BS: Anyone else dieting?

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 02:36 PM

Actually, I break all the rules, I weigh myself almost every day. I can do that because I don't panic over a pound or two in either direction. However the only weight that counts is Wednesday morning because that is the one that I write down on the sheet my wife started for us in January. I must say I feel great. My daughter called me skinny. I'm not skinny but it sure feels good to hear it!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 01:39 PM

My work colleague informs us she's lost 4lbs in a week, but is guilt tripping about the peanut she ate last night.

If I'm going to be guilt tripped into confessing I ate a peanut, I don't want to play!

For 2 weeks worth of the Cambridge Diet, she could have bought herself an £80 excercise bike from Argos and been a lot fitter too.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 09:46 AM

"perfectly"

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 09:45 AM

Good for you, Frank! It's encouraging to know that over a longer haul you continued to make it work. How often do you weigh yourself? I find that once a week is enough, or I obsess over every little rise and fall that doesn't really represent general weight loss or gain. In the heat, especially, if I don't drink a lot of water I tend to store water.

I'm working my way backwards down the pants rack in my closet. I'm about 1/3 of the way now, wearing the most recent sets of pants (that were getting uncomfortably tight and I decided enough was enough!) and the batch of fat pants I bought a couple of summers ago for a trip to New York with my daughter. As I get into the smaller sizes below those I can set aside (toss!) the biggest of the fat pants, or use them with a belt and do yard work. (Always frugal, I hate to donate "perfect good" clothes, but I might make an exception in this instance!)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 02:41 PM

Wow! My thread is back! Well, for my own personal update I have now lost 43 pounds. No changes, still avoiding fast food and lately I've been trying to walk SOMEwhere every day. My wife has lost 22 pounds. No special diet, just excercise, no fast food and when I have a beer, it's because I really plan on enjoying it! I've gone from a 44 waist to a 38. I can still wear 40's but most of my pants are 38's. It's been a long process but the hardest part will be to keep it off, although since the focus has been on health instead of weight loss, perhaps we can both keep up the excercise and keep it off.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 12:53 PM

SRS, that's the most sensible way, imo, and the only way I will work at it, along with good exercise.

Thanks, Maryrrf, for the link. I do find tracking to be helpful.

I am not worrying about doing anything until we get the second house sold to our daughter, later this month...the stress of that is enough for the moment.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 12:32 PM

Hell Kendall, you'll disappear if you keep that up! You'll be just like a passing shadow, next time you come to Gainsborough! LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: kendall
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 12:28 PM

About a month ago I cut out potato chips (crisps) and ice cream and I lost 10 pounds. Furthermore, it's staying off too.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 12:25 PM

The extra price of my weight loss: nothing. It's all the usual groceries, without the junk food, and without much fast food. I occasionally find myself running on empty when I'm not where I can make a sandwich or something myself, in which case I will purchase the smallest burger at whatever establishment is handy to tide me over until I do get home.

The benefit of my system--I don't need to learn how to eat "regular" food all over once the system with the special order food or the nutrient packets or the flavored sawdust part of the weight loss is concluded.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 11:39 AM

My neighbour at work is on the Cambridge diet - it seems to be satisfactory because she's not eating much at all at work. The proof will be tonight when she goes to get weighed and shamed into confessing she ate a bun. She let us in on the price of it today. £44 for a weeks worth of drink sachets. That's getting on for $80.

£44 is what I spend on groceries for a family of 3 per week.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 11:11 AM

I can recommend a site: Spark People . It's free, has lots of encouraging articles, advice, etc. Best of all, there is a very easy tool for tracking your calorie consumption, and also a tool for tracking your weight loss - it helps to see your progress in graph form. I have lost 10 lbs. and find that what helps is tracking your daily calorie intake, making it easier to plan your meals and helping you to "ration" your treats reasonably. Joining is easy, and it promotes sensible weight loss - not gimmicks.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 10:28 AM

I decided it was time, because I refused to buy the next size larger of fat pants. :) I started cutting back on calories and getting more exercise before I stepped on the scale. I weighed 173 then, and about three months later I'm at 161, with my target being 140-145, my "normal" weight range before surgery, hormone replacement therapy, etc.

The weather has helped. I mow my own lawn, and we've had so much rain that to mow front and back is a big workout and I usually lose a pound or two a week from that exercise alone.

I'm not eating diet food--I can't afford to support that multi-million dollar industry. I'm eating a variety of good produce and healthy meats and whole grain products. I took my inspiration for this from Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun (the book, not the film). You want to run out and drizzle some olive oil and herbs over a succulent tomato with a fresh pear for dessert after reading that book!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 10:03 AM

Sure I'm dieting. I'm doing so much aquatics I'm having to increase what I eat in order to lose even a single pound. No kidding.

