I just took a loooooooooong loooooooooong walk from which I emerged miserable and crippled for the rest of the day.
It was all of 5300 steps.
velvetjones, I don’t know how you do it.
Ginger, it may be evil, but it is just water. It’ll go away! You are doing soooo well, and you look fabulous.
I had a small NSV myself, today. I was writing a check, and took out my driver’s license for identification purposes, and realized I actually weigh what my driver’s license says I weigh! The ironic thing about that is that the pic on my driver’s license no longer looks like me.
Oh, here’s a little note for those of you who are counting calories: I bought some of the Hostess 100 Calorie packs. The carrot cakes are actually pretty good. There are 3 mini-cakes in a pack. They certainly wouldn’t satisfy any amount of hunger, but if you’re just craving something to satisfy a sweet tooth, they’re tasty enough.
I’ve been trying to lose weight myself recently. I was at 195 lbs. I got sick about 2 months ago and it drastically lowered my appetite. I decided to try to keep my appetite low and lose some weight. It worked pretty well. I dropped to about 170 lbs in 3 or 4 weeks. Then it kind of stabilized. I figured my metabolism was slowing down to match my eating, so I started exercising. I’ve since jogged in the park every other day until this week and lifted weights at home. (Jogging is out this week because I crashed my dirt bike and hurt my foot. It’s nothing serious though and should be healed soon.) Unfortunately, I’ve went back up to 175 lbs. Hopefully it’s a temporary plateau. I haven’t been on any specific diet, but I have been trying to eat healthier foods: more soups and fruits and less cheeseburgers and ice cream. I’ve indulged occasionally, but I’ve been doing better than I anticipated. Hopefully I can lose a little more weight, or better yet, turn some into muscle.
Owie!!! 
For the most part, my joints and muscles no longer bother me much on my walks but I am suffering through a spate of blisters on my toes. Of course, I’m usually about two miles from home when I realize I’m getting one. I finally had to buy a box of Band Aids. It’s been years and years since I’ve last done that!
By the way, if your pedometer is anything like mine, you actually did twice as many steps than what it said. If mine isn’t sitting just exactly so, the little pendulum thingy inside just doesn’t work right. I still use it to get a rough idea of how I’m doing but I don’t trust the results. After my walks, I use a bit of thread to follow my route on a map to figure my mileage and go by that instead. (I’ve figured with my short stride, I do about 5,280 steps per mile.)
Norine, that’s cool about your driver’s license. Go you!
Snailboy, hang in there and I hope your foot is feeling better soon.
The key is to wear sneakers, not to do it in heels or barefoot. 
I’m officially a new bike owner. I got the Trek women’s specific design 3700. It’s purple and silver. I also got a helmet, a water bottle and holder, and a computer to track speed, distance, etc. Everything’s installed and we rode for about half an hour last night. My butt hurts today, but I know that I will get used to it. My husband got the men’s 4300. We went with a little more expensive bike for him because he was concerned how it would hold his weight (he’s about 250). I told him that if he rides his bike all summer, he’ll be down to 225 before he knows it! Can’t wait to ride again today. I think we’ll plan a longer ride for the weekend.
And in all my excitement I forgot to mention that I was down to 175.5 this morning! A big relief since I’d been back up to 177 for the past week or so.
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Or, I could just eat well and exercise my ass, literally, off. 237.2, down 2.1 from last week. And that’s after eating a huge breakfast. There’s an additional pound right there.
My attitude towards exercise has radically changed. It’s no longer something I do because I “should”, or to lose weight. I do it every day now because I like it. I like getting sweaty, I like the euphoria that follows, and yeah, I feel a bit superior.
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:rolleyes:
If I click on that link and it doesn’t say “Eat less, exercise more”, I’m going to shoot someone. I might anyway, just for their random capitalization and use of a number as a word.
Who is Michael Thurmond and why would I want him to make me over?
I just followed the link to find out, and from the first couple of pages anyway it doesn’t sound bad at all (though certainly with annoying, hyped-up fontification and capitalization):
This is fundamentally true.
The exception I have (so far) is that it’s not 100% true to say losing weight “has nothing to do with jogging”; exercise (of course not necessarily jogging per se) is also a very effective way of increasing your resting metabolic rate to burn more calories. But I would agree that the fundamental way to lose weight is to change how and what you eat, not to starve yourself or to go on some unreasonably (unmaintainably) restrictive diet plan.
