Getting my Life Together While on a journey to happiness

Posts by morgaine

Forum	Topic	Date	Replies

Weight Loss	What made you WANT to lose weight ?	Oct 29 2008 04:11 (UTC)	52
my fiance looking at me in tears after a fight over the whole weight situation, and him saying he missed being able to pick me up, toss me over his shoulder, and play wrestle with me like when we met. and the fact that he wants to be able to carry me away into the distance during our wedding night.... sigh.
Weight Loss	at least 1200/day is BULL!!!!..for most people	Oct 29 2008 03:35 (UTC)	3
ok so i calculated it..and let's see if i got this right. instead of the 1200 that it said I should be eating, i have a BMR (calculated it) of 1615 calories. being 5'2", 175.5lbs, and 20 years old... it means I should be eating a little bit over 400 calories more than I have been? so my body stores that 400 calories for the next day...? ew! no wonder I've been putting on weight instead of losing it. that amounts to almost a weight gain of a pound a week - just for not knowing this. so i naturally burn 1939...to create a 500 deficit i have to burn an extra 176 cals? i hope i didnt do the math wrong ;o;.
Weight Loss	Do you weigh 160-190 and have a goal to loose 20+ pds, Join me in my goal!!!!	Sep 22 2008 03:42 (UTC)	30
Hope it isn't too late to join. I'm back from being here in like 2006, with 175 pounds on me. 5'3", 20, engaged and in college. My name's Jael :) Goal weight of...125-130, I think.. Also extremely sore. I have a trainer (who also happens to be a very close friend) who made me exercise on friday and I'm still feeling it today, and it's sunday. Tomorrow will be back for the same running routine. Ah, the joys of exercise. Trying to work out a way to get my eating habits back to decently healthy.. will tell you tomorrow just how in pain I am after the work out, lol. Night, ladies!
Weight Loss	Final Results Posted Way to go Everyone!! Thanks for the Participation!!	Apr 10 2007 04:19 (UTC)	995
Sign me up!
Motivation	New person after some dieting friends!	Apr 04 2007 19:55 (UTC)	5
Not so much of a newbie, but I've been here for a while and don't know exactly what to do..so I need to lose 30lbs X_x count me in as a dieting buddy!
Foods	Anyone else addicted to Diet Coke?	Apr 04 2007 15:46 (UTC)	27
I hate diet coke D: I love coke, but diet coke makes me want to somehow just like..throw it somewhere. I don't know why, but my tastebuds just somehow tell me that it tastes like alcohol. I'm not a fan of alcohol, so the feeling my tastebuds get from diet coke as being alcoholic (even though I know it doesn't have any in it), just turn me off. I'm an odd one xD on the other hand, I can't go without having a coke D: I've been trying to cut down on it...gaaah.
Recipes	Strawberry Cake: Yum...	Apr 04 2007 15:06 (UTC)	8
30somthing; I believe so. @_@~ But I'm going to try it both with sweetened and unsweetened applesauce.
Motivation	Why are you doing this?	Apr 04 2007 00:15 (UTC)	53
I want to fit back into my cute clothes that I can't wear anymore, because one of my thighs amounts now to almost the whole of my old jeans. I want to stop making up excuses. And feeling bad then at telling my boyfriend I can't go with him to his Fraternity's ball because I hate dresses; when in reality it is because I'm ashamed of how I look and the new stretchmarks on my arms. I want to be active again. I want to be able to go four blocks to the library without feeling winded. I want to lose those love's handles that are getting stretchmarks because my body isn't used to this much weight. I want to not feel ashamed anymore about my body, because it's affecting my relationship. I just want to be the old me.
Motivation	1300 a day????	Apr 03 2007 23:23 (UTC)	7
hug I know about the impossible part. I'm either an over-eater, or under-eater... I think I eat depending on my mood..and so I found out I have to eat 1350 cals a day to lose 1.5 pounds a week by the end of this october D: -- and it sounds sooo difficult. I've managed to get into a habit of having special k for breakfast and dinner, and then a big meal for lunch and some healthy snacks in between to keep me from starving and to bump up my calories a few notches. So far it's been working. @_@~ Now I just have to figure out WHAT else to add so that I can go from 1245 cals to 1350 D:
Fitness	Learn to Run - Who wants to do this with me??	Apr 03 2007 23:18 (UTC)	1,408
ME! I want to! I can't 'run' (as in, half-assed jog) for more than 3 minutes without dying D:
Weight Loss	Personal Milestones!	Apr 03 2007 23:03 (UTC)	2
@_@~ I've decided it's time to actually lose the weight..and I can't do more than 10 crunches without becoming winded. D: Congrats, though! Keep going!
