Tubby Tubby Weight loss challenge 2011

[wasilvers]

12/01 - 227.5
12/29 - 217.0
01/05 - 214.6
01/12 - 214.6 (great considering we traveled, ate like pigs, deserts every meal,and I was up 4.5 pounds on Monday)
1/19 - 215 Next week, it's 210 or bust!
1/26 - 210.8!!!!
2/3 - 210.8
Held at 210 for a couple of weeks.
2/19 - 208.6 - finally going in the right direction again
2/23 - 206.8 - I WON THE BIGGEST LOOSER CONTEST AT WORK (and Money!)

BREAK HERE FOR TAX SEASON - ABSOLUTELY NO TIME TO WORK OUT

4/7 - 208.6 - over one month and only 1.8 pounds put back on - So guys, learning better eating habits has definitly helped. Limited soda intake to avg of 1.3 per day. I basically live off Nature Valley granola bars, it is my breakfast, snacks and sometimes dinner. I eat a huge lunch - golden corral buffet, or two grilled stuffed burrittos from taco bell, a pizza from little ceasars, etc.. and it all seems to work out (for now). Before I changed eating habits, it was Mcdees for breakfast, same crappy lunch, and more burgers for dinner. All with sodas, or monster enegery drinks. Snacks were candybars, or candy, or chips. #-o
Now that I reached my first goal of under 210, the push in the next 4 weeks will be to reach 200 pounds.
I'm back on the weight loss plan!!!

 

[devilmutt]

Starting Weight - 253.4
Jan 7 - 244.5
Jan 14 - 240.2
Jan 21 - 239
Jan 28 - 237.2
Feb 5 - 237.2 (New Scale)
Feb 11 - 233.4
Feb 18 - 235
Feb 24 - 235
Mar 4 - 235.2
Mar 11 - 234.4
Mar 18 - 234.6
Mar 25 - 234.4
Apr 8 - 233.2

 

[richg99]

Well done! Devil.....
Rich

 

[devilmutt]

Thanks, I'm trying. The weekends are the problem.

 

[Jim]

I went on vacation and had a complete 100 percent meltdown.

 

[richg99]

Jim You just created a new spot to start from.

What's the old saying..."it isn't how many times the fighter was knocked down...but...how many times he got up....."

Heck, I've been plateaued for 2 months. That is better than sliding..but...not much better. Rich

 

[worminken]

Saturday is my start day and I plan on weighing (less) each Saturday morning. My starting weight is between 240-245. I'll let you know Saturday.
1-1-11 - 245.2
1-8-11 - 238.7
1-15-11 - 236.2
1-22-11 - 234.6
1-29-11 - 232.3
2-5-11 - 231.8
2-12-11 - 230.6
2-19-11 - 228.00
2-26-11 - 227.7
3-4-11 - 226.1
3-12-11 - 223.6
3-19-11 - 222.7
3-26-11 - 223.8
4-2-11 - 224.2
4-9-11 - 221.4

Back in the right direction.

 

[fender66]

I went on vacation and had a complete 100 percent meltdown.

Vacations are worth it. Can't wait for mine. Oh wait....don't think I get one this year. #-o We're already booked solid until next year.

 

[Jim]

Back on track starting today! [-o<

 

[richg99]

Here you go....Best restaurants for every meal...

I am not at all sure what they mean by "best" here. Some sound "worst"..

https://eatthis.menshealth.com/slideshow/best-restaurant-any-meal?cm_mmc=ETNTNL-_-04112011-_-HTML-_-body

Rich

 

[richg99]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...

The Good....Weighed in yesterday. down .8 lbs...that put me at 248....down 22 lbs and my very lowest weight in many years. Still shooting for 238, which would equal two 16 lb bowling balls.

The Bad..I pigged out after that good weigh-in. Even though none of the things that I ate seemed like too much at the time.....they were FAR more than I have been eating in any one day. Also, much of the junk came from fast food restaurants....

Let's see....a bowl of cereal; a quick stop on way to the lake for two breakfast burritos three hours later.

Then, around three p.m. a triple snacker from "BK on the way home; at home ..a steak..two beers; a wine...some chips and salsa......

Yee Gods.....yes....it does sound AWFUL. Too much and too many!

The Ugly...back up 2.5 lbs due to that one day of debauchery.

Starting over with a goal of losing SOMETHING by next week's weigh in...

Bah humbug...Rich

 

[richg99]

Seven habits that make you fat....

