Looking for a buddy or two with similar stats - 5'2" - CW126 - GW112?

Hi,

I'm a 20 y/o female living in the UK - Wales is home but I spend half my time in Oxford for uni (2nd year medical student).

I started off on this site in about august at my highest ever weight (154lbs) having put on a stone in my first year of uni eating in college catered accomodation. I live out now and have lost 2 stone and weigh the least I've weighed in years.

For a long time I was around 140lbs and before that stuck at 133lbs. I always wanted to lose weight and would crash diet for a week at 1000-1200 cals a day, lose half a stone then gain it again and its not til this time joining CC I've done it.

The last time I remember being 126 was when I was 16, had been away with friends for a week of boozing and not eating properly and was probably seriously dehydrated. Straight afterwards and before that I was more like 133-135 and can't remember actually remember a time being stable at 126...except now.

After losing 2st I'm much happier, getting much more attention from guys etc...but I think if I can just lose another 10-14lbs my abs will look more defined and my upper arms less flabby etc. I've gone to aerobics and toning classes seriously for about 6 years so I think my abs are probably quite well worked on if I could just see them! My mum is my height and 112lbs but has far less muscle / more fat and a flabbier belly as can be expected being nearly 50 and having had a baby so I think if I could be 112 I could look awesome.

I aim for 1400 cals a day but in reality average around 1600-1700 (or did sept-dec). The last 6-8 weeks have been more like 1800 :(

I also work out most days. I'm vice captain of my college rowing team so do circuits/ergos/rowing for that, and I'm also a member of the gym 5 minutes walk away where I usually go spinning, to toning classes like abs & back or body balance with a ball, to body pump where we work thighs, biceps, triceps, chest, back and abs with a weighted bar, or use the gym - mainly cross trainer/ergo/weight machines. I also do a burst of swimming every couple of months (when I've just had a wax!)

Apart from medicine, rowing, counting calories and exercising, I play clarinet in a concert band, dabble in piano and saxophone, love my soaps like Neighbours(!), and have a boyfriend who lives near me in the holidays (we went to school together from 11-18) but lives about 2 hours away during term time so I only get to see him every 2 or 3 weeks :(

I'm looking for a buddy, maybe 2 or 3 with very similar stats, goals and interests to post probably daily to motivate eachother and have a bit of a chat about dieting/life etc. Those interested: reply below!

EDIT: Since starting this group members have come and gone and I haven't done too well. I'm now at 127.5! But I'm carrying on. Anyone who wants to join and near enough fits the bill, feel free!

Hi.  I'm pretty close to your stats.  I started last July (2007) at 150 pounds.  Am now down to 126.5 pounds.  I TRY to eat 1300 calories, but normally its more like 1450 or so.  I'm just so HUNGRY with only 1300 calories a day.

I've learned to eat healthier since joining this site...6 months ago I would have NEVER eaten raw carrots or cooked broccoli or spinach on my sandwich or salad.

I'm not nearly as active as you.  I mainly walk on the treadmill at home (when I can).  I'm a 33 year old married mother of 2--my daughter is 4 (almost 5) and my son just turned 3. 

I log calories and check the forums daily.  I would also like someone to "check in" with. 

Hey :) I think my stats as well as my lifestyle are both pretty similar to yours. I'm in my second year of university in Halifax, Nova Scotia and I'm studying psychology at the moment.  I gained about 10-15 pounds in my first year as well...ugh. Right now I weigh about 135 but I'd like to get down to around 110-115, as I am 5'1.

 I'm also pretty active--I have a personal trainer who kicks my butt every Monday, Wed. and Fri at 8:30 sharp (AM) lol and then I try to get in and do cardio on 2 or 3 other days.  Balancing the fun and the work is pretty tough...I definitely think that cutting dwon on the drinking with friends would help out a lot. And meal planning is kind of tough when I'm always on the go and have a limited supply of food on hand.

 Anyways, I would def be more than happy to keep in touch and be there for extra motivation ;) 

You and I are like, the same

Im 5'2" currently 124-125 aiming for 113

My problems are binge eating, as well as restricting and purging, etc

Ok cool. 4s a good size for a group I think so I've edited the title to closed for now and we'll see how we go!

I'm Laura btw

x

I was hoping to use this as a sort of daily journal but with people to be accountable to like a 'check in' as hanshock said in the hope that that will motivate me.

Gill - Im thinking about doing a psychology option next year and I really want to but its an extra exam which takes the place of a dissertation so risky because the dissertation is marks under the belt rather than basing it all on what comes up in the exam - I dont know what to do!

Struggs - I've never purged-not sure I even can, and I don't restrict really - don't have the willpower to get my calories down to a normal weightloss amount as it is but thinking about calories is pretty all consuming and has been a part of me for years. I remember when I was about 14-16 I had a notebook and I wrote down each day obsessively #calories, mins exercise, #portions fruit and veg, #glasses water. I realised towards the end it was pretty weird and obsessive - I never let anyone know about it, but really that's what we're all doing on this site isn't it?

My good planning for the day went to pot by 6am would you believe!

I was going to get up at 5:30am, have a cereal bar, go rowing, have a smoothie, lectures, fat trimmed bacon sandwich with lots of salad and good bread, piece of fruit, cycle up to the hospital for lectures, good dinner.

But by 6am sitting in the boat I was freezing and decided I needed a warm breakfast so I had porridge and just had the smoothie now with my sandwich. Already added in another meal! I'm still looking okish for calories - for dinner aiming for a baked potato, roasted parsnip, carrot and mushrooms, green salad and an oz of crumbled wensleydale with cranberries - a huge filling but healthy meal, but I'll probably want something sweet after dinner and I'll probably give in a let myself.

If I refrain from something sweet that will be 1500cals.
Then with rowing, cycling and 30mins situps a burn of 2380.
Deficit = 880 (a big improvement on last weeks 940 for the WHOLE week! But as I said I'll probably have something else sweet later on)

Although your day hasn't gone exactly according to plan, such is life! You still made healthy choices and if you stick to your plan for the rest of the day, think about how good you'll feel :) And WOW haha I can't believe you were already rowing at 6 AM! now that's commitment.

 My day hasn't gone exactly according to plan either, but it happens.  I'm feeling pretty good today. It's a fresh start to the week and I know I'll be going out on Thursday night with some friends and will be having a few drinks so I better start making up for that now! Anyways, I thought I would check in quickly and hopefully I will be able to do so every day. :)

I'm home today because of a snow day...no school and no daycare/preschool for my children.  That means constant cravings for food because its so accessible.  So far I've eaten this...

For BREAKFAST--Kashi Go Lean Cruch cereal with skim milk, For LUNCH--Egg Beaters (egg substitute) with 1/4 cup skim milk, 1 slice thick cut bacon, and 1 cup skim milk to drink, and for SNACK--these weird raw spinach/baby dill/smoked turkey wrap thing I made, 3 baby carrots and 1 tbsp fat free ranch veggie dip.  Not doing so bad, but its only noon.  I've got a beef roast and carrots in the crock pot for supper.  My goal this afternoon is to drink lots of water.

Hope you guys are haing a good day.  The weather here stinks...negative 30 degree wind chills.

I'm close to that too! I'm 5'3", started at 151 lbs in December '07. Jan I got down to 141 and now I'm sitting at 136 and not budging. Ideally, I want to be around 120-115lbs. I rarely get up to or over 1200 cal, so it's rough - and exercise just about every day (at home). I saw a wonderful thing called Callanetics in one of the forums here, and bought the dvd - just waiting for it to come in the mail. It sounds like you're really active so a bigger intake in calories would be good for you.

ack! totally missed the closed forum. sorry!

Hanshock - where do you live for weather like that? It's pretty cold here. My bike was frozen this morning and when we were rowing the river was a bit slushy but no snow yet. I remember in school we NEVER got snow days whatever happened - the school was pretty strict - we just had the playground made out of bounds and escorted through the gates and straight inside so we couldn't skid about or throw snowballs! 

Yesterday I was still up revising at 10pm and starving so I had another v. small bowl of oats w. nutella and PB and it was delicious! Brought my deficit down to 580 which is still good for me.

Today I ate ever so slightly less but exercised a fair bit less.
Breakfast - special K, strawberries, greek yoghurt, cranberry and raspberry juice
Snack - banana
Lunch - bacon sandwich + doritos (BAD laura!)
Snack - wholemeal pita w. roast red pepper hoummus
Dinner - small baked potato, small chicken breast, roasted red pepper, lettuce,  cucumber, celery, little bit of crumbled wensleydale w. cranberries
Then....Felt naff (sniffy nose, stressful work) and ate strawberry cheesecake haagen daaz out of the tub - stuck to about 100ml though thank goodness!

