Hi all! I’m finally getting my act together and working on my fitness and eating habits. I’m extremely happy to report that I lost two and a half pounds last week! :eek:
My weight before I got pregnant last year was 237, putting me in the “morbidly obese” category - joy. While I was pregnant, I actually lost a little extra fat, so after giving birth I was lighter than when I got pregnant. Since then I’ve been sporadically dropping some pounds.
Last month I started eating better because my gut decided to take revenge on me for high stress and bad eating choices. It is truly much easier to make good choices when there are negative consequences within hours! So I’ve been eating less, lower fat, and more fruits and vegetables.
I’ve also started trying to work out. Today I only got 25 minutes on the treadmill before the baby melted down and I had to stop, but it’s a start.
So here are my stats:
Start: 237
Current: 223
First goal: 213 (10% lost)
Ultimate goal: under 180 - that should get me shopping in regular stores, which will be wonderful, and be a huge improvement for my health. How far beyond that I go depends on how things develop.
Can I still play even though I hit my goal weight back in September?
I will put in my monthly plug for SparkPeople…I credit them fully with my weight loss this summer. I actually lost another nine pounds beyond my goal weight, but I’ve since gained two back, so hopefully that scary slide is over. I’ve begun strength training, but I’m not a fan of weightlifting…I’d rather do cardio. I will continue cardio and concentrate on strength training my legs for now.
I’m doing really good, and am quite happy with my current progress. Since April I’ve lost 58 pounds, and I have 42 to go. I joined the Y last week and I love it. I’ve gone every day since last Wednesday except Thanksgiving. I intend to level out to 4 days a week after my initial gung-ho enthusiasm wanes.
I’m 175 and, while still obese according to BMI charts, I no longer feel like a fat girl. Which is so new and exciting.
Today I am so hungry, though. I’ve been staying near the bottom of my range (1540-1890 according to Sparkpeople) as far as calories for about 2 weeks now and I think that working out so often lately means I need to eat more. Today I’m going to aim for the top of my range, and enjoy it. But, gosh, sometimes it’s hard to think of food as fuel and completely acknowledge that burning 600 calories in the morning means that I MUST eat more that day. I know it intellectually, but still.
Just posting to get in on this month’s thread, as I posted my weekly stats yesterday in the November one.
My mini mini goal this month is to lose at least another kilo before I go to England on the 13th. I’m at 72.4kg now and I’d like to be on the low end of 71 or even seeing 70.
86kg, down 2kg from last month, and 27kg for the year.
Over the last month I have managed to break the plateau I was stuck on, and in the process, dealt to the roll of fat round my middle (120 sit-ups at the gym every day helps). According to one of my daughters college friends, I look pretty hench. I think that it is a complement. So I am feeling pretty good. My wife gets back on thursday from a month away, and I’ll have to go back to eating somewhat better - she will notice if skip or skimp on too many meals. Trying to manage losing weight while exercising heavily (over 1200 calories exercise per day, 4-5 days a week) is a difficult balance, and I probably don’t actually get enough protein. I keep my fluid intake up, though.
I don’t think I can do 80kg by christmas, but 83kg (30kg for the year) is still possible.
I am most impressed, Si, and I’m using you as inspiration. I had/have 24kg to lose (now 17kg) and if you can do it within a year, so can I. Mind you, I don’t think I can do that much exercise every day.
I lost a lot of centimetres this week, between two and four off hips, bust, underbust and waist, by doing three miles of Leslie Sansone’s walks every day. I am determined to keep up this week and do three miles every single day. That takes about an hour all told and it is as much time as I can give at the moment. My legs are beginning to want to do it though and feel restless if I don’t do the walking. And last night in the bath I felt some butt muscles under the fat. They were NOT there before! (I’ve been doing the walking at least three times a week since the beginning of October but I committed to three miles a day, every day, last week.)
It appears that I managed to only gain one pound over Thanksgiving. I was at 162 all weekend, but went up to 164 yesterday and am back down to 163 today despite all the pie I ate. The next few weeks are going to be a challenge, as it’s going to be difficult to get to the gym as much as I like. There’s just so much going on between work and holiday parties so chances are I’ll only be able to go five days a week as opposed to my usual six. I should be fine, as long as I try to keep out of the treats that have begun to arrive in the office. Three boxes of chocolate!
I’ve got a good start on weight loss for December. I’ve had the flu for a few days now and have barely been able to eat anything. Although I did manage a piece of apple pie and whipped cream for dinner last night but that was my biggest meal since I’ve been sick. I haven’t weighed myself yet but I’m sure the fever helped me burn off Thanksgiving day and the day after calories. I don’t recommend this method of dieting since it makes you feel like you are die-ing.
