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Originally posted by EHpianist:

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BTW, I just read all 20 pages of this thread but it didn't help: I haven't lost a thing yet! )

Here's a few things I'm going to do:
When I get home tonight I'm going to look for that book I bought a year and a half ago about weight loss and traditional Chinese medicine. It helped then, it should help now.

Bernard, you need to lose weight????

Unless you've gained 50 pounds since I saw you in May I don't think you have much to worry about. A little excercise to stay healthy, sure, but lose weight? You'll disappear!

Elena
http://www.duoscarbo.com

Alas!
'Tis so.
Oh woe!

Those pants were loose fitting in summer '04. Now they're snug! And I can feel the difference--like I feel a little bogged down. So ... I brought my jumprope with me to work today (hasn't been used in a year and a half) and am going to start taking a break mid evening to go jump in the conference room!

Did well today--had vegetable soup for lunch.

Elena - I looked at your website url and read it as Duo Carbos, - you can tell where my head's at. Rather appropriate for this thread, I thought.

To anybody who wonders as I did, why it;s slow going to take off weight after forty, you might have a look at my BMR thread in the room downstairs

https://well-temperedforum.groupee.net/eve/forums?a=...720089183#3720089183

The two links on calculating BMR are here too, tho'. Wasn't sure whether to put the thread there or here.

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ns421/BMR.html

http://www.room42.com/nutrition/basal.shtml

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Originally posted by teachum:
Elena - I looked at your website url and read it as Duo Carbos, - you can tell where my head's at. Rather appropriate for this thread, I thought.

That is the weight-loss section of our site!

Our diet plan consists of sitting at the piano so long you never eat...

Elena
http://www.duoscarbo.com

Bernard posted:

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Those pants were loose fitting in summer '04. Now they're snug!

Well, I don't think you'll have too much difficulty getting it off, you looked fine just a few months ago, your metabolism must still be pretty good.

KAtie, 89# is GOOD!! and 36 pushups on you toes????

I can barely do 8 on my knees! Woman, you are fit!!

Elena
http://www.duoscarbo.com

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It was good reading of the efforts and failings of others here.

That would be me. I'm trying to get to 80#. I'm at 97# And I've been here since pretty much since we started this thing in the summer. But I'm on a roll now. I managed to go to a party last night, and had only about a quarter of a glass of wine, then soda water for the rest of the evening. And except for one bite of a brownie, I stayed away from both the bread, and the dessert table. Man, was that hard.

Jodi

Hint to Katie - re the Hallowee candy problem. For several years running now, I have solved this (albeit with great feelings of sorrow as I shop) by choosing only trick or treat candy I loathe.

Oh, it hurts...but it works!

I bought two HUGE Costco bags of my absolutely favorite little miniature candy bars. They are sitting in the garage, and I haven't touched them. I believe last year I had to replace several bags before Halloween...

Jodi

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I bought two HUGE Costco bags of my absolutely favorite little miniature candy bars. They are sitting in the garage, and I haven't touched them. I believe last year I had to replace several bags before Halloween...

Jodi

Recipe for disaster! Always buy crap you hate! Like those little orange candies or candy corn - GROSS!!! We don't get any trick-or-treaters so no problem. But candy's not my weakness anyway, it's pasta.

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Alcohol is my total weakness ...

Then comes chocolate...

I like pasta. Big weakness.

Katie, you seem to have a knack for weaknesses!

Teachum, I also always despised Candy Corn and other marshmallowy-jelly-bean type candy, I avoided the houses that gave it out and if I got stuck with them I always threw them out.

At Halloween in Puerto Rico we don't say "Trick or Treat" we have our own little precious rhyme we say door-to-door:

"¡Tri-cor-trí!
Ha-lo-wín,
Dame chavos
y no maní"

Translation:

Trick or treat!
Halloween!
Give me money,
and not peanuts.¨

I think you should teach this to all your chidlren.

Elena
http://www.duoscarbo.com

Maybe I'll teach it to my class next week.

Yes, that way they can go beg in the Puertorican neighborhoods.

Elena
http://www.duoscarbo.com

Right! I have had two Puerto Rican boys in my class. They were brothers. One was an angel the other a devil!

I started to post this in another thread, and then decided that maybe it was better here. This weight thing seems an unhappy subject sometimes.

Things must slow down as you get older. I don't feel that I am any less active, but maybe I do things slower, so I don't expends as much energy - I don't know. I just know I feel that I can eat far less than I used to be able to without gaining weight. I used to be able to eat ANYTHING all day long, and stay rail thin. And although no one would call me obese now, I do weigh 35 pounds more than I did when I graduated from college.

I'm working on that, I'd like to lose 20. And it's been difficult. Partly because I get hungry, and partly becuase eating also satifies me in other ways. Makes me feel good (even though only briefly) when I feel bad. Like I said, its tough sometimes.

A friend of mine gave me a book by a female MD called "Fight Fat After Forty", and I've never gotten around to reading it. She said it was good. Has anybody here read it?

Jodi

Well, no progress on my part for the last 2 months or so. I am exercising more than I did (up to 1-2 times a week).

This is really hard. I have received medical advice that I should lose about 50-60 lbs. I never thought of myself as overweight, but the BMI tables are pretty clear, as are the long term health consequences.

I like the taste of food. I probably have some genetic predisposition to gain weight.

I have one idea - I read recently that a hidden downside of quitting smoking is weight gain. Obviously, oral taste/interaction is part of the equasion. Teas don't have calories and green tea is good for you. I am getting a wide range of real teas. When I get hungry in the evening - I will have some exotic tea as a food substitute. I'll report back if this works.

I did lose 5 lbs quickly on Atkins about a year ago, but found it hard to sustain.

I am going to workout now. Back later.