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Gidget

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 10:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Right there with you {{{SBG}}} lets all get fit and healthy together

Egbok

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 10:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay SBG, Prince's Purple Rain workout video sounds like an excellent start! I like Prince.

I have a treadmill too! I've been doing my exercises at Curves, which costs a lot of money btw! But, I'm willing to also walk on the treadmill with you!!

I haven't gotten on the treadmill in a long time, but starting at 2 sounds good to me!! I don't think I ever got up to 4.8. So here's the deal. You wanna post your walking mileage on the treadmill in the Exercise Thread? (...go peek at this thread and you'll see what I'm talkin' about) I already post there for exercising at Curves but I can add a special part just for walking on the treadmill with you. That way you can pace with me and we'll keep each other going...whadda you say??

Djgirl

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good luck thoughts are being hurled to you from me! Way to go SBG!!! {{{{SBG}}}}}

Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You know Eggkins, I looked in that thread....and was totally confused, exactly what am I supposed to chart down?

Egbok

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Let's see..

1. Your total for the day
2. Your running total
3. The Group Total

So say you started today and walked 2 miles, you would post like this:

Today: 2
My total: 2
Group total: (just add your 2 miles to the group total, so if the Group total was 13, 500...you would add in your 2 miles for a total of 13,502.

Hope that makes sense.

And also, since I already post there for Curves, I'd just add below my regular post something like this:

Treadmill Walking with SBG!! (LOL)
Today: 1
My Total: 1
SBG's Total: 2

...then that way you can compare with me and hopefully this will be an added tool of inspiration for you to continue walking!

So, let me know what you think.
~Eggie

Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, I get it now. Gosh, I'm gonna have to remember to watch the treadmill total, lol, I usually just listen to the music and I'm done by the time the last song plays.

But I will chart for you, thanks for the offer.

Denecee

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
SBG, I have been reading Dr.Phil's new book and I love it. He writes in such a way to capture your attention and gives us insight as to why we go for the carb loaded snacks & eating. It's almost like he hypnotisis(sp) the reader. I recommend strongly.

Egbok

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Cool and this will be so helpful to me as well. Also, just look at your mileage on the treadmill when you're done and try to get in here and post when you can. You can even do one post and list each day's total that your done, sorta like this:

Monday 2
Tuesday 3
Wednesday 4
Thursday 5

Well...you get the picture..LOL!

Tater

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 02:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SBG , I was on my way to a meeting when I first read your post so I couldn’t respond in depth. You have just described my innermost feelings to a “T”! It does take a tearful epiphany to get started on the road to good health. You took a big first step in writing everything down and then an even bigger one with sharing.

TVCH is a very caring and compassionate community of souls. I have found so much comfort and many cheerleaders on my journey to recovery right here. I’ll be here for you too SBG…anytime you need me!

Reader234

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 06:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
>>>>>>reader running in and grabs sbg, {{{HUGS}}}}

I so agree with you!! You and I must stay out of that roast thread tho!! *g. I have to say "me too", and I hate it. I'm tall, so I "hide" it so well. When the scale hit over 200#, I just stopped using it. When I had to move up to size 18, I just shopped at clearance racks and justified the size, it was such a deal. Then, those clothes became tight... my epiphany, seeing a picture of a fat me. Then I looked in the mirror. My tears came strong too. I too can lose 10#'s ok.. Egmom got me going strong too, I went to curves, counted, got a book wrote it down. Its so hard, I want to run and hide. This week I couldnt get to Curves, these hours, these obligations, then I whine, and excuses, excuses. I know I deserve a better me!!

Just move forward, baby steps. One day at a time!!

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 07:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey there SBG. I see you have joined us for the weight loss effort. I believe this is a great place for support of all types. The things people have done--both successful and not so successful for them. Ideas about food, about exercise, about mental attitude.

I'll throw my 2 cents in about what you will go through. First, you have to decide to do it for you--and it sounds like you have!!:) That is a much harder step than most realize.

Second, realize what works for someone else nay or may not work as well for you. Someone else's failure may be your success.

Try to look at not only what works for you, but what you can stay with. If Atkins allows you to lose weight like crazy, but you can't stay with it, then figure out what works that you can stay with. Can't lose weight if you don't keep it up.:)

Every body is different--although in most cases, people do better losing weight when the exercise regularly. If nothing else, they burn more calories. In most cases, a body becomes more efficient with exercise though.

Consider taking a vitamin supplement and extra calcium. In terms of calcium, there are many forms--some absorb in the body better than others. For your money, calcium citrate + vitamin D is a good choice. Good absorption (and vitamin D helps promote absorption). And it's easy to find in any grocery store that sells vitamins. Calcium gluconate is best, but costs more and is harder to find.

Vitamins and calcium will make most bodies more efficient as well.

If you exercise, take a look at more than just weight loss when considering what you will do for exercise. Is your heart an issue? If it is, consider exercise that improves cardiovascular condition. They burn calories at a good rate, and your heart gets in better shape at the same time.

