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| Motivation | If you was to hit your goal weight..... What would be the first thing you wear? | May 09 2007 19:16 (UTC) |
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| oh yeah, and of course sexy new jeans!!!! | |||
| Motivation | If you was to hit your goal weight..... What would be the first thing you wear? | May 09 2007 19:15 (UTC) |
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| a beautiful yellow lacy slip-dress that I bought with the longing to wear it as a dress... but right now it fits so tightly like a slip that it shows every last roll and bulge. I am DETERMINED to wear it as a dress and to feel sexy and confident in it. It's hanging on my closet door right now to keep me motivated!!
also, after I have reached my goal weight, I am planning to buy the gorgeous brown leather boots I've had my eyes on that currently don't zip over my calves... and a preppy blue blazer to go with them, with lots of slim tailoring to show off my new shape :) |
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| Weight Loss | drunken munchies... | May 07 2007 08:55 (UTC) |
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| I know what you're going through. i'm drunk right now, in fact... and i have the munchies. the main thing that helps me is to make sure I don't have any snacks in my room when I come back from a night of drinking. Right now I'd love nothing more than to shove my face full of snacks... but unfortunately I have nothing in my room to snack on, so I guess I'm out of luck. It stinks for the moment, but I know that tomorrow I will feel so much better knowing that I went out and didn't gorge myself with food in the process. | |||
| Weight Loss | I hate rude comments! | May 01 2007 22:06 (UTC) |
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| honestly though... what kind of dumbass correlates brown paper lunch bags to a person's weight or size? This guy obviously has way too much time on his hands. What a moron! | |||
| Weight Loss | I hate rude comments! | May 01 2007 22:04 (UTC) |
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| i've definitely been there!
This past summer I went on a road trip with 3 of my closest friends before we all headed off to college. At one point I had been snacking on some Tostidos Chips with Lime before i noticed that I had eaten half the bag. A little while later I was trying to take a nap in the backseat, and my friends all thought I was asleep... not quite... I overheard this conversation between my two (very fit) best friends: FRIEND 1: "Did you see Allison down that bag of chips?" FRIEND 2: "Well I was eating some too, and those chips are amazing, I can easily down half a bag myself! I've eaten a whole bag before!" FRIEND 1: "Yeah, but you can afford to!" Ouch. I wanted to break down into tears right there in the back of the car, but I held it together. I was really hurt, but at the same time I think it was a good thing. I let myself go even more for awhile after that and gained even more weight, but the comment stuck with me, and it turned out to be exactly the kick in the butt that I needed! These two girls and I used to run cross country together, so part of my motivation for losing the weight is to get back in shape so that we can run together this summer like we used to. It's been a slower process than I'd hoped (college isn't the ideal atmosphere for weight loss, grrrr...), but I want to go about it healthily and I'm going to reach my goal if it takes all year!! I definitely feel ya though... those kinds of comments suck :( Don't let it get you down... turn it into motivation to keep up the hard work! Congrats on losing a pound this week! That's awesome :) |
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| Motivation | binge-free challenge, anyone? | May 01 2007 04:00 (UTC) |
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| Today was my friend's birthday and someone showed up with Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream cake... I treated myself to one piece... and then battled with my conscience for about 10 minutes while I decided whether or not to go back for another. I ended up eating one more bite, but didn't cut myself another piece! Then I thought, hey, you've already eaten ice cream so why not head over to the snack bar and buy a pint of B&J's and call it a splurge night? But I knew that would make me feel awful, so I signed onto CC instead, and now the temptation has passed and I feel great and POWERFUL knowing that I exercised my self-control!! Ice cream binge avoided! :D | |||
| Motivation | Brag! Let's hear it! | May 01 2007 03:51 (UTC) |
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| wow, I love all of these exciting brags!! Mine seems pretty small compared to a lot of these, but every little bit counts, so here it is...
today is my friend's birthday, someone brought out a Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Cake... I had one piece, went back to cut another, but settled for one bite!! That was obstacle number one... Then I thought, hey, I've already eaten ice cream today, so why not go to the snack bar, and get a pint of your favorite flavor as a treat, and only eat half? Well, then I convinced myself that I would not, in fact, only eat half... I would end up eating the entire thing in one sitting... so i decided to forgo the snack bar, and I signed on here instead to log my one slice of Ben and Jerry's Cake! It seems dumb... especially since I DID eat Ben and Jerry's today... but I feel powerful knowing that I exercised some self-control!! YAY :D |
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| Motivation | binge-free challenge, anyone? | Apr 30 2007 00:25 (UTC) |
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| thanks for the welcome! I know it is easier said than done to "just stop" binge eating, but I'm going to take it one day at a time. I feel like this thread will make me somewhat more accountable, so I hope no one minds if I just post here every day with what I have eaten and how my day has been, binge or no-binge (hopefully the latter)...
