Posts by bride2be08

I'm coming in super late... however I'm getting married December 5th (yikes! only 3.5 months to go) and I started out around 148 (my dress was a size 12 and fit perfect) now I am down to 129-132 and plan on losing another 8-10 pounds. I've been CCing and working out 4-6 days a week since mid April. The past 3 weeks I have really slacked off but I just started over today. I am now in a size 6 dress and it feels WONDERFUL but I want to be in a 4! Good luck to you and I hope everything works out. Weddings are great motivation to get healthy. :-)

Thank you so much for the advice and the compliments :-) The dress is already going to cost a small fortune to alter.. my mom was not pleased. LOL. When I bought it, it needed almost nothing done to it, now it's falling off. I would really really like to be at 124, that is my goal weight and I don't think I can be fully happy until I get there. To be honest it's not hard to maintain 135 ( I did it for 3 years) and I am very sure I will be keeping up my 5-6 day a week workouts for a long time to come, I just love to workout. I think it might not be so hard to maintain 124ish when I get there because I eat whatever I like for the most part, I don't deprive myself anything, I just eat small portions and CC. This has really taught me to read the label and pay attention to what I am putting in my body. After losing 16 pounds in 8 weeks I can't see myself stopping now but I appreciate the advice! :-)

Thanks for the replies so far girls! I tried my dress on a few weeks back and it was much much looser, I just can't believe that 15 pounds can make that much of a difference. It made me feel good to hear that it's not just me!

Thank you all for the replies! I am going to try and keep my calories around 1500 for the time being and see if I can get over this plateau. Hopefully my temporary weight gain will be just that and I'll start losing again soon. The info on the lean body mass was very helpful! I eat mostly veggies, lean meat protein, and fruit my fats come from almonds and olive oil for the most part. I try to stay away from white bread and rice only brown rice and aunt millies healthy goodness 5 grain light bread. Lately, I have been craving sugar (which I do not normall eat at all) but suddenly that's all I want. I'm trying very hard to only have a little bit, I think my body is trying to tell me something but I don't know what.

Once again I appreciate the advice :-) Everyone is so helpful!

Haha it probably does... I just haven't gotten around to opening it yet was trying to cook a lowcal dinner instead. Geez I wish I could have only spent $45, where in the world did you get it from? I haven't seen the F4's brand new in store for less than 90. What is the difference between all these models anyway?

yes but it is very difficult to do it in the database because there is so much interval training and I just wondered if someone who knew more about the calories burned during those activities could help me. The CC said I burned around 750 calories today... I don't know about that.

I'm in - if that's okay with everyone else? I am getting married December 5th and I am going in for my first dress fitting August 1st so I need to be at my goal weight by then. I was already aiming for that date so this shouldn't be a big deal. I need to lose 15 more pounds. Just started Alli today along with a low-fat and low sodium diet. I do not drink any pop (havent for 6 years) and I do not eat fast food. I measure all my food and only eat the serving size of everything.

This is my workout schedule - Mon, Tues, Fri - A.M. workouts 40 mins of HIIT training intervals (elliptical & treadmill) and 20 mins of lifting/circuits ... Wednesdays & Thursdays - 50 min step aerobics class, 8in step, high impact, Saturdays - Bootcamp class for 60 mins in addition 2-3 30-45 mins walks with my dog a week

I am eating no more than 1500 calories a day I've already lost 14 pounds since beginning of April but was eating and working out less.

5'2, 23, CW 134 pounds, 21%BF ... GW 120-124, 17-18% BF.

LETS DO THIS! Are weigh-ins on Tuesdays?

Haha I guess I should have clarified - I have been counting and working out for over a month at this point, I'm down 14 pounds since the last week of March. I'm stepping up my workouts because I'm in a bit of a plateau and I know I needed to do more.

I would like to lose about 1.5 pounds a week and I am just worried because I was told by the exercise physician that did my body fat analysis the other day that its going to be very very difficult for me to lose another 10-15 pounds because I am very well muscled. She classfied me as an "athlete" for my activity level so I was just wondering if I should change my setting from light to moderate on CC.

Thanks for an help you can give!

Haha, I wish my fiance even cared about his weight and mine doesn't notice what I eat at all :-) I'm glad I could be of service to you, I am in no way the know-it all but what I'm doing seems to be working.

I want to check out that website it sounds awesome, I need something like that to keep me motivated and your workouts sound great. Lifting is my favorite thing because I always feel so powerful afterwards. It gives me a good rush but I in no way want to be a bodybuilder or anything.

Good luck with your weight loss and I sincerely hope you get to where you want to be! You can do it just stick with it and I swear eating less gets easier :)

Hey amk, I'm sorry to hear that... are you keeping your deficit between 500-1000 calories  a day? And are you tracking your exercise in the burn meter? If you're not eating in that deficit then you wont lose. I typically keep mine around 600-900 calories a day. The scale i actually got from target for like 60 bucks but it was worth it! good luck to you :-)

Thank you so much for the input... after looking at my logs and my estimated sodium intake i did realize on those days i was taking in a lot of salt. Also yesterday when my weight went down I ate less salt and drank more water to help flush out my system. I dont think i was drinking enough water either.  My last question is, what is the correct level of sodium I should be eating? I can give up everything else but salt seems to be my biggest weakness, i put it on everything! haha what can I use instead?

Current average around 2200-2500mg of salt a day

Thank you so much for the reply... I was on the zone diet before and I have never done calorie watching or trying to figure out the deficit. I guess I need to make sure I eat a bit more than what I am with a 5 day a week work out schedule... I just want to get toned and drop a few pounds. I am definitely planning on keeping this up for a long time. I think I am partially overtraining however since I am so sore I can barely walk. Haha.

As my mom says i always have to do everything to the extreme. thanks for the help!