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Adeline

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Hi everybody!
I just wanted you to know that I admire all of you for your weight loss progress. I realized how much determination you ladies have by losing 50-100 pounds, as opposed to me...
To start this properly, I am a 5"6, 130-pound teen. I want to reach 120 lbs by July. I think that it will be a great experience to get in shape and adopt a healthy life style. I don't want to look a lot different, but I'm a dancer and it will be great to be a bit lighter.
I will write my progress with exercising and eating, so that I will be more motivated to stick with my diet. My goal is eating 500-800 calories/day. I would like to go steadier, but my instructor puts pressure on me to lose weight and I must admit that I am a bit anxious too.

The 28th of May 2009
Breakfast:1 whole grapefruit and a cup of tea (I felt like eating some fruit an I did this meal)
Lunch:Salad containing a tomato, two cucumbers, a red pepper, 100 grams of low-fat chese, salt, pepper, vinegar and 1 tea-spoon of olive-oil.
Dinner:Another grapefruit (in lack of anything else healthy enough)
In between meals:lots of unsweetened tea and one apple

Exercise: I planed on maintaining my regular abs exercise while listening to some classic rock(proud owner of a 25-inch waist :) ) and climbed up and down two times up my flat's stairs (I live at the 7th floor).

I will be back by Sunday because I will go on a trip and won't be back home until then.
 
Hi Adeline

How are you? Wow, the amount of calories you are planning to eat is a bit low espeicailly if you are going to exercise too. You can't be massive if you have a 35" waist so there is no rush. What is your instructor for? If s/he has your best interests at heart then they wouldn't be encouraging you to crash diet.

Have a read around the forums and try and find a healthier eating plan!

Best of luck!
 
Thanks!

Thanks for your comment and concerns.
I must mention that I don't live in the USA or the UK, I'm from Romania(ifthat says something to you :) ). Here we have, ahm, different standards of beauty and not-do-dedicated instructors. The only reason I keep having dance classes is for the dancing itself.Believe me, every instructor is this way, mainly because most of the girls who take up dancing are very thin, so I won't fit in.
Today I ended up by eating 700 calories and not feeling hungry at all. I think it's because of the healthy things I ate today, including a tasty soup that my grandmother made (in this area we eat looots of soups).
I try not to be influenced by the media or the 90-60-60 (centimeters) that are being viewed as the perfect measurements, but it's hard viewing movies with thiiin people or reading magazines where everyone is perfect (Photoshop should be banned).
I also have one small problem...As living in Europe I am not used with inches, feet, lbs, so I will post everything in cm and kilograms. To end the confusions ,my measurements are 93-63-92(centimeters) and i plan on taking off that extra 3 cm on my waist.
I will try to follow your advice and eat more, because reading the forum made my want to adapt a healthy lifestyle and not just go on a fad-diet.
 
Hey Honey,

Good, I'm glad you've decided to eat a bit more. You must be getting lots of exercise in with your dancing so don't over do it. What style of dance do you do out of interest? I know for ballet etc you need to be quite small but street dance and hip hop you can be much bigger. Take Kimberlee Jay, shes incridible, a Nike representative and a UK size 16 her website is here I read an interview once about how she was told she couldn't be a dancer because of her weight but she is talented and that got her through.


