Is this the one where you stand on what looks like a scale? I did that. It’s not at all accurate. If you want real body fat stats, you have to do the submersion thing (which I am too cheap to do).
Aside: Aunt Flo left town and I made my goal. I now weight what I did on my wedding day. Next goal: University Graduation.
Awesomesauce on hitting the goal, Perfect!
No, it’s the dunk-you-in-a-tank test. Not looking forward to it, but I’m signed up for a test on Thursday, on the more-data-is-better theory. I’m down 36 pounds, but I’m hoping the test will give me numbers to decide on the right final goal for me.
Congrats on making your goal, perfectparanoia!
This weekend, Airman, the sprog, Airman’s sister and I are going to Pittsburgh. Airman and his sister are going to Primanti Bros. for a sandwich. These sandwiches, BTW, are meat, French fries, and vinegar cole slaw on two slices of very thick French bread. They’re hearty trucker food. I, alas, am not a hearty trucker and I don’t eat like one anymore. So I’ve scoped out some other local places that have healthier food. (It helps that the sprog doesn’t especially like Primanti Bros. either, so there will be two of us eating elsewhere.)
I’ve also looked at the menu of the restaurant that is closest to our motel, and all I can say is that there are few things on the menu that are acceptable. I do not need to eat pancakes stuffed with anything called “cream cheese custard”. So I went to my local Weight Watchers center and got some stuff that I can keep in the room, and which, along with a handful of fat-free cheese and some fruit, make a perfectly acceptable breakfast for 5 points total. As close to goal as I am, I refuse to fuck it up with hearty trucker food.
Haven’t been here in a while. Been on and off in October. Nothing crazy, haven’t lost it. Just distracted.
Baseball has ended (in Cleveland) now I have an extra 4 hours per day to myself so the plan is to really kick it up a notch at the gym for the rest of the year. My goal is 15 more pounds - which is completely do-able when you have 80 to lose total.
Awesome work gallows fodder, perfectparanoia and MsRobyn! Good to get to goals this far before the holidays so you can march in to weird eating situations with confidence knowing what you want to do, instead of dread them.
I went clothes shopping last weekend. Needed a dress and found something that looks amazing on me and only $50. Then I bought jeans and they were 3 sizes smaller than what I’ve been the past 5 years. Then last night I wanted to buy a t-shirt at the Indians Team Shop but I couldn’t because they only had XXL and I tried it on and it was TOO BIG! I bought a different XL shirt and it fit nice. Woot!
Kind of sucks to be all happy with my size right now when I have so far to go lol But I’m already thinking in terms of “when I am smaller…” so I think I’ll be ok.
This week I am going to be lucky to maintain. Between being up most nights with my best friend’s new baby (I am her support network) and Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend, my eating is going to be all over the place.
(Aside: I am having my turkey dinner and all the fixings I want, dammit!)
Good job, ZipperJJ!
This week I lost 1.2 pounds. Am I an ungrateful heathen because I was hoping it would be more instead of just being glad I lost some?
I think you are an optimistic and hopeful heathen, Sticks and Scones. 
Every bit of progress is progress, S&S. Be proud of what you’ve done!
Ok so baseball season is over so now I have an extra 4 hours a day to do stuff. I went to my appointment with the gym’s new personal trainer and asked her to create a routine for me to replace my existing routine that I’d been doing way too long.
Not too fond of this trainer - she did a lot more talking than listening. She looked at my existing routine which was about 2 hours a week of machines and free weights then asked me if I did any free weights. Then later she was showing me one thing on a machine then gave me a spiel about how women are afraid of the weight room and I told her for the third time I’d been in the weight room 2 days a week every week for like 2 years.
She also started telling me about nutritional stuff and I told her to stop, I’ve lost 60 pounds this year, I eat low carb, I’m good. Then she’s like “Oh ok. Well I also advise people to stay away from wheat so try to stay away from wheat also” OMG BITCH WHAT?! What part of “low carb” do you not understand?
Also at the end of our session I got super light headed and about passed out (I think because I hadn’t eaten or I was fairly low on sodium) and she didn’t really seem to care or know what to do. I just sort of grabbed my water bottle and walked away. She wanted to dish about my previous trainer and measure my bodyfat. I wanted to puke.
ANYWAY…she did give me a routine that will kick my ass and then some, if I stick with it. Of course it doesn’t hardly involve any machines or weights and I’m sort of bummed about that but hey I’ve got a 260# weight that I carry around with me all the time so I might as well use it. I just don’t like being the girl in the weight room who is not actually using weights, just doing stuff she could be doing at home. Sigh.
Lost 25#, still working on the last 15 or so. I have the “I need to buy new clothes” jones so bad, it’s killing me. Not fitting my “real” clothes, but starting to look bag lady-ish. Help me stay strong!!!
Go out and buy one top in your current size that you love. It will help!
October has come with a bang. I haven’t made it to the gym in over a week. I am getting cranky about it. Not happening today or tomorrow either. I have more things to do than I can possibly fit in a day.
(In fact, I was going to run errands over lunch today and tomorrow to try and cathc up and people have scheduled lunch meetings for me. Arg!)
I am going on Saturday. And hopefully, I can start catching up by then.
That’s a bummer. Any chance you can get another trainer or are you stuck with this one for a bit?
My new diet is making me crazy. I keep telling myself “it’s only for a few weeks, and it works” but I really want to eat everything today.
Doing homework makes me hungry. Seriously. And it’s FREAKING ANNOYING!!!
Dammit! I’ve been good on my diet and exercise, and I’ve hit a plateu. I have a very short attention span, so I need to get the scale moving again quick.
I’m up another 0.8. I’m trying to think about how far I’ve come, but all I can think about is how far I have yet to go. I’m not that far away, which is why I’m so cranky about it.
This week, I’m going to try eating at home more, planning in advance, only eating what’s on my tracker, and reducing the number of points to 22 per day. I’m also going to be more mindful of my portion sizes and not count one big honkin’ apple as one serving when it really should be two or three. With any luck, this will work and I’ll get moving.
I kind of gave up over the summer. Eating fatty foods and not exercising, that is. Despite that, I hit my goal of getting under a BMI of 30. I’m currently at 29.99. Actually, a little down from that.
I’ve recently gotten comments from people that I haven’t seen in a while that I’m looking thin.
And I recently got some bad news from a doctor, so I’m trying to cut out all sugar. Not easy to do! I have a friend who did, and she dropped 40 pounds in 7 months. She is a skinny little thing!
Congrats on the loss,** tdn**! Sorry about the sugar. That does suck, but you may not miss it once it’s gone. I have significantly cut back in that department and I rarely crave sweet stuff anymore. (Ok, I’ll admit that the chocolate cake that my mom was eating right in front of me did look good but it went away and I moved on.)
I just came in to mention that my unmentionables are getting a bit too big. 
Thank you! I still really crave sugar, but I know that the cravings will go away after a while. And I’m learning to love aspartame.
Haha **Sticks and Scones **mine too! I went to put on a sexy sexy dress I bought for a wedding and it looked good except for the inches of excess panty bunched up on the butt. Score!
tdn good job on meeting a little goal! As for sugar, I’ve been without it since January and it’s no big deal. It’s no good for you, you don’t need it. But as for aspartame…1982 called and wants its sweetener back! Now is the time for sucralose! (Splenda) 
Put that shit in everything, yo.
If you want some good low carb advice come join us on My Fitness Pal in theLow Carb discussion group.