Trying to get back into a pattern of eating less. Personal trainer sessions now underway with a new trainer, who is focusing on me losing weight as the first objective...it crept back on while I wasn't watching (Nov-Dec).
Dag is an inspiration, though!
KP
Dag is the Iron Lady.
I recently weighed myself and thought I had left something in my pockets because I was more then fourteen pounds heavier, then I realized that I wasn't wearing any pockets, an image I plead with you to try not to imagine, so I am back on my program of toast and grapefruit for breakfast with coffee black, a light lunch (cup of soup and no-dressing salad) and a little meat and veggies for dinner. So far, six pounds down, but I need to start speed walking again in the frigid winds.
Joe( I'm going to go cut my toenails and then weigh again.) Nation
In the past 2 years from going to a shop job to an office'sit on my arse allday' job Ive put on 2 stone(28lbs)
Height 5ft7"
Age 29
chest 37"
waist 34"
hips 44"
I have set myself a challenge of losing 2 stone for my friends wedding in July. I will be starting my new eating/exercise pattern tomorow,so far there have been about 8 tomorrows.
Just curious, Material Girl. On the scales where you are, is there a setting for stones? On ours (USA) one can flip between kilos and pounds but there is no setting to measure stones.
And, god I do have a lot a questions, are stones subdivided? Does one say I weigh 17 stones and a bit, or 17 stone and 6 pence or what?
By the way... it's tomorrow right now on this thread.
Joe( Everybody must get stoned.) Nation
In films Ive come to understand that you guys in the USA work on lbs.I remember Kim Basinger telling Batman that she weighed about 116lbs.
We in the UK work in stones and lbs.
There are 14lbs in 1 stone.
I fluctuate between 12 stone and 12 stone 6lbs.
When I last weighed myself on the scales in the gym(yes I joined a gym last year!!tho im still putting on weight)I am 170lbs, which is 12 stone 1lb.(170 divided by 14=12.1).
I havnt a clue about kilos.
2.2 lbs per kg
I am currently 104.5kg or 230lbs or 16st6lbs.
Aim to get down to around 91kg or 200lbs or 14st4lbs by July...that will take some work!
KP
Good luck.Any idea how to get will power re dieting?
material girl wrote:Good luck.Any idea how to get will power re dieting?
Now THAT'S the question!
I just wish I had the answer.
I had gotten all the way down to 173, and now I've bounced back to 176.
One thing that helps me, by the way, is posting here.
It forces me to confront reality and acknowledge both my failures and successes.
The poor folk's weight-watchers meeting!
good grief! as if pounds weren't enough, the stones come in to confuse the hell out of me. first time i encountered them was in bridget jones' diary - i though she was just being silly...:-) you folks should finally convert to a metric system, everything should be measured that way. 100 centimeters in a meter, 1000 kilos in a ton - makes math sooo much easier. (and can you drive on the right side of the road already?) thanks.
anyhow, still good, so far. it's been 2 weeks, i'm almost 10 pounds down.
What works for me, girl, is joining some sort of something. and paying for it. joined weight watchers - which does me no good (i know what a healthy diet should be and the web site doesn't offer much more than that) - but i had to pay, and i have to weigh in every monday and watch my 'progress chart' - so i am determined not to see it climb up. i'm just shamed into dieting, so to speak. gym helps of course. i always forget how i love working out - getting there in this freaking cold is always such an ordeal.
I finally stepped on the scale this morning and I'm back up to 177. It's get a grip time again. Balanced meals, lots of water and exercising are back on the menu. Another big snow storm is forecasted for tonight/tomorrow with up to 12" total so I'll be getting lots of outdoor workouts this weekend.
I'm actually surprised it wasn't higher given what I've been eating lately and the fact that I've sat on my butt all week. Time to get back to it....
Dag
I always think in metric but need to understand the "old" system which so many others use
KP
J_B: are you and I on the same roller coaster?
Today marks the end of the first month of winter. Here in the Poconos the weather is bitterly cold and we have enough snow and ice to keep me housebound. More snow and ice are forecast for the weekend.
Come Groundhog's Day--halfway through the winter--I'll get serious again about Really Trying to Lose. Meanwhile, I'm trying to keep my weight between 127 and 130.
I'd like to lose 15-20 more pounds--and I'd like to eat bon bons and chocolate candy and double-helpings of whale blubber.
This, too, shall pass.
Mmmmmmmmm....... whale blubber!
George wrote:J_B: are you and I on the same roller coaster?
Seems it and from what I just saw of the weather forecast you need to dust off your shovels again too!
The drift in my driveway is now up to the window of my car.
Gonna burn me some serious calories shoveling!
The snow is so fine and powdery that Mr. Noddy is moving mountains with his leaf blower.
Leaf blower, not snow blower.
it is official. ten pounds down. and i haven't even moved a finger yesterday or today!
Dag--
Congratulations!
No snow shoveling? Not even a bitty-bit?
