180's club

anyone in the 180's and wanna join me for support? hopefully we'll be able to move down the 170's, 160's and 150's (if you wanna go that far) together!!!

Hi all hope you all had a good weekend.

Zulu glad your back on the wagon LOL. Only had a small loss this week 0.5lbs but not too upset as it was my TMOT and to be honest I was expecting to gain, and I have managed to lose another half inch from my waist, not done the rest of my measurements as not meant to do them til next week.

To lose ANYTHING during your TOTM is amazing!

I'm 177.0 this morning. I knew that 174 was a fluke. Damn. I was hoping to meet my Feb. 1 goal of 175 :(

-sigh- 

I had a really bad weekend for eating, but I'm back motivated this week. Why is it so hard to go to family events and maintain healthy eating habits? I had about 3 pieces of birthday cake!! One just didn't seem like enough. Oh yeah, then I just ate whatever I wanted for the next day or so because I "blew it" anyway.

I know that is such a bad thing to do, the wrong attitude, not the way to get right back to healthy eating after a binge...but it's so hard for me. How do you all deal with your bad days? Do you struggle getting back to healthy eating and forgiving yourself?

Bad Days.... I learned to deal with bad days when I quit smoking... it used to be that one slip would lead to a pack... Well I screwed up today, who cares now!  The biggest challenge was to leave a ciggaret at a ciggaret... Ok so with food it is a hamburger is a hamburger... I can have one without getting the huge fries, and the sugary soda... It was like I would fail alittle bit and then tear down the house of cards in frustration. 

Well I think I am in a Safe place to join the Club, 189 and holding since last week! From December 16th or So I have come all the way down from my all time high of 201... Blegh! So it's been a Good 10lb weight loss in just over a month... and now I need to remodivate and get myself down another 10.

My Goal is Low to mid 170... I'd like to just sit at 173. That would be heaven.

For me because I am tall 5'11 and very muscular 14 and a half inch bicepts with good definition front and back, people look at me like I have 6 heads when I say I want to loose weight! But Julia Your just HUGE... Sigh. Ya but it's not like if you are over 6 foot you can weight a zillion pounds without penalty!

Hi everyone! Hope you've all had a great week. My dieting has been a rollercoaster this week, as our power went out from a snow storm and I was stuck sitting on the couch frozen solid for hours :P but even then I've managed to get down to 174.6 as of today! I have a surprise birthday party to go to tonight.. so I hope I can not go overboard with that :(

 Nasuoni, don't feel down! Maybe you had too much salt, and retained some water? Either way you're doing great! I'm sure you'll be back down to 174 in no time!

Dccd, it's really tough when you screw up for a weekend, but I always tell myself its not the end of the world! I completely understand how you feel. 2 days of eating poorly isn't going to affect you in the long run :) So keep up the good work and don't feel bad! We all do it!

Take care everyone!

hi i wanna join

Thanks, it really helps to be part of this group and know we're all trying. Sometimes it feels like you are the only one that lacks discipline and has bad days. It is so weird b/c I am very open-minded in all aspects of my life...lots of room for grey area, etc., but when it comes to my food slips, I'm really black or white. I'm being GOOD or BAD. Something I will keep working on.

Lilsmiter- the cigarette analogy makes me stop to realize how crazy that thinking is. :)  Thanks and let's get MOVING on this weight.  And thanks for the encouragement Kirie!

I'm afraid to get on the scale...really. Maybe I'll workout a couple days then weigh myself again on Friday. I'm afraid of the number pushing me over the edge of eating again!!  LOL

Hiya Theresabl welcome aboard. and anyone else I might have missed.

Know how you feel about family occasions, its my sons birthday party on saturday and the house is gonna be full of food, lucky I'm not into sweet stuff, but with a huge bowl of crisps (chips) on the table and all those other yummy bits i'll have to lock myself out of the kitchen. Just hoping that cooking it all will put me off eating it. If not I'll just have to do extra exercise to make up for it, Got no excuses now if the weathers not great my step dvd's arrived this morning.

HI all!!! I know what you mean DCCD, when you blow a day or so I kinda fall off for a few days cos I think what will one extra day pigging out harm me....well a 2lb gain later theres the problem!

I also have the problem of when I fall of slowly or eat something unplanned it throws me completely and even if it would fit in my cals for the day I think that I've failed for the day...back on now and feeling motivated again!

welcome lilsmiter and theresabl! more the merrier!

I have found that having my CC twin really helps! Shes doing loads better than me, but when I fell of last week she actually told me off!!!!  Nobody has told me off before for binging!!!  So actually I avoided her for 2 days, was seriously guilt ridden came back and with her encouraging words have gained some motivation again, so I seriously reccomend getting a buddy or looking at the CC twin link and finding yourself a twin!

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/3269 0.html

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/5780 4.html

Sadly, I gained back 4 pounds this week, and I'll sadly conclude that 188 was a fluke. I'm at 192.0 lb and it's throwing off my motivation.  This weekend I had too much food and since then it's been a real pain to get back on track, especially with water.  I plan to drink at least 70 oz of water today.  It's only 10 a.m. and I've had 33.9, so I'm not too worried about water.

