I Fucking Quit Too! Any one want to join me for weight loss?

[thesummerqueen]

Thanks. It's been a long road of illnesses and set backs.

It kinda makes me want to dance.

[brewer]

Then dance. Why hold back. Safety dance?

[thesummerqueen]

I'm not caffeinated enough.

[c172]

I've dropped down 10 lbs since June 8th, so I completely reversed a spike of mine. Long way to go though.

[Whateverist]

So I've just enrolled in Kaiser's healthy eating class that I did to lose weight a year ago when I dropped down to two hundred pounds.  I've basically kept it off by keeping to a few guidelines.  

The first class of this year's class was Tuesday, 1/3.  Since then I've been tracking everything I eat and making sure I keep to a calorie count which should allow me to drop two pounds/week.  Fully clothed, I weighted in the first night at 205.2 pounds but 202 buck naked at home.  It is a pain in the ass to record each thing.  Like this morning I had a cup of steel cut oatmeal (cooked) and a quarter cup each of mango, raspberries, blueberries and walnuts.  All of that has to be recorded and breakfast totaled 399 calories.  

For lunch I had one hot dog, cut in half on an angle and each side on one slice of Dave's thin sliced good seed bread (thank you Portland) and dressed with mustard, onion, one slice of Clausen bread and butter pickle sandwich slice and half a slice of Jalapeño jack washed down with a diet coke.  In addition I had ten salted macadamia nuts which my stepson and his gf brought us back from Hawaii, an ounce of them is 200 damn calories!  Lunch totaled 622 calories.

Dinner was half a Trader Joe's classic greek salad (made with about 3/4 of the dressing), 3 ounces of guacamole I made myself with just lemon juice and chili powder along with a dozen Blue Dimond nut thins.  For dessert I got one Mochi mango ice cream dessert.  Total for dinner = 479 calories.

For snacks today I had two Belvita blueberry cookies with a cup of tea (w/ splash of half&half) twice, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.  Also had three tiny little chocolate truffles they brought back from Hawaii.  Oh, and when I woke up too early I had a cup of an herbal tea (no cream) and three Trader Joe's meyer lemon wafer cookies.  Total calories for snacks = 398.

So today's 1898 calories came in 12 calories under my daily allotment.  Frankly it doesn't feel like I'm going without all that much.  Of course, all those Hawaiian snacks made it tougher.  Yesterday I came in 200 calories lower.  My wife by contrast has to make do with about 1500 calories a day.  That would be tough.  My goal for the week is to come in under budget every day and record every calorie.  I'll let you know how I do at next Tuesday's weigh-in.  I'll probably stop recording everything after a couple of weeks if I lose at least 4 pounds.  By then my intuitive sense of what and how much to eat should be pretty good.  Really, the only difference between losing weight mode and maintaining weight mode for me is the tight control on the snacks.

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Necroposting, DGAF:

I am 30 lbs down since Nov 2014.

That is all.

Long live bike riding.

Fucking outstanding, girl!  Missed your necro at the time.  V. good news indeed.  Hope you came through the holidays okay and are still feeling good.

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I've dropped down 10 lbs since June 8th, so I completely reversed a spike of mine. Long way to go though.

Ten pounds in a month and a half is epic!  Have you been able to keep it off?  When you're ready you'll take another step.

[c172]

Honestly, I don't have my data with me. It's all held by the SDSU departmentt of Exercise and Nutritional Science, for which I am a PT lab rat, but I do know that I am 4 pounds down from the close of fall semester (I am doing a short winter intersession at SDSU). During the off period, I tend to spike upwards, so I am very relieved. I just need to maintain that momentum. 

Key word: momentum.

[Whateverist]

It occurred to me that I should subscribe to my own thread here. Even when my interest wanes in losing weight I'm missing out on an opportunity to be inspired by the progress you guys are making. I'll get notifications from now on.

[Whateverist]

So I've started the same class as last year again. I started the first meeting at 205 pounds. Second week I hit 201 and yesterday at the third meeting I finally hit 199 .. fully clothed of course. Naked I look much better -on the scale dial at least.

In the first week I tracked every calorie in every meal and snack. Midway through the second week I just got tired of it and winged it. I've decided that this week I'll track all snacks and dinner. I should continue to lose 2 lbs a week if I come in at 1910 calories a day. My breakfasts and lunches are so routine that I can just assume breakfast will be about 420 calories and lunch will be just under 500. So that leaves 990 calories for dinner and snacks so that is all I'm tracking.

Tonight for dinner we each had a quarter pound of steak, a v. small glass of red wine, a half cup of quinoa and brown rice, a cup of steamed Brussels sprouts and a piece of mango Mochi ice cream for dessert = 537 calories. Throw in another 433 calories in snacks and I'm at 970 calories out of the 990 allowable.

[Whateverist]

Dropped down two more pounds in Tuesday's class.  Don't intend to stop until I get to 170 this time.  Keeping it off seems doable but I do so want to be lighter on my feet.

[Doubting Thomas]

I lost 40 lbs last year, want to lose 20 more but it's really hard right now. I have cut out eating sweets for the most part, still snag one here and there very rarely, but usually substitute a banana or apple for cookies, snack cakes, or candy. I need to get more strict with myself about my carb intake, eating a low carb diet now but my weight just keeps fluctuating but not dropping. If I totally eliminated carbs I could probably do it, but that's very hard to do. But at least I'm not putting the weight I lost back on, but I do have a little more flab I can lose.

Well, at least when the weather warms up I can get out and ride my bike more. I have a trainer set up so I can ride it indoors like an exercise bike, but it's just not quite as fun as actually riding outside and going somewhere. I normally ride 10 miles every morning and then do longer trips on the weekends, and this year I hope to do my first century (100 mile ride).