*** Supportive Friends -- Looking to Release 50+ Pounds ***

mcruseturner

Question: Is this a group I should add myself to (and if so, how would I go about that) or simply a message board? I'm new to this stuff

stephaniezoundi

Question: Is this a group I should add myself to (and if so, how would I go about that) or simply a message board? I'm new to this stuff

Its a thread for support so come back and post often (in the manner seen). Share worries, successes, tips, struggles and support! The more you give the more you get

shayla_twins69

hey my name is shayla .i am 21 years old ...before i got pregnant i had just lost a bunch of weight and actually got confident again ...then i got preggo and just couldn't stop eating!! ..i had twins almost a year ago ...i have 79 lbs to loose but would be happy with just about anything! i find it hard to actually get up enough energy to workout ...im surprised i havnt lost a bunch of weight because with two kids running around i never sit some days ! i just want to be in shape and be healthy again and watch my kids grow and be able to play with them and do fun things!

penny_eclipse

So I'm sick, but still at work...food is not really my top priority this week...
Don't have the headspace to comment right now, but hope you're all doing ok x

JennDoesKeto

good morning everyone! last night my fiance and I did just dance sweat for 33 min while our chicken baked..my arms feel like jello today! but i lost over 2lbs yesterday so im super happy. I feel great today and can't wait to see where im going to be a month from now. (im a planner i like to "dream") my main goal right now is for my clothes to fit again, or at least not so tight i have tons i got on sale as i was taking care of myself before when i lost my initial 80lbs. i don't feel like spending the money on too many more clothes just to get rid of them in a few months. soo im gonna go for the elastic banded things right now and dresses and work my butt off! hope everyone has a great day!

carhicks

Hey everyone, I am still around but not sure what is going on with me. I have been reading posts, but not really commenting. I have not been eating very well either. I do get in lots of exercise so am burning a lot of calories, but my weight is going in the wrong direction. I just do not seem to have the will power right now when it comes to eating. Keep living healthy everyone and I will work on getting back on track. Carla

MissNordicLight

Mantras, I love them! Sorry, I'm replying to an older post, but I just couldn't help myself

This one actually got me started and keeps me going:

"Yesterday you said tomorrow."

Another one I really like (because I have issuses with emotional eating) is:

"Do not reward yourself with food. You're not a dog."

Another favorite is:

"Wheter you think you can, or you think you can't. You're right."

I used to swim a lot and during I repeted this phrase in my head, over and over, it was like meditation:

"Swim swim swim and be slim slim slim." Yes, I made that one up myself!

JennDoesKeto

Mantras, I love them! Sorry, I'm replying to an older post, but I just couldn't help myself

This one actually got me started and keeps me going:

"Yesterday you said tomorrow."

Another one I really like (because I have issuses with emotional eating) is:

"Do not reward yourself with food. You're not a dog."

Another favorite is:

"Wheter you think you can, or you think you can't. You're right."

I used to swim a lot and during I repeted this phrase in my head, over and over, it was like meditation:

"Swim swim swim and be slim slim slim." Yes, I made that one up myself!

I love the dog one!

jehan

Hey everyone, I am still around but not sure what is going on with me. I have been reading posts, but not really commenting. I have not been eating very well either. I do get in lots of exercise so am burning a lot of calories, but my weight is going in the wrong direction. I just do not seem to have the will power right now when it comes to eating. Keep living healthy everyone and I will work on getting back on track. Carla

I feel the same way, I've been reading the posts and wanted to reply but my head is fuzzy and I feel blah for a couple of days now. I'm trying to keep my calories down but it seems that I'm struggling right now. I even failed to hit the gym for 3 nights now. I feel like I'm on a downward spiral. Just to let everyone know I'm still here somewhere trying to get out of this ditch I am in. Congratulations to other ladies. You all rock....

karmahealer

Hi everyone, welcome to all the new people:flowerforyou: I have been reading everyone's posts...and forget what I want to say about them by the time I get to the end:noway: Today I don't feel very well, but I think the fever finally broke, and I am going work out a little with my exercise ball. I have a new kitten, so really hoping she won't pop it:explode: lol. So, my plan is to go back and jot down notes, I will be replying more in the next few days.

Becky- Waiting to hear if you made it to yoga Love you either way, I remember how hard it was for me to go the first time:bigsmile: you got this!!

