2006 Weight loss Club - November

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Thanks so much, Honeydew. I have really lost 125 pounds, but saying that makes it sound as though I weighed 125 pounds more than I do right now. I know how much I’ve lost and how hard I’ve worked. It’s okay that not everyone who meets me does.

And HOLY COW LOOKIT YOU GO! 100+ pounds gone! Keep it up! (Imagine a cheerleader bouncing up and down at you here).

[QUOTE=Honeydew]
I would love to get involved in this but I have no internet access from home - also I only weigh myself once a month. It’d be interesting to see how everyone else is getting on though.
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You can email me your weigh-in results once a month, and on New Years’ if you’d like.

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[QUOTE=What Exit?]
I need to drop about 30 lbs and I am giving myself 14 months to do so. I got the big weight off, I have the healthy diet going and I got my Cholesterol levels to where they should be. These were my priorities. I still need to increase my exercise levels some more, but I did increase them. I spent 15 years putting on the weight, I was determined to drop the 40 in 6 months and I did. So I am trying to take the last and harder 30 at a much slower rate. I am only looking to drop about 2-3 pounds per month and if I exceed this, I will consider it a big bonus. Jim
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I just realised I read your previous post totally wrong! That’s what I get for trying to catch up on the net stuff whilst trying to catch up on the work stuff too!! Bad me! Well congrats on what you’ve achieved so far and I certainly think that 2 - 3 lbs per month is more than achieveable, especially seeing how well you’ve done so far.

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[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth]
Thanks so much, Honeydew. I have really lost 125 pounds, but saying that makes it sound as though I weighed 125 pounds more than I do right now. I know how much I’ve lost and how hard I’ve worked. It’s okay that not everyone who meets me does.
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I don’t really tell anyone I know how much I’ve lost so far because, I really feel that it makes me sound like a big fat cow! I do mean that nicely to myself, kind of lol. The only thing that I’m concerned about is that I’ve been here before and lost all the weight and then put it all back on again. It sounds crazy but the losing it is easy compared to the keeping it off. This time is different I guess because my goals are different - I looking more for the health benefits than being skinny no matter what. My husband is aware of how tough I can be on myself and he lets me know that it’s ok to take it slower - I guess I just needed someone to say that to me. We want to start a family soon and I want to be the healthiest I can be for this to happen - its no longer about looking good in clothes and feeling sexy (well, that’s part of it too but it’s not the whole thing!).

[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth]
And HOLY COW LOOKIT YOU GO! 100+ pounds gone! Keep it up! (Imagine a cheerleader bouncing up and down at you here).

You can email me your weigh-in results once a month, and on New Years’ if you’d like.
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I’m pretty happy with myself right now but I don’t want to be complacent either. I’ll be happy to email you the results, it’s nice to track them.

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I have to say, I’ve had a pretty bad stomach flu recently and lost 6 lbs. in 4 days. Definitely not something I’d recommend, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I’m actually happy it put me much more in the middle of my target range area (and I’m still not even remotely hungry now–I eat because I know I need to, not because I have even the slightest inclination). Now to just keep it off the “old school” way.

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[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
I have to say, I’ve had a pretty bad stomach flu recently and lost 6 lbs. in 4 days. Definitely not something I’d recommend, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I’m actually happy it put me much more in the middle of my target range area (and I’m still not even remotely hungry now–I eat because I know I need to, not because I have even the slightest inclination). Now to just keep it off the “old school” way.
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:smiley: I know what you mean. But if you had to be sick anyway, you might as well take the good with the bad.

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Being on my contstant diet (lifestyle change) for the past 2 years (starting weight 240, target 200, low 198, current 202) I’m always in search of good tasting low-fat foods.
My current favorite are these: Kashi Entrees.

Whole grains (very filling), chicken, vegetables. Great for lunch.

I also eat their cereals (with skim milk) for breakfast and/or late night snack.

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[QUOTE=Khadaji]
:smiley: I know what you mean. But if you had to be sick anyway, you might as well take the good with the bad.
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Yeah, my wife kept saying “Give it to me! Give it to me!”, though she wasn’t around when I had the worst of it so I wouldn’t have wished it on her by a long shot…

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Today at the gym, a guy I occasionally chat with mentioned that I “seem to be losing weight”. I had to laugh. Validation from an almost complete stranger over a few pounds means that holy shit, I’m actually shrinking. So that’s a pretty awesome thing.

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Today is a tough day. It is the first time in a long time that I have come close to going out and getting a box of cookies - or something similar.

I had a tough week at work and some other issues and I’m angry (at my boss) and depressed and I am very close to going and getting comfort food.

Instead, so far I have retreated into sleeping most of the day. Not really the best alternative, but it has kept me from dwelling on my anger and also prevented me from eating sweets. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.

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[QUOTE=Honeydew]
I don’t really tell anyone I know how much I’ve lost so far because, I really feel that it makes me sound like a big fat cow! I do mean that nicely to myself, kind of lol. The only thing that I’m concerned about is that I’ve been here before and lost all the weight and then put it all back on again. It sounds crazy but the losing it is easy compared to the keeping it off. This time is different I guess because my goals are different - I looking more for the health benefits than being skinny no matter what. My husband is aware of how tough I can be on myself and he lets me know that it’s ok to take it slower - I guess I just needed someone to say that to me. We want to start a family soon and I want to be the healthiest I can be for this to happen - its no longer about looking good in clothes and feeling sexy (well, that’s part of it too but it’s not the whole thing!).
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Holy crap, are you me? :eek:

Not losing as quickly this week, had pizza the other day at a work meeting, but… I’ve worked out hard every day. Spent a lot of time lifting weights and concentrating on noticing and enjoying my newfound abdominal muscles and obliques and hip flexors :slight_smile:

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Mmm, pizza. That’s a pretty rare treat around here. If I can, I schedule it for the days when I’ve been to my Bikram yoga class, where I burn around 1200 calories.

