231.4 for me this morning.
Goal: 220. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it.
:)
Roxy
Fast food-free since August 7, 2011 <g>
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231.4 for me this morning.
Goal: 220. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it.
:)
Roxy
Fast food-free since August 7, 2011 <g>
Thanks, ladies!
Ok, deep breath.... starting weight for this challenge is 144. (I guess that 139.5 I saw on Monday was just dehydration from the long flight. :( ) That's pretty much consistent with what I saw on the scale before I left for France (and consistent with the lastt couple of days, too),so at least all the croissants and cheese didn't do too much damage! ;)
Ok, so goal weight for the challenge... Hhmm, I want something achievable and realistic, that will make me work for it, but not so optimistic that I disappoint myself by missing the goal. Eight weeks. I'm going to say 6 pounds. Enough to see progress, but not so much that it's unrealistic. So, 138 for my goal.
Thanks, Possegal!
Susan
Wow, Ellen - that's a lot of lost weight already! Good job!!
My starting weight: 151.0
I'm going to adjust my goal to 142 for the end of October. It's what I weighed exactly 10 years ago (I know this because it's what I weighed when I met my husband and we met 10 years ago on Monday :)).
143.4 this morning. Well, I'm not moving around much (some pain where my incision scar is knitting itself into shape). Yet.
It's heartbreaking to hear some of you be so awfully harsh on yourselves about your weight or body fat. Susan, as others have said, you've just completed Paris-Brest-Paris -- you're being really far out there, woman! 10 or 20 or 25 pounds of extra body mass are minuscule in the greater scheme of things. And I'm saying that as a recovering hater-of-my-own-body (and myself). I don't think I was much below 200 pounds, or for very long, during any period between the ages of 28 and 40. Now that I've dropped about 1/3 of my body weight in the last year, my partner has been wondering what I changed to make it happen. (She's been naturally skinny all her life, but now, in her 50s, is suddenly accumulating some extra fat, which bothers her -- we've been converging slowly towards the same weight range, she from below, me from above.) It occurred to me that I needed to make peace, at some level, with my body and work with it instead of fighting it. I'm not more disciplined at 140 pounds than I am at 200: I'm exactly the same person.
What I do note is that I'm less motivated to go from 145 to 130 (unheard-of since my teens) than from 200 to 180 or from 175 to 150. I can wear regular clothes now (except that my legs are STILL short, so that many pants don't fit), and all is more about getting fitter than about losing fat.
147 this morning. Dammit. Stupid sedentary vacation.
Goal remains 140.
Tomorrow is the Civil War century (metric). Normally any ride >60 miles earns me a trip to Five Guys for a giant burger and absurd quantity of fries. However if the Antietam Dairy folks are back with their ice cream, I will have that tomorrow, and no Five Guys.
Actually that's not minuscule when it's fat pounds. Too many Americans are obese and seem to be content to be so. They don't seem to understand what those extra fat pounds are doing to their health.Quote:
Originally Posted by chryss
Veronica
135.4
Just an FYI for folks, technically this is a 7-week challenge since that takes us to Oct 28th. So 7 weeks from today is the last weigh in. Just in case that impacts any goal weight you may have chosen.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...hl=en_US#gid=0
Weight this AM is 135.
This is a double challenge for me as I'm (hopefully) going on one of the WomanTours' Outer Banks bike tours the end of October. I've lost 10 pounds so far since signing up.
I'm back after a LONG break. Thanks to Susan and the rest of you for sharing your stories because it's inspired me to give this another go. My backstory is fairly similar to a lot of you. I lost 25 pounds through diet modification and A LOT of running about 2.5 years ago. I wanted to lose 5-7 lbs more at that time, joined this challenge, and failed to lose anything. I realize now that my body is probably just happy at 135 lbs, not at 128 or 130. I am at peace with that BUT the scale is now reading 140. In addition to that, I have had some bad things happen in my personal life recently that make it really difficult for me to motivate to exercise and eat right. After allowing myself 3 weeks of a massive pity party, it's time to refocus.
So, I am resolving to clean up my diet, get back on the exercise wagon, and lose the 5 lbs I let creep up on me last winter (and failed to lose over the summer).
Current weight: 140
Goal weight: 135
Current: 181
Goal: 170
Thanks! And happy early anniversary. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
Posse- Please use my Monday weight of 158, I try to stay off the scale in between my WW weigh in days because in the past I will tend towards OCD and weigh many times a day. :)
Blueberry- I lost nearly 50 pounds on WW online in 2004-2005. I am the type if I really commit to something I can do it. At the time I also regularly followed a similar type of board as TE and I told all of them so I had to be accountable to them. I am using WW online again, I also don't think meetings are for me. I of course have my husband to know what I am doing and a few close friends. So I feel like for my personality I have enough of a support system. Let's see if I succeed in getting back down in weight.
I successfully used WW online to lose almost 40 lbs. I have gained back about 5 but am getting back on track before too much damage has been done.
There are benefits to the groups- but it is a big time commitment and more money. We have a group on the WW forums (on the fitness challenge, "Biking Babes and Guys" that acts as a good motivator. (Maillotpois occasionally checks in there).
