The "NEVER been thin/ in-shape" Club
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Wow! I can hardly believe it but I'm down 3 lbs this week! We had a ladies dinner yesterday evening, and I overate even tho' I knew I was weighing in today. But I lost! I am now down to 210 which puts me 1/3 of the way to my goal! YAY!!!!:drinker:0
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I am definatley on board!!!Always been big girl...Im so tired of it....I want to..need too...loose weight...I want all the help I can get and Whatever support I can give also...
heaviest 307lbs last year may 2010
current 300 02/25/2011
goal 200
when I reached 200 I will re-evaluate my goal...for now..I would be happy to be 200. I cant remember when I was 200 lb.s
Oh yeah my name is Edith0 -
Can I be in your club, too? I feel like all the previous posters were writing my life... I remember getting my driver's license at 14 and rounding down (read:lying) and saying I weighed 175 when the reality was much closer to 190. I haven't been able to stick to any kind of plan thus far, but with the droid app, I figure I have a chance since it seems like the thing is surgically attached to my hand
I'm also getting very sick of being the fat friend, getting pity compliments for the hair, and generally feeling crappy. So, I've graduated from college, it's a new day, and I am going to make this work.
Highest weight: 240
Current weight: 215 (I think, it's been a couple of weeks since I weighed in)
First goal weight: Anything that starts with a 1 would be nice
Ultimate goal weight: 120, which is the top of the normal section of the BMI chart for my height.
I really like that this group exists... Yay for mutual support!0 -
Wow! I can hardly believe it but I'm down 3 lbs this week! We had a ladies dinner yesterday evening, and I overate even tho' I knew I was weighing in today. But I lost! I am now down to 210 which puts me 1/3 of the way to my goal! YAY!!!!:drinker:
That's great! Congratulations! 0 -
I have always been heavy, I have been from overweight to obese, but mostly obese. I was 160 pounds for about 1 year and then I gained it back. I had 3 pregnancies in 5 years but I gained it back because of my bad habits not my pregnancies.
I am now learning how to be more moderate in my choices and make exercise a regular part of my life.
Starting weight here on MFP (I was heavier before I joined): 249
Current weight:224
Goal weight: Not certain but I would like to try for 200 to start then 180 then 160
I don't want to focus on the numbers but it does help to motivate me
I hope you all reach your goals!0 -
I would love to join this club. I've always been teased for being the "fat" friend, and I'm very self conscious about meeting new people. This club is a brilliant idea, and I'm hoping to find the support and motivation to stick to my goals.
Heaviest Weight: 182
Lowest Weight: 165
Start Weight: 170
Current Weight: 170 (I just joined today)
Goal Weight: 145
Keep up the great work, everybody!0 -
Welcome everyone new!!! :flowerforyou:
I'm so glad to see liveliness again! :happy:
We're all gonna do this good, and do this now! :drinker:0 -
Down 10 pounds in 10 days. I know it's an impossible pace to keep but for now it's working!
I love THIS thread the most. So much motivation.0 -
Thanks for starting this group. I have NEVER been skinny last time I was a normal weight was when I was a newborn. I've always been the biggest in my group of friends and of course everyone in my family is as thin as a toothpick. It's always hard hearing "your mom is the skinny version of you" or just when you don't think you can't be THAT big someone has to make a weight comment about you or a picture pops up and you never thought you were really that size. I haven't weighed myself in years but last time I checked I was at about 218. The only way I know if i've lost pounds is when someone will tell me i've slimmed down a bit. It's just very frusterating knowing you put time and effort into eating healthy and excersing but you never lose anything meanwhile your other skinny friends who never workout and eat junk food can lose weight at the drop of a hat.0
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Thanks for starting this group. I have NEVER been skinny last time I was a normal weight was when I was a newborn. I've always been the biggest in my group of friends and of course everyone in my family is as thin as a toothpick. It's always hard hearing "your mom is the skinny version of you" or just when you don't think you can't be THAT big someone has to make a weight comment about you or a picture pops up and you never thought you were really that size. I haven't weighed myself in years but last time I checked I was at about 218. The only way I know if i've lost pounds is when someone will tell me i've slimmed down a bit. It's just very frusterating knowing you put time and effort into eating healthy and excersing but you never lose anything meanwhile your other skinny friends who never workout and eat junk food can lose weight at the drop of a hat.
I'm right there with ya! My mom has an amazing body and has never struggled with her weight...we look so similar, I'm just a ton heavier!! I also hate my skinny friends! They like to complain how "fat" they are...yet never go to the gym/diet and eat all the crap they want! So unfair!!!!0 -
Happy March everyone!! Official weigh-in day tomorrow! Post progress!!0
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Well, I'm down 1 lb this week. After losing so much the last 2 weeks, 1 lb is kinda disappointing :ohwell: - but I know it's not good to lose too fast. I'm just glad the numbers are going down instead of up. :happy:0
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Just found this topic ... I'm so in on this group.
