EA Losers Club - Monday Weigh In 8/13

**taurusmoon** · #1 08-13-2001, 07:46 AM

Hey there boys and girls, it's EA Losers Time!

It's EA Losers Time
It's EA Losers Time
It's EA Losers Time
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Come on everybody, let's welcome Cindy (hadassahchana), our newest member. Hi Cindy, YOU'RE A LOOSAH!

Hmmm, anyone else think it's odd that we have three Cindys/Cyndis in the club? Coincidence? Perhaps.

To commemorate the 50% growth of Cindys in our group (and the foreseeable shrinkage of them), I'm going to declare this Cindy week. For this week we shall all be honorary Cindys. Oh what losers we shall be.

Anyway, back to the business at hand, butt, stomach and/or thighs... how are we doing on our way to our goals? Do we have new goals to set? Or, goals to be adjusted?

Let's not forget a hearty congratulations to Naomi Cindy for fitting beautifully into her dress. Do we get to see a picture?

Sara Cindy

**taurusmoon** · #2 08-13-2001, 08:00 AM

My weight has been doing arpeggios up and down the scale all week. Today's reading is a whopping pound less than last Monday's. (But a half pound more than yesterday

)

But I suppose I should be happy that at least the trend is in the right direction.

Whenever I get into a funk like this I try to motivate myself with a reality check. I relate the weight I've lost to a tangible object and the accomplishment becomes all that more real to me.

My total weight loss thus far? Two regulation bowling balls. If you haven't had the pleasure of shlepping bowling balls, let me tell you, they're heavy.

To commemorate my milestone I'm starting a club within a club. What object(s) have you lost? Or what object(s) would you like to see gone? Make an object your goal and have a body garage sale. You'll be amazed at what you can get rid of.

Sara Cindy

jenninca · #3 08-13-2001, 08:02 AM

All right, Sara Cindy, you made me giggle. That's a dangerous thing to do when one is eating cereal.

Well, this Cindy stayed static for the week. No gain, no loss. I consider this a success because my stepping pretty much went way south as I worked my rear end off (wouldn't it be nice if overworking really did cause rear end shrinkage?) and ate horrible-for-me food all week. This keeps me at a total of 4 pounds lost. Eleven pounds to go to my first goal!

This week, I'm pretty much keeping my goals the same. Drink lotsa water, keep an eye on what I eat, etc. I also want to try to take at least three major walks this week.

Here's to all the losers!

Cindy Cindy

**pluckyduck** · #4 08-13-2001, 08:56 AM

I'm perfectly happy for my weight to have been stable this last week. My only real goal, so far, is to stop the increase.....

I'm going to keep to that plan this week, and then start on losing my own 5 5lb bags of sugar soon. :thumbs:

Andrea Cindee
who has to be different, even whilst being the same

cyndilouwhoo · #5 08-13-2001, 09:07 AM

Well, here's another Cyndi checking in...lessee...

So far I have lost a bag of dry dog food--that's 20 pounds in my incredibly shrinking world. Throw in 2 sticks of butter and you have my total weight lost to date.

I cannot believe that 3 months ago I was carrying around a bag of dry dog food 24/7--those suckers are heavy.

And hooray for yet another exponential increase in Cindy's!!!!!!!

OK now, repeat after me--

LOO-SAHS! LOO-SAHS! WE'RE ALL LOOOOO-SAHS!!

Cyndi-Cindy

Hoping to be a big fat loosah along with everyone else come Wednesday

**pluckyduck** · #6 08-13-2001, 10:05 AM

The thing that’s cool for me is that I feel thinner. It’s all mental, I’m sure, but that’s the right kind of mental for me to get motivated to actually lose.

I’m wearing my size medium black stretch pants today for the first time in months. Now, I’m not wearing just a cute little top with them like I would have two years ago…gotta nice long sin-covering shirt on over the cute little top…but the fact that it would even occur to me to wear those pants today is good.

Andrea

hypotenuse · #7 08-13-2001, 12:22 PM

I'll weigh in, soon as I drink my coffee. I know, supposed to do it first thing. But I do absolutely nothing until after I have my first cup of coffee.

Then I'll be depresseed all day.

Lynne Cindy

**hadassahchana**[$] · #8 08-13-2001, 06:19 PM

Well, I ampleased to say that I weighed in today. That was my goal, and I accomplished it!

And, it wasn't as bad as I'd feared.

You see, about two years ago, I lost 70+ pounds on the Dr. Ornish diet, but then went off it while taking some heavy-duty asthma meds. Of course, I gained a fair amount back- BUT I did not regain the entire lot, or even anywhere close. So, I am happy, and...I'm going to become a loser again!

Cindy, still snickering at Andrea saying "whilst"

murasaki · #9 08-13-2001, 07:33 PM

I will post a picture of the dress and full regalia when either they're back from developing and I can scan one in, or some of our relatives pass along the digital photos they took.

I'm once again at my lowest post-jaw surgery weight and pretty happy to be here since I don't feel like I've sacrificed too much muscle.

I was off track last week, but I'm already getting back into the groove with my exercise routine.

Good job ladies! Even staying static is an accomplishment; or gaining some weight as you build muscle. The fat will go away later!

--naomi-cindy

**mrisch**[$] · #10 08-14-2001, 12:32 AM

You guys are all very impressive. I stayed about the same, and I consider that to be quite lucky given the sheer quantities of crap (I won't tempt people with the details) I ate all weekend. The only positive is that the crap is all I ate, so my calorie count was still relatively low. Do not try this diet at home.

MRischindy

**conradd** · #11 08-14-2001, 02:13 AM

YEEHAW!!!

I lost a pound this week!! Actually, it should have been two pounds, but I guzzled 20 oz. of water just before weighing in.

DebCyndi* aka loserDeb

*reminds me of my mom when she couldn't remember which child she was calling

**pluckyduck** · #12 08-14-2001, 07:14 AM

Cyndi Cindy wrote:

Quote:

I cannot believe that 3 months ago I was carrying around a bag of dry dog food 24/7--those suckers are heavy.

That is so true, isn't it? I always think in terms of 5 lb bags of sugar.

I was pre-enclampsic with my first baby (actually, with my second as well, but not as much water gain). I was on the heavier side of my weight when I got pregnant to begin with (about 5 lbs heavier than I am right now), and ended up gaining nearly 70 pounds! 45 pounds of that was water and baby that came off in the first couple of days after the baby was born...but it amazed me that I was lugging around an extra 14 bags of sugar! Add that to the six bags of sugar that I was schlepping to begin with.....

Makes me think that I should be a lot more light-footed right now than I am.

I think that nutrition people like to talk in terms of pounds of butter because that's fat and the best example of what it is we're schlepping around.

In any event, it seems like a good mental trick (and this is ALL mental, isn't it?) to keep thinking like this. It's a negative head game to think about weight control in terms of deprivation....we all fall into that. Losing weight = not being able to eat what I want to! Keeping it positive is Losing weight = freedom from stuff weighing us down.

In general, I'm an pretty self indulgent person. I like food. I like food that is good for me and I like food that is not so good for me and I like food that is bad for me. I don't want to deprive myself. Hell, I don't think that's a way to live life and enjoy it. Why bother getting up every morning if you are getting up to a life where you have a huge list of things that you can't do?

Healthy enough mentally, but then somewhere along the line it inevitably turns toxic....I let the self indulgence take me to a place where I become miserable about the way I look and/or feel. I played that head game with myself this last year. I grew out of all of the nice clothes that I loved and I refused to buy myself new ones and I felt lumpy and frumpy and I stopped wearing make up as much and put off coloring the grey in my hair and just got depressed about how I looked.

I've never been a hot babe, it's not about the opposite sex thinking I'm sexy, it's about me feeling sexy. I've read enough motivational articles to know that I'm supposed to feel sexy and beautiful no matter what my weight so maybe I need a mental renovation rather than a physical one, I don't know.

That's one of the reasons I'm not jumping right on the losing weight thing here, just trying to increase the activity and stop gaining. I don't want to just jump right back in the "lose 25 pounds" feel great "gain 25 pounds" feel like a pile of dog poo rat race.

