Posts by kellybadlass

Name: Kelly
Age: 33
Height: 5'4"
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 132.0
Goal Weight (by February 29): 129

1/2/09: 132.0
8/2/09: 132.0
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
29/2/09:

Total weight loss: 0 (but no gain!)

Does anyone have tips for remembering where their last post was (what page it was on), so you can create your NEW post from the most recent previous one?  I spend half my time looking for that post! :)  Anyway, no weight change...but that's better than a gain!

Name: kellybadlass
Age: 33
Height: 5'4"
Start Weight: 135.2 (omg, i can't believe it...i have never been 135!!)
Goal Weight (by January 29): 128
Ultimate Goal Weight: 120

1/1/09: 135.2
8/1/09: 133.8
15/1/09: 135.4
22/1/09: 133.6
29/1/09: 131.8

Total weight loss: -3.4

I'll accept that! Congrats to everyone else!  I couldn't do my final weigh-in on time because I was away!

Name: kellybadlass
Age: 33
Height: 5'4"
Start Weight: 135.2 (omg, i can't believe it...i have never been 135!!)
Goal Weight (by January 29): 128 
Ultimate Goal Weight: 120

1/1/09: 135.2
8/1/09: 133.8
15/1/09: 135.4  WHAT?!?!  well now this sucks...
22/1/09:
29/1/09:

I was sick the last 4 days...and it's soooo cold out....so, no gym, and eating the same way.  It's ok, I'll do it! 

Hi please add me :)

Name: kellybadlass
Age: 33
Height: 5'4"
Start Weight: 135.2 (omg, i can't believe it...i have never been 135!!)
Goal Weight (by January 29): 128 
Ultimate Goal Weight: 120

1/1/09: 135.2
8/1/09:
15/1/09:
22/1/09:
29/1/09:

Total weight loss:

I think we have all done it.

Christmas can be a stressful time, and food a great source of comfort (not to mention it's everywhere at this time of year!).  So I'm in the same boat too!  I haven't bothered weighing myself, and I haven't been to the gym in a few months because I was too broke to keep paying for my membership.

Thankfully my parents got me a cheaper membership at a different gym as a Christmas gift, so I'm really anxious once all the parties are finally over, to get back to 'regular life' and working out. 

I'm definitely not fat but hate that my jeans are all tight.  All I want to wear are jogging pants!

Hi there....well, I'm back!  Last November I signed up, trying to lose the EXACT same weight I'm trying to lose this year (at least I'm starting from the same point).  And these challenges did temporarily help last year!...I just abandoned them for some reason, which I will NOT do this time.

Name: Kelly
Age: 33
Height: 5'4"
Start Weight: 130
Goal Weight (by November 29): 127 (but 120-123 ultimately)

1/11/08: 130.0
8/11/08: 131.0 :(  (gotta try harder!)
15/11/08:
22/11/08:
29/11/08:

Total weight loss:

127.4.

Numbers will show I gained, but remember, I had the 24hr flu last week, which accounts for the huge loss (and winning the challenges last week)...so I am still happy to count this week's weigh-in as a loss!

130.4.  damn, i was 128!  well i'm out of hiding and back on this site.  i am still not in the summary section that comes before all the messages.  guess they don't like me or something. :)

Kelly (kellybadlass), age 32, 5'4"

Then after that I'd like to lose 1lb/week, to be 120lbs by June 20.

 *Not quite to the goal, but still going down....bring on the May challenge!! (where IS everyone?)

Harris, wow, I actually think the way you're eating is very smart!  Since you are a man you may need a few more calories, i.e. 2000-2400 (and that might actually speed things up or prevent starvation mode).  Congrats!

Well, so far I have only been updating my 'weigh in' post, but that's a lonely thing to do, because you don't wind up really talking to anyone that way...  so I am going to share what I am doing and learning.

