Well, I skipped a few months of checking in here, but I haven’t gained! A good friend just bought a nice scale, so I weigh myself when I’m over - I was 278.7 last night. 274.6 last Tuesday. Darn that Halloween party! My husband is getting concerned about his own belly, so I think we will start doing some dogwalking - before the weather here gets too cold. We’re also thinking about selling a car, which would mean a half-mile walk (round trip) if I wanted to eat out for lunch at work.
Has anyone else heard the idea that fidgeting is a way to help burn calories? I am stuck in a small office (maybe 12x12) all day, and can’t really walk around during the day, but I can stretch and could fidget more - every little bit helps, right?
Well, I guess the scale gods were with me. Last week I was at 343. This week it was 340.6. Let’s call this my starting point and see what happens. ::said ironically while contemplating some ice cream::
The start of the food season is truly upon us and I am setting a goal of at least maintaing my weight. I would be thrilled with a 5 lb loss between now an mid December but I’ll be happy if I don’t gain weight.
Thanksgiving plans anyone? I’m doing the majority of the cooking for that day and I am going to try a few lower fat tricks. Nothing too extraordinary, just a few twists.
Kat and Doperchic, congrats on your respective losses.
I have been afraid to weigh myself for the past month because I have not been able to excersize like I wanted. It began with some nasty shin splints. I took a break from running for two weeks. Then my wife and I moved into a new house, so I had no time for excersize. Now I learn on NOVA that running is not very good for weight loss because it doesn’t actually use that many calories. In addition to the lack of excersize, it seems like my wife and I are eating out all of the time. That’s partly because we lacked groceries and our appliences weren’t set up.
I just weighed in at 219 lbs. That’s almost 10 lbs from when I last reported in September. Is it possible that the mere lack of stress is causing this? To be sure, weight loss has been slow and steady, but at least one formerly tight pair of pants is comfortable now.
Thanks for the reminder. I should be taking some deliberate steps to cut calories now so that I can enjoy the holidays (but still not to excess).
I just had a fleeting notion of trying Core for a week. I’ve been pretty afraid of it, since I do so much eating out and eating microwave dinners and stuff. But, really, isn’t that the best idea to try it, just for a week? Maybe it’ll get me into better habits outside of points - I’ve been working on emphasizing fruits and vegetables more.
I’m going food shopping tonight. I think I’ll do my best to shop as if I was doing Core, which can’t hurt anyway.
Hi everyone! It’s nice to see you all again. Due to computer problems I have been offline for several months. I’ve missed the Dope in general but I’ve missed all of you in the Weight Loss Club especially. I’m sorry to hear that Khadaji is still having health problems but am glad that norinew’s stent is coming out. I guess I’ve missed the details of why it was put in but it sounds as if you’re getting better and that’s what really counts. May Khadaji soon be on the road to recovery too, just as soon as they find out what is the matter.
As for me, I’ve been doing well. I’ve been hovering around the 150 pound mark for several weeks now. Losing weight has become a matter of ounces lost instead of pounds. I knew it would slow down some time, so just as long as it keeps coming off, I’m happy with that. Only 30 more pounds to go!
I’ve gotten a job where I’m on my feet all day long and I’m so thrilled to be able do it without feeling like like my legs and feet are going to die trying to hold me up. Heck, now I feel so perky that sometimes I want to go for a walk after work. 95 pounds and a year and a half ago, it was a totally different story.
Gingy, I’m glad to see that you’ve finally gotten past the 170 pound mark. Looks like it’s for good this time. Yay!
Hugs and kisses to you all. Keep on fighting the good fight!
I’m really interested in how people have reacted to that. Do you have any thin friends or family that you haven’t seen since before your journey? Any overweight ones?
I’ll take that as inspiration, Tikki. My calves and thighs are both showing signs of muscles I haven’t seen for some years, although I’ve many, many pounds to go. And I’ve bought the new shoes as referenced above.
Some people have remarked on the difference already, and if they stand still for long enough I bore them with stories of walking five miles a day (or more, if I have the leisure time). Weigh-in’s not for another day and a half, though.