Weight Loss	SO CONFUSED... confusion=frustration=hopelessness	Apr 03 2007 22:59 (UTC)	4
I'm no expert..so don't quote me. But your body seems to have gone into starvation mode. Since you work out so much, your body takes whatever it can get and stores it as fat. And to your body, a measly 700 calories a day isn't enough to keep you going while you're working out 1.5-2 hours nonstop 3 times a week, because it doesn't have a storage large enough to keep you going through the day with both your normal activities (breathing, walking, being able to move) AND your work-outs. From what I've read before, that's what it seems like your body is doing. >.<;; So I'd say, up the Cals a day. A 'sedentary' person needs 1200 calories to keep going... a person as active as you needs a hell of a lot more. I say, try using the engines here to find out your expenditure and allowance per day.. to figure out just how many calories you need to get into your system, and how many you're supposed to burn with all that working out you do @_@~
Weight Loss	Ok this is it; I need to lose! When did you decide?	Mar 30 2007 04:34 (UTC)	32
xD you'd be surprised at how often I feel that way. I really, really want to get better and lose the weight.. I hate feeling like I am about to die if I walk 4 blocks towards the library. @_@~ Problem is.. I'm not really sure where to start! because there's so much info here I want to take it all in at once, then it boggles my mind and I get so confused. I also hate the gym, so the deal of incorporating exercise in is really, really hard for me D:
Weight Loss	Ok this is it; I need to lose! When did you decide?	Mar 30 2007 04:15 (UTC)	34
nnylyma; Wow, congratulations!!! I only have 40 pounds to lose. But me being 5'3", meaning extremely short, I look like a sack of potatoes with those extra 40 pounds D:
Motivation	160 Club	Mar 21 2007 04:24 (UTC)	340
I'll join. I gained 20 pounds... moving me from 146 to 166 D: I need to lose it. But I don't know how to lose it..
Health & Support	Argh stretch marks!	Mar 14 2007 13:57 (UTC)	8
As long as they fade xD I'm just wanting to know if the removal of the excess fat will make them less noticeable x.x.. I'm tan by nature, being hispanic...and so stretchmarks on me look WHITTEEE or extremely red. not a good combo.
Weight Loss	I am down 71 pounds, 49 to go! Had to share. :)	Nov 26 2006 18:26 (UTC)	20
I just looked at your gallery, you look absolutely GORGEOUS! Wow, cute <3 and you're really beautiful too. We're all very proud here <3~~~
Motivation	First and 10, do it again!	Nov 26 2006 17:40 (UTC)	5
omfg.. two questions. How did you do it, and what is it that you do now?
Motivation	I lied..	Nov 26 2006 17:35 (UTC)	7
I met lots of my friends online, I even met my boyfriend online. I now live with him. And he accepts me for who I am. I'm 158 and 5'3". I'm hispanic and he's cauccasian (sp?) but he doesn't mind. I'm 18. he's 27. I'm lazy, he's a former track and field athlete (imagine how in shape he is). But we accept each other. Better to tell him about yourself truthfully, than not. I've met lots of people who've done the same, and they've totally lost my respect for them when I trusted them so much only to find out they weren't who they were after knowing them for over a year. One example is this girl called colleen, who used pictures of this extremely hot girl. And another one called Katy, who did the same. Only to find out both of them were 1. not blonde, 2. not 115 but over 190. It was devastating, not that they were 190 or brunettes.. but that I had trusted them like sisters, had been the most open person in the world, only to find out they were lying about the most basic thing in life: who they were. So I personally tell you... come out clean, tell him. And hope he accepts you. If he loves you, he won't judge you.
Motivation	another girly question... sorry no guys allowed	Nov 26 2006 17:30 (UTC)	8
If I lose ANY weigth from my boobs, I shall cry. They've grown a TINY little bit, and I'm thrilled (I'm a 34B.. now I can fill up a 32C), I don't want to lose thatttt!!
Weight Loss	Mediterranean Diet? Talk to me.	Nov 26 2006 17:13 (UTC)
Holy crap O_O... Thank you sooooo much, Christina! I'm definitely taking all that info and pasting it to my journal. That was the kind of info I had been trying to hunt down all day yesterday ><;; And Shakti and Lunamagae. You guys are right. In my country, it's pretty much the same even though I lived in the caribbean - people bought such things out of necessity, not because it was a 'diet' - canned foods and other random stuff was much more expensive than the one that my country produced by itself - such as brown sugar, whole wheat bread, etc.
Weight Loss	Rookie to the Site!	Nov 23 2006 18:34 (UTC)	9
I'm Jael, welcome Megan. I weight myself from time to time, and I just started here (well I started a long time ago but now I'm going to do this regularly, instead of forgetting about the site altogether [I'm such a bad person, I know]). I'm 5'3" & I started at 148 when I joined...and I even gained weight..a LOT. but that's my own fault for forgetting about the site and my health. So now I'm 158 and going to lose until I'm at 120 :P We can be rookies together!
