Lisa's Final Countdown, The Good Days, the Bad, & the Ugly

I read you were having internet issues, that is SO frustrating. And thank you so much...I don't feel like I've lost that much at all but you saying that made me feel good. Guess in another 20lbs or so it may sink in more. I'm always seeing things relative to where I was at another certain point...I can't help it. Once I get back to 290 where I had gotten to the Christmas before last, I guess I'll feel like the rest is NEW weight that I get credit for, lol. Sounds stupid when I type it out but that's really how I've perceived it.
 
You've got the right attitude, you fall of the horse and get back on it:)

All the littel things add up.You had two hig cal days , you admitted to them and dealt with them and now time to move on!!!

Remeber one day at a time, one meal at a time and one step at a time:)
 
I finally got a chance to upload this onto youtube. I thought you all would find it entertaining with my puppy's cute antics and my husband's funny commentary :)
 
OMG LOL!!!!!!!! The funniest part of the video is the cat. The cat is at the permimeter swatting at the dog with her paws and then the kittie comes in at the end and goes after the toy that the dog lost interest in. Too funny.

As far as the pounds you lost fricken two christmas's ago? No, IMO those are OLD pounds and you are now hitting NEW lows! Shiat, I'm calling a number I haven't seen since this past October a "new low"..

Good luck on your eating this weekend! No chocolate cakes.. hehe
 
Yea I know it's dumb but I guess 290 was an unconscious mini goal I had set in my mind. And it's as good as any. Don't get me wrong...I'll be happy with the weight I lose now...especially when I get under 310. But I still feel like I'm on thin ice and the weight I have lost now would be too easy to undo. Not that I'm quiting....just I'll feel like I'm really on sure footing when I get under 290. I'm probably not explaining well....but I guess it's good to be realizing how I've been thinking about this. But anyway....when I do get even under 300lbs I'm going to be friggin excited :)
 
Blancita said:
OMG LOL!!!!!!!! The funniest part of the video is the cat. The cat is at the permimeter swatting at the dog with her paws and then the kittie comes in at the end and goes after the toy that the dog lost interest in. Too funny.
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LMAO! I never noticed Ronin smacked her when she went by until you said that, lol. He does that when he thinks she's coming at him but she wasn't even focused on him. Don't ya love my spiffy camera close up as I'm tryin to put the mouse back? lol And yea that was funny at the end...I imagined him saying "meh...whatever" as he walked off after he sniffed it.
 
haha your dog is so cute! I love the video!!

Yanno, I can understand the whole "losing new weight" thing. Even tho it's an accomplishment this time around, it's still like, "well, I've already seen these numbers before" so when you hit the numbers you haven't seen in a long while or have never gotten down to before it always feels like you've accomplished SO much more! Good luck!!
 
douknowjello said:
Yea I know it's dumb but I guess 290 was an unconscious mini goal I had set in my mind. And it's as good as any. Don't get me wrong...I'll be happy with the weight I lose now...especially when I get under 310. But I still feel like I'm on thin ice and the weight I have lost now would be too easy to undo. Not that I'm quiting....just I'll feel like I'm really on sure footing when I get under 290. I'm probably not explaining well....but I guess it's good to be realizing how I've been thinking about this. But anyway....when I do get even under 300lbs I'm going to be friggin excited :)
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Oh I completely understand. I do the exact same thing. I had hit 137 lbs 2 years ago this June but then went up again to around 143 lbs, and stayed there for more than a year, so my first goal is just to get back to the low 140s and stay there or go down from there. I started my plateau at 137 lbs, so it would be awesome if I got below that. Funny how you mentioned when you joined the forum you felt people of different sizes can't relate, but you may start to notice now that this is what maintaining an average size is all about for a lot of people. Aint as easy as it looks sometimes haha and takes constant effort to get back down when you allow yourself to gain 5 to 10 lbs. It becomes a life long battle but a worthwhile one all the same.
 
