I've never looked at it quite that way.

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The contest

So I agreed to compete with my friend for one month to lose weight. The idea is we will weigh in at ww every week. Each week the person with the highest percentage of weight loss wins for the week. The loser has to pay $15 into the pot. The person with the highest over all at the end of the 4 weeks wins the pot.
It's a good idea in theory but man I'm going to be broke. I tried really hard this week. Foregoing a lot of things I would have eaten but to no avail I weighed myself at home and there has been no change. I am so frustrated.
While working out last night i was thinking about how fat people even when they lose the weight will always have to work out harder than the average person just to keep it off. I really don't like working out now why do I think I will be any more willing to work out when I've lost the weight.

New week new strategy

I've decided to try a new strategy this week instead of photos of half eaten food. 'Cause I was always forgetting. I'm going to count the calories. Now that we've all seen my horrible food choices we'll see if I can keep in under 2000 calories a day
Today I hit 1955 close one.
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Dinner

I'm doing really well today. No photo. For dinner I had cabbage salad and grilled chicken it was good and healthy
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Lunch

Lunch was a blt salad from Wendy,s. It was pretty good. I forgot to take a photo so here's one of my chrystal light. No diet coke with lunch today
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Snack

Anything in the break room is fair game ham and egg sandwich
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Breakfast

Chocolate cheerios. Gotta love chocolate in the morning
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Dinner

On the way home from moon lake we had to stop for raspberry shakes! I also had a cheese burger and a handfull of fries
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Lunch

I always end up over doing it when we have picnics this wasn't too bad
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Breakfast

Same old thing for breakfast. Which was at 6.30 this morning. We're headed out to bear lake so it will be a few chips on the road
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Dinner

My sisters spagetti and meat balls yum
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Lunch

It was a footlong veggi from subway. I really got to remember before I eat it. And sun chips and diet coke
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Snack

I'm almost out of these which is a good thing I need something new
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Same old boring breakfast

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Dinner

So it was a little hecktic here and I forgot to take a photo of dinner. It was chic fil et they just opened near our house and that's what everyone wanted. Yes I had the waffle fries.
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Lunch

Mushroom and swiss burger from McDonald's and a diet coke my second coke today by the way. No fries that has to count for something.
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Snack

Thursdays are so bad. Someone is assigned to bring treats every Thursday and today it was icecream sandwiches yes I ate one
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Breakfast

So its about 165 plus milk so the total calories for this breakfast is 215 approximately
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Must have desert

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Dinner

See that's healthy
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Lunch

This is lunch, no I haven't eaten half my friend and I split the meal. Its too much for one person.
Its the veggi burrito at su casa. They know us way to well there the diet coke is brought to our table before we even see the waitress.
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Chocolate

I've already had one and I totally intend on eating these 2 at somepoint today. Surely dark chocolate doesn't count against you does it?
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Snack

I know it seems early but breakfast was at 7am that's almost 4 hours
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Breakfast

I should look up the calories for this cereal. I eat it almost every morning
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Dinner

I keep forgetting to photograph my food. Dunne was at this new place called incredible pizza. Is a buffet and as buffets go totally not worth the calories
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Lunch

Spicy chicken taco and fries no wonder I'm fat. I don't even really like fries from del taco
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Another snack

I'm starving I have half an hour before lunch but the yogurt isn't cutting it 130 calories
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Diet coke

Ive started one of these already today too
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Snack

Only 100 calories
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Breakfast day 2

Honey bunches of oats.
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Dinner

So I forgot to photograph dinner. Your not missing anything. It was chicken fried steak I'm sure it was very unhealthy
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Lunch

Yes its a burger and fries. I'm sure ill regret it later
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Between breakfast and lunch snack

These are so good its hard to have just one
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Morning diet coke

I guess if I log them I can look back and see how many actually drink I a day
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Day 1 breakfast

So I'm going to try this again. The photo food journal. I hope it will help me be more concise of what I eat. I've been really bad I've been to the gym once in 3 weeks. I can just feel myself getting larger.
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Need I say more

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Just sad

Every year I come here and have waited for my mom to use the bathroom. This is me waiting. Behind me is a heater I keep telling myself that I am going to lose enough weight so I can see the heater. I think I'm getting wider not thinner
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This was dinner for day one

I was out of cel phone range so I have up on keeping track. Ill try this again
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Dairy keen

So this is lunch fresh raspberry shake and chicken sandwich there were also fries involved. Not a very good meal but I'm traveling
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Day 1 photo food journal

Here is breakfast. Quaker granola cereal my favorite
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Photo diet log.

http://thephotodietexperiment.blogspot.com/

Someone I know is doing this to log what they eat. I think I want to try this. Starting tomorrow. It could be very revealing.