Motivation	Inspiration comes from many places	Nov 20 2006 02:15 (UTC)	1
Robochels <3~~~ Hang in there. I feel the same way at work, because I'm new, and the administration waits until you've made a mistake to reprimend you about it - and it's unfair because they didn't tell you what you SHOULD or shouldn't do... and then they call you and tell you what you did should not be done again and you didn't even know. But like that Skin Horse said, change happens slowly and it takes guts. It takes guts because only the strong willed, the ones who push themselves, can get over the pain and keep on going. Those who break easily never make it. This is coming from a person who is the most sensitive gal out there. Seriously, I cry because of music, I cry because of TV, I cry because I see my teddy and miss home. I'm the kind of person who at times could go "OOHH SUNSHINE!!" tears... no, seriously, I'm not kidding. Thats why at my little cubicle at work, there's bits of paper that I painted myself with color pencils, and have those quotes written on them, as well as one that reads "patience is a virtue"... and i have a picture of my boyfriend. And every time I feel like saying: "I want to quit, and I don't care if I have to eat ramen and water for a month because I hate this job so much" -- I look at all those things and remind myself that I'm stronger than that. Now I'm trying to remind myself with trying to lose weight that I know better than to just quit. Here's another poem too... that I have in the back of my sketchbook: When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the road you're trudging seems all uphill, and you want to smile, but you have to sigh, when care is pressing you down a bit - Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a fellow turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out. Dont give up though the pace seems slow - You may succeed with another blow. Often the goal is nearer than It seems to a faint and faltering man; Often the struggler has given up When he might have captured the victor's cup; And he learned too late when the night came down, How close he was to the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out. The silver tint in the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, it might be near when it seems afar, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit - Its when things seem worst that you must not quit. - Anonymous I do not remember who wrote it, so I put in anonymous. It was a poem that my friend gave me when she saw me down and depressed over my gaining 30 lbs. (almost 40 now); and I've been blessed to have friends who are supportive of me. I think that my own obstacle in itself is me. Because I know that I'm the one who makes up the excuses. But it only takes me something like that poem, the velveteen rabbit's story, or something inspirational to kick my butt into gear. I had been dealing with not wanting to exercise for weeks. Know what happened when I left that one post there? half an hour later I went for a 2-hour walk. :)
Weight Loss	share your goals for christmas	Nov 19 2006 17:48 (UTC)	5
6 pounds starting tomorrow!
Motivation	Inspiration comes from many places	Nov 19 2006 16:08 (UTC)	5
l find inspiration from many places. i'm a quote junkie, so i have collected several quotes along my short life, here's some: "I often Marvel that while each man loves himself more than anyone else, he sets less value to his own estimate than on the opinion of others" -- Marcus Aurelius The reason while I love this quote is because, it reminds me that - while at times we're all selfish and we are narcissistic to the point of only loving ourselves, we still are more prone to guide our lives by what others say; call it media, call it society, call it your own family. Instead we let others be our judges for what should be good, and are our own worst critics for the bad. -- This other one is one that many have heard of: "The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." -- Lao Tzu. -- And this one comes from a kid's book! *The velveteen Rabbit* - Margery Williams. " For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him. The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real.... Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government. Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse. The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces. He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else. For nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it. "What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." "Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." And the reason why I love, LOVE this excerpt is because... while reading it, it reminded me that some people in this world are so shallow, and everything makes it so that you believe you can be happy if you have the 'something' they sell you in stores, but none of it amounts to happiness. Happiness can come through love, and it doesn't matter how you look, you'll be a real, fullfilled person if you know what love is and means. it inspires change in me, to try and do something for myself not just because of what others say, but because i want change and because I am willing to do it. Even though I STILL have to get over the fright of doing new things, I think these kind of inspirational quotes are what have made it possible for me to even think of living healthy.
Motivation	ARGH!!	Nov 19 2006 15:52 (UTC)	3
futuremrshaifley, i would LOVE to be able to do that. thing is, i am definitely not a morning person, and as it is I have to be up at 5am so i can get to work at 6, which is when my job starts. I get out of work at 2:30 - which should be one reason why I should go to the gym more, but I can't drive so my boyfriend's the one driving me around. he's now in the 'no excuses' mode, so he's bringing me home and we're going to the gym right away tomorrow. let's see how that goes x.x...
Motivation	ARGH!!	Nov 19 2006 07:57 (UTC)	8
Yay! I felt like the youngest kid around here for a while. Glad to know I'm not :P and I'm from the Dominican Republic. I moved to the US four years ago ...so it's been a very bumpy road, not knowing the language when I got here. Thankfully, high school and lots of reading (im a dork) have helped with both writing and speaking it. I've been told my accent is barely there...which i don't believe but whatever :P where's yours from?
Weight Loss	Another one bites the dust!	Jul 16 2006 18:55 (UTC)
does a little happy dance with and throws confetti all over CONGRATS!
Weight Loss	Sex vs. Driving	Jul 16 2006 18:33 (UTC)	9
ROFL!!!!! I almost fell over while laughing at M3lody's post and my mom stared at me weird. WOO GO GIRL! I'll keep it all in mind :P:P
Motivation	Being called fat	Jul 09 2006 00:46 (UTC)	70
I'm told every day....

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