mnb

best thing i have ever done in my life!!!so this is gonna be the beginning of what cold be thebest thing you have ever done in your life

im still a slob too. i wish i had that substitute addiction. But i beleive My sub-addict is working out. I feel like crying sometimes when i go too long(a few days) wihtout workingout. Especially now that im almost 6months out and i eat a hell of a lot moree than before.I get so scared that im eating to the point of weight gain. Myrealistic side tells me it's almost impossible considering how few calories i take in, But my crazy, semi malnurished, delusional side just feel like im going to gain it all back right this minute if i dont go for atleast an hour jog.

aww god bless u too bekind. We got your back! goodluck

to: pnw i cannot believe u have a daughter that old u look awesome. And i agree about people and their mean comments, even i on occasions put my foot in my mouth and accidentally offended someone. but unfortunately that's not the case with people like my sister and cousins, They say things with the purpose of offending me,smh (god i can't wait to be thin so i can rub it in their face, lol) And the map means exactly that. Since my 1st carribean cruise at 19 i've a always managed to find a way to leave the country as much as possible,lol as crazy as it is overhere the ny/nj area can get alittle old. For my bday this april im going to ghana(visit my parents), paris and amsterdam all in one month,lol (crazy but i love it) hopefully by then i'll be 165lb or less. And this is my 1st real "debute" traveling as a slimmer girl for years and i haven't had a date with a boy i actually like in forever so i'm actually Kinda hopeing for a little summer romance in europe *fingers crossed*...

To- pnw218 that's a really good question. And i can't believe how similar all our experiences has been. I think i am gonnabe one of those people who take this secret to my grave. It's funny cause my whole life my weight has fluctuated and everytime it got alittle higher (like 5'6 1/2 140s at 14years old) I will be getting called fat by my parents and my sister and my extended family will have some embarrasing meeting where they make fun of me about my weight and try to disguise it as an "interviention". And then as an adult the same people would say the most hurtful things in the most embarrasing ways about my growing size. So thanksgiving 2008 when i expressed my interest in the lapband(at the time) all of a sudden "you're not that big" really?!?! cause my whole life you guys made me feel like PRECIOUS,lol. And my sister mentioned that i will be too skinnyif i had the surgery( but she meant was i would be skinnier THAN HER) A lot of the younger women in my family are about 10-20lbs overweight but they're normal looking and they're "not fat" so they feel like their bodies are fine. and anything less than what they look like is underweight to them. even though if they check their bmi(and guts) they would see they're overwieght. But back to the question- yes i have been told that i am too skinny to have the surgery and if i do have the surgery i will be too skinny. but what i do is i look at the person that's telling me that. i have some overly competative women in my family( all within my age range) and when i gained the weight i do believe alot of them was secretely/not so secretely happy about it. So when they say something about how i shouldn't have surgery i believe they just want to have the advantage of being the skinnier sister/cousin. coopersmomma- don't sweat the haters if it takes not telling them anything thaen so beat it. casue some people are supposed to be left in the dark because when they find out certain things they use it against u.

i rememebr for a whole year i kept getting mixed up on whether i was 9 or 10...lol

omg im gonnabe 26 in april too. I can't wait cause by the time i hit 26 im gonnabe as small as i was at 22.... oh i cant wait!

UNDER WATER VOMIT!?!?! nice....

O M G !!!!! i feel so proud of myself i had to announce it to this whole thread. About 2 hours ago, Jan2, 2010; I Mamie/mnb started my daily tae-bo "bootcamp" dvd and.... actually FINISHED THE WHOLE THING!!!! YEAH! It took about a week(and a few days here/there) of failing miserably- to finish. But today i can say tae-bo bootcamp isn't just for billyblanks, his fem-bot step daughter, and the other humanoids behind them. But me, A simple human girl can do it too! I paused the dvd about a million times for Water and i took a million breaks. But everytime i caught my breath and drank my water i pressed play and continued. And g*d damnit it felt good to finially recipricate the ass kicking that dvd has been giveing me for this past week. Moments like this remindes me why i stick to working out.

lol omg you must have been so scared, thank god you're ok. I would have been pissed!! to think- We bust your ass excersising so we can actually live LONGER and then you almost die as a result of excersising-ironic...lol Yeah since that day i didn't really bother with the lunges. but i read that last post i made and it felt like forever ago. since then i started doing the 3 mile workout and i got that down alot faster than it took me to get the 1st 2miles. And i think i kinda hit a bit of a plateau so i started doing Tao-bo- I actually done it before but this one was called tae-bo "bootcamp". I thought it was just a name and i didn't think much of it. But apparently the name did mean something. I'm telling you that was the hardest physical thing i have ever done IN MY LIFE!!! The 1st time i tried it i did about 5-8mins of it- canceling it out to being impossible. I tried it about 2more times and each time i was able to go further along in the video. Today was my 4th time doing it. And i got about 1/2 way throught the dvd. And i'm still pretty stoked about being able to do something and getting better at something that i thought was impossible to do a week ago. Not to sound cheesy but... Challenging my body is Awesome!

aww man ! okay but lets say if someone had a gun 2 your head...wich name would you pick. (just kidding)

or maybe How-2bskinny and then you can give us all a bunch of advice on your blog.

i have another name suggestion... how about Never2- soon2bskinny? i think thats hot or nice-2bskinny?

after surgery when i 1st started working out i tried after i ate. And i was doing some pretty intense cardio. and i felt the food and liquid moving around in my stomach and i barely finished ccause i was about to thow up. So i prefer to not eat until i aready worked out.

