Posts by dalmalama

doit, i'm wrong. vodka's not calorie-free; i just checked the cals on here. i thought it was b/c a friend of mine used to order that drink when she was tryna lose weight, and she told me vodka was cal-free. i should've known she was wrong, but i don't drink so i never thought to disbelieve her. sorry akela! 1 ounce has as many cals as a whole bottle of light beer.

btw, WW says one of the lower-cal drinks is a sex on the beach. still has about 150 cals per.

akela, why don't you sneak in a bag of mostly fat free microwave popcorn? (pre-popped, of course.) movie popcorn tastes like garbage (to me) anyway, so why waste the calories? and maybe a handful of hershey's kisses? oh! they sell 100 calorie snickers bars now! they're the exact same as regular snickers, just smaller. then tomorrow have light beer. or, i don't know if you drink other stuff but vodka and diet coke has no calories.

msn, zumba is a dance cardio class. i've never taken it, so that's all i know about it.

tell us about the new place, boots!

and you guys will all totally get into your jeans/pants/boots comfortably again. you can do it!

ana, your schooling always sounds so fun! i wish i could've been in a program like yours. i only got through college by keeping my head down and avoiding most science-based classes.

i'm getting so crap at catching up. but muppet, i get that stomach churning thing. it's your belly digesting what you just ate! let it do its job, and maybe drink something no calorie so it doesn't play with your head.

and there's nothing wrong with taking things slow. that's the only way to not get overwhelmed by what you need to do. if, at the beginning, i focused on losing 170 pounds i would've quit really early on, b/c come on! small goals is the only way to keep your brain focused and chipping away at things.

but don't get me wrong, i get mini-identity crises all the time (see the one i had on the last page). it's just that we all have to readjust our thinking and our view on who we are. it's hard but necessary, so we don't get scared of who we're becoming, freak, and totally give up. i say, as long as you know what you ultimately want, even a year-long hiatus is just that; you're not giving up.

watchme, tell those jerks to take a flying leap. i have zero tolerance for naysayers, familial or otherwise. you can do any damn thing you want. like you, that was my ultimate goal, too. nothing beyond that even occured to me until i opened my eyes and realized where i already am.

muppet's back!!! yay!!!!!!

you guys are chattin' it up! i don't know if i'll catch up, but i'll jump back in soon.

but i would like to add: thanksgiving can kiss my ass.

that and christmas. i am NOT going to let 2 days, that wind up being disappointing anyway, eff up my progress when i'm so frickin' close to the finish line. my ultimate goal (until a week ago), was a size 8 but that's only 10 pounds away. i definitely need to lose the rest of the weight i intended to lose but for right now, i wanna be rockin' that size 8 by year end, which, like i said, is 10 measly pounds away. i only have 6 weeks to do it, which means i don't have any wiggle room to eff around with some damn turkey and whatnot. although i will make concessions for pie.

edit: last week i looked over my weight/size chart and realized that since i've FINALLY gotten out of plus sizes, i go down a size about every 10 pounds (really, more like every 6 pounds but the new size still fits the next 4 pounds down, so....) this is how i realized i'll be an 8 in 10 pounds, but what really blew me out of the water is that, if this pattern continues over the next 29 pounds i have to lose (which it should, since i consistently lost a size every 15 pounds in plus size, proving that my body likes to stay with its existing patterns), i might maybe, conceivably, once i'm at goal (150) get into a size 4. WTF??????

that itty bitty number doesn't belong anywhere near me. i mean, it doesn't make any sense! not emotionally, but it's perfectly biologically, physically logical. i'm not gonna stay the same size from 169 to 150, and i've already gone from a 14 to a 10 in only 12 pounds, so it probably will be the case that i'll be a 4 when all's said and done.

i haven't told anyone about this until now. i've been mulling this over in my head for over a week now, trying to imagine myself that size. this has really struck me; it feels almost embarrassing to even tell you guys. i feel like, i don't know, i guess like it has to be a lie. i mean, size 26s used to be too tight for me; what the hell business am i gonna have wearing 4s one day? this is totally freaking me out, you guys. but i'll deal with it, b/c the way my sizes are moving now i really do think that's where i'll end up.

hey girls! i'll respond to everyone in a bit, but i wanted to let doit know that the guy with the cross chain is ravens running back ray rice. i think that's his official position; he runs with the ball a lot. i wasn't even trying to get him in all those shots; he just wouldn't get out of the way!

yes, ally, def post makeover pix! you know i love a good makeover! and yay for your hair finally growing! my hair has a set length and refuses to budge a centimeter more, which is why i wear so many wigs. i look like bozo with curly hair this short and a forehead this big.

