Hey, I never said we were smart, just stubborn! And we don’t get confused about “real” measurements vs metric, cuz we don’t use metric! 
But you can lose a pound so much more quickly than you can lose a kilo! Or a stone.
Speaking of stones, should we nominate the Kinks song “Skin and Bones” to be our theme song? I always start dancing when I hear it.
Velvet Jones, good for you for being better about portion control.
Have you looked for ways to sneak more exercise into your life? Like parking at the far end of the parking lot, or dancing or walking in place while waiting for the washing machine to stop or for the kettle to boil? Or taking mini walks during breaks at work?
Maybe dancing along with some of Gabrielle Roth’s trance dance videos would be more fun than marching along with (annoying) Leslie Sansome.
This week: 183.
Huzzah, so far.
That’s five pounds for the month! Nice work!
While this is undeniably true, I feel happier losing a slow kilo from 134kgs than faster pounds from 297lbs. I know it’s purely psychological, but your weight measurements depress the hell out of me. 
Btw, 103kg today! The post count fairies like me, and have rewarded my devotion with weight loss!!! 
I’m down another 1.8 pounds at this week’s meeting, for a total of 7.2. I have also found the joy of Activia fat-free yogurt. One WW Point, supposedly regulates the digestives (which I need badly), and great when you dip one-point cookies into it!
Hey all. Decided to join you this year, as this is the only forum I go to where I don’t feel any reservations about posting my weight. 
I’m 24 years old and female. I currently weigh 144 on my 5’2" frame. I would like to weigh 130. Currently, I am losing about 1 to 2 pounds a week eating about 1200 calories a day. I’m not very active, but I do some light housework. And I’m (unhappily) unemployed.
I exercised a bit a few weeks ago and I used to take one hour walks several times a week back when the weather wasn’t so cold, but these days I can’t even bring myself to the gym for lack of motivation.
About a month ago, I went on the quick, fast and easy Shangri-La Diet which worked quite quickly, to my surprise. I stopped it after I plateaued. I figured it was because I had started reducing my caloric intake prior to the “diet” and therefore appetite suppression wasn’t having that much of an effect on me. I eventually stopped because I was worried that getting by “comfortably” on less than 1000 calories a day (from deliberate portion control and Shangri-La appetite suppression) meant I was seriously lacking essential nutrients. I might go back to it to control my appetite once I reach my goal weight and I stop dieting.
I’m about 6’ and after the Holiday Seasons my wife noticed that my tummy is moving up my body. 
I was 201.5 lbs or 91.6 kg and I’ve started working on it for three weeks. I weighed myself today at 87.6 kg or 193 lbs.
I’ve stopped drinking as much, stopped the snacking before dinner and then walking vigorously wheverevery I go, which is a lot of walking in Tokyo.
After my first week in the group, I lost 2 and 1/2 pounds, or about 1 kilo, and 1/2 inch from my waist and 1/2 inch from my belly. In about an hour, I start on my travels…let’s see if I can maintain or even keep losing while I’m gone. First challenge: the friend I’m visiting this weekend is taking me to a new microbrewery tonight. Strategy – save most of my calories for the day for tasting the beer and eating there. I think we are planning to walk there and back, which should get in my exercise for the day.
In addition to taking two small dumbells and a set of ankle weights on my trip, I also sprang for a travel hoop, from hoopnotica. It is great! It’s bigger and slightly heavier than a regular hula hoop, so it’s easier to use. I hooped for 50 minutes last night! (Be sure to stretch lower back before and after) And it breaks down easily for travel.
Hi, Vision of Love! Sounds like you have food intake under control, but need to increase your exercise. For these winter days, it helps to find fun things you can do inside. Like dancing along with Gabrielle Roth’s trance dance videos, jogging in place on a mini-tramp/rebounder, or, if you have the space, hooping (Website opens to video of beautiful women doing tricks with their hoops. May be too slow for dial-up users)
Make it fun!
TokyoPlayer, sounds like you are doing everything right. Hooray for you!