:mad0:damnit vsg didn't email me and tell me when others wrote on this thread. what's that about?....:glare: whatever anyways chancie- believe it or no they're just simple reeboks woman's running shoes but i can't believe i'm still keeping at it. with the working out. i haven't skipped any days or anything. I did kinda have a minor set back t with last week though. i call this story... OUCH!!!:scared0: So you know how i'm totally excited about actually working out,sticking to it, and actually liking it:w00t: So every second i'm always trying to find a way to intensify my routine. So last week i decided i should do some leg toneing.So i basically do 30 reps of everything including squats. When i was done i was so proud of myself. So i wake up the next day My legs literally felt like noodles!I actually took like two steps out of bed to use the bathroom and fell to the ground. For about 2 days straight i couldn't even bend my legs to sit on a couch, i had to fall straight back into the couch like i was doing one of those trust fall excersise,lol. man it was painful. BUT!!! I still worked out through the pain. i still did the walk away the lbs vid. just with alot less intensity. And now i have mastered the 2mile walk in the video:thumbup: i started off barely making it to 1 mile than later 1 1/2miles now i do the 2 mile EASY (well maybe not easy) but alot easier and then i do the cool down at the end of the dvd. I don't know but i'm really starting to get the hang of this working out thing. And i'm telling you even though i was skinny in school i never had stamana.i grew up with bronchitis and acute asthma. And i was always that girl that held everyone up from playing kickball cause i was the last person to finish doing the mile jog in gym class,lol. I couldn't even go to theclub and dance without falling out in like a minute,lol and now i'm doing this 2mile in less than 1/2hour without stopping. I'm really poud of myself actually. BEST ADVICE EVER!!!:w00t:And one of the best things you can do to keep things going which is probably the main thing that kept me going was Get a friend/ workout buddy. Maybe find someone on vsgtalk in your state or closer to your neighborhood, or a trainer(if your a millionare). Cause In the beginning their were a few days i just wanted to skip or stop. but ididn't cause i knew i had someone spending their hard earned gas money to come over. earlier When i would work out alone if i stop short, or skipped a day or two it didn't bother me cause i only was hurting myself. But the thought of inconveniencing or disappointing others alone would motivate me.if it wasn't for my partner i probably wouldn'thave gone this far. but trustme when you do finially able to stick to the work outs your gonna love it and it's gonnabe hard to want to stop i promise you chance. good luck chancie.

congrts on the 40lb loss and good luck with your goal sweetie! just keep working out and it's come off eventually. and what helps me is the tickertape website every day i go down a pound iput it on the site and it records all the days my weight went down. To me it feel like it's takeing FOREVER! but when i see my records it shows that i lose about a pound every 3-4 days. And doing that ususally gives me an idea how long it would take to lose a certain amount of weight.

omg ash i do walk away the lbs too. And i'm so annoyed and tired of it as well. i hate the boring music, the boring moves and the boring people- including the instructor. Now i'm all for danceing as excersise but it looks alittle too fun and easy for me. There's no reps or anything. It just looks like danceing. Do people really get a good cardio workout with this? i cant do a class but i can do dvds. i think i might give the zumba a try.

>>Start exercising and you’ll become a round-the-clock, fat-burning machine, right? That’s long been a commonly held belief among exercisers and fitness experts alike. But a new report finds that, sadly, it’s not very likely. The notion that exercise somehow boosts the body’s ability to burn fat for as long as 24 hours after a workout has led to a misperception among the general public that diet doesn’t matter so much as long as one exercises, says Edward Melanson, an exercise physiologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver. << It gets better, read here: Exercise not likely to rev up your metabolism - Smart Fitness- msnbc.com This is the part I thought was interesting: >>“Bottom line is that we once thought that exercise would burn calories, especially fat calories, for a long period after a bout of exercise,” says exercise physiologist Gerald Endress, fitness director for the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center who was not involved in the research. “This does not seem to be the case.”<< I never did weight lifting when I was losing, just hard cardio daily. But I admit, this surprises me. bummer...:biggrin0:

i had some work done before i had my sleeve rhinoplasty, blephplasty, and some lipo., And i went to argentina to get it done. at the time i went through a company called plentas (they changed their name to worthy med now) and they charged me an arm and a leg. But a couple weeks ago i tracked down the doctor who did my surgery last year and pay through him with no middle man and it was MUCH MUCH MUCH less. so i'm gonna wait till i get to or near my goal weight and i'm going back to argentina for a tummy tuck and thigh lift. But you might wanna consider the plane ticket from ny/nj is about $1000 and you have to find your own place to stay for 2-4weeks and then price of food. So all of that adds up but i think it's still a decent price for going to a place that know more what they're doing (next to brazil, argentina is the second biggest cosmetic surgery capital of the world) and a place that i'm familiar with and a doctor i'm familiar with. To tell you the truth idk if i am interested in ever going back to mexico for surgery again. The only other places iwould consider is India, Asia, brazil.