My Journey to Losing 50+ Pounds..

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Angelica1

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Hello everyone!! Ive been a member of this forum for a couple years now and this is my very first diary!! I started out here wanting to lose about 25 pounds at 175 pounds but over the years Ive ballooned up to over 200 pounds!! I'm so ashamed and embarrassed of my body and of myself. I hate going out in public so I usually just go to school and come back home. I think I really screwed up my metabolism from all the fad diets I have been doing over the years. From now on, I'm just going to listen to the experts and do it the healthy way..after all, slow and steady wins the race!!

I will record my initial weight tomorrow after I come back from school. I hope its not TOO bad since ive been pigging out for the last 4 days. Wish me luck guys!!
 
Good luck :)
Just keep believing you can do it no matter what the scales say tomorrow. You're doing it a healthy way this time, you'll soon get on your way!
 
Thankyou Brawny and Kathy for visiting my journal. I really appreciate it!! I wasn't able to log in yesterday as I was having trouble with my internet but thankfully the technician came and fixed the problem.

So yesterday I weighed in at 202.5:S:S:S:S. I didn't eat the greatest. I basiclly had coffee and some chinese food. Oh and LOTS AND LOTS of chocolate lol (yes thats my weakness). But I did cut off my eating by 8. This morning I weighed in and was at 201.5 pounds! I'm happy about that. I didn't eat very well today either. I started off with a coffee in the morning. I was planning on having cereal when I got bck from school but ended up getting a footlong MEAL from subway. ouchh!! it was alot of food and i scarfed it down within 1 sitting LOL and yes I'm very embarrased about that. And then I finished the day off with a tall green tea frap from starbucks (yumm) and chocolate almonds.

I'm so disappointed in myself. I always start the day out right but I screw it up by the end. Oh well I will do MUCH better tomorrow. If anyone is actually reading, I hope I didn't bore you hehe. Thanks for reading!! Byee
 
Welcome!!

Maybe you should carry a food log with you and write everything down or you could plan out everything in a log and try to stick to it. I know for me if I have it written down it is easier for me to follow then If I fall I can just look at the log and say that's okay I will just keep going. I think that we all have to mess around and mess up sometimes to figure out what works for us ya know. Good luck on your journey! :cheers2:
 
*Best Wishes*

You can do it! :hug2:

I have been guilty of the same thing hon.

When I started here I was trying to get out of the 170's...

I was on a roll and then the holiday's came and then I began to make excuses after excuses.

I stop/started a bunch of times and now look...

I'm trying to get out of the 190's which is the heaviest I have ever been.

We can do this though!

My motto this year:

Reachin' the Finish Line in 2009!!

:party:

I agree w/mom24

Those are gresat ways to help out.

- Stacy
 
Mom24Monsters: Thanks for the suggestions! I think planning my meals in advance would be helpful for me. I could make my meals the night before which would keep me from turning to fast food restaurants!

Stacy: Thanks so much for the encouragement!! I havent gotten to write here in a while but I see you have gotten out of the 190's!!!! Thats so great! I know you will definately acheive your goal. 2009 is our year!

So for the last couple days, the scales have been playing tricks on me. I'll step on it once and it will say I'm 198-199 but I'll step on it again and it will be 4 pounds higher. I have been super stressed because of midterms. I had 3 this week, and because of this my diet has suffered. Also I have so many birthdays and other events happening over the next 2 weekends, so I'm a little worried about all the junkfood. Good news is I do have reading break all of next week which will give me time to relax and focus on eating healthy. Ok i'll report back tomorrow! Gnite everyone:)
 
I should take my own advise LOL


If the scale is reading funky it might need new batteries??? But don't stress it to much because it's going to go up and down all the time.

My suggestion for the next couple of weekends cause you KNOW there will be junk around eat a really good filling healthy meal before you go and drink lots of water and take a water bottle with you. I have a friend who bakes her own cakes "the healthy kind" and freezes individual servings and grabs one for parties and that is what she eats at b-day parties and BB-Q's and stuff.


Good luck! We're routine for ya!!!!
 
