The 2-5 pounds to go and stuck thread ... Join me to lose the last few pounds!
This is the all-new "Join me to lose the last 2-5 lbs club"!
This type of thread helped me famously as I was on my weight loss journey in 2007. Now I am back looking for more, support, friends and few pounds to lose ... I am still thin but feeling down in the dumps with poor eating and a lack of motivation.
Who wants to join me to lose the last 3-5lbs and stay healthy! Post goals, rants, diaries of your day if you like, we can lose those last few together!
YES WE CAN!
Still haven't messed up my November calorie pledge, but my weight hasn't budged all month. I guess this means the calorie goal I set is too low. So starting Wednesday I will be upping my daily intake goal by 100 calories. I will see where that gets me by Christmastime.
I'm rather frustrated. On Halloween I set a goal of losing 3 lbs by Christmas, and as of today I have made no progress towards that. 3 weeks wasted. I really hope the weight comes off between now and Christmas. But 3 lbs in 1 month is quite ambitious for someone my size. I doubt I can do it. At this point, I'd settle for losing just 2 lbs.
Sigh. Any advice, ladies?
The Canadian weather is not agreeing with me, or with my workout schedule. Whenever I get in I just want to snuggle under the covers with a big mug of hot chocolate, some fatty snacks and a good book. Luckily I am poverty-stricken so I cannot afford hot chocolate or snacks. But neither am I in the mood for 2 hours of cardio.
Hi! Can I join!!?? I've been wanting to lose the last 5 for about a year! I know I am fine and healthy but it's just that dang goal number I set I won't stop worrying about it till I get there! I am 29, 106-107 and goal is 103 and nothing lower. I just want to see it! LOL! I started my weight loss journey about 6 years ago after the birth of my son. I had always been a average/ chunkier gal growing up but after my son came I decided to get healthy. I was 162 pounds at 5'1 and had been getting alot of comments and I finally looked real good in the mirror and didn't like what I saw. So I lost my weight slowly and steadily about a pound-2 lbs a week. Plateaued here and there and then kept going. I didn't diet, I changed my eating lifestyle entirely. So I was able to lose succesfully but very slow. Anyway, got to 113 and became pregnant with my daughter and after she was born, byt hte time she was 3.5 months I was back down to my pre pg weight. And over the last 3 years have lost only 5-7 pounds. I'm pretty good at maintaining. Can eat almost whatever I want in moderation but I am use to doing just hat...eating whatever I want. So I know in order to lose the last 4 I need to shock my body somewhat. Currently I eat about 12-1400 cals a day. And that is just what I eat to maintain. I don't lose on it and I don't gain so any tips would be great. Every other weekend or so I do cheat on higher cal foods and that is usually because we are at some family gathering. I run 4 days a week and strength train 2 days a week. I joined a mommy group here in my city and we have trained for 5k's and 10k's. Back in March I never ran...ever, but now I really like it and love the muscles and definition it has given me so it's great motivation. Hubby loves it too! A definite bonus on my motivation. So that is a little about me, I'll try to post as much as I can. I do get home late since I commute and pick my kids up. But I'll definitely read and take in what everyone is doing and how. Thanks for letting me join you all!
BTW..I'm Tiffany, from N. cali.
Hey guys...wayyyy overdid it at the Thanksgiving potluck. SIGH. I just get so mad at myself because I'll be FULL, I'll be BEYOND full, but things just look so GOOD that I'll continue shoving it in my face! :-(
So, hoping to be very, very good until the actual Thanksgiving! The only thing I saved was the mashed potatos my friend made...they were SOOOOO good.
Ugh, I'm just so mad at myself! I knew it was going to be a 'free' day, but y'know...it didn't have to be THAT free. I'm not mad that I went over my calories, I'm mad that I just seem to lack control...that I'll just eat and eat and eat in these situations. It doesn't happen often, just in party situations. SIGH. :-(
Hello All! I would love to join this group, you all seem like such a positive bunch! Anyhow, my deal is that I was always under 125 then got sick this year and lost a lot of weight putting me underweight...so I made a concerted effort to put on weight since having arrived in Mexico on exchange in Aug..However the excitement of stuffing myself silly got a bit out of control and now I am all the sudden at 130! Would like to get back to normal at 125 but it is so hard because I got used to just eating terribly!!! Anyway, basically I would like to lose the 5 by about Xmas or New Years but not sure how possible it is.... I am 5'7 by the way!
I am sooo hungry, I'm going to have a massive breakfast in 4 hours and I don't care. I live in a university res with very specific and annoying meal times. Anyway, I accidentally missed lunch because I was out on the town and then I missed dinner because I was at stupid work which starts at 5, the exact same time as dinnertime starts here. And I have no money, not even a measly dollar, so I could not buy any food.
