It's awfully quiet in here ! ! !

[auntAgonist]

How's everyone doing these days? Too hot to post?

aA
kesha

doing ok here!

[DemExpat]

1. Our record July heat wave passed last week, and now I am sitting here

with a sweater and 2 pairs of socks on my feet - rainy, windy, and 14 degrees C.....
BRRRRRRRR!

:D

Otherwise doing fine, eating is going well now that I record it all down on FitDay....lost 3 kilo so far, and one day of eating well for weightloss goes better than the next, and I don't beat myself over about it either.

:hi:

DemEx

[auntAgonist]

16. people seem to be having a lot of success

with recording their consumption on FitDay. Eating well is sort of addictive after a while. I tend to become obsessed at times with what I should eat for my next meal (while eating a meal). I make a concerted effort to go for the high protein and low carb foods.

Good for you for having lost 3 Kilo!!

keep up the good work :)

aA
:hug:

[DemExpat]

17. Thanks aA! I have found this FitDay site most enlightening

about exactly HOW I like to eat, and discovered that even though I love and enjoy "healthy" fats like avocados, raw nuts, fatty fish, they ARE high fat and thus conducive to not losing weight, so I have drastically limited these for a while. When you see the intake circle on this site in thirds for fats, carbs and proteins and watch how having a chunk of avocado or a few nuts increases that fat wedge, it is easy for me with this visual image to take measures!

Without having a diet to follow - I am always a bit rebellious in character to imposed regimes :D - this enables me to create my diet as I go along in each day, incorporating the foods I want and have in my frig/pantry, keeping tabs on fats, carbs, and proteins as well as calories.

As I get older I find I do and feel much better on lower carb meals!

DemEx

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Things could definitely be better....

I'll spend some time here getting it all off my chest later.

In the meantime I hope you are feeling well and it's comforting to know that we're all in your thoughts.

[auntAgonist]

3. I'm doin' ok GG

Thanks for answering my PM. Write when you can. WE are all here for you :)

:grouphug:
aA

[ernstbass]

4. Slowly but surely

still losing. I got a little off track over vacation but I'm still hard at it. 35 lbs so far.

[auntAgonist]

8. 35lbs! wow that IS good news.

vacations are hard times to try to stay on a diet for sure :)

good for you though!


aA

[LSK]

5. still sticking to my calorie counting plan

Lost 8 lbs now in about a month. Another 15 to go.

[auntAgonist]

9. It is rewarding

to see the scale numbers go down! 8 lbs in a month is fine progress.


:hi:

aA

[AlCzervik]

6. still here, still trying to get the last 5-7 pounds off

hopefully when i weight myself today it will be closer to 4. I'm re-doing my daughters room and working like a pack mule so i'm hoping i've been burning a lot of calories.

[auntAgonist]

10. don't forget to drink drink drink ...

lots of water on these hot days. it'll help melt the pounds away too!

It always seems so hard to lose that couple of extra pounds doesn't it?

:hi:

aA

[AlCzervik]

12. it's funny isn't it, you work your ass off to get off 80 or 100

or 160 pounds and it seems the hardest fought are the 5-10, it's maddening!!

[auntAgonist]

13. I'm starting to get crazy ...

I weigh myself every morning, sometimes twice or three times. :(

I almost panic if the numbers go UP! I know that's ridiculous, weight fluctuates as the day goes on. I have to stay away from the scale.

You're right though, that last 5 or so is the hardest.

:hug: You're doing really well.


aA

[supernova]

7. Trying to start Atkins again

and finding it hard to cut the carbs that I know I shouldn't eat... like bread and pasta. Eating them puts me onto the slippery slope where I want candy and a sorts of sweet stuff. So, I'm better off not indulging in them, period. But I swear it's hard. x(

[auntAgonist]

11. I have a terrible time with carbs too..

They make me feel really bloated and there is NO nutrition in them at all.
I've found the South beach diet breakfast bars really satisfy my need for the crunchy stuff AND the sweet stuff too. there's 10 grams of protein in one bar!


aA

[mike_c]

14. funny you should ask....

I've been slipping badly in the last few months so it's back to dieting again! Back to the gym, too!

Middle age sucks.

[auntAgonist]

15. hiya Mike! don't beat yourself up about it though..

Try not to think of it as 'dieting'. Think of it as eating to live, making good choices and enjoying those choices. Back to the gym is an excellent idea!

You'll do fine.

aA

[Broken_Hero]

18. nah, just ashamed to post

:hi: haven't been on any routine for almost two months...gasp! Started yesterday though, and plan on doing my walk again today...next week, I will do 15 miles a day on the bike, and walk my 3.2 miles a day. I am over two weeks smoke free, so now I think I got some of my lungs back...:)

[DemExpat]

19. Oh, being smoke free is an incredible accomplishment!

All the best in keeping your lungs free....when I quit after smoking heavily for almost 10 years I felt a strange feeling in my mid back for about a year....as if the process of my lungs cleaning themselves out gave some kind of sensation in my back!

:thumbsup: :toast: :thumbsup:

DemEx

[auntAgonist]

20. congratulations on being smoke free ... please

don't feel ashamed. I think, what a lot of folks do is only post when things are going along swimmingly. We are all here to support one another. Good or bad, we're all interested in the day to day struggles of weight loss. Someone, somewhere may have a word of encouragement that just might be what you need to hear.
Your exercise program would kill me! :rofl:
Please be careful and keep us posted on how you're doing!

again, congrats to you in your endeavour to quit smoking! :applause:

aA
kesha