JennDoesKeto

good morning everyone went out to eat for dinner last night salmon and sweet potato fries next time no dipping sauce and i will get the salmon grilled not blackend. i feel the sodium issues today..but ill be ok ordering a fitbit zip for my birthday so i can track my activity during the day. hope everyone has a thin day!

kburrows82

Hi my name is Kaarin. I am looking to get rid of a whole person 140+ I am a working mother of a very active 5 year old boy. Been overweight forEVER. I have tried to lots of things for short periods of time. I get discouraged very easy. This time I have been trying for about 17 days now. I am working out and watching my calories. But still nothing has happend other than gaining more weight!!! I think alot is water but who knows..... I am looking for support and to give support for others

brookeboule

Hi Everyone,
My name is Brooke and I have been battling weight my whole life, I have gotten up to 200 pounds and decided it needed to change. I slowly got myself back to 190-185 range and I convinced myself I was okay with that. I realized a while ago that I am not, I just have been to lazy to start working towards a better life. I decided on January 15th that I was going to start tracking my calories and exercise. My whole family is in on it now and we are all on the way to a better lifestyle and it makes me very happy.

I am now down to 176, the lowest I have ever been is 168 when I was in tenth grade and I can't wait to surpass that number. My main goal is to get to 155 and after that maybe 135? We will see. I am excited for my future and am signing up for a 10k in June

brookeboule

Hi my name is Kaarin. I am looking to get rid of a whole person 140+ I am a working mother of a very active 5 year old boy. Been overweight forEVER. I have tried to lots of things for short periods of time. I get discouraged very easy. This time I have been trying for about 17 days now. I am working out and watching my calories. But still nothing has happend other than gaining more weight!!! I think alot is water but who knows..... I am looking for support and to give support for others

Hi Kaarin, maybe instead of looking at the point that you haven't lost any weight, pay attention to the fact that you have stuck with this for 17 days! That's great! If you keep working at it and believing in yourself, I know you will get there. Something that helps me take the focus off of my weight is only weighing myself once a week, otherwise I feel I get too obsessed with it and get dissapointed. Keep up the good work!
Brooke

kburrows82

Hi my name is Kaarin. I am looking to get rid of a whole person 140+ I am a working mother of a very active 5 year old boy. Been overweight forEVER. I have tried to lots of things for short periods of time. I get discouraged very easy. This time I have been trying for about 17 days now. I am working out and watching my calories. But still nothing has happend other than gaining more weight!!! I think alot is water but who knows..... I am looking for support and to give support for others

Hi Kaarin, maybe instead of looking at the point that you haven't lost any weight, pay attention to the fact that you have stuck with this for 17 days! That's great! If you keep working at it and believing in yourself, I know you will get there. Something that helps me take the focus off of my weight is only weighing myself once a week, otherwise I feel I get too obsessed with it and get dissapointed. Keep up the good work!
Brooke

Thank you I try not to weigh myself but Im not very good at that lol

brookeboule

I know I think about it everyday! But I find it more rewarding, I have to walk by the scale in my bathroom multiple times a day. It helped that I made a pact with my boyfriend to only weigh ourselves on Fridays. We both were a little to scale-happy and would sometimes weigh ourselves twice a day, thank goodness that is over. I feel so much better about myself.

purekaos26

Hi, Everyone!

I'm new to the boards, as my full-force weight loss journey just started two weeks ago. I've already lost 14 pounds in the past 2 weeks, but I still have 113 to go to get to my goal weight.

Its a rough road - glad to know I'm not the only one trying to make these life changes with such a huge weight barrier to cross!!

stephaniezoundi

Welcome to the new faces.

Only have a few minutes so sorry for no personal responses. Been trying hard this week with the eating as I said in an earlier post. Monday night I was watching biggest loser (season 13 - we are behind over here) it touched a chord in me. My beautiful baby girl. All the excuses under the sun are not worth not being here for her. So I've been trying to remind myself of this trough the days.

Ate my lunch with baby girl today and even though she's only 7 months old I was very aware of her watching what I was eating. Need to remember this. Also as I was feeding her at the same time it forced me to slow down instead of just wolfing it down

And finally, I miss running!!!!!! I had get to the store and home quite quickly tonight so was really fast walking, almost running and I was struck by how much I miss running. The sense of freedom, the sense of power an the knowledge I'm doing good for myself. I need to get back at it. It migh have to wait till I'm back at work but I will get back to it.

It's thirsty Thursday - get that water into you!!!

