Weight Loss

Sharing support & encouragement can help get us through ~ especially on a bad day.  So come talk and share your day with us :)  

Our group will remain open and you are welcome to join us any time, but our group will only thrive if people participate here together. 

How to stick with this4ever ~ The most important thing is to find a healthy approach that works for you that you can enjoy for the rest of your life.  Create your new lifestyle.  Let's talk about how! 

Starting Weight (& day joined): 276  (Sept. 23rd, 2007)
Highest Weight EVER:  284 (Sept. 2007)
Mini-Goals: 1st Goal Weight: Quit smoking and stay quit by Nov. 2007 and to be under 220 by New Years 
ULTIMATE Goal Weight: 180~
Plan: No junk food, prepare/eat 6 small well ballanced ~300cal meals a day with 1 or 2 healthy snacks sometime during the day if I get hungry, never go over 2500 cals in a day. Join/Use gym, continue to go 3 to 4+ times a week, focus on cardio, get a personal trainer. Use downtime at work to pace/walk around the ambulance or streach. Quit smoking.

Hi everyone, I'm borderline 100+ club but I think close enough. - Mike

Ok.....

so I weighed in yesterday.  It was supposed to be friday but I forgot :(

Started 9/4/07  310lbs

Last Weigh in -300

Current 10/8/07  294.2.

YAY!!!!  I lost another 5.8 lbs!!  That brings me to a total of 15.8lbs since starting c-c last month :)

Rena:)

 

Wow - there's  a lot going on the past few days.  Lots of losses posted - good job!  Rena - your doing so well!

molly - your meal plans and recipes sound so good, you make me hungry everytime I'm on!  Thanks for sharing.  I'm always looking for new recipes/food ideas.

Welcome all you new people!  Hope you find support and encouragement here!

I'm doing well at maintaining, weight fluctuates within a two pound range, but no permanent gains yet - YAY!

~ TODAY'S LUNCH ~

Tuna salad with chopped celery and Miracle Whip Light (177 calories)
one serving (18 crackers) Kellogg's All Bran Garlic Herb Crackers (120 calories)
2 cups of fresh, steamed green beans (70 calories)
Tomato ~ Radish salad with zero calorie Bacon Ranch Dressing (86 calories)

TOTAL CALORIES: 453
(7 servings of veggies)

=^..^= MOLLY

~ TONIGHT'S DINNER ~

Three onions, grilled with garlic (139 calories)

Lean, grilled sirloin steak, cut into strips (225 calories)

Shredded Cabbage, grilled with garlic (64 calories)

Tomato~radish salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette (46 calories)

TOTAL CALORIES: 474

(8 servings of Veggies)

sickbxy - Welcome and hope you find the support you need to lose the weight.  Your plan sounds good but you may need to focus on one thing at a time.  Like for instance focus on quitting smoking then focus on losing weight.

Molly - you are doing so well with your veggies.  You have a lot of great ideas for foods as well.  I love reading your plans for new ideas.  I love saute veggies and putting them in wraps that I almost do it daily and then I always add a variety at dinner.  This has worked for me and I like doing what works.  However, I can start adding some of your ideas. 

whatcoloristhesky - Glad that you are back and sorry to hear that you had to go to a funeral. I can understand about the lack of energy especially going through a death and having to deal with all of that. Just keep on trying and just remember we are here to support you. Let me know if you need anything.  We all have those days where we just don't feel like being on our diet or we lack motivation.  Just take one day at a time for now and the habits will come back to you.  Just don't give up because we are all rooting for you!!

Original Post by biggestloserfan:

sickbxy - Welcome and hope you find the support you need to lose the weight.  Your plan sounds good but you may need to focus on one thing at a time.  Like for instance focus on quitting smoking then focus on losing weight.

Thanks for the welcome, I found out really good news today, I was going WAY overboard on my goal. I went to a nutritionist consult and he said my target weight needs to be 225 so that knocks off 41lb off my goal. I knew the BMI stuff was off but I didn't think that bad... I was already using the top end figure in my original goal. I am trying to not buy any more packs since my last pack went empty tonight, we'll see how long it lasts... quittting smoking will be a lifelong endevor for me and they seem to go together hand-in-hand like I read in the book The Best Life Diet. I notice when I go to the gym, I don't want to smoke as much and the food program seems to be fairly engrained already over the past month of doing it, I feel sick when I eat the old stuff...

my boyfriend quit smoking about 4 months ago. i am SO damn proud of him!!! It's hard but its DEFINITELY achievable.  A bit like losing weight really... :)

I lost I lost I lost!!!!  I am down to 260.5 as of this morning.  I started at 288 in February, and when I got on here I was about 270-ish.  This week though I have lost 5 pounds-- omg- thats a lot!

