SDMB Weight Loss Club, November 2008

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Link to previous month’s thread

Uh, um . . . cough Remember me?

I was a regular in these threads back around 2005-2006, something like that, but then life intervened and I fell off the wagon. Part of it was that I decided that I didn’t need to belong to that darn old expensive gym! I could just work out at home!

Yeah, that didn’t fly. Add on my diving back into work full-bore as usual (which entails parking my warm ass in this chair for extended periods) and getting sloppy about my eating habits, and here I am.

In late August I told myself, “Self, you set up all that equipment in the back room, and then never used it, good intentions be damned. You need to realize that when you go to the gym, it WORKS. So just rejoin the gym already! You have the cash, from all that work you’ve been doing.” Mr. S even said he’d join with me.

Of course, then things started falling off me. I started getting pain and tingling in my neck and right arm (causing bad juju for my ability to work!), and the heel pain I’d had for a few months started getting worse. So I put off the gym thing until I could find out what’s going on. Long story short, I’m just finishing up (I think) physical therapy for the arm and neck (degenerative osteoarthritis and bone spurs in my neck, yay), and I see the doc this week for the results of my foot X-ray (she suspected bone spurs).

Back then I started at 215 and got down to about 190. Yay me!

On 10/23, when I re-upped at the gym, I found that I was at 226 :frowning: . But as of yesterday I’m down to 224. :slight_smile: Two pounds in one week, a little fast, but I’ll take it. Now I only have to do it another 37 times. :smiley:

I’m still in “take it easy” mode at the gym, just getting back into the habit of going every day. Both the neurologist and the PT have told me that upper-body strength training are off limits for now. :frowning: But I’m doing upper-body stuff for therapy, so that’s not so bad. For cardio, I’m trying to keep it fairly low-impact on my heel: 10 minutes each on elliptical, bike, and treadmill (no running, easy placement on the bad foot). A few lower-body weight routines that don’t involve my heel: leg adduct/abduct/extension/curls. I hope the foot diagnosis doesn’t take away too much of that. And the PT gave me some ab exercises that don’t crank my neck.

So I’m expecting slow going, but I know that slow is good. Not following any particular food plan yet, just reducing my portions and making better choices about what and when I eat. It’s the usual: I know how, it’s just making sure I do it. Right now I have two pairs of jeans that fit me, and a whole armoire full of smaller ones just waiting for me to fit back into them.

I liked the way we used to tally our numbers, so I’ll start doing it again for myself:

Start weight / Current weight / Goal weight

226 / 224 / 150

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I’m still maintaining after losing 30 pounds with Sparkpeople. I plug them every thread because they worked wonders for me. We have some Dopers over there, and my user name is the same there as it is here.

Good luck to everyone!

Oh, start weight/goal weight

162/131

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I was never a member of any club, but will add this:

I put on about 20 pounds when my work office was relocated, and there were not decent “walks” I could take during the day. I don’t know where my weight topped out, but at my last doctor visit about a year ago, I clocked in at 234.

I don’t know where I topped out, but next recorded weight was 221 in early September. Today I weighed in at 209.

My goal is to be at 207 by Dec 1, and 205 by Jan 1. I feel good anywhere below 205, but my “ultimate” goal is 200.

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I’ve popped into these threads occasionally, but hadn’t really committed myself to getting back on the wagon - back two years ago I lost a major chunk, then a cross country move and associated stress gave me the excuse I needed to fall off the wagon.

So I was at a conference week before last, and I got back and saw the pictures. I look bad. Really heavy.

So last Saturday I paid my money and joined weight watchers, and kicked my exercise program back in, albeit at a much lower level than I was when I stopped.

I started last Saturday at 243. Today’s weigh in showed 240, but I think part of that is just natural fluctuations. Regardless, I’m not finding the points too hard to manage, and hopefully that will continue.

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I’m going to be trying to lose inches. I just started back at the gym this summer, going to aerobics 3 times a week and a yoga/pilates class as well. Last week I started back on a weight training program.

They’ve got a promotion right now called “maintain, don’t gain” where if you don’t gain any inches over the holidays you get a T-shirt. So! I’m going to be doing that.

Instead of “maintaining”, however, I want to actually LOSE two inches in every measurement. We’ll see how I do.

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I’ve had a hard time getting past the 40-pound mark. I got down to 210 at the beginning of August. I’ve been as low as 203, but I’ve fluctuated wildly and have hit 210 again within the last week. It’s a matter of keeping myself motivated to eat well. I never fail to lose when I actually stay on the WW plan for the whole week. My first major timed goal is to be below 200 by New Year’s. That’s right around a pound a week, and I know I can do that. I’ll probably be better about staying on plan now that I’m in a time crunch to meet that goal.

So I just had a huge quesadilla at El Chico… and now I’m back to behaving. Promise.

Promise.

250/209/150

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I had been attending WW meetings, but I’m beginning a new job on Monday which means I can’t get to the same meeting time as I usually have. I’m going to see about finding a new meeting, but I think I’ll be ok with their online tools.

