My Journey: Positive Outlook For 2013

Loving your positive-ness and I hope things go well with this guy.

While weight loss surely helps us feel more confident you seem like you glow anyway.
Keep it up :)
 
Thanks guys! Today was a great day, but I have a feeling my weight will be up in the morning. Not because I ate bad, but because I ran late and ate dinner late tonight. We had BBQ'd spare ribs and homemade macaroni and cheese. Guess we'll see in the morning!
 
Mandy, you're an unspiration! HUGE congrats on your new low. Can't wait to follow you on the rest of your journey.

On another note: Mmm BBQ ribs.... ;)
 
Hi Nim, thanks for stopping by! It's hard to picture myself as an inspiration, but if I am to anyone it's truly flattering. Thank you for saying such kind words. :)

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202.2lb yesterday... 202.8lb today. I'll take it! I kind of figured I'd be up today since I ate so late last night. No worries! :)

Now... I'm going back to bed for a little while (I'm exhausted!). When I get up, it's straight into taebo! I may do a double taebo workout or take the dogs for walks later mattering on the weather. It's cool, damp, and drizzly outside right now. Hopefully it'll clear up.
 
Mandy, you underestimate yourself. You're definitely an inspiration. Not only because of the fact you've lost nearly fifty pounds, but because you've had some major struggles this year that you successfully worked through by not giving up. That's what really counts.
 
Thanks Belinda, it means a lot to hear people saying such nice things. Honestly, I've always battled my weight issues and my self esteem and confidence was always very low. It's hard to believe and accept compliments even to this day.

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Today I weighed in at 202lb, my new low. I'm hoping here on out every weight that I post will be my new low. I'm knock knock knocking on onderland's door. Really hoping to get there by the end of this week. It's a long shot, but it's possible. We'll see how it goes! :)
 
I really shouldn't be posting about this, but here I am. I'm just really sick and tired of how life throws random things at you all of the time. I was finally feeling like things were really falling into place for me. After having a rough year I was finding things to be happy about and to be greatful for. Out of the blue my long time crush contacted me on Facebook, oddly enough after I'd been thinking about him so much wondering how he was. It really got me thinking that maybe, just maybe this is part of the plan for my life. Get into shape and get the guy. Perfect! Well, now I'm thinking that's not the case. It's only been a couple of weeks, but ever since our initial "hi how are you" messages we haven't spoken. I sent him the last message, but he hasn't replied. It's through Facebook and I can see that he read it. I'm not sure why he'd friend me on Facebook and then ignore me. I don't know if I should try messaging him again, wait for him to message me, send him my phone number and tell him he can call if he wants to chat sometime, or really just let it be. And, I know I probably sound like a high schooler here, but gosh this just irritates me and I'm sure it totally shows how limited my interaction with guys has been over the years. I just hate head games and tend to stress over stupid stuff so guess what I'm stressing over right now. Yup, him! Argh!

And, to be clear. I do NOT think he's playing head games with me. When we were close friends he was amazing. He was really too nice for his own good. Unless he's changed tremendously over the years, which I doubt he has this much, he probably doesn't realize that this is bugging me so much.

There - end of rant - Glad I got that out!

Now, don't worry. This is NOT going to affect my diet/exercise. I've been doing very well today with food intake. Oatmeal for breakfast, peaches for an afternoon snack, some ravioli for lunch, my afternoon snack will be some chocolate teddy grahams (24 crackers at 130 calories!), and then for dinner I'm having a chicken breast with rice. I've been drinking plenty of water and will be working out tonight.
 
Sadly, I can't say anything useful (As I have zero experience), but I hope things get better with him.

P.S: Congratulations on the new low! You are doing great with the exercise. :)
 
202!!! That's wonderful!

Wish I could help with the guy situation but I'm no expert either. I married my first love. So I have pretty much zero experience on the reconnecting side of things. I truly hope it works out for you!
 