Sample Day:

Breakfast-Grapenuts with either milk or yogurt

Lunch- 2 cups green leaf or romaine lettuce, 1/4 cup red or green pepper, 1/2 cup sliced carrots, 1/4 cup no salt added beets, 3 slices deli turkey, 1/8 cup croutons, balsamic vinegar for dressing (I actually don't like the oil added, so I don't eat it, and vinegar flushes fat out- i swear)

Snack- small apple with 1 tbsp peanut butter

Dinner- grilled chicken, 1 cup veggies, 1/2 cup of whatever starch we're having

Desert- sugar free fat free jello pudding

I feel like I"m eating relaly well-- I get almost 100oz of water a day (big 20oz cups help that), and I'm full all the time. I don't feel deprived... am I doing okay though?  I average about 1300-1400 calories a day.

HELLO EVERYONE!!!! The election is finally over!! and the we won, the. It was a grass roots campaigne..we had 10,000 and person to person, no big dollar adds, no P.R. FIRM.   It was the people from all over the city and county  that beat the other side and the who's bugget ran well over a million dollars...Some very snobby ''YOUNG PROFESSIONALS'' kept refering to the gerneral public as uneducated hillbillies. The posted diatribes about the back labors, We kept waiting for them to take a page from Marie Antionet,''LET THEM EAT CAKE''. ok, yes that might sound pretty good about now, but....Oh sorry if my spelling is horrible, but I guess I would fall under that discusting group that the all knowing young prof. and cities elliet can't bare to share  the air with. Now by most standards we are your average middle class america..math is my thing.I was on the local news many times and because of my size I received some dorgatory comment because of my size, and of coarse I would'nt want to "develope the arkasas river" I wouldn't use it. Things got down and dirty. Thank you all for being here, when I was tired I would come here and another forum and read thanks for the insperation.  Oh I am down to 296 as of this morning and I had to go off my phintimine almost 3 weeks ago, I started having blood pressure issues with it . anyway thanks again.  we are delivering a large vote no sign that has been signed by alot of citizen and politians that worked on the no side with a little note listen to all the people..Alot of polticians will be voted out for their conduct during this thing. Ok,  I  am off my soap box     bye for now.

After a really long, really bad day I sat down to watch The Biggest Loser last night. At the end, when they showed the 'now' segment of the guy voted off, I cried. I was tired after not getting to bed on time for several days, tired after a 16-hour day, tired, tired, tired and just had a full-on, bawling melt down. Yes, I cry at sappy commercials, but that's irrelevant for this particular tantrum. THIS just hit a place in me. I want that transformation so damn bad and I have this lingering fear that no matter how hard I work for it that it's not going to happen. I had to shake myself out of it and tell myself that instead of wallowing in my fat misery on the couch, I should get up and do something. Tae Bo was my friend. It was a new one that I hadn't done before and I wasn't really into it, and I didn't keep up but I didn't quit either. Gosh, keeping this mind-set is really hard. But it helps to come here and read others' stories. I get a lot out of it and I hope I contribute a little something, too. Have a great day everybody!

Hey Tanya bawl away, I'm a big crybaby too. If you ever have a cold that won't go away, watch a bunch of sappy movies back to back. I did that once and it was gross (went through more than a box of tissues) but everything was all cleared up the next day.

Anyway...I was watching the biggest loser last night too and inexplicably started doing push ups during the commercials.  Which is especially odd since I have a Tivo and usually ffwd through the commercials.

Something about watching people my size exercising on TV makes the little light bulb go off and I think, "I can do that!"

tanyamoniq,

we all have our cry your eyes out kinda days, gotta let the tiredness and emotions out every now and then.

You can do it never forget, you are on this path and you will reach your weight loss destination.

PS: What channel is The Biggest Looser on?

I never came across it just zapping around...

Go4gold I'd like to update my goals/mini goals and such, I think I can do better than what I originally posted.

Sabineyvr

1. Starting Weight (& day joined): 301.6 Sep 7, 2007 
2. Highest EVER:   315
3. 1st Goal Weight: 285 by halloween

       &nb sp;  2nd Goal Weight: 270 by christmas

1. ULTIMATE Goal Weight:  195lbs
2. Plan:  calorie-count.com food log and activity logging exercising as much as possible (currently: 3x gym, 1x pilates, 1 walk in the park, 1 hour, tai chi) Making healthier food choices and keep at it forever.

sabineyvr - The Biggest Loser is on NBC.

moogiesue - That's a good idea! I have Tivo too and usually do the same thing, well I do free weights during the commercials. Push-ups and sit-ups bring back too many elementary school P.E. nightmares that I don't wish to relive. I was just so tired last night I wasn't going to do anything but watch that, watch the weather and go to bed. Life never turns out quite the way you plan, though!

