Ok I am going to divide mine goals up to 2 events I have going on that inspired me to come back to Oxycise.

My starting stats

on June 1st 2006 I went raw foods vegan and lost 16 lbs in less then 2 months, but 2 weeks ago I started cracking, I started binging on all sorts of vegan *junk* food, and I gained 3 lbs back. I have since August 1st gotten ahold of myself and stopped binging, and I am remaining, just plain vegan and trying to eat as much fruit and veggies as I can, but I am really burnt out on them right now and its a little hard.

So I came back to Oxycise as of August 2nd because loosing weight quickly has left me with loose skin and I still have more weight I would like to loose.

So as of August 2nd, I weigh 164, and I wear a junoirs sz 14 or a misses sz 12 comfortably.
I am 5'7, 33 years old, with a large frame, I have a sz 10 shoe size, and thats with no fat on my feet !
I have been that shoe size since my early teens, I have wide big bones.
Although I used to be 5'8 , I lost a inch in my late 20's, I am hoping maybe improving my posture will give me back my inch there!

As of August 2nd I am still BMI wise overweight, according to most calculators, I need to be under 158 to be adverage.
So that is a goal of mine!
And I am hoping to hit that pretty quickly!


My arms, face and upper body are pretty thin already, ( my friends often note they can see my ribs ) But my lower body is a mess and has been since giving birth to my oldest child 11 years ago My main concern right now is my upper thighs into my butt area.

My first goal is for my first event, in 2 weeks I am going on a girls night out weekend trip for my 33rd birthday. I have a particular outfit, a tight tank top and daisy duke sz 11 Juniors shorts that I want to wear atleast one of the nights. ( I may even wear it both nights since were going to be in 2 different towns )
Right now the outfit fits , I can zip it and all, but there is this fat roll the tight shorts pushes up, I need that gone..gone..gone...in 14 days. This is what made me remember oxycise, because I think its my only hope!

My next goal/event is in September, the 17th I believe, its a festival I belly dance at every year, and I will see alot of old friends that havnt seen me since I weighed 180. I am already down 16 lbs, I want to be down even more! I have 6 weeks, I would love to be under 150, and I think that is possible, that would be about 2.5 lbs a week, which is still healthy. But I am more concerned at this point with loose skin and actual body tone, because I dance at this as a tribal belly dancer and have to show alot of skin, I really want to be nice and firm more so then a actual number on the scale. But it would be nice if that actual number was under 150 for once!

My long range goal is to be be around 130 and about a sz 6
But I have all winter to work on that, I would like to be there by next spring though!

So there are my hopes and dreams!

I am going to oxycise once a day
I take my kids swimming every day, its not a good pool for laps but I do try to like work my legs out kicking and so forth, doing *water bicycles, ect *
I am going to belly dance around the house once a day
and I am eatting 1300-1500 vegan calories a day and trying to include more and more fruits and veggies again as I get over being sick of them!
I am however taking Friday and Saturdays off of the calorie restriction, I am NOT going to binge but I am not going to journal my food during those days either. I am just going to make smart choices.

And I will remain emotional eatting binge free for as long as I can go in a row!
Atleast the next 14 days!

My main reason for doing oxycise, is skin , tightening loose skin, toning my body, and also for the energy boost and keeping my metabolism up and going !

Jessa,

While I think your motivation is great and all, I'm conserned with your goal of 130 and a sz. 6 for your height and frame as you stated. That to me seems way to small for your build. Just my personal concern Jessa.

I sure don't want to discourage you though. You are doing great on all your activities, etc. but please be careful because I sure don't want you to get waffer thin and sick. Besides, skinny doesn't look good on anyone. Healthy is more attractive.

Your goal is to get toned up and have firmness. Along with "O", have you thought of lifting weights? That tones you up real well.

Thanks for sharing your goals and dreams but Jessa, please be careful ok?

Until next time...
Susie

thank you for your concern and I am not offended at all! I dont think a sz 6 or 130 is that small at all, I think its pretty adverage for my height, BMI wise I belive its still way above the 19 mark which I would not go below no worries!!
But I thank you for being so kind as to express concern!!

I will tell you this, in the past, in my younger days I did struggle with what was probabbly borderline anoxeria or atleast some form of complusive dieting and I was 5'8 back then, same bone structure and I did get too thin, I didnt realize it at the time, but looking back I realize I had gotten very very sick with it, but I was barely 100 lbs, and yes at that point I waS VERY sickly sickly thin and wore a sz 0 and all that, but I am not looking to be that thin again, but because I have been there, I think I am grateful and more thankful for anyone's concern on those issues !

and I did break a goal already, I did binge/complusive eat this weekend and I did lightly today, my only reason is it's that time of the month and this weekend was really bad pms time for me and yah I messed up
but I am not going to beat myself up , I am just going to start over tomorrow....its a new day after all

Good for you, Jessa! When I read your goals, I thought, WOW! I think you sound ambitious, and that's okay. Just don't crash and burn, like Flylady says. It sounds like you know your body very well, and you can do this!!!

I appreciate Susie's viewpoint, too. The ladies on this board are something else! It's wonderful having such caring folks to chat with!!!

Good luck!!!
Susanna