I’m finally enthusiastic about losing weight.
I peeked into last month’s thread out of curiosity - NOT with the intent to improve my life and I clicked the link to http://sparkpeople.com/ provided by Ivylass.
I’m now a very active member and I’ve lost 6 whole pounds!
We have a strong and supportive group (SDMB) there and we encourage each other regularly.
My goal is to lose about 45 or so more pounds and I’m determined to make it happen.
How’s everyone doing?
I’m over at SparkPeople, too. I have lost five pounds in two weeks, which is outstanding and unprecedented and wonderful and shocking and… a whole bunch of other adjectives. I’m past the early calorie restriction phase where you’re always hungry. I hope it’s smooth sailing from here on out. Wedding dress… here I come!
I’m glad you’re past the hunger thing. I remember that being a problem for a while.
I’ve been hungry late at night lately - I don’t know why. I fought it off and went back to sleep last night.
I had a rough time last night too. I know that it’s PMS when the idea of eating pops into my mind about every 20 minutes. I can’t find the link again but I read that the reason we get so hungry during that time is that our metabolism speeds up during those last few days. I’m not sure that it was accurate but it was interesting.
I’m changing my weigh-in day to Fridays because that’s the day that I do the weekly grocery shopping. I figure that it will inspire me not to buy anything that I shouldn’t. I like doing the shopping once a week because then I just need to have willpower once instead of every few days.
Is this a good place to post low-calorie recipes and products or are we supposed to go to the recipe thread? Every time I look at that thread I get hungry and jealous that people get to eat that way without getting fat.
I’m still stuck. Not losing anything. In fact, higher than where I began, because it’s that special girl time.
I will never, ever hit my goal. After years of the same, I may be done. Nothing I do seems to make any difference.
I’m joining up right now. I had previously gained enough weight to go up a clothing size - yes, it’s not a ton, but still - you have to buy all new clothes! :eek: I finally got that weight off and then with the stress at work and feeling tired a lot, my good habits have mostly gone out the window, and the weight is coming back.
People at work ask me why I’m worried about my weight, and I tell them that I don’t think I’m fat, but “I’m too old to be ‘outgrowing’ my pants, so that means I’m putting on too much weight.” That seems to make sense to them. What I’m not saying is that when I put on enough weight to need to buy new clothes, and as those clothes started feeling tighter, I looked around at work (I work in a hospital) at really medically obese patients and thought, ‘this is how it starts’ - you accept the extra pounds, you buy bigger clothes, and you don’t work to stop the slide. (Disclaimer: I know some people have medical conditions that cause it - I don’t! I am gaining weight because I’ve cut back on my exercise and I eat too much, and of the wrong foods.)
I’m beginning to wonder if I will be able to lose any more, too. I seem to be stuck in the 160-165 range, and bounce around in there without ever really going above or below that. I guess that’s fine. I look and feel good. Yesterday someone at the gym actually called me “skinny.” So I find myself asking, “do I really need to lose this last five or so pounds?” I’m not sure at the moment.
Ginger and yellowval I’m stuck at about 6-7 pounds from my goal now and it’s frustrating as hell but I know that it will kick back in eventually, or at least I hope so. I don’t need to lose the last bit and no one that saw me would consider me to be overweight but it’s the principle of the thing to me right now. After years of obesity, losing it all, gaining 15 or 20 back over 5 years and then losing most of it again I just want to get to my damn goal and stay there for once. If nothing else works I’m going to up my calories to sustain my current weight and then cut back again a month later and see if that shakes me out of this plateau. Maybe it’s just harder in the winter when exercise is usually limited to working out once a day.
I’ve gone way past frustrated and into the realm of astonished, astounded, and frightened.
More than a year ago I complained of being stuck. I started at 275, and had gotten myself down to 220. And there I stayed. I got a little lax over the summer, then joined a gym, where I weighed in at 230. I gained 10 pounds over the summer!
And then in November I broke both of my feet. That put an end to exercise for a while. In two months I gained another 20 pounds! I’m back up to 250.
Fuck.
Down 7.2 pounds in the month of January. Now I need to repeat this 4 more times. However, I am learning to stop eating when I am full and not eat to just eat. And the pants I wore last week are baggy around the thighs. When they get baggy in the butt I will put them in the donations box.
That’s where I am, only I’m less Zen about it. I want to hit that magic number BECAUSE I DO. I’m not accustomed to failure. And before anyone else says it, I do realize that losing an entire person’s worth of weight isn’t failure. It’s the failure to lose the last five pounds.
