Yeah, it could be a few things, but I am noticing an overall trend. If you look at my recorded weights from March of 2006, you’d be pretty impressed. But look at them from August, and you’d be far less impressed. I look better than I did then, and my belt has gotten quite a bit longer. But only five pounds have come off. I’m not sure what’s going on there.
I think yellowval is sneaking bits of lead into the soles of my shoes.
Starting tonight, I’m going to ramp up my weekday exercise. The 20 minute routine barely makes me crack a sweat anymore. Time to push it to 40.
I play that game with my pedometer - or else just figure it out by the calories per mile that I’ve got from it lately. I worked out that this lunchtime’s walk more or less burned off lunch before I’d eaten it.
I know you didn’t have weight loss surgery, but there is a phenomena observed among people who have. I think it might apply to everyone who loses a lot of weight, but be more pronounced if you lose the weight quickly. Anyway, what happens to me, and quite a few other DSers I know is this: some months/weeks we lose weight, some months/weeks we lose inches. But it doesn’t happen at the same time. I don’t know why this should be. But I do know I lost inches in the ~3 months my weight was stable.
Yeticus Rex Might I suggest that you could be getting at least an upper body workout without putting weight on your injured knee? Try sitting in a supportive chair (the barcalounger probably isn’t right for this) and doing arm circles and side and front arm raises and see how quickly you start breathing heavy. I remember an aerobics instructor telling me that I’d get a harder workout if I I used my arms more and she was right, it kicked my ass.
tdn I used to hang out on a low carb message board called Thinner. The catch phrase there was “scales are for fishes”. Meaning that the scale was the least accurate measurement of fat loss because it measured everything in your body, muscle, organs, water, food in your gut etc. At this point since you’ve lost so much already, you may wish to consider a weekly measurement to accompany your weigh in. It’ll give you a better idea of what’s really going on. The Turbo Jam video is likely building a bit of muscle so you can be getting smaller but not losing the lbs. Personally, if I weighed 200 but was a size 6 I wouldn’t really care. After all the goal is to look and feel good. Hang in there.
I appear to be stuck at 169 but I haven’t been very careful since I got back from vacation. Time to get my shizzle together. My birthday is next week and my band has a concert performance on Friday night. I want to look good!
norinew and velvetjones, that’s really interesting stuff. As I said in my past few posts, the weight is not coming off, but my belt has been getting noticingly longer recently. In fact, it looks pretty bad, what with all the excess inches hanging off of it. I had to swap it out for one that for years didn’t even wrap all the way around me. And hey, it’s a nicer looking belt!
And I’m getting more comments than I have in past months. A doctor greeted me with “Hey, thin guy!” yesterday. A few days ago, a woman that was in my weight loss class didn’t recognize me. (Can I make predictions or what?) So I guess these are signs that my body is changing, even if that damn scale chooses to be a right bastard.
Here’s something else – (TMI warning) – after yesterday’s weigh in, I paid a little visit to the men’s room. Again and again and again and again. I probably dumped a good 2-3 pounds right there. I’ll weigh in again today, just to see if there’s a change.
Just a point of interest here – a few days ago I was talking to my sister. She is a dietician who works mostly with people in recovery. What she has found is that a great many bariatric patients have given up food addiction but have replaced it with alcohol or drug addiction. Yesterday I was talking to the chief of bariatric surgery and I brought this up. He says that he has seen this a lot too. We don’t track it in our database, but it would be interesting if we did. We also touched on how interesting it might be to track changes in sexual function with weight loss.
This part of my job makesmy weight loss efforts all the more interesting. I have about 1700 case studies I can examine if I like. (HIPAA restrictions apply, of course.)
In fact right now I’m pulling together some data for that surgeon. He needs it for a peer-reviewed paper. Heasked if I wanted my name on it as a contributing researcher. Ain’t that nifty?
Despite last night’s Pad Thai, I was down another pound this morning, for a total of -7. Bad: I’m not losing a lot, and I’m still losing the weight I put on in the summer; good: I’m not making myself crazy and I’m still losing (possibly the first time ever).
Upcoming goals: not gain anything when I go home for American Thanksgiving, and work exercise in after I get back.