i posted a coulpla pix of me at my mom's event. you'll notice i'm not wearing the dress i showed you guys. that's because once i found it online to show you guys and saw that overstock had it for 30 bucks, i felt supremely ripped off, having paid 70 for it. so i returned it, and got the dress you see, for $17! btw, i had a blast!!!!! it was a masquerade ball. i think i'm gonna post a photobucket slide show so you guys can see the really cool masks everyone else wore. it was at our football stadium. the guys not in tuxedoes are pro football players. they were hanging around the stadium and just strolled into our party. 

also, that's the first strapless dress i've ever worn in my life! yay! oh, AND, i fit into another pair of size 10 pants! trousers, but they were too tight in the waist, giving me serious muffin top. so they stayed in the store. also, my mom forced my 30 year old ass to go into forever 21. most of the tops i tried on fit (size m), but the longer ones wouldn't go down over my booty. WHY is everything so short in there? just because teenyboppers are supposed to shop there doesn't mean they all wanna look like tramps.

but there was this $13 mini-dress--regular price!--that i tried on. i'm about 15 pounds too big for it (waaaay too tight), but once it does fit i'm gonna look insanely hot in it. i didn't get it b/c i've stopped buying things to shrink into. still, if by some miracle i lose 15 more lbs by year end, it'd be a great nye dress.

way to go on the weight loss, ladies! and akela, you know i know how frustrated you are. just hang in there, and tell pizza ranch to go to hell.

WOOHOO!!!!!!!

after being stuck for weeks, i am finally, FINALLY out of the 180s! my weight today? 179.4!!!!! yeah!

wait a minute...i don't know why i didn't realize this before, but in less than 6 months i've lost almost 40 pounds. yup, on 5/27 i was 218.8. so hopefully, once 11/27 gets here, i'll be less than 178.8 (i hope!) anyway, it's hard not to beat myself up during plateaus, but it totally just blew my mind that i've done so well in such a short amount of time. i'll try to remember that the next time i hit a plateau, which i'm sure will be around 169.

i just got this dress for an event my mom invited me to. she invited me last night, and it's this saturday. last minute, much? anyway, i was totally blown away that every single size 10 dress i tried on fit. this dress is a medium (!!), and it's the first backless thing i've ever worn in my life! my booty's bigger than the fit model they used to make the dress, so the back pleating isn't as accentuated, but it's still noticeable.

i'm gonna make sure to take a bunch of pix and post for you guys! btw, it looks hella better on than it does on the mannequin. but i've noticed that a lot lately. most clothes look waaaay better in person than they do online.

i was gonna wear that blue dress i wore to my mom's friend's wedding but it's too big now! up top, anyway. it still fits in the bum, but it's too loose from the waist up and the boob part hangs beneath the girls.

i'm glad the prepared meals are working out so far watchme!

ally, duh! weigh yourself in the morning! the higher, later weight includes your clothes, all the food you've eaten during the day, and any extra water our bodies tend to add on during the day. weigh yourself as soon as you get up, after you use the bathroom, and totally nekkid. that will be your truest weight.

geez! no one's been on here in 6 hours? not counting me, 7 hours??!?! nuts! oh well.... i had to come back on and let you guys know that i heard back from the boxing class. they have a spot and i'm in! i have to pick up the equipment i need this weekend so i can start the class next week.

yay makeovers! doit, i have a suggestion for the next time you get arby's. get whatever you want, but take it home and eat it in front of the biggest mirror you have, and watch yourself while you eat it. i did that a few times, not on purpose though, and i was disgusted by what i saw. and it helped for a very long time to remember how pathetic i looked chowing down on a ridiculous meal while saying i was trying to lose weight. i really think that if you do that it'll help you avoid arby's and the like for a while.

you can do it, ally!

i'm glad you had a good time in spite of the hotel, akela!

that's messed up about your mom's roommate, akasha. but i'm sure she feels a little better b/c you're there for her.

and hi new girls!

hi all!

i'm switching stuff up with weight watchers starting tomorrow, so i'm hoping, PRAYING to get the hell out of the 180s by the end of the month. my body's a bitch; i was 181 this morning but i can almost bet i'll be 183 tomorrow. i did manage to work out 5 times this week, but i also overate on 2 or 3 occasions. so i can't really be mad at the scale tomorrow.

anyhoo, what's really awesome is that this dress fits!!! well, technically. my measurements match up with the size chart. it's not in stores, and i have neither the money nor the need to buy it any time soon, but it's just awesome to finally be able to fit incredible dresses.