Indeed. And I’m telling a friend of mine, Catsmeow about this thread, too. We’re both “doing” WW on our own (no good meeting times in my area, and the Money Just Ain’t There right Now).
Thanks, LoserDopers!
ooooo, good luck!
I forgot to post MINE last time, are we supposed to?
Just In Case:
starting weight: 285
Current: 260
Primary goal: 250 (just cause I haven’t been there in years)
Ultimate Goal: 150 - 155
I’ve been lately bouncing around the 182.5 - 183.0 neighborhood. Need to get out and get some exercise, now that the weather’s finally decent again.
Start: 194
Goal: 172
Current: see above
Yay! I like to see this unwieldly thread on the first page again. I had a bad time of it this week as I thought I was going in for surgery and unfortunately resorted to stress eating when it didn’t happen. But no major harm done, I still lost a pound from last week!
Starting weight: 213
Current weight: 207
I’m too excitable. Let me try again.
Starting weight: 213
Current weight: 207
10% Goal: 191.7
Long term goal: 150
Of course I’m pretty happy to have reached 207 as I am now just overweight instead of obese for the first time in a long while.
You’re only supposed to post this stuff if you want to.
I’ll do mine, even though I’m sure the info is floating around this or the originaly thread somewhere.
Beginning weight (1/1/03): 315
Current weight: 260
Pounds lost: 55
Immediate goal: 249 (just to be able to slide that doc’s scale “down” one more notch!)
Long-term goal: 190
Welcome to the new folks, and luck to all!
This past Monday, I started the South Beach Diet plan. Yesterday, my daughter started too. I’ll extend Phase One to do it with her, so that’ll give me 17 days at that level.
So far, I’ve lost 5# - supposedly, one loses 8-13 the first 2 weeks. I’m on track with that for sure.
The main reason I’m following this program is because of my cholesterol and triglyceride numbers. Shedding the tonnage is just a bonus. Long term goal is to drop about 100#. Short term is to make it thru each day without backsliding. Let’s see how it goes…
FairyChatMom, welcome to the club!! Somehow, when I’ve pictured you in my head, I’ve always thought, kinda a little heavy around the hips, maybe, but not in my category of overweight (I started this with 120 pounds to lose to get to goal). I hope you don’t find that remark offensive, because, believe me, no offense is intended. I just think it’s funny how we visualize certain people, and then are so wrong! 
BTW, something to keep in mind: I just read an article in Reader’s Digest that said you should take in at least three servings of dairy a day if you’re trying to lose weight. In a fairly large study, dieters who got plenty of dairy lost 61% more weight, and 81% more abdominal fat than dieters who ate the same number of calories, but less dairy. So far, the theory is that calcium binds with fat and helps your body use it. My own WAG is that dairy boosts the protein intake, thereby helping you turn your food intake into muscle rather than fat. Doesn’t really matter why it works, though. But I do think it may be one of the reasons I’ve been so successful: now that I don’t worry about fat or calories, I eat a lot more cheese, drink milk, use sour cream, cream cheese, etc.
Actually, most of my excess hangs around hips, belly, and butt. So you weren’t too far off. I’d show you a full photo of me, but there aren’t any recent ones. With good reason.
Oh, that’s bad news for me. I’m mildly lactose-intolerant (only seem to have a reaction to milks and creams) and I don’t like cheese. (Behold the power? Nah.) If it’s the calcium, have they duplicated the effects with orange juice or calcium supplements and the like? I’ve been getting by on soy, but I suppose I should work on getting more yogurt into the diet. Has anybody tried the new Nouriche drinkable yogurt things? They’re pretty good.
They have too much sugar for my diet. Never even looked at other nutrition info. You could try making smoothies with plain yogurt. Also, maybe some of that Latctaid milk? Do you not even like cream cheese? What kind of a mutant freak are you?
I haven’t posted for a LONG while becuase I haven’t stuck with the program for a LONG while. I discovered that the weight gain I was talking about in my last post was actually water - my cat walked across my shin as I was lounging stretched-out on the couch, and his pawprint stuck for about five minutes. Sure enough, a few days later I started peeing like a racehorse and now my legs are back to plain edema instead of pitting edema! And I’m nine pounds lighter!
Stats:
Beginning - 270
Current - 232
Next goal - 200
Ultimate goal - 137
My first goal was to get less than 100 pounds overweight. Passed that one, now I want to get less than 200.