I went to the gym and ran for 20, stepped for 10, armbike for 10, elliptical for 10, recumbant bike for 10.

Giving me a deficit of just under 300 today. At least its a deficit and with yesterday's beats ALL of last week :D

I have this bit of what I thought was fat at the front over my ribs under my boobs. Today I noticed it looked pretty muscley but I don't like it there at all! I've also noticed that although I've lost a fair bit I can't see my belly going down. I do lots of various ab exercises and I can see real definition in the bit under the belly (and it seems above!) but the actual bit just below the navel just doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Any ideas?

I have a dinner saturday and its set menu. I was going to say no dessert but it seems a waste to pay for 3 courses and I thought perhaps I should order one and give it away but I know when it comes and everyone's got one I'll want mine even though none of the three desserts on the menu were really my thing...so anyway choices:

Starters- soup, crevettes a l'ail, mushroom cheesy thing - went for prawns
Mains- steak frites, beef bourgion, spinach tart w. fries/new potatoes - went for spinach tart but requested salad instead of potatoes so I could get pudding!
Desserts- creme brulee (bleurgh), red fruit crumble (love crumble but don't like cooked strawberries/plums and hate black cherries) so went for vanilla cheesecake w. blackcurrant compote (not a huge fan of cheesecake or vanilla but I can eat the base and compote and some of the top if its especially good). And I'll also say no buying drinks - only free drinks which will be champagne and wine so maybe a glass of each.

Heyy everyone! Sorry I didn't have a chance to check in yesterday...it's exam time here unfortunately :S.

Laura, I have the same little bit of fat justtt below my boobs and it bugs me too! lol it's only a little bit but I really don't know how to get rid of it...I figure it will come off as the rest of the weight does...I hope. The little bit that you were talking about under your belly is probably the little pouch of fat that's supposedly there for "maternal stores" but who knows. And yummm your 3 course meal sounds pretty good!

 This morning I got to the gym at 8, did 15 minutes on the eliptical to warm up and then my personal trainer kicked my butt for an hour! We did some HIIT (high intensity interval training) and I find that it is really effective--I've heard lots about it. It definitely takes my breath away lol. Then I went back on the eliptical for another 15 and headed home to shower. Felt so good afterwards :)

 I need a little bit of advice though--I'm going home on Friday for my Spring break and I'm going to be partying here tomorrow night with my friends. I know this is going to involve drinking but it seems that whenever I drink I end up binging when I'm drunk and I really want to try to avoid this! Any suggestions? I know the alcohol is bad enough as it is. Also, I'm going to be at home for a week and I really don't want to ruin all of my hard work while I'm there...I hope I don't go overboard :( I know I'm going to be going out and drinking a fair bit but I'm worried! AH! 

Lol anyways, I thought I would get that out of me and now I must study for my last exam!

Hope everyone's having an awesome day ;)

-Gillian 

Hi all, I think it's okay if I join? I don't have much time to post right now but I'll tell you all my stats:

Age:19

CW: 126

GW: between 110-115

Height: a bit under 5 foot 2

Oh yea, starting weight was like 147ish

Gill - With drinking I try to go for low cal gin and slimline tonic but its hard when you've had a few and someone goes and buys you an alchopop and you feel obliged to drink it ~250cals! :(

The last couple of times I've gone 'out out' we had people here first and made tiny little cup cakes and I have indulged in them (60cals each) and I always think one day I'll have some southern fried chicken from the stall just outside but I'm always too cold/tired/desperate for the loo to actually queue and get some! A piece of cheese on toast when I come in isn't uncommon but I think that the extra hours you've been up if you've been 'out out' and probable dancing probably burned off your cheese on toast cals!

Good luck with your exam!

Jenn-the group was closed...and intended for daily posting so if you don't have much time to post I'm not sure it's for you, unless you meant not much time to post now so you're just leaving stats. The groups growing a tad but we can give it a go! I can't say no! :p

Edited - I forgot about yesterday!

Breakfast - 1/2c special k, strawberries, greek yoghurt, clementine, juice
Snack - wholemeal pita w. 1oz cheddar and tomato
1 hour body pump (weights class) and 1 hour body balance (yoga, pilates,stretching)
Lunch - big green salad, grilled chicken breast, baked sweet potato, tbsp sour cream and chive dip
Snack - serving strawberry cheesecake haagen daaz - its gone now and I can't have it again!
Dinner - homemade thai green curry (chicken, butternut squash and green pepper) w. white rice and a dollop of greek yoghurt
Snack - my flatmate bought me a really pretty cupcake


Looking at that it seems tons and not even like unsatisfying rabbit food (cake, icecream, cheese, sour cream, curry, white rice!) so why did I still feel hungry? I ate healthy rabbit food to fill me up too - huge salad, lots of fruit and veg

But overall 1820 cals and only 1990 burned today - deficit = 170 :(

I felt like I'd been good again today but eaten a lot but still only a teeny deficit.

Breakfast - special k, strawberries, banana and yoghurt, with half cranberry and raspberry juice and half water
Snack - half ww pita w. tbsp pb
Lunch - ready made pack of pilau rice w. brocolli + 2 clementines
Dinner - grill goats cheese on half ww pita w. tbsp honey and big green salad w. tbsp spicy tomato chutney
Snack - hot chocolate

With 45 spinning class gives me a deficit of around 180.

I set myself to sedentary and add in exercise but only actual exercise eg. gym sessions/ classes/ 30 mins working on abs. I cycle all over the place so its not like I'm actually sedentary when Im not 'exercising' so maybe my deficit is a little bigger. But my weight loss doesn't say so. I don't seem to have lost much at all since christmas so perhaps Im slightly underestimating some food cals too and its evening out :(

Goodmorning

So I'm slightly hung over this morning ugh and I'm off to class soon but I thought I'd check in. Although in the back of my mind I knew I shouldn't, after all the drinks last night...guess what I had...pizza (a huge piece) :( But! I'm going right back to normal today so hopefully it won't be too noticeable *sigh*

 Laura, your food always sounds so impressive...lol! I love to cook but unfortunately I don't usually have too much on hand in terms of groceries so I tend to stick to the basics...but way to go on the healthy eating...I could learn a thing or two from you haha. I loooove spinning and I'm just curious to know if you know the approximate number of calories burned in a class? I heard that with an average spin class (60 minutes), the average person would burn around 500 calories but I'm not sure?? And I'm sure that you probably have more of a deficit due to your activity level.  I set myself at light activity and then I add in my gym time.

 Today I haven't eaten anything yet--just got up, but I'm going to probably have a grapefruit and some oatmeal. Didn't make it to the gym this morning but I've already been 4 times this week so I'm not too concerned.

I go home for my spring break today :) ahh I'm so excited! So I need to get packing and get on my way to class. Have a good weekend everyone!

Hiya, hope you had a good night out - piece of pizza for celebrating exams being over isn't as bad as it could have been! How do you think the exams went?

I had my last lecture of term today. Two weeks solid revision now til exams - scary!

I was feeling flipping fantastic earlier after my lecture - feeling 'thin' and happy about my work etc. and my new spinning bike got delivered to my house so I was really excited that in a few weeks exams will be over and I'll be able to go home and use it....but it seems they've delivered the wrong thing :@ ARGH!

Anyway, still feel ok though concentration went to pot after lunch!

Breakfast - oats cooked in water, egg, 1/2tsp pb, 1/2tsp nutella
Lunch - green salad, chickpeas, bacon w/o. fat
Snack - apple
Snack - hot chocolate
Dinner - egg fried rice w. homemade thai green curry (tofu, sweet potato and chickpeas) I made 4 portions of curry and put 3 in the freezer (250cals each:) )
Snack - yorkie chocolate

45 mins spinning, 60 mins body pump

So far deficit is nearly 800 but if I choose to finish the yorkie it will be about 650.

Enjoy spring break!

PS. If people aren't checking in then I might have to reopen the group to replace them. I said in the beginning I was hoping people would check in every day and it's fine if you miss it now and again by all means. Fair enough if you just don't have time but if that's the case perhaps the group isn't for you....

Noooo....After all the good intentions of specifically ordering no fries and intending on one glass of champagne and one glass one wine then MAYBE a cocktail after I was SO bad last night!

