My computer went belly-up last spring so I haven’t been able to post since then, but I’m pet sitting for a friend so I have internet access until Monday. I’ve missed you guys. Hugs to you all!
I’m impressed with all the fifty-plus weight losses I see here. Good for you all! And Velvet, seems you were twenty or thirty pounds heavier when I was last on these boards, so I’m especially thrilled at your accomplishment. You ought to make your hubby do something extra nice for you when you get skinnier than him. And tell him “Neener, neener, neener,” for me!
At 144 pounds, I’m nearly the same weight as I was last time I here, which means I’ve been maintaining a hundred pound weight loss for nearly a year now. I’m a bit frustrated at not getting that last 20 pounds off but right now I’d settle for getting rid of the four I’ve put on over the summer. I have only myself to blame though and am working mending my ways once again.
It’s nice to see Ivylass (Hows Ivylad doing?), **Malacandra, pseudotriton ruber ruber ** and Wile E still here. The Incredible Shrinking pbbth too! I hope GingeroftheNorth and some of the other old timers will stop by and say hello in the short time I have to be with you guys.
Perhaps someone can tell me how Khadji is doing these days? I hope they’ve figured out what was wrong with him and that he’s feeling better and better. I’ve got my fingers crossed, at least.
Well, I’m off to explore all (well, not all) the threads I’ve missed. I just wanted to pop in here first. Hugs again!
Hey Tikki, welcome back!
I am a little annoyed right now. I was reading an online article about Jennifer Love Hewitt. A while ago she was photographed in a bikini and they zeroed in on her butt and thighs that had some cellulite. She defended herself over being called fat saying she was a size 2 which should no way be considered fat and she was proud of her body. She said she was upset about the wrong sort of message this sends to young girls about body image. So what did she do?
She lost 18 pounds and makes a big deal about it in People, or one of those magazines. JLW, losing the weight isn’t the problem, that’s fine if it makes you feel better, but just keep your mouth shut about it. Lose the weight, work out, tone up or do whatever you want but don’t say anything about it and the next time the photographers snap a picture of you in a bikini everyone will realize what you did. What about all those girls with body image problems that now see a size 2 actress get called fat and then lose 18 pounds?
That’s one of the things I didn’t like about the movie The Devil Wears Prada…they made a big deal about Andi going from a size 6 to a size 4, and I know my newly size 8 butt would get nothing but sneers, but still, I’m proud of it!
Ivygirl has started judo/jujitsu. I was a bit concerned because while she’s not fat, she doesn’t exercise as much as she should, so getting her into a martial arts class should be good for her. She’s enjoying it, too.
Welcome back, Tikki! Ivylad is about the same, sadly, but we have BIG plans for next year (and no, I’m not spilling them yet.)
I was so afraid to weigh myself today, because between the chemo and the Neulasta I have been dragging this week. But, it’s the weekend after payday, and time to hop on the scale.
Another two pounds gone! I am officially within my goal range of 135-140 lbs, and only four pounds away from my goal weight! I think I deserve a new pair of jeans! Go me!! I must, however, get more protein into my diet. I am going to try tuna fish mixed up with pickles and a little rice wine vinegar.
I make a tuna salad out of tuna, sour cream, black beans, and salsa, using a minimum (about a tablespoon) of sour cream. Over lettuce and with some hot sauce it’s a high protein, low fat taco salad. Yum.
I’m at 35 lbs lost. At 40 I’m splurging like crazy on a new handbag and maybe some clothes. I’ll have $400 saved to go nuts. I am so stoked.
Today’s weigh in was 211 pounds, down 1 from last week, which is pretty good, since I have been sick and missed a couple of days of exercise. Hopefully when I see the doctor on Wednesday, he’ll have some advice to make me feel better. But I’m down 35 pounds since March and I feel great.
About 7 weeks ago my doc said I was getting close to diabetes. She said I should consider planning for medical interventions. I said no way I will lose weight. I am down about 30 ponds now.
I lost 5 lbs a week for 4 weeks. Then dropped to 2-3 per week. That is about 10 a month since the first month, So if I lose 10 pounds a month in about 21 months I will be gone. I bet the last few are hard to reach.
I’ve got a Bad Back and from 2003 - 2007 it was out more often than in and I gained a lot of weight. Last year being my first pain-free-for-4-years year I dusted off my leotard and my Jane Fonda Step Aerobic video and went for “the burn”.
Since then I’ve lost 12 pounds or thereabouts, I’ve had to buy belts for my jeans, and several items of clothing I’d not been able to wear because they were too tight now fit.
For some odd reason despite this I’ve developed Type 2 Diabetes (and I know for a fact I wasn’t diabetic 2 years ago)
You guys and your 50+ weight losses are inspiring the hell out of me.
With the cross-country move I fell almost completely and totally off the horse. We were in NJ barely a week before we had to drive back to Michigan for my best friend’s Wedding. It was fast food, fast food, eating out, eating out… and more fast food. I think I got out to run once in the last two weeks. But I also did some moving and a LOT of walking – all told I think I gained some muscle weight but probably added some fat too. I’m somewhere between 166 and 169, up from 165.
Now it’s time to get serious. I just bought myself some new exercise equipment – floor mat, iron dumbbell set, and a stability ball. I realize if I am going to make any progress as a runner, I’m going to have to get hardcore about strength training – I have bad knees and it is a necessity I keep my legs strong.
Also, no pussyfooting around and easing back into the running… that never seems to work for me, it won’t get me off the ground. Yesterday I threw myself into it 2 miles, today I do 3 miles, tomorrow I do 2 miles, and this weekend I’m going for a distance PR of 4 miles. We are training for another 5K and probably a 10K at the end of September. Watching the Olympics has solidified my conviction that I want to run a marathon someday.
Not only do we have some hills on our new course, but there’s a track within walking distance so we are going to start doing interval training to help with my speed. I’m still a very slow runner.
Going grocery shopping today to take care of the nutrition issues I’ve been having. Back to tracking foods on SparkPeople starting today.
By the way, can I just say I luuuurve my stability ball? After one workout I felt extremely strong. Learning the correct form is a bit of a challenge, but while you’re working your arms, legs, whatever, you have to constantly keep your abs and back strong to stay on the ball. It really works. I’ve never had a more solid 2 miles. I think my stability ball is going to change my running life.
My gym had menus for a place called Evos last week, it serves healthier fast food. Wraps, turkey and veggie burgers, salads, organic meats and veggies and the fries and chicken strips are air baked. I got dinner for a coworker and myself that night, it was good. Then I took the boyfriend Friday, he said it was okay but not that special. Although if they don’t have gyros or chef salads he never knows what to order. I liked it a lot but I guess I just appreciate fresher food now.
I sort of fell off the diet wagon Saturday. The BF was over and we ordered pasta from Pizza Hut for dinner. We got the chicken alfredo, I swear they put crack in that stuff, it’s so good and you can’t stop eating it. So I had about 1 1/2 servings and later my stomach hurt a lot. I haven’t really eaten a big meal or that much carbs at one time for a few weeks now. So I felt kind of blah the next day but that was enough to convince me to stick to my small healthy meals. Went back to my salads for the next couple days.
When I happily talk about feeling better and losing some weight my boyfriend says he may have to start working out too. He has a job where he has to lift and move stuff a lot so he gets a workout plus he’s one of those people who can eat and eat and stay slim. He’s got a teeny tiny pot belly at the most. He says he would do it to get a little more strength and tone but I know he’d end up with 6 pack abs in just a couple weeks without much effort and still eating the way he does and I would have to hate him for it but he assures me he’s actually too lazy to really bother working out.
I went to Fat Club last night after a week’s absence and found my weight had stayed the same. Good enough for me, I’d spent the week eating and drinking all the wrong things at a music festival in Budapest. Today, I’m back on the dieting wagon…
Woah, way to go! I don’t think I could run 2 miles (much less 2 blocks). My goal is to be running by next spring, but when I try running now, oh, the pain! Hopefully by spring I’ll be fully cigarette-free, nay, I will be. Since last Tuesday I’m down to about 2 a day, and no more smoking in the house. I want to run, too!
I’m thinking of starting karate. There’s a dojo by my house that is offering 30 days of karate and yoga classes for $30. I like both. And I signed up for a free Tai Chi workshop next Saturday. Hopefully it won’t be too much of a sales pitch.
I literally started, in April of this year, on the couch, having never even run a full mile before. Running for 30 seconds seemed like a challenge when I began. Within two months I was, as promised, up to 5K, and ran in my first race on the 4th of July. (I wasn’t last! I was almost last, but I wasn’t last!)
Now my distance PR is 3.5 miles and the longest I’ve ever run continuously is an hour and fifteen minutes (it took me that long to run 3.5 miles… told you I was slow.)
Karate sounds like a blast. When I was a teen I worked my way up to Green Belt in Tae Kwon Do. I did a couple of months of Aikido classes in college – Aikido is way harder and IMHO way awesomer. I am thinking of starting up again. The truth is there are a ton of fun things to do that involve exercise. The key is finding them and enjoying them instead of feeling like they are something you ‘‘have to’’ do.
ETA: if you are on SparkPeople, I am RacingSlug. Add me!
I’ve been hearing about the Couch 2 5k program. I think I’ll have to try it. And may I say, holy crap, running for 1 hour 15 minutes, that is so long! Great job, you should be very proud of yourself! Speed doesn’t matter nearly as much as endurance, IMO.
I did some martial arts in high school, and loved it, but wasn’t so serious about it because, you know, boys and beer and stuff were way more fun. I’m excited about getting back to it. I was practicing jump kicks last night and it was exhilarating. Then I did some yoga and did some inverted poses that I would have had a real hard time doing a few months ago. I am just feeling so awesome.
Oh, and I’m seriously considering signing up for a belly dancing class. There’s an 8 week class that’s only $40. I’m really trying to think of things that I can do in the winter once there’s snow all around. My place is too small for equipment, and it’s really too cold from mid December through late February to even consider my regular walking. And a membership at the Y- can you believe $60 a month? Gah!
I hope GingeroftheNorth and some of the other old timers will stop by and say hello in the short time I have to be with you guys.