First week weigh-in at Weight Watchers this week. I knew I had lost some weight, wasn’t expecting 7.2 lbs; from 242 to 235. That was a nice boost to my ego.
Ran at lunch today and felt a bit better than my last run, a bit lighter on the knees and ran the full 2.3 mile loop rather than walking a short bit in the middle.
That first week is always a nice surprise 
Yeah, I know, most of it is water weight but still, what a boost!
For the first time ever, I went to the gym yesterday. I didn’t do very good (only 15 minutes on the treadmill and I couldn’t do crunches at all), but I stayed at it for half an hour. Today I went back and increased my time to 20 minutes and up to 20 pounds / 30 repetitions on all the stationary machines. Will see how it goes tomorrow.
Isn’t it funny how our perspectives on weight loss are changing - instead of doing the “I have to drop 30 pounds in three months!” thing (which I did at least twice, with the predictable results of screwing up my metabolism and gaining it all back plus), I’m aiming for a two year weight loss, too, with the changes I’m making being only sustainable ones. This isn’t a diet for me - this is my life. This is how I eat. I eat chocolate; that’s just the way it is. If I want to eat chocolate, I have to go for a walk or get on the bike. That’s also just the way it is.
Yes, week 2 is when things will at least start to resemble reality.
I’m in the Arrow Meltdown challenge! This is going to be awesome. We go Wednesday night at 7 for paperwork, then meet at 5am Thursday for the first Boot Camp session, weigh-in and nutrition training. Wish me luck!
It can be really tough to change your mental perception of yourself. Humans are great at pattern recognition and lazy shortcuts, and we tend to ‘fill-in-the-blanks’ with the things we encounter most - it’s why we have trouble recognizing a new haircut on a cow-orker or noticing that, hey - what the - has - has this room always been blue? It takes a while for our self-image, especially, to catch up to reality - if it ever can, given the filters of self-esteem and etc etc rich intricate web etc.
Glory suggested this site and let me agree and be even more specific: 3fatchicks: Body Image Issues After Weight Loss - browse up through the rest if you find the vibe appealing. It may not be as … er, something… as the Dope, but as they say*, in the wisdom of crowds…
Oh, and: One thing that can help if you’re having trouble mating your self-image to reality (er - can help, that is, if your self-image is worse than reality) is to take some photographs of yourself. The best way to defeat harmful fill-in-the-blanks tendencies is with concrete proof. A mirror won’t work - even in that slight bit of live image processing our brains perform, we manage to cloud our vision - but a flat, intractable photograph does the trick. (This also explains why many people have their Moment of Truth - when they realize they have to lose weight - when faced with an undeniable truth like a photograph or weight reading. They’ve been exploiting the fill-in-the-blanks* tendency the other way, filling in those blanks with woeful estimations and wishful thinking, which - pop! - don’t last forever.)
Anyway, a little photography session might help - might give an excuse to try on some clothes, too, and hopefully lead to a string of pleasant surprises. (Do please note that digital cameras and store dressing rooms are a tricky mixture at best - probably moreso for a man, though.)
And hey, when can we stop calling them digital cameras?
My SO and I had a huge revelation this morning. I’m trying to be more observant of my calorie intake and we have a Saturday night ritual of Chipotle and then browse around Barnes and Noble. We pulled up the nutritional info and did the calculations. His burrito, bag of chips, and a large soda was over 2100 calories. :eek: We’re still going to have Chipotle, but our order has definitely changed to something less than a 1/3 of that calorie intake.
211, ½ down on the week, 3 overall. At any rate, I’m not planning on counting quarter-pounds - that can be my head start on next week’s, and it’s not below 15 stone this week in any case. Ah well. The snows have melted and left my favourite walks muddy, which is part of my excuse for not getting out as much as I want to. But barring a few ounces of the Christmas cheese, no real transgressions to speak of, and I was hoping for a slightly more impressive loss. C’est la vie.
