All those still interested in losing 100 lbs join me.

Hey everyone.  Thanks for making the transition over here.  We have to stick together and stay strong.  Bathing suit season and smoldering hot temps are on their way and we wanna look even steamier.  I encourage everyone to still post their weight loss when they weigh in but I'm not going to make it a challenge or a goal for us.  We just want to congratulate your on your triumphant success.  Good luck!

Well I'm up a little bit from last week. But I know it's just water retention. I worked my muscles more than usual and that's what happens. This is when we go by other things than what the wicked scale says on it's digital dial...wicked, evil machine.  LOL! Oh well...my mother always said it's what's on the inside that counts. Know what? She's right!

ka2007, back on track. good for you.  Hang in there you can do it.  Pancha8,Stephs idea, either put vac. or unknown and don't worry about those days. just start up fresh and go from here.  you are doing great, just take it one day at a time. that is what I have to do.  I also have tried to look at the reasons for my emotional eating and am trying to replace bad habits with good habits. not a new idea, but good idea.  If I feel like and emotional eating jag is coming on I try to get myself busy on computer, walk some or something else until it passes. I know that I will have those days when I lapse but if I do the best I can and have more good days than bad then I know I will be better off than I was when I started.  stephtobea9, yes the swimming really does it for me and good that it is paying off for you also. you can burn so many calories in water with little or not impact and I love the water anyway.  even if you don't swim laps you can do cross country(like a skiet with arms up and brings legs and arms back and forth) on the hump that goes from shallow to deep end( looking back at shallow end) this is very low impact. if there is steps in pool you can do step up step down ( this comes after  building up for a while. I haven't progressed to that yet. ) even with no impact and the toys I bought for pool I burn tons of calories. It doesn't have to be difficult to burn calories. you can do lunges forward leg lift side leg lift back also. anything that moves arms and legs. I do crunches by floating on back and using abdominal bracing then bring my knees in and out.  I can do 50-100 in the pool where I can only do 10 on land. still it does the same amt of workout and you don't get the impact like on land. anyone could do these even in a shallow pool. as long as  there is enough water to float.      Hope everybody's week is off to a good start.   penny

thank you penny for the words of encouragement.  I want to report that i did good all day yesterday till dinner. went to sizzlers with my daughter.  ate the salad bar.  well not the whole bar, he!he! I ate a little more then normal.  not to to bad.  i stopped myself when i felt i was getting out of control.  goood advise about replacing bad habits with good ones. i think stopping myself is a new thing.  and reconizing the out of control feeling is something new too, and my williness to stop.  my emotions are so out of control right now and i know why and what is cousing my "craziness" . another good thing, to know why and what is cousing this emotional eating fit.  ok talk later. 

here's kind of a left field thought i've been mulling over... about who we are aside from what we have, accomplishments, surroundings, etc.

I love watching many of the  reality shows but Survivor is an interesting one. Aside from the gameplay aspect of it, they really are out there with just them (plus camera crew I suppose). And one of the men from the last one was saying how it's so hard to stay on top of yourself mentally because you're out of your element and have nothing there that defines you. It's just you yourself to share with others and think through things alone.

You don't have your standby relaxing tv shows, your mom or husband or other confidante, hot showers, cup of coffee, sweets to stuff in your mouth.. what have you .. those regular stress-relievers aren't there.  You also don't have your personal style of clothing, makeup, music, jewelry, books, Bible, etc. It makes you think about who you really are without all the "fluff" of decoration, convenience, and surroundings.

On a much different level it's made me think about the *loss* of not having food for a run-to standby. Not being able to eat whatever whenever is so much more than just hunger. It's literally kind of just knocked me on my feet and is forcing me to learn ways to deal with stressful situations, anger, frustration, and sadness.

I'm still really just realizing how this is an addiction and life-changing for me in many ways. And I wasn't even overweight until I was 20! I'm 31 now. It's been my standby Old Faithful for my entire marriage and as a mother. It's interesting how I'm truly having to change. At least I know the benefits and that this is worth it all.

just thinking outloud .......

Well, I have been bouncing around at 230-232lbs.  I just can't seem to get below the 230 mark!  It's really starting to frustrate me.  I'm eating right & excersizing,  I just don't understand why it won't drop.  I was thinking about how I had lost a bunch of weight before...I only ate one meal a day & drank water the rest of the day.  I don't want to resort to that, I know it's not healthy by any means & I was very depressed going through my divorce at the time.  But, why is it that it was the only time I was able to lose weight?  Why did my body need to be starved to lose weight?

