November/December Weight Loss Thread?

140 this last Friday. Der, but I'm already coming back down. Salt?

Trying something new with a bunch of webtools I've found around. I have a google visualization thingy tracking my overall body composition, a twitter feed keeping track of what I eat (just not how much) that I can update from my cell phone, and some "inspirational" photos that randomize (may not be the safest for work!) :)

http://www.bugsmack.com/fit/

Please just don't ask me how I did it, 'cause I'm still wrapping my head around the code...!

-- gnat! (Not a geek, but plays one on tv)

Hi Ladies,

May I join you?

I've had a very busy year or two, and have not taken care of myself the way I should have been. And sadly, not nearly enough riding as I would like.

SOoooo, I joined Weight Watchers a few weeks ago, in an effort to drop off some of these extra pounds I'm carrying around. I do well in the structured environment of a program like WW, because I have to track everything, write down everything that passes my lips, etc. It keeps me accountable, and I like that.

Joining you ladies would help keep me accountable to someone other than myself! Which I also know works for me, from experience. When I was 20, I wanted to quit smoking (I'd smoked since I was 14yo). So, I told EVERYONE I knew that I was going to quit, figuring that the embarrassment of failure would be enough to motivate me. Well, I'm 39yo now and I haven't had a cigarette since then, so it must have worked!

So, if you can add me to the spreadsheet, that would be super.
11/7 would be 165lb. 11/14 would be 162lb.

I guess I need a goal, too..... Let's say 155 by year end. The holidays are going to be tough.

Thanks!

Susan

Absolutely Susan, I've added you in!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...DX4MK8A4CgfyVg

Excellent!

I think the biggest challenge for me will be Thanksgiving. On the bright side, I'm the one doing all the cooking (for 7) so I have control over what goes into the food. I"m busily lightening up some of my favorite recipes in preparation, but I'd be curious to know what everyone else is doing to stay on track for the holidays.

Susan

I would like to participate, too. I've been letting it slide for the last few months. :( I could use some help keeping on track, esp. since heavier fall/winter clothes can hide a multitude of "sins"

I'm at 114.5 now, I need to get back down to 107.

I am back - thank you Possegal for taking care of the sheet. After a weekend with a lot of great food, pies and beer - I am on 156. Not a good direction!

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Originally Posted by Susan Otcenas

Excellent!

i"m busily lightening up some of my favorite recipes in preparation, but I'd be curious to know what everyone else is doing to stay on track for the holidays.

Susan

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We run a 5 mile turkey trot fun run on Thanksgiving. It means we have to get up and run before we can go to the inlaws. Otherwise I do tend to be the weirdo eating on the small plate, then I cannot over fill it. My family knows I do weight watchers so they just think "MORE FOR US!" I don't like pie but I love cranberry sauce and stuffing.

My weakness is Christmas, I love baking so check in come December with how I am fighting the urge to eat 982 Christmas cookies. :o

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Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama

We run a 5 mile turkey trot fun run on Thanksgiving. It means we have to get up and run before we can go to the inlaws.

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The past few years I've done a morning ride (30-35 miles) with friends on Thanksgiving morning. It's a good way to burn off some calories AND boost my metabolism before the big meal. But since I'm the cook this year, there's no way I can find the time to do it. But maybe, if I'm really really good about doing as much in advance as possible earlier in the week, I might be able to sneak out for an hour after I put the turkey into the oven. That assumes my house is clean, the table is set, and I've done all my chopping and measuring ahead of time. And that, my friends, is a very BIG "if".

Susan

Hi Susan,

The way I'm staying on track is I'm not going home for Turkey Day! I live in VA and the rest of the family is back in MI!

DBF and I are just looking at it as another day off from work. :cool:

Alright, I need to do my weigh in a day early this week because we are heading out of town for ten days for Thanksgiving.

123.8

I would get really excited since that means I've surpassed my goal....but I only lost the weight because of a stomach bug I got this week. I haven't been able to eat much at all. Maybe I can harness the momentum though and keep it off. If I don't gain it all back in the next ten days, THEN I'll get excited but three of the next ten days include Thanksgiving, our family's favorite local pizza joint and Inn n Out (Which I can't get here in Utah!), I'm not holding out too much hope. Although right now I can't really stomach the thought of any of those. I'm better but my stomach still feels like I need to be gentle with it, so we'll see......

Hope you are all managing to move towards your goals in a more healthy way!! And I know it's early but I may not be on for a while, so Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!!

Hello all,

this is EXACTLY what I need! I would love to join (if that's ok). Just to make sure, I just need to post on the next date?

