10 or less to lose - CLOSED GROUP!

Hey all, I'm looking for others with similar goals (not stats, anybody who's 10 or less from their goal) so we can keep each other company for the last leg of the weight-loss extravaganza. A small group would be great fun! (Let's keep it to just the first 10 or so who join - if I even get that many takers!)

My stats:

Age: 22

Height: 5'0

CW: 107-110 (morning-evening)

Goal Weight: 98-101

Just take it as a compliment doedoe.

1200! Ok so I put in my new weight and I decided to see what CC suggested as my calorie amount, 1200 calories. Isn't that the lowest a person should have that just seems crazy to me. I'm going to try to stick to it on non-work out days but on the days I do my 10K training I'll raise my caloric intake to keep from having a more than 1000 calorie deficit.

Where is everyone?  Hope this silence doesn't mean you all have been eating cake without me lol

Sorry so silent, had a sucky stressful week :(  I did have a danish this morning too, but dinner is a salad!  I think you're right about keeping your deficits to a max of 100 cals - sounds safest.  Hope everyone else is doing well!

Uh Oh, our group is falling off. Do an extra work out today, something small like walk to the corner store or something.

heh! i'm down to 112lbs again this week. apparently the extra pound gained last friday (i was 114lbs then, and 113lbs the week before) was because of my period (which started on sunday), but the water weight has since shifted...

it's a little worrisome because my period actually started way too early this round. =_= i figured that it's mostly stress related (i've been pretty frayed at the ends over going overseas for the next semester, trying to settle my housing, modules, and so on... my friend who does traditional chinese medicine took my pulse and told me that 'your pulse feels like you're highly stressed. you don't look stressed though. are you?'

the walk to the corner store is actually a great idea. (: hope you guys are keeping on track and eating within your deficits!

Hey guys! I'm alive --- just in the crazy process of moving. Just got to Arlington, MA a few days ago -- I'll be back when I settle in, promise! (Hopefully the stress and heavy lifting will help me lose... lol!)

doedoe -- I'm in the same boat --- 22, and people often think I am 16 or so. Oi vey! I get carded at Walmart to buy cough medicine, R rated movies and super glue. sheesh!

Weigh in Day!!!

SW: 151.?

LW: 145.0

TW: 144.8

aaargh.

Welcome back Septi! Good luck with the move.

Doedoe, the stress really can change your periods - hopefully things calm down soon.  Eating too little can also affect them, especially if you're really active, so please be careful that you're getting everything you need.

Amayou, I feel your pain.  But you're prob building muscle. How are your clothes fitting?

septi: super glue and cough medicine! gosh!

i'm a little (well, very) jittery now! going to fly off to the states exactly one day from now, and i feel so utterly unprepared! >"<!!!
I haven't been exercising much cause of farewell dinners, lunches, meet ups, birthday celebrations, etc. but i haven't been sleeping much either (cause of sleepovers and late night outings...) hopefully things will get better by next next week after i settle down in my university!

Wow, doedoe, have a safe trip!  Don't be too nervous - I"m sure you'llhave a great time!

Weigh in Day!

SW: 151.?

LW: 144.8

TW:144.6

I think I'm gonna take a lil break from dieting again, I may be losing it. I cheated on my diet this week my weakness for cake got the best of me. For my sanity's sake I'm gonna chill with the calorie counting for about 2 weeks

Weigh-in Day

SW: 107 ish?

LW: 106.8

TW: 105.4

I don't care if it's a fluke due to dehydration or something -- I'm thrilled! *does the snoopy dance*

Doedoe -- definitley take a break from counting -- but don't LEAVE us! Just try to be sensible, but don't be hard on yourself and don't count. Your sanity will return if you stop thinking about food as numbers. Muah!

Woo hoo "anonymous"! Sounds like a nice spot to be.