Increasing activity is MUCH MORE effective for weight loss than decreasing calories.

PM for details.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 10:00 AM

Is it time to re-open the Weighty Issues room and set a schedule for sharing/commiserating/ encouraging/bitching, etc.?

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 04:58 AM

Mudcat Chatroom has a 'Weighty Issues' Annexe, but it's not used very much... best thing to to is log in to it and just wait for someone to spot you there.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 03:01 AM

Lisa - both Google & Yahoo groups have weight loss groupss.

Google- groups -
Topic - People - Support
Topic - Health - Fitness

17 groups
http://groups.google.com.au/groups/dir?hl=en&sel=0,16823713,16823697,16823605,16823597

......................

http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=weight+loss

Yahoo groups
Health & wellness
Fitness & nutrition
Support
Weight Issues
Weight Loss
Diets

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: lisa null
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 01:25 AM

Do any of you wise dieters know of a good supportive group of fellow dieters online--- maybe like this group. I work in my basement on my computer a lot and would love to have an online group to talk with before i head upstairs to the kitchen! I eat pretty much the right things and am a vegetarian at home, but there is that before bedtime snack during which all restraint is lost. I think this has been my everlasting undoing --driving my scale off the charts.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: MAG
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:46 PM

6 lb. so far this month, and 17 total down from my top weight.

Last week I started Byetta for my diabetes and it seems to cut appetite.

With functional knees again (yay!) I'm back to walking.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 04:13 PM

One source of that is Robert M. Hutchins ("When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.") I think I've read it in the context of an earlier writer, Twain or maybe Wilde, as you guessed. In the context of good deeds or inspiration to do something new. This is one that I may have read somewhere in context, so I will mull over the essays and novels I've read and maybe it will come to me. I'll lie down and think about it. . .

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Jeanie
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 01:06 PM

Thanks, Sandra ! Yes - Sydney would be a bit far for me.....but, thanks to your links, I have found just what I was looking for: a mixed Cotswold ("bells, sticks & hankies") Morris side less than half an hour away from me. Yay !
Many thanks, Sandra.

Cheers,
- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Tinker
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:55 AM

I'm back working on my weight again. Three years ago I watched my weight and did the eight minute a day routine and dropped from a size 10 to a 4 although my weight was still pretty high for my height. As my kids got increasingly ill I stopped finding the time to exercise and it's all come back and then some. So I began Sunday with an programed aerobic half hour on the exercise bike each day and a sensible high grain breakfast. I'm setting goals one week at a time.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Dave Wynn
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:41 AM

I thought about going to the gym but lay down until the feeling passed (Oscar Wilde perhaps?). I used the weight watchers book (not the meetings) and lost two stones (28Lb) some two years ago. I have still kept most of it off because, I think, my tastes and attitude to volume changed (I am still overweight however but not obese).

This week on damn daytime TV (I have just retired too) there was an article about John Lewis (retail store in the UK) they are committed to using only models size 12 and upwards and have dropped the size zero ethos. too slim don't look heathy to me either!

Dave Wynn A.K.A. Spot the (chunky) Dog

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:39 AM

Yes, I do. On beer, and I don't care whether anyone in the house shares. In my pub are people enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 03:49 AM

jeanie - my local Morris side is a group of blokes with 1 woman, but it's probably a bit far away from you!

But is does have a page of links, including international sites.

Black Joak Morris links

Some years back a friend was told by his Cardiologist after his by-pass that dancing is very good exercise.

keep dancing.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 03:15 AM

The scales confirmed my deepest suspicions, as did the doctor. I don't eat enough fat for the 'fat-buster' pills to be of any theraputic use...

Guess I'm going to be building an excercise bike today...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Jeanie
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:21 AM

It seems there are a lot of us on this lark !
I am currently 35 lbs lighter than the heaviest I ever weighed, and it has stayed off, and still going down slowly but surely. Like Jerry, what I am doing is "what I always knew I should do" - it's not a particular diet, but just leaving out the sugary things, the extra slices of bread when I'm not actually hungry etc.etc. For cheese (which I love with a passion) I have very thinly sliced low-fat Edam-type, not every day, and otherwise I use Quark (German-style whey cheese - very low fat but really tasty).

I have always hated the idea of "organised exercise" - gyms, sports, soggy wet hair after swimming, and this has been my downfall in the past, because I have found you can only go so far with losing weight purely by choice of food intake....

