Carbs are my downfall, too. I don’t like fried food, eat plenty of veggies and lean meat, but those darn carbs…
I had 2 drinks last night and am so bloated and miserable today. Chugging water like I just crawled through the Sahara. Still, I’m so puffy and unhappy that drinking feels definitely not worth it to me.
At least drinking me stuck to my food plan. I’m down 6 pounds and would like to lose 10-20 more. I figure I’ll find my goal weight when I get closer to it.
How’s everybody doing? I’m still struggling to eat more vegetables.
Still swimming 2x per week. Physical therapy completed, injections in both knees plus daily RX ibuprofen (but it keeps me moving). I have more mobility now than I have in many months and am able to work in the garden (weather permitting). I’ve even incorporated hand weights on the days I don’t swim (and can remember to do them). A few weeks ago, I hoisted a 50# bag of chicken feed out of the trunk of the car and onto my shoulder, so I guess something is working. 
I put about six pounds back on and had to move back up a pant size, so it’s time to get serious again. Finally convinced myself to get a local gym membership this week, as I feel very weak from all the muscle loss from last year’s program. It was a mistake not to do gym workouts while dropping pounds, especially at my age. So tomorrow afternoon I’ll start up again, or at least that’s the plan today. 
Down 8 pounds. I’m losing slowly, but I’m losing. I feel pretty good.
My big weakness is also carbs, so I’ve cut out all processed carbs. The only carbs I eat right now are from vegetables and nuts. When berries are in season, I’ll definitely be adding those in.
I really thought I had posted earlier in the thread, but I guess not.
At the beginning of the year, I was up about 15 lbs from my goal weight (which I reach last spring). All told I had lost about 100 lbs over the last 4 years. So being up 15 is not a horrible thought for me, but nonetheless, it had to go. Well, it didn’t, and I put on another 5 lbs over birthday season (January). I eat very healthfully 90%…I just eat too much of it. I finally knuckled down and am now just 10.2 over my goal.
Other than my weight goal, I have an activity goal. I am working my way through C25K, and made it to week 8, but the last week or two allergies and wheezing have kept me from running. I’m feeling better and went for a run today. It felt so great, even though I wasn’t able to run the 28 minutes straight that I should for week 8 of the program. My ultimate goal is to feel so good running that my body and mind miss it when I don’t go. When I used to run (15 yr ago), I loved that feeling. The first step in that goal is for running 5k to be easy peasy.
I’m still eating mostly healthily and I did manage to get walking again. Doing about an hour several times a week. Yay!
I’ve lost 10kg in total, with about 13 to go. I’ve gone off the boil a bit at the moment and it’s a struggle to keep eating good food. I’m this close to falling completely off the wagon and [over]indulging in chocolate and/or potato chips.
Do it. Seriously, if it’s really causing you to obsess, go ahead and just make a lunch out of chips and chocolate. And then get back on your dietary regime immediately. It’s actually easier than you may think to make a conscious decision to have a bad day and then to resume your game plan. It’s the slow slide back into old habits that’s the deal breaker.
Unfortunately, I’m a lifelong yo-yo dieter and I am always able to make conscious decisions have a bad day (or week or month or year). Not so with getting back on track. 
I haven’t weighed myself for a while, to be honest.
It’s been a difficult month for us - we had to put our beloved elderly cat to sleep and it hit us both a lot harder than we expected. So there were a few weeks of takeaways and treats.
On the plus side, I knew getting lots of exercise would help us work through our grief so we did a lot more walking than we expected to (and it did really help).
My current 7 day steps average is 9,555 steps. I’ve got myself a locker at work and bring in a bag of exercise clothes so I can go out for a daytime walk when my schedule allows.
We’re now getting ourselves back on track and eating simply fresh meals which I’m really enjoying. I plan to get back into calorie counting in May.
Sigh. Well, it’s time to get serious. I had bloodwork last week and got a pre-diabetes diagnosis. Which means I need to treat myself like it’s a diabetes diagnosis - I know myself. If I don’t do that, I’ll very quickly convince myself that “it’s just pre-diabetes. I can eat this whole box of cookies once a week…” I did successfully avoid all girl scout cookies this year, though easter candy was tougher.
So. I’m back on the MyFitnessPal food tracking and keeping up the regular walking (25-30 minutes daily during the workday, 45-60 minutes saturday/sunday), while looking for other kinds of exercise. I do wear a Jawbone UP, and my step average is around 11,500/day - I’d like to increase that average. Yesterday I was home sick and hadn’t come close to my goal, so I made myself walk around the condo until I hit the 10k goal for the day.
On the plus side, even though my bloodwork wasn’t great, my blood pressure is reasonable - a little higher in the doctor office than at home, but we checked my machine against the office one and they’re pretty close (my machine tested slightly higher), so that’s good. It means my home readings - which are in the normal range 98% of the time - are more accurate than not.
I stepped on a scale this morning, and I’m up more than I’d like…but I’ve been working out pretty hard the past few months and can actually feel some muscle definition in my legs. So I’m going to assure myself my larger-than-wanted number is because muscle is heavier than fat.
How do your clothes fit these days? That might tell you more than the scale.
I used to hear this all the time and dismiss it because it never seemed to be true.Then last summer, I pulled out some old clothes that had been in storage that I knew should fit me at the weight I was. After all, the last time I was that weight these were the clothes I wore…turns out most of them were too big. I was almost bummed because I had looked forward to wearing some of my favorite things again. The only explanation was that I was leaner, with more muscle, but weighed the same.
Waists are a little loose, thighs are a little tight. I suspect it’s time I stop paying attention to scale and start paying attention to the tape. The scale is just so much quicker and I can do it every morning.
After working out by myself for many years, I recently started to train with a guy who is 23 years younger than me, and extremely athletic. The difference in intensity and results has been dramatic, and I really look forward to going to the gym each morning. He is pushing me to do things I’ve never been able to do, like “muscle-ups,” which are WAY harder than they look.
Does anyone else have a pair of pants or some item of clothing in his or her closet that are totally intimidating? I have a pair of pants which I have been avoiding trying on in case they were still too tight (and would therefore make me feel like crap about myself).
Well…I was feeling slim this morning, so I tried them on, and they’re a bit gappy in the waist but otherwise perfect! I will feel like a million bucks wearing them to work tomorrow.
Yes. I have a pair of pants that are only comfortable when I’m pretty lean. They are just starting to feel OK again.
On the other hand, I have several shirts whose sleeves are getting tight, and that makes me feel good!