Posts by du57y

I have 2 goals, one is to reach 140 (in which case I will be satisfied if I can do no more) and the other is like, 120/125 (which is unreasonable and unrealistic but hay, I can dream can't I?)

I'm lucky that I got into a financially stable-ish type of position, I can support buying new clothes (which i also need for work) so for now the shopping is not only necessary but also fun and encouraging.

I get stuck at 160, but I figured if I got to 150 I'd buy a huge fancy hat and go to see the dinosaurs.  If I got 120 I'd buy a bikini and get a tattoo.  (I put those rewards at that because I'd never get there, and that's the likelihood that I would get a tattoo)

I become pleasantly surprised to realize as my arm is pressed against me that I can actually feel my hip bone ... or how my upper stomach is becoming smaller and harder. I can't wait to see my collar bone though :D

absolutely.

Giving everyone a turn to cook would have been to scary a thought for my family.  When I was younger my family philosophy was, on most nights, "fend for yourself". Which meant finding whatever leftovers were available and trying to eat them before anyone else saw. I admit the super mom thing is rediculous, I feel kind of bad being the kid whose every other words were "what's for dinner?" Maybe I can make a healthy suggestion or two for simple meals that are actually simple and don't require too much prep/clean up time (my life at the moment by the way).

I buy canned veggie chilli, fat free cheese slices and weight watchers bread. I heat up the chilli in the microwave and grill up the sandwhiches (the frying pan is not hard to clean after) and there's a satisfying meal (to someone like me).

Now that I think of it there's not so many options, I buy a frozen bag of stir fry, makes making stir fry real easy. I often get microwavable meals, only one kind though, the rest are quite awful. My uncle made supper when he passed through here, it was like, mango, papaya, pinapple, oranges, dragonfruit, just  a massive variety of fruits, and then tomatoe cut up, cheese, and french bread, a little variety meal. A good option is to replace anything ground beef with ground turkey (did you know there's less cals and fat in a turkey burger than in a veggie burger? I know, it's weird) turkey wins.

I noticed for kids lunches yesterday, all I noticed had a container of a raw type of vegetable. They didn't eat it with anything else, one girl had celery, one boy had peas (with the shelly part), a little girl had carrots, a little boy had cucumber, the list goes on. Point is, I don't remember eating raw veggies when I was younger, as well, even now I pack carrots in my lunch but still can't find it in me to eat them all. Veggies don't entice me as much as fruit, I pack a bunch of cherries, grapes, breakfast banana, and a snack orange.

Yay now I have to goto my second job for 8 hours on a saturday morning ~.~

I think we kinda do weekly weigh ins ... I actually kind of check it here every day but when no one else posts and it's just me I feel kind of lonesome or something. That paperclip thing confused me at first, how cute!

The name of this new thread should probably be "lose 20 pounds by anyones goal" because I'm not sure if anyone will be able to do this.

ANYWAY, after my week of fast food it APPEARS that I'm losing on track again, I broke my 161 barrier, literally every other day it would always get stuck at 161, it was so annoying. So not only did I break that, I got through to 159.5 (which isn't that far in but still!!) I'm like 1 pound away from being the skinniest I ever got on a diet. Then I have ... 40 more to go ~.~ but like I said before, I'll be happy with "normal weight range" i.e. 145.

raisin bread ...

Haha, I definately splurged a bit, I feel SO SILLY walking around going "let's eat mcdonalds, I need to severely up my calories for the day" eating a big mac thinking it'll help me lose weight.  THE PLAN was to be "off the diet" for 1 week, essentially long-term resetting my metabolism or something. So yesterday I weighed 164, woaw I went up from 161 (which was a 1-time low) but I knew it was going to happen and I wasn't worried. Today I weigh in at 162, after mcdonalds last night, lost 2 pounds ... hmmm ... I'm laughing, I really am, this is silly. I don't even know how to eat as many calories as I'm supossed to, in combination with having no food in my house, I think I have 1 bowl of cereal yesterday and mcdonalds, popsicle (like 40 cals?), and a (100 calorie) bag of chips.

Thank you everyone for birthday goodness, I feel soooooo old.

AND I DIDN'T GET STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE, IT WAS BLUEBERRY, Oh I was pissed, I hate blueberries, my birthday cake was ruined, you all read how passionate I was about it, so my grandma felt bad and was like "I'm gunna buy you a cake tomarrow" and I was like "NOES!" so she got me dairy queen instead. Burger king, dairy queen, mcdonalds, I can't believe I've only gained 1 pound ... and I would've been this weight anyway. TOMARROW NIGHT PIZZA :D

Sorry if I make someone jeleous :'( to be fair I was going hardcore for 3 months >.>

target weight, you mean 140 or less! I'm 21, 161 just today, never been pregnent though.  I've been going for jogs for weeks now and I still need to walk most of it XD

No matter what, this CAN be done, There's a girl on my friends list, star (not sure what the name is) but she was like 314 pounds or something and got down to 120, SO YES, THIS CAN BE DONE!! Not only did she lose a heck a lotta weight, but she got down to like, really really skinny, not just "I'm comfortable in old lady clothes" but "I'm actually ... pretty thin ... " I've lost 30 pounds so far and also hope to get to 140 or less, I'm almost over the 160 hub, into the 50's then the 40's ... *sigh* long way to go.  It's most important to keep with it, and don't get discouraged at plateaus, pretty much everyone on this site knows about them and can help you out with that.

