Posts by vstar_pilot

Well, #1, eating too little won't cause a plateau.  That word is WAY too universally used at this point.  It WILL, however, cause you to stop losing weight because your body thinks its starving to death.

If you think that what you are eating is good and healthy, then there is a perfect solution to your problem.  EAT MORE of it!  Easy peasy.  Look at how you are dividing it up right now, and add a few calories to each meal.  Tah dah!  the correct number of calories!

I really commend you wanting to get the weight off fast, but I think in order for you to find the success you want you need to really adjust your attitude towards all of this.

First, loosing 20 pounds per month just isn't healthy and likely wouldn't be sustainable.  The recommended healthy loss is 1-2 pounds a week.  Shoot for that, and if you actually get more loss, great!!  When I first started out, I was loosing 3 or 4 pounds some weeks, but it wasn't because I was starving myself. (I actually never quite understood this and it stopped as I got closer to goal)

Second, eating a PB&J is hardly weak.  It sounds like you don't have an entirely healthy relationship with food.  Do some reading here on the site and learn about food and how to eat.  Being afraid of food is really not good and will lead to future problems.

My biggest advice.  Use the tools on this site to get the numbers you need to be working with for calorie intake.  These numbers are based on scientific formulas and evidenced by the number of successes here, they work!

I'm not going to comment on whether your weight is right for you.  However, in doing some reading, I can tell you, set point isn't a set in stone number.  You CAN change your bodies set point.  So, don't feel that it's just the end of things.  Do a little online research, there are some great articles out there about getting your setpoint to move.

Well Gang, sorry to say, I may be going the way of our friend Meisha.  I simply don't have the time to read all that passes me by in a day.  Sort of a changed atmosphere that I'm just not flowing with I guess.  I will try to check in, but things just aren't the same somehow.

M&M...  Now its Saturday!!  We are only 18 hours ahead of the East Coast of the US.  Trust me when I say it took me quite a while to figure it out.  I have separate clocks on my ipod that tell me the time zones in each of the places family and friends are.  So confusing!

As for weekends, I don't necessarily do anything because it's the weekend.  I do eat differently, believe it or not sometimes less, because I'm normally moving around more.  All depends on what we are doing.  Rainy weekends are hard, because we don't get out.  Nicer weekends, I'm doing my shopping, playing golf, that sort of thing.

Boots...  Hope you're able to come to a final conclusion on the job hunt.  I suspect many would say you were very lucky to have many to choose from when so many can't find even one!

2bb...  Answering an above question, I tried green tea once or twice.  I must be very sensitive because it made me twitchy.  I barely drink half a cup of coffee a day, so I guess my energy will have to come from something besides caffeine.

Still no decision on the weather this weekend.  Have cakes to get crumb coated today and cupcakes to fill.  Evil cat decided I needed to get up at 5am... GRRRR!!

Happy Thursday Gang!!  Yeah, yeah, I know most of you aren't here yet.  But we're getting Thursday started well here.  Mostly sunny this morning, which is rare during rainy season.  I got to move into a new office this morning.  Newly renovated and it has a window.  I hung my brand new Bachelors Degree diploma proudly on the wall.

I have now sent back ANOTHER two pairs of jeans that didn't fit.  I swear, I'm about to give up jeans for good!!  What is the deal with clothing companies who can't figure out that women have long legs too?????  I have shopped at one company who carries nothing under a 36" inseam, but BOY are they pricey!!  Guess I have to break down and do it!

Boots...  In some ways I envy you.  I would go stark raving nuts if I was still in bed at 2pm!  Sleeping in in our house is 6:30am.  Any later than that, and I just MUST get up and get moving.

Meisha!!! Don't leave!!  There is never any pressure to post every single day around here!  Come in when you have something thrilling to say, you're part of the Gang!  Honestly, I'm here often because I'm trapped in an office and y'all are my touch with reality!!

Green_eyes...  My commendations of beating the dastardly Krispy Kreme.  Have to admit, I don't like them much, not that you can get them here anyway.  However, Winchells is a staple here on Guam and I've beaten MANY of their goodies over the last year.

M&M...  I highly recommend trying new produce.  Being so close to Asia here, we've come across a few new ones.  We get these Asian pears that are AMAZING as well.  I don't like papaya much... and the local mangos aren't that good.  However, regular mangos are yummy... as are the ones from Mexico.

Greetings to all the Gang!  Had day 2 of intervals last night and OUCH again!!  Today will be a regular run.  I'm trying to mix it up a little, hoping that'll recharge the fat loss a bit.

Good grief!!  I go to bed and this place goes nuts!!  So much to catch up on!

Boots...  I'm curious why you've decided to walk/run for so long every day.  I can tell you from experience, you may well burn yourself out that way.  Maybe consider a shorter time and giving yourself at least one day off per week.

Meisha...  The shoes thing was considered, believe me.  I bought new shoes just recently and it didn't solve the problem.  The problem is, it's a cheapo elliptical and the pedals don't give.  So, in half an hour or so I've run all the blood out of my feet.  I have found ways around it though, so it will work until I replace the dratted machine.  I'm also not cutting myself off from goodies completely, that WOULD be depressing.  I'm just cutting them back down.  3 treats in a day isn't the best way to get your calories.  A serving of brown rice with cinnamon and Splenda (which is yummy BTW) and a persimmon is much more filling than pudding.

