Our Teddy Bear No Matter How Hard He Tries....

Update down to 284.2

2006-02-16T19:25:00.000-08:00

Jenny Food all week, vitamins galore, lots of water, and came back this afternoon from a 40 minute cardiovascular workout on my bike for 50 minutes - 15 of which was just warming up before and slowing down and stretching.

I WILL get down to the 270's by the end of the month!

It will happen!

Thats 18% of my total mass lost!

Net loss thus far - 65.7 Pounds total!

New Update And Best Personal Low: 285

2006-02-13T01:02:00.000-08:00

I just knew that it was week off the cuisine with the high-sodium Lean Cuisine entree's that did it.

So a few days back on Jenny Cuisine, a couple of Cardio Vascular workout Bike Rides, Some Ab Crunches and here we are!

Can't wait for my weigh in this week!

17% Of My Total Body Mass GONE since Dec 22nd 2004

This is a net loss of 64.9 Pounds since the inception of the diet which puts me still at a BMI of 43 which was 52 when I started.

I think my earlier mini-goal for February is STILL possible despite the hiccups this month. That of reaching somewhere between 275-and-280.

Onwards and Upwards

This is me, just back from a 440 cal burning Bike Ride....

2006-02-11T13:12:00.000-08:00

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And how do I know know that I burned that many cals? because I bought a special heart monitor watch that records your heart rate, througout and at tells you at the end, based on your resting heart rate, and your body weight and age - exactly how many calls you burned in the work out. I think it's a Dr.Phil product.

Anyways.

Thanks DAD for the Bike.. it certainly is a lovely gift and VERY HANDY.

BUT MY BUM still hurts.

Any suggestions on bike shorts with soft lambwool lining from any store that I could buy - because even the seats they sell in the stores to be more comfortable hurt like hell.

Now after some stretches, I am going to do some ab crunches as well.

Finally back on track....

2006-02-11T00:08:00.000-08:00

Did weigh in -- got pictures and have my food for the week, and so since this past week I didn't have JC cuisine and still managed to to lose some - I know I am prohably full of sodium and am retaining fluid like sponge - and this will come off this week. I expect a 3-5 pound loss this week.

So I will be doing my biking, ab crunches, eating ONLY JC food - and see what happens.. and I think I will hit tht 285 pound benchmark. I think it's a psychological barrier of sorts.

Here's latetest pics as promised.

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I think this photoblogging is good becaue you really can see the progress, even ever so slowly --

But rapid weight loss is not heaalthy. 1 pound or 1% of one's body weight is heatlthy and i accept this.

New Updatate 287.8

2006-02-10T03:48:00.000-08:00

Doing at least 35 ab curls a day on this

Net Loss 62.1 Pounds

And thats 2 weeks without Jenny Cuisine - which believe me has been a real shitter ...and it's mostly been because of domestic issues being too on edge to eat at all and just drinking nothing but coffee and smokin' cigarettes.

299 Pounds....G%%$#%DAMN%$$#$FU&^$#%CK

2006-02-05T20:31:00.000-08:00

nothing but water, tea and coffee with non-fat dairy creamer, and "slimfast:" drinks.

did 50 abonominal crunches on my ab curler - buy I just wok up - when it gets ligher, I will go for another bike ride.

Darnit;....

2006-02-05T01:27:00.000-08:00

Because of a banking scew up I could not afford J Cuiisine this week. So I have tried tremedously hard to mimic it. No can do. My weight is back up to 289!

This is after drinking copious amounts of water AND my bike ride... which according to my Calorie Counting Heart Beats/Minute Calorie Counter watch burned 329 Cals

But my lord... ladies...My pudendna IS SORE LADIES !

OUCH!... I am Sitting on heating pad as I sit just to type this.

But I WILL BIKE! I just need to get back into the swing of things.

Thank god - Monday is coming and I can go to JC and get my cuisine and get back on track.

I think it's from all the damn sodium in the lean cuisine entrees!

I also went and bought one of those AbRoller excercise bars -- the kind where you can get a work out strictly on the abs - because while I am losing weight everywhere else... it's sticking to my tummy -- and I'm getting el-flabbo there.

I used to go to the gym every day - can't afford that now - but this ab-roll bar was my favourite part of my work out when I did go to the gym... so I have an excercise mat and I did 30 reps of ab crunches with it tonight after getting it all assembled.

feels good.

Eat right, eath healtyy, excericise and tone!

Thats the plan.
I swear - when I hit 180 - I wil be doing another digital camera shoot!

The good news is my body fat count is diminishing....
Even if my weight has risen.