Haven’t had a chance to check my weight lately (I have got to get a scale one of these days), but I’ve been pretty good about cutting down on the intake. I did slip a bit yesterday; I bought a few chocolate bars, but I plan on rationing them out (as in not eating the entire 4-oz bar in one sitting). A friend came over and we sent out for pizza, but we just split a medium between us. Does getting a pizza with veggies on it count as part of my daily allotment of fruits and vegetables?
IMHO, absolutely! I mean, what’s the difference between eating cheese pizza and a side of roasted veggies (which would definitely count towards your daily servings) and putting the veggies on top of said pizza? No difference, I would think.
And don’t forget to count the cheese in your dairy allotment.
Damn, now I want pizza!
Anyway, today my Official Weigh In Result was 194.2, so I gained 0.2 pound. Oh, well.
I love the way you guys’n’gals think: this is perfectly reasonable logic to me, too!
OK - I’m in. This is the year of sorting out my weight.
I’m male, 176cm and at the start of January I was 113kg, a BMI of 36.4. That is morbidly obese, apparently. My target is a BMI of about 25, a weight loss of 35kgs, if I can lose that much. I have large thighs, but it is mostly muscle (from cycling in my fitter days), so my body type may not support that much weight loss.
My approach is to use OTC fat blocking medication (Lipobind, though I will use Alli[Orlistat/Xenical] if the Lipobind is not helping - Lipobind is more expensive, but avoids the side(or bottom)-effects of Alli) with a low carb calorie restricted diet, and getting back to the gym four times a week. So far, it seems to be working.
The calorie restriction is achieved by snacking on fruit and some nuts only, halving my usual sandwich for lunch, only eating (at most) 1/3 of the potato/rice/pasta I had at meals. It helps that my wife eats a low-carb diet, too. I am guessing that I am eating about 1500kcals a day - weight loss even if I don’t hit the gym. I am drinking 1.5 litres of water a day, too.
So, given that it is the end of the month…
1/2/08: 108.6kg (a BMI of 35, a drop of 1.4)
Si
I’m starting to struggle a bit with weight watchers but not for the reasons one might traditionally - I’m actually finding it hard to eat all my points. I’m allowed 27 points a day and with my current diet of bran flakes for breakfast, soup for lunch and a ready meal in the evening (typically weight watchers or be good to yourself from Sainsburys) that only comes to about 12 or 13. I’m advised that I shouldn’t eat less than 24 points a day and I’m finding it difficult to go up to that without using chocolate or things of that ilk to get there.
I mean, I could eat about 20 apples/satsumas a day and drink 2 pints of milk but let’s face it that’s not going to happen. Possibly I should just switch to regular meals and add in some snacks - what do you all think?
Sorry for being late in the new thread! Here is the Feb thread.
I had the same sort of problem at the beginning. PLEASE make sure you eat it all. Have wheat toast with butter and jam for breakfast, add some crackers and cheese to the soup, and try to avoid the ready-made stuff. Those meals are almost always pretty high in sodium.
I’m steady at 169. My original goal was 170, so I’m doing ok; I just want to get to WW’s 158-164 for my height. Lifetime. I can almost taste it. I am going to TRY to take it easy on our cruise next week.
178.8 lbs. @ 40.9 % fat; 103.5 cm waist
The weight and the measurements are holding steady, but the %fat is creeping down. That’s what I want. (And I got my first ‘Have you lost weight?’ last night!)
I’ve been playing on the weight machines at the gym; next week I will start alternating weights with the treadmill/elipticals. I’ll give that a month, and then, if I need to, start doing weights at night and the treadmill in the morning.
I’ll also go back to floor exercises in the evening, now that I think I have a weight routine.
I’ve picked out about ten.
Back extension, Torso rotation, Leg Press, Prone Leg curl, Hip Abduction & Adduction, Glute, Chest press, & Row. (The machines for the arms hurt my joints; I’ll work with baby weights in the evening.)
Food hasn’t become a problem, because I have about zero exposure to snacky stuff.
Everyone seems to be coming along at a nice steady pace.
Welcome, Vision. Find some way to get some exercise; cutting calories alone can send your body into starvation-mode.
Tapiotar, have lots of fun and work the beer off tomorrow. Good luck on the road.
Welcome, Si_B. Remember, the BMI does NOT take into account the relative amounts of lean and fat tissue; muscular men can have “obese” BMIs.