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kellylmt

kellylmt

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Hey Kids!
I'm new here, but not new to weight loss, as a matter of fact i'm about half way done with my goal. But i'm getting ahead of myself.
Starting Stats
Age: 25
Height: 5'10"
Highest Weight: 250
Starting Weight: 230 5-23-10
Current Weight: 212 8-1-10
Goal Weight: 165
- How do you want to accomplish your goal (what methods do you want to use)?
I work out 6 days a week with P90X or belly dancing, and eat a high protein, low fat diet with lots of veggies. I began with my calories between 1000-1100 when I was doing little exercise, and have since increased them as I've added more work outs.


- Who or what can support you in reaching your goal?
My boyfriend of almost 2 years is a wonderful cheerleader for me, as well has my mom, step dad, and friends.

- How realistic is your goal?
To reach 190-180 by the end of october (my first goal) I need to lose between 2 and 2.3 pounds a week. I'd say thats pretty realistic.

- When will you start?
Already two months into it! well, into -this- attempt anyway.

My highest weight was hit about 2006 (insert bad relationship, bad job, bad food etc), and i'd been half-ass trying to lose weight on and off the years after that, getting down to 199 then back up to 230 or so over and over. I wasn't terribly committed and used every excuse known to man for not working out or not eating right. "life happened" was my favorite.

After a major injury to my shoulder which left me unable to work for a while, I went from 199 last november to 230 as of the end of may. What clicked, you ask? Well... I got pissed off lol. There was no excuse other than my own laziness for that to happen -again-. I was injured, but that didn't keep me from eating healthy, did it? Nope! So I took action, in a big big way.

First, I started a rather drastic diet on may 23rd, consisting mostly of high protein shakes and lean meat and veggies. I kept it around 1000-1100 calories a day, eating 5-6 times a day. My first goal was to just get that down as a habit. I worked out here and there, but not to any super high degree.
That first month I lost a grand total of 10 pounds.

Second month, I was lazy, and didn't work out that entire month, even though my eating was mostly on track. Even when I did eat something off plan, it was chicken wings, a wheat bread sandwich, or low fat popcicles, never something horrifically bad. Whether it was just a slow month, or those things really did effect me combined with not working out I don't know, but I lost a measly 3-4lbs the entire second month, and I was irritated.

The beginning of my third month, July 23rd, I started P90X. It has been ten days, and I have lost almost 7 pounds since then. I even bumped my calories up to 1200 when I began these workouts, and i'm still pretty much melting. So Today is my tenth week of my diet, with an average loss of 2lbs a week. Of course, that isn't how it actually happens, I generally lose a lot at once, then stable out for a week or two, then lose again. thats just how my body works. I am also down something like 10 inches total, and 1 pants size.

I plan to continue my P90x routine, and my diet, and hopefully will be between 190-180 by the end of october. That's my first goal. My final goal... well hell, i'm not entirely sure where I belong anyway. I'm tall, but I'm also hour glass shaped and will probably always have hips and boobs no matter what, but i'm guessing i'll be at goal around 165. I don't have any particular date for this, as its uncharted territory, but I remember being 190-180 was when I really started feeling good about how I looked. Anything after that is a bonus!
 
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My measurements from the beginning to now.

Bust 44-42.5
Under bust 37-36
Waist 36-34
Belly Button 47-45
Hips 51-49
Thigh 24.5-24
Bicep 11-11
Calf- 16-15.25
 
Just wanted to say Hi and welcome to the forum. Congrats on the 20lbs you've lost so far...that's great! :hurray: Good luck to you!!!!
 
Thanks Jen! I know 20lbs in about 2 months is awesome, but when its actually happening it seems like a looong time coming. I lose weird. I drop 3-4lbs over a few days, then get stuck for a week or two, then do it all over again. in the end it averages out ok but I wish it was more consistent.

So here's a breakdown of what I eat on a regular basis. Its pretty much the same thing every day for now, later on when I start getting into maintenance it will change and have more fruits, grains, and other yummies in it. And for the record the meal replacement plan I am on is called Wonderslim, similar to medifast, new lifestyle, and all that other mess. Only from what I hear, mine taste better (and its cheaper) ;)

Breakfast- coffee and a protein shake, sometimes with added fruit( shakes are 100cals, about 20g of protein)
Snack- shake
Lunch- Shake and protein bar, or a sandwich with 100cal wheat flat bread, deli meat and veggies. (I have the sandwich maybe 2 times a week)
Snack- shake (sometimes add a low sodium V8 if I don't feel like eating a lot of veggies)
Dinner- 5-6oz of lean meat (usually chicken or tuna) and lots of veggies.
snack- this is when I sneak in a few more calories in case mine have been too low during the day.

