MENA diet/exercise thread

[chaishai 1]

I gained weight from my pill

and i cannot stop eating.

cant stop!

help!

[sereia 0]

dieting sucks.

[amal 4]

woohooo 25lbs alltogether since march 1st!!!

[doodlebugg 10]

good for you Amal!!! You're giving me inspiration to maybe start up again!!!

[Nasturtium 500]

Wooo Amal!

New treadmill is awesome.

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

So Mom and I are starting the McDougall Diet tomorrow and her Brother, Tom, is also doing it with us to lower his blood pressure and get off medication.

Here it is May 19th and we're just starting this after talking about it for several years. lol

I feel with three people present and doing the diet we'll have a good support system.

Since I'm in Boise this summer and I have a memebership at Gold's Gym I called my GF, Erin, who had the lap band surgery and is on a personal trainer program at Gold's Gym. She goes five days a week to the gym so that she doesn't get much of the stretchy skin you get when losing weight on the lap band. She said she would be glad to pick me up to go to the gym with her and work out and bring me back. I feel having a work out buddy would be better for me.

Then I called my cousin Abby who just had a baby and is trying stubbornly to lose 35 lbs of baby weight. She lives close to my Mom and we agreed to meet in the morning to go on walks together! My goal is to lose 30 lbs by the end of this summer if I am doing all this.

So I've got the diet, the exercise, and the cardio all set up. Now it's a matter of "Just Doing It!"

Edited May 20, 2008 by Olivia*

[amal 4]

ok girley poos, get back on the train and riiiiiiide baby riiiiiiiiiide... we can do it!!!!!

Husband has started looking at me differently. He said that he loves me no matter what but something has changed and I look better and better each day. I dunno if he was buttering me up or being honest but I didn't mind. I've dropped roughly 2 sizes in clothes and I'm starting to notice a difference in the way I feel. I can walk better, my rings fit less tightly, I'm feeling slightly more confident in how I look, a pair of pants I bought about a month ago that fit perfectly are now too big and I LOVE IT!!!

I really hope you all can get back at it soon coz I totally need the support system!!!!!

amal

[doodlebugg 10]

my pants are currently cutting off all circulation in my waist.

[Jenn! 918]

I'm still on the wagon. But I'm just chugging along, no big exciting news to report. My progress is so slow that it's rather demotivating, but I'm still hanging on...

I think I'm at that weight that my body feels comfortable at. It will be hard to break this barrier.

Edited May 20, 2008 by Jenn!

[amal 4]

I'm still on the wagon. But I'm just chugging along, no big exciting news to report. My progress is so slow that it's rather demotivating, but I'm still hanging on...

I think I'm at that weight that my body feels comfortable at. It will be hard to break this barrier.

Let's hear a woop woop for hangin' on!!!!! u can do it!!

my pants are currently cutting off all circulation in my waist.

tsk tsk bridget... that can't be comfortable.. I know that it's hard to back away from the mint chocolate chip Ice cream since there is an overabundance in the stores and it needs to be eaten to keep up with supply and demand but we are gonna have to be strong and say NO!!! I'm rootin for ya!!!

[doodlebugg 10]

I'm still on the wagon. But I'm just chugging along, no big exciting news to report. My progress is so slow that it's rather demotivating, but I'm still hanging on...

I think I'm at that weight that my body feels comfortable at. It will be hard to break this barrier.

Let's hear a woop woop for hangin' on!!!!! u can do it!!

my pants are currently cutting off all circulation in my waist.

tsk tsk bridget... that can't be comfortable.. I know that it's hard to back away from the mint chocolate chip Ice cream since there is an overabundance in the stores and it needs to be eaten to keep up with supply and demand but we are gonna have to be strong and say NO!!! I'm rootin for ya!!!

it's no longer the ice cream it's my husband!!! NOT supportive of me going on a diet since apparently he's quite happy with me just the way I am. I'm too weak to do this when someone else is piling food on my plate constantly.

[amal 4]

I'm still on the wagon. But I'm just chugging along, no big exciting news to report. My progress is so slow that it's rather demotivating, but I'm still hanging on...

I think I'm at that weight that my body feels comfortable at. It will be hard to break this barrier.

Let's hear a woop woop for hangin' on!!!!! u can do it!!

my pants are currently cutting off all circulation in my waist.

tsk tsk bridget... that can't be comfortable.. I know that it's hard to back away from the mint chocolate chip Ice cream since there is an overabundance in the stores and it needs to be eaten to keep up with supply and demand but we are gonna have to be strong and say NO!!! I'm rootin for ya!!!

it's no longer the ice cream it's my husband!!! NOT supportive of me going on a diet since apparently he's quite happy with me just the way I am. I'm too weak to do this when someone else is piling food on my plate constantly.

You're gonna have to tell him how imperative it is that he stop that. Tell him he has got to find another way to show you he loves you coz with him doing this, he's gonna kill you (it would take forever but it's possible if u gain quickly). Tell him how important it is that he let you do your diet until you're comfortable with how you look and feel. I've been down that road with mine. he still occasionally does it and I have to remind him that I WILL eat it and its so NOT OK for me to do that and to please remove it from my plate. It was hard to turn down at first but I had to coz I would rather healthily have children (if ever allowed to) than die coz I allowed myself to eat my husbands leftovers or didn't stop him from piling stuff on my plate.

It took mine 2 years and he FINALLY seemed to get it after a talk last night about the weight loss, what I gained when I was in Jordan, how much I lost before he got her, and the almost 50lbs I've gained since his arrival here.

I wish you luck in this. It's hard but I'm cheerin' you on

Amal

[Krissy! 0]

Amal,

it's great how things are going for you! i'm just wondering if you can tell me about your diet plan.... (i don't think i want to search through the 50-some pages of this thread... soo..)

I'm looking into loosing some weight, specifically my "love handles" and belly pouch (it's not badddd... but I notice it more and more now)

I'm doing training for the 3 Day Walk but for some reason it feels like its not helping me lose weight, ugh.

and of course, doing the very best on telling myself "no!" when sweet tooth hits!

[amal 4]

find out how many calories your body needs to lose the weight you're wanting to lose and in how much time u want to lose it in. I believe its at mayoclinic.com that u can put ur activities, height, current weight, desired weight, time you want ur goal to be met by and it tells u how many calories per day you should have.

If I've learned anything from this diet it would be DON'T EAT LESS CALORIES THAN UR SUPPOSED TO COZ U'LL GAIN WEIGHT!!! We can talk in PM more about it if u want the agonizing details.... lol

Banquet meals taste great and are low on calories so it makes it sooooooooooooo easy to keep track of AND 100 calorie packs every couple hours helps keep the hunger pains away. I also have to have an apple every morning for breakfast or I starve all day. I dunno what it is about that apple but this is the 3rd time since I started this diet that I've forgotten my apple and I'm about to eat everyone in this place that doesn't run away fast enough..

That's a summup of it .. hope it made some sense

amal

[doodlebugg 10]

ever have one of those days where you dread printing out anything or going to the bathroom 'cause that means you actually have to zipper up and button the jeans that you undid after lunch? ugh.