2012 (Biggest Loser) Tug Weight Loss Thread

[jlr10]

I reached my goal weight of losing the 63 pounds in December, and just finished my 7 half marathon since last June. I went from walking a 3 hour and 36 minute half to a running a 2 hour and 20 minute half. I am aiming for a 2:15 on the anniversary of my first half marathon last year in June of this year. DH and I are going to do some running in Kauai in May to see how we do in the humidity. If we do okay we might run the Kauai half marathon next year to celebrate our 30th anniversary. He is still in a little bit of shock that I finally got off the couch and started moving.

At 53 I realize I may not be able to run for long, but as long as I can I am going to enjoy it. The added advantage is that I can eat more calories, especially since I am trying to keep them mostly healthy. I feel the best I ever have in my life. - Thanks fat lady on the plane :whoopie:

 

[BevL]

I reached my goal weight of losing the 63 pounds in December, and just finished my 7 half marathon since last June. I went from walking a 3 hour and 36 minute half to a running a 2 hour and 20 minute half. I am aiming for a 2:15 on the anniversary of my first half marathon last year in June of this year. DH and I are going to do some running in Kauai in May to see how we do in the humidity. If we do okay we might run the Kauai half marathon next year to celebrate our 30th anniversary. He is still in a little bit of shock that I finally got off the couch and started moving.

At 53 I realize I may not be able to run for long, but as long as I can I am going to enjoy it. The added advantage is that I can eat more calories, especially since I am trying to keep them mostly healthy. I feel the best I ever have in my life. - Thanks fat lady on the plane :whoopie:

Whoop, 63 pounds, that's amazing!! And I am so envious of runners. It's so much cooler than walking and they just have that, "I'm in the zone," look. What a great way to celebrate your anniversary - I'm sure you will accomplish it.

And 50 is the new 40, or is it 30? Anyway, I firmly believe that many of us are a lot younger in our 50s than our parents were.

 

[heathpack]

I too am very impressed both by 63 pounds and by running. I was afraid to take up running b/c of impact on the knees. So I elliptical instead. But running outdoors in the sunshine is very appealing.

I'm glad something good came of the lady-on-a-plane situation!

H

 

[AwayWeGo]

Backslid Again.

I went back to the Dr. Phil Fat Folks Diet & stuck to it consistently, despite a few memorable holiday setbacks & a couple of regrettable Las Vegas backslides.

Pigged out all afternoon & all evening at St. Patrick's Day party (1 day early).

Nobody's perfect.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[dioxide45]

As of this this morning, about 14 months after starting my new lifestyle, I am down 133lbs. Two weeks ago I actually hit the goal weight that I had set last year.

 

[MuranoJo]

Wow, totally amazing, Dioxide! Congrats big time!

Edited to add: I just realized you were the OP for this thread over a year ago, and that's when you started your journey. Double kudos! And to think what I could have done if I had just jumped in when you did.

 

[heathpack]

Dioxide, I believe you posted a while back that you lost your weight with mostly portion control. Anything else? Did you take up or continue and form of exercise?

I am so blown away by these big weight loss numbers. Y'all are GOOD!

H

 

[dioxide45]

Dioxide, I believe you posted a while back that you lost your weight with mostly portion control. Anything else? Did you take up or continue and form of exercise?

I am so blown away by these big weight loss numbers. Y'all are GOOD!

H

Over the last four months I have not stepped foot in the gym. Sad considering I am paying for it. Always keep saying I will try to make it in but never do. So it has pretty much been all about portion control and counting calories through myfitnesspal. My take on it is that weight loss is 80% mental, 15% diet, and 5% exercise/fitness. Of course if one wants a toned lean physique, then the exercise vs. the diet is more like 10% to 10%. Diet is still still big as you can't eat like crap and exercise your way to a great physique.

 

[BevL]

That is amazing, Dioxide. I was hoping you would post that you were still doing well.

Good point about the mental part of "dieting". Agree totally and when folks ask me "How'd you lose the weight," my stock answer is that it's 90 percent mental as most of us know how to lose weight - eat less and better, move more. The more you move, the more you can eat. But if your head's not completely in the game, it's almost impossible.

And Alan, don't beat yourself up - sounds like you're living by the 90/10 rule - 90 percent of the time you eat well, move as much as you can, the 10 percent won't do too much harm.

Great job, ladies and gentlemen.

 

[AwayWeGo]

Slow Progress Is Still Progress.

210●0​

207●2​

Plus, I have switched to size 36 trousers.

Even so, it is still a daily struggle. The risk of pig-out is ever-present.

So it goes.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

Paying The Price For Pigging Out All Week In Las Vegas.

The risk of pig-out is ever-present.

Seven days of Las Vegas buffets & steak houses & ice cream parlors & I don't know what-all took my weight up to 214●6.

By returning to the straight & narrow since then, I'm down to 211●0 as of this morning.

So it goes.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[Passepartout]

There is a little pig-out tendency hereabouts too- along with a depression-era parents' chiding to "Clean your plate". A few months ago there was a short series on PBS about a '5-2 Fast-Diet'. The premise is that you eat 'normally' 5 days a week and do a modified fast on 2 other non-consecutive days. That way there is no missing your favorites- ice cream, beer, steak, whatever. You just don't do those on 'fast' days when you limit yourself to 500 cal. for women and 600 for the guys.

