Last night, I watched the Loop d Loop video that Herb posted online, and when I looked at myself, I did not like what I saw.
I felt bad about how I looked, and I felt especially bad for poor Nate as I watched him struggle to stay upright against my body’s gravitational pull. Truth is, I just feel bad. I’m tired all the time, I’m uncomfortable, and I’m really starting to worry about my heart.
So, I’m gonna try this again. Not sure I’ll do a complete food log thing here, but there’s a lot to be said for making yourself accountable for something like this by making your intentions known to people who care. (You do care, don’t you?)
I weighed in this morning, then had a dish of scrambled eggs and some blueberry yogurt to start the day.
I’ll keep you posted.
dude I am in your
dude I am in your support group….
count me in
Over the winter I got slack with my eating & exercise habits. Then this spring I started riding again and was doing pretty good but the weather turned crappy and I went back to square 1. Then my dog died and I ate my sadness. I’m just now coming out of those bad habits again, so I’m with you man, in spirit and in action.
We started doing this 10k-steps-a-day challenge at work and that is helping to get me moving again.
Do you ride? If so, lets hit the trail.
Meltin' Butter
Photographic evidence has also made it painfully clear to me that I need to start meltin’ some butter off the back 40. It was nice to get back to the gym after a pinched nerve that went on forever, but I’ve seriously slipped from my healthier habits of 5 years ago.
So Yeah...
… I’m in.
I want to ride my bicycle.
I’ve been trying to go downtown and back most every day, since way back last Saturday (not counting the Fourth). So http://youtu.be/kpy4xNAnWzM
A good start
The scales have shown a slightly smaller number for 2 consecutive days. Not going crazy, just making better choices. Tea instead of soda, nuts instead of chips, that sort of thing. Bring it on, weekend, I think I can take you!
Me too.
I am a hiking hellion....
..but also a fat-gobbling, beer-swilling schlub. I think maybe I’ve tightened up a bit, but I still weigh too damned much. My problem is the food. I get reasonable exercise (sure, there’s always room for more), but my hangup lies with the grub. Oy. Trying to cut way back on meat consumption and use more tofu and beans and stuff, which is WHY I was able to inadvertently invent the world’s funniest new pull-my-finger game last night while feeding the dog my Bugles fingernails. also: BUGLES. nuff said.
I am drinking a Mountain Dew Throwback.
But I will also ride my bike AGAIN! There will be significant biking every day from me. I got worried when I realized I huffed and puffed going up and down more than one flight of stairs. Also, I’m starting to look like my uncles.
Eggs, yogurt, tea and nuts
OK weekend
No change on the scales, but I think that’s too bad for a weekend. Mostly good choices, but I did drink several beers friday night, and yesterday I had a couple drafts and a delicious sandwich on a “pretzel roll” at the Dark Horse brewery. It was totally worth it.
I cooked pork loin, rissotto, and breadsticks... oops
I decided to start cooking again in hopes of controlling what’s for dinner and thereby loosing some weight. I forgot however that I am a damn good cook. Saturday I did an applewood-smoked brownsugar/fennel/rosemary-rubbed pork loin on the grill and also made some rissotto and breadsticks with steamed green beans. I’d never done the whole ‘smoking’ thing with wood chunks on the charcoal fire, nor had I ever done a loin on the grill. I used a drip pan and indirect heat and OMG it was like meat candy. The short of it is we have left-overs and I didn’t loose a pound but damn it was good.
Baby step 1
It’s been my delusion that we actuallly make okay food choices, but too much is consumed. So I’m focusing on enjoying what I do eat, and I set a 9 p.m. curfew. It was KILLING me not to eat a bunch of almonds right now, but a) I’m not that hungry and b) it’s 9:30 p.m. Then, it was interesting to observe that I can be distracted from obsession with other activities. Like, what is up with Google plus?