Stephtobea9, that really makes sense & that is something I am needing to work on.  Thanks for posting that!

I'm no diet expert but just a few thoughts...

On the last Biggest Loser (sorry to reference shows again, lol) one of the girls wasn't losing weight quickly or even reasonably and it turned out that she had a thyroid or hormone issue.. maybe one in the same. By the time they realized the problem of her sluggish weightloss despite all the hard work and eating right, it was too late for her to lose the weight and stay on the show because she dropped below the line and was a threat. It was quite unfair for her but at least they figured it out.

SO maybe that's an issue with you?

For me, and maybe you've done this already .. but I would change up my diet/exercise routine to see if it helped instead of doing a once a day eating regimen. If not already.. try counting calories and rotating every 4th-5th day with an extra 400 calories. This can help keep your body from getting into too much of a routine or thinking it's in starvation mode and slowing down your metabolism to help conserve fat. 

Exercise differently. Do more, or more intensely, or just something different. I'm sure you're already drinking lots of water, but make sure a vitamin is taken at least 3-4x/wk if not daily, also.

Just some ideas...

I saw that episode, I thought it was unfair too. 

I have been tested for thyroid trouble but am only on the border...just under needing medication for it.  My mother did have an enlarged thyroid & took medicine for it and she ate like a large man & never gained any weight.  It has been quite a few years since I was tested, I guess it wouldn't hurt to get tested again.

I also, have changed my routine a little bit to see if it would help & after I did I lost 2 pounds right away but it keeps sneaking back & forth.

Thanks for the reply, I think I will set up an appointment with my doctor for that test again and then go from there.  Thanks again!

laurienkids2,  Be sure to get to the dr. and have the thyroid checked, sometimes it can change rather quickly. Mine popped up out of nowhere at about 26 yrs old, about the same time my blood pressure got out of control ( and I was only 195 lbs then).  If you are on the border you should have it checked at least every year anyway, along with most of the other routine blood work. This is a good idea for all of us. I have to get tested every 6  months for thyroid ( been on meds for years but has changed 3 or 4 times over the years), diabetes, ( runs in both sides of my family) liver funct ( had fatty liver disease since I was morbidly obese-- they believe it has corrected itself now after 55 lbs lost)  I take cholesterol meds so they have to keep up on the liver funct. for that.  I know we as women tend to put ourselves on back burner.  I need to get pap and mammo. oh joy!!!!!  take care 

stephtobea9 you have a lot of good points there. I had talked about some things along that line in my journal. I am trying to figure out the reason for my stress eating, happy eating and just eating when I am bored. Also trying to find me again. You see I lost my mother only a month and a half after I married my husband, we had known each other 6 months. I moved to a new place, different home, quit my job and lost my mom ( not to mention the getting married all within a 2 month period.) It was quite a trying time. Trying to find "my new identity as a married woman", I kind of lost me there somewhere. Not just because of getting married, but losing mom, who I was so close to. I also quit dancing, my favorite pass time and really the only exercise I did.  Hubby doesn't like to dance at all... Also losing many family members and close friends in the last 14 yrs has taken it's toll on me culminating in losing my sister.  Then the back went out and surgery and all. I decided that if I ever got out of pain, or it lessened I was going to change my life. Not just in memory of my sister but for me.  I guess I am lucky I am from the old school even though I am only 41.  if all the fluff were gone and it were my hubby and me in a cabin in montana I think I could be happy.  I might miss the convinences but they are not what defines me.  I was talking in my journal tonight about how getting bargains makes me happier than getting an expensive item.  I buy my sunglasses at the just a buck store, for yes a dollar ( with uva and uvb protection-- I have several pairs of foster grants). probably 8 pr of sunglasses.( and I get compliments on them too and asked where did you get those."just a buck store"  people look at me funny.   I am glad I grew up in the era I did. I am glad I was raised in a small town and learned the value of a dollar.  just rambling there...     If anyone would like to add me as a friend feel free.  I don't know if all of you know it but if you journal and you have added friends then you can read each others journals and comment.  It has been really nice to do that.  I just found out  how to do it a while back.     anyway feel free to add me if you want.   penny

