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?

Hi everyone! Had a beautiful day today and went for a 4 mile walk! It was sunny and really nice out.

Down another pound again! So now I'm at 174.0 even! I can't believe I'm losing so much. But I'm not gonna question it anymore. lol  I'm so close to being out of the 170's!

myshell - When I first starting losing, I didn't feel skinny either. I was feeling better though. Wasn't gasping for air when I went up the stairs and had more energy. I still don't feel skinny yet. Who knows when that will happen! :D

arctic - yeah, some people have forgotten us. Maybe they're just busy! Did you get that donut?  Yes, we all deserve a "treat" once in a while. :D 

I know I'm getting thinner because I'm getting "cat calls" when I go on my walks now. Something that I haven't heard in years! lol  I even got a honk today from a trucker! lol  That brightened my day for sure! lol :D

 

Hello all, I haven't forgotten you. I just had a few days of VERY LOW motivation even to type up something. But today my motivation's up to the point where I might take a long walk after I'm done studying!

Hey guess what, all!!! I dropped down below 160!  I am officially 159.2 as of this afternoon (I didn't weigh myself this morning or else i could have seen maybe 158).  But that means I'm only 1.2 lb away from my July goal.  While that seems like a lot to accomplish in a day in a half, I've got full intent on eating EXTREMELY healthy tomorrow (even better than usual!), as well as packing some more stuff and working on my feet (which always burns more Calories than I could eat in two days!).

I've not seen a dip below 160 since the end of 10 grade.  I'm only 12 pounds away from my first MAJOR goal --> 148 = 50 pounds lost.

I am also proud of my food selection.  I had salad with ginger dressing, miso soup, and edamame, with water.  Even with that little bit of food (or so it seemed), I felt full about halfway through my edamame and now have about 3/4 to eat later as a snack or as a meal tomorrow.

My Calories are low for today, at 1149, but I'm going to wait until my 10-p.m. munchies before I eat again.

good job Leo!! I am hoping to see 158 by the end of august, Not sure if I'm gonna make it but I am gonna try my best. Glad see people going down in weight!

leopardrayne -- you rock! I'm hoping to break into the 150's sometime in the next 2 weeks. I'm at 164 still, but I haven't weighed myself in 3 days. Simply because I haven't been to the gym in 3 days! Ahhh! So I'm kind of scared to see what the number will be tomorrow. I must go tomorrow.

I ate more than normal today... 1300 calories. I feel full but my dad just went to the supermarket and I feel like eating more :D I'm gonna stay up til probably 2 so maybe I'll have something in a bit. Or maybe not! I already ate a lot today. A lot of sugar. I don't need anymore. I'll save it for tomorrow.

I'm always excited for a new day. When you mess up one day, there's always tomorrow -- a fresh start. I'm planning frosted shredded wheat cereal tomorrow, or cornflakes with banana slices for breakfast... gym... vanilla yogurt with grapes for a snack/lunch... bean dip with crackers maybe for snack/lunch... and maybe a breakfast food for dinner :D An egg with mushrooms, onions, spinach and toast? Or I'll switch dinner and breakfast. Either way. I love planning food ahead of time :)

Good luck and good job everyone. I hope you all have a good Thursday. Thursdays are always good! Hopkins is on on Thursdays! Favorite show.

158 --> GOT TO MY JULY GOAL on JULY 31!

Now I have to put the scale away and focus on eating healthy and working out for a few weeks.  My scale is in storage while I am moving to a new place, and while I am moving, I will have plenty of boxes and furniture and God Knows what else to move.

But since the scale was put away last night, I can feel withdrawal symptoms coming on!  I am a scale-a-holic!  Me, of all people, who lectures possibly everyone on stepping on the scale more than once a day, am a scale-a-holic.  DAMN!

The reason I wanted to check this morning is due to the fact that this morning I "feel" skinnier than yesterday.  My bootyshorts fit nicely today (as yesterday I wasn't wanting to put them on because they squeezed the tymy) and I feel like I'm carrying a whole lot less.

Today is move-day #1 -->  I am moving out of my dormitory back into my parents' house.  Should take only a few minutes to get everything out of my dorm (as I've been putting it in storage all week) and then a few more minutes just to put it back into the house (should I leave it in the car?).

