Friends for Losers (the good kind of loser....)

Hello all!!

A big shout out to my girls from the "Lose 10 lbs by date, 2008" post.   ( :    Since starting that post, I am down almost 18 lbs.  

People asked about a new post.  Here it is! 

Weekly Friday weigh-ins?
Motivating friends? 
Friendly challenges to get moving, eat and drink right, and be conscious of all we do?

This is the place for you!

All old friends --JOIN ME!!!!  ---  new friends always welcome!

Actually, I hope that this post can bring people in from all my different cc groups....that way when we all meet one day, it will be like one huge reunion show!  ( :

TODAY WEIGHT:  166 
GOAL WEIGHT for next payday (7-20):  160

no stress, kim.   Just was thinking about it....   ( :

I tried some experimenting when I got the new scale.   I always figured it didn;t make a big deal what I had on when I weighed etc, but just this morning, my wet towel wrapped around my wet hair and naked other than that, added like .8 lbs to my total, SO  I try to just be consistent. 

YAY for 130, girl!

Way to go on the 130! Hope to see that number by September myself. (Oh, please, please, please...)

I'll have to stick with the Friday weigh-ins too, at least most of the time. It's also the same day as the weigh-in for a challenge I'm in...and losing badly! lol! I'm just kidding about that part. The only one I think about competing with is myself. It's just a good reminder.

Have a great weekend! I'll check in if I can but weekends are tough -- but not as tough as our resolve!! Grrr.  LOL!

down 2 lbs today since Tuesday. Total of 9 lost since July 15. Hope 5-6 more by Sept.  I have losts to go. Keep going ladies.

grr, PMS kicked in, i have eaten too much for 3 days, in and guess what, i am at 200 lbs again (was 193)

I hear you, ka --   BUT you know it is mostly water weight, so keep on keeping on.    ( :    I chewed a lot of gum and drank a lot of green tea this month. Cramps suck. 

Hope all of you are well. 

I just realized I am at the same weight (again) as I was when I started this dang post July 9th!   NEED to get a move on.  I was up for TTOM, but this is getting ridiculous, the see-sawing between 166 and 170something.   I think I just need to be more consistent.  It may take going back to work and eating on a forced schedule to make that happen.  As it is, I eat healthy, but I snack off and on all day. 

Definitely water Ka

Gum and green tea helps cramps?

I need to find a good abs routine. I like that my weight is getting there but my tummy is still squishy. Maybe I need a tummy tuck. All the stretch marks from having babies. I don't know if my tummy can be not squishy

 

lol, the gum and green tea were to keep me from eating everything in the kitchen, immom.   ( :

I thought my squishy belly would never go away too.....    I do a lot of reverse crunches and another exercise I got from (gasp of dismay) Britney Spears, like a reverse crunch, but you kip your lower abs/hips up?    I have more of a lower tummy issue than an upper one, hence the pooch.  It is going away, slowly but surely. 

Original Post by olivia77:

I hear you, ka --   BUT you know it is mostly water weight, so keep on keeping on.    ( :  

oh. i hear ya. i have been JUST under 200 for weeks. 193 sounded soo good. grr.

i know part of it is water weight, but my clothes are getting tighter and i hate that feeling.

it was a bit better today, and now am at work where i have only an apple + a tub of yogurt till midnight, so i will have 1,792 calories (burning about 2300)... back to my track!

Original Post by olivia77:

lol, the gum and green tea were to keep me from eating everything in the kitchen, immom.   ( :

I thought my squishy belly would never go away too.....    I do a lot of reverse crunches and another exercise I got from (gasp of dismay) Britney Spears, like a reverse crunch, but you kip your lower abs/hips up?    I have more of a lower tummy issue than an upper one, hence the pooch.  It is going away, slowly but surely. 

*adds green tea to the shopping list, just hunder HOUMOUS and tomatoes*

Hi all! Just popping in to say stay focused, just one more weekend day to get thru!

I did terribly this weekend.  Scale shows it today   ) : 

I really consciously ate a little more this weekend in an effort to convince my body it was not going to starve, no matter how much I workout, but GOSH! 

I also did not realize my knee supplement, glucosamine, has calories???   I am an idiot.  lol 

Big plans today to hit my fave thrift store in a few minutes and search for some cute deals.   Also, make yummy dinner later for J.    ( :

How is everyone?

hello! i hope you got nice clothes and nice dinner too:-) my weekend was terrible, calorie wise, too (as you know from the weekend thread:). today is slightly better, but still. maybe it is the heat, that i am feeling less motivated (to diet, to work, to anything... i am not depressed, just lazy:) maybe my mind and body just need some rest, who knows:)

Good Monday (I know that is really an oxymoron)

Had a great weekend.  My only no no was fish and chips and 2 pints of beer but that was after a 6 mile hike.  My HRM said I burned close to 700 calories.  I hope to get to the gym today........I hope I do but once I get home the pull to stay home is so strong.  I could just go to the gym after work but I have to take care of my dogs plus I like to ride my bike to the gym which is only 1.5 miles from my house.

I would love to ride my bike 1.5 miles to the gym.   Can you just ride the bike to work on gym days and then go straight there after work?   That would rock!!!!

I have to get used to working out again after work when school starts next Monday.   I will work out in the am as well, but I bet I go back to my old trick of putting my shoes and workout clothes into my computer chair where I typically plop my butt when I get home.  It almost always works to get me onto the workout after work.   It is hard to sit down and not feel guilty with my gear right there.  

