Female 20's 50lb+ Group Motivation Club

Ok girls, we've had our first weigh in today July 30th.  Out of the 40 people that have said they wanted to join this group, only 7 of you haven't weighed in.  We are excited to hear about your success so please let us all know. 

Of the members who have weighed in - our cumulative group weight is 7,293 which means that if we all weighed the same we'd each weight 221lbs:-)

Get your pics up on your profiles so that we can see where you are.  We'll post a picture each month to show our progress.  Post your weight loss stats with Age, Height, Start Weight & Current Weight each Monday. 

We are 40 women strong, we will succeed!

Yay! All the girls are back! *cheers*

Yep, seems like we're all in the same boat. Except I had thanksgiving in October, not November, hah. In total in November I lost 5lbs, it's not bad, but it's frustrating. I think I need to re-evaluate my eating habits. I know it's not a good excuse but I haven't had time to eat healthy, to get my 3 meals and 3 snacks in a day is getting harder and harder. These past couple of weeks I've eaten out, even fast food (a grilled chicken sandwich) and I'm disappointed in myself for it.

I have been keeping up with working out, except for this week. I've worked out once since last Saturday, but when I did work out it was an hour and 44 mins in the morning and 45 in the evening, burning approx 1200 calories in total.

I got a HR monitor watch which has been GREAT. I love knowing exactly how many calories I burn when I work out. I would recommend that all of you get one, it's a very helpful and motivating tool.

This week coming up is my exam week, and ARGH, FIVE of them! Wish me luck

Anyway, I gotta go, class time!

<3 Jenn

Congratulations on reaching your goal!  That is awesome!  I think 15lbs in 3 months is an excellent goal and totally reachable.  It's great that you are getting a gym membership as a gift.  So often we are rewarded with food so it's nice to see a positive reward that is something other than that.

I'm getting a little bit excited because I'm doing really well this week and though I don't want to get ahead of myself I have planned out the next 12 weeks of my life, at least in terms of weight loss.

My goal for December is a total of 25lbs (or 5lbs a week for the next 3 weeks because I've already lost 10lbs).  After that I am going to shoot for 4lbs a week, which by staying on track with exercising I can totally do.  I go back to my doctor at the end of February and I hope to have lost over a 100lbs (since my July start date) AND be under 300lbs.  If I reach this goal, it will be the first time that I've been under 300lbs in more than 8 years.  That's really huge for me and it's kind of scary but I think I can do it.  Maybe by my Birthday next year (end of May) I'll be down to what I weighed in high school (10 years ago), which was 230-250lbs.  WOW, it seems almost impossible but yet so desirable!  Wish me luck girls, I'm going to need all the support I can get!

Thanks, and good luck, bethystan! I specifically asked for the gym membership, because I wanted to join but can't afford the signup fee. I signed up a little early, so I'm officially a member now and I'm trying to do the Couch to 5k jogging plan.

My whole family (practically) is trying to lose weight, too, so they're really supportive and proud of me. They're happy to do anything they can to help. :-)

That's awesome that you have family support.  My sister-in-law and I are doing Big Burn December 2007 to try to advance our weight loss and start the new year off right.  It's not easy but we both seem to making progress. 

I didn't lose any weight last week but I didn't work out either.  I'm back on track this week and worked out HARD yesterday.  I think I'm going swimming tonight with a friend so I'll get some laps done and I love the water.

Beth it seems like you are doing really good and I hope you can keep it up.  I on the other hand have made up my mind that I am going back to weight watchers at the beginning of the year.  I need to have to go stand in-front of another person to make myself do it I guess.  I would go now but with Christmas and then right after that is my daughters birthday so the second weekend in January I will be going but I will also keep up with you guys and this thread. I hope everyone is back for the new year.  Anyways I hope all have a great Christmas and New year I will be checking in a little later.

Hi guys! I know I've been absent for about a month. There were some very hard things happening in my life, including a 3-week seperation from my husband.

Fortunately, we've working things out, and not only that, but my previous experience on Calorie Count has ingrained in me some great habits, so I didn't gain a whole bunch of weight during that time! In fact, I've lost 1.5 pounds in the last month, which doesn't sound like a lot, but at least I didn't gain!!

 I'm currently at the lowest adult weight of my life, at 202 pounds. I can't wait to get rid of those last 3 pounds and be under 200! Also, my sister is going to start riding bikes with me, and a very flattering thing, she told me I inspired her to start eating better and exercising!

I'll be back more often again, I promise!

