Shrinking Tink: Trading Pounds for Pixie Dust

[If U Had Wings]

If U Had Wings~ I'd considered doing a liquid fast. I would hope I wouldn't gain the weight back after doing so but just need a boost.

As for me, I'm trying to make sure I eat my WW points or under. I went over yesterday and ended up losing a pound. Not going to argue but I still have to watch it.

The liquid fast was just what I needed for 2 days to really break the cycle of bad eating I was in. Once I went was done with the 2 days I went back to eating food, but I have been really strict with myself this past week.

When I was in high school I had to have surgery on my jaw. It was wired shut for the entire summer. I was on a 100% liquid diet that summer. I lost a ton of weight, but at the end of the summer I was woefully malnurished because I hated those Ensure drinks. My hair had turned brittle like straw (not helped by the fact that I used Sun-In that summer and turned it orange). When I started to eat solids again in September I put all the weight right back on. I'll never intentionally put myself on a all liquid diet for any extended period of time again. It just wasn't for me.

 

[Tink & Goofy]

wings~ Dh was on clear liquids in the ICU for a week in February '07 due to a lacerated spleen. He lost like 10-15 pounds but it was hell for him.
And you're right...it's not something anyone should do for an extended period of time.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

Hello all! Sorry for the absence but I've been on vaca all week and have been both away from the DIS and from the scale. We cheat a bit when on vacation, though I've done my best to be at least a bit mindful and not ruin the progress made so far. I'll get back on the scale and back to the strict exercising/smart food choices as of Monday.

Tink & Goofy - I do have to say that I eat all of my WW points every day and sometimes all of my Flex points every week and I still lose weight. Don't be afraid to eat those points! Working in the exercise is key.

Chrissy - 7.5 lbs! Congrats! And I don't think it's silly that you already feel it. I believe you! Sometimes when I'm down only a pound or two I can tell!

Jules - Congrats on the new job.

wesign - I have my fingers crossed so that you can win your bet.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

 

[pajules]

Hey Gang!

Well, I'm officially back into the swing of things. Work is going really well and while I will miss the $$$$ of my old job in television, my quality of life is going to be so much better. I just have a really good feeling about everyone and everyone I'm working with...plus I got a fotune cookie this week and my fortune said, "Many successes will accompany you this year." I think this is one fortune I'm going to keep!

Diet and workouts have also beein going great. In fact, I'm off to the gym in 10 minutes for an 11am class. I made it to the gym 4 times this week and am getting into a new routine with my new schedule. I'm sure I will have to make some slight changes once school starts for DS but they should be fairly minor.

Diet has also been good. I've been eating my cereal and banana for breakfast and packing my lunch and snacks everyday. Dinner is still a work in progress, but I've been trying to grill a least twice a week and always do a little more than I need so I have something for a night when I don't want to cook.

Oh, I can't remember if I mentioned this, but I've been asked to appear in my gym's November newsletter and also in their new brochure for their Weigh Way Less program that I did earlier this summer. The article for the newsletter is going to be about finding workout and diet buddies and how it helps keep you accountable.

Hate to write and run, but I gotta go change quick before I go workout.

Have a great weekend!

 

[Tink & Goofy]

Tinkerbellarella~ Glad to hear your vaca went well. Getting back on the bandwagon is always tough but I know you can do it.

pajules~ Congrats on all your positive changes! I'll bet you've made tremendous progress.

 

[2xcited2sleep]

Hi! I've been MIA for quite a while. I'm down almost 15 lbs since I started late spring/early summer but I'm stalling out. Part of the problem, I think, is that I've started a new job that I HATE. Hate, hate, hate. And food is comfort for me. I know there are other ways to relieve stress but so far I haven't been able to trick myself into finding a workout as appealing as a burger and fries. PAJules' quote (below) speaks to me:

Work is going really well and while I will miss the $$$$ of my old job in television, my quality of life is going to be so much better.

Maybe I have to make a job change b/c gosh darn it I do not want to undo all of the progress I've made just b/c of a stupid job!

 

[Tink & Goofy]

Hi! I've been MIA for quite a while. I'm down almost 15 lbs since I started late spring/early summer but I'm stalling out. Part of the problem, I think, is that I've started a new job that I HATE. Hate, hate, hate. And food is comfort for me. I know there are other ways to relieve stress but so far I haven't been able to trick myself into finding a workout as appealing as a burger and fries.

I know how hard it is to hate your job. Did you know you'd hate it before you started or did your former boss do what mine did after you started...become a micromanaging control-freak who plays mind games?
15 pounds is nothing to sneeze at. If I had lost 15 pounds I'd be in three smaller pants sizes.

 

[2xcited2sleep]

I know how hard it is to hate your job. Did you know you'd hate it before you started or did your former boss do what mine did after you started...become a micromanaging control-freak who plays mind games?
15 pounds is nothing to sneeze at. If I had lost 15 pounds I'd be in three smaller pants sizes.

Thanks! I am generally not a big fan of change but ironically enough I was really excited about this job. It just hasn't turned out to be like I thought it would be. And now I'm not quite sure what to do about it.

I am pleased with the weight loss so far... I just feel it eroding as I comfort myself with food.

 

[If U Had Wings]

Good morning Shrinking Tinks! Good to see other Tinks having some successes. I had my weigh in this morning and lost another 3 lbs, so 10.5 lbs so far! Woo Hoo! I managed to manuever my way through my challenges last week with a few problems. I actually was fine the day I went out for dinner (ate half my entry and had the other half the next night), bypassed the cheesecake (was out sick), and tried to be careful at the Oyster Festival (but still had some fried dough).

Oddly enough the worst day was the day I brought my nieces to the beach. I took them to Dunkin Dougnuts afterwards for a snack, and tried to pick a lower calorie doughnut. Picked Butternut. Wrong choice. I looked it up online afterwards and the stupid thing had 300 calories! The filed doughnuts had less than that. Good thing my younger niece ended up eating nearly half of it. She liked it so much she was taking pieces out of my hand. For dinner my mother had pizza, which I had a bit too much of, but at least it was plain. It's hard to judge the calories in that though since the online sites usually don't tell you how big of a slice they are counting. My father took us to Rita's for Italian ices afterwards and I split a Key Lime Blendini with my younger niece so at least I got to split the calories with her. Actually she probably ate more than half, because she was telling me I was eating too much. Good thing I have her to look out for me.

I was able to wear a dress this week that I hadn't been able to wear all summer because it was obscenely tight so that made me very happy. A few more pounds and I'll be able to wear another dress that I had bought this summer, but when it came in was too snug through the hips. I can now zip that one up, but still need to lose a few lbs so I can actually zip it up.

Someone made my day the other day when they asked if I had lost a few lbs.

Hope everyone is doing good and sticking with it! This is going into my 3rd week with the slim fast and I have to say I'm liking it much more than I thought I was going to. I'm finding them pretty filing, and being as busy as I have been it's been convient too. Plus they travel well on the train every morning. I don't have to worry as much on a daily basis about planning every meal. I've been doing the shakes for breakfast and lunch and having a real dinner. I'll usually have fruit for snacks, and then a bit of frozen cool whip for dessert. I was planning on stopping the Slim Fast when I got back from vacation, but may just continue it now as I'm liking it.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

Hey all!

Back to work and back to eating right! I thought I'd have a harder time of it but got right back onto the bandwagon this morning. Forgot to weigh myself, so I have to do that tomorrow morning.

Congrats to everyone on their losses and OH how I can commiserate with the whole "eating when your mad/sad" debacle. I still struggle with that one.

Soemthing Chrissy mentioned above reminded me of something I'd wanted to mention on here a while ago. When someone says to you, "Wow! Have you lost weight?! You look great!" or "You look so thin!", how do you react?

I find myself constantly saying, "Nah, not really" and I hate it! I'm so selling myself short! I need to recognize that I DO look (and feel) better and to thank others for noticing. I need to use that as motivation!

I'm just TERRIBLE at accepting compliments.

 

[If U Had Wings]

Hey all!

Back to work and back to eating right! I thought I'd have a harder time of it but got right back onto the bandwagon this morning. Forgot to weigh myself, so I have to do that tomorrow morning.

Congrats to everyone on their losses and OH how I can commiserate with the whole "eating when your mad/sad" debacle. I still struggle with that one.

Soemthing Chrissy mentioned above reminded me of something I'd wanted to mention on here a while ago. When someone says to you, "Wow! Have you lost weight?! You look great!" or "You look so thin!", how do you react?

I find myself constantly saying, "Nah, not really" and I hate it! I'm so selling myself short! I need to recognize that I DO look (and feel) better and to thank others for noticing. I need to use that as motivation!

I'm just TERRIBLE at accepting compliments.

I always find myself putting it off as if it was nothing. "Weight - no, I haven't lost anything." Is usually my line. I need to just learn to say thank you nicely. I have been working hard at it, why should I lie?

 

[Tink & Goofy]

Tinkerbellarella~ I'm the same way. When someone says, "You've lost weight, looks good!" I always downplay it with 'whatever. I have so much more to go 6 pounds doesn't make a difference'.
Why do we do that, I wonder?

Wings~ That is so awesome!


As for me, 6 pounds lost so far. I'm excited! I'm one pound above pre-preg weight. 54 pounds left to go.
I put on some pants last night that I knew I'd have to majorly suck in to get them on. But to my astonishment, they slipped right up! I got them in a lot of pregnancy clothes and they've always been tight or non-wearable. On my way to being much smaller before we move to southern Cali in a two months. Woo!

 

[DisneyCrzy]

I just found this thread from Tinkerbella's PTR (which is hilarious!). Anyways, I also need to lose weight partly to become healthy and partly to have a more self-confidence. So I'd like to join the merry band of Shrinking Tinks and have some peeps that I can confide in when I have a bad day or a good day. You know some peeps that aren't my family who just don't really "get" me.....do they have a psychiatry thread? Prolly need that too!

So let me introduce myself....

Real Name: Talley
Sex: Female....aren't we the ones who are always concerned with our weight?
Age: 29 (I turn *cough* 30 at the end of the year)
Marital Status: Married to a dude who doesn't care if I weigh 100 or 500
Height: 5'10"ish...prolly more like 5'11"
Weight: 280lbs
Problem areas: I'm a chick....everywhere.
10% Goal: 28lbs
Disney Goal: 35lbs
Overall Goal: to be around 160 lbs

Here I am, in all my glory....hoping to lose weight and be healthy. I just started to go to the gym about 2 weeks ago. My cousin goes with me, who is great support, but we are not on the same schedule most of the time. I work a lot of hours and she doesn't. She is overweight like I am and that hampers her motivation a lot. Motivation is no problem for me. Eating is. I love to cook and go out. I love the taste of different foods. I played rugby in college and was in great shape....now not so much. I want to get back to body type. Congrats everyone on your start and hopefully I can keep up with you!!

Tootles

 

[Tink & Goofy]

Welcome!

Be back later.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

I just found this thread from Tinkerbella's PTR (which is hilarious!).

Awww thanks and HI!

You know some peeps that aren't my family who just don't really "get" me.....do they have a psychiatry thread? Prolly need that too!

LOL Yes, we do tend to act as each other's therapists from time to time.

Marital Status: Married to a dude who doesn't care if I weigh 100 or 500

What a keeper. I wish more men were like this and not stuck in the search for the "Perfect 10". My BF loves me no matter what I weigh, but has been very supportive of my losing weight. I wondered about his motives at first, as he's in tip-top shape himself and my own body-shame made me feel like perhaps he felt I wasn't in his "league" but that proved to be just silly. He's told me on more than one occasion, "I want YOU to be happy when you look in the mirror. I love loving you. But I do want you to be healthy."

Height: 5'10"ish...prolly more like 5'11"

I wish I were taller.

You've got great goals and we're always happy to have more motivators so, again, WELCOME!!

 

[DisneyCrzy]

Hi everyone!

Thanks for the welcome. I feel so !!! I am very new to DIS boards, so let me know if I do something I shouldn't!

Anyways, I just got back from the grocery store and I thought I did very well. I only picked up the items that I needed. YAHOO!!! But then I got in line for the checkout. I patiently waited and perused the hot sheets (gossip mags) and picked up a diet coke. Then out of the corner of my eye did I see it.....

There it was in it's magnificent little box with all it's little friends. Packaged in it's shiny wrapper. Begging me to pick it up....the dreaded Hershey's bar with almonds.

Why must this teensy inanimate object torture me so?

Then I remembered P-day as I like to call it. P-day stands for pounds day. Weigh-in day. p-day sounds so less traumatic. I also remembered that I have a trip to the house of mouse in December. I would have to pass up my grocery store kryptonite in order to not have cankles at WDW. It's a sacrifice, but I'll take one for the team!

Thanks again for the warm welcome. I'm off to go walk my dog and to start losing the 1.5 Nicole Richie's that I am trying to lose.

Tootles!

 

[2xcited2sleep]

Welcome Talley! You've got great Disney goals and a great sense of humor. Cankles... 1.5 Nicole Richie's Congrats on the successful grocery store run and avoiding your kryptonite.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

I'm off to go walk my dog and to start losing the 1.5 Nicole Richie's that I am trying to lose.

I LOVE to grocery shop. It's my demise. The only thing to save me as of late (both in terms of will-power and financially) is making a list ahead of time, using the sales fliers, and sticking. to. the. list.

Period.

I got on the scale this morning and despite a week's worth of oh-not-so-really-healthy-eating while we were on vaca, I've actually lost a bit. I realize it may be that it hasn't caught up with me yet, but I'm hopeful. I can't wait for things to start feeling loose again.

This morning I was packing my lunch and I reached into the freezer to grab a mac n' cheese Lean Cuisine (my go-to comfort meal with little-to-no guilt) and I saw 4 other LC's in there I hadn't purchased on my recent trip to the market. I picked one up - meatloaf with mashed potatoes. BF came walking into the kitchen:

ME: You bought yourself Lean Cuisines?
BF: No, I took my mom grocery shopping yesterday and while we were in the freezer section I saw that they were 4 for $10 so I thought of you and figured you might want some.
ME: Aw, babe! Thank you!
BF: I rolled the dice and just picked out two kinds I thought you might like. How'd I do?
ME: Not bad. You were 100% on the meatloaf one but the turkey tenderloin is 50/50. Love the meat, don't care for the veggies.
BF: Well, I figured if you don't like them, I'll eat 'em. (takes the carton from me) This one has 21 grams of protein! (He's a weight lifter-muscley-look at my abs kind of guy; protein is important)
ME: Do you know how small the portions are? (The man eats like a Clydesdale. I'm no fool.)
BF: Then I'll just have two!



It was totally sweet of him to think of me. The man HATES grocery shopping and will only abide taking his mom or accompanying me once every third full moon. So it's usually my job and mine alone.

I know if I get on him to get on me (don't go anywhere NEAR the gutter with that one) he'll keep me honest. I should really consider that...

Hope everyone else is having a stellar day!

 

[Tink & Goofy]

The man HATES grocery shopping and will only abide taking his mom or accompanying me once every third full moon. So it's usually my job and mine alone.

Really? Maybe my dh could teach him; he does the grocery shopping. It's probably easier than lugging me and our 6.5 mo old and all his stuff.

I know if I get on him to get on me (don't go anywhere NEAR the gutter with that one)

What?! You always gotta take away my fun, spoilsport!

DisneyCrzy~ I'm lucky in that I'm not a huge chocolate fan. My Kryptonite is Dr. Pepper. And carbs. Okay, essentially anything with sugar.
So that could be why I've decided to do South Beach and not WW. WW was working (but so is SB) but I can't stay away from the sugar on WW.
But I know you can stay away from Hersheys. Have you tried sugar-free chocolate?

As for me, I stepped on the Battery-Powered Torture Device this morning and it (grudgingly, I think) told me I've lost another pound, for a total of 7 pounds gone! And I am now in size 14's (was in 16's).
But I wonder...when you go from 16 to 14's, is that considered 1 size or 2 sizes?

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

My Kryptonite is Dr. Pepper.

I don't personally like Dr. Pepper (tastes like medicine to me) but someone once told me that Diet Dr. Pepper tastes enough like the original that she could hardly tell the difference and it totally stemmed her craving.

I used to drink Coke Zero for this same reason and it worked for a while, but then I found it started to have an aftertaste.

Diet Ginger Ale, though, does it for me every time!

Battery-Powered Torture Device

What a lovely nickname.
Whenever it tells me I'm down in weight, I call it "Lovey".
Whenever it tells me I'm up in weight, I call it "Liar".

when you go from 16 to 14's, is that considered 1 size or 2 sizes?

Just one. ::sigh:: After years in retail, I was quick to learn that even number sizes are "Women's" and odd number sizes are "Junior's" and that one jump down in either, despite the loss of two numerals, is just one size.

JERKS.

I'm waffling between 14's and 16's and the odd 18 (stupid hips) here and there myself. It all depends on what part of my body I'm fitting. In tops that aren't fighted or button down, I'm mostly a Large. Button downs are a joke - the large is too small for the girls (which go NOWHERE no matter how much I lose) and the X-Large is too baggy everywhere else.