Breakfast - special k w. semi skimmed milk
Lunch - BLT on ww pita
Snack - porridge w. egg, 1/2 tsp pb, 1/2 tsp nutella

Then skipped the champagne reception to get more work done (bonus champagne calories saved) and planned to go with my flatmate to meet everyone at the restaurant...but they hadn't arrived so we went across the road and I had a mango daiquiri. Then when they did arrive one person had brought friends (now this was a prebooked black tie dinner with pre-ordered and pre-paid food and drink-so rude!) so there weren't enough seats and the girls were left standing (it was definitely NOT a ladies first night!) In the end we all got up and went to another cocktail bar across the road to return when the restaurant had cleared an extra table to add on the end. I had a raspberry sherbert - can't remember what was in it but probably heaps of sugar!

So 2 cocktails I hadn't intended on having already!

Then starter - prawns in tomatoey sauce - fine, with quite a bit of bread and butter

Main - spinach tart - really good...but ended up finishing off most of the coxes that she didn't want aswell!

Dessert - cheesecake - was delish! Finished it and then ate some of coxes crumble (I was such a pig!)

I think I'd drunk far too much to stay restrained by the time we got mains/dessert - like 10:30/11:30pm - I had a huge glass of red wine which got topped up so I don't know how much of that I drank then a huge glass of white which got topped up, spilt, and there was a lot of redistributing between glasses as all the girls got a bit drunk and some were trying to give their drinks away!

All in all I think I undid my few days of good work this week with a deficit of -1002!!!! Noooooo! :(

 Anyway, some people have still only checked in once so I'm going to remove them and reopen the group.

lol I second the "noooo" :(  This is what my day looked like yesterday:

 Breakfast: egg whites with veggies, apple

Snack: strawberries, grapes, trail mix

Lunch: salad with turkey breast

Dinner: small steak, spinach salad

Snack: peanut butter ice cream (which I definitely should not have had), followed of course by a couple of my mother's oatmeal cookies lol

So my day wasn't looking toooooo bad--I was planning on going out that night so I was trying to be good but it's hard when I'm at home. Then I started to predrink at my house with a couple of friends and had 5 shots of vodka. We went out and I probably had about 4 more drinks or so. I'm not going to attempt to count the calories because there's so much to factor in and I will probably just frustrate myself. I'm thinking that I might not track my calories on here this week but do it mentally...but maybe that's just asking for trouble. All I know is that I'm not feeling too great this morning :S 

Laura, lets get our butts to the gym today and start to redo the deficit that we just undid! haha 

Your food all looks so healthy (apart from the icecream which sounds awesome!)

Yesterday ended up like this:
Breakfast - special k
Lunch - porridge, egg, pb, nutella
Dinner - small sweet potato w. tbsp pb and big green salad w. bacon and hoummus

And I went to the gym and did 45 mins spinning and 40 mins core stability (on the stability balls)

But then I decided at 9pm I was going to go to the cinema and see juno cos I should stop working at 9 then and I can see the cinema from my front door but at 7:30 I thought there's no way I'll still be awake for the film so had to perk myself up. I tried a mini pack of smarties and then ended up having a hot chocolate (I don't like coffee, didn't have any coke or caffeine pills). The hot chocolate could have gone either way but it worked. Then at the cinema I had some of my friend's popcorn but since I'd turned my computer off and done all my totals I've just added the 350 for the smarties, hot chocolate and popcorn on to today as snacks - great start! Still bigger bowl of special k this morning and it was still only 150cals.

I'm trying body combat at my gym today. But 2 hours to revise 'stress' first!

Yesterday was a fairly good day for me, although I didn't really keep track of calories. I know what I should and shouldn't be eating and that everything is alright in moderation. It's just that sometimes I don't always stay on track. Anyways, this week I have a lot on the go so I'll be keeping pretty busy which is good. 

This is what today looks like so far:

Breakfast: omelette with veggies, apple, coffee + milk

I'm planning on meeting a friend for lunch so I'm really hoping that there are some fairly healthy choices on the menu!

And I'll be going to the gym later probably for a spinning class and body pump :)

For tonight, I actually have plans to go see Juno with a couple of friends haha funny that you saw it last night. I heard it was pretty good. I'm usually not too bad at the movies--popcorn doesn't seem to tempt me too much (or so I say that now)!