30lb by Halloween

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Wow, braillepassion, your story is amazing! Your drive and determination to succeed is very inspiring.....Ive been out of High school for 4 years now, yet to go to college or university..... Currently working in Inside Sales at a pipe manufacturer......

The reason Ive been so hesitant about school is money for one....and not really knowing what I want to do yet.......

So good on you for the ability to keep pushing even when your down and out and feeling low!

Awwwww, thanks Tinka. :)

PS: LOVE your tatoo! One of my best friends got 'live love laugh' tattooed on her shoulder recently! I used to live in Okinawa, Japan for seven years, and while I was dumb enough not to learn Japanese while I was there, I still appreciate the art of the calligraphy! What does the writing mean? Also, is there a reason you got hibiscus plants?

I like our little group. We're awesome. :)

first, kickass peacock costume, braille!!!  ( :    japan?

my past story is long and sordid too, but the past is the past, eh?  their loss.....

how weird is it that there are two anthropologists???  that's so awesome....  cool class list.....

Been there, done that with all the aspects of crazy eating too, braille.  it's hard to admit and taking chage is the first step, so good for you.  I think just being a conscious eater/cal counter/water drinker/exerciser makes a HUGE difference for me -- not just success losing but how I feel about myself too.....

on a selfish note, just so I can cry to someone else, even with my burning 800 cals a day and eating I thought right, and even though I was 166 on Wed, I was 173 this morning.  eye roll----bring on the water!!!

yeah, i've struggled with a lot of eating/food issues too. so i'm right there with you. i definitely love our little group too. you guys are awesome!

Thanks braillepassion!

I got the japanese calligraphy last year, and it means serenity. Not sure if I mentioned it all in any of these threads, but 2007 was baaaad year for me..... from having to move to another place and having a friendship destroyed because of it to having some issues with my new relationship, to having to find another job while getting deeper and deeper into enormous debt, and then having my boyfriend write off my car in a collision where it was 'his' fault, to having issues with my mom, all while gaining 30 pounds in a year....Once I got a new job, the job Im at now (will be a year August 1st) and finally my bf and I were starting to get on track financially ....I decided that I needed some sanity....and I dont know....I thought Im going to get another tattoo, and this will mean so much to me. and I chose my right shoulder blade because to me, that way I would also have this serenity on my back with me always, all I would have to do is just take a deep breath.

As for the Live Love Laugh piece, I just got that one done May 10th of this year.....Ive been back since, on June 14th to get it finished with color and more detail. I will put a new picture up. Ive gotten a lot of compliments on it. Although it hurt a lot I love it!!! Its my new motto and life goal, to live well, laugh often and love much

(I just put them in a different order because I wanted the 'h' in laugh to be extravagant!)

and I chose the hibiscus because they are my favourite flower/plant and I am somewhat of a Hawaiian theme freak......anyone who knows me, knows me by that lol its almost rule of thumb lol.......it also...makes me feel at ease and at peace....kind of corny...but its true

 

 

I told my tattoo artist about my weight loss goal and my surgery and how I wanted to get one more tattoo once Ive lost the weight as a celebrative tattoo for my accomplishment. Can you guess where I want to get it done? lol on my side hip or stomache/pelvis area............... theres no way in hell I would do it now....... so I told him I would see him in about a year or so..... and it will be another piece I have designed and created myself...It will be the pisces fish in the form of 69, forming a circle and around them with be text also forming a circle which will say "Amo ut invenio" which means "I love as I find" -another quote I find soley expressed my personality. I feel I give people the benefit of the doubt and I am also naive at times...but I feel as if its all part of growing..and Im still growing and learning and when I come across a new day and new situation I just take it with ease and learn what I can and make the best of everything I have be given and have worked for....

crap Im blabbing again.......

 

anyway!  so yeah......awesome group!!  It would be neat to all meet one day hey? after we have reached our weight loss goals! That would be CRAZY!!

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"blabbing" is not the right word, tinka!  I like all the cc sharing.   ( :

I have two tattoos......    both marking different period of rebellion as a young person.   both are yin-yangs in deference to my trying to balance myself, to find moderation, and happiness within......  

sounds like a tough year, tinka.  I think my wake up and do it summer was 2 summers ago when I almost died and last summer when i started this scc journey, but every summer has a meaning.  Let's make summer 2008 your best summer ever --- ALL OF US!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh -- and I am totally going on Oprah or Tyra or something and meeting my cc girls one day!    (not so crazy)

That would be AWEOME crazy-tacular, lol. Although I'm in Florida, don't know where you guys are?

