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Hello everyone,

I'm really excited to be starting this diary and to finally get this weight off of me. I just want to stop worrying about it once and for all. I currently weigh 180 pounds and I hope to be down to 159 as my ideal weight for the end of August. So here I go.

-- How much weight do you want to lose?

I want to lose 21 pounds by the end of August and I just want to 'feel' healthy....plus, I heard once a good indicator of whether you are healthy or not is to jump up and down and if anything jjiggles :p, you should get rid of it...so i'm hoping to reach the point where I can jump up and down without feeling like jello :D

-- What is the timeframe for reaching your target weight?

I hope to lose 10 pounds by the end of July and another 11 pounds by the end of August. After that I will set up a time frame for my ideal weight loss. Right now i am just trying to get myself into the healthy weight range for someone my age (17yrs) and height (5 feet 5 inches)

-- How do you want to accomplish your goal (what methods do you want to use)?

I don't want to go on a diet or start counting calories because everytime I have done this in the past, I've lost weight but i've eventually gotten tired of keeping track and have simply given up. This time around, I actually want to make permanent changes in my eating habits and follow them for the rest of my life. I also plan on exercising for atleast 15 minutes everyday and for atleast 45 minutes 3 times a week. I've already strated incorporating more servings of fruits and vegetables into my brekafast, lunch and dinner.

-- Who or what can support you in reaching your goal?

My family, everyone on this forum :D and my own will and desire to lose this weight. I will also be meeting someone close to me in about a month and when I see them again, I want them to notice that I have lost weight. My family is around me all the time so they might not notice the results as much as someone who hasn't seen me for a while.

-- How realistic is your goal?

I think it's very realistic and if I wanted, i could actually kick everything up a notch but i don't want to fall into the same trap that i fall into everytime: Rapid weight loss and putting too much of a burden on my head.

-- When will you start?

I have already started :D
 
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yesterday was a good day for me. I didn't eat anything that I didn't have a need for. I tried eating more vegetables and I excersiced for 45 minutes...yaaayyy!! I've just gotta work on waking up early so i can actually have a breakfast instead of going straight to lunch. But it's summer break and who wants to wake up early :p. I think having a proper breakfast will really help with my metabolism and help me get back into my normal sleeping pattern.
 
i went to sleep earlier last night so even though I woke up at the same time today, I wasn't tired after waking up. I guess i've just gotta give my body a few days (let's say till friday) to catch up on the sleep it's been missing out on and then i can start waking up around 9:00am. I had a healthy lunch and before going to get a snack around four i'm going to make sure I plan out what i want to eat before I just go and stand in the kitchen and then start nibbling on tiny things. I'm thinking only some brocolli with a nice healthy sauce cause i'm probably going to be eating dinner early today. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping I will get time to excersice today :p
 
aww thanks :) I hope so :p.....


dinner today was good. There was lots of yum stuff but i tried to eat a moderate amount of everything and not go overboard + i excersiced for 45 minutes again today so to meet my goal I only have to do it once more this week. I really want to see more than one or two pounds lost this week so i think i'm going to be super strict around yummy stuff tomorrow and thursday. I'm crossing my fingers right now and am hoping that i will wake up early tomorrow. If I do i will for sure check to see if it's a good time for a bike ride or else i'll just run on the spot for a while. I feel i need to do a bit more cardio. I guess that's my goal for tomorrow. Good night for now!
 
so i couldn't wake up early today :( it's ok though cause i've given myself till friday to do that....Lunch and my snack was good but i've just gotta make sure that i don't eat anything unhealthy for dinner and i've still gotta do that extra cardio when i workout tonight.....I also think i should eat an apple for dessert to fit in another serving of a fruit and to satisfy my sweet tooth a bit :p ...
 
nooooo......my post got deleted :( I accidentally pressed the back button...oh well..I will write it all over again :)

I didn't eat that apple for dessert yesterday because I wasn't very hungry afterwards....plus I figured it was better to leave out one serving of a fruit than to force it into myself....I got in the extra cardio though and I've reached my goal of 3 45 min workout sessions/week :D...yaayyyy!...but i still want to workout again today cause I really want to get this weight off of me....I'm worried I won't be able to reach my august goal :(....however, i'm planning on leaving out my crunches today cause i'm getting a bit worried about my stomach. I don't want to build bulky muscles under the extra fat on top so today i'm just going to focus on cardio. I do remember to pull in stomach though before each crunch. But for some reason, I feel like this time I'm actually building bulky muscles on my stomach instead of getting a lean stomach.

