Weight Watchers Chat -- Part III

[pwdebbie]

Thanks for the info about Wendy. When I get home (currently babysitting my grandtwins who are watching Caillou and begging for a snack, lol) I will look her up.

I was up .6 this week -- which was a whole lot less than my home scale said. I am still hoping to reach 85 lbs off by my last wi before our WDW trip (two more to go). I believe it is 1.8 to go. We aren't doing Easter dinner this weekend -- everyone is too busy, so our big eating day will be April 6 and my last wi before the trip is April 9. Great incentive to not overeat that day.

Well, it finally happened. Dh and I were at Red Lobster and man walked past that I was sure was one of dh's golfing buddies, but he just kept right on going. Then I saw his wife and she came over and said, "Do I know you?" Dh said, "Well, you definitely know me." The lights went on and she looked at me and said, "Oh, I didn't recognize you. Have you been ill?" No ma'am, I look like this on purpose! I then told her I'd joined WW and lost about 83 lbs and she was absolutely shocked. She said I should stop losing now and when I told her I had about 40 more to go she insisted that would be too low. Then I showed her what was in my take-home box -- a whole steak and the whole serving of mashed potatoes and half my lobster tail. I ate two biscuits (I know, I know), half a lobster pizza, a salad, all my broccoli, and started on the lobster tail when I realized, "Hey, I'm full. I don't want to eat any more." To me, that is a victory. Now I get to look forward to that steak for lunch today!

 

[keahgirl8]

Thanks for the info about Wendy. When I get home (currently babysitting my grandtwins who are watching Caillou and begging for a snack, lol) I will look her up.

I was up .6 this week -- which was a whole lot less than my home scale said. I am still hoping to reach 85 lbs off by my last wi before our WDW trip (two more to go). I believe it is 1.8 to go. We aren't doing Easter dinner this weekend -- everyone is too busy, so our big eating day will be April 6 and my last wi before the trip is April 9. Great incentive to not overeat that day.

Well, it finally happened. Dh and I were at Red Lobster and man walked past that I was sure was one of dh's golfing buddies, but he just kept right on going. Then I saw his wife and she came over and said, "Do I know you?" Dh said, "Well, you definitely know me." The lights went on and she looked at me and said, "Oh, I didn't recognize you. Have you been ill?" No ma'am, I look like this on purpose! I then told her I'd joined WW and lost about 83 lbs and she was absolutely shocked. She said I should stop losing now and when I told her I had about 40 more to go she insisted that would be too low. Then I showed her what was in my take-home box -- a whole steak and the whole serving of mashed potatoes and half my lobster tail. I ate two biscuits (I know, I know), half a lobster pizza, a salad, all my broccoli, and started on the lobster tail when I realized, "Hey, I'm full. I don't want to eat any more." To me, that is a victory. Now I get to look forward to that steak for lunch today!

I've gotten that "You're getting too thin!" and "Isn't it time for you to stop now?" thing before. It seems like sort of a compliment...but I'm never sure how to take it!

 

[coastgirl]

Debbie, that must've felt great (and kinda fun) when those people walked by you! 83 lbs, how fantastic. Looking forward to good news for you on Ap 9 (or sooner!).

 

[dizzyr]

Board hog here. Had my WI this morning, down 1.7 and I made my 5%! I tried to stick on plan for the last couple of days of my week--thanks for the push when I needed it. It's also my first 10 lbs (10.7 thankyouverymuch!). I have a couple of old "10 pound ribbons" from when I did the plan before so I'm going to pull one out. And I promised myself a pedicure when I hit 10 lbs--not exactly sandal weather yet but I've got icky "winter feet".

Woohoooo glad to hear that!!

 

[dizzyr]

Thank you Molly for that great post – I am certainly going to look up Wendy. I have joined WW in the past a bunch of times and I feel like it’s different this time – that I’m really going to do it. (that being said I joined in July and then stopped going from December – Feb but I still kept my membership active because I really felt I wasn’t ready to quit). I’m like you and your husband, I hate myself in photos and there are not very many of me that I haven’t deleted after the fact. I love taking photos and my girls always want to take photos so I let them or my dh take them and then delete them which I think it almost worse because they think they have all these photos of me and they really don’t.