I drink nothing but water (maybe 1 diet coke a month, if that) and 1 cup of coffee with splenda in the morning. I don't waste money on buying jugs of tea if I want some flavor, I get little water flavor packets (make sure its 0 cals!) from walmart and use half of those in my water bottle. So far my favorites are vitamin enhanced grape, green tea, and kiwi strawberry.

Before I began working out, all meals except dinner were shakes (or lunch, sometimes I swap dinner and lunch). I upped my calories when I began working out every day, and am still trying to figure out the best place to be.
I love the way I eat and the way it makes me feel. My blood sugar is stable all day! I don't get stomach aches, I don't get hungry, I don't crash and get grouchy or sleepy after I eat... It goes on and on.
 
for my august 10 pound challenge, i'm only down 2lbs this week. well by week its the 1st through the 5th. But its just strange. When I started P90X 2 weeks ago the weight just MELTED off me that week. I lost 5-7lbs that week (depending if you count 2lbs of leftover water weight from TOM) and this week its much less. I've been hopping between between 210 and 211 this entire week, back and forth. Cant figure it out, sort of annoyed, but trying not to focus on the scale.
 
Cooool. You sound quite a bit like me, the weight just doesn't vanish. I did notice when I began to exercise though, there was a bigger change. Its encouraging to hear your story, definitely smart of you not to focus on the scale because the pounds WILL come off if you keep it up.

Though, I see from your post I have to develop a more effective exercise program.. I juggle between walking (which doesn't get me enough) running a little bit, cycling and my elliptical trainer but it looks like I need to take the next step into hardcore change!

Welcome to the boards good to have you here, you're encouraging!
 
Well angel wings, I guess I do "hardcore" workouts because I feel like if i'm not pushing myself i'm just wasting my time. If i'm going to schedule an hour of workouts a day, why half-ass it when you're spending the same amount of time doing it either way. I don't want to spend years trying to get this weight off when if I had pushed harder, I could have done it in 6 months, y'know? That and when I get through a hard workout, I feel so proud of myself, it makes me want to keep doing it. Tony Horton on P90X is a good motivator too, he's funny and entertaining to watch so you actually want to do it.

Now I don't go so hard I get light headed or barf though lol. If I need a break and my heart rate has gone too high, I rest for a minute till i'm good again, but I'm not happy unless I have sweat dripping off me like a stinky boy lol. My first week I only got through half of the first work out, but persistence is better than perfection! This is week 3 and i'm still not perfect and I still have to take a break now and then, but I can get through every workout to the end, and my goal every time is to not give up and quit early. just take a break and start again!

Working out really does change your shape much faster than diet alone. My weight last week barely changed, but suddenly i'm wearing jeans I never wore in public because they were too tight, and my ring is about ready to fall off my hand, etc.

I see working out as something that 1. keeps me disciplined and 2. a HUGE part of my goal. I don't want to -just- be 165, I want everything to shrink the way it ought to look as if I were never 250. that will -never- happen if I don't strength train along with the cardio.

As far as pictures go, my horrible embarrassing before pic is on a different computer about 200 miles away right now. I've also had my pictures stolen in the past so i'm not in any big rush to show them off again. I will probably try to get a side by side before/after when I get to -50 (only 10lbs from now, weee) but I don't know if i'll post them publicly or not.
 
Woo!
Like I said before, I've been hopping between 211 and 210 this whole week. This morning i'm 210.2. So close to hitting that 20lb mark, i've stepped up my workout today hoping to see a nice fat 209 tomorrow or the next day. Plyometrics aren't in the Lean version of P90X that i'm doing, but I have the dvd, so I gave it a try today. WOW. Talk about a good work out. I only got through 45 minutes of it before the freakin power went out though, but still. That is a -great- leg workout. Tonight i'm going to pop in the Stretch dvd as I haven't done it yet on my rest days (yesterday I tried to do some cardio even though it was a rest day, got through 15 minutes before the power went out. Damn storms)

I also work out in in the garage. In texas. Its been over 100 here lately. We have a little mini air conditioner out there, but it doesn't cool the whole room. It said it was 96 in there, so I get a great sweat on, but I also have to take a few more breaks to get my heart rate back down where I want it. To anyone else working out in this weather, HYDRATE! I usually get up early before its too hot, but not today, and it was pretty brutal lol
 
*DRUMROLL*
209.2!
I can finally say that i've lost 20 pounds. Almost 21! its not 210.5... or 210.2... friggin 209, weee!
I think now i'm going to put my scale away except for my weigh-ins for the August challenge, and try to re-direct my energy to really pushing through the week so i'll see a big loss at the end of it, rather than being all obsessed with my weight every day.