Ya there's no real harm in me staying ... WHO KNOWS, Maybe my increased calorie intake is what I need to get the fat loss going again, it really seemed to be the problem, I THINK I ate to my limit yesterday and weighed in at 172 (my lowest so far is 171.5 so that's good), to be honest though I'm having a real hard time eating to my limit, it feels really good to have so little be so filling.  Like basically all I have in my house is cereal, soups, sandwhiches, chilli, veggie burgers, vegetable and fruit assortments ... (snacks such as applesauce and yoghurt tubes) I can still maks stir-fry but I'm so tired of making proper meals.  The same weird problem is that this doesn't give me enough calories XD

I learned the other day ... Ok well when I took my sister jogging, it was like I didn't eat all day or something, I didn't have supper and it was kind of late, I learned once again the value of actually eating and feeling the effects in the form of energy.  It's so hard to push myself when I haven't eaten.

Hah I forgot you started this threat Malissa, the height difference I think makes us about the same, or something. I really really want to join a sports team or something but basically I just don't have the time or social skills.  Like I think it would be a great motivator for me to push myself harder if there's a goal to achieve, thing is that I'm a jogger not a runner.

AND if anyone wants to ... they can see my weight chart in my profile in my gallery, my weight chart is actually QUITE ideal looking, I saw this one girls chart ... it was like ... abnormal heart beat in the form of waves and sharp zig-zags, it was absolutely absurd XD I weigh myself everyday because I find it helps seeing that chart to reassure me if I go up a pound, I know it'll go back down, if I go up another pound, I still know it'll go back down.

sorry for writing so much :

Ah ... What is bump supossed to mean? :S

I tried to eat lots today in order to get moer calories, turns out I just got real full and didn't eat anywhere near as much as I thought I would. Oh well.

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I'll check out the games and challanges section ... perhaps this will be in there ...

Oh star! Nothing could make me happier than hearing that!! I was so worried about excess skin I almost wanted to stop dieting ... like a paranoia, I could grab myself and be like, it didn't used to be like this ...

omg thanks malissa! I didn't know if it was helpless or not, I got jogging usually daily and I think that hels out the thighs a bit, but not on the upper inside, my arms are mostly problematic.  But I just realized, to lose 20 pounds by sept, doesn't that mean like, at the very least 1.5 pounds per week? and if something goes wrong then all bets are off? At the moment I would really like to lose it, and I'm working really hard, but I won't cry if I don't ...

Kayla ... I hope having to eat mcdonalds didn't ruin anything for you :( I ate at my grandmothers the other day and gained 2.5 pounds >:S??? then the next day I had humpty's because I had the worst day and lost a pound ...

You could bring turkey burgers (which are better than veggie burgers for more reason than 1, 1 reason being it has less calories) and say "I'm sorry but I'm on a real strict diet so could you serve up a couple of these especially for me?" ~.~ suonds a bit bad maybe but it's prolly not as awful as you think, they shouldn't mind because it saves them burgers!

I am 21, 5'5  and wanted to be my ideal normal weight of 140 for september!! To be honest I am doubting myself a lot and don't think it's possible but HERE I GO. I just can't be saddened if I don't, I have till next spring to get into a bikini :D

I do 20 minutes of jogging/walking at least once a day for a week now, god it's hard ... it's more like walk 1 min then jog 1 min ...

I jog on my own during the day and then do it again with my sister because she needs to lose the weight bad (she's 11 and got to 195) EEEK! It motivates me more than anything though!

I AM READY!! D:<

well CC (Caloriecount) is big on nutrition, it recommends that females have no less than 1, 200 calories per day, that number is made because that's about how many calories you need to have your daily recommendation of everything, (calcium, vitamin A ... etc.) There is stuff in the Tools section that will tell you about how much you burn in a day, how many calories you should have in order to lose weight at about 1.5 pounds per week.  So CC wants you to be nutritious, now whether you can or not, whatever. 

Make sure you drink about 2.5 litres of water, the actual number varies from person to person, I have been trying and can't really make it to 2.5 so do your best XD

There is no set number as to how many meals per day you should have, some people prefer 6 small meals a day over 3 larger ones, apparantly it boosts your metabolic digestive rate ... I also heard spicey foods will do that a bit as well. the more you snack, even on raw baby carrots, your stomach is still going and going.

what size portions ... ok well there is a calorie assistant thing on your "My Account" section, or just on the website you can look up foods and see how many calories are in them, thisi s where you calorie count, and depending on the calories is the size of your meal. Get it? ~.~ like I can of campbells soup without milk is 70 calories, I just made mine with water, so I have a massive bowl of soup for 70 calories ... you also have to search for yourself things like fat free milk, not 1% but like ... the most watery fat free skim milk you can find, and fat free cheese slices ... and weight watchers brown bread(which you can't find everywhere) things like broth soups, vegetables, lots of them, fruits and stufff ...... ya k bye ^_^