The A2K (virtual) Weight Loss Club !!

jp--

Outraging your metabolism sounds like a good ploy.

dragon--

Eight pounds! Wonderful!

George--

Happy anniversary. Next year may there be less of you to love.

George, I forgot to say Happy Anniversary! How rude of me! Happy Anniversary and may the best days of yesterday, be the worst of tomorrow!!!

definitely lost a few pounds yesterday/today, though i didn't weigh myself. i can feel it on my jeans (silly smirk).

Boy, I sure hope so...
Thanks all for the good wishes!

yes, and happy anniversary!

Sounds like everyone is doing well. I don't have time for a lengthy post today so thanks to jp and syn for the tips of the day.

Happy Anniversary George, and many, many more to you and the young bride.

Week 1 checkin:
Starting weight: 171.5
Current weight: 170.0 (2005 low)
Mini-goal weight: 168.0
Goal weight: 161.5

I wore a size 10 skirt yesterday. Snug, but liveable.

ok so i need some help here in an argument with a co-worker. he maintains that he can eat what he wants when he wants it as long as throughout the day, he burns more calories when than he eats. so theoretically he can eat a vat of fettucine alfredo at 11pm, go to sleep and as long as his net calories for the day are negative, he will lose weight.

so i of course want to prove him wrong. so i need to know a few things and need evidence of them (if you all have it).

1. how long does it take from time of consumption for a calorie to be stored as fat
2. is a calorie a calorie no matter where it came from or do you burn calories from fat faster than carbohydrates?

Any thoughts...thanks so much!

J-B--

Congratulations on that size 10 skirt? New? Or Recycled?

In either case, one more ounce and you will have dropped in the decimal system.

dragon--

A calorie is a measure of heat. Simple carbs--such as a piece of candy--start digesting with the saliva in your mouth. Fats need bile from the liver and are digested very slowly.

Time of digestion varies widely from person to person. The "average" amount of time that food spends in the stomach is two hours. I've just failed two capsule colonoscopies because I retain food in my stomach for at least eight hours.

Rule of thumb--averages again--eat today, excrete at the same time tomorrow.

Calories, no matter whether protein, fat or carbohydrate are broken down by digestion into simple sugars and absorbed in the blood stream. Some are burned by physical activity or by maintaining cells. Others are converted to fat and stored.

As for your debate with your co-worker.

Suppose your metabolism burned 2000 a day.

Suppose your menu for an entire week was nothing but banana splits totalling 1200 calories a day.

You would be burning 800 calories more than you ate every day and you would lose about 2 1/2 pounds a week on the banana split diet.

If your coworker burns 2000 calories a day and eats 1800 calories of pasta, cheese and cream, he's not going to gain weight.

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Grim thoughts on exercise from the people who are updating the Government Food Pyramid.

"Previously overweight people who have lost weight may need 60 to 90 minutes of exercise to keep the weight off." (Russell Pate, panel member and professor of exercise science at U of SC).

"Up to 90 minutes a day is required for people who, since they were overweight, may have a more demanding metabolism," (Dr. Janet King, the panel chair and scientist at children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. )

You can break your excercise sessions into 15 minute segments. You don't have to work up a sweat. You just have to move for 30 or 60 or 90 minutes.

Moderate exercise: walking, hiking, light gardening or yard work, dancing, golf, cycling, light weight lifting. Stretching also counts.


Doomed to exercise forever.....as ye sow, so shall ye reap.

I think he might be right. As long as his net loss of calories is greater then or equal to the net intake of calories he will lose weight or remain at the same weight.

Sounds like you definitely lost a few Noddy; good job!

Your 'still even' is better than my gain

Wow! 8 lbs in the first week! That is amazing! How often do you run?
Good stuff dragon!
Sonte

Excellent J_B Bet that feels good! To have lost 1.5 lbs and be able to slip into a size 10

MG ... good work getting to the gym!

Geroge ...Happy Anniversary! Hope you guys did something special

I only went to the gym once so far this week. My volunteer activities had me all over the place this week and I found that at the end of the day I just didn't have enough left in me to get to the gym as well.
I did walk heaps though! I am a rookie at public transport and ended up getting off at a few wrong stops throughout the week so I got a walking tour of some of Brisbane's suburbs
Yesterday when I went to Brownies I walked to the next 'burb over and caught the bus there instead of just walking up the hill and catching the train.
Today I am off to the Mater Children's hospital and it is a 20minute bike ride away. I was going to be slack and take the train but have just looked at the clock and there will not be time for me to get their via public transit...it is quicker to ride
I have a review at 11:00 and my rounds don't start until 1:00 so I will do some walking around South Bank during the interval...
I sure hope one of my boyz is up for cooking dinner tonight!!!!
Have a great day everyone! You are all doing splendid!

Sonte

Ay S--

Thanks for the kind words.

The week ahead has your name on it--and great smears of your abandoned body fat.

Hold your dominion.

Noddy - as for excersize - I do get my weight-bearing excersize with the kids. But, I rarely get my cardio vascular and the work out is so not well-rounded.

Congrats to all you weight-loss success stories!

I had a good food day up til now, but we're having a dinner party here tonight. I had my usual 2 slices of toast (they are whole grain and multigrain slices) with butter and coffee for breakfast. Green tea throughout the day, one vegie-fruit mixed juice and some almonds as a snack. Lunch was a romaine and tomato salad tossed with pinenuts and feta, olive oil and balsamic.

Dinner will be pasta with spinach and pesto and spinach salad with feta, walnuts and tomatoes and an olive oil-lemon dressing.

No real excersize today - just kid-lugging.

two hours of boxing -- yep, i picked up boxing, went for the first time today and loved it.

also picked up a nasty food poisoning, at a burger at work that must have been old or something. feel like i'm gonna die. i view it as just another slimming diet...the worst one though.

aw, Dag, are you ok?

I blew it at dinner, still, not so terribly bad, just too much alcohol.

George, happy anniversary! How was the dinner and did you enjoy without overdoing?

Dag, how awful. Losing weight that way doens't seem worth it.

Noddy, congratulations. You are getting there, holding your dominion.

After almost a week, I've lost one pound. So, at least it's a pound less rather than more. Slowly, I am getting in a good diet routine without too many cheats. The fig preserves are gone. Good.

Littlek--

As long as you burn more calories than you consume.....


Dak--

Lions and tigers and boxing, oh my! Sorry about the enforced purge, but an enforced purge will jump-start abstemious living.

Diane--

Habits are everything. Once you get the routine set, pursit of the thin life is easier. I have a friend who gained and then lost twenty pounds ten years ago. She is meticulous about portion control, but a bit shocked that I use her as a mental Saint/Good Example when I'm serving out my meals.

I'm re-hydrated and according to the scales my weight is 127--four pounds lost in ten days.

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.