I know it is a tad early, but I’m heading off to France for a week of business in about 5 hours and so I had to start this now.
So, in an effort to keep this thread from growing too large, here is the May weight loss club. Good luck losing!
Have a good trip, Khadaji!
Bon voyage!
waves Newbie (to the Weight Loss Club anyway) here. I started a diet on March 17 and so far I’m down 18 pounds. I have 115 pounds to go to reach my tentative goal weight of 110. I don’t think I’ve weighed 110 since I was…9, maybe. I’ll be happy if I get to 120-125. I’m 5’2" so 110 is the weight I’m “supposed” to be according to all the charts, but I’m not going to sweat being somewhat over. I certainly won’t mind a little meat on my bones. I’m giving myself 2 years to accomplish this. Or else…well, nothing, I’ll just keep going, it’s just that I’d like to do it in 2 years. Half one year, half the other. If it goes faster, great, but even if not, at least I have a goal and I’m not going to be too depressed if it takes longer. I’m already healthier than I was March 16.
I’m on a low carbohydrate diet (Atkins), though I didn’t originally go on it for weight loss, but rather for diabetes. The weight loss is a wonderful side effect. It’s working well for me, for my blood glucose numbers (which are mostly fine now, with no more high spikes), for my blood pressure, which has normalized (my doctor took me off the blood pressure medication I’ve been on for years) and now weight loss, so I’m a happy lady. I had my last blood tests in January (results were horrible) and I’ll get another blood test Wednesday, though I won’t get the results until the 9th. I expect vast improvements.
I’m going to join the YMCA on Thursday or Friday and start exercising, something I’m not used to doing (understatement of the century!) and I think I’m actually looking forward to it.
I’ll try to weigh in at least once a week or once every couple of weeks.
Glad to be aboard!
243/225/110
Welcome, Equipoise!
Thanks!
I’ve slacked off quite a bit from the first thread. I started at 170 and I’m at 155 now. I haven’t been to the gym in a month because of personal drama but that should change soon (I’m getting back to my old routine). I was doing very well until I ran into some personal stress and it all went to hell.
I am considering taking karate if I can figure out the babysitting.
Otherwise I am on 1000 cal and 30 minutes of low-impact exercise 5 days a week.
Welcome, **Equipoise **, and good luck! Sounds like you’re off to a great start.
I don’t think I’m going to have a good week. I got lunch with coworkers on Friday, I went out to dinner both Saturday and Sunday, and we had free lunch today at work. I tried to make healthier choices, but I’m afraid I still got a lot of calories. I still Turbo Jammed my ass off, so we’ll see where I end up.
Thanks tdn! Hang in there. You too ShellBean. I can’t wait until I’m at 155!
Lose weight… I am trying to gain weight
I was 138, 4 months ago and am now at 150 trying to get to 155ish.
You can have some of mine!
We hate you. Go away.
kidding! I’m kidding!
Good luck with that. Welcome to the SDMB. I am sure you will find a thread somewhere to help you gain, but this is sure not the right one.
Not posted to this type of thread before, but here goes. Started dieting late February to try to lose the 80lbs I have put on since stopping work and becoming a house husband looking after babies then toddlers then children some seven years ago- too much access to excess food and being around the house all day! Started at 280lb and have lost at the rate of just under 5lbs a week for 11 weeks.
Diet consists of porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese, all the fruit and veg I can eat, rice cakes, one ordinary meal with limited fat and a couple of beers a night. Calorie count around 1500 a day.
Currently back to my old rugby/football(US) weight of 225lbs. Headed towards first goal of 200lb before the summer (back to my pre-children weight) and then on to 175 lbs which will be the least I have weighed since high school (lost a lot of muscle bulk- nearly sixty years old! so need to lose that much extra.) Even then at six foot I will still be only just at the top of ‘normal’ according to the BMI, but I have always been a big bastard!
The good news is that the weight is dropping off consistently without me feeling hungry, and at a much faster rate than my calculated calorie shortage would suggest. The even better news is that during easter break I took the kids away for two weeks and ate normally (take-aways, wine, snacks etc.) and plateaued in weight for those two weeks, so hoping that the weight loss will be sustainable when I return to normal eating.
So:
280/225/175
Am I the only woman here who got a smile out of the idea of a guy trying to diet down to pre-baby weight? 
Welcome, Pjen. Your results have been wonderful! May I say, though, that your calorie intake seems awfully low for a physically active male?
Towards the goal of maintaining when you’re done losing, you may want to try increasing your calorie intake slowly, so you can gauge at what point you stabilize. If you return to the eating habits that put the weight on to begin with, you will regain. Some alterations have to be made.
Best of luck!
Norine
336/210/180 (for the sake of the newbies to the thread)
With my weight loss on average at 5lbs a week (or just under) I should be about 18,000 calories short a week- 2500 short a day.
I am a nurse and am monitoring myself for any adverse effects, but all the fruit and veg must be keeping by vitamin and trace levels up! I did go into ketotic acidosis in week two, but not since.
And btw, I have not started a serious exercise program yet- waiting until my weight is less of a problem to my arthritic skeleton before I start cycling again!
This made me laugh out loud and start nodding vigorously! WW uses the BMI index to ascertain my “lifetime” goal. At 6’2" here, they want me to be about 175-199. I’ll look like a redheaded Q-Tip!
I say that I will decide my lifetime weight when I reach 220 and maintain that.
My lifetime goal is 162. According to the BMI charts, the top of the range for my height is 168. Like some of the rest of you, I’ve always been a big bastard … and I’m a GIRL! Hmmph. My lowest ever was in the 140s and that was because I wasn’t healthy at the time. Everyone told me I was way too thin. I know everyone says it, but I just have a large frame. I actually did a test once where I had to measure my elbow bones and it would determine your frame size. It said I had a large frame and should be at the top of my BMI range. Which I already pretty much knew (at 5’9", I wear a women’s size 10 or 11 shoe and my hands are as big as my 6’2" husband’s) but it’s nice to have reassurance.
We didn’t skip the bike ride after all last night. My husband wanted to ride, so we rode. I never thought he would be asking me to exercise, so every time he does I jump at the chance. We’re pretty proud of how well we’ve done.
I’m five feet tall. According to that BMI chart, the most I should weigh is 128. The least is 102. I’ve been shooting for 130, figuring I’d decide if I wanted to lose another 10 or 15 pounds once I got to that point. I don’t mind being a little zoftig. Heaven knows I been much more than that for most of my life. Yet, part of me fantasizes about what it would be like being really, really tiny. With all the loose skin I’d have by then, it probably wouldn’t be a pretty sight. 
This morning, my stats are 145/186.8/130. I’m a little better than halfway to my goal! Yay!
Welcome, Pjen and Equipoise. Glad to see you again, ShelliBean. I hope all that stress you were experiencing is behind you now.
Well, you’re keeping on top of your health, which of course, is the most important thing! And you are doing well.
I was in ketosis for about two months. Hated it. Sure is good for weight loss, though (but the taste in my mouth. . .ewwww).
supervenusfreak, I’ve only known you for a couple of years, no way of knowing if you’ve always been overweight. But it’s my understanding that people who’ve been overweight all their lives have heavier bones and muscles than those who’ve not been overweight, or for whom the weight gain is recent. That means that people like me (always overweight, and also large-framed, yes, really) may never reach what the charts consider to be a “healthy” weight. The charts say 160 is a top weight for me to be a “normal” BMI. I think I’d be too thin at 160 (that would be about 65lbs. down from when you last saw me!) I’d be thrilled to get to 185, then maybe to 170 from removal of excess skin during plastics.