Posts by lunaripyros

Hey Ladies!  Nice to meet you Tropical!!!

Hope every one had a great Christmas and New Years!!  I ended up with laryngitis so... not really my best holday season ever.  But I'm hopeful for a great New Year.  My last semester went really well academically, though my health isn't so great. 

Misty - I didn't know your son started school, congrates.  I understand what you mean, it is really hard to understand the importance of classes and such when your fresh out of high school.  But I do wish him luck.   Tacking and grooming sound slike a heck of work out to be honest.  i've only ever been around horses a few times in my life, but there is definately hard work involved in the venture.

So New year, no resolve I hope.  Today is my first day back on the wagon.  I'm not evening trying that hard yet.  My whole plan for this week... count everything and cut down the soda.  School is creating quiet a soda addiction for me.  So first things first I guess.  See where I am at.  Then make small changes till I am where I want to be.   My goal is small and manageable.  Be 12lbs lighter by May 2nd.   I think i can manage that.

Hope every one else is starting their new years strong.   Good luck with the cutting phase Penny!!!  Good luck with getting back on track Misty and Tropical, I know I need some good luck!

Hey every one alright???  I hope so. 

I've been doing alright.  Mostly when it comes to watching what I eat its 50/50 but the scale says 176lbs this week so I'll take it.  Probably go back up in a few daysmore like 177 or 178.  no way I lost 3 lbs this last week.  But we shall see.

Misty?? Penny?  Hope you guys are doing well and its good things that keep you away from your computers.

hi Dege.  

heh I know what you mean about the dress I have a dress like that.  My goal dress.  The one I will wear again darn it!   Lol I think that kind of goal is so much better then numbers goals.  Good luck gettng into your dress!!! 

Wow Penny you are right back on top of things!!!  Glad to hear it's going well and the family is getting involved!!   I really admire your determination... things like that have a tendency to throw me out of wack.  It's really great your back on track!!!!

well I'm officially 2 weeks back on the wagon I'm still running a little over my calorie goal but according to my scale I'm down 5lbs!!!  So i must be doing something right.   I'm a little suprised but on the other hand I remember that the first time I started calorie counting I dropped pretty fast the first 2 months or so... and then it just got steadily harder and slower after that.  So I'll take it and enjoy it for now.

Hope you all are doing well!!!

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Healthyallie... you'll probably actually be pleased to know that I didn't count any one aiming for a BMI of 20 or higher in that number.    In fact the majority of the women who responded to this thread seem to have healthy, sane goals. 

I did make a mistake though... when I said 9 aiming for the extremely low end of healthy and 4 aiming for underweight... that's actually 8 and 5.    by extremely low end of healthy  I mean anything below 20 and by underweight anything below 18.5, as the experts tend to classify things if any of the reading I've done is at all accurate.

What is actually more worrisome to me is not the number of girls and women trying to push themselves that far....  it's the number of people with healthy realistic goals, who know better,  not saying anything to these girls...  and some in fact encouraging them. 

There are so many better ways to get your body into shape... even lose some flab.  When your already at a healthy weight one should really consider that losing more weight will not get rid of flab... and will in fact in all likely hood lead to a look often called skinny/fat.  Meaning your body will get rid of muscle weight still leaving small pockets of fat and loose skin... you'll loose weight... but you probably will not look the way you want to.

Please i encourage people to check out muscle building and toning as an alternative to extremely low weights.  I mean you put all that effort into counting calories and restricting... why not move some of that motivation over to fitness.  Do you really want to be dieting forever just to maintaine a really low weight...?  specially when with the same amount of mental energy you can get yourself a workout routine, lift some weights and perhaps get to a point when you can maintaine the body you want and enjoy your body and your food a whole lot more?

Hey Penny glad to hear that the surgery went well and your recovering.  All that walking sounds great!  Lol though I know your probably impatient to get moving again.   Still 10 hours a day???  However do you manage that???

Hope things are still going well with you and your recovery.  Hope your holiday weekend was fabulous!!!!

Hey Misty,  139lbs on weigh day is good right??  Hope you had a good 4th!!

I didn't do much for the 4th.  Wasn't a horrible weekend though.  Wish I had some thing to report but honestly getting back on the wagon seems to be harder then getting started was way back when.   I get on the scale once in the last few weeks and... well it says 181lbs!! Ack!!!

I'm finding those number hard to swallow.... I mean I'm still wear the same pants i did at 161lbs.  One pair is a little tight... but other wise everything still fits.   Blahhh.

At this point I'm just starting over.  As of today my big goal is just to log everything for a week.  Then Once I have a look at things I'll start making adjustments again.  It sucks feeling like I'm starting over but I can't think of what else to do.  LOL.

Anyway I have hope.

To the new folks welcome and keep posting.  The journey to a healthier life is not easy but it is so worth it.  And sharing always helps.

Kiwi, congrates on your lose so far.  You didn't share your age but we are the same height.  I look forward to hearing more from you!!!

Hay ladies!!!  Hope every one had a great memorial day weekend!!!!