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Like Lsura, I’ve seen some pictures of myself recently that elicit the following reactions:
:confused::dubious::eek::o:mad::frowning:

The good news, though, is that my stress fracture has healed up, so I’m back to running; I started Boot Camp class again today to add some weight training; and the days when I take the train to work, I choose to walk from a certain station rather than getting on another train, and so I generally add 2 - 3 miles walking to whatever exercise I get that day.

Soooo, that just means I have to get myself back to Sparkpeople and start tracking food again.

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I haven’t posted much at all because I’ve been so darned busy with getting back to work and still dealing with my mother’s estate! Sorry about that, y’all. I haven’t dropped out, I promise. I haven’t lost any more weight since my last post last month, but at least I haven’t gained it back, right? :dubious:

Anyway, I’ve been following the C25K thread and started doing that for exercise last week. So far, so good, I think. I’m not planning to weigh myself again until next Sat or Sun…hopefully I’ll be able to report a loss then.

Nobody answered my question in the previous month’s thread…have any of you Sparkpeople folks started an SDMB team over there? It would be extra helpful to me to have one.

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195, only maintaining at the moment, but from a known high of 288 (and an unknown high of 290+, for sure), I’m not too unhappy even if I’m not going to be 175 this year.

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Coming off a good 3 day weekend of exercise (3 hikes, 2 weight training sessions), after slacking a little last week. I added 3 days of weight training/week 3 weeks ago thanks to reading the Dope and this thread, as well as stumptuous.com and I’m enjoying it! Feels good to be sore. Thanks for all the info and links, guys!

Starting weight (last winter): 134
Current weight: 122.5 [I’ve been fluctuating between this and 125.]
Goal weight: 118
(Dream weight: 112-115)

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I don’t mean to kill your buzz, and of course any weight loss is good if that’s what you’re going for (and slow losses tend to stay off better), but . . . boy, I’d sure be discouraged if I’d lost only 9-12 pounds since last winter!

Then again, unless you’re four feet tall, you’re starting at a fairly decent weight to begin with.

So if it works for you, that’s OK too. :slight_smile: But I’d be bummed.

Back to the gym tomorrow . . .

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OK, back in for my second month.

When we moved into this house five years ago this month I was 55kg (121lbs) which was just right or maybe even a bit thin for my frame. October 3rd I was 79.6kg (175lbs) and I was horrified, terrified of seeing the 80kg mark.

So I began again. Today, one month later I am 74.6kg (164lbs) and I feel much happier. Still got 20kg or so to go though…

I am counting calories and excercise on the Daily Plate and I am trying to up my activity levels which isn’t hard seeing as I was doing exactly nothing. I have a Leslie Sansone walking dvd, can only do three of the five miles right now but am working on it. Weekends or days off I’ve been walking or cycling but the snow is due to fall this week so need to think again about outdoor exercise. Might do walk-skiing, as they call very gentle cross country skiing here.

So according to Scarlett’s pattern,
Start weight 175, Current weight 164 goal weight 125

I’m feeling nervous about keeping this lifestyle up, please help!

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Last week, I went off Core and onto the ~1500 calorie plan. I went to the gym three times. On two days, I went over ~1500, but they were gym days and I’m sure I didn’t go over by more than 300 cals.

I did not lose weight. Still 184.

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Sattua, that’s really frustrating. Grrr! The only thing is, do you feel better in yourself? Are your clothes fitting better? Are you sleeping better at night or do you have more energy in the day? Keep on keeping on!

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I passed what looked like a boot camp class this morning as I ran around Boston Common–is that where you go, lorene?

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I started C25K back in July, and before that was into martial arts, bellydance, and yoga… so I’m used to getting plenty of exercise and all it does is keep me from gaining. Any weight loss involves exercise and dieting, together.

I am “maybe-ing” myself into thinking that maybe I did lose. I had salty popcorn right before bed last night, so maybe I’m retaining water. I drank a glass of water before I remembered it was weigh-in day, so maybe that added a half pound or so. My period starts on Wednesday so maybe I’m retaining even more water. Maybe… maybe… maybe.

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Heh. You’d be really bummed if you were me. :slight_smile: It’s taken me two years to lose 27 pounds. Granted, I lost 17, gained 7, then lost 17. I also have thyroid disease so I’ve busted my ass to lose every one of those pounds. It could take me another year to lose this last eight pounds, or I might never reach my goal weight. Frustrating? Sure, but the most important thing to me is that I’m at a healthy BMI and in the best shape I’ve been in since high school. That feels awesome!

I weighed 162 this morning but my average weight is 163.3.

190/163/155

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Yeah, it’s been hard to hear about the 1lb/week other people can achieve! I accept it because there’s certain foods I’m not willing to give up on, so I just eat less of them. Also, I don’t think I’ve been trying as hard as I could have been until lately. Maybe the weight training will be the magic bullet. Still, I’m fitting back into pants I had to abandon last year.

I’m 5’ tall, BTW, so at the moment I’m at the top of the normal range. I just want to get back where I was before a couple of months of Paxil kicked off the gain.

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Can people who only need to lose a little weight join or is that obnoxious? I lost a huge amount of weight about 5 years ago but I’ve let a few pounds creep back on each year and now I need to lose 10 pounds again. I want to lose 5 extra ones too so that I can gain it back over the holidays and not care.