The Weight Loss Club Thread (No tomfoolery)

Another pound bites the dust! That's 38 pounds in total since the end of May.

I have to admit that I don't understand this whole weight loss thing. I tried gaming the system early on in the week by setting my calories 250 lower then usual, in the hope to lose a bit extra and get to my goal of being overweight a bit earlier. By Thursday my weight hadn't shifted.
Then I got a nasty cold so I upped my calories by 500 (set up to lose 1/2 pound) and then promptly went over several hundred on Friday as well. Today, bam, 1 pound gone!

Anyway, I'm setting myself back to losing 1 pound+100 calories since I find that a comfortable amount to eat. I'm also going to cut the amount of calories MFP says I've burned in half, since they seem to overestemate by a lot. So if those on you on MFP see my "calories burned" drop to lower then usual, I'm sticking as much effort in as usual ;)

Yeah, I try to eat back about half of my exercise calories (even those given by the machines at the gym) and that seems to work for me. I record them all though because it makes me look more awesome!

The biggest problem with that is that it throws off the amount of your macros as well. I like knowing how I'm doing on my carbs and protein. If you're not worried about that then either system works.
I used to not log exercise at all and just set my calories to a slightly higher average a day which worked, but I missed logging and keeping track of calories burned during exercise, so I know what you mean!

I still attempt to get my protein up to whatever it suggested for the higher calorie level ('cos you just can't get enough protein) but I'm not too bothered about the fat and carbs, I think the two seem to balance themselves out overall when I get the protein right!

Oh man I am getting lazy. Seriously lazy. On the plus side, my weight has held at 190....my problem was that I wanted to lose 5 more pounds by the end of the year and then 10 next year. But I got lazy oh so lazy.

I'll get it- that lack of DAILY exercise really messes things up. That said, I really can't complain since I did basically lose the equivalent of a 3rd grader from around my waist and I know now that maintaining a weight is WAY easier than losing, so there is that.

I'm down a pound this week but I'm so tired all the time at the moment. All I want to do is eat really sugary food for the short term energy boost.
Roll on the Christmas holidays.

Down 1.6 pounds this week, sitting at 161 pounds, almost 87 pounds lost. Feeling pretty good, now I will feel good about treating myself at the movies today.

I reached my lowest weight in recent history last week. I weighed myself post-waking up, post-ablutions and with nothing consumed to give myself the best chance of a good weight. That weight seems to be my general, anytime weighing myself weight now. Although I haven't established a new low record.

Two pounds gone this week, for a grand total of 40 pounds since the end of May. I'm 0.1 kilo (3 oz) away from being overweight, so I should hit that in the next few days. I'm so excited!

Last night I was walking about in San Francisco. It was unusually cold, so I buttoned my coat -- thinking it was a leeetle too tight, but okay, I'll just suck it in. While we were standing on a traffic island mid-street my coat button went SPROING! and flew three feet away with a loud CLINK! The tourist lady next to me said "whoa" as I scooped up my button and scuttled away in embarrassment.

Sigh.That's it. It's time to get serious about this losing weight thing.

Excellent progress, Mirriam!

oh god please send help.

I actually knew you posted to this thread and felt a little bad that I was doing nothing but plying you with candy!

But not bad enough that I didn't send it.

You, Madam, are a bounder and a cad.

also, holy shit charlestown chew and taffy, where you been all my life?







NOT HELPING.

Oooh, Charlestown Chew is awesome.

WAIT! Don't eat all of it! You need to freeze at least some of it first. Then it eat it.

Definitely try freezing the Charlestown Chews. My mom swears by them. I wish I had been able to find the chocolate and strawberry varieties, but I only know of one store that carries them and we never got out there!

I haven't been making my weekly updates lately so here's one for Monday or Fat Monday, as I call it.

I am about five pounds over my maintenance weight. I could chalk this up to a lot of things but really, it's simple:

I am putting too much food in my mouth and then eating it.

I have delayed my return to running after discovering it was not my Achilles tendon that was sore but rather the bone below it, which also doesn't seem to visually match the bone on my left foot. How ominous! I will be seeing the doctor about this during Christmas week and may decorate my foot with tinsel and ornaments to make it seem more festive. I'm hoping that I will be able to run soon after but am preparing for the worst (in this case it would probably be something like 'You were running on a broken bone and it's healed wrong, so we're going to break it again and make it heal right', though I don't think it will be that bad).

The lack of a normal run routine has allowed me to let bad habits creep back in when it comes to eating. I'm not going completely nutty (mmm, nuts) so it's less falling off the wagon and more nearly falling off and getting dragged behind it. Except with more potato chips.

If it comes to it, I will just make this an official New Year's resolution to get back to my target weight. It worked last January, so it can work again!

My weight's been going up and down a bit, ranging from 74 to 76 kg, and it seems around 75 is where it's going to be staying. I'm okay with this.
'Course, I've just started going to the gym(another session today! No seizures during!), so that might throw things off a bit.

never fear. It's *all* in the freezer.

This week was interesting. I'd gone up a pound by the weekend and am back down two now. So an overall loss of a pound.
Watched a programme about people preparing for weight loss surgery last night. I was shouting at the screen a lot at things like "the only way I can lose weight is by eating rice crispies and drinking diet coke and NOTHING ELSE."
People. tsk.

The past six weeks has been one of what I shall henceforth call "Gluttony Stagnation", meaning that despite 3 dinner parties, 12 hockey games, 2 boxes of chocolate, a gallon of cinnamon popcorn, a gallon of pecan popcorn, a 5th or so of Scotch (spread across 4 different types, so really hard to get a solid reading) and complete abandonment of logging anything in MFP, I have managed to gain 4 and then lose 3 of those so that I am only one pound heavier than I started six weeks ago.

