# I'm losing 10 pounds in April. Anybody else in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221 "2004-03-30T01:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/41 "2004-03-31T08:11:19Z")
Place my considerable hide on the list too. Tonights episode at work is all the more proof I need to drop this spare tire. Button Jockey checking in at 6’5" 370. (i’ve got a 60" chest, so all this extra weight’s in the gut, dammit all). Off to the gym with me. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/42 "2004-03-31T08:12:21Z")
dammit all again. Meant to add: 31 march. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/43 "2004-03-31T08:41:24Z")
Okay, good idea. 132.5 as of 3/31 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/44 "2004-03-31T12:41:25Z")
Hot damn, I was at 188 on Saturday, and today I’m at 184. Will that count towards my 10 pounds? Gotta love that Atkins… ---
**Author:** ![jaydubyasee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jaydubyasee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaydubyasee)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/45 "2004-03-31T13:07:20Z")
Okay, 10 pounds by the end of April. I can do it. Double incentive for me as 30th April is my birthday. Good present to myself. 6’4" and around 280 lbs. Will weigh myself accurately at the gym tomorrow. At least tonight I can go out and enjoy myself, after that - no more curries and beers. Jaydubaysee ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/46 "2004-03-31T13:20:25Z")
I’ll play. Starting out at 318 ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/47 "2004-03-31T13:42:07Z")
10 pounds sounds about right - I’m in too. UselessGit - Alpha Male, Half a Slinch, 12 Shaftments. That would be 192 pounds, 6 feet. Soccer season, here I come! ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/48 "2004-03-31T13:51:06Z")
Fixed my spacing and added the new folks. ```auto Doper Init Weight Week 2 Week 3 Apr 30 Bruce_Daddy 196 Bottle of Smoke 195 picker 225 SP2263 ??? Casey1505 230 LolaBaby ??? Star Was 174 amarinth ??? snorlax 204 torie 230 Philster 185 Dogzilla 132 Munch ??? Ashes, Ashes 145 AskNott 266 VenusProbe 202 Waenara 240 Wesley Clark 267 Mangetout 199 Gut 210 Eman_Bruin 177 legion 166 silenus 215 Nightsong ??? JavaMaven1 ??? harmless ??? BiblioCat 188 conurepete ??? Sengkelat 172 Bambi Hassenpfeffer 365 Seamonkey 134 buttonjockey308 370 Cicada2003 132.5 jaydubyasee 280 vunderbob 318 UselessGit 192 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/49 "2004-03-31T14:41:05Z")
I suppose we should have mentioned our proposed methodologies - I know some did, but it would be interesting to see the results tabulated with a comment on how it was achieved. For myself, I shall be entering into a strict regime of: Breakfast: Small bowl of cereal or one slice of toast with minimal butter Lunch: Several pieces of fruit Dinner: single (reasonable)portion of whatever is on the menu, no second helpings or desserts No snacks or sweets. Exercise in the form of swimming and long brisk walks, possibly cycling if I can fix the bike. ---
**Author:** ![Eliphalet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eliphalet/32/9563_2.png) [@Eliphalet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eliphalet)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/50 "2004-03-31T14:44:05Z")
OK, y’all talked me into it. I need to work off the tire, and I agreed to do a bike trip the end of April. You guys are the next push. Goodbye breakfast donut… So Long, morning soda… farewell, refrigerator raids at 2:00 in the morning… 6’0" and 195 lbs. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/51 "2004-03-31T14:44:40Z")