RG...  So good to see you returning.  Sounds like you're keeping yourself busy as usual!

Its a gray Tuesday morning here.  They are almost finished renovating my new office, I'll have a window!!  I am feeling like I'm making a good start on getting this last weight off... still waiting for an approval on my surgery.  Still waiting, also, for the word on hubby's promotion.  The wait is killing me.  Could someone send me some fall weather??  I really miss it!!

Boots...  You know, I find the whole heart rate thing confusing.  Honestly, my elliptical and CC are within 50 points of each other almost every time.  I don't understand how people get such differences in readings.  Does your machine ask for weight or anything?  What brand is it?  I am REALLY interested in the "feet" thing, because mine just KILLS my feet!  I "jog" about 5.5 mph.  In an hour, I cover, according to the machine somewhere between 5.2 and 5.5 miles.  This, according to the machine burns about 830 calories.  CC gives me about the same number.  I keep wondering if I should get a heartrate monitor, but when I get to the store and think about it, I can't justify the expense.

M&M...  I will always be happy to talk cake.  I do try to restrain myself though, because it tends to disrupt some of my CC friends.  I am planning a cake for this coming weekend.  Halloween goodies for hubby's office.  I love to bake, but honestly, don't really want to eat the stuff.

Well, no golf for us this weekend.  Funny thing... we loaded up the car, got on our golf duds and actually headed to the course.  Then at the end of the street there was a man on his motorcycle.  Hubby turned the car around and we went for a ride instead!!  Honestly, I am not a golfer at heart.  I am a biker!  Maybe next weekend we'll hit the course.

I really want to get to losing the last of this weight.  I decided that I was using WAY too many unhealthy foods.  Honestly, it doesn't matter if its only 100 calories of pudding... it's still not effective food.  So, more alterations of diet and hitting the exercise hard.  I want to see some movement by the end of October.  My will power has been slipping a little lately.  I'm ashamed!!

2bb...  Actually, we are hoping to return to the US.  The job in Germany wouldn't be a step up for hubby, so the US would be better.  We are actually hoping for some place with a law school nearby.  I'm hemming and hawing a bit about law school, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't at least try.

Meisha...  That elliptical machine is the bane of my existence!!! Hate the darn thing!  (I'd use more harsh language, but this is a nice group)  I honestly don't think there is any way to fix it at this point.  Oddly enough though... I'm starting to just blank out the noises and not notice them.  So, I'll just take that.  Eventually we'll leave this rainy place, and go back to the US, and I'll replace it then.  Guam... well... hate Guam... but this is what I have for now!

Meisha...  Finger is poised over the phone just in case.  I think that finding the balance is actually the key to all of this.

2bb...  It is so nice to have you back.  I miss all your smilies when you aren't here.  The Hall is just so quiet without you.

Well, my friends, I had my appointment with the doctor yesterday re: the breast reduction.  Because it is military medicine, I now have to wait and see if they will authorize it.  The doctor seemed to feel that I am a prime candidate because of my new found good health.  Only thing is, there is no one here who does the surgery, so I would have to fly to Hawaii.  Hmmm... 8 hour flight, then surgery... fun!

M...  Welcome to the group!  We're a wild and crazy group, and very eclectic and always looking for new ideas!  I used to live in South Dakota, where are you in Montana, if you're willing to share.

Boots...  Actually I am working now.  I am a paralegal/billing for a law firm.  When I say "next job" I'm speaking of what I'll look for when we leave here.  I was lucky to find this job here, which they've "expanded" to fit my abilities.  I want to get out of the accounting side of things next time though, now that I have my legal studies degree.

2bb...  Honestly, the idea of surgery is not one of my favorite, but the pain level is becoming rather restrictive at this point, so I have to try something.  I have been "suffering" with it for years, but with my new active lifestyle, it's time to deal with it.

Meisha...  GOOD GOD WOMAN!!!  Don't make me come over there!! HAHAHAH!  You MUST stop competing with well scuplted blonds.  Present company keeps me from calling them what I'd really like to.  But in all seriousness, when you get lightheaded, it is time to STOP!!!  No kidding around, that right there is a sign!  You better be careful with yourself, you're part of the gang now!

2bb...  Hope you had fun with the cherry picker!  I've never run one, but I have ridden in them.  Kinda scary from that side.

Safina...  I have a silver Ipod and I bought a very cool green aircraft aluminum case that it goes in.  I LOVE my ipod.  I even use it in my car, especially since the radio here is terrible!

Boots...  Hope the negotiations go well and you get what you're looking for.  I would love to be in that position of holding the cards where a job is concerned.  Seems like my history is more in the neighborhood of just taking what someone offers because that's the only job out there.  As for my elliptical, don't worry about yours, I suspect it'll be fine.  I think it was just this company.  Honestly, military stores don't always sell the best quality.  I know what I want to replace it with, but won't do it until we get back to the states.

Boots...  At this point, I really DO have to pay attention to my clothes.  Because if I paid attention to the scale, I'd have gone bonkers by now.  I ordered two more pairs of jeans... a 14 and a 12.  Now I KNOW the 12 won't fit... and I have no idea why I'm even trying it... but what the heck!