Motivation... please... I need some.  If you could bottle motivation, I'd be the first to buy it.

Ah Your body is a crazy yo yo Leopardrayne!!

I am back up at 191 today myself so what I say to you I say to me too. If you are like me you've been loosing for a while, you can't look at 2-4 pounds as that much of a setback. Besides if you are like me you go up 3 pounds then loose 5!

Right now you are eating less, burning more calories, getting rid of fat and building muscle and you only have one (sorry and Sad) tool to measure all of that change with! You don't know what that 4 lbs is... if it was 2 lbs of muscle and 2 lbs of water would you still be sad? if it was 4 lbs of water? it could be a half a pound of fat, one pound of muscle and 2 lbs of water. You don't know! but what you DO know is that it ISNOT 4 lbs of fat. You would have to eat 4 lbs of lard. Think about it... their is NO WAY! So smile and nod at our scale. Maybe tomarrow it will read a loss?

Haha thanks!  You could be right.  I'd think a pound is fat and the rest must be everything else.  I'll check again on Friday.

Hi Everyone!!!  Is it too late to join?  I have been looking for a club to join.  Found this on sammii08's posts.  Hey Sammi!!!

I started mid December at 180.  I am now down to 173.8 last weigh in which was this past Monday.  My goal is to be down to 138...but will be really happy at 145-150. 

Still have room for me?

I'm trying to keep my calories around 1800 a day +- 200.  Does it matter when you eat the calories.  For instance between breakfast, lunch and snacks during the day I've eaten 600 calories by the time dinner comes around.  Today was a slim fast shake for breakfast, grapes as a snack in the mid morning, an apple and a banana for lunch and a granola bar for an afternoon snack.  Now I find myself eating a lot for dinner just to get up to 1800 calories. Is it bad to eat in that one meal 1.5 times the calories I had the rest of the day?  Should I try to balance the calories out during the day?

I've been horrible and avoiding logging in my food for the past 3 days.  I am still tryin to not get on the scale all the time, but it is sooooo hard!!  Right now I am up a few at 182.  I'm hoping to lose that and that it is water weight by Friday.  I have been retaining alot of water from eating too much salt so I am crossing my fingers that  it is just that!  Welcome to all the newest members.  Even if I don't get to write all the time, I do check out everyones posts and the motivation is awesome!

Hi elvirus, welcome to the 180 +- whatever! basically we're all sorta similar (in a range of about 20lbs :o)  PS How do you get your smilies on here?

deely, I personally wouldnt eat like that everyday, basically I eat very little for breakfast, maybe 100-200, lunch and dinner are normally split and then I have 100-200 cals left for a night time snack.  I think that if I was eating like you do everyday then I would begin to feel like I was starving all day and then binging at evening meal.  You laso don't need that many calorie sto basically eat and then prbably watch TV etc and go bed?  The rest of the day is when you burn the most calories!  I'm not an expert on calories but that just makes sense to me.  Basically though you are in charge of your body and if it works for you then carry on, good luck!  Ultimatly we all have the same goal so if we use a slightly different way to get there then thats ok!

Lady Elizabeth I am in the same boat, last week I think I didnt log food or about 3 days, basically cos I was ashamed of how much I was eating (and not the right stuff either).  Basically the biggest culpret was huge plates of pasta with loads of mature cheese melted on it and LOADS of salt poured on.  What a bad combo but sooooooo yummy!  I'm back on track now and although I gained 2lbs I think 1lb was water as it fell off in a day or so of drinking plenty of fluids.

omg, period cravings. I WAS 177.0 two days ago.

chooooocolate! 179 this morning. boooo.

just can't stop the cravings :( 

So, i am 178.4 as of this morning, this last week has been kinda weird, i have hovered around 178-179 the whole week. hopefully it will stop soon, im lost four pounds though! on 66 more to go...

Just got back from classes, having eaten nothing but simple carbohydrates today... Just not hungry!  I've got to have a decent late lunch around 3 or I'm going to drift off in my 3:30 class.

My struggle so far (with the TOTM, unfortunately) has been mindless snacking.  Yesterday I ate at 10, and then made a sandwich around 12, and then worked out :) until 2.  At 2 I had a late lunch, and I grabbed toast at quarter to 5 (right before my evening class), and decided that since I was going back to the gym, I should eat something for dinner beforehand.  And after the gym... I ordered takeout chinese.  2100 calories... I was glad I had worked out twice... I had a deficit of 294.

Today is perhaps the perfect day to weigh in, considering I haven't eaten anything but a pear and 5 gummy worms (and a bottle of water), but I'm waiting till Friday, like I promised myself.

And... Kory - I think I sent you a message the other day.  Have you checked your PMs?

Leopard, it sounds like you aren't eating enough....Are you getting enough veggies and protein? -worried-