Overweight issues

[mmelindas]

Pardon me while I have a big juicy chunk of brownie as I am writing this... (NOT!) yeah, I would be overjoyed to lose ten lbs too! I figure it's like this: I didn't get this way overnight, so it's not going away overnight either!

We win the war against obesity not one pound at a time, but one cookie, one bike ride, any one minute of any exercise we can cajol our bods into...so all is a victory if we do anything at all remotely resembling exercise, not eating fattening foods! (This doesn't count lifting a piece of poundcake five times up to your yap!)

I agree, even with my advanced arthritis, that exercise = less pain if done right. I can't stand for long periods of time nor walk far (back probls) but I can ride my bike and a stationary bike at the gym, and do other types of exercise. I am itching to get to it!! It's just going to be a lonnnnnnnnngg time before I see results and meantime...that brownie is calling me.

So, I've found websites, recipes and the means to make my tempting favorites LESS fattening, and then I can enjoy a little now and then...but changing my attitude about food worked best for me in the past...I found that I liked sweets LESS when I didn't eat them for a while, like for a month, and had fat free yogurts instead. Pretty soon, I wasn't craving sweets at all... and the weight came off faster. For me, oatmeal and raisens for breakfast held off the hungries until after work (with yogurt, an apple and a piece of bran bread at lunch) then I had a homemade veggie tomato soup and yogurt and salad in the evenings...

The problem now is that I have to cook for MEN.....and they don't like that sort of girly diet stuff..... If I have to fix one more fattening thing for a man (even cutie DH and beloved DS) I will hit somebody with a skillet!

Being poor helps though.... it tends to let you buy less of the junk food and more of the survival stuff. So maybe since DH quit his job and doesn't really have to work anyway, that we'll eat healthier...

I am so excited about losing weight that I think I will celebrate with another brownie! Okay, don't kill me, I was joking....

....and I am OBESE, they don't make a scale that will weigh me except for the doctor's office kind...now how embarassing is that?

Okay, I repent, I repent.. I will get on my bike and work hard to lose that weight and I will start....tomorrow...it's raining here!

[Barb]

I am joining the band wagon. I could lose 60 lbs easy. Well not easy, it's hard, very hard. I love sweets. My skinny skinny man loves sweets and eats a TON. It's hard to gage how much I east when he can devore a roast on his own! I am up to 45 miles a week on my bike. The long rides make me really hungry though. Keep up the work, ladies. Healthy old age is the best revenge!

[mmelindas]

....and all you other fatbottomed gals who need to lose weight! I am certainly probably, most likely, ABSOLUTELY to have the most weight yet to lose:

How does losing 150 lbs sound? Maybe I am ambitious, but I hope to do it. (lost 90 five years ago but have gained almost all back.... ) Biking is certainly the answer. Congrats and Waytogo gals for all of us who are trying to be better me's!!

I have a hubby who can eat a horse but preferably a SUGAR coated horse..he's got a sweet tooth to kill a pacheyderm.... I make him go to Carls Jr to have his fattening chocolate malts -- by himself!!

But, as you can see, candy bars are my downfall...I love Midnight Milky Ways...... ahhhhhhhhhh....so bad!

[Duck on Wheels]

The problem now is that I have to cook for MEN.....and they don't like that sort of girly diet stuff..... If I have to fix one more fattening thing for a man (even cutie DH and beloved DS) I will hit somebody with a skillet!

And my problem is a man who cooks. Well, one of my problems. I know I'm privileged. He works closer to home, so often as not I come home to dinner on the table. But he likes sour cream . On "everything". Often with ranch dressing mix in it. And of course the real problem here is ... so do I. So when I'm on my own, like this year on sabbatical, I just don't buy the stuff and manage to lose some weight. But then I go home to DH's cooking, and back it comes, at least some of it. Sigh.

But maybe biking is the solution to that too. He stays skinny by doing long hilly rides and hikes every weekend, whereas I (til now) have been doing a 40-minute walk to and from work with just 80m climb over 3 miles. So maybe now if I get to where I can also ride long hilly rides, I can keep up with DH and burn off that ranch dressing.

[uforgot]

I took the pic in Arkansas somewhere. I think it was when I was camping at Devil's Den. Guess it's the one you saw!

[Tuckervill]

Yep! I was going to say Devil's Den! Of course, one of the best places to mtb in Arkansas. .

We saw the world's largest ketchup bottle last time we went through St. Louis. (It's in Collinsville, IL.) I think things like that are just fascinating.

Karen

[mmelindas]

I just moved to Utah from near the Madison WI area and those Wisonsin folks are certainly a different breed: four major food groups = beer, cheese, deer meat and brats! (bratwurst sausages cooked in beer!)

My DH is a born and raised Wisconsin boy who grew up in west Milwaukee. He's built well, doesn't tend to put on weight and can eat a cow under the table at Culver's Ice Cream -- have you had that addictive stuff yet?

I'm with you -- your 105 and my 150 lbs we'll lose riding our bikes! It is so hard, but worth it. My obesity has put me at greater risk for uterine cancer, breast cancer, stroke, diabetes and I don't need it!

Good for you and your efforts! I totally support you! We all do!!

[uforgot]

Tuckerville,

World's largest ketchup bottle? I've lived in and around St. Louis all my life and never heard of it. I'll have to check it out. If you like that stuff, there is a website and book called Roadside America. I'm not sure of the link, but you could google it. It's been awhile since I've used it, but there was a time when I was on the lookout for old muffler men. Spotted one in Pennsylvania. I think you would enjoy it. It has all of the odd and wacky places to visit in the US.

[Tuckervill]

It's actually a water tower for a ketchup plant.

I think that book you mentioned...they did a PBS show based on it. That's where I first heard about the ketchup bottle.

Karen

[RoadRaven]

And my problem is a man who cooks. Well, one of my problems. I know I'm privileged. He works closer to home, so often as not I come home to dinner on the table. But he likes sour cream . On "everything". Often with ranch dressing mix in it. And of course the real problem here is ... so do I. So when I'm on my own, like this year on sabbatical, I just don't buy the stuff and manage to lose some weight. But then I go home to DH's cooking, and back it comes, at least some of it. Sigh.

Hey there Bikeless - have you talked to DH about your desire to lose weight and the effect of his delightful cooking? Maybe he can cook/serve with less concentrated fats on your food. I do that for us - the kids love to have grated cheese on or through their mashed potato - but my partner and |I don't have ours that way for the weight control thing. Maybe he can serve yours before he adds the extras... or only add half as much, serve and then top his up...
I hope you find some sort of middle ground... perhaps he can serve you "lite" varieties all week and then one day over the weekend he can pamper you with "sour cream on everything" to satisfy his cullinery persuasion...

Along with DHs cullinary concessions, continue to bike and walk and you'll find the weight you lose on sabbatical will stay off.


And Kim - yes, I am finding the same thing - though I haven't lost that much weight yet (only about 6kg / 10-12 lbs) but my shape has changed, I have a waist and my tummy is a little less pronounced and I am losing the wings on my back - my self esteem is up because i am feeling so very fit - fitter than I have ever been in my entire 40 years.