DISappearing Peeps...A fastpass to THIN! Part 2

[punkin413]

D I know how much you want to get those last few away!

you ain't kidding! they're coming off S-O S-L-O-W!!!! but i know i shouldn't complain because i'm very happy to have made it this far. those last 4 pounds are nagging at me so badly though!!!

i think walking/jogging in the 103-degree heat yesterday probably helped with weigh-in this morning! i just hope next week is as good. tomorrow will be a bad food day. we're having lunch with my sister (who is visiting her sort-of-boyfriend just north of atlanta) and then i have a bach. party tomorrow night. a couple of my friends are going out to eat beforehand and then i'm sure there will be alcohol consumed. i just hope it doesn't ruin my weigh-in next week!

have a good friday, peeps!

 

[punkin413]

I know JUST what you mean! I am truly a happy person overall. I have much to be thankful for, and I am! And have been - especially since I have been in my current job. However, for some reason, I couldn't get the motivation/determination/commitment together to do anything about my weight! I think I got really fed up with my weight, and I was not liking pictures of myself that much. (Which is bad because I am SUCH a picture person! Love them!) I was frustrated with the limitations my weight was causing for me, and I saw that number - 250 on the scale, and I could NOT BELIEVE it! I have never weighed that much in my life! And I was at my largest size in clothes. It was starting to have an impact on my health. (The acid reflux, the sprained ankle from our trip last November...) I just HAD to do something. And then I found the Peeps for inspiration, and I made a choice, and I haven't looked back! Even now, it is a struggle sometimes. I am happy, but I do have a lot of stress at times, and it's a challenge to stay on track. When I do hit a roadblock, I just have to keep doing what I'm doing. Maybe change it up a little, but keep going. I also find reading back through some of the earlier posts on this thread is helpful if I need a little extra boost. I'll be thinking of ya and praying for your success (as I will for all the Peeps)!

what she said!!!!! well put, lynda! you just have to make a firm decision and stick to it. of course you're going to fall off the wagon some, but you just get right back on QUICKLY before too much damage is done! it CAN be done!!!!

 

[crarmy]

-1.2 for me How do the folks on "Biggest Losser" do it?? 8, 5, 26 lbs in on week??

Happy Weekend!!

 

[punkin413]

-1.2 for me How do the folks on "Biggest Losser" do it?? 8, 5, 26 lbs in on week??

Happy Weekend!!

they have LOTS to lose and the more you have to lose, the bigger your loss at first when you start trying to lose it. plus they have a good bit of help with the eating thing and the fitness training stuff! we're on our own.....well, except for encouragement from the peeps!

 

[pamrob]

I down 1 lb. If I would have posted yesterday it would have been more - weird how I weighed more today. I must have had something yesterday that caused water retention - oh, I did drink pop and that seems to do it for me. Only got on the treadmill once this week - but that's better than the last few weeks!

I have on day 13 of my husband being out of town. Fortunately it comes home tonight so I'm very excited to be done with single parenting!

I enjoyed the baby pictures posted this week. Very cute babies!

Off to laundry land! Then we're headed to the pool.

 

[UtahMama]

Yo Yo Dieter checking in!

I literally have an up to 7 pound up or down on any given DAY!
This morning before going potty and showering, I weighed as much as I did on DAY 1 of starting this thread. I kid you not! By now, I could have posted a 5 lb. ribbon 50 times...and taken it away 51 times! BUT, get this, after going potty (#1) and showering and drying off it was down a pound.

Let's do the logical math that never seems to compute in my head:

Eat less calories and fat + MOve MORE = Weight Loss

Continue to eat less + Move More = MORE weight loss

Keep eating less + Moving More = Actual weight loss numbers, more than 7!

Hmmmmm? I'm MISSING the "move more" part of the math. Except I do now officially OWN a treadmill... I have actually walked on it twice.

I'm fairly certain this week I must have eaten enough calories to maintain and didn't exercise resulting in a small gain.

Do I even HAVE a metabolism any more?

I'm committing right here and now to THREE 30 minute times on my treadmill. This I promise myself and my peeps.

I also vow for this week not to eat BREAD. My weakness. Plus whatever I smear or put on top of the bread can't be good.

SO, my GRAND total since starting this thread is officially 1.2 pounds.

Which is equal to one trip to the potty.

 

[harleygirl]

I just luv you 2 pieces utah

I know you are not trying to be funny and you are prolly in the midst of self destructive badgering to yourself...but thanks so much for your post... you made me smile on a day when i really needed one;

its gonna be ok...

you move 3 times this week and i will stay under 1800 cals kay?! I promise.

