Mellon's Weight Loss Journey

Hi njoyable... thanks for posting!

Yeah, it's crazy. I seem to do well with the low-carb diets. Not the high-fat Atkins, but the South Beach specifically seems to keep me energized, and the food is really good, so it's nice to have things that are tasty. Like all diets, it takes some effort to cut beans, steam/ process cauliflower, prep chicken and lettuce, etc. but it's getting more routine. And pretty soon, and I am going to be able to go work in a prep-house for fine dining if my chopping skills continue to improve :p.

I know the plateau is coming soon! I thought it was going to be this week, because I sat for a few days but it was encouraging to see the scale drop this morning. I know that moving my 220 pound body a month ago, took much more energy than moving my 203 pound body today, so I am going to have to incrimentily increase the amount that I work out/ excersise to maintain the same progression w/ weight loss!

I also did something a little bit different this time. Last time, I went all or nothing with the weight loss. Went to the gym for freakin' hours at a time. After a month, I did great weight-wise but was killed and burnt out. This time I am taking it progressively. I started with the eating, and have been working in the exercise. I have always loved the gym, but now I am 30 years old and it's been several years since I was big time, clearly I was not ready last time I was at the gym!

Thanks again for the support, I'm just going to keep on keeping on!
 
Day something... :p.. ha.

Last night was crazy! Went to the Green Day concert, they played for 3 hours and some change, that was nuts!

For the concert, I took a salad and some celery/hummus (in individual portions). Took water, and that is it. I was worried about being at a concert and wanting to have a few beers but having the concert on the weekday actually was a blessing in disguise, because if it was a weekend, could have been much crazier, and more high glycimic index carbs! (beer).

Didn't lose any weight, even with a 4 mile walk yesterday, plus the concert, but I knew that I was going to plateau sometime, and it seems like sometime is now. I am going to try and keep the excercise up, with 3-4 miles/ day and keep the really rigid diet to make sure that I can keep the weight loss down.

It felt great at the concert last night to have my jeans fitting a little better. They are still my fat jeans :p, but they are now LOOSE fat jeans haha...

keeping on keeping on....

-Mel
 
That was smart bringing your own food to the concert. I was lucky when I went to the Reba concert that I still had a couple months to go before being 21, so I didnt have the beer problem. Good job on the loss so far, and dont let your mind even think the word plateau. I bet you'll be dropping again really soon. Keep up the good work!
 
Freakin' Hungry!! I have been really hungry in the last couple of days. I have not changed anything, I guess I am just working out a little more, something, but it's making me hungry!

xorie, that good not to have to worry about the beer haha...
 
ah (sigh of relief),

Just the motivation I needed to keep pluggin away the way I have been in the last few weeks.

I woke up this morning, and reached down to rub the belly... felt smaller, so decided it was a good day for a weigh-in :p haha.... I lost 1.2 pounds from yesterday! Sweet!!

I didn't want to excersise yesterday, and I was really hungry most of the day, not a winning combination of weight loss. I got off my butt, and got some solid exercise in anyway, turned out to be good. And instead of celery + peanut butter, or celery + hummus, I decided to go celery + Light laughing cow cheese, only 35 calories/ wedge. Had 3 wedges for desert, with about 6 slices of celery. Definitly filled the belly up with food, felt much better after eating!

Alright, lets go for a repeat today. Opening night of college football!!
 
What am I working towards:

I needed to write down some goals, to get myself in tune with some realistic goals, keep me motivated!

what I want:

To fit into my clothes - since I am a dude, I don't have a ton of clothes, but there was a period of time right after college about 4-5 years ago that I had some extra money from bartending, and bought a couple of pairs of designer jeans. I loved them for going to vegas, going out with the wife, etc. I would love to fit into those again, but they are waiting at my goal, they will not fit BEFORE my goal!

