Bdubedub & Bugdude's Weight Loss Journey

Bugdude:Sorry to hear that you're hurt...stay strong even though things are going well right now.

Bdubedub: No matter how many times you fall you've got to get back up and keeping playing the game of life.
 
Lost another 3.4 this week.... so 8.4 first week, 2nd 3.4 and 3rd 3.4... I have lost 5% of my body weight now... lets aim for 10% body weight and 30 lbs next. Ive lost a total of 15.2 in 3 weeks.
 
Looks like im headed for another 3+lbs loss this week... could be 3.4 again for the 3rd week which is really weird but Id take it lol
 
Cool!!! I've been holding steady, but need to get back on the wagon. Hopefully soon. Been busy painting one of my cars, taking them to car shows, playing some golf, taking the kids fishing...always something going on in the summer.
 
Well this week was my second best week of weight loss - I lost an amazing 6 lbs in 6 days!! SO HAPPY! :) Puts my total at 25.4lbs since June 17th.
 
Dude, been busy with life stuff...work, kids, home. I'm ashamed to say that I gained back up to over 300 since my last post. BUT, I'm glad to report that as of today I'm sitting on exactly 270. Unfortunately, I lost it the hard way (stress and anxiety), but hey, the silver lining to it is I have a good head start to healthy weight loss...and I'm working with my physician on managing the stress appropriately. So, now I just need to continue eating smart and get my butt back on the treadmill!!!! I've been a little hesitant to get back on it since the knee surgery...I think its just a convenient excuse, but I'll get back on it. I miss my music in the mornings and the physical release of working out...might be a really good way to deal with the stress!!!


Sorry to have been away so long...I'll try to be a better support companion and do better on my goals too. We'll get there!!!!!!!
 
Its now October 12th, how are you doing? I got off track for nearly 3 weeks & gained a ton back also... Im kind of bored with weight loss. Not sure why, just lost all motivation.
 
Well, I'm steadily moving in the right direction but it isn't due to efforts to lose weight...been dealing with stress and anxiety. I think a combination of anxiety and medication is killing my appetite and upsetting my stomach but it is definitely helping with the anxiety. I've got some big life issues and decisions going on right now and it has all just been wearing me out, physically and otherwise. Also causing insomnia, which just makes it worse. I'm doing all I can do to address the root cause as well as the symptoms, but that entails major life decisions which present their own challenges and anxieties. All those years as a kid wishing to be grown up and now that I am I just wish I could go back to being a carefree kid again. Youth is wasted on the young.


I'll be fine, just a difficult time with difficult decisions. I'll do what I have to do, and things will be fine once settled down...and then I can concentrate on a regimine of exercise and I'll have a head start in the weight loss category. I'm already making better eating decisions, now just got to get it all together.


Enough about me: Let's talk about what's going on with you.


Bored, lost motivation. What do you think is causing you to feel this way? Are you experiencing anxiety and depression? If so, is it the cause or the effect of weight changes? Sometimes you have to really focus on it for a couple weeks and then take a week and just chill on it a tad to prevent plateau. That keeps you from getting bored when you look at it as phases. I hope that helps some, let me know if I can help in any way.
 
Where you at man? I gained all my weight back over winter yet again, Ive not lost 14 lbs in about 3 weeks.
 
Dude, I've been gone a while and just now getting back on the forum. I changed jobs and moved 730 miles to Florida. My Father-in-law also passed away this past summer. That's been painful as we were tight buds for the last 24 years. Lots of traveling, golf, etc. together.


I had a check-up a while back and I was up to 322 pounds. The most I've ever weighed. The worst part (if you can imagine a worse part) was it appears I'm now diabetic. So, I've educated myself about diabetes, diet, exercise, etc. and have gotten back on the bandwagon. I'm planning meals every day and eating 6 times per day. I'm also walking 3.8 miles every other day and have now worked up to a little light running during the walk. So far, I've lost 30 pounds in the last 2 months. So I'm under 300 again and plan on staying under it.


I hope you get back on the forum and let me know what's going on. We need to get back with the program.
 
Went to a halloween party with a huge spread of food and beer. I stuck with the carrots and little tomatoes and only 1 beer. No candy. Took the kids trick-or-treating and then passed our a ton of candy. I never ate a single piece. Man, it's hard too. Oh well, gotta stick with the plan if I want to keep all of my apendages. Next are my two kids birthday parties, then Thanksgiving and Christmas. Tough time of year to stick with it, but well on my way.
 
Wow, you managed to get through Halloween without eating any candy? How? I think the rest of us could learn from you!
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Pure determination I guess. We had both of our kids birthday parties this past weekend. One Saturday and one Sunday. Those were harder than Halloween. More junk food than I care to mention. I was able to stick to some fruit and cheese for the most part, a couple small nibbles of stuff not on the list, but if that's the worst I do then I'm doing great. One thing I also did after the parties was throw out the leftover junk so I wouldn't be tortured by it for days on in. So now back to the daily grind (which isn't too bad). I've got to do really good between now and Thanksgiving (we will be out of town visiting family and it is always harder to stick to when out of my normal element). I need to amp up my exercise just a little and focus. I've been walking (incorporating some jogging in there too) and hour every other day. I'd like to do 40 minutes each day, but sticking to every day is difficult with my schedule.


One thing I keep trying to tell myself is if I do stray from my ultra strict diet plan, don't completely blow it. There's a big difference between briefly getting a couple wheels off the pavement and completely running off the road and through the woods. And the other thing is even if it is a little swerve or a complete crash, just get back on the road and don't let it be the end of the journey. It's just a bump in the road.


There are always going to be obstacles and distractions...I'm just trying to develop a better perspective on dealing with them.
 
Hey bud! Sorry to hear of the passing & the diabetes. I just started 11/25/12 again to lose weight, my weigh in was 330.0lbs... 10lbs away from my heaviest weight ever. I have been doing great so far, im only weighing once a week, but I can feel that im losing weight already. Every Sunday I will weigh in & post here of my weight. I really want to get down to 200 and I want to be 250 before June or right at for the summertime so im not a fat mess! So I need to lose 80lbs in 7 months. I can so do that! I think I can lose around 100lbs in 7 months...now that would be amazing! Just like you said I have to stick with it and when I hit a bump in the road get back on... alot of times Ill eat a bad meal and say screw it I ate one bad meal the others might as well be too! If I eat bad one time... eat good the rest of the day... thats my problem! Over the last 5 months I started eating full size xlarge pizzas by myself! The WHOLE thing and even breadsticks! Bowls of pasta... meals that would feed 2-3 people... totally disgusting and ridicoulous. Ive been going through ALOT.. I had lost my job for 5 months, found one... then 4 months later Ive been out of work 6 weeks now. Also found out wife had a 13 month affair on October 20th so im dealing with that & dealing with lots of money issues etc... its VERY difficult to stay focused! I feel like eating is the ONLY time im happy. My backpain has returned extremely bad, this time on the other side, same symptoms and pain as the exact other side except this time its WORSE! I had 2 steriod injections in my back last year I see more this year on the other side. I have a dr appt tomorrow to get pain pills for my back, im sure she will send me for more testing to see whats going on with the other side now... BLAH! I wish I hadnt quit Weight Watchers or I could still afford it! Id gotten down to 260lbs or so.. my lowest ever! I looked great! Here was the before pic at WW and then my last pic hunting... (Sorry for the hunting pic to those that dont like hunting, its all I have) The deer pic is what I looked like after losing about 40lbs on WW... the other pic is me currently... I looked so good then or started too at least!
 
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