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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 25 2009 19:26 (UTC) |
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Original Post by carrie33: LOL yet another good thing about this thread!!! Yea Carrie! |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 25 2009 17:15 (UTC) |
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Original Post by ikiteiru: Welcome back! :D |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 25 2009 17:13 (UTC) |
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Starting Date: 5/7/2008 Previous Weight and date: 160.2 lbs Mon Current Weight and date: 158.2 lbs Wed Goal Weight and date: 135lbs Trend: Mon 160.02lbs Wed 159.6lbs I've recovered and am back on track. Thanksgiving is going to be fun this year and I'm going to do my best to work off any extra on Friday. Amycs22: Emotional eating is one of my triggers too. I was giving this some thought a while back and decided to 'analyze' all the ways in my life I am "hungry". (I just might be a wee bit analytical by nature). Here was my approach: Every time I 'feel hungry' I try to take a deep breath and ask myself if food is really what I want/need at the moment? I'm trying to look back to see the the ways my mind makes connections between hunger and emotions. (I usually want to avoid/ignore the emotion and food is my great distractor.) I have been surprised at the connections and discoveries I've made....It has been a little hard, but a good journey, finding 'me' again. |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 23 2009 20:32 (UTC) |
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ikiteiru LOL! Well, it never hurt so bad I couldn't eat...I think a little pain when I started in on those cookies would have saved me some grief, but oh well... You are right about hiking and walking. It's been a bit cold, but I can dress for that if I just quit pouting around and get too it. I have snowshoes too for that matter and we have snow. Time to get out there! |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 23 2009 20:11 (UTC) |
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Original Post by cricketzw: Congrats on the loss! I figured out the calories I need to loose weight on CC and I am tracking everything I eat on the food tracker, trying to get as close as possible to my daily goal. I'm also tracking my exercise on the activity tracker. I have tried to add at least one vegetable or salad a day and drink more water. I did the SlimFast thing, homemade protein shakes, diet pills, special frozen meals and numerous other things and lost lots of weight, but in my case, wasn't ever able to keep it off. Maybe if I'd have had something like CC to track maintenance calories when I hit my goal weight then I could have held on to the loss? Hard to say... This time around I have taken over a year and half to loose about 25 lbs but it seems like my head is in the game this time. I feel like I'm changing the way I think about food almost more than the way I eat... As you can see in my last post, I still have those bad days, but now I just pick myself up after a face plant, dust off and start again. (Which I learned how to do here on the blogs and posts....) Don't know, different things work for different people. Be gentle with yourself, you are worth it! Welcome and Good Luck!!!! |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 23 2009 19:57 (UTC) |
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Starting Date: 5/7/2008 Previous Weight and date: 157.4 lbs Wed Current Weight and date: 160.2 lbs Fri Goal Weight and date: 135lbs Trend: Fri 160.04lbs/Mon 160.02 Now I like my trend...see how I am :D I had a complete and total melt down this weekend and revisited some really bad ways to deal with stress from work....(I'm going back to climbing tonight no matter what hurts) On the bright side this weekend, I bought jeans that are a size smaller than the ones I was wearing and they aren't even tight. Lesson learned: Keep party food and other misc party junk food out of house until day of party. Call friends and ask if they can store it and bring it by the day before or that day. Or better yet, call friends instead of eating the entire can of cookies in 2 days! |
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| Games & Challenges | ***November***Weight Loss Challenge--Sign Ups Always Welcome! | Nov 23 2009 02:22 (UTC) |
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Name: Ann S. Start Weight in November 1, 2009: 160.4 lbs Total monthly weigh loss: -2.0 lb Finally down a size in jeans! Yippee!!! |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 20 2009 20:04 (UTC) |
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Original Post by carrie33: The Holidays get me on every level, but I'm going to try to focus on being positive and having fun.... Last night I messed up my hand when I was climbing and I don't think I can climb for a few days without risking worse injury :( Now what am I going to do? This is the only thing that keeps me in the realm of sanity.... (Thank goodness I can still type) |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 20 2009 19:27 (UTC) |
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Starting Date: 5/7/2008 Previous Weight and date: 158.4 lbs Wed Current Weight and date: 157.4 lbs Fri Goal Weight and date: 135lbs Trend: Wed 160.50lbs Fri 160.4lbs......Maybe the trend isn't so fun :) Once I broke through this plateau, things have sped up again. Nice. I have a little party tonight for the volunteers that worked on rebuilding and repairing hiking trails. Lots of food and stuff. Going to have to be strong......
