100+ lbs to Go Losing2gether Sucessfully Club

Sharing support & encouragement can help get us through ~ especially on a bad day.  So come talk and share your day with us :)  

Our group will remain open and you are welcome to join us any time, but our group will only thrive if people participate here together. 

How to stick with this4ever ~ The most important thing is to find a healthy approach that works for you that you can enjoy for the rest of your life.  Create your new lifestyle.  Let's talk about how! 

I'd say excess liquid that has no calories and is low or no sodium should count.  But that's just me.  I don't like water most of the time.  Today I had three glasses and that's just because I didn't have any iced tea made.  Sadly I'm not a good example though :)

i count alternative liquids

Thanks united2gether for the resources. I checked out the number of glasses/cups I need a day. It's 15! I MIGHT get 6 on a good day, so I'll bet if I up that I'll feel sooo much better.

 all of you are so terrific. thanks for responding about my mother of the bride dress. i bought shoes for it tonight.

 I'm going to drink my 15 cups of water tomorrow, yikes! I'll see how I feel. I hope I get some work done with all of the piddling :-) (cute go4gold)

yeah, i believe in alternative water sources.  there is water in food, soups and other liquids, so I'm probably in the 4 - 6 cups a day range myself and whenever I'm thirsty for more!

well.. thats awesome!!  that means i drank 12 cups today, not including the cup of black coffee and the cucumber and cup of sprite zero.  yeah!!!  i usually only drink about 1-2 cups a day.  Im actually proud:)  Tommorrow im gonna do the 15 they recommend for me.   It'll be hard, but I can do it :)

Welcome Saintly Mama!

I've been reading this water thread and feeling guilty. I remember the water mantra from Weight Watchers and try to get in plenty, but I don't count and probably get less than the 64 oz. daily now. I recently moved from the Great Lakes region to San Diego area and realized that I have to (and want to) drink a lot more out here. I also have read in a couple of places that studies are showing that one doesn't need quite so much water as was thought, so I drink when I'm thirsty, when I'm hungary, and when I'm nervous. I just splurged on Pellagrino to take the place of the wine I have been drinking at night.

But, the enemy lurks everywhere! I'm in a warm-up phase for the South Beach diet (trying to lose that belly fat) and so am watching the sugar (a very good idea for me anyway, I have hypoglycemic spells). This morning I had a V-8 and, when I logged it in, saw the caution about the amount of sugars in it. Then I checked the can...11 grams in 8 ounces. Yikes! I knew it was high in sodium but was totally caught unaware by the sugar grams. Thank goodness for CC, but the lesson to me is check and recheck labels.

Everyone sounds so upbeat and it is a pleasure to read entries for this forum. I think this is the 5th day for me and I've had some significant changes: (1) I have lost weight (I weigh daily, but don't count the loss until my official weigh-in day - Monday); (2) I am experiencing a very significant increase in motivation as illustrated by me trying an actually prescribed diet...and the motivation is for me, not because of a guy or event, which in the past has been the usual motivation. I have to say, though, that 38 of the last 50 lbs I lost was for me because I had so much trouble with ankle pain and getting exhausted easily) (12 for the guy I loved and lost...thank heaven again); (3) I seem to be able to give up my evening wine, which was almost medicinal because I was drinking out of boredom and stress. I need to develop a variety of evening activities to keep out of this habit.

Good luck everyone, keep your spirits up. We are doing the right thing!

 

I read some of those water articles and today I'm setting my kitchen timer to go off every hour or (sometimes less if I've forgotten it) and drink a glass of water between every time it goes off.  I've had at least 5 glasses of water today already.  I wasn't counting sadly, but if the trend continues I'll get plenty of water today.

 Blue -  that's funny - using the kitchen timer, but you gotta do what you gotta do.  Good for you!

Welcome Saintlymama!  I too am losing weight in the hopes of conceiving.  I don't have PCOS, but have read alot about it.  If you ever want to chat, send me a message sometime. 

United - that's for the tip on the survey for the free pedometer.  I was doing 10,000 steps a day program, but have lost or broken 4 peds since May!  I took the survey, would really like to get back to counting steps again.

My official weigh in day is Thursday, so from now on that will be the day I post my weight.  This morning the scale read 237.6 - Since I joined on the 8th that is 2.8 lbs. 

Congratulations to all of you healthy water drinkers!!!

oooohhhh.. fricking co-workers brought in a huge box of noahs bagels, cream cheese, lox, etc.  Must resist....

 

Rena

* mommabear2i

1. Starting Weight (& day joined):288 (first post 9/13/07) 
2. Highest Weight EVER:   317.6
3. Mini-Goals: 1st Goal Weight:   275
4. ULTIMATE Goal Weight:  140
5. Plan:  I have been on cc for a little over a week and am already down 4.5 lbs (YEAH!!)  I am trying to eat around 1650 calories a day and am just beginning to add exercise with a goal of 1 mile walk 4 times a week by next week.