I ended up heading out to camp with my grandmother and Aunt....  the camp has a heated swimming pool and I spent most of friday and saturday in the pool.  I probably over ate a bit that weekend but I also got a lot of exercise.

Still having issues with the running and keeping track bit.  But I'm trying.  The days i do keep track I'm not doing horribly.  LOL.  Forgot to weight in this week though.  So I'll hit the scale tomorrow or monday.

How is your knee annie?   every one doing alright!

Annie!!!  I am so sorry your knee is still giving you trouble!!!!

I know it seems like a huge pain to deal with th weight without running, and it can be.  But your right it is possible.  I lost 45 pounds without serious exercise like running.  I had to with my health.   It gets easier and less miserable feeling after a little bit.  Though I sympathize... since I've been off my diet mostly since september it is a huge pain getting back on it.

Man i am really sorry your knee and ankle are giving you such problems, I know how much you really enjoyed running.   The walking is good right? 

Do be careful and take care of yourself!!!  I really hope it all works out.  I wish I had better advice but my luck with doctors and them figuring out problems hasn't been that great.   Hang in there!!! and don't give up, when you find one road blocked there is always a second one!!!

Hi ladies!!  I know it has been an age and a day since I dropped by.  I am alive!!!  In fact I spent over an hour catching up and going through the posts I missed.  You have all been so busy and had so much happen.

I managed to get through my first semester as a full time student with a 4.0 and I am well into my second semester.  I got approved for my minor and double major.  I have to say I'm exhausted.  *chuckle*

Penny glad to see things have gone well.  Your new pics look amazing!!! Congrates on reaching your goal and then some.  I am just astounded, you are soo determined.

Annie - I'm glad to see your still around.  You've had a few set backs but you sound like your starting to roll over that depression.  how is that knee doing?  I hope it is doing better, it sounds like you really miss running  hang in there.

Hey Misty - I can see you've had some ups and downs with life over the past few months too.  Are things a little bit more mellow lately?  They seem to be from your posts.

I haven't been around because honestly i haven't been able to make this a priority running about campus and getting my studying done saps ally my energy.  I've also taken to doing Yoga every Tuesday and a belly dancing class on the Fridays that I remian on campus.   Sadly my weight went up a bit at the end of last semester.  I've gotten up to 169/170 lbs and I've just sort of hung out there since christmas.  I am finding calorie counting very difficult at the campus dinning hall.  But I have managed not to gain any more since I came back in January.

I've missed you guys and I'm hoping to be around more... but at this point I make no promises.  At least till May.  may 7th my semester ends and I will not be taking any classes this summer so I will be home.  I'll be back on the wagon measuring and counting everything this summer to hopefully get back down to the 161 lbs I started school with at the end of last August... If I'm lucky a few pounds extra so I can claim to have made some progress.

The only really good progress I've made with my health goals has been to seriously cut down on the number of cigarettes I smoke.  Down from that 25 to 30 I started with to only 8 a day.  Hopefully before too long I'll have quite but I wouldn't hold my breath I always smoke mroe at home for some reason.  I am going to have to make a better plan for how to deal with that over the summer.

I hope I get to at least check in and wave occasionally.  I've been thinking about you ladies.  I hope the things that are good with you guys stay good and the things that aren't so good get better!!!  

Hey!!!  I'm not dead!!!!  LOL

You are all doing so well!!   Penny I'm amazed.  Yolie, congrates on the progress!!!  You both sound like your doing great.  And Annie  still running... and running alot!   man I am soo envious!!! 

I've had a bit of a transition period and I just haven't had a lot of time for keeping up on any boards!!!   I started full time at university on August 31st and moved on to campus the week before.   I took a month and a half hiatus from counting and such.  My main goal was just not to gain.  I needed time to adjust to campus life... and campus food. 

However, I kinda didn't do well.  Before my hiatus my weight was hanging out at about 161lbs... it jumped around a bit the first few weeks... hitting as high as 170lbs.   I've mostly hang out around 166lbs and today the scale read 165lbs.  So hopefully the gain has just been the change in schedule, diet, and being much more active.  

On the good side I am walking all over campus, all the time!  And I've started doing yoga once a week.  Also I've cut down my nasty cigarette consumption by half!!!   So not all bad news.

I'm technically into my second week of a maintainance phase.  I'm not really aiming for a wieght loss deficit at the moment.  Just about 200 calories a day for a deficit.  I wouldn't mind getting back down to 161 after all.  As of the 2nd of October I've been at this a year.  I've read again and again that prolonged deficits can slow down a persons metabolism, so I think it's great time to maintaine and work on some of my other health goals.  It's a bit hard on campus though...  I have to estimate a lot... measuring isn't always possible.  So I hope I get better at the estimating during this maintainance phase.  Then in January when classes start for Spring semester I'll try to get back to losing and get ride of this lst 15-20 lbs.

I'm currently wearing a 12, and sometimes a 10 depending on the cut.  I think that's pretty cool.  Still I'd like to get into the healthy range.  

I hope every one is doing great this week!!  I'll try to check in more often, but i can't make any promises that I'll get in as much as I used too.  I do promise to think about you guys and send you good thoughts!!!!  Your all missed!!!