Rarr...remind me never to take pictures of myself again =( My pictures look fatter then the ones at the other weights. I think my scales are lieing to me =(

Hi girl!

I read your post and I just felt so inspired and amazed. It is awesome how motivated and positive you are ! And how fast you are achieving your goals ! Great job! Keep up the good work and keep us updated, ok?

By the way, I am seventeen too.

<3

Hey! It's nice reading someone who is 17 also, even though everyone on here is so inspiring, sometimes things go a little easier when you have someone your own age. Thank you though and I'll most def. keep everyone updated and I'll check in on you too! =P

Happy Valentine's Day...

Do something fun for your heart today

I did okay today. I got up to 1,395 calories. Found out chocolate gives me headaches. =/

Okie dokie, round two. Or as I'd like to call it "get off your ass for once!!" I'm not really gonna bother making any weight loss plans until March 12th. Because of my surgery the 21st, I'll be down and out for a few weeks and its vital I eat for my wound to heal right. BUT that doesn't giveme an excuse to be a pig, and I wont be, I'll just eat a bit more then I usually do. But I'll make sure it's healthy =D

I've decided that there is no way in heaven that I'd ever be able to follow a 20g fat diet, so I upped it to 26g and I've begun making a list of foods that interest me, that are low in fat and calories and that are good for me. I've also thrown in the option of angel food cake, it's low in calories and low in fat and will satisfy any sweet tooth issues. I'm also going to throw in more fruits and vegetables...andddd

Water!!! Water, water, and more water!

I tweaked my workout too, I've decided I'm going to burn upwards of 1,300 calories per day (I'm addicted to that dang ellipitical!!!), which I'm hoping for 20lbs gone in one month. After that month, the next month I'm upping my calories and hoping for a 2 to 3lb weight loss per week. Once I hit 250 I'll taper off and hope to get into a 1 to 2lb lost. I know that can all change, but I'm going to work my ass off..literally!!! And I'm involving weight training in order to try and stay somewhat ahead of or right up there with this loose skin bit, if I run into that problem, which I more then likely will.

I'm starting March 12th

Count on me for whatever you need. I am here for you. My type of problem is a little bit different,and even kinda weird, but I need to shake it off and live my life normally again.

Your plan sounds interesting...And yeah,water is sooo important for weight loss. Are you having a gastric bypass surgery?

Take care <3

Good luck with your surgery! You're absolutely right: you've got to recover before you start thinking again about dieting.

Oh gosh..my oh my no! I'm not having gastric bypass. I was born with a pilondial cyst and they took it out last April and they let it heal open wound, but it didn't heal all the way for me, so they have to reoperate and try and close it!

*Sighs* I've been keeping up with my calories, have kept them mainly below 1,300. I haven't really exercised...at all. I'll do it after surgery. That and we've been snowed in for four days. I've had some sorta weird period that made me bloat up to 284, but I'm back down to 280.5. That makes me feel a bit better. I feel like my face is getting slimmer. It's probably my imagination, but when I feel around my neck I can feel my collar bone a lot more (now, just to get it to surface, heh) and my neck seems slimmer and it seems like things are becoming more defined. I don't know, I could be imagining it. I hope I'm not. I was pretty happy about being at 280.5lbs...n then a guy had to ruin it for me.

A guy I dated for three years, then whom he kept up with talking to me for another year (4 years marked of friendship on Vday and he didn't even aknowledge it) that he liked me, was attracted to me, wanted to see me. Turns out, he likes this other girl, only wanted me for, well, other reasons. And that he wanted a skinny girl, a girl he can be proud of, who is skinny and beautiful.

There went my proudness of losing that weight. I don't eat when upset though. Which is good. (Ever since I was little, if I was yelled at or got upset, I got sick and lost all sense of wanting food, heh).

I don't know whether or not to be proud of this; but about two years ago I bought three sports bras (they came in a pack) and I could not fit them. They were waaay to small. (I'm talking bandwise, since they don't really have cup sizes) and they are a 38. I was always a 42D, I can't remember ever being a B or a C. I'm kinda happy bout this, but at the same time, I happen to be rather...attached to my breasts and would really like to keep them. I suppose I have to look at it this way...lose weight, be healthy, cope with a B or C or stay fat and keep my D's. I'd kill to lose weight, so, I'll take my loses =( Look at me, going on about something that shouldn't really matter. Heh.


I also don't understand....my pants feel tighter. The jeans that I took my pictures in, feel tight in the waist, BUT I've lost weight....and they weren't tight when I had taken those pictures in the pictures section. So I don't know if the scales are lying to me or if I'm getting fatter. Everyone says "Determine by your clothing" how do you do that when the scale says I'm losing but the pants say I'm just fat?


I'm not in a good mood. Not at all. And if this all sounds like whining..well, that's not my intention, I'm just frusterated and a bit more then hurt.

i see you're not in a good mood. those pants probabily feel tighter because of muscles you say you're addicted to elliptical. don't worry this is only temporary. it happened to me also. i have no idea why.

you should feel proud of yourself...and if you feel slimmer in the face then you probabily are. so what if some people don't notice?

as for that guy. honestly, he doesn't deserve a second glance let alone you to let him ruin your accomplishment for you. you should be proud of yourself and every pound you lose. remember you are doing this for yourself and not to make someone else happy. what goes around comes around. you can and will find someone worth your time

have a great sunday! Lena

Lena:: I hope it's just muscle, if it is, then I can be content with that. I have a funny feeling my stomach is gonna be the trouble spot. Which sucks since it's my biggest problem. I am pretty proud of myself, I'm becoming more aware of what I eat, what the calories are, how much fat is in it. I haven't been in the 2000 calories in a few days, and I've only been up in the 2000's twice this month, everything has been below 1,500!! Mostly on the 1,300 side, which is where I wanna be!! Actually, that guy just made my day right now. I asked him how much he thinks I weigh, he said 170! I always thought that he thought I was really really fat. (He's my bestfriend, we never actually end up hating each other, it's sorta odd) But to hear him say 170, and him be truthful about it, makes me feel good, even though he said what he did say last night.

So I got up some courage to weigh myself this morning. I weigh 279 right now. Which is fantastic to me, since all last week I weighed 283 (bloatedness).

When I weighed myself at the gym about two or so weeks ago, it said I weighed 283. When I came home, I used our bathroom scale and it said 290. Now, I trust the gym scale more then I do our scale (our scale, even when the doctors scale said I was 277 when I was sick, our scale told me 295, so that's why I don't trust it, it never goes below 285, no matter what the gym and doctors scale say) well anyways, our scale said 286 for me, so I knocked the 4lbs off of 283. Cause you'd think that 4lbs lost is 4lbs lost on anyscale..right?

Congrats on your success thus far.

Regarding those jeans, were they recently washed and dried? If so that could be the reason they feel a little tighter! I know mine always feel that way after I have dried them. I can't wait for the day that they are too loose just out of the dryer.

Happy Sunday!

Sadly enough they weren't recently washed and dried. They had been when I took the first pictures, then I only wore them for pictures =(

Happy Sunday to you tooo!! Hope its a good one!

Awww I'm sorry about what he says. Your face looks beautiful to me! You have been doing so well. I'm also 17. I hope you have a great day!! Don't worry about the jeans...they will be falling off one day!