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!!!

Glad to hear everyone is doing well! Glad you found your bag Deely, that would have made me panic :(

My weight has been fluctuating all over the place this week..its gone as low as 173.6, but today its back up as 175.0 I'm not too discouraged since I'm sore from my aerobics class, so I'm probably retaining water. And my TOTM is next week as well.. not looking forward to that :(

Though I am getting my hair done today! I'm really excited about that. But I hope she doesn't offer me any wine...(she always offers for clients)

Take care!

Oh I take 20 Mg of Celexa for depression and Anxiety it is pretty heavy in my family, but i am lucky that i am not as bad as my Dad and my Brother.  :)  But the pills are WONDERFULL.  Its like I am a stalled out car and my pills are that little jumpstart from a helpfull stranger, chugg chugg chugg stall chugg chugg chugg stall... VaROOOM... thank you Celexa!  I was chug chugg chugging all weekend.  Nice to be feeling like myself again.  Wow I sound like a little TV add.   The pill does cause very mild weight gain (makes it just a bit harder to loose) but I wouldn't trade it for the world.  It is MUCH harder to loose when you are to depressed to work out, or so bummed you order junk food to comfort yourself.

 Kirie, It is SO hard to pass up a nice treat like that!! Good luck.

 LEO: Oh Good, if i had a dollar for every time I thought, DAMN why don't i poo BEFORE i get on the scale!!!  Down that line of reasoning lies the Dark side.  :)  So don't over think it but, I would take a laxitive you must be getting uncomfortable.  Your gran is right about regularity. 

Sammi: Great job on those Inches!! that is where the monney is Who cares what the scale says if your Smaller!

I'm gonna join...I've kind of fallen off the healthy eating train these days and could use some support.  I'm 183.  Would love to be 170 or slightly smaller.  13 lbs doesn't sound so bad does it??!?!?!  Ahhh, I've come this far, I have to do it!

Lilsmiter:  Actually I try to go for the more organic approach, actually both to lax's and to depression.  I was diagnosed with PMDD w. acute mild bipolar (they keep adding words everytime I go).  If I go for a bit of extra potassium everyday (for which cal count DOESN'T account), I'm a completely different person than if my potassium's low.  Bananas, some kinds of dried nuts...

As for the lax, I'm just eating extra fruit and fiber.  I had a big fruit salad during my early supper, and at breakfast I had raisin bran.  If they had spinach tonight at dinner, I would have gone straight for it.  My mother's a little strange, actually... She just goes out to eat Japanese, and her whole digestive system is squeaky clean...  Could be the ginger.  ~~ No movement yet for me, but I can feel it.

Tonight when I'm hungry again, I'll grab an orange.

Strange... I just had dinner and I'm at 187...  I wonder... *will check in the morning!!*

PoO is funny aint it! I agree that it can be a bit 'anal' (lol) to have to pOoP before weighing, although I have to admit I like to be naked, had a wee, pass a motion and nothing to eat or drink first thing in the morning, although to actually bring my body to dump I need to at least have a cup of tea (I suppose get my bowels working).

So this morning, naked except for my little knickers and still holding onto a number 2 I'm a pound down!  Just thought all you faeces fanatics would like to know the score

Yup so I am now at 179lbs!!! Naughty again for weighing on a non weigh day!!!  But hey it brightens up a dreary british day

Welcome Lola - we dont normally talk so much about cr*p, good luck on getting the weight off, you can do it!!!

Sammi congrats on the inches, I agree who cares what the scale says when the tape measure says what your physical shape is doing!!!

Hi all thanks for the encouragement ladies was looking in the mirror this morning (something previously avoided at all costs- especially naked) and I can see my waist again LOL its still huge but I can see a definate sip between my hips and boobs where there hasnt been one for a very long time, I'm so happy had to share it with you all.

Zulu I tried that pilates vid on you tube and OH MY GOD!!!   I can manage the controlled roll down but cant for the life of me roll back up again, not looking as easy and graceful as she does anyway so looked a bit of an idiot doing it but I can feel that somethings worked my muscles feel tighter already.Think I might need to find an easier one to begin with tho.

Done half an hour of step and gonna fit in another half hour before kids come home.

