I don’t know if I met my goal or have a few more pounds to lose but I’m moving into maintenance mode too now and starting to face those issues. Someone here sent me a link to a forum where I found a link to this article about calorie intake in post-obese people. I found it really interesting and in line with my own personal experiences. It has a lot to say about why we will probably always have to eat fewer calories to maintain the same body weight as someone that was never obese.
I haven’t been involved in the SDMB weight loss threads, but now I need a little support.
I’ve been on Optifast™ for 6 months. I’ve lost 49 lbs.
Today is my first day of transition. I’ll gradually move back to eating food over the next 5 weeks. Then be followed for the next 36 weeks.
I’m nervous about this. I don’t think I can stick with it. I still have about 100 lbs to lose. My husband also needs to lose weight, but he’s resisting. I need his support to succeed.
Karyn, that was a very interesting article. Thanks for the link!
picunurse, we are here for you. You CAN do it!
Ceejaytee, hang in there. Plateaus suck.
I did 30 minutes on the recumbent bike yesterday at lunch because it was so cold and windy. Borrrrrrring (even listening to a book on my iPod). It’s supposed to be up to 21 by noon today, so I think I might walk outside.
It wasn’t like it was good news, frekafree but it did explain why I gain weight if I eat the amount that the calorie charts recommend for my size. I don’t really mind though - 1800 or so is plenty.
I just started back on my diet and exercise regimen after 18 months of being a lazy gourmet and eating everything I wanted in whatever quantity I wanted without doing much to offset it.
I started at 196.3 and have so far dropped 3 pounds. The goal is to get back to 180 and to replace lots of flab with lots of lean muscle. Based on past endeavors it should be about a 6 month process.
The hardest part is the no booze. I’m not a drunk by any means, but I do certainly enjoy a drink or two with many dishes. I have found, however, that I drop the weight much more quickly if there’s no alcohol involved whatsoever; so it’s lots of decaf green tea rather than rum, wine or whiskey.
I’ve had a challenging week. Just some occasions of unrestrained eating and drinking that have resulted in no weight loss. I weigh in tonight at WW but I’m fairly certain that I’ve either stayed the same or gained a little.
My scale is officially dead at home so I have no idea really but I got on the scale here at work and had gained 1.5 lbs. No idea how that scale compares with the WW scale.
But, once again, I’m reminding myself that I’m learning how to live in such a way that I can maintain a healthy body weight. For me that’s turning out to mean limiting my alcohol consumption. When I drink wine with dinner I tend to overeat.
Yard work is hard exercise…who knew pruning bushes and digging in the dirt to transplant plants could be so hard? Silly ivylass…I was doing this on an empty tummy, so by the time Ivylad and Ivyboy came back from Lowe’s/Home Depot I was about to fall over. I had to go in and eat and I thought I was going to vomit up the first bite. My muscles are STILL sore, but I love spring!
I’ve officially reached one of my goals. I went Interview Clothes shopping today and I managed to cram my ass into a size 14 skirt.
I had Indian food for lunch. There’s no way I’m going to try to enter that into the nutrition tracker thing on SparkPeople (yeah, I’ve made semi-peace with it). For one thing, I don’t remember the name of everything I ate and for another I’m pretty sure I won’t be hungry for the rest of the day. Mmmm, vegetarian and filling.
It’s my six month anniversary today. Six months ago today I stepped on the scale and screamed…I’d reached my goal weight!
I’ve had this niggling fear at the back of my head that maybe, somehow, some way, the weight would come back. But it hasn’t. I’m a bit more relieved in my mind, but that fear won’t truly go away until Sept 7, 2009.
Congratulations Ivylass. I lost another pound this week but my bigger drop for the month should come next week. I’m feeling very relaxed about it now that I’m within a pound or 3 of goal, but I’m still counting calories until I figure out what a maintenance level is for me. Given how much I fluctuate from water weight I think that in a month or so I’ll start weighing myself once a month on the 4th day after my period. If I gain anything I’ll go back to once a week.
I’m so looking forward to the rains ending so that there are all kinds of choices for exercise. It’s rained almost every day for 3 weeks and I have really bad cabin fever at this point and it’s making me cranky.
Congrats,** Ivylass**! Well do I know the fear that it will all come back. (Of course, in my case, it did…but not without my help!)
I’ve lost 8.4 lb. so far. Good start. Need to get through a big challenge next weekend – girls’ weekend with my sisters. I’ve already e-mailed them to say, “I’ve gone back to Weight Watchers and I really don’t want the weekend to turn into a junk food & booze fest.” They’re supportive (one of 'em had lap band surgery a month ago), so my biggest challenge is going to be not shooting myself in the foot with the “Oh, what the hell – party time!” attitude.
I wore a shirt today that I haven’t been able to fit into for the past three years. It wasn’t tight at all, even in the sleeves. Well, it was a bit in the chestal reason but that’s braggin’, not complainin’.
Ivylad said something to me the other day that made me feel really good, and kind of drove home the point just how much he loves me.
Since I’ve lost the weight, the Ladies have gotten, well, less. One thing that gets Ivylad’s motor running is big boobs…I often tease him, because I wasn’t well endowed to begin with, compared to some of the women he used to go out with, about what he first saw in me.
So we were talking about how my breasts have gotten smaller, and that this does cause him some dismay. But, he told me he knows how much better I feel about myself, how happier I am, and he would never try to take that away from me by asking me to put on a few more pounds for the Ladies’ sake.
I’m going to show him a REALLY good time in Key West.
I just joined Sparkpeople and the SDMB group. I’ve become stagnant with a 7 pound loss over the last couple of months. But I just recently have committed to really doing a lot of exercise every day, so that should start to make a big difference. I hate it, I sweat like a pig, and my state is constantly “sore”, but somehow am getting addicted to it. I do Chalene Jackson’s turbojam DVD- it’s very challenging, at least for now. She has a hard 20-minute workout and also a killing 40-minute workout, and I alternate them daily. I also do 5 and 10 pound dumbbells, and walk/run (mostly walk).
I’ve lost an inch in my upper arms, and am very happy to be showing them this spring. I’m very excited about losing 35 more pounds and being thin again!
195½ - half a pound under 14 stone UK style. This Lent thing is working out so far - nearest I’ve been to a slip-up was a slice of bread and PBJ when it was going to be a long wait for dinner. And I even had pizza for dinner on Friday!
