300+ Countdown to Jan 1, 2009 !

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      We share a long journey.
      January 1, 2009 is coming ... IS HERE ! 
      What progress we'll make ... WE'VE MADE !
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~ THE 2008 300+ COUNTDOWN CLUB ~
      Counting down to JAN 1, 2009!
 1. Post your 1st of month weigh in.
 2. Check your updated number below.
 3. Let me know of any corrections.

.......................... GROUP WEIGHT LOSS ..........................
SW: 320.0   JAN 1st 2009 185.0     Lost  135.0  bigbrett22
SW: 340.0   JAN 1st 2009 173.0     Lost  167.0  danielle_20077
SW: 343.0   JAN 1st 2009 275.0     Lost    68.0  denise07
SW: 326.0   JAN 1st 2009 280.0     Lost    38.0  freethrowtommy 
SW: 354.0   JAN 1st 2009 328.0     Lost    26.0  humorpam
SW: 329.0   JAN 1st 2009 295.0     Lost    34.0  korali
SW: 329.0   JAN 1st 2009 221.0     Lost  108.0  laurabow
SW: 370.0   JAN 1st 2009 286.0     Lost    84.0  mnic
SW: 442.2   JAN 1st 2009 392.0     Lost    50.2  mwiowa
SW: 325.0   JAN 1st 2009 267.0     Lost    58.0  punkrockriot
SW: 315.0   JAN 1st 2009 226.0     Lost  100.0  renaer14
SW: 317.0   JAN 1st 2009 311.0     Lost      6.0  shnitzel (tracy)
SW: 465.0   JAN 1st 2009 220.8     Lost  244.0  sun123
SW: 385.0   JAN 1st 2009 336.8     Lost    52.0  sunnyone24
SW: 305.0   JAN 1st 2009 234.5     Lost    70.5  Tina_4792
SW: 367.0   JAN 1st 2009 299.0     Lost    69.4  topeze
SW: 576.0   JAN 1st 2009 447.0     Lost  129.0  velvetkiss 
SW: 325.0   JAN 1st 2009 255.0     Lost    70.0  watchmeshine82
SW: 355.0   JAN 1st 2009 287.0     Lost    68.0  wobbley
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Hello Friends!

I'm so excited to have found this ground.  I have been reading some of the past posts and wow you all are AMAZING!  I'm so impressed with all the weight that has been lost and the motivation in your posts. It makes me think that wow I CAN do this!  I have been on CC for 5 days now and wow I think I have found something that can change my life.  I can not tell you all how excited I am.  I look forward to sharing this experience with such great company.  My start weight June 1st  is 385lbs.  

I don't like to give in, I guess that's why I just kept going! Sometimes, I'll be about to give up about half way through and just think, OK, I can do this and just keep going through sheer cussedness. I'm not sure if it's a character strength (perseverance) or a character flaw (stubbornness/pride). It's probably a bit of both.

I did feel good after the walk (well, after my shower--Chicago rain is sticky and has a weird sulphury smell to it) that I had finished it at least. Spikey's ready to walk again too so she wasn't overly traumatized by the experience either. She did look pretty miserable on those last couple blocks.

The other thing with walks, is I really do have to finish them once I get past 50%, it's faster just to complete the walk than it is to back track. My route takes me up into north-western Oak Park at the half point of the walk. If I want to go back south-east to north Berwyn, I've got to walk!

That's probably one reason why I don't do machine cardio, it would be too tempting to just step off the treadmill or elliptical or whatnot. My modes of exercise, interval running, walking and bicycling all involve transportation away from home such that I have to return!

Liz- it is so much easier to tackle you're weight when you have so much support, like what you get here on CC. Any effort my mom makes will be great. I have to kind of focus on myself though so I don't get side tracked. I love that I have CC to go to, and that I can relate to so many people that are serious about getting healthy. CC is an incredible tool.

Sun- that is great you're getting more energy. Wal-Mart shopping makes me exhausted to, the Wal-Mart super centers are so big here. Weigh is yesterday was encouraging this morning was even more.

sunnyone-I'll start the welcoming committee. Welcome Welcome :) . This site is incredible the information is powerful and life altering. Using the tools this site offers is an affective and healthy way to lose weight. Good luck!

aovermy-you are so right cardio machines are just to easy to walk away from I to love to walk outside and feel like I have a destination to walk to. Its great the poochie wasn't to traumatized:). Keep up the great work.

