January/February weight loss thread

[Susan Otcenas]

Happy Birthday!! Do you have anything special planned?

I'm making Jeff this cake for his birthday:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Sara-Ja...ke/Detail.aspx

I'm pretty sure I've made this recipe before. He loved it. My strategy will be to eat a very small piece at lunch (we always celebrate birthdays in the office with cake). We're leaving the office directly after cake, and I'll leave it here for the staff to polish off. That way, I don't have to worry about having more than one piece!

""I told my H that I want a birthday cake (or, at the very least, a piece for us to share) ""

That's a very good plan. We did that for my birthday in the fall. Jeff took me out to PF Changs. We took a slice to go (They have an amazing chocolate cake there). I ate just a little bit, and he finished it off. Worked like a charm!

[solobiker]

Have a great time Susan and enjoy yourself. GLC Happy Birthday to you. Mine is at the end of the month. I usually don't ask for or get a cake. That is the last thing I need

[Over50Newbie]

140.0

Sooo close to sneaking into a new decade. Next week for sure!

Lynette

[Hill Slug]

192.2, going in the right direction now....

[3for3]

128.6 Susan, have a great trip! And GLC1968 Happy birthday!!

[Aggie_Ama]

Wrong way... 148.

[GLC1968]

Thanks for the birthday wishes, all!

Susan - we have no plans, really. I did take the day off work (since everyone here is forced to take 10 days of PTO in the first quarter anyway), so I'll at least get to sleep in. I'm thinking that it would be a good day to finally get my Oregon DL, actually.

That cake recipe sounds delicious! I might just send it to my husband as a suggestion for next Tuesday. Contrary to his own belief, he's a good cook!

Today's weight: 168.5 Moving in the right direction again!

[solobiker]

Back down to 151, now it is time to keep it going down.

[martinkap]

152.5 lbs.

I feel I live a new life since I read all the Triske posts! I uped my protein, decreased carbs and I am a new person! I have sooo much energy, I am not hungry and I finally can eat what I always felt was right for me. No more sugar which I just cannot even taste and carbs which made me more tired than energetic.

I still did not do the test but I will. Thanks again.

[deedolce]

118 lbs

...down, but only because I'm recovering from my crash last weekend, and got hit with nausea mid-week. Yes, I went to the doctor, who only reassured me that my brain wasn't bleeding or swelling to enormous proportions, even though the headaches and odd symptoms like all my food tasting bitter, and a seeming head cold without actually having a head cold oddities!!

So I've dropped weight. Won't be able to ride for at least a couple weeks, so I suppose if I can manage not to regain it, then slowly work back up in my training, it may not be a terrible thing. Sigh.

[jesvetmed]

I'm at 171.0 today. Baby steps, but they are forward!

Martinkap, I'm glad you are feeling better with the change in nutrition! Great job.

GLC HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Hope all goes better for you, Deedocle!
Jes

[derailed]

Back down to 189! I expect another blip before I stay in the 180s.

[kjay]

181

and still not able to exercise because of this bad back. Have cut calories even further so that I can break out of the 180s one of these days.

[Triskeliongirl]

152.5 lbs.

I feel I live a new life since I read all the Triske posts! I uped my protein, decreased carbs and I am a new person! I have sooo much energy, I am not hungry and I finally can eat what I always felt was right for me. No more sugar which I just cannot even taste and carbs which made me more tired than energetic.

I still did not do the test but I will. Thanks again.

You are very welcome. I am *so glad* this is working for you. Everything you said about how carbs made you feel suggested to me you have some degree of impaired glucose tolerance. I am just so glad you are feeling better, and seeing it on the scale too!

What is amazing to me though, is how exercise can improve glucose tolerance. I am so sensitive that I even had to give up fruit. But yesterday and today I did long club rides, so during the post-ride window of improved glucose tolerance got to eat a wonderful bowl of berries after lunch. DH drizzled them with heavy cream, so that may have also slowed down their breakdown into sugar, but my blood sugar 1 hour after eating was only 88!! YAY for biking. The way he made them, it was like eating ice cream, something I have definitely had to forgo due to its effect on my blood sugar but still love and miss. He took frozen berries and drizzled them with heavy cream, and the cream froze when it contacted the partially frozen berries. Hmmm.

Congrats to all of you! So many here seem to have had a terrific week!