Move-day #2 is August 4th, at the latest.  I will be moving a bunch of stuff into my parents' new apartment, and maybe I'll get to stretch and use the gym afterwards :-).

Move-day #3 is a day after when I have to pack to go to the airport and spend a week in New York.

Move-day #4 is when I go back to my parents' house (13th and 14th) to move my mother into her classroom.

Move-day #5 is when I go back to university, on July 21st.

Go LR! You've been making so much progress since this all started. That's so great. I've not been making the progress I'd like (although I lost 6 pounds, which is something) but I'm making changes. My biggest problem has always been and will always be my eating. I've experimented a million times, but I think I've got a plan for the next two months - egg whites + whole grains + fruits/veggies for breakfast with a super low-calorie smoothie (all of that together can be less than 250 cals and keep me full for a long time) with a fish oil pill & vitamin, small whole-grain sandwich or salad with veggies at work for lunch, water all day, then a slimfast for dinner.

Articmonkey, I'm with you - I love planning what to eat. It's just sticking to that plan that's the hard part. But, if you have a few options, you don't have to figure out the calories...

Rant - my bike broke, and I missed out on biking 2 days this week. Rave - I only paid $25 for it and I'm buying a better one tomorrow instead :)

 

Oh, guys... I gained 2 pounds... over the course of probably a week. It was a week of bad eating and not going to the gym. I can't believe it! I'll just copy and paste what I wrote in my journal:

"Just got back from the gym, and I want to cry. I gained an additional pound. I'm now at 166 ;( I don't understand this! I know I have been eating a lot of cheese lately, but... F WORD!@#($*&@#%*& I'm so upset. But I did really good at the gym.

30 min - run/walk 5.8 mph/3.6 mph
25 min - cross country bicycle
lots of sit-ups and stretching
weight machines
later today I will walk around the neighborhood with my mom

I have to get serious. I'm so scared that I won't lose anymore weight. I can't afford to plateau. How do you all do it? How do you eat over 1000 calories and still lose weight? I gained my 2 pounds after like 4 days of eating 13-1400 calories. I thought it would be okay, but I'm going back to my old ways!"

 

AKJDHF;ASKLDHFLAKSJHFDLSAJDHF!!!!!!!!!!

Hey arctic, I am the same way I have been eating more than my 1250 cal and I put on 2 lbs also. So I am going back down again to my 1250 and keeping it at that, I tried keeping my deficit at 500 but all its doing is either gaining or staying put. try doing whats right for you and your body, see how that works out for you. I am going back to my deficit of 750-900.

Hey let's get some action back in here! I'm out of my 166 rut. I actually went up to 166.5, but last time I checked I lost a pound and I was 165.5 ... I haven't been to the gym in a while to check my weight but I've been very active. I have tennis practice every morning, and today I started my week-long volunteering to teach mentally and physically challenged kids how to ride the bike with no training wheels. All I do is seriously just run after the kids for 6 hours because they're going so fast on the bike. I just put in my head that it's me running on the treadmill!

myshell, I'm glad you know what I mean; even though people tell me to eat more, I feel that staying low (at 1200) works best for me. Only when I do a ton of exercise I feel like I can go up to 1500 without feeling guilty.

I think I'm at 164 now, I hope. Even if I'm not, I see my stomach shrinking. I went to a family cookout yesterday, and a ton of people told me "You lost so much weight! You're so skinny!" It's weird how they noticed, I only lost about 15 lbs :D

How's everybody else been?

Nice Arctic - it feels great to have people notice positive physical changes, even if you can't really see them yourself.

I've had some crazy ups and downs this last week, but fortunately, out of stress comes a reduced appetite for me (only certain types of stress though, but this was one of them) and so I just didn't feel like eating anything for like a week. I know it's not healthy, and believe me, not eating is generally never a problem for me, heh, but I just couldn't eat anything without feeling really sick so I just stuck with protein shakes. I kept going to the gym to get my mind off things, which actually worked better than sitting in front of the tv with a carton of ice cream :)

And, miraculously, I'm finally down about 10 pounds from when I started this whole mess months ago. I've been edging down on 6 pounds for a couple of months, I feel like the challenge is finally manageable, and with my new lighter appetite (I have it back but I'm not overeating at all) and my exercising, I might just make my goal by this fall.

