COMMITTED LOSERS [Group Open Again!]
Hi guys! I'm baaaack! Basically spent about 6 months UNDOING all of the weightloss you all helped me with last year and am now at a whopping 148 lbs, 8 lbs more than what I started with last year. I feel disgusting and totally ashamed. Time to get back on track. Hope to be down to 130 by the end of the summer. Anyone new want to join me for weekly weigh-ins and daily motivation? Anyone still around from last summer?
[OP from last summer: Well, I've been on CC for about a month now and have gone from 140 to 136.6. I am female, 28 yrs old, and about 5'3. My goal weight is 115. I expected to lose more than 3.4 lbs by now, but I also expected that I'd be much better at staying under my daily calorie limit (1200-1400). In any case, I'm realizing that I do a much better job of disciplining myself when I am able to regularly check-in with people who care. I've been doing weekly weigh-ins in a couple of CC forum groups, but no one seems to want to offer support and motivation on any other day than weigh-in day! Everyone checks in about once a week and that's it. I need an active forum that I can turn to every day for inspiration. I think it would be best to limit such a group to about 15 really committed members with similar stats and goals. I'm looking for people who can check in and post regularly, people who turn to this group instead of binging, people who will share their weaknesses, rants, raves, progresses, and plateaus as often as possible.
I'm proposing that we weigh-in on FRIDAYS and that we keep "weighing-in" metaphorically every other day of the week. Who's with me?]
Oi! Sorry I fell off the map for a while now.. Just came back from a long week vacation in Buenos Aires this morning (at 6am after a 10-hour red-eye with no sleep). I made it to 4 hours of dance classes this afternoon, but now I'm completely pooped!
Glad to see you have been keeping it up all this time and that some of us see progress in wearing smaller size clothing!
As for me, I have been bad - SOOOOO BAAAAD - this past week, that I wont describe it too much. Between all the steaks, and the cheap restaurants, and desserts at every meal and ice cream, and pastries, and loads of breads, and croissants, and churros... I must have gained 5 lbs back, it's horrible! But at the same time, I had a blast visiting Argentina and tasting the food there, so what can I say?? I just have to get back on the horse right now, and do my best to catch up to the previous progress I had made before leaving.
I unfortunately couldn't weigh myself during the trip there so I have missed two friday weigh-ins, but I will do it this coming friday. Hopefully I have a few days to start making things better.
Back to 1200-1400 cal a day, back to regular exercise. I should feel better soon hopefully!
Take care all! And please keep on posting, it's inspiring! Cheers!
Well, sick turned into REALLY sick and migraine! However, the weekend wasn't a total loss. We baked homemade pies on Saturday (and my first foray into homemade crust!) By the time we were done, we were too tired to eat any that night and yesterday I had a migraine so I just had a tiny bite of two of them. I went home mid-morning and got all the rest of them and brought them to the office. Had a small piece of the pecan and gave all the rest of them away. All of the fun and enjoyment, none of the calories!
Salsa - welcome back! I'm jealous of your trip - sounds like a blast!
I was feeling good today until dinner. Made chicken fajita's and thought I was being good by using whole wheat tortilla's and black beans, but I'm about 300 calories over what I should be eating. I also haven't been able to exercise for the past two days because our school's dance concert is on Thursday and I've been working on lighting the show. I can work out tomorrow. Yea! Never thought I'd be so happy to exercise.
Missed a week at the gym between the stomach virus and the migraine - went at lunch today and it felt so good! Still not seeing any progress on the scales and have not been doing good with the food - too hectic, not eating regularly and falling below calories. Hopefully one good day today will get me back on track!
wbbuff, I know how you feel! I've been bed/sofa/chair-confined for the last almost-week because I had bronchitis. My legs feel like they're atrophying or something from the lack of motion. Must exercise. (Of course, must be able to stand up for more than 15 minutes first. :-) )
Soooo....has anyone else lost allll motivation like I have? i was doing really well but this last two weeks has been so hard to want to get out of bed in the morning to do a DVD or to NOT eat the chips and candy and fast food.
If anyone has any extra will power, send it my way PLEASE!
Friday weigh in - no change! Oh well. No gain, no loss. Since I haven't been as good as I know I should be, I think I just need to be happy!
As for this evening, the prayer will be "lead us not into temptation and deliver us from snack size candy bars!"
Friday weigh in: 133.6. This always happens on friday, a nice low number for me... then i screw it up ALL weekend and get back to 135 136 on Monday GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR then it takes me alllll week to get back to 133s.
155.4 this morning. A (very) slight drop from last Friday - though up from where I was midweek. I'm headed into that water-retaining time of the month, though, so hopefully there's some real loss hidden in there. My measurements haven't chnaged much over the last month or so - which I find kind of odd. They dropped while my weight was stuck at 163, and now that I'm losing again, they're standing still.
Ecstatically surprised to see 149 this morning! Finally, I hit below the 150's. Haven't seen these numbers in over 3 years. I was really surprised because I ate 3 pieces of pizza last night, so I wasn't expecting to lose anything. Now I just have to avoid gaining it all back over the holidays. I just read that people typically eat 1700 calories just at Thanksgiving dinner. Yikes!
