Hey all! We’ve got May down, how’s it going for the new month of June?
Starting weight on Jan 4th 2010: 258.2
Current weight today: 212.6
Current Goal weight by July 4th: 208.2
Friday night, I went to REI to get some more shorts as the ones I wore last year were size 40-42s. I found a couple pairs of size 38s and tried them on and they were too baggy. The size 36s fit perfectly. It’s been 4 years since I could wear them.
stpauler, that’s incredible! My next weigh-in is next Monday, so I can’t rightly say how I’m doing except down 80 pounds in a year. Not too shabby.
Headed to the gym tonight for Zumba and then swimming with the family. Good times.
Weight on Jan 4th, 2010 - 242.0
Weight on Jun 1st, 2010 - 189.2
Current Weight Loss 52.8 lbs
Goal Weight - 170 lbs
I’m pretty amazed that I lost weight this past week, I was on a family vacation in FL with lots of eating out and food everywhere. But lots of walking in the sun all day.
I’ve hit a plateau. So I’m eating more. 
I’ve added an additional 300 calories per day, which is just enough to make me feel like I’m snacking all the time, which I like less than I thought I would. My intake should still be resulting in a weight loss, just a slower rate.
I’ll do this for a couple weeks and see if it has any effect.
I got weighed at Fat Club last night and I was the same weight as last week, but that’s ok because I’m currently half a pound above my target weight so nothing to worry about there.
My plan now is to drop another 3.5lbs so that I’m at the very bottom of my target range (I’m allowed 3lbs either side of my stated target weight) by the beginning of July so that I have a bit of a buffer for my two trips that month to Belgium and Hungary.
It will be great to go on holiday and not have to worry about what I’m eating and drinking for a few days.
I’ve finally dipped below 84kg, so I didn’t quite hit my May target (83kg), but I am back on the way down - 80kg, here I come.
I completed my first summer sprint Tri last week, producing a 1:21 - 9 minutes off my last event a year ago. My swim was a solid middle of the pack 14min, I stormed the bike ride in 36 min (average 19.9 mph on a 15 y.o. hybrid), and finished the run in 27min, which was a bit slow. So 3x7min miles and 2x6min miles are the exercise goals this month - gotta go faster on the run (and in transition).
Si
Great job, everyone!
I weighed in at 149.6 Sunday morning, woo hoo! So far I’ve lost about 27 pounds since the end of October. I still don’t feel like I look too different but other people have noticed. I’m hoping to hit below 145 by the end of June which will make me officially normal weight according to BMI. I’m not sure if this is doable since 5 lbs in one month is a lot for me but I should come close. I don’t know if I’ll decide to continue losing weight after I hit my goal weight of 135 but I will probably focus on fitness and fat loss rather than weight loss per se.
I just started week 2 of WW maintenance; I cancelled my Monthly Pass this morning, because my current one will take me through maintenance to the day I will make Lifetime. W00t!
Start: 220.6 (April 2009)
Goal: 150
Today: 148.4
I’m going to drop to 145 to get my 75-pound WW trinket, and then stay in that zone. Any further weight loss would be due to toning, running, etc. I would be amazed (and pleasantly surprised) if I got down to 135, my high school/college weight. But I don’t know if I want to go that far because I want to keep my current clothes!
I ran a 5K in April, and now I run/walk at least 5K on most days. I’m walking a half marathon on Saturday (I did the same one last year, but that was 50 pounds ago!). Next goal is to run a 10K on Labor Day weekend (September). So far I’ve walked a 10K route and run 50 minutes. Looks doable.
Thanks and great job yourself! (And all the others too!)
I’m curious how Zumba is. I’ve heard rumors about those classes being offered at the gym I go to, but haven’t seen it yet.
Ok, I’m a newbie to the weight-loss threads and I’ve only just started trying seriously to lose weight, but here goes…
A couple months ago: 155ish
A couple weeks ago: 150
This morning: 148
I’m 5 feet tall, young, and I don’t have big bones, so even though these numbers look low compared to some of the others here, for my body they’re bigger than they should be. I guess my goal weight is 120, which is what I was 4 years ago before gaining 30 pounds in one year.
Can anyone recommend a good whole-grain breakfast food? Cold cereal tends to either have a lot of sugar or taste like cardboard, and oatmeal in any form makes me gag.
How about a whole wheat tortilla (I really like the 50 calorie La Tortilla factory brand), filled with scrambled egg whites, veggies and salsa? That was my breakfast nearly every day when I was actively losing weight.
I used to hate oatmeal too, but I started making it with less water (runny oatmeal makes me gag) and then I add organic apple butter to it (I get it from a farmer’s market, it’s just apples and spices). 200 calories and tastes a little like apple cake (with a very firm consistency).
(I still hate cottage cheese though, so sometimes it just isn’t possible to change likes/dislikes, I get that).
I’m back in the saddle again!
