130/120 Club?

I hear the same thing as Danni mentions above from people at work--always commenting on my food and why am I eating like that because I am already thin.  I have a similar response, like, "How do you think I got this way?"  Or, "Ya, and it takes work." 

I had a great breakfast this morning--it was so delicious.  I scrambled one egg and two egg whites with one tablespoon of crumbled feta and about a half cup of chopped broccoli.  It was so good.  My husband thinks I'm lying to myself when I say stuff like that is really good...but seriously, I really liked it!

Greta - I think that Feta is my new love-food.  My husband and I bought some and have been putting it on our plain lettuce salad.. it's all I need!  It is totally going to be a staple food for us from now on.

Rennai - I know what you mean about the lifestyle thing.  Sometimes it's hard for me to accept that I've changed.. I'll eat my cheat foods so fast sometimes it's like I hardly had them and then I think.. I'm full I'm done eating and I'm sad!  Before my healthy eating my cheating was all the time.  I just have to give it up :)  And I wish I could be as amazing as you and crave oranges.. it's mac and cheese for me.  And as far as my friend, I don't know that she wants help.  It's really hard because I am skinny so when I talk to her about .. this website for instance, she is just like.. 'whatever'.  We aren't that close so sometimes I think, I could butt in here and tell her to get into shape because there isn't anything to lose.. we aren't close.  But I have no idea how to go about doing that.  I just don't understand why she doesn't just work out.  I mean, if I were overweight I think I would just say.. this has got to change, you know?  Do I just have a skinny person complex?

Well look at the time!  I'm supposed to be running right now!  I am half way there, got my gym pants on and socks.. lol and my dress shirt from work still on.  I'm out of here ladies, gonna get 2 miles in for my short day today and then I'll be back.  I used to take naps in my Monday break to prepare for teaching till 8 or 9 at night, but I'm going to test out running and see if it gives me some more energy.  Maybe running, shower, coffee?

"I just don't understand why she doesn't just work out.  I mean, if I were overweight I think I would just say.. this has got to change, you know?  Do I just have a skinny person complex?"

I think you are just stronger than most people. A lot of women are emotional eaters, and she seems depressed, frustrated with weight, and like she has a poor self image. She may use eating as a coping mechanism, and seeing someone as strong as you would make her just feel worse about herself. If she could see that, she would appreciate your help even more. I'm sure she is just jealous that you have that drive and she doesn't

Exercise and getting healthy is intimidating, it takes a lot of time, commitment and is HARD. I think someone HAS to have support or will fail, esp if they are already at a low point. Maybe invite her along with you to run or go to the gym? Or better yet (if you don't get along) suggest to her boyfriend that he start inviting her when he exercises. But warn him to use it as an excuse to spend time together doing different things, and not emphasize it as a way to get in shape or she'll feel even worse! His help and support may be all she needs.

It might even help to show your weaknesses, like say how hard it has been for you and if it weren't for friends, the forum, your boyfriend or whatever you wouldn't have been able to do it. She may just be guarding herself because she doesn't want to appear weak next to you. If you show that it's a struggle, she'll be able to relate better and value your advice. Right now she prob thinks you have no idea what it's like and what she's going through, so maybe show her you understand. Or again, suggest to her boyfriend to show that he understands.

Original Post by simignonne:

Greta - I think that Feta is my new love-food. 

I'm Cristina and I'm a cheesoholic :) That's how I started my article abt Feta . All in all, I LOVE IT but I try not to eat too much of it LOL It's quite salty (at least what I can find here ) and has quite a bunch of calories as well. But I LOVE Greek food!

