Ok, I can use a little help staying motivated in changing my lifestyle. I eat healthy food but perhaps I consume a bit too much? My energy input exceeds my energy output. I WILL go to the gym tonight and I WILL walk at least 4 km.
My goal is to successfully shed 8 kg. Thanks in advance for your support
One pound down.
I am balancing on the rafter of my dominion, sliding one foot out.\\\\
Joe(Do you find exhaling while on the scale to be helpful?)Nation
Dag - I'll wait for Vienna.
Good going folks and welcome to Ay Sontespli.
Unfortunately, the scales told me I'm back up 1 pound since last Thursday...must try harder, again!
KP
good luck all! am walking into town today... i bike to work everyday... and its still not enough!
Noddy24 wrote:I have everything except will power.
Visualize wowing them at the reunion.
Think how great that will feel!
You
can do it. You
will do it.
Dominion, dominion, dominion!
Great job Joe, I keep thinking of you thinking of tsunami victims but it doesn't seem to translate over here.
Welcome Ay.
I'm going to miss those shorts George.
176.5 today looking for 175 on Monday which means 173 by Friday because I know I'm going to gain over the weekend.
4 miles on the treadmill this morning; 2 with hills, 2 with speed intervals
abs and shoulders strength training.
Everyone sounds motivated/inspiring. May our excess poundage melt with the snows of winter.
Today I had a farewell half doughnut--and fed at least a quarter of it to Faithful Dog. The jelly was inferior and the dough unexceptional,
I find I can cut a lot of calories by refusing to eat anything unwholesome that isn't Absolutely Delicious.
Starting tomorrow.....
Noddy24 wrote:I find I can cut a lot of calories by refusing to eat anything unwholesome that isn't Absolutely Delicious.
Same here. It's gotta be worth the calories or I'm not eating it.
Hiama
Wonderful to see you ....been fretting a bit!
Okay, so I made a chart with a goal for every day to Dec 31, 2005 using a lose of just one pound a week. It looks like this:
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Only the angle is a lot less steep. So far I am on the flight path and maintaining the correct angle of descent.
229.2
Joe
You're doing great Joe. I went back to try to find your starting weight in January but all I could tell was that it was 240ish. How much have you lost so far?
I could do the math but I'm lazy, what does your chart have you at by the end of the year?
Happy midwinter Noddy! Welcome to the full speed ahead zone.
175 for me this morning, down 3.5 since Monday.
This is the third year in a row that I've been in recovery from the holidays. I pulled out my food diary from 3 years ago when I started out at 186 (lifetime, nonpregnant high) and my bp was 147/90. On 2/2/03 I was at 173 on my way down to an eventual 162 before heading into the holidays and climbing back up to 176. In 2004 I went down at low as 155 which is really too thin for my height but maintained it pretty well through the holidays beginning last January at 165. So here I am one year later, 15 lbs heavier going through the same struggle. Do me a favor next November. Remind me what a pain in the ass it is to lose 15 or 20 lbs every winter/spring and just stay out of the Christmas cookies!
me too. but today is the day 1 again. i have been at the same weight for a week, being bad a few times, being super good a few times, but certainly not consistent. my parents are coming in two weeks, i better be 10 more pounds down by then! i can do it, you can help -a2k!
Do you ever get so hungry you start shaking?
Any ideas of a quick, calorie free 'pick me up'?
are you over your flu dag?
Official weigh in--130 pounds--off to the exercycle.
Material Girl:
You're not experiencing hunger, you're experiencing a change of experience. Our bodies get used to things being as they are and any change is met with some reaction, sweating, shaking, irritability, depression, those are just some of the ways our brain has to signal it's displeasure, but the facts are these: our bodies and our brains get used to changes in about three to five days. So when the shaking starts, say to yourself "This is interesting. I wonder how long this will go on." and pretty soon, if you have turned your attention to something else, you will return to normal.
Your brain tries to signal you that that something is horribly, horribly wrong (There has NOT been any AAAAppple Fritters received by moi thus FAR today, and it seems as if it's way wAY past breakfast.) and you,
you reassure yourself that everyone is okay and you are not on death's door and
the brain will settle down and go back to monitoring breathing and lymph node production goals or somesuch thing.
I know. I just had this conversation with my brain a few minutes ago regarding the substitution of a salad for the large cheeseburger normally inhaled.
Best wishes
Joe (Stop being so glum, brain, it's salad, not stalks of hemlock)Nation
hm, i don't get shaky. but many people do, you become 'hypoglycemic' when you embark on a rapid diet. i do, however, become a kranky bitch. i try to keep that to myself though. and eat little healthy stuff more frequently, so as not to stretch the beast and make it hungry. i was forced to sit in a cafe today while waiting for new tires to be put on my car, so i had a chicken salad wrap that was 'off schedule', but only had a soup otherwise. will try my best not to eat again, if only salad and celery and somesuch horrible unappetizing things.
plus, i have a slovak brain. a slovak brain is programmed to run on meat and potatoes, both of which i try to avoid now. it doesn't read fish as 'meat' and salad as a side dish. tough hardware i have to deal with. would like to trade, anyone cares to swap with me?
Joe Nation-what if it is a case of having dinner at 6pm, breakfast(bowl of cornflakes)at 7am and same again for lunch.
I know I shouldnt complain as Im the one deciding what to eat but surely one bowl of cereal in 18 hours isnt much.
I get shaky and lightheaded,makes me worry about driving.