I worked really hard during lunch to not go overboard...hurraay for me :p I only had one serving :D...

So my goals for the rest of today are:

1) fit in more cardio again today, whether it is a bike ride or a walk (i love the rain but i'm crossing my fingers today and hoping that it will come late in the evening :eek: )...

2) Not even go close to what I left over from lunch cause i know i'm going to be tempted to eat it and frankly it's not as healthy of a lunch as I've had in past days :eek: (it's ok today the 80-20 rule is in effect :p)

3) Have at least one fruit for my snack and give up on my usual boring snack...

4) have only one serving for dinner...so i plan on putting a moderate amount of stuff in my plate, enjoying it :D and not going back for more...

Easy goals ;) so i shouldnn't have any excuses for not acheiving them....(wooh i used too many smilies...I actually exceeded the limit and had to go back and erase one..HAHAhaha :p)
 
Sounds like good goals!!!!! I started out wanting to just work out 3 times a week at first, but then I get the guilty feeling like I should be doing it everyday. Slow steps seem to be best, but sometimes you just gotta do it!!!!!!

Can't wait to see your weigh in, I know you can do it!
 
Thanks for the encouragement Paper Moon and Alteredimage. I was excited/scared about the weigh-in but i had to postpone it to next friday because i've 'dispalced' by weighing machine and i don't want to go out and buy a new one just yet :p....I guess i might be more encouraged if i see two weeks worth of weight loss instead of one but hopefully I will get to update my ticker soon....it seems a bit lonely :eek: ....

I'm proud to say though that i've acheived my goals. I didn't even take a tiny taste of the leftovers from lunch :D , I ate my apple for a snack, I did the extra cardio during my workout and I woke up early today and had a chance to eat breakfast :D. I'm glad I left out the crunches yesterday and just did the cardio because my legs are starting to hurt (but not dangerously) so i know that my workout was fine. Friday is my worst day because it's the end of the week and the family's all together so we usually have a big dinner on friday. I'm gonna set out strict rules right now for myself before I go down to have my snack or eat dinner in order to prevent myself from ruining all of the hard work I did this week :p.

1.) Once gain have some fruit for a snack. If it is only one serving of a fruit I can mix it up with something else also inorder to fill myself up.

2.) Eat nothing else between my snack and dinner.

3.) Have only one serving of dinner. Again put the food in my plate, eat it and not go back for more.

4.) Do atleast 15 minutes of excersice which have to include 70 step-ups and atleast 5 minutes of cardio.

Usually if i've had a good week, I allow myself a little treat on friday, but I think i'm gonna hold out on the treat till Saturday because I have a feeling i'm going to be really tempted to have an unhealthy dessert sometime this weekend.

Long enough post :eek: but i'm so proud to say that this diary is really helping me to acheive my goals and I am starting to feel as if I am losing weight, even if I don't have any numerical evidence yet :p
 
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aww thanks so much maleficent...hopefully you'll be able to say the same thing again to me tomorrow for the goals that I set out for today....my fingers are crossed :D
 
I think it was Changing's diary I mentioned it in.. I was reading something about goals the other day, and i'll be darned if I can remember the source.Whatever the article was, it said to make your goals specific, it makes it a lot easier to achieve. Rathert han just saying, I want to exercise more, which is what a lot of people, myself included, would say...... you were very specific... A very well done, well thought out goal... Kudos to you :)
 
thanks maleficent....i try to be as specific as I can because this way there are less loop holes :D...

I haven't been on lately because i haven't been feeling well but I've been keeping up with the healthy eating. I acheived all of my goals on friday and i'm actually starting to fall into the pattern of eating moderately and only when I am hungry. The only unhealthy thing I ate was on Sunday :eek: I rewarded myself with fast food for a week of hardwork :eek: oh well, once in a week is not going to do anything cause I didn't have anything sugary all of last week...

Last week I missed excercising completely on saturday and this week on monday cause I wasn't feeling well at all but I did go for quite a long walk on tuesday....The only sugary thing I ate was yesterday. A nibble of chocolate because I needed sugar really badly :p today i've eaten well but I've really gotta start waking up early consistently so that i can eat breakfast.

My goals for today are:

1.) Have atleast half a fruit for snack plus my normal snack
2.) Drink atleast one whole water bottle (i haven't been getting enough water since I got sick)
3.) Eat one serving of dinner once again and have one serving of a vegetable with dinner.
4.) Exercise for 45 minutes once again today. Do my ab routine, 60 step-ups (i've been neglecting them this week - no energy :( ) and atleast 15 minutes on the bike machine.