I finally broke the 260's! 259.8 this morning I was ecstatic. I don't know how its coming off so fast, but it feels great I'm even acctually noticing a difference in my clothes and figure. I figured at first it was just beginning water weight, but now who knows! I am challenging myself to stay under 260, once I hit 255 I will have gotten back to my original weight loss from last yr. that I gained 25 of over the winter. I'm so happy I have found something I can stick to and be happy with for the rest of my life! Good luck everyone!

Ang

 

welcome sunnyone!  You are exactly how I felt when I first joined CC.  I had a good first weighin and then a bad one due to having my TOM, but then lost even more.  So if the scale doesn't move as quickly as you like, it will in fact move.  And you can definitely do it!

aovermy, I hate going out to walk.  Partly cause I'm in way too sunny and hot Florida where days are 90 and nights are not quite 90.  But, if that's what motivates you, that's great.  I don't think I would have stuck through the rain, so good job!

And Ang, grats on not being in the 260s anymore!!!  That's very awesome.  And it puts you that much closer to being under 250, which will be a milestone for me, that's for sure. 

aovermy, way to go on the walking, I dont think I would have made it in the rain though so what an accomplishment.

I think it's kind of a ahha moment for everyone when they find CC. It's such a great experience finding something you feel in your soul will motivate you and work for your personal self. Thank you Liza on the congrats, I to will be so excited to be under 250. When I hit 249 that will be the less I will have weighed in about 6-7yrs. :)

Ang  

 

Awesome Molly - that is great and amazing that your off insulin!  What great news and what a comeback from your vacation cruise.

Renaer, there is a real mental triump when you drop below a weight you havent seen in so long.  For me it was like backing up in time to that point and erasing the unhealthy years I'd endured with the handicaps the added weight had caused.  Another cool thing about CC to is having a place to pour my health and weight focus which means giving my friends a break from it - haha. 

I agree Liza and in fact had some even lower weights this weekend that I didnt see yesterday but Im still lower so I dont get disappointed if a big drop disappears as long as I remain on course for losing.

A belated welcome sunnyone!  Check you CC mailbox - sending off a message your way. 

Weigh in for me tomorrow with fingers crossed.   

Thank you all, Thank you for the welcomes!  I feel at "home" already :)

Congrats Molly and Renaer! Great Job! I love hearing about all the success here. :) 

I have a small victory of my own finally my scale started moving this morning! It felt good to know all my hard work was starting to show on the scale.   I can't believe how much better I feel this week after so long of feeling helpless and discouraged.  It must be a CC miracle!  LOL 

Thanks for the PM reply Sunny - your on our original post now.  Come July 1 we'll be able to post your progress with everyone else.  Great to hear results are showing and when as they start adding up - woohoo!  You sound very empowered and we are all going to do this !! 

Congrats Molly and Renaer!

Weigh in at 305.9, had lower weights earlier in the week (supposedly, with home scale) but although slight loss, mine zigzag and did enjoy a nice one last week.  Less than a week until I leave for Vegas going solo.  Remember when I wouldnt even go to the grocery store without someone so curious how this new independance will fare. 

Heading into our halfway weekend and feels like its zooming by.  Hoping to hear from some those still with May weights listed and wishing them some progress for the June 1 updates.

Congrats, Molly! That's great. And I'm so glad your health has improved by that much!

I've been surprised by how much I've changed as far as lifestyle. I was never really an outdoorsy person before, and now, I really like being outside doing things. And I like it, that's the extraordinary part!

awww man well i know im super late for may weigh in but I was only down 2 lbs to 295. I guess its better than a gain. very disapointing. I havent been excersizing due to being sick and partying to much.. summer is full of temptation. Im trying to turn it around right now however, even though I just pigged out for dinner.. so hard, im sticking in there.

Molly-YAH!! *does happy dance*. I am so happy for you 100lbs.is incredible. I am so happy to hear you are off insulin. What great insight I never really thought the 3500 calories = 1 pound completely through. 100lbs is also part of my goal and I will also need to consider 350,000. That's crazy to think that's how many calories its going to take to lose the weight I need to lose. Anyway, great job!

Sun-LOL, I know what you mean about giving your friends a break, especially smaller friends, some people don't get how much of a big thing it is to feel so incredible and start to notice a difference in yourself. Yah! Have fun in Vegas, I am jealous I wanna go so bad my goal is to make it there in Oct. after my big weight loss. Take lots of pictures for us! I know exactly what you mean about not wanting to even go to the store by yourself I still am slightly, but in the past had horrible anxietyabout just going to the store by myself. Good job on the weight I hear ya on the zig zag, you know my lovely zig zag experiences.