 

[Ms. Heimlich]

-3 for a total of -49.2

.8 more to my first goal.

After that... I need a new goal. Should I do 10 lbs? Another actual weight loss or a weight?

What motivates y'all most?

ms. h

 

[dance2874]

OMG - I truly am sobbing!!

My boys are gone... They decided they could fit all of DS$2 things into fdil little toyota style car (its a dodge, but Iforget what kind!! lol)

Just checking in! I'm not weighing myself because I've learned that my mom's scale is possessed and adds and extra 20lbs plus guilt! I've been having a great time! I've been shopping everyday since I got here and for the first time in my life I'm tired of shopping!!1 I can't believe I said that. Anyhoo, here's an update on my b-day present.........................

How adorable!!!!

I'm committing right here and now to THREE 30 minute times on my treadmill. This I promise myself and my peeps.

I also vow for this week not to eat BREAD. My weakness. Plus whatever I smear or put on top of the bread can't be good.

SO, my GRAND total since starting this thread is officially 1.2 pounds.

Which is equal to one trip to the potty.

You can do it!!!! And bread is a HUGE weakness for me. In fact, I have been known to choose what restaurant we go eat at based on if they give you bread or not, and how good it is

okay.....you can tell i haven't been pregnant yet because when i read this i cringed! i'm sure all the mommies out there didn't even flinch! good luck with that monica!

I never had staples with my c-section. OUCH. I just had disolving stitches and some tape thingy on the outside


Congrats to all our losers today...and even our samers and gainers. At least you are making the effort, and that is a big accomplishment!

I did my first round of dance classes today for fall...and boy do I need to get my butt on my treadmill. I havent even gained anything but I already feel very huge and out of shape I need to keep up with some sort of cardio/conditioning or I wont be able to teach thru Christmas like I was hoping to.

 

[WI_DisneyFan]

-3 for a total of -49.2

.8 more to my first goal.

After that... I need a new goal. Should I do 10 lbs? Another actual weight loss or a weight?

What motivates y'all most?

ms. h

49 pounds!?! That is excellent! Good job!!!

I personally set my short term goals as going under the next 10 pound mark. So my first goal was 229 (well technically 239, but that was only a 1-pound loss), then 219, then 209, etc. So my current goal is 179, which I am three pounds away from. Typically when I reach that goal, I feel so good about myself that I try to post something inspirational to help remind myself of what I have accomplished, and what I have to do to keep moving forward. Then I can look back on it when I am feeling down about my weight so that I don't turn to food to comfort me.

 

[eeyore45]

UtahwendyMama I sure hope you know I am in that boat with you - I seriously could've written your post - seriously!! I dont have a pretty ribbon neither!!

I think I may be 2# less from when we started, I so forget what my start wieght was - I do know I've gone up and down and up and down, and up and up and up, then down and up and down and up...

I'm trying to commit to 30 min a day walking - 3 days a week wogging... and doing those bloody exercises every other day strength and curl ups...

Kat I still cant find the book that I read why you can do crunches every day, but not strength training - I read it to Fidge over the phone, it has to be done here somewhere!!

 

[HockeyKat]

Sandy I will be waiting!! I did do my 100 today, 25 straight up on the ball, 25 on each side on the ball, and 30 on this machine where you lay flat, add weights to the handle, and do them that way, w/ a 5 lb weight.

-1.2 for me How do the folks on "Biggest Losser" do it?? 8, 5, 26 lbs in on week??

Happy Weekend!!

Because they are devoting their entire life to weight loss at that point! If I didn't have a job, a house to take care of, a commute, etc., and could have my perfectly balanced meals prepared for me PLUS have a state of the art gym right there for me to use 3-5 hours a day...

Anyhow I am afraid of dropping weight that fast, back to the loose skin thing. And think, 2 lbs a week, and in 20 weeks (5 mos) you will be down 40 lbs!

49 pounds!?! That is excellent! Good job!!!

I personally set my short term goals as going under the next 10 pound mark. So my first goal was 229 (well technically 239, but that was only a 1-pound loss), then 219, then 209, etc. So my current goal is 179, which I am three pounds away from. Typically when I reach that goal, I feel so good about myself that I try to post something inspirational to help remind myself of what I have accomplished, and what I have to do to keep moving forward. Then I can look back on it when I am feeling down about my weight so that I don't turn to food to comfort me.

