It has been a long while!

I figured I would update....after a few stressful weeks and bad eating habits, my weight has fluctuated. I was up, I was the same, I was not good. Finally I have lost the past 3 (I think) weeks in a row, bringing me down to 152.8, the lowest I've been since around last Thanksgiving. (I think that is when my weight gain began, although I may have been chunkier then and didn't even realize it.) Anyways, I am happy to report that I am losing again, and have a small glimmer of hope that I will reach my goal weight before my sisters wedding. Realistically, with my current pace and ensuing nervous breakdowns before the bar, I'm guessing (HOPING/PRAYING) that I will drop to 145. I would be ecstatic! Anyways...back to work! Hope all is well :)

quick update

Gained 3.2 pounds in 13 days. YUCK. YUCK. YUCK. Back on track this week....hoping for a good (2+) loss!

10%!!!

In the midst of the craziness yesterday (thank you both for your help!) I failed to post my awesome news...I have officially lost 10% of my starting weight! I got an awesome little keychain (not really, but its pretty much the only tangible thing WW gives you haha) and I'm pretty excited and motivated to lose the rest of the weight! I am down 17.6, only 13.6 left to go :)

fun stuff

this is the fun part about the online tools with weight watchers: Charts!!

-1.8!!!

It has been exactly 12 weeks I've since I've started Weight Watchers. In that time I have lost a grand total of 16 lbs......averaging 5lbs per month. Slower than I had hoped, but I still think it is good progress. Today I was down 1.8 lbs. Next week, I should be at 10% which is great. We have a new leader, who is probably 20 years younger than the last one, and I really like her. Someone got 10% this week and she stayed after to talk with them about goals and what not, so I'm excited to see what she has to say next week. They also recognized me this week b/c I did a 5K over the weekend. I'll get my 5K charm for my key chain toward the end of May -they don't have them yet b/c I did my 5K too early haha. I announced my goal was to run a 5K by the end of the summer. So that is a new goal that I have to stick with! I guess that is all for now. :)

How is everyone else fairing?

lost 1 pound

at least this is in the right direction. my weight loss has definitely slowed down :( EC is great at making me workout. sooo i'm hoping i will continue this downward trend. i have a few new goals along the way to my ideal goal, so i'm hoping this is my turning point to get over this "plateau" of sorts. we shall see. i thought my plateau would come at 150, but i guess not? lets hope i don't plateau again in 7 pounds!! psssssssss if i lose 3 lbs this week (highly unlikely) then i will be down 10%!!! that will be super exciting AND i get a key chain :)

+0.6 lbs

Not bad for a holiday weekend!!!

157.4

Slowly inching toward the finish line. Emphasis: SLOWLY

IMPORTANT

We all need to get together for something fun!! Maybe a healthy dinner?? We can do homemade (I <3 Cooking) or go out somewhere-where no one will make you feel pressured to eat the amazing dessert or have empty calorie drinks or will make fun of you for eating salad! :)

Spring Break Bust!!

Too much beer and too many shots and too much dessert crushed my weight loss this week! Uh oh! Gained 1.6!!! BUT here is the thing that might not make it all that bad (maybe?)...I wore a dress with flip flops to weigh in. Without socks or tights. Health department rules: cannot stand on a public scale barefoot! So, I had to weigh in wearing flip flops. And not the Old Navy lightweight ones. These were from NY&Co and probably weight a few more oz/lb than I would have if I were wearing nylons. Next time I will remember. OH shoot, I just remembered I had a pair of knee highs in my car I could've put on. Oh well. I guess that means, if it was in fact the flip flops that added to my weight, then next week I will lose more!

-12.6 lbs

I dropped 3.2 this week, putting me at 158.6 :) I'm pretty excited about it. 8.6 till I get back to my "normal" weight...then on to the big push. So yay. good week!

Lost 5%!

