The "Get back on track for good" group

 I'm sure I am not the only one in this situation. I had been maintaing for only a week or so before the holidays and have fallen off the wagon ever since, gaining 3.5 pounds back (i only lost ten, so that's almost half!) So who wants to join me in shedding the excess pounds and getting back down to our maintenance weights (or just back on track to weight loss in general, doesn't have to be maintenance)?! We'll have weekly weigh-ins, but also any time anyone has even the smallest success in regaining control, post it here!

Maintenance weight: 100 lb.

Current weight: 103.5

Goal weight: 100

*small success: they didn't have the low-calorie whole grain cereal at the dining hall this morning, but instead of saying "what the heck" and eating the high-calorie sugary cereal, I grabbed enough fruit to equal the amount of calories in the healthy cereal. :)

sulfyr and krrpt08, of course you can join! weigh-in's are sundays. That's right, that's immediately following friday and saturday :/ all the more motivation to not overdo it on the weekends, right? good luck!

**haven't had a chance for a success yet today, but I'll be back on this afternoon.

hey everyone... im very proud of all of you... small successes adds up to reaching goals! i love the start of a new week. anyways, as i said before i had a pretty bad weekend (i went home for the weekend and there was my mother who is a marvelous cook... enough said.) but anyways, i managed to run 7 miles sunday so hopefully that countered some of the over-eating. and then today was a fresh start! so that is my small success. my goal is to lose at least 4-6 pounds by valentines day... so that means no cheating on the diet front. for some reason its easier for me to stay away all together then just have 'one bite' because that turns into 7 bites... anyways, have a good night everyone and keep on it! 

hey guys ive been doing good =]

small successes: havent overeaten or binged since this group came to existence (although it hasnt been that long, but still) but found enough time to excersize TWICE yay after spending 3 weeks away from it because of school

keep it up with the small successes everyone

good morning!

small successes: I've been sticking with my eating plan since Monday :) the only thing I added yesterday was a couple prunes...

planning on chest/tri's tonight for lifting and maybe 20 minutes of HIIT on my elliptical :)

keep up the great work ladies!!

Hello everyone!

My small success yesterday was that the gym was terribly busy so my elliptical workout was cut short due to an everforming line.  But instead of leaving it at that, i ran outside for an hour (lots of starting and stopping due to traffic and the fact that i'm recovering from surgery)! So all in all, I really worked out much longer and harder than I would have had the gym not been so busy.

And another [very] small success, but still a success at that: i went out with my friends to a movie and it was a little over a half mile away. So i burned a few extra calories than i would have had i just gone to bed.

keep it up guys! Once we get back on track it'll become second nature again ;)

p.s. if anyone has inspiring little one-liners or articles feel free to post them. everything is a help!

*success today: I'm PMSing (sorry if that's too much information!) and craving every salty thing in sight! Usually I crave chocolate, but this month it's definitely salt, butter, and cheese.  Anyway, I opted for the 140 calorie fiber one bar as opposed to the 300 calorie bag of chex mix. I feel the control coming back... :)

goodnight!

hey girls.. and newbies! i hope everyone is having a nice week so far and staying on track :) i didn't have class today and i won't have any tomorrow either.. so i'm just staying comfy at home because it's pretty chilly outside. anyways, today i made myself a bowl of oatmeal with banana slices, raisins, raw nuts and cinnamon powder for breakfast.. hadn't eaten oatmeal in so long i almost forgot how delicious it was!

today's small success: about an hour ago i started getting a really strong urge to go into the kitchen and just pig out. i don't know why.. i ate well today so i figured it was probably out of boredom. anyways, i decided to just eat a fiber bar, drink some water, brush my teeth, take a shower, paint my nails and come in my room with my laptop and listen to music. it worked! i'm not even craving food anymore.. and now i feel better because i'm looking forward to actually enjoying my breakfast tomorrow morning since i won't feel guilty from a night of binging! haha.

oh congrats on the not pigging out or binging =]

thats always a success for me too: either getting out of binge mode or stopping it before it happens.

which i guess is my small success so far. I havent binged or even felt the need to =] even though im stressing so much about exams, and having alot of trouble sleeping (would usually lead me towards binge mode). i love this feeling of control, eating when I want to, but never wanting to eat when i shouldnt anyway.

alyssa, for your cheesy craving you cud melt a piece of cheese (an ounce or so?) and take a miniature spoon and just enjoy it. it lasts longer than just eatng it normally =]

good morning girls! everyone is doing so well!! keep up the great work! all these small success are going to turn into huge results! ;)

small success: I stayed within cals again yesterday and did an hour workout even though I was being super-lazy and tired!

alyssa- another idea for pms cravings could be 100 cal packs! I like to keep those around b/c even though they are all that nutritional, they sure do help the cravings! For you I'd say find the orville redenbacker 100 cal packs of popcorn.. then you could  even sprinkle a little bit of cheese on it, too!

morning! I'm so proud of everyone! I think our weigh-ins sunday will be pleasant haha. ohohcherri, that's some major self control I'm impressed ;)

As for my salt, butter and cheese cravings. I do indeed have the orville 100 calorie pack popcorns, thank heavens. I have to admit, once all the popped kernels are gone, I suck on the unpopped ones just for the salt! Hey, at least I don't pop another bag, right?