I was the fat kid all through school. Always AT LEAST 50 lbs heavier than my peers. Now at 340's I want to do this for my neice ... I want to be there when she grows up and I want to be able to keep up with her ... and maybe, finally, be worthy of someone to love me and maybe, one day, give her some cousins to babysit!0 -
CW: 182.5
I think that's up a little from before. I was at 180.5 a little while back, but then had Birthday celebrations. Now I'm getting back on track again!0 -
I am totally in this club. My family is a bit heavier, and being 5'0" any weight shows! I'm 22 and WAY too young to not be hot! My heaviest was 200lbs (I looked like a bowling ball with legs) and I'm currently at 180.0
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This was my post on January 18th when I came to this group:
CW: 177.5CW: 189 (great... I went up from New Year's celebrations)
5% Goal = 9.5 pounds = 179.5 (which is ironically, the exact weight I was trying to reach by New Year's)
YAY! I'm officially lighter than I've been in my life!!! New goal = another 5% down (168.5)
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How is everyone else doing??0 -
Sorry that I've been MIA, school is time consuming as well as more stress than normal at work.
Check in time:
CW: 254.5 for a loss of 15.5 lbs total!0 -
This was a bad week for me - didn't lose anything, but at least I didn't gain:ohwell: I now know I have to log what I eat immediately or I don't pay much attention to what I'm eating :grumble: My internet was down most of the week, so by the time I got into town to log I was way over or had forgotten some things. That plus not getting in any strenuous exercise seemed to slow down the weight loss. I'll put this week down as a learning experience and make sure I get in some good workouts this next week.0
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i've been so extremely busy and school is kicking my butt....so i hope that everyone will still come weekly and tell us their successes or any issues they have been having but i wont be able to keep up with everyones weights and the chart anymore...i'll still be checking in and seeing how everyone is but i just dont have the time to keep up with it all anymore...i hope everyone is doing well...
i lost 1.4 pounds this week...super excited...im up to 27 lbs lost! yeahhh
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Bah this last month has NOT been good for me. I'm totally addicted to weighing myself daily, and sometimes multiple times a day. So I found a challenge one of my MFP friends started, giving up the scale until Easter. EEK! So far so good - I'll share with you the same thing I just posted on there:
I feel totally refocused. Just these last 5 days not weighing in has made a big impact on my thought process. I'm only a day or so away from logging my food for 180 days straight on MFP. About a month ago I got to a place where I was too comfortable. I'd lost 21lbs, my clothes were feeling more loose, and I was starting to get compliments. So, what did I do? I started slacking off. Then I hit my plateau. The combination of those two things left me staring at the same weight for over a month!
The last 5 days have been like a slap in the face - and I needed it!. I'm paying strict attention to my diary and what I'm eating. I'm logging EVERYTHING that touches my lips and I've decided to up my excersize.
Just thought I'd share some positives. Yes, I still want to climb the latter to the loft and risk landing flat on my chubby butt getting that scale down from where my hubby hid it, but I'm going to refrain because I think I'm learning something really valuable not living by the numbers on the scale.
If anyone is interested in joining, we just started this week Search "Lenten scale diet" and it should come up! 0 -
Hey I started the scale thing too for Lent-- yay now I can have a group! Lost 26 so far but not a thing in Feb. So for Lent I gave up my three addictions -- coffee, sugar and the scale. I think the scale is going to be the toughest in the long run.
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I am right there with everyone. Right now I'm at 250lbs but I've probably been obese since I was five. I was surprisingly never teased much but that didn't make it any easier. I've set my goal at 170 because if I set it for my "ideal" weight I'm gonna go crazy waiting. Plus I'm not sure what I'll look like under 200! I think the first time I actuLly paid attention to weight was in middle school and by 12 I was over 200, sad but true. Right before I became pregnant I lost alot of weight and was around 210 and immediately after giving birth I was 216. But of course in the five years since I've gained instead of losing.
I did lose 17lbs last July but I've gained back all but 4lbs and I'm so peeved at myself because just think of where I could be by now. But! Positive thoughts and im excited to be here and excited to find friends so that we can help each other. Good lck everyone
Ps I love this giving up the scale thing since I'm constantly trying to forget it exists. I'd love see where I am a month from now instead of agonizing over my weight for the next 5 weeks!0 -
Awesome job redruthie!!CW: 254.5 for a loss of 15.5 lbs total!
90poundsoflard... Sometimes I forget what I ate too. I've started writing it down if I eat away from home. Get those workouts in! Make it a habit! I've been going pretty strong since Feb 6th. You can do it too!
Great going sweetie!!i lost 1.4 pounds this week...super excited...im up to 27 lbs lost! yeahhh
MegJo... Good for you! Break that habit!! :bigsmile: I wanted to join the toss-the-scale group too, but I'm involved in another challenge, so I can't. I think I might do it AFTER Easter though...