Having a really really hungry day today. I'm almost up to 2000 cals for the day and I'm not full at all. I'm assuming it's a TTOM thing (which I'm anticipating coming up in about a week) since that always makes me hungry, but I upped my protein intake (finally bought some protein powder to make shakes with) - and I thought that was supposed to make you *less* hungry not more. Huh.
Anyway, I bought the New Rules of Lifting for Women book and am planning to start it soon and it seems to think I should pretty much eat maintenance while doing the lifting as that will up my metabolism enough to give me a deficit. That'd be nice. We'll see how it goes. I bought a Swiss ball yesterday, so I just need to inflate it and I should have enough equipment to give this thing a try.
Also, my last kayaking class is tomorrow night.
Supposed to get my measurements done at the gym today. It will be interesting to see how much progress was made in the last month.
Had a little too much Halloween candy from the kid's bags this weekend - I was surprised to see how much that made me start craving sugar! Had to really get a grip yesterday as I was at the grocery store and wanting to load up the cart with bad things!
Have been really bad at putting in what I've eaten this weekend. I didn't eat badly, just too much going on. Actually, I probably ate my whole amount of calories at breakfast on Saturday. My parents came to see the house (we live about an hour away) and I made breakfast. It was all healthy stuff, but it was just so much. I made whole wheat banana bread muffins, veggie egg casserole's and my whole wheat pancakes with the peach syrup. Luckily, I wasn't feeling well yesterday, so I didn't eat much. My boyfriend made homemade chicken soup with lots of garlic and parsley. So yummy!
What a downer! I went to the gym and had my measurements done for the first time since last month. Weight hadn't really changed, which was no surprise. However, the girl that did the measurements last month hadn't set the high-tech scale accurately and had botched that and the measurements. (I was afraid she had pulled the tape too tight....)
So, not only do I not have any real measure for progress since all the measurements went up, but I had been relieved that at least my body fat percentage was at an acceptable level.....not so much! According to the new computations I had even lost muscle!
I have to really get into high gear - especially seeing that the BF was 37.4%. Really log everything every day and put more effort into what I've been doing. I'm just going to look at this as a motivation to get back on track.
I need to lose 4 pounds in the next 2 weeks to reach my goal date. Don't know if that's possible. I really need to kick my exercising into gear, but my drama kids are about to put on a show so that takes up all my time. Maybe the stress will help me eat less.
Down to 148 today! That means only 2 more pounds to my goal weight and I need to be down to that by next weigh in to win the bet my boyfriend and I made! He, on the otherhand, has only lost 7 pounds since we started this 6 months ago because he's not trying at all. I guess it'll be a little longer til we get a Wii in the house. But I'll have my trip to Sedona!
WEIGH-IN DAY!!
Well, like a lot of others, I have been very busy and falling off the diet and exercise map lately...
Thankfully, my weight has stabilized and it looks like I didnt do too much damage since I am pretty much at the same place I was three-four weeks ago.
So current weight: 128 lbs (58.1 kgs)
Goal for next week: STILL TRYING FOR 126 (about 57 kgs)
I have managed to control my eating somewhat okay this past week, but have been drinking at least two glasses of wines every freaking night!! (Going out wayyyy too much!!!) I have yet to get into a better habit of switching wine for a diet coke from time to time.. ; )
Exercise-wise... Havent done a "real" workout like the CC workout for three weeks - I know... SHAME ONE ME! You guys are doing so well in keeping up with exercizing! I admire you!! I guess my "excuse" was that I have been dancing TONS during these past weeks, and even though salsa and argentine tango dont really qualify as "workouts", it helps move my butt off the couch and do something at least!
Okay, enough with me.. how's everybody??
KUDOS to kelly, wbbuff, jennelaw, susiecue and the few more for keeping the motivation and the commitment going! Yeay to you!!! Cheers!
Up a pound from last week to 156.6. I'm not horribly concerned as it's TTOM and I did the first two workouts from NROLFW this week - so I expect I'm retaining water like crazy. I can tolerate that as long as it goes away in a week or two. I still really really want 153 so that I can weigh less than 11 stone.
Today's fun and exciting decision: Do I go in to work and mark tests there OR do I stay at home and mark tests here? I'll probably stay home; it has healthier snacks (and I can't imagine too many students will be looking for help two days after the test when their next one isn't 'till December.
well it was a typical Friday 133.6 weigh in for me. i think my scale is also a calendar and it knows that its friday and to display 133.6. grrr oh well. i just did a pm weigh and it was 134.2 so i know my sat am weigh will be lower then 133.6 FINALLY!!!
Sorry for the late post - been hectic around here and I also crashed my computer last week (stupid virus!)
Finally saw a little progress and down to 144.4. Almost a whole pound. Of course, the carrot cake for my birthday was too tempting to pass up, but we only brought part of it home from my mom's and I fed most of it to the kids. This week is TTOM so I'm going to be happy if I just maintain for the next week.
Have a great week guys!
