The A2K (virtual) Weight Loss Club !!

sorry, I do better when a scales not within reach, I tend to get on it way too much.....OCD don't you know, the Zoloft helps, but I've got to do my part.

Dragon - How tall are you may I ask?

the nekkid before and after pics are optional

ahem

will someone please make george behave?

i am an astonishing 5'10"-rather tall for a half asian chica

GEORGE!!! Where ya been? Glad to hear all is well, I posted an APB for you on the missing A2K thread a couple weeks ago. I hope your son runs with you. You can keep each other motivated through the training and the race. Good to see you again.

Dragon ~ Why did I think you were much shorter? I must have been thinking of Ay. You're only a bit shorter than I am. No wonder we both keep hovering around 170. Speaking of Ay, has she been back at all since the week after the wedding?

Welcome Chai and Bella! Hail, Hail, the gangs all here!

It's been a busy week and I've eaten lunch and dinner out for the last three days. I'm not weighing in until Monday.

I'll join you on the exercycle tomorrow, Noddy.

Hi J_B!

I've been on vacation (Montreal) and then there's been a burst of
heads-down, stops-out, full-tilt-boogy work around here.
We made our commitment date, but now the folks we depend on
are delayed, so things are a bit calmer.

In spite of good intentions, I'm eating the wrong things.
Older son Clive and I had steak and cheese subs with
fries and soda yesterday.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

hmm, jb not sure why you thought i was short everyone tells me at 5'10" i am not fat, which is ok, but i sure as heck aint the 145 i was when i graduated college. of course i was a competitive swimmer, but cmon, i was benching like 185 and since they say muscle weighs more than fat, theoretically shouldn't i be able to weigh less than 145 healthfully?

ay hasn't been here in a while. should we put an apb out on her? worried, she wasn't in the best of moods there, AY are you out there? we are thinking of you!!!!

ugh i am still 171 this am and i have been seriously watching what i eat. getting even more serious now. mr. d told me other day he wanted to be able to see his stomach muscles, so we are kinda in it together now (as far as eating goes). i have developed some weirdo pain in my left leg, kinda on my shin but a little more inside and running up about halfway...maybe i pulled something? we have been walking since wednesday but that's ok, at least we've been doing something...

ok, i will check in once a week and discuss wether or not my pants fit well.
I havenoticed lately they are getting a bit harder to keep up.
i dont do the scale thinggy because.. being a woman , i know we bounce over a 7 lb radious every month. What may seem to be weightloss may be just water weight. Same for weight gain.
So I go by the one judge that cant lie.
My pants.
When i down size , I will be doing well, if I upsize. . i will just have an anxiety attack and hope for good drugs.

Sounds like a shin splint, but I've never heard of getting them by walking.
I get them from either running in worn-out shoes (not enough shock
absorption) or increasing my mileage too drastically.

I did something today quite noteworthy.
Health issues being rampant on my part , I have been essentially terrified of even going up and down stairs for triggering another health problem.
That fear has a weight now.. almost 40lbs. >sigh<

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i enrolled in a marathon.

it is 6 months of training. Once a week endurance test, 3-4 days of endurance practice at home.

Me, the mister and MIL are all in it. :-)
We are starting in the walking class first.
Mr wolf wants to jog and maybe MIL as well.
Im going to stay in the walking class.. but my 6 month goal is to loose this 40 lbs. FINISH that damn marathon wether or not I am CRAWLING over the finish line, and walk on my own every other day for about 3 miles.

So, today , is day one.
1 mile = 20 minutes for me.

http://www.austinfit.com/

Shewolf - HOW are you able to walk in this weather? The heat doesn't bother you?

Yeah, I mainly want to go with having my clothes fit better too.
I think I'll weigh myself once in a while, but I'd rather go by how I look.

Actually I feel really odd talking about this.....I have this mind set I'm smaller than I am, until I look in the mirror. Kinda a reverse anorexia

Both of my parents were quite large and inactive, I'm amazed they both lived as long as they did. My oldest sister is just as huge.

Since teenage years, I knew I didn't want that.....so I've stayed active.

I don't have any competitive spirit, and know absolutely nothing about sports. So I was more of the bike riding, long walks, weight lifting type.
I always belonged to a gym since college graduation.

I was hot stuff during my 20's let me tell ya.

I'm only 5'3" and from 16 to 30 my weight stayed from 110 to 120, much of it muscle.

I was at the low end of that of that when I married my 1st husband when I was 30. When we were married a year, he pointed out to me I was getting pretty big - didn't like the way my ass jiggled (yeah right), when I weighed myself, I was a HUGE 119 I actually let that bastard make me think I was heavy.

Anyway - moving forward, when I married Kirk, I was around 135, and you know what, I looked fine.
I don't think I'll ever see that again......I would like to just get under that 150 mark, where you can use the next section down on a medical scale.

Now I'm 46, and with a whole bunch of stuff I won't get into here, I've spent a lot of time looking out after others, and not myself.