 

Hi all - checking in. :)

Sounds like a lot of you are doing so well!!!  It's so motivating.

I'm down to 184 again (from my bad weekend and ballooning to 187). It just drives me crazy that this is so slow for me!! Sometimes I feel so slim when I get on I'm expecting the scale to miraculously be so much lower than it is. Of course, then it's a fight to stay positive.  DUH. ;)

Anyway, keep up the good work and good posts. We'll get there! On the exercise front I am doing well...still doing my mini 2/days (usually one aerobic and one weight), so I'm sore and probably retaining some water.

I did lose a couple inches, so again, I'll decide I'm gaining muscle and forget that annoying scale!!

Original Post by leopardrayne:

Lilsmiter:  Actually I try to go for the more organic approach, actually both to lax's and to depression.  I was diagnosed with PMDD w. acute mild bipolar (they keep addings words everytime I go).  If I go for a bit of extra potassium everyday (for which cal count DOESN'T account), I'm a completely different person than if my potassium's low.  Bananas, some kinds of dried nuts...

Leo, I definatly respect you for being able to manage Bipolar of anykind with out medication.  My dearest friend is Bipolar as well with mild OCD.  He is also unmedicated... Oh god I wish he was!  But he is pretty severe, he says taking medication makes him feel like he is crazy, I always want to say... Baby you are crazy... stop checking the stove.  lol

If I go off my medication I get trapped inside my head and my life turns to a waking nightmare that takes the shape of a downward spiral that doesn't end untill I am drunk, homeless and mumbling to myself about "them".  I am not schizoid but I am unlucky enough to have a form of Paranoia that goes hand in hand with my depression.  I am just thankfull that it is so easily treated!

179 what a BEUTIFUL number!!!  Sigh.

I am 190 and holding.  I have a ski trip Saturday with my dad, and Kung Fu tonight.

Yesterday was a pretty good day, I ate 2100 calories.  A bit too many but it was the Cookies... I should have had one!  The important part was I ate all threw the day and managed to get 990 before I left work.  It could be better but I am finaly getting those calories in Earlier!

This morning I started with Peaches (200), Protien Cappocino (60 calories 10 grms Protien) 10 chips and salsa from office kitchen (140)  400 Calories before 9am!  (that is good for me!)  Hopefully I can grap 100-200 more before noon. 

Tonight I have Kung Fu, which is 1 hour of practice, 1 hour tai chi, and 1 hour black belt... that is a good 600-800 calorie burn.  So I have to eat good today.

Tonight I get to see a guy I like in class and my Acne is FINALY clearing up, just alittle redness on my chin and the side of my face now.  I think I might tell him to ask me out, he is very shy.

176.6 this morning. I started out at 182.8, so im slowly closing in on ten lbs!

My mom swore she hasn't had chocolate since she started dieting, and I was like, OMG!  Then I looked up the ingredients to slimquick, which she uses, and I saw there's cocoa-bean extract in it.  I wonder if it cuts chocolate cravings, especially near the totm...??  But I don't like taking pills, except for the occasional ibuprophen to keep my joints from inflaming too much.

This morning I was really tired... but I went a little :-P.  Still no significant movement yet, but I've been eating a bit more well-balanced (still too light on protein) and wayyy too much fiber (22 grams and I haven't even had supper yet).  I also have been eating a lot of fruit, lots of vegetables (Still no spinach at the cafeteria, but lots of collard greens!).

I'm happy today.  Wednesdays and Sundays (plus peeks) are my official scale days.  I am at 186.6 and I couldn't be happier.  As I see the scale go down, I do a happy dance (if not physically, at least in my head).  I decided that today was the day to wear "tight jeans" and show off what I did, to find that they were comfortably fitting, no bulges... So... now I'm out of tight pants; some of my tops (I always get my tank tops too small and use them underneath my clothes as a slimmer; now I'm just layering tank tops because they either "fit" or are barely too small).  My brother feels more comfortable in women's jeans, and he wears a size 11 and 13 in his "loose clothes".  He said he'd share until I could afford jeans that fit of my own.  Until then, I'm abusing the two belts that I have to keep my pants up.

Total Journey:
January 8:  198
February 6:  186.6

177.8 this morning and slipping down again slowly, even though it's TOTM, which means I hate life in general right now.