Adeline said:
Thanks for your comment and concerns.
I must mention that I don't live in the USA or the UK, I'm from Romania(ifthat says something to you :) ). Here we have, ahm, different standards of beauty and not-do-dedicated instructors. The only reason I keep having dance classes is for the dancing itself.Believe me, every instructor is this way, mainly because most of the girls who take up dancing are very thin, so I won't fit in.
Today I ended up by eating 700 calories and not feeling hungry at all. I think it's because of the healthy things I ate today, including a tasty soup that my grandmother made (in this area we eat looots of soups).
I try not to be influenced by the media or the 90-60-60 (centimeters) that are being viewed as the perfect measurements, but it's hard viewing movies with thiiin people or reading magazines where everyone is perfect (Photoshop should be banned).
I also have one small problem...As living in Europe I am not used with inches, feet, lbs, so I will post everything in cm and kilograms. To end the confusions ,my measurements are 93-63-92(centimeters) and i plan on taking off that extra 3 cm on my waist.
I will try to follow your advice and eat more, because reading the forum made my want to adapt a healthy lifestyle and not just go on a fad-diet.
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Came back from this National Math Competition and got a gold medal. That was amazing and I'm really proud. I also met a very smart and funny boy that made me feel beautiful and loved, I'm just hoping around and dancing, because we are going to meet again tomorrow.
Eating-wise, I had to travel in another city and stayed at a student hostel where the food was horrible. I felt terrible and ate very little, because we had about 5 dollars as pocket money, I am not proud at all about my nutrition back then.
I didn't eat a thing the first day, beside the apples I had packed and some yogurt from a grocery store, in the morning. The second day we ordered a pizza because I was feeling dizzy and very hungry. In fact, everybody was feeling bad because we had nothing to eat and little money. This is why I and three friends shared a medium pizza and everybody had just one slice because the pizza was very small and we couldn't afford a bigger amount. It was horrible, but we had fun by fighting with pillows and talking to the guys.
Today we woke up and drank the tea from breakfast and ate a piece of bread, because we were very hungry and the rest of the food was disgusting. We got into the car and the teacher drove us back home for 5 hours. We stopped and ate strawberries, cherries and wild fruit from local vendors. They were very cheap and tasted wonderful. Once home, I ate a big salad with grilled chicken. For dessert I had some ice cream, as a treat for the prize. At dinner I felt full and ate a banana.
I am seriously thinking about giving up the dance classes, because the instructor called me a cow on Friday, just two hours before I left for the contest. He doesn't deserve my effort and I think that I shall be losing the weight I want to lose, not reach his stupid goal. Especially now, when C. told me that I was beautiful and fit, opening my eyes. When I look in the mirror I see a happy, slim teen that is worrying to much, not a big fat cow. I realized how many boys where thinking that I'm hot while I was whining about my weight. I will continue this diet steady and healthy and concentrate my efforts into cycling, because it's my favorite type of exercising and I love it.
Fat to Fabulous, thank you very much for your support, you made me think about what I really want. I will keep writing because I still want to reach at about 125 'till July and stop right there if I like it, continue if I don't. I already embrace my shape and feel pretty and vibrant.
Btw:I was doing Ballroom and Latino dancing. The Latino part was verry fun, but we had to wear skimpy clothes and I felt awkward compared to the flat-chested, flat-butted girls around and didn't fit in.
Staying up and thinking about what I would wear tomorrow.
Keep you up to date, Mara.
 
CONGRATULATIONS on your gold medal. Maths is hard and gold in a National competition must mean you are incredible at it! How are you doing? As for your dance teacher - wow, I can't believe he called you that. I bet you are beautiful and at 5'6 and 130lbs that puts your BMI at about 21? I know its not a perfect system but 21 is amazing and at the low end of normal. Don't let him pressurise you. In fact is there no way you could change teacher?
 
Hi Adeline,

My sister-in-law is Romanian. Her and her family are very beautiful people. And I'm sure you're beautiful too, and I agree that you shouldn't let anyone call you fat, especially when you're not fat. It seems to me that you have a good head on your shoulders and can make up your mind for yourself. You just keep doing what you need to do for yourself and not worry about anyone else and their opinions of you.

I know that as a teenage girl you feel like you have to live up to certain expectations. It's not just in Romania but in America as well. And I'm sure all over the world.

Just keep doing what you're doing... And I'd say bump those calories up to at least 1200.
 
Tuesday and Wednesday

On Tuesday, I ate quite normal. I don't think I went past 1000 calories.
Today was a bad day. In the morning I ate cereal with milk (measured the portion, and it turned out that I usually eat a decent amount , 50 grams of cereal and half a cup of milk). At lunch I ate some soup and a croissant. I know that it was bad, but I knew I wanted one, and ate it really slow, with a cup of good tea.
This evening I ate mushrooms and a peach. It was a tasty day and I wish I could eat this every day :).
I am very glad to see mt stomach being flat and sexy, the only thing I still have to work on is the upper part of my thighs, because I love my ankles.
Just found out how good a boy friend is for boosting your confidence. We are crazy about each other, laugh a lot and spend lots of time together. He often tells me that I have a fabulous butt :blush5: and that he loves the way I look, but that my personality won him over. I'm not desperate about my weight, just a bit attentive, I didn't use a scale for 3 or 4 days...I think tomorrow I will start again and do it three times a week...I hate to get crazy about bloating because of my period and water weight.
Thank you all for the support,
Adeline.
 
