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You look fantastic. I wish I had your shoulder width. I think I have pretty broad shoulders, and congrats on getting so close to your goal weight (per your doctor).
 
Thanks guys! I feel better now - both your encouragement and quitting the stupid websites.

I am battling with myself over what I should have for dinner. I'll call my mom soon - see if she's cooking.
 
You are doing so well!! I am very impressed! and with your costume making skills! You are going to look great. Don't sweat the comments- I can't see why anyone would make them for one.. You look great!! I am very excited for you! Congratulations on the success and the 170's!!
 
Thanks!

Things are going so well in my life right now. I'm seeing the light at the end of the weight loss tunnel - convention season is starting soon - things are going well at work - I'm getting ready start looking for new apartments and that always jazzes me....

Things are good.
 
108.4. Two days in a row. And I worked really hard yesterday. That's always a little discouraging.

But - the last number I was stuck at was 182.8 so I'll still claim this a success.

I've been working extra hard this week on improving my self image. I've spent a lot of time in front of the mirror and realizing that I'm not as bad looking as I've always believed. Even aside from the extra weight I always disliked my face - but it's really not bad.
 
So - off topic rant for a moment:

I'm preparing to go to a bridal shower tomorrow. I'm looking for a gift in the registry - and I don't know what my friends are thinking when they pick out this stuff!!!! Yah - people are giving it to you as a gift, but people are only spending so much and you can be darned sure that if you ask for twelve $50 SOUP BOWLS (!?!?!!!) then you're not going to be getting very much else. Or maybe I should pool together my money with my friends and buy a share of the $120 sugar bowl. Happy wedding: The 6 of us got you this sugar bowl!!!!
 
yay! Back down to 178.6. Feelin' good.

Actually - this month I've only lost a little over 4 lbs. That's kind of discouraging to realize. Most months I've lost 7-9 lbs so I feel like this month has been super slow. Plateauing for 2 weeks is what did it, I'm sure.

Yet - I'm happy with my progress. I'm not feeling like quitting at all, it's just suddenly realizing I may be several more weeks away from my goal than I thought.
 
There used to be a really cute guy that worked out late in my apartment gym. Very often it would just be he and I. A couple of months ago I reported that he walked by my elliptical and said I was doing a good job. Then, he wasn't coming anymore and I assumed he moved out.

Tonight my friends and I went to work out earlier than normal and there he was. I've never had the nerve to use the strength training equipment when he was there but today I went and did it. I went over there and he said that I looked like a totally new person and asked how much I had lost :) We chatted for a few minutes.

How fun!
 
177.2!

I've revised my costume goal weight to 170. This puts my goal more in line with what I'm actually accomplishing. I'll need to lose about 1.4 lbs per week to hit 170 by the convention.

I have another convention with this same costume in the first week of July so that will give me another 3 months to finish my weight loss and start learning my maintenance.

I'm finding it difficult to describe how excited I am.
 
Oh that is soooo wonderful Ashley! I am so glad to hear you so excited. So much good is going on and that feeling just rocks!! I am having a slow February as well. I have only lost 3-4 lbs so far this month but I am not discouraged it is a loss and they say the slower it comes off the longer it stays off:) I am so happy for you!!!
 
Thanks everybody! Mishi - it's good to see you back.

I'm sitting in what may be the world's most boring class right now. "Rhetorical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis" <shudder>

How nice of them to provide power for laptops and free wi-fi so I can read the board here rather than spend my time unconscious in slumber. I have the rare talent of sleeping sitting up, and last week I actually fell so far asleep that I dreamt during the lecture and lost 45 minutes of time. Dang. Semi-paying attention while surfing the Internet is much preferred to that.

I've noticed in the last several weeks that eating 1300 calories or so isn't all that hard. I'm not hungry, I just eat different foods. There were several days last week that I was getting closer to bedtime and realized I needed to eat another couple of hundred calories.

Granted - each Wednesday and Saturday I'm eating closer to 2000 calories so I guess overall I even out to about 1500 daily and my weight loss reflects that.
 
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That's awesome that you get on-line duting class. We were never that likely when I was in college.