^^^ Yep I think I know what you guys mean and can relate to what you're saying completely ..... I lost another 4 lbs but I'm still down on myself; why? because jeeeeez I've got such a long journey ahead AND these are the same pounds I've lost and regained over & over again.

It's enough to drive one barmy. But I have to try to put a positive spin on it, that's the only way to get through, whatever works for me I've got to do it and just not stop.
Better to have come this far even if it's the fifteenth time, than not at all. If you know what I mean :)

I also have this thing same as you, Lisa, I have a weight range I feel I need to get out of --- for me it's the 70kgs range -- before I'm going to feel anywhere near 'safe'...so like 60- anything is going to feel great even if I'll still be overweight. The fear at the mo is that I can just lose control and get back to 75 again, and that would be awful.

Lisa --- thanks so much for posting the video of Lilly on YouTube ! :):)

It well and truly made my day, I've been feeling a bit in a crummy mood cos of the warm weather & all that junk, but your vid really cheered me up so thanks for sharing that with us !
She's utterly adorable and I could give her 15 hugs right now. :Angel_anim:

Your hubby seems like a real laugh and great fun too -- what a lovely lil family you have got there including those cute cats!!

Take care, and don't worry about your occasional slip ups, you just keep going, don't look back cos you're on the right track. :driving:
 
hehe i watched all your little videos... you never mentioned your other kitty... super cute especially getting right in front of the camera at the end ^^ mmm and thanks for the sympathy about the goat... =T its sad but its part of life...
 
Blancita said:
Oh I completely understand. I do the exact same thing. I had hit 137 lbs 2 years ago this June but then went up again to around 143 lbs, and stayed there for more than a year, so my first goal is just to get back to the low 140s and stay there or go down from there. I started my plateau at 137 lbs, so it would be awesome if I got below that. Funny how you mentioned when you joined the forum you felt people of different sizes can't relate, but you may start to notice now that this is what maintaining an average size is all about for a lot of people. Aint as easy as it looks sometimes haha and takes constant effort to get back down when you allow yourself to gain 5 to 10 lbs. It becomes a life long battle but a worthwhile one all the same.
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Yea I've changed my mind about alot of things since then, lol. I've run into alot of people who were thin their whole lives, gained a bit of weight for a short time and were able to take it right back off and therefore thought they had all the answers. And boy do they run around preaching about it! "It's so easy, just do what I tell you!". My mom was a bit like that for a while too but I've met so many people worse.

The funniest advice I got was to just go run every morning wearing garbage bags under my clothes. I mean geez...how come America hasn't caught on to this cheap and easy weight solution?

Anyway my point is I realize now though that these people aren't representative of everyone in a certain size category. And like you said there are alot of people with alot less weight to lose than me but have been fighting it for a very long time. One thing I didn't fully realize until joining this forum is how hard that is for alot of people to fight off those last 15-30 pounds, or how frustrating. I think if I ever do hit that point after being this big, it'd be very easy for me to take the easy way out and just tell myself I'm fine at the higher weight. Course I'm not there yet though so...and I know one thing is the same for all of us...being terrified of slipping into complacency no matter HOW much we've lost and the weight coming right back. I realized that after I lost that 80lbs that I NEVER thought I'd regain, but did.
 
PaperAirPlanes said:
haha your dog is so cute! I love the video!!

Yanno, I can understand the whole "losing new weight" thing. Even tho it's an accomplishment this time around, it's still like, "well, I've already seen these numbers before" so when you hit the numbers you haven't seen in a long while or have never gotten down to before it always feels like you've accomplished SO much more! Good luck!!
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Thanks :) It takes me forever to get around to posting stuff of her these days. I have some adorable pics of her at the pet store checking stuff out but they're in my phone so...yea procrastinating.

