Posts by temptingfate12

Starting Date: 04/27/09
Starting Weight: 170lb
Current Weight: 151.7lb
Goal Weight: 140lb
Goal Date: 05/14/10
Current Loss: 18.3lb

Starting Date: 04/27/09
Starting Weight: 170lb
Current Weight: 155.5lb
Goal Weight: 140lb
Goal Date: 05/14/10

Once again I am astounded by everyone's progress! Keep it up :):)

Starting Date: 04/27/09
Starting Weight: 170lb
Current Weight: 157.7lb
Goal Weight: 140lb
Goal Date: 05/14/10

Down 2.2lb this week! I'm doing better than I thought!

Starting Date: 04/27/09
Starting Weight: 170lb
Current Weight: 162lb
Goal Weight: 140lb
Goal Date: 05/14/10

*sigh* Up nearly a pound. I expected this, though. Memorial day, 1300mile drive down to Orlando, and my first week in FL with my fiance including his birthday and our 4 year anniversary. This week WILL be better and I WILL make healthy choices.

Great job, Brad! Keep up the good work and you'll be to your first goal in no time!!

Starting Date: 04/27/09
Starting Weight: 170lb
Current Weight: 164lb
Goal Weight: 140lb
Goal Date: 05/14/10

Starting Date: 04/27/09
Starting Weight: 170lb
Current Weight: 167lb
Goal Weight: 140lb
Goal Date: 05/14/10

Original Post by pgeorgian:

Original Post by ash3141:

BUT there are some advanced students who can handle this subject matter early on, just as some can handle calculus at a young age.

i would go a step further: there are some students who not only can handle the subject matter, but who crave the challenge. most high school curricula cater to concrete thinkers (both students and teachers); there's very little space for anything that's truly intellectually challenging.

again, i think the biggest problem would be finding people to teach it. part of the reason the curricula is so concrete is that it makes for easy standardization and evaluation. it's all part of the assembly-line model of education ;)

I agree (especially with the ability of high school students and that there are students who crave the challenge). High school was only 4 years ago for me (graduating undergrad in 10 days! Woot!), and I was obscenely bored for the most part. I spent four years walking through classes...with physics as the only real challenge.

For me, getting A in all of my classes wasn't worth much when I didn't have to work for it. I may have come out top of my class, with a great scholarship to a great school, but that didn't mean much when I didn't feel like I got anything out of my education. (And, to clarify, I went to one of the top 10 public schools in New York state...it's not like I wasn't challenged at a sub-par school)

If I could have spent my electives on philosophy or religion instead of my other, less challenging classes, I believe that I would look back on my high school years more fondly. Also, graduating with a B.A. in Philosophy, I've always resented that I wasn't introduced to this foundational field earlier.

While I realize this thread is pretty much dead, I do want to correct something another member said.

WW in no way allows you to eat something like a whole watermelon with no worries. By my calculations a whole watermelon is 27 points, 3 points above my personal daily limit.

Certain foods, especially fruits and vegetables, are 0 points. But that is per 0 serving. The WW equation rounds down to the lowest number. So, a serving of baby carrots has 30 cal, .1 g of fat and 2.5 g of fiber, giving it a "real" point value of 0.10833333333333331 - - which gets rounded down to 0. Obviously, if you eat more than 1 serving this number gets bigger and bigger, to the point where carrots are no longer a 0 point food.

I lost 25 lb on weight watchers in the summer of 2007 (hitting my goal of 150), and then gained 20 of it back over the next year when I stopped following it. Since starting it up again I've lost 10 pounds and plan on seeing those other 10 gone in no time. I think it's a great program and I've never been to a meeting or paid one cent for it. You can find the calculators all over the internet and it's not that hard to figure out your daily allowance either.

I never updated my last run from 09/18. I decided to just give it a go and try the "run until I was tired, walk until I was bored" method. I ran 36:25. I was very happy with that. If only I had kept it up and continued going to the gym.

I finally got back to the gym last night after almost two whole weeks of being lazy. I did the same method again (I think I may stick with this, it seems to be working for me) and got 36:34. It may have been slower, but I was awfully proud having not worked out in so long. I've almost cut 4 whole minutes off my time from when I started.

Shannon-it's great to see you back on here! I'm glad I helped motivate you, but don't push it too hard! Endurance before speed :) This is something I need to keep telling myself, as I fear that I may be pushing myself too hard (to keep up with my friend who runs a 30min 5k) and that I will ultimately end up crashing. Can't wait to hear how your most recent run went!

Just got home from week 3 run 1! I was really concerned, but it ended up going really well (at least I think so!)

I was no more winded/tired than my week 2 runs and I finished a bit quicker! 37:45...

I honestly think I could have finished a bit quicker, but the treadmill I was on was refusing to show me time and distance at the same time so I wasn't really pacing myself as best as I could have been.

I plan on doing week 3 run 2 tomorrow night after my night class--hopefully it goes well! Tomorrow is also a weigh-in day for me, *crosses fingers* I hope my cheating weekend didn't hurt my progress too much.

Week 2 run 4 just completed!

38:24 - - I am feeling better everyday!

And, today I reached a major goal -- 10lbs lost! I'm down from 171 to 161. Only 1 lbs away from my lightest last summer when I did weight watchers. 21lbs away from my final goal! It's happening a lot faster than I was expecting!

Did run 2 of week 2 today!

I was pretty sore this morning, my left hip particularly, so I decided to take the run a bit slower today.

I was expecting my slower pace to add a couple minutes (I was expecting 43min) to my overall time.

I must have just paced myself a lot better than yesterday because I didn't feel like I was dying, I was in control of my breathing the whole time, and I only added 10 seconds to my total time. 40:10 total! I was very proud of myself. I ended strong, fast, and feeling good.

The 500+ calories I burned made up for the icecream I had later in the day .

I think I'm gonna give my body (especially my hip) a rest tomorrow and do cycling class and running on Tuesday.

I am loving the program so far--and amazingly looking forward to my next run!