Valuating Pounds..

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Registered: 05-07-2003
Valuating Pounds..
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Sun, 12-31-2006 - 5:29am

I was on the phone with my mother and told her that I had lost 18pds thus far and wanted to loose another 15. She made the comment, and yes I almost fainted, that I had lost alot of weight and should not worry about dieting and exercsing on holiday. I guess growing up I had always thought that 20pds was not alot of weight to have to lose, granted I now see otherwise. I can see why perhaps Americans do tend to weigh more, I think we really do see 20pds as perhaps not much at all whilst the English see it as a phenominal amount of weight. Talking to my bf about this, he made a good point; he weighed my backpack which was about 7kg (about what I have lost) and said now try running with this on or even just walking and feel how difficult it can be. To my surprise it felt heavy. I am really hoping that this last 15pds makes a difference, cuz I feel like perhaps it may not be enough - granted my BMI will be 24, I am worried I will have to lose at least another 10pds after that - make for a total of 40pds - which is pretty intimitating. I can handle the last 15 but 25 does seem daunting. On the other hand I am embarrased that I have to lose more weight and that I have already had to lose the 18; how the hell did I allow myself to become 30pds overweight!

I am looking forward to how I will feel after that and hopefully the adage that after the first intial 10pds, you really start to notice every pd you lose. Thankfully I came back from China having lost at least another kg! This of course was due to the skipping of lunch and all the walking we did. It was just easier and more economical to load up at breakfast and have a small dinner (and I was not hungry, in fact I had a hard time eating so much for breakfast!)

Sorry if my thoughts are wondering a bit, I am a bit jet lag and I fear I am not communicating as well as I would normally.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 01-02-2007 - 8:04am

My thoughts on 'how much to lose' really boils down to how you feel about it at the end of the day. Let's be realistic; the charts, etc....may recommend 40lbs to be the ultimate goal, but if when you reach a 25lb mark you're happy and feel good-- then perhaps that's where you should be. Of course this is just my opinion, and yes we should be aiming for the best 'healthiest' weight, etc....but I really try to keep it all realistic too!


Again, JMO ;-)

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Registered: 12-04-2003
Tue, 01-02-2007 - 5:05pm

I have to say that i agree with IG, see what the next 10 pounds bring, and just keeping setting incremental goals. I know that my body composition has certainly changed and my 36 year old self will look different at 120 pounds than my 18 year old self did!


So don't let yourself become overwhelmed by what you think you have to lose, set some mini-goals and go from there! An 18 pound weight loss is phenomenal, and only you can say where you think you have to go from there!


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Registered: 04-11-2003
Tue, 01-02-2007 - 8:16pm

I agree with IG and Miranda. I think it's important not to be too fixated on a particular "poundage" because it's all a process. Right now I feel I would like to lose 15 pounds but the fact is I may feel perfectly happy with myself if I lose 10. And 10 pounds seems do-able, whereas if I were telling myself I had to lose 25 or 30 pounds, that would seem insurmountable to me right now. So I

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Registered: 05-07-2003
Fri, 01-05-2007 - 11:13am

Thanks for the notes of congrats. I went to the gym today and held 5kgrams in my hand. I tried to imagine how much that would affect my running and walking, etc, just having to carry that weight around all day. I am really looking forward to seeing how I will look 15pds thinner. And my goal is just to be at a healthy bmi - 149 will bring me just inside the mark. It is nice to do a bmi now and have it tell me that I should start to be concerned rather than danger danger. I think above anything else seeing that I am not too far off is motivating enough. Kinda like running, once you get past the brick wall and are within 5mins of the finish line, you get a spurt of energy which will carry you through.

I need to lose a few more pds soon cuz the high I got from the second set of weight loss is going away and I am getting a little sad again, feeling fat as opposed to the woman on holiday who loved looking at her new figure. A little background, I plateaued for about 4months (on purpose to make sure I could keep it off and cuz I relaxed a bit), the entire 19 pds has taken 9months to loose, granted the first 9ds came off in 5 weeks and the other came off in 6.