also also wik…
Macadamias are mostly fat, not carb, at that.
I’m at 165! That’s 42 pounds since January 20th.
Shosh’: You da BABE!
(All of y’all are da babes too, but Shoshana is the only one I’ll code for - this took me 7 tries!)
Quasi
Day 12 – 208 pounds! That’s 7 pounds lost since I started.
I’m on my way, baby! I’m back to craving my yummy lunch salad, and I’ve definitely been eating less (and better) food, wihtou feeling deprived. Could I possibly be developing GOOD habits for a change?
Scarlett67: You da BABE!
(All of y’all are da babes too, but Scarlett67 is the only one I’ll code for - this took me 8 tries!)
Quasi
Guess I better sneak outta here before somone calls me fickle or a practical joker! Or worse: sends one of the mods after me for excessive coding/pasting/copying.
wrings hands
Q
Hmmmm. Seeing how it’s been 2 and a half hours, and no one has jumped into my “feces” (as it were:)) over my bandwidth usage, allow me to post a little cheer, since it’s been a while (also allow me a smug smile 'cause I’m at 198 ;))
Y’ALL ARE AWESOME!
"AY-OH! LET’S GO!"
(The Ramones rawk!)
heh-heh
Q;)
QUASI, YOU ROCK!
(Yeah, that would be easier to do in HTML.)
Everyone rocks 
Saturday morning weigh in: 235, down 2 more lbs. from last Saturday. Yay!
There’s one of those at the Y I’ve been going to. I see her all the time, and she’s perfectly trim, toned, tanned, and possesses every other good attribute that starts with a “t” that I don’t have. I’d always end up behind her in the step aerobics class, and I’d try to avoid looking at our images next to each other in the mirror.
“Yeah, sure,” I thought, “If I were barely 30 and hadn’t had two children, maybe my stomach could look like that. If I didn’t have all the responsibilities at home that I do, maybe I’d have had the time to keep myself fit like that.”
Then I found out a few things. First, I saw a picture of her from when she started going to the gym about 2 years ago. She looked…well, like me! I wouldn’t have known it was the same person! Second, she’s a nurse who works night shifts, so that’s how she has time to get to the gym so often. And third, and this is the kicker, she is a widowed mother of two children - one of whom is going to be attending the same school as my older daughter next year! It turns out that she’s a very nice person, she’s involved in the community, and she’s active in her kids’ schools. I still don’t know her age, but she can’t be more than five or six years younger than me (if that), she’s gotten into terrific shape and stayed that way in just two years, and she’s done it all while caring for two kids on her own and working full-time at a demanding and stressful job.
I believe my gym’s Little Miss Perfect Body has become my role model.
Well it’s official I am back down the 2 lbs and I am weighing in at 136. I have really cheated on my Atkins diet this week, but for some reason it seems to help my weight if I cheat. Does that make sense? Or maybe my body is just metabolising (sp?) the carbs that I am eating? I don’t know at any rate though I am very happy. That is a total of 36 lbs. for me. Yeah!
Thirty pounds. Finally hit 30 on Friday. FINALLY, since February 25, and a plateau that lasted two weeks.
I just put my yummy dinner of tofu and broccoli aside for a moment to type this. I’m also a vegetarian and one of my favorite meals is to stir-fry tofu and add in some soy sauce for a more interesting flavor. I add in various vegetables, depending on what I have in the house and what I feel like. Steamed or stir-fried broccoli is good. I’ve recently been buying low-fat tofu and I don’t notice any difference in taste. Maybe because tofu doesn’t have a lot of taste to begin with… Basically, the stuff is a flavor sponge. Just add it to whatever you’re making and it will take on that flavor, and give you some needed protein.
I have followed this whole thread and find it just inspiring. I’d like to lose about ten pounds, and I know I could do it if only I could develop some goddamn willpower and not eat the junk food people bring into the office. I’m pretty physically active, I’m a vegetarian so I don’t eat fast food, and I don’t buy junk food. But people keep buying doughnuts and candies for the office and I have the hardest time resisting.
I’ve been following this thread from the beginning, but haven’t posted in it yet because… oh, I don’t know.
I’ve started to work out on a near daily basis plus have changed the way I eat–I hate to say I’m on a diet, because ‘diets’ in my mind are temporary things. I’m having to relearn how to eat, which is probably the most difficult thing to do. I’m a chef and around food daily, which makes it rough to make good choices–I’m naturally a grazer and would rather nibble all day long, and those calories add up.
