lose weight

Today I am 122 lbs :D (actually the scale showed 121 for a couple of moments but I’m ignoring it for now)

This is exciting, cos now Im only a couple pounds away from my normal weight and this is the genuine lowest I’ve been in the last year. My mum even commented on how I’m starting to look thinner, and I’ve been trying on clothes in an over excited frenzy to see if they look better.

It’s possibly a consequence of being very stressed at the moment due to an important upcoming exam this week and eating much less, so if next Sunday after the exam (and the drunken celebrations!) I’m still this weight/lower I’ll consider it real progress.

But for now I’m motivated and happy :)

As of today.
I mean it’s good – it’s what I weighed a few months ago after severe exam stress – but according to my 1.5lb loss a week plan I should have been 121.5 on Sunday, so something’s not working 100%.

Once I see 8.10 (122) on the scales (a number I’ve not seen for a year now) I’ll be pleased that I’m actually making progress, slow as it is.

Still, only 3/4 pounds away from my normal weight (120)and then I can start losing properly again to get down my goal of 112.
Good luck everyone

Went away for a couple of days, and didn’t eat too bad relatively, but still far more than 1200 calories a day and obviously didn’t/couldn’t do much exercise, so I’m now working out twice a day for an hour or so for the next couple of days so that by weigh in on Sunday I should’ve corrected all the damage.
Still no change in the scales though.
It’s like I’m rooted at 9 stone.
I don’t understand why three weeks of diet and exercise shows no results.
Oh well, gotta keep at it I guess…
Good luck

Well no surprises, at the end of another week in which I’ve stuck to my plan 100% I have yet to lose a pound.
I am 126lbs as of today.
I’m hoping and praying that because I’m a few days off that time of the month that’s what will account for the no change in my weight. But how far off it do you gain water weight? I’m about a week away.
I’m doubting that’s close enough to attribute the no change in the scales to water weight.
Anyway.
I can’t figure out if my mind is warped! I’m trying to look at myself objectively in the mirror and see if I look any slimmer, regardless of what the scales say, but I can’t tell! From the scales, I should look heavier than I’ve always looked to me seeing as I’m currently 126lbs (and I’ve had 20+ years of looking at myself at around 120lbs til last year with the weight gain), but now I just can’t tell if I actually look fat or slim or if I’ve lost any weight at all!
This is really frustrating, as ever!

Today I weigh 127lbs.
I think this entry says everything about how I’m feeling.
I could honestly cry, I just don’t understand how eating right and killing myself working out, sometimes twice a day, isn’t working.
Even though I’m going to run for an hour right now, I feel so low about this goal.

So I ran a lot last night and I ran a lot this morning and have worked off all the damage of the past couple days :)
Maybe it’s because I’ve been eating a lot or because I drink a LOT of water during/after exercise but I haven’t seen the scales below 125lb the last few days :(
I thought all the exercise I’d been doing would have countered all the food I’d eaten though and the scales would show the deficit. In terms of calories I’ve certainly eaten no more than 1200 a day overall when all is said and done.
I know how great I felt the other day when I tried on clothes that looked much tighter a few weeks ago and I keep trying to keep that in mind along with how stupid I felt on Monday when I weighed myself at 124 after being so upset at not getting there a day earlier on Sunday, but I can’t help but feel a little frustrated at how the scale won’t budge below 124 at best when I’m trying so hard and (think) I’m doing so well.
I’m not giving up though. Best case the weight loss will all catch up and fall off in the next week or two.
My new goal is to be under (anything under!) 119 (8st 7) by the start of the new college year.
When I will drink it all back on :)

So…following my disappointment on sunday at still being 126 I decided to go crazy and eat myself to death. Which I did very well.