Going to workout tonight, hopefully sans cramps, and kick some weight butt!

How are we all doing?! 

YES YES YES!!

970 Calories at 2pm!

I had 6 inch subway for lunch, can or pineaple, protien pudding,

I am at 970!  Now I have my 150 cal bar before I go and a little bit of wiggle room to graze if I like.  My MIN Befor Kung fu is 1000.  I have been having a hard time getting their.  (with out Pizza haha) 

After class I will probobly grab another foot long chicken breast... which was 720 after cheese and the like.  NO Cookie!!  Ice tea.

1840 after all is said an done!... Maybe I should have the cookie.

work out is ~700 calories

leaves me at ~1140  which is a total Defficit of...860.  That isn't bad I was a bit over yesterday.  Either way, a cookie seems completly permisable. 

Go get a cookie, you rock! :D

I figured out I am not eating enough fat. Strange as that may sound.  I had a sip of vegetable oil and a spoonful of peanut butter, and that should get me moving again... for the update.

Again, I didn't eat enough calories (even with peanut butter and oil), and I worked out really hard today.  1300 calories too low today...

Good night folks! It's 12:33 where I am!

So we get to move for my husband's job. Found out yesterday, that we have to be out of this place by the 29'th! Nice of them to give us so much notice. Still not sure where we are going, hope they tell us soon.

I strained my back packing, so that means no workout today. We'll see if I can tomorrow. Do you guys think I should cut back on calories if I can't workout for a few days? I really don't want to gain it back. 

well... that wasn't enough calories.

Went pale AND cold durring class last night and I STILL have a headache!  It wasn't even a particlarly hard work out, just Tai Chi and Paqua.  (3 hours of it) 

Poor Carmel I feel your pain, I am moving on the 15th... Atleast I know where I am going!

Leopard- next time have a pb sammich :D SO yummy, and should bump you up some too.

Carmel- oh ouch...I hope everything works out well! Funny, I didn't really think about it being a leap year until just now.

I'm 176.0 today, and I did pilates last night. Feels so good to be in control over my cravings again! 

Congrats to those of you moving into the 170s and losing in general.

What calorie range do you try to stay within? It seems I'm all over the board and can't really decide if I'm eating too much or too little! I try to keep it around 1400-1600/day (sometimes more, sometimes less). I'm 45, 184, workout 5-6 times/week with cardio and weights (mix it up) for about 45 minutes at a time. I am always tempted to drastically lower my calories to mix it up and shock my bod into losing, but I'm so paranoid about starvation mode since reading about it here that I don't!

Do any of you mix up your calories or do you try to keep them pretty steady?

Thanks for the help.  :) 

Dccd:  I've been ranging right alongside you, but my weight is going down.  Have you tried dropping your range a hundred?  1300 - 1500?  See if that works.  Also, I learned from a trainer that it's best for some people to switch back and forth day to day between arms and legs workouts.  If you're doing 6 days a week, do MWF arms, and TThS of legs.  See if that helps.

Nasuoni:  Good job with your cravings!  I definitely gave myself up to pizza today (and it's the first day my fat-range was at a healthy level, oddly enough).

Lilsmiter:  I hope you're doing better... eat more calories and see if it helps.

Carmel:  My parents (and that partially includes me) may have to move as well for their jobs.  My mom got laid off (effective June) and my dad quit (effective June).  It shouldn't be too hard for them to find another job, they're teachers in a state that has 500 jobs for every applicant.

I had a BM today, all.  THANK GOD!  I worked out pretty well today, and my butt hurts from having an upright stationary bike instead of the leaning kind... 45 minutes of that, and 45 minutes of weight lifting.  I feel muscle coming but I don't see fat leaving...

I'm going to peek at the scale in the morning.  I am leaving town to see my parents (and have them help me do my taxes, and make dad fix the brakes on my car AND my bike).

I'll join you. I'm new to this site. I'm 5'4" and weighed in today at 180. My goal is to reach 135 or a size 8, whichever comes first, by my wedding at the end of September. I've actually lost about 10 pounds since I started dieting last fall. I always slack off too quickly when I'm dieting. Chocolate is my weakness!