It turns out poverty is a great diet technique.
good morning ladies! my weight is doing acrobatics.. lol.. yesterday I saw 135.8 (YAY!) today.. 137.4?? I'm not too concerned though. I had a small piece of pizza last night that I didn't need. didn't go over cals, but it was tiny and it's the best pizza in the area and I only have it like once every 4-6 months.. so I didn't feel bad :) I got TONS of exercise though.. My mom got a wii fit so I fiddled with that for about 45 minutes.. and my sister and I did wii boxing which works up a serious sweat!! I don't have time for exercise today. I'd like to go on a walk if my friend is willing but she's working 12 hours so I doubt she will.. ah well. I'm leaving for class soon and then going right to her house (our b/f's are best buds too) for the OSU V. MS game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited.. I love football.. OSU is the only team in Ohio worth rooting for and this is our HUGE rival game. My eating plan is pretty simple. Just finished my eggs for breakfast and am having a taco salad sans shell for lunch and maybe 2 small pieces of pizza for dinner. Not drinking a lot b/c Dayquil is second to water today so I don't want to be drinking alongside that... I'll be chugging water all day and who knows.. maybe I'll get back to 135 something tomorrow :)
Thanksgiving plan - Dinner is going to be at 2. I plan on sleeping in, eating eggs and toast for breakfast (lower cal and keeps me full), going on a hike, and then having a maintenance day :)
welcome newbies!! :D
vesnar - I'm 5'7" too! I'm just trying to make it to 130.. we can lose these 5 together ;) us tall ladies gotta stick together! haha...
Ashley - I completely understand what you are saying.. I do the exact same thing and it is so frustrating.. I'm not sure how to fix it yet, but we can do it! Lately I just remind myself of my goal weight for the week and it seems to help... with Thgvg coming up it's going to be really tough though....
hannah - I'm not technically poverty stricken but I am broke and my cheapest, healthiest option is pb&j. Ingredients should only cost about $5.. I got peanut butter for $1.68, jelly for $1.75 and whole wheat bread for $2. If you get generic brands it should be pretty cheap.
carolally - have fun at your mom's!!!!!
vnaloo - I love my little set up :) overall it probably cost about $1,000 but I've been using it for 3 years and a gym membership would have cost me more than that!
gabeminamon- sounds like quite the weight-loss journey! way to go! don't really have a lot of advice for you :( It sounds to me like you may need to be eating more? with all that exercise (which is great!) it seems your body may need a little food.. not sure though :)
all right ladies!! keep up the great work! weekends are tough but we can make it!!!
ps. sorry to be a pooper.. but you won't catch me running in the 28* weather :P
Yeah about a month ago I went to the doctor's office and weiged 116.5. Last night I was at this party and the bathroom had a scale in it so I got on it just randomly and it read 126.5!!!
It HAS to be wrong because I cannot have gained 10 lbs in one month. I've been working out the same as usual and I'm pretty sure me and my friends would have noticed if I had gained 10lbs? But still it made me feel like **** and irritated and made me feel like I wasn't working out enough or sticking to my diet well (the past week has been a disaster for me).
I need to learn some self control around sweets. I also think it has a lot to do with who you surround yourself with. I've been getting a lot closer to two girl friends of mine whom I love to death but they eat anything and everything and roll their eyes when I make a comment about not wanting to eat something or about my weight. It's not helpful and I want to eat what they eat and then I over eat. It's a difficult balance. Yes, I like looking the way I do but at the same time I like stopping randomly at some little cafe for coffee and to share a slice of cake.
It's a tough juggling act.
Alanah6688--what you described is what I'm having the most trouble with right now...pressure from friends. It's especially hard when you're trying to just lose those last couple of pounds.
To my friends, I'm sure I look "fine" but I'm not ready to switch to a maitenance diet -- and at my size (5'2") even a maitenance diet will require me to count calories and stay around 1700-1800 cals per day. It's just not possible for me to eat three pieces of pizza -- ever! But I find that friends and family will encourage me to eat more and more, and they definitely wouldn't appreciate if I said that I'm trying to finish losing the freshman 15. I'm the most fit/slender of my friends and family, and it's hard for me to explain why I don't want that delicious meal they just cooked, etc. (I find it's extra hard to refuse food when I'm visiting a friend or family ... it's feels so rude to constantly decline food when it's offered by my host.)
Anyway ... it's been on my mind and when you said that it just clicked for me. Sorry about the rant!
Re: RUNNING in the COLD -- I'll run for 30 minutes tomorrow (Sunday), and I'll be bundled up. I'm not going to commit to anything more than running outside this Sunday ... see how it goes and then decide if there's another day this week when I want to go outside instead of to the gym. Next week I'll be home and the gym won't be an option ... hoping that my fiance will go running outside with me or something, for moral support!
