Losing weight while you sleep ?

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Losing weight while you sleep ?
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Wed, 02-04-2004 - 5:42am

I thought I would see how much I would lose over night..went to bed at 9:30(dunno how I went to sleep so early..I never do that!) and woke at 4....276 at 9pm 272 at 4am...what gives ?wearing the exact same thing etc etc...


Did a google on losing weight whiloe asleep and didn't find anything .


So anyone else up this early am ? ~hugs~

April mom to Adam and Blake


http://www.babyhomepages.net/blakeluv/

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Mon, 02-09-2004 - 9:49pm
Do you honestly think that when people question your claims it's out of jealousy or because they've failed at weight loss? Please.


Edited 2/10/2004 2:44:18 AM ET by jess9802
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Mon, 02-09-2004 - 11:28pm

I dont think anyone is attacking you for succeeding or anyone else for that matter.

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Wed, 02-11-2004 - 1:40pm
One_summer,

That sounds so REASONABLE! Where were you when I was just starting out losing weight? Like you, I had a lot of weight to lose and it's taken me since summertime--since July-- but finally I've lost 116 pounds, reached goal weight, and am feeling great. But I started out following a diet "plan" (not the one most people are on here) and eventually did my own. But that took a while, beforehand. I use to come to the board but found out that I could do it better on my own. And as I said, your way just sounds so much more sensible than most of the contortions people go through here. As I understand it, you just determined "goal weight" and then ate the number of calories a person at that goal weight should? Just making good food choices and throwing in a bit of exercise? That's pretty much the way I ended up, but it took a while to come to that conclusion. As they say, it's not rocket surgery (ha) though some people seem bound and determined to turn it into that.

I hope you're enjoying your new self, as much as I'm enjoying mine. Have you reached that goal weight yet, or are you still working toward it? I may have missed something wading through these other posts and all the back biting some folks have been hurling at you. Anyway, good for you!!!!!

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Wed, 02-11-2004 - 2:11pm
Well, as an observer (and former poster) it looks like more of the same old same old and one of the chief reasons I don't post here. It looks like jealousy, a big heaping dose of it, just like one-summer pointed out. And what's really interesting, when I left the boards, you were in the middle of it way back then too. Curious thing, isn't it!

It doesn't seem that one-summer has done anything "wrong" about losing weight, other than possibly she's lost a lot more than you have and she's done it a lot quicker and that really bites, doesn't it.

I'm going to take her part here. it's the most sensible thing I've ever heard of to do as she describes. So she didn't go on a "diet" at all. All she did was determine a good personal weight, and then eat AS IF she was already at goal. And by doing that, she got to goal.

Near as I can recall, you have weighed pretty much the same thing ever since you first came to this board last summer....haven't you? I distinctly remember your best friend coming onto the board, when you got into the middle of another row, just to point out how *successful* you were, since you were under 200 lbs. So I see, at least 7 months have passed since that happened, and you are still basically at the same point. And during that time this woman one-summer has lost over 100 lbs it seems. And so have I, in fact. In point of fact, while you've been staying the same....or roughly the same....I've lost 118 lbs. So how many pounds has one-summer lost, because I'm seeing it's over 100 lbs since summertime? Yes, I can see the source of your nose-out-of-joint and, funny thing, with you it's the same thing it's always been. Other people are more successful and you get bent out of shape over it. The more time passes, the more some things stay exactly the same it appears.

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Wed, 02-11-2004 - 2:21pm
That's what it sounds like from here! I agree with her. Why else would you make such a fuss?
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Wed, 02-11-2004 - 2:27pm
But one-summer was right. And it's dishonest to ask one-summer how she lost the weight and then to call her a liar when she explains it to you. I for one use to post here long ago, and then I saw this same pattern happen far too often. It gets in the way of weight loss. Frankly, I had more success after leaving the fold here and a big part of that was the stress this kind of foolishness puts on you, whether you realize it or not. As proof of that assertion, I'm noting that the few old regulars from that time period are STILL fat, STILL struggling with the same old weight. While I for one have reached goal too since summertime. Sooner or later, if you really and truly want to stop being fat, then you have to get down to business and just do it....and stop attacking other people who are more successful. My sincerest congrats to one-summer! Good for her> And as I said, I lost all 118 lbs that I needed to, since July too. It's easy, really it is. It just involves not messing around. Maybe you'll figure that out, and maybe not. But good for one-summer and others like her who got down to business, and did what needed to be done for health and long life.
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Wed, 02-11-2004 - 2:31pm
I am new here and really confused on all this BUT how did you do it ursaluna, the same way?

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Wed, 02-11-2004 - 2:59pm
Because my professional training has taught me the intrinsic value of confrontation, and because, quite frankly, I don't think it's possible to lose 20 pounds a month through calorie reduction and an easy walk around the block three times a week.
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Wed, 02-11-2004 - 3:00pm
I guess my main question is why do

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Wed, 02-11-2004 - 3:06pm
And btw, just for your entertainment....On June 7th I weighed 225 pounds, on Aug 4th I weighed 207, on Oct 6th I hit 189 and well, you see where I am right now.

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