Posts by ab1435

Name: AK1435 (Angie)

Current Weight: 150
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing: Scale
Amount of weight you wish to lose: 20 pounds
How often do you want to weight-in? Weekdays

Goal by Christmas? 135
What do you do to workout? Eat right? Tips or advice:

Workout: Most days on home glider/eliptical but now that it's cooler I can walk/run outdoors... some free weights

Food: I love fruit and veggies... I'm finding it hard to eat healthy with my family around.  :( I eat wonderfully until it comes to sweets. Fast food/snack foods/decandent meals don't bother me at all to try and resisist... it's almost always the sugar.

Weekly Goal: 500 cal deficit a day.  Excercise every single day at least a little bit.

It's okay, just keep doing what you're doing. When I was most motivated a year ago, counting 1200 every day I was losing pretty regularly and got stuck at 178 (from 195) for about 2 and half weeks.

I know how you feel, I felt like such a failure, it was very frustrating. I just kept telling myself that calories are science and I kept with it. And sure enough... after 2 weeks of waking up to 178 I woke up to 175 and some change.

It's my understanding if you've been steadily in a deficit your body will take it's own initiative and stall weight loss in case something is wrong with the rest of you (a disease, famine, etc). Just keep doing what you're doing, it'll drop sooner or later. I been there.

If it gives you any encouragement at all I started at 195 and I'm at 146 now... so close to 50! Don't let that little plateau get you down, just keep on keepin on!!

Well other than eating all my food groups and walking to campus today I didn't do too much. I ate really good, though!

I'm gonna try my darndest to get that 4 hours end before next thurs... I've got about 45 mins of it done haha.

and floydh77, I'm with you on the sweets front. My sweet tooth is so mean sometimes it could scare attila the hun.

Tomorrow I will: eat no more than one designated "treat" item and get 45 mins either running or on the tony little glider. Good luck guys, don't give up! I'm weighing in the morning!

5 days successful, only 26 more left this year!

I plan on taking a good 30-40 run/walk/jog tonight. I've been doing good calorie-wise.

Idk about weighing in, I weigh myself once a day so any day is good for me. No time like the present, I suppose:

Dec. SW: 155.4

CW: 153.4

Down 2 pounds in 3 days! Totally not a normal occurance, but yay for now!

Angie

CW 155.4

GW 135

I've had my digital sunbeam for about a year and it's done me pretty good. I've heard of other people's digital scales fluctuating to the point of frustration and mine always give me a solid number. Good luck, regardless!

take care!

take the total calories in the container and divide it by how many servings you're going to divide it into. :)

Hope that helps!

Original Post by white_sakura:

Original Post by jennpz89:

Original Post by cellophane_star:

Stay motivated! Don't give up! It gets easier with time.

It took you a number of years to gain weight... it's not going to come off overnight. Keep your eyes on the prize.

Be informed and don't fall for/rely on "diet" food. Eat real food (in proper portions).

Exercise! Get active!

The number on the scale shouldn't determine how you feel about yourself and your progress.

It's ok to say NO to food and it's ok to NOT clean your plate.

AMEN to the last one!!!

It's crazy how some people (ie. me in the past) think they will die if they don't clean their plate. Parents should stop teaching kids this.

Well, it IS wasting food...and the food you wasted could be used to feed one starving kid in Africa.  Just pointing out that it's not a good habit to be wasting resources that could have been allocated elsewhere.

 Well, unless you're going to get a refridgerated courrier to in fact send that food to Africa, that food is already wasted. So the big question is is the excess food going down the disposal or on your butt?

My advice-  eat when you're hungry. there's no since "saving" calories if you're going to binge later. It's better to eat reasonably all day and if you happen to run out calories... run around the block to make up for it. :)

Original Post by thesnarf:

Spinach and wine FTW!

 hahaha I'm with thesnarf... any alcohol requirement to eat a certain food is a winner in my book. And I thought I loved spinach before...

Gosh I love when these threads seem to come at the most perfect times. I've been so frustrated telling myself not to freak about the 2-3 extra pounds (it's not real gain!) but it's more relieving when some divine entity plants a thread like this. :)

mine is my school ID... just easy when you can remember all the same account name haha. Guess I'm lazy. Fun topic tho!

It's definately possible that it's the change in your eating habits. I know i've lost almost 30 pounds and as I was losing the first 30 mine went from a very regular 28 day cycle to a complicated 23 day cycle. Now it's coming even earlier and I think it's because I've been cutting back a little too much lately.

 Have you been sticking to your calorie intake? I think trying to keep it to a regular number has a lot to do with it.

But you're not alone at least irregular periods are a common side effect of dieting. Try getting back into your regular habits and see if it doesn't return to normal.