Wednesday Weigh-In Feb. 11, 2009
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done to lose weight?
Being fat, you sometimes get desperate to lose weight and you sometimes do some crazy things to try and drop pounds more quickly than you should.
I remember a few occasions where I wanted to lose weight in a hurry, all of them involving a girl that I wanted to impress.
I would work out a lot, stop eating, or attempt to lose 100 pounds in water weight in a steam room in one afternoon.
Of course, such last minute tactics never work. Most of them, in fact, have negative side effects.
- Work out too much and you could burn out or injure yourself (done that)
- Stop eating and you will slow down your metabolism and make it harder to lose weight
- The steam room thing might work for a couple pounds in a pinch, but you usually feel like crap
As crazy as I was to believe I could drop a lot of pounds quickly, or that the weight loss would even make that much of a difference to whatever girl I was trying to impress, I never really tried anything too crazy like a coffee enema or something you hear about other people doing.
How about you? What’s the wackiest thing you’ve ever done in attempt to lose weight? How did it work out for you?
Now, for the weekly Wednesday Weigh-In
Tara Cain
Is it possible to be too busy to lose weight?
I only ask because that’s how it feels for me right now.
Trying to get my fledgling business off the ground is taking up every moment of my time as I am trying to fit as much in as I can in those precious hours between dropping the children off at school and picking them up in the afternoon.
So I haven’t walked all week, I’ve eaten on the run and I’ve reached for the chocolate when I needed a boost. And I feel so silly because I know the only reason I need a boost is because I’m not exercising.
But hey ho, that’s life I suppose.
The stats: Tara Cain
- Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 168 lbs.
- Goal weight: 140 lbs.
- Weight last week: 163 lbs.
- Weight today: 164lbs
- Amount lost this week: +1 lb
David Wright
The weight loss slowed down a bit this week, to a more reasonable two pound loss. Which is good, considering my hectic schedule last week and that I pigged out a couple of times on pasta.
The stats: David Wright
- Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 350 lbs.
- Goal weight: 250 lbs.
- Weight last week: 334 lbs.
- Weight today: 329 lbs.
- Amount lost this week: 2 lbs.
- Total lost since Nov. 19: 21 pounds
Now it’s your turn. Share your success (or setback) story with us.
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Update
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@ Tara – your weight will likely go up and down a bit. Look at the over all stats – still showing a loss. Keep it up girlfriend!
@Dave – oh pasta – it gets us sometimes. You’re doing great though!
I haven’t done much before to loose weight. Perhaps that’s a benefit to my trying this time…
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Down 1.3 lbs from last week. Details in the CommentLuv link.
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Tara Cain Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
You are doing just great Avlor and you’re a real kick up the pants for me!
It’s a good job someone around here has a level head!
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Tara, I’m with you on the gain thing… gained a pound last week but I know why – cos I was rubbish! I need to get my arse in gear for my goal of being a fit and healthy 40 but during the past couple of weeks I seem to have lost my motivation. Must be the season for it! Keep going and we’ll get there!
Dave – weird things to loose weight? I did that cabbage soup thing once – yuk! And one day when expecting a visit from an errant boyfriend I didn’t eat all day so I would have a flat tummy! Which was stupid because there was nothing of me then… an 18 year old’s logic!
Sorry to see Dave F is going… hope you guys can keep this one going. I confess to too much blogging at times and have now put myself on restriction at certain times… it’s too addictive!
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Tara Cain Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
You did the Cabbage soup diet! I didn’t think I’d meet anyone in my lifetime who’d ever done that. I thought it was a myth!
DW and I are keeping going because we need to go somewhere every week to keep us motivated – and we’re too cheap to pay for WeightWatchers!
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Mike Goad Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
You mean you didn’t like all of that cabbage? When I was eating it, that’s all I was eating. I guess it wasn’t all that healthy, but I did lose weight. However, that was back in the early 90s and I just can’t bring myself to do the cabbage thing again.
Mike Goad’s last blog post..Change of Seasons 2009
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Strangest weight-loss? You mean aside from throwing up for a solid month during a break-up? Lost 20 pounds over that one. Um, I tried the Suzanne Sommers diet. High fat, high protein, zero wheat. I lost weight, but I was afraid of the overall health implications.
Tara, there is a time and place for everything. Understandable you focusing your energy elsewhere. It will all balance out in the end.
No weight stats today. See my commentluv for why. However, I am going the 100 push up challenge, so here’s my stats for that:
From the knee push ups (can’t seem to do plank ones!) maximums/day:
Day 1 – 3
Day 2 – 5
Day 3 – 6
Day 4 – 9
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Tara Cain Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Ah yes, the heartbreak diet.
There is a girl who works at my son’s afterschool club and she has lost so much weight on that diet and she looks amazing. Miserable as hell, but she looks great!
Your ‘diet’ experience speaks volumes about what we are trying to do here – it’s all about a lifestyle change and making sure it fits in with every day and not have any worrying health implications.
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Yeah, I’m getting worse. I think I’ve been nervous eating. Unfortunately, it hasn’t involved apples and oranges. At least I’m aware.
Writer Dad’s last blog post..Hi, My Name is Sean Platt. I’m a Ghostwriter
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Tara Cain Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
That’s so funny WD. We never comfort eat with stuff that’s good for us do we!
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I got 4 more pounds of water weight off so that brings the 11 pound gain down 5 pounds all together….My walking is getting much better and the pain is truly localized now, it is just constant…getting 6-7 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night is helping too.
I am off in 5 minutes to get a massage which I think will truly help significantly
Blood pressure is getting closer to normal range everyday.
Lots of good signs.
I just did the stupidest thing to lose weight. I ordered Acai supplement and Colon Cleanse free 15 day trial off someone’s blog…..paid for the mail…now I am going to have to get a lawyer to turn the spigot off…for not canceling within 10 days of shipment date. They are sending me a month supply for $78.84 – if they will give me a return mail number/which they will not because I am canceling….they will give me back $60.00
You should see these two little bottles….for all this money…and they turn out to be the same thing you could get at your local pharmacy/ grocery store for $1.50 or so and no one needs a Colon cleanse that is not based on eating real food….This is about $.50 worth of green tea in a fancy medicine bottle….Be ware….
I called my lawyer this morning $300 retainer but I assume she will have the monthly orders stopped by today….BEWARE….a stupid decision…and I haven’t even used or opened the bottles…
What was I thinking?
Patricia’s last blog post..A Romantic Day by Myself
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Tara Cain Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Lots of good news there Patricia. That’s great!
What were you thinking with the **aye aye aye** colon cleanse? Makes me wince just thinking about it. That’s one expensive lesson to learn. You should have to come to us first – we’re free.
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I’m down a pound from last week and made it to the gym 6 days out of 7.
Craziest thing to lose weight? – Karen swears that I lost all that weight back in the mid 90s from starving myself on the cabbage soup diet. I thought it was from working out almost every day for nine months. We’re probably both right.
See the CommentLuv link for more on my week.
Mike Goad’s last blog post..Wednesday Weigh-In, February 11, 2009
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Tara Cain Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Another Cabbage soup dieter. I can’t believe it, two in one place!
I’m guessing it wasn’t the most popular diet with your other halves . . .
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Mike Goad Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Not with my wife, it wasn’t, though she was pretty heroic about making up all that soup. I wouldn’t think of asking her to do it these days.
Mike Goad’s last blog post..Change of Seasons 2009
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