Happy Birthday!
I hope you have a beautiful day.
Hi guys. I’ve been doing my usual caring-not caring-caring again thing.
I’m going through a life crisis that, one the one hand, makes me want to lose weight even more, but on the other hand is serious enough that I can’t blame myself for any coping methods, including eating.
I’ve been meaning to get back on the exercise bandwagon, though. I have a few workout videos, but I fell down the stairs a couple of weeks ago, then I got a cold, so I haven’t gotten around to starting a program yet. Maybe today!
I’m also vaguely letting the thought of getting a Wii percolate in my head. Do any of you do Wii Fit?
I lost a pound this week which is good, but it’s half of the weight I’d gained the week before. So, still progress of a sort but I am kidding myself that it’s good because I didn’t dare go to Fat Club the week before the 2lb gain because I’d just come back from Vegas and I knew how much weight I’d put on in 10 days of cocktails and Mexican food!
On the plus side, I had a call last night from our Fat Club leader’s manager who asked me if I was interested in becoming a consultant and having a group or two of my own to run. That, apparently, makes me a Fat Club star.
Happy Birthday and congratulations on the big loss, Lorene.
My weigh-in day is tomorrow and I’m dreading it. I know I haven’t overeaten at all and I’ve worked out every day and increased the intensity but I’ve been stuck at this plateau for so many weeks now that I’ve almost stopped expecting to see a loss. I can’t blame it on water weight this time. I take a medication that supposedly makes you gain weight but I lost 15 pounds after I started taking it so I can’t blame that either. I measure and write down everything that goes in my mouth. I’m just stuck 
Fantastic news, lorene! Karyn, hang in there. Have you tried changing your workout routine? I’ve heard that that can help when you hit a plateau for a while.
As for me, I am now at 5.5 total pounds lost, since Jan. 1. This is a very slow weight loss for me, but I am sticking with it. I am really enjoying my Turbo Jam DVDs and alternating them with Zumba. Also, I feel like I’ve finally developed some healthy eating habits and am no longer feeling deprived all the time or like I want to open the fridge and eat the entire contents.
We have a lot of birthdays in our family (my own 3 kids, my husband, my sister and her two kids, my two brothers…) and there is always cake and ice cream. I resolved this year in January that this year I would not eat any birthday cake. At all. Not even on my own birthday. It will be a cake-free year for me. So far I have made it through one birthday successfully. Two are coming up in the next week, so wish me success. 
I’ve changed it a bit by replacing Zumba with a Biggest Loser painful video every few days, but I’m still doing a day of weight training in between each aerobics day. I’d really rather not spend money to join a gym and have to drive 30 minutes to get to a decent one. There is a ‘Curves’ in the closest little mountain town that a friend took me as a guest to but it’s very dirty, the music is blasting disco and people were sweating all over the machines and not ever wiping them off. But, I think you can get short memberships there so maybe I’ll try it if nothing gives in the next week or 2.
Does anyone know how to figure out if you have a small, medium or large frame? I’m not sure where medium ends and large starts.
You measure. There are a few frame-size calculators available online, but you have to do the measurements to use them. Use a measuring tape, or a non-stretchy length of cord and a ruler. If you use regular twisted twine you won’t get accurate measurements.
Yay!! It all caught up at once and I showed a four pound loss this morning. I’m so relieved. I was starting to think that I was going to have to stick to 1200 calories a day forever just to maintain where I was last week.
Thanks for the link, Steel. I tried a few last night and most said that I have a medium frame and one or two said that I had a large one, so I think I can assume that I’m on the larger end of medium when I look at weight charts.
I know you aren’t supposed to celebrate with food but now I get to eat terror-free when we go out for Valentine’s Day.
I don’t have a Wii Fit myself, but had the opportunity to try it out last weekend at my sister’s. It has its pros and cons. First of all, I thought the Wii Fit board was too small, and too hard. It was especially awkward trying to do pushups on it. I felt like my hands were too close together and because the platform was so hard, it made my hands hurt. Even my 16-year-old nephew (5’11" 145), a football player and wrestler, had a difficult time doing pushups on it. I did enjoy the hula-hooping and the running. For the running, you put the Wii remote in your pocket and jog in place or run around the room. You can watch your Miis run on the screen, or you can change it and watch TV. My nephew and I enjoyed a nice jog together. The yoga is also intriguing. A friend of mine is currently using the Wii Fit to lose weight after having a baby. It’s convenient for her to do at home with two kids. It’s definitely something I would like to get in the future, but since I only see myself using it sporadically, I will wait until the price goes down.