BUT, I have discovered DANCING ! (Took me a long time, eh). I'm rehearsing a play at the moment which involves a lot of traditional dance (rants and morris steps) and it's been such fun, I'm looking to join a folk dance club once the play is over. Since doing the dancing (and the morris dances in particular are a great "work-out" with all that hopping about), when I've come home, I've felt so good and somehow "satisfied" that I just haven't been tempted to reach for the biscuit cupboard at all.

What I'd really like to do is join a men's morris side (ho ho) - or, at least, a mixed group who do the Cotswold (men's) morris steps, because they are the ones I enjoy the most. Do such groups exist, I wonder ?

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Scrump
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:02 AM

I went to the quack last week for a check-up and he told me to strip off behind the screen. When I emerged he took one look and shook his head, saying "You'll have to diet".

I was a bit surprised by this. I said: "OK, if you say so, doc, but what colour?"

... I'll get me coat.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:31 AM

Wow, Charmion - it will be good to see what you look like next November at the Getaway! Congratulations. And a Google Pedometer function! That sounds extremely useful!

I've been doing "Weight Watchers at Work" - a daytime group, which costs about $12 a week. Most people go to evening groups, at about the same rate. If you add the online portion, that is a separate $12 per month.

Once you reach a "goal" weight (basically just reaching the very top range of normal) you can become a Lifetime member, and then all weekly meetings are free as long as you stay there or lose more. That's where I currently am - supposedly providing an example to newer people.

Linda

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 04:15 PM

Congratulations, Charmion, and thanks for the web site!

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 04:11 PM

Well, the new excercise bike is here... the first bit of excercise is getting it up the stairs!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 04:04 PM

Those no-fat dairy products have the flavor and consistency of a tub of spackling compound, and about as much appeal.

Baby fat--that is a tough one. Nursing is one way to offload the excess calories you stored, but you can't nurse effectively if you're dieting, so you need to eat sensibly and let the weight shed slowly. And drink lots of water.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: GUEST,Charmion
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 04:03 PM

I haven't re-set my cookie. That's 'cause I'm just plain lazy.

I started a get-fit kick last year on the Spring Equinox, when I weighed about 210 pounds and my feet hurt so much from arthritis that I had to buy a pair of orthotics ($400) just to walk downstairs without yelping.

This morning I weighed 160 pounds, and I have about 10 or 15 more to go. My feet don't hurt any more.

I did it by counting calories using this food database and web-based journal, and drastically increasing the amount of exercise I do. I started out walking to and from work every day -- one mile each way, measured using the pedometer function at Google Maps -- and trotting gently on a treadmill at the gym near my office. By the end of April, I was working out with weights twice a week at the gym, and walking outside ("streetwalking", I call it) up to four miles a stretch three times a week. By the end of the summer, I was routinely walking five to seven miles at a time, three times a week, on the path that runs along the east bank of the Rideau River, and working out at the gym three times a week. The river path is off-limits at this time of year, so now I do the cardio component on an elliptical cross-trainer at the gym five days a week, and weights three days a week.

The only clothes I can wear now that I was wearing at this time last year? Socks.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: r.padgett
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:58 PM

Similarly I used to do gym and weights many years

I have had to reduce sugar and fats and have changed my diet to high fibre low long carbs to get lower sugar levels (now at 6.1) and cholesterol 3.5 last blood test

Granary bread no butter; bran and shreddies etc; a good Sunday lunch but mainly chicken for meat preferred etc nothing fried ( cant stomach it anyway!)

Alcohol reduced (except festivals!!)

Not checking on weight scales but as mentioned by someone clothes are becoming a bit baggy!

Its a bit windy too!!

Best exercise is walking ~ always was ( and avoids enclosed spaces) ok swimming if you can!

Ray

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:54 PM

Not dieting yet but will be once I've had the baby. NOt really put on alot of weight with the pregnancy but I am going to have do some exercise and diet once the baby is here. Any advice on losing the baby wieght would be great if anyone has any!!

Khatt

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:49 PM

I agree that it's not about deprivation as much as it's about eating right. we've been doing exactly that. It's trying to make the right choices.

The best thing that I did was I'm eating slower. I was always the first one finished with helping number one. I occasionally finished my second helping before everyone else finished their first!

The heart Association cook book is great although last night we hit a snag. My wife made these noodles (no yolks!) with fat free sour cream and fat free cottage cheese...baked. There were other ingredients but these two alone were enough. Horrible stuff, but the rest of the cookbook has been great!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 11:20 AM

Good day to start, today is... Happy Pancake day everyone!

Eat up all those chocolates and goodies that you aren't supposed to have during Lent and see what happens by Easter.

Just don't include me... do as I say, not as I do!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 10:03 AM

I need to do something to reverse the slow accretion of pounds. More exercise, fewer calories. I'm looking forward to fresh garden produce this year--the real benefit will be putting in the garden to begin with--that's where I'll burn the calories!