Not un-related are my work clothes. Before I gained the weight, I started the new job and got some sweet suits, some sweet ties and dress clothes. Most, if not all of what I wear right now is fat suits, and other clothes that I bought as I gained weight

Not be ashamed of my weight

I love to hang out with friends & family, and living in southern california, there is year-round outdoor activity. I have not even been comfortable in t-shirts, opting for sweats in many situations, no matter what the temperature is. This is big for me, because I hate being hot. But my personal comfort gets a back seat to embarassment, so it will be nice to wear t-shirts and shorts again.

My Knee

My doctor told me earlier this week that every pound overweight I am, it adds 8 pounds of pressure to my joint, so every 10 pounds is 80 less pounds on the joint during walking, etc. Since I have lost almost 20 pounds, that is already 160 pounds of force off the knee when I walk.

If I can lose the weight, almost 50 pounds, it's like taking 400 pounds of strain off the knee that I am using all the time.

I have a hidden agenda :p... I LOVE snowboarding, and have been doing it for a long, long time. I have not been able to do it for a couple years because of surgeries, and my doctor is not happy with the extra weight, thinking it will mess up the knee.

Lose the weight by this November/ early December, back on the board!

Pain: the knee is always sore, and losing that weight will really take some of the pain away from the arthritis. I have never been skinny again, since my first surgery so many of the operations have been deemed "moderately" instead of 'completely' successful, because of the pain. But we'll see what happens when I lose some weight!

Alright, I can hopefully look back and find this. Maybe I will copy it onto my opening to be able to locate easily!
 
Heya congratulations on your weight loss so far! It seems like taking things slow is the only way to go keep up the good work! :)
 
xRougex said:
Heya congratulations on your weight loss so far! It seems like taking things slow is the only way to go keep up the good work! :)
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Hey Rogue,

Yeah, I don't know the answers! :iamwithstupid: haha... I am mostly just trying to do this at a pace that does not make me bummed/ burned out! I would try different ways...

I also get pumped up when I lose solid weight, so I guess I am all over the place...
 
Still Truckin'

Alright, just about a month into my weight-loss journey, and as of this morning down 19.4 pounds!!!

Agh! So close to being sub, 200... I can't wait till the scale is consistently below the 200 pound mark, it will be like being half-way up the mountain, so close, and still going strong!

Going to be traveling for work in the middle of September, and while it will no doubt be difficult for the diet, it will be nice to fit into my business clothes!

:pumpkin:

(Halloween is on the way)
 
:party::party::party::party::party::party:

Heck yeah!

Just weighed myself this morning, and down to BELOW 200!!! for the first time in a long time!

I was worried, because we hung out with the neighbors last night till 3 am, had a few cocktails. I was on my 3rd or 4th, and thougt... not yet, not after all this hard work, and switched back to water. So glad I did!

That was an exciting way to start the longggg weekend!

-Mellon
 
Melancholy said:
:party::party::party::party::party::party:

Heck yeah!

Just weighed myself this morning, and down to BELOW 200!!! for the first time in a long time!

I was worried, because we hung out with the neighbors last night till 3 am, had a few cocktails. I was on my 3rd or 4th, and thougt... not yet, not after all this hard work, and switched back to water. So glad I did!

That was an exciting way to start the longggg weekend!

-Mellon
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ONEDERLAND!!!! ;):party::party:
 
Aw man, xorie... guess it can't be all sparkles and sunshine!

I am not bummed, just some normal fluctuation in weight.

I was very, very skeptical about the timing of my sub-200 weight in. It was Sat. morning, right before we left for a 2 day trip to the beach house!

I even brought snacks, etc. but the alcohol and other little dinners that were fattier than I have been making on my own proved to be a little too much. I added back a few pounds, which isn't too bad. I just know how fragile weight is early on in the process, so I need to make sure that I step it up, get some more excersise to make sure I compensate. I thought I did work out quite a bit while at the beach, but ah well... have to keep going forward.

I would be lying if I said I was not a little bummed out, especially since it's been a year since I saw sub-200 weight... I need to get down to about 195 before I can have enough buffer to handle a whole weekend of partying/ hanging with friends... back on track, started today out right already!
 
Yeah, what a swing! I must have been bloated from drinking, that is my guess. In one night, lost 3 pounds. Now, to be fair that brings me 0.2 pounds from where I was on SATURDAY!! (grrrr), so it's not really losing, just getting calibrated to that lower weight. I will be very excited when the scale gets to 198, and I can bank on seeing sub-200 weight ins for at least a little while :).

I have some major travel for work coming up. It seems when I dine out, even if I follow a strict routine, it's just not the same as eating at home healthy. I just can't get the same results, or seem to even maintain. All the chicken, etc. is cooked in so much freakin' oil, so much butter and salt that it's just not conducive to eat 3 meals/ day for 2 weeks. So I am hoping to get down to 195 before I take my multi-week trip, and get some excercise in while I am out there... really keep it moderated. At least for now I am back down!
 
Alright, back down again! Finally. Back to onderland haha :p...

I guess I just need to keep the food real tight, and keep it moving forward. Keep walking, keep working out with the knee brace.

I have been thinking about getting a weight-vest, something that goes to 20 pounds, etc. Anyone have something like that? A-la biggest loser? Did it hurn anyone's back??

Thanks!!

-Mellon
 
Hi Mellon,

Weight is a strange thing I will never understand - so many times I have had a really good week, ate well and little, exercised like a madman, and put on weight. Then another time I will think i've slipped up big style after a bad week and find i've lost a few pounds!

The main thing I think is water - there's so much of it in our bodies and it's so heavy our hydration levels are bound to have a major effect.

Re the weight vest, I would be wary of the extra weight and the effect it might have on your knee. We are already putting extra strain on our poor joints by being overweight.

All the best!
Dave
 
Yeah Dave, that is great point about the weight and the knee. In the back of my head, I thought about the ramifications on the knee, but was hoping that doing my excercise while having the extra 20lbs or so, will also help me re-achieve the more-rapid weight loss typically seen early on! We all know that moving around 220 pounds vs. 199 pounds burns more calories, but I might as well just dig in, and get ready for second half of the weight loss, the slow and steady grind!

Thanks, I've been reading your story now, lot's of support you seem to be getting, and it's very exctiting!
 
What else are you using right now?

Ugh, stuck here for what seems like a long time. I know it's really not in the grand scheme of things, but I have been really stepping up the work-out schedule, and really eating well in the last week or so (on top of what I have been doing for the last month). I seem to have leveled out for now, I just don't know. The thing is, I feel like I am losing weight, but I can't tell in the mirror, and I don't know what other way to guage weight-loss. I don't have a way to measure waist, so I dunno about that either.

Is there anything else, something querky that people use to measure their weight loss when they are not losing actual pounds? I am not doing weight, I am walking some serious hills, about 4-5 miles and have lost JACK! haha...

Alright, time to sit around and wait for some breakfast time to get closer. THanks for the help!

-Mellon
 
Freakin' Persistent Plateau

Man, just pluggin' along, and SITTING on the same freakin' weight!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:... can't be too mad, because I am making progress. But there is some serious stuff going on here haha.

I have not changed my diet, but have evolved it to be even more restrictive, and even more consistent. I have walked/ excersized even more than I did in week 1-4, yet sittin' at 2 straight weeks with no change!! That is crazy. I am happy to be able to maintain the weight I would like to be at, but do not want to maintain this weight haha...

Alright, just have to keep on keeping on. Not un-motivated yet, but ready to start seeing a small, anything reduction on that damn scale!

-Mellon
 
still.... treading.... freakin'...water... I guess I need to take some time-out for a little bit from working out. I don't think that I am getting any results, and it seems to be making my body angry! (My feet, back, and knee are all sore). I really am bummed that I am just sitting here perpetually, not even so much as 0.5lb is coming off... just treading water at 199... forever!!
 
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