Do you want to have your skin tighten up as you lose weight? Weight lifting helps with this, as it tones muscle, which fills in the skin.

The levels you can start with are important to look at. When I started last December, I did 1.5 miles on a treadmill at 3.4 mph, and thought I was going to keel over dead. That was all I did that day. (I had doctor's approval to start at that level--I weighted 310 and hadn't exercised in 5 years--my BP was way to high, as was my resting heart rate--I was in serious medical trouble)

Look at what you are trying to do as 2 parts--the first is losing weight (and hopefully getting in better shape). That has a beginning and an end point.

The second step is deciding how you will eat for the rest of your life, such that you can keep at the weight you want and basically stay with it the rest of your life.

The second part is actually the hardest--changing how you eat and exercise for the rest of your life. It's education (unless you already know what you need to do in that respect) and making it a habit--making it a part of you.

It's good to start figuring out the second part while doing the first part. This is where programs like weight watchers has an advantage over programs like Atkins. The ideas weight watchers teach helps a person to eat properly for a life time. Atkins is more a true diet--a program only to lose weight.

I use eating less calories and exercising. Nothing special--no program like WW. Sadly, all this time I was over weight I knew about nutrition, exercise, anatomy and phys--all the tools to know how to lose weight and get in shape. I chose to not use them for years.

Find out what works for you in terms of support. Do you do better when people cheer you on? Is that something that has no affect at all? Do you like someone dogging you and calling you on any slips you have, or does it make it only worse of they do?

Once you know that, ask for support that fits those things--again, it increases your chance for success.

Realize that unless you are in a very small minority of people, you will slip now and then. Don't beat yourself up for it, and by all means just get back with what you need to do. One bad day does not ruin a diet.

If you take a look at surgery as a possible way to lose weight, I'd suggest looking at the thread here on the board before going to a doctor to discuss it with him or her.

Remember, pick what works for you AND you can keep doing. :):)

Figure out the types of support (or lack of) that will add to your chances of success.

Start getting into a mode of how you will eat for the rest of your life to keep off the extra weight--and it may include regular exercise--it does for most people.

Consider the exercise that needs the needs of what you want in terms of physical fitness. IN so much as possible, make doing them a priority--as you pointed out, there are always reasons not to do something.

We all define success in different ways--I'll be the first to admit I'm in left field on that one--for me success will be losing a total of 130 pounds from December first of last year to the 30th of this month--one year exactly. I don't believe I will make it. But I have lost a huge chunk of it and am in excellent physical condition. Compared to 310, and being at a very high risk of having heart failure, I can't even deny I have made some level of success even if my idea of success is that 130 pound mark.

Let yourself enjoy progress--success for most people breed more success.

Best of luck to you SBG. I believe 100% you will succeed.

Egbok

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 08:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Lance!...love your UPS legs! Keep doing those stairs!

Oh yeah...and great advice to SBG!!

Also, wowza!! 130#'s huh....most excellent, most excellent!!

Tabbyking

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 08:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
lance, you are so right about the 'support' part for me...i hate it when my husband makes comments about my weight loss. i don't know why, but it bugs me. however, if someone i haven't seen for 3 or 4 months comments on it, it is a compliment!

different things work for different people. ww for me isn't right at this time, because i need to cut more carbs than they allow for a pre-diabetic condition...but i also know that eating all meat and cheese isn't the right thing for me, either! i do eat grilled chicken or roasted turkey or lean hamburger patties rather than cold cuts, which are full of sodium and nitrites. we made a great salsa from a box of tomatoes we got last week from a farmer friend, and i have to skip the chips, but i eat a small bowl of 'cold soup' salsa about an hour before dinner and get that wonderful salsa, most of my veggies, and i didn't miss out on something i love. i just eat it with a spoon, rather than on a tortilla chip :)
i also gift myself a few extra carbs if i have been good-- i enjoy my glass of merlot and 4 or 5 saltines with chunky style peanut butter for an evening snack.
i use the treadmill every single day and sometimes, twice in a day. 2 or 3 miles a day and i can feel a difference in my body's muscle in only a month.
and sometimes for holidays, just a bite, rather than a NO! on something is enough...i love stuffing for example, and will really miss it. but i can have one wonderful bite and enjoy it. and i make a pumpkin pudding with no crust i can have a small portion of, too. do you really feel comfortable after pigging out on a holiday? or would you rather have had a phenomenal bite of each thing you like and completely enjoyed it?

anyway, i stick with what i am doing, even for the days i don't see a one ounce difference...once or twice a week, i see a pound difference, and that makes it so worth it!! i have lost the first 15 pounds and have to do it two more times. holidays are a hard time to do this, but imagine where i'll be in january, when everyone else has that 'holiday gain' to worry about!

i love your posts, lance, and they give me strength. thank you so much!

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 08:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Eggie--tragically my legs would be the same if I didn't do any stairs--I do those as part of my cardio workout.

Haven't lost the 130 yet--only 110.