LMBO mom24! :smilielol5:

We all are guilty of that from time2time. ;)

I'm a pretty smart gurl so I need to listen to myself more as well. :sifone:

I'm so glad you made a 'J' Angelica!

It really does help.

You ARE gonna reach many goals this year!

:D

:grouphug:

- Stacy
 
Ok so I weighed myself tonight and the scale said 200. I did it about 3 times and it kept saying the same thing so I guess I'm 200? Hmm thats so hard to believe..although I have been eating less..however I thought it would be more considering I weighed at night when after I drank/ate..Oh well either way I'm happy..

Im definately consciously eating less these days. The food I am having isn't the greatest but I am not having as much. Also, I havent eaten out in 2 days which is HUGE for me since I'm addicted to coffee. I was craving some today but drove right past the shop so I'm very proud of myself.
 
Also, I really really want to join the gym and get some more exercise in but I've kind of made that a "reward" for when I lose 10 pounds and get to 190. Another reason for that is I dont want to sign up for the gym and end up getting discouraged and not going but still being stuck with paying the monthly fees. Its a good incentive though to lose those pesky 10 pounds!!
 
yahoo. .your doing good! How did those parties go? good job on eating less as well I think that is the hardest part. .just eating less and drinking more water.
 
Party went well. We went to a restaurant in downtown and I got the ricebowl. I only had half of it and saved the rest for the next day! I have one more bday part next week so hopefully I can stick to plan..maybe i'll just get an appy or something!!

Today went really well eating wise. I did as you said Mom24 and sort of planned out in my head what I was going to eat. I actually stuck to it and didn't eat past 630. I was starting to get really hungry at night but instead of eating junk, I just made myself a cup of green tea...didn't taste very good but atleast it filled me up for a while.

Scale said 200.0 again today but this was after eating breakfast. Hopefully I get rewarded for a good day and it goes down by a pound so I can finally join the 190's club!!!
 
Ok so I just saw a couple pics posted of me on facebook and OMG is all I have to say!! I was horrified to see my double chin in the pix..I didn't know it was THAT bad!! I guess a picture really does say a 1000 words! I've been trying to avoid cameras for so long that I really didn't have a chance to see an accurate view of my body!! Oh well all thats going to change now!! I'm determined to get as much off as I can by this summer.
 
I found the BEST tea ever and I love the taste of it! It's called. .wait hold on I have to go check. . .okay it's vanilla Hazelnut from bigelow and I also have the same flavor from Lipton but I don't like that one as much, there are so many flavors of tea out there you just gotta play around and find one that you like I used to HATE tea! I also put splenda in mine. one thing that helped me with the huger at night was to eat dinner a little later and drink lots of water and I go to bed full and actually sleep better!

Keep up the good work you can do it! be patient and don't get to discouraged. .this takes time and you will be so much happier in the long run!
 
Question for anyone reading: have you noticed any red stretch marks on your body as you gained weight? As soon as I hit the 190's, I started noticing really bad stretchmarks around my bellybutton area. It looks like I got clawed by an animal!! Are they there to stay or will they fade over time as I lose weight? I think I may start to put coconut oil on them and see if that helps!
 
Mom24: Looks like we're online at the same time!! hehe. I tried some mint tea which I really enjoy but Ive noticed that green tea helps in that it empties out my stomach the next day (if you know what i mean). The type i drink is called Dieters Green Tea. I dont remember the company though..but if definately keeps me running to the bathroom the next day LOL
 
what I do is is put two bags of the flavored tea and one bag of the green tea in my coffee pot and brew it like I would coffee. I bought some of that dieters tea too but I didn't think it worked so I just stuck to regular ol' green tea and apples!! apples are a natural laxitive and clean you right out! My fav is the honey crunch apples they are to die for!


oh they have those flavored holiday teas too there is one called ginger bread or something and it is amazingly good and has no calories. .although I'm not sure tea does anyway. .I never really looked at that.
 
Hi Angelica!!
Thanks so much for coming by and supporting me! I was reading your story and you can do this!!!

You two are making me thirsty...now I want some tea. :auto:
 
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