My current weight is 161 (it slipped up on me!!!)
My goal weight for December 31st is 155 lbs.

( I figured a pound a week is the healthy suggested weight loss...)

I really gotta do this, so if anyone notices me slipping up... chew me out!!!

JP

Ok, I am not part of the weigh in challenge. But I have been in the past--never really lost any real weight. Been training for a 1/2 marathon (just completed it) and I really ramped up my "appetite". So now I am not training and I still want to eat. Had s'mores aroudn the fire last night (w/ wine!) and just now (at my desk) at a small reese's peanut butter cup. Not the tiny bites size, and not the full size, but the size inbetween...from Halloween. And I WANT MORE and I hve another one...help me not eat it.

So how do I get things under control THIS time of year, with one party after another AND the cool weather....and I just want food!

There, I feel better, just venting. But the reese's is still calling my name!:eek:

I added you in JP. I put down the 161 for you weight on the first two weeks, cause I think I need them for the spreadsheet to function. I can put that down for tomorrow too, just let me know, or we can put in a new one if you weigh in differently tomrrow. :)

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...DX4MK8A4CgfyVg

Friday's weigh in: 147 lbs.

146.5

My cold crawled in my chest. I have decided to forgo the turkey trot but I think we are going to go mountain biking in the morning for Thanksgiving. I would like to run some this weekend but I better get into the doc first to see what is going on with this mostly dry cough. I had some prescription cough syrup with codeine but it gives me whacky dreams, I don't want to take it anymore.

134.0 this morning. We'll see if it sticks.

141.6

Much, much better!

My eating has been "spot on" as well as my exercise. :)

Now I just need to keep it up.

BRING IT ON!

Lynette

161 this morning.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Katluvr - my advice to you is to get rid of the temptations. Throw away the junk, and surround yourself with healthy snacks. It sounds so elementary, but it really does work.

Last weekend, I baked a birthday cake for a three year old. Here's a photo.

Anyway, the recipe called for all KINDS of junk, like yellow rainbow twizzlers, twinkies, Dots, chocolate wafer cookies (for the dirt), chocolate donettes (for the wheels), M&Ms, etc. Twizzlers and twinkies hold no attraction for me, but M&M's are a big problem. I made the cake and promptly threw away (or gave away) all the extra stuff. Too great a temptation for me!

Yes, I know it was wasteful, but that stuff isn't really good for anyone, really.

I've surrounded myself with healthy snacks - bananas, pears, grapefruit, cantaloupe, rice cakes, etc. First, I ask myself, am I really truly hungry? And if the answer is yes (not just boredom, or stress, or some other mental issue), then I eat the snack without guilt. If I'm really hungry, it's my body's way of telling me I need sustenance. As long as I answer that call with something healthy, then it's OK.

I know it's a struggle. I think we all deal with it every day. But you can do it!!

Good common-sense advice, Susan.

Am down one pound to 184. :-)

I couldn't find this thread! Forgot to subscribe to it and then had a time finding it again!

Anyway, this morning, I'm down to 205.6!! :)
Goal still is 200

And, Susan, that cake is AWESOME! I showed the pic to my DH, and he said "man, I never got cakes like that when I was a kid!"

i'm at 159.1 today!!!! let's see if I can keep this up!

I know I am a little late to join in but I would still like to post if that is all right. I recently started a new job at the end of August. It has kept me busy and stressed most of the time. It has also taken time away from my workouts. My weight is 151 with a goal of 145 by Christmas. Good luck to all of you.

I'm scared to weigh this week. Let's just say I've maintained.

I weighed in Saturday morning and was up... 172.3. UGH.

Then yesterday was spent at a UW/WSU football party with appetizers for at least 100 (there were only 8 of us!), and then a large dinner of ribs and potatoes. Very afraid of the scale today! Glad weigh in is not until next weekend. Some damage control is in order... Thanksgiving or not!
Jes

I would like to join in on the weight loss thread if I can.
You can use my weight on the 21st as 147.
My goal weight is 140.

Thank you

I had a bad week, 178 for me. But I did do the walk for the homeless in DC on saturday, so at least I was moving a bit. :)

I've added info to date.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...DX4MK8A4CgfyVg

I was up this morning for WW weigh-in. Been doing terrible journaling and I need to start since I am paying for it!

I have bronchitis but it doesn't seem to be kicking my bum too hard, I might go for a run tonight. The irony of it all, my doctor didn't tell me I couldn't run or ride just that I might not feel like it. :rolleyes:

I've been trying not to get on the scale much, because I fear becoming obsessed with it. But I stepped on this morning for the 1st time since Friday, not expecting the news to be very positive, and was pleasantly surprised to find myself down to 160 even. I'm sure that by the time we do our "official" weigh in on Friday, I'll be far less delighted. Thursday will be a challenging day!

