The A2K (virtual) Weight Loss Club !!

Sorry you're sad about the end of summer. Me, I'm so GLAD it almost October.

Then again, I get sad in the Spring, knowing the summers coming.

So, I guess everyone gets their turn.

Chai Tea--

Homemade cryptic wisdom: The start of a successful diet is an awareness of the habitual.

Dag--

You are starting to remind me of A Cover Girl on a Liberated Space Opera. Our Heroine, brainy and beautiful, a woman of wit and charm and a lethal left hook....

Littlek--

You've been quietly losing and not bragging about it? I'm doubly impressed. How much further are you planning to go?

Joe--

May you continue to emulate a retrogressing onion all winter long, peeling layer after layer of extraneous material. Come spring, you'll be glorious.

I've held my own at 125/126--suprising since I've been most self-indulgent. After a year and more of restraint, gorging isn't as much fun as it used to be--in fact I quickly reach a point where I realize I'm not enjoying myself...and I have the sense to stop (or at least to slow down).

Thursday, 9/22 at 6:23 p.m. DST the sun will be directly over the equator and the day and night will be of equal length. Then the dark will close in upon us.

My yearly resolution is to avoid eating after sunset. Perhaps this year I'll keep it?

Noddy, I wasn't really sure how I did it. Maybe the prospect of getting naked in front of a guy helped a little. I was also sick..... I felt it would be in bad taste to say the above things here - oops, I said it. I am not going to try to go any further. 135 would be great, but 140 is good. Especially if I tone up the flabby bits.

Littlek--

Motivation is where you find it. Hold your dominion.

Thanks! <off to look for more motivation>

ok, weekly report..a little late

went to the training saturday. It felt really good.
All of last week, I didnt practice.. no real reason i guess
I had a bout of lazyness. No other excuse.

I have been breaking up my walking distance. Usually, for practice
I just walk 2-3 miles during the week and then really push myself on the saturdays we go to practice.
This past week was really easy though. The marathon group is only
at ..5 miles? i think?
I usually walk every other day no matter what and the days that I
dont walk .. i do nothing in the way of excersize. Now that may be good, but I am thinking that , not doing anything may be what is causing it to be so painful at times.
I just started stretching out before a walk , like you suggested Joe and that helped alot. I even stretched out a little afterwords.
My biggest problem is that I have problems in my hips. And , unfortunatly, the biggest contributing factor to that discomfort is excess weight. I have to swallow that pain and keep moving because the only way relief is possible is to drop the weight and increase my mobility.
Sort of a catch 22 i guess...

I have a ' yoga for dummies' cd that I am going to start using on my non walking days to help stretch my muscles and im hoping , will also help my hips. It will also give me something to do on my off days that wont necessarily count as a heavy work out so I can still 'rest' when it is needed.

I finally weighed myself.. not a single pound gone. Holy cow. :-(
That was a crusher. I only weigh myself once a week. and for the past 3 weeks it has fluxuated about 4 lbs. I stood io the scale and seriously contemplated just quitting. What in the world am I doing all this crap for if I am not getting results? Shouldnt I have lost SOMETHING by now? I mean this has been going on for a month and a half.. and NOTHING.
Frustration and embarassment almost won.
But i feel so good after a walk, it is like a drug.

I remember, a few months back, I was really REALLY battling with serious depression. I even posted a thread looking for natural remidies and suggestions. Joe then told me " Run. Run so hard you sweat and can hardly breathe.." It has taken me a few months to really follow that piece of advice..
but from where I stand right now, that was the best advice I had ever gotten.
thank you joe.

well last week:

tuesday and thursday: 2 miles rollerblading, really not as easy as it would sound...hurts my butt really, then i ate it on thursday and that hurt my wrist/elbow/shoulder-how you can fall on flat ground rollerblading? only if you are a born and bred swimmer...

monday and wednesday: ran 2 miles with the pooch-oh he goes rollerblading too but mr. d handles the reigns with that as i am having enough trouble just standing up (again fish out of water syndrome).

so i made it exercising 4 out of 7 days...makes me happy, but man, believe it or not, i was so tired come friday and sooooo sore (of course, i fell on thursday so that could have a lot to with it).

today i will be either running or rollerblading 2 miles, depends all on mr. d, if he goes with, we rollerblade, if not, i run.

all said and done, 173 lbs. today. hoping i can hit 160's again soon. i think food is playing a huge role, i started eating around 630pm for dinner and come 9pm, i am starving. so i snack...ugh i know...that late it's bad!!!!

HI MOM, HI MOM-how exciting shewolf!!!!

shewolf--

Obviously over the last few years, your metabolism has setted down to "well-padded matron".

Are you keeping track of calories--serious track with a set of measuring cups (or other measuring guides) and calorie charts?

This is a good site for calorie information:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

No matter how you suffer unless you eat fewer calories than you burn, you won't lose weight.


Dragon--

Have you considered ski poles? The women of majestic years who roller blade swear by ski poles.

Exercising four out of seven days isn't perfect, but it is a good start--and infinitely better than exercising zero out of seven days.

shewolf - has there been a change in how any of your clothes fit?

I often find that the weight/shape thing adjusts in steps. First a little weight loss, then some firming/tightening, then a little more weight loss, then some firming/tightening. They never seem to happen at the same time. Frustrating.

You can't be doing it right or else you wouldn't still be talking about it.

Vocabulary term for the week:


Support Group

Do you mean corsets,girdles and brasseries?

Much depends on the peer group.



"Brasseries" seems to belong to a different set.

Noddy, you owe me a cup of tea, and a clean white t-shirt.

It was a cheap pun I'll admit.But had I gone the brassiere route there would have been no joke (however weak) and no reminder about over eating.

You didn't seriously think that spendius doesn't know his brasseries from his brassieres do you.I avoid the former and search out the latter.

Spendius--

Frankly, you've never impressed me as the sort of man who lurks outside Victoria's Secrets. You're more of an athletic supporter.

Hold your dominion.

Checking in.... still down around 140, still not really excersizing (bad me). And, it's a perfect day for a hike.

I'm going to go weigh myself today, I'll record the loss on Monday.

Tomorrow, day of reckoning and resolution.

weekly report.

last week I didnt do alot of practice. Between me, the mister, and bean being sick, we mostly spent our time laying together on the couch watching cartoons. ..
I did go to the practice this morning.
Got turned around because I dont know my way around austin well at all.
The route was on the hike and bike trail.. and then supposedly up and around some foot bridge, back under neath and return..
err.. uuuuhh.. yeah. I walked straight for 30 minutes then turned around. Hehehe.
Ended up shorting my scheduled walk time though..
but still going it at.

I even met a woman who is in my walking group and lives as far south as i do. In fact, she is just up the street about 9 minutes. Her and I exchanged phone numbers and are going to meet on Tuesday nights at a local park that has a walking path that is a measured 2 miles.
So personal goal number 2 - having a walking buddy besides hubby-
was met today.
That .. felt good . ;-)