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But without the tan.
I’m not sure if this is true for you but I’m finding that my biggest challenge is not eating more than I need. I fairly regularly ignore my body’s signals that I’ve had enough. I think eating out regularly is do-able if you’re able to stick with healthier menu choices and not over eat.
I agree that this is a good rehearsal for maintenance down the road.
It is interesting to note that everyone here, each and every person participating in this weight loss thread knows exactly what they need to do to lose weight. Am I right? Is there anyone who just doesn’t know how to lose? Assuming I’m right about that assumption, then weight loss boils down to having the discipline to do what we know needs to be done. Even when it’s inconvenient, uncomfortable, boring or difficult. That’s what the lifestyle change thing is all about, creating new habits so doing what we know we need to do is no longer inconvenient, uncomfortable, boring and difficult but habitual.
I’ve got plenty of bad habits. Time to get good habits.
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Discipline is a huge factor in my weight loss efforts. I know exactly wht to do and when and where to do it. It’s always the discipline. Even now, I need to get off the computer and get my butt to the gym, sigh. I’m going, RIGHT NOW.
I lurk here. Because I too, don’t want to blab on and on about WW. I do both leader and receptionist roles. Hilarious that there are two of us! (Do you post on the staff website? Sadly, I have the same user name over there too, so I’ll be easy to find!)
I am firmly convinced that if you don’t at least partially enjoy the exercise you get, you’ll stop doing it. In fact, to really make it stick, you should absolutely love it. And it should be something that you can do every day. I suppose that golf might be good, if you love the game. But it’s not something you can do every day, in all kinds of weather. I have my little video series that I love, and I can do it indoors in January or July, and I don’t have to pay any crazy membership fees to do it.
The second part of it is to become aware of how you feel when you’re finished. It’s a great natural high, and keeping that in mind can motivate you to get up off the couch even when you’re really not in the mood.
265, down 1½ from last week and 23 from five weeks ago. I was hoping for about a pound more but after being startled by last week’s figure I was at least a little relieved not to have gone backwards; also I was at a party on Saturday night and ate too much junk food and drank more than in the last month put together. On the other hand I blithely ignored the birthday cakes in the office today; it didn’t even take discipline. Also I took the dog for a long walk - six miles plus change - this evening.
As it is I’ve crossed a threshold as we weigh people in 14lb stones over here and I’m now below 19 of 'em. I’m thinking I would like to be below 18 (252lb) by the end of November and below 17 (238lb) by the end of the year - a big ask but should be achievable if I keep up the good work.
Epimetheus, one weigh-in a week ought to be enough - otherwise the signal-to-noise ratio is unhelpful. It’s best to compare like with like.
Well, the retrieval was apparently pretty difficult; I have to keep the stent in until next Monday, which is a long time. But they blasted that sucker into pieces with a laser and dragged it all out of there! I didn’t do much yesterday except lay around. Probably won’t do much more than that today, either. But in a few days, I’ll be feeling better, and better yet next Monday when the stent comes out!
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Well, the retrieval was apparently pretty difficult; I have to keep the stent in until next Monday, which is a long time. But they blasted that sucker into pieces with a laser and dragged it all out of there! I didn’t do much yesterday except lay around. Probably won’t do much more than that today, either. But in a few days, I’ll be feeling better, and better yet next Monday when the stent comes out!
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Yep, and glad it turned out to be outpatient surgery. Hospital food sucks.
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You know that’s true! They insist that you eat some crackers and drink something before being discharged; well, with my weight loss surgery, straight crackers are only going to make me feel sick. So I managed to cajole some peanut butter out of them, and put that on my crackers. Once I’d eaten some crackers with peanut butter, drank some diet ginger ale, peed, and announced that the pain was under control, I was out!
Fortunately for me, my nurse yesterday was the one nurse in that whole hospital who always seems to be able to get an IV into me on the first try! He told me that next time I’m in, I can ask for him by name. I’ve had him maybe three times before, so yeah, next time, I think I’ll just request him.
Years ago, I had a day surgery. I was in recovery for about 2 hours. The nurse told me that I could not be discharged until I ate a full sandwich and drank a full soda. I don’t remember why that was, maybe it had to do with the anesthesia making me nauseous or something. But it was clear that I had to eat and drink.
The problem was, I was not allowed to lift my head. If I did, I’d use my abdominal muscles, and sutures would pop open and I’d shoot my spleen clear across the room. I had to lie perfectly flat.
Ever tried to eat and drink while lying perfectly flat? My pillow ended up looking like the space under a toddler’s high chair.
And for dessert, the nurse violently ripped out my foley catheter. Some day I’m going to hunt that bitch down and kill her.
Epimetheus, one weigh-in a week ought to be enough - otherwise the signal-to-noise ratio is unhelpful. It’s best to compare like with like.
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Oh, I weigh myself every day and take the average of the whole week to be my “weekly current” weight. There are trends but, for me, water weight can vary my weight by 5lbs with very little cause. (i.e I eat the same stuff, but some days I retain more of the water I drink than other days).
tdn :eek: that sounds awful. Justifiable homicide I’m sure.
Epimetheus I’ve been averaging too. I have a spreadsheet and I enter my weight daily and it gives me my weekly average for that day. I have to say that it’s been really nice on the days that I’m up a pound or two to see the weekly average not move so much. Reminds me that I’m still heading in the right direction. Averaging is the way to go for me.