Pounds lost: .6 calories consumed: not as many as last week calories burned: does sweating in the heat count?

So my friend lost 6 lbs this week to my measly .6. Oh well (sigh). Ill do better next week right?
I'm sure this heat will melt the fat off in no time.

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Pounds lost: .4 calories consumed: ? No idea. Calories burned: not enough

So my friend started another weightloss contest with her family again. She lost 50 pounds last time. I can't let her get ahead of me. So this is me starting fresh. Tomorrow I will count my calories so I know how I'm doing. And I promise to stay out of the break room at work so I won't be tempted to eat all the snacks my coworkers bring to share.
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5 months

So its been 5 months since I started this thing and what have I got to show for it? Pretty much nothing.
I can only blame myself for not trying hard enough. I could blame my gym that cancelled one of my exercise classes but let's face it I hardly ever went.
Its pretty much my own fault.
I even bought a set of weights for myself for my birthday at the beginning of June their still sitting in the trunk of my Car, it's pathetic really.
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12 step program

So theres AA, there needs to be an oa overeaters Anonymous. AA has a 12 step program. I need a 12 step program. Anyone have any ideas for a weightloss 12 step program.
Step one stop eating?
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Why not me?

I used to hope that this was how I would lose a little weight.........

Orem woman running 5K after having 60-pound cyst removed

June 29th, 2010 @ 10:14pm

By Kathy Aiken

OREM -- During the upcoming Fourth of July weekend, many Utahns will lace up their running shoes for several races scheduled throughout the state.

An Orem woman has signed up for a 5K race in Utah County, not just to better her time, but to encourage other women to get healthy as well. It's a lesson she learned the hard way.

Heidi Ryan

On a hot afternoon at Mountain View High School in Orem, 37-year-old Heidi Ryan continued her training. The Utah Valley University employee is preparing for an upcoming race.

Heidi hopes to improve on her previous 5K time from last year.

"I completed that 5K, starting as the last person across the start line and last across the finish line, but I completed that in 57 minutes," she says.

Fifty-seven minutes for just over 3 miles wasn't bad, considering Heidi had gained 70 pounds over the last five years. This, after losing 80 pounds the year before.

What Heidi didn't know was that weight gain was caused by a very large ovarian cyst.

What is ... an ovarian cystadenoma

A type of ovarian cyst that forms from cells on the outer surface of the ovary. These cysts are often filled with a watery fluid or thick, sticky gel. They can become large and cause pain.
- US Department of Health and Human Services

"I got back up to 270 pounds," she says. "Tried everything I could to lose weight. I would lose 10 pounds, gain the 10 pounds back."

Heidi didn't have health insurance, so she put off testing for five years thinking she had metabolic issues like her mother. But test after test came back negative.

What are the symptoms of ovarian cysts?

Many ovarian cysts don't cause symptoms. Others can cause:

• pressure, swelling, or pain in the abdomen
• pelvic pain
• dull ache in the lower back and thighs
• problems passing urine completely
• pain during sex
• weight gain
• pain during your period
• abnormal bleeding
• nausea or vomiting
• breast tenderness

If you have these symptoms, get help right away:

• pain with fever and vomiting
• sudden, severe abdominal pain
• faintness, dizziness, or weakness
• rapid breathing

- US Department of Health and Human Services

"We had even tried some diabetic medicine to see if that would help lose weight. It didn't help," Heidi says.

It also didn't help that people thought she was pregnant.

"I was actually, one time, sitting in a doctor's office and one of the office managers came up and looked at me and said, ‘Oh, are you going to have twins?'" Heidi recalls.

She was finally diagnosed with a benign ovarian cyst, specifically an ovarian cystadenoma. It measured 20 inches wide by 16 inches deep, and was filled with fluid. It weighed 60 pounds.