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 19 2009 02:15 (UTC) |
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Original Post by lulubelle79: Congrats! Keep up the healthy eating and exercise!!! Someone always brings a veggie and dip tray of sorts to our family deals, but that's just one of our traditions.... Good for pre-feast snacking. The Trend is found on your CC home page weight log. If you record your weight on your home page when you enter the weight it links you out to a graph and weight info you've put in so far. CC has set up a column that averages all the weight entries against time so you can track how you are doing over all. It's a better way to get a realistic picture of what's really happening. Normal weight fluctuations can be anywhere from 2-4 lbs at any given time. There are many different things that influence that number. Daily weighing is a quick glance and really not a very meaningful number. The trend is a much better way to really judge the over all weight loss progress. The idea here is to motivate and remind ourselves of the choices we have everyday, not to judge ourselves. I use these weigh-ins as a way to keep me focused and mindful of my goal. It's important to eat healthy, exercise but most of all be patient and go for a life style change instead of just 'being skinny'. Like they say over and over on CC, 1 to 2 lbs a week is a reasonable, healthy amount of weight loss (take the average of the 3 weekly weigh-ins if you don't track on CC weight page to gauge) because the numbers game will break your heart. (Not to mention destroy your motivation!) It's not a race or contest! Please be good to yourself! You are soooo worth it!!!! |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 18 2009 16:50 (UTC) |
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Amycs22, glad you are feeling better! I did a 2lb'r jump in a day a while back....I don't like when they hit, but I'm getting more comfortable with the fluctuations and think they are normal. Not fun but just the way our bodies work. You're doing great... |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 18 2009 16:15 (UTC) |
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Original Post by cglines: I agree, it's hard to weigh everyday and not get discouraged. In reading other posts out there, it's not uncommon to see anywhere from 1 to 4 lbs fluctuation in a day! fadingbabe and lulubelle79 These might just be normal fluctuations in weight... |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 18 2009 13:45 (UTC) |
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Starting Date: 5/7/2008 Previous Weight and date: 161.0 lbs Mon Current Weight and date: 158.4 lbs Wed Goal Weight and date: 135lbs It WAS water weight and now the 'water' is gone.... Nice, but I still need to be better about drinking more water. Should we restart the game of tag? For me this is proving to be a great reminder to eat healthy and stay on track. |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 17 2009 22:07 (UTC) |
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Hi ALL and thanks so much for joining in and sharing your support and motivation!!! I was just having a weak moment (or afternoon) and decided to come in my office and check in. THANKS you guys are wonderful! Cheers, Ann |
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| Games & Challenges | ***November***Weight Loss Challenge--Sign Ups Always Welcome! | Nov 17 2009 03:01 (UTC) |
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Thanks, mischiefdm! That's a good thing to hear right now. I thought I was getting more patient but guess I better work on that a bit... The good thing is at least the trend is going in the right direction.