The way I lose weight is very annoying when you're staring at the scale every day. My daily track record is frustrating. One week, i'll lose a whole lot, then the next two weeks I gain a pound or two and spend that whole time trying to play catch up. Its always been that way on every diet i've ever done, you'd think by now i'd just accept it lol. As an average though, it usually turns out just where I need to be. For example i've lost 8lbs since I started P90X 17 days ago. 90% of that fell off the first week, and i've been fighting for that last 1-2lbs ever since. But as an -average- 8lbs in just over 2 weeks is AWESOME. I need to just step away from the scale, and trust that i'm being healthy and as long as I try really hard every day, The results will be awesome too.


A quick update on the plyometrics yesterday. I'm really happy with it! I haven't got much of a leg workout in the other routines the way I did with that one. Today is a cardio day, and I might add the ab workout on top of that. I wanna keep this weight loss ball rolling!

**NON-SCALE SHINY HAPPIES FOR THE DAY**
So there's this tub of my favorite candy in the world in the kitchen. Y'all ever seen those little rasberry/blackberry gummy candies? omfg I love them. So hard. And they stared at me, whispering "c'mon... we have zero fat... you can eat us you can eat us allll day!"
BUT I DIDNT! lol I stick them up way high in a cabinet. There's also a sugar free chocolate truffle in the fridge that's been begging for my attention for like 4 days that i've so far managed to avoid. I need to just tell someone else to eat it. They need to make truffles into fat people molds, so you can think about that when you want to eat one lol
 
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kellylmt said:
They need to make truffles into fat people molds, so you can think about that when you want to eat one lol
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AHAHAHAHAHAHA this made my day! :smilielol5:

Congratulations! 20 lbs OMG. Thats excellent!
You sound like you're really kicking butt with this weight loss.


Yaaaaaay! :party:
 
Thanks! I'm trying to kick butt anyway! I just got done with CardioX for today. Man its friggin hot out there, i'm all stinky.


Yknow, I had a horrible thought today. The last time I was below 199... I think I was 19 or 20. Thats 5-6 years ago. I wish I were shorter, so i'd notice just how much that is. I'm nearly 5'11", and when I gain weight no one notices, including me, if i'm not weighing regularly, until its waaay out of hand. And the lowest i've been in my adult life was 180, ALMOST in a size 12, and probably only had 10-15 more to go before being considered 100% healthy. and THAT was when I was 19, and I lost 32lbs to get there. I'm tired of people saying women in my family are "curvy" and that its just how we are. I like my curves, but there's a difference between feminine curves and looking like your smuggling bags of marshmellows out of a store lol

Well, only 10 more lbs before I hit that damn 199. Thats the lowest I got back -last- summer before things got hectic and I gave up to focus on "real life" stuff. Ain't happening this time. I've got a move coming up, with a new apartment and the big scary idea of working for myself and juggling all that stuff, but this will be priority, because i'm not sweating my ass off every day for nothing dangit!
 
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Morning Kids!
Gonna get some coffee and get my workout on before it gets too hot.
only 3 more days till the next weigh in in the August challenge. I'd be happy right now to just hit -2!

BF starts his new job today, i'm anxious to get a call at the end of the day and hear how it went!
My abs are killing me today. I tacked on Ab Shredder yesterday after cardio, because I realized i'd completely forgotten it last week. Ab Shredder is a 25-30 minute ab workout that you add on to your strength training days. After about 30 minutes of sitting inside cooling off after cardio, I had some leftover energy to burn lol. Ouch. I forgot how intense it is, but I was proud I did as well as I did.

*LATER THAT SAME DAY....*lol

I noticed its been about a week since I posted measurements. Seeing as I was stuck the last few weeks on the scale I wondered if I'd actually lost any inches while that was going on, so after my workout today I took some new ones, and here is how they compare. The first ones are from The day I started P90X, July 23rd. I'd already been dieting since late may so who knows what I actually started at. The second are from August 1st, and the last are from today after working out.