Some guy wrecked my car on my way to thrift shop today.   Any car suggestions? 

Sorry about the car but more importantly....Are you ok?  So, did your car get totaled?.  I have a Suzuki Grand Vitara (small SUV) replaced a mini-van..!  If so glad to get rid of that although it drove so nice.  If had an option to buy a new car it would probably by a Toyota Corolla or some kind of VW. 

I used to ride my bike to work....only 2 miles away.  It was a bit scary because in some sections not very bike friendly....now this summer there is so much construction (urban sprawl) that I am too frightened to ride my bike.  If it was between me and a cement mixer I think the cement mixer would win.  After the contruction though there will be more bike paths so next summer I will probably always be riding my bike to work...well I may skip the days that get up in the 100s.

By the way I did workout yesterday...yippee for me.  I forgot my HRM so I have to take the number from tomorrows workout since it will be the same.  Today I unload boxes of shoes at Famous Footwear...my little part-time job...Tuesdays are long days.  I call it my mini workout.  I should wear my HRM and see if it really is doing anything extra.

you should count that extra work, puppy!!!   ( : 

I wish I had a bike. 

A real on, that is....

My car is all bent up underneath, the frame/wheel/axle.   Probably toast unfortunately. 

So I decided I was a bad kind of loser because I stopped checking in/ logging calories/ etc.  and started to get comfortable at 160ish.  Why make it this far to turn around and head in the wrong direction?   Being busy is no excuse for not taking care of myself I just need to figure out how to balance everything. I actually can't wait for school to start so I can get back in my routine and fit exercising in there somewhere.  

I did get off of my ass today and walked 2.5 miles even though my feet hurt from working lastnight. (see I'm trying to not make excuses!)  and I weigh 162.  I have been between 160 and 164 up and down since June.  I feel like I may have wasted my summer vacation  but if I lost 18 during the school year last year, I can lose 15 more before my wedding day.  I loved the way I looked in the dresses I tried on, but wouldn't mind some nice arms in wedding pictures!

Sorry to hear about your car Olivia.  A woman I worked with got hers stolen a few nights ago. In a weird way, I'd almost rather have mine totalled than stolen, what a freaky violation ya know?

Ok I'm on my way to be a good loser!  

You are already a rocking awesome loser, toni!   ( :

You are right though -- we can do it.   I actually think it is easier to lose during school, with a forced schedule for eating (and everything else in my life).  

Wanna make a contest out of it?   ( :     you KILLED me last time!!!!    lol

Hi Girls,

Just returned from a little vacation and am catching up with your posts now.  Looking back on my last post with my stats,  no idea why the weird letters, except I tried to paste some of my stats from a previous post and somehow all that gibberish got attached.......oh well.  The weight numbbers were right anyway, lol.

Olivia, Ikahead, Immom, Puppy Kisses and Chris, and anyone else I missed,   thanks for your replies!  I've had family reunions etc, so have been gone alot this summer, but am trying to eat better.  Even though I ate good while I was away,  I did dip down to 85 pounds.  But the funny thing is, I didn't get any comments from relatives, other than I was so tiny, and

 " Eat! Eat! " LOL.  And eat I did, lots of rich pasta and jello salads, and cheese cake!  I'm up to 88 now, and I feel great.  Lots of energy.  I'm only five feet tall, so that's probably why I didn't get a lot of concerned comments from anyone. A few said to me, that as short as I am I can pull off weighing so little, but I need to be careful and maintain this weight at the very least.  I have a new hair cut.   A long page boy, ( to my shoulders )  lots of short layers around my face, and styled so it kind of kicks out too.  I love it! 

 I'm 40 ish now, and I'm being told I look like I'm in my early 30's, so I LOVE that!  :)   I feel good about myself.  I can finally say, I actually feel pretty again, now that my face is thin again, and I can see the contours and my cheek bones.  And I believe it when I'm told I am pretty, so that makes me feel good too. I feel like a whole new person after losing 30 pounds.  Way too much extra weight for my small frame.  No wonder I felt miserable and sluggish all the time.  Just puttered around.............as if I were 300 pounds overweight instead of 30.  And the energy I have now amazes me!  I can't sit still for very long..........always something I want to be doing, lol.  Life is very good right now!

 My  facial skin seems to have snapped right back,so that makes me feel happy.  I was so worried about sagging!  :(  That is why I lost this weight so slowly, as I wanted to prevent the saggy skin  that always seems to go with losing weight.  I did/do lots of toning exercises and even facial exercises!  I still have a lot of areas to work on..........cellulite on my thighs, etc.  But I'm going to keep at these exercises.  :)  Have a great weekend girls, and I will talk to you later!

Rachel

132.8 (down .8)

It's wonderful & inspiring to hear you sound so positive, Rachel. It sounds like you are having a great summer! Your weight probably dipped from being so busy. I'm glad you're at a healthy place now.

I know for myself when my weight was at my goal weight, life didn't suddenly become easy & good, but at least there was one less thing! (credit to Forest Gump) And you're right, energy is better and I remember just being more comfortable nearly all the time. I could sit anyway I wanted: my clothes didn't dig in AND I didn't have to worry about how it looked. Ah well, I'm getting closer!