Welcome back, Tikki! I wondered where you’d gotten to!
Reader’s Digest version of latest kidney stone story: October 6th was a great DopeFest in Gettysburg; I attended, got to see how skinny JayJay, Supervenusfreak and Gingy are getting. But that night, the pain and fever indicating stone/infection hit. Trip to the ER. Good drugs, CTScan showed 7mm stone. No hope of passing one that big, might as well try to blow an olive through a drinking straw. Saw doc on the 9th, scheduled me for a procedure the 10th. Couldn’t remove the stone on the 10th, as the infection was still raging. So he just placed a stent. Couldn’t get me back in for removal until the 30th!! Ended up back in the ER around the 24th, as the infection had flared again and the pain was horrible. More good drugs, more potent antibiotics. Stone removal on the 30th was rough, because the stone was huge and jagged, but they got it. Because removal was rough, I have to keep the stent in almost a week. Hate it. But it comes out tomorrow! Yay!!
That’s double good because next Saturday is my birthday, and next Sunday is our wedding anniversary (19 years), so we’re going out of town for the weekend. I intend to get plenty of exercise, but not the kind most people would do in a class setting
I’ll do an official weigh-in Tuesday morning, and post where I’m at.
Beginning Week 5 of exercising 6 days a week. So far, I haven’t missed any workouts. I started last night to cut out snacking after dinner. I managed that okay, although it was more because I didn’t have the time to snack, rather than any willpower plan. But, it works for me, so I’ll take it. Tonight’s another night to practice. I haven’t lost any weight in these 4 weeks, but until last night, I wasn’t doing anything about food at all. Hopefully, I’ll start to see some changes soon.
Well, I’ve been home, as this procedure is almost always done on an outpatient basis (once, they had to keep me overnight because they were having trouble getting the post-op pain under control). The stent was scheduled to come out this morning, but I actually had it out last night, as I prefer my husband to do it (I can do it myself, but don’t like to). And as he said “What’s 12 hours?” So I got the most comfortable night’s sleep last night I’ve had in weeks!
Usually, after dealing with this level of infection and being sick for this long, it takes a week or two for me to really get all my energy back, etc. But I’m feeling pretty good today. Haven’t needed any pain meds, not even some Motrin or anything like that. My appetite’s been pretty good today, too. In fact, I’m hungry right now; think I’ll go have some peanut butter!
I’ll weigh in tomorrow morning, and let you all know where I’m at, so I can decide where I’m going from there.
Congratulations on your speedy recovery, norinew! I hope everything continues as it is now.
I lost another pound over the week; however, the past few days have been really difficult. My toddler has been waking constantly at night (new developmental spurt) and I’ve gotten a grand total of eight hours of sleep since Friday. My husband and I typically take turns getting up with the little rugrat, especially now that we’re encouraging him to sleep in his room by himself, but my husband threw his back out over the weekend and hasn’t been able to move very well until this morning. So I’ve had the pleasure of the nightime comforting, which is a lot harder now that we’re not just climbing into bed with him.
Anyway, I’m afraid that being this tired is not doing good things for my willpower with respect to food. It doesn’t help that part of this spurt has involved my son going through a laundry list of things that tick me off one by one while I grit my teeth and try not to react. It’s maddening and makes me want to eat more.
I keep telling myself that tonight will be better. And tonight that’s probably going to be true, since my husband has agreed to put our son to sleep so I can get some much-needed quiet time and go to bed very early.
260½, down 4½ from last week and 27½ from six weeks ago. Belt has come in two notches, maybe three, trousers starting to look baggy. The new shoes are comfortable to walk in but I think they are making the pedometer under-read… today’s lunchtime walk read as 2.8km but I know it’s more like 4. However, I made up for it this evening with another 7.5km with the dog - just as well as we had a little barbecue at tonight’s firework party and I ate about four days’ meat at one go. :eek: Must remind myself that by the time I’d eaten the last sausage it felt like far too much.
252 by the end of the month now looks possible again.
