Welcome, Shirley! I have to say, when I clicked on that last picture, I thought, “Why, it’s the whole Ujest family!”
Anyhow, you are not a lardass. We don’t allow self-smack-talk here. OK, so I’m not in charge, and I don’t think that’s an Official Policy, but it’s what **I **say.
You said glutes - thats a butt cheek in my book
I am a salad person (now). My main issue is having to get food organised for everyone, and making sure they actually eat. I don’t feel like eating until after the gym (8:00pm). My son (16) has to eat much earlier (and then again at 8:00pm, and …) but will not always motivate himself to get healthy food (like vegetables). So I have to supervise. And that makes it harder to get to the gym, and to prepare something lo-cal for me as well. My daughter (17) is selectively vegetarian, and I have to make sure she preps something suitable, too. Usually she is good (and she can cook really well), but sometimes she skimps or skips food altogether. Kids.
Si
Oh, mine, too! I mean, if I had a book of butt cheeks, glutes would be in there. I am just feeling a lot better and thus had repressed the memory…until next Monday and Tuesday when I’ll likely be feeling the burn again (it’s a Sunday class).
Wow. Ten days into my 1500-calorie, 3-gym-days-a-week routine, I have lost three pounds. Neat! I really like just counting calories, instead of trying to follow Weight Watchers’ rules. I feel a lot better, too. While I was on Core, I always felt a little nauseated.
I just hit the 10 pound mark so now I only have 5 or 7 left to go depending on how loose my jeans get. I don’t want to have to start replacing my clothes and if they’re too loose it means that I’m going too far. Like many people I always think that I look fatter than I am.
That Zumba workout has sped things up a lot. It wipes me out but it seems to burn more calories than any other cardio I’ve tried.
Well, four of us. Hubby and his parents. The rest are a motley crew.
Yes, ma’am!
Saturday weigh in for me!
I have a shitty feverish cold… Reading about you excercising and feeling better made me think about it for all of two seconds before retiring back to the sofa. I am cleaning the house in 15 minute segments and then resting for 30 and it’s all I can manage. I spent yesterday in bed apart from pee breaks…
Last Saturday I was 75kg (165lbs) and today I am 74.2kg (163.5) so I am happy with that. Not much excercise because I was busy then sick. Hopefully next week will be better because as Si Blakely says it really is the exercise that makes the difference!
I borrowed a 5 mile Leslie Sansone DVD from a friend and was doing 1 to 3 miles at a time from it but because I haven’t excercised in a long time it was a bit fast for me. Today the ones I ordered arrived, all one to three miles long and none superfast. I shall work hard at these now until I have got it right and they become easy then I’ll go back to the five mile one. This is good for the upcoming winter - snow is already on the ground and it’s cold so I get asthma when I walk/run outside now. Indoor exercise only till next May!
It doesn’t get very cold here but it rains incessantly all winter so it’s indoor exercising until March or April for me too. I can get myself to work out every day but I’m not going to be able to keep up my summer level of outdoor activity. Working out every morning but then sitting on my butt all day is probably not going to go very well. I guess that I can do some small additional workouts during the day but that sounds boring. Does anyone have any good ideas for keeping yourself active throughout the day when you’re indoors? I don’t have kids to chase around so turning into a couch potato is very easy to do. Retirement is great because I have all the time I need to work out, but it’s just sinking in that I also have all of the time I need to read, crochet and sit in front of the TV and stuff my face out of boredom. Maybe I need to do some strenuous volunteer work.
150/140/135 (Until January) then it will be 150/135/140 because 135 is too low for me and the Thanksgiving/xmas cookie diet should get me back to 140 again.
Nice for me to know I’m not alone at the short and squat end of the spectrum (and I mean that in the best way, of course). I would love to get to 112, but I don’t think it’s realistic. At this point, I’m aiming straight at breaking 120. Who would think it would be so hard to lose 3 effing pounds? I’ve been just below or just above 123 for a couple of weeks. Ah, the plateau - I’ve visited you before. Still, I put on another pair of pants yesterday that are too big!
I went for the first cross-country ski of the year yesterday, and I think that’s all I will be able to do outside for a bit. The snow’s not deep enough to snowshoe, which is the *real *winter workout. The xc ski trail is very gradual, and it’s easy to slack off on the pace. I’ve been doing well at committing to Friday, Sunday and Tuesday weight lifting, and have been adding weight and exercises. I keep it to about 40 minutes, and change up the order to keep myself from slacking. I’ve added weight to the squats and lunges, and my legs and glutes are feeling it! Here I thought my quads were strong from major summer hiking.
I’m sorry to hear so many people have been sick! It’s so hard to work up to an exercise habit and then have it broken up.
Karyn, volunteer work is a good idea. Any time you’re doing something is time when you’re not eating! Rain is tough, but you might try going out in it once or twice. I find I’m reluctant to go out when we have even a little snowstorm, but once I’m out in it, I’m fine. But rain is so wet, I dunno.
134/123/118-115
Do you ever wake up one day so much fatter than the day before that it astounds you? Yesterday was that day for me.
Went to Boot Camp this morning. Here’s hoping that I don’t have quite the same level of soreness as last week.
ETA: I seem to be on the same goal path as Alpine as well.
Ugh. Today isn’t good so far. I went to see Religulous last night, ate a bunch of my partner’s buttered popcorn, stayed out too late and slept in past the time that I normally work out. I’m only on my second cup of coffee and he’s still asleep so I can’t make noise yet. I suppose I could go out and haul a bunch of firewood up the hill before the rain starts again but I just don’t want to move. Hopefully a few more cups of coffee will motivate me to get out of this chair.
