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Soooo....for any one who remembers it, how are ya doing? If you've lost weight, how did you do it? Anyone else feel the need to shed a few?
My update: I've been on The South Beach Diet for about 2 months, and it has improved my life. I am a complete sugar addict. And this diet has helped me get control of that (I still eat chocolate and drink beer, but I'm not as out of control as I used to be:)
Plus it's helped me lose almost 20 pounds, and I'm almost 2 sizes smaller now. (I've got about 10 more pounds to go) Oh, and I also sleep all the way through the night now. I guess massive amounts of sugar in my system was keeping me awake and I didn't know it!
My boyfriend has made the "don't lose any more weight!" comment recently.
I consider that a complete and total success ... and I didn't even try to lose the weight. It just sorta happened.
lawman
>I consider that a complete and total success
Ya, so would I:)
>I lost 30 pounds on Atkins... have been eating everything in site, so I've put 12 back on.
One of my friends has done the same thing, about 6 times in the last year! It sounds like that one's hard to stick to.
But really, as long as you stay on Atkins, it isn't bad.
lol, I've had a couple of those days since I started. The last one was a 3:00AM pizza delivery after a couple 5 or 6 beers:)
The last one was a 3:00AM pizza delivery after a couple 5 or 6 beers
Now THAT'S a diet I could stick with ;)
Unfortunately, webmastering is not the best work for keeping the pounds off.
workaholic = sedentary lifestyle
For the last two months I've been getting to the gym three times a week and paying attention to what I eat.
That's the key, littleman. If I'm doing this, I will at least maintain my weight if not lose. It's when I turn on auto pilot and just cram anything into my mouth without thinking that I start to pack it on.
I won't even fit in my chair if I give up smoking.
I had been developing quite a serious weight problem; and coupled with heavy "socialising" the only shape I was getting into was that of a potato.
The difference having the calorie counter has made has been huge; i'd never before realised how quickly the calories added up. It also helps regulate your energy intake throughout the day. I eat about 600 calories 3 times a day; Vegetables and protein for breakfast, with lunch and dinner being the most carbohydrate packed (this stops me snacking mid afternoon and evening).
Your desired weight= c
daily fat gram intake= c divided by 2
Cut the fat grams to that level and you "just get there".
Makes sense that fat would make ya fat. doh!
Now after this darn baby gets here, I'll need to drop 30 lbs or so.
If I could lose 20lbs this time, and put 1/3 of it back on, then lost 10 and put 1/2 of that back on, I think I'd either be about where I want to be or I'd be too confused to keep count anymore. ;)
Share! Share! I'd love one.
i thought of doing something like that and I just... I'm not geeky enough. I managed to do a javascript monthly budget from my student loans repayment pamphlet ("spend 10% your monthly income on food, spend 20% on rent, put 10% in savings") but I ignore that one totally, so...
Oh well.
I'm on the "please don't let me end up looking like my coworker" diet. She's about 200 pounds overweight and goes on and off the Atkins diet every ten minutes. So she ends up eating about 4 Twix bars daily. I haven't had a Twix bar since my second day here. There's a handy little snack bar in the break room with cardboard boxes of candy and a coffee can of money and the honor system, and for about a week I'd buy myself candy from there, but I banned myself when I realized what a bad idea that was. I was also walking three miles a day until I realized that I could get a lift from my boyfriend instead of walking to work. So after I had one run-in with a probably Lyme disease-infested deer tick that cost me $40 in doctor's visits and antibiotics, I wussed out and almost never do my commute on foot anymore.
So, almost no exercise.
So I eat nothing now to compensate for my lack of activity, and I've lost... 5 pounds.
I wouldn't mind so much about not losing any weight except that my sister's getting married in a year, my two other sisters and I are bridesmaids, and my two little sisters are these gorgeous leggy creatures with little waists. My consolation was my mother, who's shaped like me, but since the wedding was announced she's lost 65 pounds (on the "don't eat when you're not hungry, and move your butt once in a while" diet) and is now less than 2 dress sizes above me.
So... I guess I have to get out the insect repellent and the sneakers and wean myself off the handy-dandy ride to work.
It also doesn't help that my boyfriend is 6' 3" tall, and at his heaviest ever weighed 145 pounds (Thanksgiving evening). He doesn't understand why his 29" waist depresses me.
So... I guess I have to get out the insect repellent and the sneakers and wean myself off the handy-dandy ride to work.
If I had that option, I'd be thrilled... but work is 35mi. from home, and the weather is below zero for half the year. ;)
I could start walking to the mail box instead of stopping by in the car on the way home, but it just seems too silly to drive straight past something only to turn around and walk back to it.
