Yes i could stand to lose a few. I am 5'4" and weigh 135lbs. I know it isnt anything major but i am a litle chubby i guess. I want to lose another 15 pounds and be back to 120 like i was before i had my daughter. I just dont like giving up yummy food!!!!

and both a bit of a problem here. I need to lose weight too. I don't have a scale, but I'm guessing -50# would not hurt. Plus my skin would get better. I work real hard, so that is good. Dog classes resume from the winter hiatus in 2 weeks, so tubby gets to run around with the dog at the park. , a little extra would not hurt.

Shadow I am very sorry to hear about your mom.

You know I weigh more now than I have ever weighed in my life even while pregnant with each of my three sons I weighed less than I do now. I'm 32 years old 5'4 and I weigh 159 lbs and I am just miserable with myself. I tried the Atkins diet over the winter and I lost about 22 lbs but as soon as I went off the diet I gained it all back plus a few pounds! I am a Coca Colaholic! Coke is to me like cigarettes and coffee is to others I am addicted. I have tried so many fad diets but they are so hard to follow. Just recently I joined a gym and I have started to drink more water and eat less sweets I have lost a couple of pounds but it just isn't coming off fast enough darn it! Also trying to loose weight is so hard when you have a husband and three boys who do nothing but eat!  eat!   eat!

-- Edited by GinaH at 15:15, 2005-04-03

Ya'll have done went looney on me now....lol  Kitty, I see many days tha I feel like  that....lol

Gina, I  use to do the same thing you did.  I would diet and then 'go off' it once I had lost the weight I wanted.  That was my problem, and thats why 'diets' don't work (for people like me).

Thats why I call it an Eating Plan.  When you think about having to stay on a diet for the rest of your life you're like NO FREAKIN WAY!  But if you have to stay on an Eating Plan the rest of your life, it isn't so bad.  I have learned to view what I'm doing as something I will continue to do forever.  I won't reach a point and then just stop, and thats what I did for so long.  In order to be successful, you have to change your whole way of eating, for the rest of your life.  NOw someone like Erica who is already small and only needs to lose a few pounds.....yes a 'diet' would work....because she doesn't have much to lose.  But for me, who is considerably larger (I'm 5ft 7in and weigh 200+), a 'diet' will never work.  I had to change my eating for eternity, so I better make sure it is a change I can live with.  I also have diabetes in my family, so being overweight is only going to bring on the onset of the diabetes.  So far, the change is totally 'do-able'.  I hope it continues.

Hey......we need to get ltlgto over here on this girly diet thread........men hate that kind of stuff...lol

All of you are much skinnier than me.  (I am truthful in that)  I call myself a BIG FAT momma.   Anyway I do need to lose the weight

If I show you a picture I will be  

Speaking of pictures how do I change my avatar to my real cat

 

I have tried counting carbs and did pretty good on it until we went on vacation.Congrats to you Ansythats something to celebrate!!!!! Right now im just tring to watch what I eat and cut portions.If I deprive myself too much I fail and binge.I made my husband waffles egg,etc. for breakfast yesterday, so I hate a half of a waffle and half an egg.This morning had had two boiled eggs and some fresh fruit.Lunch I had more fruit. Dinner will be a salad, with a pork chop.I know what you mean Gina Im miserable too. So im truly going to try and stick with it this time wish me luck. Thanks for the kind words about my Mom.

I am so glad this has been brought up. Maybe we should start a weight loss support system. Now I have to say that I am overweight and me and Brad have been dieting for a month now. He has lost 12 and I have lost 11. Slow but surely we are losing the weight. So I figured by Sep. I will be skinny again. When I first got pregnant I weighed 150 and was a size 5 in some things and 7 in others. Now I weigh 195 and wear a size 13. Sad and very depressing. And yes I am tall, 5 foot 9. I always thought that I hold my weight well but it drives me crazy because I was skinny all my life until Kaitlyn. And the diet we are on is a low calorie diet. I only eat 1500 calories a day and 4 days a week I walk and lift weight. We do have two cheat dinners a week too. Without those I would fail.

And to think about it, people like my sister drive me crazy. She is 5'2" and weighs around 100 but at least she is dating a chubby girl. That always makes me feel better. I think I have rambled on enough for now. But with a topic like this I can't help it.

Loss weight! I so need to! Before my son I was 130 (i'm 5'7) after me son I was 170ish. Ya'll know Jarred in the Subway commercials? LOL He wasn't lieing when he said he lost all that weight! I eat 2 subways a day and have lost about 10 LBS in 3 1\2 weeks. I have a Subway where I work and I get them for free so I figured why not try the "Jarred diet"

Stormy, don't you get tired of Subway? Personally when I h ave to eat it I feel like I am eating a piece of cardboard, and that it the Subway Melt with lots of mayo. I know that must sound real healthy but hey, I haven't eaten there in over a year.

Now when I cook I do a lot of grilling. I love chicken. And I also eat lots of veggies and fruit. And twice a week for breakfast I will make two pieces of bacon, two scrambled eggs, and one of those hash brown patties. And trust me I will never give up my bacon. When I fry it I cut the pieces in half so it feels like I have more on my plate. I know that sounds weird but hey I love food. And I haven't eaten fast food in a month too. When I used to eat it twice a week.