133 pounds today - finally heading the right direction :cool:
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133 pounds today - finally heading the right direction :cool:
136 ...
thanks for your time
227.4
Not watching what I eat, and only 30 minutes on the treadmill all week.
I may donate my body to science for people who study metabolism.
Roxy
Roxy - I think you might not be eating enough when you are watching your intake. 1400/day? And you weigh 227? That's not enough, particularly if you are exercising! 1400/day would barely sustain me on a sedentary day - add in a heavy training load and I'd be chewing off my left arm.
When you drop that low and up your exercise, your body holds on to everything for dear life. AND (more importantly) you feel deprived. You make up for the deprivation by eating the wrong things (I did the exact same thing!) every once in awhile and it makes staying consistent really difficult. This is why when you don't track and you don't exercise, you also don't gain - your body relaxes, kicks in the metabolism and keeps you at a steady state.
Weight loss (or fat loss) happens when we can walk the careful line between fueling our bodies for activity and limiting our calories for weight loss in just the right amounts. Some people can hit that balance intuitively. Some can hit it with just an average amount of effort. Others (like probably you and me), have to really dial it in to get it right.
My theory is that some of us have bodies that are incredibly adept at survival. As such, they are very quick to dial up or down our metabolism based on what is going on in our environment at the time. If there is a surplus, we can rev it up and not gain as fast as some. If there is a shortage, we slow it down and not lose as fast as some. This means that back when we had to hunt and gather our food, our ancestors were the ones who survived the droughts or the harsh winters. It also means that in the world of plenty we live in now, we have to really do battle to get lean.
Anyway, that's just my little theory. To win, you must eat more, but not too much. And you must exercise consistently, but not get hurt. Balance. Balance that you can sustain over the long haul because loss (and gain) are not quick for us. They will happen, but you must be consistent and patient.
That said - my weight this week has also not really changed. This is pretty amazing considering that I've been a human vacuum the past two weeks and pretty much eating everything in sight (until today, thankfully). Anyway, put me down for 149 for this week.
I've been fluctuating, but put me down at 226. Still slowly headed in the right direction.
I've been AWOL for a bit. SORRY. Catching up now.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?...lE&output=html
That may have been my fat fingers. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tabby
thanks, Posse!! :D
I had a super-stressful week last week. I don't handle conflict/stress well. I ended up spending 3-4 days in bed eating everything in site. I haven't done that in a long, long time. I wish I could break that habit. I think in some ways I have, as I don't do that every time I get stressed out anymore. A more manageable level I can go for a walk/run/bike and help relieve some of that emotional baggage. This situation was too much and it left me paralyzed.
I don't even want to get on the scale after that mess. Yesterday I managed to get myself back on a reasonable diet. Not a weight-loss diet, but a balanced one anyways. That's my goal again today. I just need to get my feet back under me until I can focus again on weight loss.
Life. The never-ending roller-coaster.
Here's hoping this is a much better week for you Limewave. I find that sometimes the best I can do during a very stressful period is to minimize the damage. I am 1 1/2 pounds away from reaching my "normal" weight after a very stressful last summer and fall. I hope that you can continue to focus on the positive on the progress you have made . The older I get the more I realize that I have very little control in my life but can only focus on my responses to the *%*% that happens.
181.5# sorry to post late, but I keep forgetting to do it on Friday.
Muirenn and GLC, thank you for that input. Little bit of an eye-opener there, and I needed to see it. It makes total sense the way you put it, GLC. And Muirenn, thanks for the link. I'm going to go check it out now.
I can say that my husband says I'm a lot skinnier since walking five miles each day (even with the five days off because I felt like I was going to injure my calves). I'm back at it this weekend, and will walk tonight.
It's hard getting on the bike lately -- I'm trying to work on my writing during the afternoons when I used to bike (working on a couple of contracts), and I have my daughter at night, who does not have a bike that can keep up with mine, so she doesn't like to ride with me. I'm thinking I need to let her take the Ruby Comp and I'll ride the steel frame MTB, but I'm a little scared to let her get on the carbon bike. I'm afraid she'd get going really fast and lose control and get hurt. Like mother, like daughter, you know? And it goes fast. Still, she needs to learn sometime.
Her dad suggested I take her over to the grassy area at the park to let her get used to the posture and speed, and she said, full of exasperation, "WHY would I want to ride a ROAD bike on GRASS?" Like, really, geez, parents. Insert rolling her eyes here.
She's thirteen. Yeah.
So I'm enjoying the treadmill, especially since we got the Google TV set up and I can watch Netflix. I'm on episode 31 of Veronica Mars. Buffy is next. And then maybe Merlin. I can get caught up on the cool YA TV shows I always wanted to watch, but couldn't, and get in shape, too. Win-win.
The weight, I just don't know. My therapist says I need to release the emotional baggage from my childhood and the weight will just peel off. Has that ever worked for anyone?
Roxy
I totally understand Limewave. I tell everyone that the way I've dealt with my nephew being killed is to 'take to my bed with chocolate', said like I'm joking but in reality, that is exactly what I did. I told my sister that I can hear him somewhere just laughing and saying - don't you go blaming your bad behavior on me. :) In reality I'm kind of thinking I may need to go find someone to talk to about all the things I'm dealing with, or not dealing with as it were. Just filed my taxes and for someone that usually files on Feb 1, that's a bit of a bad sign.