No weight loss yet, but I’m definitely noticing some muscles forming so that explains a lot. I’m sticking to my calorie count and once again it’s working. I suspect finishing my coursework has a lot to do with it; I’m feeling less stressed and more self-confident!
100.5 kilos this morning.
Starting weight on Jan 4th 2010: 258.2
Last week’s weight: 212.6
Current weight today: 209.8
Current Goal weight by July 4th: 208.2
My parents are coming into town and I’m seeing them Sunday night and I haven’t seen them since I started this, so it’ll be a nice surprise. I’m almost to my newest goal and I’m not sure how much less I want/need to lose. I’m thinking of going down to 198.2 but not completely sure.
Have you tried the Bear Naked cereals? I really like them, they’re a bit higher in calories than others, but they filled me right up.
Up two pounds this week, after a week of eating right and vigourously gardening most days. I’m pretty sure at this point it’s muscle - I had a gardening job yesterday, and I gardened for five hours straight, basically, and I’m doing the neighbour’s yard today, and I’m hardly sore at all. I remember as a young adult putting on muscle surprisingly easily, but I haven’t really done anything like that in years, so I forgot my body has this tendency.
I did 1600 calories worth of exercise yesterday.
Zumba is awesome. It’s basically a dance workout to Latin music. Our Zumba class is 50 minutes, and when it’s over I don’t want it to end. And you don’t have to get all the steps: the most important part is to just keep moving. It’s what I look forward to at the gym every week: I go three times a week just for Zumba. I love spinning too: but not as much.
How do you track your calories? Or more, how do you keep tracking calories without resenting the hell out of the whole process?
I’m not a diaring, journaling, listmaking type of person. I’ve started a ton of them, notebooks and electronic, (not just for weight loss, but daily journals, feeling journals, and recordings of other endeavors). I usually last 2 or 3 entries and then not continued. In other areas, the success of the journal seems to have no correlation to the success of the project, thank goodness.
However, “everyone” seems to say that recording food intake is really necessary for weight loss. I’ve tried carrying a notepad around - for me that’s been the most successful, meaning that lasts close to a week or so; I’ve also tried a PDA program, weight watchers online, fitday, and sparkpeople and I’ve never come across an online program that didn’t make me want to hunt down the UI designer and beat him/her over the head with my keyboard (maybe that’s how the programs are supposed to work - given the option of not eating or fighting the interface, I’ll choose hunger and lose weight).
It’s very important. I’ve found my awareness of how much I’m eating and what’s in what I’m eating to be the most eye-opening and vital pieces of the process. Doing so keeps me in check-- the more honest and accurate I am with my recordkeeping, the better my results are.
I use an iPhone/iPod app called Lose It! Here’s a bunch of screenshots:
http://www.loseit.com/screenshots.jsp
I use all the features except the nutrient tracking and social features.
While the thought of having to enter in every. single. thing. you eat might sound like a pain in the ass, it’s offset by the fact people tend to be creatures of habit. Chances are if you eat something once, you’ll eat it again, whether it be restaurant food or a home-cooked meal.
So with Lose It!, you’ll have to enter in the item and figure out its nutritional content the first time you eat it, but after that, it’s simply a matter of choosing it from your list.
I use SparkPeople. To be successful, I certainly need to track everything, and SparkPeople does the job. I use their nutrition and fitness trackers religiously. There’s also a great SDMB group over there as well.
I’ve dropped 30 lbs since February. I figure I’d like to lose 30 more. That’d put me under 200 lbs.
Basically I’m sticking to my eating plan: minimal high fiber breakfast, small but varied lunch, flexible dinner, and no snacking except for occasional fruit.
If I’d exercise more it’d go even faster, but I am so not in the mood to exercise. Extra walking and yardwork is about all I’ve added.
It’s nice to put away into storage some pants and shirts that are too big for me, though.
I was made aware of this thread in the WLS thread over in IMHO and here I am!
Anywho, so it appears we all post where we started, where we are, and where we want to be? I can do that. I started eating better on May 8th, using Livestrong’s MyPlate, which has me eating 1569 calories a day. I’ve incorporated way more fresh veggies, salads, and lean meats and cut WAY down on mochas and fast food. This really hasn’t been too hard-- I’m surprised! I’m still eating yummy things, but just better yummy things. I still do “cheat” days on Saturdays- I’ll have a milk shake or whatever I’m wanting and not worry about it.
High weight: 282
Current weight: 262
1st Goal: 182
Phew. That’s a lot! I’ve lost a lot of weight over the last month, but I have no doubt that it’ll level out (in fact, it already has- I’ve bumped back to about three lbs a week in the last week or so) to a much more normal weightloss. I haven’t been working out, though, so I plan to start pilates and other things I used to enjoy.
I really, really suggest MyPlate to anyone who is looking for a calorie tracker. It’s seriously brainless. I love it. I have literally yet to find something that wasn’t already in their database.
Oh, just a little bragging moment: the other day, I was walking around and annoyed that my shorts kept sliding off. I thought to myself, “Why are my damn pants fallin— OOOOOOH!” Success!