Early morning ramblings.

Andrea

cyndilouwhoo · #13 08-14-2001, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by conradd
YEEHAW!!!

I lost a pound this week!! Actually, it should have been two pounds, but I guzzled 20 oz. of water just before weighing in.

DebCyndi* aka loserDeb

*reminds me of my mom when she couldn't remember which child she was calling

OK Deb...where's the Baby Watson Cheesecake?.

Oh wait a minute, we never figured out who'd get the cake--the winner or the loser...

Go Loosahs!

Cyndi

Who can't wait for Wednesday

**conradd** · #14 08-14-2001, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cyndilouwhoo
OK Deb...where's the Baby Watson Cheesecake?.

Oh wait a minute, we never figured out who'd get the cake--the winner or the loser...

LOL, you can have the cheesecake, Cyndi. I am allowing myself one soupspoonful of Cherry Garcia each night that I crack 10,000 steps. Fill up my spoon at the freezer, replace lid, shut door, walk to living room, savor. If I ate it with the carton still open, I'd be tempted to have another. One is perfect.

Deb

cyndilouwhoo · #15 08-15-2001, 01:44 PM

Yippeeee!

I lost 2 pounds this week!!!!

Hooray!

I am tickled to death!!!

Last week I really thought it was the beginning of a tooth and nail fight with the scale--but I feel like I have gained some breathing room with this loss.

I think I'll be able to handle another 1/4 pound loss next week if that's what comes down the pike. In the meantime....

Cyndi

who is doing the happy dance

**taurusmoon** · #16 08-15-2001, 02:52 PM

CYNDI'S A BIG LOOSAH!

Sara Cindy
Not even playing a loser on tv this week.

cyndilouwhoo · #17 08-15-2001, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by taurusmoon

Sara Cindy
Not even playing a loser on tv this week.

You are too a Loosah! You said so when you started this thread.

You aren't weighing yourself every day are you?

You know that doing that is an invitation for trouble don't you?

Cyndi

**taurusmoon** · #18 08-15-2001, 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cyndilouwhoo

You aren't weighing yourself every day are you?

Cyndi

Um, er, uh... But, I've cut back to only once a day. Well, one session a day. I usually step on and off the scale a dozen or so times each morning (Arms to the side, arms overhead, leaning to the left, leaning to the right, feet scootched forward, feet scootched backward, left foot forward right foot back, right foot forward left foot back. Repeat sequence after showering.) and average the results.

Sad thing is that I never get a variance of more than a half pound. But, dammit, if I can find that half pound I'm sure as hell gonna claim it.

Okay so I'm exaggerating a bit. But, just a wee bit.

Sara Cindy
Not obsessive in the least

cyndilouwhoo · #19 08-15-2001, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by taurusmoon

Um, er, uh... But, I've cut back to only once a day. Well, one session a day.

Okay so I'm exaggerating a bit. But, just a wee bit.

Sara Cindy
Not obsessive in the least

Oh Sara

You know full well that you'll drive yourself crazy doing that

Now repeat after me:

"One Day a week at the same time of day each week"

Cyndi

**taurusmoon** · #20 08-15-2001, 03:59 PM

Actually Cyndi Cindy, this kinda works for me.

It allows me to see the natural daily fluctations that I might otherwise be oblivious to.

Heaven help me if I ever weighed in once a week and found that I've gained weight without the knowledge that it really was just water. I'd be demotivated very quickly.

This way, I get to see a pattern in the natural rhythms of my body and follow the trend downwards.

I have a wonderful software program that takes the daily weigh-ins and converts them to averages which it plots on a graph. If the average moves upwards I know I'm in trouble. If it continues in the right direction, I know I'm doing okay. In spite of the soy sauce I may have had for lunch the prior day.

Sara Cindy
Master of Methodical Madness

cyndilouwhoo · #21 08-16-2001, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by taurusmoon
I have a wonderful software program that takes the daily weigh-ins and converts them to averages which it plots on a graph.

Obsessive? Oh no...not you.

Cyndi

Who thinks she's obsessive