,5weeks. I mean I was on a very, very strict plan and the weight would not change *at all* for 1,5 weeks. I pressed on and then learned that that's just what happened to me during certain time of the month. It wasn't during my period or just before it, but it was just something that made my body to hold onto water for a while. Every month.

So, it's perfectly possible to be stuck for a week after just three weeks. The slightly ironic twist is that stressing about it will make your body hold onto water even more. So relax :-)