JennDoesKeto

Hi my name is Kaarin. I am looking to get rid of a whole person 140+ I am a working mother of a very active 5 year old boy. Been overweight forEVER. I have tried to lots of things for short periods of time. I get discouraged very easy. This time I have been trying for about 17 days now. I am working out and watching my calories. But still nothing has happend other than gaining more weight!!! I think alot is water but who knows..... I am looking for support and to give support for others

Hi Kaarin, maybe instead of looking at the point that you haven't lost any weight, pay attention to the fact that you have stuck with this for 17 days! That's great! If you keep working at it and believing in yourself, I know you will get there. Something that helps me take the focus off of my weight is only weighing myself once a week, otherwise I feel I get too obsessed with it and get dissapointed. Keep up the good work!
Brooke

Thank you I try not to weigh myself but Im not very good at that lol

my name is Jenn and im a scale-a-holic i mainly do it in the begining when im starting back out in about a month or two i won't weigh every day. i used to be so obsessed with it i weighed after every meal, when i woke up and before bed. you may be loosing inches try doing your measurments and see how that works out for you. good luck! feel free to add me if you would like

dareacceptor

Monday night I was watching biggest loser (season 13 - we are behind over here) it touched a chord in me. My beautiful baby girl. All the excuses under the sun are not worth not being here for her. So I've been trying to remind myself of this trough the days.

I have a confession... Biggest Loser is why I started my journey! I like being inspired by their stories, and seeing their progress and even their challenges. That's also where I realized that the difference between me and them is they have someone that believes in them (listen to how often the coaches are encouraging and telling them they can do something).

I may not have a trainer next to me, but I have myself. I believe in myself and I started changing the way I talk to myself (yes, I'll admit to talking to myself ). Instead of putting myself down for poor choices, I focused on the positive. I still have to "reset" my self talk occasionally, but it really is making a difference to believe in myself!

brookeboule

I have a confession... Biggest Loser is why I started my journey!

It is why I really started mine too. This is horrible but I was sitting in my kitchen eating homemade cookies and realized wow I really need to change my lifestyle. Hence where I am now! I love watching the show, this is my first time following it and it inspires me so much.
Keep up the good work!

Bekah_Davis

Hi,Im Lydia.I am on my second weight loss journey in 2 years.Lost 65 pounds the 1st time pretty easy doing ideal protien diet,very little excersize and in 5 months.But I wasnt able to maintain.I gained back 45 lbs over a year.So I started again in January and am just eating a low carb higher protien meal plan and excersizing 30-60 minutes everyday.Its is very slow going and easy to get discouraged so Im hoping having the motivation of this group will help!

mcruseturner

Hello All!
My name is Stephanie and like some of the others, was an original 'skinny chick'. I started my journey on Jan 2 2010 weighing 368lbs. I had had enough of being tired, sore knees, sore back, not being able to buy what I wanted in clothes...you know the story. I started at a gym, trained with my wonderful trainer once a week and in 2011 found MFP. I lost 120lbs and for me had passed the all important 250lb mark...finally closer to the 100s and not the 300s!! Then on Dec 1 2011 I found out that my husband and I were finally pregnant. In July I gave birth to the most wonderful little girl who is now 5 mos old and keeps me very busy.

During my pregnancy I stopped exercising (just too sore and tired) and lost some of my good eating habits. I was making some okay progress albeit slow when I headed home for Christmas (I'm a Canadian living in London, UK). Well bring back all my old ways and I have returned home 15lbs heavier than when I went and a lot more than before I was pregnant. I'm not happy with having to buy big clothes again (I pitched everything as soon as it didn't fit the first time around). I'm resigned to the fact that it is going to be more challenging now to lose the weight as I am on vacay from the gym and even if I wasn't, I can't be there 6 days a week (and don't want to be now that little one is here). I am however using her as my motivation. I don't want her to think being this big is okay or normal or healthy or to be teased for having the fat mom.

I look forward to getting to know those of you who are joining us and to the original, girls, I'm glad to see you!!

Hi Stephanie!

My name is Mary. It sounds like we can relate in a lot of ways. I couldn't agree more with what you said about not wanting your little one to "think being this big is okay or normal or healthy or to be teased for having the fat mom." I have 2 children, 2 and 8, and recently my son came home from school upset and told me (after some coaxing because he didn't want to hurt my feelings) that he was no longer friends with a girl because she was telling the other kids that she had seen me at the school carnival and I was really fat. My children are my biggest motivation to lose weight. There is nothing worse than telling my kids I can't play tag or climb up on the jungle gym because my back hurts (which I'm certain would be way less of a problem if I wasn't so heavy). Not to mention I don't think I would even be able to fit down those tiny slides.

