DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! (Page 22)

First very sorry about your loss. Yes taking some helthy options for the road are the best way make sure you stay on tract.My philosophy on eating out is I still do it but make the best choice and eat smaller portions and fill up on water before the meal gets there!! Safe travels

Okay, then small serving(s) (notice the plural)! I would rather eat the rice than anything else.

Mitzi: I completely relate to that image in the mirror issue. Yikes, right? We're going to change that.

Don: Nothing motivates like spandex!

GreenMtn: I'm sorry for the loss of your grandma. Small portion of rice?

Cbost: Congrats on a nice loss! Enjoy the trail run. Beautiful area.

Steady week for me which is ok considering a complete change had me braced for a gain. I'll take a zero and be content with that.

Still holding 243lbs this week, crap week of working out due to work a ton, I am happy to still be at 243 after this week and crappy eating

No weigh in, but I have something much better.  I went to see my chiropractor for the first time in over 2 months weighing the same.  Before then, we had been having conversations about weight loss so he asked if I was still working on my weight and I said yes.  He asked how much I had lost since I saw him last and I said I hadn't lost anything.  A look of shock came across his face and he said, 'Really?'  He was surprised and said that it looked like I had lost quite a bit of weight.  I guess the training is paying off by toning me up.  Reminded me yet again that the number on the scale is just a number and progress can be shown in different ways.  Yay me

Oh yeah, I was down to 225 this morning.  My pre-holiday weight!

We're just looking forward to March 1st!

On a different note...

I dropped another 9 miles on the Shoe Leather Express today. I'm starting to shoot for legitimately running an entire 10K.  Up to this point, I tend to run for 500 to 1000 left foot strikes, then I walk for 50 left foot strikes.  I know it isn't the best way to get the job done, but... count the PRs over the last couple weeks!  :-)

I saw very similar results when I started logging everything, paying attention to what was going on, and making smarter decisions about what I was choosing to eat.  The trend carried on much longer than I anticipated.

I had originally planned on droping 1 to 1.5 lbs. per week.  However, I dropped 40 lbs. in 14 weeks which averages a little under 3 lbs. a week.  I then went on to drop another 15-20 lbs. to my current weight over the following 12 weeks.  And since that time I have remained stable at this weight with one exception.

I thought I had the whole healthy eating thing figured out.  So I stopped logging what I ate.  I didn't pay as much attention as I had been to what, or how much I ate.  Then I steeped on the scale about 8 - 10 lbs. heavier.  That was my wake up call.  Since then I haven't missed to many days of meal logging.

Congrats on the progress.

On another note went to a total immersion swimming workshop over the weekend.  Spent two days in the pool and studying film of my stroke and learning alot about swimming dynamics.  I found it very helpful.  Already feel better about swimming.  I still have a lot of fine tuning to do on my stroke to get me there, but they have already made it a lot easier.  I know where to work now and plan on seeing more improvement to come.

welcome to all the new folks

Ron had me in a timeout so I could not post -

gained 2 last week (not surprising since I was low from the colonoscopy prep) hoping to be back to losing this week

and yes, myfitnesspal rocks - I also use national chain stuff when estimating - or even other pubs....

enders_shadow - 2013-02-25 5:18 PM I agree about the logging thing - I used to log on the weekdays, but since I would cheat one of the weekend days, I didn't bother. Not terribly successful that way. Now I log even when I know it's going to be ugly...at least it makes me recognize the ugliness. (Doesn't stop me...but at least it's in black & white the next day.)

x Whatever.  Last year I was down to 137.  I stopped logging over the summer and ballooned back to 155-157.  Now I am working to lose it AGAIN with logging.

Finally saw the scale moving in the right direction this week!  I'm down about 6 pounds for the last three weeks. I'm back to where I was when I quit running due to my calf tear.  Now it's time to lose the 20 I started out to lose when the injury happened.

Bad thing is that I am going to a conference for work in Phoenix next week and it will be very hard not to indulge!  And I won't have my bike or my pool!  I will have my running shoes though!

It takes a while, the longer you do it, the easier it gets. I am so in the habit that I have a note pad that I write on when I am away from my computer (no phone app) and log them later, sometimes days later. I started because I wanted to see my macro and micro nutrients to make sure I was getting enough. Caloriecount does a good job on that, it tracks 20 or so nutrients.