weigh 145 pounds

I want to exercise 6 times a week and lose weight in a steady, healthy manner.

after a break…

sw: 160;
gw: 140.

When I started this goal I had about 93 pounds to lose total to make it to 145 pounds.

I have 67 lbs left! I’ve lost about 27 pounds! YAY!

I’ve lost it twice now actually… I let myself slip back into bad habits.

I’m hitting the rec center at my campus 3 to 4 times a week now… I started once to twice a week, but no more… I really need to get to it.

I want to lose at least 6 pounds by spring break… which is mid March!

Hope everyone’s doing well! Keep up the hard work!

145 is about my ideal weight for my height. I hope I can get back to it some day, having 3 kids can sure mess up the metabolism! >.<

I’m still 152 lbs. (even though, it was 163 last month…)
So I’m back on track. I want to be 132 pounds when I finish. I started last year from 185, I can do it.
(I’m 176 cm.)

Finally.

I feel like I’m in a comfortable weight and almost completely out of my eating disordered years.

Also, I feel very pretty and have nice hips and legs.

For me, 145 lbs would mean I’ve finally, FINALLY broken away from those darn 150s. I have been stuck in the 150 spectrum for over two years now. Enough is enough! I can’t lie to myself anymore. I eat too much, I exercise too little. It needs to change, even just a bit. Hopefully reaching 145 will just be one stop on the way to an even healthier weight than that: my ultimate goal of 115.

So, I’m 5’6 and I’ve been overweight basically all of my life…a mix of genetics, overweight parents who are GREAT cooks, living in the south with “soul food”, lack of exercise, emotional eating, social eating…the list of excuses goes on and on. Every January I make the same New Year’s resolution…to lose the weight and reach my goal of 145. The closest I ever got was 150..then gained 20 lbs. in a matter of months. This time, I am motivated and determined for things to be different. I’m now in my twenties and am realizing how important it is to be healthy and gain healthy habits, especially while I’m still young. Anywho…enough jabber, this is what I’ve been doing to reach my goal:

I’ve been keeping a daily log of what I eat, calories, and how many weight watchers (great program) points each meal contains. I also keep a log of my daily exercise and how many calories (www.caloriesperhour.com) I’ve burned..or atleast a close estimate. All of this seems to be working…My goal is to reach 145 by September 15th.

I started at 178 a month ago.
I am now down to 171…6 lbs. in a month. Of course I would have much rather lost 10 lbs., but I’d rather lose it slower and keep it off longer.

A sample of my meals today:

Breakfast: no breakfast..but sometimes Special K
Lunch: Ham sub from Subway and baked chips
Dinner: Porkchop sandwich, strawberries

Today I waitressed for 5 hours and being exhausted, I took a day off from extra exercise. I usually take a day off once a week if I have gotten my exercise in another way.

Daily I…

Walk/jog 2-3 miles on the treadmill b/t 3.2 and 4.0 mph.
Lift weights, squats, ab exercises for about 20 min.

I usually exercise for about an hour every day.

There are a few helpful tips that I have learned through magazines and other internet sites…

1. Drink a lot of water (I always order water whenever I go out to eat, because I am more likely to drink atleast 2 glasses, and at most restaurants, water is free…so it saves money too!)

2. Cut back on carbs at dinner. Eat breads, pastas, cereals and other carby foods for Breakfast and Lunch so you have all day to burn it off.

3. Exercise moderately atleast 3 to five days a week.

4. To lose a lb. a week, you must burn 500 more calories than you take in…this is where counting calories becomes helpful.

5. Weigh yourself once a week. This has helped me to see where I may be going wrong, or if I’m headed in the right direction..even it it’s only a few ounces lost. I feel that it keeps me more on track instead of weighing myself once a month. The best time to weigh yourself is right after you wake up in the morning.

6. This might be a little dumb, but it helps motivate me..I printed out a picture of someone who I would like to look like (www.virtualmodel.com) I posted it in front of my treadmill so whenever I feel like quitting, I can picture myself at my goal weight.

7. There comes a point where you have to realize we are not all made to be a size 2. Reaching a healthy weight for your height is what’s important.

8. The 3 day diet does not work…or atleast not for me..along with Low carb diets (made me lightheaded), the South Beach diet, the military diet…I think I’ve tried it all. However, Weight Watchers does work if you are strict about it. It focuses more on healthy lifestyle changes instead of a quick weight loss fix.

9. I am an emotional eater…I am also a college student…college can be extremely stressful and frustrating…boys are also frustrating…parents = frustrating…basically I used to eat whenever I was venting to my roommates or upset about something. This is something that is not fixed overnight. However, if you are an emotional eater, keep only healthy foods around. That way, if you have to go on an eating binge while you rant about how unfair your professor is or how invisible the guy you’ve liked for a billion years makes you feel….you don’t have to finish your rant feeling fat and gross.
(Celery and peanut butter = amazing…just don’t dig out the whole jar)

10. Don’t lose weight for anyone else but yourself. If you are only trying to gain the attention of a guy/girl..you are setting yourself up for failure. Now if you lose the weight in order to gain the confidence to go after the guy/girl..then that’s fine. But be sure you are doing this for you and for your own benefit.

I don’t know..maybe I wasn’t supposed to write all this, but I hope it may have helped someone.

i believe this is how much i weigh now. but i haven’t lost any previous weight to get here. i’m not happy with my weight tho :/ but who is!

Really sad today and I feel like eating chocolate… but it’s the first day of my diet again. Yesterday and before yesterday I ate lots of sweets and I know that if I give up today, I’ll give up for good. I have to be strong.

My goal is to lose 10 lbs in two months. I’ll be 140 pounds (63 kg) on the 10 May. Weekly I’ll have to track a loss of about 0.6 kg.

Today: Breakfast: a salad and some bread, I guess it’s about 300 kcal
Lunch: A strawberry yoghurt 280 kcal
Dinner: Soup and some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower – 300 kcal
Total: 880 kcal (I think it’ll in fact be more but I can’t really tell about the breakfast).