It seems I am finally losing again! The scale said 176 this morning. I’d been stuck at 178-180 forever. Sadly, I just know I’m going to blow it at the bar this weekend (Halloween party).
Congratulations Ginger I’m happy for you and envious. I remember when we were hovering around the same weight for a while and now you’ve got me beat by a couple of pounds. I’m going to have to redouble my efforts.
Thanks for the info tdn yes, when you go to the site it looks like there are dozens of videos available it is a bit overwhelming. I’ll take another look.
Hey Purplekid_Caterer how’s the scale doing? Remember to put down the squid before you weigh in. They may be full of Omega 3s but they’re not light.
No congratulations are necessary - really, I feel like I should be losing, not maintaining. I simply don’t have time for exercise with the work schedule I’ve had to maintain.
The director of the nutrition department just popped into my office to use my phone. She told me I look great. (And yes, I do! I love my new clothes. I rock in them.)
I told her of our plan. She said it was a little unrealistic, but I explained that it’s pretty much aim for three, hit two. She approves. 
On Monday, Nov. 5th, this damned stent can come out! Yay! So I’ll do an official weigh-in on the 6th, and take it from there.
I realize I’m adding nothing to the “club” at this point, but I wanted to post so I’d be subscribed and you’d all know I was still alive and everything.
Right now, being sick, I still feel hungry, but nothing seems appealing. Blegh.
I hope you’re feeling better soon norine. Sounds icky.
I’ve been keeping up with my exercise plan; when I exercise tomorrow it will be officially 4 weeks of exercising 6 days a week. This morning I had a one-hour walk in the nice cool fall weather.
Now that exercise is taking hold as a habit, it’s time to move on to food. I’m a little worried about it–I have powerful resentment reflexes. If I deny myself too much, I get very resentful and just give up. So this time, I am trying the very, very slow method of changing my eating habits.
First, I will be tackling late night snacking. I never used to do this, but lately, when I am making the kids’ lunches, feeding the cats, etc., I find myself eating stuff I don’t need–luncheon meat, Sunchips, cat food (okay, not the cat food). So I am going to try better living through beverages this month–drinking water, coffee or tea to keep my mouth and hands busy while I’m dealing with Hebrew National salami sandwiches (mmmm, kosher salami).
While I’m at it, I’ll be watching dinner portion sizes. That will be easy, because I eat all my dinners with my family and my husband (5’8" and 145 lbs soaking wet) is a master of portion control. He’s been thin all his life, and has a great eye for portion sizes. So dinner–easy; late night snacking–hard. Hopefully this will be a small enough change to carry through November, after which I’ll start working on my nemesis, the late afternoon snack.
I think everyone here can relate to that. You need to pick a plan that satisfies, else you will fail. Just like choosing a form of exercise that you love.
You can also chew gum while you’re doing your evening routine. The stronger the flavor of the gum, the better. You’d have to make a conscious decision to spit the gum out in order to munch on something else.
Thanks for the good thoughts, too. They do help!
2 year 9 month maintainer checking in, big congratulations on everyone’s progress!!
I am posting for me because it’s the dreaded start of the holiday season…from now until Jan 1 is just a really bad food temptation time for me. My goal is not to gain a single pound over the holidays. I will celebrate Thanksgiving day and Christmas day with dinner with all the trimmings (including pie) but I will remember they are holiDAYs not holiWEEKS. Those meals will be my planned treat meals for those respective weeks, the rest of the time will be business as usual! I will continue my commitment to NOT EAT ANY treat food at work - not leftover donuts in the break room, not fudge, not Christmas cookies, not a gift basket from a vendor.
I just bought 3 lovely size 6 suits on sale at Ann Taylor for a conference I am required to attend starting Jan 4. The suits fit perfectly and I can’t afford to gain one pound over the holidays. I am really glad I have that kind of inspiration to stay motivated while staring down a big bowl of green silver and red Hershey’s kisses.
200/128/130
That’s great, Glory! Holidays not holiweeks.
I’ve been trying to figure out how I’m going to negotiate Thanksgiving. I don’t have any set plans yet, but it may well come down to me doing the cooking.
I love everything I make (and let’s face it, no one makes a better Thanksgiving meal than moi 
), and I loved – past tense – having leftovers for a week. I suppose I could cook a chicken instead of a turkey, but turkey is not a bad thing to have around. It’s better than beef or pork, of course. I looooove stuffing, but I really don’t need to eat it for a week. Mashed potatoes are great, but I can certainly live without them. They’re my least favorite part of the meal. Sweet potatoes are healthy, but I’ll have to cut back on the sour cream. Cranberry sauce is a favorite, and it fruit, right? But it has a lot of sugar. I suppose I could make it with Splenda. I love dinner rolls, but once again I can do without.
That leaves pie. Hmmm…
I read an article that chewing cinnamon gum can help with cravings.
I’ve started doing that. Other than an little jaw ache, it seems to be working.
Thanks, tdn, now I’m craving turkey with all the trimmings. Happy birthday, by the way!
Mmmm, turkey. It may be my favorite meal ever (well, besides pizza, which is the food of the gods). I love Thanksgiving.
I would go with the chewing gum option that you all have recommended, but I have TMJ and I haven’t chewed gum in about 20 years. I do like tea and coffee, since I can add some lowfat milk and some sugar and it’s sweet but has fewer calories than the buckets of Halloween candy we now have lying around here (2 kids, 6 & 3) and the chocolately baked goods (1 naturally thin, chocoholic, baking husband–he eats 2 desserts a day!).
Sunday’s the beginning of the drink-till-I-drop regimen.
Well shoot! They are now saying that I don’t have any pinched nerves.
I don’t know where to go from here. 
The neurologist won’t see me until Dec 11th (better than the first one, who wouldn’t see me until March 11th.)
Oh well, I guess I just keep on keeping on…
Wow. That sucks that they just don’t seem to know what’s wrong with you (hey, at least kidney stones are easily diagnosed! ).
But as far away as it seems, December 11th will be here before you know it, and hopefully you can get some answers!
In the meantime, like you said, just keep on keeping on.
Well, I wasn’t anticipating a big loss, seeing as how I’ve been sick since last Thursday night and couldn’t exercise (I gave it a try twice and ended up lasting about 5 minutes, since I was all congested and couldn’t breathe properly), but I guess the loss of appetite made up for it because I weighed in at 207.2. That’s a three pound loss and brings me to a total loss of 22 pounds.
That means I have a very very good shot of hitting 200 by New Year’s, if I’m good over the holidays.
The good: I lost 1.8 pounds this week, bringing me down to a total of - 6.
The bad: I still haven’t been exercising. I keep planning to, but I haven’t managed to make it a habit. Also, I’m a little disheartened - of the 1.8 pounds I lost this week, 1.4 were pounds I gained the week before. I’m down 6 - and I’m still two pounds up from my weight at the beginning of the summer. I just gain so easily sometimes, and losing is so hard and takes so long. I’m trying not to be discouraged.
I went to my third WW meeting last night. I was astonished to find that I’d lost 3 pounds!! I knew I’d been sticking to the program but I also had a few cupcakes - accounted for in my points, of course. Much better than the puny 1.6 pounds I lost in the first week.
ETA - This brings my total to 4.6 pounds down. I’m now at 190.4. This means I should definitely go below 190 next week. Hello 180s!!
OK *NOW *I’m being told that I will probably need the Epley manoeuvre. But we won’t know for sure until I have my appt with an neurologist…
Krikey, man, you are really getting put through it. Let’s hope that does the trick. I can’t imagine the frustration you must be feeling. :mad:
Thanks, yellowval, it was fun!
Yet another person made a comment on my weight just now. This time a surgeon. It’s so nice to hear!