Fat Free?

[noflyingfan]

I don't know if anybody reads the blogs on here, but I've been posting pretty regularly re: my quest to shed the last 10 lbs. that make me jiggle in the wrong places.

I've lost four so far. It's been a month or so I think, so four pounds isn't really stellar, but I'm going in the right direction, so I'm happy. Besides, the last 10 is always hard, or at least I think it must be because I've never gone this far before. All I can say is, thank goodness for fat free chocolate pudding.

Giving me new motivation, my mom is renting a condo at the beach over Labor Day Weekend. This means I have to go bathing suit shopping for the first time in five years, and now I wonder if the last 10 should really be the last 15 or 20.

Why can't they make swimsuits like this anymore? I would look great in that.
http://www.coololdstuff.com/bathing/bathing1.jpg

Or this!
http://www.coololdstuff.com/bathing/pinup1.jpg

[EyesSkyward]

It's been a month or so I think, so four pounds isn't really stellar
What, a pound a week? That's actually pretty good. That's "real" weight loss. Way to go! :cheers:

- Jeff

P.S. Check out the dude in the background of that first pic. Now that's a bathing suit!

[Insert Clever Name Here]

A pound a week is excellent! Medically speaking, if you go too much more than that it isn't healthy for you, and most of what you'd be losing would be water, not the extra weight you want to lose!

Keep it up! I've changed my diet a good bit and exercise a lot more than I used to trying to lose the weight I've gained this year. It's tough, but it's all about motivation and how strong you are - you're doing great!

[Barb-SAN]

P.S. Check out the dude in the background of that first pic. Now that's a bathing suit!

Well, that's a novel solution to the problem of whether to belt your pants above or below the belly! :eek:

[noflyingfan]

What, a pound a week? That's actually pretty good. That's "real" weight loss. Way to go! :cheers:


I suppose you're right. I've lost some in terms of inches too. I guess I'm just used to being fattier and losing more at a time because there's more to lose. Usually people are supposed to average about two pounds a week I think.

[Lynda]

You are doing great!

I am a hopeless case, can't get myself motivated at all.

[scaredy_cat]

I started a work-out thing this week. I go for 30 min sessions, 3 or 4 days a week. First time ever exercising so we'll see how it goes, but I gotta lose this extra 25 pounds I've packed on in the last couple years!

[noflyingfan]

Keep up with it. It always feels so good...to be done! Seriously, I'm never sorry that I took the time to go to the gym, but I'm always sorry if I didn't.

[scaredy_cat]

I never wanted to be a stick girl and don't find them appealing, but I DO have about 25 pounds more than my normal size so its driving me crazy. That's what I get for moving in with a chef huh? lol. I blame him for feeding me to well!
I've never exercised before so I'm hoping it will shock my body into losing weight!

[noflyingfan]

Newsflash for all you victims of the fashion press... contrary to what you may have been led to believe, women are SUPPOSED to jiggle in places. There is nothing about the Kate Moss type that is particularly appealing to most men. She's just there because women think she's pretty.

Yeah, but do you ever look at a really attractive girl and go, "wow, look at that flab on her arms. Break me off a piece of that."

I think I look fine. I eat pretty healthy and I work out. I don't really look like I need to lose weight, but I want to get in better shape. My main thing now is getting rid of that "muffin" thing where I have fat over the waist of my pants. It's not a lot, but it makes me feel kind of gross.

Plus I'm getting close to 30, which I hear is the age when everything goes to crap. And I haven't had any kids yet, which I hear contributes to everything going to crap. So I figure I ought to start from the best possible shape I can.

[scaredy_cat]

Plus I'm getting close to 30, which I hear is the age when everything goes to crap. And I haven't had any kids yet, which I hear contributes to everything going to crap. So I figure I ought to start from the best possible shape I can.

I was 33 when everything went to crap, lol. Now I'm just trying to bounce back from it a bit before it gets any worse!

[noflyingfan]

The good thing is, I've been just this side of the perfect weight all my life. I've never been fat, but I've never been skinny either. I've always been average with a bit of extra padding.

I feel for those people who are rail thin all their lives only to balloon up when their metabolism starts to go before they even know what happened. I can't wait till it happens to my sister though. :nod:

[scaredy_cat]

I was the same way. Never fat, never thin, was "just right" my whole life, and thats why its so hard to deal with having some extra right now. I'm off to my work-out after work today though :)

[beeinatree]

calvin klein makes a swimsuit like that. i think it is really nice and in the old hollywood glamour style. i own one. and i like it a lot.

i guess im a little different than most women. im very modest. i have always been that way, even when i was a bit thinner.

i got the link here. it is on sale! i think its pretty and i got a lot of compliments on it. it is an old style, but a young woman could wear it because it is form-fitting and not baggy like some skirted suits.

it fits in all the right places. but the cups bunch up and need to be straightened after a washing if you do buy one. thats the only problem with that.

http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=176799&CategoryID=8699&LinkType=EverGreen

[Agne]

I read your blog regurarly, your doing great!

I want to lose weight too, two kilos at least. I don't want to do anything drastic, just losing weight eating healthier food and exercising. I used to exercize a lot in the winter (swimming twice a week and playing tennis once) but all the activities ended in May, so probably I've put on weight after that. I don't like the gym, also because the options in my gym are six months (but it's still to expensive), one year or more. You can't do one month. If you do, the girl will call you every day until or you choose to do one year or you kill her. I thought of going running in the evening, but I can't because at 7 pm it's still very hot (over 32°C). Then when it's dark it's too dangerous. I think I will walk for an hour every morning or evening: could it work? And maybe swim sometimes.

I'd like to lose two kilos in two weeks. Is it too much? I find it difficult to think in pounds. How much is a pound?

[noflyingfan]

I read your blog regurarly, your doing great!

I want to lose weight too, two kilos at least. I don't want to do anything drastic, just losing weight eating healthier food and exercising. I used to exercize a lot in the winter (swimming twice a week and playing tennis once) but all the activities ended in May, so probably I've put on weight after that. I don't like the gym, also because the options in my gym are six months (but it's still to expensive), one year or more. You can't do one month. If you do, the girl will call you every day until or you choose to do one year or you kill her. I thought of going running in the evening, but I can't because at 7 pm it's still very hot (over 32°C). Then when it's dark it's too dangerous. I think I will walk for an hour every morning or evening: could it work? And maybe swim sometimes.

I'd like to lose two kilos in two weeks. Is it too much? I find it difficult to think in pounds. How much is a pound?

You can convert things here (http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/WeightConverter.html). It looks like two kilos is about five pounds.

Agne, walking is great for you. Especially if you walk briskly and take some music with you.

[WillFlyToDisney]

Agne, walking is great for you. Especially if you walk briskly and take some music with you.

Just don't ask Erika to recommend music... we all know she ONLY listens to GUNTHER! :angel:

[noflyingfan]

Nah, I listen to a lot of bad pop music when I exercise. It's the only way to go.