Aggie_Ama, I've been doing my WW journaling diligently every day. It's really keeping me accountable - if it passes my lips, it goes in the journal. It takes alot of time, as I'm sure you know, but seriously, I think it's the only thing that's keeping my on track! I know myself well enough to know that I would "cheat" if I wasn't journaling. Which is stupid, because I wouldn't be hurting anyone but myself....

I've already gone though all the dishes I'm making for Thursday and entered all the recipes into the receipe builder so that I can see how many points each of them is. Even after lightening up the recipes, the total is a little staggering. :eek: I may resort to just having a *taste* of some of my favorites so that I don't blow the entire week all in one fell swoop. I'm planning lots of fresh veggies and salad, so that I won't be tempted to fill my plate with sweet potatoes and garlic mashed potatoes and stuffing.... Mmmm.... The pies will be my downfall. We have a long standing tradition of having a pie to people ratio of 1:1. So many pies to taste!!

Susan

I forgot to weigh in on Friday, but as of today I'm up to 206... :(

I'm trying out a new BCP and since I've been taking it, I can't stop eating... I think it's time to go back to my old trusty one.

I maintained this week I think (I have my period so its hard to say).

But I did see this awful photo of me taken during our past presidents club ride. Talk about motivation – now I'm going to redouble my efforts to get rid of The Pudge.

On the bright side... it was awesome to see guys in their 70s and 80s still riding (our club is 40 years old) :)

I hope all the Thanksgiving celebrants had a wonderful time yesterday! We spent the day with a small group of family and friends. We had a great time playing games (We taught Jeff's folks how to bowl on the Wii. His father went undefeated from game 1! It was hilarious.), talking, laughing, and of course, eating.

I determined early on that I wasn't going to deny myself anything. I would at least taste everything on the table, so that I wouldn't feel deprived. This strategy worked very well for me. Although I am 1/2 pound heavier than I was on Wednesday, I'm still down 1.5 pounds from last Friday! 159.5 today. :)

This morning I was back on track, weighing and measuring my breakfast and lunch.

I was chatting with one of the gals in my office who is a lifetime WeightWatchers member. She told me that her strategy with holidays is to remember that even if she has a really really off-plan day on a holiday, that it's just one day. The trick is to get up the next morning and get back on the program. To not let one off-plan day entirely derail you. To not feel like you've "failed" and then quit.

I realized that I've done that in the past. Ate something I shouldn't, and then said "screw it! I've already messed it up, I may as well eat this *other* bad thing", etc. etc. Such a self-defeating attitude. I'm determined to do better this time around.

Hope everyone is safe, healthy and happy.

Susan

202!!

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202!!

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WooHoo!! GO Squirrell! Only 2 pounds from your goal. :)

What a good attitude, Susan!

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

I did well this week and ended up at 141.2

I am still right on track for my goal of 138.4 by the end of the year.

Lynette

Well, I wasn't going to post this information because it's just too depressing, but I figure I may as well experiment and share it. I am up 5 pounds this morning, which just HAS to be water weight. I've not eaten enough to put on 5 pounds, that's for certain! So, I'm taking action and will see if it works by next week. (The strange thing is when my scale is in one place, I weigh five pounds more, but when I move it to another place, my weight is down five pounds.) It's making me crazy!

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Originally Posted by kjay

(The strange thing is when my scale is in one place, I weigh five pounds more, but when I move it to another place, my weight is down five pounds.) It's making me crazy!

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It doesn't sound like you should be depressed. It sounds like you should get a new scale! :D

Regardless, keep your chin up. We're rooting for you!

I've maintained @ 206.

152.5 for me. Sorry for the disruption and big thanks for Possegal to keep the chart running. I got sick with a nasty sinus virus and it took antibiotics to get be back up and running.

All the thanks should go to Possegal, I am just posting the chart:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3016/...34a37aa7_o.png

Martina

I'm up 1# probably from the good food yesterday. I am now 151. Have to try to re-focus. I did go for a run yesterday am but apparently it was not enough. Oh well, I hope next week to see the scale go down.

I have maintained at 147. I am thrilled with that. I did not weigh yesterday for fear that I had gained 5 lbs thanks to wonderful food on Thursday. But to my surprise I held steady. I actually think I have lost, but will have to wait for pms to be over with to see how much water I am holding. :confused: