Posts by m4mitchell

Breakfast: whole wheat toast with butter, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage.  Coffee with sugar and cream

Lunch: Life brand cranberries/nuts/seeds granola bars

Dinner: Whole wheat pita bread with peanut butter, banana, hot chocolate

After dinner: Coffee-flavored yogurt (delicious and creamy and free of artificial sweeteners, although not calories); hard boiled eggs

Considering the lack of vegetables, it's a good thing I took a multivitamin + calcium supplement + vitamin D supplements before going to bed. 

I'm back after a three week hiatus in which I ate a lot, bounced back up to 141(!) briefly, and didn't count calories.  I'm still not really counting calories at the moment because it was making me mental, but I'm trying to eat small portions and only eat when I'm hungry. 

I've also started taking the supplement 5-htp - has anyone else taken this?  It boosts the serotonin levels in ones brain, so it's good for depression and anxiety issues, but it may also be helpful for weight loss.  I noticed last week that I felt full much faster while taking 5-htp, and I think it's been helping me eat less.  I'm not positive that this is the case, and there aren't a lot of studies out there regarding 5-htp and weight loss, but the few studies that do exist show a correlation between the two.

So anyway, my stats this week are:

Height: 5'4

SW: 142.8

LW: 134.4

CW: 134.6

GW: 120

I love that I can see the beginnings of my hipbones.  Ditto my lovely collarbones.

My face and facial structure is much more defined that it was 30 pounds ago.

I feel attractive and desirable.  I'm happy with how I look.

I have so much more energy and feel motivated to start trying to run.

I can consistently wear a size 8! And a size medium! And very occasionally a size small or size 6!  Clothing stores always have those sizes.

Before I started trying to lose weight, I didn't exercise.  Now I do, and I actually enjoy it!

Original Post by lilon28:

SO i need more motivation i have this competeion at work where our last weigh in is Sept. 1st. the winnings is $180. I just have been feeling so tired lately. But having all of you has been so helpful!

What do you guys think is the best way to shed as much by that date? (besides no beer  lol ill have to behave.)

That's awesome!  Are you going by percentage of weight lost, or number of pounds? When did the competition start?

I'm doing something similar on facebook - everyone puts in $25, and the 2 people who lose the highest percentage of their weight get to split the money.  We've been weighing in each week, and the woman who organized the competition has been posting a spreadsheet each week so that we can see how we're doing compared to everyone else.

I find that when I need motivation, it's helpful to remind myself of all the things I could buy with the winnings!  It helps make the calorie counting and daily workouts less painful.  If you won, what would you do with the winnings?

Ugh, this hasn't been such a good week food-wise.  I went out for dinner most days of the week, which made it difficult to track calories.  I haven't stuffed myself or binged at all, but I think I've been eating closer to maintenance, rather than having a deficit.  My next weigh-in for my weight-loss competition is tomorrow morning, and I think I'm going to be up a couple pounds from last week.

Good luck to all the other smokers out there!  I know it's really hard to quit.  I'm trying to quit too, actually, but I'm using nicorette - once I wean myself off them and have no nicotine at all in my system it'll be harder.

Yay!  Today's weigh-in was excellent.  I think eating out over the weekend actually helped, as the extra/different calories shocked my body into losing more weight.

Starting weight: 142.8

Current weight: 136.6 (sweet, sweet success)

Goal weight: 120

I work out at Curves every day, and I'm trying to do some jump roping and/or hula hooping when I'm done with my workout.  My back has been hurting lately, though, so I think I probably need to start doing lower impact workouts - all the jumping around is making my body hate me. 

Tuesday works for me too. :)

I'd like to join!  I'm actually doing a weight loss competition with a friend at the moment, and I'm trying to lose 20 pounds.  I lost 30 pounds last year, and then lost motivation and gained a bit back, so now I'm trying to lose weight again and get to my goal weight.

Stats: 23

5'4"

Starting weight: 142 (down from 165 last year)

Current weight: 140

Goal weight: 120

Yes, people *can* lose weight by eating only 1000 calorie and working out every day.  That said, it's unhealthy, will slow your metabolism down if you follow the diet for a long time, and will make you ravenous and likely to give up and start binging on everything in site.  When I was a teenage and didn't know any better I'd try to restrict myself to 900 or 1000 calories a day - and I usually made it three days or so before I was starving and gorged myself on anything I could find.

I don't know your stats, but 1600 calories a day sounds like a sensible amount to eat if you want to lose weight.  You said in your profile that you want to lose eighty pounds, and that'll take some time.  I know I couldn't eat only 1000 calories a day until I lost eighty pounds - it'd make me really grumpy, I wouldn't have any energy to workout, I'd lose muscle, and I'd probably give up after a couple weeks.  In any case, 1200 calories a day is the absolute minimum a sedentary woman should eat if she wants to lose weight - not 1000.

So in short - 1600 calories a day sounds like an effective and sensible way to lose weight! 1000 calories a day does not! 

I don't have any advice as to how to lose weight while on Prozac, especially given that you're eating below your burn and still not losing weight.  However, not all antidepressants have that effect - I was on Celexa for a year, and managed to lose 30 pounds while on it. Through consistent calorie counting and exercise, I might add, not through the Celexa itself.  Have you talked to your doctor about the weight gain and asked if there's another antidepressant that you might try?