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| Motivation | Cheering and Motivating each other to a healthy BMI Club. ( Join me) | May 18 2007 11:13 (UTC) |
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| lynjustlose56: I'm not terribly religious, but I do consider myself to be spiritual. ^^ We're all sharing our hope with each other, and to me, a hope is a prayer, just in different wording. Anyway, the universe is out to help us, 'cause the Creator made it all. No reason to fear, and every reason to have faith that we can do it! ^^ Progress already! Must have lost some water weight, too, but maybe some real weight as well! Height: 5'10" Weight: 204.4! BMI: 29.3 |
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| Motivation | Cheering and Motivating each other to a healthy BMI Club. ( Join me) | May 14 2007 16:14 (UTC) |
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| YNM, Baby. Woohoo! Here's my info: jochan1977 Height: 5'10" Weight: 208 BMI (29.8) MONTHLY WEIGHT LOSS GOAL-- 3-5lbs, depending on how much muscle I put on. (Daily deficit goal: 500-750 kcal). I'm in! |
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| Motivation | Clean Eating Challenge | May 12 2007 14:03 (UTC) |
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I'm in. I'm restarting (again) today, May 12. Current weight: 208.4, size 18 Goal: Healthy, smaller, stronger, and a bit lighter; size 12/14. Edit: to receive reply notification. Edit #2: Clarification: I'm restarting my DIET today, but I'm just now JOINING the challenge. |
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| Weight Loss | what size at what weight? | Apr 12 2007 17:09 (UTC) |
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| Just an update: I'm right above 200 (203 as of this morning, but my trend is 201) and I'm in 16s now. :) 5'10"ish, medium build, large t-shirts (old navy) are fitting better, xl t-shirts getting too big. med t-shirts still riding up (I just *had* to try that today... *sigh*) It's still progress. -10 lbs since Feb 22: -5.1% of body weight, goal -19.8%! |
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| Weight Loss | friday weigh in | Mar 23 2007 23:33 (UTC) |
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| Restart date: 22 Feb, 209 lbs., size 18 Today: 202.0 lbs. and size 16 (most!) :) |
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| Weight Loss | How many calories do you eat a day? | Mar 20 2007 01:49 (UTC) |
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| Hi, fun poll :) Age: 29 Height: 5'10" Weight: 202 Goal: 170 Cals burned: 2100 (sedentary) Cal goal: 1600 w/ variations Deficit: 500-800 cals. I've been losing around 1-1.5 lbs per week since 22-Feb with this. Varying workouts when I work out, etc. |
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| Motivation | Fighting a bad craving | Mar 20 2007 01:14 (UTC) |
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| Good job! Something that helps me kick cravings is drinking either 1) a big glass of water or 2) a cup of tea (no sugar, etc). Another thing, when I'm really craving chocolate in particular: I get a really good, really dark (moderately pricey) chocolate bar which I call my "medicinal chocolate". I have a small square with a cup of coffee or tea, or skim milk if I can budget the cals. A small square of really dark (at least 70%) chocolate is rarely even 50 cals, and it kills the craving without getting my sugar craving going, which is definitely a Good Thing (tm). |
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| Weight Loss | I can't do this! | Mar 20 2007 01:04 (UTC) |
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| How are your clothes fitting? I'm not able to right now, but last summer I tried to lose weight with exercise (water aerobics, 4-5x per week) and I found, although I didn't lose very much weight, my clothes were fitting more loosely. Since you said you're exercising a lot, I thought that might be something to consider. |
