Jumping into this. I hit my 5% today.
I find I'm a bit conflicted with a lot of stuff.
Column A
I'm doing it
I'm still doing it!
I lost 5% and that's significant
Part of me feels thinner
Congrats on 5%!
Stick with column A. Column B isn't your friend. I mean, unless you aren't tracking, not trying to meet the good health guidelines, etc etc. If there are places to tighten up, then do that, but if you're doing well, then ignore B.
This is so me! I woke up today feeling great and thin, then I remembered I still have 40 pounds to lose! I definitely run to eat. I like cheeseburgers and ice cream too much to give them up. Running makes my weekly junk food fix happen.
For you and LockShockBarrel...it's OK to feel thin when you feel thin! I think we need the practice, I really do. It's good to notice some pounds, some bulk, gone, to feel how your arms swing differently, or your legs chafe less, or you have room in your pants waist. It's good to see your neck looking different or go down in bra sizes, or have to change your SHOE size because that can happen, too! (it did for me...I was actually carrying fat and/or swelling in my feet, which caused my feet to be bigger than they are now...it's so weird to have thin FEET all of a sudden)
It's good to get the "ooh yeah" practice when you see yourself in the mirror. Because one day you'll be approaching goal, and you won't even believe what you see in the mirror. But all that practice as you went down the scale will help, because you can remember all those months of feeling better, then better, then even better about yourself.
At least that has been my own experience.
The other day I literally did not recognize myself in the mirror. I sat down at the biceps machine (which is facing a mirror) at the Y and thought "wow, that lady has some good arms!" and then realized she was wearing my clothes with my hair, and that that lady, in fact, was me. Nearly burst into tears.
Bumbershoot- I never do strength training but I know I should- it is supposed to be so good for you and build muscle which increases metabolism... what is the strength program like that you are doing?
My YMCA has a program called ActivTrax. You do an intake evaluation where they ask what your goals are, what you want to achieve, and even if you want to do machine weights or go into the "real" (my word not theirs) weight room with barbells and such. Then they have you do certain machines (or weights, I imagine, if you're willing to go into the barbell room, LOL) to see your strength, and even how many situps you can do in a minute (not many!).
They put the info into the computer, and the program sets up a plan for you. There's a big computer at the Y that you can log into and it spits out that day's workout for you on paper, but I have the app. It tells you what machines to do (or even use the stretchy resist-a-bands type things for certain exercises) on that day for that workout, and what weights, how many reps, etc. sometimes it insults me by telling me to do 20 lbs on the pulldown, because I've always been able to do a much higher weight with that particular exercise (and in that case I just bump it up and change the info on the app for that day), but most of the time it is challenging and good.
I think I did workout #21 on Tuesday, doing it 2, sometimes 3, times per week. I have biceps that just sit there, looking like biceps. I have triceps now when using my arms, or pointing at things (I jokily do bodybuilding poses like that when at home). I have latissiumus dorsi that actually appear sometimes!
They haven't had me do a situp yet, but they have me do side twists wtih a weight bar on my shoulders. I have hated that (b/c I get lazy and sometimes twist at the knee, and that's a big NO for my knees) but then I've noticed that my belly (which is pretty soft and doughy still) is slowly getting a little smaller, and I can sit up from lying down with NO problems, etc. So they are having an effect, it's just not something easily noticed by me.
Oh and my legs, love those muscles.
I'm surrounding myself with women who want to be strong and don't mind having obvious muscles, and they helped me set up the program, by the way. There are other people out there who just want to be lean and strong and toned, with no bulk allowed whatsoever, and the program has things for them, too. I think I'm fairly unusual in that I can build muscle and WANT to be able to see the muscle, no matter if I end up being heavier than I appear.
I used to have emotional pain over being heavier on the scale than my size says because of the muscle (even as far back as middle school this bugged me), and over this last 6 months I have so very much gotten OVER that, and I am so so glad.
oh what a surprise, I wrote a novel in response to a simple question. Hope some of it helped.
WI was last night, lost .4 for the week. I felt like I did better than that but that's what I got. I have been with WW for 2 years now and I'm at 41.4 lbs total lost. I feel better but I still have 16 lbs to go. Some days I feel like I will never make it but then I ask myself do I want to go back to 202.4 lbs? and the answer is always NO! Just stick with it!!
Sometimes we get what we deserved this week...sometimes we get it next week. Just keep moving forward, and maybe next week you'll have more than .4.
But .4 is still pretty great! Especially with only 16 to go, that's pretty great!
Hi guys! I had a good weigh-in (for me
) and lost 1.4 lbs over the last 2 weeks.
Nice!!! 1.4 despite BBQ and beer and swim meets (do those involve traveling and dining out?) is really good!
I need to get back to tracking points and get serious again. Soda is my biggest obstacle.
My cousin just shared with me that she has lost 30 lbs. Some months ago she was doing a boot camp thing, and lost many many inches, but almost no pounds. Then her bootcamp ran out, and she didn't re-enroll, but focused on portion control and dropping soda from her diet. All of a sudden, that weight just came off.
Most sodas are sweetened with things that jack the blood sugar up in weird ways, and cause different reactions in some people than cane sugar does. Maybe it's just messing with you in ways that the pure calories can't explain. Dropping soda is a big big big thing to do, and it is hard. Very addictive. I wish you luck!
After being up 5.4 last week, I was down 5.6 this week -- that's the right direction at least! But still not back to the low I reached in May.
Why is the restaurant sausage so much higher in points than the store-bought? I looked up the nutritional info online and one sausage was 4 points.
Just goes to show you that eating lots of points doesn't necessarily mean you are fuller!
Yay at the loss!
If it's the actual Bob Evans info, I bet it takes oils into account for how they cook it.
So true about the points/fullness ratio.
I wasn't trying to lose weight when I quit drinking soda (for years I drank caffeine-free diet Coke) but did so because I had just finally read enough about how bad it is for you. I lost six pounds the following week. The soda had really been causing me to retain fluids.
In college I was drinking tons of diet soda. I was on Varsity Crew and they wanted me in the lightweight boat because I'm short. To accomplish that I had to do *something* to get me down in weight. I started drinking one sugar-soda per day instead of all the servings of diet, and I lost 5 lbs like *that*. Crazy amounts of sodium were messing with me, bigtime.
) and I missed last week's because I was out of town at a swim meet.
The boards I took were for Nurse Practitioner. 
I'm finally done with school and able to focus on the rest of my life again. Hopefully that will make it a bit easier to fit WW into my schedule. 
Thankfully my husband was really supportive. It's a long journey, but definitely worth it!
I'm at a healthy BMI, which is just unbelievable! I haven't seen this weight since I was in my early, maybe mid, 20s. It was the 90s, people! I was wearing high-waisted pants the last time I was here. 
. But not sad, just teary. Sometimes I don't like that they named the emoticons, because people go by names instead of what they're doing. Like the roll-eyes one, I often want to use it as a "I'm such a goof" sort of thing, teasing my own silliness. But the name of it would make people think I'm rolling eyes at them. So I don't use it. Sigh. Anyway, I get all misty.
I just get so proud of other people, you know? Happy for others, happy for my hubby (he's the worst emotional eater I've ever known in real life, and it's not helped by a sluggish metabolism or his pituitary tumor that's still being treated). Also, I WANT to brag on myself, but still feel uncomfy with it. 
That last bit was funny. 
