It's the SDMB Weight Loss Thread for March!

Monday report

600g down on last Monday but I saw MUCH lower numbers during the week, so I am hoping that the next week will bring those in permanently…

Body measurements, no change or 1cm up. I think I am retaining water as I have a cold and feel puffed up and miserable this morning.

Not enough exercise last week, only three times and step counts during the days were abysmal.

This week - more veg, more exercise.

You’ve got a hell of a man there! I’m happy for you.

My motivation is still sadly lacking, due to a combination of stress and depression and lack of time, and a good dose of lazy. With my wedding to look forward to next year, you’d think I’d be more likely to put the effort in. How in the world do you people do it? I keep giving up on my Sparkpeople nutrition tracker because it’s so goddamn tedious to enter everything. I was cooking at home a lot more for a while, but a bad situation at work has me doing some not quite voluntary overtime, which means that I feel like I don’t have enough free time for sleeping, let alone working out.

It is tedious at first, but you can import from other members (I usually do a spot check to make sure the info they entered matches) or do it yourself. Once you have your library set up with your most-eaten foods, selecting the ones you eat is a snap. Trust me…it’s worth it. That’s what finally worked for me…tracking my calories, and making sure I stayed within my range.

Weigh-in day. 197.8. Lost 2.6 pounds this week, 18.8 total. I think my workouts are beginning to really take hold.

Am I allowed to join mid-stream? I have been trying to lose weight on and off for a few years, and looking at myself in the mirror lately has become painful. First goal- to get from 230 to 220.

Welcome…come on in!

Hi. I’m not going to my maintainance group today because of the weather. I’d like to use you folks to talk about my progress/short fall so I don’t get a “pass” for the week. This way, I’m still responsible to someone outside the house.

I’ve lost a pound this week. I didn’t expect to, since I didn’t follow the program as strictly as I should have. We went out to dinner last night. My husband hasn’t been as supportive as he could be. He needs to lose some weight too, so he undermines his own diet, in the process, I go along with him. Yes, It is a food co-dependency. We’re working on it.
Anyway, I ate more than I was supposed to this week.

Today, I stayed within my calorie range. I drank 8 glasses of water (actually, I’m working on number 9) and did 60 minutes of cardio.

Today, that’s all I’ve got. Don’t ask me about the last week.

But I’ve got what I did today… and I suppose that’s a good start for tomorrow.

I’m doing well this week. I’m not thrilled that my jeans are all too big now after the first hour that I wear them out of the dryer. It either means washing them after each wearing or getting used to them being saggy around the waist and butt. I guess I have to buy new ones.

But buying new clothes because your old ones are too big is the best bit! Don’t muck around with the dryer, woman, get thee to the mall!

It was a bad junk food day today. My tummy is no longer used to lots of junk food. It hurts. I bet that makes tomorrow easier in terms of avoiding said junk food.

Kerrigan - good for you! Focus on here forward.

A good day on the scales! I lost 3.2 pounds this last week!

I’m so glad you guys led me to sparkpeople.com! This week I’ve lost 3 pounds, and my goal is only 2 pounds a week! It’s so easy to keep track of what you’re eating and doing over there, all for free! I was a tiny bit disappointed that all of the groups I joined there sent me a welcoming email and/or a small bit of encouragement, except the Dope. Not that I’ve let that stop me. I’ve lost 10 pounds so far, and have 30 left to go!

I just noticed that my introduction post at sparkpeople was acknowledged. Thanks, ivylass- now I don’t feel invisible.

You’re not invisible…and I see that DrkGnlty joined! Come on over to our SparkTeam when you get a chance!
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Alice**, the other teams may be set up with an automatic e-mail welcome. I have set it up so I am notified whenever someone new joins the team, so I can head over to their SparkPage and welcome them in person.

I’ll try to set up a sparkpage later today, but I’m not sure how to use the fitness tracker. I do Turbojam and Turbosculpt and don’t know how to put those in there. But I am doing the work! I can’t get over how much weight I’ve lost since I started keeping track of my calories and fat intake- I must’ve been eating a lot more than I thought I was when I wasn’t keeping track!

I just found, using a chest-strap heart rate monitor, that an elliptical workout which SparkPeople gives me 616 calories of credit for… actually burns 335.

Beware!

I found that the difference between what SP says and what the cardio machines at the gym said didn’t always match. I think there’s too many variables for them to be completely accurate. If I were you, Sattua, I’d go by the heart rate monitor…that one is probably the most accurate for you, since it’s strapped to your body.

Well, crap. Scales say I put on five pounds since last week. I say they’re a lying sack of squittle-di-doo, unless I’m reacting to having a couple of pints of beer last night by retaining water. I quite simply have not been overeating to anything like that degree. :frowning:

Those pints of beer can add up…give it a few days, then hop on the scale again.