Anyone else trying to lose weight?

[lorin]

Good job, everyone with your weight loss.

I am very relieved. Considering I am bed bound for the most part I lost 2 lbs. this week with no exercise at all.

[Savor Dam]

Are you eating properly? Losing weight under those conditions can point to substandard nutrition. Both your immediate recovery and your long-term health require you to fuel your body well...even if some small transient weight gain results.

[lorin]

Are you eating properly? Losing weight under those conditions can point to substandard nutrition. Both your immediate recovery and your long-term health require you to fuel your body well...even if some small transient weight gain results.

I am eating quality mostly only because I can't get out to get the low quality stuff......like chips, pizza, ice cream. What I am not doing right is eating regular schedules. Mostly grazing. and grazing. and grazing.

[Savor Dam]

Grazing is not a problem. Just stay moderate, with neither binge nor neglect of eating. No spikes!

Also, if you can't get out, do try to find a sunlit window to sit or lie near sometimes. Even as a Helldog person, channel your inner cat.

[dlevere]

I dropped 50 pounds. It took me a year to do it, but I did it.

[MsMary]

Awesome!

[lorin]

I dropped 50 pounds. It took me a year to do it, but I did it.

Amazing!! Congrats! How did you do it?

I had an interesting experience. I lost another 3.4 lbs. in 5 days ( I weighed in early). So that makes 5 in one week and I have no idea how. I wasn't behaving. I have two theories:

1 - I invented dried cabbage leaves and have been eating them steadily for a week. They are amazing and cleansing

2 - I took 2 inches of my hair off

[SoulBiter]

My wife and I dont diet. We eat healthy. When you quit thinking of things as if you are denying yourself something it makes it so much easier.

Things we eat:
Lean meats (as we have gotten older we have tried to stay away from red meats.
Fish any and all. Love Salmon!
Veggies with nothing fat or buttery added. Steamed or fresh but grilled sometimes.
White starches. Rice, potatoes, etc etc . We do have red potatoes now and again but really in moderation.
White breads. We eat some bread but always multigrain/whole wheat and we tend to make our own.
We drink water, unsweet tea, limited diet coke....and some white and red wines. Beer usually during football season.
Soup that doesnt have heavy cream in it.
Lots of fruits. We have a fruit smoothie that we make ourselves every morning. A bit of yogurt, 1 cup blueberries, some strawberries, banana, mango. Add ice and blend. Add no sugars.

What we dont eat:

Fatty meats and those are the delectable cuts LOL
We dont eat margerine and instead we eat low fat butter.
We dont drink sugary drinks including fruit drinks.
We dont eat sugary deserts. Instead we make our own low cal alternatives.
Limit the starches.
No heavy cream soups

Thats our core.... but we do eat out at times and we know when we do that we cant always eat right. so we tend to order the best of the worst when we eat out.

And exercise. We walk 2 to 4 miles a day, we run 3 miles every other day, we do strength training every other day.

[Iolanthe]

Yes. I was 6 stone 12 lbs when I got married and stayed there for years, only went up to 9 stone when I was 9 months pregnant. But now I am finding that even clothes I bought last year are getting too tight!

Counting up the cups of tea I had each day, about 9 x the equivalent of 3 teastpoonfuls of sugar in a mug, 1 and a half in a cup (we have a large sugar spoon) plus ovaltine last thing at night with full cream milk and sugar, that was the first thing I cut. Only 2 cups of tea at the outside a day now with a few grains of sugar. Tastes disgusting, but I may get used to it. Coffee is a no-no - couldn't drink that without sugar. I've bought some fruity teas, no caffeine, and have a camomile tea at night now. I'm going to try some natural honey in it tonight as a sweetener.

Instead of full cream we have changed to semi skimmed milk (C is complaining about that!) and light spread.

Instead of my ham roll and a cake at lunchtime I'm having salad with tuna or salmon or chicken with a spoonful of lighter mayonnaise and fruit for afters.

I have also borrowed my daughter's walking machine, and am walking to a different bus stop about 10 minutes away instead of the one just up the road.

I started out at 79.2 kilothingies (almost 12 stone!!) fully clothed but am only going to weigh myself once a week on Tuesday mornings without clothes.

My main aim is to lose the stomach and other related bits of fat before June so that I am Slim Jim when I come to ABQ. I must admit that the last couple of days I have felt less stiff - putting socks/boots on was an effort.

I will keep you posted.

[lorin]

Wow, I have to sit with a translation device. Stone and pounds. As I understand it one stone equal 14 pounds. So why don't you just use pounds in your numbers? I mean you're describing 6 stone 12 pounds why don't you call it 96 pounds?


The Brits are mysterious people.

