tall club 5'10'' and over ladies who want to lose 20-30 lbs... join me for weekly weigh-ins and motivation!!

Lauren in San Diego here (5'11'').  I was up to almost 180 lbs at the end of last year and I lost about 10 pounds during Jan-Feb and then got lazy.  I need to get back on the wagon.  I think I weigh around 170 and I would like to be 150.  Weigh in on Fridays for me starting tomorrow.  I would love to chat with others who have similar stats and goals to stay motivated.  All my girlfriends are little petites, I need some amazon love!!

Let's look hot and healthy this summer!!!

yummm great harvest bread.... If only we had one where I live... horrible weekend diet wise my friends came into town and we ate and drank way too much... Up 1.5 pounds since Friday and I feel like a hippo today. I am sure most of it is water weight but still feeling guilty...

Hi Ladies, I'm back after a crazy weekend of moving in Boston!  I didn't get a chance to weigh-in OR do measurements, but I will this week. 

Carol & Etah- I have a question about measurements-  when you do your stomach/chest/waist, do you stand as natural as possible, or do you puff out at all or try to suck in at all?  Im not quite sure how to do this!  also you both have great measurements I think Im straighter than both of you :(

memphiskate- I do think adding weights would help us.  I was doign that for about two weeks torwards the end of summer and I think that is when I finally dropped closer to where I am now (151-152) after being 153-154 allll summer! 

This weekend I don't think the damage was bad.  I didn't eat very healthy at all, but I didn't really eat big quantities of food, I didn't drink any alcohol,  Igot a run in up in boston, and one at home on friday, and the whole weekend I was going up and down five flights of stairs moving heavy objects, then bringing them into the apartment and putting them together- it felt like a tougher workout than the runs.  I didn't get a chance to weigh-in this morining but I'm feeling "light".  we'll see!

have a great week everyone

I stand naturally and try to relax although I did experiment with puffing a bit for the chest measurement since it was way down from when I last measured a few months ago. Doesn't that just figure??

I'm up 1.5 lbs too after my 4 day anniversary gorgefest. That's actually not at all bad, I can deal with that and I'm guessing I can probably have that off by Friday since some of it has to be bloat from my all you can eat chinese food and soda long weekend.

Husband got me a really fancy and very expensive heart rate monitor thinger for the anniversary. I'm going to be working out a lot harder now. I've had it for 2 days and I'm already completely exhausted from trying to keep my heart rate in the zone. I got him a giant bag full of junk food. Interesting contrast but I wanted to give him something he likes. Now I'm going to be trying to recover and watch myself strictly all week while there's a giant bag full of chips and peanut butter cups on my counter.

i hate cheesecake!!! not really, but today at work (i do marketing for a restaurant company) they has a tasting of all these different minnie cheesecakes, which my boss invited me to.  DUMB ME, I said yes!  for some reason I've been hungry all day so there wasn't really any way around it.  So I don't even know what the damage is, its really tough to gauge because on the one hand they were TINY, but I'd say it added up to close to a full slice.  luckiily it was after lunch so I couldn't cram AS much down.  :( I felt like I was doing SO good this week too, and was hoping to see 140s by tuesday. I guess I just need to be extra careful the rest of the day and be sure not to cheat over the weekend.  my milage total for the week will be 53 miles, which is the higheset week in my entire training program, so maybe my bod just NEEDEd those cals, maybe?  please?

alright I'm out- gotta kick some butt on that run tonight!

carolally- I'm glad I'm not the only one who absolutely hates her belly. Unfortunately the biggest difference between us is that you're a lot thinner. Oh, you probably have an accent too.

Danielle- Of COURSE your body needed those calories with all that running you're doing. You have to feed your muscles and stuff. Now let's think of an excuse for me to have peanut butter cups! This is fun!

I really do doubt you hurt yourself that much though. You're doing a lot of exercise, that'll make up for it. ENJOY having gotten cheesecake! Which flavor was the best?

oh oh, bad end to the week today, ate about 400 cals over my goal, i just couldnt get enough cereal and the to top it off, I had a choccie brownie desset thingy, at least it was weightwatchers though, only one week left until beach bikini time and I was trying so hard to cut down on carbs all week, my body was missing them it seems, nt too hopeful for a loss tomorrow, hoping to maintain.