Bust 44 42.5 42.5
Under bust 37 36 35
Waist 36 34 34
Belly Button 47 45 44
Hips 51 49 47.5
Thigh 24.5 24 24
Bicep 11 11 10.5
Calf 16 15.25 15.25

Also, I dug up some pics. This isn't my -highest-, but i'm guessing its around 240 (i'm on the left). All I can say is thank god i'm wearing black and you can't see all the damage in that picture, its pretty atrocious. The second one is from last october, i'm somewhere around 200, so thats reasonably accurate to what I look like now, although now (thanks to exercise) I wear a size smaller in jeans than I did in that picture. The THIRD pic is from a long time ago, when I was 180lbs, before all the weight gain. Hoping to get back there soon!
 
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Oh gawsh.. I second the "women in the family are curvy its their natrual shape" AND being an almost size 12.

Its good to see you, personality radiates from your photos. And curves. You're a pretty woman!

Congrats on the measurement loss
 
If only some of my curves would shrink already *looks down at chest* lol
That is one thing I seem to be cursed with. Ok, not cursed, and these days it isn't so bad, I'm actually in a 38D now as opposed to a 40DD (thank god) But i'd be perfectly happy if these buggers would shrink down to a C! I haven't been a C since... jeez... maybe junior year of high school? My best friend has always been a bigger girl, and after her mom died last summer she gained 30 more lbs and now shes an H! yikes!

Thanks Angel, I actually get told the personality thing a lot about my pics, everyone keeps telling me to go be a model. I have no interest in it whatsoever, but its nice to hear :) Unless of course, your one of my exes who said "you know if you lost weight you'd could be like... a model" It was just word vomit and he didn't even know what he said was stupid, which kind of made it worse. Needless to say i'm glad I dumped that one lmao
 
Ahhhaha I'm a C and started to be a C+ at my highest weight. I've shrunk a bit now. But I don't know if you'd say that if you knew the trials of a huge ass! I usually can wear a Medium- Large (sometimes small) shirt but right now, am into a pants size... Wal-Mart 17-19 or 16 in other stores. My 14's are starting to fit though which makes me HAPPPPY!

Well, its funny, my sweet sister in law told me the same thing but with one word different "When" (you loose weight you'll be a model) she's jealous (in a nice way) of my figure because she has a bust but she is straight, hardly any waist or butt. I thought it was the biggest motivator ever! It still rings in my ears :) Prob good you dumped the guy though haha.

Well, modeling sounds like a ridiculous world. I mean get out of your prime, or anything less then perfect and it would be trauma since all self worth would be tied up in how you looked. No way I'm going there haha

lol I hope you don't mind me clogging up your diary.
 
At my highest I probably in a 20, although I refused to buy those and just bought stretchy 19s lol. Back in may when I started this particular attempt I was in an 18 and some 17s. I had a pair of 16s from walmart that technically i could button but they were laughably too small. I'm happy to say I wore those out in public a few days ago totally comfortably, and my other jeans all have saggy butt syndrome now. I remember getting into a 14 somewhere around 190ish i think, and was almost in a 12 at 180. well technically I was in em, I just couldnt button them lol. I remember wearing 13's basically all through high school and being sad that I was sooo much bigger than my stick-skinny friends. pfft!

What annoys me about the Ds is sometimes there's cute shirts that fit the rest of me, and just not that spot. Like if I want a button up shirt that actually fits over them with no gaps, it looks stupid everywhere else because its too big.

I used to be super touchy about anyone talking about my weight. At one point I couldn't stand to even be given a compliment because I thought they were lying to my face, as it was so blatantly obvious it couldn't be true. Sad, really. These days I have a little more confidence in myself and I realized if I was going to be successful I needed to get over that and not hide it like a dirty secret. And it actually has influenced other people in good ways! My step dad works out pretty regularly, but he eats like a vacuum and cant figure out why he's not losing weight. He sees what I eat, and has actually cut out dessert now which is astonishing lol. My boyfriends parents both work out now after I told them I was working out every day, and now my bf wants me to show him the ropes of P90X. He doesn't need to lose weight but he wants to be more toned and have more energy. I haven't had a single person tell me "aw look the fat girls trying to lose weight" which in my head was always what i thought people would say if they knew.

