The Weekly Weigh-in Thread.

[Etoile]

I use the sparks for recording food and such but I have been keeping track of my daily weights on the calorie counter db since my weight goes up and down a pound constantly. I have been doing biweekly recordings of weight on sparks. I ended up getting the bars with almonds and blueberries in it. Very yummy!

Oh, that's a very cool idea! Keeping two separate logs. I am still using my bellygraph occasionally, but mostly I keep them in sync rather than having one for daily and one for weekly.

I see your spark ticker is in the middle of the bar...GO YOU!

 

[WriterDom]

Up .6 yesterday. Down 2.4 today. I don't have a lot of faith in my scale.

Eh, it's what you DO and what you EAT that matters. The only factors that you control anyway.

 

[WriterDom]

I forgot to weigh today until after I had a huge breakfast. But still it was way down from 2 days ago.

 

[Etoile]

I forgot to weigh today until after I had a huge breakfast. But still it was way down from 2 days ago.

Yeah, I hate when I do that. I have to weigh in before I've eaten anything or it screws me up. I'm not weighing in today because I'm in New York and who knows what Daddy's scale will say! (That is, when you're losing less than a pound each time you weigh in, a slight difference in calibration could mean a lot.)

And hey WD, when I got to the pool on Thursday I thought of you. Your sig line, specifically. It popped into my head kind of modified. "Thou goest to pool? Forget not thy towel."

Yeah, I was kind of drippy on the way home.

 

[WriterDom]

Did you get some good exercise in the pool?

I think I'll start riding my bike to the gym. It's only a 12 minute trip. But there and back gives me 24 minutes of exercise while saving gas and the planet.

 

[WriterDom]

I really like the daily log and graph at calorie count. It's going to really help with maintenance as well. When the graph starts going the wrong way, it's time to make adjustments.

And Happy April. One quarter down. 12 pounds lighter.

 

[Kierae]

Congrats on the weight loss so far WD! I agree - I really like the graph portion showing the average weight loss. All of our weight will fluctuate but seeing that you are showing a decrease every day (even if its ounces) is motivational for me. I sometimes feel like I am plateaued but in reality I rarely stay in the same weight for longer than 2 days.

~kierae

 

[WriterDom]

I did have to edit the goal weight. The one it gave me was ridiculous.

 

[WriterDom]

Any time I have a good day of diet and exercise it seems the scale is up the next day. If you are a daily weigher I think you should remember Kipling's words. Otherwise it is maddening.


If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If it is up, it's not a disaster. If it's down, it's not a triumph. If you are trying, it's a triumph. If you quit, it's a disaster.

 

[Netzach]

Ladies and gentlemen...I have learned something important. Bear with me, I know I'm having revelations and realizations all the time. But I have been eating more than usual - and I have lost weight. Seriously, I was eating 1300-1600 calories a day for a couple of weeks, instead of my usual 1200 a day...and I lost 1.4 pounds. I don't know, maybe it was a fluke, but I think 1200 was not enough and that's why I stayed the same weight for six months. And to think I was going to try cutting back to 800! So in addition to eating smart but not minding if I'm craving a piece of bread, I am going to try eating a little more than I am used to, and we'll see where it takes me.

But mostly I don't care a whole lot - I just got a cool new one-piece swimsuit and I'm starting water exercise classes on Tuesday. I have had bikinis for years because that's the only way anybody ever sees my big back tattoo, but I never wore them because I was embarrassed about having a tummy. Now I don't mind as much, I think the one-piece will look good, and anyway...I'm just me!

Were you spreading your food out adequately?
Maybe changing the times and amounts helped kick start the metabolism a bit. I know I can eat more and lose weight if I don't do the starve all day stuff your face at 8 pm "doctor diet" as my friend calls it.

 

[Netzach]

Interesting link, WD - thanks for sharing that.

I just ate a piece of chocolate. That's the second one I've had today. The first was of my own accord, though I didn't really NEED it...and I really should only eat candy when I NEED it. (That is, when it's consuming my thoughts and driving me mad, rather than because I'm bored.)

The second piece, though, was because my wife took out this fabulous 70% cacao bar she has. She will never see this, so I am going to say: Damn that woman for always having candy in the house. Yes, I should have some of my own personal willpower, but it would also be really beneficial to not have the food in the house in the first place. I wish I could demand that she just eat that stuff at work, etc. I don't want to see it!!

