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I am currently a nursing student too. We have two 8 hour lectures a week and it's hard to get through them without sugar and caffeine (I really like to squish two skittles together, study the pattern in the broken shell, then eat them..lol). Everyone was squeezing into their scrubs and testing the strength of their seams…
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I have about 150 left to go. I swell up with gluten and something that was supposedly gluten free was not...I was down 54 pounds(started at 343 in mid May, got down to 288..then the gluten spiked me up 20lbs in less than 2 weeks while eating at a deficit). I am down 12lbs in 3 days since removing the "gluten-free" food…
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Bento boxes, smaller plates, kiddie forks and spoons if you need to slow down. I weigh everything..EVERYTHING and log it..I keep a small chrome book near the kitchen so I can either log while I am weighing or feel a great deal of guilt if I try to walk past it without logging and have my cell phone nearby to scan in new…
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I had a 10 pound wooosh the night before I started logging on MFP. I just had an 8 pound wooosh after a week long stall and a horrendous cheat day full of salt and fat.
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On Sunday I had myself a little tortilla chip and spinach and artichoke dip binge(no scales, no measuring, just me on the couch going to town with a bag of chips on my lap and a container of dip in my hands old school) and woke up to a 8 pounds woosh on Monday morning and feel like it was undeserved. I had a week long…
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I lost a ton of weight in high school(and shortly after) while working and eating two meals a day at McD's..my favorite? Chicken sandwich with mac sauce and sweet and sour sauce(disgusting, but somehow worked for me back then..mac sauce and sweet and sour was good dipping sauce for fries too). I was walking a lot, I was…
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Feel free to add me as well. I am working on getting rid of my protective layers too. Started at 343 at 5'6" at 43 y/o....down to 301 as of today....about 2 months into measuring and logging. Shooting for somewhere between 140-150 pounds. I had a bad day yesterday(triggered at work), but back on track today. I lost it once…
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Don't assume that he is a really nice guy and will play fair. Get a lawyer ASAP. I was a stay at home mom for 10 years, he had a business that profited 250k per year. He cut us off financially, forced us(his kids too) out of the house, totaled my vehicle, let the bank repo his work trucks, tanked his business and couldn't…
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I grew up hearing the exact same thing from both of my parents (middle class, white Americans, dad from the mid-west, mom from New England...it's not a cultural thing, it's just an abusive person thing) "No one will want you if you are fat" , "You will never get married", "., "It's all over after the first stretch mark"...…
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I ate a small popcorn and drank a coke zero at the movie theater last week. I bounced up 2 pounds after a month of steady losses. I panicked and got myself my favorite steak dinner from a local restaurant, for whatever reason this meal usually triggers a 5-10lb weight loss woosh...it didn't this time. Still sitting 2…
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I was able to button jeans (easily, with a little slack) that did not fit me 3 weeks ago...and I was able to fit my cell phone in the front pocket without struggling and maneuver my whole hand in there to grab it instead of the thumb and forefinger pincer grab at the edge of the pocket. A small victory until I looked at…
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It will be easier to avoid gluten once you have been off of it for awhile, healed and have that first run in with it. It will be horrible and you will not want to repeat it.I have nightmares about eating crackers and pizza. I am undiagnosed, but I get rashes, migraines, stabbing stomach pains, muscle aches, some…
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What are you meal plans...quick service? Table service? Allears.net has menus for each restaurant that will help you make a mini plan as far as healthier choices go. Also plan on lots and lots of water, if you have a car pick up some cases of water on your way to the hotel. Quick service? Most will have grilled chicken…
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My weight loss goals will be met around the time I am finishing up nursing school and starting to work as an RN ...so my rewards are dual purposed and I think a little bigger..and will happen when I can afford to take vacations again. I want to visit Disneyland and the other California theme parks. I haven't been on a…
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I round up amounts, sometimes double them. Sometimes I put in stuff I was planning to eat but never did, I rarely enter exercise...I am not sure what I am trying to accomplish except avoid the warning about too few calories. I really, REALLY like calorie restriction,the challenge I like the control. I am either eating out…
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My mother and a co-worker used to do the same thing. I would be introduced as formerly fat to new people, as if that was the only remarkable thing about me as a human being. I am pretty sure my mother used it to keep me in my place. The co-worker? We worked at Lane Bryant at the time, I am sure it was more of an…
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Still going strong. I am trying to have more under days than over days, but I am not freaking out about over days. I have developed an irrational, unhealthy fear of bananas, white potatoes and (fatty )cuts of pork. My inner thighs are melting and the skin folds over itself and today I noticed skin folding over on my hips.…
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Thank you, I figured it would stop at 1200, I just thought it was moving kind of fast considering how much I have to lose.
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I went from 300 to 135 in my early 20's to 400+ in my 30's ..now I am at 315 at 43 and shooting for a healthy 140-150 in 2-3 years. There is no 'normal' for me, either I choose to starve myself or I choose to over eat. Going down to 135 involved purging, laxatives, walking 10-20 miles per day, dexatrim (the old banned…
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When I went from 300 to 140 in my 20's my mother and my boss would not let any opportunity go by without telling someone how fat I used to be. "Hi, this is Stacy, she used to weigh 300lbs." My mother even went so far as to turn me around and lift my shirt to show that I no longer had that "fat a**" to her friends that had…
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I log my dinner and then look at before and after pictures of body lifts boob lifts and wonder if I will be able to afford to fix the damage done once the weight is gone.