Today, even though I started off horribly... with a 600 calorie breakfast/lunch and then 600 calories worth of Krispy Kremes, I fought off a mid-afternoon snacking urge by taking a walk and drinking a tall black coffee, I ate a sensible dinner of salad with grilled chicken, rid my dorm room of any snacks and replaced them with 2 apples, and have been drinking a lot of water to try and reduce the bloating from last night's binge. It's now 7:15 and post-dinner I am at 1550 calories. Now even if I reach for a night-time snack, the only thing I have in my room are the 2 apples, so at most I will be logging in 1700 calories tonight!! That falls just within my goal range of 1300-1800 calories! All this week I have been logging in at 2200 calories or more (some days, A LOT more, post-binges), so it feels like today was a successful day after all!! :) Heck, if I finish my work early enough, I may even hit up the gym! |
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| Motivation | binge-free challenge, anyone? | Apr 29 2007 19:22 (UTC) |
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| It's almost a new month, and I think it's time for me to turn over a new leaf! I'm joining the binge-free challenge, beginning right now! I just discovered this thread, so I'm not exactly sure what the terms are. Do you check in every day, or once a week, or just when you need support?
Well, for now, here's how today has gone so far: I just finished eating brunch at my school's dining hall, at which I somehow managed to binge on 2 Krispy Kreme donuts on top of my regular breakfast. I was thinking about just throwing away the day as "ruined" and eating anything I want (which is what I did last night... and the night before...), but no more of that! I logged the donuts along with my brunch, and there is still hope for today. I'm going to hold it together and not turn my binge-meal into an entire binge-day. |
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| Motivation | Old Habits Creeping Up | Apr 24 2007 23:05 (UTC) |
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| I've been having the same problem recently... old habits die hard, that's for sure. Take it from me, you definitely don't want to turn back now... actually, I wish that four weeks ago I had been proactive like you are being now. That was when I first started to notice my old habits creeping up. Unfortunately I did not do anything about it, and I let myself go a bit. Now I've gained back much of the weight I had worked so hard to lose, and in an extremely short amount of time I have "un-did" three months worth of better health! I say this not to discourage you, but to tell you from my experience, that the longer you let yourself continue falling into old ways, the harder it is to get out of the rut. Hang in there! This week I finally wised up and jumped back into being healthy, and I feel infinitely better! It had only been a few weeks, but I had almost forgotten how great it feels to be good to your body with healthy foods and portions, as well as exercise. This week, that has been motivation enough for me, but I know that some days it isn't going to be so easy. One thing that helps is to tell myself: "nothing tastes as good as looking great feels!" Keep up the great work! Writing encouragement to others helps me feel encouraged as well, so thank you... without even knowing it, you have motivated me today! :) Let's both use this week to get back on track, so that the weight can start coming off again, Deal?! | |||
| Weight Loss | can't stop Study-Snacking, help!! | Mar 16 2007 03:22 (UTC) |
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| i exercise 6 days a week, which is why my daily calorie range is 1500-1900 instead of, say, 1200-1500. Usually when I end up eating around 2300 I don't go over my expenditure for the day, but basically come out about even. This would be fine if I wanted to maintain, but it's doing nothing for my loss.
thanks for the snack ideas! |
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| Weight Loss | can't stop Study-Snacking, help!! | Mar 16 2007 03:22 (UTC) |
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| i exercise 6 days a week, which is why my daily calorie range is 1500-1900 instead of, say, 1200-1500. Usually when I end up eating around 2300 I don't go over my expenditure for the day, but basically come out about even. This would be fine if I wanted to maintain, but it's doing nothing for my loss.
thanks for the snack ideas! |
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| Foods | What did YOU eat today? | Mar 16 2007 02:16 (UTC) |
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| breakfast-- coffee with soy milk, whole wheat toast with peanut butter, fruit (banana & cantaloupe), hard boiled egg whites
sipped lots of water while i was at work lunch-- sandwich on whole wheat (hummus, tomato, cucumber, sprouts) and roasted eggplant and tomato soup, some pomegranate juice to drink dinner-- vegetarian tofu raviolis, carrot coins, mashed sweet potato, kidney beans with melted mozzarella cheese dessert-- soft serve ice cream snacks-- trail mix, pretzels |
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| Weight Loss | Spring Break trip | Mar 16 2007 00:29 (UTC) |
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| thank you guys for all of the tips! It will be very helpful!
