2007 Weight Loss Club, April

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My next appt. at my surgeon’s office is June 7th (it should have been a little earlier, but there was trouble with my scheduling, and then an out-of-town trip for him) for my 1-year check. At that point, I’ll only have to go into the office every three months. I guess then I’ll finally buy another battery for my scale at home, so I can keep track of what I’m doing; I sure hope I don’t get scale-obsessed again!

Anyway, my goal between now and then is to top 100g of protein a day. I’ve developed a new protein drink recipe that gives me 30g in only 4oz. Therefore, even though it’s not nummy, I can down it in three gulps (and it doesn’t fill me up so much that I don’t have space in my tummy for breakfast). Therefore, it’s tolerable. This has been helping enormously in my protein intake. Since I started doing that, I usually have about 90g in before dinner time. So we’ll see what that does for me.

Well, yeah. I mean, you even lost weight in your nose! :stuck_out_tongue:
It is pretty awesome, and while I don’t believe in fawning over people online, I cannot begin to tell you how thankful I am that I got a chance to talk to you at that DopeFest and learn the Straight Dope on this surgery!

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[QUOTE=Caridwen]
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?
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I haven’t touched On Demand since I got Turbo Jam.

It’s in a whole different class than Sansone. It’ll kick your ass six ways from Sunday. I’m not sure if this is just a coincidence, but since I’ve been using the DVDs, I look thinner. I feel thinner. And weird as it may seem, I’ve been feeling myself up. Mmm, muscles! Bones! Where did those come from?

The moves are far more choreographed than Sansone (where “you can’t do it wrong”), but after a few tries, they’re easy to master. And I’ve never been a big fan of techno dance/hip hop, but these DVDs have made a true believer out of me. Last night while working out, I actually shouted “The roof is on fire!”, and then punched and kicked the air as if Phred Phelps was in the room.

When I first started with it, I was a little skeptical because it was a bunch of skinny and muscular people working out. Ho hum, people who have never been fat telling me how to become thin. As it turns out, almost every single one of them was fat. One woman (who demonstrates the low-impact version) has an amazing flat tummy. That was 75 pounds later. In her before picture, she looks like Litoris. In her after picture, she looks like… Litoris. Amazing.

There are 5 videos. There’s a 20 minute “Learn and Burn” instructional, a 20 minute “quick” workout, a full 40 minute aerobics thing, a 40 minute weight training that will make your muscles cry, and a 40 minute ab workout. I’ve tried all but the last, which I’ll do Sunday.

Geez, just talking about it makes me want to get up and move right now. That, and the mouse that ran across my office mate’s desk this morning.

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Here’s a bump so jayjay and supervenusfreak can post their weekly results without searching for the thread.

I’m at 173.5, because my body sucks.

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…And then I remember that jayjay and supervenusfreak are away for the weekend. Silly bears.

I about died at the gym this afternoon. My toe still hurts and I favoured it too much, causing me to damned near fall right off of the elliptical AND the treadmill.

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Thanks, I’ll see if my sister wants to split it with me.

I’ve been doing to 5 mile walk two or three days and the other days when I ride my bike I do the 3 mile walk. Two days a week we take a swim class, and I try to do my ab lounger a few times a week. My sister also takes a spin class but that’s not for me. I don’t see huge results from exercising though. I thought maybe I should try to pump it up.

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Ginger, I think your problem is that you tried to use the eliptical and the treadmill at the same time. That’s why you nearly fell off. :wink:

By the way, can your injured toe come over and keep my blistered toe company? They can stay up all night and tell each other silly stories and toast marshmallows. I can even send over the Lincoln Toe Truck to pick it up. :slight_smile:

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jayjay and supervenusfreak are back, but we didn’t go to meeting this week, so no results. I can give a NSV, though…I was wearing size 58 shorts all weekend, and they FIT!

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OK, the new thread for May can be found here

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Jayjay and I spent the weekend at a convention for a gay men’s social organization, (we’re gay bears!), and actually did pretty well. Both of us managed to work out, and watch what we eat, getting our fruits and veggies in, and limiting desserts and pastas to small servings. We had to skip a meeting this week, and I still haven’t replaced the bathroom scale, so I am not certain what my weight may be at, but I am reasonably hopeful that I maintained.

