buckeye86 Member

I'm 5'5" SW:207.6 (GW:145) CW:135.7 UGW:130

I have no doubt you can do it. I'd never been a size 4 in my life until now. I'm way smaller than I was in high school. I also felt like I moved through the size 10 pretty quickly as I lost. Even if you make it to a 6 instead of a 2 by this reunion, I'm sure you'll be one of the most fit people there :)

Definitely take a before picture. I wish I'd taken some specifically for that purpose so I could really compare. Also take before measurements. The before and after pictures are about 16 months apart for those who asked. I plateaued around 185 and 140 for a couple months each if I remember right.

I am none of those things, but I often eat organic food and I'm also vegetarian. I guess it doesn't count because I don't necessarily seek it out.

When I last renewed it (in 2009) I changed it to 180 from 150 so I wasn't lying too much since I was about 195. I gained more after that, but now I'm about 137 and it still says 180. The 150 was wishful thinking in the first place. I know I already weighed more than that since I wasn't 12 when I got my license.

Thank you! I just make sure to log everything I eat. I haven't actually cut anything out of my diet, but I eat a lot less "bad" high calorie stuff than before because that just means I can't eat more food throughout the day. I haven't been quite as dedicated with making sure to work out a lot, though I am definitely more…

Anybody?

Not sure how to shrink the pic if anyone wants to help with that?

I just bought a bikini, though no clue if I'll feel comfortable enough to wear it in public. On the other hand, the only person I need to impress is myself (and the bf, but he'd still want me in a bikini if I gained a bunch of weight back, so that doesn't count.) There is the option of a monokini? More revealing than a…

I've never really had a problem with how I looked naked... I'd like to look good in cute clothes. Weird how I'm way more self conscious with clothes on.

I like wrangler butt tight (just not wranglers. They make butts look oblong). I'm a fan of snug bootcut Levis on a cowboy with nice big muscular thighs. I do despise little boy looking skinny jeans, though.

I've tried that one, too... Makes it worse. Just like it makes my headaches worse (though I'd never use that as an excuse).

It goes by percentage since that's how nutrition labels have it. So 100% is the daily recommended intake. I try to go for 200-300% since I have iron issues. If I actually took as much as the dr prescribed, I'd be even higher than that. Edit: I'm a 25 year old woman and I found out I had low iron because of dizziness and…

Doesn't work for me. I've tried curling up, heating pad, walking/exercising, advil, midol, etc... The only thing that works when they get bad is a muscle relaxer. It's a muscle that needs to relax lol. Works faster and longer than the max dose of motrin/advil. Not sure why people don't use it more often. (My gyn was nice…

You look beautiful! (And I'm super jealous of your hair. It's exactly how I've been saying the past few years I wish mine looked!)

I wish I'd seen this earlier. I've been in the same boat. I do drink occasionally, but more often than not I won't be drinking when I go out with my friends. For the first several months it really bothered me how some people reacted to it. I even had a boyfriend (didn't last long) who wouldn't take me to hang out with him…

I'm pretty close to obsessed with it as I am with the scale. It's crazy how much the measurements can change with fluctuations in water weight, etc. I just do it several times a week out of curiosity, not because I feel it makes any difference in measuring the weight loss. I'll compare them every couple months.

I'm in the same boat lately. I use the comments to keep me going. I have a healthy BMI, but my body fat % is still higher than I'd like it to be. If they want to tell me I'm too skinny or try to get me to eat food way over my calories, that's not my problem. I'm way better at saying no and/or only eating what I can factor…

You pretty much said it in your post OP... I don't want advice on what to eat. Everyone has different opinions on what somebody should eat and nobody really agrees (including people who do it for a living). When I'm interested in changing some particular thing, I'll look it up. I just don't want lots of people trying to…

Definitely bigger boobs. I've had several people make comments lately about how my boobs are shrinking so much. They're still spilling out of D's! (But I went from a 40 D to a 34 D/DD, so yes they have shrank significantly). My mom keeps pointing out that I can wear those cute dresses without bras anymore since I couldn't…

I know someone who lost a lot of weight in a short time who constantly had kidney stones. It's important to drink lots of water (I wish I followed my own advice on that).

I have a friend with RA, so I'm sure the journey so far has been difficult. You're doing an amazing job especially since you've been able to reach this goal in a month!

I don't have time to read through everything to see if anyone mentioned this, but there are a few in the middle options. For high school, I did independent studies at a charter school that was actually in my public school district. I LOVED it. It depends on the individual, but I enjoyed school just not the social aspect of…

My almost 69 lb loss has been since Dec 2010. Sometimes it feels like things aren't moving until I look a few months before and realize they definitely still are. I know if I made an instant drastic change I personally wouldn't be able to maintain. I lost 35 lbs in 3 months when I was 17, and let's just say I wish I'd only…

I see a lot of people say it's pointless to specifically do ab exercises, but I don't care whether or not they'll make them look pretty because I like feeling those muscles burn by themselves sometimes :)

Wow! I had to stop last month on W2D2 because of a car accident, but this makes me look forward to starting over again in a week or two (when the whiplash is easier to deal with). Thanks for the inspiration!

Since I haven't posted this before and this seems like a good thread to do it.... when I started working out I really loved the 10 minute solution target toning for beginners with Cindy Whitmarsh. I still do it now when I want something a little more toned down. I <3 Cindy, she's not obnoxious in this video at all which…

I've been with... Wait, that wasn't the question. Yes, I've met some famous people. Is this the name dropping to sound cool thread? I think my sister's first one is more interesting... One of the old Busch guys (I'm assuming Gussie Busch because of the time frame) asked my sister to ride in the carriage with the Budweiser…

I've been diagnosed bipolar and taken a billion different meds that make you gain 15 lbs just in the first 2 weeks... but I'm starting to question it since I've been relatively stable the past couple years. I know I know, normal periods in between episodes :). Actually, my weight loss journey started from the first 20-30…

I mix whey protein with my amazing unsweetened sunflower milk. http://www.sunrich.com/pdfs/sol.pdf