How expensive is Weight Watchers?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 08:35 AM

I've lost 23lb in six weeks. No diet as such, I simply bought a book that lists the calorific value of 100's of foods, then cut the high value stuff out. I also increased my mountain biking from twice to three times a week.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 06:13 AM

As Garfield said "Diet is Die with a T"

To me a 'diet' is deprivation, & it's done to achieve a quick result, rather than a program to follow fo the rest of my life. I once saw a popular diet book called something like The Blue Dress Diet - ie. starve all week, cram into the aforementioned dress for the important event, then pig out.

Linda, good onya! One of my (former) colleagues has lost about 20 kg thru the Weight Watchers.

In May 2005 my doctor sent me to a Nutritionist because my blood sugar level was pre-diabetic. I was 89.1 kg, loved healthy food & junk foods (not sweet stuff tho) & did no exercise due to back trouble & sheer laziness.

Since then with his guidance I've lost around 19kg (about 2.2 lb to a kg), & have a few more kgs to go.

My goal is to get below 70 kg so my 8-gore 1970's fuschia skirt is comfortable. I've been able to fit into it for many months, but it isn't comfortable. I've seen lots of folks wearing dresses/trousers that are tighter than my skirt, but I won't wear it out til it sits loosely around my stomach.

I eat lotsa' vegetables, 3 or 4 pieces of fruit a day, less dairy, grains & fatty food & more low fat meats. I still have fatty junk food on occasion - gotta have excessive cheese, & dips crackers & chips (crisps) & a gourmet sausage or 2 at a session or BBQ. yum!

Next I need to exercise (yuk). Conventional exercise is very difficult with back & leg pain, which is why I've just bought a swimsuit & will start walking around pools as advised by Physio & Nutritionist.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 11:32 PM

After a couple of not-so-successful tries, I'm now doing very well on Weight Watchers. I have much more incentive this time, and combining it with contra dancing is helpful.

I like their online journal-keeping site; it's actually fun to use, like a game. Their vegetable soup recipe is incredibly good, but has almost no calories. I think of it as will power by the quart. I just had some for dinner.

I used to hear the British term "I'm slimming" rather than "I'm on a diet". I think that has a much more positive spin.

Linda

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 07:30 PM

I used to go to a gym twice a week. When I stopped going I lost half a stone (7-8lbs) because I'd stopped getting so hungry by excercising, so it's a two edged sword.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 07:25 PM

Apparently exercising before a meal helps because it increases the rate of metabolism.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: skipy
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 07:21 PM

I'm trying to drop a dress or even two.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 07:14 PM

I've been given some tablets that are supposed to extract the fat from the food you eat and rather than let it be absorbed, excretes it all. They are great at giving me a stomach upset, cramps and gas but not much good as far as helping me lose weight - turns out I probably don't eat enough fats!

I'm going to lose about 80 pounds in one go soon... I did think about having a leg chopped off, but decided to buy a better excercise bike instead (like, one that has two pedals!), hence the losing of 80 pounds!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Susan of DT
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 04:49 PM

When going to the gym three times a week for two years did not do anything for the weight (perhaps kept me from gaining more once I retired), I decided to get serious about loosing 50 or 60 or 70 pounds. 12 down and lots more to go. Low carb diets work for me - I had lost 40 pounds on Atkins 25 years ago, kept most of it off for a few years, but eventually put back those pounds and lots more. Trying South Beach this time, a modified Atkins that lets you eat some whole grain carbos in small quantities and limit the fats. If I keep this up for a year, I should be in good shape.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 04:07 PM

After my recent stints for stents { :) ) I have been on reduced fat/low sodium diet. Only lost 37 lbs by the doctor's scale since November, but most was after Jan 15 when I started the diet.

Having open arteries helped, too...

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 03:49 PM

*walking over and smacking Sorcha upside the head*

*GRIN*

LQF

*****Just keep in mind that body size alone does not indicate good health...you can be a petite little thing with blood chemistry that would scare a Dr. to death**********

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 03:42 PM

Sorry, but no. I know, I'm disgusting.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 03:42 PM

Hey Jerry,

That's good for you that you gave things up and didn't miss them. For many people, that kind of all or nothing thinking can get them into trouble. I am an insulin dependent diabetic and while I KNOW those kinds of things aren't good for me or my sugar levels, it doesn't hurt to indulge once in awhile, as long as you can keep it at the once in awhile level.

Kudos to you and your 30 pounds!

LQF

PS. Splenda? EW. I'd rather have nothing sweet at all than eat that rat poison!!!! :x

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone else dieting?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 03:23 PM

/o\   /o\   /o\   /o and so the yoyo goes!
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