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(bolding mine)
Don’t believe it folks. They’re really just guys. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I went to Key Largo last Thursday. Thursday morning before we left I weighed 169.5. Today I weigh 174. While I was in Key Largo I lost my glasses and found 4.5 pounds. :frowning:

I’m not all that worried about the weight because I ate and drank with reckless abandon while I was there and I’m pretty sure now that I’m back and back into my old routine I can get rid of that. If I walk my feet into the ground.

The loss of the glasses hurts. Everything’s blurry and it’s giving me a headache. I have an appt. to see the eye doc tomorrow because I want to look into getting contacts. Meanwhile, I can’t read anything. Getting old sucks.

With regard to Robardin’s post up thread a ways…the thing that bugs me about that is the idea that exercising is optional and that significant and permanent fat loss can be achieved without actually moving. It’s all supposed to be quick and painless and require no thought or effort. IMO the only thing that’s quick and painless and requires no thought or effort is gaining weight.

Losing weight requires diligence, thought, effort (physical, mental and emotional) and is not easy and not painless.

Sattua I worked up to a 10000 step walk, believe me and the first time I did it I was ready to quit halfway through (of course by then I was 2.5 miles from home with no choice but to continue). It helps that I’m walking around the neighborhood basically in a large rectangle than just walking in one direction for a while then turning around. It also helps me to have the headphones on because I get lost in the music and after a while my feet are moving of their own accord.

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Monday morning weigh-in, 170. Rawr. Well, I went completely off-plan in the last half of the week–when you’re at a convention where everyone wants to eat at the Indian restaurant every day, there’s just no point in trying to go Core.

So there. I’m thinking about giving it a rest for a while.

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My Monday morning weigh-in has me at 175 (finally). My next goal is to be at 170 by the July 4 holiday weekend, which gives me two months to lose five pounds. I should be able to do that, but it seems like every time I set a goal I hover just above it for about a month before finally getting there.

We’ve ridden our new bikes every day since we got them last Tuesday. We’re having so much fun! I think we’ll take a break tonight since I’ve got a meeting and get back to it tomorrow night.

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[QUOTE=Sattua]
So there. I’m thinking about giving it a rest for a while.
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Why?

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By “give it a rest”, do you mean just take a little ‘break’ and try to maintain until you’re ready to go at it full force again? or do you mean “chuck it all and forget all about it and eat like there’s no tomorrow until I’m so disgusted that I can’t stand myself”?

If it’s the latter, please, please don’t do that! I can certainly understand wanting to take a break from full-out following the plan until you feel motivated again! But trust me, you are not going to feel better if you “take a break” by putting on 15lbs.!

But whatever you mean, please know that we are here to support you, and help you make choices that are good for you!

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I mean, try to maintain for a while. I have definitely gotten into a lot of good habits in these three months on Core–oatmeal for breakfast, lots of vegetables with meals, not popping chocolate into my mouth three times a day. But I’m starting to feel a little stifled by it, and the non sequiturs in the rules are beginning to irritate me. Ketchup is core but barbeque sauce isn’t? Milk is an approved snack but plain yogurt isn’t? Rice/potatoes/pasta once a day but oatmeal is unlimited?

I just need a break from cataloguing every single little thing, I think. I’m very happy to have lost ten pounds, but I’ve been treading water for three weeks now, and it’s because I’m not able to stick to the plan. So. I think I’ll stop, take a breather, see where my new habits take me, and then come back for another ten pounds.

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I can see how that would be frustrating, Sattua. Have you considered using an online calorie counter? I use one that is a free service but I pay to upgrade it so it calculates my totals each day and allows me to do custom entries (I can enter foods that aren’t in it or create custom meals that I eat often). This way I’m not restricted as to what I can and cannot eat, but I can still keep close tabs on the number of calories I consume each day, as well as fat, sugar, protein, sodium, and all that good stuff.