Wow, that sounds horrible about your marriage problems. I'm so sorry to hear that and I hope you can work it out together! Be strong!

And congrats on being at 202! You look great!

Hey ladies,

I know it's not monday, but I'm heading off to my parents and their internet is really slow and they don't have a scale so i'm weighing in a little early.

SW: 240

Last time:227

This week: 225

2 lbs right before the holidays I will take it.

I wish you all a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year.

anita

Update on the weight:

 Starting weight: 265

Starting weight on CC: 256

Nov. 25th: 230.1

Current weight: 223.5

Total loss: -6.6lbs / 32.5lbs / 41.5lbs

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday! 

<3 Jenn 

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to the group and very happy to be here!!  I'm 27, been with the same great guy for 10 years, and looking to shed the weight I've put on---mostly over those 10 years! hahahaha

I can tell you on Thursday my weight was 301 and today it is a smidgen under 298.  Could be water weight loss, and that's OK with me.

My goal for December 31, 2008 is to weigh 225.  My goal for the end of 2009 is to weigh 180.

:-)
El

ellinjo - welcome to our group.  We've tapered off a bit since just before the holidays but hopefully we can come back in full force for the new year.

I am at 345, I lost 10lbs last month and I am very happy with that.  My total weight loss since July 2007 is 60lbs.  Good luck to everyone this year and I hope to hear from you soon!

I weighed in this morning, down to 343lbs so two pounds this week.  I've worked out hard this week though, doing a lot of weights and so I think I probably lost more but gained some muscle.  How is everyone else doing?

I started Weight Watchers this past weekend and was very sad to see how much weight I had gained over the holidays.  MY new stats are

weight as of 1/12/08 270.6

I have been doing really good this week and hope to continue.  I really want to be down at least 50 lbs by Oct when I go up north for my cousins wedding.  (Really I would like to be at least 199 but we will see)  I hope we can keep this thread going I really enjoy hearing from everyone. 

 Beth, you have been doing so good keep up the good work.

Update on the weight:

 Starting weight: 265

Starting weight on CC: 256

Dec. 30th: 223.5

Current weight: 219.5

Total loss: -4lbs / 36.5lbs / 45.5lbs

beth: great job on the 10lbs last month! you must be so proud of yourself!

jpetty: i'm so glad you're back on track. i bet you'll have those 50 off by october, maybe more! 

<3 Jenn

Ok..It's Monday and I'm actually going to get back at this weighing in thing....Going to stick with it..I was doing really well when I was weighing in each week.

Start weight on CC: 240

Last time I weighed in: 225

Today's weight: 226

Goal weight 180

I hope that some of you are still around to keep this thread going. i need all of the support I can get from people who know what I'm going through.

chat with you all later

Anita

Well I went back to Weight Watchers on Saturday and I couldn't believe it I lost 6.4lbs last week. It made me feel so good to finally lose something.  I know I am not going to have a lot of weeks with that big of a loss but it just helped me see that I can do this.  I hope all you ladies have a great week.

Stats

start weight 270.6 (1/12/08)

this week (/19/09) 264.2 lost 6.4 (woohoo!!)

Okay,
so few of us are posting, but since some girls are still loyal, I am going to try to get back in this. I weighed myself today and i come in at 242. It took me forever to get below 240 that i feel kind of bad i gained weight. So, im definitely more motivated to lose weight now : )

Jpetty...wow 6.4 pounds in one week is awesome. so weight watchers really works? thats wonderful

I'm here for you guys!

I gained weight over the holidays and lost it. It was really disappointing because I was below 220 before the holidays and ballooned up to 227 after. I'm so happy I'm back below 220 now! I have only 3lbs to go until I've lost 50lbs!

Have a great week everyone,

<3 Jenn 

 

Thanks Livefree!  I like Weight Watchers for me because it give me some kind of structure and accountability.  6.4 is a very big number to lose but it was because it was my first week I will be happy if I can average 1.8lbs a week.  I just like going to stand in-front of someone and getting on the scale.  I also like the meetings and how the program works.  I also hope paying for it makes me stick with it.  My cousins wedding in Oct really helps me focus on something too.

I am so happy to see that there are a few of us left on here. Congrats to everyone who has been losing weight. I totaly understand the goal of wanting to look good for a wedding. I am in one in July and the rest of the wedding party are very small thin girls...then there's me...tall and full figured...They like to tease me, but I just tell them...At least I have boobs..It should be a good time. Good luck to everyone this week