AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore

[Jackalope]

I'm doing pretty good, up less than 3 pounds from my lowest, a bounce I expected - it was 5 lbs at one point.

In any case, I like the direction I'm headed. I crossed the line from morbidly obese to merely obese about two weeks ago.

My spouse and I are planning on signing up at the local community center and there's a place that does Zumba, nothing but Zumba, and it looks fun and exhausting, so I might join her doing that.

The community center offers swimming lessons which I am going to sign up for after talking to the instructor about which class I should be in. I'm at the "almost capable of keeping oneself from drowning" stage and I want to be able to swim laps. I was a pretty poor swimmer when I did my first scuba cert way back when but there's no way I could pass that today.

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Not entirely unrelated nor completely tangental but completely subjective: I'm feeling pretty good about myself. I care about my appearance. I can stand to see myself in a mirror without self-loathing. I can dress down without looking like a slob, merely by giving fucks that are hard-won. I have more self-confidence. I'm on the right trajectory in the mental health department - it's a work in progress - but I know my wife would testify that I am not who I was when we first met. In a good way.

[Jackalope]

My wife, the lovely Kitty Galore, has lost ...... 55 pounds. She too is feeling pretty good about herself.

Though I think that both of us would agree that massive weight loss is a lot like growing pains, but in reverse. Shrinking pains.

[Shell B]

That's so amazing!

[Joods]

Just weighed myself again. Down another 1.5 pounds to 264.5.

[downbeatplumb]

I have no ideas how much I weigh. My wife used to have an eating disorder and we aren't allowed scales in the house.
Which sucks for me.

I may have to buy one and hide it under my bed like people used to hide their porn stash.

Or keep one at work/trusted friend’s house?

I had two jobs ago and forgot about the bugger when I left.

[Mr.Obvious]

Two people remarked today, on seperate unrelated events, that I seem to have lost a good deal of weight.
I feel it too. Need to make another hole in my belt.

My gf and one of the two who remarked it think I shouldn't lose any more, that I'm about as sharp as I ought to be.
But I feel I should be a bit thinner still. Still have the gut.

[Jackalope]

Hit a new low, 80 lbs total loss today.

[Whateverist]

Hit a new low, 80 lbs total loss today.

Well, I think we can call off the contest portion of this event.  We have co-winners Chth & Kitty.

I'm maintaining still.  Last time I got on the scale I was at 189, down a few from the time before.  The lowest I got, more than a year ago, was 182.  My failure to balloon back up north of 200 is largely the result of keeping up my exercise routine:

Tuesdays & Thursdays: Pilates, weights and the stationary bike for 300 calories.

2-3 other days I just do the weights and 500 calories on the stationary bike on the days Lia does pool class.  

In between, the puppies like to take me out for a few miles walk at the beach or in the hills.

If I ever decide to try to drop some more weight it won't be hard.  I'd just have to give up my many but budgeted treats.  I wouldn't ever have to actually get hungry like before.  That's the benefit of exercise.  But you have to be careful not to just blast away and have a heart attack or get an injury.  We don't get in a hole over night and we can't get out of it all at once.  You obviously already know that but for anyone thinking of trying this at home...

[Lucanus]

is this what this thread is about? Lol

[Shell B]

I've been living off takeout and donuts. It's very bad, but I haven't been able to cook in our kitchen. So many boxes.