I thought giving up beer was supposed to make you *lose* weight!
Share! Share! I'd love one.
Ok, here's a cut down version that doesn't have the automatic colouring when you go over a certain amount (i.e. 2500 for a guy; 2000 for a gal); or automatic resetting. It's also about as much as I dare paste into a WebmasterWorld post without risking a telling off....
Simply copy'n'paste into a .html file on your desktop and away you go. It uses JavaScript's local cookie functions to save your calories to date, with the "Reset" button to go back to zero, which you just hit each morning. Handy actually because you can see how much you went over by yesterday and therefore hold back (i.e. choose the fish :). Happy weight loss...
<html><body>
<font style='font-size: 100pt;'><b><div id='cc'>0</div></b></font>
<br>
<input type='button' value='Reset' onclick='cal_reset();'>
<input type='button' value='500' onclick='cal_plus(500);'>
<input type='button' value='100' onclick='cal_plus(100);'>
<input type='button' value='50' onclick='cal_plus(50);'>
<input type='button' value='10' onclick='cal_plus(10);'>
<input type='button' value='1' onclick='cal_plus(1);'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var cal;
function cal_update()
{
document.getElementById("cc").innerHTML = cal;
}function cal_reset()
{
cal = 0;document.cookie = "0; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-10 23:59:59";
cal_update();
}function cal_plus(intake)
{
cal = (cal + intake);document.cookie = cal + "; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-10 23:59:59";
cal_update();
}if (document.cookie)
{
cal = parseInt(document.cookie);
}
else
{
cal = 0;document.cookie = "0; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-10 23:59:59";
}cal_update();
</script>
</body>
</html>
[edited by: dmorison at 6:36 pm (utc) on July 18, 2003]
The only diet that ever made sense and seems to work is this:
Your desired weight= c
daily fat gram intake= c divided by 2Cut the fat grams to that level and you "just get there".
Makes sense that fat would make ya fat. doh!
I wonder if that would work for the opposite direction, those of us trying to gain weight who can't. And no, those of you overweight wouldn't rather be in my shoes. I'm 6'3" and only 140lbs.
I'm like a walking toothpick
2 words:
Ice Cream
> I'm 6'3" and only 140lbs.
You've got 5 pounds on my boyfriend of the same height (well, sometimes the scale says 140, but we're not sure how good a scale that is. I prefer to believe that it's too heavy for my own selfish purposes).
We call him "stick boy". His main worry is how to find 29 x 36 pants.
He doesn't really mind, except he's worried he'll go bald before he gets fat, and then he'll look like an Auschwitz survivor. Which is not really a look anyone really wants.
(And if he does get fat, it'll just be like a stick with a basketball stuck to the front. Not really something to look forward to.)
From the back, with his long hair, people assume he's his sister, who has nearly the same figure.
He once went to a gastrologist (sp?) for some minor stomach problems. He walked through the door and the doctor looked at him, assumed he was having severe digestive problems, and cried "You shouldn't have waited so long!"
And yes, I feed him! I feed him _well_. He's always eaten well. He grew up in Buffalo, NY, home of the buffalo chicken wing, beef on weck, the fish fry as art form, and other glorious pinnacles of the high-calorie genre.
But I've never had trouble staying low, and I remember back at uni some friends said I'd make a killing with my recepie for it that they found just genius ;)
SN
I'm a 32"x32", that's part of why I look wierd, my legs aren't that scrawny, it's my upper body and arms.
Hence the nick name "twiggles"
I thought giving up beer was supposed to make you *lose* weight!
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Drinking beer was the only exercise he got...
Yes, yes they are.
His torso is the normal length for a human being... almost.
His legs are three feet long.
His arms are freakishly long as well, so no shirts fit. Even his fingers are long and skinny. So at least he's long and skinny all around, rather than having any particularly skinny parts. His superpower is that he can reach things.
And he looks really funny when he flails. Back in school if things got too boring he'd create a diversion by falling backwards in his chair with all his limbs flailing. It was hysterical.
He also does a mean impression of Olive Oyle. "Ohhh, Popeye!" with squiggling arms...
I'd been considering myself normal at 5' 7" but no more... On a good day I can wear 32 x 32 pants but it's more often 34s. :( One day all Dave's pyjamas were in the dryer so he borrowed my red flannel penguin pyjama pants. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen...
But it strengthened my resolve not to eat snacks at work. That works pretty well for me-- I bring only very controlled things to work, and I can't eat anything I didn't bring with me. *shrug* If I'm hungry, it can wait until I get home. Hopefully by then the urge to munch has faded.
