Posts by kristenk5185

Thanks!

Thats great advice guys! I always eat and then i'm hungry again in know time.  i'll try that next time. 

Hey guys!

So this week i kinda fell off the wagon.  I ended up going out last night, had a few drinks, eat then thought eating Jack in the Box potato wedges and 2 tacos seemed like a good idea.  i don't even really like fast food. but when i drink apparently i do.  not only did that make me feel like crap this morning, but i recently quit smoking.  well thats another down fall i have. when i drink i think smoking sounds great.  so needless to say i didn't feel real great this morning.  but i did weigh in......as of last week i went back up to 195.......as of this morning.....192.50.   so i guess thats some pregress considering i went out last night.  suppose it could of been better, but i'm happy that i atleast didn't gain.  well good luck  to the rest of you. and congrats to those who made there goal for the week.

shizzy~

what exactly is flaxseed and where do you get it?  just a regualr grocery store?

Original Post by princess-adora:

Hi guys! I've been reading without being a member for the last few weeks, but I reckon that if I really want to actually lose weight, then I have to start paying more attention to everything, and not just the number on the scale. I weigh in every day before getting dressed (and after visiting the toilet, pesky water weight!) and I'm currently hovering around 187.

I started off in November at 197, so I've lost about 10lbs (which has JUST hit home, ohmigosh yay!) but it's taking forever and it's so frustrating watching the numbers go up and down. I don't exercise much, which is very bold, but I do drive every weekday, which apparently burns calories so I guess I save that way.

You guys are pretty amazing, with all the losses that are happening, but when I see the number of people on the 120 and 130 end of things, it's mega depressing as I'll never ever get there (if I want to remain healthy anyway, I've a large frame and am at least 5 foot 8). Maybe some day I'll make it to the 150s though :)

 Oh, I've seen a lot of posts about water and the 8 glasses a day "myth". I dunno about anyone else, but I drink at least 2 litres a day, and it helps a lot. I think drinking so much even helps to push the excess water out of the body, if that makes any sense!

I'll be 24 in March, and I'd love to be a few dress sizes smaller by the time that happens, but what will be, will be. 

 

 

Hey Princess-adora!

I know exactly how you feel.  I'm 5"7"  and about 195lbs.  I used to be roughly 140-150, but my dad past and since i have just coped by eating and drinking.  Don't get frustrated, cause your not the only one who is in the 120-130 range.  I'm sure as heck not.  I also have a large frame.  I've talked to numous people and doctors and they have all said that for my body type i should typically wiegh anywhere from 135-140.  So you too can do it.  Don't look at the negative, look for the positive.  And so maybe one week you do't loose weight, and you don't gain, but maube your pants are feeling a little looser.  I think you should only wieght your self 1 a week, if that.  It you do it more your going to see the number going up and down.  And that will just frustrate you even more.  I knowit does me.  But honestly i could care less how much i actually wieghed.  As long as i'm healthy, fit, in shape, and feleling good then nothing else matters.  It's just a number.  And a number its something that your should allow to bring you down.  Nothing can make you inferior without your consent.  So it you let it piss you off and annoy you then your letting your wieght get the best of you.  From now on just look at the number and say, "ok well its not what i wanted, and i was expecting a little more progress, but who cares i feel great!"  And as long as you feel good, and stay positive, positive results are soon to follow.

Happy Birthday!

I agree I wouldn't want to either on my Birthday.  Think of it as a giving yourself a present.  A day of nothing!!!!  

I hope you have a great one!  Maybe you and I can try this working out in the morning thing together.  See what happens.  Good luck! Let me know how you do!

Hey Everyone!

 I haven't been on in  about a week.  I've been sick with the flu.  Fun stuff, let me tell ya.  So I missed weigh in day.  But I did manage to weigh myself this morning.  Last weeks weight was 193.......as of this morning I was 190.5.  Not to bad for not being able to work out for a week.  I'm happy with it. I've managed to lose about 7.5 lbs since i've started so I don't really think I'm doing to bad.  Anyways, I had only a little bit of time to read over the rest of the posts.  But Congrats to everyone who reached their goal for the week (last week). 

*Kristen*

Hey guys!

