NEW 15-20 lbs. club (CLOSED - to keep it small)

All the groups that I have come across are from February so I decided to start a new topic.

I am looking for a couple women, age 20-30 who are interested in losing about 15-20 lbs. We don't all have to be the same but it would be nice if we were close to the same stats.

I am 21, 5'3" and about 150 lbs. That is WAY too heavy for me. I can't believe I am 150 lbs. I have always hovered around 145 lbs but I dont know why this summer has been so rough to me.

I am going to start teaching school in November and I have lots of really cute clothes that I want to look great in, they fit now but they are a little snug (size 6!) so anyone that wants to get committed and receive some real support POST and tell us your ups, downs, struggles, worries and maybe we can help!

I apologize for being MIA for a long time.  I fell off the wagon because I hit a rough patch in my life and got really depressed.  I went on here looking for the motivation I needed, but I felt kind of passed over in the conversation.

Anyway, I'm back now.  I've been on the "11-day diet" for 3 days (I'm on my fourth) and it's going really well.  As of this morning I'm weighing in at 144 pounds which is only a couple pounds less than my starting weight in this group, but it's 4 pounds less than my starting weight as of my depression binge.

I'll definitely try to be more active in the group now that I'm finally finding my motivation again and my life seems to be coming back together.

How is everyone doing on their 15-20 goal?  Has anyone hit it yet?  Or getting close?

Not really. I am doing pretty bad with the whole eating deal. I would say about... 70% of my day is good. Then it goes to **** at night time. I am doing good working out though! Everyday because I'm back in university where the gym is free and right on campus, so there really isn't any excusses since I'm on campus everyday.

Rachel, I think maybe we should just stay here and be in this group and do our thing with or without the rest of the girls? If they pop in... I guess they do but if they don't. We'll still be on our way... what do you think?

 

That's cool with me.

I'm sorry to hear you went through a rough patch but it's good that you're getting back on it (it hasn't really been THAT long of an absence!).

I'm nowhere close to the 15-20 pound goal hehe but I'm just trying to work out as much as I can to try and LOOK like I lost weight, and feel good about myself.

Well, I do really like the diet I'm doing now.  Hopefully it will work for me because I'm wedding dress shopping right now and it is DEPRESSING.  Very few wedding dresses are flatering on those of us with a little extra midsection.  AND the sizes run small as if to punch us in the face with our own weight issue.  It's been getting bad for a while (I'm average weight for my age and height, but I always have to buy a LARGE in anything!!!  Anyone else?) but the wedding dresses are even worse.  I wear a pant size in an 8 or 9, but my wedding dress size??  12!  And some of them are too tight!  I'm two sizes away from having to shop the "plus size" wedding dresses!

Aaarrrggh!  Crazy society & culture!!!

Hey. I am doing well. I have been making dinner every night from cooking light recipes. Last night I had portobello mushroom panninis and tonight I had pizza with onion, roasted red peppers and feta. It was so, so, so good. I got the recipes right from online for free. If you go to their website there is a recipe posted every day and they are amazing.

I am doing horrible... I had maccaronin the last 2 days, school is getting crazy so I haven't worked out since Thursday. I feel aweful and I am back up to 148 lbs! I was at 144... I am super sad. I don't know what to do... I am trying but I'm just hungry and lazy and love snacking....

Help me! What can I do to loose the weight? Specific daily goals? I think the main thing is getting off zigzagging for a bit and just eating around 1400 cals a day and start working out again.

What else? What an a university student do to keep it healthy and cheap? I do like to cook but I tend to want to just eat when I get back from school, not cook so much. I guess I should just get back into cooking.

I think we (the 4 of us that are left) should all focus on each member of the group for at least one post and post any suggestions that we have for that person.

What does everyone think? How about Laura goes first? She seems like she is the least motivated and sturuggling.

So Laura post everything that you can to help us help you. Your weaknesses, your strengths, your typical day, your favorite food, your favorite weakness, everything you can think up of and then we will each post a whole helping post?

I think that we have been just coming on here and venting but we haven't really be HELPING each other succeed. I think this would be a good way to get back to helping each other and really getting on track.

I'm actually doing really well right now, so let's not worry about me.  I hit a rough patch (and recently hit another) but I'm also wedding dress shopping and wedding planning so it is really keeping me mindful and motivated to lose the weight.  I'm down to 143 pounds as of this morning.  That's a 5 pound loss since I started this diet a couple weeks ago!!