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| Motivation | Starting over for the last time group... | Nov 16 2009 18:12 (UTC) |
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Here's my question: What's with 160's? I am and have been on the 160's plateau for quite a while. While I FINALLY saw 159.8 lbs, seems like weight gravity and I weighed in this morning at 161. I've been logging what I eat and staying on track at or below my calorie targets and exercising. I finally decided it must be sunspots. Nothing else to explain it. It seems like I'm reading numerous posts from all different threads and lots of people about this weight plateau. Is it my imagination or is this 'more common'? |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 16 2009 17:07 (UTC) |
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Starting Date: 5/7/2008 Previous Weight and date: 160.2 Fri Current Weight and date: 161.0 Mon Goal Weight and date: 135lbs Carrie, ditto on water weight, trend and more in our group :) Chelle, cold here too! I shoveled snow for an hour and a half yesterday. (Nice little workout). |
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| Motivation | Bragging Rights: What good and/or healthy thing have you done for yourself today? | Nov 16 2009 04:14 (UTC) |
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Hooray for weekend warriors! (Hooray for weekends. period.) Speaking of restart, restart and starting again...Monday is the start of another week, hope everyone has a good one. Today, I finally finished making and freezing homemade applesauce and last batch of apples is now in the slow cooker becoming apple butter, as I type. Two cases of apples-what was I thinking??? (I started two weeks ago but only got a half case put away. It had to wait until today to be finished.) Why is it when snow flies I start cooking and storing things like the world is going to end? Oh well, makes good gifts, so I can say I've started on my Christmas gifts! HA! Now that's bragging! I also shoveled my entire drive today, so I got a full body workout, too boot AND stayed well within my calories today, under 1500 which is what is recommended. Laundry can wait, I'm off to sit in front of my nice little wood stove with a hot cup of tea. Very, very nice when it's only 10 degrees. |
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| Games & Challenges | ***November***Weight Loss Challenge--Sign Ups Always Welcome! | Nov 15 2009 21:10 (UTC) |
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Name: Ann S. Start Weight in November 1, 2009: 160.4 lbs Total monthly weigh loss: -1.0 lb Yikes, the plateau.... what is with 160 lbs I've been stuck either just above or near 160 lbs. It's a stubborn number! |
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| Motivation | Bragging Rights: What good and/or healthy thing have you done for yourself today? | Nov 14 2009 16:25 (UTC) |
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Hey, I say whatever it takes, Dwgeo! Clever solution on the late night grazing. That schedule is considered the norm in Europe :) Congrats on the running, that's great! Last night after hitting the climbing gym (and the ER after a friends boy hit his head coming off the bouldering wall-he was fine btw) we went over to California Pizza Kitchen. That was tough, the pizzas look sooooooo good. I compromised and got the half serving of the Thai Crunch salad. (Still a whopping 731 calories, which I realized after I got home and looked it up, but I'd been running a deficit that day, so it panned out) Other than being high calorie, it does have lots of cabbage, soy, roasted chicken. It's the really good spicy peanut dressing that takes me out at the knees. Anyway, I held my ground and didn't get pizza :)
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| Motivation | Starting over for the last time group... | Nov 14 2009 16:00 (UTC) |
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Thanks Delaney, I needed that! It worked, that's a pretty neat trick :) It was touch and go because I had to go into the kitchen to make the tea....LOL Have a great weekend! |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 14 2009 15:56 (UTC) |
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Original Post by chelle23_23: I hope he's okay! Congrats on the weight loss, 'weigh' to go! (hehehehe) |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 13 2009 18:21 (UTC) |
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Thanks Amy, decided to change it up :) That was from the little climbing trip we did last weekend.... |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 13 2009 17:06 (UTC) |
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Starting Date: 5/7/2008 Previous Weight and date: 161.0 Wed Current Weight and date: 160.2 Fri Goal Weight and date: 135lbs Not bad.... Just have to keep at it. (I've abandoned long dates for tiny little goals on a weekly basis for now.) Ikiteiru: Your riding lessons sound fun! It's been forever since I've been on a horse.... Loved it when I have the occasional chance to ride, I learned western style riding as a kid. Welcome Celle and Katy! |
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| Motivation | Bragging Rights: What good and/or healthy thing have you done for yourself today? | Nov 12 2009 21:23 (UTC) |
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Way to go Queen B! I had a bit of a melt down last week food wise and was glad I didn't give up either, but it's been a bit of touchy.... I made it to the climbing gym this morning...going again tonight too :) |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 12 2009 16:58 (UTC) |
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Sorry! ignore that one--> p.s.s.... blah, blah blah Is it Friday yet??? I better go drink some water, my brain is dehydrated.... |
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| Motivation | Starting over for the last time group... | Nov 12 2009 16:55 (UTC) |
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Okay guys, I'm hungry, hungry, hungry and trying really hard not to go raid the fridge....heellllpppp it's calling my name..... |
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| Motivation | Starting over for the last time group... | Nov 12 2009 00:33 (UTC) |
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Original Post by delaney86: Exercise? I seem to be morphing into a slug.... ugh! I've got to get moving! |
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| Motivation | Starting over for the last time group... | Nov 12 2009 00:32 (UTC) |
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Original Post by tryin2lose25: It's tough! I hit a plateau for 6 months, I'm still moving very, very slowly. 1400-1700 cals per day except when I had a few meltdowns. Just hang in there!!! It will be okay and you'll get there.... |
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| Motivation | Holiday Motivation Weigh-ins | Nov 11 2009 18:11 (UTC) |
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...and you drink a 16oz glass of water when you're tagged :) |
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