Kirsten actually introduced me to this thread.  My name is Kristen. I'm 22 soon to be 23.  I've3 always have been a little over weight.  When I was a kid I was a twig.  Skin and bone.  But once puberty hit, guess what, the hips came out and the cravings started.  Up until about 18 months ago, I weighed roughly 145-150.  But I'm also 5'7", so for my height that really isn't that bad.  It was just a matter of toning.  While I was dating my ex, I started to get severe panic attacks.  To the point that I became a hermit.  I couldn't do andthing.  I was miserable.  I couldn't go to the movies, stand in line at the grocery store, sports events, etc. etc. I couldn't even eat.  I ended up losing about 45 pounds in a matter of 2 months, it was gross.  There is a picture in my gallery from 2005, and you can actually see how thin I was.  That pic. was taken when I was starting to gain the weight back.  But since then, my father pasted away, and everything changed.  I didn't know how to cope.  I was daddy's little girl.  I'm not the crying type and I don't really open up to much.  It makes me feel weak, and I don't want to be weak. So instead of coping the normal way, I starting eat and drinking.  It will be 2 years since my dad past in April.  Since his passing I have managed to gain about 60 pounds. I now weigh about 194.  I have lost about 4 pounds.  Whoopy...right?  But its a start. 

Kristen

Oh wow!

I have had so many nicknames through out my life.  When i was a baby apparently I did this thing where i would stretch my neck out so far that I looking like a turtle coming out of its shell.  So ever since then my nicknames in my immediate family has always, since i can remember, been turtle.  Eventually my dad shortened it to turt, which let me tell ya. when your a kid and your playing outside and your dad comes out to call you in for dinner, people don't think he is saying turt.  Most thought something else.  As i got older for some ungodly reason my sister now calls me turtlebutt.  I don't know why, but I think its funny. And i answer.  as i got older and started working I became know as Red, Sunshine, and TRouble. I'm sure theres a few more but I can't think of them.  Then when i became legal, who am i kidding, when i starting drinking at what ever age that was, my friends dubbed me as Captain.  I love captain morgan.  Me and the captain make it happen. 

Thanks Brittany!

 Apparently we do have a lot in common.  I love Burger King....love my whoppers with cheese.  I have a weakness for them.  Always late night cravings.  Hope you don'y mind, but i added you as one of my buddies.  Where'd you  go to high school?  such a typical stl question, huh?  What do you do? school? work? intersts?  Sorry i'm actually at work myself right now and its almost the end of the day.  I guess i figure if i keep myself occupied it might go by fast. 

*Kristen*

Hey!

I'm Kristen. I'm 22 And from St. Louis, Mo.  I could use some extra motivation as well. Hit me up when you get a chance.

XOXOXO

DE JA VU!

 I'm 22 and I can relate to wha tyou are saying.  Only on the other end.  I was a terrror to my parents.  I was always in trouble at school, social events, etc.  I just didn't care.  I felt that I was a big girl and could do what ever I wanted.  Whether I hurt someone or myself in the process.  I never really got into the drug scene, but I did get into drinking. 

While I was growing up, I was always invisible, atleast thats the way I felt.  I never felt good enough.  I felt like I was always in my sisters shadow.  I have an older siser and a younger brother  So let me tell ya, middle child syndrome does exist.  But I starting acting out to get attention.  I knew my parents weren't going to notice me otherwise.  So instead of getting positve attention I strived for the negative. To me it didn't matter.  As long as I had it.  I nearly got suspended from high school, had a few run ins with the cops, drove drunk, partied like a rock star.  I just ran with the wrong crowd.  But I did it cause I knew my mom would have a fit.  My dad traveled for a living so he wasn't around except on the weekends, so he really had know clue what was going on around the house. 

It finally got to the point of growing up.  Know one forced me.  I understand that your girls are you babies.  You care so much and lov ethem and only want to best for them.  But they have to figure the rest out on there own.  If they are anything like i was, i didn;t want to be told.  I KNEW all!  They are going to make mistakes and screw up, but the only way they will ever learn is by doing it.  They have to figure it out on their own.  It's like someone telling you that you won't like a certain tv show or a certain kind of music.  Well you don't know that until you see it, or hear it. 

They only advise I can really give you is.....don't let you youngest come home right away. Start out slow.  Of course she is going to want to go out with her friends on the weekends.  What I would do is call her on a monday.  And ask her what her plans are going to be for the next weekend.  Most teenagers don't have plans made until the day of.  And see if she/ they want to have a girls weekend.  If there are a few of there friends that you do like tell them that they can have one friend come over.  But it is strictly a girls weekend.  Rent movies, eat cookie dough, gossip,  showe them that you not only have a "mom" side, but that you can relate to them on there level.  Show them that you can be "cool" but that you are aslo an authority figure.  Your there mom, of course there are going to be things that your disagree with and vise versa.  But maybe getting on the same level will help them to open up to you. 

I can pretty much gararuntee that you youngest is doing all of this because she is striving for your attention.  When your oldest was going through her stuff, you focused on her.  Your youngest felt neglected.  Not that you neglected her, but in a teenaged girls mind you did.  So now she figures ok well thats how my sister got attention so i'm going to do the same.  Give her attention, want ot be part of her life, want to be her friend, but know when the friend needs the stop and the mom needs to come out.

I hope in some way shape or form this helped.

if there is anything that your may want to speak further on, please feel free to message me.