Like today. Only no pizza tonight. Shoulda thought.

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Last time I had pizza was the beginning of October and I was so sick afterwards - nothing to do with the pizza, just the amount of fat in it really upset my stomach. I was ill for about 2 days! No pizza for me!

What do people treat themselves with? My treat is a fruit salad with (ususally) pineapple, black grapes, strawberries, kiwi fruit, mixed berries (which I defrost the evening before) and banana all covered in low fat vanilla yogurt with a sprinke of pumpkin and sunflower seeds! I have this every Sunday morning and had so much fruit left over this weekend that I’m having it for lunch today too. A delicious treat but all low fat and low GI! What are other people’s treats?

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[QUOTE=MixieArmadillo]
Holy crap, are you me? :eek:
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Quite possibly, I also live in a state of confusion!!! :stuck_out_tongue:

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I had a terrible weekend for weight loss. I had Pizza, Bagels & a doughnut on Friday. Much better on Saturday, but I hung out with friends Sunday watching Football and drank 4 beers and ate a lot of cheese, some fudge and a lot of beef. I was 197.5 Friday morning and 200.5 this morning.
Today is Oatmeal, Wendy’s Mandarin Chicken Salad (w/o dressing) and a healthy dinner. I will try to walk a mile + today. I hope that by mid-week I can get rid of the weekend’s overindulgence.

Jim

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[QUOTE=Honeydew]
Last time I had pizza was the beginning of October and I was so sick afterwards - nothing to do with the pizza, just the amount of fat in it really upset my stomach. I was ill for about 2 days! No pizza for me!

What do people treat themselves with? My treat is a fruit salad with (ususally) pineapple, black grapes, strawberries, kiwi fruit, mixed berries (which I defrost the evening before) and banana all covered in low fat vanilla yogurt with a sprinke of pumpkin and sunflower seeds! I have this every Sunday morning and had so much fruit left over this weekend that I’m having it for lunch today too. A delicious treat but all low fat and low GI! What are other people’s treats?
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I made three loaves of non-fat banana bread yesterday. Quite bloody awesome.

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[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth]
I made three loaves of non-fat banana bread yesterday. Quite bloody awesome.
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Sounds amazing but the problem with me is that I’d eat all of it!!! God that does sound good smiley with drool face

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I portion and freeze them individually, so I can pull one portion out of the freezer. I have pretty good self-control, though - it’s more for convenience.

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Hi everyone. I would like to join the club!
I remember seeing this thread start in December, and I thought I should join up and lose some weight. Laziness set in, and I never did. Then I see the monthly threads roll by and I feel guilty for never joining. Now it is NOVEMBER :eek: and I can not believe it has been almost a year and I have not done a thing about my weight. So, I say to myself, HEY, I will join the 2007 club, and lose some pounds. Then a light bulb goes on over my head, and I realize that I could Join NOW, and start losing NOW. Brilliant!

So Here I am, 265lbs. I think I should set my goal at 250lbs for New years, then 200lbs for 2007. I think I can do 1-2 pounds a week if I commit myself.

Congrats to all of you who have been successful this year. I hope your success will inspire me to lose this extra weight.

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[QUOTE=CoG888]
Hi everyone. I would like to join the club!
I remember seeing this thread start in December, and I thought I should join up and lose some weight. Laziness set in, and I never did. Then I see the monthly threads roll by and I feel guilty for never joining. Now it is NOVEMBER :eek: and I can not believe it has been almost a year and I have not done a thing about my weight. So, I say to myself, HEY, I will join the 2007 club, and lose some pounds. Then a light bulb goes on over my head, and I realize that I could Join NOW, and start losing NOW. Brilliant!

So Here I am, 265lbs. I think I should set my goal at 250lbs for New years, then 200lbs for 2007. I think I can do 1-2 pounds a week if I commit myself.

Congrats to all of you who have been successful this year. I hope your success will inspire me to lose this extra weight.
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Welcome to the Threads and Good Luck. What do you plan to do to lose weight?

**Some basic recommendations. **

Do anything to increase your current level of exercise. This could be as simple as extra yard work or Walking around a mall more often window shopping.

Find low-fat Low-calorie treats you enjoy and stock pile a lot of them.

See if you can develop a taste for Air Popped Popcorn without Butter. Filling and almost no calories.

Look for Low-fat pretzel. Especially Sour Dough Pretzels. Look for Frozen Hot Pretzel. They take 4 minutes in the toaster oven and are a great treat.

See your Doctor and get your blood work done for your cholesterol & blood pressure and discuss your diet and exercise plan.

Do not bing diet, starvation diets do not work in the long run. Be patient, the weight will come off and you are more likely to keep it off, if you find ways to make the diet not be a burden.

If you use food to medicate depression, indulge with low-fat treats, not Ice cream or donuts or candy.

Check in with us and compare notes. It helps a lot.

[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth]
I portion and freeze them individually, so I can pull one portion out of the freezer. I have pretty good self-control, though - it’s more for convenience.
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Any chance of sharing the recipe. I might want to try making these. I love Banana Nut bread.

Jim

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Sure, Jim. I’ll email it to you.