Then on Tuesday somehow I weighed in at 124 which is what I wanted to weigh on Sunday. I wanted to laugh. I felt realllly stupid – it was like I just needed to wait a day longer for the weight loss to catch up with me, but instead Id already punished myself by eating it back on! Lesson learnt – just because my weigh in day is set by me as Sunday doesnt mean my body will comply with that and show the right numbers at the right time!

So I got on it and exercised for around four hours – two in the am and two at night, and burnt off around 1600 calories altogether and so was close to having undone the damage. Lesson learnt – I can surprise myself with how much I am capable of doing.

Today I tried on new clothes in the morning and old clothes that looked a bit tight before and was pleasantly surprised with how much better they looked – less podgy at the sides!

THEN I got hungry at lunch and my brother suggested pizza, so of course we got take out and just like that all the damage is redone!

What is my problem! When will I learn! Now I am going to exercise for a couple more hours to try to limit the damage. Hope everyone is doing better than I am!

So I was right – I’m not just feeling like I haven’t lost any weight or am not getting any slimmer, I am actually not – today I weigh 126 lbs.
That’s a pound UP from yesterday.
I just can’t understand how this can happen. Maybe the pound up is a little fluctuation, let’s say, but then I still haven’t lost any weight. And I have eaten to 1200 calories every day this week and been KILLING myself exercising every day.

Yesterday I ate 1900 calories and felt a little challenged by the thought of having to burn off 700 calories but then I just got on it and did an hour and a half and pushed myself to make it – and what for? It seems like nothing.

I can’t understand why diet and exercise seemingly aren’t working.
Every other time I’ve tried this I’ve managed to lose weight – slowly, but surely – and it’s felt good. This time it’s like I’ve plateaued already!

I feel so confused/down about this. What if this is my new natural weight and I’ll never be able to shift it?! Very frustrated.

I cannot seem to shake off the 123 – 130 lb stage that I’m in.
I’ve been eating really well and exercising every day for at least half an hour but somehow I still feel large and weight 8.13/125lbs at the moment, even though the last holiday aka binge weight gain time was two weeks ago. Usually when I eat right and exercise I start feeling lighter and leaner even if the scales don’t agree, but even that isn’t happening.

I know it’s only a temporary set back but I can’t wait to break out of this stage and be 122 lbs and really on my way to achieving this.
The thing is even if I lose and get back to 120-122lbs that’ll just be the weight that I was at a year ago when I set this goal to try and get to 112! I’m still just undoing the damage of the past year at university…it’s frustrating! And when term starts in a month will I just do it all again?! Sorry to be repetitive, I’ve said all this before, but it really concerns me.

I’m really hoping to be 124lbs by tomorrow. I have become a little obsessed with this goal of late and have been weighing myself every day (sometimes more!) but I’m only counting the Sunday morning weight as progress.

Maybe it’s because I’m not eating the right sorts of food/at the right times? I’m eating 1200 calories a day (usually more, between 1200-1600 and then exercising off the excess of 1200). Maybe it’s too little and the gaps between eating are slowing down my metabolism or something….although I make sure to eat at least every four hours.
I just hope this will pick up and I start seeing some concrete results soon. Oops…mammoth entry :S! Good luck everyone!

That’s what it feels like I’m doing.
Currently I am 127 lbs again, although I spent a week away and got back a couple of days ago at 131 which I thought was ridiculous.
Only a short while ago I was 123! How does it take only a couple days of eating and drinking to put so much on and then a week or more of hard work and good diet to get them off!
I really don’t want to start yo yo ing like this. It just seems that I spend two weeks at home controlling my diet and exercise strictly and then when I take a week away every two or three weeks I undo it all and go back to square one.
I know the solution is to learn control on holiday, but that is so hard when you’re limited to the food and exercise available, and the time, and activites with friends – plus on holiday you don’t wanna be miserable you wanna enjoy it!
So I don’t know.
I really want to be 8 stone when semester starts again but I guess from now on I just can’t slip up so much on weeks away. Of which another is about to begin on Weds….sigh!
Good luck everyone!