I’m down 8.5 pounds since the first of the year, 14 since the beginning of December. Alas, seeing as I’m a) very overweight, and b) very tall, there’s no real difference yet. In my experience, I won’t notice until I can get into a smaller size, and then suddenly people everywhere will be asking me if I’m losing weight. My goal is to hit that point by my birthday in early April, so I can reward myself with a shopping spree. The Biggest Loser competition at work ends the day before my birthday, so that’s added motivation. I can be down 30 pounds total with just a 1.6 pound loss per week. Should be doable.
You are totally allowed to post in this thread. I’m actually wondering if a more accurate thread title wouldn’t be “Weight Loss/Healthy Lifestyle thread” although maybe that’s a bit too euphemistic. Dunno.
As for me, I took an unplanned four days off from running – it was going to be just two, and then on day 3 when I was supposed to do a 30-minute run, I came down with a nasty stomach virus. I’ll get back on the horse tomorrow. Or the treadmill, whichever. I suspect we will already be seeing some attrition from the New Year’s resolution crowd at the gym, which is sad in a way but also will make the indoor track less crowded, so that could be good.
My goal for this week is to track everything I eat. I’ve been sliding into the habit of just eyeballing my food and saying “that looks about right for a portion size” and I think my portion sizes are slowly creeping upward as a result.
I’m not picky about food at all, so I recycle the same menus over and over.
Breakfast is always oatmeal (1/2 c dry); lately I’ve been chopping up 1/2 a small apple and including it.
Lunch is chosen from the following:
baked chicken or fish (2 to 3 oz)
beans (red, white or black) 1/2 c
brown rice 1/4 c
two differenct vegetables, 1/4 c each
3 pm snack is a piece of whole-grain bread, toasted, with 2 pcs of low-fat-turkey lunchmeat, 1 oz of low-fat mozzarella cheese and 2 tomato slices on it.
Many afternoons I brew a pot of fruit tea for sipping on. It helps with those winter-day cravings.
Dinner is much the same as lunch.
Late-nite snack is 1/2 a baked sweet potato.
My daily goals are 60 g protein, 32 g fat, 163 g carbs, and 1200 calories.
So far, since Sept. 10th I have lost 25 pounds.
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I’m not picky about food at all, so I recycle the same menus over and over.
Thanks for the ideas. I’m not a picky eater either, but I do get bored with too much of the same thing. I do well with packaged meals, but those get old after a bit too.
I went to the sparkpeople site mentioned upthread. That looks like a good site.
I walked three miles yesterday and plan to walk almost twice that today. I hope the weather will stay nice so I can get out a lot this week. Housebound = lazy, overeating, watching tv all day. ugh
Sparkpeople is what I’m following, too. It’s been enormously helpful and I recommend it. We have a SDMB group on there if you decide to join.
SparkPeople has the option to suggest meal plans, if you like, and posts the meals day by day in the Nutrition section. They’re very customizable by dietary concern: low carb, diabetes, vegetarian, low sodium, etc. It helps a lot for when you’re stuck for ideas, as does the SparkRecipes site. I’m one of the SDMB/Giraffe group members, as well.
Hit a small plateau after my MIL’s birthday party this weekend and eating like crap as a result. I’m glad I’m tracking an averaged weight so I can see the overall downward trend that much more easily.
Oh dear god… I just realised I am 220.462262 pounds. I’m 14 y.o. crap… O.k. Now I am definitely not going to gain any more weight. I will excercise. 200 by half way through the year hopefully. and 180 by the end. I’M GONNA DO THIS. WOO.
It turns out BMI 29.95 is “overweight” not “obese.” And I was impressed to keep that reading through the weekend. This morning the reading was 29.79.
So my current goal is to shed another 7 pounds. ETA: My long term objective remains my fighting weight (175 lbs.) and stamina to dance at my wedding.
KevinShi - welcome to the group. 20 pounds in 5 months is very doable. Go for it!
