So we’re halfway through the calendar year–how’s everyone doing? I’m on a mission to lose .6 pound by Sunday. However, I did some emotional eating last night (cheese popcorn and a bag of M&Ms). It’s ain’t gonna kill me, but I can’t get back into that habit.
I’m at 164 this morning, despite it being That Time Whose Name Shall Not Be Spoken.
Yesterday I did 30 minutes of intervals on the elliptical. I was going to try for 40 but wanted to go for a bike ride later and didn’t want to overdo it. I can’t decide if I’m going to shoot for 40 today or if I should just stick with 30 for the time being and work my way up. Maybe I’ll compromise and do 35.
170.5. I’m beginning to wonder why I bother.
Due to an incident on the train this morning I had to stop at Target on my way into work and buy new pants. I bought and am currently wearing a size 22! When I moved to NYC last year I was a 28, so that is 3 total pant sizes lost in just over a year!
Last week felt like a downer - friday I did 9 hours driving getting my daughter to a university open day at the end of Cornwall. I ate a whole big bag of peanut M&Ms and drank several Red Bulls to keep my energy up after the 4am start. Then on Saturday we ran a chocolate fountain for the village fete, and went to Nandos (half a chicken) and a movie (large popcorn). Sunday was another chocolate fountain, shared lunch, roast dinner and dessert (strawberries and icecream with leftover melted chocolate poured on).
So I approached my weigh-in with trepidation, but this morning I was down to 92.4kg - I have managed to maintain the sub 30 BMI, but every bit of weight loss is via hard won effort - gym and running and diet, oh my.
I think I am gaining muscle - I seem to be trimming down, anyhow. But things get messy this rest of the month - a week away on holiday next week. I won’t over-eat and will do some runs but I will miss the gym. The following week is my liver biopsy, so it may take a few days of light exercise to recover from that. Then away for another week at the end of the month. Back into it in August, and getting some serious prep for my 10km charity run in September. I do that on the 21st, then the next day I’ll probably start my treatment regime for chronic HepB - what impact that will have on my ability to work out, I don’t know. The possible side effects include weakness and nausea - I don’t know if I will have issues, but I do know that getting to work every day will be more important that staying fit (no work, no pay). I guess if I am nauseous I won’t eat my weight up, though 
I went for a run at lunchtime. As I reached the last mile, I started walking towards the road for the last stretch. A woman ran past me (slip of a thing, looked as fresh as a daisy, obviously a real runner) and said “don’t STOP, keep running. Slow down your pace if you have to, but keep running” - and then she took off. And I started up again and kept going for the final mile. And she was right - it didn’t matter that I might be running slower than I can walk, I was still running.
You might be struggling, not seeing the results you want to see. But as you persist, as you keep on keeping on, you’ll suddenly switch into winning mode and you’ll be able to keep it up.
So don’t be discouraged. And I was stuck for weeks at 94kg, and I am now slowly getting it down.
Si
Hi, I’m new to this thread, mind if I participate?
Yeah, I know I’ve participated in past WL threads, but I’ve sort of fallen off the face of the Earth. Indeed, it often seems like nothing I’m doing does anything at all, so why try?
Bad, bad, bad.
As well, my social life has picked up in a huge way. That often translates to pizza instead of exercise. And I now have a wonderful girlfriend who loves me just the way I am, and seems OK if I let myself go a little. She hasn’t hit the gym since we started dating, either.
Bad, bad, worse.
I want to look better, feel better, and live longer. Those should be enough motivation right there, but they are not. I think that right now my primary motivation needs to be that I can’t undo all of the good I’ve done up until now. I’ve lost 50 pounds in the past couple of years. Now it’s time to lose 50 more instead of gaing 50 back.
I don’t want to lose my investment.
I weigh the same or thereabouts as I have all year. 171.5
Just got back from vacation.
Just going to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
The good news is that I just had a check up and my total cholesterol is 190 almost evenly split between LDL and HDL . Good triglycerides. So that’s all good.
I do my weigh ins on sunday, as of yesterday I was at 172.2, down from 180 the first of June. My goal is 165 by the end of july.
Wow. Awesome!
Thanks. Though I won’t be super excited until I break and stay under the 170 line. I’ve done this 180 down to about 170 bit twice now and that line seems to be my hurdle.
I weighed in this morning 10 pounds down from my starting weight. Yesss! I feel better already; more energetic, more alert, more awake. Overloading on sugar and carbohydrates makes me feel fuzzy and lethargic all day. This is probably related to my having type 2 diabetes and it is probably a very good thing that I am addressing it now instead of just eating a bunch of crap and hoping for the best, which was my scheme for the last several months or so.
Anyway, still doing pretty well with South Beach. I have eased up a little on the carb restrictions as I am moving into phase 2, and have reintroduced sweet potatoes, brown rice, and small amounts of fruit. Weight loss is continuing and I still feel pretty good, so I think I’m doing okay.
