adeleida

Since it’s buddyslim, here’s my numbers

prepregnancy weight: 140 (had recently reached my goal)

highest pregnancy weight: 163

5 days post labor weight: 155

I had to have a c section, so there’s still quite a bit of fluid in me from all the drugs and iv stuff, but frankly I’m not too worried about my weight right now. I feel good (thanks in part to the vicodin every 6 or 8 hours lol), my baby is healthy and gaining weight well (she was taken out early because of low amniotic fluid and was only 5 1/2 pounds at 39 weeks, but she’s up to 6 pounds now). Loving life and living it to its fullest with my hubby

Here’s to a great summer and good luck to all my buddies!

Hi,

so I’ve been absent from buddyslim since a little after I got pregnant (didn’t want to indulge myself in dieting/number obsessing) but I thought I’d update my buds with how I’m doing. At last check I was 159 lbs, 19 lbs heavier than the goal weight I set and reached just before I got pregnant. This is basically exactly where I want to be and I’m very happy with it all. I upped my calorie intake in the 2nd and 3rd trimester by about 300 calories, and for a while I walked quite often, though the past month has seen me either laying or sitting almost all of the time from pure exhaustion. I fantasize about crunches and jogging, lol, but I’m aware it’s going to take some slow effort to build my muscles back up. My goal was to keep the weight gain to 25-30 lbs and I think I’ll be able to do that just fine, and hopefully reach my goal of being back down to 140 by the end of August (I’m due the first week of July). So, how is everyone?

P.S. lol almost forgot–It’s a girl!

My goal is to keep the total weight gain to 30 pounds so that post-giving birth I only have 20 pounds at most to lose. I’ve been walking about 2 hours everyday and eating about 2300 calories a day (pre-preggers I ate 1500 cals unless I exercised). I didn’t have any morning sickness which is why I think I gained so much in the first tri (8 lbs). I’ve been much more hungry than pre-pregnancy, but have let myself eat-to-full everyday and assume the walking is keeping it reasonably balanced. So far I’ve gained 10 pounds, pretty much all in my super soft stomach (god i miss doing crunches), bringing my current weight to 150. I have 22 more weeks.

p.s. It’s a Boy!

p.p.s. of course my fiance loves my pregnant body and thinks it’s not only beautiful but “hot” (I think it’s a guy thing, like about the fact that he impregnated me lmao); but I battle body-image hatred everyday. Trying to find the I-am-woman-hear-me-roar inside

Hi, just letting y’all know I’m semi-back right now and certainly will be after July lol. I’m due July 9 for a….well, we find out the sex January 30. In the first 12 weeks I gained 12 pounds from super intense hunger and no morning sickness, but in the past two 1/2 weeks my weight’s been stable. Thank god for 2nd trimester evening out lol. My goal is to keep the total weight gain to 35 pounds. Happy to be back. Hello all!

    Hi Everyone! I’m back online, though still in Michigan visiting friends and family. I weighed in today at 148, making it 60 pounds lost since January 5

I admit I was very surprised at the continued loss, since I’ve been eating out quite a bit since I got to MI and not exercising more than a time or two a week. But then I thought about it and I have been continuing to count calories  and sticking to 1500 to 2000 a day so even though the weight loss has slowed I think it’s completely appropriate and I’m happy where my metabolism apparently is at the moment.

Anyway, it’s been a while and my internet here is kinda slow so if buddies wanna message me it’ll help get me back into the cycle and swing of it all It’s great to be back and I hope everyone is doing well

Start Weight: 208

Current Weight: 158

Goal Weight: 140

Today’s Measurements

Waist: 29 1/2    Goal: 26

Stomach: 31 1/2   Goal: 28

Hips:  37 1/2   Goal: 36

Thigh: 22   Goal: 20

Arm: 12 1/2   Goal: 11

I wore one of my bikinis for the first time at a pool yesterday. It felt great to be in a two-piece again, even if when I sat up I still had a roll lol

Hello all! Long time no log-on Hope you are all doing great. I’ll try to catch up on messages in a bit.

 I finally did my measurements for the first time today. Haven’t gotten on a scale in a week or more and was going nuts so even though I never did initial measurements…here’s where I am after 50 pounds lost.

Bust: 36   Goal: 34

 Stomach (at belly button): 34 Goal: 30

Waist (thinnest point): 30 Goal: 26

Hip: 38   Goal: 36

 Thigh: 22 1/2   Goal: 20 1/2

P.S. Jessica, thanks again for the advice to name the negative voices in my head when they start up with the “you’re still so fat” nonsense. I call it “litterbox”, because like a litterbox, it is full of…

I’m leaving tomorrow morning to visit my aunt in Indianapolis, Indiana for 3 weeks, and then I’m heading up to Michigan to visit family and (mostly) friends for a month. I haven’t seen the MI people for 3 years (since graduating high school) so I’m excited to show off the fact that I’m basically the size I was in 9th grade

I’m not too worried about re-gaining, since I’ve gotten used to running outside (instead of at a gym which I’d have to find in both IN and MI) and since my eating is generally what my Aunt has been trying to get me to switch to for years (six to eight small meals a day, lots of fruits and veggies) but naturally the idea of only having buddyslim once or twice a week is a tad scary.

I went to a thrift store today to get a few summer items. I haven’t bought new clothes for myself in two years, because the last time I did it was incredibly depressing having to purchase size 14 and 16 pairs of jeans, and don’t get me started on the prospect of wearing short shorts back then. But today at Savers I only bought size 8s! A few of the pairs of shorts are tight on my stomach but everything “gets on” lol which is awesome. I went in intending to only get “goal clothes” but managed to get a bunch of stuff I can wear starting tomorrow! that’s a pretty great feeling. Size 8s were my goal all along (the lowest I ever got down to since I was twelve was a size 6) but I figured it would take getting down to 140-145 pounds. I can’t believe that at almost 160 I’m wearing them. bizarre right?

okay I’ve blah blah’d on enough. Just letting you all know I won’t be on as much for two months or so but i’ll booster and comment as much as I can, and I’ll think of you all everyday. Here’s to a great summer of weight loss and health!

I’ve been losing weight healthily and consistently, and been feeling great. Loving my body, loving myself. Being proud of my body, being proud of myself. And then a couple days ago, it started. The thoughts. “I am fat.” “I look so gross.” Grabbing at parts of my legs and my stomach and mumbling or thinking “Look at all that fat. Gross!”So sure that I’ve gained weight, that my clothes are getting tighter and tighter instead of looser.

Just like when I was younger, these thoughts have nothing to do with facts, and everything to do with mental self-hatred. I have only continued to lose weight, not gained but I’m “sure” it’s the other way around.

Yes I still have fat, yes I still want to lose 20 more pounds, but even so I’ve been feeling nothing but positive for so long, because for the first time in my life I’ve been losing weight through exercise and reasonably healthy eating, instead of through general starvation. I even measured myself again this morning and I’ve lost another inch almost everywhere but I still was going “I’m getting bigger. I know I am!” It’s those old anorexic (yes I said/admitted it) thoughts and mindsets that caused me to starve myself and f*ck up my metabolism all throughout middle school and early parts of high school. It’s so hard to fight off those thoughts, and I absolutely HAVE TO, because if I let them continue I’ll end up crash dieting and that’ll only lead to weight gain.

Help?

swore I would take my first shots in a bikini once I got under 160. Now you buddyslimmers are the only ones who will see it until I get down to about 150 but still. It gets on and I don’t wanna die wearing it so that’s progress right?