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If you believe he is a nice guy send your number and let him know you'd really enjoy talking to him and just leave it at that. He may have something going on in his life that is complicating things so don't take it personally if he doesn't respond. Good luck!
 
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If it's just that you want a yes or no answer then do what Q said. But once you send the message, leave it be. If he responds, great! If not, don't take it too personally and simply move on. The ball will be in his court and he can do with it what he wants.

It's also possible he had nothing to say in response (if no questions were posed to him really), or he read but had no time to reply and then forgot (I've done that, DOH!).
 
Thanks for the support guys. I can't tell you how much of a dork I feel that I am for posting about this guy here. This is a weight loss forum, not a dating advice forum. Sometimes I just need to vent and I feel comfortable doing that here. I just sent him another message. I didn't give him my phone number... yet, but I feel that the message I sent is enough to "get his attention" so hopefully he will respond today. We'll see!

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So today the scale was very good to me once again. Now I'm REALLY knocking on Onederland's door! I weighed in at 200.8lb! I'm glad I'm making good progress, but at the same time I'm kind of concerned about how fast it's coming off now. The start of the Simple Weightloss Challenge was on 9/29 and I weighed in at 204.6 so in just about a week and a half I've lost 3.8lb. Does that sound too fast (bad/dangerous)?

I did just start doing a new Taebo workout, This is Taebo, which is about 50 minutes of nonstop cardio. The other workouts have little breaks here and there so that may be why it's coming off so easily now. I'm going to give it another couple of weeks or so to see if things level off. I may start to increase my calorie intake. I want to lose weight the healthy way.

Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to get a workout in today. I have to bring one of my dogs to the vet for her annual check up. I won't be getting home until 7:30-8:00pm and I'll still need to eat dinner. I just don't think I'll have time. So, I'll still eat well, but I may need to use today as my rest day.
 
Regarding them venting ans dating advice my thoughts are it's your journal so you can talk about what you want.

You are so close to Onederland! Yay!

As for losing to fast I wouldn't be too concerned. You have been working out lots and eating right so it's good you are losing this way. I'm sure it will taper off eventually but I wouldn't be concerned with it honestly. If you were losing without working out I'd let be more concerned of why and that it would come back quickly after. As long as you aren't starving yourself you should be just fine.
 
Thanks, I just know that the max you *should* lose is 1.5 - 2lb a week. At this rate I may be above that. Then again, I'm still "larger" so that may be part of the reason too. Who knows. I seem to have found a winning formula for now so I'm going to keep on with it. :)

As for the guy, he did already respond to my message so I'm breathing a bit easier. He does have something going on right now and I'm offering my support if he needs/wants it. Man... I just need to relax a bit. LOL My new self motto for myself is to just breath and take things one day at a time.
 
Congrats on your weigh in!!!! You're doing such a great job!!! And I agree with Icychic. I wouldn't worry about how fast you're losing. You're being healthy and smart about it. So just let your body do its thang! :)

As for the guy... I'm glad you got a response. But don't sweat it! Keep your focus on you, and if he wants to be part of that, great! If not, oh well! You are a beautiful, confident woman!! And you don't need the stress!!

Keep up the hard work, girl! I'm proud of you!!!
 
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Thanks Br!na! You're 100% right. I need to worry about myself... just me, myself and I. I'm doing this for ME. Not for anyone else and I do still have a lot of work to do. I need to keep reminding myself of that.

I did message him again this afternoon more or less telling him that I'm always here if he needs to talk. Whether or not he'll take me up on it, I guess we'll have to see. I'm not going to hold my breath. Business as usual. I've got more progress to make! :) I'm done wasting my time on people who can't be bothered to at least acknowledge me (not that he's doing this, he really has a legit situation going on right now). I'm just tired of being the one to always bend over backwards for people when they never return the favor.

I wanted to share another small victory today. We had some vendors come into where I work today and they had loads of donuts, muffins, and bagels for us staff. They were oh so tempting, but I did not have any. It's just not worth it to me to have one anymore... well, at least not today. :)
 
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