Newbie, intro and questions

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Newbie, intro and questions
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Tue, 01-03-2006 - 8:49pm
Hey! I'm new to this board (well i might not be new, i think i was on this board about 2 years ago before i got pregnant with my last baby). Anyway, i'm a busy working mom of 3 kids, ages 5,3, &1. I'm 5'7'' and currently right around 245lbs, with an ideal weight of 133-148. I've tried everything from weight watcher to atkins. I had great sucess with atkins, i lost 44 lbs in 8 weeks, but gain it all back thru a terrible bout with post partum depession. having 3 kids in 4 years didn't help help either, i've been pregnant so much i never had time to accomplish much weight loss before getting pregnant again! I started going to the gym back in october, but i manage a jewelry store in a mall, and i got 2 days off between thanksgiving and new years, so going to the gym kinda got pushed to the back burner somewhere behind sleeping and breathing, lol. I'm starting to recover from 6 weeks of 90 hour work weeks, and went back to the gym today. I'm comitted to going, i really am...see i can't STAND the thought of wasting money, and i have to pay for my gym membership and my trainer, so i won't let a penny of it go to waste! lol. Paying for my trainer was the best investment i could have made in my weightloss quest. i'm clueless in a gym, i have to have someone tell me what groups of muscles to work and when and how and all that junk. I saw my dr today, and she was impressed with the steps that i had taken, and could tell that i was committed to the changes, so she rx-ed adipex for me. I was intrested to know if any of you had tried it and what the results were? I'd like to lose 104lbs to be 140lbs. I'd love to get to know you all and get some group motovation! hope to talk to you soon!
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Thu, 01-05-2006 - 2:35am

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Thu, 01-05-2006 - 2:36am


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Thu, 01-05-2006 - 2:38am
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Thu, 01-05-2006 - 4:31am

Welcome! Great to hear that you're getting in some exercise. Forcing yourself even.. that's great determination.

oh and to get a ticker up you have to be a paying member

Mary
247/216/165




Edited 1/5/2006 4:34 am ET by merry_ivillage
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Fri, 01-06-2006 - 8:15pm

i tried the trainer-thing. He was expensive and very fine. I was more focused on him that I can't tell you-to this day-what we did during our sessions. But how ridiculous was it to go to the gym with my make-up done...my hair done. Only to have the make up running down half my face and by the end of the day I looked like frizzy raccoon with a bad, bad twinkie habit. Sometimes, I catch myself daydreaming about one day when i get down to my goal weight and am looking good...when the frizzy raccoon has magically turned into a svelt fox...I'll try to seduce him. Let nature takes its course. Whatever...and then I slap myself across the face in order to catapult me back into reality.

you sound like you're on the right track and that you're doing well. Good for you! It is so difficult to lose weight when you're super busy living life and working to support that life. This past monday i watched the entire Biggest Loser marathon on the bravo network and like everybody was absolutely astonished at the transformations. But you, me, and everyone on this board would be able to achieve the same success if we were in that environment. If all we had to do for 10 weeks were to work out and watch what we eat. If you were to add the stresses of jobs, the easy access to tempting foods, babies, husbands, wives, parents, the news, the 3 bedroom rambler instead of mansion, the mortgage, the bills, the lack of time, the fact that mars is in jupiter's house...then they would be like us...posting about how insanely difficult it is to lose weight.

Keep up the good work...I'll be here if you have any ups and downs.

til next time,

randomgirl

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Sun, 01-08-2006 - 3:15pm

i totally agree with everything you said! I've watched the biggest loser before, and was thinking, anybody could do it under those circumstances. lol, well I've not obsessed over my trainer, but my self confedince is in the toliet right now. Like "who would even look at me" and i'd feel foolish even for letting myself think about it! I hate feeling so bad about myself. I know this sounds bad, but wheni was in the dating game, i used to be able to get the attention of any guy i wanted, and get him to do whatever, just by flirting and batting my big blue eyes. If i tried that now, i can't even imagine how rediculous i would seem to who ever was watching, lol! Sometimes i look at myself in the mirror and i get very angry w/ myself, for letting my weight get so high! anybody elso out there feel that way too?

I could use a boost today, bummin'

Jamie
249/244/135

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Registered: 12-15-2005
Mon, 01-09-2006 - 7:59am

I definitely get frustrated with myself for letting my weight get out of control. I have good days and not so good days, but every day that I work on losing weight me closer to my goals. A friend of mine commented on how much weight I've lost so far and that she could really see it in my face. As much as I'm doing this for myself, hearing it from someone else really made me feel great. Keep trying and you'll make yourself so happy!

Laura
267/252/145

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Registered: 12-28-2005
Thu, 01-12-2006 - 8:30am
Hiya people,
Well my doc put me on adipex today also and Im just embarking on my weight loss journey. I weigh 314Ibs acording to docs scales. I want to be back at 170-180Ibs like I was 3 years ago. (thats where the doc wants me also). Then I was 19 and am now 22. Dont want to spend the rest of my life overweight. I am looking for tips and encouragement and hopefully some friends along the way. I am wishing you all good luck in your journeys as well. Just remember to keep on plugging toward your goals and remember to keep smiling.
Sonia
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Thu, 01-12-2006 - 8:34am
I posted to you on the other thread, but good luck again, and if you want to email me its mzbehavn78@yahoo.com