Amayou, I've stopped counting and weighing the past few weeks and I feel a bit better about it now.  I was trying to eat healthy but not so strictly and I probably would have been OK except I had no kitchen to cook in.  I don't know that I feel any better about my body image at this point but hopefully as I start to feel less overwhelmed by the rest of life that'll improve too.  I  kind of felt hit by a triple whammy of things the past month but September is shaping up to be better (I get to move out of this ridiculous falling-apart house!)

eeps.

i just got out of living out of a suitcase (been doing that for the past 5 days!)... don't have a weighing scale yet, so i don't think i'll be weighing in. I think i lost a terrible amount of weight though. =_= terrible traveling companions during the trip and stayover in chicago... i'm probably going to spend the next few days here fattening up!

im pretty bummed about the chicago trip though. it was fun in itself (especially when i went whole food and organic market shopping on my own), but most of the time i was stuck with someone who was utterly insensitive... (he kept stealing my food when i wasn't around--bottles of water (i bought a multi-pack), apples and snacks), and more than one occasion, he'd say, 'ok let's eat here. you're ok with this place right? there are quite a lot of vegetarian options (i declared myself a vegetarian early on to spare myself any heavy explaining etc.) and when i look at the menu, to my horror, there is a grand total of one miserable item on the entire menu that is vegetarian (and usually something unsubstantial like soup or a salad). Needless to say, I ended up eating little, walking a lot, and burning much more than i consumed. =_=

didn't help too that he decided now and then that 'ok, why don't we skip dinner today? i mean, we had a heavy lunch. And i'm like, 'wait a minute. YOU had a heavy lunch, i didn't! I didn't even have enough options on the menu to have a semi-substantial lunch!'.

I ended up nearly crying today cause he blamed me when he lost one of his baggage on the bus (he forgot to take it off with him), because i opted for the bus instead of a cab to the train station(which would have saved us about 10 bucks per person). We ended up taking the cab nonetheless, because he wanted to, (he was dead tiredafter he retrieved his bag), and the cab was so small what with all the luggage we had in the back seat (he was sitting in the front), that got leg cramps from a 5 minute ride. And the worst thing was when we reached the train station and he said that 'see, if we had taken the cab in the first place, we wouldn't have had the problem with the luggage. all this for the sake of saving a miserable 10 bucks.'

i suspect that i lost at least 3 pounds in the past few days just getting tortured by being in a foreign city with him, than ccing for 5 weeks. (1.5" off my waist and 1" off my thighs. i was shocked when i saw the tape measurement for the first time in 6 days today...)

a very long and unrelated post, but i just needed to get all this off my chest!

I'm taking a lil break, man I wish I didn't like cake so much but anyway my morale is super low right now, I feel like quitting the 10K I signed up for after driving the route a couple of days ago wondering if my body can take it. I went out with a guy who I'm really digging but I don't know if he's into me and on top of that I'm starting school this week and I don't have my books. I think I'm gonna take a day to go on a spiritual fast just to get myself in order. Why can't I just be a trophy wife, lol

Focusing on the positive, my income will increase with me starting school and receiving my GI Bill Yippee!! My mom had an old foot soaker she let me have, I really needed it. Jesus loves me!

Doedoe, sorry your trip buddy sucked lol, atleast now you know who you don't want to ride with next time.

VegGeek, glad to know I'm not the only one.

Oh, man Doedoe, that sounds AWFUL.  Completely awful.  I hope you don't have to spend any more time with him.  What a ... ahem, insert bad word (CC always reprimands me when I swear).  Well, I guess "jerk" covers it.  Jerk to the power of 20.

Amayou, you sound pretty bummed too.  Cake is evil and boys are stupid is all I can tell you :) But a foot soaker will make just about any day better.  Those things rock.

Weigh in Day

sw: 151.?

LW: 144.6 <-- I think

TW:145.8

I can't wait until this 10K is over, I'm tired of running over an hour lol

I'd be thrilled if I could run for HALF an hour, Amayou, you are so hardcore!!  And I'm guessing you are getting tinier and muslier if you're not losing pounds.

How was everyone's weekend?  I went to workout BEFORE work today.  I'm not sure that it suits me.  I think it will suit me less when it's still dark at 8am.

My weekend was ok other than the Chinese food :-( LOL it was delicious when I was eating it though. I'm gonna have to find a low fat low cal version of sesame chicken it's my favorite.

I guess working out isn't my vice, it's the eating I have a tough time with. I don't think I could ever convert to Vegetarianism <-- if thats even a word. Now thats is discipline.

It becomes more of a habit than anything else (vegetarianism).  I guess everyone is just different - I could happily not eat very much and just as happily NEVER exercise (although that makes me chubby).  I am in pain from yesterday's workout, but if my friend is willing to wake up early again I'll try to go with her again another morning this week.