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  • Name: Ms. Orchid
  • City: Dallas
  • Region: Texas
  • Country: United States

My Weight Loss

Height: 165.1cm
Start weight: 282.00lb
Current weight: 277.00lb
Goal weight: 190.00lb
Lost to date: 5.00lb
Remaining: 87.00lb

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12/10/2008 21:40

Almost 2 WEEKS GONE BY

 

It has been a while since I have checked in. I got sick then better, then a lil sick again all in the midst of celebrating my sons and daughter's b-day party. It has been pretty good though, my diet. I have not went extremely off the charts. I have managed to come back easy to m routine and I feel so much better lately this time around, with the dieting. I can't really call it a diet because I do eat whatever I want but in my 1200 calorie allowment. I am also writing my book(unrelated to weighloss) so that is taking up time away from food and away from the internet.
 
I have only lost a few pounds but that is okay, I plan on hitting the local rec for their low cost gym membership pretty soon.
 
Anyway just a small updat. ttylaterz
 

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12/01/2008 20:21

Day 2

 

Day two is over..yeah!!! The only problem I had is that my food intake should not be over 1200. That is what all the doctors have told me and it must be true because I rarely eat past 1600 calories weekly(excluding the weekends) but everytime I fail to eat more than 1200. I do not lose weight I just maintain my size.
 
So tomorrow it will be better. I think the major problem today was that I had caramel in the fridge and decided to go for caramel.
 
Also I could have done without the piece of bread, it did not taste too good anyway.
 
So now I need to just get in that exercise and I will be good to go..
 

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12/01/2008 17:09

It's Tuff Love!

Hey everybody! Well let me start by saying today was the most complete meal I have ever had. I am not much of a breakfast eater in fact, when I think about eating breakfast foods and eating in the morning it makes me sick to my stomach. Now why can't that be the other way around? That is when all my bad eating habits take place, in the afternoon.
 
For many people afternoon starts around 12pm, that's lunchtime right? For me it starts at 4pm because I am not used to any eating schedule earlier than that. Then at 7pm it is dinner time.
 
Anyways lately I have been having trouble finding my motivation. It used to be that I would just GET MOTIVATED and I could lose some weight but not anymore. Now I don't quite know what's going on with my will power. But something did spark a flame under my ass last night.
 
TLC's -Addicted To Food! Wow... Just watching the people on the show eat 3-9,000 calories a day made me sick to my stomach. I had always said that I would never allow myself to get that big. Well here I am, on the road to getting that big and feeling as if I can not be stopped. As I watched these people's stories, that was me. Sure I was much smaller than them(and of course, isn't that another excuse for us to keep eating) but give it two or four years and that would be my story.
 
One guy pigged out! He was at least 800 pds and had a tube down his nose because he had trouble breathing and yet he ate. It literally grossed me out and frightened me because being near death was not enough for him. Will it be for me one day?
 
We have to realize what we are doing to ourselves. It is not okay! Many times we fall off the wagon and tell ourselves well that's okay, we will just start all over again. That is not good enough! Most of us has had to diet since we were in our young teen years    and some of us since we were just little kids. We know the rules to the diet game like the back of our hands! Excuses! Excuses! Even when we think we are out of them, we still have just one left.
 
Screw food, there is more to the world than chocolates and soda's!
So I say stop the excuses, dont be so lenient on ourselves when we do something that we know we are not supposed to be doing. We know that this is a life- threatening disease. We know how most of the world views fat people. So let's just prove them wrong and in the process prove ourselves right. That we can really do it!
 
I know my weight tracker will have moved by next month...Will yours?

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11/28/2008 21:31

I know...But it was good!

 

I know I should not have, but I did. I ate and I drank and I left and went to another family members house and I ate and I drank some more. I thought I would feel super guilty but right now all I feel is sick as hell. Last night I felt a little tickle in my throat and today I have a bad cold with chills. All I can think of is that time I got sick at x-mas. I had the flu and could not eat a thing. I wonder if this is a sign of the flu coming for me. Anyways, the one thing I knew I could not stay away from was the dressing, I love dressing but can do without the turkey. I ended up just having one bg plate of food and not going back for seconds, it might have been that I was a wee bit tipsy. However, my sisters and I headed to my father's family and I had a small bowl of banana pudding, egg nog and tea. I took a big plate of food home...and ate it as soon as I got there. You know I have noticed that I will eat a small serving of food in restaurants and get a to-go box to take the rest, but end up eating most of it in the car. Anybody else do that?

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11/26/2008 17:28

It's Couch Time!

So before actually starting this whole new weight loss journey. A friend and I emailed each other and talked it through. We are doing this together so i hope we get further than we ever have by ourselves.  We decided that we would gift each other every month IF we lose a said amount of weight. We also discussed, what I like to call couch time. Couch time is when we sit or lie on the couch and tell each other our troubles. One of us get's to play psychologist, except we actually give advice. I think this is a valuable tool when it comes to losing and maintaining not only weight loss but healthy minds. I am writing this because I am offering "couch time" to anyone willing to ask for it.  Not only am I a hopeful psychologist(student of Psychology and Criminal Justice) but, now get ready for this.... I am also a Real Psychic!

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11/26/2008 17:15

You Don't Look It!

Often, when I tell people how much I weigh, I get "You don't look it!" And I think to myself, " Well I am." 280 pounds, those mere words should have been enough to scare me thin. But, not lately. You see lately it has been very hard to even fathom losing weight. When I was in my early 20's I could drop twenty pounds in two weeks! Deadly? Yeah, Did it come back? Hell Yeah! But was it hard to lose? No. So why is it so hard now? Is it because physically I know that all it takes is the right outfit, a pair of stilleto's and a lil eyeliner and walla! I am instantly a plus-sized hour glass figure? Or is it that my age has now become my body's sole custodian? After all, I have begun to take into account the fact that I am nearing 30 and what I have heard, that the older you get the harder it is, may be true. To be quite honest,  I have to believe that both of those play a huge role in my weight loss. Not to mention this whole mental thing, which I just now realized as an issue. You see I am great at dieting when my fiance is not home with me through out the week. As I barely get out and I can be too lazy to go anywhere at all at times. So I will eat what's in my fridge and since I am always on a diet(every Monday it starts all over again because by Friday afternoon I have fell off) and it is either Atkins or below 1300 calories. However, when he is home and we get out of the house I just know(now this is the mental part of me) that I can get whatever I want. Though I have realized this, I don't have an explaination as to why.  Do you?
 

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