Congrats of the calories. Good to be able to control the intake, and only have 2 higher days. I am still getting use to counting the calories and not the weight watchers points. I've found the Spark people help.

Have a great day!
 
Llamabean said:
yay! Back down to 178.6. Feelin' good.

Actually - this month I've only lost a little over 4 lbs. That's kind of discouraging to realize. Most months I've lost 7-9 lbs so I feel like this month has been super slow. Plateauing for 2 weeks is what did it, I'm sure.

Yet - I'm happy with my progress. I'm not feeling like quitting at all, it's just suddenly realizing I may be several more weeks away from my goal than I thought.
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LB, 4 lbs. is great for one month! That probably means you're losing mainly fat, and not so much lean muscle mass.

Keep up the good work!
 
It's amazing how being aware of calories makes them so obvious. Remember what it was like to just eat whatever looked good and not even give a thought to how fattening it was? I used to eat fast food breakfast EVERY DAY. One of my favorites was the Carl's Jr. Breakfast Burger. Let me analyse this piece of food for those of you unfamiliar.

The Breakfast Burger is literally a hamburger designed for breakfast. A slab of meat with cheese, bacon, an egg, and hash brown circles topped off with ketchup. Doesn't that just seem like a ridiculously bad idea now? Add a side of hash brown nuggets and a coke and I was routinely starting my day at 1500 calories. It sounds disgustingly gluttonous now.

Tom - I hadn't even thought of slower weight loss as evidence of retaining lean muscle mass. But it must be true - I've done light strength training every evening - nothing to make me sore the next day but always enough that I struggle a little. Right now I can do almost 20 lbs more on each leg machine and 10 lbs more on each arm machine than I could at the beginning of the month.
 
Llamabean said:
It's amazing how being aware of calories makes them so obvious. Remember what it was like to just eat whatever looked good and not even give a thought to how fattening it was? I used to eat fast food breakfast EVERY DAY. One of my favorites was the Carl's Jr. Breakfast Burger. Let me analyse this piece of food for those of you unfamiliar.

The Breakfast Burger is literally a hamburger designed for breakfast. A slab of meat with cheese, bacon, an egg, and hash brown circles topped off with ketchup. Doesn't that just seem like a ridiculously bad idea now? Add a side of hash brown nuggets and a coke and I was routinely starting my day at 1500 calories. It sounds disgustingly gluttonous now.

Tom - I hadn't even thought of slower weight loss as evidence of retaining lean muscle mass. But it must be true - I've done light strength training every evening - nothing to make me sore the next day but always enough that I struggle a little. Right now I can do almost 20 lbs more on each leg machine and 10 lbs more on each arm machine than I could at the beginning of the month.
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Calories - that's for sure. Last night, my wife and I had a salad. I was about to pour the dressing that came with the salad, and then I looked at the nutrition panel. WHOA! 75 calories per tablespoon! I put it in a side container so my wife could use it, and I went back to Newman's viniagrette, at 30 calories per tablespoon.

Lean body mass -- yes, that's one of the points Steve is always making, and I think I'm really starting to understand it. One of the biggest challenges when you're dropping weight is to keep what muscle strength you still have. If you lose too quickly, you don't just lose fat; you especially lose lean body mass. That's also why weight training is so crucial.
 
Interesting about losing muscle vs. fat. It is so nice to see the lbs drop off but I feel better knowing that even thought the weight loss is slow I am not losing anything (like muscle) that would detriment my health...
Hi Ashley!!! Hope your having a good day:) It is nice to be back!! I missed reading about y'all....
btw: 176 today ;) lol.. I am still feeling like you will ultimatly "beat" me but I have to enjoy it while I am still ahead :)
 
Ooh, Mishi, rubbin' it in! Never know, we're neck and neck heading towards 160! <determined scowl>

Get this guys! I bought shirts size L today! First time in my memory! Ever! Even when I was younger! I was always too intimidated to buy clothes that fit, and I'm smaller now than I even was during high school. I'm only 4 lbs away from the lowest I've ever recorded my weight at.

HOT DOG!
 
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