Oooops!

I feel really bad about today. I was going to start it very serious, ate a boiled egg and a tomato at breakfast, then a friend came by with a huge box of chocolate for me.
She insisted I would try them before we went out, so I ate two of the candies, then went in town. I have also eaten grilled mushroom before, so I was quite full, but I drank a small McDonald's milkshake :banghead:.
Went to high school and resisted the temptation of having an ice cream, because I just know that taking a stuff-in day would make me give up. Milk and cereal at dinner and I hope to resist the urge of eating anything else.
Oh, I hate this part, calories:
aprox 850
The actual number of calories is OK, but their source is not :((. I really am pissed off.
 
Really baaad

I feel like I am ten tons. I feel totally pissed of, didn't eat anything today. I just need your help, ladies, because I might do virtually anything in this state of mind.
It all started when I tried on my bathing suit for my best friend's pool-party, tomorrow. It felt a bit tight in the upper part, so I decided to throw it off without checking it in the mirror and go get a new one. Went to a big bathing suit store (expensive tough) and found some cute suits, so went to try them on with my friend ( I'll call her Alice). I was in the dressing room with her, and there was that green light in there. Every bit of me felt horrible, fat, extremely ugly...I was so embarrassed that I took al the suits back on their shelves and went out of the shop.
It's 10 PM in Romania. Just tried on the old suit and looked at it in the mirror. Can't find a single part of my body that looks decent beside my breast. Just did 500 sit ups and my body is trembling like hell. I don't want to go anywhere tomorrow. I want to stay home and do crunches, thousands of them.
Alice is my best friend and the best person I've ever known. She is heavier than me (140 lbs), but looks amazing compared to my fat, ugly self.
I just want to hide from the rest of the world. And when I think that this morning I reached 128...
 
Ok...Just OK

Woke up in the morning and bought myself the prettiest suit ever... Dark blue, with a beautiful, sexy top and not-to-revealing but still hot panties. At the pool everybody was looking at me and I felt very good. Fuck the PMS, last night was horrible.
Food-wise, today was my off day...Cereal for breakfast, three small slices of veggie pizza, two ice-creams and tomato soup for dinner...Quite OK for the cheat-day, because I swam 8 hours, went up A LOT of stairs (probably 20 floors in total), did sauna and jacuzzi...Gosh, I feel soooo good!
Tomorrow morning I will be in town with my friends, but I will try to eat healthy (probably a McDonald's salad or some grilled fish). Feel exhausted. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep.
 
Going to lose

I made about 5 different formulas to find out my ideal weight and ....58 kg.IS THE NUMBER.
My only problem is that I still think I must reach a 53-54 weight. Currently I am about 57 kg, which means about 125 lbs. Reached my first goal!
That seams a good progress, since I weighted 65 kg in March. That means I lost 8 kilos in 2 months, 1 kg a week. Not too fast, not too slow, just perfect.
I think I will climb up and down 7 floors twice without stopping, than go and get myself a cereal bread and a yogurt.
Going to follow the Montignac diet...Keep my diet around 1000 calories, exercise, not mixing bad carbs with fat. Read the book and wasn't VERY convinced that it will work, mainly because I have a sweet tooth and don't eat meat, unless it's fish. But it seems like a reliable concept and I feel confident that I CAN loose my last 3-4 kg with this diet.
8 A.M Breakfast:
Rye Flakes w/ Skim Milk