This is an interesting situation...Coming from the other side of the spectrum (someone that has never been thin and has always struggled with weight) I can see how your friend would be jealous of your strength and determination. I'm not sure how you could talk to her besides suggesting that you two go to the gym together sometime? By doing that you could non-chalantly share some diet tips. The key is to not be too forward or obvious; this could easily be offensive to someone like me that sees people like you and envies them all the time! However, I do think that a lot of times people do forget that you work hard to look the way you do. Very few people are naturally thin, and it is true we all have to work hard to trade in 'cheating' and eating large portions with eating smaller portions of healthy food. So as I said before, if you really want to help her it sounds like it might involve more than you may have bargained for. It's a tricky situation when someone thin and 'seemingly problemless' tries to help someone that may feel overwhelmed or discouraged. Whatever the outcome may be, it is very admirable and kind of you to want to help someone. Females can be so catty, especially involving body image!

Cris- It rocks that we share similar names and a love for Greek food! If it wasn't so fattening I would make pastitio (Greek-style lasagna) all the time. What other foods are your favorite?

Greta- That breakfast sounds delicious! Eggs, feta, broccoli..yum! I love your creativity. Healthy food doesn't have to be boring!

In regards to the question about when to weigh oneself..I figured my opinion this morning! Although weighing myself everyday forces me to start the day off motivated, it can also cause frustration and disappointment. I have loads of stomach and digestive issues so to be as non-graphic as possible..I've been very clogged up and uncomfortable this weekend...This was definitely a factor behind the weight on my scale that horrified me this morning! Well 'horrified' is an exaggeration, but its not fun to see my weight fluctuate. I think I'm going to stick with weekly, or at least only record my weekly weigh in the cc weigh log.

For all you skinny ladies with boyfriends- be happy!

Good luck everyone : D

I Look forward to see progress from everyone on Wednesday, we can do it!

-Christine

Original Post by partythisbaish43:

 

Cris- It rocks that we share similar names and a love for Greek food! If it wasn't so fattening I would make pastitio (Greek-style lasagna) all the time. What other foods are your favorite?

Greek - I prefer the Greek beans soup and the classic Greek salad.

Otherwise I prefer Italian food but NOT pasta ...i don't like pasta at all; i love fish and salads.

Rennai & Christina- great posts!  Weight and people's relationship to their weight and what they eat is so personal.  MAN is it hard. It is hard for me to find a middle ground with my weight and health where I am happy and conscious of what I eat without becoming borderline obsessed with it...if that makes sense.  I seem to either be 5 to 10 pounds above what I would ideally weigh, or I'm counting calories obsessively and pounding protein shakes twice a day.  Happy mediums are hard to come by.

Before I forget, the egg and broccoli scramble with feta sounds incredible.

I think that asking someone to work out with your or asking her boyfriend to help out is a tricky situation to handle effectively.  Most of the time it has to be a personal decision to make that effort don't you guys think?  I know at the point that I'm at in life now I would love one of my friends or coworkers to invite me to work out with them, but I imagine I would have a different reaction if I was overweight, or had less self-esteem. 

I agree with Marian (yikes i hope i have the right name) It is a tricky situation and is a personal decision that people must make on their own.

However, I had a friend who wasn't the work out type but had mentioned wanting to get some physical activity in. I just told her i was struggling and asked if she would be interested in being my work out buddy when she was available. She came with me maybe twice a week and then started going on her own.

So i didnt end up going to the gym for the morning class last wednesday because the class is on mondays and thursdays! I'm going tomorrow morning just to run. No excuses! My job is so stressful right now i need some relief.

Thanks for all the advice, I think I'm going to keep out of it, except for encouraging her boyfriend.  I'm pretty straight forward, at least in person, and honestly, I just want her to look good, and feel better about herself, I don't want to be her bff.  Plus I love my private workout time ;)I just hate seeing overweight people, especially when they complain about it.

I have a question and need your opinions.  Most of you know that I've been working on running. Right now I'm not doing my body pump class so I can add another day in of running, doing both in the same day is almost impossible for me.  I will start body pump after valentines day 5k.  Last week I finally reached a 10 mile week and want to keep pushing myself.  I'm getting to the point where 2 miles is comfortable and 3.1 is the highest I've gone, though this week I'm goin to try for 3.5  I haven't done more than 4 days running in a week, I'm thinking about upping this to 5 or 6 with my short 2 mile runs while keeping one long run day and maybe two middle runs.  Do you guys think that would be over training? 