Either way, good luck with the diet. I prefer almond milk to lowfat cows milk. Try agave syrup as a natural white sugar replacement if you are adverse to sugar substitutes.

[Iolanthe]

Ah, dear old stones and pounds and hundredweights etc. I'm afraid I can't think in just pounds, or kilothingies. However, I'm going to buy some digital scales tomorrow - we've had ours over 40 years and it's difficult for me now to see all the little marks between the numbers. It is in stones and pounds of course. All my tape measures are in feet and inches too. I also understand rods, poles and perches as old documents often have these measurements.

I do have some natural honey in the cupboard so I'll try that first. Thanks for the back up.

[I'm Murrin]

Wow, I have to sit with a translation device. Stone and pounds. As I understand it one stone equal 14 pounds. So why don't you just use pounds in your numbers? I mean you're describing 6 stone 12 pounds why don't you call it 96 pounds?


The Brits are mysterious people.

Convenient way of breaking things up, I'd say. Measuring your weight in stone is kind of like marking it in dress sizes - works well as a shorthand. Plus it's just ingrained. I can't do weight in pounds just like I can't do height in inches.

[lorin]

And weighing 6 sounds a lot slimmer than 84

[Iolanthe]

Managed to get some digital scales yesterday - which shows stones and well. 75.6k this morning. Must have misread my old scales the other morning when I thought I was 73k!

[lorin]

Managed to get some digital scales yesterday - which shows stones and well. 75.6k this morning. Must have misread my old scales the other morning when I thought I was 73k!

73K? K as in kilogram? Hundredweights? A hundred of what weights = 1 hundredweight? There aren't hundredweights in my translation thingy.

[Iolanthe]

"The hundredweight or centum weight (abbreviated cwt) is a unit of mass defined in terms of the pound (lb). The definition used in Britain differs from that used in North America. The two are distinguished by the terms long hundredweight and short hundredweight:
The long hundredweight is defined as 112 lb (8 stone), which is equal to 50.802345 kg.[1] This is the definition used in the imperial system.
The short hundredweight is defined as 100 lb, which is equal to 45.359237 kg.[2] This is the definition used in the US customary system. This is also the usual hundredweight in Canada. The short hundredweight is also called a cental, especially in places which normally use the long hundredweight.

Under both conventions, there are twenty hundredweight in a ton, the long ton being 2,240 lb and the short ton being 2,000 lb." - Wikipedia

I think our coal used to be delivered in hundredweights in the 50s and 60s when we had a coalman with a horse and cart!

I think the "k"s are kilograms. Yes, 73 kg converts to 11.5 stones roughly.

The problem is I was taught ounces, pounds, stones etc. at school and have never since had the need to use kilograms etc. so they mean nothing to me, like Murrin said. I know that wool changed when I was still knitting as I had to get 25 grams instead of an ounce, which was a little bit less I think. And people who had market stalls were prosecuted for shouting out "spuds, 10 pence a pound" as they should have been using metric weights. However, we still go into the butchers and ask for half a pound of mince which causes the young people behind the counter no end of trouble. I asked someone at the archives some time ago for a foot rule and she had no idea what I meant. I take my own now (I have one that folds in half and fits in my pencil case) and it has centimetres on it as well as inches. And I still convert things I buy into old money! When I was in infant school I could buy 4 black jacks for a penny, that is a farthing each. One old penny is worth less than the new halfpenny which has now been scrapped. 5 new pence was a fortune in old money - a shilling (or a bob). The new money (introduced in 1971 or 1972) is far less interesting than the old pounds, shillings and pence.

Oh, and honey with camomile tea is excellent.

[Avatar]

For years the Brits resisted decimalization because they thought it was too complicated...

--A

[MsMary]

In any case, I'm mystified as to how much Iolanthe has weighed in any of her more recent posts.

I am doing well on WW, lost about 12 pounds, albeit slowly. Would like to lose a bit more.

[Iolanthe]

In any case, I'm mystified as to how much Iolanthe has weighed in any of her more recent posts.

I am doing well on WW, lost about 12 pounds, albeit slowly. Would like to lose a bit more.

This morning (official weekly weigh on new digital scales) 75.7 kilograms.

Converted, my weight when I got married was 43 kilograms!!

[Iolanthe]

Weekly weigh: 75.5 kilograms (166.4 pounds - last week's was 166.8 pounds). Not much loss. Must have been the Chinese I had on Sunday evening (only a once a month event). Hope to lose more next week. Spent 8 minutes on the walking machine last night and planning to increase. I'm actually enjoying my salads and fruit. And - suddenly my heartburn and indigestion has disappeared. Might try some alcohol - but I suppose that's fattening too.