ETA: 160 this a.m.
Walked to the coffee shop a mile and a half from my kids’ preschool this morning instead of driving. It took me 30 minutes, which freaked me out until I realized that there was a certain amount of stopping for traffic lights and waiting to cross the street. Still, I probably could pick up the pace a bit.
I’m taking a break from Turbo Jam today because I think I messed up my left shoulder doing it yesterday.
I thought I was making progress, but now I’m not so sure. I’ve been closer to 87kg than 88kg, but I skipped my evening gym workout last night, and I’m back up to 88kg. Maybe I have hit a hard limit.
On the other hand, I have trimmed up round my belly/abs and obliques. My wife complained that I no longer have love handles to grab. So that’s all good.
I’m mixing up the workouts - boxercise (where I impressed myself by surviving an extended crunch-and-punch session much better than most of the other guys), circuit class (completed easily with maximum effort), weights, running (including a 10km training run, no stops), cycling and swimming (40 minutes of continuous freestyle). I even did a pure high-intensity aerobics class - and had an epic fail for grace and poise. But the working out was good.
So a bit up and down - more positives than negatives, and things are better even if it does not show up on the scales.
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I had about two weeks of major fury and stress so I’ve slacked off a bit. I finally bit the bullet and joined SparkPeople. Tomorrow I’ll play around with the site a bit and then I’ll start goals and stuff on Sunday.
I only have about 20 pounds left to lose. Sparkpeople says I should go down to 145, but I’ll worry about that after I get down to 170 or so. I don’t trust BMI calculators because I always come out heavy on them. There are big, dense bones inside this kitty and they add up. It’s a lifelong thing, I’m used to it.
There is a huge box of chocolate on my dining room table :eek:
Then, hide away somewhere…after you have ONE piece. You can have one piece, but only one, and savor it.
That way you get a treat but you don’t blow all your hard work!
SpazCat, welcome to SparkPeople! We have an SDMB team…come check us out!
Ran 3 miles and went to BOSU BootCamp this morning. The BootCamp instructor worked us hard enough that, about 20 minutes in, I knew I was a fool for having done both. I also idly wondered if she yells at her husband like that. “You’re NOT done yet!!”
I love the class, though…when it’s over. 
That’s what I’m going to do ivylass. I only had one piece and I made it last an hour by just nibbling at it, and it was just as good as eating 5 pieces. I’m going to encourage my friend who rents our cabin to gorge himself on it too. I’ll make an occasion of having one piece after dinner for a few days and by then they’ll be gone. There’s no way that I’m doing what I did at Christmas again after how long it took me to lose it the second time. It’s not even tempting at the moment because I’m still happy from yesterday’s weigh-in. I’m glad that dinner is chinese food because it’s low-calorie if you leave out the rice, noodles and fried things. This isn’t going to be a disastrous food holiday.
I always have dessert. It might be a 100 calorie Hostess dessert, a 60 calorie sugar free Jello chocolate pudding, or a 100-calorie serving of ice cream. Sometimes, if I’ve been very good, it might be a Little Debbie or a whole chocolate bar. If you try to deny yourself the treats, well, that’s when you find yourself diving head first into a bowl full of potato chips.
Everything in moderation!
I have a little dessert every night too. Usually it’s one of those chocolate peanut butter South Beach bars that are 100 calories. I got those little cupcakes once and they were great, but the store up here hasn’t carried them since. Once I get to maintenance and have a few hundred calories to spare I’m going back to baking once a week, too. My partner misses those things and it’s fun to bake for him. I think I’ve gotten enough self control back to only eat a little bit of whatever I bake. The last month has been frustrating enough to remember for a while. That was the longest plateau that I’ve ever hit, even the first time when I lost 115 pounds. It’s easy to stay on track right now.
Okay, I have a little scale obsession going on. Every time I walk into the bathroom I weigh myself just to see what it says this time. But I’m not taking it seriously; it’s fun to watch the numbers go up and down, sometimes against all logic (I weigh less after I ate a meal?). The bottom line, roughly averaging all the numbers in the last two weeks or so, says I’m down about five pounds. And I haven’t been working that hard at it, which was my goal - to make this something I can fit into my everyday life.
But doggone it, it’s fun to play with the scale!
Uh, I totally missed this thread until tonight. How’d that happen?
I lost 4 pounds last week!
I weighed in at 203.8 on Friday. Being below 200 by the end of the month would simply make my year.