I ended up losing 2.2 lbs this past week, but I'll admit it was *not* the healthiest way. I went way over my points earlier in the week, so my last 2 days I ate a total of 16.5 points...when I'm supposed to have 23 each day. So yes, I am now at 161.8, which is great, but if I eat normally this week, I won't be surprised if I don't lose anything when I weigh in next week. But, I have officially lost 5% (9.4 lbs) which is pretty exciting! Next goal, 10% (17 lbs) aka 7.6 lbs. I'm currently averaging 1.6 lbs lost per week, which would mean it would take me another month+ to get there. I'm hoping to stick with my points and lose 2lbs a week (which is healthy) but we will seeeeee.

Highs & Lows

High: I just realized my current weight, 164, is now a healthy weight for my height! Very exciting, but not enough for me. :) I was measured for my MOH dress for my sisters wedding back in January-first she wanted to size me at 14, then redid it and my size was 12. I got resized yesterday, and my new size is a 10! My goal is to be a size 6 for the wedding...hence the size 6 challenge. We shall see! lol I don't even know what size my goal weight (140) would put me...I hope it is a 6!

Lows: I'm glad my time line to reach my goals is August!!! I thought I was doing well this week, but I was wrong. Not having my points tracker tool with me on my retreat on Saturday killed me. I ate a piece of carrot cake. Carrot cake has 16 points!!!!! To put that in perspective, I'm only supposed to have 23 points per day. Ugh. Also, went out w/EC on Saturday night and drank...and then ate pizza rolls. Guess who woke up Sunday morning with 0 points left for the day. Lucky me. Then I went to the mall w/my family after dress fitting, and ate Teriyaki Chicken. At least I split that with my mom. Needless to say, I am so beyond my weekly points limit :( I'm hoping today & tomorrow to eat less than 23 points to maybe make up for eating those extra points.

UGH I hate being fat!

Working It Out

So although I haven't been eating quite the way I should YET I have been working out a whole lot! I have been running at least 30 minutes at least three days a week. I love it. It helps me clear my head and makes me feel better about life! :) PS pretty sure I gained weight this week...cupcakes are my weakness!

+ 0.2 :(

BIRTHDAY. CAKE.

-3.4 What?!?

Somehow, I'm not quite sure how or why, I lost 3.4 pounds this week!! Totally makes up for my .2 week. I'm pretty much back on track for what I was hoping....and if I have another great week next week, I could hit my 10 lbs by my birthday! (technically day after bday...) Oh so yeah my track I thought I would be on....2lbs per week until I hit 150, then I expect it will be ALOT harder to drop. Anyways yay for weight loss. Hope everyone else is doing well :) Oh PS -3.4 got me a 5lb star at weigh-in, and puts me at 163.8.

-0.2

Not exactly the best progress, but it is progress nonetheless....

My scale is mocking me...

So I thought I would share this bit of information from my morning weigh in. I didn't do very well with my eating yesterday (that's putting it mildly - I ate doughnuts) so I knew that my weight was going to go up a bit (should have been back around 150ish). I got on the scale preparing myself for the worst and the stupid scale, which just had its battery changed, announced that I weighed 133 lbs. Figuring that I just wasn't standing on it correctly, I tried again - this time it informed me that I had somehow lost 25 lbs and was somewhere around 126 lbs. Trying one more time, I managed to gain back 10 of those lbs and went back up to about 136 lbs. I then realized that the scale was just being mean and mocking me (or being nice and not showing me just how bad my weigh-in would have been today) and gave up.

I'm going to try and put myself on WW for Lent - I'm hoping that forcing myself to do it for those 40 days will get me in the habit. I'll let you know how it goes this time around...

JSW

-1.2

YAY I actually went down 1.2 lbs this week! Want to know why......because I wore a dress instead of my jeans lol I really think if I wore jeans like I did the past 2 weeks, I know I would've gained instead of lost. (Thank you Superbowl party) Oh well.....next week I will lose and weigh in with jeans. :)

-2.6

YAY! First week of WW was a success :) I lost 2.6 pounds in 1 week. I'm trying not to get too excited b/c I know that I will not be able to keep up this pace. (In fact, I actually shouldn't be losing more than 2lbs in 1 week). BUT I am very happy for the time being! I am nervous (probably prematurely) about what is going to happen when I hit 150lbs. 150-155 is the weight I've been able to maintain for a while. However, that is not the weight I am happy with. We will see if I can break that plateau.....I just hope I don't quit when it gets harder to drop those last 10 or so pounds.

Anyways....I'm at 168.6 (although on my scale....I've reached 166.5. I'll just go with WW to be consistent). Happy day, I'm on the right track.

Frustration, Frustration and More Frustration

So I'm really not sure what I am going to do at this point. I've tried cutting down on in-between meal snacks, I've tried running on the treadmill every day, I've tried watching what I eating during my regular meals and yet all that has occurred is that I go up and down two to three pounds. I'm not sure what else I can do except stop eating altogether.

I'm really at my wits end with this and I'm so sick of being stuck...

Uh oh....

So I'm spending the weekend with my family -tonight going to a hockey game w/my dad & sis, tomorrow/sunday going to Slippery Rock for my sister's performance- and I'm worried about how its all gonna go down. I don't really want to tell them I joined WW, mainly because I will not get a positive reaction from them, but I really don't want to mess up my points the first week. I'm still new at this, so its not like I can guess points or remember everything to track later, I'm gonna have to bring my packet o' information with me. Ugh. Plus they always like eating alot and always have reasons why I shouldn't worry about what I'm eating. (But its of course ok for my Mom to not eat alot cuz she had that surgery to lose weight, or its ok for my sister to not eat alot b/c she is picky....I have no reason not to eat. Right.)

Anyhoo....I'm bringing my stuff with me and hopefully will be able to keep to points and maybe sneak in the bathroom to record it! lol

Weight Watchers!

I had my first meeting today. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm paying to lose weight, but at the same time I'm excited b/c I think it will work. Plus my cousin in Cincy goes to WW too, so we can be buddies lol. I weighed in at 171.2 and of course I will keep you posted on my progress!

169!

My scale said 169 today! Yay! Granted it was right before I took a shower this morning, so I hadn't ate anything and I didn't have bulky clothes on, but it is a number in the right direction :) -KR

Boo.

I am getting no where with this weight loss. I had a bad weekend last weekend when I spent it in Cincy with my 2 fav cousins. We ate a sh*t ton of crap. This past week was ok. Nothing too stellar. I really need to start adding physical activity back into my life. Hopefully starting this week, working only 20 hours/week, only 2 1/2 classes (legal drafting = 1/2), I will be able to start movin' and shakin'. Also, one of my old roommate's friends wants to start taking adult tap classes with me! Should be fun if she can find us a class. And, last but not least, I am starting Weight Watchers this week. I think if I am paying someone to tell me how to lose weight-which I know how to do by myself- I will be much more likely to follow it. I don't want to waste my money, so I'll follow it and lose weight. Hopefully.

:)

Well, I was doing well...

I was doing so much better at the end of last week. I hadn't been on the treadmill as much as I would have liked, but I was still eating a bit better and hadn't had any snacks or anything throughout the week. Even ended the week about 2 lbs down from my starting weight. Then this week it all fell apart. I went into work yesterday and someone had brought in doughnuts. Shouldn't have been a problem - I was eating my breakfast cereal (I have a container that I bring some cereal and milk to work) and I should have just ignored the doughnuts in the office kitchen. Which, as I'm sure you have guessed, I was unable to do - twice :( By the end of the day I had eaten two Krispy Cream doughnuts. I figured that I could try and make up for this by running on the treadmill in the evening. When I got home, I started to run, but because I hadn't slept well the night before, I only made it for a half-hour before I had to give up.

I weighed myself this morning (it showed that I had gained almost 1.5 lbs) but I'm not sure if the scale was actually correct or not, so I'm going to wait until tomorrow morning's weigh-in before I get way too upset over it. I'm going to force myself to get back on the treadmill tonight when I get home from class and hopefully I will make it through the whole workout this time around.

Also, I wanted to know if you guys had heard about a new weight-loss program that is out there. It is called the "4 x 400 diet" (or something along those lines) where you eat 4 meals / times per day, but each time you eat, you only eat 400 calories at a time. Apparently it is supposed to speed up your metabolism and at the same time keep your calorie count down. I supposed you could also do a 4 x 450 or 4 x 500 if 400 calories at a sitting isn't enough for you. Just thought I would share that - I'm kind of considering trying to do something like that once I officially get my work and school schedules worked out.

By the end of the week, I want to be down to at least the 146s - that would be about 3 lbs since the start (not a lot, but at least a start, I guess).

-JSW

Hi My Name is Big E and I Am A Fat Kid

so in extreme desperation for food and needing medicine and feeling sorry for myself I went to Acme yesterday...ugh I am a compulsive grocery shopper...so what did I buy you ask?!?! the most amazing fat kid food ever...sour cream dip (like the french onion kind) that was flavored white cheddar and bacon...all kinds of amazing...now i am terrified of getting on the scale...i am weak :(

on a different note: i have been parking further away than necessary when i come to campus lately so that i have to walk...yes it sucks cause it is cold but the bright side is that i get exercise...

The Pie that Killed Me

So I exchanged my labor law books with a certain master baker night student who made me the most AMAZING chocolate rum pecan pie!!!!!!!!!!!! so amazing, but do you know how bad it is for you? oh mannn it is my demise. so, when i went home yesterday for my dad's bday, i left about half+ for my parents to enjoy. it was so sad leaving the pie, but it was the right thing to do. i knew i left the pie in the correct home. anyways, so today i came home from class hungry, so i had my last piece of pie. and was still having a grumbling tummy so i ate some of matt's pizza rolls. dang. i was doing well today soon. i can't wait till i get rid of the crap in my apt so my only option is healthiness. ughhh i suck with self-control. tomorrow is another day with no pie and no pizza rolls. weight 171.5 pre-pie/pizza. goal for the remainder of the week and next week.....negative scale results each day. oh! new goal as well....my 25th bday is exactly 7 weeks from yesterday. i want to lose 12 pounds by then. pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase hold me accountable :)

Quick Question

Thoughts on Weight Watchers/Jenny Craig? Anyone try it before or know people who have? Thanks :)

NUMBER CRUNCH

okay so here is the number low down...

right now i am weighing in at 147...BUT i was sick for three days and didn't eat so i am gonna round this up to 152 cause i have dropped quite a bit in the past few days...not holding any food down is NOT a good diet kids! (don't try this at home...or even worse at a friend's apartment)

my official goal...to be at 130 by finals time...i would like to look good this summer and i am quite ready to spend some time at the beach...plus if i look good i will feel good...this is a reasonable goal because it is five pounds a month...

so kr and i went to applebees tonight...we both had the asiago peppercorn steak for dinner...it is on the 550 calorie menu and was amazingly delicious...negative was the price point but you get what you pay for :)

ps...i really don't want to go to class tomorrow night!

Life's a bitch and then you die.

Alright time for my first pre-diet post!

So, let's start with the easy stuff. My starting weight is roughly 170 lbs, height 5'8", BMI 25 = Overweight! A healthy BMI is around 22. My first goal is 150 lbs, my second goal after that is back to size 6 (currently size 10/12). Now to the long part where I may ramble.

Why I am overweight:

Genetics: Both my parents are, scratch that, were overweight. I've got aunts, uncles & cousins on both sides of the family that are overweight

Lazy; overeat; no love life (when i'm interested in a guy, i am more conscious of maintaining a healthy weight); stress; emotional eater....and i'm sure more!

We will start with my weight issue history. I was a dancer from the age 3 until my senior year of college. (yeah, I was an idiot and drunkly did the splits and tore my hamstring the week before classes my senior year, ending my dance career) During high school I of course wanted to be skinnier, but never really had an issue with my weight. My main issues started in college. My first semester I started around 150 lbs, and ended the semester at 170. Yes, I gained 20 lbs in about 4 months. When I realized that I can't the weight, I decided to do something about it. I started the South Beach Diet - which my dad did and lost about 50-75 lbs- and I lost those 20 lbs second semester. Sophomore & Junior year I still maintained my weight in the 150s. Senior year, after my hamstring healed, I started training for a half marathon, which promptly ended b/c when I went home for Christmas break and had no desire to run in the snow. Plus I hate running anyways. Second semester I got a personal trainer and did my best to stay in shape. I love lifting weights fyi. Then.....law school.

