Well it’s day four and all is going well. I’ve gone back to my WW points program and have stuck to it so far. The key is to be organised, I think.
My fiance and I went for a bush walk yesterday, not a very long one, took about 45 minutes, but lots of up and down hill and I certainly felt puffed afterwards!
I’ve decided to be brave and put my weight details up, in the hope that others will feel less shy about doing so as well.
SW 275
CW 275
GW 220
Today is my seventh day of daily exercise. Here are today’s exercise numbers:
30 sit-ups (up from 20)
15 push-ups (up from 10)
40 reps w/22.5 lb weights (up from 30)
10 minutes jogging (up from 5 minutes)
2.5 km (1.6 miles) walking in 32 minutes (down from 38 minutes)
Lunch is ready to be taken out of the oven. French onion soup (220 Calories). So when I finish, my caloric intake so far today will be ~700.
I should explain my ‘jogging’, since it’s weird. You all know both of my knees are rubbish. That makes it hard to jog. So I have a space of about 30 feet (10 meters) in my house where I can jog back and forth. I don’t get much speed, but I can’t go fast with my knees anyway. I reckon it’s like being on a treadmill. See, I told you it’s weird. But it gets the heartrate up, and I broke a sweat today.
Ok. I’m in. After having gained over 40 pounds in the last year and a half I’m ready to cut the crap and get back into shape. I quit smoking back in October (doing very well with that) and gained about 10 from the metabolism change.
I’ve cut drinking down to just a couple of alcoholic beverages a week (it helps stave off nicotine fits) but my diet has sucked the past couple of months due to the demands of my job. I have a desk job and have had to work about 12 hours a day 6 days a week so I just grab what I can to eat.
Here’s the stats:
I’m 33, 5’5.
198~195~145(150 may be more realistic at my age)
The challenges of this for me are:
Having a desk job
Bum knee
Hypoglycemia
The reason I’ll accomplish my goals are
I have high cholesterol thanks to genetics.
I have an enormous risk of becoming diabetic
My blood pressure is creeping up. (141/89 the last few Dr. visits, I used to be
(120/70)
I’ll feel better about myself.
Good luck to everyone!
I’m a late joiner, but…
I certainly don’t want to post my weight, heh. Not til I’ve significantly lost. Let’s just say it’is a lot and I haven’t started until today.
My main change is going to be to stop eating out. I’ve been eating out like crazy lately and it’s more out of laziness than anything. I know that will help a lot. I have no problem with beverages because all I drink is water anyhow.
As far as exercise goes, it will have to be Tae-Bo until it starts getting darker later and then hopefully I’ll go back to the track.
I have to add though, my mom lost 150 lbs in ten months a couple of years ago through diet and exercise but she did it to the extreme. She ate only 1000 calories a day and exercised 2 hours a day. She had a lot more determination than me.
Good luck to us all.
I watched the You Are What You Eat mini-marathon on W Network. Sobering, to see all that ‘food’ laid out. Unfortunately, it looked a lot like my diet.
I’m eating a lot of homemade veggie soup (very low fat) to fill me up, and trying to get a lot more colour in (i.e. fresh fruits and vegetables). I miss the horrible satisfaction of feeling slightly oozy, ooky and greasy from the high-fat food I’m craving. I know it will pass.
There’s a big binder of higher-volume, lower-calorie recipes I’m thumbing through on the couch. I munch raw carrots at work.
I have a headache. 
Almost reached through the monitor and slapped you, there. Size 1! I bellowed. No one trying to get into a size ONE needs to lose weight.
But I think I see what you meant, and I’m calmer now. I have some berries to eat.
Johnny - lose the jogging; you’re just going to rip your knees up worse. Just walk more. If you could get your hands on one, I’d say get yourself an elliptical trainer (just not one of the new Cybex ones - they’re not for anyone with bad knees).
Another one hoping I’m not too late to join up. I’ve always been ‘big’ but I’ve come to realize I’m not going to just wake up looking like my (size 4) little sister one day. My plan is to start doing slim fast for breakfast, eating healthier, avoiding soda, and trying to hit the gym as often as I can. I really need to find a ‘regular’ time to go, but I’m a student and sometimes homework and the part time job take up all my time. I’m hopeful, in any case.
190/190/140
Yesterday I did absolutely nothing in the way of meaningful exercise so this morning I took a brisk 30 minute walk. My plan is to do that again when I get home from work.
My band has a line on a really nice gig in February so if we take the gig my short term goal will be 10 lbs by February 2. That’s ambitious but do-able.
I’d like to join as well, with the caveat that I had gastric bypass surgery in November 2004, and have lost the lions share of the weight I needed to lose. I would like to finish off a final 30 pounds so I can investigate reconstructive surgery.
My goals:
drop 30 pounds.
get off the processed carb merry-go-round.
consume at least 75 grams of protein (per my surgeon’s protocol) per day.
incorporate more strength/weight training into my exercise routine.
consume at least 100 ounces (again, per my surgeon’s protocol) per day.
Good luck to everyone!
VCNJ~
Alright, I’m in. Now I know what some of you are thinking. You’re thinking:
“Bouv, I’ve seen you in person/seen a picture. You’re not fat! Get your ass out of here and make more room for us real overweight people!”
