Thanks Noddy. I was forewarned as I'd weighed at home before the official weigh-in at my meeting today. I've learned that I prefer not to deal with scale shock in public.
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Noddy24
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Wed 24 May, 2006 02:58 pm
mac--
When the vultures are circling in public, ladylike behavior can be an unreasonable challenge.
I'm snacking day by day on a very large watermelon. Watermelons used to be 54% waste, what with the rind and the seeds and all. Now they are less than 25% waste and a whole watermelon is a lot for two people.
It is also low in calories.
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George
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Thu 25 May, 2006 06:07 am
Nuts!
174 this morning. It does not come as a shock, though.
This has been a wacky and disruptive week.
But no more excuses.
We'll be eating at Panera tonight before attending an information session
about Northwestern. I will have salad.
Mac11, I feel your pain.
Noddy, lots of work around Casa George this weekend too.
May it be beneficial!
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JPB
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Thu 25 May, 2006 06:42 am
George wrote:
Nuts!
We'll be eating at Panera tonight before attending an information session
about Northwestern. I will have salad.
Is someone at casa George considering Northwestern? Might there be a site visit in your future? Northwestern is a GORGEOUS campus, right on Lake Michigan just north of the city.
Sorry about your 174 and mac's 3.2 pounds; these too shall fall.
One-seventy-one-point-zero!
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George
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Thu 25 May, 2006 06:50 am
Ergo, goodbye to my fat pants.
Congrats, J_B!
Nigel is a high school junior and is looking at college.
Northwestern is putting on an info session at a local hotel.
If he is interested, we'll definitely go out for a look-see.
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Thomas
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Thu 25 May, 2006 06:52 am
mac11 wrote:
Thanks Noddy. I was forewarned as I'd weighed at home before the official weigh-in at my meeting today. I've learned that I prefer not to deal with scale shock in public.
I sympathise with you. On the other hand, I found that the worst thing to do is to stop after the first time. It feels much less embarrassing when you make a habit of it.
-- Thomas, 5'7", 251lb
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JPB
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Thu 25 May, 2006 06:57 am
Nice loss yourself, Thomas!
George, someone will appreciate your donation.
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mac11
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Thu 25 May, 2006 10:00 am
Yay J_B!
And yay George for losing the fat pants!
Yay to Thomas too - I like the subtle way you report in here.
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Noddy24
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Thu 25 May, 2006 10:46 am
J_B, Thomas--
Congratulations!
George--
Bye-bye fat pants.
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Noddy24
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Fri 2 Jun, 2006 01:18 pm
I've had ten days of greed and sloth and I'm probably not going to fit in my new jeans for my getaway next weekend.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap--also wobble and ooze and quiver.
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ossobuco
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Fri 2 Jun, 2006 06:58 pm
Your getaway next weekend? Ohh, good, you deserve one.
I don't know my weight. The scale is under some heap of stuff and I might not succeed in extracting it for a while. Floors of whole house being tiled. (there goes any disposable income for a long time). Don't think I've gained. Might have lost a wee bit.
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Noddy24
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Fri 2 Jun, 2006 07:39 pm
Osso--
I loathe moving and then re-nesting. Under your circumstances calories shouldn't count.
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the prince
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Sat 3 Jun, 2006 12:58 am
I have signed up with a personal trainer (and no, not because he is stunning)
I am going back to the gym !!!
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Noddy24
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Sat 3 Jun, 2006 07:41 am
Prince--
Good for you.
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ehBeth
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Sat 3 Jun, 2006 02:21 pm
Belly-dancing class starts on Thursday.
I am so not ready to be in front of that mirror.
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Noddy24
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Sat 3 Jun, 2006 04:05 pm
EhBeth--
I admire your courage just signing up.
What do beginner's wear for belly dancing? Do you have to appear in gauze immediately or will a chopped-off t-shirt do?
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ehBeth
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Sat 3 Jun, 2006 04:19 pm
We've been told that yoga-style pants, a cropped top, and a scarf that goes around our hips is our starter uniform.
We have to show our bellies and be able to watch our hips move.
mmmmmmm
ok
We're doing it.
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Noddy24
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Sat 3 Jun, 2006 04:22 pm
EhBeth--
You have a choice of scarves, don't you.
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babsatamelia
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Sat 3 Jun, 2006 04:40 pm
I seem to have the strangest body known to man, I can gain 20 pounds in a week, or lose 20 pounds in a week, without doing anything, the only trouble being that OVERALL, since I hit 48, I have gotten fat. Exercising is a wee bit tricky with rheumatoid arthritis. I do a little, more for range of motion - too much exercise and body parts start swelling up like there's gonna be a nuclear blast, especially the knees, feet, wrists. I did a nice little 10 minute exercise for people with severe arthritis issues. A few hours later my feet legs had literally doubled in size. And I mean, all I was doing were things like, keeping your heel stationary, tapping your toes to the left then to the right, back and forth for maybe 2 minutes, then other similarly extremely easy to do exercises. I was devastated, called my rheumatologist - who says - only do for 2 minutes a day, only 2 minutes. Good grief, how am I gonna lose a quarter inch like this? I was reading through some medical literature, research stuff, and there are propositions about weight being totally genetic - there's
even one about how being overweight could be caused by a VIRUS? Sometimes, it
all looks so ridiculous - my efforts to change my body seem resisted by
forces I can't understand. A week long fast and I lose not one pound?
It's easy to fast after the first day, your stomach stops complaining.
Unfortunately my doctor told me that I'm nutritionally malnourished???
I said: "Look at me - I weigh over 200 pounds" (sorry, I forget how to
convert to kilos) You're telling me I'm starving, while I have all of these reserves to be used up. Then in comes a woman who's a hematologist
and she tells me that my body cannot metabolize fats properly. Well, thank you honey. So good to know after all of the years of trying to get it off. Obviously, whether I use the 7 tiny meal a day plan, or the fasting plan - both have absolutely zero effect upon my fat. I fear it's here to stay. But then, after all, none of us is gonna get out of here alive anyway, are we? I fear that my current wildly fluctuating weights
regardless of anything that I do, may be indicative of a condition that I just don't really want to know about,not yet. Hey THREE CHEERS FOR ALL OF YOU GUYS - you really show great stick-to-it-iv-ness,
and be able to watch our hips move.
I fear that my current wildly fluctuating weights