stayhomemom77
Dieting my way to Disney!!
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A few years back, on the second Skinny Island thread, DizneyDawn posted this:
Hey Guys!!!
Welcome to our second installment of this great adventure towards being fit & fabulous!
If you are an existing castaway...so glad you have stuck with us through the thicker and thinner parts and starts to each of our journeys.
If you are a newbie and not sure if it is an insult to be called a castaway...rest assured it is.
Okay, not really.
A castaway simply means you have found yourself off of the island of your dreams. Ya know. The one when you actually wear a bikini/swim shorts and not worry about who is calling National Geographic to say they have discovered a new species on the beach!
We are an eclectic group of women/men and some kick butt teens who are deciding to plunge off our fat raft of safety and into the waters full of cupcakes, pasta and chocolate and maneuver back to wear we felt good, looked good and loved ourselves enough to know that a healthy weight is the only way we will be able to lead the best life we can.
Here is a link to the first post of Chapter One. It explains well I think our mission and our vision for this thread.
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35308469&postcount=1
What I also want you to know is that there is always room for more and not one of us is more important than another or more valuable. If you decide to join this thread, know that you have a worth and it is not based on which road you take to get healthy nor how long that darn road seems to wind.
We value support, encouragement and more than anything we value the fact that all of us live in glass houses and rock throwing is NOT ALLOWED! We get beat up enough by the outside world and ourselves. We do not need this to be a place of anything but sanctuary.
#1 On Monday's, those wanting to be included in the group tally, will report your weight. This will be done by sending me your starting weight and then the consecutive weeks, your actual new weight. Please do not send me your plus or minus for the week. It is easier to do the math and not look up last week's weight if I only have 2 numbers to deal with. Thanks!!!!!
Send to my p.m. box please Monday mornings. I try and post them by Tuesday mornings. If you forget to send me your weight, I will send you a P.M. If I don;t have it by the time I post - I will simply put an X in your loss area and you can get me it next week!
Nobody but me will see your actual numbers. I will not post your weight on the boards.
What I will post is a list of everyone here and how they did so far for the time on our thread. Then also the total for everyone as a group.
#2 The second half of posting, is many choose to post our individual week loss on Mondays on the thread itself. Most use the format of a "-2.4" or "up 1.3" or "Same" for example.
This means we can all support the person who might be faltering (I know I have needed it huge in the past) and really keep motivating whoever is on a roll.
This is a weight loss thread as much as it is a support group and I know I need that accountability and hope you all find it positive as well.
#3 For every 5 pounds you lose WHILE A CASTAWAY, you get to add a picture representing skinny island for your siggie if you would like. Here are the pics in order!
5 pounds
10 pounds
15 pounds
20 pounds
25 pounds
30 pounds
35 pounds
40 pounds
45 pounds
50 pounds
All you have to do is quote this post, find the picture you want and copy/paste it into to your signature! Just make sure to copy the whole thing from
#4 Let's talk about inches. I am a huge proponent for knowing how our body is changing because many times inches mean more than that number on the scale. So I will be keeping track of my inches lost as well.
The key to that is having someone you trust, measure you and only one person. That way they will tend to measure you in the same spot every month.
Hips, waist, thigh, bicep, and chest will be the areas I keep track of. (If I could figure out a way to measure my chin(s) I would do that too! )
Inches for those interested, will simply be gathered on the FIRST MONDAY of the month. Sometimes it will fall on one of the last days of the previous month - just depends on the week and the dates! I will send out a reminder for that the weekend before. You can send it to me with your weights.
#5 Tracking our food: (optional as well)
Thursday is the day we start as the beginning of a week of tracking. (For me it was simply easier to not have so many things to tabulate on a Monday!)
The goal is to post here your tracking for food, however you want, 5 out of the next 7 days. Some do just calories, some do WW points, some do food journal's and some do calories and food journal's.
If you get 5 out of seven days, you get a tracking pic. For each consecutive week - you will add a x2, x7 etc... next to the pic to represent weeks total you achieved this goal. Some of us track and make sure we are getting 2 cups of veggies as well.
