Posts by skiier66

I love my i-pod for working out.  Makes the minutes just melt away.  My 2 boys have shuffles and I have a nano I think its called.  And, we just got a i-mac so we are just loving the i-tunes.  Boys are learning to make play lists and jump around dancing in our family room enjoying all the music.  I have copied all our CD's into our old HP computer before it died but they all transfered over just fine.  Now I've started buying from i-tunes which is tempting but enjoyable.  I figure for $9.99 an album that I enjoy playing a lot for the weekend than occasionally after that is pretty cheap entertainment for a gal that doesn't get out much due to being a single mom.

Yippee for you Sofia!  Sounds like you are now armed with the right information.

I love CC+.  Once I found how to track my calories intake and calories expended it was a whole new world. 

I have been stalled at around 200-205 all summer but this morning 198.5!  So good news for me as well.

Keep up the good work.

Early here too but so far..

2 cups black coffee, each with one tsp brown sugar

1 cup Kashi go-lean cereal

1 cup So-Nice Original

3 chicken strips left over from dinner for snack.

Interesting... My analysis currently is this:

Fat - 18.2% (18 grams)
Protein - 37.3% (81 grams)
Carbohydrates - 44.5% (97 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

which if calculated on percentage of total grams would be 9%, 41% and 49% respectively. 9% 41% 49%

good morning ash and welcome!  hope you like it here.  I have been a member since last fall.  I am now at 196.5 today down from over 250 last summer.  It is just a lifestyle thing.  Eat healthy, acknowledge food varies in calories and select reasonable choices and lots of exercise.  I made my goal of improving my fitness to ski this winter and I got in 14 days so far and lots of fun with my young sons who took up snowboarding.  Maybe a little more spring skiing but on to roller blading and biking.  I am just loving this.

I use this one.

http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/fitness/files/ marketing/registration/MyVirtualModel/fit_mvm _splash_2.html

Way to go kelledge.  Most people find logging their calories very enlightening as to what they actually consume.  its really helped me and so many others.  Good luck and we'll see you around!

Original Post by kimothyschma:

I also LOVE plain yogurt. I could eat 3 of them at a time! We always run out because I eat them all and my dad has to buy more. :-P

 Me too.  Just LOVE plain, non-fat, organic yogurt.  I just passed on a yogurt at Starbucks this morning because they only have flavoured ones.  It was non-fat and organic but with peaches and 20+grams of sugar seems too syrupy.   

so my favorite way with plain yogurt lately is to sprinkle 2 tbsp of wheat germ and add 1 cup of frozen fruit.

Nuts are calorically dense and very nutritious!

The number at the top of the burn meter is what it estimates you will burn for your whole day including sitting and sleeping.  The big number estimates where your are with that at the time of the day you are looking.  If you add exercise both numbers will go up.  Just keep looking at the top number (larger) for what your at for the day and compare it to your total calories eaten and hopefully you arrive at a deficit.  You need to have a deficit over the week of 3500 calories in total to loose 1 lbs.  If you have no deficit you should maintain.  If you eat over and have a surplus you would be gaining.  Hope that helps.  Most are aiming for a daily deficit of about 500 calories.  Good luck.

Original Post by haley_2008:

Bought a new pair of pants last week (size 14) put them on to go out last night and they were BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bet I could snuggly fit into a size 12!  This hasn't happened since 1988.  Ahhhh those were the days..........

~H~

Way to go Haley.  I am very happily sporting size 14's and some are getting too lose.  Funny how overnight they become loose.  These are very new pants and even the next week can be loose again.  Only loosing  1 or 2 lbs a week??  i like the loosing weight but not all the expense of buying new pants.

I have heard that it takes up to a year for the fat to reaarrange after weight loss, etc.  I would wait a year and then see how you feel.  In the meantime, GOOD JOB, WAY TO GO!  I ditto jjewis that your prospects are great being so young.  For myself, I am 42 years old and down 55lbs so far and want to loose that again.  I am hoping my skin will cooperate but we'll see.  I intend to give it the year once I get to my goal before I loose hope.  So far so good.

Definitely add as much water as you possibly can get down.  All the time, have a glass of water.  Yo'll be running tothe lou but it does wonders for puffiness.  Also watch alcohol, coffee and sodium as you have guessed.  But in any event combat this with more water.

March 14th weight in.

Current weight 200.

Darn new scale.  Checked the old one today and it says 193.  Oh well new one it is.

So what do you do with the lentils?  What are they and where in the grocery store do you buy them?  I'd love to find out more.