I have always been overweight but I was always still so active (I’ve gone skydiving, parasailing, cliff diving, white water rafting, scuba diving etc) and I can’t do any of that now. My 10 year old really wants to go parasailing in Castaway Cay so I’m using that as my focus – I need to loose enough to go with her. There are so many things I want to do with the kids that I can’t do now and it’s so not fair to them. I also really want to do the CC 5K so I’ve been looking up the C25K training stuff and I think I will start it in July. I’ll spend the next three months working up my stamina. I know as soon as I start to see results I’ll be more motivated I just need to get to that point – thanks for the encouragement.

Debbie congrats to you on both the not being recognized and on the realization that you were stuffed! I’m going to Olive Garden for dinner tomorrow night and my usual process is to STUFF myself with appetizers, salad and breadsticks and then eat half my pasta and bring the rest home with more breadsticks. This time I will have no appetizers, one breadstick with my salad and one with my pasta (not quite there to do just one!) and then bring half my pasta home.

 

[dizzyr]

We had a staff lunch today of sushi and I’m not a big fan of it so I brought my own salad and a few baby potatoes and salsa. They had homemade cookies and I had a half and then they opened a big box of Purdy’s chocolates so I passed it around to everyone pointing out all the really good ones so by the time it was my turn there wasn’t any I liked! Problem solved LOL

 

[bumbershoot]

I've gotten that "You're getting too thin!" and "Isn't it time for you to stop now?" thing before. It seems like sort of a compliment...but I'm never sure how to take it!

I try to take it as a compliment, but it's the exact people who say it that make me wonder. Like, from my best friend I would want to take a serious look at myself because I would take her seriously and at face value. From a different friend I would wonder if there was some "why can't I do that?" feeling going on and she might hope I would stop before I really get there. (she got to an Ann Taylor size 4 while still counting an imperial pint of beer as the same points as a 12 oz beer...that was never going to be sustainable given the amount of beer she drank so it's no surprise she isn't a 4 anymore...and that's not even counting her wine intake, LOL).

And from my mother in law? Oh heck no I will not take it as a compliment. We're just about the same height, and my current goal is how much she weighs at doctor's appointments (wearing shoes and full outfits), and I know she doesn't want me to get to a point where she can't say "you're so fat I don't recognize you!" anymore. (an actual quote, said the first time on the second time she ever met me).

I was visiting my BIL and his fabulous partner, and his partner was telling me how great I looked (this was a few months ago and at least 10 lbs ago, and I'm STILL not even to the upper limit of WW weight, still higher than that) and how I shouldn't lose more weight. BIL disagreed with him, while looking me up and down really critically. I felt like I was on "what not to wear" (which I'm sure I should be in reality, LOL) or Project Runway or something. And he just about nailed exactly how much more I had to go until that upper WW weight, and said that then I should stop.

I far preferred that, even though he was saying "yep I can still see that you can lose more fat", to the more suspect people with their murky reasons for saying that I should stop. (and since I've been a suspect, jealous person with murky, jealous reasons, I feel like I know what I'm talking about)


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I was lurking on the WW message boards and saw that others have noticed what I have. When you start getting close to goal, you can start looking a bit peaky. Pinched face, just a bit too bony in the shoulders, and that is what makes many people start saying that, even when you know you have more excess fat to lose elsewhere. For some people, it just hits the face hard, and makes you look a bit unhealthy and sometimes older than you care to look. But once those people stabilize and start maintaining, it's like the body shifts the fat cells around a bit, the face fills out a little more again over time, maybe the collarbones aren't AS prominent, and you sort of fit back into your face again. Same weight (or even less), but your body is used to it now, and you don't look as "pinched".

I'm watching the process in the person who most recently made goal in our meetings. She's my meeting-hero because her stats are just about the same as mine, though she's a touch older and has a HIGH stress job as a nurse, and I know nurses often have a really hard time keeping their weight down (darned hospital food and difficult hours).

Weirdly, she's been saying it to me, too, that I must be at goal. But I think her body image is still a bit warped, if she thinks that she is the same size as me, because she's a few sizes smaller, that's for sure!