Would love to join you guys and am looking for someone to motivate as well as someone to motivate me.

Hi Momma Bear. 

 

Good goals with the exercise!  I really need to get to walking more myself. 

Fortyandfab

1. 253 (Sept. 13, 2007) 
2. Highest Weight EVER:   322
3. Mini-Goals: 1st Goal Weight:   To hit 240 in the next month
4. ULTIMATE Goal Weight:  157-164 pounds
5. Plan:  To continue to count calories, work out 30 minutes a day 4 days a week, and 1 hour a day other 3 days. Be accountable for my actions.

Hi there. My name is Tammy. Not sure if this is where I post this but, what the heck, I'm starting!

Starting Weight - 235.4

Highest Ever - This is it!! (Other than pregnancy)

Mini-Goals - I want to see my first 5 pounds go in 3 weeks

Ultimate Goal - 140/130

Plan - I am just taking this one day at a time. I just joined this morning, so I don't really have a full out plan yet. That is why I joined here. I guess my plan is to watch my calorie intake and follow that for now. Soon I will get back into some form of physical activity, and just go from there.

My husband is the one who told me about this site. He joined as well, but his goal is to gain weight. I know, we all wish we had his problem. But truthfully, he is just as insecure about his body as I am about mine, because he is underweight.  He is my support and actually he is more motivated right now than I am. My hope is that with us working on our goals together, we can both stick to it.  Anyway, wish me luck and I look forward to getting to know you all.

Tammy

I think that these are all great ideas.  If you need help making the avatars (little pics) I could probably do that on my Paint Shop Pro.

welcome Tammy :) 

 

Guess who's on cup # 12 of water!!  yay... only 3 more to go:)

Rena

Hi ajjciir! 

Welcome mommabear2i!  Congratulations on your nice week! (Already down 4.5lbs).    Keep up the good work! 

Hey everybody! After reading more of your entries I decided it might be good for me to set some more serious kind of goals.  It's kinda scary.  I'm afraid that if I don't reach them I might become too discouraged.  Maybe with your support that wont be the case!?

You remember my Starting Weight?...371.1lbs (9/6/07)      & nbsp;      &nbs p;       & nbsp;      &nbs p;       & nbsp;     

Highest Weight EVER: 387lbs (7/25/07)  Down 16lbs!

Mini Goals: 1st Goal Weight: 345lbs by Jan'08...You know, that's what I weighed 7 yrs. ago 9 months pregnant.

ULTIMATE Goal Weight: 154lbs

Plan: Counting calories, (trying to consume only about 1700), Power Walking for 45min a day/ 4 or 5 days a week, Walking an additional 2.5mls a day/ 6 days a week.  I was bicycling for 45min a day/ every day but I exceeded it's weight limit and I broke it (the bike, that is.  Not to mention it REALLY hurt my butt!)  HA HA!   Oh well! That's kinda funny!

Bye you guys!  Tell me what you think.

LOL xoxoxo cmcole

Hey cmcole,

I think your goal for January 2008 is reasonable.     &nbs p;       & nbsp;      &nbs p;    And keep on walking lady!

We're all here with ya. Keep It up.

As for the water challenge....

thanks to a water dispenser outage at work I was forced to buy my own water and I drank a solid 3 litres at work alone! Now that the dispenser is back on I'm still doing It... good things come out of every bad situation.. :)

Welcome mommabear, fortyandfab, and Tammy. 

cmcole   - like sabineyvr said, it sounds like you have very reasonable goals.  I'm sure you'll make that!  We're all in this together and will do our best to keep you encouraged.

I just logged my cals for today and my sodium is really high.  I better suck down some more water before bed.  Of course, then I won't get a good night's sleep, cause I'll have to get up and "piddle."

Welcome to all our new members!!! Woot!!!

Added the special celebrations & quotes up top

& our Piddlettes!  So Drink Up!!!  Skoal! Cheers! Bottoms Up!!!

Who is Blue??? Is that u sky?

Jennytheveg ~ how's it going?  Earlier this week you mentioned you were having a tough time...

cmcole ~ an after Christmas goal is a long ways, and it's difficult over the Holidays!  You've got Moxie!  Let me know if you set a shorter goal, like by Thanksgiving.

Not feeling so hot today & have the PMS munchies.  It really helps to see everyone here!!!  I'm with ya, but turning in early to bed.  Of course, I may have to Piddle all night!!!  Thanks to Molly!  yeah, Molly, Gee Thanks ;)

wanders off muttering Piddle! Piddle! Piddle!

snorts~n~giggles

Blue is me by the way, yes. 

And everyone, what do you think about having a small status web page.  It'd be easy to come up with one.  I have plenty of extra web-space if we had a name I could probably even get us the domain.  :) It could be an easy place for us to track our group's progress so that we don't have to keep typing longer and longer first posts.