Anyone ready to ring in the new year...and lose weight/get fit?

[oesdog]

I am not so sure that will work - nice thought but I tried already as DH should be eating healthy too!!!
Hes recovering from heart surgery. He was very ill for 2 yrs and lost alot of weight. He was 19 stone then went down to 15.2 so it was a big drop for him. Now he is back up to 16.12 lbs. I don;t want him to put on loads of weight again but I think the sudden weight drop frightened him a lot and he is comfortably cuddly right now as he puts it.

DH should be about 13 stone something as he is 6 foot tall. But honestly when he went down to 15.2 he looked gaunt and ill. I am not keen he should be much less than say 14.7lb tops. But I certainly don;t want him up to 19 stone again. He did get a bike for Christmas and the nephews are moving back here from Scotland in a few weeks and could do with someone to cycle with them??? Maybe he will think about that and controling the weight then?? Anyhow his sister is a bit of a targe so can;t wait for her to come home and take matters in hand!!!

- BUt then she loves baking too and my BIL Billy is huge and wears a Kilt - Not a pretty sight I can tell you!!!!! Maybe I will just have more trouble not less -

Oesdog - anyhow I can sooo empathise with all you who have "meaningfully helpful family members!!!!"

 

[vfem]

Oesog, you husband sounds like mine. No matter what he eats or puts on doesn't phase him. Grrrr

I did bad last night, I was coming up with more ideas for a baking contest and ended up making some whoopie pies. Oh dear! I had to taste test and now I feel like 5 lbs are sitting on my hips now I'm awake! HAHAHAHA

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Well, the scale that we were using at work was taken back home by its owner...ah well, so I weighed on mine this am, and will just have to live with it (I know they are way off from each other). According to my scale, I'm 187.6, down exactly 2 lbs. Hey, that's 8 sticks of butter!!!

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

My DH has just starting to get a little belly on him. He looks best at around 160. He's 5'10 and shrinking, but not build big. With him gaining (he just told me he's at his heaviest 171) and me losing I may actually have a chance to weigh less than him!!!

I know that shouldn't matter, but it does to me.

I remember asking DH, just teasingly, to carry me through the threshold. He said he could do it. Of course, his knees buckled and whacked my head on the door jamb!!

I told him if there was ever a fire he had permission to pull me out by my hair!!

I got on the treadmill last night.

to me!! Now that I know I'm so close to DH's weight I'm super motivated to get these pounds off!

 

[BlackBart]

Its easier to loose weight without too much hardship if you stop drinking Pop/processed Fruit juice, eating convenience food and sugar laden food.
Those three are are full of empty calories and actually make you tired. You'll save money too.

The more garbage food you eat, the more your body wants. Things start to compound and before you know it your overweight and tired all the time. Sugar and processed food are as addictive as nicotine (and chickens

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How do I know this? personal experience. I broke the cycle several years ago and never felt better and I don't need to diet. Real food tastes better.

 

[vfem]

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That's awesome! I've had one bad cycle after another. I totally blame it on lack of paying attention to what I'm doing. We stopped fast food last January, so now its been a whole year since we ate that junk, and we ALL feel better. I got rid of soda, but can't part from my coffee, though I no longer add sugar.

Problem is I bake for a living, and any chef/cook will tell you... you have to taste taste taste! So I do! But I don't chow down, its a sample here... and a sample there until I get something right. Taking one for the team. Hahahaha

My biggest challenge though was not snacking or eating after 8pm when I am the least active. I used to LOVE to snack late at night, and I don't know why? It wasn't even bad snacks, sometimes popcorn, sometimes an apple, or some carrots... but sometimes it was ice cream! Now 8pm hits and its only tea. Special occasions are different though, like dinner out with hubby and we may not be done to come home until after 9pm at that point. But that is sooooooooooooooooo very rare. Like once every 3-4 months.

 

[babymakes6]

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OT: I LOVE your signature!

Very true!

 

[oesdog]

Well we are away after tomorrow so my time ran out for losing loads of weight!!!! I lost 2 lb in what 4 weeks????!!!!!!!!!!!

DH - you know my DH with all the cake and bread and all taht stuff - turned to me this morning and says oh it was easy I just weighed myself and I lost 4lb this week!!!!!!

so he is down to 16.8lbs. I told him I would post his weight on here!!!!!!!!

Oesdog - don;t you just hate folk who can lose weight like that!!!!!!

 

[vfem]

Are you scheduling your meals or eating a little bite here and there all day oesdog? I've found it handy to plan all my eating, so I have to go take out and eat what I plan only, when I get a craving.

 

[oesdog]

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Meals are planned here - very much so and NO I never snack between meals unless someone arrives with cream cakes etc and then of course I "have" to eat it because its a gift and so I feel forced into it, so I am not looking ungrateful. I have explained to folk I am trying to cut down but they all say oh your NOT fat don;t be daft and hand me another bun!!! But actually I know I am Fat and uncomfortable and I don;t want their food - I actually crave things like fish and salad!

I am so tired right now. Really really tired. We are away tomorrow !!!!!!! I am looking foward to it though once again my bag is unpacked???? I find it so hard to chose clothes that are nice on me now. My Dd came over with buns!!!! She was talking and happend to mention that her BF said I was showing my age now!!!! Ta a bundle I really need that jewl of confidence before I go away!!! Arn;t family wonderful!!!!!!

Danny is home and Dd is moving in here for the week to care for him tomorrow. I can;t wait to go but I am not keen on the plane as I hate flying!!!! ALl I can think of is all those days I wont have to cook or make my bed or tidy my room!!!!!!! I wont have to shower Danny or get up to him in the night change his nappies, dress or feed him!!!!!! I am soooo glad of this I can tell you all. - Also the cream cake brigade can;t get me while I am away!!!!!

Oesdog