The Great Weight Loss Race

Dang it, milk is really fattening and I need to stop eating dairy and eggs anyway so I got to where I only drank like a glass a day of it and last night I went bazerk and drank 5-8 glasses of milk in a row!!! Oh my gosh, I have no clue what I was thinking but I stopped myself before I drank the whole gallon. EKKK!!!

But it's milk supposed to be good for you?

Remember those late 80s/early 90s milk commericals where a little kid would talk about drinking milk it would show the kid as 10, then 16, then 23, then 28, etc. After all, milk's slogan was "it does a body good."


ryan

Well the holidays and the bronchitis did me in....I gained back the 3 pounds that I had lost with 5 friends.

That did it. I decided I couldn't do it on my own and joined a gym. Sadly, the cheapest gym in my area is $40 a month with the rest closer to $80. I've been hardcore working out every day for the past two weeks so while there are no actual results yet, I feel all healthy!

Okay, so when I first signed on this thread I said I weighed 258, but I never did anything about it after that and gained 5 pounds before something health related happened to me that really slapped me and made me realize I need to get healthy. So I'm proud to say that for the last three weeks I have been dieting and excersizing regularly and have lost 9 pounds! I'm down to 254, which is still high, but I'm goin' down and I'm not stopping.

I have gym this quarter. My classes are about 40 minutes long each so 40 minutes of gym everyday for a quarter.

I ran 7 miles tuesday night.

ryan

Christmas didn't do me in this year as it normally does. I've lost nearly 20 lbs. It also dosn't help I'm kinda sick lately, (Heptitus C Meds and all) but hopefully come Febuary 13 (when I stop them) I'll be truely able to get normalized! I need to lose weight anyways...

Ugh.... I broke down and had a cheeseburger and fries for lunch... it's been three weeks and my body is letting me know, or rather reminding me what this food does to me... gottagettothebathroom!!!!

ROFL

*hands Vic some TP* You might need this.......I used the last bit a while ago

305 today

I ran 9 1/2 miles late last night.

ryan

The cheeseburger (along with a few other choice delacacies) threw me off and I went up again, but I fought back and I'm down to 252.

Good for you Vic. I'm thinking about getting something sweet to eat. Let's face it, running 33 miles this week has made me hungry. Even apples and grapes and green beans and all that good stuff doesn't help to aid in the 1250+ calories I burn off a day. Those foods are healthy and good for you, but have very little calories in them.

By the way, if you peopel do lose the weight and continue to exercise, be very careful, exercising can become addictive. Plus, if you eat something like a chocolate bar, you think you're going to gain the weight back and more and that makes you work out all the time to make sure you don't gain the weight back, even though you won't and end up losing more weight, like me.

ryan

How do you run almost ten miles? That's phenominal! I do half a mile a day, and that's tough. How do you pace yourself? Do you run like a mile and then take a short break? How long has it taken to build up so much endurance? I bow to your athletic abilities, sir!

Originally I started to run to lose weight, running like 1/4 mile or 1/2 mile but I would take four or five breaks, and I ran slow. Then I just started to run with less breaks or no breaks running 1/2 per day, then I started running a mile and half and then increasing the miles as I started to get better at running.

Then when I was in college, I started to run on the treadmill and I started to go at a faster pace, and I kept increasing my speed. Now I can run 8 miles in 1 hour. Sometimes I take a short 2 minute break and get some water, or sometimes I just run the whole 8 miles without taking a break. Or on occasion, I might take two breaks which are a few minutes a piece. But I usually take 1 break or no breaks at all.

Here's the deal, it's tough the first 2 or three miles if I'm running 8 miles because my body is getting into the swing of things. By the fourth mile, I'm doing okay and keep on pushing myself. And then I might stop by the fifth mile and get a drink of water, depending if I need a break, or I might just continue to run. By the time I reach 6 and 1/2 miles, if I haven't stopped and if I'm not all that thirsty, I'll continue to run until I reach 8 miles. I mean why stop when I'm almost finished.

Other times if I'm goign to run 9, 10, or maybe even 11 miles, I'll stop by the 7th mile, get some water, and then continue to run. And I'll also stretch some more.

Basically, I just tell myself to keep on going and don't stop. It's easier said than done, or typed than done, but that's what I say to myself. Plus, if people in their 40s and 50s can still run 30 miles or more a week, then I can too.

Also, there maybe a day or so I might not want to run, but I usually say if I can sit for an hour or two and be lazy, then I can go run or workout, etc.

But once you get started and continue to exercise, you get into it and probably won't quit. It'll take a while, a few months, etc. to get into exercising, if you want to lose weight, but after those couple of months or even four months, assuming if your still exerice four times a week, then keeping up the exercising won't be hard at all.

Plus another tip, exercise on the weekends instead of trying to cram all your exercising in the weekdays, which people tend to do either before work or after you get off from work. A lot of people don't really do anything on the weekends except sit and eat. Plus, you're not going to be tired during the weekend because you get to sleep in and before and after exercising you can watch tv, or see a movie, etc., and relax. So I like to exercise saturdays and sundays to get two days of exercising out of the way, and then find time two days during the week and finish my running, which usually is monday and tuesday, or monday and wednesday.

And lastly, listen to music, either from an mp3 player, or from a cd player, or whatever else, to get you pumped up and to let your workout go faster and smoother.

So there you all go. You got Ryan's exercise tips and how I am able to run all those crazy miles.

ryan

ok i have put on 10 lbs since this started i need to get more active

How is everyone doing with their weight loss?

ryan

I ran 11 miles this morning.

How is everyone doing with their weight loss so far?

ryan

Dang, wish i'd found this thread earlier.. my excuse is that my hard drive crashed and i wasn't online much for several months (plus we bought a house, moved, etc etc... ) am just getting back into my old forums and such...
anyway.. dang, i could seriously use a good support group (and any other support groups i can get...) 3 years ago i was headed in the right direction.. then married, moved and had a lot of family deaths and other stress, and now, 3 years later am tipping the scale at 300 pounds.. and i'm 5'4".. with family history of diabetes on both sides.. so i KNOW i'm in trouble. only recently have i been able to convince hubby that changes were going to be made.. now i just have to enforce them.. problem is.. i'm weak!!!!

i really need to loose 150 pounds. I'd still be "overweight" but only by like 15 pounds, which, i can live with...
my current plan is to work on loosing 15 pounds at a time. I've already started changing my diet (hubby's been off at national guard training for 6 weeks, so that was easier..) and am starting back up with belly dancing (which is how i'd lost weight before)
my biggest challenges are breads and pastas, chocolate and, oddly enough, jerky.. we'd found a brand of jerky we really liked when looking for stuff for food storage/emergency use (live in alaska, so always have a stockpile in case of snow or earthquake or, these days, possible attack...) and i have seriously become addicted to the stuff...

help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its been a while i am now under 300 soo thats great