I was getting frustrated because I have about as much willpower as a puppy with a squeaker toy when it comes to sugary and salty foods. It feels like it's been a cycle of 5 days of penance for two days of gluttony, I eat great during the week while I'm working and then the weekend comes.

However, yesterday my wife asked me to carry a dogfood bag down to the garage, because she just had the kids fill up the small 2-3 gallon plastic bucket and the bag was a brand new one from Costco except for those 2 gallons of course. Damn that bag was heavy. The outside of the bag said it was 52lbs when new, so I was curious and decided to weigh the remaining and it was 38lbs - or just about 2 lbs less than I"ve lost since my high (I've lost 30lbs since Feb). I looked at that bag and looked at my significantly smaller gut and was happy. Fuck-it, if I can gorge like I've done in the past 6 weeks, and stay even I'm doing good.

I'm not going to stop making choices - salad's 2 or 3 times a week so I can have some wonderful food and drink with my friends and family is worth it.

I've given up for now and have set myself up for maintenance, I'll be good again after Christmas. For now I just want to laze around and enjoy the holidays without having to worry too much about calories.

I'm going to be off from work for 11 days starting tomorrow. This will help with my weight because there's a donut shop where I work.

So recently, I had more work shifts. And because of terrible time maintenance, I would end up skipping breakfast and just eat one meal during my break with maybe a little snack after I got off work.

Just finished weighing myself and I am thisssss close to breaking down. but instead i am going to work out because breaking down doesn't get rid of fat

It's been a bad week.

Let's have a look at your most recent MFP activity:

• athryn burned 760 calories doing 60 minutes of "Arc Trainer (level 3)"
• athryn completed her food and exercise diary for 12/21/2012 and was under her calorie goal.
• athryn burned 765 calories doing 60 minutes of "Arc Trainer (Level 2)"
• athryn has logged in for 330 days in a row!
• athryn completed her food and exercise diary for 12/20/2012 and was under her calorie goal.
• athryn burned 750 calories doing 60 minutes of "Arc Trainer (Level 2)"

Now let's compare to mine:

• Creole Ned burned 5 calories lifting a donut to his fat face.
• Creole Ned completed his food and exercise diary for 12/20/2012 and is still eating too many potato chips.

Your bad week is pretty darn good, lady!

Not pictured: Underreported or unreported caloric intake. I may have been busting my ass on the Arc Trainer, but it failed to make up for my excess.

So yeah, it may have looked like I was having a good week, but I was only fooling myself.

No, you fooled us, too! :D

Seriously, though, even if you overindulged a bit, the exercise should offset at least some of that. The fact that you are continuing to do the exercise regularly is great, too. That has always been key for me and why I am so eager to get back to running.

Anyway, you've been doing great, an occasional bad week (especially at this time of year) is okay by me.

(I was actually down this morning. The end of the donuts begins!)

Thanks. :) I am trying not to beat myself about it. I almost denied myself going out to breakfast, but I realised that all that would do is deprive myself and my SO from each other's company (and it was he who suggested it in the first place.)

I just have to make sure that if I am going to eat things, that I have to log it, so I don't get out of control. Pretending I didn't eat something doesn't keep it from making me gain weight.

I struggle with that too, athryn, on days when I go over I want to hide it from myself and everyone else. So far I've been good and have owned up to it anyway, and it actually makes me feel a bit better about it when I do log it all. I've noticed that on MFP we're really not the only ones at the moment who are struggling at the moment.

Just set your calorie goal higher for the next few days, then you won't have glaring red numbers accusing you of being naughty in your diary. That way you stay in control but can indulge a bit more then usual as well.

I've been really, really bad since Thanksgiving. Copious amounts of food available plus being stressed out as all fuck for the past four months has lead to me just packing on the pounds. I'm pretty sure my boss thinks I'm pregnant and is just afraid to say anything so, starting Wednesday (after Christmas dinner and all that) I'm back on the wagon full time. Renewed my membership at the gym for when I go back to work. Hopefully get back on track in time to eat all the Valentines Day chocolates!

It is a good thing that my sis only bought me one box of Trader Joe's dark chocolate sea salt caramels, and that it's a small box. Because OMG NOM NOM NOM. I gave some to my MIL, to share the calories...

Oh God. Ohhhhhh. Ugh.

The first is a new day.

I ATE ALL THE FOOD.

We all did. It's okay.

I thought I'd check the damage after yesterday (I had no loss over the weekend) and found to my surprise I have lost weight, if only 0.2 kilo! My body apparently thrives on a diet of pigs in a blanket and copious amounts of white chocolate! This also means I'm now officially not obese any more. Yay me!

/phew

Made it. Weighed myself this morning and YAY, still 190. God I ate like a pig- I had an entire heaping tablespoon of my wife's dressing and 2 of the mashed potatoes. OMG!!

We I did all my cheating yesterday was the alcohol. 3 beers of the yummy Christmas variety, 2 glasses of Rum- Zaya, the best rum ever, 2 more of rum brought back from the Bro-in-Law and then 2 more of this rum cream that he brought back too. Heh, yeah good times were had by all.

Oh wait, I had a piece of Balkava but it was homemade by my sister-in-law so yeah it was awesome.

See, I know that this weight gain is because of natural occurances.
But just seeing how much water my body is retaining and how much I am bloating in the mirror is making me very ill. Been taking long walks in an attempt to lose it, knowing that I won't, because I know I'll love what I'll see once I go back to normal. It's like inspiration that won't go away! WHOO.

actually on that note (spoilered for length; weight-related, I promise)