That's great that you can spend more time focusing on other things now!
Tina1128... Congrats on giving up 3 things!! That's awesome! I didn't spend much time thinking about what to give up, so I haven't given up anything... Huh...
lv1105... Another scale-tosser!! Way to go! :happy:0 -
Hey I started the scale thing too for Lent-- yay now I can have a group! Lost 26 so far but not a thing in Feb. So for Lent I gave up my three addictions -- coffee, sugar and the scale. I think the scale is going to be the toughest in the long run.
im sure you will do just fine...i have confidence n you!0 -
This was a bad week for me - didn't lose anything, but at least I didn't gain:ohwell: I now know I have to log what I eat immediately or I don't pay much attention to what I'm eating :grumble: My internet was down most of the week, so by the time I got into town to log I was way over or had forgotten some things. That plus not getting in any strenuous exercise seemed to slow down the weight loss. I'll put this week down as a learning experience and make sure I get in some good workouts this next week.
its ok...it happens to the best of us...but u are very right- no gain is a GREAT thing!!!...you'll hit it hard next week!0 -
Jumping on board a bit late, but just found this. I should be in the 'club' - I have no idea what I would look or feel like at a normal weight. I've just hit a weight that I last was 8 years ago, and as I still had a lot of clothes from then, I knew what it would be like getting to this weight again. From now though, it's unknown ground, as I have no idea what it will be like weighing less than I do right now. Must have weighed less than this at some point in my life, but certainly can't remember it! Great to be joining you all for the ride of our lives!! 0
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I want to join this group too! Last time I was ever thin was as a baby - my mother dealt with all life's issues with food and so she'd just keep feeding me junk. Getting older I dealt with everything that way too.
I had lost a lot of weight but this morning the scales tell me I've gained weight.
So trying not to panic and assume it's muscle going on instead. This is the first time in my life I've ever worked out every day and I've been under my calorie limit every day except one (and that was only 20 over) so I figure it has to be muscle. Frustrating though. Telling myself to NOT give up, something must be working! (Also telling myself to throw out the scales for a couple of weeks lol) 0 -
Would like in this club for sure. Can't say I am the poster child for this, but then again maybe. For me it's ALWAYS been an up and down thing. I was a very small baby, turned into a chunky toddler, a just right pre-schooler and into about 4th grade was "fine". Got into middle school and 5th grade came along w/ my first period. And the weight gain began!! Was pretty much the "fat girl" until 9th grade when I started starving myself, eating only lettuce for days into weeks sometimes, ended up in the ER a couple times for low iron and hemoglobin. Makes me sad to think about it, got down to about 120 and everyone told me you look "sickly", the same people that sad I was to fat. So I started eating again, met my current husband, started dating him, was a healthy but not toned 140, got married and had two kids and been on the up up and up ever since!! Got down to 185 lbs last August, was feeling really good. Ended up getting very depressed over the winter, Dr.'s say SAD (especially worse living in MN) and I started on St. John's Wort and now I am at a place mentally where now I HAVE to change, I WANT to change, I NEED to change and I am ready to CHANGE!! I don't want to be a super model. I want to be a good role-model for my girls, that is the NUMBER 1 thing in it for me.0
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Guess I'm stuck :grumble: I tried eating less - tried eating more - did some different exercises - nothing is making the scale budge:mad: I'm not giving up - eventually it will move, but it sure is discouraging.0
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heavest - 265
current - 227
goal - 160 to 180
Hello all, i have been a size 18 for WAY too long, i am currently 31 yrs old and now i am at my high school weight and size. Happy to say that this is the thinnest i have been my adult life. i refused to be on a diet for years because my mother dragged me to them with her. She was on WW, nutrisystem (when they had actual stores in towns), Jenny Craig, Over eaters... etc, i did not want to fall into that pit that she was in, losing 20 and gaining 40 afterward. she was eventually around 320 and got the stomach surgery. During these years i had a child, who is now 11yrs old, got a divorce and living in Sedona AZ. My mother and i now wear the same size clothes (this is strange). All i want is to be healthy, and wear a conservitive (due to strech marks) swimsuit and feel damn proud. i am lucky to be so tall (5' 8") so i can weigh more than a 5' person (sorry). When its all said and done i have come a long way, and most of it was without dieting, just moving my body alot (thank you retail work). Now that I am at that HS weight this last year has been hard... i got down to 215 in Aug, but then i quit smoking on the 17th (the day after my birthday). I knew some weight could be gained, got up to 232. I am not too worried, i just know i needed a little bit more help to get this last 30 lbs off... it could be more, i am just going with how i feel.
also... We all are beautiful.... Say something about yourself to yourself that is your best feature. There is nothing better than positve reinforcement to keep yourself on your goals.0
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