Let's lose weight, spots, flab together!.

I am sure between us we know enough about WW or SW regimes. No names, no copyright!

Lots want to a) go to the gym/exercise more.
b) lose weight
c)detox/feel healthier

I think we are grown up enough to trust each other.
I suggest an initial weigh/measure in on here, then a weekly meeting or check in.

We can post targets if we like or just see what happens.

We can swap recipes for good tasty food that is still healthy.

What do you think boys and girls, and does anyone want to join in?

I'll join in Feb. I was going to give up soda, but this is a bad month to do it. So I'll join Losers Inc in Feb.

i'm in!

i still probably have lots to lose/tone/eat better etc.

Same here aitapata. The Palace has a gym which is conveniently on the ground floor of my building, but it's about £30 a month. Pretty nifty, but I don't have it this month.

Plus by February most of my Xmas booze and chocolates will have gone

I'll join, I need help with finding low-cost healthy alternatives to fast food... cuz I can't afford it anymore, but i did go and get real food last night... and hopefully my asshole roommates didn't eat it all...

Can we have our own comic book?



I want to lose. I lose my keys, so I might as well join.

I am totally not telling you people how much I weigh.

But outside of that, I'm in.

Edit In: Chad, if you're going grocery shopping, buying lots of produce is always cheaper than eating out, no matter where you go. And asshole roommates from my past generally didn't steal produce, because they didn't know how to cook it, or didn't want to eat it. If your roommates steal will steal any food at all, you can still eat fairly healthy at fast food restaurants. The $3 Wendy's small chili, garden salad, and sour cream potato were a staple of my law school diet when I didn't have time to cook.

its kind of funny. i fit into clothes i wore in higschool but i'm still weigh about 25-30 lbs more than i did in highschool...

This article really puts it in perspective for me. Such a small investment of time, but yet so difficult to implement unless it's started.

quote:

1.4 percent -- that's how much of your week is spent working out if you did 30 minutes a day training 5 days a week. Not 14 percent, only 1.4 percent. Wow, doesn't that put it in perspective? I thought if we could all just give up one TV show that we liked a day we could fit that 1.4 percent in a snap.

I miss the gym. I like the gym. But I think I should start working out at home more, since the drive to the gym and the time I spend getting ready for the gym usually are what make me decide not to go.

Thing is, it's not just 30 minutes. We've got a NordicTrac in the basement. Hasn't been wound up in over 3 years. There's the motivation factor, there's the fact that it's still at home, so so many more home things are staring you right in the face, things that are easier to do than working out. There's also the fact that when I work(ed) out on the Nordic, I would stretch a bit, then workout for 30, then I'm hot and sweaty and need to take a shower, that's another 10 minutes.

Hey, it's not impossible, and yes I do need to get back on the damn thing regularly, just saying it's not as easy as "1.4 percent of your day".

Exactly JP.


That's why I linked the whole article. Today there are so many different diversions and distractions. Implementing it which requires motivations, is the hard thing.

Oooh oohh! I just got a new magazine yesterday (and dropped the subscription card in the mail yesterday as well). It's called Eating Well: The Magazine of Food & Health. It looks great! Haven't had a chance to really sit down and read it just yet, but flipping through, it looks like exactly what I need to start eating well and looking at my health again. I don't eat terribly, really, as I need to watch what I eat because of my cholesterol (I control it with diet, no pills for me thank you very much), but still, there's always room for eating healthier AND aparently it's also time conscious so the recipies are quick and healthy and don't necessarily take 45 mins to prep and such.

Anyhoo, if I come across any good ones as time goes on, I'll try and share them here. Oh yeah, count me in

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Originally posted by Chad The Wanderer:
Exactly JP.


That's why I linked the whole article. Today there are so many different diversions and distractions. Implementing it which requires motivations, is the hard thing.

