who else has made it their new years resolution to start losing weight?? after numerous failed attempts before i have decided to join up with a program this year, i simply lack the willpower to do it by myself. are there many aussies out there?? just wondering if anyone has tried weight watchers before? anyway, who else is trying to lose weight this year?
I am. I am technically 100lbs heavier than I should be. Though no one seems to believe that since I carry my weight well. But I am doing it for my health. I'm 22 and I feel more and more sluggish as the days go on. My weight gain was from depression, dealing with mental/psychical abuse, etc. So I added it on over a decade and here I am. I am happy with the way I look. I was picked on in school for my weight, as well as recently when I posted a personal ad elsewhere. But this is strictly for my health, I want to see 23.
i would like to loose about 15 pounds. its not a lot, but im weak when it comes to chocolate and yummy sweet things... im not fat, but i am apperantly overweight for my height and build. i think i look pretty good though. im more concerned with being in shape enough to hike and do the things i like to do without getting tired and sore. which just means i need to get off my ass more, and everything will probably sort itself out....
but i am apperantly overweight for my height and build. i think i look pretty good though. Don't you wonder where those charts of "proper" weight come from? I think if you feel good and your health is good, then that's all that should matter.
I think that the charts appeared after the anorexia croud hit med school. I'm 5'1", and the charts say that I should be 116 lbs. I'm also as broadshouldered as a well-built male, and have DD cups with an ass to match. Thank you, German genetics. I did the math, and my healthy weight is 140 lbs. I could handle 150 if it were muscles. I'm 160 of flab right now, after a terrible year of work and school stress, family upheavals, and depression. I have a plan to hit 140 by summer, maybe 130, then try to build up the musculature with strength training to 145-150 by autumn. I did try to start with a week-long water fast to detox, but I scheduled it on the week of my cycle, when I get anaemic naturally. My doctor has even told me not to worry too much about that, just to up my spinach and salad intake that week. I tried taking iron supplements, then got a puffy-red-faced reaction to the pills within 48 hours. My husband found out what I was doing, and panicked that I was getting anorexia or bulimia or something like that. I'll try again once school starts, when I'll see him maybe once a day for the week in question. I honestly think that if I can meet that one goal, the rest will come fairly easily. Through and after that, it's yoga daily and a home spa day once a week to fight the depression and stress. I'll watch my diet closely after the week is up, going mostly raw vegetarian, and walk more once the weather gets warm. After my goals are reached, it will be healthy foods and T'ai Chi. I'd like to find a martial arts class in my area. I know that I'm going to need to talk to my doctor soon anyway (that time of year. . . ), so I'll try to get her advice on the methods. The big reward: If I can make 140 by my birthday, I'm getting my first tatoo to celebrate.
how's everyone going? i'm slowly getting started...still having a hiccup or two when it comes to chocolate but i'm really trying hard to phase that out.
I'm trying but i'm still laid up with a bad knee till the end of febuary then I can start to work out again I gain back every thing I lost when I hurt my knee and with this surgery and then some I'm depressed though my husband still thinks I'm sexy i dont feel sexy
Well, that went badly. I'm not trying again. I managed to get nicely flu-infested and now I'm just trying to stand again. I hate being sick, and on the first week of classes it's a nightmare. Meh. I think I hit my immune system too hard. On the weird side, I seem to have lost five pounds in a day thanks to this flu. Dammit.
my sister did the weight watchers diet & did extreamly well on it. i'm unhappy with my weight at the moment, i used to be really skinny skinny but when i stopped smoking i put on lodes of weight & went up two dress sizes. but i'd rather have put weight on than carried on killing myself with smokes. every one says i look beter for the weight & that i looked too anarexic before. i do eat quite healthy, i love my veggies & make alot of food from scratch. but i have noticed that i put butter on & in alot of my food, way more than i need too & i also eat mountins of cheese. i absolulty love cheese but its very very fattning. i've decided that i'm going to try & cut down my cheese intake & stop putting butter in & on everything & try & do 1/2 an hour jogging a day. i'd be happy just to loose a little weight & tone my muscles. i dont want to get down to the weight i was before as i agree that i do look a little too thin in some pictures.
i've been pretty good so far, but boy am i craving some fish and chips. it is summer in australia, after all!
