SDMB Weight Loss Club, October

Mostly. :frowning:

At least we ate pretty healthy. And it was fun.

I’m down 55 pounds now. Once in a while, I get an e-mail from the director of nutrition here at the hospital. I sometimes tell her about my progress. The last time I did was on August 10th, when I reported that I’d lost 50 pounds.

5 pounds in 2 months? Not good enough!

Christ, it’s always something with you! I really hope you get all of your health things sorted out soon. You (and norinew) are really fighting an uphill battle these days.

LOL. Well they still haven’t solve the last thing. That’s why they’re testing for Lyme. In a weird way I’m hoping it is that. At least it will have a name and is treatable.

Man, here I was feeling lazy because I’ve been mildly ill and not exercising much lately, and you guys are having kidney stones and mystery diseases. You go get better, and I’ll go kick myself in the ass.

I hate hungry days. You know, those days where eating your usual amount of food just isn’t enough. I’m still hungry after lunch and a mid-afternoon snack. Blech.

On a more positive note, today I met my goal of exercising 6 times in a week. I get to take tomorrow off. (Saturday is my family’s designated Fun Day! We may go hiking though, which would get me some exercise; as much exercise as hiking at a 3 year old’s speed will be.) This first week back has been tough–the first several days I felt like I was 93 instead of 43. On Thursday I started feeling better, and today I’m feeling pretty good.

But I’m still hungry :mad:

I just bought a size 14 dress.

Woohoo! All right, Ginger!

I can’t wait until I can do that.

Well, why don’t you just go out and buy a size 14 dress? Nothing says it has to fit. :wink:

Mine doesn’t. It’s too big in spots.

W00t!

Despite overeating at Gettydope, both Jayjay and myself posted losses of about 2 lbs this week.
Go us! :smiley:

Yay!

I had actually been avoiding the scale. My appetite gets weird when I’m doing the kidney stone thing, and while I’ve still been pretty diligent about getting all my protein and supplements and fluids, I’ve been pretty lax about eating junk. Plus (sorry if this is TMI), the pain meds cause some level of constipation, and my tightest jeans are fitting a little tight (not like I have to lay down to zip them or anything, just a little tighter than a couple of weeks ago). But this morning, I decided I had to know, so I got on the scale. I was surprised and delighted that it’s still right around 196. I was really expecting the first digit on the scale to be a 2 this morning! So, I’m trying to boost my fiber to help with the constipation thing (just had a bowl of raisin bran), and I’m going to try to cut back on the sweets. I will try, at least once a day, to have a mug of high protein hot cocoa instead of a food snack. This should help satisfy my sweet tooth, warm me up (I’ve been frozen the past couple of days), and give my protein intake an extra boost!

In a NSV, though, I bought a new winter coat yesterday. I tried on a women’s size 1X first, and could have taken a friend in with me! (It would be good for my shoplifting forays, though). Then I tried on a Misses’ XL, and it was perfect! Yay! Let’s hear it for non-plus-sized clothes!!

OMG norinew that sounds just awful! (the kidney stone, not the size XL which is awesome) I hope you feel better soon.

You too tdn and Khadaji. Hope you figure out what’s ailing you and that you feel better soon.

BTW tdn I don’t think 5 lbs in 2 months is “not good enough”. Maybe it’s just right. I always think that if weight loss is slow with maybe some plateaus along the way while you’re tweaking your lifestyle, you’re more apt to keep it off in the long run. It’s the folks who drop 30 lbs in 30 days that gain it all back and more. I think you’re doing great!

Me, my weight has been hovering at 169 or 169.5 for 4 days. One more day of that and my weekly average will be officially in the 160s. The high 160s but I’ll take it. I’ve been careful about eating.

I’m a little worried about my NY vacation. We’re staying with my inlaws and while they’re lovely people my Italian MIL is a feeder…she’ll cook enough for 12 people and then admonish us to eat more. And she’s a great cook so I want to eat more. I’m hoping that I can keep up my walking and turn down those second helpings. It’s going to take all my will power and then some.

Luckily it’s only for 5 days.

I weighed in at 168.5 this morning which brings my weekly average down to 169.64 (down from last week’s 171.07).

My goal was to get down to 166 by my trip to NY on 10/22. I’m probably not going to make that goal but I am pleased with my progress.

How’s everyone else doing this fine Monday?

The illness is just a cold, but it’s just taking me a huge long time to get over it. I’m 90% over it now, but I still feel bad at times. But at least yesterday I did 45 minutes of cardio. I’ve been skipping it on weekends. I’ve been totally skipping on strength training, and can actually feel my muscles atrophying. Scary.

Scary, but reassuring in a way. I’m still losing, but at a slow rate that’s congruent with my lifestyle. Sickness plus vacation means less exercise and more calories. Sometimes it’s easy to think that weight loss or gain is the result of blind luck or something else not in our control. There’s a weird sort of comfort in knowing that my recent (sort of) failure is the result of the decisions I’ve made, rather than blind randomness. It gives me a little more feeling of control.

So far this week I’ve exercised twice, which puts me well on the way of meeting my goal of exercising 6 days each week. Okay, so technically, I’m only on week 2 of my new regime, but I’m feeling really good.

I only lost a pound this week. I’m trying to concentrate on fitness and ignore the weight stuff but that’s really hard. I want the exercising to show up on the scale, darn it!

170 even as of this morning, looks like I’m finally getting back on track!

No news on the mystery illness. But many of my worst symptoms have abated and so I decided to try to work out. Since it has been so long I only went 15 minutes. Half way through I started to get dizzy again, but I kept going and made it through my 15.

I’ll give my GP one week more and if there is no progress I’ll start looking for specialists on my own.

I went crazy this weekend…

Went out of town to a wedding and drank way too much. When I drink my decision making skills (especially for healthy food) decreases dramatically. Anyway, Friday night we went bowling and I ended up eating a 1/2 lb Flamethrower from Dairy Queen, Split a dish of Calamari with my SO, drank two shots of tequila, a double vodka tonic, and two Double Knuckle Stouts(I think thats what it was called). That was the mild day.

Saturday was the day of the wedding and in the morning I let my SO talk me into eating McDonalds (a number 8 I think, with the breakfast burritos). I only did one trip at the buffet line, and didn’t eat too much, but I am guessing it was something like 1000 calories including the cake. I did have 5 (small plastic cups) Rum and Diet cokes (diet makes you get drunk faster), and two Bud Lights (still in the plastic cups). After the wedding we at at Panara (though known as St. Louis bread company where we were), but I just had a small bowl of soup (we were there to check movie times but felt guilty so got something light). Before the movie we went to TGi FRIDAYs and each got 2 shots of tequila. At the theater they sold beer! OMG, so I got a 33 oz Amber Bock. After the movie we went to Buffalo Wild wings and I had 12 Blazing boneless wings (I’m guessing at an easy 1000 more calories there). I also had two more drafts of Amber Bock.

For saturday alone I count something like 5,000 calories!

Forgive me, for I have sinned! I don’t know what came over me. I guess I just let myself get too much in party and not caring mode.

3.5 pounds this week, 16 pounds over three weeks in total, down to 272, taken the belt in a notch, still miles to go. Talking of which, I must’ve walked thirty miles last week if it was an inch - nearly six yesterday; I can just about manage that in two roughly equal chunks split between lunchtime and evening. Since that includes a McMeal on Friday evening which got inadvertently supersized and also entailed finishing off the kid’s Oreo McFlurry, and a BBQ chicken and chips in a pub after walking round Windsor Castle the next day, I’m not too unhappy. (The rest of the week I’ve been in what Mrs M calls “diet fascist” mode and I’m pleased to say I’m still not feeling hungry.)

Epimetheus, the important thing is that you recognize your mistakes, which means next time maybe you can take steps to head it off at the pass. But for right now, all you can do is move on!

Malacandra, in several magazine pieces on dieting advice, I’ve heard it said that if you eat what you should 90% of the time, you can eat what you want the other 10%. Seems like that’s what you did last week.