Completely irrelevant, but that sliding code box is maybe the coolest feature I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/52 "2004-03-31T15:10:36Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > **Dogzilla** , six pounds is pretty good! It took time to put it on and consistent steady loss is the good kind, no giant weight drops for smart dieters. Think how that’s actually a decent chunk of your overall body weight, see? Are you eating enough? Sometimes if you go too low in calories, you can cause problems. Hidden fats sneaking in? Snacking here and there? What worries me is that it really hasn’t been a consistent steady loss. I think that six pounds was water weight I dropped from just starting to diet (first time in my life ever). Because I haven’t lost an ounce since then – since I’ve been really serious about losing and working out, etc., I haven’t lost anything. I have realized how my goal – 15 pounds is a little more than 10% of my body weight. And I do recognize that it took time to put it on and it’s going to take time to take it off. I get that. I wonder: for how long should you be working at it before you see any result at all? I’d be happy if I lost half a pound in a week – just to see the damn scale move. I just started carefully tracking calories, fats, protein and carbs. Looks like too many hidden fats got snuck in there, so this week I’m trying to lower that number without lowering the number of calories. (Which meant I had to bring carbs back – I’m a vegetarian and it was too hard trying to live on protein alone when I have to struggle to find protein sources that are NOT fatty, i.e. peanut butter). No Atkins, South Beach or low-carb for me. I am still attempting to not allow carbs to control my life and am working them in in moderation. I’m not much of a snacker, now that I’ve banned snacking after 8:30 p.m. If I do snack, it’s a handful of nuts or seeds. There is no junk food in my house – I purged the fridge and pantry a couple months ago. Am I getting enough calories? That’s the part I’m not sure about. It depends on what resource you go to. I joined a web site which shall remain nameless until I decide they are NOT full of beans (but I have a sneaking suspicion I should try to get my money back). According to this web site, it should take 2000 calories a day to simply maintain my weight and 1500 to lose. I have probably only gotten 2K calories a day when I was eating six cookies at 10 p.m.! (That so sounds like a ridiculous amount of food for someone who has always eaten like a bird.) Right now I’m averaging 1200-1400 calories a day (after exercise). Some days I’m at around 1000. I went to another site that has a basal metabolic rate calculator. According to that calculator, my BMR (amount of calories I’d burn if I laid in bed all day and didn’t move) is 1350. Which means to me, that if I want to lose weight I shouldn’t take in more than 850 – or else work off calories until the net for the day is 850. That sounds awfully low to me – doesn’t it to you? (I _am_ tiny, but I dunno about that.) Bottom line: I’m really not sure where I need to be in terms of net calories per day, to lose 1-2 pounds per week. Note: I am walking 30 minutes 5 days a week and doing 40 minutes of yoga 3-5 days a week and garden for hours at a time on weekends. point being: I’m getting plenty of exercise and drinking boatloads of water. Now, I don’t want to use this as an excuse, but part of my confusion involves external factors that affect metabolism. Such as, 1) I’m a girl and boys burn fat faster since we girls are evolved to store fat for babies. 2) I’m on birth control, which I understand can slow your metabolism – I know many women gain weight on Depo Provera, which I am on. 3) I just quit smoking (I’m on week 3!), which I KNOW slows your metabolism. And 4) I’m about to turn 35 and I understand your metabolism slows after age 30. My question is, how much do these factors really matter in the battle to lose the love handles? Should I work doubly hard or eat half as much to compensate for these factors? Short of going to a doctor (which I think is a tad unnecessary) or finding a professional nutritionist… I’m hoping my fellow Dopers can help straighten this out for me. Thanks to anyone who has any ideas and good luck to all of you who are joining in on this. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/53 "2004-03-31T18:09:29Z")