Baby step 1
It’s been my delusion that we actuallly make okay food choices, but too much is consumed. So I’m focusing on enjoying what I do eat, and I set a 9 p.m. curfew. It was KILLING me not to eat a bunch of almonds right now, but a) I’m not that hungry and b) it’s 9:30 p.m. Then, it was interesting to observe that I can be distracted from obsession with other activities. Like, what is up with Google plus?
Good idea!
Also
6 down, 60 to go
I’m down 6 pounds at the 1 week mark. I’m sure 2 or three of those is water, since my ankles are no longer swollen like those of a pregnant pretzel addict with congestive heart failure. The 9:00pm deadline is a good idea, but that’s exactly the time I want a snack! I’ve been going with the vanilla Skinny Cow brand ice cream sandwiches. Very satisfying, and only 140 calories! (not that I’m really counting…)
Tree, that is amazing. So,
my plan is simple. No more
my plan is simple. No more fast food, No more ice cream. It can be bad food, but I have to cook it. I will loose just by the virtue of not pulling up and ordering a bag full of deep-fried simple carbs and flame broiled fat.
With the optimism of morningtime
Meat Candy, biking.
I would like to hire OFMG to make us meat candy.
I am biking! I am a biking mutha. Since July 2, with only two days skipped, I’ve gone on major bike rides, mostly home to downtown and back. My goal is to do the Kal-Haven. I explored the beginning, Metro to Douglas, yesterday. Today I may have to put off some work and see how far I can get.
This year I found myself out of breath going up stairs, and it scared me. I AM NOT AN OLD MAN, I AM 18 OR AT LEAST 33. My bike had a slow leak, and I’ve had a nice car for the past few years, so I fixed the tire, and began fixating on gas prices.
I have no idea how much I weigh, and it’s still uncomfortable to button paynts I used to be fine in five years ago. But I can move longer and longer distances without feeling like I’m gonna die. And I feel power in my legs, pure animal power.
I may explore more Kal-Haven Saturday, if anyone wants to come along.
From what I’ve read and
From what I’ve read and experienced, It’s easier to loose weight by eating less than by excercise. However, regular exercise helps the body process stuff faster. Last year I didn’t do a whole lot of exercise, but only rode my bike or the exercise bike 3 times a week and ate a healthy diet. When I applied myself I lost close to 30 pounds. However 1/2 that was unnatural holliday weight gain, so it was easier to come off. This year I’ve been mostly off-again with the exercise and eating right. I’ve been good for a week and I’m noticing a difference, but it’s slow going. A pound a week isn’t super motivational, but it’s good, really it is. If you’re loosing more it’s probably water. Fatter people (like me) can loose more weight initially than thinner folk, especially when grasping at the low-hanging fruit of weight loss. a.k.a. move more, eat better, eat less. I need to get back to where I could eat just 2 slices of pizza instead of 4. Ice cream is the devil, I may as well be injecting it into my belly because that’s what happens. After dinner ice cream is so tasty, but just goes right there an sits, and adds up. Ice cream for breakfast on the other hand would be much smarter.
Yes!
How am I going to resist the
Italian ice
I’ve found that Luigi’s Italian Ice satisfies my ice cream cravings. About half the calories of ice cream, no fat, and because it freezes a little harder than ice cream, it takes a little longer to eat it, which is also kind of satisfying. It’s still a little “carby,” but overall, I think it’s a pretty good option.
This morning I did 35 minutes
shin splints suck. I used
shin splints suck. I used to run for a bit in college, back in those young experimental years, but shin splints made me give it up. With riding I get that same feeling, just not the pain. Mostly I ride my exercise bike & watch tv and lift little free weights, it’s not as good as real riding but it’s as convenient as tv is. Also it’s hard to snack while watching tv AND riding AND lifting weights.
