re: PuttaDaForkDown

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Another couple of pounds down

Thanks! I really appreciate this thread guys, I've been going back thru the pages and ya'll have been making some major progress. I think it always helps to have friends to vent to and share successes with.

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I just want to vent a little. I hate when Mardi Gras is so late like it is this year. It makes the King cake season last for 2 months instead of maybe a little over a 1 month. The temptations are tough. Yesterday at work there were 4 different king cakes plus donuts. Hurry up Lent, you can't get here to soon.

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Someone dropped off 2 king cakes yesterday afternoon. No one claimed to have the babies, so I'm hoping no one brings anymore in.

I work with a bunch of cheap folks.

The only reason the king cakes came in yesterday was for someone's birthday.

I can pass up king cake most days. However, the chocolate cake I had in my house (my niece baked it while staying with me over the weekend) is a different story!

So the gauntlet has been tossed down. I accept the challenge.

Since you brought up fish....I love Talapia fillets. Top with McCormick Grillmates and put In a good nonstick pan for 15 minutes.

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Gained about 8-10 from turkey day to Christmas, but it's all gone plus some.

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This is fantastic! What plan are you on or are you doing it Old School (eat less and exercise)

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This is fantastic! What plan are you on or are you doing it Old School (eat less and exercise)

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Yep, that's exactly how I'm doing it. No magic pills, weird diets or anything. I'm simply walking/running about 1-3 miles in the morning and I ride about 5 miles on the exercise bike. That is sometimes in the morning or mid-evening after the dinner has settled.

I'm not counting carbs or anything, but I'm keeping my intake of calories around 1500-1800 a day. I allow myself one day on the wknd to cheat and I don't count anything. I always see a bump on Mon or Tues, but I'm not miserable!

If I hated the diet I was on it wouldn't last more than a month, I'm sure.

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257/214.6/185

i'm kicking your arse by a good..what..? 8/10 of a lb?

eta plus i cheated..i knew the 216 was water weight when i posted it and i'd settle back down a couple pounds today.

My company is having our version of the biggest loser starting tommorrow. We weigh in at 9am. Contest goes for 3 months. Person who loses the most per cent body weight wins the grand prize of $500. Second and third also get paid. A little added incentive.

when you get off of atkins and start reintroducing your body to far more than 20g of carbs a day, it is shocked in the other direction and stores it like it will never get carbs again and you'll pack almost all of that back on ... just seems like a waste of three weeks and some setting yourself up for frustration on the scale in a month or so to me ... i just don't think there is anything better than keeping the calories between 1500 and 1800 a day and, as you say, just move .. don't go to the gym and act like you're rocky getting ready to fight apollo .. just work your way up to walking 3 miles a day .. that's all .. you are just trying to lose weight .. not entering a mr. universe competition .. as you alluded to, people will get burned out on busting their arse with a new exercise regimen .. they don't get burned out on walking .. or at least they shouldn't since they have to walk everyday in life anyway ... i wake up at 5AM everyday, throw the ipod and earphones on and walk three miles .. have been doing this everyday for almost 10 years now .. not really on any special diet, just really watch the sizes of my portions and have never really been a fan at all of ice cream, cakes, pies, or candy .. so i really don't crave sweets ... looks to me like almost everyone in here has the right idea .. eat less and move more ... and hats off of tigermyth .. he's lost over 100 pounds in 9 months .. that is fricking amazing .. a very very small percentage of society could do that on their own ...