Posts by wickedsis

hey hey everyone! been a while since i last posted! it's been really really crazy at work. anyway, i also went on a holiday and god knows what that did to my weight! water and fat all mixed together, i gained SIX lbs. in five days, haha. glad to see me back to normal now though. i've lost track of my last weigh in but i am happy to report that i am at my lowest now... i started at 196 lbs last april 4 and i am now 182 lbs.... woohoo!!! feels great, it really really does... but i need to update my wardrobe. i cant wear most of my clothes anymore because they're all too big (i have lost a total of 28 lbs since i last updated my wardrobe) so that sucks... but since i still need to lose 50lbs. more, i'm not really into buying new clothes... guess it's time to go see my neighborhood altrerer :)

i cant believe i missed weigh in last week!! i have been so so so busy!! anyway, nothing new with me, i havent really lost weight... so here are m sstats:

SW: 195

CW: 186

sigh..... guess theres a way to lose some more... i have been alking during lunch break since thats the only time i can squeeze i some exercise... i guess i should find a way to exercise during the weekend too :((

but good news though... the dress i had made for a wedding next week had to be redone since it was too loose! so yay for me :)

hi girls! hope everyone's weigh in went well... writing this post-party... anje: it went well... alot of m,y dear dear friends came by and that was a blast. i was a bit of a good girl too since i stuck to the ultra low-fat tuna sashimi :) of course by the end of the night i knew the bad ass would take over and i just had to have a bit of rice and bbq ribs! the joy!!! and of course the guilt 30 minutes after, haha... oh well, what's done's been done :( new day today new start... stopping by the gym today to work off those ribs too...

oh, but i do have a piece of good news... i didn't have a single drop of alcohol last night so yay to me! :) since im a diabetic, i really cant have alcohol anymore and last night was a first for me... saying no to alcohol at a party woohoo... of course everybody looked a tad bit too sombre (and sober!) to me but all's good :) just happy i wasn't too bad at the party... goes to show i can have a good time and still not let go, yay :)

Original Post by olivia77:

come on, wickedsis! do it for yourself, girl ( :

what's the problemo?

YOU CAN DO IT! (we all can)

just been getting so so hungry these days, haha... been missing sugar in my life! seriously though, the past week has just been too good... so many good things happening.. i got the bar exam results ( i passed), saw some old friends, accepted a new job (which has FREE lunch buffet everyday), and been celebrating all around... the festive air got me... so there had been sightings of chicken (skin-on!!), rice and chocolate! damn... need to get back on track defo... :)

Original Post by jfk61:

Did I mention that the electric paddles seemed to have imbued me with superpowers?

* Turns around, shows off glowing butt *

I can squat like 600 lbs now.

hmmmm.... dont know if i should be impressed or embarrassed, haha

Original Post by spoiled_candy:

You missed moody giving jfk an electric paddle on his bum, oh yeah and chinese food, jfk bought.

mmmmmmmmmmmm chinese food..... yum... so when's it my turn at the electric paddle? ;)

hi everyone! apologies for having been gone... work overtook everything, haha.. anyway, might not be here for the weigh in tomorrow so im doing the weigh in one day early.

i signed up for CClast week (april 4) at 195 lbs and today i'm ta-dah.... 189 lbs.! so yay for me... of course this is what i call suspicious weight because at 6 lbs. in one week.. it just might be water... still it feels great.

oh and i had a job interview yesterday for a new law firm and guess what, i had absolutely nothing to wear because all my clothes are now too big... first time i cheered not having anything to wear EVER... haha cheers all around :)

anyway, so there... for my first week it's 6 (dubious) lbs... but hopefully i can reach 180 come may 11 (date of a friend's wedding where i am a *gasp!* a bridesmaid...) and whatever i lose between then and the 24th is just icing on the cake :)

Original Post by jfk61:

* Pulls half eaten pizza slice out of Wick's hand *

Here--who wants leftover pizza?

i'm up i'm up.... heeeeyyyyy i wanted that pizza!!!!!!! cold leftover pizza's the best.... damn... been way too long since i last had a slice ;(

Original Post by nsgardener:

wickedsis.

