Month Two of the new year. How are everybody’s resolutions holding up?
My starting weight on January 4th: 258.2
My current weight today: 245.4
My goal weight by March 27th: 232.4 (10% off of stpauler)
I’m almost half way there which I’m feeling quite surprised about. The pants and shirts are feeling a little bit looser. I’m able to suck in my stomach and have it close to flat too.
I had given up soda and caffeine and this is the longest I’ve gone since I was 8 or 9 years old. My secret substitute are these flavored waters (carbonated and non) from KMart of all places. They’re really cheap and tasty and no calories.
The one thing that I’ve been looking at now is a heart rate monitor. I’d prefer one that doesn’t have a chest strap, but it looks like that the ones without aren’t very reliable. Any opinions on that?
I recently bought a heart rate watch, but I’m not sure how reliable it is. It cost too much ($75) but I had a gift card so I splurged.
As far as new years resolutions, I’ve only lost 5lbs since the beginning of January. I need to lose 12 more by the end of this month to reach the goal I had set for myself, so we’ll see if that pans out.
According to WW scale:
Weight on Jan 4 - 242 lbs
Weight on Jan 26 - 230 lbs
Goal 200
Had a good run today at lunchtime, stretched my route a bit and dropped my pace about 14 secs per mile. I have weigh-in tomorrow at WW and we’ll see how the weekend ski trip (lots of time in the car, travel food) affected my weight.
I’ve finally broken my weeks-long plateau - down 16 1/2 pounds since I started counting calories!
breaking-reality, I assume you want permanent weight loss, so you need to be doing that in a sustainable way. If you make changes that you can’t keep up, as soon as you revert you’re likely to gain the weight back that you lost - that isn’t your goal, is it? Five pounds in a month is a respectable weight loss - if you do this in a permanent way, every pound you lose is one you never have to lose again.
I’m 6’6", I’ve been mostly 265 lbs for 12 years (I’m 40)…max just after Xmas was 272.
I’m down to 259.4 since Jan 1st. The original goal was 250, but since I’m less than 10 lbs away from that and still kinda pudgy, I may ratchet it downward. I haven’t weighed less than 260 in 12 years.
Methodology: Everything I’ve seen shows a reduction calorie intake of 2500 calories…I get about 2000 a day, and make sure I never get more than ‘slightly hungry’. If I’m hungry, I eat…usually an apple or bananna.
Eat a breakfast that’s a little sausage, two eggs, and a slice of cheese OR oatmeal with a little butter. Lunch is a sandwich and a piece of fruit. Dinner is reasonable, but not processed. I figure I eat 500-750 calories between breakfast and lunch, leaving 1200-1500 for dinner.
Instead of one to two beers a night (the old standard), I drink maybe three drinks a week. Cut down on garbage food and crap snacks. I don’t beat myself up if I slide a little (It took me 12 years to get here, It’ll take a little bit to get back down) Still, I’m averaging .5-.8 lbs a day, thought I doubt it’ll stay at that rate.
The day after Christmas I estimated my weight at 110kg. It was an estimate because the batteries in our bathroom scale were dead :smack: To be honest, I suspect I weighed a bit more, maybe 112kg.
On Saturday, the scale read 103.7 Also, the waistbands of my pants seem to be growing.
I’m still following along on SparkPeople and doing pretty well. In January there were only two days I went over the recommended upper limits for anything. I haven’t been hungry, I’m just eating smarter. Until this last week (bad chest cold) I’ve been going to the gym three times a week as well. Can’t wait to get better so I can get back to that!
eta: My goal right now is to get down below 100kg - and stay there.
I was 259.4 yesterday morning, I’m 258.6 this morning.
Man, this is the easiest diet I’ve ever been on. What’s wierd is: I remember looking at my pudgy body in the mirror and thinking ‘I’m not THAT fat’, I look at my 13 lb lighter body and think ‘man I still have a ways to go.’
I did not have any success in January. Actually, I gained about 5 pounds (that may be TMI related and temporary though).