I have had a good week, 1 lb. loss, I had hoped for 2 lbs a week but I have not accomplished that and have decided if i can maintain 1 lb per week the weight will be gone.  I am not putting in enough effort to loss 2 lbs a week but I am building a new life style, I am making the right choice's.  Last night my daughter and I were on our way home from a trip and we stopped about a hour and half from home for dinner.  It was about 8:00pm and we were hungry.  I ordered baby back ribs, chose the broccoli for the side instead of the potato.  I did order warm bread with the salad and had 2 pieces.  I do not eat bread normally but seemed to go with the garden salad.  I had eaten very light all day.  I brought half the ribs home as there were way to many.  I am happy with the way I handled the dinner out. OUT is my main problem.  We will have another covered dish supper this weekend and that will be another challenge but I will deal with it.  I must continue my life and have a healthy relationship with food.  It has controlled me most of my life.  I was a chunky youngster, a overweight teenager and most of my adult life overweight.  Food has controlled me, but now I am in control.  stephtobea9  good post about your thoughts.  I gain so much from reading this tread and others journals because I can relate to so much.  CW 208    SW 224  GW 150

 Well, it's my Monday weigh-in day. I'm thinking about changing my Day because it's depressing to see that somehow from Sat or Sun I always gain a lb or 1/2 lb back! What's with that??? Either way.. I'm down 2 lbs to 225 this week.

I've come so far, really, but it's hard for me to realize it, too. It's kind of surreal, I guess. Sometimes I forget I was ever overweight as if I'm not right now. And I know in a way when I'm back to a normal weight again that it'll all have been a kind of dream, but I've grown accustomed to how people treat overweight women vs. being regular size. There's definately a difference. Now that I'm thinning down, people open doors for more, they look me in the eye or say hello more, especially men. Men near my age or younger would seem to just all out avoid talking to me as if they were concerned others might think they were actually with me. Not everyone, of course, but too many to say I wasn't just being paranoid. I had several just vicious comments and tauntings that I'll never forget. People can be so mean without provocation, just out of pure delight in hurting others.

But people that I haven't seen in a while are starting to notice that I've lost weight, and many are surprised to hear that I just had a baby almost 5 months ago. I've never taken compliments well, even before I became overweight, not from friends or strangers anyway. I can handle family compliments okay, lol. I'm weird. It's kind of funny in a weird way but have you ever just not known what to say so you just stared at someone? LOL  I had that experience with one friend because she sees me at Walmart and is just wide-eyed. Now I have to mention that my friend has gained a lot of weight since high school, is only about 5'1" and probably around a size 32 or 30. At my worst shape I got up to a 24. So when she says, "Wow, what have you been doing? You're smaller than me now!" I was kind of dumbfounded. I even had to ask my husband when I got home... "Was I bigger than her?" And he just looked at me like I was nuts saying "nooooo". Well, it isn't the size that's the big deal, but the fact that she must not realize how big she's gotten. In an effort of friendship and *not* hurting her, and possibly being a hypocrit of wanting to come to realization of what I'd done to my own body..... I won't be the one to point it out. She's a happy person so I'll just let her be happy! :)

Okay.. enough senseless rambling. I'm glad people are starting to notice, but my reactions I'll have to work on and plan out! What do you say when someone says "You look like you've lost a lot of weight!" "Thank you" sounds kind of strange to reply to that! ANd "I have.. I've been working out .." blah blah blah sounds to informative, lol. I mean, they're stating to obvious.

Well, anyway. I'm not a size 6 or anything :) lol 

Monday would be a bad day for me to weigh in because I'm usually not as good with eating habits on the weekend. And I tend to forget to drink enough water on the weekends too so alot of my gain would just be water weight. I guess if that's the day you always weigh in it would be consistantly the same. I went to weighing in on Sundays myself. Not sure why...but so far I am usually happy with what I see so I'm stickin to it.

