I've lost another pound. The scales read 112 this morning.
Of course, this is second thing in the morning with an empty bladder. The Official Scales at the doctor's office where I'm dressed in street clothes--with shoes--weigh about six pounds heavier.
Today is a CT Scan day. How many calories in barium?
good luck with the scan, noddy.
JPB--
Thank you.
This is a just-in-case procedure, keeping an eye on what is probably surgical debris from a hysterectomy in 1979.
The lump was never any problem until it was discovered. Now "we" are keeping an eye on in several times a year.
I've been on steroids for a week for inflammation in my shoulder/neck. I haven't lost any weight for sure, but it's moving around. Shirts are tight in the arms and my pants are loose.
Way to go, ASM!
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I'm not in pain today. I'm puzzled. I should be, I think. The alternative conclusion is that my base fitness level has improved. Concept?
Tell you what... You get comfortably in the sixes and I'll get below 175 (could be tomorrow -- or not) and we'll do it.
ehBeth wrote:Way to go, ASM!
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I'm not in pain today. I'm puzzled. I should be, I think. The alternative conclusion is that my base fitness level has improved. Concept?
Thanks. It's the little things.
ohh, I just noticed the avatar.
very romantic
173.5!!!! That's -8 for week 1 (most of it in the first three days). It's also my second of four mini-goals. The next one is a 6 in the middle.
EhBeth--
Your abs must be magnificent.
JPB--
I'm sure you know that some of your loss is water weight, but you're building momentum and momentum builds resolve and resolve triggers self denial.
Remember in a month, with more sunlight in your life and in the lives of your loved ones, dieting will be easier.
I think the primary water weight loss was seen in the few days before we started the alternating feasts and fast. I'm actually down 11.5 since NYE and 15.5 since Dec 3 (lifetime high).
What's interesting is to see the fluctuations after a feast day with strength training (status quo or slight loss or increase) and fast days with aerobics (2-3 lb drop). Much of my loss (probably at least half) is due to the heavy workout load that I've been following. There's definitely some fluctuating water weight between the two cycles but the downward trend is encouraging.
Went to the gym.
Plenty of new faces this time. Maybe they make the resolution but then need time to research and figure out where to go?
JPB--
Very respectable losses--and the losing is sustained.
Soz--
Do any of these new faces have Motherhood Anguish writ large upon the brow? As in Swap Sitting Anguish?
This year presents me with an interesting challenge: I have my Christmas fat to work off, as always in January. But this time, I have to do it without my scale, which will join me in America only later this year. (No point in buying a new one only to have two of them later.) So I how do I motivate myself? How do I find out if I'm making progress? I decided to try intrinsic motivation: Use excercise and low-calorie foods as recreational drugs. Savor the wonderful feeling just after a workout, remember how good it feels to go to bed un-stuffed with food, and use training. Get my feedback internally from my body instead of externally from an instrument of measurement.
As I finish my first week of doing this, I'm feeling great, but of course have no idea whether it worked in terms of weight loss or not. It'll be interesting to find out some day towards the end of February.
Tonight was the first night of intermediate belly dance for the season. As I've just moved up it was a bit mmm intense.
I can tell I'm stronger, and I know that more of the individual moves and routines have made their way into muscle memory, but my butt HURTS right now.
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The biggest change is in my attitude.
When I started this, I wouldn't wear my glasses to class. I didn't want to be able to see myself. Then I eventually started wearing my glasses, so I could see the instructor, but positioned myself so I didn't have to see much of myself - just the occasionally arm or pile of hair in the mirror. Now it's glasses on, and jockeying for a spot where I can see myself in the mirror. I'd still rather not be in the front row, but I don't freak out. I don't love what I see, but I don't avoid it either.
It's been a bit of a haul.
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The support here has been enormously helpful.
You couldn't tell me how to hold my feet or arms, but I've been keeping on keeping on because of this thread.
Thanks!
ehBeth wrote:You couldn't tell me how to hold my feet or arms, but I've been keeping on keeping on because of this thread.
Holding your feet and arms? Well
that's easy:
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp again!
You're welcome!
Let's do the Time Warp again!
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Perfect for your house-warming theme!
Well I was walking down the street just a-having a think
When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink
He shook me up, he took me by surprise
He had a pickup truck and the devil's eyes.
He stared at me and I felt a change
Time meant nothing, never would again
Let's do the Time Warp again!
bethie, I can't quite imagine what you're doing that makes your butt hurt!
Thomas, congrats on the new plan. Perhaps you'll notice results by the way your clothes fit?
Thomas--
Won't you feel the difference in the way your clothes fit? Or don't fit?
EhBeth--
Mind and body are linked and control of the body can banish wistful thinking. Congratulations.
