Bought a scale today after having very very naughty breakfast… 212
Got a bottle of Walletscam Rx around here somewhere.
Hope it’s not too late to join in.
I’ll be starting my weight loss attempts in a few days once I’m officially over The Worst Flu of My Entire Life[sup]TM[/sup] and can stomach more than the BRAT diet and occasional egg. I don’t weigh myself often, so the last measurement that was accurate was at the doctor’s office on Wednesday, when I was 5’ 10", 207 lbs. and quite ill.
I’m planning on resuming the jogging habit I gave up over the holidays and continuing to integrate using my bellydancing and pilates workout videos as supplementary items for the days when it’s too rainy or I’m too lazy to get my butt outside and run either before or after work. I’m also making some attempts to eat better, which means cooking healthier meals for myself and remembering to pack lunch every day. My long term weight loss goal is change from my current “large end of size 16” to a size 12 or possibly even size 10 on bottom. If this means I lose 20 lbs. or 50 lbs. to do so, that’s fine. If I don’t reach 12 but still look healthy and in shape, that’s fine too. I just want to be healthier than I am now and to look good when it comes time to start trying on wedding dresses.
I ordered mine on December 14, at about 11:00 AM, fully prepared to wait the 6-10 days for delivery as stated on the website. Next day, around noon, there it was, on my front porch! So I was able to begin on Monday (gave myself one last weekend!), much sooner than I’d thought I would!
As for the food–please refer to my previous post here, regarding the tuna casserole! Most of what I’ve tried has been pretty good, though–some of it excellent. There are some new items I want to try–like the chocolate microwave cake and the apple toaster pastry. And the chocolate caramel bar that they sent as part of my free week wasn’t listed the last time I checked, but I am definitely going to call and find out how to order it, because that thing was fantastic! 
Good luck to you–hope you have much success!
I didn’t think the tuna casserole was all that awful, but I didn’t like enough to reorder it. You know you can change your food for February any time up to a day before your expected shipping date. Along the top, in little letters, it says “Welcome”,“Store”,“Auto-Delivery”,“Diary”,“Counseling”,“Success Stories”; click on “Auto Delivery”, then on the link to see your active delivery order. You can add as many hocolate caramel bars as you want (but of course you have to drop other stuff to do it) 
If you guys think NutriSystem is bad now, you should have seen it in the early days! My mother lost about 200 pounds on it in the very early 80s. Horrible, horrible stuff…big Alka-Seltzer-size potassium tablets you had to dissolve in a drink, giant horsepill vitamins, a really ugly (both visually and in the sense of general aesthetics) space theme (Nebula Nectar, Cosmic Crepes)…
wow - how long did thzat taake her and has she kept it off?
I don’t remember details too clearly…I was only 9 or so. But I think it took her 18 months, and no, she did not keep it all off. But she never ballooned back up to the point she was at before she did the Nutrisystem, either.
Kept the Sunday part of my promise and did 25km down to the harbor and back. Hopefully it will be less windy tomorrow and I’ll try a longer ride up the river.
Yeah, I went and edited my order last night, because it ships in about a week. I signed up for Auto-Delivery from the first, since I had about 160 pounds to lose–no point in not doing it!
I want to add some snacks a la carte, because I go out one night a week to sing karaoke and I take something with me to keep me from snarfing down the potato chips they have for sale. Yeah, that means I end up eating an extra snack, but better the low-fat, lo-cal party mix (which is better than Chex Party Mix, imo) than the Fritos or Lays! And since I don’t eat much before I leave for the karaoke bar–it’s hard for me to sing well on a full stomach–I do need some little something to snack on.
The tuna casserole was part of that free week of food you get–and of course, you don’t get to select those. It’s good because you get to try some things that you might not have, but also bad, because you get that tuna casserole! 
The hamburger patties are a life-saver on the weekends, when my family is eating burgers, fries, chicken nuggets, etc. I can have a burger, too! Of course, I have to do without the fries. (Ok, so I snitched a couple of fries–sue me!) I do relax SLIGHTLY over the weekend. because that’s when we usually go out to dinner. But I make salad a BIG part of the meal, then the other small things don’t have a big impact–and I still lose weight. And the mild “cheating” actually helps me stay good during the week!
I think I should share this: oatmeal. High fibre, low fat, zero cholesterol; fills you up for hours. 1/2 cup quick (not instant) oatmeal and 1 cup water in the microwave for 1 1/2 minutes. Add some brown sugar or maple syrup (or whatever) and oh my gosh. Filling and tasty.
Off for another bike ride (31 miles yesterday). I might as well make best use of this ridiculously warm weather in Boston.
I weighed 182 this morning when I got up to go to work and didn’t eat breakfast or lunch but did go to dinner at Famous Dave’s after work with a colleague where I had about three dozen glasses of diet soda (I drink like a fish), a smoked salmon spread with “fire-grilled flatbread” for an appetizer, and the Texas Manhandler (brisket and link sausage with pickles on a large bun) with coleslaw as my entree and still somehow managed to be down half a pound when I came home this evening.
May the rest of the year go this well.
So far, so good. I’m at 327.5 as of this morning’s weigh-in (that’s a weighted moving average a la the Hacker’s Diet, scale measurements have been a bit lower). I’m pretty rapidly figuring out what I can and can’t eat; the main wall I’m hitting is on exercise. I know I need to mix in some aerobic workout, but it’s hard to find anything that works for the shape (round) I’m currently in. Do any of you have some recommendations for someone well over 300 pounds with really bad knees? (I had to get one of my knees 'scoped last year, after it finally failed under the stress of holding me erect–one reason I’m doing this.)
I add a teaspoon or two of cinnamon apple sauce. I find it adds favor and breaks up the sticky texture of the oatmeal. I also prefer the regular oatmeal, I just microwave for 2 1/2 minute.
I’ve been wanting to get back on track, hopefully 2007 will be the year. About five years ago I lost forty-five pounds and felt great. Then I started dating my now wife and the time to exercise went to dating and instead of eating healthy we went out.
Come spring 2005, I decide to turn a new leaf and a few days into Spring and my new cycling regime my wife and I are hit by a drunk driver and I spend the summer in physical therapy.
Then spring 2006 came around and the weekend before I’m ready to start again I pass out and the doctors order no exercise until they figure out what’s going on. I was finally cleared just before Thanksgiving with a comment from the last doctor, “You really should be exercising.” They never did figure out what happened, I was probably just fighting a bug and stoop up too quick. On the other hand, based on the all the test I’ve had I’m healthy as a horse aside from a minor heart defect we already knew about.
So now it’s 2007 and I’m ready to start again. I’m twenty-seven pounds up from my last low, time to drop that off. My wife gave me six sessions with a trainer at the gym, I’m going to spend the rest of Jan getting a little better shape before using it and then hopefully spend the summer cycling. I hit forty in November, I’d like to be about thirty to forty pounds down by then.
I actually broke the 20,000 step mark with my pedometer this weekend! That’s been a goal of mine. Let me tell you, that’s a lot of walking.
My stats as of today:
179/177/140
My daughter got up and walked with me (taking a long walk with your daughter: priceless!)
We decided to do the long walk (3.8 miles) then extended it to include the end half of the short walk and ended up walking almost 5 miles.
This pedometer is really making me work.
Sorry if you mentioned this already, but I’m looking for a pedometer. Can you (or anyone else in this thread) recommend one that works well but doesn’t cost a fortune? I’d prefer under $40 if I can find one… I’ve googled them, but would prefer a reference or two from ‘real people’ who’ve used them…
THANKS in advance.
The elliptical machine is the only piece of equipment that I was able to workout on with my bad knee…and now my arthritic knee only hurts when I prop it up on a table or recliner for a while, but never when I exercised. After losing 50 lbs. so far, it doesn’t hurt too walk around, even if it is for hours or miles, because of the leg-strengthening from the workout. Start slowly on the elliptical…15 minutes on the lowest level until you can do that without stopping and losing your breath. Then increase either the time by 5 minutes or bump it up one level of resistence, maybe make those increases on Mondays and maintain it for the week. Keep repeating until you are happy with the calories that are burned per workout. Want to burn one pound of fat per week? That’s ~3500 calories, or 5 workouts at 700 calories each. If you can burn 10 calories per minute, that’s 70 minutes per workout, or if you burn 15 calories per minute, that’s almost 47 minutes. At 20 calories per minute, 35 minutes (Strenuous, but attainable…I did 750c in 36m) Don’t let these numbers scare you; if you stick with starting easy and build up, you will have one of the fastest aerobic and fat-burning workouts without the knee pain. I feel a lot better and stronger (in the legs and lower back) than I ever have in my adult life…my upper body will get a makeover in a couple of months when I get closer to my target weight of 200-220.
Check with your doctor before you start this though, and know what your target heart rate is before and monitor it while doing this type of exercising.
OK- weighed in at the gym today and it’s:
Starting weight: 185
Today’s weight: 178.5
Goal: 130
Drinking water like a mofo. Almost had to kill husband this weekend when he proceeded to eat and eat and eat and then buy ice cream and then aske me how many calories were in the asparagus after I dipped it in butter (it was my one free meal a week, get off my back).
Did not go to the gym this weekend. Mostly will be a week day thing.
Husband left out for a 3 to 4 week run. Hopefully when he comes back around Superbowl Sunday he’ll be pleasantly surprised.
179 when I came home from work this evening but before dinner, which consisted of approximately half a frozen thin crust pizza, three or four carrots dipped in caesar dressing, and can of green beans with light italian dressing. (I eat weird meals)
I have no idea what’s going on but I hope it continues.