The website seems to espouse the “zigzag diet” approach, i.e., alternating periods of calorie deficit with maintenance-level calories, and eating frequently throughout the day (5 or 6 meals), and offers as a premium service (you knew $$$ was involved somewhere) a way to help you plan out such a diet.
I would say it’s pretty sensible. Though it would help its credibility (in my view) to be less sensationalistic seeming.
Sadly, if they don’t make it sound sensational, fewer people are going to pay attention. A lot of people in the U.S. are seeking the quick fix—the diet plan or pill that will suddenly make all their issues with food disappear. Of course everyone here knows that the magic plan/pill doesn’t exist. Well I guess it does—eat less, exercise more—but that plan doesn’t work overnight and most people don’t want to hear it.
I had a moment like that once trying to lift my 120lb dog. I could barely drag him up onto the couch–there was no way I could have lifted him freely into the air. Then I realized… no wonder my knees always hurt and I couldn’t walk anywhere without being out of breath and exercise was so damned hard! I’d lost 117lbs, which pretty much means that for several years it was as if I were carrying Sparky on my shoulders everywhere I went.
I’ve been a big fan since the mid-'80s. Saw them in concert most recently just a couple of summers ago. Took my kiddo, who has now seen them twice. He liked them, too. (Jethro Tull ranks tied with Pink Floyd for Opal’s Favorite Bands of All Time Forever and Ever)
Best quote from Ian at a concert:
“Who out there hates cats?”
(buncha people cheer; I grumble and prepare to get pouty)
“Well tough shit, this next song’s about cats!”
Woohoo! No pouting needed!
(Ian is a huge cat lover, btw.)
Not me, I think of norinew as a total whiner.
Wait, I meant WINNER. Sorry, got confused with my long/short vowel sounds.
I will probably get a new passport picture done the next time I leave the country… The picture on my passport doesn’t even look like it’s likely to be a relative, let alone look like ME. Awesome feeling, isn’t it?
That’s basically what I’m doing. It’s Weight Watchers, but it’s called the Wendie plan. I have very low days (today, 22 points) and a few high days, and a SUPER MEGA HIGH day (38 points). It’s hard to eat 38 points unless it’s crappity food which I can’t really tolerate anymore (fried things).
It’s been a rough month so far, hoping to make something out of what little that remains…
At the beginning of the month, I noticed the sweat puddle under my trainer had brown flecks in it. Turns out that the seals on my bike’s headset had failed and my sweat had got into the headset bearings and rusted them. The corrosion was so bad that the “sealed” bearings crumbled apart and the races were permanently fused to the headset cups.
So I needed a new $50 headset. That was a bit painful, but worse was that my local bike shop had a two week repair backlog (I could have replaced it myself, but that requires rather special and super expensive tools).
The two weeks without the bike became three when we had various crises at work that kept me tied up.
While I’ve only gained 2 maybe 2.5 pounds since the 1st, I feel like I’ve lost much more.
Last Sunday I went to the Primavera Century ride when I hadn’t ridden in 3 weeks. After 5 and a half hours I’d only done 65 miles and my knees couldn’t take any more (interestingly my cardiovascular system was just coasting at ~120bpm at this point). I had to be SAGed the remaining 40 miles to the start. This was terribly disappointing.
Since then, I’ve been on the trainer each night for an hour + trying to regain the strength and muscular endurance I recently enjoyed.
I finished my first week where I did a workout every day. 
Of course, that was a week ago and this week I flaked.
Still, I’m down to 162 so that’s spittin’ distance of my target.
2 smilies to 1 frownie. I can live with that…
Are the Turbo Jam tapes worth it? I’ve been sticking with the Leslie Sansone tapes. I ordered the 5-mile tape and like it but are the Turbo tapes better?
Are you doing any of the On Demand classes?
Don’t be too disappointed. My bike kicks my butt in under 30 minutes at this point. Last night I rode for 23 minutes and went four miles. I’ll improve with practice though, right? I sure hope so. I did better than my husband at least. The past two nights he’s wimped out after, like, 12 minutes. We go around the bike trail once and he says, “I’m going home! You can keep going if you want.” (He hasn’t been walking all winter like I have so it’s going to take him a little while longer to build up his strength and endurance.) Last night I did the whole trail twice and my legs felt like noodles afterward. I don’t know if we’ll ever work up to 65 miles. You’re pretty much my hero for being able to to that. (Seriously, you and velvetjones, man, wow! I never could walk as far as she does and I don’t think I’ll be able to bike as far as you do.)
Tomorrow it’s going to be freaking gorgeous weather so we might take the bikes to a local county park. My goal is to not fall off.