Plus my belly is gross looking. When the plastic surgery fairy comes, send her my way please.
Stupid snow meant that I couldn’t go to my weigh in yesterday but the last one I had I was at 11st 4.5 (158.5lb), which means I’m 4.5lb from my goal. I weighed myself at home on Sunday and it showed that I’d lost more but I don’t know how much because my scales and the weight watchers scales are always a few pounds apart from each other (but consistently so).
At the moment I’m exercising a huge amount - about 4 or 5 days in the gym every week. And I’m LOVING it! Project six pack is coming along quite nicely. 
I think I’ve probably reached the point where my weight loss has been distorted by muscle gain, but given that I’m exercising hard and eating well (including protein additional supplements) I imagine what I’m losing is fat so it’s not a big deal if I keep weighing less as time goes on. Plus I still have a little padding on my belly and on the oysters so I think there is still some left to go.
I’m so pleased with what I’ve achieved in the 13 months since I joined weight watchers, it’s been a great help and I can’t recommend it enough as an eminently sensible way of trying to lose weight (for whatever reason). Of course this is with the caveat that you need to change your life to make the weight loss sustainable, but in my case it was simply returning to the healthy life I used to have before my spell in hospital. Should hit my target by the end of the month - excited!
I am not currently thriving in the weight loss department. I have two graduate school interviews in 2 days and have been eating myself silly to deal with the stress. It has begun to upset my stomach even more. So today I’ve been good --water and a sandwich for lunch. I have to implement these little changes because one huge overhaul is too much for me to deal with right now.
I have go over the edge lately - eating out of control. Stupid Superbowl. And Stupid Day-After-Superbowl, when my hangover demanded a McDonald’s breakfast.
Allow me to sit in the corner and hum my mantra
Hey, don’t laugh! This successfully stopped me from getting a cheeseburger at lunch! And if I play dinner right, I may still not og over my calories for today.
Yea for fresh starts!
I started getting serious about my diet and exercise about mid October. My general diet these days is a couple apples, a couple bananas, a couple Slim-Fast (usually generic), and then a home cooked dinner. When I’m being good, at least. Crystal Lite has been quite helpful to keep me from “needing” a snack.
I started out weighing about 250, and dropped to about 240. I started taking creatine a couple weeks ago, though, so I’m back up to 250.
I’m quite pleased with myself, I started in October and I was benching 185, squatting 225, and dead lifting 185. As of last night, I’m benching 275, squatting 365, and dead lifting 315.
I’ve got a couple great workout partners, so that makes things a lot easier. It’s easier for me, mentally, to bulk up than it is to lose weight, especially with rugby season coming up. But I plan to stay around 250 throughout the season, and then cut to about 225 when the season is over. Og, it will be so nice to finally get rid of my belly!
I thought that too. Then I realized with SparkPeople’s help that while I was eating healthy, I was eating too much Maybe you need to see a doctor to make sure there’s nothing medical that’s causing a problem? There’s a lady I know over at SP who lost 176 lbs. That’s one whole adult male!!
Don’t get discouraged, and don’t say you’ll never hit your goal. The unconcious mind cannot take a joke. That’s why I got rid of all my size 10 clothes…never ever again.
I love Sparkpeople. Sparkpeople Sparkpeople Sparkpeople (that’s for you, jali, and you know why!) We have a SDMB SparkTeam and we have 33 members, last I checked.
Still maintaining at 125-128. This week I’m wearing clothes to work that have been in my closet for years and I can fit into them again!
We can do it!
Exactly. It was a great success for me to lose it all, but I failed in not keeping it all off and I won’t feel like I succeeded again until I get back to where I was. I don’t give up at anything else without trying as hard as I can and I’m not giving up on this even if it takes another year. It isn’t like I’m going to be able to eat all that much more to maintain 7 pounds less anyway.
I’m a little worried about stepping on the scales on Friday. My will power just seemed to go out of the window this week. Oh well. I’ll just try again and keep my fingers crossed for weigh day!
Looks wistfully at the weight levels in his own workout programme before slinking away to sulk in the corner and feel vaguely inadequate
I’m not budging. I want to budge.
Today I’ve been snacking on pretzels because I’m really stressed out, which is bad. But, I’ve also had 8 glasses of water already, which is good.
I need a better stress outlet, dammit. But if I’m not nibbling on crunchy foods, I bite my nails or the skin around my nails instead. And for now, pretzels are preferable to bleeding cuticles.