The A2K (virtual) Weight Loss Club !!

Wow , 85 pounds! I can't begin to tell you how impressed I am. Just for context, may I ask how many pounds since Chicago? Would I recognize you again?

As for myself, the first two weeks after Chicago were reasonably good. But then I fell off the wagon and crossed the line into "morbidly obese" territory again. I resolved to get with the program again the past weekend, and I expect to be spending the rest of July losing the same 10 pounds for the third time. Grrrrr.

Thomas, 5'7", 254 lb

Sport Relief is organising Fun Runs all over the place, that's a good target to get to - just heard of someone who lost 18 lbs training and is really enjoying it. My 90-yr-old mother-in-law is going in for one, but thank goodness says she'll probably just walk!

We have spent the past weekend celebrating several birthdays. Birthdays are never good occasions for dietary fortitude, but these were especially bad ones for me because I was having so much fun. First, there was the little Cuban restaurant, no details, my shame is too great, followed by a night at the theatre watching Eric McCormack (Will and Grace) be himself as a straight man (he is, you know.) and Fran Drescher, Judy Reyes and Maura Tierney play the girls in Some Girl(s) the latest by Neil LaBute. Fran Drescher gets to take most of her clothes off, very brave and the play was sweet and not deep.

I got up Friday morning and ran eleven miles. I signed up with the New York Road Runners Virtual Trainer later that day and found out that I was running way too far and way too slow. hmmm. Saturday, we took the ferry over to Weehauken to see the lights of the city and scream at the gifts for the other several birthday celebrants. Beautiful sunsets make the city turn gold. Really, you have to see it once. Amazing.

Too much booze and a few spoonsfuls of completely insane desserts, a quiet cruise back across the river and a zoom-zoom taxi ride home made me oversleep on Sunday morning which was lucky because, instead of having time to subway it down to Central Park, I was forced to try something I have been thinking about for months.

I ran down under the George Washington Bridge, right by the famous Little Lighthouse, and down the riverpath. I live within shouting distance of both but had never tried a run down there. It was like being in a different country. There are pick-up soccer games going on and lots of people fishing and lots and lots of people biking, running, walking and slogging along. (And a clean bathroom at 139th Street.)

I ended up running through the empty warehouse district near 129th Street, not a nice place, but plenty of people around, then jogged up to the Number One train at 125th and Broadway for the short ride home.

The result of all this is that I had a very good weekend (Italy won!) but, even with the running adventures, I am up four pounds to 204.3 .

AND tonight I meet The Prince for drinks.

Joe( help me)Nation

Oh my God, how disgusted with myself am I!!!

I considered doing it a while back but didnt get round to doing anything about it.Id walk it.
Now i feel like the scum of the earth knowing that a 90 yr old is going to do it and Im not!

YOU're disgusted?! I've been living in her (slim) shadow for 33 years!. But she is a very nice person, despite it all!

Slim and nice and Im sure she still has all her marbles!!!GODAMMIT!

I'm going to the rapid weight loss clinic.

I'll be right back.

I know, makes you spit, doesn't it?

Hehe, dont live in her shadow, Im sure you have many fine qualities that can challenge hers.

'sOK, I live higher up the hill

Me too on the first two weeks post Chicago and back where I started. I resolved to get back on my program as of today (so far so good) and losing the same 10 pounds for the umpteenth time.

What's your program?

A one-hour jog a day, every day at 6 pm. (I need to keep my workout plans simple or I Won't have enough discipline to execute them.) The weather is beautiful in Munich, so it's much more fun out in the park than inside the gym. Plus, all the elliptical training in the winter and the spring has given me so much leg muscle my weight doesn't seem to bother my joints at all anymore. (Knock on wood.) It's nice working out that weigh, though I would prefer to start from 234 pounds rather than 254.

You run for an hour every day?! Wow! I'm impressed.

It's actually closer to a waddle than a run. I cover only about 4 miles during that time. But "one hour" sounds a lot more impressive than "4 miles" and Im vain, so ....

You're the most self-deprecating vain person I've ever met, then. When I run on the treadmill it's about the same -- 4.2 to 4.6 mph range -- and I can't sustain that for an hour yet, much less every day. And I'm currently feeling in pretty good shape!

Well I guess you are ... for a sprinter

Since I stopped smoking - down to the "J_B amonunt" (three packets/year) - I stopped eating chocolate, (nearly) all other sweets (besides ice, some cake now and then or the one or another or a third cookie) ... but couldn't reduce a lot

(165 lb )

I do 14 miles for an hour, nearly every day.



With the bike :wink:

Get out of here, you poser! I've seen you in Chicago, and most of us would have killed to have your 165 lb.

You mean you run at 14 miles per hour, or bicycle? (When I'm in peak form [which I am not, now] I can sustain about 7 mph on the treadmill, so I'm assuming the latter, but who knows?)

(doy, only just scrolled down...)

Yeah, the sprinter part is the problem, Thomas... I can go REALLY fast for a short time, but not so much with sustaining anything for an hour. I think I'm ready to do more treadmill stuff, though, right now I'm just doing the treadmill until the elliptical trainer opens up, if they're full (and if there is an elliptical available when I arrive, no treadmills at all). I definitely need to mix things up.

Well, I do about 14 miles on the bike, and it takes me one hour .... if I'm not photographing too much :wink: