You know you're serious about losing weight when....

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  • watsoncn1
    watsoncn1 Posts: 7
    You give up your favorite drink (Coke), and start downing the water!

    You decline to eat a piece of your favorite chocolate pie, handmade by Grandma
  • lillithlix
    lillithlix Posts: 7
    ...You can't wait for your 1 year old to go down for a nap so you can do your workout.
    ...You wonder if you can have hummus, crackers AND a banana for lunch (this was me 10 minutes ago. Yes I can :))
  • kdgqueen
    kdgqueen Posts: 2
    ...you tell your husband you can go get a treat at DQ, but only if he agrees to walk there and back.

    ...you start hosting all of the family functions just so you can control what there is to eat.

    ...you do extra on your workout to make room for the avocado you want to eat instead of burning off the junk you just ate.

    ...you make a chocolate mug cake and after one bite, and it tasting so-so, your husband looks at you and says "this isn't even worth the 250 calories, is it?"
  • karynmarnitz
    karynmarnitz Posts: 1 Member
    Doing spinning or gym 3 times a week and not being too bad with food but not too strict either. Was hoping for more results from all the excersice. Assesment time at the gym on sunday. Hope I don't come out crying.

    What are you eating? Or are you just counting the calories.
  • Mamoonie
    Mamoonie Posts: 328
    ... your hubby asks you to bring home some McDonald's meal when you're done @ the gym, and you do so, but only buy food for hubby, not for yourself.

    ... when you have to do some work out at the muscle room @ gym, and actually feel comfortable being there (as opposed to thinking you have no right to be there)
  • discodaddy61
    discodaddy61 Posts: 161 Member
    all day while you are at work all you think about is getting on your bike and going for a ride.........
    you keep thinking about how many reps and sets you will do on the weight machines.
    ............when no matter how tired you feel or how bad your headache is you find a way to get to the gym no matter what
  • MrsBooBear
    MrsBooBear Posts: 12,618 Member
    When you work out the cals in other peoples meals. Then tell them.x
  • JSheehy1965
    JSheehy1965 Posts: 404
    You're brushing your teeth, but pulling your stomach muscles in, tightening your butt and lifting yourself up and down on your tip toes whilst doing it.

    You're eating oatmeal with one hand in the morning for breakfast and keep alternating hands every now and then so you can lift a 3lb weight with the other hand.
  • skinnybearlyndsay
    skinnybearlyndsay Posts: 798 Member
    ...you plan a week in advance if drinking alcohol is the game plan.
    ...you get mad when your new clothes are too big.
    ...you would rather cook at home than go out to a restaurant.
    ...you would rather do the grocery shopping than your significant other (or in my case, parents).
    ...you dream of ways to get up and move while at work.
    ...you get excited at the thought of working out.

    And probably a ton of what everyone else has said.
  • momotivation
    momotivation Posts: 72 Member
    bump, this is a great pick me up and a true reminder of the struggles but the ending victory!
  • Nikki_42
    Nikki_42 Posts: 298 Member
    ...you're 10 minutes late to work because you forgot your salad at home and turned around to get it, even though there are a million restaurants around your office

    ...you go to the store, buy your fav candy on a bad whim and then get home and throw it out unopened

    ...everytime you eat you think about logging it on MFP first
  • Nikki_42
    Nikki_42 Posts: 298 Member
    ...you plan a week in advance if drinking alcohol is the game plan.
    ...you get mad when your new clothes are too big.
    ...you would rather cook at home than go out to a restaurant.
    ...you would rather do the grocery shopping than your significant other (or in my case, parents).
    ...you dream of ways to get up and move while at work.
    ...you get excited at the thought of working out.

    And probably a ton of what everyone else has said.