I just got my first tattoo last weekend, and I've already emailed an artist in Sarasota, FL about my second. So I'm kinda crazy about tattoos right now, every time I see someone that has one I'm like "OMG why did you get it, where did you get it, tell me the story pleaseeeeee!" So don't worry about blabbing, I love to listen!

And I agree olivia, let's make this the most spectacular summer EVAH! :)

Sounds like we've all been through a lot, we deserve to look and feel our best.

Anyone here drink tea, btw? I'm kind of obsessed with it. I work at Starbucks so I get a free box of tea every week...I'm drinking the green ginger tea right now. :)

I know I know.... Ive just been told that Im 'long-winded' lol often people critisize me...I try not to let it bother me....BUT since you guys enjoy then I will continue to 'share' lol

 

I actually got my first tattoo 3 years ago... it was my........rebellion tattoo as you called yours lol...... I think I was 19.....and get this.... I wrote off my car then a couple months later I moved out from home into a downtown apartment, got my first tattoo AND lost my virginity ALL in the same month booya, talk about rebellion! hahaha  anyway...you can barely see it in my picture but its my lower back piece......That was the only tattoo that I didnt design myself....I had created something, brought it into a shop but they were pretty anal about doing 'other peoples work' so they made me choose from their gallery......... I should have went somewhere else if I was 100% happy.... but I was naive and eager.....so I got it done and I still love it, it represents a period/stage in my life nevertheless, so Im happy with it.

After that I told myself any future tattoos would be my own creations and would mean something to me....which the next two have....

 

Yeah seems everyone goes through rough patches....its nice to hear of them though and also of the positive outcomes...I mean look at us! This forum is OOOZING with determination! I love it!!

Im from Canada, eh? (haha sorry I had to throw that in there...) anyone else from Canada?

woo hoo-- I like lotsa talkers (at least untl I go back to work in August!)  ( :

my tattoos are badges for me.....of memory, of pride and pain, of strength that came through sheer will.....    they are part of you forever so LOVE it.

braille -- I <3 green tea!  switched to that vs. coffee when driving to work at 6:30AM.....   only have weekend coffee now...   I like the orange/jasmine/passionfruit tea and the cranberry pomegranate from I think Lipton.......  YUMMY!!!!!  I love pom anything!!  (drinking that flavor Crystal Light right now....) 

oh, I am in southeast Kansas, about as far from FLA and Canada as you can get.  =P lol,  I do have another cc bud, ribear who is in CA though.   ( :

Hahaha, I think my tattoo was my rebellion. I'm only 18 right now, so I'm still finding my place in life and all that crap. Ughhhhhh it's annoyingly pressuring.

 

wicked! I think I even posted something a while back to see if anyone was from Edmonton Alberta, Canada.....no luck yet lol

I actually stopped drinking tea and coffee...I used to drink a lot of tea....really enjoy chai tea for while... then starting drinking coffe in 2007........ when I say Ive stopped drinking coffee, thats been as of like....lol that last couple weeks... (for weight loss) it hasnt bothered me much, but I cant drink it black and I know the added sugar and cream is not the best choice for me if Im trying to lose weight lol..... I did have a coffee this morning from Tim Horton's thought (as my treat since its friday) and it was good lol.. just good tho lol

 

If I do drink tea I like orange pekoe with one sweetener and no milk or cream......

I havent tried many specialty teas, but dang, some of those you said sound gooooooood

i don't have any tattoos because i'm waiting until i reach towards my goal weight and see what my skin looks like. plus i change my mind a lot and if i were to have gotten one a few month ago, when i wanted to, it would have been like a unicorn or a skeleton with a top hat and a cigar. sooooo.... yeah. i'll wait until things are a bit more stable, physically and mentally.

also, i don't drink teas or coffee or even soda or juices anymore. i'm making an half-assed attempt at "clean" or "pure" eating, so i'm avoiding that caffine/chemical buisness. i have a lot of water, plain, maybe with ice and sometimes soy milk with oatmeal. its kind of devoid living but i'm used to it.

i've only got one tattoo so far. it says strong and it's on my lower right hip bone (or where the bone would be if i wasn't so fat. hah). i want to get another one on my lower left hip bone in the same font that says beautiful, but i too wanna wait until i'm at least a bit closer to my goal weight. i'd hate for it to get all morphed as i got thinner. i got my strong tattoo when i was 18. i had a really tumultuous and ugly teenager-hood, both self-inflicted and otherwise, and it was kind of a reflection of all of the **** that i made it through. a reminder that even when it seems like the world is ending, i am strong and i can get through it. the beautiful tattoo - well, you can figure that one out yourself, i'm sure. i want something that symbolizes that no matter what, no matter how fat or thin, i am beautiful, inside and out. and i think that's something everyone can relate to. i opted to get them in english because that way everyone can see them, and know exactly what they mean. they don't need an explanation or a story to understand.

