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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 19, 2018 at 6:58 pm
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.
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.
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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 19, 2018 at 7:06 pm
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.
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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 19, 2018 at 7:24 pm
That's so amazing!
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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 19, 2018 at 9:43 pm
Just weighed myself again. Down another 1.5 pounds to 264.5.
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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 20, 2018 at 1:27 pm
(August 19, 2018 at 9:57 am)Shell B Wrote: (August 19, 2018 at 8:29 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: 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.
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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 20, 2018 at 5:09 pm
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.
"If we go down, we go down together!"
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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 24, 2018 at 11:47 pm
Hit a new low, 80 lbs total loss today.
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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 25, 2018 at 12:53 am
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(August 24, 2018 at 11:47 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: 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...
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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 25, 2018 at 6:49 pm
is this what this thread is about? Lol
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 27, 2018 at 9:29 pm
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.
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