Posts by cbell23

Hi everyone!! I wasn't able to post Friday or Saturday, but my weight is 192, which is 2.5 lbs from last week. I'm really aiming for under 190 next week, especially since on I'm my period right now, so hopefully I can maintain for the remainder of it and drop afterwards. I hope everyone else is doing well!

Hi everyone, thanks for all of your responses. I was able to get back on track Friday with eating healthy...but it was Halloween and their was quite a bit of drinking. Luckily I didn't eat anything in my drunken state, which probably made my hangover a lot worse today. But I did go to the gym today even with the hang over, I was so close to cancelling my appointment too, but after it was done I felt soooo much better mentally.

LuLu and treenut I know exactly what you are talking about. I definitely have something holding me back, like theirs a part of me that wants to sabotage everything. I heard somewhere that putting on the weight is very emotional, and you have to expect that taking it off is going to even worse. I have a lot of emotional issues, mainly dealing with my past, lately I have been seriously thinking about going to see a therapist. Getting some help in resolving my issues can't make things worse, so I might as well give it a try.

Melika, it is very hard to stay motivated, especially since it's a slow process that you have to put a lot of extra effort into. I have found that I am surrounded by a lot of anti-motivating things, like all of my friends wanting to drink a lot on the weekends, and work people asking me to bring in homemade baked goods like I use to. Everyday I see my roommate reminds me of how the world isn't fair, she is naturally thin...doesn't have to watch what she eats and doesn't really go to the gym (even when she goes she just does like 15 minutes on a machine). She tries to be supportive but every time she asks me about the weight loss I just feel like its a slap in the face. I am just taking it one day at a time, and remind myself that even though I don't want to go to the gym after work, I will feel so much better afterwards, I never regret working out, but I will regret not even attempting.

For the next few weeks I don't have any travel plans, which will help me to keep to a schedule of working out, and planning my meals for the week. I am just going to focus on the ultimate goal and hope that it's enough to keep me on track. Oh and my weight this morning was 194.5lbs.

Take care everyone.

Hi Everyone,

I won't be around tomorrow so I'm posting my weight now. I'm 194 a whole pound down from last week. Hope you all have a good weekend.

Novi- I have the same problem, my stomach isn't so big but my boobs are huge, I can never find shirts or dresses that fit right. I can't even where a button up shirt, because it will either gap between the buttons around my boobs, or look way to big. I like them sometimes, but they could definitely go down a size or too.

Lulu, taking care of sick kids is rough, I can image how it would result in stress eating. Good job on staying on track today with calories and the exercise. Just to give you some ideas, here are a few snack items I like to keep around me: unsweetened freeze dried strawberries, I like to leave a bag in my car just in case I'm stuck somewhere with no good food options, carrots - I've been eating a serving of carrots everyday because their low in carolies and have 2g of fiber, and flavor and fiber bars, I eat two of these for breakfast everyday, they have a lot of fiber in them and fill me up until lunch. One other thing I do is green teas in the mornings instead of coffee, green tea helps to suppress your appetite. Hope this is helpful, and keep up the good work.

Hello, I'm weighting in today at 196. I'm still doing well with eating healthy, and I took a night off from the gym yesterday, but clocked 1 1/2 hours this evening after work.

Novi- Usually I spend about an hour and a half to two hours working out. But this week I just pushed it to 2 1/2 hours on Tues and 3 hours on Wed. I'm feeling a lot better than I was yesterday though, I think the break from the gym and extra sleep really helped. I'm going to try not to do so much as once from now on.

Good Luck with the weekend!!

Hello, I would love to join the group. My name is Christina I am 23, 5 feet tall, and currently weight 197, my starting weight was 207. It felt like I was stuck at the 200 mark forever, but for the last two weeks I have been eating super healthy and working out like a crazy person. I feel motivated right now, but  I know that it might go away soon like it usually does, so a group like this will be perfect for me. I am going to shoot for under 180 by the end of 10 weeks, it's been about 3 years since my weight has been that low. I would like my weight to get down to 115, that should take me about a year if I do it right, I just have to stay the course. I have always been overweight, I think my down fall is emotional eating. I can go hard core at the gym for hours but it doesn't mean a lot if I'm eating crap all day. Right now I'm seeing a personal training about 3 days a week and doing cardio on my own 3 days a week as well. I actually bought a heart rate monitor so I can accurately track the calories I burn, this was a great investment. I have found that the machines at the gym lie to me, they usually say I burn about 200 calories more than what I really did.

My gift to myself will be a new pair of jeans. I can't wait to drop sizes so I think the new pair of jeans will add to the motivation.