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Subject: The Weight Room

Posted by: george48
Date: Jan 01 12

Hey there. This is my first foray into this particular forum of self revelation.
The title refers to,in the last few years my ongoing love affair with eating and the resultant ups and downs with food,glorious food.
I will chronicle my journey with the scale and the fridge, and the ongoing battle of the bulge.
Doing this publically will, i hope,keep me on the straight and narrow as well as the slimmer and healthier path.
My weight as of this morning is 248.8 lbs,not the most i've ever weighed,but close.
Here Goes!

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honeybee4

Good luck. You can do it. I will be watching your progress. I may join in, secretly.

Reply #1. Jan 01 12, 5:55 PM

Jazmee27

Best of luck from me as well.

Reply #2. Jan 01 12, 6:06 PM

MarchHare007

Nice to meet you George.
I have found - Virtual snacks are the best kind.
Always plenty to share, taste Absolutely Fabulous and are free of everything! :)

Reply #3. Jan 01 12, 10:10 PM

DaisiJ

Good luck George - hopefully your progress will inspire me to do something about my growing waistline :)

Reply #4. Jan 02 12, 1:23 PM

SisterSeagull

Go for it Bigman!!

Steve

Reply #5. Jan 02 12, 2:21 PM

dippo

Your weight doesn't mean much without your height - how tall are you?

Reply #6. Jan 02 12, 3:01 PM

george48

I will,at least for awhile,list my weight only when it goes down,no point in discouraging myself. The days you don't see scale numbers are the days where there is no change or heaven forbid,an increase.
My height is 5'9. Today the scale is at 246.6.
My heaviest weight last year was 256.0 lbs around Thanksgiving.,the lightest was 230 in August. The goal is set for 170,although i will be content at 185.That is what i accomplished last time i got serious about losing pounds about 4 years ago.
I don't have to tell you,but i will,that losing is the relatively easy part,as least it was for me, it was maintaining it that was the really hard part. After i reached my goal last time,i was hospitalised for severe abdominal pain, the cause of which was never satisfactorily explained,the pain eventually left on its' own, months later,Thank God.
But i digress,2 weeks of enforced bed rest,with little to do except reading,t.v. and eating. When i got out of the hospital,25 lbs later,it was a case of the hell with it,with everything else to deal with, i just started back into my bad habits,the lbs came back and brought a few friends with them.
This is where i am now.

Reply #7. Jan 02 12, 3:53 PM

postal315

I'm at my very heaviest. I broke four ribs that took forever to heal, and was diagnosed with diabetes. Add to that a long hpt summer where I was basically immobile, and need to do something.

I'm 5'6" but not going to tell my weight number just yet, I'm too embarrassed.

I've been eliminating all sweets except for fruit. I don't smoke or drink. I still need to come down.

I'll join in, if you don't mind, and see how we get.

Reply #8. Jan 03 12, 12:42 AM

lesley153

Weight 185 at 5'9" sounds slim - 170, positively skinny!

Will you be keeping us up to date with your food, and changes to your diet, as well as weight changes?

Reply #9. Jan 03 12, 8:13 AM

george48

Postal315,- I know what it's like to be immobile,during my time in the hospital i was going ranky because they wouldn't let me move about,sorry to hear about the broken ribs,i broke one falling downstairs at work,the only broken bone i've ever had.
Baby steps,cutting out the sweets and replacing them with fruits is a good step because you took a bad habit and replaced it with a good one.
My biggest stumbling blocks are any products with refined sugar and white flour,walking by a bakery without going in and buying something,anything and stuffing my my face with it,is for me the hardest part,the old joke about the definition of an Irishman being that he would crawl over 10 naked women to get to a bottle of whiskey, well just replace whiskey with a chocolate cake and you've got me.
Lesley 153,- you'll get all the details,good and bad weight changes and other tricks and strategies i employ to make myself less Pillsbury Doughboy and more Jared Fogle.
Weight-242.6

Reply #10. Jan 03 12, 10:03 AM

lesley153

Can't wait!

You lost 3 lb overnight? That's a good start!

Reply #11. Jan 03 12, 10:55 AM

lesley153

*4

Can't count. Need an abacus.

Reply #12. Jan 03 12, 10:57 AM

Jazmee27

George, I have “a love affair with food.” Always had. Currently the heaviest I’ve been, and refuse to ask what the scale says. I need to start exercising more.

Reply #13. Jan 03 12, 11:24 AM

george48

One of my bad habits regarding food is that when i shop for food,i'm lazy. I want to go home,shove something in the oven,munch on junk food while i'm waiting for whatever i bought to cook, while i veg out in front of the tv or the computer. Most of the time it just seems like too much effort to actually prepare a recipe,but when i do make the attempt it usually turns out good,i'm not a half bad cook,it's just that it doesn't happen that often.
Today though,i found a recipe for butternut squash that i'm going to try,the produce section is going to be seeing more of me now. The willpower is strong now, putting my head down and plowing through the bakery section shouldn't be a problem for the time being.
Weight today-241.4

Reply #14. Jan 04 12, 1:34 PM

C30	This time last year, was 238lbs and 5ft 7" height. Now 216lbs, and it's back on diet time! Reply #15. Jan 04 12, 4:05 PM

lesley153

How's it going?

Reply #16. Jan 10 12, 7:37 PM

satguru

Welcome to our world George. I wish you luck, I reached my maximum some years ago (168 lbs according to your method if the maths is good) but go by my waist measurement as I'm 4 inches shorter than you and it was pretty huge. I lost well over a stone (14 lbs) when a dietician at the gym gave me a routine, and after maybe a year most of it came back suddenly in a few weeks. I've lost a little but then started going backwards again, and would rather lift weights and not suffer the whole time trying to lose a few inches off my waist any more, it's not even as if it stays off but more like gardening that it doesn't seem to stay like it very long.

I was told what I eat was as important as how much, and bread was a lot better than cakes and biscuits, which I stopped buying for about 6 months and did the job.

Reply #17. Jan 10 12, 8:10 PM

george48

I went out the other night to a friends for poker,actually did pretty well for a relative beginner,but i brought beer,there was chips,nuts,wings and pizza and i had plenty of everything,not a good idea,so it was back to the drawing board,again. I could say not to all those goodies,but i was weak and at after a few beer,it was just easier to give in to temptation. This time.

Reply #18. Jan 10 12, 8:50 PM

Jazmee27

My preferred method of checking m y weight would be how my clothes fit. Jeans don’t fit, and when I bend over to clip toenails or tie shoes, I feel like I’m about to blow a fuse. If that’s not an indicator, I don’t know what is.

I’ve always had a love affair with food, and while I try to chew it slowly (as I read somewhere you’re supposed to so you get full faster), It’s often hard to once I start eating. It just tastes so good, and…

I have hand weights on my desk and a stationary bike in the bedroom, but motivating myself to use them is the hard part.

Reply #19. Jan 11 12, 10:35 AM

lesley153

"First the man takes a drink. Then the drink takes a drink. Then the drink takes the man.” Japanese proverb
It's forgotten the bit about the drink taking crisps and nuts and wings and pizza...

Could you tell yourself that chewing slowly will make the food last longer? (Just a thought.)

Reply #20. Jan 11 12, 5:18 PM

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