Posts by needtorun2

don't be discouraged!  i had a horrible weekend as far as food goes!  had a wedding, went out for dinner a few times, drank a little bit, was too tired to workout...it happens.  i think its pretty much impossible to commit 100% to weight loss and still lead a normal life.

i think your emphasis should be on the fact that you are getting healthier.  you said you can run farther, lift more weight, and are eating breakfast every morning.  those are definitely accomplishments to be proud of!

i have a bad tendency to diet hardcore and work out tons for like 2 weeks and lose 3 pounds then in the next few weeks i get sick of dieting and working out and i gain it all back.

if you are eating healthy when you can, working out when you can, and still maintaining an active social life then don't worry if the weight loss is slow.  even if it takes you a year to lose 10 pounds that is probably 10 pounds that you will never see again because you are losing in a sustainable manner!:)

allibee you have impressive numbers every week! you must be working incredibly hard!

any tips/secrets to share with the rest of us?

i always get a little bit off track on the weekends. it happens.

i'm 133 this week...one pound:)

you have had incredible weekly weigh ins allibee!!!

i'm down 2 pounds this week..134! i'm really excited about this!

my boyfriend has started jogging with me a few nights each week which is awesome because he never complains about how slow i run but we're a little bit competitive so it pushes me to run that extra 5 minutes.  last night we ran for over an hour without stopping!!:)

i totally get what you mean.  i do it more day-to-day than weekly though.  like some people eat exactly 1300 calories/day regardless of how much activity they do.  my job is different everyday so some days i can be sitting at a computer for 8 hours, while other days i'm literally running around for 8 hours.  also some days i go for a 45 minute run while other days i don't work out at all.  i just try to maintain a 500-800 calorie deficit each day, and then that gives me some room to indulge a little bit on weekends.

eek that's a tough one!  as much as i say i want any guy i've ever dated to be happy, it always sucks when you see them happily moved on with another woman.  i'm sure you're a stronger person for it though.

best of luck!

i like gin with club soda and a wedge of lime.

i also kind of created my own whiskey sour recipe.  i made a sort of homemade lemonade with water, lemon juice and splenda (im sure any of those calorie-free sugar substitutes would work)

pretty much any un-flavoured clear alcohol mixed with either diet pop or low calorie juice like Crystal Light is probably your best bet.

i have also heard about people doing this but i have never tried it myself:

taking a can of diet pop (i feel like orange pop or cream soda would be good for this) and freezing the pop and eating it as a frozen treat/popsicle.  i'm assuming you would have to pour the pop into an open container first to avoid an explosion disaster.  this definitely lacks any sort of nutritional value but it would be calorie-free if done with diet pop!

congrats one 1 pound allibee!  better than nothing right?

(by the way this is amy as in the old soccerlover2)- and oprah would say i kind of well of the banwagon and i'm back to my original weight so instead of changing all my information with my old account i just deleted it as i felt the need to start fresh.

Weight: 136

back to square one:(.  not completely devastated though.  i'm really bad for eating very very little for 2 weeks and losing like 4 pounds, and then gaining it all back the following two weeks by bingeing.  i'm trying to find a balance where i'm still losing weight but not depriving myself to the point where i can only continue with the diet for 2 weeks.  i've set some more realistic goals where i'm losing weight more slowly and therefore not starving myself over short periods of time. 

slow and stead wins the race right?