*today's planned success: I was going to make today a splurge day (using the excuse that it keeps my metabolism up) because my aunt is making dinner and then i'm going over to a friend's house to watch the office so there will be lots of treats there. But after getting on here, I've lost the urge to splurge! So my success will be not splurging today. I'll make frequent updates (moreso because I get on here to resist the cravings so I'll be mindlessly blogging i'm sure haha).

Good luck everyone! let's have another successful day!

hey everyone! good posts this week!

My small success for today: Last night was my roomates birthday, so some girls made a cake (the funfetti kind with chocolate frosting...) well i have of course been in and out of the kitchen and have not had one bite, not even a nibble! im very proud because i am pretty much in love with dessert. so im staying on track and sadly, studying all night. 

anyways, just thought id share, ill be back sooon :) 

huuge failure yesterday. I binged. probably like 3500 calories. i stopped even counting though. Honestly, I really don't feel that bad. My goal weight was 100 lbs. and I weighed myself yesterday (even though weigh-ins aren't for a couple days) and was 99 lbs. So...whatever. I'm doing a double workout today just so I don't go over that 100 mark. Gonna need motivation though. Sorry I let everyone down :( don't be like me! haha.

oh can I please join? I gained 5 pounds over the holidays :( I was doing great at maintaining and then BOOM the holidays came and my willpower went out the window! So now I want to get serious, I want to eat clean more often and step up my workouts.

Maintenance weight: 128

Current Weight: 133

Goal weight 128

Small success: last night I was CRAVING chocolate so bad because I am PMSing at the moment. But instead of chocolate I made a half cup of oatmeal with Better N Peanutbutter, ate it, read my book, and went to sleep. baby steps! :)

ugh... no small successes yesterday.. no major downfalls either.. I just feel like I could eat and eat and not care. Not sure what is wrong with me lately. I'm doing killer workouts and all that, but lately, all I want to do is eat! ttom was here and gone about 2 weeks ago, so it's not that... not sure what the deal is. I just had a blueberry muffin and I was about to get a reese cup ON TOP of that.. I just want to lose 5 lbs but my eating habits are making it impossible.. I'm so sad

alyssa- wtg on getting back to 100! just get back on track today :) you can only go one day at a time :) I'm in the same boat! but, we can do this!!! just need to muster up some willpower and determination :)

jenalee- I'm with you on the 5lb gain... Eating clean is a goal of mine also.. it's not even that hard for me, I just crave the unclean garbage constantly... ugh...

jinderbitzen- how did you do that!!!??? I would have been like, it's okay, one bite won't hurt, I probably need the calories anyways.. somehow would have talked my way into it.. how did you avoid it! I need your willpower girl!!! what an awesome job you did!

Stacy- one great thing that I did last night was that I picked up an Oxygen magazine from my local RiteAid. It has AMAZING ideas/recipes/menus for eating clean and the workout routines are great because it keeps you from getting bored.

krrpt- yeah, one day at a time! the hard thing is that I"m an all or nothing type of person and i'm fighting the urge to restrict severely today. i got on the scale this morning (shouldn't have i know) and it was up to 104.5. Gonna get back on tomorrow once I've flushed my system with water and healthy food and see what it says because I know 104.5 isn't realistic, but it still sucks ya know?

the funny thing is, i don't feel all that bad about it. like i said, i'm an all or nothing person and as long as i can resist that temptation most of the time and say no completely to sweets, etc (can't do moderation) one day a week of splurging won't kill me. I just need to keep it to a lower number than 3500! lol

hope everyone else is doing well and I plan to get back on here with at least one success today!

dont let the binge get you down!!

my success: i was feeling like i was almost gonna go into binge-mode today because i was all alone, and so i called up a friend who took me out to the hardrock cafe. food there wasnt all great, but hey eating crappy with someone is better than binging miserably alone =]

* I opted for the 100 calorie protein bar instead of the 280 one.

hey laides! thanks for all your support :) I really appreciate it!!!

I'm realizing that I'm actually quite happy with my body.. just want to lower the trace amounts of fat.. I like having a full bottom! lol! Never thought I'd say that.. lol.. but I'm going to focus more on eating healthy and exercising than worrying about the scale going down..

my small success yesterday was that I REALLY wanted to be lazy and do nothing, but I dragged my full bottom to the elliptical and pumped out a 30 minute workout.. then I was lazy ;)

My new food plan is going to be eating a main dish and a side at all meals (ie, oatmeal w/a side of coffee for B, sandwich with a side of veggies for L, and meat with a side of veggies for D) then plan on two pieces of fruit for snacks throughout the day and if I want to snack on the weekends, follow the three-bite rule.. this is going to be tough for me!!! wish me luck!!! :D also, if I feel hungrier than normal, I'll just add a small salad :)

keep up the FANTASTIC efforts girls! these small successes are actually quite huge in the long run!

hey guys glad to hear your plan krrpt... sounds very reasonable to me! because it is the weekend i am trying really hard to keep to my regular weekly meals because i think that will help my weight loss. good luck through the weekend and just remember... nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.. :)