Posts by tina_4792

WOW!!!!  I am so proud to have been part of that number!!!!!!  And I am so proud of all of you!!!!!!

WOW!  All the stats are amazing!  I fell off the wagon and hit the ground hard, but 70.5 lbs is still a triumph for me and I am back on the wagon as of today.

SW: 305

CW as of January 1, 2009: 234.5

Total lost: 70.5 lbs.

2009, here we come!!!!!  

PIZZA!!!!! Hot, cold, new, old, good, bad, thick, thin, no toppings, every topping...  it's scary.

SW: 305

CW: 223

Total: 82 lbs

I went up 9 lbs this month and then back down 7 for a net gain of 2 lbs, which is okay with me considering the new house, new job, new semester starting...  But I'm still here and still counting!

Hey, Katie!  I got caught up in some house trouble drama and went crazy with the eating at dinner.  I ate around 3100 cals and am not wanting to live in DENIAL just because my man and I are all stressed out.  Down 13 lbs?  Excellent!!!!  Only 5'7"?  Hehe - I am 5'4" - petite clothes are too short and regularlengths are too long - we're all "awkward" when it comes to clothes.  If you are talking about dropping cals due to having a waist that goes with a smaller-sized person, again, I'd urge following the calorie target calculator - dropping too low CAN work against you - check out forum posts about this - you'll hear the same things from all sorts of different people.  It can mess up your calorie burn factor - but I'm no doctor or health professional!  Just a CC buddy who cares.  And hey, some women get mad b/c they lose in the chest area first!!!!  Luck is relative, huh???????  Hey, well have a great Friday!

HEY, CHAT-PEOPLE!  Good morning, everyone!  Aww, Chat really IS back!  I am going for a walk.  We just bought a new (to us) house and if I don't walk now, it AIN'T gonna happen later!  Ciao!!!

Kimne - That's what I want too - my ashes scattered in the wind!  it's so beautiful to think about vs. being encrypted or with a big headstone that always has leaves around it b/c no one visits me b/c why does someone need to visit a piece of marble when I made no memories there??????????  RIGHT?????

Hey Katie, that's a great question - I would like to be at 185 by June 2009.  I'm at 221-225 right now due to exactly what you said: I start getting confident, then cocky, then downright lazy about following through on a healthy LIFE, not a temporary diet to reach a short-term goal!  I think my goal is totally attainable if I stick to counting calories for a 500/day deficit and eating whole, nutritious foods.  I'd love to check in and just say: this is the good thing I did for my health today and this is the exercise I did today.  I jokingly say that  life gets in the way of my health, but it's really about the moment-to-moment and day-to-day choices that all add up to the quality of life we have.  Don't you think?

Hey, Katie!  I'd love to be/have an accountability buddy - it's easy to stray, but when we can all help each other, the journey is easier and more enjoyable.  I started my journey to better health after living in denial and yo-yoing with diets since I was six years old - my parents took me to Weight Watchers in fifth grade, etc. - I had dieting horrors on a regular basis.  About a year ago, I stepped on the scale, saw 305, and about had a heart attack.  I had just turned 35 in June and knew it would never get easier to achieve health as I got older - just harder and why wait 'til heart trouble or diabetes set in to start changing?  I have lost 80 lbs and feel great - except that lately I have gotten really relaxed about what I eat and have gotten really lazy about regular exercise, too.  I'd love to buddy-up and share accountability on a regular basis and success/struggles along the way!  Count me in!  (PS - My goal is to lose 120 lbs and then re-assess my health goals...)

Original Post by spoiled_candy:

I actually gave a co-worker some vitiman D and told her that it was my diet pill.  Told her that they were illegal and that I could hook her up for a fee.  Lol  She fell for it.

OMG!!!!  That is so naughty - yet hilarious!  Some people will try anything short of hard work and commitment.  Serves her right for being lazy!

Get on the scale and out of the land of denial!  (LOL, but really!)  I ate horribly ALL weekend and was scared and embarrassed to face the scale, but I decided if I didn't, I might just get more scared and more depressed and discouraged and just keep eating.  So I got on the scale - EIGHT POUNDS UP FROM MY LOWEST WEIGHT - think movie scream here - and recorded the weight in my weight log and am about to go for a walk and plan out what I'm going to eat this week to drop both the water weight from all the salty foods and eat for a bigger deficit this week to at least get back where I was and move downward, not upward.  You have two days to eat well and if you don't like the numbers you see on Wed., you'll know what to do next week.  Moral:  Opportunity for strategy instead of setting yourself up for failure.  You can bluff anyone BUT yourself!  Be kind but be honest with yourself - you're okay!

YES.  Great for you, BTW - those kinds of comments are great and make it easier to keep going!  My significant other and I used to walk to a little ice cream shop nearby that is run by a father and son.  (I weighed 305 at my peak, but never turned down walking if we ended up at thatice cream place - LOL!)  We hadn't gone by there in a long time, but I started walking for health and weight loss and one evening I walked by the ice cream place and the son (who is totally cute and maybe in his early 20's?) yells out in front of all these people who are sitting outside eating ice cream:  "WHOA, HAVE YOU LOST LIKE A HUNDRED POUNDS???????"  In a way, I was mortified, as I never would've phrased a compliment that way, but yet I knew he was sincere and totally complimentary so I yelled back:  "NO, SEVENTY-NINE AND A HALF!!!!" and a couple of people said. "Great!" and "Good job!" and then I waved and kept walking.  I only meant to walk for half an hour, but ended up feeling so inspired that I walked a whole hour instead!  At times I feel like I don't look different, but I do!  I've lost 84 lbs now and have lots more to go, but that comment was really a nice surprise!

Ahhh, so sad yet so true...

OMG!!!!!!!!!  I am TOTALLY going to say that next time!!!!!

Jensin, hilarious!!!!  Yes, I think everybody wants a magic pill!  (Heck, I do!) Great for your losses - the healthy way!  Or as my man puts it "You're doing it the hard way."  He said the other day that he was so proud of me!  (I loved it - LOL!)  4theloss, I really do tell them about CC and they just turn their ears off.  It's hilarious - the reaction is usually the same.  I even tell them it's free, but they don't join.  But you know what?  This site and the people on it are indeed AWESOME!  But the best ones are already here or about to get here - right?

For me, the mental challenge is that I make it "more than what it actually is."  I know it sounds silly, but I build up a situation in my mind, sometimes unrealistically, especially when I have guilt for not doing my part to achieve better health.  Safina:  I officially release the hold that going to the gym has over you!   (waves magic wand over Safina...)  Seriously, I get over my mental hurdle when I say:  It's just a (fill-in-the-blank) - i.e., walk, trip to the gym, trip to the dentist, whatever, then I remove the overpowering hold that grips my brain!  (LOL)  Sometimes, even if I don't feel like it, I do what some people call "act as if..."  And I just go through the motions:  I put my workout pants on, put my t-shirt on, put my socks and shoes on, grab my mp3 player and just walk out the door - no overthinking, overprocessing, or beating myself up!  I just got back from a nice long walk after feeling awful for the last few days about not exercising.  I "acted as if" I wanted to go and just a few minutes into my walk I felt wonderful.  I hope this helps, and let me tell you, everyone has peaks and valleys.  But people who are successful over the long term keep trudging up that valley to the next peak.  Feel free to PM me if you want, and just keep putting one foot in front of the other.  You're TOTALLY normal and okay!!!!  

PS:  Melkor is right - no one will judge you, they'll be glad for you - all the people at the gym are proactively seeking better health and fitness - you'll fit right in!