Weigh in on Sunday.
I’ll also throw in my monthly plug for Sparkpeople.com.
Keep it up people! You can do it!
I’m three years into maintaining my weight loss and every now and then, it feels like a struggle. I have fallen into a few bad habits like eating samples in the grocery store (I do not need crab dip on a cracker or a piece of a chocolate chip cookie, even if it is a “tiny” piece) or putting too many cashews on my salad (with the evil mental voice saying "they’re healthy, they’re GOOD for you!).
I’m up about 4 lbs over my low weight of 127, close to my redline weight. I know it must sound kind of ridiculous to obsess over 4 lbs, but fighting the “creep” is a lifetime vigilant battle.
I keep reminding myself that summer is a great time to lose weight - so much fabulous produce available.
I haven’t been here for a few years (I made a kinda agreement to refrain from posting on the SD for the next lifetime, which has since been shortened to “time served”), but I have been losing weight like a motherfuck over the past two years–some 45 pounds since May of 2007, down to 215 from 260. I’m shooting for a weight beginning with the numeral “1” though I’ve been kinda stuck on 215 for the past month or so. I’d really like to get down to 185, since I think that’s the weight I had when I last wore my brown tweed suit, sitting in the closet for almost 20 years now. (The suit, not me.)
My brother has opined that I will never, ever, evah wear that suit again. (He did, however, refuse to bet me on that matter last month when I paid him a visit–I was all about defining “fits,” as “both jacket buttons buttoned and pants zippered to the top and fastened,” and putting a time limit on the wager, but he wouldn’t go, so I have to think he thinks it possible, and thinks it possible in a finite amount of time.)
It was my bro who helped me at the outset, recommending the South Beach diet, which got him down to 215 himself. I never tried it, having been raised to think of carbs as necessary (in moderation) to a human diet, but though it was tough to do mentally, I have virtually eliminated them from my diet. At the Jersey dopefest this weekend, I ate my first potato chips and cheese puffs in months–otherwise I probably eat fewer three servings of carbs per week, mostly when it’s inextricably combined with some other foodstuff: for my birthday dinner in mid-June, for example, I ordered pork which came with a side of spinach and mashed potatoes that turned out to be a single dish, not two, and I ate them rather than go hungry, like that.
It’s been mostly mental, just persuading myself not to eat them nasty carbs, and getting some near-daily exercise, but DAMN this feels great to wear my skinny clothes again!
That was my hurdle, too. I didn’t think I was ever going to break into the 160s. It still feels weird to even type that number out or look at it on the scale. Anyway, if I can finally do it, so can you! Now I’m thinking maybe—just maybe—I’ll see the 150s someday.
It’s great to hear all the updates from everyone.
Still not getting anywhere. I’ll lose a pound and then gain it back. Got busy for a few days and didn’t plug my food into sparkpeople for calorie counts but when I did I noticed that except for the occasional extravagant treat I wasn’t going over my recommended calories per day so I know that in order to lose I am going to have to exercise and it’s just so hard because it’s so damn hot (no working a/c at home). I did manage to run around at work for about 10 minutes yesterday playing hide and seek/tag with the clinic cat. The cat was having a ball and I got a little workout, can’t always do this everyday though since sometimes I actually have to work at work.
I started looking for some inexpensive exercise local classes, like yoga or zumba, maybe I will be more inclined to exercise in a nice cool studio with other people?
On the positive side, I’m not pregnant! (Okay, so that wouldn’t have been a huge tragedy, but still…) Unfortunately, that means that I need to stop slacking off and shed not just that five pounds I’ve gained back, but also the additional 20 pounds more I’d like to lose. I’ve set a goal of 10 this month, so that’ll get me down to 180.
I got weighed at fat club last night and I’ve put on a pound. In my defence, I was drinking champagne on Friday night to celebrate getting a new job and finally escaping my totally bonkers boss. OK, so it was a big celebration and it was a lot of champagne.
Weight this morning:158.5.
Yeah, that 160 plateau is officially busted - now all I have to do is ride this new wave of progress downwards! It’s amazing how much easier it is to tighten down on portion control and getting more exercise in when I’m seeing actual numeric progress.
Goal for next week: weigh in every day under 160. Don’t care by how much, just be under that number by some amount. (I bobbled up over it a couple of days this week, and I’m looking to keep it down under the milestone weight.) That will actually put me at halfway to my long-term goal weight, which is a Big Deal, heh.
Congrats, you guys - it really is a lot of help popping in here, sharing my success, and seeing you all charting your own progress along with me!
Today’s Official Weigh In Result" 180.8 pounds. That’s a loss of 1.4 pounds since last week. I didn’t reach Goal A (180 pounds by the end of June) officially (although I was 179.4 on my own scale when I weighed myself this morning, the difference due to clothing and breakfast), but I did reach Goal B (size 14 jeans, which I actually hit a couple weeks ago).