I started off at 133.4, which was my highest weight ever (I'm 5'4").  Knowing I still wasn't fat by any means, but COULD get there in time if I didn't change, I started doing the following:

-consuming 1360 (let's say 1300-1550) calories per day.  at first I thought this would be a huge pain, but when i'm not sure how many calories are in a meal/snack by reading the packaging or checking online, i estimate (on the high side, to be safe) and it seems to be working.

-doing cardio 4-5x/week for 30-45 min (doesn't seem to matter if it's 4 days or 5, 30 or 45 min, it just seems to matter that I'm doing this much).

-lifting weights 1-2 days per week for 30 min (whole body), or sometimes i substitute the 2nd weights day with a 45 min yoga/pilates class which i love and which really works my core muscles.

-so all in all, i am working out about 5/7 days of the week.

-i already ate healthy foods for the most part (whole grain pasta & bread, lean meats occasionally, soy milk, low fat cheese, lots of fruits & veggies, etc) but now i have gone a step further by:

-eating smaller portions and putting the rest away (oh, and brush your teeth after, so you don't crave more of the taste of what you ate)!

-avoiding fast food (except subway, quiznos...and if i end up at mcdonald's for some reason i eat a grilled chicken sandwich & no fries rather than a combo with fries).

-the main thing i am doing, diet-wise, that i think is realllly helping me is i'm really restricting my night-time eating.  i usually reach my calorie limit by dinnertime anyway, but if i'm up late & really starving, i eat fruit or a few crackers and no damage is done (that's why sometimes i eat up to 1550 cals a day, but usually it's 1350 or so).

and now HERE's what i've learned....

-1360 calories ain't much.  once i started keeping track, i realized that in the old days i definitely ate 2000 or more on many days of the week.  but limiting to 1300-ish WORKS!  go to a website that calculates how many calories you need to eat to get from your current weight to your goal weight.  the number isn't 1360 for everyone, but that was the number it gave me, and it seems to be correct.

-it's really tough to start a regular workout regime, but once you get into the routine and it no longer becomes a decision, but a given, like brushing your teeth, you start to love it and miss it when you don't do it.

-i weigh myself most days (but not every day), so i am not surprised by the once-weekly weigh in.  the days i DON'T weigh are the days i think i might have gone up.  i don't weigh on those days to protect myself from feeling bad.  but don't skip more than a day or 2 or you could end up surprised.

-treat your 'day off' as a day to: skip working out and eat a treat.  DON'T go hog-wild and eat everything in sight on this day because it's your 'day off'.  it will only make you feel deprived the next day, and it may thwart the 1-2lb/week loss.

The reason I have posted all of this is because what I'm doing is working.  I'm losing at the 1-2lb/week rate that I should be, and I'm very motivated!  Today I was 127.8 (down from 133.4).  So I guess that means I have lost 5.6 lbs in the last month.  (I am shooting for 120.)

 woohoo!

*OK, so I didn't make it, but I lost 6.4 pounds and I am on my way towards the goal! :)

(Height: 5'4")

wow, congratulations on your remarkable success so far, nursemeow!

have you read the article yet on getting thru the hard parts of dieting?  I'm not sure of the exact title, but it's currently the 1st or 2nd topic in the Weight Loss thread.  It talks a lot about how to push past a plateau.

I'm here because Dee agreed to add me (late!) - thanks Dee!

I said give up chocolate for a BIT! haha...not forever...ye gads! (I think some old people say 'ye gads'...no idea where I got it from).

 I looked at your profile, chumbl3...you're young - you'll do it!  I think it gets harder past 30 (excuses excuses) ;)

The thing I don't get is the whole belief that you're not supposed to be 'hungry' - that if you are, you are slowing your metabolism.  My question is, how do you know if it's normal hunger caused by the cutting back that you actually NEED to do to succeed...or if you're actually in danger of slowing your metabolism?  Like, if I feel hungry (usually at night after I've said I'm done for the day), I usually have a snack - healthy, of course.  Lo & behold, I wake up and I'm the same weight, or more.  Nothing works and I am afraid to keep setting goals.