Anyone else trying to lose weight?

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:25 pm

Wii Fit tells you how much you weigh? I am soooo not going near that thing....

Post by **magickmaker17** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:37 pm

oh, ali, at least you weigh less than I do! stop complaining!

Post by **DukkhaWaynhim** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:51 pm

Weight is only a number. Don't let a number forever darken your destiny. Haunt you, it can, but only if you let it. [/yoda]

Seriously, don't just own the number, pwn the number. Then you can make it do whatever you need it to. Life is too short for shame, anxiety, fear, and self-loathing. Summer is even shorter.

dw

Post by **Cagliostro** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:28 pm

aliantha wrote: Wii Fit tells you how much you weigh? I am soooo not going near that thing....

Not only that, but it CLASSIFIES you as well. Apparently, I am above the overweight into the obese category. Then again, I don't exactly remember them asking my height. It was created by Japanese who have a whole different culture, and I don't take it personally. Then again, maybe I should, because suing can be very lucrative.

Post by **Hami** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:36 pm

i have just aksed google what Wii fit is...
and now ia am sitteng here like that

how funny is that thing????
A computer to do sports

well ok its better than doing nothing...

ok i hope those who train with Wii fit are successful and have a lot of fun!

Post by **AjK** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:19 pm

A sincere "hats off" to everyone on this thread trying to become healthier. I am no expert (at pretty much anything, LOL) but one key to success is to look at this as changing your habits. Setting and achieving goals can be very helpful reinforcement but if you can make a lifestyle change then you don't have to worry about the on/off diet yo-yo. That little tidbit aside I just wanted to say that you are all awesome & keep it up!

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:35 pm

Awesome avatar Andy, a little washed out though

I am once again trying to lose weight.
I got down to a comfortable 185lbs but have slowly crept back up to 189lbs (3 years ago I was almost 230!)
4lbs doesn't sound like much but I can tell.
"Apparently" chocolate chip cookies have a lot of sugar and fat in them.

Here's a loosely related article:

Australians more obese than Americans, study finds

Australia has a higher proportion of obese people than the United States, with the health system facing a "fat bomb" unless action is taken, a study warned Thursday.

The report from the Baker Heart Institute found that 70 percent of men and 60 percent of women aged 45-65 had a body mass index of 25 or more, meaning they were overweight or obese.

Titled "Australia's Future Fat Bomb," the study compiled the results of height and weight checks carried out on 14,000 adult Australians in 2005.

The institute's head of preventative cardiology professor Simon Stewart said the results meant Australia probably had the highest rate of obesity in the world, outweighing even the United States.

"As we send our athletes off to the Olympics let's reflect on the fact that we would win the gold medal problem now in the world fat Olympics if there was such a thing," he said.

Stewart said obesity was the major threat to Australia's future health, with an estimated nine million of the 21 million population obese or overweight.

"That is a whole million more obese adults than we had thought," he said.

The study predicted there would be an extra 700,000 heart-related hospital admissions in the next 20 years due to obesity and almost 125,000 people would die because of the condition in that period.

The report calls for a national weightloss strategy on the scale of smoking and skin cancer campaigns, including subsidising gym memberships and personal training sessions.

It suggested hospital waiting lists could be prioritised on the basis of weightloss, to give obese people incentive to slim down.

"These are some of the controversial things we need to deal with because the healthcare system is going to be overwhelmed by weight-related hospitalisations from knee replacements through to heart attacks and strokes," Stewart said.

The report was submitted to a federal government inquiry into obesity.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:03 pm

Hami wrote: ok i hope those who train with Wii fit are successful and have a lot of fun!

Yeah, sadly, Wii Fit pretty much has fun and not enough fit. I'm a bit of a fan of the exercise genre in videogames. Here are the ones I've tried and the pros and cons.

Dance Dance Revolution (lotsa systems, but I did it on PS2):
Pros: DAMN fine cardio workout, even, and maybe moreso, on light mode. Lost 30 pounds playing light mode. Got to where I'm really fairly decent for a 30+ year old, and can do it on two pads. Most fun of the batch, and most disguised as exercise.
Cons: As it gets fast and you are my age, messes with your knees. Or more exactly, it messed with my knees. Also, I've not found a dance pad yet I could get and not render unusable in a few months. Might invest in a high dollar one some day, but they just stop working after a while. Some songs are just impossible unless you slow them down and work through them, but I find that boring.

Kinetic PS2
Pros: Fun, and you compete against yourself via the Eye Toy on several interactive games. Best warmup/stretch stuff of all the games. I started this after my knees started hurting with DDR, and found this was just what I needed. The Mind and Body section is cool and feels nice. Also, the best game at telling you what you might be doing wrong during the exercises so that you don't hurt yourself.
Con: Eye Toy. You need either Hollywood lighting or to play outdoors to make it read your movements correctly. And to have nothing on the walls in the room you play it in. It picks the days for you, which at first starts out slow and not too much of a commitment, but at the end of the period they set for you, you are either planning your life around it, or setting the system clock on the PS2 so that you don't "miss a day."