"The liquid that was in my cyst, it calculates out to 6.6 gallons, or 25 liters," Heidi says.

Eight weeks ago, Heidi had the cyst removed. She was recently cleared to begin her training. Her goal is to get back into her favorite jeans by the end of summer.

Heidi also hopes her story will motivate other women to get yearly exams.

"If I would have seen a gynecologist five years ago, they would have found it and we could have avoided this whole mess of surgery," she says. "I was given a second chance, I believe."

Now she has a second chance to improve her 5K time too, which ironically comes Monday at Provo's Freedom Festival. It's a perfect time to celebrate her own freedom from poor health while embracing a new lease on life.

Heidi also hopes men will encourage the women in their lives to get their annual checkups.

8 weeks of walking I had good intentions but it all just went down hill

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Weightloss quote of the week

,nothing is impossible. ,impossible, is just ,I'm possible, missing the apostrophe!,
Lani
Ww leader
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Pit falls of weight loss

My friend and I were just on a trip together. She's the one I was talking about that has just lost a significant amount of weight. Anyway, she found a skirt in her closet that hasn't fit in a while so she brought it on the trip. She thought it felt a little loose but not bad.
So as we were walking down downtown Disney her skirt just fell right off. I thought it was so funny I couldn't stop laughing. I blocked the view but funny is funny.

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Travel

Do you know how hard it is to travel and stay on a diet? Especially if your driving long distances? Trust me its tuff.
When all the passengers in the car fall asleep there is not must to keep you awake. I had purchased a few things to munch on that I thought wouldn't be too bad. The only problem was I couldn't get to them as both me passengers were sleeping and it was in the back seat.
I guess that kind of worked to keep me from eating too much.
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My problem

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My racing partners

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Race for the cure

My sister, cousin and I just finished the race for the cure.
We are now packed like sardines in the trax train headed out of the city.
This was my slowest pace yet. I can really tell I've been slacking on the work out. My feet are killing me as usual.
I wore my pedomiter and took over 8000 steps. That will bump my weekly average.
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Work out

Just got done making a fool of myself in the weight room now time for cardio.

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Vacation

I haven't worked out all week apparently I'm on vacation.

At work we started the eat well live well program we're supposed to try for 10,000 steps a day I'm averaging 4,000 I have a long way to go.

This program last 8 weeks my goal is to be at 10,000 step a day before that last week.

If I go work out at night I should make it.

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Update

Sorry I have left all my followers (ha) hanging but I really haven't had anything positive to say.
I did go weigh in last Tuesday and lost 2.4 I'm glad about that even though I didn't do anything to earn it.

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Friend

Went to weight watchers today. My friend lost 6 pounds, me? I lost 1.4 not enough for 2 weeks man I'm doing lousy.
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Seat size

Theater seats are just too small. The other day my sister and I went to a concert and we sat down and my sister (crapineedtoloseweight.blogspot.com) said she was stuck. If your span is not under 16 inches the fat works its way under the arm rests and the only way out is to slide forward.

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Ummmm

There is something fundamentaly wrong with skipping weight watchers to go to a cooking show.
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Weight gain

"how can 5 ounces of chocolate cause you to gain 5 pounds of fat?"

.....jen lancaster

That's what I want to know!
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Friends

I have one really good friend and she has always been a lot heavier than me.
She's still heavier than me but she's getting closer. Even she is telling me to hurry up or she'll catch me.

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Life s___s

So in cycling yesterday as I'm standing and pedaling the bike makes this popping sound and I'm suddenly having flashbacks to when my bike broke on me. Luckily that didn't happen

Today, I'm wearing an old pair of black dress pants that zip in the back. Do you know how hard that is for a fat person? Anyway I was doing them up at lunch and the zipper broke!
The zipper broke! So I ran to walmart, the closest store, to find a pair of pants to wear for the rest of the day and there's nothing. i end up buying black workout pants hopefully no one will notice I don't meet the dress code.
You would think the fact that I can't find anything to wear on the spur of the moment would motivate me to lose weight, ya not! I'm so depressed I have to buy oreos for lunch.
So nutritious.
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Workout

Another day another cycling class. This time the trainer did not show up.
So of course I took it as a day off. I truly am a slacker.