Stacey- When I'm really busy, I'm a lot hungrier.  I would try to pick some healthy foods and plan out each day one day in advance.  If every night you spend one hour putting together your meals, and the meals and snacks are healthy/low-cal foods, you won't have to choose between cooking and eating when you're busy.  This diet has kind of forced me to put together all my meals for the next day and it has worked out great.  If you write it down and put it all together, the no-fuss of it will help you actually eat those foods instead of something else.  Pick things that are really easy and that you don't really have to limit yourself with.  Low-fat cottage cheese is great because you can totally eat it until you full and it goes well with fruit, or you can put salt and pepper on it.  Or tuna salad- I eat this all the time now.  I mix two cans of tuna with light mayo and put it in a tupperware container for the next day.  It's a decent sized meal that's filling, easy to make, high-protein and low-calorie.  Hmmm... what else...  Beans.  They can be high calorie, but the fiber and protein pretty much still makes it an awesome diet food.  A can of Bush's vegetarian baked beans is very filling and keeps me full longer.  The whole can comes out to less than 500 calories, too.  Another thing I've been making ahead of time to "snack" on is hard boiled eggs.  If I'm hungry between meals, I can easily grab a couple out of my fridge and the protein is very filling (for 140 calories) and the taste is more satisfying than pre-packaged diet snacks.  Hmmm... bowls of green beans, turkey bacon (20 cals a piece)...  Oh!  And I've also started making scrambled eggs a day ahead of time.  It sounds weird, but I'll scramble 3 or 4 eggs and put them in a tupperware container for the next day and microwave it for breakfast or lunch.

You get the idea, though.  I really think if you have three meals & snacks, ready to go and planned out (planned and made at night when you are not hungry and more apt to make healthy decisions) - it will make it easy to go through the next day actually eating those foods because all you have to do is grab them out of the fridge.

Thanks for all your advice... I just dont have a big appetite for healthy food these days. Pizza and macaroni sound great! I just dont buy it anymore...

I am eating pretty good today AND got back to the gym.

I dont really like tuna that much... but I think I'll grab some and eat it... just plain?? I like it on crackers or something but I dont know if I could choke it down plain. I also HATE choking food down just because its healthy because then I don't feel full.

I dont have any problems with planning and cooking. I am thinking of starting it up again. I always pack my lunch the night before because I am too cheap to buy food on campus so I ALWAYS have food with me. It's not a problem until I go home. It's the nights and the weekends. But I think if I made an actual, full sized dinner instead of snacking all night, I would feel fuller and more satisfied.

What diet are you on? Whats it all about?

Yeah- maybe just plan your dinner ahead of time and write down that you're going to have a chicken breast (remove from freezer) and salad... or whatever.  If you write it down, you'll probably feel obligated to eat that instead of mac & cheese.  Although I'm totally with you- when I'm stressed all I want is taco bell & cheeseburgers.

I'm on this 11-day diet.  My mom paid for it online ($60 I think) and I just use her account so I don't have to pay.  It lists a bunch of foods, you check boxes by the ones you like, and it generates 11 days of meal plans.  Each day has four meals that you can eat in any order, there are no limits to how much you can eat (although you're supposed to stop when you aren't hungry anymore- like you COULD eat more, but won't) and you're supposed to space the meals out by 2.5 hours each.  After 11 days, you get 3 days to EAT WHATEVER YOU WANT and then you go back online and generate another 11 day meal plan.

The foods are mostly high-protein foods.  I'll try to remember as many as I can:  Cottage cheese, bacon (I use Turkey bacon for extra lean-ness), pinto beans, turkey slices, ham slices, cashews, chicken, tuna salad, hard boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, grapes, green beans, mixed green & red veggies, cheese slices, apples, pineapple, peanuts, walnuts, fish, baked beans...

The meal plan spaces everything out though.  Meal 1 could be cottage cheese & bacon, Meal 2 turkey slices & milk, Meal 3 scrambled eggs, orange roughy & green beans, Meal 4 apples & cheese slices.  Then the next day would be completely different.  And you don't have to eat everything.  If it says "scrambled eggs & green beans" I could just have a bowl of green beans if I wanted.  Within each 11-day plan there is one day of all fruit (which I hate) and one day of all veggies.  I don't like the approved fruits so much, so I'm just doing a mixture of fruits and veggies on both of those days.

The best part is knowing that you have "cheat days" coming.  Whenever I have a big craving I just tell myself, "I can have that next Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday" or whenever my next chunk of cheat days are.

I think you can pretty much do a similar diet on your own, but if you really want the structure (I need structure) I could scan in my 11-day meal plan and e-mail it to you (screw paying $60!).

Hey girls, just checking in really fast.

Catherine:  what website for the recipes??

Stacey:  I'm sorry but I don't have anything much more to add to what Laura said about packing meals and planning them out (even dinner time!!).  I'm out of school now and I can't imagine being on a diet during school.  I ate sooo bad during that time.

Laura:  Have you added up the average calories that you get for one day on your 11-day diet??  It seems like it wouldn't be enough but I don't have all the details.

Well I've been out of the gym for about a week and a half :-(  I'm going TONIGHT though.

Laura, it seems likes its just a lower carb diet? And seems like it might be not enough calories? But she I would love to take a look at it! My email address is sta_ceyq@hotmail.com.

It frusterating when you know everything that everyone is telling you, you just dont want to do it haha. BUT Laura, you will be happy to know that I just discovered Tomato and Onion flavored tuna! 80 calories a can and I had it for dinner with some wheat thins and melted some cheese on top... YUM! I worked out today and I am at 1502 calories!!! Yay for me. I think I am just going to drink lots tonight so I stay away from calories. I am going to cook some chicken for dinner tomorrow and really do good... doesn't it always go that way? fall off the wagon and then get right back into it full swing! Love it!