Sunny-thats awsome, you really don't have to feel helpless and discouraged here there is so much motivation to get you out of any bad mood:) Good luck. You can do it.

Jack-Any loss is better than a gain so good job. You can do it:)

 

Well I've had some ups and downs. I had my free day yesterday so of course I was up a little this morning and I think my TOTM is coming so wonderful bloating has arrived. I was amazed yesterday though. I went to a chinese buffet with my mom. Of course, I know, bad choice of place, but I love chinese food and especially the chicken and broccoli so I loaded up on  brocoli. Come to my surprise half way through my first plate I was actually nauseatingly stuffed. My stomach has SHRUNK I couldn't believe it I usually get about 2 and a half plate fulls. It feels funny I actually am starting to eat food to live not live to eat food. It's an awesome feeling. I had a major accomplishment the other day I have been wanting to walk to work for awhile now and just couldn't make myself do it. So, after work I came home changed and headed out to walk I thought I would just see how close I could get before I felt I needed to come back I couldn't stop I kept going and going and before I knew I had walked right up to my work building! What a great feeling to know I could do it if I wanted to do it. I'm not a morning person and have to be at work at 9am so the likely hood of me really walking to work is a little slim, but I know I can do it, and have found a great new walk route. So Monday I walked 4 miles to the office and back and than today another major accomplishment I doubled the walk again I headed down to my office building and just couldn't stop actually went further than my office building I have no idea how far I went, but I would guess around 6 miles i feel awesome! Can't wait to see it the scale express the same awesomeness I feel walking:), LOL. Good luck everyone. Think happy thoughts. Oh Oh! I got called twiggy today I guess the inches I have lost are really noticeable the scale isn't moving to much, but I am loveing the way my clothes are looking and feeling, and my mom actually grabbed a handful of the back of my pants and was like your losing your ass, lol, gotta love mom's. My official weekly weigh in is on Sat. can't wait to see if its any better. Good luck again everyone.

Jack, it is good to hear from you - really was hoping we hadnt lost you on the thread.  Youve done amazing so far and if this is your light month, so be it because they happen and youve not even backtracked, just slowed and you sound like youll be turning that around.  Mostly though, youve not lost your progress and wishing you well on your way.

Renaer - I'd previously had a few times where I was stuck in public without access to sit and unable to continue.  It can be very intimidating as well as embaressing when your physical limitations arent obvious.  I love your story about your work, relating the concept of what if?  What if you cant make it and then to discover you can- I know that "Look at that" feeling.  The appetite adjustment is another I can relate to also.  Our local chinese buffet, an accomplice in my obesity, closed down.  I felt sad, it had been such a fav place but of course, I was relieved in a "Someones trying to tell you something".  It had really been an achilles heel for me and hadnt been there since starting my diet last summer.  I thought, This is cool (LOL) - this is not a bad thing :D.  Best wishes for Saturday!

Jack- wow, just looked at your pictures, your face looks so different. Looks like you've been doing good!

Sun- Thank you for the best wishes *crosses fingers*. The realization of being able to do so much more than you thought you could is freeing. I don't feel trapped or bored. If I need to take a break from school work, get frustrated with people, or bored and want to go do something I just run out of my house and find a new route to walk. My energy level is really what helps push me out the door also. I just can't get over it I move more and faster even just doing the basics I don't feel horribly sluggish, unless I'm sore.  Man if our chinese place closed down I think I would actually be sad. I am a well known chinese food addict. I don't mind as long as I can control it, and I did the other day I was so happy. Happy Friday. Keep up the good work everyone. Thank you guys for all the great encouragement.    

YA BABY! *jumps up and down* I am so excited. I hit 259.2 this morning. I am on target for my 3 lbs. a week goal hitting 214 in Oct. which will give me a total loss of 101 lbs. Thank you guys so much for your support:) Good luck everyone. Anything is possible!

Ang

 

Thats great Renaer!! I think setting longterm goals are super helpful to keeping on track - Ive tracked out weekly goals for months, helps remind me how a cheat would set me off course.  Thats a challenging goal (above 1%) so dont let any plateaus discourage you and wishing you continued success!

Molly, Im putting you up top now for July as youve noted - Im too forgetful to risk remembering this post come July 1st :D.