Anybody else still on here? How's it going?

Hey where is everybody at? I know I haven't been on in a while. I went threw a depression stage, I couldn't drop any weight. But this morning I stepped on the scale and I dropped 2 lbs! its not much but at least  I am out of my platue stage. I am now at 166!

Anyway I hope everyone is doing fine, Lets get the talking going again!

Nice one Myshell! I definitely want to keep this thread going because it's been great just to have other people out there to commiserate with over the difficulties of losing weight, especially at this stage. Sometimes I feel like being here from 150 through the 170's is really difficult because weight doesn't just fall off like I've seen it do for other friends and family who were much more overweight who made little changes, like not drinking soda and going out for walks. Heck, I've done all that and more and it just creeeeeeeeps down, little by little. Oh well :)

Things have been going well for me. I had some sort of realization over the past few weeks and I've been working out and eating well every day, and I've finally started seeing the weight come off. I just need to keep this up for another month five weeks and then I'm off to Guatemala for a month, where I'm sure to lose weight through all the hiking, walking, and general activity that comes from budget backpacking. That's how I got down to 140-145 last fall, so if I can do that again, I will never go up past 145 ever, EVER again.

How is everyone else?

Well I wanted to hit 158 by the time school started, And I didnt quite make it. I am 6 pounds shy =( But I started a brand new workout for my self, it is alot more work for me. Which is good, I think I was getting used to my old workout. And I like a varitey. I dont like to do the same old things everyday, I get bored with it easliy. So lets see how this one works out for me. On another note how is everyone? We all just kinda disapeared, well I am back so hopefully everyone else gets back one here!

Same here, Myshell. I wanted to get down to 158 by the time school started, but I didn't get there! I'm still 165-ish. I haven't even weighed myself in about 1 week or so, haha. It's because I haven't been to the gym. I've been so busy with school. Hopefully I'll go today though, and tomorrrow and Monday! 3-day weekend.

Myshell, what are you doing in your new workout?!

And where has everybody gone?! ARE YOU ALL ALIVE?!

Hey arctic- well I was riding the stationary bike for cardio and the balance ball for strenght  training, and I like doing that it was working for me. However I was starting to get bored with it. I still do the bike but not as much, I now use the firm video with the weights, and I really like that, I feel like I actually get a workout. I really want to go to the gym but I dont have the money for it, nor do I have a babysitter to watch the kids while I go. So I have to find other ways to get my exercise in. But now that school is starting I am going to start walking the kids to and from school, so on top of what I am doing, I will be getting a 4 mile walk in everyday.

Rant:  WTF is up with puberty delivering pounds and stretch marks???  

Hi all! Still here too. Not sure how much I've gained or lost, because, like arctic, I haven't gone to the gym or checked my weight. I kinda fell off the wagon this weekend, but I'm slowly going back into a better pattern. Like I made mini (cupcake size) key lime pies, and only had two over the weekend, but I probably shouldn't have had any. However, today I did great, except for having a margarita and sharing a lemon loaf slice with my bf. My friend and I cooked together and we just sauteed some veggies (+ a portabello mushroom) and it was amazing, so I've been doing that. Got creative and had a sauteed portabello cap topped with a little fresh parmesan cheese, a purple potato (they're really purple! and really good for you!) and a carrot. Surprisingly, I am full. I think the potato and mushroom did it for me. Anyway, I really don't want to, but I'm about to go to the gym.

Also, hello janelle. And for sure, puberty is a serious jerk. Fortunately they're pretty much not visible now, but I got a few stretch marks my hips. I really didn't even gain that much during puberty!

I am stuck!!! For the past 3 or so weeks I have been stuck at 165- 164. I can't seem to break it! Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can break the cycle?

I stepped on the scale today and finally saw 159!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy, didn't think I would get this far! I have lost a total of 20 lbs, since June 15th! Buy anyways, where did everybody go?

I'm back, after a long absence from these boards.  I went from 190 down to 176 last year, but then I got pregnant!  So, I went up to 201.  I actually lost all the weight in a matter of 2 weeks, but have since gained a few lbs.  So, here I am again.  I weigh 179 today, my goal is 150.  Despite weighing the same as I did before, I am definitely fatter/bigger than I was in the belly area.  I hope I can find the motivation to actually keep losing!