smichelle... i hadn't thought about that, we will be dancing a lot, which burns a lot of calories! ktcort, and ravenlark... you're absolutely right, i definitely want to remember this trip! I've gone for long periods without drinking in the past, and i've learned from experience what my limits are after taking a long hiatus, haha. Won't be making that mistake again :-) kae03... you are also absolutely right about looking at this as a lifestyle change, which is what I have been doing thus far. In fact, i was rather surprised at myself for even calling it a diet... after i read your post i actually went back to my original post to see, "did i really say that?"... i was a bit surprised. I think that's the first time I've used the term "diet" since i've started thinking seriously about eating healthier and becoming active again! And also, thank you so much for your concern! My mom had the same concerns at first, but I assured her that this is not that kind of trip! We are staying at a family-oriented resort, quite a ways away from the MTV-sort of spring break crowd (a.k.a, no wet t-shirt contests for me!!... ish, i wouldn't be caught dead!) and I am going with a small group of close friends who are very smart drinkers and have always been good about looking out for each other! Plus, one kid's mom is going to be there, and though she won't be going out with us, she'll definitely be keeping an eye out for us. But thank you for your words of advice! :-) Thanks all! |
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| Weight Loss | College Students | Mar 15 2007 04:32 (UTC) |
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| hey, i'm in the same boat as most everyone here. gained a lot of weight first semester, but have been working hard and am now back to my pre-college size. I'm thrilled about that. My next goal is getting down to a healthy ideal weight of 120 (i'm 5' 2")... though to be more realistic (taking natural fluctuations into consideration) i'm giving myself a range of 115-125.
I drank quite a bit first semester, but this semester i've backed off a TON with the drinking, and it has definitely helped my weight loss. I still enjoy a few every now and then, but I feel no need to go crazy anymore. That being said... I am going on Spring Break to Mexico with some friends, and I KNOW that i'm going to be drinking a moderate amount nearly every day. I don't plan to get plastered (though it's bound to happen probably one night), but I do know that i will probably have a few drinks throughout the day, and a few each night. I have purposely not had a drink in more than a month for a few reasons... firstly it will be easier for me to justify drinking every day for a week, and secondly i won't need as many drinks to feel a little tipsy which will save a few calories. Still, does anyone have any tips to help me get through this trip without completely screwing up all the hard work that i have put in the past few months, and without reversing the weight loss results i've already achieved?? My hope is to maintain on this trip, and then to continue my weight loss after.... it is a vacation after all. I'm really worried about this! I know my friends are going to be drinking a LOT on this trip, and while I don't want to go crazy, i also don't want to enjoy myself less by worrying so much about how badly i might be breaking my diet! What should i do? |
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| Weight Loss | How to tell if you're exercising too much? | Mar 14 2007 04:16 (UTC) |
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| behanna, thank you for this post. i think i have been over-exercising because i can answer yes to nearly every one of those signs.