Blueberry - I have typically had more success with WW meetings. But it all depends on the leader and group. If it is not a good fit for you then online may be better..
yes. :o. I wish I were a more active participant. The format of that forum is somehow less conducive to regular participation for me than is TE. But it is a solid good group of people on that thread, very very supportive.Quote:
Originally Posted by azfiddle
I have to say - I joined WW in 1988, lost 50 lbs plus, became lifetime, and kept the weight off til I got pregnant (so about 8-10 years). I have tremendous loyalty to that company in general , and the recent changes to the program made it a lot more sustainable for me last year.
I go back to meetings Sunday. :) look out world.
Looks like I'm starting a bit higher than expected. 221.4 and aiming for anything close to 210 this challenge.
I weigh 138. Yikes!
Ambikes description of a massive pity party is a good one for me two, except mine has been 6 weeks (shoulder surgery/sister with terminal illness and my 13 year old dog is not doing well either). Life is not fair, and it is not helpful to me or anybody else for me to eat everything in sight and feel bad and sick and unfocused. I will do better if I eat less better food and exercise.
WW ladies I have a question, how do you count activity or do you? And how do you deal with those points. For example yesterday I did a 51 mile, climbing ride. WW said it was 44 activity points, obviously I am not going to eat all that. But on days I do a shorter ride or spin class, it shouldn't matter if I leave those AP on the table? I swap my AP before my allowance (flex, what do they call it now?). Just wondering how others have had success.
My rules areQuote:
Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama
(1) underestimate intensity. The points for cycling based on MPH don't track with my real world - high intensity is > 12 mph average? Come on. On a road bike? All my rides are "high intensity" then, and while I have periods during the ride where it absolutely is high intensity I am NOT giving myself that for a whole ride because it just isn't that hard. Maybe I will give myself "high intensity" for 1 hour out of 4 or something.
(2) only use the APs the day they are earned. I don't need the calories the next day, really. Even after a double century - which is tough, but that's my rule.
Great tip on splitting intensity. Yesterday I would consider my ride 1/2 high, 1/2 moderate. Only because it was a hilly ride for my area with a lot of headwind, normally I would think 1/4 but this is one of the harder routes. But there were times it wasn't as hard like you said. That brought it down to 31 points, much more reasonable than 44. And I still didn't eat half those. I have my online set up to swap daily, I can't see using them on another day. Maybe when I am racing I need a little more food the next day but I have the allowance for that, right?
I too find their intensity overstated for cycling. It is closer for mountain biking and spin (in my opinion) but road seems way off especially on the mph calculations!
I had my BIA this morning. Made some really good improvements, specifically intra and extra-cellular water. :) My body fat % was relatively the same as 6 months ago, but cinched down a titch to 22% and muscle mass is up from 34% to 38%. yay!
Bright and early this moring: 116
This is a big drop in a week. I think that I am not dehydrated, beyond what is typical in the morning. But I've been on a plateau for a few weeks so maybe this is a break. Or last week I was over hydrated.
Calories average 1362 per day.
152 for me this morning. Leaving on another extra-long weekend camping trip. Must back away from the s'mores!
185.4 today for me. Not what I'd hoped for given how much I've ramped up my workouts. I think I need to completely cut back on carbs again. *sigh*
136. Not what I hoped, but thankfully it is only 2 pounds higher than a year ago this week. That is encouraging...
233.2 this morning.
2.2 down, 7.8 to go!
155.5 at last weigh-in.
My friend dropped off some homemade ice cream earlier this week. Consequently, I am still at my weigh-in despite exercising :eek:
119 again.
141.4.
Things are going well. I took out the mountain bike to the local store & post office the other day for the first time a month after surgery -- 5 miles round trip, flat, with some paved highway, some gravel trail -- and I was wiped out. But it feels great!
177 this morning.
I weighed in at 140.0, so no change for me this week. I wasn't expecting big numbers because I focused on eliminating processed foods from my diet this week instead of cutting calories and increasing exercise. So I will monitor intake a little closer and ramp up the calorie burning activities this week.
143.6.
... shyly poking her head in, looking around ...
Hi gang! <waves>
I'm in a similar situation as many of you; I went thru some major life upheavals over the last year or so, and decided I would cut myself some slack while I licked my wounds and regrouped. And naturally, in the process, I gained back some weight. Not a gawdawful amount, but enough to be annoying.
Anyhow, enough of the lollygagging. I'd be joining in right now, but, errr, DH and I are about to go away for a week. I'm all about the timing. :o
So I'll join in when I return (heh, hopefully I won't add too many vacation pounds to the mix).
In the meantime, I'll be cheering you all on. Good luck!
229?! I have no idea how that happened. I think it's water weight - but not sure. In any case - eek. Will be buckling down (and trying to start running - jogging - trundling - ambulating at faster than a walk - anything - this should be interesting....).
No change for me either :( ...135 this AM
117.2 - just can't seem to get down much lower, although I'm not gaining
No change. Still 221.4. But finally back in training this week and that feels good!
179 today.
Progress :)