50 Pounds to Subaru Journal

Woohooo on the jeans!!!! That's a big deal!! :D:D
I can't wait to see the costume!! I've always wanted to make a set of wings, dove wings with black feathers.. no particular purpase, just because...lol.
 
Thanks for the encouragement everybody!!! I'm jazzed about the jeans!

It's amazing - my dedication to weight loss seems directly proportional to the amount of time I spend on this message board. I haven't been doing so great the last couple of days. It's been rainy and I've been busy and I just haven't been doing what I should. But, I haven't gained which is amazing.

My wings for this costume are very small, but some day I'm going to do a costume with huge ones a la

I got my wig yesterday. Today I should be able to post progress pictures. Yay!
 
I HIT 30 POUNDS LOST TODAY!!!! OMG this is really happening!

I kind of think of all this weight loss as not real, you know? My projected goal to be at today is 185.3 and I could still hit that tomorrow with a big meal today. But - no matter how much I ate today I couldn't jump back up to 213.4 tomorrow! I need to start seeing my weight loss as real.
 
well, if you pull a pair of pants out that you used to wear and see how they fall offa you i'm sure it will hit!
 
Well - it's obviously been a while since I've posted. I've been fantastically busy. My birthday was Saturday, and I must admit I went on kind of a 4 day eating spree.

Yesterday when I weighed after work i was at 182.4, which was just under my current goal. This morning I'm at 182.6 when I'm supposed to be at 182.3, so I'm going to weigh again at home and see if I make it.

Today I have work until 2, then school from 4-9:15. I'm not sure yet how I am going to handle dinner on Tuesdays this semester. 4-9:15 is a long time to not eat.
 
I am continually amazed that how dedicated i am seems directly linked to how often I visit here. Or perhaps it's that the more dedicated I am the more I visit. Either way, I should do better at posting.

Two friends came and worked out with me last night - I'm thrilled. I am recommitting to using fitday and getting these last twenty pounds off of me!
 
Howdy! Just thought I would pop by and say hi! Isn't it amazing that there is only 20 pounds to go? Great job so far and I am eagerly waiting for you in your costume pics!!!!! Hope your having a good day!
 
Things are going great! My weight has stabilized around 182.8 for several days now (nearly TOM), but my friends have started working out with me! There are three of us who go and we are all doing fitday too.

I have a several month head start on them, but I'm so glad they're coming. One of my friends who is about 260 lbs and I are having a contest. On the treadmill her calories burn faster because of her extra weight, but I can go faster than she can right now, so we end up about even. We are going to start having a contest, each week who can burn the most calories in a half hour. Last night we were exactly even - but I have never pushed so hard in my life. We can each see the other's current count so we are constantly upping our speed and incline to try to reach the other.

Since I have friends who have been doing this all with me I will probably be posting less than normal but for the first time it won't mean that I'm slipping up!
 
I need to talk something out and I think this would be a pretty good place.

Yesterday my friends and I went to the science center. One of my friends, Carrie, brought a new friend I hadn't met - Ryan. Carrie and Ryan are just friends, so afterwords I asked for Ryan's contact information and asked him out.

Now - Ryan turned me down because he is interested in Carrie, but this isn't the point of my story. Ryan is overweight and in the back of my mind I wondered if I really wanted to go out with him - purely because of his weight.

How can I - who struggles with weight - be so shallow? But it isn't just a physical attraction issue. I have been working so hard to value health and fitness that being with someone who doesn't value those things would be tough.

What do you think? I like to think that I'm not actually as shallow as my thoughts, after all - I really did ask him out and he's the one who turned me down. I just don't like this side of myself.
 
i don't think you can help who you are and aren't attracted to - sometimes the person's personality does win out over their outward appearance (if that weren't he case I'd never have had a date)

I don't think wanting your SO to look a certain way is shallow, as long as you arent with that person purely because of their ornamental status?

I think you're human... :D

Why did you ask him out?
 
Well - I asked him out because he really did have a good personality and we had fun. He is a Christian which is a must for me, and interested in the same things so I gave it a go. If he had said yes I would have gone out with him and see what happened from there.

I told myself that I wouldn't worry about appearances and the finer points of whether it was a good idea until he said yes. After all, he did turn me down so why stress. I just was kind of surprised to see so much doubt in me.
 
I am dating a guy who is overweight and I remember when I first saw him I didn't have the best thoughts. Mean thoughts. Shallow seems to be the right word. But we ended up getting together and we hit it off and our year anniversary is coming up in 2 weeks:) I struggle with wanting him to diet and exercise with me and wanting him to do something to drop because I know he can but I remind myself that everyone loses at their own time in their own way. However, even with the bad shallow thoughts I had I fell in love with him! I think those thoughts are normal. You are looking for "someone" and before you know them you just have the physical to go by. An overweight person is someone that you may think is lazy, doesn't take care of themselves etc. (sort of subconcious thought) and that usually isn't someone you are interested in. I think it is when you get to know people that your first "shallow" judgements are let go and you see who they are. Don't stress:) You asked him out and didn't let your first judgements get in the way of seeing that he was a cool guy.
 
mishi said:
An overweight person is someone that you may think is lazy, doesn't take care of themselves etc. (sort of subconcious thought) and that usually isn't someone you are interested in. I think it is when you get to know people that your first "shallow" judgements are let go and you see who they are.
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I think you're spot on. I just haven't ever found myself discrimininating against overweight people, since all of my friends are big. But - when it came to a guy i thought of it as lazy instead of the same sorts of things I and all my friends struggle with. I'll just have to make a concious effort to not act on those first impressions.
 
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