Law school ruins lives. My weight has been up and down during law school and I don't think there is 1 specific thing I can point to as the cause of my weight loss. My law school low was when I fit into NY & Co size 6 pants (NY&C runs large) and my high weight is now....roughly 170. (roughly= at least) At one point it was low b/c I wanted things to work out w/Stephen. I made sure to eat well, do my work out videos, whitened my teeth etc. b/c I was so body conscious around him. That didn't work, and I think this past spring semester was when the weight started packing on. I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do now do get the weight off, and keep the weight off.

Here's how I've attempted to lose weight in the past:

South Beach Diet: lost 20 pounds in 4 months, but that was also eating on campus at the dining hall where I could easily eat healthy options that tasted good and didn't cost me anything.

My own diet: Average 7,000 calories per week, no more than 1500 in 1 day, no pop, 64 oz. of water per day, no food after 9pm. This worked, but was impossible to maintain. Its pretty much what I did in the stephen weightloss era.

Eat in moderation: Psh. Epic fail.

Oh I forgot to mention I can become obsessed about learning how to lose weight. I can tell you how many calories you are eating, how much sodium, what food choices are good, which ones are bad, which restaurants have the best/worst food and what those are...etc. What vitamins/supplements are good/bad....I mean I can tell you a lot. Not saying I follow it, but I know it.

Anyways, I was toying around with either doing Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig. I've got 7 months to drop weight before my sister's wedding. I figured it would be a healthy way to lose the weight, instead of my create-your-own diet (being excited b/c you had 900 cals 3 days in a row is not healthy when you need about 1900ish per day), but it would be costly. I could do South Beach, but it is so easy to not follow through, and that diet you have to follow. If you cheat at all, it doesn't work. Ugh I hate that I have so much weight to lose, but I've gotta do it. Then maybe my love live will pick up lol. I need to buy a digital scale (I have the non-digital kind) so I can accurately track my weight!

One last thing, my mom had gastric bypass surgery and I am very bitter about that. I would write about that now, but I'm sleepy, and this post is long enough as is!

~KR

FLABULOUS...not so much

my goal is to fit back in my absolutely adorable pair of american eagle jeans with the pink stitching they are a size six...don't really know how much weight this is but that is my goal...

a bit of background on me...the summer of 2006 i became anorexic...not because i thought i was fat but because i had a lot of personal stress going on in my life...my mom was in the hospital for over three months and my dad lost his job...i had absolutely no appetite...i would have around 2 meals every 3 days if that and they weren't even full meals...getting me to eat was a real challenge...so that being said i went from being a size 12 pant size to a size 4 pant size in the course of about 4 months...eventually things started getting better with the family and i got depressed over a boy so i started eating again...and ended up back at about a size 10 pant size at the moment...

so i really want to exercise more and be healthier...i make truly poor eating choices although i did give up pop at the beginning of the year...i really want our group to support each other with our eating choices as well as keeping us honest with exercising...

-ec

Introductory Goals - JW

Up through my senior year of college, I was really good about watching my weight and exercising, but when I started on a new med that caused me to gain 20 lbs, I got frustrated and really just let myself go. I'm now at least 20-25 lbs overweight and I hate how out of shape I feel. Every year since college, I have claimed that I was going to work on losing the weight, but have never been able to discipline myself enough to actually do so. This is the year that I want to change that trend.

I have a couple of goals that I am looking to accomplish this year. First, I want to get back down to around 125 lbs. I'm only 5'1" and feel that 125 lbs would be a good and healthy weight for me. I started this year at 149.4 lbs and have been bouncing between that weight and 148.6 lbs during this first week of attempted weight loss. I think that if I could lose a minimum of 2-3 lbs per week, I would feel good about my weight loss.

I also want to be able to run a half-marathon by the end of this year (my 53 year old mother runs marathons and she didn't even start running until she was 45 years old). I'm currently working out on my treadmill every day. I'm doing a combination of walking and jogging for 40 minutes and my short term goal is to be able to jog/run the full 40 minutes. I'm hoping to be able to do this by February 1.

I really think that we all can do this! Good luck to all!

-JW

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-KR