D_platzer: damn right you earned the cheesecakes, you are doing so great with the training.

Etah: the diff would be the accent alright ha!!top of the mornin to ya lassie!! (we really dont talk like that). oh happy anniversary also :)

Hi guys, hope you are all doing super good this week, I'm being a brat, went a lil cereal mad yesterday and as a result I'm up a pound to 128lb this week, really wanted to be at my goal for my holiday to spain next sat, 2lb loss in a week aint gonna happen, ah shucks, I'm going to spoil myself on hols and eat out every night, hopefully I can, I swear though I am brainwashed at this stage, I was supposed to go for a treat with my boyfriend to starbucks last night, but knowing all the nutritional info before I went I couldnt let go and enjoy anything, I just couldnt let myself, knowing the crazy amount of calories, anyone ever feel like this? I want to be able to enjoy food again, without thinking too much about it.

Hi All!

Etah-4 day gorgefest and up just 1.5 lbs? Nice work :)

Danielle- great job on the high mileage this week!  Don't worry about the cheesecake, consider it a treat and move on.

Carol-I understand about the cals and going out.  I get that way a lot too-before i eat anything I 'need' to count up the cals in it to make sure it's okay...even treats.  I think about once a month I do a night of just no thinking, no calorie counting, eating whatever i want.  I tend to go overboard that one night and then it helps me get back on track because i feel so gross!

I had another great week this week!! woo hoo! Last week I gained .4 and thought for about 2 days I was pregnant *AHHH*.  Thank goodness I'm not!  I'm down to 176.8 today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm super excited and my hard work is really paying off. On the bummer side I'm sick.  I feel awful and would go home from work if I wasn't in charge of this retreat today and ALL DAY Saturday :(. My throat hurts so bad I don't want to eat anything but I'm starving.  going to try to get down some yogurt here shortly.

I've reached my first "goal" of inches lost now and as of today I've lost 10 lbs.  On to the next 10 and more inches! the more i lose the worse my body looks to me so I want this gooey stuff off!

Well I'm back down to my same old weight YET AGAIN. I can't honestely say it's a plateau, it's just the place I keep getting back to after I pig out and then diet back down. I have just one more week until my goal for breaking into the next bracket and only a pound to go...again. I have to be super good this week. Unfortunately I am also sick. I skipped my power yoga class this morning to stay home and drink tea and moan. Maybe my body needs a break. Even though my weight is staying the same the scale keeps telling me that my body fat is going down down. That's great and all, it really is, but I need to break into the next weight bracket before I go freaking nuts.

Carolally- You can lose at least part of a pound before then and you'll look fabulous! I'm so hankering for some cereal now. I'd better make my food log for the day before I go bananas on the honey graham things I bought for the kids.

inittowinit- Congratulations on the loss. I am so jealous that it is literally making my stomach gnaw a bit. Be VERY proud!

Hi All.  Back from a week of travel.  Down 2 lbs to 199 - big psychological milestone for me.  Oh yeah, and I turned 45 :-)  Happy Birthday to me.

I'm most proud of myself for resisting the bagels, donuts (I LOVE donuts) and pastries that were available each morning in the business meetings.  

Finally, some results.  

Great work everyone that lost this week!  So I had a bit of a binge last weekend with my friends in town and wasn't surprise at my 1.5 lb gain on Monday but despite my decent diet and dutiful exercise this week... I was HORRIFIED this morning to see that 1.5 pounds had somehow spawned an additional 3.5 lbs.... I am at like an 8 month high of 164.  Not sure what happened but hoping that it will just dissapear by next week.

Yoga- Happy late birthday!

init- Hope you feel better! If your throat stays really sore you might try some hot jello (just mix up the powder with the hot water and drink when cool enough)... gets some calories in you and feels great on a sore throat.