Yourself Fitness PS2 (or as it is known in our household, Damn Yourself Fitness)
Pros: If you exercise via exercise video, this is the best one. What it lacks in interactivity, it has in spades in unlockables. Almost every time I do an exercise session, I get a new exercise. I still haven't seen the end of 'em yet. Also, if you choose to follow their eating suggestions, they have a ton of recipes for each day of the week. Another pro is that you choose your day and duration, from 15 minutes to I think an hour.
Also, if you have any exercise equipment such as an exercise ball or hand weights, it will encorporate them into the exercises.
Cons: A little high intensity for me, and I find that 15 minutes feels a little to easy typically, and 30 minutes is too much. A bit of warmup and stretching, but VERY slight. Also, despite always having some new thing in your exercise, the majority of it is exactly the same, and plus they consider more reps a "new" exercise. The worst part is that every 10 times your exercise, you have a "physical challenge" that is murder. It is about the only way they have of showing progress. You start by taking your resting pulse, then you do 2 minutes of jumping jacks. Death for me, especially since I was still smoking when I was doing this. Then you take you pulse again. After that, you see how many sit-ups, push-ups, and squats you can do. All this after you have destroyed yourself with a solid two minutes of jumping jacks. And also the fact that I sincerely tried to see how many I could do, which hurt me all the more. This is the one I most resent.

Wii Fii
Pros: Lotsa fun, for the most part, and the balance games are the best part. Some of the aerobic games are fun too, and the yoga and strength exercises seem fairly okay. It weighs you in everyday and lets you know how close you are getting to your goal. Several things to unlock, and the fitness tips are really pretty interesting. Is the best game for recognizing that you might want to do other things than indoor exercising with it by allowing you to enter in other exercise you do outside of Wii Fit. The commitment is nice because all you need to do to make it happy is weigh in every day.
Cons: Focuses mainly on balance than anything else. It is pretty wide open in what you do, which means you do whatever you want and don't get a balanced workout unless you truly plan it that way. I can play this for an hour and not hardly work up a sweat. Plus, there are a LOT of stops and starts in waiting for the next exercise to load up or be selected. If it was continuous, it seems like it would be better. Also, the "you're fat" sound it makes when I weigh in makes me feel bad about myself, but not enough to stop me from drinking and eating bad stuff.

Post by **AjK** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:06 pm

High Lord Tolkien wrote:Awesome avatar Andy, a little washed out though

LOL. Very true. Just like me!

Post by **Cail** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:41 pm

Post by **MsMary** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:45 pm

Passover didn't do me in, my working weekend trip during which we ate and drank all weekend didn't do me in, but the recent Jewish holiday Shavuot did cause me to gain a little back.

Must have been all the dairy dishes with cheese and such. Not to mention cheesecake and rice pudding!

I am being careful about what I eat now and seem to be edging, slowly, back down.

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:11 pm

I am pleased to report that Denver Seafest did not do me in, as I feared. In fact, I lost half a pound over the past two weeks. Maybe I'm finally getting the hang of this "healthy eating" thing....

Post by **Cagliostro** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:42 pm

You are lucky. I gained 3 pounds over Seafest. Must be the distilled chicken.

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:25 pm

Either that or I sweated it out at karaoke...

If I'd been hosting, like you guys did, I'd have gained 5 lbs. from anxiety eating. So by my calculation, you're 2 lbs. ahead.

Post by **aliantha** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:20 pm

Am I the only one who still cares about this thread? Ah well, no matter....

I've had kinda crappy results over the last couple of months -- not gaining weight, but not losing as fast as I'd like, either. So this week, I bit the bullet and switched from the Core plan to the Flex plan. Which to say, I'm back to writing down everything I eat. Ick bleah phooey.

But I knew that I was conveniently forgetting the number of snacks I was eating, and living in denial about portion sizes, and so on. Soooo, back to the dreaded Keeping Track. Urk.

I think it's working. But I'll know for sure on Friday.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:38 pm

Yeah, I've got backwards steadily since Seafest. I think it is because since Seafest I've had a couple more cigarette cheats, and crave them a bit more. I still haven't gotten back to being a smoker, but I've been having a harder time saying no when around smokers. Or more like I've been having a harder time not saying "Can I bum one of those?" around them. As a result, the rest of the time I'm eating more. I'm back to what I was when I first started Wii Fit. Which is depressing. If only I could smoke, I'd lose that weight.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:23 pm

Hami wrote:i have just aksed google what Wii fit is...
and now ia am sitteng here like that

how funny is that thing????
A computer to do sports

well ok its better than doing nothing...

I think that's the idea. It's not real exercise, but it's better than just sitting.

DukkhaWaynhim wrote:Life is too short for shame, anxiety, fear, and self-loathing. Summer is even shorter.

Ahhh, great wisdom.

I lost a little weight during Seafest, but I'm sure I've regained it by now.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:30 pm

I lost some weight during Seafest too. Must have been all that walking up hills.

I've lost a bit more since and hopefully I'll keep it off.

Post by **Wyldewode** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:04 am

Good luck, everyone.

Post by **Holsety** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:10 am

I have been swimming regularly this summer and have been trying to cut back a bit on food. My shorts, which used to be somewhat loose on me, fell off while I was working in the garden today. GO ME!

(after that i went inside and got a belt)

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