Added **Eliphalet**. Is that everybody? Any last minute stragglers? ```auto Doper Init Weight Week 2 Week 3 Apr 30 Bruce_Daddy 196 Bottle of Smoke 195 picker 225 SP2263 ??? Casey1505 230 LolaBaby ??? Star Was 174 amarinth ??? snorlax 204 torie 230 Philster 185 Dogzilla 132 Munch ??? Ashes, Ashes 145 AskNott 266 VenusProbe 202 Waenara 240 Wesley Clark 267 Mangetout 199 Gut 210 Eman_Bruin 177 legion 166 silenus 215 Nightsong ??? JavaMaven1 ??? harmless ??? BiblioCat 188 conurepete ??? Sengkelat 172 Bambi Hassenpfeffer 365 Seamonkey 134 buttonjockey308 370 Cicada2003 132.5 jaydubyasee 280 vunderbob 318 UselessGit 192 Eliphalet 195 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Magnolia\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Magnolia\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magnolia_B)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/54 "2004-03-31T19:12:45Z")
Me too, please. I’m 173 as of this morning. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/55 "2004-03-31T20:07:22Z")
Oh - this morning, I was 11 st. 7.5. I’m also going to try to lose an inch off my ever expanding waist, too (which usually happens every 10 pounds) ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/56 "2004-04-01T03:03:12Z")
I’ll join in. I’ve been dieting for about a month or two now and have dropped about twenty pounds as is so ten more pounds next month should work out fine if everything stays the same and I don’t hit a plateau. Aesiron : 290 : 03/31/04 ---
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/57 "2004-04-01T08:29:45Z")
In, at 27 minutes into April. Weighed in about 3 hours ago at 224. The first five pounds shouldn’t be \*too \*hard, as I’ve been gaining and losing it over and over again for the past few months. 😃 Method: Calorie and fat counting, lots of fruit to keep fat calories low, moderate exercise. I find that just ritually recording what you eat makes you eat a lot less. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/58 "2004-04-01T12:40:11Z")
Am I a day late and a doughnut short? If not, I’d like to join. I’ve lost lots of weight in the last year, but have started to put some back on. About 8 pounds I think. It must go away now. Not sure how reliable my scale is, but at least I can use it for relative weight loss/gain. Checking in at 145. Method? I had cut out milk and just generally stopped eating a lot of crap, especially late at night. More activity, too. I’ve let some of the junk food creep back in and need to get out walking more again. Outside yard work will help now that spring is here in the Northeast. Of course that also means it will rain for a week straight now. Maybe I can cover myself in Saran Wrap and try to rake the wet leaves. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/59 "2004-04-01T13:33:33Z")
> [@me](#): > > If you want to play along at home, just copy and paste this adding your own. As you update with weekly weigh-ins, copy and paste with your own info. Get it? If you didn’t enter an inital weight, just put in how much you lost (-3) ```auto Doper Init Weight Week 2 Week 3 Apr 30 Bruce_Daddy 196 Bottle of Smoke 195 picker 225 SP2263 ??? Casey1505 230 LolaBaby ??? Star Was 174 amarinth ??? snorlax 204 torie 230 Philster 185 Dogzilla 132 Munch ??? Ashes, Ashes 145 AskNott 266 VenusProbe 202 Waenara 240 Wesley Clark 267 Mangetout 199 Gut 210 Eman_Bruin 177 legion 166 silenus 215 Nightsong ??? JavaMaven1 ??? harmless ??? BiblioCat 188 conurepete ??? Sengkelat 172 Bambi Hassenpfeffer 365 Seamonkey 134 buttonjockey308 370 Cicada2003 132.5 jaydubyasee 280 vunderbob 318 UselessGit 192 Eliphalet 195 Magnolia B. 173 amarinth (Type mismatch. Number expected :D) Aesiron 290 Spurious George 224 Salem 145 ``` ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221/60 "2004-04-01T14:03:11Z")
Weighed in this morning at 213. (Crap, my Sunday cheat really made me take a big step back. I had been 210 on Saturday morning) My plan of attack: Sticking with Atkins–NO ‘cheat days’ this month. And that means NO booze, too. Workout at Curves at least 4 times a week. Pull out my Yoga tapes and do yoga a few times a week–I’m ready to start working on my flexibility (I want to be able to put a foot behind my head again. ;)) The big problem? I’m on vacation in April, and will be visiting family. Visiting family=lots of food. Luckily, they do know I’m on a diet, and I will remind them that I plan on sticking on it. It will still be a challenge to stay on the righteous path. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-losing-10-pounds-in-april-anybody-else-in/237221.md?page=4)