Hi there i'm new! I've lost 63 lbs in 3 yrs - Weight Loss Message Board

patteecake · 08-10-2008, 04:50 PM

I have joined a gym recently and lost 5lbs so far. I'm going 2-3 times a week. A friend of mine who has joined recently will start going with me.

She has lost 120 lbs in a yr. She's a size 18 and i'm between a 14/16 right now. I've been using my billy blanks taebo stick and the 8 positions the book shows me and i'm up to 30 sit ups now. I am working on going to work out to dvds i have at home when i don't have a chance to go to the gym.

i've always been heavy as a child.i started off as getting heavier in 4th grade. By 6th grade i was 160 lbs and by the time i was a senior in h.s i was 215 lbs. I lost weight in 02 and became 175 lbs. then i started gaining weight b/c i was taking zyprexa for aniexty and anti depressant due to my bi polar.

I was 255 to begin with in 04, i had just given birth to my son and i was 226 before my pregnancy, i gained 21 lbs. I was going up and down in weight over the past years and i started to lose weight actively in 06 but then i stopped. It was when i was starting to see i was not happy in a size 20, that i started actively losing weight in Sept of 07. In march of 08 i weighed 180 lbs. I gained 15 lbs in 4 mths and then a month ago i started to take charge again and lost 5lbs , i'm 190 lbs right now. i am working on a STG of 175 lbs for now. my LTG is 130-145 lbs.

I would like to keep in touch every now and then and let everyone know when i've reached my 175 goal. if you'd like to share your weight loss story with me that would be cool.

Italia 43 · 08-11-2008, 03:16 PM

wow i also took zyprexa and depekote too when i was 16.. i used to weigh 130 when i was 12-14. once they put me on these 2 medications i mentioned above my weight sky rocketed to a 322pds.. now i am 24 and i refuse any mediations for bipolar- due to the fact i am partially infertile now and have thyroid issues and sugar issues from these 2 meds above i used to take..its awful to be over weight.. i am 5 foot 7 or 8 and 289pds.. i should be 139-159 healthy weight for me.. i am always tired and dont have any friends to go excersise with.. maybe we can help 1 another in this weight loss thingy,, i am quite motivated to change.. i am by the way 6 years sober of drugs, cigareets and alcohol.. congrats on your weight loss..

patteecake · 08-11-2008, 07:27 PM

Thats awesome you wanna be weight loss buddies! do you go to a gym? what do you excersize with? when i don't go to the gym i usually just didn't work out, now i'm doing sit ups, work out tapes and using my taebob stick since sunday. do you work?im a stay at home mom, i was a nanny for 2 yrs but in june i got laid off. how are you doing unmedicated with bi polar? i wasn't doing too well. i had a mental break down and spent a week in the hospital. Do you find hard to be in realtionships with people being bi polar? i do, i have issues with trusting people and i think they are cheating on me and i've been emotionally abused by my ex bf.

What do you eat? I eat yogurt, salads, i'll have chineses food once a week with out msg and no extra salt. Sometimes we have pizza. I try to stay away from junk food and replace it with fruits and veggies. I have some choclate b/c my periods i crave chocolate.