So I planned on eating super light today, but that just hasn't been panning out. I'll still end up with a deficit, but a much smaller one than I had hoped. :-( I just keep picking at the 'dump cake' that I made for the potluck...it's delicious but looks unappetizing which means most of it was left after last night--crushed pineapple, cherry pie filling, yellow cake mix mixed together and topped with walnuts and baked for forty minutes. Ughhhh!!! I planned to eat around 1200 for the day, and it's only 6:30 here and I'm already up to 1400. And I'm sure I'll end up snacking on something later--I'm going to try and skip my nightly snack of nutella/wheat bread (200 cals) and instead have rice cakes (100 cals) so that I end up at 1500 for the day.
Siiiigh. I'm so mad at myself for all the picking I've been doing!
Same here -- at nearly 2000 calories for today instead of 1500. I'm going to blame the fact that I was visiting relatives and ate a bagel for lunch ... so many empty calories, just making me extra hungry for the rest of the day! It's so hard to eat well while traveling.
At least I got to the gym later on when I got back to school so I think today was pretty much a maitenance day. Not too bad, but still ... frustrating to be so hungry in the evening but have already maxed out on calories.
Drinking a glass of wine didn't help -- my calorie count or my ability to resist snacking! Ah well. Tomorrow is another -- and will be a better -- day! :-) I hope it is for you, too, Minerva!
warbler, that's not time wasted! i'm sure your body is way healthier on the inside and out.. it's just not showing up on the scale.. keep plugging and up your calories and see what happens..
i went out last night until 5 am (in Korea there is no last call and 5 am is actually not too late!) i drank a lot and ate A LOT. i said i was going to go running today, but actually i think i'm going to hike the mountain behind my house. that's more than 30 minutes cardio, though it's not running, but i'll still burn a lot of calories. i don't have time to hike during the week so i want to take the opportunity. it's not an excuse not to run! promise!
reading through some of the posts is seems that we're all starting fresh today! i'm not even looking at the scale for a few days.
What scale do you guys recommend? I need to buy one to have a consistent measure of my weight but I'm not sure how much/what kind I should purchase.
Any advice?
Minerva - Can I just say WHY do we do that? I can literally be so full to the point of wanting to be sick and if there's something chocolate cake or cornbread or whatever sitting in front of me I'll STILL eat it and I'll feel HORRIBLE afterwards! I don't get why I would want to put myself through that but for some reason I always do?
I've recently rediscovered the idea of to-go boxes at restaurants. I don't HAVE to eat all my food, duh, I can take it to go. I think I just need to take a moment to take a deep breath and refocus and remind myself of these simple, common sense things.
As far as Thanksgiving goes I think my plan is lots of turkey and veggies and some sweet potato soup and then a free for all on the desserts. And a walk around the neighborhood to look at Christmas lights after!
Krrpt08! 5'7 too woohoo!!! its good to have someone the same height to compare with....what is your cal intake like? I am having a hard time keeping mine down, exercise here in mexico is so hard to do - theres no parks to run, the streets are torture to run on (too many cat calls and vulgarities) and theres no gym close by....i used to run every day back home and now I just cant..losing weight just by cutting cals is too hard!! especially on exchange, when ur out a lot having fun all the time!!! anyway, just tryin to keep it relaxed and not stressin because i tend to chuck in the towel and binge like crazy.... uhh hope everyone is doing well!
hey ladies! sorry I missed out on so much conversation :( I've been sick and still feel like crap so I haven't really felt like posting much... still eating great and exercising though :)
vesnar - I'm insanely sedentary so on non-workout days I stick to 1200-1300 but it's kind of easy b/c I don't get hungry since I sit at work for 8 hours and sit in class for 5... on workout days I eat from 1500-1800 depending what I'm doing. How long are you in Mexico for? I'd say focus on eathing healthy and just exercise when you can and when you get home you'll have the healthy eating under control and then you can just start exercising to lose... ya know? :)
hopefully I'll be back in the game by Wednesday.. just in time for Thanksgiving! LOL!
Uhmmmm im in mexico till july so something HAS to give before then hahahaha....ahhh im also very sedentary but I am finding it hard to keep to those kind of numbers because i sleep so little and end up eating to feel awake, today i went crazy and ended up over 2300, uhh!!!! so frustrated!
oh man, I would love to be in Mexico right now! Especially with the cold weather.
How is everyone doing today? I actually went out for a run today, just over 5 k but I feel like I was dragging a little bit. It's probably since I haven't run in 2 weeks. Did anyone else run? Is anyone closer to their goal? My weight is going in the wrong direction. BUT my goal is to stay on track this week, and through the weekend. I want to try to not spend my week working off weekend damage.
Though, I am going on a double date on Friday for some dalk galbi. Saturday and Sunday I will be good! Mark my words!
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