Sheesh, I am guilty of almost all of them!
Rich

https://eatthis.menshealth.com/slideshow/7-habits-make-you-fat#sharetagsfocus

 

[Jim]

Depression in full swing. I have been going to the gym every day but my diet has been non existent. I just cant get back into the swing of things(Since vacation really).

I need to refocus.

 

[fender66]

Depression in full swing. I have been going to the gym every day but my diet has been non existent. I just cant get back into the swing of things(Since vacation really).

I need to refocus.

Come on Jim....you can do it. I've been doing pretty good, but the lbs just don't fall that quickly. I am moving in the right direction...but VERY slowly. #-o

Like you said....refocus.

 

[Outdoorsman]

12/31/10 @ 248.5
1/3/11 @ 248
1/10/11 @ 249 - Up 1 pound.... need to get more active and snack less...
1/13/11 @ 246.5 - Did some snow shovelin....
1/17/11 @ 243.5 - Now my next goal is 240...could not get there last time...
1/28/11 @ 248 - Major setback... unexpected shi@# happens.. fell of the wagon.. was eating wrong to help deal with the shi@#... time to get back on the right track...
2/10/11 @ 243 - Back down to where 240 is in my sights... one good thing about all the snow is that even with a snowblower I worked and swetted off the pounds...
3/6/11 @ 238.5 - Broke my short term goal of 240 about a week ago.. just wanted to maintain it before I posted it here...now its on the 235...
3/15/11 @ 236.5 - I am starting to think towards my next (5 lb increment) goal of 230... but trying not to get ahead of myself and still focusing on 235...

Outdoorsman

 

[richg99]

We all just need these new "weight-loss" pants.....Rich
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https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.html


Excerpt....
Dr. Levine then began to ply them with an extra 1,000 calories per day.

Sure enough, some of his subjects packed on the pounds, while others gained little to no weight.

“We measured everything, thinking we were going to find some magic metabolic factor that would explain why some people didn’t gain weight,” explains Dr. Michael Jensen, a Mayo Clinic researcher who collaborated with Dr. Levine on the studies. But that wasn’t the case. Then six years later, with the help of the motion-tracking underwear, they discovered the answer. “The people who didn’t gain weight were unconsciously moving around more,” Dr. Jensen says. They hadn’t started exercising more — that was prohibited by the study. Their bodies simply responded naturally by making more little movements than they had before the overfeeding began, like taking the stairs, trotting down the hall to the office water cooler, bustling about with chores at home or simply fidgeting. On average, the subjects who gained weight sat two hours more per day than those who hadn’t.

 

[worminken]

Saturday is my start day and I plan on weighing (less) each Saturday morning. My starting weight is between 240-245. I'll let you know Saturday.
1-1-11 - 245.2
1-8-11 - 238.7
1-15-11 - 236.2
1-22-11 - 234.6
1-29-11 - 232.3
2-5-11 - 231.8
2-12-11 - 230.6
2-19-11 - 228.00
2-26-11 - 227.7
3-4-11 - 226.1
3-12-11 - 223.6
3-19-11 - 222.7
3-26-11 - 223.8
4-2-11 - 224.2
4-9-11 - 221.4
4-16-11 - 224.5

Uh Oh!

 

[93civEJ1]

I need to get more motivated to lose weight...I was gaining weight, but it was muscle weight...now im just gaining bad / fast food weight lately. ...id like to lose about 40 pounds or so!!

 

[richg99]

I don't know enough about losing weight. I do know a little bit about setting and attaining goals. You might consider choosing something that really, really like to do.

Let's say ......go golfing with your buddy on Saturday. So.....you say to yourself..."I really like to go golfing with Fred ( or whoever) every Saturday morning". "If I don't lose at least one pound by the weigh-in on Friday...I don't go golfing".

You will lose the weight if you set the goal at an attainable level.

You can substitute any activity ( some activities I can't mention on this site.... Ha ha ) for the preferred goal. regards, Rich

 

[redbug]

Well I think i have found a new diet it seem to work very well:
2 years ago I dropped 35 lbs in 3 months it never came back
and now the last 2 weeks I have dropped another 15lbs
I am under 290 for the first time in 5 years
I will call it the back spasm diet.. i hurt my back 2 weeks ago and have been out of work
I have been flat on my back most of the time.
I do try to sit up while eating but after about 15 mins the pain get too intense
so I lay back down and stop eating.
I am sure I will get better sooner or later, so I need to figure out how to keep it going
How about a cattle prod? zap myself until i but the fork down?