good for you. Its hard to lose weight, but there is noting like medical complications to motivate one. My husband is the one who is diabetic, recently diagnosed. He had been overweight most of his life and convinced he just had to look at food to gain weight. He was amazed that following CC's recommendations of keeping to certain calorie limits worked. He is sticking to it reaonably well, from losing weight to plateauing when under stress (1 lb a month rather than 1 to 2lb's a week). He says the main motivation (he is 60) is that he cannot stand the idea of the complications like loosing eyesight.It will take him one to two years to be"normal" but he IS getting there, and the doctor is perfectly pleased that he is loosing the weight. (I remember him saying that she looked a little stressed when she gave him the bad news- later talking to her he found she has had people very unwilling to accept their condition.) The amazing thing is that he is doing it without increased exercisee. Once school is over he is hoping to be able to incorporate more exercises that will hold over into the school year.

one thing I recommend you have if you do not have one is to get an electronic food scale- ones that measure in grams( CC's recipes,etc will always work with grams of food better than with cups,oz,etc). the electronic ones with tara function( you can zero between adding different weights- great for tracking food added to a plate, salad) and an automatic zeroing. The tara function helps with cutting down on adding and subtracting (mistakes creep in so easily that way). My husband found by keeping close track with CC he could add his favourite end of the day before bedtime snack like ice cream- calculated to the nearest gram- and still lose weight.

thanks nsgardener... i have been actually a good girl the past couple of weeks, since having given up most of my sugar... i now source it from fruits and carrots, can you believe it? i still eat rice (the philippines is a rice-eating country) every now and then but having cut if off breakfast and lunch has helped my sugar intake tremendously... i checked my fasting level yesterday and it was 109, today (after eating rice last night) it was 119 so yay.... i'm really motivated by the results :)

hell yeah jfk!! might as well drink up online, if i cant do it at my local bar... so keep it coming! haha

hey ladies, hope everyone's day went well... i did the unthinkable and binged on BEEF last night... this after telling myself i will never ever binge again, haha... i stll stayed within my calorie allowance with the binge so it wasnt that bad. but the thought that i would eat something that is bad for me annoys me to no end. i weighed myself this morning upon waking up and i'm down another .5 lb. dismal i know but its better than nothing. today i go back to the gym... hopefully :)

Original Post by swim15:

I have the same problem as you guys....

Question though... How do you control your binges before they start? Do you have the self control to stop once you get a little into the binge?

 

i try to leave the house whenever i feel a full on binge coming, :D anythig and everything that would distract me from the binge really... i use the same technique to quit smoking although i still have a puff every now and again. i guess its the same with bingeing... i still have that double choco chip cookie every now and again but i try to distract myselffrom eating everything all at once :)

this will sound extremely geeky, but being as sunday night here last night, i stayed up late geeky-dancing (the kind you never EVER let anyone see)  to new songs on my ipod!

hi there! i was also diagnosed insulin resistant about two years ago. i'm taking metformin to control my sugar. when i was first diagnosed, i used metformin as an excuse to still eat everything i wanted, thinking hey, the meds would digest my sugar for me. of course i knew this was wrong, but i still didnt take my sugar intake seriously. at the time, i was also 230 lbs., hypertensive and lived a very stressful life. i was a walking time bomb, at 25 years old.

i lost some weight when i started with metformin (about 20 lbs.), but again stopped losing weight afterwards. i still didnt watch what i ate, drank, smoked and kept the very streesful lifestyle i had. it all caught up with me when two months ago i suffered a mild stroke. the uncontrolled diabetes definitely contriuted to it.

to date, i have lost an additional 20 lbs. (i am no 190 lbs. from the whopping 230 lbs. two years ago). goal weight is 127 lbs. by my birthday next year (july 25th 2009). it's ambitious i know but i need to do it,because if i don't i stand to lose more than just a few pounds.

i have limited my intake of sugar and carbs (which pains me to no end, having a sweet tooth), and once i get the go signal from my docs, i am going back to my daily gym routine, which i have started pre-stroke. hopefully, this will help me control the diabetes :)

i know im pushing it, joining in a tad too late for the 10 lb. goal by the 24th... but there's no harm in trying right? :) i have a wedding to attend on may 11th and any pound lost would be really appreciated :) i started at 195 lbs. 2 days ago and have dropped to 191. lbs today, although im sure iits mostly water.. still, it's nice to see the numbers drop right? :)