170's-150's Club Rants & Raves

This is in response to Twocutekids' 160's club... I noticed that it was getting a little confusing at times with some people joining and others responding to previous posts, so maybe adding a new area specifically for rants & raves can help make it easier to communicate. Maybe the original can be more for cheering each other on, making introductions and talking about our goals or something. And, if anyone else has any good ideas for new 160's club topics, start a new thread too!

Edit: due to our fluctuating weights, let's open up the group a little more to match our new achievements! 150's to 170's it is :)

It's really been a great experience for me to start off this time with other people in the same boat. Trying to lose weight is always hard, but it's even harder when you have no one to do it with you.

Well, since this is a rant & rave section, I guess I'll start!

Rant: I live in Seattle. Living in a place with as dreary weather as this is SO not conducive to being active. I went to Texas when my boyfriend was working in Austin on a contract, and even in November everyone was out at night, enjoying street life, and most people looked more fit than in Seattle. While Seattle is a fantastic city with tons to see and do, we focus a little more on indoor entertainment than physical activity (minus the urban bicyclists or many nature-lovers who'll go hiking even when it's pouring rain). It's cloudy and chilly about 9-10 months out of the year here, so winter seems to last forever. It's so hard to get motivated to take a walk when it's 50 degrees and rainy in May! Oh well, it's my home... just have to work around it :)

What rants or raves do you guys have?

I wieghed in this morning at 170!! I am at a total of ten pounds lost in 6 weeks!! I hope I can keep this up!

I havne't been typing too much, because not much has been going on in my life.  I am eating right, working out, working 4 days a week, going to class 4 days a week, and occasionally hanging out with my friend Alicia.

Boring life.

But I'm still happy to see 160, and 158 will look much better, as it'll be my official 40 pounds mark.  12 more pounds until my first MAJOR goal, at 50 lb lost.  I will re-assess what I'd like to do after that, perhaps go down another 15 - 25, but I NEVER want to see myself with 75 less pounds than I had started with.  That would be 123 lb, too skinny for me.  But that's a long time away.  I need to lose these 12 pounds before I make these decisions.

Wow, guys... nice job! I've been staying at 169 for a while. I saw 168.2 once, but I haven't seen it lately. Yesterday I ran 1.5 miles (I know it's not a lot, but the gym was closing), and I felt really good. I didn't run the whole time, of course, but I ran most of it. I was so proud at how much I pushed myself even though I was extreeeeemely tired. I felt the need to run at 6 mph because I wanted to look cool... haha... and it really tired me out. But I finished it. I just want to be able to run long distance without walking... that's what the girl next to my treadmill did. I was so jealous.

I think I'm gonna lose something today. A couple ounces, please?! I really need a new scale. I always weigh myself sometime in the afternoon or evening when I go to the gym with a half-full stomach and clothes and shoes on.

178.2 yesterday and 180.2 today! Crazy weight! GRRRRRR  Maybe tomorrow I'll go below 178.2! Yeah, right! lol

I slept 5 hours last night (8-1am), woke up for 2 hrs, went back to sleep at 3 and slept til 1pm today!!!!  I guess I was tired! lol  I slept 15 hours!!!!  That's alot of sleeping! But I feel so rested now. :)

Have a nice day! :)

I AM GOING TO WRITE THIS IN CAPITAL LETTERS SO THAT YOU ALL KNOW HOW EXCITED I AM. I WAS AT THE GYM A COUPLE HOURS AGO AND WEIGHED IN AT 166.5 !!! I'VE BEEN STUCK AT 169 FOR SO LONG (ACTUALLY ONLY LIKE A WEEK) AND IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE A NEW LOWER NUMBER!

 

Man I'm excited :) I've been so depressed these past couple of days (read journal for referance) and this just raised my spirits. It just gives me so much motivation. I haven't seen 166 in like a year. And if I reach the 150's... I will cry. A good, long, happy cry.

CONGRATS arctic!!!!!  WAY TO GO!!!!  I feel the same way about the 150's! 

Today I walked 4.4 miles....the furthest I've walked in 3 yrs!  I broke it up into 3 trips every few hrs and had to take a couple pain meds, but I did it! YAY!!!!

Also, my weight went down alittle. Yesterday 180.2 and today was 179.6! At least it's going down. Hopefully I'll see another decrease tomorrow after all that walking. *Keeping my fingers crossed* 

 

I am proud to say that I stepped on the scale this moring and I was at 169!! I haven't seen that in a couple of years! Lets hope that I keep going down!

myshell - doing the happy dance for you! :D YAY!!!!

I went down on the scale today....again!  This time a whole pound. Yesterday 179.8, today 178.6. WOO HOO!!!! :D

Walked another 4.4 miles today. Have to keep at this....hope I don't burn out.:(

Momof2- Thank You!! I am doing the happy dance for you too!! Good job keep it up! Becareful tho cause you might burn yourself out. And you don't want to do that.