Today I DID completely blow off my workout because i just couldn't bear to go... but then because i felt so crappy about NOT going, i went totally downhill and just had a 1000+ calorie binge (and i had already over-eaten by 500 calories today, which i earlier thought "aw no big deal since i'm going to the gym later".... but since i didn't go, that's even more excess calories!) This is really making me feel awful, because i've never been a binge eater. I overeat sometimes, but it always feels okay since I know that I have probably worked it off in my workouts. But i've never just sat down and ate until i felt sick! so now i don't know what to do! i feel horrible! but it's too late now to go to the gym tonight! What should i do to get back on track?? Overall i've been needing to make some adjustments anyway because i've been noticing a pattern of eating too many calories by lunch time, and consequently overeating for the day because i've always felt like it would be unhealthy to just blow off dinner to keep within a calorie limit. So basically i see tonight as my body's cry for help... it's telling me i need to get back on track... to eating a comfortable 1400-1900 calories per day... instead of 1900 calories of nutritious foods plus another 1000 calories of junk to top it off (which is what i did today). But i have no idea how to get back on track! My stomach hurts so bad from stuffing myself just now, and i can't get past how awful i feel. Help please... sorry archesophos... i didn't mean to hijack your thread. your post just helped me to realize that perhaps i've been overworking myself and my body is starving because of it. I'm a college student too, so i can relate. |
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| Weight Loss | 1900 calories and weight loss? | Mar 13 2007 04:40 (UTC) |
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| thanks for the encouragement! I will play around with all of these suggestions! especially, xrae, about the protein... i don't eat very much protein because the meat at my school's dining hall is sometimes a bit sketchy. i prefer their veggie patties over hamburger patties, but i don't eat them often because neither are very appealing. it seems i am probably not getting enough protein. i think i'll try cutting up some chicken to add to my salad tomorrow. tuna is a good idea as well. anyone have any good ways to prepare tuna besides tuna-salad with mayonnaise? I sometimes like eating it plain right out of the can, but that gets boring. What else can you do with it? I also like to get kidney beans from the salad bar days when they are served. I usually put them on my salad, but what else might taste good? | |||
| Foods | breakfast Cereals!! | Mar 12 2007 16:17 (UTC) |
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| they don't have Total at the dining hall, but i just got a box of whole grain total from the Campus Market, and it's really yummy! Thanks for the suggestions everyone. | |||
| Weight Loss | coffee- friend or foe? | Mar 09 2007 17:39 (UTC) |
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| this is really random, but when I started eating healthier I started having problems producing regular bowel movements, despite the fact that I was eating more than enough fiber and drinking the recommended amount of water... i was definitely hydrated, my urine was always clear except first thing in the morning... so i didn't know what the problem was.
Then about a week and a half ago, I added my daily cup of coffee back into my routine because I used to really enjoy it, and I had read here that one cup of coffee per day is not bad--maybe even has some benefits. Well, ever since I added the coffee back in, I've been back to having regular, healthy bowel movements. I thought this was weird--kind of counterintuitive, but I've been noticing that days when I drink my coffee (excuse the frankness) I'm able to poop... and the opposite on days when I don't. Is this normal?? |
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| Foods | lunch suggestions?--300 calories | Mar 09 2007 17:23 (UTC) |
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| Thanks for the suggestions! I'm on my way to lunch in about an hour, I'll let you know what I come up with :-)
P.S. I'm a college student, eating on meal plan, so that makes it difficult to find healthy options and not get stuck eating the same foods each day... i'm going to try out a bunch of these suggestions all week, i've been getting tired of my same-old... |
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| Weight Loss | Eating a lot more | Mar 07 2007 05:24 (UTC) |
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| I've been wondering the same thing. I work out 5-6 days per week, and some days it makes me so hungry that I eat 2000-2300 calories! Is this going to hinder my weight loss?? | |||
| Weight Loss | Help I'm stuck at one weight | Mar 05 2007 15:34 (UTC) |
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| i'm in the same boat! I started at 152 in January, lost 10, and now I have hit a plateau. I have been weighing in anywhere between 141 and 142 for about 3 weeks now. It is frustrating because I knew I would hit a plateau, only I'd hoped it wouldn't be until AFTER my upcoming Spring Break vacation!! I'm trying my best not to be discouraged, because after all my ultimate goal (much more important than feeling good in a bikini three weeks from now) is to reach a healthy weight of 120 (I am 5'2") in a safe and reasonable amount of time. I haven't given myself a "deadline" because I would rather take things slow and in a fashion that I know I can maintain it for the rest of my life--don't want to "diet" and drop the weight too fast and then make it a battle to adjust to eating and living normally.
I think part of the reason that my body chose to plateau now is because I am back to a weight that I was at for a very long time... so it probably feels pretty comfortable here. Anyway, I've tried upping my calories to about 1800 per day. And I'm shaking up my workouts-- I had been doing 1 hour on the elliptical nearly every day at moderately-high intensity, but I was finding that it wasn't difficult for me anymore. To shake things up, I've now switched to the treadmill and I am doing shorter workouts (about 30 min.) but of High Intensity Interval Training--holy cow, I haven't felt my body working so hard since high school cross country! Some days I follow that up with another 30 minutes on the elliptical at a steady pace--mostly because it helps me to prevent soreness in my legs. I also do light weight conditioning every-other day, and it's definitely helping me to feel more toned. ... still, after all of this I haven't seen the scale budge in 3 weeks! I really need to shake this thing off quickly! I was hoping to lose a couple more pounds before my Spring Break trip. Even if the difference won't be visible, I know it would help me feel much more confident if I was at least seeing the numbers moving down again before my trip. Any advice? |
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| Fitness | HIIT in the morning (and a few more HIIT questions) | Mar 03 2007 19:55 (UTC) |
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| thanks for the input.
zeke, what is LISS? I learned of HIIT through this site, but I've never heard of LISS. Or maybe I have, but am not familiar with the abbreviation. |
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| Weight Loss | Crash and Burn!! | Mar 02 2007 23:30 (UTC) |
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| don't fret... i posted about this same thing last month when I gained 4 pounds during my period. I though, okay relax it's probably just the bloatedness. But when my period ended and it still hadn't gone down, I was discouraged. But give it a few days... 3 days later I weighed again and had lost the extra water weight, and some :-) | |||
| Weight Loss | Why aren't I losing weight any more!? | Mar 02 2007 23:25 (UTC) |
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| has anyone else tried the Protein Break that dwilliams is talking about? I realized today that I have hit a plateau and I want to break out of it before I am stuck here for too long. I want to do it healthily though--I am a little skeptical of the Protein Break thing, just because it sounds a little to me like a mini crash-diet, which I'm really not into. no offense intended to you dwilliams, I'm just curious to know a little more about it. Losing 4 pounds in 3 days sounds great, but won't I immediately gain it back? also, if in fact this would work and be a healthy plateau breaker, I have a few questions:
-do you eat the whole egg, or only the whites? -would a fat-free Freshen's smoothie with a Protein booster count as the protein shake?--that's the closest thing to a protein shake they sell on my campus. -could I use balsamic vinegar instead of a salad dressing, or is that a substitution? -can lean beef be just like a burger patty? I'm still a little skeptical, and to be honest will probably take the zig-zagging/switching up my workouts method to break my plateau, but I'd like to hear more. thanks. |
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| Weight Loss | Teens and weight | Mar 02 2007 23:09 (UTC) |
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| I'm 19 and I would say that of my group of female friends from high school, 90% were within a completely "normal" weight range--most were athletes, had normal curves, were extremely fit. Of the remaining 10%, most were either very slightly overweight, but by no means obese (myself included-- 5'2" and about 140 lb. at the time... the 130 range would have been healthier for me, 120s probably would have been too low because I was an athlete... now that i'm no longer heavily involved in athletics I'm slightly less muscular, so 120-125, my goal, seems just about right) or were slightly underweight, but by no means anorexic. I only had one friend with an ED.
So I think it is saying a bit much to claim that nearly all teenagers are either overweight or have EDs. There are plenty of "normal" teens out there, I assure you! That being said, the vast majority of even "normal" teenagers think about/wish they could change something about their bodies. Within my group of friends, we all felt, especially (I think) as athletes, a certain degree of pressure to look a certain way or to reach a certain level of fitness... some more than others, but essentially the feeling was there across the board. I used my high school friends as an example, because the scene changes a bit in college, when people are nearly done growing, and in my opinion it really does become more important to start thinking seriously about one's health by this age--it isn't just about body image anymore when you make the transition from teens and twenties. What I mean to say is, sure it is frightening to hear a teenager talk about cutting calories (especially if that person is already at a healthy weight and doesn't need to lose weight), but when you reach your twenties I think it is a healthy time to begin thinking about one's weight, at least so far as to evaluate "am I at a healthy weight?" and to begin creating a healthy lifestyle to carry with you into adulthood, whether that means gaining, losing, or maintaining. |
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| Weight Loss | I get nauseous during meals | Mar 02 2007 22:31 (UTC) |
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| i went through a phase where everytime i went to a restaurant (feeling hungry enough to eat a good-sized meal), i would look at the menu and choose one of my favorite dishes, it would come to the table looking and smelling so wonderful, it would taste perfect... and then about 3 bites in I would feel soooo sick to my stomach, exactly how you described... almost to the point where I needed to leave the restaurant because I could not even stand the smell of food! It was very strange! With me though, it only seemed to happen on occasions when I ate out, not when I made my own meals, or when my mom cooked. It lasted for several months though, and it was very frustrating because every time we would eat out for some special occassion, it was impossible for me to enjoy the meal. And then after a few months the problem was magically gone! It's still a mystery to me, haha! But anyway... I know where you're coming from :-( | |||
| Weight Loss | Caffeine | Mar 02 2007 22:21 (UTC) |
