180's Club

Would anyone like to join a 180's club? I've been stuck in the 80's for quite some time now and would enjoy some company... if anyone's interested.

supersized- it's good to have you back!

njasmin, that feeling does go away.  Try having bigger serving so of green veggies

Congratulations to all who have made it into the 180s or 170s club keep up the good work!  I just got off the scale and it said 180.5, I'm so excited!!!  170s here I come.

Scale said 180.8 this morning.  I'm almost there, but the weekend is here and this is when I ususally go back up. 

You guys are all doing so great, makes me feel bad reporting that I'm
188 this morning!  I am slowly and steadily moving that number
lower!  It looks like we'll be seeing a lot less people here very
soon!

My scale said 182.4 this morning, but I'm sure it will go up cus I'm dehydrated from drinking last night. Also the weekend is here. I think I almost hate weekends. There's too much food around!! Let's stay strong!!! Ya with me??

*I think I can... I think I can.....*

That's my motto! ;)

so much for sticking to 1200 cals this week.. I did 1800 the last 2 days and i think around 14 or 1500 the days before.. crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! anyways I'm on about 900 cals today so far and really would love to come in at 1300 today, seems quite impossible with my recent intake but what do you guys suggest I soend the rest of my calories on today.. I have 400 left and that means I need to have dinner and a snack on 400 cals. I also might have to work this weekend.. poop :(

Usually when I have about that much left I have a huge salad.  It
fills me up and is very low cal.  I've never liked salad much
before, but I'm comming around:)

hey i'd love to join! im 187 as of this morning

melanie

Oh Fun ME ME ME ... I ring in at 186.  I'm looking to be close to 170 - 175 by summers end.  I've been at a stand still for over 5 weeks now.  I'm having a really hard time working out in this heat.

well, I'm 187.5 this morning, That's 1/2 way to my goal!!!!!!!

189 exactly this morning.  It's also my day to measure and I'm down to 42.5" around the middle!  Down from 48 when I started.  The exercise is already paying off.  I betcha I've gained muscle and that's why I'm smaller but no lighter.

I did 8 minutes on the recumbent bike yesterday, along with my 11 minutes on the treadmill, 8 minutes on the Nu Step, 5 minutes on the Arm Ergometer and 12 reps each of 7 exercises with 2 pound weights.  I really felt it in my thighs after that bike, and my sides ached from the arm action on the Nu Step - it's all fat being burned! 

I'm looking forward to that next big goal - 185 in a few weeks!!!

this morning I was 178.. then 179.. then 176, then 180. I hate the scale!!!!! I'd like to get a new one , but I feel like the new one will say i weigh more or something and then I'm like starting over. My scale is pretty cheap, does anyone know if this happens on pricier scales? I got my ass out of bed this morning and hit the tredmill for 55 mins. I have sworn off drinking more than 2 drinks ata time for this month.. and the end is coming near! I've at least broken thourgh my plateau though, I thought the scale was going to say 186 and 184 for the rest of my life.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy. This morning I was 191 lbs, up from 184 two days ago. But I landed myself in the hospital with several bags of fluid pumped into me. Well as of now I have pee'd out 4 lbs of that fluid. So I am back in the 180's and hoping that by tomorrow I will be back to 184.

Hows that for a weight fluxation?

hey i pee'd out 4 pounds last week from my ttotm! ha ha ha ha.. it's cool. I hope your okay, the hospital is not fun :(

That hospital food will do it every time!  I hope you're ok now. 

so what's everyone's excuse in here for there wight gain?? I blame mine on, quitting smoking, getting ill, and working a sedentary job, oh and the husbands eating habits. hum it's so easy to blame everyone and cirsumstances isn't it.... The only thing I can legitimatly blame really was my illness, the rest is crap. Even the illness thing is kinda crap, I maybe should've gained a few pounds when I got sick.. not 30. But it's easy to look back and see our mistakes.

I wouldn't call it an "excuse", but I do have a good understanding of how I gained all this weight.

I was a very skinny child and my mother saw it as her duty to fatten me up.  She'd do things like put cream on my cereal and coax me to eat.  Of course her cooking was wonderful and I grew up on huge plates of pasta, rich stews, wonderful roasts, lots of butter and bread, everything cooked, Italian style, with plenty of olive oil.  I stayed skinny, underweight actually and at my wedding, when I was 20, I weighed just 100 pounds.  The first weight gain came when I got pregnant.  I remember my grandfather squeezing my arm and smiling with approval.  The whole family liked me plump.  After the baby I dieted off 30 pounds and my weight leveled off at 115.  Second baby, gained 50 pounds, lost all but 10, so my weight was still a healthy 125 or so.  Along comes #3 and I gained 65 pounds.  I got back down to about 130, still ok.  I stayed that size, a perfect size 10 (it would probably be a 6 now) until I hit 50 years old.  I would sometimes gain 10 pounds or so over the holidays, but was always able to go on a diet and lose it.  That's the history of how I developed terrible eating habits.

When I was 40 I was diagnosed with a life threatening heart defect and was hospitalized for long periods of time.  After that I was more sedentary and unable to stand much physical activity.  My weight went up.  I had surgery for it in 1988 and was able to live a nearly normal life, but knew it could get worse at any time.

Menopause - I put on 10 pounds a year.  I'd go on a diet, lose 5 pounds, hit a plateau and give up.  These were 900 calorie diets, the standard weight loss regimen of the 80s, and I couldn't stick to them for long.  Each time I dieted, I'd gain the weight back, plus more.  All this time, I would go off a diet and go right back to my old eating habits. 

In 1992, my heart began showing signs of weakness and I developed congestive heart failure. I went on heavy medication.  In 2003, I had breast cancer, a minor lump which was removed.  Then, that year I developed a serious lung infection which cause permanent scarring and I went on supplemental oxygen.  Eating became my comfort.  So That's how I ended up, 64 years old and 210 pounds. 

Now I'm here, changing the way I eat completely.  I got through the first plateau, which lasted for about 6 weeks.  That's when I used to give up and quit.  This time I had lots of friends here with ready advice and learned how to get past it.  I have made changes in the way I cook, the way I eat, and the way I think.  Early this year I developed a potentially fatal heart arrythmia and now have an implanted defibrillator.  This device has made a big difference in my life, and I'm now able to do some low intensity exercise.  (I'm wired, baby!)

I was VERY surprised that eating more could actually help me lose weight.  I went from 1000 to 1200 at first, to 1600-1700 now.  I'm losing faster and have just conquered the second plateau.  I'm now prepared for the long haul - a year and a half more of losing, then a lifetime of maintaining. 

No more "dieting" for me!

Claire you've been through so much! That's quite a story. I've always gained a little here, dropped a little there. This is going to be the most weight I have ever lost, and it better stay like that!