I will duck into a grocery store and buy fruit or a salad from the salad bar. That way, I control what I’m eating with no surprises.
Subway, I think. Not quite as quick as a drive-thru, but close …
178, still. I might hit my goal of (a new low of) 176 before I take my roadtrip this Thursday but am not sure.
I’m still down for the month, though, and am pleased enough with at least that.
yeah, the “6 grams of fat or less” 6 inch subs come in at a little less than than 300 per.
btw - I found this FABulous calorie database, it has all sorts of foods and many, possibly most, restaurants so you can plan ahead if you know you’re going out to eat.
Well, if you manage to see more of me, you probably need your eyes checked! 
But Gettysdope has become a new family tradition, so we’ll be there!
I am stunned. I am UP. I am eating my points target, I am exercising like a motherfuck, I am drinking my water, and still I am up. I want a new body.
Last Thursday there was patches of black ice on the top of Kings. That’s bad enough on a car, it’s really scary on a skinny tire bike. Nevertheless, I’ve had two co-workers join my insanity the last few outings, a third said he’ll begin joining us this week, and a fourth said he’ll come out from time to time. With a regular group, it should be harder to blow off a session even when I’m not feeling particularly motivated.
The Spinervals DVDs are hard. I thought I was working hard on the stationary bike, but there is really no comparison. Highly recommended, especially if you’re training for races or triathlons.
I also found that the (health-club style) stationary bike basically outright lies about generated power. I thought I was doing exceptionally well being able to sustain 300-350 watts. But the new trainer has a calibrated power curve so I can determine power (watts) from speed, and it seems my real number is more in the 200 watts range. Kind of depressing at first, but I’ll move on.
It’s been a week, and I’m down to 221. Hitting 220 by the end of the month is almost certain. I may even reach 218, which will put me back where I was at the beginning of December.
Don’t despair Ginger the scale is the least accurate measurement of actual fat loss. Maybe you’re losing inches and gaining muscle which is making your net weight stay the same. Just keep doing what you’re doing. You’ll get there. The only way to fail is to quit trying.
Me, stuck at 177. but I think I’ve got no one but myself to blame.
I did the same thing you did SCSimmons got hungry after a gig and ended up at Dennys late at night. I’d like to blame the Denny’s trip on my husband but, while it was he who insisted we stop for food, it was me who ordered and ate that plate of nachos.
This week I’ve decided that I’m going to actually start counting calories again and try and keep track of what I’m eating.
The good news is that 5 days out of 7 I exceeded my 12000 step goal on my pedometer. 3 of those days I exceeded 15000.
Wow, is that right? At my current weight, the formula only gives me 1400 calories a day to maintain. That’s what I ate to lose weight, I maintain easily on 1800-2000.
Ginger, don’t let the scale freak you out! Start charting the results and look at the results over time. I can easily fluctuate between 1-5 lbs a day! There are just so many factors that can affect the scale.
are you very active? that affects the formula
176.8. Less than a pound to go! (I’m not getting obsessive or anything; I’d just really like to hit my goal.)
Good luck, Ginger. Your stalling’s frustrating me, so I can only imagine how annoying it must be for you.
I have been charting my daily weight since March 2003, minus my pregnancy and about six months afterward. While overall there has been a pretty massive loss (although not like SOME koffaesironkofff people’s), now that I’m so close to the end and working out harder than ever and not seeing the change on the scale, I’m FRUSTRATED.
Yoga 5-6 times a week for 90 minutes. Not wimpy-ass beginner yoga where you thank your feet for carrying you through the day or yoga for dummies, either. Bikram, heated room, work-your-ass-off yoga in a 105F room. My biceps and thighs are toning but my weight is stuck like a fat pooh bear in a rabbit hole.
I have a follow-up for that weight control study I did last fall - remember that? - this week. My phD friend will take my body fat percentage and all of my measurements and weight and I’ll report any differences since last November when they did the last round o’ measuring. I tried to measure myself before I started the 5x week yoga, but I’m just awful at that.
Anyrose - I am not very active at all. 1400 calories to maintain would be a very low number for me. Maybe it makes more sense at the beginning of the weight loss journey. I might have maintained at 2200 calories when I weighed 200 lbs (200 x 11). It definitely doesn’t fit my current weight, 128 x 11 = a very small number of calories to maintain!
Ginger, I can only share my experience. My weight loss was incredibly slow towards the end. I lost the first 55 lbs fairly quickly - 7 months. It took me another 9 months to lose the last 15 lbs. It was pretty frustrating, at one point I was even convinced I was “done” losing weight and increased calories to maintenance level (1800). I ended up losing the final pounds while eating more. I always wondered if the extra influx of calories was enough to jumpstart my metabolism after my “diet mode” of 1400-1600.
The important thing - I never gave up. Just continued my healthy habits and the weight DID come off, just took forever.
the figures you list, Glory, would be your daily numbers - but you may be right about it being for the beginning of the journey
Whee, not down an ounce from last week. I could blame that time of the month, I suppose, but it doesn’t explain the gain over such a long time.
Ginger are you keeping up with your 6-8 glasses of water per day? The problem could be that you’re retaining water.
Just another one of the joys of being a girl.
Sure am, Katie. We have a 5-gallon water cooler so I’m forever filling up my little water bottle. Not to mention the extra water I drink from sweating like a pig at yoga.
But if it is, indeed, that time of month, maybe you’ll see a drop next week.
Since I’ve only been tracking my weight monthly, I don’t know my weekly trends from this go-'round, but I’ll tell you about the last time I successfully did WW (I use the term “successfully” to mean I lost weight; I surely didn’t keep it off, hence, the need for surgery):
I would lose a pound one week
Lose a pound or stay the same the next week
Gain a pound the following week
Lose four pounds the week after that.
I went for long enough that I really could map this pattern, quite reliably, on my card. It was very frustrating until I figured out what was going on.
I’m noticing that my weight loss is following the same pattern as norinew’s. I haven’t linked it to the time of the month, though. It’s almost like my body needs a breather after a weight loss of more than a pound.
Of course, if I’m up this Saturday, I will definitely be blaming it on the time of the month and the chocolate binge I went on this weekend.
Ginger, is it possible you are dieting/working out too hard? Getting close, as you are, you may want to take a little break from the five a week 90 minute yoga sessions. Maybe do three. You might be fooling your body into that “hold on to calories 'cause we are losing too many” mode.
Or not, you know your own body better than the rest of us for sure.
Jayjay/Supervenusfreak, what if anything are you doing besides walking to sustain your rate of loss? You better be doing something else or I’ll be very jealous. And congrats for your progress by the way.
I ended up eating pizza at a luch meeting where it was provided and I could not graciously turn it down. It tasted so good, too, but it’s still sitting like a boulder in my stomach. Next time I’ll just go for rude.