It isn't a quick weight loss strategy, but loss, it is. Last August at my physical, I weighed 205. Today it was 192 and a pant size less. DW has seen similar results- though if I posted the numbers in public forum she'd wring my neck.

We both tend towards the round, and hate denial of gustatory pleasures but feel that we can live with this- even on cruises and when traveling.

Check it out: http://thefastdiet.co.uk/

Jim

Jim

 

[Elan]

There is a little pig-out tendency hereabouts too- along with a depression-era parents' chiding to "Clean your plate". A few months ago there was a short series on PBS about a '5-2 Fast-Diet'. The premise is that you eat 'normally' 5 days a week and do a modified fast on 2 other non-consecutive days. That way there is no missing your favorites- ice cream, beer, steak, whatever. You just don't do those on 'fast' days when you limit yourself to 500 cal. for women and 600 for the guys.

It isn't a quick weight loss strategy, but loss, it is. Last August at my physical, I weighed 205. Today it was 192 and a pant size less. DW has seen similar results- though if I posted the numbers in public forum she'd wring my neck.

We both tend towards the round, and hate denial of gustatory pleasures but feel that we can live with this- even on cruises and when traveling.

Check it out: http://thefastdiet.co.uk/

Jim

Jim

How hungry do you feel on the 600 cal days? I think that might kill me....

 

[AwayWeGo]

Normally Is As Normally Does.

The premise is that you eat 'normally' 5 days a week and do a modified fast on 2 other non-consecutive days.

My problem with normal is that I normally eat too much -- not so much extra helpings, etc., at mealtimes, but too many snax & goodies between meals.

That's why the Dr. Phil Fat Folks Diet works better around here -- no 2nd helpings, no desserts, no between-meal snax -- unless I get so hungry my stomach thinks my throat has been cut, & then I can have an apple or banana or some such.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[Passepartout]

How hungry do you feel on the 600 cal days? I think that might kill me....

Really no hunger pangs at all. We usually have a brunch of an egg + a white and some veggie omelet and 1/2 a grapefruit 10-11 a.m. then a big salad and 3-4 oz piece of chicken or fish or 7-10 shrimps for dinner.

You can do a variety of veggie soups, bouillon, all the coffee, tea, etc. you want. There are some sample menus in the link I provided and whole cookbooks based on fast days if you are adventurous.

Yeah, in the evenings I'd like a beer or glass of wine, or a snack in front of the TV, but it's just for one day, and you can go back to whatever passes for normal tomorrow.

One would think that on 'feast days' people would really pig out, but it is shown that people tend to go less than 10% above their baseline calorie intake. Not enough over to upset the overall calorie reduction for a week's time. Over time, you will lose weight.

 

[AwayWeGo]

The News Is Not Good -- Long-Term Weight Loss Confirmed Almost Impossible.

Click here for the bad news.

Read it & weep.

I am not giving up -- yet.

Full Disclosure: I gained 4 pounds pigging out on vacation in Las Vegas last fall, then 5 more pounds at home after that. I lost 4 of those more recent 5 pounds, so now I need to lose 5 pounds just to get back to where I was when I got on the plane to go to Las Vegas. Vanity is my main reason for limiting food intake & going to the gym faithfully. A better reason is staying ahead of the undertaker as long as possible. One true health-related motive is wanting to guard against diabetes (if that's possible). I would be lousy at managing diabetes if I had it or got it. I'd rather prevent getting it, or at least lower the odds of getting it. Meanwhile, I'm doing about the best I can. I don't think I have it in me to eat much less or exercise much more So it goes.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[Passepartout]

We got back home from a 3 week trip to Asia, including 2 weeks of binge eating on a cruise. Both DW and I came home 3-4% above when we left. We went back to the 5-2 regime outlined above, and I can report that in 2 weeks since returning, all but a pound has happily gone away.

I can live with it.

Jim

 

[TSPam]

Hi,
For me it is almost always about sugar and starches. If I can stay away from sugar and all of the grains/starchy vegetables then I loose weight and keep it off. I can eat as much meat and fat as possible and I feel good and the weight stays off. I have had to teach myself that treats are fat and meat and berries not cake and potato chips.
For my body I just can never eat those carbs. Others can but for me it must be a permanent removal.

I now cook with almond flour and honey so my cookies are a protein food and I can eat them for breakfast.

 

[MuranoJo]

Hi,
For me it is almost always about sugar and starches. If I can stay away from sugar and all of the grains/starchy vegetables then I loose weight and keep it off. I can eat as much meat and fat as possible and I feel good and the weight stays off. I have had to teach myself that treats are fat and meat and berries not cake and potato chips.
For my body I just can never eat those carbs. Others can but for me it must be a permanent removal.

I now cook with almond flour and honey so my cookies are a protein food and I can eat them for breakfast.

I'm also getting into baking with almond/coconut flour, etc., but honey?
Isn't that also considered a high-glycemic sugar?

 

[BevL]

Struggling here a bit too with emotional eatng to the tune of about 8 pounds, but am going to start the 5:2 program, I think that will be a good fit for me. I have been just not going to my three fitness classes a week but will start walking - easier to fit in to what is a hellish schedule.

Thank you for resurrecting this thread - it is the public accountability that I need and I'll probably check back in in a few weeks.

Take care all.