I'm not doing well today. Emotionally ill. All of which is explained in my journal. I'm just not feeling good at all... it made my stomach hurt, and I'm getting a headache now. I only ate about 900 calories today. I can't eat anymore. I hope tomorrow will be better. I'm praying for it.

Momof2funykids and nyshell -- GREAT job :) keep it up.

arctic - awwwww I'll have to read your journal to see what's wrong. I'm so sorry you're feeling like this.

I've been walking every day and the scale is showing it! I now weigh 175.6! I keep reading that with a 1000 deficit, I should lose 2 pounds a week. Well I have been losing like a pound a day. I look up my calories, so I know they are right. I use the google pedometer to see how many calories I burn on my walk. Could I be burning more than its showing? I'm not walking fast, by any means. I can't physically walk fast no matter how I try to. I take 3 breaks during my 4-5 mile walk. Could that have something to do with it too? I don't know. I eat so I don't have more than a 1000 deficit.

Have a nice evening! :)

Wow, everyone, I'm glad to see that all are having such good progress in their weight-loss quests! I'm on my own quest and struggling - I just feel like I either face setback after setback or I'm just not going strong enough, but I'm really changing my habits. I've gone swimming like 4 or 5 times in the last week, and I started biking to work, 7 miles total over around 1.5 hours. I've been trying to eat less (and succeeding) and I can't tell whether I'm just retaining fluids or what, but I feel heavier than ever. Maybe there's something going on with my body that I'm not aware of, because by my calculations, with the skyrocket in my activity level and my lessened appetite, I should really start to lose a bunch of weight. We'll see - I need to give this a month before I start getting all disheartened. Also, ladies - by the mid-point of your cycle do you ever start feeling really bad for a few days?

Momof2 - you're doing great! Everytime you post, you're down some weight! That walking seems to be doing you a lot of good. I think it's good that you split up your miles throughout the day. That way you're active all day and not just for an hour or two at once. Keep it up, you're doing fantastic!!!

I also lost weight today :) 2.2 pounds... I'm at 164.3, and I couldn't be happier. It's surreal. 14 pounds lost since I started CC. This website ROCKS!

Hi everybody!  Thank you arcticmonkey! But went up a pound today! lol  I'm looking forward to tomorrow's weigh in though. My weight is weird. I'll go down for days at a time, then I'll go up, then go back down! It's nuts! lol  As long as my range of ups and downs get lower and lower.

No walk today. I was so busy with the kids. Had to take my oldest to the hospital, nothing serious. But kept us there for a couple hours. Then cooked and cleaned the kitchen..... Tomorrow I will take my walks again. :) 

Hope ya'all had a good weekend and everyone's safe! :)

Congrats on the weight loss arctic! I am proud to say I dropped another pound! I am down to 168!!!! Hopefully by the time my children go back to school I will be 158!

I lost that pound I gained yesterday, after no exercising and only a 400 deficit.

Congrats myshell! Keep going! :)

Heading out for my walk! have a nice day! :D

Good job momof2!! Enjoy your walk!

WOW, great job myshell and momof2! It seems like we're the only ones that post in here lately :D But still, I can't believe how great we've been doing! I applaud you guys, it must be exciting... it sure is for me!

No exercise today for me. I think I'm going to treat myself to a small cup of English Toffee and a donut at Tim Hortons today with my mom :) I've been craving it ever since I started dieting, and I DESERVE IT! Plus I didn't have that much to eat today... 700 cals at the most?

I really feel a change in my body! When I first started losing weight, I couldn't tell a difference, I still felt fat. My mom kept on saying how proud she was of me, but I said "MY BODY STILL LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME!" Now I'm seeing my stomach flatten out! I don't have to suck it in as much as I used to, and it's such a relaxing feeling :) My friends even asked me "Have you lost weight? You look skinnier since than the last time I saw you." Such a great question to be asked :)

Thats really good arctic. I still feel fat =( I havent seen a difference yet. My mom keeps saying I look different, but I still feel the same. Although it is discouraging I'm not giving up. I do feel different I feel more energetic and stuff but feeling skinny is gonna take a while for me. Even tho I lost a total of 12 lbs, I still have about 45 to go.

Whew! I've been so exhausted recently. Even 8 hours of sleep isn't enough. Perhaps I'm working out more? I'm proud of myself - today I biked/walked my bike 7 miles to/from work, in addition to working standing up and walking for 6 hours. So, 8 hours total of activity. I was happy enough with myself to eat some chocolate and get a pedicure. I should've just gotten the pedicure but oh well, the rest of what I ate today was healthy and it was dark chocolate :) All I need to do is keep doing this (minus the sweets), along with my swimming and hula hooping several times a week. I'm not great at eating right, but I find that sometimes my appetite actually goes down when I exercise a lot. It's like my body knows that it only needs so much to keep it going, rather than just wanting to eat all day long for fun. We'll see how this looks by September. My goal is to be back to 150-155 by then.