I was wrong. Excessive walking while in Disney does not negate all the junk food eaten while in Disney. Between that, getting quite sick, new puppies, and finally buying the house, I haven’t really focused on eating well.
I’ve been taking the schizo-dogs for walks and playing in the house but I also haven’t stopped eating crap. Also, the walks consist mostly of them sniffing then running then sniffing then running but never running enough so that I have to run too.
Just today I forgot to remind myself that Edy’s ice cream being buy one get one does not mean I actually HAVE to buy one get one. I now have two tubs of Edy’s in my freezer and I’m trying to pretend they aren’t there.
I made a new game to play with the puppies. I throw one frisbee. They run after it. Then I throw the second frisbee in the opposite direction and when they run after it, I run to the first and then throw it again. Since they refuse to do the returning part of playing fetch, this is easier. We did this for about 5 minutes before it occurred to me to take off the slippers and put on the sneakers. After that, I was able to actually run on the wood floors. This led to me realizing just how out of shape I am and that running requires a lot more energy than sliding. But, it was a whole lot of fun. Now that I can breathe again, I’m gonna see if they want to play some more.
By the way, looking at the Disney pics is painful.
I’ve been very pleasantly surprised by my experience with counting calories, too - I have the occasional hungry day when I can’t seem to get full and snack all day long, but they’re rare - I usually eat the right amount of calories, and I’m not too hungry or too full. Knowledge is power - keeping a close eye on my caloric intake and exercise outgo really puts me in the driver’s seat.
Weigh-in tonight - down another 3 lbs. Total loss since New Years is 15 lbs, just over 6% of my body weight. That’s the rate I think I can sustain for a while, I’ve shifted my goal to 10% of my body weight now.
I don’t want to hijack the thread, but I do have a question: What kind of scale do you have? We bought a $50 bathroom scale. I can get on, wait for it to give a stable reading, get off, get back on, and have it register 3 pounds higher or lower. How do you get accurate measurements to the tenth of a pound?
Sorry, ours was a gift - I don’t know where it’s from. It seems to weigh fairly accurately; we’ll get an error message if it didn’t like how the measurement was done.
Yes, I agree that 5lbs isn’t bad by any means. I’ve recently been getting more nagging from family, though, so I’ve felt pressured to be doing more/better. Ideally I’d like to be losing around 5-10 a month until I reach my goal.
I recently had an argument with my father who made the comment “Well, I don’t see why you couldn’t lose 50lbs in one month”. “15 you mean?” “No, 50” “…”
For someone who is typically very logical, it struck me as odd that he seemed to think I could just jump straight to my goal weight loss in a month or two. And the argument that ensued still has my head spinning.
Weight loss for most people works best when it’s 1-2 lbs per week. That’s sustainable and you’re likely to learn the lessons and break the habits. It’s possible, especially at the beginning to lose quicker, but that’s not sustainable for most people.
The desire to change IMO has to come from within, not from external forces. Nagging from your family isn’t good motivation. Support from your family can help.
Well, I have the motivation on my own and have been (for about 2 months) losing an average of 5lbs a month. And I’ve been trying to work on other health habits in general, like working out on a more regular basis, and eating less processed/sugary foods. It’s the external forces that are making me feel like I’m not doing enough, or doing it fast enough. I’ve been used to this sort of nagging from my mother and sister and have previously just ignored their negativity. But my dad’s always been really positive and, well, logical, in the past, so his behavior has sort of thrown me for a loop.
This is exactly why you shouldn’t weigh yourself every day. Your body needs water. Cutting down on water intake isn’t really a good idea. It’ll pass through you fairly quickly, but it’s essential for burning fats. Drink all the water you need. Over time it’s not going to have any negative impact on your weight.
I was up a touch at my weigh in yesterday, but that’s okay with me. I’ve discovered that I almost always go up (hopefully only a little bit) or stay steady on alternate weeks, and lose on the others. I’m currently at a total of 9.2 lbs down, which has me at my 5% goal.
Also, the waistbands of my pants seem to be growing.