And I was surprised at how excited I was this morning when I lost another pound...it's not "new" weight but it's newer than I thought it would feel, lol. And this consistant weight loss, even though not as fast as I'd like, feels more reassuring to me.
 
sophia28 said:
^^^ Yep I think I know what you guys mean and can relate to what you're saying completely ..... I lost another 4 lbs but I'm still down on myself; why? because jeeeeez I've got such a long journey ahead AND these are the same pounds I've lost and regained over & over again.

It's enough to drive one barmy. But I have to try to put a positive spin on it, that's the only way to get through, whatever works for me I've got to do it and just not stop.
Better to have come this far even if it's the fifteenth time, than not at all. If you know what I mean :)

I also have this thing same as you, Lisa, I have a weight range I feel I need to get out of --- for me it's the 70kgs range -- before I'm going to feel anywhere near 'safe'...so like 60- anything is going to feel great even if I'll still be overweight. The fear at the mo is that I can just lose control and get back to 75 again, and that would be awful.

Lisa --- thanks so much for posting the video of Lilly on YouTube ! :):)

It well and truly made my day, I've been feeling a bit in a crummy mood cos of the warm weather & all that junk, but your vid really cheered me up so thanks for sharing that with us !
She's utterly adorable and I could give her 15 hugs right now. :Angel_anim:

Your hubby seems like a real laugh and great fun too -- what a lovely lil family you have got there including those cute cats!!

Take care, and don't worry about your occasional slip ups, you just keep going, don't look back cos you're on the right track. :driving:
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I ended up having to leave for work yesterday before I could post but I was so excited to see you'd lost 4 more pounds :D Especially after you'd been despondent with the scale a bit before. That was just the kind of reinforcement you needed!

And thanks for appreciating the video :) I think she's so adorable but I know not everyone might. But she's fun and brought us alot of happiness...filled a spot ya know? And yea...my hubby can be hilarious. You have NO idea, lol. He'd kill me if posted about half the stuff he says and does.

Thanks for the support :) I think if I can just make sure the slip ups are only a day or two here and there and not me "quiting" for weeks or months then I'll have this down. I've realized it's not just about the scale but the endurance to tough it out either way. Eventually it all breaks through.
 
AngelicaHope said:
hehe i watched all your little videos... you never mentioned your other kitty... super cute especially getting right in front of the camera at the end ^^ mmm and thanks for the sympathy about the goat... =T its sad but its part of life...
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Yea she's been hiding out lately but finally started coming back to bed with us last night. She hates coughing and sneezing so when we got sick she stayed away from us and figured out the new couch was really comfy, lol. In that video she was running to me to save her and bitching about the dog, lol. She's alot older than the other two so she's starting to become a crabby old lady, lol
 
Anyway I didn't get to everyone's journals but I will tomorrow. I have to leave for work in like 15 minutes Soooo yesterday's food:

bob evans brunch bowl - 360

subway sandwich- 902

frozen healthy choice dinner-370
nectarine-60

total-1692

Not giving flex calories because I'm running my weeks Sun. to Sun. and honestly I'm sure after last week I'm in the negative, lol.

Today so far I've had a ham & cheese sandwich. 360 calories.

Ya'll enjoy the rest of your weekend :)
 
douknowjello said:
Thanks :) It takes me forever to get around to posting stuff of her these days. I have some adorable pics of her at the pet store checking stuff out but they're in my phone so...yea procrastinating.

And I was surprised at how excited I was this morning when I lost another pound...it's not "new" weight but it's newer than I thought it would feel, lol. And this consistant weight loss, even though not as fast as I'd like, feels more reassuring to me.
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Every pound lost is an accomplishment, and another pound closer to your goal. The scale is headed in the right direction girl!
 
Thanks txsqlchick :)


Food today:


ham & cheese sandwich-355

nectarines x2 -124

lasagna-290

weight watchers ice cream x2-280

popcorn-210

burrito supreme - 410

Total- 1669

1900-1669 = 231 calories left over
 
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