I’m afraid to weigh myself so I’m going to wait another week to see if I can undo the Thanksgiving damage. Hopefully I’ll only be a few pounds over my goal weight again. I’m still working out every day but I know that I’m not getting as much exercise as I was when I was doing strenuous outdoor tasks like brush clearing over the summer. I did something to mess up my knee when I was working out with weights and could only hobble around for the past 2 days and do upper-body workouts, but today it feels perfectly fine so I’ll try aerobics again.
I love the holidays but I can’t wait until January when all of the tempting food goes away.
I measured on Sunday, and haven’t lost appreciable inches but on the other hand didn’t gain any over T’giving. Yay! I then proceeded to have a stomach virus. I didn’t go to the gym this morning but hopefully I’ll feel up to it tomorrow.
Lost half a pound at this week’s weigh in on Monday which is actually not too bad considering how much I ate out last week. I’m having a few dinners this week too (and only going to the gym twice) so will be pleased to stay the same weight if I do.
The scale at work has been broken for the past two weeks, so I had no idea where I was at. I measured today and clocked in at 154 lbs! This is almost six pounds from my last weighing, which was on Nov. 15. I am really psyched.
I am still trying to complete the running from the C25k plan, and I also started mild strength training from cues on SparkPeople. I guess it is really helping!
My biggest issue is cutting out sugar and baked goods. I LOVE baking. I used to bake all the time, and my big dream is to open a vegan/alternative bakery someday. But all those baked goods really add up (hard to accept even vegan cupcakes aren’t good for you), even though I tried to give most away at work. So I stopped baking about two months ago - I let myself make something once a month (I made vegan ginger pumpkin scones for Thanksgiving, mmm).
But it’s kind of making me sad. I keep finding new recipes and look at baking blogs constantly on my free time, and keep imagining all the yummy things to create! I have no self control around them when I make them. I can’t just eat one cookie. I think I am going to try to channel this angst into gifts though, and just bake up a storm for Christmas and have that be my presents to people. So I can still have the smells and action of baking, just not the eating-them-all part.
I weighed in today for the first time since before Thanksgiving. I’d been out of town for the holiday, eating in restaurants, and was dreading it.
Somehow I was down 1.2 pounds - I find that flabbergasting, so I’m kind of sure that it just hasn’t shown up on the scale yet. I’m just working on maintaining my goal weight, so I fluctuate a few pounds up and down normally, but I really figured I’d be on the high end. Holidays are always a tough time for me.
So I’m going to try and be on my best behavior this week so that next week’s weight isn’t too terrible.
Yesterday’s weigh-in: 207.8, down from 210.2 the week before. Still nothing to consider a real loss, since I’ve been wavering around that range for a few months now. Argh. I’m staying strong on Weight Watchers so far this week (sure, that’s easy to say on Saturday, when my WW week starts on Friday), but I’ve already eaten a huge bowl of cereal beyond my Points allowance tonight. Sunday seems to be the make-me-or-break-me day lately, so I need to be really careful tomorrow.
I “graduated” from the Couch-2-5K program last night, so I suppose that means I have no excuse to not mix up my exercise regimen with some regular running now. I haven’t done any weightlifting lately because I canceled all my appointments with my trainer a few weeks ago - he was just getting so far on my nerves (personality clashes) that I didn’t even want to wake up to go to our appointments. I need to hurry up and get crackin’ with someone else, then. It feels weird, not having sore biceps.
I have 2 more days before I weigh myself and I’m dreading it although I’m not sure why because the jeans that will never fit are a bit looser this week and I’ve stuck to 1200 calories since Sunday. Hopefully I can lose whatever I’ve gained before Christmas. I’m going to hold off baking cookies until just a few days before and only make half-batches so that they aren’t around until New Years and my partner is fine with keeping a tin in his den so there won’t be a plate full for me to grab one from every time that I walk by. Anyone else have any good ideas about how not to eat all the cookies that you bake?
I tried on a pair of 30" jeans that I’ve kept from a couple of years ago before I flubbed out and I tried them on today to see how close I am to one of my goals of being able to wear them… and they fit! Sure they’re a little snug but they definitely fit and I could probably wear them now. I’m going to wait until I’ve reached my target as they’ll be more comfortable then but all in all I’m pretty pleased with that.
Will report back when I have my weigh in tomorrow but I think I’ve lost two lb this week.
I didn’t go to the gym this morning but hopefully I’ll feel up to it tomorrow.
