Having a scale around is a blessing and a curse. I haven’t broken myself of the habit of stepping on it every morning, so when I’m plateauing, it seems like it’s taking much longer to get past it than it really does and I get frustrated. But when I’m losing steadily, it’s exciting and I can’t wait for what the next day will bring.
Here’s hoping that magic number comes your way soon, Norine. Share the picture and I’ll do a happy dance for you. Hugs!
Oh, I know! I had a scale, from just before my surgery until about six months ago. About six months ago, the battery died (or so I thought), and I decided it was better to only weigh once a month at my doctor’s appt. But now that I’m a year out from surgery, my appts with my doctor will only be every 3 months, so I wanted to get a battery for my scale, so I can keep track at home. But when we replaced the battery, the scale still didn’t work. 
Now, I need to get a new one, and see if I can resist weighing myself every day (or every hour and a half, or. . .)
I’d love it if I had enough self-control to only weigh once a month, but I’m not sure I do. I may have to make it once a week.
I found out an interesting thing years ago – that when I follow meals with sweets, I tend to crave them every day. After 3 or 4 days of denying myself, I no longer crave them.
HA! 
I’ve never participated in a weight loss thread here before, but I’m wondering something and I don’t think it’s interesting enough to warrant its own thread.
How much weight have you guys generally had to lose to go down a pants size?
I’m a 12 now, and I long for the days when I was a 6. (I haven’t weighed myself in over a year, as I found that knowing my weight even when I was happy with my size was upsetting.) I am doing something about it (working out pretty hard 4x a week and trying to eat a little less and a little healthier), but I’m wondering what my goal in pounds should be to go down… what is that, 3 sizes? 12 to 10, 10 to 8, 8 to 6… yeah.
Should I just suck it up and weigh myself, find out the damage, and try to get back to the weight I was when I felt good about my size? I’m afraid if I don’t have a concrete goal, I’ll get discouraged or complacent, but I’m also afraid if I focus too much on weight I’ll get discouraged if it doesn’t go down, regardless of whether I’m looking better. :[
nevermore, the bigger you are, the more weight you have to lose to go down a pants size. When I first started this journey, a year ago, I had to lose 25lbs to go down a pants or dress size. Now it’s 10-15lbs. I know one woman who lost too much weight, with the kind of surgery I had; she dropped to a size 0, and only had to lose 5lbs. for them to get too big on her.
The scale today tells me one hundred and sixty-nine of your Earth pounds.
How many is that in Canadian? 
Congratulations!!
OK, I *finally *got everything set up as I wished. My elliptical, my DVD and TV. So tonight was the first night I got to use it.
Even though I have worked my way up to 30 minutes on the stairs, an elliptical’s motion is much different and so I (I believe wisely) cut my workout down to 20. Even with that, I expect to be rather sore tomorrow!
But I’m glad for the purchases. I think in the long run this will be exactly what I wanted.
IME, the day after the first long workout on an elliptical trainer is bad, but what’s worse is the second day after! We had tickets for an Orioles game two days after my first elliptical workout. We had to climb three flights of concrete steps to get to our seats. I was walking like Quasimodo (and I still weighed close to 300lbs.) :eek:
That is interesting. A few days after stopping getting pie or pudding at the cafeteria, I almost completely forgot about them, even though they were conveniently situated right next to the salad bar.
As for the
Yeah…I know. :o
So, the North in your name refers to the North Star, maybe? 
Congratulations finally getting into the 160s!
As for the size thing, I’m still learning how it will work for me. The only other time I really dieted was in high school decades ago. Back then, it took about 20 pounds to change sizes and coincidentally worked this way:
160 to about 180=Size 16
180 to about 200=Size 18
200 to about 220=Size 20
Etc.
Now it seems to have changed. At 177, I’m nearly ready for size 14. All my 18 pants are way too baggy and I’m debating whether to get some 16s at the thrift store to tide me over until 14s really fit or just wait. So I’m guessing my size changes about every 15 pounds or so now, which is pretty cool, really.
I’m also losing a size every 15 pounds or so. Last year on Victoria Day (May), I wore a pair of capri pants that were a 16, but snug. This year in May, I conceeded that they’re just too big for me to wear anymore, and I was 15 lbs lighter than I was the previous year. Yes, I realize that it’s ridiculous I only lost 15 pounds last year. I am 18 pounds lighter today than I was a year ago. I’m sorta hoping it’s not gonna take a year for the rest of this weight to drop. Only about 10 pounds left now.
As if you were not hot before! Props to our own Ginger of the North! (for Southern values of North)
I don’t speak geek. This means?
Oh yeah, I am back for another go. I rode the bike this morning for the first time in 2 months. I’ll assault the scale on Friday for a numbers report. Work is sucking the life out of me, and I have to find some way of separating home and health from work and looking for some way to eat myself to death to end the pain of employment.
I was really on track to actually finish the Tour de Basement, and I sabotaged myself. I have some self hating going on here, but still an honest desire to try to find a way to lose. Conflicted, that would be the description. In the weight loss thread, I’ll be like the drunk that comes to the AA meeting once a month and says, Hi, my name is Brownie and I have been sober for an hour.
You folks with discipline and goals, you are my heros.
Scales vary with their location on the earth. I thought I remembered that the closer to the equator you got the more you weighed. So your accomplishment meant even more.
That and the fact that you live in MD and call yourself “of the North.” Dave missed telling you about our (Maryland’s) role in “The War of Northern Aggression”?
And your location is “Not so North”?
I’m really not very North at all, from a Canadian’s point of view. When you consider that I lived at 63 degrees North and 90% of my clients were further North than I was… yeah. I’m in The South, for damned sure.
And yes, he has tried. He has a degree in Military History, and in Political Science. He’s tried to teach me everything there is to know about the War Of Northern Agression. Sadly, it has not taken.
Well the day after isn’t bad - I expected sore legs after using the elliptical for the first time. No pain at all. Tonight I’ll bump it back up another 5 minutes - maybe 10 if I’m feeling good.
I love my elliptical. I get a good workout, but it doesn’t make me hurt the next day like doing floor stuff.
Well, I popped in here a few months ago, but I’ve since gone back to Weight Watchers (about 6 weeks ago - it worked years ago, why mess with a good thing?), and I’m staying there. I’ve lost 10.6 lbs since restarting (which is good for me, I am a slow loser no matter what), have been OP every day, and have no signs of stopping. I still need to start exercising more, but I will. I’m trying to get my elliptical fixed, but I have a couple of workout DVDs, and am trying to get on a schedule for working out.
So expect to see me in here more. Reading all of the losses is quite motivating ;).
I’m curious, if you don’t mind telling. How much does it cost to do Weight Watchers? It sounds like something that might actually work for me, because I do really well with anything I have to pay for. I know I could get the same effect from calorie-counting, but that doesn’t cost money, which makes it harder for me to remember and stick to.