 

[dizzyr]

Woohoo WI this morning -5.1!!!!!

It's a nice kick off to being back on track.

 

[coastgirl]

Holy crow, 5lbs! Well done dizzyr, that's a nice boost, and makes up for your "vacation"!

 

[tubachick]

so excited!!


Had WI this morning, lost 3.2, met my 5% goal and hit another 5 lb mark!! For a total of 18.0

BUT......... what made me even more happy was that I could finally use the WII Fit without it telling me to check my weight I exceeded the limit.

Happy Saturday Everyone!!!

 

[coastgirl]

Congrats, what a great week for you! Love that 5%, eh? Nice feedback that you have already made a difference.

 

[pwdebbie]

Today I bought some Bermuda shorts for our upcoming Disney trip. Size 14! A year ago I wore size 22. :

 

[keahgirl8]

Today I bought some Bermuda shorts for our upcoming Disney trip. Size 14! A year ago I wore size 22. :

That's fantastic! Good for you!

 

[coastgirl]

WTG Debbie! What a great change for you!

 

[bumbershoot]

Today I bought some Bermuda shorts for our upcoming Disney trip. Size 14! A year ago I wore size 22. :

Woohoo!!!!!! That is so exciting.




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DH lost over a pound this week, so he's almost back to pre-vacation weight (he only gained 3 but had a 2 week long trip to Russia shortly afterwards and it's been hard for him). But he looks so different; the two-sizes-lower pants that we bought him before vacation are getting loose, his legs are changing shape, and his back is getting a little bit narrower. He's having obvious changes that others can see, even though the scale is going slow. Thank goodness it's not just me telling him about these changes.

 

[tubachick]

Today I bought some Bermuda shorts for our upcoming Disney trip. Size 14! A year ago I wore size 22. :

great job!

 

[pwdebbie]

DH lost over a pound this week, so he's almost back to pre-vacation weight (he only gained 3 but had a 2 week long trip to Russia shortly afterwards and it's been hard for him). But he looks so different; the two-sizes-lower pants that we bought him before vacation are getting loose, his legs are changing shape, and his back is getting a little bit narrower. He's having obvious changes that others can see, even though the scale is going slow. Thank goodness it's not just me telling him about these changes.

Yay for your husband. We don't have to rely on the scale to know that we are getting healthier.

 

[robinb]

I was lurking on the WW message boards and saw that others have noticed what I have. When you start getting close to goal, you can start looking a bit peaky. Pinched face, just a bit too bony in the shoulders, and that is what makes many people start saying that, even when you know you have more excess fat to lose elsewhere. For some people, it just hits the face hard, and makes you look a bit unhealthy and sometimes older than you care to look. But once those people stabilize and start maintaining, it's like the body shifts the fat cells around a bit, the face fills out a little more again over time, maybe the collarbones aren't AS prominent, and you sort of fit back into your face again. Same weight (or even less), but your body is used to it now, and you don't look as "pinched".

(Sitting in my SSR Studio waiting for my family to finish packing ...) I know what you mean about that "pinched" look. Google "Lisa Rambo" one of Biggest Loser. She lost 108 pounds and looked VERY pinched and well ... ill.

I think the pinched/ill look is part of it. I also think that for some people dieting is an obsession/addiction. The food addiction gets turned upside down and is refocused to weight loss, exercising and counting calories/points. The scale, the clothes and the comments are all positive reinforcement. I do think that some comments are based in jealousy but I think most of them are based on true concern about addition & eating disorders.

 

[dizzyr]

so excited!!

Had WI this morning, lost 3.2, met my 5% goal and hit another 5 lb mark!! For a total of 18.0

BUT......... what made me even more happy was that I could finally use the WII Fit without it telling me to check my weight I exceeded the limit.

Happy Saturday Everyone!!!

Congrats! Our numbers are very similar, I just hit my 5% this week too - total 19.2 lbs. I think I need to pull out my wii too!

 

[dizzyr]

Holy crow, 5lbs! Well done dizzyr, that's a nice boost, and makes up for your "vacation"!

I was pretty pleased that's for sure! I don't expect it to happen every week but it sure would be nice lol!