I guess I just have my final goal of 145. I do set mini-goals along the way... by this point I want to be x, etc. I am expecting this to take a while so I just keep at it, chipping away a little at a time. I hope to be 170 by the time I leave for the Sept trip, 160 by Nov, and to reach my final goal sometime early next year.

DH really wants to try Alli. I am on the fence... I am not sure we need it in order to lose weight and I think it is a lot of $$. He has lost 30 lbs since March and hasn't really tried that hard, he just wants a quick fix to lose the rest and I think that is a bad idea. If he does it though, I will probably play too.

UM, you go!

 

[punkin413]

Because they are devoting their entire life to weight loss at that point! If I didn't have a job, a house to take care of, a commute, etc., and could have my perfectly balanced meals prepared for me PLUS have a state of the art gym right there for me to use 3-5 hours a day...

amen!!! i always look at movie stars/singers/famous people and think of how much i want to look like them (well....some of them.....not the bobble-head-looking ones like victoria beckham!) and then i remember how they look like that: they have a personal chef, a personal trainer and they get PAID to look that way. if that was my situation, i'd have a killer body, too! we all would!!!

DH really wants to try Alli. I am on the fence...

i think a couple of peeps tried it. aries, was it you? seems like there was someone else too?

a girl at the gym was talking about it. she said that every time she ate anything with ANY sort of fat in it, that she'd have REALLY bad gas and when it came time to go big potty you better watch out because she'd be running. i already have digestive problems, so i know it's not for me!

 

[Disneyfreak92]

you ain't kidding! they're coming off S-O S-L-O-W!!!! but i know i shouldn't complain because i'm very happy to have made it this far. those last 4 pounds are nagging at me so badly though!!!

i think walking/jogging in the 103-degree heat yesterday probably helped with weigh-in this morning! i just hope next week is as good. tomorrow will be a bad food day. we're having lunch with my sister (who is visiting her sort-of-boyfriend just north of atlanta) and then i have a bach. party tomorrow night. a couple of my friends are going out to eat beforehand and then i'm sure there will be alcohol consumed. i just hope it doesn't ruin my weigh-in next week!

have a good friday, peeps!

Is this the same boy who was her boyfriend up until the incident??? How is that going?

Yo Yo Dieter checking in!

I literally have an up to 7 pound up or down on any given DAY!
This morning before going potty and showering, I weighed as much as I did on DAY 1 of starting this thread. I kid you not! By now, I could have posted a 5 lb. ribbon 50 times...and taken it away 51 times! BUT, get this, after going potty (#1) and showering and drying off it was down a pound.

Let's do the logical math that never seems to compute in my head:

Eat less calories and fat + MOve MORE = Weight Loss

Continue to eat less + Move More = MORE weight loss

Keep eating less + Moving More = Actual weight loss numbers, more than 7!

Hmmmmm? I'm MISSING the "move more" part of the math. Except I do now officially OWN a treadmill... I have actually walked on it twice.

I'm fairly certain this week I must have eaten enough calories to maintain and didn't exercise resulting in a small gain.

Do I even HAVE a metabolism any more?

I'm committing right here and now to THREE 30 minute times on my treadmill. This I promise myself and my peeps.

I also vow for this week not to eat BREAD. My weakness. Plus whatever I smear or put on top of the bread can't be good.

SO, my GRAND total since starting this thread is officially 1.2 pounds.

Which is equal to one trip to the potty.

30 minutes a day, 3 times a week is a great place to start! When I saw the doctor just before my May trip, he told me that doing lower impact for longer periods of time would burn more fat. So once I was able to get back into an exercise routine, I have been trying to do 50-60 minutes a day on my recumbent bike 3 times a week. That's what I've been doing for the past few weeks consistently. It seems to be working!

-3 for a total of -49.2

.8 more to my first goal.

After that... I need a new goal. Should I do 10 lbs? Another actual weight loss or a weight?

What motivates y'all most?

ms. h

Congrats on your loss!

I set up mini goals for myself. My first was 30 lbs by our May trip. (I started at the beginning of the year. Missed that one by like .5 lbs - no biggie.) My next goal was 15-20 by our September trip. (That for a total loss of about 40-45 lbs because I gained at WDW in May. ) I am 6.8 lbs away from 40 now. My next will be to get rid of the 2 in the front of my number! That would be another 10-ish + whatever I gain from free dining. I'll probably try to do that by the end of the year, roughly. Then I think I'll want to do another 20-30 by our trip next May. At that point, I don't know how much more I'll have to lose. That should put me around 170-180, and I'll have to see what size I am then. I want to get down to a size 12. (I'm 5'7") That should bring me relatively close based on past experience. But who knows! Maybe I'll want to do even more. Some of my 18's are too big ladies! I am about to order some pants from Old Navy in size 16, putting me down 2 sizes!

You can do it!!!! And bread is a HUGE weakness for me. In fact, I have been known to choose what restaurant we go eat at based on if they give you bread or not, and how good it is

Yeah, I've done that! I LOVE O'Charley's rolls! I don't go there anymore except on cheat days.

 

[the Fidge]

Loss of 1 lb- sorry all its been really crazy here a bunch of rediculous nonsense is really taking me from the focus of anything diet or healthy living related.

SO Monday is a new week for me I jsut have to get fucoused again! GRRRRRR

Happy Firday!

 

[celerystalker]

Loss of .6 pounds! Wooo! That was after a number 1 that weighed 1.2 pounds.

 

[eeyore45]

Got my 30 min in - and its hot out - they say its not as humid -- its HOT out!!

DD is now a certified babysitter!!

While she was in her class I went back to Lane Bryant - I bought 2 shorts, 4 shirts for Disney - $92... then I got home and in the mail was a coupon for $25 off - so today I took it all back to rebuy it to get the $25 off... so she does that... then the manager came over and told her the coupon isnt good for sale items - nor is the buy one shirt get one 1/2 off (no signs on anything that its for their full price $30 tshirts! )

so I get mad and think I'll just take one pair of shorts and 2 shirts... Kohls and Macy's is having 75% off sales...

NOW my credit card wont take another hit - apparently its a safety thing!! So I have to put it all on hold and re buy it tomorrow... Maybe I should just screw it! I dont need new clothes... my old stuff is big enough!

Utahwendy Have you walked yet??? Please - we cant do this alone - together sister!!


ie Myalli - my mom bought me a huge bottle its still sitting here. Mostly I'm not impressed with the posted weight loss people are having with it - - so in that regard its not a Magic pill... I know when it was prescription only it was twice as strong... I used to be able to eat the olestra potato chips with no worries... so I'm still debating... I registered it.. but really havent committed

 

[punkin413]

Is this the same boy who was her boyfriend up until the incident??? How is that going?

yes, same guy. it's going as good as can be expected. he's obviously kissing her butt right now, as he should be. he left nashville at the end of july and moved down here, about an hour from me, to go to school. then he went up to new york to see his family the first couple weeks of august before school started. she drove down here last night. i don't know if they're "officially" back together, but i'm glad they're trying to work it out. i think they're a good match as long as he continues to treat her right. he just made a HUGE mistake and i think he's learned from it. it really made me see the situation differently when someone pointed out to me.....what if he was a girl and the skank-woman that took advantage of him while he was all liquored up was a guy? there would be police involved and charges filed. not that that's an excuse......just a different way of looking at it! this will be the first time i've seen him since it happened. we're going to lunch at bahama breeze. ray will be with me so if i feel myself wanting to say something nasty to him i can just grab ray's leg and squeeze!!!

 

[celerystalker]

good luck punkin. I've been skimming a lot lately, but was wondering how your sister was doing.
Squeeze extra hard!

I wish we had a bahama breeze here in Nashville. I don't know why that smilie is called "guilty." to me it looks like it's pouting.

 

[Disneyfreak92]

yes, same guy. it's going as good as can be expected. he's obviously kissing her butt right now, as he should be. he left nashville at the end of july and moved down here, about an hour from me, to go to school. then he went up to new york to see his family the first couple weeks of august before school started. she drove down here last night. i don't know if they're "officially" back together, but i'm glad they're trying to work it out. i think they're a good match as long as he continues to treat her right. he just made a HUGE mistake and i think he's learned from it. it really made me see the situation differently when someone pointed out to me.....what if he was a girl and the skank-woman that took advantage of him while he was all liquored up was a guy? there would be police involved and charges filed. not that that's an excuse......just a different way of looking at it! this will be the first time i've seen him since it happened. we're going to lunch at bahama breeze. ray will be with me so if i feel myself wanting to say something nasty to him i can just grab ray's leg and squeeze!!!

I DO see what you're saying. I mean, if a girl was basically watching and waiting for the right moment to pounce... And if he is working on the drinking thing (I think you said he was going to.), it could truly be an isolated incident. Like you said - as long as he is treating her right, and they are working it out. I hope it works out for the best for your sis! And on squeezing Ray's leg under the table! I LOVE Bahama Breeze! Wish we had one around here.