I’m always popping in and out of these types of threads. Like others I’m using Sparkpeople, and it rocks. I try to average 1600 calories a day, accounting for eating a bit more on days I run. I’ve been running 30-40 minutes 4 times a week for the past two months, before that I was walking.
Start weight 4/08: 233
Current weight: 181
Goal by 1/10: 133
My goal weight is pretty far in the future, but I don’t want to push myself or stress myself out. The fact that I’ve lost 50 pounds in 7 months is amazing. I really like what I look like now so I’m cool with a slower decline.
My current frustration is the weather. C-O-L-D. And I ran in both rain and snow this week. I’m slowly buying cold weather gear, but can’t afford to do it all at once. But today I got long underwear pants, so that’ll be nice when I run tomorrow.
Congrats to everyone losing!
Hey, Shirley, set up a SparkPage so I can friend you.
Okie dokie… I have a clear weight loss goal, for the first time.
My fiance and I set our wedding date for July 4, 2009.
I ordered two beautiful dresses from Anthropologie, one for the ceremony (which will be civil, attended by only us and our parents) and one for the reception (which will be at our house). The dresses came in the mail yesterday. Both are okie-dokie in the waist and hips but too small in the bust. I’d say that they’re both 2-3 inches away from closing comfortably.
I weigh 181 right now. My goal is to lose “enough” weight to wear those dresses by July 4. I’ve set my SparkPeople goal weight at 150.
I know that I’ll shrink from a C cup to a B cup by the time I’m down to 170. I’ll lose weight from my back, too, which will help.
Um… ladies? Do you think this is likely to work, or am I in la-la-land? I want to keep the dresses so badly–but if I’m just not gonna be able to wear them, I should return them and find something else.
Sure you can do it. I don’t think that it’s unrealistic at all. It will be great motivation for you and fun to see it get closer and closer to fitting perfectly. If you’re (un)lucky like me the boobs will be the first to go but everything else catches up after a while. If worse comes to worse there are always those minimizer bras but I’m not sure how well they work.
I lost 5 pounds in the last 3 weeks but today I’m up by a pound and a half. This better be water weight. I was looking forward to going out to lunch with a friend today but now I’ll be picking at lettuce leaves once again. I’m starting to realize that I’m not going to get the last 5 pounds off by Thanksgiving but hopefully I can lose them by christmas.
30 lbs over the next seven months? (I’m not even counting November) That seems entirely realistic…good luck! That’s about a pound a week, which is the correct rate to lose.
It’s less about just losing the weight than it is about losing 3" off my bust. I mean… my ribcage is the size it is and no weight loss will change that. If I was trying to lose the 3" from my waist or hips, no worries, because there’s so much more soft tissue there.
Compression garments. I keep giving my fiance a determined look and saying, “compression garments.”
And Karyn–that’s gotta be water weight. Or weight that a bowl of Fiber One would take care of, ifyaknowwhatimean.
Hey all… I read these threads from time to time but I don’t think I’ve ever participated in one.
I’m a 33 year old guy and I’ve been heavy for pretty much all of my adult life and once a year or so I try to lose some weight. I usually have a fair degree of success, losing 20-25 pounds, before hitting a wall and completely losing steam and falling off the wagon.
Weight Watchers has done well for me, as has Paul McKenna’s “I Can Make You Thin” program. I’ve never added much exercise to my routine though, which probably would have helped me through those plateaus.
Four weeks ago, I decided to give the WW program another go. I’m not good about attending meetings but since I know the formulas and point levels, I’m just doing it on my own. I’m also incorporating a bit of McKenna’s plan by not completely devoiding myself of things I love or crave, and trying not to eat past a comfortable “Full” feeling. So I don’t mind if I go to a restaurant and have a big greasy cheeseburger w/ fries once a week or so, as long as I keep to my point levels 80% of the time. It’s about how you eat over 21 meals, not just one, right?
I’m on SparkPeople (same username) and it’s been helpful for tracking my fitness calories burned. I’m just starting to use the nutrition tracker so we’ll see how that helps.
In addition to keeping my food consumption in check, I’ve been walking almost every day. I started doing two miles a day but pushed that up to four miles at a good pace (about 15-18 minutes per mile). I started the C25K program last Tuesday but I strained my ankle a bit which was aggravated by standing in Grant Park for six hours last Tuesday night (WORTH IT!). My ankle is finally healed enough for walking, but C25K is going to have to wait at least another week.
Anyway, my starting weight this go around was 291. I’ve done fairly well and weighed in this week at 280.5. My goal is to lose 2-3 pounds a week. I hope to eventually get down under 200 pounds, though that seems really far away right now. My short term goal is 265 by New Years.
I’ll keep checking in here w/ my progress. Good luck everyone!!!
291/280.5/200
So I haven’t popped back in here for a couple of weeks, but things are going ok with the WW points program. I also picked up the Biggest Loser Cardio bootcamp DVD as something to step me up. I’ve done it almost every day as well as making myself start getting off the bus two stops earlier in the morning so I get some extra walking in. The first couple of days with the DVD were painful: not so much during, but after. Now I’m adjusting again and feeling much better - today I did two run-throughs of it, one in the morning and one in the evening. I did the second one because I caught myself thinking “I’d like to do that DVD again today” so heck, why not if I wanted to do it?
I’m showing down just under 5 lbs over two weeks
243/238.2/220 (for now: ultimate goal is 150ish, but I need a small goal that I know I can hit)
I ate crab cakes today but I’m trying to make up for it by having salad for dinner.
My weight can fluctuate so much over the course of a month that I try (unsuccessfully) not to get worried over a few pounds. If my highest and lowest weight of the month are both lower than they were the previous month I figure that I’m doing ok.