Thanks for the support guys! 

I completely understand the crying bouts.....I seem to have them all the time....but once I'm done I sometimes feel better (some other times I really have to pull myself out of it).  I think i've been feeling better lately because I have lost weight.  When I weighed myself for the first time and actually cared about what the scale said I was close to 300 lbs.  Now I'm at 264....that's 36 lbs!  I just remember that when I cry and yes even the biggest loser makes me cry....but I'll get there...also I could have sworn I posted something on Monday but i guess not....GO COWBOYS!  I'm working out tonight and doing my weigh-in so I'll keep ya'll posted on how it goes!

Tanya - I totally forgot that I started doing crunches too until you mentioned the sit-ups. I was watching Oprah a couple of weeks ago and Dr. Oz was on talking about how a 30 yo woman should be able to do 45 push-ups. I just turned 29 so that's one of my goals...45 push-ups before my next birthday. I'm at 26 so far...started at 19. But if anyone ever tells me "drop and give me 20" I'll be ready for them!

Hi everyone!  Having a bad day, climbing the wall, want to overeat from stress.  Bah!  Super busy at work and on the run, but wanted to pop in....

Erin ~ WTG!  Down 10 & 5 this week!  Woot!  How fun!!!  Don't fret if next week is slower & your body takes a break!  Remember the joy from this week ;)

Sab ~ will get your new goals updated!  Woot! Looking Good!

Jelly!  Down 30 lbs????  that's fab!  Have you thought about getting your picture taken holding 3 ten lb bags of potatos???  I hope to have them piled high at my feet when I'm done having my last pics taken!!!  Are you doing anything to celebrate?

Sick ~ welcome!  So glad you're joining us.  I also quit smoking last year and it was farking hellacious!  Doc told me I had diabetes and to lose weight and quit smoking.  Yeah right!  :::snort:::  like that was ever going to happen!!!  NOT!  I had been trying to do both for a long time.  So when I asked him which I should do 1st, he said quitting smoking was the best and fastest way to improve my health, and then lose weight.  Ok, that I could wrap my brain around.  that gave me permission to focus on 1, conquer it and if I needed to, to let the other one take a back burner.  There were times where I barely was able to stay quit smoking and would give in and over-eat.  Most days I could do both..... But push come to shove, if it was a choice, i didn't smoke.  When it finally got easier, then I was able to put the same stubborn effort into figuring out how to quit over-eating.....  and finally now that that is under control, I'm finally working on losing weight.  What am I trying to say?  just do your best each day, stay with it, and practice will get you there.  don't give up!  you really CAN do this!  and you won't die from trying!

Blue!  dang glad 2 c u back here!  Missed you!  I always have mental hangovers and sadness when we lose someone.... i hope that your grief lifts soon & that you are left with warm, happy memories! 

Humor ~ glad you came back.  Try not to get frustrated!  Just start again today...... I can't tell you how many times I went up and back down the same 10 - 20 lbs in the last 2 years since I started trying.  In fact, I weighed the very same 1/1/2006 and 1/1/2007 and then gained 17 more.  Gah!!!  I could have cried.  But.... but not trying is worse.  Not trying will make everything worse emotionally, we'll keep growing bigger, and it will seem even harder.....  We all have to start where we are.  Get up today and try to make each meal and snack the healthiest, best, most nutritious choices you can make....  and if you have a bad day, don't beat yourself up.... just get back here and keep trying! (((hugs)))

Molly & Big ~ tried that pumpkin dessert!  yum!!! I think its a fab idea to share gr8 healthy recipes!  Variety & spice keeps me from gagging on same o, same o!

Jansa ~ you're posts make me tired just reading about the pre-election shennanigans!  Glad it passed!  Looking forward 2 having you back :)

{{{tanya}}}  ~ hands tanya kleenix ~ Keeping this mind-set is hard!  I find I need to actively choose to do things to motivate me like watch the biggest loser, come here and chat, log my food.  But sometimes, i've just cried from the frustration, fatigue, the pain of pushing through when it gets hard....   and boy does this get hard.  But you CAN transform your life!!!  maybe not as fast as the people on the Biggest loser who have people right there pushing them....  but hopefully we can all keep each other encouraged and transforming our lives together here!

moogie ~ u make me wanna hop up & do push ups with you!!! lol ~ well maybe i'll do wall pushups instead.  If I got down on the floor, I'd never get back up!

~ waves to Ang, Rena, Count, Dolled, friends :)

i can't imagine doing this alone!  this group will thrive if we stick together & chat here :)  I really hope we can really overcome these problems and our obstacles for real this time.  together :)