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| Motivation | NEW DRESS ALERT! | Mar 15 2007 12:26 (UTC) |
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| Motivation | i want to be a plus size model | Mar 15 2007 12:24 (UTC) |
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| I worry about one thing here: that you're insecure about your weight, and you're hoping modeling will fix it. In my experience, basing my self esteem on someone else's opinion is a temporary fix at best, and actually harmful at worst. I'm 5'10" and currently just getting back into a size 16. I had tried to lose weight before, thinking I'd be happier with myself if I were thinner, and you know what? It didn't work. I got discouraged easily, and sabotaged myself, and gained more weight. It wasn't until I accepted the fact that I had gotten as big as I had, and that my weight wasn't a reflection of my value as a human being, but rather an indicator of health, that I started making progress. In short: I had to take care of the self esteem issue first. Reading posts around here helped; spending my time with loving, accepting people helped; concentrating on my health instead of my weight helped. If you want to be a plus size model and a good example to girls, I think that's fantastic! But taking your self esteem with you, instead of expecting to find it in the modeling industry, is a much better recipe for success and your ultimate happiness. Best, Jo |
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| Weight Loss | what size at what weight? | Mar 11 2007 15:07 (UTC) |
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| yay jem599! I'm hoping for something like that... except that all my 16s are slacks and all the 18s (current size, but they're baggy) are jeans. Not much chance I'd mess that up in the dark. ;) But maybe the switch from 14 to 16 could 'surprise' me like that. *grin* | |||
| Weight Loss | friday weigh in | Mar 09 2007 11:52 (UTC) |
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| It's been a while since I did the Friday weigh in, but... Today is 203.4! A new low! :) I've set a short term goal of 200 by April 1, and I have the feeling I just might make it, maybe even before that. =D |
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| Weight Loss | sweetners are bad!! | Mar 08 2007 17:04 (UTC) |
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| Only one thing:
When aspartame is put in a hot drink, I think something happens to it (NOT HARMFUL TO YOU) that just makes it turn bitter. I've ruined more frou-frou coffee drinks by asking for sugar free syrup before asking if the syrup was made with aspartame or not. Personally, using fake sweeteners for me just contributes to my sweet tooth -- keeping sweets a regular part of my diet instead of being an occasional treat. My 2¢. |
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| Weight Loss | What works for me. What works for you? | Mar 08 2007 16:56 (UTC) |
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Most of my focus right now is on what my intake consists of: I'm concentrating on buying/eating whole, locally produced foods, and limiting processed anything. I've done the "exercise to lose weight" but that only kept me at maintenance (NOT a bad thing, considering the alternative) so I know I have to count calories too. I'm exercising to relieve stress and improve cardiovascular fitness, not to lose weight. |
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| Weight Loss | I've hit a new low! Goal #2 done | Mar 08 2007 16:35 (UTC) |
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| Congratulations, notasbigasbigtwinkytwinky! I'm close to my first small goal (-10 lbs) so yay for everybody! :) | |||
| Weight Loss | what size at what weight? | Mar 07 2007 20:21 (UTC) |
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| asamp300, I know what you mean! My "recommended weight" is 150 lbs, (okay, 140-160) but I believe that I would be way too skinny at 150 if I were also physically fit.
