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

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

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!

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!

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!

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....

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!

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

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

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!!

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

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!

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!!

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.

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!!

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