Also, it looks like i'm not going to get my weight machine so i think instead of measuring my success on how much weight i've lost, I'm going to focus my success on how well i feel. I just read the article in the exercise section (i think :eek: ) and it helped my finally make the decision that i have been wanting to fo so long...yyaaayy :cool: I just want to continue until i feel healthy and in perfect shape. So no more weight machines for me and that is a promise. I will not step on a weight machine until the end of august for my final before school starts weigh-in :D
 
yaaayyy...I just acheived all of my goals :) But Friday's are my worst day so i'm going to have to really be strict with myself tomorrow. Plus, my mom is mad at me and I can't stand for anyone to be angry/disappointed with me so this is going to eat me inside until I learn to stop bothering my mom :eek: I think i should wake up early (let's say 9) and put together a healthy lunch for everyone...sounds good...now let's see if I can actually manage to wake up earlier....

Plus, i've decided to put my ticker down two pounds every week because that is pretty much how much weight I should be loosing each week. This way, when i finally check my weight on august 31st, I will know what my weight should be approximately....
 
Omg. I'm so excited for you. Good idea with the ticker. Your so strong not stepping on the scale until the 31st..... I'd die. The scale is like an addiction with me. Good Luck
 
hehe...thanks alteredimage :D...

I thought it would be best for me to come on here and write down a few rules for myself before I go and have dinner, go overboard and then feel as if I did nothing today...

1.) I will only have about 5 spoons of rice because rice is my worst enemy and it would be so much better for me to eat a healthier alternative to rice.

2.) I must drink one whole bottle of water before midnight :p (i'm slowly getting back on track...my throat isn't as sore anymore)

3.) No dessert after dinner today because I know this weekend is going to be full of junk food and it's going to take a lot of motivation (i'm sleeping over this weekend). If I want to have dessert it can only be apples or oranges.

4.) No more almonds....or pistachoes.... or peanuts :p

5.) I must maintain control when I see something on the dinner table.

6.) Exercise for atleast 45 minutes today (which should include my ab routine)

ok..i think that should be good for the rest of the day :p i will write back on how i did before going to sleep...
 
So i feel like a complete fatso. I've been on vacation for almost two weeks so i haven't had anything to eat but burgers, chinese, COKE and desserts. I completely let go of my healthy eating style and I feel so embarrassed. I promised myself that this time I would continue excersicing and eating healthy until I finally got the weight off and I gave up AGAIn after my two week mark. This always happens and I told my mom and myself that it wouldn't this time. I feel so embarrassed by what my mom must be thinking right now and when I told her that this time I would last longer than two weeks. I made a promise and I ended up breaking that promise. I feel so low right now. I don't want to give up, I will not give up, I will do this for myself, I will start university feeling healthy, I will lose weight before I start university, I will start excersicing again from today, I will start eating healthy again, I will drink more water, I will eat more fruits, I will eat more vegetables, I will avoid rice, I will not drink sugary drinks, I will not make up excuses to not excersice, I will not disappoint myself and my mother, I will not go back to being my old self.

This forum has helped me more than I ever imagined. Can you believe I was actually avoiding coming on here because I knew I would have to confess to what a disappointment I have been. I am going to start setting goals from right now and I will start losing weight again.

1.) drink atleast one more bottle of water
2.) not eat any rice for the rest of the day
3.) not eat anything unhealthy for dinner and just eat what has been made (one serving of it)
4.) eat atleast one fruit and onevegetable for dinner
5.) excersice for atleast 45 minutes today (the TJ video)
6.) start living a healthy life and not give up!!!
7.) no eating or even munching on anything until dinner!

I feel so bad now for wasting almost two weeks where I could have lost so many more pounds but that's what I get for giving up. I am going to make it through this time and I will end up with nice legs and a smaller butt!!
 
I totally feel what your saying. This is so strange. I think the bandwagon must of wrecked because, everyone has seemed to fallen this week. I too have been avoiding showing my face around here because I have been so ashamed of my current rampage of a binge. We have just got to get back on track no matter what. I know for sure that I'm not going to continue to let myself down. Let's handle this now, so we won't have to later.

Much Love.
 
very true alteredimage....I am so tempted to binge and just keep eating but when i stop to think about what I am giving up I realize I don't want to just go back to my old ways. I am not going to give up and you don't be ashamed either ok! Just look at all of the hardwork that you have done....you've gotten so far and I am so proud of you :D plus, you don't want everything to go down the drain for no good reason....by the way alteredimage, how long did it take you to get down to the 160's?
 
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