11 A.M Snack:
2 handfuls of Cherries

1 P.M Lunch
Clear Vegetable Soup
Half a can of Tuna
2 Tomatoes

5 P.M Snack
1 Cup Natural Yogurt

8 P.M Lunch
Mixed vegetables with grilled fish

Calories: 800
 
Haard

This Montignac diet is really harder then I expected. I find it really hard eating no more sugar since aspartame is very hard to find here.
The good news are that I exercised A LOT yesterday. Went up and down the stairs 5 TIMES, danced for about 2 HOURS (latinooo, I love cha-cha), and did my regular 500 sit-ups within 15 minutes. Well, the bad news are that I ate pudding, and that made my weight go up 2 pounds :banghead:.
Today...Well, beside the disaster with the scale, it went good. I had my weekly portion of yummy breakfast cereal and a Fitness bar (the 100 kcal one).
I don't know what I will have for lunch (it's 2PM), but I'm sure it will be something tasty and healthy.( roocks!)
SUGAR, GO TO HELL!
Your serene and balanced,
Adeline.
Edit:

3PM : The leftovers from yesterday's dinner (half a small bowl) and a bit of omelet
 
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Adeline,

I wish I could be as small as you.. our goals are the same though. I want to reach 120 as well. I have about the same amount of calories as you too. Most days anyway. I wish that I could dance. I try to dance, but I have "two left feet" hehe! You're probably pretty good at it!

WillLose60! :waving:
 
Thanks!

Thanks WillLose60! I find it exciting to share goals with someone else...Good luck w/ your weight loss, I'll check out your diary!

Yesterday was horrible! I had my omelet for lunch, than DISASTER STRUCK! Dad came in with my favorite type of chocolate, the on I get to eat only once a year because it can't be purchased in my home-town. And to top all this, he also bought a fantastic cake, with chocolate frosting and delicious cream...yummm!
I ate half a chocolate and a tiny bit of cake... I don't want to see the scale again!
To make up, I tried to eat oatmeal this morning...Terrible, it's one of the worst things I've ever tried. Flaky, cardboard-tasting...Ended up by trowing it in the toilet and eating 25 grams of my regular cereal with 25 ml of skim milk diluted with lots of water... That makes about 100 kcal, I guess it's ok.

Great news, guys!
Just got a phone call and I found out I won a 10 day camp in Greece. That's because I got first place at a English competition:coolgleamA:. Happy! Leaving on Tuesday!
 
I think you seriously need to revise your calorie intake. What you are eating is not safe, and when you go back to normal eating your body will regain the weight as fast as possible thinking its starving.
Try for around 1500-1800 calories if you can. To make it work better for you eat lots of fresh veg, and meat, and avoid breads/pasta and anything processed . You will be less hungry, still loost the weight you want (especially being any kind of active) and you wont regain the weight afterwards.
 
Thanks, wishes!

Wishes, thanks for your concerns! I really appreciate when people care about my health and things like that, you guys are really great!
The explanation about my calorie intake is the following:
I am vegetarian, but my doctor said that, while I'm still growing, I must eat some meat, so I seldom eat fish or chicken. I can't wait 'till I'm 18 and finally get to have the lifestyle I want!
As being vegetarian, I have a low calorie intake to start with...My usual daily intake before and during the winter holidays was of 1200-1500 calories. In that period I was about 135-140 pounds, that I found overweight and disgusting.
I usually don't eat any bread or pasta either...Just adore eating fine recipes, like mouth-watering oven fish with potatoes, or sorbet, pumpkin, grilled corn...OMG, I am so hungry!:drool5:
So, I wanted to lose weight, so I turned down my calorie intake from 1200 to 1000 and started dancing and running again. This is the way I lost about 8 kilos (I'm not sure what that is in lbs, I guess 17-18 lbs). I still want to loose about two or three kilos. I already started eating normally and I didn't put on major weight (1 lb or so). As I don't eat very much usually, I think that keeping an average 1200-1500 calorie daily will be OK.
But thank you anyways Wishes. I will try to boost my calorie a bit and take a snack or two sometimes.
Adeline.
 
Start spreading the news...I' m leaving todaay!

Leaving this evening! Will have fun, won't count anything, just bake in the sun!

P.S:My unusual cheeriness is caused by the fact that a very special person just contacted me today.
 
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