I am impressed Angela. You are going to be sylph like in no time.

Don't I wish!!! I think I get the award here for the slowest weight loss ever.

Still, the accountability factor combined with the kind support I'm getting from all the lovely posters here is at least keeping me from gaining weight. It has been the slow and steady creep of about a three pound weight gain a year that made me a pudgy little raccoon in the first place.

Why does food have to be so delicious???!!! I subscribe to four magazines - all are about cooking and/or entertaining. The recording device on our tv is full of "Eric shows", "Angela shows" and "Shows we watch together". All the "Angela shows" are about cooking. My favorite weekend activity is going to the Farmer's Market. I'm starting to learn more about canning. Food, food, food, food, food!

I know what you mean Angela, although food is no priority for me, I don't even like to eat, I just eat when I'm hungry, that's all. BF isn't that much of an eater himself, just like Lisa. The only one who likes to eat around here is Yoko:))

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

I believe that the incomparable Weird Al best sums up my status over the past week... Inactive

[b]Love Wierd Al!/b]

Yeah I'm up to 143 :(

---

A slower week last week, but still in the right direction - 91.2kg.



Tip for Vic - I was talking to someone I met at the weekend who is wheelchair bound following an accident a good few years ago. For many months after the accident they were constrained to lying flat on a bed, and their weight was creeping up. One of the many visitors suggested they tried raising their arms to straight up, at first this was almost impossible, they had lost so much strength, but gradually their body adapted and they could do a go few repetitions of lifting their arms up from the bed to vertical, so they tried it with a bit of added weight only a pound in each hand, but slowly they noticed two things, first they were getting better and better at this, and second their weight was decreasing, despite their diet remaining pretty constant. Its a case of every little helping, even when that little is really tiny.

---

Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

During the year I spent in Navy nuclear propulsion training, I got a growth spurt - grew 3 inches (5'10" - 6'1") and gained almost 50 lbs (175 - 220). During my Naval carreer, my weight fluctuated between about 210 and 230, since I retired from active duty, it's been more like 220-240.

When my USDA season ended in February, I was at 222, when we started this thread I was at 240. I just stepped on the scale (analog, and old), and it read 236. That's about 4 lbs in what, 6 weeks? Progress, however slight...

In the summer heat we have here (95-105F, June-September), it's difficult for me to do much out-doors from about 1000 until after 1900, but I have been trading chips and pastry snacks for dried fruit, nuts, and fruit juices, and working at not sitting still for long periods. (My computer chair is soooo comfy, and it reclines!)

If I can keep this up, and get more active as the summer wanes and the weather cools, I should be under 230 (225?) when I go back to work in October.

---

Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

I am impressed Angela. You are going to be sylph like in no time.

Don't I wish!!! I think I get the award here for the slowest weight loss ever.

Still, the accountability factor combined with the kind support I'm getting from all the lovely posters here is at least keeping me from gaining weight. It has been the slow and steady creep of about a three pound weight gain a year that made me a pudgy little raccoon in the first place.

Why does food have to be so delicious???!!! I subscribe to four magazines - all are about cooking and/or entertaining. The recording device on our tv is full of "Eric shows", "Angela shows" and "Shows we watch together". All the "Angela shows" are about cooking. My favorite weekend activity is going to the Farmer's Market. I'm starting to learn more about canning. Food, food, food, food, food!

Slow weight loss is a good thing. The people who crash diet soon regain the weight because they didn't learn that a diet is something you do for the rest of you life. When you diet slow, you learn how to enjoy good food and when to stop. I think it's very likely when you hit your goal weigh the three pound creep will become a thing of the past and you will no longer need this thread.
Over the past couple of years I have been carrying a few extra pounds because I had to force my self to eat. I didn't feel like eating but my life was so demanding that skipping the meals would have left me in worst shape. I can now address that part of my life and I don't care how long it takes as long as the scale is down a little bit each time I step on it.

---

Forgot to weigh myself this Monday it's early Tuesday morning here

Last week 90.7 kg

This week 90.3 kg.

So lost 400 grams which is good especially since I have been eating comfort foods and barely exercising because of my swollen sore knee. It's improved a bit but I'm going for an x-ray later this morning.

---

I am impressed Angela. You are going to be sylph like in no time.

Don't I wish!!! I think I get the award here for the slowest weight loss ever.

Still, the accountability factor combined with the kind support I'm getting from all the lovely posters here is at least keeping me from gaining weight. It has been the slow and steady creep of about a three pound weight gain a year that made me a pudgy little raccoon in the first place.

Why does food have to be so delicious???!!! I subscribe to four magazines - all are about cooking and/or entertaining. The recording device on our tv is full of "Eric shows", "Angela shows" and "Shows we watch together". All the "Angela shows" are about cooking. My favorite weekend activity is going to the Farmer's Market. I'm starting to learn more about canning. Food, food, food, food, food!

2 words: "Big Sugar"...

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

2 words: "Big Sugar"...

