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[perchie.girl]

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11.2! That's like losing a mature chicken and a 5-lb sack of feed! Way to go! Pretty soon it'll be a flock and a large bag o' scratch! Good job!

I also picture eleven pounds of butter.... thats 44 sticks of butter...

Peep Show - very good visual image of how much weight is lost

YAY Deb!!! You are NOT losing too much right now. The way it works, as most of us know, is that in the beginning you tend to lose the soft fat, then it slows down when you get into the more solid stored fat. Weight Watchers is one of the best programs out there, and has withstood the test of time. It's not a fad type diet, nor is it unhealthy. All this talk about dieting has made me change our eating habits too.

Yep you are so right.... The last weight gained is the first weight off... and I have put on about twenty pounds in the past two years... so I expect that to be coming off pretty quickly. I have been carrying around 300 lbs for a good fifteen years before that.... After I got Katee I wittled my weight down to about 290 for a short time... because I was walking... a lot.

Thanks everyone.... VBG

 

[Cynthia12]

Deb, you are doing it!

 

[chickadoodles]

Diva that is terrible! My Dr. has my prescriptions refilled and delivered via Fedex to me monthly so I won't run out or have to go pick them up since I don't drive. You should be able to get overnight delivery in most prescriptions.

I'm so sorry you had such a terrible time.

 

[Bunnylady]

A few years ago, our local paper got 3 of their reporters to do a story comparing different weight-loss programs. Each tried to follow one, and the results were to be tallied at the end of two months. One reporter dropped out because of an injury after only a few weeks. After the two months were up, the woman who was doing WW decided to continue, and kept reporting on her progress every so often . She was in her 30's, and had always been "big." Over the next couple of years, she lost over 150 pounds. I remember her commenting on something that was a new experience for her - shopping by sizes, instead of looking for the biggest thing on the rack and hoping it would fit. She was positively gleeful the first time she took a flight somewhere, and didn't have to ask for a seat belt extender. I remember her frustration when she "plateaued" at -156 pounds (her goal was around 200). She took a job somewhere else and moved away, so I don't know if she ever met her goal, but I thought it very brave of her to "blog" about her journey in such a public way, and a lot of people found inspiration in her story.

11 pounds of butter - that's a great image, Deb! In one way, you've already lost the weight of a little person; most human babies weigh less than that when they are born.

 

[dsqard]

Deb you are doing awesome and keep at it girl! e Don't let other's negativity drive you off your path. Trust the journey, you will get there I too really love to walk to help keep the pounds off. When I was in the military, we had to run and I never enjoyed it but walking I can do. Jumping on the treadmill most weekdays for a half an hour while Judge Judy is on so I can zone out the time ticking away really sets my day up. It is hard to get up and get on the machine but I am always glad I did and actually regret not doing it if I talk myself out of doing it on a given day. Keep walking girl!
BTW the thought of 11 pounds of butter stacked up in one place is just icky to me I like the thought of loosing a flock of chickens weight wise a much better goal!

 

[perchie.girl]

A few years ago, our local paper got 3 of their reporters to do a story comparing different weight-loss programs. Each tried to follow one, and the results were to be tallied at the end of two months. One reporter dropped out because of an injury after only a few weeks. After the two months were up, the woman who was doing WW decided to continue, and kept reporting on her progress every so often . She was in her 30's, and had always been "big." Over the next couple of years, she lost over 150 pounds. I remember her commenting on something that was a new experience for her - shopping by sizes, instead of looking for the biggest thing on the rack and hoping it would fit. She was positively gleeful the first time she took a flight somewhere, and didn't have to ask for a seat belt extender. I remember her frustration when she "plateaued" at -156 pounds (her goal was around 200). She took a job somewhere else and moved away, so I don't know if she ever met her goal, but I thought it very brave of her to "blog" about her journey in such a public way, and a lot of people found inspiration in her story.

11 pounds of butter - that's a great image, Deb! In one way, you've already lost the weight of a little person; most human babies weigh less than that when they are born.

Deb you are doing awesome and keep at it girl!

Don't let other's negativity drive you off your path. Trust the journey, you will get there

I too really love to walk to help keep the pounds off. When I was in the military, we had to run and I never enjoyed it but walking I can do. Jumping on the treadmill most weekdays for a half an hour while Judge Judy is on so I can zone out the time ticking away really sets my day up. It is hard to get up and get on the machine but I am always glad I did and actually regret not doing it if I talk myself out of doing it on a given day. Keep walking girl!
BTW the thought of 11 pounds of butter stacked up in one place is just icky to me

I like the thought of loosing a flock of chickens weight wise a much better goal!

Thanks guys.... I like the butter analogy better because its more akin to the product I am loosing.... which is fat. Not muscle.... Muscle is denser and pound for pound has less volume. Which also is why when you start exercising your weight loss can actually level out. thats why its important to take measurements.... Muscle weight can displace the fat weight.... but you will still be going down in inches.

For what its worth I am a lifetime member.... Back when I was 25 I lost 56 pounds in 26 weeks and kept it off for nearly two years... and then kept about half of it off for another.... then life got ahead of me.

But during those 26 weeks I learned tools and those tools are coming back... and with the new program... I am liking it better.

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

Hey if you have not seen this please take a minute and fill out this Poultry Census.

http://www.livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/north-american-poultry-census

 

[Wisher1000]

Okay, Old Folk Friends, I made this video for the previous owner of my new LGD. I wanted to share it with you all so you can learn a little bit more about Wisher. Enjoy....

 

[getaclue]

Okay, Old Folk Friends, I made this video for the previous owner of my new LGD. I wanted to share it with you all so you can learn a little bit more about Wisher. Enjoy....

This video has been removed because it's too long.

 

[getaclue]

When I turned 50, I was about 60 lbs. overweight. I went to Jenny Craig, mostly due to convenience, otherwise I would have done Weight Watchers. I could cook regular meals for everyone else, and mine was a breeze to make separately for me, without a lot of hassle. As I began losing the weight, everyone kept bugging me to exercise. I didn't. Most had never heard of dieting without exercising, and I got a lot of flack about it. The reasons I did not choose to exercise at the time were because it increases hunger, muscle weights more than fat, so I didn't want inaccurate weight loss measurements, and exercising with all that extra body weight is tedious. Well, the weight continued coming off. I still didn't exercise. About 6 months into the program, I was at my desired weight. Only then did I begin to do some exercises, and I didn't go nuts with it. There are only about a dozen exercises that a woman actually needs to do in order to keep everything perfectly toned, and they are not the high intensity workouts that the guru's are trying to sell on tv. I stopped the Jenny Craig, and was able to keep the weight off, and stay perfectly toned for 5 years, until I had to have chemo, and all the massive amounts of steroids to prevent the side effects of the chemo. I was on them for 6 and a half months. I discovered that while on the steroids, even breathing causes significant weight gain. Right after they stopped the chemo, I figured I'd lose the weight, right? NOT. It took over a year for the effects of the steroids to wear off. In the meantime, my Dh has some of the worst eating habits imaginable, and it has been a very slow process trying to get him to acquire a taste for healthier food choices. One of the things I always did when we went out to eat, and placed our orders with the server was to ask them to bring me a to go container, before my food arrived. When the food arrived, I would immediately put half of everything on the plate into the to go container, and eat it as a meal later on.