    Okay that made me feel better about planning a beer this weekend! I thought I was the only one that did that.
  • binky610
    binky610 Posts: 17
    ...you really internalize the fact that even if no one sees you eat it, it still counts.
    ....you put away the Ben & Jerry's after 2 teaspoons (they're not one serving containers!)
  • Connie1979
    Connie1979 Posts: 77 Member
    ....when you purposely try to find parking spots far away from the entrance
    .... You do mini workouts during commercial breaks while watching TV
    .....You buy expensive clothes that are currently too small with the intentions of losing weight to fit in them
  • SomeMorr
    SomeMorr Posts: 220 Member
    ... when you have to do some work out at the muscle room @ gym, and actually feel comfortable being there (as opposed to thinking you have no right to be there)

    this has been me recently, the guys in the muscle room don't make me feel intimidated anymore now that I just walk in there confidently, do my sets and leave.

    -you know you are serious when your husband asks you if you want a second helping at dinner and you know that it would make up feel like crap and mess up your calorie intake so you decline (I used to always have a 2nd plate)

    -when you realize that you are going to the gym 5-6 days a week and it doesn't feel like a chore!
  • jaxbeck
    jaxbeck Posts: 537 Member
    You give up your favorite drink (Coke), and start downing the water!


    This! What was a daily thing is now once a week!
  • carholl
    carholl Posts: 44 Member
    When you reached a certain time/calories on the elliptical and are determined to do it...even if it means being late for work!
  • msmonique09191
    msmonique09191 Posts: 8
    ~ you go to Math Night at your child's school and instead of pizza and cookies, you ask for seconds on WATER!

    ~ you need a huge lunchbox for all of your containers and baggies of healthy snacks instead of eating in the airport that you work in

    ~ you lay in bed watching Thomas the Train with your son, doing leg lifts!
  • nbsambucca
    nbsambucca Posts: 123 Member
    when you sit at work and eat your packed healthy lunch, and the others order their greasy burgers and fries. As they open them up you smirk and think how UNhealthy they are and how much better your lunch is because its good for you making you thinner and fitter.
    When your McDonalds' coupons in the truck expire before you use them.
    When you just cant wait for that next Zumba class.....and feel sad when its over.
  • phillbis
    phillbis Posts: 353 Member
    You look up a menu online before going out and decide not to go there.
    You know that semen has not only calories but nutritional value
    You wear your heart rate monitor to do everything just for fun. But only log actual exercise.
    You donate your "fat" clothes instead of packing them up for a later use.

    You owe me 1 keyboard! Thank God it was only water I was drinking.
  • JJinWI
    JJinWI Posts: 197 Member
    You have two "kid-free", "husband-free" (rare!) hours at home and you decide to go to the gym and do an hour on the elliptical.
  • shammxo
    shammxo Posts: 1,432 Member
    you keep measuring spoons in your car...
  • ikimtnarud
    ikimtnarud Posts: 5
    :laugh:
  • usedasbrandnew
    usedasbrandnew Posts: 300 Member
    Bump for tomorrow (Starting at pg 6) Bedtime!
  • hedgiie
    hedgiie Posts: 1,226 Member
    * starts to use food scale
    * read nutritional values in package label
    * searching for food nutritional values.
    * try to meet particular minimum/maximum nutritional value in a daily basis
  • reegordon
    reegordon Posts: 97 Member
    Your bedroom looks like a gym
    Instead of a daquiri, you have crystal light "appletini" with a shot
    You replace chips with carrots
    You have to workout at least 6 days a week
    When your kids follow in your footsteps and say no to junk
  • WinLee
    WinLee Posts: 27
    I chose yogurt over Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!!
  • jodyl70
    jodyl70 Posts: 94
    You are excited to jump out of bed at 4:15am to hit the gym before work every morning!
  • Droope2
    Droope2 Posts: 82
    When you have 2 girls selling girl scout cookies and have not bought one box for yourself
    When I promised I would never ever ever give up pepsi and here I sit drinking powerade zero
    When I jumped down my daughters throat for offering me a bite of a twizzler because it means no vanilla wafers for snack
    When my kids get me a snack and count my calories for it so I can log it in MFP correctly
    When you go to the grocery store and look at the calories and serving size on everything

    And my most favorite, even though I have only lost 4 lbs so far my 14 yr old son insists, I've lost 100 :)
  • rudegyal_b
    rudegyal_b Posts: 593 Member

    You know that semen has not only calories but nutritional value

    LOL dont tell me you actually log this...measuring cup?
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