That is a problem in most processed foods and much as I would be happy to blame some other entity for my weight issues, alas I cannot. I do most of the cooking here and we rarely eat processed foods. If there is too much sugar in anything I have made, it is only because I have put it there.

Monday - wishing you a speedy recovery!

2 words: "Big Sugar"...

That is a problem in most processed foods and much as I would be happy to blame some other entity for my weight issues, alas I cannot. I do most of the cooking here and we rarely eat processed foods. If there is too much sugar in anything I have made, it is only because I have put it there.

Monday - wishing you a speedy recovery!

Sometimes I find pancakes are a necessary evil, from time to time, I don't like to buy raw eggs to make bisquick pancakes, so I get My eggs in a can and use Krusteaz pancake mix instead. But then so is peanut butter, margarine, turkey bologna, pizza(unless one makes everything from scratch I think, I don't wish to), ice cream, powdered creamer(low calorie), but largely that is all I consume that might be or is processed. The pizza is a rarity so far, though at $3.99 as frozen goes it's not bad, of course I don't follow the directions like they'd like, as they don't work, I use a cookie sheet under the pizza to make the crust thicken up as it it should and I stretch the baking time to 28 mins from the max of 25, it helps to avoid having a soggy mess near the center of the pizza.

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Well done Rob :) and Donald :)

Hope the x-ray helps identify the best way of sorting out your knee for you Monday. You've been suffering with that for awhile. Well done on the weigh in though. Hang in there :)

Oooooooooooooh - pancakes! I know what you mean Vic! :)

+ 100 for what Dena said about slow weight loss being the right way to go about achieving a life-long change. So true! :)

Great job everyone.

Now six weeks of no empty Calories. I substituted a big healthy Salad instead.
Lately grapes and apples have joined radishes, cucumbers among other things.
They are just getting ripe to soon.

---

Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Great job everyone.

Now six weeks of no empty Calories. I substituted a big healthy Salad instead.
Lately grapes and apples have joined radishes, cucumbers among other things.
They are just getting ripe to soon.

Hi Uli,

Well done!

Best Wishes
Byron

OK Monday morning weigh in...

Last week 90.3 kg

This week 91.3 kg

So 1 kg gain. * hangs head in shame and slinks off*

It's been so cold and painful I have just succumbed to eating more and haven't been able to exercise any where near as much. *sigh*

Will be seeing the doctor in about 2 hours to find out what's wrong with my knee.

Up until yesterday it's been so cold and wet with yesterday morning being the coldest day in 16 years. brrr...

---

OK Monday morning weigh in...

Last week 90.3 kg

This week 91.3 kg

So 1 kg gain. * hangs head in shame and slinks off*

It's been so cold and painful I have just succumbed to eating more and haven't been able to exercise any where near as much. *sigh*

Will be seeing the doctor in about 2 hours to find out what's wrong with my knee.

Up until yesterday it's been so cold and wet with yesterday morning being the coldest day in 16 years. brrr...

Don't despair! Been there myself. Hang in there, friend.

+1
Wintertime is the hardest for loosing weight.

---

Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Thanks friends.

Good news from the doctor, no arthritis just a misaligned kneecap so I will be off to see a physiotherapist on Wednesday to get some strengthening exercises to pull things into the right place. Also got the OK to use painkillers and get back to walking.

---

Thanks friends.

Good news from the doctor, no arthritis just a misaligned kneecap so I will be off to see a physiotherapist on Wednesday to get some strengthening exercises to pull things into the right place. Also got the OK to use painkillers and get back to walking.

My step-son had that when he was at high school, the physio had him up and running again in 2wks Monday (us older people may take a week or 2 longer though). ;-)

Cheers.

Thanks friends.

Good news from the doctor, no arthritis just a misaligned kneecap so I will be off to see a physiotherapist on Wednesday to get some strengthening exercises to pull things into the right place. Also got the OK to use painkillers and get back to walking.

My step-son had that when he was at high school, the physio had him up and running again in 2wks Monday (us older people may take a week or 2 longer though). ;-)

Cheers.

Osteoarthritis, I hate that, it means your body is fighting against itself, OA was 1st detected in Me when I was 40 in Me in My shoulder blades, from what I've read OA in the blades starts after a fall dislocates them, though except for the Army where I know I fell from heat exhaustion(I was 19 then), though I don't remember dislocating My shoulder blades at all, My right hip in 2002, sure, but not My blades, weird.

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Osteoarthritis, I hate that, it means your body is fighting against itself...

Actually Vic, I believe what you are describing is rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune disorder. Osteoarthritis is the form of arthritis most typically associated with advancing age. It is also associated with carrying too much weight on one's frame.

Osteoarthritis, I hate that, it means your body is fighting against itself...

Actually Vic, I believe what you are describing is rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune disorder. Osteoarthritis is the form of arthritis most typically associated with advancing age. It is also associated with carrying too much weight on one's frame.

Still I dislike OA. One can get OA from a fall and injuries, I've had my share.

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's