Up two pounds from last week, with eating right and exercising every day. Sigh. If anyone tells you that weight loss is simple and easy, just punch them right in the face. Malacandra, when you reach your first plateau, you might want to remember this. My weight loss graph looks more like a drunk staggering around than a straight slide. It seems that your body has to get used to a lower weight, and it takes time before it’s ready to let go of any more weight (I keep telling myself this - I monitor my calories and my exercise, so I know I’m not doing anything that should be making me gain weight, yet the weight doesn’t come off until it’s damned good and ready).
That is so frustrating!! Us girl-types often have those crazy water-weight fluctuations on top of all the nutritional stuff, so we can eat like a saint and the scale calls us a liar at the end of the week! Take heart… in a week or so you’ll have a nice loss to compensate.
I’m doing much better at the plateaus than I was at first (just ask my poor husband - I started weighing Monday mornings instead of Saturday mornings so I wasn’t pissy all weekend).This Too Shall Pass.
I’m trying to get back on track, not due to any change of the calendar but just because I felt better when I was working out regularly, eating better and had dropped 5 pounds. I figured it would just be easier to get back on track after the holidays. I have worked out on me Wii fit for the past few days (except Sunday) and am eating better. I am going to try making some healthy meals in batches and freezing some.
My birthday this year is one of those big milestones, I would like to reach it feeling better than I have for the past 15 years. I am setting a goal to drop 10 pounds by May 31st.
My second weigh-in at WW was a bit more disappointing than my first. I was even this week, no weight loss, after losing 7 lbs the first week. I think it’s because I have been underestimating the points I’ve been eating, and I’ve been having too many snacks, even if they are fairly healthy ones.
Since then I’ve lost 2-3 lbs and feel like I’m getting back on track. We had a newbie snack at work today and I had two of the mini chocolate donuts. When I got back to my desk I looked up the nutrition info, ooh, not good.
It’s surprising how much of a punch those things pack!
But remind yourself… 1) you can fit that into your points allowance (they still have flex points, right), 2) if you didn’t have the occasional small treat you’d got crazy, 3) you can do “penance” by earning yourself some exercise points to offset a bit of that, and 4) so you had a treat… you’ll do better later today and tomorrow etc…
I weigh in at the doc’s office tomorrow. I’ve been checking my weight occasionally on our crappy home scale and it seems to be down a couple of pounds, but I’ll want a more accurate figure for comparison so I can figure out how “off” the home scale is.
I’ve been eating really, really well the past month. The gallbladder problems sort of enforce that… I haven’t had another flareup since the one just before Christmas, and I’d like to keep that trend!. Especially since it might be The Big One… that would turn my scheduled surgery into emergency surgery, possibly with more complications.
My biggest fear is that once that’s gone, and I’ve seen how my body tolerates having no gallbladder, I may not so much “fall off the wagon”, as “jump off it and take off running”.
After such a big loss, I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t lose much/anything even if you had been following plan perfectly. Think of it as 3.5 pounds per week - our bodies aren’t simple machines.
I was up this week, which kind of sucks, but I do know why and I do think at least a bit of it was water weight (my at-home scale agrees). Nevertheless, I’m planning on doing a good job tracking this week, and I went to a spinning class last night - whew, that was some serious exercise!
My efforts started on November 2, 2009. Since then, even with massive sinning at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, I’ve lost 18 pounds, 4 of them here in January.
32 to go by June 1.
The weight loss is still happening at a slow crawl, but I didn’t gain it all overnight either. The scale teased me as it bounced up and down and settled at 250.2 this morning. A full 8 pounds since I started and almost under that magical 250 number for things like canopy tours and trampolines.
And if you do it right, you shouldn’t ever gain it back and have to do this again, either (that’s my goal). I’m actually aiming for half a pound a week - it will take me about two years to get to my goal. Along the way, I’m not doing anything that isn’t sustainable, because that will cause a false weight loss - as soon as I stop (or start) doing the unsustainable thing, I’ll be that much further behind again. For me this isn’t a diet - this is my life. My life includes things like potato chips and chocolate. It just includes them at smaller amounts, and less frequently. It also includes regular exercise, which I do like I floss my teeth - I do it because I have to.