Posts by sunshine_smile

Ahhhhh you guys I'm so mad at myself. i just finished a two day binge. i honestly thought i was over all that .. i have never felt so ashamed of myself. oh well i guess i just need to carry on and get back on track with my goals .. i just hate feeling like i have no self control. i dont even like the taste of the foods i binge on. junk food doesnt even appeal to me. i hate depression and i hate that i suck at dealing with life. One main cause of my depression has been my mothers illness and it really isnt helping that everyday i see her getting weaker and weaker. I feel so discouraged but hopefully I havent done too much damage. I still have a goal of 124 lbs by the end of June which is definitely reachable .. because I was at 122 .. and even with the binge I hopefully will be able to get back down to 124 as soon as i lose this water weight. Sorry for the rant. How are you guys all doing?

I slept at a friends last night so I couldn't weigh myself this morning... I will do my weigh in tomorrow morning!! How about everybody else!!!

Okay guys! I've been so busy this weekend & I havent been home since Friday .. so I weighed myself this morning andd.. I'm at 125! I'm so happy .. especially since I know that I'm not losing the weight by starving myself. I've been getting at least 1600 calories everyday and I feel so good. Yesterday I was with my friends and we went out for dinner which was really fun & after, we went to dairy queen so i treated myself to a vanilla ice cream cone!I had about 1800 calories which is still really good considering I did an hour of hot yoga yesterday as well! Today is father's day & I have a big fam jam to go to! I hope everybody had a good dayy and keep up the good work everyone!!

Hey! Yeah I'm kind of uneasy about weigh ins tomorrow too! I've been bloated for the last couple days and I have no clue why!

omgness - if you are active then you should definitely increase your cals, I did the same thing and I definitely feel much better. I'm hoping to see 126 tomorrow! Ok well, I have to go to dance - I hope we all see progress tomoroooww!!

Hey everybody! I love all of this input!! The more motivation, the better!

Ok, so I've been upping my protein quite a bit.. like I'm making sure to get at least 90grams everyday because I'm trying to build muscle. I've noticed that protein rich foods really keep me full. An example of what I eat would be

Breakfast- 2 poached eggs (I like the yolk reeeeallly runny) on a whole wheat english muffin with some sort of fruit like strawberries

Snack- an apple ( I have 1 apple everyday)

Lunch - a sandwich with 2 slices country harvest 12 grain bread and tuna and avocado mixed (sooo good) or with turkey slices and tomato

Snack- cottage cheese with some veggies or plain organic yogurt with some kashi golean cereal

Dinner- a lot of nights I will have chicken breast with sweet potato and steamed cauliflower and broccoli, or whatever my family is having... whole wheat pasta, etc.

Snack - kashi peanut butter granola bar (7 grams of protein and all natural) with a cup of skim milk

btw, wallcow that milkshake looks sooo good.. i love bananas! I'll definitely be trying it. So what do some of your meal plans look like? Maybe if we post them, it will give us some good ideas!

I'm really loving this- I can physically see and feel a difference in my body & I've decided to start up a bit of weight lifting along with dancing, yoga, and some running in order to really tone up!

Weigh-ins are coming up! I hope we all see some progress!

Hey guys! Weigh-ins tomorrroww!!

I am in SO much pain. I just had dance for the last 2 nights and oh maan i am soo out of shape haha. I feel soooo good right now though! How bout you guys? What are you doing for exercize?

Btw, thanks meep! & for motivation i just look at old pictures of myself when I was really happy with my body. I also have a bunch of old and some new clothes( like a year old) that I really like but are a size or so too small or don't fit me good & I think I'm going to pick a target outfit or something and just try it on every 2 weeks or every month or something.

I'm so excited just to lose the first 5 pounds. 5 lbs that I hope I never see ever again!

16 more to goo!! hopefully i'll get them by off by mid - october!!

Hey!

I actually do hot yoga myself. It definitely helps with muscle tone, just make sure you drink a lot of water because it makes you sweat like crazy. I find that my skin almost looks like its glowing after i do a class. You should definitely try it!

It's good to hear that you're recovering. If you need any support or anything then you can always just message me. I was thinking 1500 should be good for me. It seems low but I'm really not that active & i don't know if this sounds stupid but I don't think I'm one of those people who was meant to eat a lot. All of the women in my mom's family are thin and healthy...but they really don't eat all that much. Maybe it isn't in my genes to have a fast metabolism.

I have the whole stomach pooch thing going too. Pretty annoying. As for my favourite diet food. I don't really eat 'diet' foods, I just try to eat really naturally and healthy. I eat fruit like it is going out of style- ESPECIALLY grapes & apples.i loooove baked sweet potato. almond butter is really good too & all bran buds in organic natural yogurt. & i could pretty much live on homemade soup for the rest of my life haha. Green Tea is also definitely a favorite of mine.

Thanks for replying you guys!

maefilly, oh man yoga is probably my favourite thing to do. What kind do you do? I do hot yoga & it honestly makes me feel so good...like if i miss it for a week i feel so crappy. & i love running too.. buut i definitely dont have the motivation to go for a run when theres  2 feet of snow haha but ill probably start up again when it warms up.

cytokine, thanks for your support and advice. i know that other people don't see me as overweight, but i'm a bit of a perfectionist, & i know what my body is capable of looking like, so I tend to be a little bit critical of myself.

I definitely don't want to drop a ton of weight really quickly or develop any type of eating disorder because two of my very close friends have been through it & i've seen how terrible it is. One of them has been in the hospital for 2 months now, unable to even walk.

 So i definitely think we should start a little support/ motivation group. 

PS How many calories are you guys eating to maintain?

& what are your target areas? mine are my face!( i swear thats where all my weight went haha) and my stomach/ hips - hardest place to lose.)