 

i'm not a tea drinker, myself. i can't really have caffeine, it makes me really shaky, hyper and nauseous. so i tend to avoid it. in fact, i really just drink water all the time. i rarely even put ice in it, i drink it straight from the tap. either that or beer. i'm a big fan of beer too. i like to drink juice, but i just can't justify using the calories on it.

 

out of curiosity, have any of you guys struggled with restrictive eating disorders? i did, for a few years, went through recovery and ironically enough ended up morbidly obese. well, i've been doing really well on my diet recently, but i'm starting to notice little indicators pop up lately. stuff that i used to do that i catch myself doing again. for example, my goal is 1500 cals per day, but i've noticed that if i get above 1000, i feel guilty. and i actually have to force myself to make it to 1500 (i do, because i want to be healthy, but some days it's really hard). do you guys struggle with that at all?

Yeahhhh, I was annorexic for almost a year...so i know what you mean, blondie.

It's kinda scary that I'm starting to get back into the culinary arts agian......I did that when I was annorexic, I would make food, not eat it, and just give it to ther people. Which is what I've been doing lately. :(

BUT, I figure it's ok as long as I don't become obsessive agian.

First I want to say I think you guys are all awesome.  When I started looking at some of the people in this group, I thought I might be to old for you guys and that maybe I wouldn't be able to relate but after reading all the post I can so relate, it just happened maybe before some of you were born.  LOL

I have always wanted a tattoo, I even designed the one I wanted of a rattle snake with its jaw open and fangs showing and set back in the jaw line was the face of a woman with sad eyes.  It so seem to fit me at the time.  I to have struggled with an eatting disorder and sometimes even catch myself now think it wouldn't be so bad and I am older now so I can stop when I get where I want but I know that is not true.

I am in Arizona so if Oprah is our next stop I am so there.

Good luck to all tomorrow and not sure how we are suppose to do this but I weigh myself first thing in the morning and then what do we just post where we are at?

Hey tinka!  I'm from Canada too eh?  lol...Richmond Hill...the burbs of Toronto.  I have a lot of friends that have left here and moved out west, I'm planning a trip there for New Years.  Should be at my goal weight by then!!!

I love all this tatoo talk, I've got one and I want to warn you guys, think twice about where you get it, especially if you haven't had kids.  Funny story, well kind of...I was 16. rebellious stage...lol, lied about my age, and went and got a tatoo to cover my appendix scar.  Well, moved ahead a few years and I'm pregnant.  My tattoo was like one of the pictures on a balloon once its blown up and then released....not the whole tatoo, just half of it.  You should see it now!!!  Half of it has stretch marks running through it, and is warped, the other half is perfectly fine...20 years later.  Yeah, when your 16, you don't think about those things!!!  I am looking forward to getting another tattoo, its my present to me for getting to goal weight.  I'm thinking of getting a tramp stamp...lol!

Yeah, I'm the same way. I try to keep myself from being obsessive and I let other people know when I'm worried that it's becoming a problem so that they can keep an eye on me. It seems to do the trick.

 

Anybody have any good plans for the weekend? I'm meeting Ralph Nader tomorrowat the museum I work at but that's the extent of mine.

I have a tramp stamp.  ( ;  and one on the old standard boob area...  how unoriginal of me at 16......

cool!  Ralph Nader??  pictures!!!   I am going with my mom and one of her oldest friends (from hours away) to visit the friend's son for his birthday in the metro of Springfield, MO.   : D  he's one of my oldest childhood friends, so it;s always a good time. 

Feeling good about today ---- relaxing.   Biked, mowed the lawn, and layed out for a while.  FInished my book too.   Onward, weekend!   Going bowling tonight. 

hahaha i'm working alllllllll weekend! :) Yay!

RALPH NADER? sweeeeeet!