Health: Lose Weight

I am inspired by Jenni to write about my weight loss again. I update people I know on Facebook with my progress, and it’s been slow but steady for the most part.

To date, I have lost 38 lbs and have gone from a size 16 to approximately a 6 (although the 6 pants that I’m wearing today seem a little big). I have about 10 more lbs that I want to lose but have seemed to have hit a plateau. I have had a lot of personal stress lately with my husband’s deployment and a death of one of Mike’s friends…so stress eating crept back in.

I still attend WW meetings, although I have stopped tracking what I eat. I generally keep track of rough point values and how many snacks I can enjoy after I put Alex to bed (100 calorie snack-pack or just an apple). Most of my caloric intake is after lunch. I don’t eat breakfast, usually opting for the caffeine on an empty stomach to get me going.

I walk a lot these days, and after 5 pm, I usually am running after my two year old. It has done me a lot of good to wear a pedometer to track just how much I am walking/running. I found that I walk between 10-15k steps a day, which is 5-7.5 miles. I highly recommend when trying to incorporate exercise into a busy schedule to work in additional amounts of walking. I now park further away from my lab, for instance. I volunteer to pick up supplies for others in the lab in between experiments.

So all in all, I have had success with WW. I still have some work to go, but I know how to get there. It’s tough right now since I have had success and can keep it off without much trouble to actually be motivated to lose the rest since I feel/look good now. I just have to keep reminding myself that 1) while I have lost all of this weight, I am still overweight and 2) that I will look even SEXIER without these last 10 lbs.

I used to hate it when people said they didn’t have time to work out. Not that I had been a great example, but I figured, if you really want to do it, you will.
I started counting calories, I though if I could eat the calories to lose a pound a week, I would be at my ideal weight in about two months. Not that I had any illusions that I wold actually lose 1 lb/week.
It is hard. Dieting is hard. I don’t eat very many calories in general, and shrinking that to 1400 was really difficult. I used an iPod app called Lose It!. It was a pretty good app, it had many foods already listed (you can track calories as well as many nutrients, I didn’t work on the nutrients), as well as how many calories your body would burn given the type, intensity and length of time you work out.
I started in the middle of April and after less than two months, I hadn’t lost any weight. I know that is not very long, but I personally think I would do better to actually eat another 200 calorie and then burn them with some type of aerobic exercise. Although I have been bicycling, it really didn’t burn very many calories and I still didn’t lose any weight. Actually, my yoga didn’t help with that much, either.
So, I sort of gave up for the last few weeks. I am still trying to cycle, it is very hot outside, though.
I don’t know if a diet is going to help me much. I think I should keep trying, though. Even though my stomach is still not fitting into anything comfortably and I am embarrassed to wear almost anything. I just don’t know why this is so hard. I don’t need to lose much weight. I would be happy with 10 lbs.
I am going to start bringing my gym shoes to work so I can use the elliptical over at the rec center. In all my “free” time. So, I guess that is where my opening paragraph was going. I don’t feel as if I have any “free” time. It has been eaten alive by graduate school. I am constantly exhausted, and my neck and shoulders refuse to be of any use to me and only pain me all the day long. If I take anything for it, I get more drowsy. So that is why I tired yoga, but I haven’t the time for it. Grumble, what an annoying circle.

So, I found (actually, I was directed to it) an iPod App for this that is helping me keep track of calories in, calories out and my weight. I haven’t exercised nearly as much as I should. I am hoping that, if I stay within my limit for the week (some days over, some days under), it will work. Although, it has been a week and a half and it hasn’t yet. I realize I just have to keep doing it. So, I am going to start cycling and doing more yoga. I took a class this semester, and I think that taught me a lot (didn’t lose any weight, though).

since being a verryy skinny teenager i was always called ‘stick’, ‘anorexic’ and i hated being so skinny so i proceeded with my goal of putting on weight
that took a good few years for me to reach my desired weight of about 8stones
but then i didnt stop putting on weight and reached 9stones
and now i really want to lose the weight again and just stay at 8 stones… but its soo hard to lose weight once u’ve put it on.. and i love food too much and i dont even exercise.. sighs*
but i do make effort to eat low calorie food all the time, so hopefully some time soon, ill go to the gym and really work off those calories >__<

I shall then be my personal ideal weight where i look and feel great. must get motivated again and start using my weight watchers website again. started well today, poached egg for brekkie and fruit and fibre for lunch. will head out for a run shortly as well. bring it on!

Hi all, I am new to this, and pretty new to actually consciously thinking about weight loss every day.
I was vaguely counting my calories for a few weeks and I think I underestimated what I was intaking. Mostly because I would have a snack at night and not count that because I was too tired to think anymore. So that did not work. I now think I can have about 1500-1700 calories per day and lose weight. I was reading someone’s blog about how he was down to about 1000 cals/day and the thought of that truly scares me. I love food, absolutely adore it. However, it seems too easy to attribute my poor eating habits to my lifestyle and how rarely I am at home (except when I am there because I feel unhealthy). So, enough with the excuses. I am going to continue to work on exercises with my physical therapist. I think I will also go to the pool at the gym because the orthopedic nurse suggested I walk laps there. Firstly, however, I have to buy a one-piece bathing suit. :/

So I started WW 3 weeks ago. I’ve lost around 6-7 lbs already. Mostly water weight, I think – but I’ll take what I can get. My pants are already fitting better and when I ran up 2 flights of stairs this AM, I totally didn’t get winded! I’m amazed that I already am starting to feel the effects.

I guess why I am here is to get some addition external support. Sometimes I don’t feel like the people at WW are all that supportive. My husband says that he is proud of me in my endeavor, but then goes and gets really greasy food and eats it in front of me or drinks a huge thing of alcohol. I need to learn how to not have that effect me.

yessss=]]

and the weight and inches coming off, too. Almost 2 weeks ago, with about 6 weeks on Atkin’s, I maeked a weight loss of 18 lbs! I’m trying not to get scale psycho, so I haven’t been on the scale since, but I’m feeling great and losing inches. I’ll weigh in in another week or 2.
This one goes along with the eath healthier thing, as I wanted/wished. I knew if I could find the right nutritional balance for my body, the weight would begin to come off, too. Perfect. Dr. Atkins diet has made such a difference! No more processed foods, (or veeeery rarely), no sugar. Completely off wheat and corn, which it turns out I was much more allergic to than I ever knew. Woot!

I started Atkin’s 4 weeks ago sunday and I’m loving it, feeling good and losing weight. I don’t really know how much I lost the first 2 weeks because I didn’t have a scale, and had no real idea what weight I’d gotten up to. When I stepped on a scales 2 weeks after beginning, I’d lost 6 lbs from the weight I was in February. I’m pretty sure I had gained a bit since then, so my guess is that I lost well over 10 lbs the first 2 weeks. These last 2 weeks I’ve lost another 4 lbs. Not as much as I’d hoped, I admit, but I’m pretty okay with it. I haven’t been counting the carbs quite correctly I just discovered, so 2 lbs a week is cool.