Example: I have been @ 175 twice -- not fit size 14+, fit size 12-. So, instead of going by what "they say" I "should" weigh, I'm gradually losing until I feel healthy. End of story. :) If I were to lose a full 65 lbs., I feel like (now) that I'd have to cut off a limb or three. ;) Losing 40 lbs I can imagine, 5 lbs. at a time. :) |
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| Weight Loss | what size at what weight? | Mar 05 2007 22:36 (UTC) |
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| beckab00, I have noticed that it takes losing a lot more weight to drop a size once I get into the larger sizes. I could lose 10 lbs and go from a 12 to a 10, but once I have lost almost 10lbs from my high weight (where the 18s fit perfectly) and I'm nowhere near back into the 16s. Also: as I posted above, fitness level matters. Do some sort of exercise that tones your torso (yoga, water aerobics) and your body will tighten up, making losing sizes faster. I really need to get back into water aerobics... |
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| Weight Loss | what size at what weight? | Mar 05 2007 21:52 (UTC) |
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This varies so much depending on how active I am. Let me just give you the timeline, so you can see what I mean. I'm 5'9.5" or so, medium build and turning 30 this year (2007). 1995 (18) Too skinny in HS 127 lbs, size 8 (but trying to wear 6s) 1999 (22) Gained to normal 154 lbs, size 10/12 2003 (26) Secretary 177 lbs, size 14/16 (depressed about it) 2005 (28) Student Abroad 178 lbs, size 10/12 (walking everywhere) 2006 (29) Sedentary again 212 lbs, size 18 (biggest ever) 2007 (29.5) Getting healthier 204 lbs, size 18- (not back into 16s yet) Know where I want to be? 178 and 10/12. My goal is to get back to where I was when I got back from my year of study abroad. I'm much healthier than I was even in high school but I'm still bigger than I want to be. My goal is 170 by Christmas, with intermediary goals of -5 lbs every month. :) EDIT: these are all pants sizes. My shirt sizes (M/L) didn't change much until these last 40 lbs, wherein they shifted to L/XL. |
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| Health & Support | what is 'healthy' and 'normal'? | Mar 02 2007 19:16 (UTC) |
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Thanks for this post, infinitewords. I definitely need to think about this fairly often. :) I noticed you talked about binging on snacks and junk food, and I have had this problem myself. I think the least difficult way to stop binging is to not start in on something I know I can eat a lot of. My personal downfall is candy -- chocolatey, chewy or bite-size. Plus, there's a candy dish in the office where I work -- it's hard to avoid. In order to stem off that desire for sweet, I try to take a piece of fruit, like a pear or an apple, and eat that for a snack in the midmorning or afternoon. If the fruit is ripe and sweet, it often calms (and sometimes overwhelms!) my desire for sweet things, which makes it much easier to not have that first piece of candy. If you like salty/crunchy things better, I'd recommend taking cheese and crackers (real, full fat cheese, whole wheat or other whole grain crackers) for a snack: a piece of cheese the size of an eraser (the pink kind you get for art class) and a few crackers (or apple slices, or baby carrots) can really kick any hunger pangs / food cravings. When I choose my foods, I think about this: Eat food. This means real food -- the less is done to it, the better. If I can't identify more than one item in the ingredients list as an actual food, I don't need to eat it. Mostly plants. I'm trying to think of meat as side dishes and vegetables as the main course. I never ate enough fresh veggies and fruits, so this is a challenge to me. Of course, they have to be as close to fresh as possible (baked potato over fries, whole fruits over juice, etc.). The fiber in all this stuff helps you feel full (I'd feel more full after eating an orange than after the same amount of orange juice) so if I eat healthful foods then I'm less likely to eat other stuff/more stuff. (There's another section of this, "Less of it", that goes in the middle for me, because I'm finished growing, not pregnant, and my BMI is on the high side of healthy. I'm not going into that here, because you're still growing.) Also: Remember that because you're still growing, fluctuations in your weight are normal. I agree with whomever suggested forgetting the numbers. If you eat mostly real food, your body will tell you how much you need to eat (it'll tell you you're full when you're full, etc.) |
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| Foods | Negative Calories: Do they really exist? | Feb 25 2007 17:07 (UTC) |
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| I don't think that works, really. I mean, you have a number of calories you burn just by being alive (at whatever activity level) so the calories it takes to burn your food would be included in that already, I'd think. In my experience: anything that makes a claim, probably doesn't work. Eating apples, etc, is not a bad thing though! They're definitely healthier than processed junk! |
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| Weight Loss | friday weigh in | Feb 23 2007 13:36 (UTC) |
