Wow, almost a year since I posted in this thread the first time (November), but I have had some success. I weighed in at 265 then, and wanted to be down to 200 by the end of 2007. I don’t think I will make that goal, but I might get close.
This morning I finally cracked the 250 mark after a month of hovering above it. 248 lbs.
I have almost completely given up soda (shame on my mother for buying me a 12 pack yesterday!) and fast food is a rare treat these days. They feed me at work and I always get a big bowl of vegetables. Thanks to a lactose sensitivity, I indulge in ice cream only 2 or 3 times a year. Pizza has lost its pizazz for me (plus, its expensive). I have been swimming almost every day, playing softball once a week, biking occasionally, and having thoughts about going jogging (but I am scared!).
Those first 15 pounds came off easily, but it has been slow progress lately. I hope maybe that is because I am building muscle with the swimming while burning fat.
I guess the scale I was using to weigh myself last thursday was off by four pounds. Sigh, I weigh 139 lbs now.
On a good note, I just ran to the top of the big hill and back without stoping. If nothing else I’ll have huge legs from carrying my weight up and down those hills. I’m not nearly as sore as I was last week.
Oh great. I can’t use either of those excuses. Guess I’ll have to chalk it up to plain old dingbattedness. Christopher, that’s cool that you aren’t getting tired running up hills. I still marvel at myself walking up them without getting winded. Don’t know if I’ll ever be a runner. At least I have an excuse for* that.* A bone spur the size of a hill. sigh
Hey all. Back from vacation. I’m up a couple of pounds this a.m. but I’m sure at least some of it is water weight. Vacation was great. For the first time we actually made a conscious effort to include exercise in our plans. On Thursday I biked and swam, on Friday we biked Itasca State Park (really fun if you ever have the chance) and on Sunday I biked and did a mile-long water walk with my aunt, cousin, husband, and cousin’s friend. Then we sat in the lake and drank like six pitchers of sangria. Whoops. Anyway, trying to get back on track this week. I’d like to get to 168 by my birthday, which is Sept. 23.
I weighed in this a.m. at 165.5 (yay,it’s REALLY coming off!)
So, my size is currently between a 10 -12. My 14’s really are getting too loose even though I will wear them as long as possible to get as much use out of them as I can.
I gave most of my 16’s away, the few I have left will go to my Mom. As I lost weight, I did not keep the larger sizes around, I got them out of the house as soon as they got TOO big.
I definitely think that height and build have a lot to do with sizing. I know that my steady workouts have paid off bigtime with me being able to get into the 10’s at this weight. I even have one super old,ole pair of size EIGHT jeans that are getting close to fitting . Maybe in another couple of weeks. Especially if this pattern keeps up. I went so long without significant losses, this is so nice.
OK, I need some reassurance here folks. I lost another pound this past week. I’m staying within my points (although my food choices haven’t been as stellar as my first weeks on the plan, I’m still within my points.)
So WHY am I incredibly anxious all of the sudden? I feel like I’m “cheating” by having things like my daughter’s leftover pad thai for lunch, or half a large bakery cookie for desert - even though I’m still in my points. What’s going on? Has anyone else experienced this? I need some reassurance that as long as I’m staying in my points, and getting my 5 veggie servings (which I am), and I’m still losing slowly, I’m okay.
'Cause frankly, I’m starting to slip into the bulimic thought process I had as a teen, and I don’t want to go back there. I’m starting to think of some foods as “bad”, and that’s not right…right?
Right. A pound a week is perfectly respectable, and even more important is your ability to stay on program. If you start cutting out little treats like that entirely, you’ll make WW unsupportable for you, which is NOT what you want.
Why Not don’t beat yourself up over it. The reason that we follow the diet plans and premade meals and point systems and such is because our current society and marketing make it impossible to really know how much we should be eating of what. It’s hard to know what is inside every single thing we eat. That’s why we have guides to let us know that it’s ok. So don’t sweat it…if the plan says that you’re allowed to eat it, then eat it. You won’t loose weight by starving yourself…or keep it off by denying yourself every little thing.
Like fast food for me…with my job I can’t avoid it all the time…just too much travel and working lunches. So I just get something small. A 4 piece nugget and small fries instead of the whole 10 piece meal. Everything in moderation. Keep at it, you’re doing great!
Right. Balance is key, and it sounds like you have that. Lots of fruits & veggies, and healthy food for the majority of your day, plus a treat or two within your points.
Same thing happened to me a few weeks after I started both WW plans (I started with Flex, then switched to Core after I plateaued). I think part of it has to do with leaving the “honeymoon phase” of changing your eating habits.
You start out really excited - you’re still eating things you like, but you’re learning to do it in moderation & you get treats too! After awhile it just gets less exciting, so you start to panic a bit because you don’t have that beginning “high” anymore.
My advice is, try not to panic too much, and keep doing what you’re doing. Have treats, but don’t have them just because you can, have the ones you really want.
Last of all, don’t deprive yourself! And good luck, you’ve been doing great so far.
Thank goodness! I couldn’t decide if I was freaking out 'cause I was a freak or just needed an attention whoring moment. Thank you and Helen’s Eidolon and **Atrael **for making me feel like it’s not just me. You’re absolutely right: the “high” is wearing off as this new way of eating turns into routine, and I guess I’m starting to feel like this can’t be all there is to it! Surely I need to radically revisit my diet and cut out more things and deprive myself in order to keep being “good”! Except, rationally, I know I don’t, or at least, don’t need to YET. Yes, there will come a time when I have to eat less or move more because my weight will catch up - or catch down, I guess - with the calories I’m eating. But it’s not yet, right? 'Cause I’m still losing! Oy. My psyche is not a pleasant place sometimes!
Today is my 44th birthday, and I feel like myself when I was half my age…except for the arthritic knee, but even that feels better without all that extra weight on it…Gonna go out for lunch and dinner today…and have my first increase in a year…but dammit, August will be my “Slash and Burn” campaign revival.
Well, I would have lost about 7 pounds for the month of July but I got about three pounds back in the last week in the form of water weight. At least I hope it’s water weight. I’ve been pretty faithful to my diet and have been walking again. I don’t see how it could be fat. Sigh Dieting would be a whole lot more fun if it weren’t for all these stupid little weight fluctuations.