Maybe we'll be the motivation for each other, whether through support, a kick the pants, peer pressure, guilt And remember, folks, it's not necessarily about losing weight, it's about being healthy. That could mean building muscle, toning, losing fat, stretching, balance ... I would like to start taking yoga regularly, though classes around here are expensive.

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Originally posted by Jocelyn:
I am totally not telling you people how much I weigh.

But outside of that, I'm in.

Edit In: Chad, if you're going grocery shopping, buying lots of produce is always cheaper than eating out, no matter where you go. And asshole roommates from my past generally didn't steal produce, because they didn't know how to cook it, or didn't want to eat it. If your roommates steal will steal any food at all, you can still eat fairly healthy at fast food restaurants. The $3 Wendy's small chili, garden salad, and sour cream potato were a staple of my law school diet when I didn't have time to cook.

Good ideas Joceyln. Thank you. Those are good perspectives. My old roommate never ate all of my produce, so that's usually what I had left to eat.


JP, it's always good to have accountability. Can we check in with each other?

Losers Assemble!

I joined online weight watchers again on 12/21-- starting weight 144 lbs. (I'm 5'3 so I'm 13 lbs overweight). Current weight: 141.5 lbs. Goal: 120 lbs.

Jeez. It seems so far away...

Like my good man Jeep, the thing I need the most motivation to do is exercise. I can handle the portions/nutritional intake/food journalling just fine. When the weather was better and I was living in Cleveland, I found the energy it took to get home and hop onto my bike for a nice 20 minute ride along the lake (and then added ten minutes to the ride as I started getting stronger) -- after that I had physical energy built up to follow a bike ride up with 15-20 minutes of interval training (i.e. yoga stretching with 3 minute intervals of aerobic activity). That was awesome.

But now the weather is craptastic and if I get on my bike, I am exhausted by the time I reach the end of my street let alone have enough energy to bike it to the nearest park. I'm not comfortable riding in traffic, which I would have to do to ride to the park in teh firts place. I need an indoor bike play with while I watch TV during the winter months. In fact....I think that will be my next investment.

...now I need motivation to save up money for an exercise bike. Shit.

I soooo have to lose weight! I came back from my summer holidays and found I couldn't comfortably wear my old jeans. That doesn't happen to guys. I don't want to have to buy a new wardrobe because of middle age spread. If I start down that slope now, there's no telling where it will end.

My biggest problem at the moment is the New Year celebration mindset. You do two or three weeks of christmas parties and new years stuff and it just all sort of spirals out of control. Having freinds on holiday still and raring to party at the drop of a hat doesn't help.

It's time to get back into the healthy old, socially non-involved internet again I guess. Someone be entertaining damnit!


- Soul

I'll join. I lost a little bit of weight in the last year since I started going to the gym, but I never got down to where I wanted to be. Not to mention the fact that I gained a lot in the past few months due to stooopid jobs and the holidays.

Anyone want to IM/PM/e-mail me for support, go ahead.

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Originally posted by Chad The Wanderer:
I thought if we could all just give up one TV show that we liked a day we could fit that 1.4 percent in a snap.

I say we all give up Seinfeld. Or maybe that Raymond show. Everybody loves Raymond or whatever it is.

Sure, they tell you it's only 1.4% of your time. That's how those health-nuts drag you in. The thing they dont tell you about that 1.4% is that then you have to spend another 1.4% (if you're a guy) or 5% (if you're a girl) cleaning up and getting un-smellified.

Then they get you to buy stuff. Health food, magazines, bikes with moving handlebars that look like torture devices, weekend long spa treatments, and even strange looking shakes.

Pretty soon, your cupbords are full of tofu, you cant walk into your house because all your furniture has turned into clothes hangers (which doubles as excercise equipment), and you're taking a trip to central america with your old buddy Jim Jones drinking Purple cool-aid.

Health Kick I say

Give me a Cheeseburger!!!

Oh yeah, I'm in. 6'3". 211 lbs.