160's club

I didn't see a 160's club so I decided to start one. I'm in need of some motivation to keep the weight loss going!

I lost 30 pounds last fall but I've been completely slacking the past few months and ended up gaining a few pounds back.

I NEED to keep losing!

I weighed in at 168 this morning. My first goal is to get to 150. I'm 5'4" and I'd like to ultimately get to 130-135lbs.

 

Anyone else want to join me in the 160's club? (hopefully not for too long!) :)

Original Post by twocutekids:

I didn't see a 160's club so I decided to start one. I'm in need of some motivation to keep the weight loss going!

I lost 30 pounds last fall but I've been completely slacking the past few months and ended up gaining a few pounds back.

I NEED to keep losing!

I weighed in at 168 this morning. My first goal is to get to 150. I'm 5'4" and I'd like to ultimately get to 130-135lbs.

Anyone else want to join me in the 160's club? (hopefully not for too long!) :)

oops i just did that wrong--sorry about that! I'm now 162 and have decided to start exercising again. Last year I decided to make the change and started at about 162 and went down to about 155 before coming back up now to 162. I'd like to fit into my jeans again (I wear them all unbuttoned) and I'd like to get to 144. I'm 5'4'' too! So i'll join here with you! GOOD LUCK!!!

I'm 51 years old, 5'3" and started this week out at 163.  My goal also is to get down in the 130's at least.  Growing up I could never get over 110 and even when I had my son 28 years ago I only gained 26 pounds.  Then I woke up one day and there it was LOL

Would love to join the 160's club if that is ok....

Hello!  I'm at 174 right now, a little high, but I am working at it.  Expect me to join as soon as I get to 169.9!

I'll join!  It's so amazing for me to be able to join a 160's club, as it has been about 4 years since I have even been in the 160's! 

I am 24, and my all time high is 230 lbs.  When I started my current diet in October of 2007, my weight was 209 lbs.  Now I am 163 lbs!  Wahoo!

My goal is to get down to 140 by my wedding day:  Sept. 20, 2008.

Keep up the good work everybody!!

Hi all! Thanks for joining the 160's club with me!

I hopped on the scale this morning and it said 139!!!!!!!! LOL I guess the battery is dying! Too bad it wasn't for real.

 

 

Just FYI....I'm 5'4 too. I'm also in the 170's club. 175.6 but hope to join this club soon. 

Hi everyone!

I weighed in at 163 ths morning.  I lost 20lbs about 3 years ago and have been able to maintain this weight every since.  But I have always wanted to lose more.  My goal weight is 135-140lbs. Ohh and I'm 5'3".

Hope I can still join!

Hello I just recently reached 169 Im 5'1 and I would love to join so that I can stay motivated while working out. I started working out a the end of last week my starting weight was 171 my goal is to reach a resonable weight for my height and get into the 130's. Good luck everyone!

Woo! I can join too! I'm 5'7" and weighed in at 165 this morning. That's down from 225 pounds in December of 06.

Hi all!  I would love to join the 160's club (for now).  It's SO good to see that I'm not the only 5'3 woman that is in the 160's.  Most of the time I feel so alone.  But, we'll all work together and keep this club going and soon enough we will all be in another club!!  Right?!?!?!?!  Anyway, just a little backgound...I am 37 years old with two daughters, aged 12 and 15.  I have a desk job, so I don't get much walking done in the work place.  But I try to run every night.  I have never been able to run before but recently have been able to go 1.5-2 miles without stopping!    Yay me!  I'm having an especially hard time because last year at this time I was 130.  I've struggled with my weight since puberty, mainly in my hips and thighs.  I was able to lose 45 lbs about 9 years ago and was able to keep it off until last year when it slowly started creeping back up on me.  But it seems like the first of this year it just appeared over-night.  I had to buy all new clothes and everything.  I suffer from depression anyway, so my weight gain hasn't helped that any. 

I'm looking for people that can help me with motivation and I'd like to do the same in return. 

-thanks for listening!!!!

This sounds like just where I need to be.  I can relate to "twocutekids" in that I have 2 girls, 6&9, divorced so it's hard sometimes to fix the right food for me and then still have them eat it too.  I've been trying to fit my exercise into something that they would like too.  My 9 y/o is at the top of her wt range and I don't want her to struggle like I do and kids these days can be so mean. 

I would love to be the morning person that gets up early and does a workout but my bed is "too comfy", as my 6 y/o puts it every morning :)

aug of 2006 i was about 150 and now at 170 so I too would like to see the 140 mark again - can't remember when that was

Thanks - & we WILL do it!!

Wow, this is just what I needed. I'm in another club for the shortie's but one more club will not hurt. I am currently 167, and I am shooting for 13 pounds hoping to lose 3 to 4 more by the end of May.  As of March of 2007 I have weight from 226 to 167 as of yesterday, and I feel great. I want to lose these last few pounds, and get started on the 159 on down set of numbers. My goal is to hit 145 by Dec 31. I love have only 22 pounds to go, and I am going to get to my goal weight. I held a plateau  down for 4 months starting during the holidays, and ending right at the end of feb of this year, and when it broke I was home free. I hope to stay that way. Free of plateaus.  So please, sign me up.. I'm in.

How's everybody doing? I'm happy some more people joined!

I'm down a pound today--yay!!

