# 2006 Weight Loss Club - October **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776 "2006-09-30T21:35:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![KatieCats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@KatieCats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KatieCats)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/141 "2006-10-22T00:18:41Z")
I hear you, **Ginger**. I weighed in this morning, and was .2 pounds down. So basically, I’ve been at the same weight for the last two weeks. I really hope this isn’t the start of a plateau. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/142 "2006-10-22T00:49:17Z")
Was very good all day. Tomorrow the guys are coming to watch the game, but I expect I’ll still be pretty good. We’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/143 "2006-10-22T16:47:06Z")
Welp, I lost me a pound overnight. I expect I’ll yoyo a bit, but if I lose another half pound, that’ll make it SEVENTY FIVE pounds that I’ve lost. I wish the damned loose skin would magically disappear. Lemme tell ya, that shit looks awful in tight yoga shorts. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/144 "2006-10-22T18:07:26Z")
No kidding. Will it ever really adjust? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/145 "2006-10-22T18:11:45Z")
I don’t know. If it isn’t gone in a year (in which I will work on toning), then I’ll start to look at surgery. Opal had to have it done after her bariatric surgery; I think that losing pretty close to the same amount as her has had the same effect on me and it won’t go away with exercise. But we’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/146 "2006-10-23T17:41:08Z")
I weighed in this morning at 192.2, so after a week staying steady, I lost 2.2 pounds. I went out to dinner with my husband and the kids, and did pretty well trying to balance the carbs and the proteins, although as a whole, it was too many calories. Didn’t seem to hurt much though. The medical front is not going swimmingly. I have patellofemoral syndrome (hopefully spelled correctly), which basically means my kneecaps hate me. I have to set up physical therapy for the next 4-6 weeks. That means I have to be careful working out, but I can do the treamill without an incline, and the elliptical trainer since it’s non-impact. Also, my endo just upped my Synthroid to my highest levels ever, meaning that for the past few weeks my metabolism was shot to hell, **and** he put me on low dose corticosteroids for an adrenal disorder I have. Steroids can make you gain weight. [Insert curses I’m too tired to come up with.] Well, maybe the higher dosage of Synthroid will balance out the low dose of steriods. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/147 "2006-10-23T17:57:59Z")
[QUOTE=Ceejaytee] I weighed in this morning at 192.2, so after a week staying steady, I lost 2.2 pounds. I went out to dinner with my husband and the kids, and did pretty well trying to balance the carbs and the proteins, although as a whole, it was too many calories. Didn’t seem to hurt much though. The medical front is not going swimmingly. I have patellofemoral syndrome (hopefully spelled correctly), which basically means my kneecaps hate me. I have to set up physical therapy for the next 4-6 weeks. That means I have to be careful working out, but I can do the treamill without an incline, and the elliptical trainer since it’s non-impact. Also, my endo just upped my Synthroid to my highest levels ever, meaning that for the past few weeks my metabolism was shot to hell, **and** he put me on low dose corticosteroids for an adrenal disorder I have. Steroids can make you gain weight. [Insert curses I’m too tired to come up with.] Well, maybe the higher dosage of Synthroid will balance out the low dose of steriods. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Are your knees likely to recover or are they always going to bother you? What does endo mean in this usage? I thought Endo was a Doctor that did Endoscopies? I have had a good week. **The scale said 197.5 today**. My new low point. Jim ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/148 "2006-10-23T18:29:21Z")
Good job, Jim. I hit my new lowest ever yesterday, 181.5. It’s up to 182 this morning, but it’ll be down in another day or so. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/149 "2006-10-23T18:58:51Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Are your knees likely to recover or are they always going to bother you? What does endo mean in this usage? I thought Endo was a Doctor that did Endoscopies? I have had a good week. **The scale said 197.5 today**. My new low point. Jim [/QUOTE] Congrats on your new low, Jim. Endo is endocrinologist, otherwise known as “the hormone guy.” 🙂 The knees are supposed to get better but I have to find out from the physical therapist if I’ll have to do whatever exercises they show me forever or not. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/150 "2006-10-28T03:03:23Z")
177 for real today. 84% there. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/151 "2006-10-28T03:06:57Z")
[QUOTE=Aesiron] 177 for real today. 84% there. [/QUOTE] WTG!! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/152 "2006-10-28T11:40:50Z")
Another good week as far as eating goes. Tomorrow the guys may come over for the game, so I may have some beer and chips and stuff, but last week I was good and I anticipate being so this week. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/153 "2006-10-28T12:44:21Z")
Hello all. I have had a few challenges over the past two weeks. First of all, my workout partner was out of town for a week. Then I went on a camping trip with the college class from my church, and the diet was OUT THE WINDOW! Serious foodage. Hamburgers, hotdogs, bratwursts, bacon, eggs, corned beef hash, s’mores… Then I came back for a week and ate right, but didn’t run. I finally weighed in after those 2 weeks…down 2 pounds and some change. I ate a bag of sunflower seed the day before, so I was probably holding a lot of excess water on top of all that, which should flush out. If I was on the program I would have been down probably 3 or 4 more, but ya gotta live right? I am back on track now. But it did illustrate how easily I could slip from my program. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/154 "2006-10-28T14:48:55Z")
And then there are those of us who are hostage to our biology, and wake up two or three pounds heavier just outta the blue, once a month or so. I ENJOY BEING A GIRL. No, REALLY. I _was_ a half pound away from 75 pounds lost. I suppose technically I had made it, since my beginning scale didn’t have 1/2 pound increments, but DAMN IT ALL. It’ll be gone in a few days. Hopefully by Tuesday, as that’s when I had set the deadline for my goal. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/155 "2006-10-28T19:08:59Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] And then there are those of us who are hostage to our biology, and wake up two or three pounds heavier just outta the blue, once a month or so. I ENJOY BEING A GIRL. No, REALLY. I _was_ a half pound away from 75 pounds lost. I suppose technically I had made it, since my beginning scale didn’t have 1/2 pound increments, but DAMN IT ALL. It’ll be gone in a few days. Hopefully by Tuesday, as that’s when I had set the deadline for my goal. [/QUOTE] You do seem a little boated today. _\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> **newcrasher** runs_ ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/156 "2006-10-28T19:54:35Z")
I’ve changed my work lunch around a bit, dumping the yogurt and getting some soup and dried fruit. That, plus the twice-weekly cycling class seems to have kick started my metabolism again, since I lost another three pounds last week. I gained one back, but I think I’m getting past my plateua and heading down again. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/157 "2006-10-28T20:49:06Z")
[QUOTE=newcrasher] You do seem a little boated today. _\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> **newcrasher** runs_ [/QUOTE] You can run, but I’ll bet just about anything that I can run faster pissed off than you can run scared. Also, HA HA, you said I look boated. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![KatieCats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@KatieCats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KatieCats)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/158 "2006-10-29T00:01:02Z")
I finally broke the 180 pound barrier! 178 pounds as of this morning. So, 28 pounds down, 38 to go… ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/159 "2006-10-29T00:09:58Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Also, HA HA, you said I look boated. 😛 [/QUOTE] I was already fleeing the scene before I had finished my sentence… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776/160 "2006-10-29T00:42:10Z")
[QUOTE=KatieCats] I finally broke the 180 pound barrier! 178 pounds as of this morning. So, 28 pounds down, 38 to go… [/QUOTE] Woohoo! Way to go! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2006-weight-loss-club-october/374776.md?page=9)