Danielle- Wow impressive mileage. Must be hard to find the time with all the hassle of moving.  Good work!

Carolally- So jealous of your vacation... have always wanted to go to Spain... my mother is in French Riveria right now without me :(

Etah- Be proud you atleast lost down to your previous weight after the weekend!

Have a great weekend . Kate

Hi Girls, just checking in. I weighed in at 178 last Fri and 178 again this morning, blah....looks like I've hit a (hopefully) short plateau....

Happy Birthday Yoga!!!

Yeah! Friday!

Advice to all; do not change scales in the middle of weight loss.

New scale was a P.O.S. Stuck at the same weight, to the ounce, for days in a row no matter what I did. Then it would switch to a new weight and stick to that for days in a row. 

So I stepped back on my old scale on Wednesday and...wow...turns out I wasn't stuck at the same weight. Since I've been using the old scale again, I've been seeing daily decreases and feel more motivated! Amazing, the power the scale has over me. Dear Scale: I'm a slave for you.

5'11"

SW: 175

CW: 152

GW: 145-150

dplatzer; How do you like Boston so far? Have you lived there before? And I'm jealous you got to eat cheesecake. I doubt you did any harm and its good for the soul to delve into dessert on occasion. 

etahbear; your measurements are smaller than mine and you're at least an inch taller. I don't think you should be bummed out by your size at all! Also, you're right, 1.5lbs after eating a lot is not a bad gain. 

So, seeing you two survived the trials of decedent eating...it's my turn. I'm going to eat until I can't move tomorrow night at my Best Friend's 10th Annual Veggie Fest. I'm not a vegetarian, but she is. She has this great feast every fall where all the guests take a vegetarian dish. There is always so much good food and I plan on trying everything!

Have a great weekend everyone!

It's Saturday but I'm updating anyway because I'm excited. I am down 2 lbs from yesterday! Both my scales confirm the exact same thing. Maybe it's because I lift weights on Thursday nights and retain work out water or something, I don't know. I was up no less than 4 times during the night using the bathroom but my water levels are still high according to my scale which I don't trust. Hopefully this is real and I'm not going to be back up next week because I reached my goal this morning for weight to be at by the boy child's birthday which is a week from tomorrow. Woot.

Skookum, I changed scales midway too because I have a hard time turning my old beloved one on. I have to stomp on it about 100 times for it to realize it should turn on. I usually weigh myself before my kids get up so all the stomping was waking them. Nevertheless, I still use my old scale as my official scale because the new one says I weigh 2 lbs more. That's just rude. Once I hit my goal weight old scale I'll lose 2 more to hit my goal weight new scale. Thankfully now that's only a few measly pounds away. woo hooooo!!!

Carolally- My dad lived in Dublin for many years, it's why we all have sturdy Irish names in my family (I'm Erin, no less) and he's going back this spring for awhile. Why am I telling you this? I don't know...but you look good! Have fun on your holiday.

i swear, i am doomed to be fat for the rest of my life!

i cant get the scale to budge.

alli has helped with one thing...i dont eat sweets! what good is that if the scale aint moving!!!!!

and im working so much that i literally, have no time for the gym...i work 12's which end up being 14's and i physically cant go after i work that long...

just dang. thats all i can say at this moment!

maybe a nap will help...i am tired....lol

hope all is well with all out there ...

Hang in there Edybean, the scale hasn't budged for me for the last 2 weeks straight and this morning I'm down 2 whole lbs from yesterday. Sometimes, I think my body's metabolism must just have delayed reaction. Keep with it and you'll see the results!

thank you shea....

nice tat, btw...

i have a 4 leaf clover on my arm band....i like your placing...very nice...

thanks for the encoutagement....

and congrats!!!!!

I was stuck at my weight for 3 weeks before I finally got this 2 lb. drop. You'll get there E'dy! As the kitty on a branch would say; hang in there, baby.

Edy: I've been two months stuck around the same weight, don't fret, a couple of weeks is nada, Also congrats on staying away from the sweeties.. imagine how much healthier you're insides must be without all that crap! So my downfall! :(