Today I packed my lunch for work for the first time since December. I wanted to shout it through the halls. Baby steps I guess.
Never-ending rollercoaster indeed.
I don't think I posted last week... been a big spike on the scale lately and I need to get back into the routine.
115.4 is actually down from earlier in the week, following the 73 mile event I did Saturday (post ride recovery / water weight!)
169.4 this morning. Thanks for the motivation, gals.
229
sigh.
yup- just as I suspected: the weight I lost being sick for 2 days didn't stay off. And I gained a pound. :rolleyes: Could be all that Easter candy I've been eating this week....:eek:
159.1
132.5 :)
I just realized I don't have you on the chart. Why did I do that? At first I thought - oh I think she said she wanted to check in but not do the chart. But I don't see that. Did I just miss you? If so - SORRY. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?...lE&output=html
I am skipping this week - out of town on business and then to my in-laws with no scales anywhere to be seen.
So, I finally was at home (where the scale is) *and* remembered to weigh, and then promptly forgot to post. Ack.
Anyway, 214.5
178#.
149.8 on Saturday. I really need to focus but I'm having so much fun eating lots of things and then exercising it off. Who would have thought 'maintenance' could be such a good time! ;)
I just committed to a challenge on a different board for the entire summer, so starting near Memorial Day, I'll get more serious. Until then, I'm just trying to maintain balance.
134.2...sigh
I can't complain however, after all of the feasting at church on Pascha and we had an office dinner this week - and less riding than normal because of the rain I really shouldn't be surprised.
I'm not actually part of the challenge. I'm to the point where the weight is very slow to come off, but I'm very excited because I weighed in at 142 this morning - 16% body fat now. :p That's 13 pounds since Nov. 1.
I'm eating more now to support my training. Basically a higher percentage of carbs so I really don't expect to see change. Still, every pound I lose is less I have to bike and run with. :p
Veronica
114.4. Back to only 2.4 lbs above goal
I started at 158 and am down to 137, moving from obese to overweight. I need to be at 115 to not be overweight. I've been at 137 for two weeks. Not surprising, as I was on the road all last week. It is tough for me to keep the calories down when I am traveling and getting very little exercise.
146 today. Almost back to my "normal weight". 11 lbs. from dream weight.
Goldfinch- hang in there. Your trajectory mirrors mine- I started at 150 and reached a goal of 112. I had some down time from cycling and was a little less careful through the winter and crept back up to 115-116- but I'm back on track now.
Just do your best to track and watch your portions while you are away from your routine. If you can't get your preferred foods, just try to substitute as best you can and try to walk or find other exercise.
You can do it- we all can!
227
I'm still doing five miles every night on the treadmill. Well, most nights. I think in the past months I've had maybe five days off all together. This week I've walked 20 miles. I'm getting some awesome muscle tone, but I still feel like I've got Alley Oop calves and I look about six months' pregnant.
Still, I just bought three pairs of shorts in a size smaller than I actually wear. Motivation.
Thinking of going back to green smoothies for one meal per day.
Anybody got some good kale recipes?
Roxy
138.4 this week - wrong direction. I went on a business trip 2 weeks ago (goo restaurants) and also hurt my shoulder (could be rotator cuff) in a bike accident - I fell while turning on wet pavement. My shoulder hurts, so that has translated into less exercise. I will try to adjust to this in the next month or two!
two days ago I weighed and I was 157.1
Today I weighed and I'm 159.5 That confounds me!!!! Although I have been carb-loading for the marathon tomorrow, so hopefully that's it. Hopefully!
Put me down at 159.5 Grrrrrrr....
Making this week's additions.
I made an appointment for this week to go get an analysis in one of those body pod things, and to get my resting metabolic rate measured. Not sure how much that will impact things, but I am a data junkie and I love to get numbers to better understand things. I'm hoping once I hear how bad things are, it will help to inspire me. Plus, my friend and I bought a one month boot camp thing through groupon. It is a company that has a nearby MWF camp and I had already been looking at them. So this gets me started and saved me some money. I am having tremendous trouble getting myself back on track (due to so many life issues, but I think I'm also going to line up a physical just in case it is more) and I'm hoping these two things help me.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?...lE&output=html
Oh yeah - and I'll start a thread this week for the next two month challenge. Once that is up, let me know in there if you are joining us for the next challenge. :) I've got to make this the one that I really start making some lifelong changes!
Sounds great Possegal! Let us know what you think of the camp once you get started with it.
Thanks again for all of your work!
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Kale loves to be cooked with lots of garlic.
thanks, Posse!!
Thank you, Posse, for keeping the chart.
And thanks, Goldfinch, for the tip on the garlic.
Roxy
Put me down for 226 at the finish. Not what I wanted, but life - again. At least I've not been stress eating - this is progress (normally, I would have gained weight with life as it has been lately).
Thanks, Possegal - Looking forward to the next challenge!
I stayed at 214.5 this week. I had a few indulgences this week. I expect that my crazy schedule next week is going to make sticking to a plan difficult...but, we'll see.