Here is the picture for tracking Food:
Here is the Veggie Tracker:
Hey Guys!!!
Welcome to our second installment of this great adventure towards being fit & fabulous!
If you are an existing castaway...so glad you have stuck with us through the thicker and thinner parts and starts to each of our journeys.
If you are a newbie and not sure if it is an insult to be called a castaway...rest assured it is.
Okay, not really.
A castaway simply means you have found yourself off of the island of your dreams. Ya know. The one when you actually wear a bikini/swim shorts and not worry about who is calling National Geographic to say they have discovered a new species on the beach!
We are an eclectic group of women/men and some kick butt teens who are deciding to plunge off our fat raft of safety and into the waters full of cupcakes, pasta and chocolate and maneuver back to wear we felt good, looked good and loved ourselves enough to know that a healthy weight is the only way we will be able to lead the best life we can.
Here is a link to the first post of Chapter One. It explains well I think our mission and our vision for this thread.
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35308469&postcount=1
What I also want you to know is that there is always room for more and not one of us is more important than another or more valuable. If you decide to join this thread, know that you have a worth and it is not based on which road you take to get healthy nor how long that darn road seems to wind.
We value support, encouragement and more than anything we value the fact that all of us live in glass houses and rock throwing is NOT ALLOWED! We get beat up enough by the outside world and ourselves. We do not need this to be a place of anything but sanctuary.
#1 On Monday's, those wanting to be included in the group tally, will report your weight. This will be done by sending me your starting weight and then the consecutive weeks, your actual new weight. Please do not send me your plus or minus for the week. It is easier to do the math and not look up last week's weight if I only have 2 numbers to deal with. Thanks!!!!!
Send to my p.m. box please Monday mornings. I try and post them by Tuesday mornings. If you forget to send me your weight, I will send you a P.M. If I don;t have it by the time I post - I will simply put an X in your loss area and you can get me it next week!
Nobody but me will see your actual numbers. I will not post your weight on the boards.
What I will post is a list of everyone here and how they did so far for the time on our thread. Then also the total for everyone as a group.
#2 The second half of posting, is many choose to post our individual week loss on Mondays on the thread itself. Most use the format of a "-2.4" or "up 1.3" or "Same" for example.
This means we can all support the person who might be faltering (I know I have needed it huge in the past) and really keep motivating whoever is on a roll.
This is a weight loss thread as much as it is a support group and I know I need that accountability and hope you all find it positive as well.
#3 For every 5 pounds you lose WHILE A CASTAWAY, you get to add a picture representing skinny island for your siggie if you would like. Here are the pics in order!
5 pounds
10 pounds
15 pounds
20 pounds
25 pounds
30 pounds
35 pounds
40 pounds
45 pounds
50 pounds
All you have to do is quote this post, find the picture you want and copy/paste it into to your signature! Just make sure to copy the whole thing from
#4 Let's talk about inches. I am a huge proponent for knowing how our body is changing because many times inches mean more than that number on the scale. So I will be keeping track of my inches lost as well.
The key to that is having someone you trust, measure you and only one person. That way they will tend to measure you in the same spot every month.
Hips, waist, thigh, bicep, and chest will be the areas I keep track of. (If I could figure out a way to measure my chin(s) I would do that too! )
Inches for those interested, will simply be gathered on the FIRST MONDAY of the month. Sometimes it will fall on one of the last days of the previous month - just depends on the week and the dates! I will send out a reminder for that the weekend before. You can send it to me with your weights.
#5 Tracking our food: (optional as well)
Thursday is the day we start as the beginning of a week of tracking. (For me it was simply easier to not have so many things to tabulate on a Monday!)
The goal is to post here your tracking for food, however you want, 5 out of the next 7 days. Some do just calories, some do WW points, some do food journal's and some do calories and food journal's.
If you get 5 out of seven days, you get a tracking pic. For each consecutive week - you will add a x2, x7 etc... next to the pic to represent weeks total you achieved this goal. Some of us track and make sure we are getting 2 cups of veggies as well.
Here is the picture for tracking Food:
Here is the Veggie Tracker:
