Posts by dplatzer

kbella, so sorry to hear about your aunt and father-in-law, you were right to takea break from this to focus on family.  As for your weight, great work, I think its definitely possible for you to be at 135 for the wedding. 

I am doing quite well these past two weeks with the eats, and working out when I can.  I am in the process of moving (across town, into a really downtown part of the city).  Let me tell you, moving up and down tiny flights of stairs in boston is quite the workout, as is the work of uppacking, and painting.  So hopefully I'm covered there.  My marathon is this weekend, unfortunately I found out last week that I've got stress fractures (tiny hairline fractures) on both of my shins, so that is what the deal was with all of the pain I've been having.  My doctor essentially is prohibiting me from running but I am still going to give it a go.  If I feel lots of pain I will drop out, but I need to try.  Its something thats really upsetting me though, after all these months of training, and seeing my times improve in stride, then my two bffs qualified for the Boston marathon, which was my goal as well. 

I've not weighed in since Halloween, when I was 158.  I believe i'm around that now, possibly 157.  I am going to my parent's house this week and will weigh in on Saturday, and every other day as well.  I trust their scale, plus I can use it first thing in the morning like I like to do.  I am aiming to be low 150s by Christmas, and 150 by New Years day.  We'll see, this is dependant on what I see on saturday.

Hope you are all well.

Danielle

Wow, Okie, I am super jealous of your upcoming trip- that is DEF motivation to be good!  I always feel bigger in a swimsuit when I'm pale than in summer too.  I bet the scale won't be as bad as you think.

Kbella- you seem to be the queen of maintaining, even with truffle dinners, fab chocolate weekends and life in Italy.  What is your secret!?!

Carol- {sigh} it really stinks to not be where we want to be.  My clothes just barely fit me, my stella jeans that I bought last year are QUITE tight and uncomfortable.  I just need to remember these facts when presented with tempting treats.  And london, can I just reinterate how much I envy you!?  I went home last weekend and was talking to my parents and they were really encouraging- I want to move to London (or Madrid) in about a year or so and they were just telling me to go for it, do it while I'm young, etc.  So we may be neighbors in a bit!

Have you had your body fat tested?  It sounds like you really mix up your routine and I'd bet with the intensity of workouts you are doing your body fat might be quite low.  Unfortunately very athletic people tend to have higher weight because of the muscle! 

If your body fat is below 20% it will be very tough to lose weight without muscle!  In the case that it isn't I believe emma gave very sound advice. But one last question- are you including whole grains in your diet?  They are quite filling and pretty necessary with your workouts! 

I had a lean cusine (some sort of pasta, 280 cals) and a fuji apple.  I just had a bunch of carrot sticks with 1bsp of blue cheese dressing as a snack. 

I'm not sure that I agree with JCL's statement about doing more than 20 miles.  I've ran two marathons without having to walk at all, and never did a training run above 20 miles.  I believe that could have something to do with the length of time you've been a runner, though.  JCL- did you just start running in January or start training then?

kbella, I am so jealous your weekend sounds amazing!  Truffle dinner especially, yumm-o!

Okie- 137.6 is still a great weight for you, but I'm sure with you it will be off in no time!

I feel thin today, but of course I haven't weighed myself in quite awhile.  I've just been so tired lately in the morning I can't bring myself to do an AM gym session.  But this week I am requiring at least one to get a weigh-in.  Hopefully tomorrow!!!  My eating has been sub-par lately.  I go through such phases, but this week I am really trying to focus.  I think once I weigh in and see where I am it will be better.  Workouts are good, marathon is in T -27 days!!!  I've decided I'm going to attempt to run a Boston Qualifying time.  I don't know if I can but I may as well try!

Hey Everyone!

Carol, I'm sorry to hear about your struggles lately but judging from your photos I'm sure you look fab at 130.  Even your photos @ 140 you look very nice.  And lucky you, moving to London.  That is probably my dream.  If you decide you'd like to give the states a try we can swtich and you can have Boston, haha!

Kate- no loss is better than a gain, which I'm fairly sure I've got coming for me as soon as I get brave enough to step on the scale. 

Lately I've been in some sort of self sabotage mode or something.  My shins have been giving me great problems so with the marathon so near I've been trying to rest.  As a result I thought I'd drop back the cals....or NOT.  Yesterday I went on a weird binge after work resulting in 2600 calories for the day.  I am going to Washington, DC for the weekend and staying with a girlfriend who is pretty fit.  Hoping to contain my calories nicely throughout the days so I can do some drinking at night! 

