Originally Posted By mickeymeg Marlin, next time you are at the grocery store grab a basket and toss in 15 1lb blocks of butter. Then remind yourself that this is what you could be carrying about all the time, but you were awesome enough to lose it. That is what keeps me going and away from yummy treats. Amazed, yes I am still a Brownie leader. I will be spending at least a few hours at the mall this weekend selling cookies with the girls. I will do my best to stay away from the samples. It also means I will have 30+ cases of cookies in my car for the next few weeks until they are all gone.
Originally Posted By smedley Wow mickeymeg, that's some kind of torture! At the clinic I go to to get weighed they have a lump of silicone 'fat' which weighs 5lbs, it amazes me each time I look at it, I might just have to see if I can sneak a picture of it. When I think I have lost more than 11 of those I find it seriously shocking! No wonder my knee is improving for not having to drag all that around! Amazed, be as good as you, can then back to perfect after, say hi to the meeters for me
Originally Posted By Tandelothien >>At the clinic I go to to get weighed they have a lump of silicone 'fat' which weighs 5lbs, it amazes me each time I look at it<< On our last trip to DL they had some of those in Innoventions. I think they were 5lbs, 10lbs and 20lbs. Fowley and I just stood in front of the cabinet in shock thinking "wow we have lost 2 of those". It put it in perspective
Originally Posted By smedley Doesn't it just! I wonder if I can google and find a picture.... <a href="http://www.enasco.com/product/WA04313HR" target="_blank">http://www.enasco.com/product/WA04313HR</a> Yup this is it, although the picture doesn't really show you just how big/heavy it is. You're right though Tand, it is kind of amazing to see!
Originally Posted By Tandelothien Sure is, we have a tendency to be hard on ourselves if our weight loss doesn't show itself in a flatter belly or narrower thighs straight away. I have to remind myself that it's coming off in layers over my whole body like peeling a potato, after all, that's how it crept on. I'm sure if we woke up one day and suddenly our stomach was sticking out when it wasn't before then we would have jumped on the problem then and there. But it sneaks on bit by bit and that's how we have to shed it off as well. So just know that every little step down is something we all should be proud of, cause lord knows this ain't easy otherwise we'd all be there already
Originally Posted By smedley It does help to measure inches too, maybe not something that would occur to a guy to do? But since beginning this I have been measured chest/waist/hips each week, and I have lost 33 inches! So Marlin I reckon if you threw in some measurements you might just surprise yourself
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 whoops, just had an uh oh moment! The meet is NEXT weekend 17th/18th which I knew but didn't make clear in my post. I'll be back to read later.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 I'm still kicking myself for not measuring myself last year. According to how my clothes feel I've lost inches and/or toned up. It would be a great boost to see those numbers. smeds, thanks for the picture of the fat piece. That is so gross looking! It's so funny that we could buy it I know it's for weight loss centers and such but still. Hmmmm, that would be something to have around though, wouldn't it? Maybe attractively displayed on top of the refrigerator or in a lovely basket next to the cookie jar. mickeymeg, I was a brownie leader and cookie chairman or whatever it was called. Also a Campfire leader and mint patty chairman I didn't care for the table sales and tried hard to pawn it off on the parents. Good luck with your sales!
