3SGTO Biggest Loser Competition

[j2k4]

How a person can live without chinese buffets is beyond me.

Its hard, very very hard....

[Granny]

I've considered the stress angle, too, but I just don't have much stress in my life.

One of the wives at work retired from her job and was telling me how she lost 20lbs the first month and really didn't change anything.
She contributed it to stress at her work.

I'm the worst at beating stress and I know it's not helping my weigh but I know where my short comings are...Can you say "McDonalds"?

If it was all easy we wouldn't be here supporting each other.

No one has failed if they keep on trying!

[Alan92RTTT]

Being diabetic has been a huge motivator to eat right.

I have not had fast food or buffet food in a year and a half.

Snacks with the excpetion of the occasional protein bar are not chocolate, chips or candy. Snacks are nuts, fruits, granola bars(home made), trail mix, pumpkin seeds,.... well you get the idea.

[beepbeep]

Great job, Alan. We, too, have bypassed most of the 'snacks' that we used to eat, but still have a few every now and again.

And Karen, thankfully McDonald's has NEVER been my weakness. We eat out maybe once a month or less anymore. When we do eat out it's generally healthy (Souper Salad). Luckily being broke affects our dining out choices and opportunities more than anything else.

I've scheduled an appt with a doctor for this Thursday to discuss another issue, but will also bring up the weight gain and see what he suggests. He will probably run blood work and such. I just hope it's not related to the other issue.

[Granny]

I know you are a good girl.

[j2k4]

I am kind of heartened to have found a groove, so to speak.

I lost about 45 pounds a few years ago following a sort of modified carbohydrate addict's diet in an effort to do something I could make fit on a shorter-term basis, but also to re-learn a bit of discipline in my eating habits - I had gotten into a constant-snacking-ongoing meal kind of mode.

My weight-loss curve sort of paralleled Alan's, but my diabetic tendencies are a bit less imminent - anyway, it has come down to portions, being a bit more active (the car helps), and getting away from the "give me at least one big meal a day" mentality.

I don't worry about when I eat now, as much as I do the what and how much.

I have dropped the strict low-carbs at all costs modus for a more user-friendly menu, just trying not to be stupid about how much I eat.

One problem stemming from being a heart patient is my tendency to retain water - the weird part is that it isn't a problem under most circumstances, but a long road trip (like my GA vacation) puts me on that track and once it starts, it doesn't seem to want to stop, so...

...when I got back from GA I went to the Dr and asked to re-activate my script for Lasix (I have taken it periodically since my heart attack, but not for about two years), which entailed blood tests, etc, to re-establish a baseline.

I began taking it again last week, and what had been a bit of a struggle (losing VERY slowly) is gaining momentum - down to 275.0 this AM - and it's not all water, either.

Another week or two will tell the tale, I think.

Also waiting for another 20-30 lbs to come off so I can see if my knees will allow me some sort of leeway to exercise - they're pretty bad (cruciate insufficiency, notch stenosis), and I'm not what you would call "sure-footed" because of that - I can mistakenly put a foot wrong real easily and tear up some more cartilage.

What I really need is to them both 'scoped, again.

[Alan92RTTT]

Kevin, The gym I go to has a device called an Adaptive Motion Trainer. Its kind of like and elptical but free motion. Its zero impact and unlike a treadmill your feet stay planted. If you can find a place that has one you can probably do it without worrying about youe knees or being "sure-footed".

[beepbeep]

I am kind of heartened to have found a groove, so to speak.

I lost about 45 pounds a few years ago following a sort of modified carbohydrate addict's diet in an effort to do something I could make fit on a shorter-term basis, but also to re-learn a bit of discipline in my eating habits - I had gotten into a constant-snacking-ongoing meal kind of mode.

My weight-loss curve sort of paralleled Alan's, but my diabetic tendencies are a bit less imminent - anyway, it has come down to portions, being a bit more active (the car helps), and getting away from the "give me at least one big meal a day" mentality.

I don't worry about when I eat now, as much as I do the what and how much.

I have dropped the strict low-carbs at all costs modus for a more user-friendly menu, just trying not to be stupid about how much I eat.

One problem stemming from being a heart patient is my tendency to retain water - the weird part is that it isn't a problem under most circumstances, but a long road trip (like my GA vacation) puts me on that track and once it starts, it doesn't seem to want to stop, so...

...when I got back from GA I went to the Dr and asked to re-activate my script for Lasix (I have taken it periodically since my heart attack, but not for about two years), which entailed blood tests, etc, to re-establish a baseline.

I began taking it again last week, and what had been a bit of a struggle (losing VERY slowly) is gaining momentum - down to 275.0 this AM - and it's not all water, either.

Another week or two will tell the tale, I think.

Also waiting for another 20-30 lbs to come off so I can see if my knees will allow me some sort of leeway to exercise - they're pretty bad (cruciate insufficiency, notch stenosis), and I'm not what you would call "sure-footed" because of that - I can mistakenly put a foot wrong real easily and tear up some more cartilage.

What I really need is to them both 'scoped, again.

Good job! Thanks for keeping us updated.

I know you are a good girl.

Sucker!

[j2k4]

Kevin, The gym I go to has a device called an Adaptive Motion Trainer. Its kind of like and elptical but free motion. Its zero impact and unlike a treadmill your feet stay planted. If you can find a place that has one you can probably do it without worrying about youe knees or being "sure-footed".

I've got to try to imagine how that would work, Alan - I tried to use one of those Nordic-trak-like machines where your feet never leave the slider, and it was the weight on/off either side that threw me.

Recently it's gotten bad enough that when I step off the slab outside my back door onto the sidewalk I have to just pick my left foot up and put it back down to make the step, and something floats loose anyway, and 9 times out of ten I can continue walking (however awkwardly) to my truck, but that tenth time I have to stop and let my leg kind of dangle while I gyrate my lower body to shift the cartilage back out of the joint - I can actually feel it slipping back-and-forth between my cruciates, which is the trouble.

It moves around elsewhere in the joint and I can deal with it until finds it's way 'back home', but if it gets into the cruciates, it takes a while to get it back out.

I've been told the moves I have to make can arouse curiosity in onlookers...

Nonetheless, I will investigate the possibility for later on - thanks!

[Granny]

Well a whole new plan.
One addiction at a time.
Wish me luck.