But...tomorrow is another day.

Ask her to kindly put it in a place you are not likely to find and don't know where it is. Or at least up too high.

Even when I know there are cookies in the house, when they're up there where I can't reach my lazy ass tendency to not want to go get a chair to stand on and make that big a deal out of it wins unless I REALLY want one.

 

[Cherrysweetdeal]

So I haven't changed weights for a little while now... getting stronger and noticing some more trimness around certain parts of my body but still a ways to go.

 

[Etoile]

Ask her to kindly put it in a place you are not likely to find and don't know where it is. Or at least up too high.

Even when I know there are cookies in the house, when they're up there where I can't reach my lazy ass tendency to not want to go get a chair to stand on and make that big a deal out of it wins unless I REALLY want one.

The hard part is that I am virtually always home when she is home, and I am virtually always around when she is eating stuff. She mostly keeps it on her side of the bed, so I usually don't see it, but when she brings it out...that's when I see it.

For the most part it's a battle of my own willpower. I don't want to deny her eating what she wants, but I still wish she didn't eat that stuff around me. It's just that...well, we're always together, and...yeah.

I gained about 1.5 lbs over the weekend but friends on a weight loss thread elsewhere suggested that all the margaritas were still in my system, and the salt from them was making me retain water...LOL.

 

[WriterDom]

Since I've been logging the weight it has never gone down or up twice in a row. Up one day, down the next.

 

[Cherrysweetdeal]

sick weight...

so when it comes to being sick apparently if all you do is sleep and drink liquids with very little actual food, you lose.... many many pounds. I weighed myself today on moms scale which is really really close to the gym scale and found out I'm 154 with jeans on....which means in the last two days the only having liquids has lost me a decent amount but sadly it comes back when you start eating again..

Ah cruel world....

 

[Kierae]

So after of gaining and losing the same 2 pounds for the last GD month, I have finally seen the scale dip .60 of a pound. So if I wake up tomorrow and lost the rest of the pound, making it an official one pound for the month - I will be happy! Actually I will admit I can live with this considering I have seen inches drop off the tape measure but hey, I can still bitch about the actual weight!

Hope you feel better Cherry and I feel ya on the liquid weight loss...

~kierae

 

[Etoile]

Tuesday - 167.8
Wednesday - 165.4
Thursday - 165.8

So still a net loss of 2 lbs. I expect to gain tomorrow though, I have felt like hell all day and I am bordering on sick and so I didn't feel like going swimming tonight. I was going to exercise on the elliptical at home instead, but I have felt crappy all night too and so it didn't happen. Plus I was feeling emotionally overwhelmed by some stuff and I ate a bunch of M&M's, whoops! Life goes on though.

Cherry, sorry to hear you were under the weather for so long! Glad to see you up and about again, I hope you're feeling better!

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

Ok... Sooooo I switched to the Atkins diet.... I hated this the first time I went on it but now that I am not alone it is easier... I have lost five pounds in the past three days... I have just cut out the bread... I feel so good lol... it's crazy...

 

[Etoile]

Down to 165.0 this morning which utterly astonishes me and yet makes me happy at the same time!

 

[Cherrysweetdeal]

Cherry, sorry to hear you were under the weather for so long! Glad to see you up and about again, I hope you're feeling better!

Thanks Etoile, I'm hoping its only a flu and nothing else.

 

[WriterDom]

Why Atkins and not South Beach? I like the beach because there is no counting of anything.

 

[PrimalGirl]

Grats to all on the Weightloss! I recently lost over 65 lbs (well since last June) It feels great! I am now ALMOST the same size and weight I was in my senior year in HS..Im now on the verge of 40- LOL. The best part is that I feel AMAZING. Its cool what cutting out the soda pop can do for you!

PrimalGirl

 

[WriterDom]

I made a new low today. Sure did make my graph look a lot better. Now if this global cooling would end I could get a little more active.

 

[WriterDom]

Another drop today. I noticed last year that I would stay in a one pound range for about a week and then drop a lot suddenly. Yeah, it will go up tomorrow probably. And maybe stall for another 6 days. And then drop again.

 

[Kierae]

Finally lost a pound - now to do the gain/lose the same pound for another month! It was great to put on a pair of pants I just bought in february and have them clearly a size too big.

~kierae