Posts by count-it-07

If I'm reading your post right, it sounds like you could still eat an additional 700 calories today and be within your calorie range for the past two days. You said you should have eaten about 2000 yesterday, but only ate 1300, and you have eaten 1500 today, which I'm assuming is your target.  So you still have the 700 you deficited yesterday to just hit zero. Does that make sense? I know when I don't eat enough calories even on one day, I will overeat even at the next meal. You have gone a full 24 hours being way below what your body needs to perform basic work to stay alive. It is going to kick your butt and make you eat or make you sick. So, be nice to yourself and eat at least the minimum calories you need, even if it is the average of a few days. Plus, if you are hungry and sick, your body is telling you it needs more energy to fight off whatever has ahold of you.

Get well soon.

Hi Amy. Meetup is free and the group thing is what attracted me to it also. I just signed up to go gaze at star in the foothills through telescopes and look at pictures from the hubbell telescope. It's odd in a way to be a part of a group, not be alone, and be anonymous at the same time. I think it's a great way to ease into getting to know people who you know like at least one thing you like, and will also show up for it. There are many people who show up alone, so don't let that stop you.

 I admire your courage to get out there and try to find someone to love and be loved by. It takes courage to do that. you're right if they don't like how you look when you think you are not at your best, then who needs em.

Let  me know what you think about meetup. I love it.

Hi All. I think this is one of the healthiest streams I've read all night. It's great to really acknowledge how many calories we eat over the holidays, and what our bodies will do with them. I don't believe in the calorie for lb of fat theory, because it means our bodies would be stagnant as opposed to dynamic orangisms. I think we are made to accomodate dramatic shifts in food supply, since that's how life in the wild would be; but those shifts have to be leveled by activity and moderation. At any rate, if you gained a pound or two over the holidays Tommy, it sounds like you will work them right off in the next few days. Eating like that might even fire up you fat burning activity as someone else said.

Thanks for posting how many calories you ate. It took guts! (no pun intended)

Oh, by the way, one piece of the pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting that I make is 780 calories, soooooo you do the math for an entire weekend of holiday eating. 10k is is nothin ......

Hi All. I had a better day today, thanks for the support Molly and sabineyvr.  I certainly needed some input. I had a good day today. Stayed within my calories, actually had too few without trying and went to the gym to burn 400 c's. Amazing! All I can think is that the next 6 months is going to pass one way or the other, and I am going to be slimmer at the end of them. One day at a time...

MollyMouser are you a gourmet cook. It sounds it, that dinner with the tuna sounds delicious and very creative. Good for you for putting time and effort into making food you really wnt.

go4gold what are we going to do as the site gets bigger and you need to post more responses. You are amazing to keep up with all of this, thank you.

 Here's my goal until thanksgiving:

go to gym no less than 4xs per week

ellipitcal machine level 2 25 minutes

stay within my calories every day;

that's it for me.

sorry for the extra lines. it just started doing that.

Hi All,

Go4gold you are so supportive! I really appreciate it. I read your comment to me about my post, it's very kind of you to reply. I haven't seen any of you posts in a while, sorry, I've been off line as I said. I'll look for them though.

Today was a better day. I found a great women's only spa/gym that is about 1 mile from my home and I JOINED IT TODAY!! Worked out for about an hour and it felt so wonderful!! I kept telling myself that I would work out at home, but even when I did it isolated me so much I couldn't stand it. This gym has an Infrared sauna. Has anyone heard of them or used one? I loved it. I didn't sweat at all because there's no steam, but all of my muscles started to relax within the 10 minutes in in there.

One thing I have learned along the way. I HAVe to allow myself to rest when i am tired and/or overwhelmed. If I don't i will absolutely binge...Weird I know, but true. It's so hard to just do nothing, when I have so many things to do. I keep beating myself up about washing the car, my clothes, cleaning my house...that I drive myself crazy. As a result of resting though, I am now feeling better than I did last week after the wedding.

I'm certainly tired of hanging around at the same weight for the last month, so it is GOING this month.

Hang in there everyone. Focus on tody with the long term in mind if that makes sense.

Hi Everyone, I've been traveling the last week for work and am just surfacing from the frantic pace we were keeping. All in all I did well with my eating, although it was impossible to cc. I got to walk on the beach a lot so that was great. My weight was 258.9, up from 255.6 I think, but that's not too bad.

In general, I'm feeling pretty bummed out and discouraged, but connecting with all of you is great. I've been at this weight now for about three weeks because I'm having to travel for work and it just messes with me. Plus, I get so depressed when I'm out of pocket like I have been. I had a horrible day of eating today, all garbage, but I LOGGED IT and didn't go over my calories.