I’m waiting for the weather to warm up so I can kick off a new cardio plan. I’ve lost 25 pounds in the last year, but have been stuck at a plateau for the last six months of it. I’ve been trying everything I can think of to break loose. I’d like to drop an additional 20 pounds and be about 145.
If all goes according to plan, I’ll be walking one mile 5 days a week, doing light weights and 60 situps three times a week, and jogging 3 times a week. I’ll continue eating ~1300 calories a day, but skewing the foods more toward protein. I’ve been on a carb kick lately, and although it’s whole grain carbs, I hate how it makes me want more.
You and me both. If there’s such a thing as a body’s set point, I’m at it, and my body doesn’t want to budge from it. Maybe reducing carbs and upping my protein might be a good idea for me, too - I crave carbs A LOT.
I weighed in today and lost 7.4 lbs, so I’m down about 9.4 lbs since I started. To be fair, some of it was losing water weight that I’d retained during PMS, so this week will be a challenge. But I haven’t had problems with gastric reflux, so that’s a bonus.
I just lost a couple pounds the hard way, sinus headaches last week decreased my appetite then a full blown sinus infection decreased it even more. Now I just have to not gain it all back as soon as I start eating regularly again but I’ve got a wicked craving for Mac and cheese.
I’ll let you know how it goes. I’ve switched away from white rice and breads and regular pasta to whole grain breads and brown/wild rice and low-glycemic/whole grain pasta, and it still happens. I feel different when I’ve spent a few days eating more carbohydrates than usual, and overall I don’t care for it.
As an experiment, I may try to eat protein and veggies almost exclusively for a few weeks and see what that does for me. I doubt I’d enjoy it or stick with it long-term, but it would be interesting data to have.
Thanks. I did sign up for it. Now I just need to actually use it. 
14 weeks and -28.6. 11.8 away from target.
Hey, might as well join in to help keep myself honest. My weight has been going up and down ever since I was in college. I think my all time high was 210ish, had to drop down to 185 to get into the Air Force. Got down to 165 while I was in Basic (you have no idea how much time you spend running around in Basic Training), then creeped back up to 190 while I was in tech school. Didn’t really worry about that too much because I was still passing my PT tests. Finally decided to start losing the weight again (amusingly enough, right around when they stopped scoring for weight on the PT test in the Air Force), and have gotten down to 168. Three times now.
I keep getting down into the high 160’s, going “holy crap that’s awesome!” and start chowing on pizza and fried food. My goal is to try and get down to 160, but I think I’m down to the point where that extra slice of pizza has a bigger impact overall than it used to, and I haven’t exactly stopped enjoying all those wonderful not-healthy foods in the meantime. I did gain about seven or eight pounds over the holidays, but I was pretty much expecting that. I foresee something similar happening when I go home on leave this spring.
Oh, and currently I’m around 168-169 depending on how much coffee or water I’ve drunk.
Apologies if you already know/intend to do this already, but make sure you do not eat only lean protein if you are going to try it. I would read one of the excellent books on how to do low-carb, which is properly done as a high-fat, not (necessarily) high-protein regimen.
- WTF happened? I sure ain’t been gorging myself three and a half pounds worth since this time last week.
Tell me how this is possible? I’ve had the stomach flu (or some other similar issue) for 3 days now and I’m just today getting to something other than weak tea and dry toast yet this morning I weighed in and have gained 1.2lbs. I use a digital scale, always weigh in the mornings and always naked. The scale has seemed accurate, it’s gone down as clothes fit looser in the past so this is crazy.
Now I weigh myself on Wed mornings and I was fine til about 7pm on Wed but I didn’t eat excessively that day and certainly not enough to make up for 3 days of throwing up all attempts at food. I jumped on the scale this morning because I needed a silver lining to this cloud of bile but no joy 
Might be just the quantity of fluids you are consuming. Water weighs something around eight and a quarter pounds per gallon.
And yeah, weight variances boggle my mind too. I’ve seen my weight crawl upwards all week until Thursday night. Weigh in Friday Morning before PT, and I’ve dropped a half pound since the previous week. Dunno where all that weight is going when I’m asleep.