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Another worthless week

Somebody shoot me. I have practically starved myself this week. Weight loss = 0.6 lousy
I need jillian from the biggest loser to come kick some butt.
Honestly
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Work out

Waiting to go to yet another cycling work out you'd think I'd learn!
Well at least it'll burn 700 calories.
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Day whatever

It's bad when you hope for bad traffic so you can miss the workout
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Work out

Some fat chic broke a bike in cycling today.

Oh ya that was me.....
At least I was working out. ;-)
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Working Out

I worked out 4 days this week.

I've decided it's embarrassing to be the fattest person in the exercise class. In spin class it's not so bad I can hide in the back and they dim the lights. In my sports conditioning class it's just ugly. Plus 2 of the 4 walls are mirrored. Like we want to watch ourselves sweat. Ugh.

Weekly results

1.6 pounds is no 8 pound loss which is what it needed to be to make up for my body's disagreement with the scale 2 weeks ago.
So I think this calls for more drastic measures.
I have started to wear a pedometer last week my total was 5000 for the whole week! I think my meter reset itself. I know I walked more then that. I'll have to log it every day just Incase.
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What I know for sure

1. money doesn't fall from trees. .......... It comes from those armored trucks that park in front of McDonalds.
(that does not mean I ate there today. Okay maybe it does.)

2. All men(women) are not created equal. ........ I know. I pulled the fat straw.

3. Carbs are a grand conspiracy. ........ See #1 or 2.

4. Diet is a 4 letter word. .......... It is.
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Work out

Trying to get back on track. Just spent some time on the eliptical at the rec center. Burned 450 calories.
And I'm going to give the secret one more try but if I haven't lost 8 pounds this week I'm moving on. Maybe alli
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Motivation

"you are a product of your environment. Are the things around you helping or are they holding you back?" - w Clement stone

Holding me back! Especially the pita chips in my bedroom
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Weigh in day

Forget the weigh in somebody give me chocolate!
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Help

Nothing is working. I need some new motivation. I have another weigh in tomorrow and I've been such a slacker.
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The end of another week

I have to go weigh in today. I'm not looking forward to it. I have worked out twice this week but my eating's been a mess. Who has time to sit and eat I don't so much for 'the secret'.
I think I'll try Jillian's calorie burner pills

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What number is today

So I wanted to try one of the cookies my mom bought so that is what I had for breakfast today it really didn't taste as good as I was expecting. If fact now that I am paying attention to what I eat nothing tastes as good as I thought I had spaghettios for lunch not good at all

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Day 1 sort of.

Okay so this should have been day one but it took me this long to figure out how to post this video. I'm still not sure what I did different.

I did this for one week. Some days I was more successful then others but I still lost 4 pounds. Awesome I know. I just have this fear that it was all water and I'll gain it back next week.

I know I have to keep positive.

Day 8

Between Friday treats at work and slacking at the gym (I only went twice this week) I'm not going to meet my goal of 2 pounds this week. I still have a few more days I'll have to work harder!
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Day 2

Ok so its been most of the day and lunch wasn't to bad. I went to lunch with my friend I tried to focus on my food and still listen to her talk. Don't know how well that went.
Oh and the snack today. I went to the break room and took my yogurt and stood by the counter and ate it and tried to pay attention to it and not eat it at my desk while I was working which was probably better but I can't say that I was fuller doing that. I was starving by lunch time, I'm not usually starving, its probably because I wasn't piecing while I was sitting at my desk so that's probably a good thing.
I did just get in my car to go home and I have crackers in here so I sat and I ate 2 crackers. 2 crackers isn't too bad right?
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Day 1 continued

Just a little update. I paid attention to lunch and man it took a long time. 3 didn't get any reading in cause it took me almost the entire time to eat my little sandwich.
Anyway it was amazing I went to subway and usually when I go to subway I have the sandwich, chips, and the soda and I end up with heartburn a couple hours later but I didn't have chips I did have the soda and the sandwich but I didn't have any heartburn. So I really think this is working. I'm going to keep my positive attitude because I think this is a good idea
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Day 1

Just testing the email thing
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Biggest Loser

If people on the biggest loser can lose one hundred pounds in 3 months I should be able to lose 100 pounds in a year. I have just as much to lose as they do. My friend doesn't think I can do it. Just because I've not done very well at losing weight so far.

I guess we'll see.