Nothin'
No change since my last post. Haven’t been very active for the past couple of (hot) days, plus I did popcorn and Twizzlers at the movies last night. Considering that, not gaining weight is sort of a win. Whatever, I’m still eating better and that’s got to lead somewhere, right?
weighty subject
so, I started feeling the same way this past winter. I had a big battle with low self-esteem that won! I put on a great deal of weight, which I couldn’t really afford to put on. I also started to just feel awful, physically. SO…here is what I did. I started eating better, duh, right? I also started running, then was forced into walking due to horrible shin splints. I slowly phased out meat and then completely phased it out at the end of the school year. I can’t tell you how much better I feel. I have lost upwards of 15 lbs (I don’t weigh myself regularly). It has been slow going, but has been worth it, besides, what else am I going to be doing? So Ron, I’m in your corner, I know how it feels. When we were younger it was easy to be “tweeners” without thinking about health, but the fact of the matter, that is what it comes down to at this point. Get healthy, my friend! I’ll join you.
There’s An App For That!
Eating right, being conscious of portion size, and getting the move on is definitely the way to go. I’ve certainly gained some weight over the past few years, but I’ve also been A LOT heavier in the past – I find that I’m most successful if I build things into my regular routine (Bringing my clothes for the gym to work and changing at the end of the day gives me one less excuse to skip the gym) and reduce obvious temptation (I won’t eat the cookies if I don’t buy them at the grocery store in the first place). Having unrealistic goals was something that had to go – you can’t beat yourself up for every time you don’t go to the gym and, let’s face it, cookies ARE delicious, so you need one (or two…) periodically.
I’m no stickler for calorie counting, but I did download the “my fitness pal” app and have found it to be useful feedback tool. It has a huge database of foods already programmed into it, so when you add Dannon Yogurt (or Hershey miniatures…) to your daily diary, it pops up a list to choose from with all the calories, carbs, and whatnot already figured out; same deal when you enter your exercise. At the end of the day, it gives you a little feedback screen about where you are in relation to your daily goals and where you’d be in 5 weeks if every day were like today. It also keeps a running logs of all your accomplishments so it keeps you focused on the positive.
It’s good that we’re all in this together and thinking towards the future – whomever gets stuck with us in the Leppo Wing of the retirement home will certainly have their hands full :)
Biking
I’m all for it. It’s not easy in this heat, but it does have a built-in fan — you go fast, air blows fast. Amazing.
I assume it does less damage to your body than running (unless you crash). There is the sense of adventure, no sense of chore. And do you know about the bike trails? Thank you, liberal government! I might try the ride to the Nature Center. Lookit.
waxing and waning
Also
Scale of scales
Our scale is digital and displays decimal points of weight, so I know that I should not be too thrilled BUT I appear to have lost 2 lbs. When I realistically think about the decimal point, it’s probably 1.5. And it’s probably “water weight” from sweating while sitting for the last 4 days, but I’ll take it.
Merging back onto the highway
skinny thread
This thread’s really funny for a bunch of middle-aged chubsters bemoaning the state of their health and talking about carbs and exercise and shit. I am trying really really hard to pull out of our month of birthday excess and get back on board, too. The sugar mayhem should slow down (as soon as we finish up all this crack pie and zucchini bread).
Must. REsist. Temptation. To keep. BEER. in the house. MUST!
I must say that the handsome Mr. Sexton seems to be slowly but steadily losing weight since our move and dog aquisition.
I, on the other hand, as previously stated, have tightened up my butt and legs but continue to have a ponderous great Rubinesque belly that I cart around atop my freshly bone-feeling hips. No, seriously—there are muscular indentations and near-surface bones that I haven’t experienced in YEARS in all other portions of my midsection. I mean, I still have hips like a Mack Truck, but that’s honestly just the way my skeletal carriage is built. But I can FEEL the great big bones in there! But the great ripe belly…What am I, a DUDE?! Sheesh. Maybe I need to start doing sit-ups on top of all our walkiing and climbing.