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| Got off the bandwagon for a while, but I'm back on as of Tuesday of this week. Original starting weight (Oct): 211.8 Today's weight: 208.0 Goals: 170 by Christmas, -5 lbs (or more) by Apr 1 |
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| Weight Loss | 900 kcal and I don't loose any more weight!!!! arghhh | Feb 22 2007 13:18 (UTC) |
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| Be aware too, that if your body is in starvation mode, you may gain a bit before losing again. Don't give up though! You really do need 1200 cals to be healthy (your organs need it!) so if you do put on a few pounds, remember they'll come off again once your metabolism rights itself. |
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| Weight Loss | 1/4 carb, 1/4 protein, 1/2 fruits & veggies... whaaat?! | Feb 22 2007 13:13 (UTC) |
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| I've followed this plate diagram once or twice, and it certainly makes for a satisfying but not overly filling meal. I've read somewhere recently that Americans, while they think of meat as being the main dish, really could do with considering it a side dish. Since I usually can only eat 4 oz. of meat at a sitting, I'm inclined to agree. ^_^ |
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| Health & Support | Quit Smoking and Gaining Weight | Feb 22 2007 13:09 (UTC) |
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| A friend of mine quit smoking, and to kill the oral habit that comes with it (after smoking for 20 years or so) she bought a big box of coffee stirrers (the tiny plastic straws) and chewed them to death. She still isn't smoking, and she quit even chewing the straws after a few weeks. Never even used all the straws. :) |
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| Weight Loss | Sore issue - My female partner's weight - Her idea. How support exactly? | Feb 22 2007 13:07 (UTC) |
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| Nic is 5'11"/180lbs? Sounds like a healthy weight to me. So getting rid of the flab might be an exercise thing -- I've done both yoga and water aerobics, and they both were great for abs/core strength. I don't know there is a "right" way to support our not-so-healthy loved ones (I've got one too) but I try to start with 1) loving him/her and 2) respecting his/her choices. For me, this means I make a healthy meal at dinner whenever I can (we share the cooking, so this isn't all the time) and I encourage any attempts at exercise or healthier eating. When I see my husband making really bad choices consistently, I will say something about it, and usually in the context of "I'm being selfish -- I want you around for a long time". Having good habits (and occasionally talking about them, but not harping on the subject) is probably the best way I can think of -- being an example, but not a goody-two-shoes or a preacher about it. |
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| Foods | After dinner dessert suggestions... | Feb 21 2007 23:59 (UTC) |
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| Oh, and for chocolate, a small wafer of really dark stuff will tame my chocolate craving and usually only has 50 cals or so. :) | |||
| Foods | After dinner dessert suggestions... | Feb 21 2007 23:58 (UTC) |
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| My favorite thing of late is having half a pear after dinner (sharing one with my husband). Pears have a really nice natural sweetness, and fresh fruit is the best! Plus, eating half of one won't make me go calorie overboard, and I don't like ruining the taste I get in my mouth from a pear, so it's good for finishing off the day. :) |
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| Weight Loss | Any women 5ft. 9in., what's your goal weight? | Jan 14 2007 12:41 (UTC) |
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| vitalas, depending on where you're starting (sounds like you're about where I am, in the lower 200s?) 70 lbs. isn't an unrealistic goal. You might have to make it Christmas 2007, instead of your birthday, but 1-2 lbs. per week is healthy weight loss. So you could conceivably lose 70 between now and July. (My goal is* to lose 40 lbs by Christmas, that's 1/2 lb. per week, so 1-2 lbs per week would get you down 70 by July. :) *I'm seriously considering upping my goal to July (my first anniversary) instead of Christmas. Half a pound per week has been turning into maintenance lately. :( |
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| Weight Loss | friday weigh in | Jan 12 2007 21:25 (UTC) |
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| You're not the only one, twinmama. I'm up a bit too (and after I did so well on the holidays!) but it might be *ahem* monthly... 208.2 today (and for the last three-four days too). I plead stress -- master's exam is in 10 days... |
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| Weight Loss | friday weigh in | Jan 05 2007 14:25 (UTC) |
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| 206.5 today at my parent's house. I traveled yesterday, so the almost one lb. difference is probably unhealthy travel food. :) I was 205.6 yesterday, +0.2 from my lowest (just before Christmas). I officially maintained over the holidays!!! :) |
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