Dropping my last 50

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CatieM1114

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For the past few years, I've been gradually gaining a lot of weight. One day a few weeks ago, my mom went out ad bought a new scale because the old one had been broken for about a year. I stepped on, and realized that in the past 3 years, i had gained almost 70 pounds. I couldn't believe it. I'd been in denial for so long that seeing the numbers right in front of me truly scared me.So I decided that I was going to drop those 70 pounds, and work my way back to the healthy weight i was at 3 years ago.


Let's get one thing straight, I'm someone who wins. It's always been what I do. I have to beat everybody at everything. If everyone else wakes up at 7, I wake up at 6:30. If my best friend got a 90% on a big test, I get a 95%. So losing this weight will hopefully be easy for me because I accomplish what I set my mind to. Also, I'm dieting with a friend, so with that pressure to reach my goal faster that she reaches hers, things will be a whole lot easier.


I've already lost 20 pounds. I'm planning on losing the remaining 50 by my birthday in November. Things seem really easy now because I've got summer break where I can decide what I want to eat and when. But when school starts up again and I have to deal with unhealthy school lunches on top of my perpetually busy schedule, I have a feeling I'll start to slip. But I've just got to keep at it. I'm going to post on here every day until I reach my goal, that way I have somewhere where I can list all of my accomplishments and bitch about all of my failures.


I'm 5 foot 2. I want to lose 50 pounds in 3 months. I got this. Don't I? :biggrin:
 
AHello CatieM, and welcome to the forum, and congratulations on the 20 pounds so far! That is awesome! You sound like one determined person! It's excellent to set goals...but, they must be realistic. Losing 50 pounds in3 months is probably too ambitious, and you're setting yourself up for an unhealthy behavior...sure, you could stave yourself, lose it, and lose muscle in the meantime and totally screw up your metabolism...something you don't want to do, if you are interested in keeping the weight off, and I assume you are like most of us...we want to get it off and keep it off. The healthy goal should be no more than 1% of your body weight per month, and at the beginning, the weight does come off quicker for most people...so I encourage you to re evaluate...what's one or two months in the grand scheme of things??

Continue making good earring choices and exercising to keep active, and it will come off naturally and healthy!!

Good choices to you

Sarah
 
I know that my goal may seem a little unrealistic, but I am really ambitious. If I stick with this though, and make it all the way until my birthday, maybe I'll feel better about the way I look and stop trying to drop those last few pounds. And if not, I'll just extend my deadline.


Today was a good day. I had a few calories less than what I normally have, but that's fine. I normally have 1250-1300 calories in a day. I'm not very tall, so my doc says that's all I really need.


I think my worst enemy is my mother. She's always buying chips and cookies at the grocery store because I have siblings and they really aren't into eating healthy at all. So when there's a pack of chips ahoy in the kitchen, the temptation is just sometimes too good. So I sort of try to encourage them to finish those snacks before I can get at them.


I'm worried about tomorrow though. It's my brother's birthday and my mom bought the cake already. It's huge and tempting and I don't know how I'm going to resist having a slice. I'm actually hoping that the cake ends up tasting horrible, so that way my problem is solved. But then there's the problem of the party we're having, where my mom usually cooks a lot more than she normally does and somehow we end up with more snacks in the pantry than any normal family would need. And there are only going to be a few family and friends coming over. So yeah, tomorrow's going to be a hard one. I just hope I can work my way through.
 
Hey Catie,

You are determined aren't you?!! That focus will do you well...in weight loss and in life! You go girl! For the birthday party tomorrow..you might try going to your mother and brother and let them know ahead of time that you will not be having any cake because you are watching what you eat and ask if you can bring some fresh fruit for your desert..just an idea not to have to eat the cake, and "hope it tastes horrible" (fat chance of that isn't it?!) My guess is, they will understand completely and applaud you for your choices...if not, it's just a good opportunity to stay the course and keep on track with your plan!


Keep at it and here's hoping you continue to make good choices!


Sarah
 
Well, I made it through the day! It's almost 9:00 PM where I am, and I am already exhausted. Everyone's gone home, party's over, and I'm pretty happy about that. I'm not anti-social, but being around family for too long really takes a lot out of me.


I had goals for today, and I reached them all. I stayed under my calorie limit, I didn't have that oh-so-tempting slice of cake, and I actually managed to get in a workout. I combined a lot of my favorite ways to work out, I ran, did some yoga, and even found a few exercise videos online. :)


All in all, very good day. I think I'm gonna go to bed now, cuz I'm exhausted and I have an early day tomorrow. I have this thing where I just have to be awake before everyone else in the house, so I'll probably be up by 7 AM tomorrow. What I like to do is go for a run in the morning because it makes me feel so fresh and exhilarated. You know, because of the adrenaline rush. So yeah, I'm gonna do that. And then I have to do some laundry. I hate doing laundry, but my cousin always comes out to the laundromat with me so it isn't so bad when I have someone to talk to.


After laundry, I'm just going to be so busy all day with packing (I'm moving in a week), cooking (I like to help my mom cook, it gives us time to spend together and it means I can control what goes into my meals), and babysitting. I guess that means it's good I like to run in the morning because I probably won't get another chance to do anything for myself at all tomorrow.


Until tomorrow,

BYE! :seeya:
 
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