CadburyAngel, according to a study I read the dietary calcium can come from any usable source. Also, it would stand to reason that cheese and yogurt don’t cause problems because they have little to no lactose in them - it ferments in the process of making the cheese or yogurt.
Hey lorinada, how about posting when it seems like things aren’t going well? Then we could send you good cheer and support.
Hello new posters, hello old friends, and congratulations to everybody doing well!
1/20/03: 207 (might have been higher–scale wasn’t good)
7/12/03: 160.5
current goal: 157 by 7/20/03 (6 months)
ultimate goal: 145-150 or comfy in size 12
diet: mostly Whitaker, Reversing Diabetes
blood sugars: mostly in the normal range
I’ve gotten some exercise all but two days since 1/20, and am averaging 1400-1700 calories a day.
I did 4 1/2 hours of heavy yard work today, so I’ll probably muscle up a bit and weigh more tomorrow, but I’m still hoping to hit 50# at the 6-month mark.
Well, you learn something new every day.
Congrats all of you, and take good care! I am very impressed by these losses, perhaps to the “losers” they seem like only a small percentage of the goal, but imagine how much all of those “Yeah, I really should do something about this flab” people would love to have lost that much!
I should, shouldn’t I? I resolve to do that from now on!
I’ll tell you what my biggest problem is right now - now that I am working at home and don’t have to keep someone else’s hours, I have reverted to my normal body clock hours - staying up all night. And gawd, do I nibble at 2:00 am!
I didn’t do as bad today - just four Chips Ahoy…then four an hour later…but that’s still not nearly as bad as I’ve been doing the last month. Otherwise, I’ve kept very well to my diet. It helps, too, that I have a little bit of grocery money in my budget and we’re not subsisting on cheap carbs to make the food money stretch! Lotsa fresh delicious vegetables and fresh fruits! I love summer fruits. And I started my aerobics again. Sorta - just doing the warm-up and cool-down for the first week to restretch. Then I’ll get back into the full swing.
200, here I come!
Had me my first weigh-in on Sunday (at home, I’m not going to any meetings), and I’ve lost me 5 lbs! 'Course, I’m sure that’s mostly water weight, but I’m not going to complain. My wife’s already starting to gripe about losing the love handles and my tush but I say that’s her bad luck. 
I will drink more milk and eat more dairy. Thanks to norinew and the good folks at Reader’s Digest.
Hey Shoshana - Congrats on keeping the blood sugars in range! Are you type 1 or 2?
Hi ** Aguecheek.** I’m in the range of Type II that’s called pre-diabetic, insulin resistant, or early Syndrome X, all of which is to say that I have an underlying metabolic disorder that affects my glucose metabolism, among other things, and could lead to full-blown Type II. I have been behaving as if I have Type II, and that has been going well.
3 pounds down. Back to 146.6 pounds.
A total of 26.2 pounds lost since joining Weight Watchers in June 2000. Yes, that date is right.
Best weight since joining: 145.8 on 11/28/2000.
Next week I WILL weigh the least I have weighed this century. Period.
Weight Watchers and sticking to my points are my number one prioritiy. When I stick to my points six days out of seven, I lose weight. So my goal is attainable. I eat healthy foods in sensible portions and I will weigh 131 pounds or less on my 35th birthday, November 9th.
Finally down to 181 for enough consecutive weighings to say I’m there. Yeah!!
I weigh myself in the morning before showering, and in the evening when I change clothes after getting home from work. My rule is that it takes 3 consecutive weighings at or below a given weight to say I’ve really attained it. It’s been a pain in the neck because I’ve had 2 consecutive weighings at 181, and then bounced back up on #3, on two different occasions. But that’s why I have the rule: it hardly makes sense to say I’ve gotten down to a particular weight if it’s that temporary.
But this time I’ve been at 181 or 180.5 since Tuesday night. So this time it’s real.
And I’m going on a 30-mile bike ride with some friends on Saturday, which should help keep things going in the right direction.
Oh yeah - welcome, FCM, Aguecheek, CadburyAngel, and anyone else who snuck in while I wasn’t looking!
Correct me if I’m wrong, lorinada, but don’t racehorses pee standing up in the middle of a paddock, or wherever else they happen to be?
(My wife, who’s from Florida, uses that expression too. I love giving her a hard time about it. So I’m not just picking on you.)
Hey, you all. I’m having luck thinking about it like this: I have a set limit on food, and a set level of exercise. Beyond that, I can “buy” more food by exercising more. I just walked 4 miles at 3 mph to buy an ice cream bar, and damn it was good.