Posts by sofia040275

Hello Everyone,

Well let me start by saying that my current weight is 204.4 (yay!!!).

If you all ask why (yay)  let me just tell you I started this long life journey at 285. I have been on this site for about 6 month now. I love the forum when I'm not to busy with my kids and work.

Q. What did everyone do today for Exercise?

I walk on my 15 minute break around our office. Daily

Tonight I'll get on my elliptical for about 20 minutes.

Beside this website I use my bodybugg to tell me how active I've been for the day.

Q. What is your game plan or plan of attack for weight loss?

Everyone says don't starve yourself but most people need to realize that people like me don't even come close to starving myself. What I mean is my thought of starving is probably what an average person my size should eat. I was use to everything being so large in portion size (SUPER SIZED EVERYTHING).  I now say I have to eat like a bird but my bird eating is still around 1300-1600 calorie depending on how active i was that day. So yes I am always hungry. But that's not starving that eating healthy and losing weight.

Q. Do you count and log calories?

YES, I have to otherwise how else I'm I suppose to know how much I'm eating.

Q. Do you drink a certain amount of water each day?

No not really. I try to drink my 8 glasses of water a day but sometime I can't.

Q. What do you think helped you so far?

First would be seeing a picture of myself at 280.

And trying be more active walking is were I started and still do it.

Q. Did you give up anything or plan for it once in a while?

No not really last night I wanted so of my kids Halloween candy so I ate a snack size payday calories about 100 calories. But don't let that fool you that's not often and as long as I didn't go over my calorie for that day I have stayed in my budget of calories.

Q. What do you do when PMS hits you if it does?

Well beside go absolutely crazy. I take magnesium when I start craving sweets and it works for me. And drink a lot of water and I do not weight myself for at least 4 days after my period.(water weight)

Q. How or What do you eat when going out to eat?

I try to look up the restaurant before hand that I'm going too and figure out how many calorie I want to eat.

Good Morning to everyone.

Well my last weight was 210.6 and this morning I'm 209.

Yay!!! closer

That's 5 lbs since we started this challenge only 15 more to go.

I hope I get there by Halloween (194).

Sorry I didn't log in on Friday for my weigh in.

So here it goes:

SW 214

Friday 213 ( Damn water weight )

Saturday 210.6 so I think it's safe to say that I'm 210.6

I guess will see this Friday.

Good luck to all of you.

Welcome to all the new ladies.

Hello girls,

So I'm here to report my weigh in.

starting weight: 214

Today's weight is (drum roll Please) 211.2

This is really good !! I have been cutting my sodium and I just started my menstrual cycle and haven't gained 5 or 6 pounds. Yay for me!!!!

And just to let you know I weighed myself on Wednesday and I was 210.2 so I figured that one pound is water.

Olivia Good Job with the weight lose.

I would love to lose 30 lbs by Christmas. Count me in! I'll log in my weight tomorrow morning.

8/29 - 211.6 Starting weight

9/1 - sorry I forgot to weigh in

9/8- 210.4 Yay for me!!!

9/15 -209.4

9/22 -

9/29 -

10/6 -

10/13 -

10/20 -

10/27 -

11/3 -

11/10 -

11/17 -

11/24 -

12/1 -

12/8 -

12/15 -

12/22 -

12/25-** My mini Goal 182**

Hope it helps.

I have just started last Month and it seemed to help.

Hello rutgut,

Do I know about binging on sweets right before my period!!!

I regularly never eat or think about sugar (sweets) until the week that I'm about to start my period. I also know that along with wanting something sweet I have my regular mood swings with PMSing so I have no control by the second day of my cravings. So I usually do very good for about 3 weeks out of the month I lose about 1lb a week but I gain it all back just in that week that I'm on my period.

So my last period I started surfing the net to see if there was something I could do to help myself with binging. I found this article about are body preparing to lose blood and so it craves carb or sugar to help our body recover. Here is something I found to help. I just googled PMS cravings.

So I ran to the closest store to buy a bottle of magnesium and volia I didn't have any cravings. I still was boated and had my bad mood swings. But no more SUGAR.

Hope this all help with the cravings.

NAME: Sofia

START WEIGHT: 213

WEEK 1 & 2 POINTS:

WEEK 1 & 2 WEIGHT:

WEEK 3 & 4 POINTS:

WEEK 3 & 4 WEIGHT:

WEEK 5 & 6 POINTS:

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WEEK 7 & 8 POINTS:

WEEK 7 & 8 WEIGHT:

WEEK 9 & 10 POINTS:

WEEK 9 & 10 WEIGHT:

WEEK 11 & 12 POINTS:

WEEK 11 & 12 WEIGHT:

END WIEGHT:

Age: 33

Height: 5'5

Weight: 213

Frame: Medium

Goal weight: 165

If your my twin feel free to message me.

Hello debbrnot2b,

I'm here to tell you that yes I have tried the Idiot Proof diet. I have the generator that tells me what to eat. Yes, I lost about 4 or 5 lbs doing it. My problem with these kind of diets are that they give you a list of about 60 different item that you can choose from and if don't like seafood that make the list even smaller. I just got tired of eating the same thing over and over again. So now I count calories

I did start with a friend that lost 25 lbs on the Idiot diet but now she off and I think gaining it back.

Hope this helps you.

Hello svega,

I just read your post. Great Job!

I'm in the same boat I have 46 lbs more to go before I get my tummy tuck.

I'm excited, sacred, worried and Happy.

I just thought that I would let you know that your not alone on this adventure.

Good luck for next week

I'm very nervous I weighed myself this morning and the scale said that I gained two pounds. The only thing I can think of is my menstrual cycle is coming. I feel gassy and bloated but I should start around the first of the month so I'm not sure what it is. I did have a bad weekend. Saturday was my daughter's b-day party so I had a small piece of cake and some chips. Maybe that did it!

Good luck to everyone

Thanks olivia77

I looked into the "lacking weekend motivation" it looks like what I need. So I'll logging in Friday night and Sunday to keep myself motivated. I'm going into this weekend knowing that  I will post how I did this weekend. Just to keep me motivated I weight myself this morning I'm at 213. I know that I'll be down one or two pounds by this weekend. But I'm challenging myself not just to maintain but to keep losing through the weekend.

Hope to see you there this weekend!

Well I have an idea. Lets try to help each other. Do you have access to get on-line on the weekends? And do you have the time? We can be accountable for ever thing we ate on the weekend. And support each other through the weekend. I'm willing to get on this Friday night before the amusement park day and Sunday night tell you how I did. I'm tired of this cycle too.