Hi Carrie,

My experience has been that running 4 days a week is very do-able for me, for example:

Monday: 7, Tuesday: 5, Thursday: 7, Saturday: 12 = 31 miles

Right before I found out I was pregnant I upped my running days to 5, hoping that I could increase my mileage to 40 miles per week (not happening now!). It was really hard for me psychologically at first to adjust to the change but it works for me now, I just make sure that my shorter runs are very easy (I don't take a watch) so that I get the miles but avoid injury.  The schedule now looks something like:

Monday: 7, Tuesday: easy 4, Wednesday: 7, Friday: 4, Saturday:10 = 32

I don't know that I would recommend running 6 days a week, although I know that some people do it.  If you can cross train one or two days a week it helps develop other muscles, take the impact off your knees, and it helps keep you from burning out.  Ultimately your body will tell you how you should be running.  Are you tired?  Does running sound like the worst thing ever?  Do you have energy?  Does anything hurt?  The nice thing about running is that you can always tweak your routine.

Have you checked out Runner's World's website?  It has a lot of good advice, training plans you can customize, and information.

Good job on your running!

Bleah I am so busy at work. I don't mind it but after 2-3 days I am beat! I am good at managing time but I'm bad at saying "enough". Guess I need to relearn that I am paid for working 8 hrs a day and not 12...sigh

Hoping to see a good number tomorrow on the scale :)

Carrie--Personally, I try not to run more than 4 days a week--but 5 tops.  I am injury prone, and have encountered many injuries from running too much.  The worst part is, the injuries never fully go away (at least mine haven't) and rear their ugly heads every so often.  So prevention is key.   Runners World will tell you to never increase your weekly mileage by more than 10% a week.  So, just add mileage slowly and listen to your body. 

Carrie- I agree with a couple of the other posts in that running six days a week might lead to overtraining (or in my case burnout.)  I've found that running 5-6 miles three days a week is much more sustainable for me intermixed with cross training like the elliptical at the gym, a spin class, or swimming, plus you're working different muscle groups which I enjoy.  If you really want to improve your time for the 5k you should consider mixing up your workouts with some speed drills.  When I was running cross country in college, we would do one day of more endurance type running 7-10 miles then the next day we would job over to the local high school and run drills on the track.  Try doing laps at your race pace, taking a one or two minute break in-between laps to catch your breath and take a drink.  You could also practice doing sprints on the straight parts of the track as well, or running some hills.  These types of things are what's really going to improve your time, since it sounds like you are comfortable with the distance.  Hope that helps out a bit.

Hello everyone! well i had a good day when it comes to working out...not so much otherwise.

I finally went to the gym n the morning, yay! I did 2.5 miles on the treadmill and 15 minutes on the stepper

Then at lunchtime some lady pulled out in front of me and i totaled my car! Grr i just bought the car in november of 2006 I'm not hurt so im going to try my best to get to the gym but i dont wanna put anyone out ya know?

Carrie- i would say try upping the running and just make sure you really pay attention to what your body is telling you. It seems like people get the most injuries from running so just be careful!

Good luck tomorrow everyone!!

I'm sorry to hear about your accident....at least you're not hurt. 

Original Post by dmartineau1:

Then at lunchtime some lady pulled out in front of me and i totaled my car! Grr i just bought the car in november of 2006 I'm not hurt so im going to try my best to get to the gym but i dont wanna put anyone out ya know?

ouch , I'm so sorry. Glad you are ok.

Weigh in :)

 Week 1 130.5 lbs / 59.2 kg

Week 2 129.9 lbs / 58.9 kg

Current week 129.6 lbs / 58.8 kg

[I weigh in in Kg and transform to lbs so ...you get the point abt the accurancy in lbs]

Total loss: 0.9 lbs/ 0.4 kg

ladies, remember our talk abt Caribbean honeymoon dest? Well, turns out I had to write such an article so here it is, for those interested:

Top Honeymoon Destinations in the Caribbean

Morning ladies!

