# August 2010 Weight Loss

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 11, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2010-weight-loss/549928 "2010-08-11T13:14:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2010-weight-loss/549928/21 "2010-08-31T17:55:51Z")

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Congratulations, **Mops**!

My stats today: same as current weight last week, but I’m not disheartened - I’ve already lost .5 from my waist! Must be the working out - I got in 5 days last week, two of them strength training, which historically slows or even somewhat reverses my weight loss for a couple of weeks.

One of my biggest challenges with weight loss is balancing my appetite with my husband’s. It took me a long time to develop the discipline to avoid dividing things exactly in half - I can leave some food behind in the pot or on the serving dish because I don’t _need_ to eat as much as my husband.

My husband is fairly trim, though developing a paunch (which he’s not happy about), and he’s always eaten whatever sounds good to him. So I was doubly proud of myself when I managed to eat just one slice of pizza and fill out the rest of the meal with a salad instead of eating half a large pizza (again, dividing things exactly in half). I felt comfortable and not particularly tempted to get another piece. It was the first time in three or four years I haven’t felt like vomiting after eating pizza.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2010-weight-loss/549928/22 "2010-08-31T18:20:13Z")

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Starting Weight: \*\*242 \*\*(Jan 2010)  
Current Weight: \*\*175 \*\*(after a run, I cheat 🙂 )  
Goal Weight: **170**

I’m getting closer to my goal. Things are slowing down but I suspected that would happen as I got closer. I hiked/ran a 31.5 mile, 9,000’ elevation gain loop two weekends ago in under 13 hours, something I never thought I was capable of until recently. And I’ve got another half marathon coming up in October so I’m achieving my fitness goals regardless of the scale.

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