Despite my lifelong mockery of the very CONCEPT of running when there’s no knife-weilding maniac chasing you, I have, occasionally, found myself moving about the neighborhood at a TROT. I call it cantering, not jogging.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL YOUR FLAT LANDS AND BIKE TRAILS, MICHIGANDERS! It’s too steep here to go bike riding, and sometimes I go out to the shed and pet sweet lil’ Ol’ Blue and tell her that maybe I’ll cart her down to Lake Junaluska and ride around and around and around there.
Nancy, you would LOVE biking if you tried it. Get a helmet and go! There are so many nice trails now! Take water and gatorade with you, and know that your tailbone will totally hurt for the first week or two…..the breeze and the nature will make you SO HAPPY if you go hit the KalHaven!
MUFUGGIN BIKE TRAILS, BEEOTCH!
Ha ha, you have mountains.
You know, you can click the right things on google maps, and get a map that shows bike trails and terrain: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=kalamazoo,+mich&ll=42.300929,-85.569248&spn=0.113379,0.229168&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&gl=us&t=p&z=13&lci=bike
Morning rant
Skip it!
To Hell with cantoring, I’m gonna start skipping! Can you just imagine the looks I’ll get as I go skipping around the block? THAT, is almost inspiration enough! Maybe I’ll carry a basket of posies just to add to the spectacle.
As a kid, I always felt more
Good morning
GALLOP!
YES! I remember cheating on the President’s Fitness Whateverthehell by galloping instead of running. Seemed easier on my cranky joints, even as a kid! Congratulations on the scale budge! I keep forgetting to weigh myself—don’t think about it until after I’ve eaten dinner, which is never the right time. I should have weighed myself this morning after I walked three miles with the dog up and over the mountain and back and probably lost a few pounds in SWEAT! (cue Debbie Allen banging stick on floor)
FAME COSTS! AND YOU’RE GOING TO PAY! IN SWEAT! (BANG!)
GALLOP!
YES! I remember cheating on the President’s Fitness Whateverthehell by galloping instead of running. Seemed easier on my cranky joints, even as a kid! Congratulations on the scale budge! I keep forgetting to weigh myself—don’t think about it until after I’ve eaten dinner, which is never the right time. I should have weighed myself this morning after I walked three miles with the dog up and over the mountain and back and probably lost a few pounds in SWEAT! (cue Debbie Allen banging stick on floor)
FAME COSTS! AND YOU’RE GOING TO PAY! IN SWEAT! (BANG!)
success!
I have seen sub-270-lb results for the majority of this past week. The low-hanging fruit of no-fast-food weight loss is beginning to pay off.
*edit* should i have another hyphen between weight and loss?
…I like the hyphen.
Hi, all who go here. I have
Nice job!
I am only like you in that I’m lazy and not exercising. I’ve been eating EXTRA grains and potatoes and sugar for the past three days.
Tree, you are making me
whoop whoop!
Well, I’ve lost five pounds since the last time I went to visit the doctor three months ago, which isn’t too awful bad considering that I only really tried to get on the good girl wagon a few weeks back. It’s a slow loss, but that’s okay. We aren’t keeping beer in the house, which helps, and I’d say about 70 percent of our dinners these days are meatless, and I’m trying really hard to make smaller portions, or at least bulk everything out with the stuff that barely counts (veggies veggies veggies!). Trying to reduce our overall carb load for now. Isn’t that exciting? No, no it’s not. Also, I must have beer tonight or somebody’s getting a punch in the face.
updates
Me: 6 pounds
Scott: 10 pounds
Rock on. Excelsior. We broke diet last night and went to our favorite diner and ate what used to be a usual meal and then both felt horribly bloated and gross afterward. It sure helps reduce the daydreaming about how awesome some foods are that we don’t eat much anymore! Oh yeah! We actually feel better when we eat well!
updates
Me: 6 pounds
Scott: 10 pounds
Rock on. Excelsior. We broke diet last night and went to our favorite diner and ate what used to be a usual meal and then both felt horribly bloated and gross afterward. It sure helps reduce the daydreaming about how awesome some foods are that we don’t eat much anymore! Oh yeah! We actually feel better when we eat well!