Dani - Soo sorry to hear about your accident!! :( Hope all gets squared away soon and glad to hear that you weren't hurt! Will you be able to get a rental car or something til you can figure out what is going to happen with getting another car??? I know it's NOT easy having a car accident and having to deal w/ everything afterward, but try not to let your workout routine suffer too much. Take the time you need of course, but even if you have to workout at home and can't get to the gym right away....do your best to keep up with your routine, etc. I know what that's like ~ (car accident + letting the incident affect my workout routine - some aspects of the situation controllable/some not).

Anyway, good luck! (hugs!)

Cris -  Keep up the progress. Also, I'll have to check out that article too. Sounds like it's going to be a good one. :D

As for my weigh in:

• LW: 129.8 lbs
• CW: 127.4 lbs.

lost ~ 2.4 lbs.

This week seems like a great week b/c of the weight loss, but I'm not so sure how 'true' that is. haha. As I'm sure I've mentioned, I had a reallly long weekend w/ more drinking, lack of sleep, and just an emotional (but fun) visit in NY and am STILL recouping.  Though, even with all those factors, I didn't eat too much bad food, so that's good.

ANYWAY, I'll certainly take that # though. Now, we'll just see how the rest of my week/weekend goes. :)

Well, hope all is well with everyone. Hope to hear fm. you all soon. :)

Take care and ttyl.

~Margo

Yay Wed. Weigh In!

So I didn't weigh in last week because I was so bloated and I'm glad to see that my weight this week is... PROGRESS!!!

132 :) down 1.5 from two weeks ago

Waist - 26 down half an inch

Belly - 30

Hips - 39

Thigh - 22.5

Knee - 15.5

Dani - I'm so sorry about your accident, the good side is, if it's not your fault then you might get a new'ish' car out of the deal!  I know what it's like to lose a car you love.  Big bummer.  At least you are ok!!

I posted a new picture, it's me this weekend making my whole wheat blueberry bread thingy.  I'm going to get my hair cut today :)  I'll try to post another picture of it.

Wow, people losing weight all over the place.  I'm staying pretty constant, which is fine with me for right now. 

Thanks for all the advice for running.  I think a max of 5 days a week would be good for me.  I'm also going to try to do intervals at my University's track to help with my speed.  I thought of doing one lap on the track and then running up and down the bleachers and then doing another lap etc.  I figure it would kick my legs into workout mode :)

In my opinion I would think that running would slim me down, but, since I didn't have any muscle to speak of on my legs, it seems that my legs are just getting bigger (not by a lot) but would you guys say that's normal?  I bought a pair of pants I'm afraid I might never get into because they are rather tight.. Oh well, I can always buy more pants :)

I forgot to weigh in this morning, I slept in and just left in a hurry. I'll weigh in tomorrow morning.

Cris- thanks for the article.. they all look wonderful places to be right now.. we're in a winter storm watch right now, took me an hour to get to work.

We tried to take our dog for a walk last night, only made it about .5 miles and I had to go home. it's so cold now and the wind makes it worse. I didn't bundle up enough and I was frozen by the time we got home. I also heard it's going to be below 0 this weekend. I DO NOT LIKE WINTER!!!

Dani- I hope you get your car situation fixed soon as well. I hate dealing with insurance companies, our house got hit by lightening this past summer and it was a mess trying to get everything fixed and get paid for it. Good luck to you.

I've been doing good on eating staying under my limit, but because of the weather and other events I have been awful at getting to the gym. I need to start going in the morning no excuses because I get busy at night. It's just so hard leaving a warm bed for the cold!!

Margo- 2.4lbs.. that's awesome!! it's probably all the muscle you've gained doing it's purpose.. burning fat!!

Good Luck on your weigh ins and I'll get mine in tomorrow morning.