Posts by mor125

Height: 5'5"

Start Weight: 163

Last Week: 158

Today: 157

Loss: -1 lbs

Goal: 125

Start weight: 163

Last week: 158

Now: 156

2 lbs lost. I could have been better by working out and eating less junk this week. I'll start being really good this week!

losing_w8:  i have the same problem from time to time. i'll be good all day long then when night time comes...its all over! haha. i find drinking water really helps then ask yourself if you're really hungry or just bored. most of the time its just boredom. or have fruit. it really fills you up and satifies your sweet tooth.

good job randomlife!! :)

prettymess: good to hear! :) its always a relief when that happens. haha i love taco bell too!

randomlife219: good idea! i'll start e-mailing you my daily food + excercise routine starting tomorrow. and feel free to remind me im a fatass if you notice im starting to eat bad foods here and there or you think im lagging on the excercise. lol. ;p

i love skinny cow! i haven't tried their fudge pops yet, but i will.  i really like their 'skinny dippers' popsicles. (80 cals each). i can never stop at 1 though and eat 2-3 at a time. :T or dreyers has these cream popsicles which are yummy too! (45 cals/each).

i know what you mean. i hate telling ppl im on a "diet" when they ask me why im not drinking or pigging out along w/ everyone else. makes me feel like a party pooper. haha but then you feel good about it the next day so its worth it. aww poor you!! i read what happened tues night. and to answer your question, although im sure it was rhetorical, i think the cals count for 1/2 of what you ate. lol. i read an article about bulimic girls once and a lot of ppl think that when they throw up all the calories you just ate are gone, but its really only half...? something along those lines. (ok...that might sound strange to ppl reading this haha...but no one here is bulimic....)

welcome everyone!! :)

angela

ugh! this is so sad! i've been using cc for about a month now and in total i've only lost 2 lbs!! :( maybe im not being strict enough or excercising enough.

randomlife219: thats great your back down! the zig zag diet is when you do 1,200 calories one day, then the next day you do 1,500 calories, etc. right? so your body doesn't think its starving or something?

ishkabibbles: no problem :)

i've never heard of vampire romance before. sounds interesting though! i was totally going to quit using cc and stopped logging in my calorie intake for a few days cause it seemed like a lost cause.

but then i went to borders and started looking around the motivational diet books and got "the secrets of skinny chicks." its pretty good so far. it doesn't really talk about what to eat or how to excercise because i think i already know what im suppose to be doing. its more of a mental thing for me though. it talks about eating when you are actually hungry and stopping before you get full.  i realized the majority of the time that i'm eating it's because its time to eat, people around me are eating, or i'm just bored and trying to avoid doing what i'm really suppose to be doing. anyway, it's sort of obvious that you're not suppose to eat when you're not hungry and stop before you're full, but i think i've kind of forgotten all that and i always tend to just clean my plate b/c its soo good or out of habit.

goal of the week: 60 minutes of cardio 5x this week

welcome prettymess and bertanny86! we're here to help!

randomlife219: thx for the info! it does help to see what other ppl are eating to lose lbs. instant oatmeal works really good cause it has so little calories but it fills you up! i think i'm the same...i get majority of my calories from dinner. its easy for me to be good all day long but its always night time that gets me in trouble. the chances of me going a little crazy with food is higher. haha. have fun in boston! :)

ishkabibbles: so if you want to lose 2 lbs/week, thats 3,500 x 2 = 7000 calorie deficit by eating less or excercising. you're eating 1,230 daily, 2000 - 1,230 = 770. 770 x 7 = 5,390 calories already taken off. 7000 - 5,390 = 1,610 calories you need to burn by excercise all week. 1,610 / 7 = 230 calories you have to burn daily at the gym.

hmm...i should probably lower my calorie intake then since i don't excercise much. so if i wanna lose 2 lbs/week thats 7000 calories to burn a week. i burn a little over 2000 calories daily just living. so if i eat 1,300 calories/day thats cutting out 700 calories a day which equals out to 4,900 calories a week. 7000-4900 = 2,100 calories to get rid of by excercising. 2,100 / 7 = 300 calories to burn daily at the gym. i think thats definitely possible. or i can even skip some days at the gym and just stay longer to make up for the lost day(s).

do you find it hard to stick with 1,200 calories/day randomlife219? on those days i eat 1,200 i'm starving and am soo tempted at night to eat more. ok so im going to start pre-planning my meals on a daily basis so i'll always be prepared and never stuck eating junk because theres nothing else around.

Breakfast: maple brown sugar oatmeal (low sugar) - 120 calories

    banana - 105 calories

Lunch: noah's bagel cranberry bagel - 320 calories

Snack: apple - 100 calories

Dinner: (10) dumplings - 500 calories

= 1,145ish calories (i'm sure im undercalculating somewhere)

jennapher ~ I know what you mean about the age thing! I keep telling myself I'm suppose to be at my peak physique since I'm in my mid 20s. If I'm struggling with my weight now, won't it be even harder when I get into my 30s? But we just have to take control of it now. There's nothing we can do about the past, just be healthier from now on.

How many calories is everyone eating on a daily basis? I was thinking 1,500- 1,600. Not sure if thats too many calories and if I should be aiming lower? But my thinking is if I start off eating 1,200-1,300 calories/daily, that doesn't give me much wiggle room to lower my calories as I lose weight.

good job on the progress randomlife! :)

Somtimes i think calorie counting makes me go a little crazy. I'm constantly thinking about food, not necessarily because I'm hungry, but because I sign on to cc to log my food intake several times a day or else I forget the small things I ate here and there and also to make sure I'm still under my daily calorie limit. :T Does anyone else feel that way?

2002ajay: Is 30 day Shred an aerobics DVD?

hi everyone! i'm 5'5" 160 lbs. my goal is to get down to 120-125 lbs. i've always been around the 130's range but then i gained a lot of weight after i moved home from LA. i think i watched what i ate more when i was living in LA because of the people around me.

anyway i hope chatting with you guys helps keep me motivated and on track! good luck everyone! :)

im currently 5'5" 160 lbs. i would like to lose 20 lbs by mid-end of july as well. after reading what you guys eat on a day-to-day basis...im rethinking my diet. you all eat really healthy and very little...which is what i should be doing as well. so this is sort of a wake up call.

dieting has always backfired for me. once i lose 10-20 lbs from eating really little, i somehow go crazy with food and gain everything back plus more. it really sucks cause i need to find some sort of balance and healthy lifestyle to keep forever.