Glory, I add a few more tablespoons of lemon to mine because I like the tang, but my favorite thing about it besides the taste is that it has the consistency of fat. I’m easily fooled when I want to be.
TEN KILOGRAMS DOWN TODAY!!! (22lbs)
That’s between October 4th and February 7th. I am so happy! Now I only have to deal with the other 12-14kg left.:eek:
My next mini-target is to get halfway which is another 1 - 2kg depending on which halfway I choose, then the next after that will be to get to the very edge of the upper limits of “normal weight”.
Did you try one? I just did the 6-minute Hips, Glutes and Thighsvideo - ouch, but good. I’ll be heading to the gym later today for some quality time on the elliptical. But - as of this morning, I’m 8 pounds down!
I did 2 more of the Biggest Loser workouts this weekend and I hate them. I know that they’re good for me and more intense than what I normally do but they’re miserable compared to dance aerobics, and all those lunges in a row makes my knees hurt. I know I’m whining all the time that I want to speed it up but I used to look forward to working out in the morning and now I have to force myself to do it if I’m doing one of those. I think that I have to admit to myself that I don’t really want to get through these last pounds off quickly enough to work out in ways that I don’t enjoy.
I can’t wait for spring to get here. In nice weather there is lots of hard physical work that has to get done around here and I get lots of exercise in the normal course of my days after I work out.
Don’t freak out. You’ve lost the 22 lbs, just lose the rest the same way…slow and steady. One step at a time.
201, no change.
One comforting thought is that I was expecting a truckload of loose skin given that I’m down 87lbs from the high point (and maybe another couple of unrecorded pounds) and it just hasn’t happened. Must have good elastic skin or something. 
Yes, you are absolutely right. I just want it all gone NOW! Sigh… I shouldn’t have got myself into this state. It took me five years so at least a year to get back should be par for the course.
I lost 3 pounds this week, after 2 weeks of not losing anything. I’m 193 lbs, down from 240. I’ve lost 20% of my body weight since last March. I’m working out every day, and trying to keep calories somewhere between 1500 and 1800, which is a big range, but it’s working so I don’t care.
Karyn stay away from the new Jillian Michaels workout, called something like No More Fat Zones. It’s an hour long and it’s agonizingly difficult. There’s another one that’s only 40 minutes, but I can’t imagine it’s any easier. I kind of like Bob Harper’s CardioMax, especially when one of them says something like, “I’d like to kill you, Bob.” Cheers me right up. She also hits him at one point, allegedly by accident. Right. But yeah, those lunges are a bitch.
Ooooh - forgot to post here!
Had my weigh in today and lost another 2lb, so I’m not down to 11st 2.5 (or 156.5), which means I’m only 2.5lb away from my target!!! 
Ceejaytee, I went back to the Zumba power video today and if I intensify the moves I can get almost as much pain out of it as I do from the BL ones. When they do lunges halfway to the floor I get my knee down to within a inch of it instead, I twist harder, jump higher and exaggerate a lot of the movements but I’m still smiling and having fun the whole time and wiped out when I’m done.
I can’t remember who it was (Lorene?) that I was talking to here about obsessive overdoing it and not eating enough to the point where it’s unhealthy and approaching an eating disorder. I was listening to something last night where a recovered anorexic woman was talking about how she came to love the feeling of extreme and painful hunger because she equated it with success and it was so reassuring that starving herself was working. It resonated with me because I remember feeling that way - hunger pangs made me smile even though sometimes I was so hungry that I had no energy and couldn’t even think straight. I think that can be my reality check to keep myself from going under 1200 calories. Right now I hate being hungry and never let myself get to the point where I’m shaky from lack of food, so I’m pretty sure I’m OK.
Yup, that was me. I think I stick my nose into it too much with other people around this issue precisely because I used to be that way, too. But, as you said, I can’t stand being hungry now and don’t tolerate it well at all.
Now, if someone could please just kick my ass to the gym, I’d really appreciate it! Once again, I grumbled and turned off the 4:45 alarm in favor of more sleep, and I can’t go to the gym later. Luckily, I will have walked about 2 miles by the end of the day, but still…
You guys are amazing! I weigh only one per month and I’m hoping for 8 pounds, but counting on 6.
Sorry, I can’t help you there. I’m more consistent in going to the gym if I hit it on my way home from work.
Can you maybe go on your lunch hour?
Jali, I’m sending healthy loser thoughts your way…I think weighing yourself once a month is a great idea. That way you don’t get caught up in the fluctuations. When I was losing I weighed myself every two weeks, the Sunday after payday.
I did the Zumbo intro and 20-minute workouts today. I feel kind of shaky on some of the moves, but when in doubt, I just shake my rear and wave my arms around vigorously, and it seems to keep my heart rate up. This is probably the first workout I’ve ever done where I wasn’t desperately watching the clock hoping for it to be over soon. (Well, I like Turbo Jam too, now that I’m in decent enough shape to be able to finish the workout without wanting to throw up.)
It took me a little while to pick up some of the Zumba moves and I kicked myself in the ankle a whole lot learning the samba step but once I got it down, it was fun. I like that they change the moves often enough not to be boring but they do enough repetitions to give you time to get it. I never watch the clock either and I find myself smiling like they do most of the time. When I lose a step I just jump up and down and flail until I get back in step too. There’s still one routine on the power video that I can’t quite get right more than half the time. It’s not the kind of music that I normally listen to but I like it a lot. I know I must look pretty silly shaking my hips and ass around that way but no one sees me anyway.
There was this one moment that I won’t let myself forget. I was at budget hearings (which are a big deal in government) in a room full of elected officials, department heads, the public and TV cameras and when I had to get up to bring my boss something in the front of the room, I got dizzy and fell back into my seat. People had already been getting on my case about not eating enough and looking unhealthy and I tried to pass it off as tripping but no one was buying it. Several members of the board just glared at me with that ‘we told you so’ look and after that I get read the riot act that if anyone saw anything like that again they were going to put me on leave until a doctor cleared me. It wasn’t long after that I did end up in the hospital. It was humiliating and frightening and I don’t want to forget that I really did do that to myself and have the potential to do it again.
How does one go about joining the SDMB group on Sparkpeople? I know would like to join up for to give and recieve support from fellow dopers on my “mission” to drop some weight.
Nevermind… I found it and joined the SDMB team, hope y’all don’t mind!
Great news—I was finally at the branch of the gym that has the scale yesterday, and I’ve lost 8 pounds! That’s over the course of about 6 weeks, which I think is pretty good.
Today is my birthday, though—I can haz cake? You bet I’ll be having cake! But just today, and then I’ll make my husband bring the leftovers in to work.
Yay!