 

woo!  i'm excited about hopping back on the wagon too!!  i went to the gym last night and went grocery shopping so i'm all stocked up with good food.  i'll have to try that tomato and onion flavored tuna though!

i weighed in at 124.8 today, it's what my scale's been stuck at for like a week but at least it's not going up! (starting weight:125)

Mine is up up and away! Actaully I dont know. I'll weigh myself tomorrow morning. I am going to try HIIT out....

I wish I was at 125! How tall are you?! THat's TINY!

Nooo, I'm 5'2" and I do look like I need to lose weight.  I read all the other 5'2" threads and everyone on there are like less than 110 and wearing size 3 in pants (and still trying to lose weight!).  Although now I'm all about looking better and feeling better, not so much the number on the scale.  I still sometimes wish I looked anorexic but then I remember I'd rather be strong and tough than frail and weak.

How's everything going with your school schedule?  Why did you decide to stop zig-zagging, I thought it was working so well for you!  I still want to try it, I just haven't gotten around to planning it out yet.  I do eat more on the days I work out but I'm not sure it's enough to be classified as zig-zagging.

Laura, when is your wedding date?  I was thinking about setting up like mini goals for you like, "lose 5 pounds in X weeks"  What do you think?

I am 5'4'' and and the scale is actaully not as bad as I thought. Today it was at 146.6 which is better than the 149 I thought it had got up to.I want to get down to 130 but if I was 125 I would be ecstatic!

I havent over indulged in 2 days, I am right on my calories. You know whats crazy. For me to loose weight, all I have to do it not over do my calories. I dont even have to work that hard except to reach 1500 and not go over. Its just like I get to 1500 at about 7 or 8 o clock and then I am up studying until around 11 and just want to eat more.

My school is going great. I only have class until 1 on Tues and Thursday and I have 2 classes on Mon and Wed but one is 4-6 so I stay in the library and study until my 4 o clock class so its really great. And I dont have class on Fridays! It's wonderful!

There is a super bitch that lives in the basement suite and long story short, me and my roommates are now moving! So thats a little stressful but not until Nov 1.

I start my teaching practicum Nov 14th! So I will be moving back to my boyfriends house about 4 hours from my university. I am excited to get back to living together and teaching is going to be excited!

I'm going to be MIA for a bit...I have a bad cold and sinus issue so I can't calorie count right now...

Stacey- I'll send a sample meal plan sometime this week.

Yeah- this diet is basically a low-carb diet.  I just like being able to eat as much as I want AND looking forward to "cheat" days which is helping me stay motivated.

I'm 5"4 and was all the way up to 148 a couple weeks ago.  I'm down to about 143.  The past couple weeks I've just been dieting though and my goal is that this week will be the week I try to get back to my work-out routine.  It's going to be the hardest thing though because I have so many meetings and stuff scheduled that I don't have much time...  Come to think of it I'm pretty booked up this week with something going on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday night...  One I have all the big stuff taken care of for my wedding though, I should have a lot of time freed up and will be able to work out more often.  My wedding is September 6, 2009.  My goal is to get down to 125.

That's pretty thin! I think we have the same frame and I am shooting for 130.

I think I am going to take a short term goal approach. I am going to think about how much I have going on and what is a reasonable goal for the week in weight loss.

This week, I am going to say I want to be at 144 by Thursday. I think if I actaully make a goal to reach in the short term, I'll think about it more and try to reach it rather than "I'm going to lose 15 lbs."

So by Thursday I will be down to 144. Then next week I can reassess. I am not going to say "3 lbs a week" or anything like that, I am going to take it week by week. If I know its going to be a crazy week, I'll shoot lower but I will always have a lower goal in mind! Let's see how this works!

Today is Monday and Thursday is weigh in day... do we want to make weigh in day Thursday still? Are we still going to do weigh ins? I want to!

I just got done at the gym and I am really proud of myself because I did my entire HIIT work out. I decided to do that for my cardio. I read that it is the "key" to fat loss... I dont know but what everyone says is right! I only did a 20 minutes work out (the HIIT part was only 13 minutes!) but I felt like I did an entire 60-minute cardio session. Have you guys heard of HIIT?

I've never heard of HIIT.  What is it?  Please tell me more!

You can find lots of infirmation about it if you google it. It is basically itervals like this:

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Week 1       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 60 sec rest        ;  X 6

Week 2       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 6

Week 3       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest         X 8

 Week 4       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 10   

Week 5       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 12

Week 6       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 14   

Week 7       &n bsp; 30 sec sprint – 30 sec rest        ;  X 15

I was sweating like crazy, I am on week 2 because I got to 6 and realized I could go further so I skipped to week 3 (actaully week 4 because I took out week 1, it's supposed to be an 8 week program). It took me 13 minutes and I was crazy sweating! It was great!!