hangs head in shame Yes ma’am.
No shame in being sweaty…sweating is good.
I accompanied my mother to her Dr. appt. yesterday afternoon. It was informative. Her cholesterol is borderline high and he said the best thing she (or anyone for that matter) could do is keep her weight down. (she’s not obese but she is in the “overweight” range like me) and walk more. He also put her on Lipitor which I’m not sure I agree with but it’s her decision.
So, in the interest of my health and the future of my heart I’m redoubling my efforts to lose these extra lbs. I’ve got about 25 lbs to go to be at the top healthy weight for my height. I probably should lose more like 40.
True as it may be, I’m never going to like sweating. I will accept that it has to happen but I don’t have to like it.
I weighed in at 188.8 this morning. Though technically, I have one more pound to go, I just can’t wait any longer to say I’m halfway to my goal! Woohoo! 56 pounds gone since last summer and 58 pounds to go! You know what? I’m kind of proud! 
Hell yes! You should be proud! Good for you.
Eight more pesky pounds gone this past month. That makes a total of 127.5 lost. I’d be happy with an additional loss of anywhere from 20-40 more pounds before starting the whole plastics thing (which I figure will knock off another 10-15lbs. in skin; plus, it’s not uncommon for folks to drop another 10lbs. post tummy tuck, because they tighten the tummy so much, you can’t eat much for a while).
My sister is here visiting from Yellowknife, and so I haven’t been around much this week. This morning I’m 173, so I’m maintaining but not losing. This is FINE, since last Saturday I ate too much at our party and THEN I sprained my damned toe kicking (accidentally) 2gigch1. So yeah, no exercise this week and over indulgence plus that time of the month = hells yeah, maintaining is okay.
Sister leaves Saturday, toe is feeling much better, should be back to the gym soon.
Congratulations there! Hopefully things will go your way with that.
Jayjay and I will be going to an early morning meeting tomorrow. Things look promising for me so far. I weighed myself earlier this week and was down 6 lbs from my previous weigh-in. Unfortunately I think that my scale is not working right now. I tried to weigh myself last night and got an error message. :smack: If i can’t get it to work correctly, I will have to get another one soon.
I lost 4.4 lbs and am feeling pretty good about it. It will be a couple of weeks until we are able to make it to a meeting, but I am going to try my best to stay the course, eat sensibly and exercise, even when we go away next weekend.
Wow guys, I’ve totally slipped. I was too embarassed to even go to get weighed-in last week - I haven’t actually stayed for a meeting in at least a month.
The end of the semester is murder, since I have no time to exercise or cook, and I end up using food as a palliative measure to deal with my school-related misery. But really, I think I’m eating more than I need to, even for that. I think I’m going to try to track what I’m eating anyway, even if I’m not sticking to WW. Maybe recording it and seeing it will keep me from ordering that extra mocha or eating those cookies, when it’s not even helping.
So I’m gonna ask a favour from you guys - yell at me if I don’t show up soon saying I’ve been tracking. Just knowing people are ‘watching’, I think, will help my resolve to do it.
I lost 2 pounds this week. I’m at 171 (again). I really need to break through this very strange plateau I’ve been on for months now.
I climbed the stairs on Wednesday and then took Thursday and Friday off because my calves hurt *that *much. I then did it again yesterday for 12 minutes and could have gone longer. Today there is no pain and I will shoot for 14 minutes.
I seem to have lost another couple of pounds. As I said, this coming week will be tough because I have at least 3 social outings and that is when I am usually at my worst . I am shooting for just maintaining this week.
171 this weigh-in. Grrrrrrr. I was so sure I’d make it to 170 or even 169, but no. It’s the curse of the 170s!
Sometime in the middle of the week, I did step on the scale and weigh 170. Just not this morning. Of course, it’s getting to be that time of the month. And I had popcorn for a snack last night. Etc… etc… etc… excuses excuses excuses. Let’s just face the music that my weight loss is slowing down. And it correlates with me not carefully tracking what I eat!
Also, we were scolded by the Weight Watchers website for having “lost” three pounds this week. We are not amused. If you remember, last week I was retaining two pounds at least of water weight, and it scolded me for gaining. If only the software was sophisticated enough to look at the two-week trend, it would have seen that everything was hunky dory, but no. That’s just WAY too much sophistication for the world’s largest weight loss corporation.
Will do. Don’t beat yourself up too much about not doing better. The end of the semester is a very stressful and hectic time. You’ll do better after all your finals are over. As long as you don’t give up, you’ll make your goal eventually.
As for me, I’m still waiting to get to my official halfway point. Like Sattua, I had to deal with the water weight thing last week. But Aunt Flo’s since left town so I hope this last pound will come off quickly.
I’ve stepped up my walking. Having despaired that I would never be able to walk more than 2 1/2 miles at a time, I’ve suddenly found that I can walk over 4! Yesterday I took my most challenging walk yet, with an elevation change of about 350 feet downhill over the course of about 1 1/2 miles, sea level for about a half mile and around 300 feet up over 2 1/8 miles. That last quarter mile would have been made easier if I had remembered drink more water than I did before leaving. Bringing a bottle with me would have been a good idea too, as it got warm enough out there for me to work up a sweat. Finally, the weather is getting warmer! Overall, I did very well and am happy that I tried it and I’ve found that I like the challenge hills present. Probably a good thing since I do live in Seattle.
No kidding!
Friday was a bad day for me since I had a social engagement. Too much pasta and sausages, no exercise. But this weekend I kicked my own ass. Both days I went out and walked around the Reservoir. I don’t know what that is, but I’d guess 1.5 miles. And then home to exercise, strength on Saturday and aerobic Sunday, 40 minutes each time. The strength one is a killer. When it is over, I feel about as strong as an anemic four year old girl with mono. But by the next day my biceps, calves, and abs are hard as rock.
WTF body? 174.5? MORE WATER!
That sucks, Ginger. Try to take comfort in the fact that it’s temporary. In a month or so when your scale is reading four or five or six pounds lower, you’ll look back and realize you won’t ever be looking at 174 again. You are succeeding in getting down to your goal weight! There may be temporary setbacks but overall, the trend is down, down, down! I was just reading in another thread that you once weighed 260. I’m very impressed with your progress so far!
I have a cold! Bleah! One of my guys has been snorfleing and hacking around for about a week and I keep telling him that if he gets me sick I’m gonna kick his ass! I guess I’ll have to now, if only I had the energy.
But as I’ve said many times in these threads, take the good with the bad and I suppose the lack of appetite will help the weight loss…
I’m still hanging around at 172 which isn’t surprising.
My walking has tapered off a bit and I’m not hitting those 20K step days like I was during the challenge and my eating…needs work.
Still hoping for a new decade soon though. How I’d love the 160s.
We’re getting our new bikes TODAY! I’m so excited and will probably post pictures sometime in the next day or so.
I’m having a fat and bloated week, stuck at 177. Bleh. But I’m getting a new bike today!
Yay, yellowval! May you peddle many happy and healthy miles on them!
Hope you get over your cold quickly, Khadaji. If you get that annoying itchy spot in your throat, try chewing some peppermint gum or swishing some peppermint toothpaste in your mouth. Really helps calm that bugger down.