Featherweights Plan and Chat Oct 20 - 26 - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

srmb60 · 10-20-2008, 08:43 AM

Taking the bull by the horns here my friends.

A portion is one portion ... a reasonable amount. And a walk takes more than 10 minutes.

bargoo · 10-20-2008, 09:12 AM

To lose weight takes a little effort, but is soooo worth it!!

srmb60 · 10-21-2008, 08:01 AM

One good day in. I had reasonable sized meals, I went for a walk and I did a few stretchy type things. That's a better day.

Mudpie · 10-21-2008, 08:06 AM

Hey SusanB and bargoo

! Good to see some familiar people posting here. Iris was around last week too!

I'm jumping between here and maintainers (how many cals does that burn?

). 4 lbs. to lose, maybe 9 if I get super ambitious.

Hope we can resurrect this thread in this forum.

Have a great week!

Dagmar

paperclippy · 10-21-2008, 09:10 AM

Hi guys, mind if I join you? I've been fighting 10lbs since January. Since then I got 5 of them off for a little while, then gained them right back and as of today I am 11lbs over goal. I think I could use a little extra motivation!

srmb60 · 10-21-2008, 09:56 AM

I feel like a fraud calling myself a featherweight but I've always been so comfortable here with you gals.

And I can be a featherweight again, right? But only if I eat less and move more!

srmb60 · 10-22-2008, 08:40 AM

Morning!

I was hungry yesterday. I made good choices. But I really wanted ice cream.

You know how you just keep eating but it's never the right thing? I wasn't going to fall into that trap. DS#1 had to run an errand after supper so I had him get me ONE ice cream thing. A little one. I relished it and was content.

alinnell · 10-22-2008, 12:03 PM

Why is it that all of us "maintainers" are hanging out in the featherweights?!?!

Lets see, for me it is because I lost 37 pounds and gained 19 back. I've lost 5 and still need to lose 15.

Does that mean I'm not a maintainer? No. Does that mean I failed? No. I simply slipped and need to get my head around it and really commit to losing the 15 pounds (again).

paperclippy · 10-22-2008, 01:29 PM

Allison, LOL, there are a lot of "maintainers" here. Better to catch the lapse before it becomes a relapse, right?

srmb60 · 10-22-2008, 02:37 PM

I think in order to be a maintainer, I have to stay closer than a 30 lbs ceiling

We're maintainers in training. One of these days we'll get it all figured out.

Mudpie · 10-23-2008, 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SusanB

I think in order to be a maintainer, I have to stay closer than a 30 lbs ceiling

We're maintainers in training. One of these days we'll get it all figured out.

Let's start a new sub forum and call it "maintainers in training"

Seriously though, you get to know a bunch of people and you want to hang with them, wherever on the site they are.

If however, you all decide to get up to 300 lbs.

and start a new group for "lapsed maintainers" I'll have to look for some new pals

.

Dagmar

Mudpie · 10-23-2008, 06:20 PM

So DH is writing an exam on Saturday he's convinced he's going to fail. He's been ripping my head off every night after coming home from studying all frustrated, tired, and angry.

I'm biting my tongue 'cause I know what's going on but I'm binge eating to keep from saying what's on my mind.
Literally stuffing down the words with all the high cal junk I thought I'd never eat again.

Therre must be some other way I can cope with this (the exam is on Saturday but we've got 10 more months of this). Don't want to keep whining at 3FC about the same thing over and over again either

.

Arrrrghhh!!!

Dagmar (dieting today)

Mudpie · 10-24-2008, 07:13 AM

They make great handweights

! Adding 10 lbs. suddenly to your load as you're balancing on the body ball on your back doing pec flys. Also good for sound effects when rolling the body ball over them.

And when you're running up and down the narrow basement stairs for cardio at 6 a.m. they provide a really good agility component

when they run in between your feet.

And when doing the "plank" (a yoga/strength pose I suck at) I invariably get someone's

cold little nose poking around in one of my eyeballs.

Shut the door, you say? The entire doorframe is shredded on one side, just at the height of a little female cat standing up.

Mudpie is definitely the fun component in my life right now.

Dagmar

srmb60 · 10-24-2008, 07:59 AM

We've got a couple of social functions coming up very soon. Next weekend and the weekend after. I can't very well go in sweats or pyjamas.

I bought two cheap pairs of bigger jeans

.

Are we going to take that Featherweights?! Heck no!
Eat less!
Move more!
Just say no to bigger pants! Just say no!

paperclippy · 10-24-2008, 08:55 AM

The three pounds I lost a couple weeks ago? Completely back.

I weighed in at 140.8 this morning.

On the upside I had a great workout yesterday and I'm starting to feel more confident about my ability to finish the sprint triathlon I'm doing in April.