So onto today's...... journal-y stuff!
stiiiillll at 209.2 this morning. 3 days in a row now of the exact same number. Bah.
I'm just happy its not going up, but with only 2 days left in the august challenge week 2 weigh in it'd be nice to see something more than -1.
Supposed to have yogaX today. Its going to kick my ass too, because I upped my weights for my arm workout yesterday and i'm sore, and my abs are -still- sore from the ab shredder 2 days ago. Im thinking about all those planks in yoga and crying a little inside lol.
other than that I feel pretty good, had a sinus headache when I got up this morning but coffee cures all. I'm not sure I ate enough yesterday, I need to pay more attention to that today.

And no angel you can clog my diary all you want lol
 
bleh yoga done. never thought i'd say i prefer the harder stuff to yoga. It was easier today than it has been, but it still feels so slow, because the first 45 friggin minutes of it is all strength poses, and i'm still sore from the last couple days. kind of hard to 'clear your mind' when you're going 'ow ow ow hurry up ow ow' I like the balance poses in second half though.

So 19 days down out of my first 30. I'm proud of me so far.
 
Sigh.... and the day started off so good too...
Some personal turmoil going on this afternoon, not sure what to do about it.

So for anyone who doesn't know, My bf and I are in separate towns at the moment. We lived in a semi truck for 8 months while he drove for an over the road company, and after he quit we wanted to take a vacation from each other. Not because of anything that serious, but being cooped up in the same space 24/7 for that long makes you just want to get away and have some alone time. That, and he wanted to go back to Austin and stay with his parents while he job hunted, and I'm just not keen on living with his parents.

so he's there, and i'm here in dallas at my mom and step dads. It was supposed to be a temporary thing while we job hunt, and it took about 2.5 months for him to find a job, which compared to a lot of people is pretty lucky. He started yesterday, and i've only seen him about 2-3 times since then, for visits of about 3 days.

Anyway. He sent me an email a few days ago with a song in it that my mom wanted to learn on the guitar (she's played for like 40 years). But I had deleted the email already, so I logged into his email (which btw he gave me the password for ages ago, so no I wasn't snooping) to get the sent email from his archive and forward it to her.
And sitting right at the top of his inbox is an email from Motel 6 thanking him for staying there, and it listed his check out date as August 7th. I sure as shit wasn't there on August 7th.

So in classic kelly style, i'm worrying myself to death over this. the only explanation would either be someone stole his CC card, or his parents borrowed it to go to a sleazy motel. Neither of which I am very inclined to believe. But I have a difficult time believing it'd be anything clandestine either. We're best friends, we talk every day, say I love you every day, we don't even argue very often, and we've been apartment shopping and planning my business so I can work for myself. We've talked about getting engaged next year for ages and planning our 2 year anniversary. If it were anything OTHER than what i'm thinking, he'd have told me about it.

So for the last... 3-4 hours i've been going back and forth between murderous rage and trying to stay calm. There's no point in getting myself all worked up before i've even heard his excuse yet lol. What I -want- to do is vent to my mother, but god knows that wouldn't end well. The only thing I have going for me is that i'm very, very good at telling when he's lying, but i'm afraid of what i'll hear.

When I was 19 I did a silly thing like get married to a fool who wasn't good for me. Yes, I was young and -that- stupid. I found out that one was cheating on me virtually the same way, via the computer. The moron SAVED a convo with a girl he cheated on me with on his desktop, and through snooping after I found that (yes that WAS snooping, and no I don't care that I did it. When I find "oh I better keep a t shirt on in case kelly sees the scratch marks tee hee" In a convo from someone i'm married to, you lose all privacy rights buddy!) I discovered 5 separate people he'd been either screwing on the side or planning to, one of them was my best guy friend at the time's girlfriend.
So stuck between feeling stupid and anguished, I divorced that idiot. That was 4 years ago.

Seeing something perhaps coincidental but so close to that first huge betrayal I experienced, just causes reactions in me. I've felt my face flushed all afternoon, and i'm antsy and irritable and part of me just wants to call him and scream at him. I won't, but I want to.

I'll keep y'all posted on the situation, right now i'm torn between not wanting to know what he's going to say and being sick of waiting around for him to get off work.
 
Hehe I suppose, thinking about it D's would be a pain to deal with. I can't even imagine lol. I am remembering now some of my friends and their complaints.

Kelly! I'm so sorry to hear about your agonizing day. You're a smart lady! I think you're doing the right thing in being open and talking about it and not blasting his head of first. This is very wise.

I'm also thinking it was smart of you to vent on here instead (although you might want to delete it sometime)

Take courage girl!
 
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