That being said, I am determined to get to a healthy weight to set a good example for my kids, and be able to enjoy the things I have been missing out on. Glad to see you have found a new spark of motivation in your daughter Good luck, and stay strong!!

terryadk

Hello everyone,My name is Terry, I am 52 years old. I am a mother of six wonderful children and a grandma to six almost seven grandchildren. I have been married for 30 years to my college sweetheart. I have lost 7 lbs since I began my diet and exercise Dec 31, 2012. I weighted 210 in December and now weigh 203. It would be wonderful to have support from others in this group.I don't really know what weight I will end up stopping at.My goal is 125, but I will let my body decide when it is ready to stop. I at least want to get to 140.

penny_eclipse

It cannot *only* be Thursday...ugh...
Still ill, literally the only benefit of this is that I've not really been into food (which makes a nice change, normally when I'm ill I want to eat all the food, and most of it bad...), so having things like hot water with lemon juice and honey have been really easy to fit into cals without going over. It is really weird not wanting to eat though, and only eating because it's "time" and having what I'd normally call really small portions which I have to force myself to finish...
My bike still isn't fixed, which is probably a blessing in disguise as it's meant I've not been able to cycle and have had to "look after" myself a little more scamming lifts from my parents (and consequently going into work a bit earlier...but still better than cycling). It was meant to be fixed last night though so hopefully I'll be able to pick it up on my way home tonight and ride it home.
I feel thinner (again...probably lack of eating as much!) but I'm not jumping on the scale, if it's not good news I don't want to know, and I know illness makes your body do strange things...either I'll have an awesomely low number which will take me 3 weeks to get back to once I'm better, or it'll be up and I'll want to hit something...so no weighing for me until I'm off the flu remedies and my hunger is back.
Hope everyone's ok, hello newbies, stick around and comment please, and update us.

Steph, great loss today, especially with all the plantain (personally I think you're doing great with all that temptation), I hope things are getting a (little) bit easier stress-mother-head-wise.

JennDoesKeto

good morning everyone! had a strange night last night kept getting an email from papa johns to get a free pizza..so i did 1 topping mushrooms light sauce thin crust and some wings..im so proud for once i didn't eat all the 8 wings i ordered. i accounted for them all and while i wasn't going to exercise last night i ended up boxing a bit with my fiance and doing 30 min of just dance lost another 1.9 yesterday! *happy dance* my main issue is at work. i like to snack or my stomach tells me im hungry all the time. ive combatted this by juicing all day at work at night i have a reasonable dinner. hope that doing this will keep me motivated and keep the scale moving. this weekend will be my first since getting back on track. thinking im going to still juice and do my routine but kinda nervous to see how it goes. hope everyone has a wonderful day


if anyone wants to add me feel free!

stephaniezoundi

Thanks Penny!

Happy to discover I was down 1.2lbs this morning which means I am ending the month 1lb down from where I was at the start. Its tiny but given the fact that it has been a super bad month, I will take it! The last 4 days have resulted in me being down almost 3lbs which just goes to show how being diligent with logging can work. (I had never adjusted my ticker hence the show of 1.2lbs).

I wish we could still have more than 1 ticker. As much as I am heading for an overall goal, I need to also be able to focus on a smaller goal. Currently that is getting back to my prepregnancy weight of 248....and then I can focus on the next 80! But beyond that, I need to focus 10lbs at a time. So my next goal is to get 278...then 268 etc....And I need to have rewards in place.

So 278 = (actually only 8lbs till this one) £20 iTunes card (to get some running music!)

268 = scrapbooking kit (for baby's first years)

258 = mani/pedi

248 = whole outfit, head to toe

It's taken a lot for me to come up with these rewards...food was always a reward. Even now I will often think, you've done really well today, you deserve (insert evil food choice (often reece's peanut butter cup)). I go back to work in 25 days, hoping to be close to the scrapbooking kit but know that that is a lot when I'm not exercising that much and not starving myself!

Thirsty Thursday Drink up!!

stephaniezoundi

Penny hope you get feeling better soon and I am glad you have been forced to take care of yourself a bit more. When you are back to normal then its on your bike!

Jennfl: well done on not indulging in the whole thing and getting some exercise in!

brookeboule

Good Afternoon!

I am feeling awesome today, woke up and did 90 minutes of yoga. I had my usual smoothie for breakfast. I'm excited to get to the gym. I go to waste some time while I am waiting for my class to start. Tomorrow is my weigh in day, hoping for a good number . I will let you guys know how it goes.

Have a wonderful day!
Brooke

demitraknows

I need to lose about sixty pounds to be totally at peace with my weight. Good luck everyone you can do it..