I think thats horrible that your school did that.  I see no reason anyone's weight should ever be public knowledge.  All it will do it create problems, whether it be eating disorders or kids being made fun of. 

Also, you don't sound overweight to me at all, and I'd believe your home scale.  *hugs*

this is funny, this morning in a meeting we had this talk.  One of my bosses has "odd" habits with keeping food and said he ate sausages last night that he had for three weeks in his fridge.  He said rice keeps a month. EW. 

Anyhow, according to my paranoid habits I'd say you could make it on Sunday and be good til Friday.  I do that.  Also, I've never tried freezing it myself, but trader joe's sells pre-cooked frozen rice that I LOVE.  It comes in little bags.

I think you'd be pretty safe using the Subway info.  Subway's food isn't anything special/diet friendly, its just choosing the right ingredients.  And the ingredients you stated sound like they'd line up very similar to one of their healthy choice sandwiches.

Well it is tough to say without you being more specific about your diet.  But trust me a 4-5 mile run here and there won't make up for tons of slip-ups in your diet!  I run a similar amount to you, more now because I am in the peak weeks of my marathon training, but I really had something bad happen this summer.  I gained 12 lbs after I didn't weigh-in for 2 months, though I worked out about 6 days a week, running 25-30 miles, plus I live in a city and don't own a car, got careless with my eating. I.e. eating french fries when out with friends, a slice or two of pizza for dinner, a few extra alcoholic bevs, etc.  the gain was real :(  Its sloooowly coming off but man can we talk about a let down!?  It really is frustrating when you are so active but as we know, one fatty meal of nachos and beers can easily be 2000-3000 calories, wiping out several days worth of runs! 

At least you caught it at 5 lbs.  Yours could def be water weight, or not just really depending on how far the diet strayed.  Start counting again and even if its real it shouldn't take you more than a month to drop it as long as you really focus =)

Hey bella, I agree I think thats a decent amount of calories.  As long as they consist of nutritionally dense foods esp.  My friend experiences the same thing as you, shes about 125, 5'8'', and defintiely eats enough.  She's anemic I believe.  Takes iron supplements to help with it, she also gets bloody noses a lot but not sure if its related!!  Congrats on your further loss, I so envy you!

To the ladies who are 5'10'' and in the 130s/140s, what does a typical day of eating look like for you?  Actually, anyone on this thread feel free to answer that.  I think where I am looking for guidance comes between lunch and dinner.  I eat a lunch of about 300-400 calories, then pack some healthy snacks amounting to about 200 cals, but I'm SO hungry around 5/6 when Im leaving work, commuting home. I end up mindlessly grazing and don't really eat a large dinner.  Do you think eating a larger lunch would help, or just tack on more calories to my day?  I can't figure it out!

PS- haven't weighed in for a little while but didn't have the best weekend eating wise.  ugh, gotta step up my game!

omg gi-jane, I SOOO hear you on the asparagus thing.  There can be the tiniest amt of it in something, and my pee is stinky!  Ew!  I don't really notice it with anything else though which is weird!

wow okie thats great that you have such a buffer for the trip!  I do hope that you enjoy yourselves this weekend, its such an awesome city!!!  We'll definitely have to catch up about what you did later on!

Kbella, thanks for the compliment, but you look quite great yourself!  I am so jealous of you being in the 130s!  I sadly don't think that will ever happen for me :(

wychofavalon- welcome to our group!  Congrats on your loss and I hope we can help you get those last few lbs off!

On a different note, I found a link the other day where you could calculate your body's solid mass by subtracting the lbs of fat you have.  Apparenly I have 28.4 lbs of fat on my body, so without losing muscle it looks like 10 lbs would be about the most I can loose without getting into a no-good zone.  I just wish I had skinnier legs!

Weigh-in this morning = 157.  Going to be tough to do well this weekend, my mom is in town and I know we will eat out a lot.  need to get a lot of exercize in!

158 today- meh.  Last yr this was my fat weight, now its my skinny weight for the past few months.  New goal is to get to 150 by marathon (nov 22nd)- don't think 143 is really gonna happen.  I just like socializing too much, and my type of socializing includes chips and salsa and beer.  fact.