Originally Posted By smedley These sales sound like a lot of work! Amazed, measure now, you can track it from here then. I tend to find if I don't lose a lot of weight some weeks then I have lost more in the inches dept. How random would it be to have one of those in the kitchen! LOL! Of course some time in the next week I expect to need 12 of them to reflect my weight loss!! As that is my next big number to go through :O
Originally Posted By mickeymeg mickeymeg, I was a brownie leader and cookie chairman or whatever it was <called. Also a Campfire leader and mint patty chairman I didn't care for the table sales and tried hard to pawn it off on the parents. Good luck with your sales!> Thanks ! The thing is that even if parents come I still need to be there as the one in charge. Hopefully we will be able to go through a whole lot of them and I will have much fewer left in my car. We did really well with sales in the fall so I ordered a bunch more this time around as this is our major fundraiser and now all the parents are fairly unenthusiastic about it. Good grief.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 mickeymeg, yeah I hear you about the unenthusiastic parents. I love it when they are honest with you and say that they'll commit to a certain number and leave it at that. The ones that take the boxes and then let them sit and end up returning them are killers. It's a lot of responsibility and one that I don't miss You are a saint for doing it and I'm sure the kids and parents appreciate you Have a great day, I have confidence in you that you won't eat even ONE cookie! smeds, that's a great idea about measuring now. It's not like I'll be at my final goal anytime soon. I may even have some old measurements tucked away in a drawer that needs to be cleaned out, I'll check today
Originally Posted By smedley Great plan amazed Meg I am thinking positive cookie selling thoughts for you! I hopped on the Wii Fit for a sneaky mid week track when I got up this afternoon and (drum roll please) I am now down 60lb!!!!! YAY ME!!!!! I am so happy it's ridiculous lol
Originally Posted By iamsally 60 pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Along with the drumroll I hear a fanfare of trumpets. congratulations
Originally Posted By mickeymeg Great job smedley that is a huge accomplishment ! you should be super proud of yourself. Treat yourself to something fun =) You are an inspiration. Weigh in was this morning and I was down 3.6 ! I couldn't believe it I had to ask if she was sure she was reading the scale right ! Some sort of fluke I am sure, hopefully it doesn't creep back next week. Cookie selling went ok. Didn't sell quite as many as I hoped but we didn't do too badly either. I did eat one from the samples box, but I was careful not to let one turn into several. I have a bad habit of letting that happen =)
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins Wow, Smedley 60 pounds! Congratulations. I went to Denny's yesterday, ate 1/2 a Buffalo Chicken sandwich and a few fries. Gained 2 pounds!!! I never go out to eat and it's a good thing. It seems so easy to gain back weight when I'm dieting, almost like it's sitting waiting to go back on in 3 and 5 pound increments. Other people don't have to worry about this but I'm afraid I have to keep a constant vigil on my weight.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon WaaaHoooo Smedley! 60 lbs. is a HUGE accomplishment! And you are still going strong!! Send a little of that willpower over here, will ya?!! We went to the movies today and I caved in on the popcorn again. I thought if I ate beforehand it wouldn't be such a temptation. I thought wrong. I guess popcorn is one of my weak spots. Sooooo hard to smell that and walk away! Told DH to just get a small and he comes back with the large! Arg!!! Of course no one forced me to eat it, but...how can you NOT?! It's popcorn!! I would really like to UN-eat it now, but it's not going anywhere...except to the hips and thighs!!
Originally Posted By smedley Tinkeroon if I could bottle my zone-ness that I am in at the moment I would send you all a little! Unfortunately not possible, hopefully your slip into the popcorn bucket won't cause too much of a problem
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 smedley, 60 lbs!!!!! Whoo Hoo!!!! You should be SO proud of yourself, I know we are all proud of you Tinkeroon, DH does the same thing "to me" at the movies with the popcorn. I used to carry a small paper bag in my purse to transfer the popcorn from the "vat" of popcorn that DH was holding so I could portion control. I need to find one of those bags again and keep it in my purse. You'll be fine and we can blame it all on Shiva! Mary Poppins keep up the good work! I totally know what you are talking about with those 3-5 lbs. mickeymeg, congrats on the loss! You are doing REALLY well! Are you on a program? (if I may ask Hang in there everyone, we can do this!
Originally Posted By mickeymeg amazed, I have been doing weight watchers since about mid January. I have tried, in the past, to lose on my own but I just don't have the will power. WW has been great for keeping me accountable and being a great guideline for portion control. It looks like I was overeating a lot before, but I never realized it.