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| i've been there too! I got really addicted to coffee my first semester in college. I started drinking it, at first, just to stay awake on those nights when I was pulling study sessions until 4 & 5 a.m. It got to the point, though, where I felt tired all day if I didn't have a cup of coffee, and then instead of only needing one cup to help me through a late night, I needed several. When I went home after 1st semester, for winter break, I could sleep as much as I wanted, so I stopped drinking coffee cold turkey but I didn't really look at it as "quitting" then because I had no idea how much my body had become accustomed to it's daily caffeine boost. I couldn't understand where the headaches were coming from! One day my head was hurting sooo bad... for some reason I ended up having a few sips of my mom's coffee and in minutes the headache was gone, haha! That's when i realized that I was addicted to caffeine. The headaches went away after about a week. When I got back to school for second semester, I didn't allow myself to start drinking coffee again... at least not daily. I drink a fair amount of tea, but to offset that, I add an extra class of water to my daily H2O intake for each cup of tea I drink. And now I only have coffee about once a week, and then only when it is truly needed. Like the above poster said, when I was hooked on coffee, it really wasn't making me feel alert anymore... only wired and on-edge. I've found now that when I drink it rarely, it actually does what I want it to... which is to keep me alert when I really must study late! (I must add, I've changed my study habits and am getting a lot more sleep this semester which has probably contributed to the fact that I don't "need" coffee so much anymore). Sorry so long... main point is, the headaches WILL go away, haha... hope this helps :-) | |||
| Weight Loss | weird question... constipation at weigh-in time | Feb 23 2007 01:54 (UTC) |
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| thanks for all of the advice. I generally don't have this problem, even a few weeks after changing my eating habits this is the first time I haven't been able to produce a b.m. I'm pretty sure I get enough fiber in my diet, but just in case I'm not... I eat a lot of vegetables, but are there any that are particularly fiber-rich? What other kinds of foods are fiber-rich but won't kill my calorie count for the day? I occassionally indulge in a low-fat bran muffin, but that sets me back 350-400 calories. Bran is good for fiber too, am I right? Also, how many grams of fiber should I be eating each day?
So, it's okay to take a laxative for occasional irregularity, right? I've only taken a laxative once and it was because I had moved into college and wasn't quite feeling comfortable yet in my new home--I've heard that traveling and or/moving can cause irregularity. The laxative had helped, but unfortunately it was, shall we say, much more effective than I needed, haha?! But I think I had taken the maximum dose of 2 pills that time. If I just take 1/2 of 1 pill tonight, will that be enough to get me back on track by tomorrow morning? I'm really a bigger fan of the "let nature take its course" route, but I'm feeling really uncomfortable! |
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| Weight Loss | when will I "see" the results? (help a college kid out...) | Feb 10 2007 16:18 (UTC) |
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| yes, school is definintely hard when you're trying to control your weight! There are soooo many distractions. Last night I had stayed in to study (on a Friday night... ugh, but it's a busy weekend) and some friends of mine came back from a play they had seen and wanted to go get some pizza. I was sick of studying so I went with them thinking I would just go along for the company... but OF COURSE i ended up eating 2 slices of pizza! The worst is that the second piece was totally unnecessary... I wasn't even that hungry... my brain was just telling me: you just burned 850 calories at the gym, you deserve this indulgence! That is such a poor way of thinking, and exactly what I have been trying to get past now that I am making all of these healthier choices in my life! But, despite my lapse in judgment, today I've moved on, started off my day right with a healthy 300 cal breakfast...oatmeal with sliced bananas and a glass of skim milk... I'm going to go for a brisk walk/light jog this morning in addition to my regular gym time, and I feel okay about messing up last night. ANYWAYS... the point of that long story is... there are so many distractions at college that make it so hard to lose weight.
It is also very frustrating knowing that results don't happen overnight, and that I have to be patient. And secondly, that out of my closest friends at college, 4 of them are very slender, eat no less than I do, and have never been to the gym on campus. It's just crazy how differently our bodies can work like that! A little discouraging, yes, but it does give me some satisfaction to know that I could "out-run" all of them anyday, haha! That's one thing that sets people like us on this thread apart from those naturally skinny people who never work out (we all know a couple people like that, right?)... because by working out regularly, we are doing something good for our hearts and our muscular endurance... and I like to remind myself of that when I start to feel a little down or envious of my friends who have these gorgeous bodies, haha! Thank you for all the support, everyone who has posted. (dharma_bum, yep I do go to Brown!) |
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