01-04-2016, 12:47 PM | #1036 |
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Excellent! I find the planning harder than the cooking. Yeah, the balance sheet would be work to maintain, so the chances of that being successful are low.
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01-04-2016, 01:32 PM | #1037 |
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I don't need to diet per se but the wallet does.
I made the mistake on Christmas Eve of seeing where all our money had gone. Biggest expense was restaurants. |
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We've had three days so far of decent sun and I had no trouble sleeping last night. Despite temperatures in the 20s today I still managed an hour of the deck (appropriately bundled) for tea and some reading. And I have family members with SAD, so I'll get some input from them on therapy lights. |
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01-05-2016, 05:50 PM | #1041 |
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Olives, cheese, crackers and wine do not a diet dinner make. Delicious, though.
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01-27-2016, 02:17 PM | #1042 |
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I gained 5 pounds over the holidays. And it is really hard getting it off, especially since all my clothes still fit. But I know, if I don't get it off, it will be 5 next year, and 5 the year after that, . . .
My big thing is eating out. My husband and I love to eat out, but it really isn't conducive to losing weight. Once it comes off, I can eat out, but until then, I have had to turn my husband down. On the activity front, I really fell down last year when we were remodeling. I used to run 3 miles a day, in 30 minutes, on the treadmill. I thought that was pretty good, since I am going to hit the big 6 0 in a few months. But I quit for about a month, and I am really having a hard time getting back to it. Maybe I will try the elliptical. I hate the elliptical. I used to do that for 45 minutes, and I hated it, so I did the running instead. Negative reinforcement is the only thing that works with me. |
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Too early to boast about any remarkable weight loss, but it looks like I'm heading in the right direction. I hope. And, the need to shovel huge quantities of snow have made it easier to keep up with my exercise resolution. |
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02-02-2016, 10:01 AM | #1045 |
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I haven't made the effort I should have done in January, so my weight has essentially stayed level. Drastic measures in February. I want to see sub-74kg by the end of February, so a month of no snacks should do it.
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06-23-2016, 09:47 AM | #1046 |
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Well, I didn't manage it. Indeed, in May and June my weight drifted above 75kg, even as high as 76.9kg!
I am taking measures now. My first sub-75kg measurement for a couple of months this morning. But that was the easy bit. Seeing sub-74kg measurements is my next goal. |
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06-24-2016, 06:19 AM | #1048 | |
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No, it's just a case of eating more calories than I expend. Reversing that will bring me down. Although free doughnuts at work are hard to resist... and there are enough people in the office that there's one or two birthdays (& therefore doughnuts) each week. |
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07-19-2016, 03:55 AM | #1049 |
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I've started to be a bit more conscious of what I eat in the last few months (same reason as you, Sneakysnake, clothes getting noticeably tighter!) Have been trying to snack less in between meals but crisps are my major weakness! So now I've decided to start using Myfitnesspal app to try and track it more accurately and hopefully get some results....anyone else given this a go? It seems like a good idea in theory but I feel like it could become a bit of a pain having to record every single thing I eat...
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09-08-2017, 07:27 PM | #1050 |
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I thought I'd dig up this thread because I'm trying to lose a few pounds. Admittedly, I'm almost always trying to lose a few pounds; the stretches where I feel I can rest on my oars tend to be short-lived.
So here's the sitch: My breakfast is healthy. My lunch is healthy. Heck, my dinner is healthy. I don't snack during the day except on extremely rare occasions when I have some fruit. I get enough and varied exercise. But two things trip me up: the cocktail hour and post-dinner. As for the cocktail hour (which is usually wine), I like everything about it. The ritual, the relaxation, the taste. But it's empty calories and worse, it lessens my resolve heading into the evening which is already my other danger time. Post-dinner, I have a hard time stopping. I try to fight it with an espresso and it helps, but evenings tend to be a battle with my non-existent willpower until I can finally go to bed. Any suggestions? How is everyone else doing on the weight-loss front? |
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