Hang in there Tabby!! You have a good mental outlook with the way you are doing it!!

Not1worry

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 08:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, SBG, you have inspired me! I know you can do it.

I want to join in on this thread. It's been so long since I lost weight.

I've never been skinny, but I can no longer fool myself into thinking I'm average either. I've had gestational diabetes, I have a history of diabetes in my family too. I've started on the low-carb thing and even though I hate it, hate it, HATE IT, I do feel like I'm doing something effective.

This is a hard time for me to try and do big changes. I'm on my own with the kids 24/7, worried about DH in Iraq, worried about our upcoming move in April, etc. But there's always something and I always find excuses.

I'm going to stop in this thread every time I'm online and get motivated.

Tabbyking

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
and, i don't know about where you live, but it was hard when we moved to a rural community...every 'outing' was a dinner party or dinner dance or take-out fundraiser. i realized way too much was based on food!!
i have taken up golf after a 20+ year lapse and i walk for some banking or small shopping errands. when i get take-out dinners, i don't eat the one i thought was mine....i have my husband take it to work for his lunch the next day.
one thing that is really hard to assimilate? you'll probably laugh, but when i have a very expensive meal out, i feel i should get 'my money's worth'! "hey! i paid for that baked potato, and the ice cream's included"...but i also realize looking good and being healthy is also worth that money! and i also think to myself the old 'moment on the lips, lifetime on the hips' adage, because i see my family eating this or that and think, "in a few minutes, that food will be gone. i can handle a few minutes. look, it's gone. i didn't eat it! i don't have to work extra to get rid of it!"

Egbok

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 08:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh...sorry Lance...I jumped the gun.
So you have 20 pounds to reach that 130 then. Well, I have faith in your ability to achieve this goal.

As for your legs...please don't use the word "tragic" in the same sentence as your legs. It just doesn't sound right for those of us who have seen "the legs"....LOL!

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 08:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Eggie--that was very kind of you to say.

Egbok

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 08:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for saying that I'm kind Lance! Ummm, do me a favor and be sure to let Tess know this fact...she's kinda confused about me right now and is questioning my innocence. I'm thinking that when she got that 17 hour nap in the other day, it did something to her mind...I'm just sayin'...

Tess

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 01:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw that, Eggie.starting a new notebook

Texannie

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 05:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Been "ease dropping" on this thread. SBG..good luck! Lance..great advice! I don't have alot of weight to lose compared to others (25 lbs) but I am only 5' and have been 100 bls most of my life...but I was a smoker. I quit smoking 3 (gosh, almost 4 years) ago and gained weight. With all the stress of this past year, I got out of the habit of exercising (I have a treadmill). I finally went to a doc about my general health in June and found out that my bp was high, blood sugars were high, cholesteral ect. It really scared me since my mom had died of a heart attack and she did everything you were supposed to do (eat right, exercise, ect). I have been working hard at watching what I have been eating (do low carbs/no sugar/good fat), and have lost about 10 lbs since July. I do need to get my lazy behind back on the treadmill.

Djgirl

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 08:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good work everyone!!!!

I am approximately 15 lbs overweight which really doesn't seem like much but is driving me crazy!!!!

When I started my current job in June, I was 150lbs which at 5'4" isn't where I want to be. Granted, I'm a curvy girl, but still!!!!

The first thing that I have done since June is cut out sodas from my life. I was a 3-5 can a day Coke drinker for the past 15 years, and I haven't had a can of coke since July 17th. I have switched to no caffeine, no sodium flavoured water which has minimal glucose in it and have lost 10lbs. I would LOVE to be back at 130 which means 10lbs to go, however, I'm healthiest at 135... now the additional 5lbs, is taking forever!!! I have changed my eating habits completely, increased my exercise and still can't seem to get rid of it.

Anyone have any ideas???

Sweetbabygirl

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 09:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks guys for all the kind encouragement....I'm really going to need it!! Just made an appointment for a complete physical. Usually, my blood, sugar, etc. has been fine but with me getting older now, I've started to wonder.

Sigh. Yesterday, I was informed that my position will be reduced to part-time beginning in January; along with a pay decrease, I will no longer have benefits. And of course, yesterday was a rainy day, proving the old adage when it rains, it pours!!

But I'm a Scorpion, and as a survivor I always land on my feet. Another thing I never thought of is job discrimination....what if I'm skilled beyond belief but the potential employer doesn't want to take a chance on me because I'm fat? So weird, I've always been confident in my interview skills but never thought of that.

My health is most important though, so although I'm scared shitless, I'm going to do this.

Sisalou

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 10:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I'm back with my tail beneath my legs. I fell off the diet wagon but I am getting right back on.

No seriously, in the past when I dieted it was either all or nothing. That is why I would always fail. I really am thinking about joining weight watchers because it seems like a program I could live with. I have tried Atkins but I just don't like meat very much at all.

Hang in there SBG, Djgirl and everyone else.

Texannie, that is great about the smoking!

Not1worry

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 10:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Day 2 of low carbs. Hate it.