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| RAM1984
Sat 1/20/2007 11:25a | Welcome davewasbaloo. This thread is really good for me. I wish you the best of health.
I state all the time about the mental part of food consumption. I can be going along just fine and then WHAM!!! I just eat a bunch of junk. Being here helps me to realize that there are other people out there with the same problem and that I am not some sort of weak freak.
>>I have now lost 20 lbs since begining my diet<<
That is so great. This thread will be having its 1st birthday in April and I hope to be able to post a 20 lb loss.
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| Kennesaw Tom
Sat 1/20/2007 12:59p | Well I am a bit nervous. As I will be on vaction at WDW in a week. I plan on brining a scale with me. I am going to be good. But its probably going to be tough since I will be staying at the AKL. I can't wait to try out Boma. My party plans to do a LOT of walking, grin. I wonder if AKL has a room with exercise equipment? |
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| davewasbaloo
Sat 1/20/2007 2:41p | Thanks for all the well wishes folks.
Tom, there is a gym near the pool at AKL, and the pool is long enough to get quite a work out, especially if you go early in the morning. |
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| sherrytodd
Sat 1/20/2007 4:27p | Congratulations to everyone who's here. I lost 30 pound on Weight Watchers. While I've been maintaining a healthy weight, I had my body fat measured and though it's not in the danger zone it is on the high side of normal much to my surprise, so my husband is trying to talk me into starting to run with him and maybe doing doing a half marathon by this summer. He really knows how to get to me. He said, "But honey, maybe by next January you can do the WDW marathon!"
I'm thinking about it. Maybe I'll start with a 5k and see if I survive. |
445
| lovedisneyland
Sun 1/21/2007 2:53a | wow.. I have to say, I am excited to have found this thread. I too, need to drop some weight. Lost about 80 pounds 4 years ago when my ex - husband was dying from brain cancer, and the whole terrible stress with that,(he died in July, 2002) but then, gained back 60 of that since 2003, from some depression . Now I feel better, am coping well again, and need to lose weight to feel better about how I look and to boost my energy level. Being overweight makes you feel tired all the time ! I am relieved to see there are others here who struggle like I do.I am not alone ! I wish everyone the best and I hope I too, will be successful in this weight loss journey I am now on. Good luck to all !!! |
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| davewasbaloo
Mon 1/22/2007 5:03a | Well, I am now 1 week in. I don't know if I have lost much yet (too heavy for scales), but I feel slimmer. I have averaged 1447 cal a day up until yesterday.
With a dinner party and drinks, yesterday was 2538 cal - bad news. From the outside it probably looked relatively healthy though:
1 large bowl of Special K with Skimmed Milk
3 large black coffees
3 chicken fajitas stuffed with veg
Fruit Salad and sherbert
3 bottles of light beer
2 glasses zinfandel
Ouch! Before dieting, I would have thought this a fairly low cal day (except the alcohol).
back on the wagon today! |
447
| davewasbaloo
Mon 1/22/2007 5:06a | I do think I have lost weight but I think I am a little irratable, often hungry, and finding it difficult to concentrate on work. |
448
| Kennesaw Tom
Mon 1/22/2007 6:30a | My motivation at the begining of December was when I was talking to a cousin who told me that he had been visiting Atlanta six times since last March. And never once called me while he was here. Everytime I go to Vermont I visit him. This got me SSOOOOOOOO upset. I know I didn't say anything here. But I probably only got 20 hours of sleep the three weeks following that converstation. I have not told my cousin how deeply that upset me. But I think he knows. He has not spoken to me in several weeks. So I admit it, my reasons were purely selfish. Oh course what ever motivates you to get moving then so what. So while I had all this sleepless time on my hands I did some deep soul searching and came to the conslusion that I am tired of being a spectator in my own life. I decided that 2007 was going to be a good year. I was going to stop putting things off. It was time to loose weight, get back into the gym, feel better about myself and try some new experiences on life's journey.
Three weeks ago I was talking to some friends and they invited me to go out clubbing. I had not been to a club in over a year. KJ doesn't like the clubs but said it was fine for me to go with our friends. So off I went. I for the most part had a good time dancing and meeting some old friends from 5 years ago. It was also nice talking with a few people who I have never met in person. At one point I introduced myself to two people I have spoken too online and they treated me like pond scum. They gave me the once over look and facial experesion implying, your nothing special. I politely just said I wanted to just say hello and told them to have a good evening. OK, this past weekend my friends invited me to go back out to the clubs. So now 10 lbs from 3 weeks ago and sporting my new 34" waist. I also did a shopping spree earlier friday night for some new "duds". Well....I was Cinderella at ball. I went from pond scum status to rock star in three weeks. It was a pleasant night out. Yes those two guys were there and they had the shell shocked look. They didn't speak to me and avoided me all evening. But in a club with probably a good 500-700 people everyone noticed me. When I arrived at the club the coat check guy gave me coat check #2. I thought that perhaps I was the second person to drop off a coat. He told me at later when I went to pick up my coat that he reserves the top ten coat check numbers for "exclusive" people only. When I initially walked in there was a guy stading talking to the coat check guy. And when I took my coat off. The guy was just couldn't speak.
Ah yes, looking good can be such sweet revenge. And of course there is the health benefit and yada, yada, yada.
Now I'm down to 205 lbs. My goal is 185 lbs. |
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| LacyBelle
Mon 1/22/2007 11:51a | Great job, Tom. It's terrible when prople make snap decisions about you based on your appearance. There's no room in our lives for that.
Hang in there, Dave. You can do it. You're doing a great job with such a small food allowance. The irritability is normal and should pass as you get more used to the caloric intake.
As for me, I'm getting back on the wagon again today. I had lost 30 lbs a couple of years ago (and have kept it off), but never reached my goal weight. I'm looking to lose another 30 - 35 more.
Best of luck to everyone. We can do it together! :-) |
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| TALL Disney Guy
Mon 1/22/2007 5:04p | <Ah yes, looking good can be such sweet revenge. And of course there is the health benefit and yada, yada, yada. >
Lol, Suzanne Sugarbaker couldn't have said it better herself. ;-)
Tom, I'm so glad for ya that you're havin' so much body success and loving it---I just wish I wasn't picking up the weight you're dropping off! lol I'm a slim guy with naturally high metabolism, but I have noticed over the last few weeks a few of my waistbands feel a bit snugger. Yikes, need to be a little more self-disciplined and active... |