But, I'm getting ready to go on a trip for 10 days to see my family and I'm nervous. I just got back into the swing of things with trying to lose weight again and it's extremely hard to keep up when I am visiting with them.  There is always tons of food and drinks and parties, and so on. EEK!

 

 

Ugh!!  I almost "fell off the wagon" but I was able to control myself with portions and sizes today at lunch!  I made sure I had a nice size salad before anything else though!  I'm so proud of myself for that!  AND I avoided my downfall....sweet iced tea! 

I haven't lost any weight yet, but I'm hoping it's because I'm building muscle first and I will start dropping soon.

twocutekids--I know what you mean, I will be going on vacation the end of next week and I'm really nervous about that.  Granted, I'm not visiting family but I'll be on a cruise...and you know there is food available ALL THE TIME! Yikes!!!  But I have made a promise to myself that I will go to the gym on ship and at least do the treadmill (if nothing else) every day like at home.  Stay strong, you know you have the power!!!  And think of how good it will feel to come back from vacation knowing that you did so well (at least that's what I keep telling myself).  And above all....HAVE A BLAST and enjoy your family!!!!

Hi - im Shauna and i would love to join the group. I'm 24 5'4 and was 185 in january but im at 166 now and im shooting for 130-135 by january honestly.but i have a 5 month old and a 2 yr old to keep me busy during the days

Hi there - I'll temporarily join this club! :)

I'm awfully disappointed in myself... My weight all of last year fluctuated between 148-155, but I never had been higher than that. I went to Europe for three months and between all the walking and being poor (and thus, not eating much) I didn't lose much weight (143) but I definitely lost 2 sizes! However, I got cocky... and while in Europe, it was okay for me to eat churros con chocolate several times a week (the greatest food invention ever, won't go too much into detail so no one gets upset), but I can't do that here, since I don't walk nearly as much... So it sounds like we're in almost the same position, twocutekids!

Aaand here I am, at 165-168, depending on whether I weigh myself with a full stomach. I'm so upset that I let myself gain this much weight, and it's been like this for about 3 or 4 months now, and my boyfriend is very sweet and supportive but I can tell he's noticed the difference... and so have I, in how I feel, how easy it is to get around, my fat pants of last year usually reserved for period days and Thanksgiving are now my normal pants, my skinny pants are back to being unwearable...

So I'm ready to do this, food be damned, as much as I love it.

Also, does anyone else find the 160's to be this weird, awkward place where no one is the same weight as you? I mean, *none* of my friends are between 160 or 170. It's nearly impossible for me to find pants because I'm 5'6", have a little waist but a formidable pair of thighs and butt, and I don't ever feel like anyone else is in this weird category where doctors and trainers say, "Well, I mean, you don't have that much to lose... but you do have to lose some because you're too heavy." Anyone know what I mean?

Anyhow, hello all and I hope we can all support each other into joining the 150's club pretty soon!

Hey runningbellydancer, have you ever tried Arizona's diet green tea? I drink that stuff ALL the time. Calorie free, made with Splenda, and it's cheap - a gallon jug is like $2.50. Try it, it might help cut out the cravings for sweet iced tea.

ajde-  yes, I've tried the Arizona diet green tea.  It is very good, maybe I'll have to go back to that when I really need some iced tea.  I didn't even think about that option!  I am in the same position you are...my husband (like your boyfriend) is very sweet and supportive of my weight gain and tells me how good I look and everything, but when you feel miserable because you can't fit into anything and had to buy new clothes because nothing fits....you don't feel beautiful or sexy.  And although I appreciate his support, sometimes it makes me sad because I wonder how can he like the way I look with my cottage cheese thighs and butt.  I feel like no one knows how I feel, none of my friends or anything...but you seem to know.  I also have the smaller waist but large thighs and hips.  Every pair of pants I buy has to be much bigger to fit the hips/thighs, but the waist is gaping wide open.  Thank you for making me feel not so isolated!!

I have just been very frustrated lately, and I'm sorry to dump all of it in this post, but I need to!!  I was out of control last night...we had a terrible storm come through and knocked out the power for the night.  I couldn't cook a good dinner like I wanted to and wound up having ham and cheese on multigrain flat bread....which wasn't too terribly bad...but the out of control part was not having something to go with it.   I ate Doritos and regular chips....a lot of them.  I found myself eating my daughters left-over pickle off her plate when I was cleaning up.  Then there was the issue of the ice cream....we were afraid we were going to lose it all...so we ate it.  I did pretty well and had about a cup of peach low-fat frozen yogurt.  But when my daughter couldn't finish her mint chocolate chip (my ALL time favorite)...I had to have some of that too!!  I just wanted to cry!! (or purge but I don't want to start with something like that)  But, why couldn't I stop myself???  And to top it off...I couldn't even run because it was pouring down rain and windy....and the power was off so I couldn't even use the treadmill.    AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

Thanks for letting me vent!!!

Hello everyone!

May I join a pound early?  I'm at 170.8, and I'd like to see myself at between 128 (healthy BMI) and 138 (Just over healthy BMI), depending on how I feel about my body.  I'm 5'3", like most of us here, and I've never been a healthy BMI.  If I had been a healthy BMI once in my life, maybe it wouldn't be such a huge deal to strive for it.

Runningbellydancer - Often people binge in a stressful situation such as when their power goes off.  I suggest you don't let it get you down, and just work a little harder for the rest of the week.