I have a hard time typing this, but I'm actually up to 180 now. AAAAAAAA!!!!

I still have a lot of muscle, so it looks like less, maybe 160.
At 150 I'll look like what I am inside.........healthy looking but not preoccupied with my looks.

I let my last gym membership lapse in Dec. since we're remodeling the house with a workout area.
That part took longer than I thought, and I didn't get my elliptical machine in there until about 2-3 months ago.

I love excerising on it, I guess I've just let myself go...... really bad.......

When I stopped going to the gym, my blood pressure went up. I got on medication, but we're still working on that.

Well, I've thouroughly depressed myself now.

On top of that, I'm pre-menapausal. This is the 2nd time in a year I have missed a period. One step closer to the grave.

I don't care if I loose a pound a month, but I'm feeling kind of low, I think some of it is the menstrual part, just fill yucky.

shewolf--

One of the ways that weight creeps up on me is for me to attribute gains of 1-3 pounds as "water weight". Do the math--whether it is 3+3+3+3 or 7+7+7+7 I find to my horror I'm larger (and flabbier) at the end of the month or the season or the year....

Regular weighing has advantages.

Chai Tea--

Being ambushed by unexpected reflections of myself in all my quivering glory is very humiliating. I sympathize.

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Deep, basic wisdom: Just because there are delicious leftovers from an excellent cheesesteak sandwich (made from home-cooked roast beef and excellent Italian cheese) does not mean that I'm entitled to nibble away at those leftovers.

Get thee behind me Satan.

I've lost 5 pounds, and I'm down to 277.

CG--

Wonderful. You've been losing steadily all summer, haven't you? That takes a lot of self control. I'm impressed.

Hold your dominion.

First, a way to go!!! to CG. Yea..... CG!!

223.2 Eight weeks in a row of weight loss, this week's being the smallest amount (.2 pounds) probably due to the fact that I've just spent a weekend with my sister and her family down at the Jersey Shore. It was my much older brother's 60th birthday, I'm 58. At my sister's you eat good. You've seen those pictures of medieval festival tables with the platters of meat, cheese and bread, sauces, crudites and chopped salad, lobsters, shrimp and crabmeat stuffing??? That's just the Friday lunch. So I think I did pretty well to come back under the previous week.

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One note on shin splints which I get more of when walking then running. First, s t r e t c h before you do any walking or running. S t r e t c h LOTS (fifteen minutes worth at least) if you are out of shape (like me). Second, shorten your stride until you find the right length, (no pain) then change your rhythm as you walk or run. Do a ten yard sprint once in a while, bounce your knees up as if you were running in place. Dance every once in awhile. Shake it up, baby.

= The run to the lighthouse.
I decided I wanted to run -(slog)- up to the lighthouse. "It's three miles." says sis. I have been running (slouching along grimly) around Central Park which is about six miles and there are hills (many) so I thought 'Hey, piece of cake.' but instead of eating another piece of cake, early Saturday I set off for the Island's End.

My mistake was twofold, 1) believing in the accuracy of local distance reporting and 2) not planning for or taking any water with me. I decided I would run to the lighthouse,.... I ran for a long time.... then I decided I would run until I could see the lighthouse. It turns out neither is actually possible. The lighthouse is not on the same line as the roadway and is rather, tucked away to the left, where you can't see it from the Island until you reach this stretch of sand and dunes that unless you are a Humvee you are not going to cross. (Oh sure, I could have taken that other road that splits off from the main drag and takes you right up to the Lighthouse's stairsteps, but that would have been the easy way out.)

I took a picture.

Then I headed back. I run at the same rate as shewolf walks. (Both animals!) You do the math. Oh, by the way, it's closer to four miles to the lighthouse than three.

Yes, they had sent out a search party.

I had a spa day after that. Drank a lot (water, juice, Diet Coke) Watched a cloud formation for close to two hours. Swam in the ocean. Listened to a book. (Bryson's.. wonderful) and laughed at the niece (four and half years old) learning to break eggs with her Nana.

See you next week. Decide what your dominion is, then hold it.

Joe(Yes, this is how good I look when I look good)Nation

Joe--

Congratulations on Eight Straight, particularly in the face of resident temptation. If you can pass up 440 Festive Family Calories so that you lose rather than gain...

As a Friend of Feminists, you should know that one never gets to the lighthouse. One plans, one dreams, but the lighthouse is a part of the horizon, not the diary.

Hold your dominion--any old way that is comfortable.

WTG, CG and Joe!!! Great jobs, both of you.

My younger daughter starts school today. My days are more sane now and I can get back into my own routines. For various, assorted reasons I ended up eating most of my meals in restaurants last week. I'm starting a full recovery today and hope to drop the 9 lbs I gained last week as quickly as I put it on.

This weekend:
The thrill of victory -- got some serious exercise Saturday
moving my daughter Hermione from one apartment to another.
The agony of defeat -- on Sunday helped Texas Roadhouse
thin out the herd.