I’ve been using fitday.com to keep a track on what I’m eating (average 1700 calories a day), and have been adding much, much more vegetables and lean meats to my diet, and cutting back on sugar, ice cream (sigh that was my demon poison food–I could easily put back a bowl a night of ‘the good stuff’, which is easily 400-500 calories a shot.), and booze (empty calories).
Exercise-wise, I’m doing about 1.5 hours, 6 times a week–at least 40 minutes on the treadmill/elliptical (60 minutes every other day) and 30-40 minute weight circuit. Depending on my schedule, I’ll throw in a class of yoga on top of that.
After four weeks of this, I’ve lost 14 pounds (from 263 to 249) and 4.5 inches total (although I just started measuring two weeks ago, so there may have been more).
What’s great is that some of my clothes were ‘lost cause’ because I couldn’t fit into them… fit now. Stuff that fit perfectly now are loose.
My only complaint?
(Well, other than I wish I could do it faster)
I’ve got one of those builds where I’m holding most of my weight right on my waist, which makes me look 7 months pregnant. So far, most of the inches I’ve lost have been off of my hips and bust, not my waist. I know there’s no real way of ‘spot reducing’ and it’ll eventually catch up with the rest of me, but I’m feeling more unbalanced than usual.
Maybe once I hit my goal (165 lbs.), I’ll have saved the money for a tummy tuck.
32.5. Don’t know where those two and a half pounds went so quickly, but I don’t much mind.
Jaaaaaaaaaaaaava, good for you! And don’t worry, your abdomen will catch up. Honestly. If you want to work on it more, you’ll have to do bendy-type things, repeatedly. The gym I go to has a chair with handles at the side that you pull up with stiff arms, and it approximates a sitting sit-up. I do double of those, because my fat is also right around that area.
MeanJoe checking in here. I’m still holding in that damnable 180-183 range and can’t seem to get to my 175 goal weight. As many of you are aware, I’ve been running and weight lifting too. I am now proud to say I am running 3 miles straight 3x’s a week. No more walk/run segments because my endurance wasn’t there. So that is a good thing I’m holding on to.
My wife and I were out this weekend at the annual art festival in downtown and bumped into a friend I’ve not seen in 6 months. He could not believe it was me, said he didn’t even recognize me I have changed so much. Big Feckin’ Grin -
Too many new people and too many regulars reporting great accomplishments - congrats everone!
Java said:
I can totally relate to this comment. I always have this momentary awkward feeling when people ask how I’ve lost weight. The first thing I want to say is I’m on a diet as it is the easiest answer but it really isn’t true - it is re-learning how to eat properly in the land of calorie-busting Biggie Sized entrees!
Anyway, much encouragement to everyone - keep it up!
MeanJoe
Word.
I started today on the “8 minutes in the morning” thing. I woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to do the strength training, and I’ve been downing water all day. I feel good so far. Maybe it’s my imagination, but I feel hot today, so hopefully that means my metabolism is picking up. Has anyone else done the “8 minutes” plan? Any advice? I’m looking to drop around 20 or 30 pounds.
To everyone else - keep up the good work!
I just got back from the doctor and it’s:
1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…**9 ** pounds lost! Yay me!
Better yet:
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[li]My blood pressure is down to 124/83 from 144/99 six weeks ago. This makes me the happiest![/li][li]My heart is not enlarged.[/li][li]My colon looks “clean as a whistle!” (Y’all wanted to know that, I bet :D)[/li][li]He’s checking me for diabetes/insulin resistance.[/li][li]He heartily approves of Atkins![/li][li]and he wants me to only go to 180 pounds. Only 29 to go![/li][/ul]
Wow, that’s about 20 pounds less than what I thought I should go for. He thinks 180 will be good, and maybe we’ll see where to go from there. Maybe possibly 170. 155 was too low.
So, next week I go back to give him a hemo-occult test and find out the results of the blood tests. Right now I have to find a scale. Any recommendations?
<does a happy lipolysis-inducing dance>
brachyrhynchos - Yeah for you!! I’d recommend the Tanita TBF 621. My wife and I have been very happy with this scale - it is designed to track two different people’s stats and seems to be very consistent in its measurements.
Good luck,
MeanJoe
Ohh, I like those scales. They seem reasonably priced too. And I like the idea of measuring body fat. (But whoa, did you see the warning?: “Do not use the body fat monitor function of these products if you have a pacemaker, or other implanted medical device.” :eek: Fortunately that shouldn’t be a problem.) Thanks MeanJoe!
Slacker, what is the 8 minutes in the morning? Is it exercise? Can it be done at night (I was never a morning exercise kind of gal)?
MeanJoe - is there a chance that because you are weightlifting etc, your body is putting on muscle, hence the lack of weightloss?