Well, while that is true, I am not really overweight for my height and sex, I do feel like I have too much fat. And I can see it. A big ol’ blob of it right below my ribs. Ugh. I can jiggle it around and everything. Plus, I am have become so disgustingly sedentary in the past few years that it’s sickening. So I am going to try and eat better, because hey, eating better is always good, and excercise, so incase I have to outrun a serial killer, I can.
My plan is to, hopefully, lose about 15-20lbs, bringing me down to around 165(I’m about 6’ tall.) Then start to exercise more, and take in a few more calories and more protein, and try to build some lean muscle, and maybe go up to 170. But for right now, I’m focusing on just losing a few pounds by eating better and getting some physical activity.
I will do a food journal to document my eatings, and go to the “gym” every day for thirty minutes at first. I mgiht change the schedule later, but for right now, I think that’s good. I say “gym” because it’s just the workout room at the fire station, but it has a treadmill, a bike, and a free weight bench. That’s all I need. I’d love to go swimming instead, but that would cost me $30 a month for a real gym membershiop, and even then, they don’t have their own pool, I have to use the high school’s, and only a couple days out of the week. Not worth it.
I weighed in this morning at 184.5 lbs. I plan to start going to the “gym” tonight after work, and the eating better will start today at lunch. I don’t have the actual stats yet, but my breakfast was a bowl of frosted shredded wheat in lowfat milk. So while it’s probably more carbs and calories than what might be best, at least I got some fiber.
Good luck everybody! After being a dieting failure all my life, I decided to completely overhaul how I eat in July of 2004. I made some very important permanent changes, lost 60+ lbs and it made a huge difference in my life - so much more energy.
My only advice would be to plan for maintenance. In my previous experience, I would lose weight, gain it back, gain more weight, lose weight, gain it back, gain more weight. This is the first time I’ve been successful long term and I think it’s because I started losing weight with the idea of keeping the weight off forever.
I reached my goal weight in February 2005 and I’m working on one year of maintenance - keeping the weight off is exactly the same hard work as losing weight.
SW 192/GW 135/CW 130
Hi, I was invited to join by Khadaji and Johnny LA (thanks guys)…that post is here.
I have no idea what my current weight is but it’s probably around 180 and I would like to get down to ~150.
In.
My situation is make or break. I’m off work until September 6th, giving me nine months to complete various work-related projects but completelly at my pace, meaning that I will not have the “I had to jam it in my mouth because I only had six minutes between meetings” excuse. If I don’t take off serious weight in the next 9 months, I’m going to have to get okay with being overweight, buying a lot of fat clothes, etc.
That said, I plan to lose the weight. My techniques will be
drinking lots of water
accepting being “hungry” which, in quotes, means mostly bored. I’m hungry now, for example, though I had a decent and healthy breakfast (cup of oatmeal with some raisins and some milk) at 8:30, four hours ago, and a cup of coffee at 10 a.m. I think I will keep a timer on the fridge, and set a goal for keeping snacks out of my mouth. My goal today is to reach 1 PM without eating, and I’m only a half-hour away now.
No eating past, shall we say, 8 PM? I do serious damage packing on the calories at night. I can have a cup of tea while watching TV but no solid food.
regular exercise. Bike or walk an hour every other day.
I have no idea what I weigh now, something like 240. Is a number beginning with a “1” reasonable by September?
Oh, and
portion size. I thoughtlessly heap too much on the plate. Gonna try to be more conscious of that.
Eating while cooking. Very damaging.
and
Just saw this thread…count me in. Last year I lost 30lbs between May and October on Weight Watchers. I got off track and gained 5 back over the Halloween to New Years eating season.
I’m hoping to lose 50 this year. I figure if I can lose 30 in 6 mos, 50 in a year should be doable. In order to be in the weight range I should be in I need to lose a total of 68 more pounds. If I get it all off this year great, but my goal for this year is really just the 50. I’m trying to be reasonable.
I do really well when I’m following the WW guidelines. So that’s the plan for me.
Good luck to all,
Rhiannon
238/213/145
Alright, slighhtly on-topic question.
Does anyone know if this site is reliable? I’m only using it for nutrional info, and then only for foods that have no label of their own (like produce and meats.) I’ve noticed they are a bit…“picky” in regards to what foods they think are good (skinless roasted chicken breast is only 2.5 stars (out of 5)?) But allI want to know is if I am getting somewhat accurate calorie, carb, and protein info.
Yesterday I started a ‘lunch club’ at work.
I’ve put a table up on the lunchroom noticeboard with our names on it, and each time we bring in our lunch from home (as opposed to buying it from a local dairy/cafe) we give ourselves a tick.
Being the incredibly competitive person that I am, I think this will be a great motivator.
Not only will we be eating healthier food, but it should save us some pennies as well!
I need to lose the extra 15 lbs I picked up over the past few months. My weight gain was caused by the weirdest thing.
It was Tea! Or rather my habit of drinking 5 cups a day, with 3 tsps. of sugar in each one. I can’t think of anything else it could be. I rarely eat breakfast, I have a salad or steamed veggies for lunch and only snack on healthy stuff. Supper is not as healthy as it should be because I have to fix things my husband will eat. I started drinking tea in September. :cue omninus music:
So, other than omitting the sugar, I don’t know of any other way to change my diet. But I plan on spending less time on Pilates and strength building, and more time on Cardio. My excercise bike is currently holding up a roll of carpet that didn’t get installed in the den before Christmas, as promised. So I’ve been doing a lot of jumping around and twisting and bending and jumping around some more. I should probably invest in a workout DVD. Anybody know of a good one?