Steph...you are so right about the way people treat each other. Obese people are always looked down on and snubbed...and I hate it. I don't think I was ever that way but I guess it's possible I did it without thinking. It's a response and a kind of "i'm better than you are" mentality thin people have a lot of times. And to be fair it might be a response to the way we as overweight people have to thin folks too. I can only speak for myself but when your 100+ pounds overweight you don't feel good about yourself I don't care who you are. And when you feel that way your less confident and tend to not look people in the eye yourself. It only makes it worse when thin people...(who don't like what they see in you cause it could be them 10 years down the road)...are unkind or ignore or heaven forbid make fun. It's a huge circle of events that takes place and I'm sure a psychologist would have great fun analyzing the cause and effects of obesity.  Oh well...I guess we only have control over our own response to things like this in life. The rest I'll leave to God.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Stephtobea9, I am totally with you on how other treat overweight people.  The thing that has been said to me that irritates me so much is "you have such a pretty face" I know that should be taken as a compliment, but I know that it also means that the rest of me isn't so pretty.  But, what can we do?  I don't take compliments very easy either.

My official weigh in day is on Friday because I like to see (hopefully) a drop in weight before the weekend damage and in turn have a nice weekend.   But, for some reason, I thought I needed to weigh in this morning and I was really pleased that I did, I lost another pound!!!  I finally made it below 230, maybe only by 1 pound, but I did it!!!!  That just made my Monday so much brighter!

I hope everyone else is having a good week so far.

 

Yay laurie! I'm so happy for you!! You've been begging for that for weeks now lol

I'm late to this group but I hope its OK to join.

I need to lose at least 100 pounds and have set my goal at 50 and will go from there.

I'm 43 and weigh 402. I knew it was high, but when I saw it flash at me on the digital scale it really hit me.

I lost the love of my life becuase of my weight and the related problems, and using that as a form of motivation.

I have no clue how this site works and still feeling my way around, but hopefully this place will be the cornerstone of my efforts.

Thanks

Sorry y'all. I kinda disappeared. I had to find a new job start a new job quit my old job which is what I'll be doing today.  Good news at my new that I started on Tuesday they are health freaks! woot woot!!! no one is heavy and I for sure don't want to be the one that sticks out like a sore thumb so already I'm eating healthier and eating less.  My music is starting to really take off. woot woot!!! So all in all even though I still have a gimungous amount of weight to lose I'm doin great.  Mentally I'm at a much happier place which really does help. yes!  Hope you all are doing great.  I'm tryin to keep up.

Jer

Yes, steph, I have been begging for that!  What a relief to finally see it on the scale!

We've missed you Jerichocheyenne!  But what great news to come back to!  Congrats to you!  It will definitely make this weight loss journey easier for you to be surrounded by health freaks! lol  Good luck to you!  Are you a singer or something?  You said your music is really starting to take off.

welcome Rickj :)

I'm another newcomer with 100 pounds to lose.  My current weight is somewhere around 250 (scale says 245 but I am sure it must be higher, and the scale is old) and I want to get down to 150ish.  I remember being 150, about 10 years ago, and I looked and felt great.  That's still my mental image of myself, and I want to reconnect it with reality!

To be honest though the weight isn't the important thing.  I just want to look the way I looked 10 years ago, and be able to swim and run and hike and feel invigorated again instead of exhausted. So it's clothing sizes and health that I really care about, I guess.

I've got some long standing bad habits (it's scary how far back they go when I think about it - I was hoarding chocolate bars in my room all the way back in grade 8! That was almost 15 years ago!) and I think that's going to be the hardest part by far. 

Look forward to getting to know you all. I'm always happy to get some tips from those who have been doing this with success!

Hi everyone. hope things are going well for all of you.  Welcome rickj64, sounds like you are ready to do this.  Remember with the exercise it is baby steps first and be sure to get checked out by your dr. first.  Very important.  Getting a handle on the calorie intake and portion size was the most important thing I did.   If the love of you life left because of your weight then then maybe they were not the right person for you. One who truly loves you will stand beside you through thick and through thin.( that is very hard to find nowadays).  Just jump in with your thoughts, questions, suggestions or comments, we are all friends here.   Jericho, missed you alot. Glad to see you again.  Good for you about the new job.  The eating healthier and eating less is what it is all about. Glad you are happier.  You never did say are you a singer have a band??  I hope eveyrone is having a wonderful weekend. I know you all are looking forward to the big 4th holiday.  Hubby is working and I will be over at mother in laws for about 6 days. her sitter will be taking off then.......  welcome bonne-vivante we share another thread in common.  You can never have to many CC buddies.........