I love all of the encouragement and you are all inspiration to me. My daughter is getting married next weekend, so more traveling and partying is in my future. We'll see how well I do.

Keep up all the good work everyone. I'm going to go walk on my treadmill and drink some water! Thanks to all of you for that.

Hi Everyone. What a great group of people we have here. I'm so excited to see the positive response to my input this morning about the name being positive.I love how it's changed into the 100+ lbs Losing2gether Successfully Club!!! YES WE ARE LOSING IT TOGETHER.

I know that I have the most wicked, meanest, most negative voice in my head about my body and weight, and if I don't keep it in check it can really make me miserable. I used to say things to myself like, 'I hate my body", and "I'm disgusting", and "What's the point, I'll never lose this weight anyway". It took a while to really become aware of this ongoing onslaught against myself in my head. Once I did, I started actively working on saying affirmations every single day, many times a day about myself and my body. It has had an amazing impact on me. I don't binge anymore, I can stay within my calories, and I love my body, even at my current size. Each day I actually visualize my body at my normal weight and tell it how grateful I am that it has stuck around through all of the abuse I've put it through. I also say "I have a happy, slender body" many times throughout the day. That way my brain knows where to take my body!! doing this has helped me so much, because when I was being so mean to myself it would actually contribute to me binging and overeating becuase I felt so bad. I don't know if anyone else has these kinds of thoughts, but this is what prompted me to say what i did about the postivie name.

 I hope it helps everyone. Congratulations to all of you for being here and sharing. I have learned so much already, and am focusing on my water intake, but honestly getting in 8 glasses a day for me is hard, I don't know how I could possible get in 15.

Thanks for being here. I appreciate all of you.

Thanks united2gether for the resources. I checked out the number of glasses/cups I need a day. It's 15! I MIGHT get 6 on a good day, so I'll bet if I up that I'll feel sooo much better.

 all of you are so terrific. thanks for responding about my mother of the bride dress. i bought shoes for it tonight.

 I'm going to drink my 15 cups of water tomorrow, yikes! I'll see how I feel. I hope I get some work done with all of the piddling :-) (cute go4gold)

Hi everyone.

 Today was a bear for me emotionally and it just ended with overeating tootsie rolls, a big comfort food for me. I tracked all of it though and still managed to be under my goal calories for the day, plus I did a great workout this morning with Yoga Booty Ballet, but it was so hard to manage my mood. It has to do with stuff that's been happening for 15 years and has been very toxic to me that some days it just kicks by butt. I feel like I am out of rhythym with my own existence and getting it back feels impossible sometimes. I live alone, without any family around me, have no steady friends to speak of and I'am really, really. There I said it. I feel like the only way to be acceptable in the world is to be a normal body weight, and that is not even close to where I am right now, so all I could see today was a lot more weekends like this one. I'm on the pity pot, I know. It was just a tough weekend.

I struggled with my negative thoughts and refocused them on affirmations of what I want my life to be, which helped. I figured writing this out would help too, and it has. Hope I'm not too much of a downer for anyone.  Thanks.  

mathwiz37 I loved your post the other day about the joke. it was a little off colored but funny none the less. it sounds like you had a similar day to me of overeating for other reasons though. good job in just reorienting to tomorrow. Good job listening to your body and stopping when you were full.  

Ok, I'll writer. I can't believe I'm 54 years old, but I'm fessin' up to it right now, right here. I've been on CC since June and have lost about 10 lbs. The last two weeks I've been traveling for work and pleasure and gained 4 lbs, so that's a net loss of 6, but I'm already losing the 4 so I'm not too worried about it. I've tried a lot of eating plans and diets and none of them have worked because they take the 'me' out of my life! Finding CC was so exciting and I love it because it helps me to be nurturing and accountable for how I treat myself. The 4 lb gain that I just logged this  morning almost made me start down the crazy road of trying yet another diet plan, but after a few minutes of looking at it, my wiser self kicked in and I came right back to sanity. I can't deprive myself in anyway while trying to also take care of myself. So that means I have a treat of some kind daily, and it's whatever I want. I do not limit or judge that. I've found that when I do that it is equivalent of limiting and judging myself and then I just feel bad and struggle with keeping on track.

I have over 111 lbs to love, so this is serious business for me. I was slender at 135, 5 ft 9 inches all of my life until 1988 when I had my second child/second marriage. She died at birth, my marriage exploded, my 16 year old went nuts because of it, my mother died while talking to me, you know LIFE kicked my tail, and I ate. I'm so grateful for food, as it saved my life, but now I'm grateful to be alive and want to live longer and fully.

 I hope this wasn't too much to share. I'm happy to be among folkd my own age and am looking to support and be supported in getting healthy and living fully.

 Thanks for the thread.