I’ve heard a lot about addiction transfer after weight loss surgery, as well. In an effort to prevent such a thing from happening to me, personally, I established some hobbies that require the use of my hands! So when I’m bored, I have something to do other than eat, and don’t particularly feel the need to do other self-destructive stuff, either. Though I would be less than honest if I said I don’t ever eat addictively any more. There are still times when I eat crap just because it tastes good, not because I’m hungry. My small stomach keeps me from what would normally be called “binging”, though!
As for sexual function, well, that’s a strange one. The rapid loss of fat causes estrogen, which is stored in fat cells, to be released rapidly. The first year was like terminal PMS, when I would jump from “Ugh, if you get that thing anywhere near me, you will freakin’ lose it!” to “I am going to get laid tonight. You, being my husband, have the right of first refusal; but if you won’t do it, I’ll damned well find someone who will!”
Beyond that, I will say that a whole field of new positions have opened up to us!
I was talking more about sexual function in men, but it would be interesting to see what changes might happen in women as well. In particular, is it easier to reach orgasm? The pure physiology of this would be interesting to track, but one can’t help but wonder if self-image doesn’t factor into it as well.
Obviously, I can only speak for myself. Not only that, but I’ve reached the Big M (as in, menopause), so age is almost definitely a factor. I used to be more orgasmic than I am now. That’s not a big problem, since when I was in my 20s (spoilered for TMI; you were warned)
I could easily achieve 20 or more orgasms in one sexual encounter; now, four or five are good. Oddly, though, I enjoy the time between orgasms more now than I did then. When I was younger, sex was, well, a way to reach orgasm. Now it’s much more than that.
I have been assured by my hubby that it feels more pleasurable now. He never complained about my weight, even at the highest (except occasionally in terms of being concerned about my health). But he’s now enjoying the benefit of “sex with someone just like the woman I married, only even better!”
Okay, that’s probably enough of a hijack. If you have any more questions, though, you can PM or email me.
The gym I belong to offers a whole bunch of classes free with your membership (so in other words, not really free, I guess) - up until now I was too embarassed to join any because all the other women I see in there are sort of spandex-clad super-thin gym types. But, on Monday I threw cation to the wind and joined a spin class. I went again today. It is 45min long and seriously kicked my ass both times, but it was way less embarassing than I thought!
I am guilty of looking around the room and envying the other women’s thin thighs though. Damn them!
The penny dropped. After 9 straight weeks of losses, I gained 0.6 pounds since last week.
On the plus side, my baby sister heard me saying that I need to go clothes shopping again, and brought over 5 pairs of pants that are too bit for her. They fit, and they’re size 18s!
Still shooting for 200 by year’s end. My 3-month WW journal has 1 more week in it, and I’m thinking that once it’s full, I might try Core for a week or two.
Oh, and I got my 10% keychain that they forgot to give me last week, even though I’m not at 10% anymore. (I should so ask for another one when I cross over again. :D)
Kat, the occasional gain is just all part of the picture. If you get discouraged about it, that could set you off on an emotional eating binge (I speak from experience!)
I know. I was even expecting it to happen soon (especially after last week’s 3 pound loss), but I’m still a tiny bit disappointed.
I’m still giddy enough from the size 18s to make up for it.
And I bought a Weight Watchers cookbook at today’s meeting, and plan to channel any residual disappointment into recipe-browsing. Some of this stuff looks damn good.
I’ve gone up a couple of pounds in the last month or two (but holding steady), which I pretty much chalk up to DST - it’s still too dark in the morning for me to go for a bike ride and it’s too dark when I get home, so I work out and try and get a couple of runs in during the week at lunch.
On the other hand I did a 15.5mi trail run Sunday and aside from getting dehydrated felt good. And as I turned my head to check out a cute gal (after I passed her by) found her doing the same thing to me. Made my day
I haven’t posted in these threads in a while, I’ve been busy getting laid off and moping around the house. I tend to eat less when I’m just sitting around in my skivvies all day, so I’ve been holding steady on the weight, more or less. I had been working out at the office gym, and although I actually still have access until the end of the year, it’s an hour away from my house. My wife had been talking about joining a local gym, I might look into that.
