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jaeclecticI started doing the online weight watchers thing last year on May 21, at a weight of 206 pounds. As of this week, I officially weighed in at 180 (although I've seen 179.5 on the scale once or twice -- I do weigh myself daily although for WW program purposes it is only recorded weekly -- I can't wait to officially enter the 170's again!)
From my POV, 25 pounds in a year is fine, just fine -- it doesn't qualify as rapid progress, even by conservative WW standards, but my whole tactic has been to establish reasonable and comfortable eating habits that I can truly live with permanently. So slow is OK.
On the vanity front: I'm not really at the point yet where I'm happy with the way my body looks, or confident that anyone else likes the way it looks, but I certainly do notice that it looks a lot better than it did. For instance, I have a lot more of a waist, as opposed to a kind of barrel-like torso -- that whole being shaped like a girl thing, you know?
I did have a few frustrating months along the way, however: I actually had hit the 20 pound point at 6 months, just before Thanksgiving. But predictably, I backslid a bit over T-day and Xmas and my birthday and my birthday party and my trip to Pgh in February... So it was more like a net loss of 15 pounds in the first 7 months, followed by bouncing around in the same 5-pound range for the next 2 months, followed by finally losing another 5 pounds over the past 3 months. Torturously slow, and not exactly sure.
I think that bumping up my level of exercise was key to finally getting on track again, which is part of why I am so determined to keep that up. I do need to be a little more careful though -- this week I have been really skirting the limits of what my knees will put up with, I could barely walk up the stairs last night, it was pretty scary.
In any case, my goal (dream? fantasy?) for the summer is to hit 170 before heading to Peru in late September. That's quite ambitious, certainly much faster progress than I've been making lately, so we shall see.
My overall goal, BTW, is tentatively 160, a weight I have actually seen during my adult life, and therefore a more reasonable goal than what it says on those charts, which is that I should weigh no more than 140, a weight that I saw but couldn't maintain when I was 19 and extremely active. However, I am not thinking much about 160, I am just thinking about 170 and will see how I feel when I get there.
Reading this over, there is all kinds of other stuff I could say about feeling better (separately from looking better), and about the fact that I may have trimmed up more than the scale really shows, et cetera et cetera. But this is already pretty long, and you know all that stuff, so just read it in.
From my POV, 25 pounds in a year is fine, just fine -- it doesn't qualify as rapid progress, even by conservative WW standards, but my whole tactic has been to establish reasonable and comfortable eating habits that I can truly live with permanently. So slow is OK.
On the vanity front: I'm not really at the point yet where I'm happy with the way my body looks, or confident that anyone else likes the way it looks, but I certainly do notice that it looks a lot better than it did. For instance, I have a lot more of a waist, as opposed to a kind of barrel-like torso -- that whole being shaped like a girl thing, you know?
I did have a few frustrating months along the way, however: I actually had hit the 20 pound point at 6 months, just before Thanksgiving. But predictably, I backslid a bit over T-day and Xmas and my birthday and my birthday party and my trip to Pgh in February... So it was more like a net loss of 15 pounds in the first 7 months, followed by bouncing around in the same 5-pound range for the next 2 months, followed by finally losing another 5 pounds over the past 3 months. Torturously slow, and not exactly sure.
I think that bumping up my level of exercise was key to finally getting on track again, which is part of why I am so determined to keep that up. I do need to be a little more careful though -- this week I have been really skirting the limits of what my knees will put up with, I could barely walk up the stairs last night, it was pretty scary.
In any case, my goal (dream? fantasy?) for the summer is to hit 170 before heading to Peru in late September. That's quite ambitious, certainly much faster progress than I've been making lately, so we shall see.
My overall goal, BTW, is tentatively 160, a weight I have actually seen during my adult life, and therefore a more reasonable goal than what it says on those charts, which is that I should weigh no more than 140, a weight that I saw but couldn't maintain when I was 19 and extremely active. However, I am not thinking much about 160, I am just thinking about 170 and will see how I feel when I get there.
Reading this over, there is all kinds of other stuff I could say about feeling better (separately from looking better), and about the fact that I may have trimmed up more than the scale really shows, et cetera et cetera. But this is already pretty long, and you know all that stuff, so just read it in.
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Date: 2005-05-28 12:16 pm (UTC)And you *know* I've had three different friends travel to Peru and each one lost about 10 pounds while they were (ah, unclean water!) -- so you can look forward to that. ;) Not that that was what you had in mind...
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Date: 2005-05-28 07:24 pm (UTC)Re: my possible Peruvian bonus: I guess I'll look forward to that, although that might not be the kind of weight that stays off ;)