Back to Normal 288 pounds

2006-02-03T12:36:00.000-08:00

However body fat is down to 46.6

AND I did do a 35 minute bike ride on my brand new birthday bike which should show up tommorow.

Couldnt afford JC cuisine this week - so sticking with SlimFast Shakes and frozen Lean Cuisine Entrees and lots and lots of water....

I also bought and excercise mat and an ab roller.

So moved from just diet to diet and excercise,

Feelin' good

Wowza

2006-02-01T15:30:00.000-08:00

Woke up this afternoon after a long nap and walk - at 286.4 Pounds!

Holy smokes thats a net loss of 63.5

Naked Weight This AM 286.8

2006-02-01T08:15:00.000-08:00

Yippie!!!!

Picture this afternoon when I'm all dresssed up and feeling fine!

Net Loss 63.1 Pounds

Werird Weird Weigh in 290.8

2006-01-31T16:21:00.000-08:00

After last weeks birthday boohoo nobody called me - let's eat I was please to weight in 290.8
Not as low as Tanita says - but Tanita is naked - and always firsst thing in the morning....

So I lost 4.4 pounds from last week to this week.

Current Measurements
are -- ORIGINAL DEC 2004
MEASURMENTS WERRE

Bust 51.5 Bust 58 (-6.5)

Waist 47 56 (-9)

Abdonmen 55 Abdonomen 59(-4)

Hips 59 Hisps 59 (o)

Net loss of pound is 59.1

Net loss of 19.5 inhes overall

Mini Goal -- for February

2006-01-29T13:49:00.000-08:00

My mini Goal For February is to ACTUALLY get that bike I've been wanting to get with the helmet and bike lock, as well as to get my weight down to somewhere between 270 and 275 and thus decrease my overall bodyweight from the inception of this diet to lower than 30% of my original body weight.

No Big Goals, Only Little Goals.

Thus far. I just want to make it to Tusesday's Weigh In With Being Under 288 - because that will make me and my counsellor very very happy.

Update 288.2

2006-01-28T05:34:00.000-08:00

Nothing special --- went to bed really early.... looking forward to buying my bike
Net Loss 61.7 Pounds.

I have just realized that in losing this amount of weight since Dec last year, I have actualy lost almost 18% of my total body weight since this all began!

wow!

These being the figures...

349.9 was original weight see here

3.49 = 1% body weigh
6.98 = 2% body weight
10.47 = 3% body weight
34.9 = 10% body weight
45.37 = 13% body weight
55.84 = 16% body weight
59.49 = 17% body weight
62.82 = 18% body weight
66.31= 19% body weight

Update 288.6

2006-01-27T15:43:00.000-08:00

After disaster with terrible birthday, sebacious cyst and chocolate comfort food.

This is how long it took to recover!

Net Loss 61.3 Pounds

Body Fat 43.2

Most Recent Picture

2006-01-18T22:30:00.000-08:00

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Just in case numbers and talk of cashew chicken dinners was getting boring.... Shows my neck bones are starting to show and my facial features are starting to become more pronounced.

Update 289.2

2006-01-18T22:21:00.000-08:00

Must have been long nap after doctors visit at his orders....

Love the new Cashew Chicken they have at JC YUM YUM...

Did some walking today.

Felt great!

Net Loss of 60.7

I want to buy A bike! So I can bike to JC as well as to Doctors Office and Blockbuster and Grocery Story. Need to save up! Thats my goal. When I reach 270 Pounds I WILL buy a bike

Bodyfat of 43.5

Update 291.8

2006-01-17T20:17:00.000-08:00

Bodyfat at 47.5.....

Crazy week, didn't eat all my JC Food, and that had a lot to do with it - Want to buy a bike so I can get more excercise in.

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Total Net Loss 58.1

Update weighed in this morning at 292.0

2006-01-11T05:12:00.000-08:00

That is AFTER I went out for Pad Thai Noodles last night for dinner!

Yum Yum

The Reverse Of The "Fat Pants" Strategy

2006-01-11T03:41:00.000-08:00

You Will Not See A Jared Fogel'esque Picture of Me Holding Up my Big Fat Pants... Instead - Here I present to you what were once my favourite pair of sexy shorts that I was able to wear between the years of 1995 and 1996. And I swear by all that is holy that at some point before the year 2007 I will be wearing these sexy short shorts again.

These are my Trophy Short Pants. Someday To Be Worn, but for now - to simply adorn this blog - as a reminder that is possible to lose enough weight to wear clothing like this again, that my body did once look this good, and that I deserve to look that good again, and soon!

So here you have it. The Trophy Shorts! Coming Soon To A Sexy JC Bloggers Bottom Near You!

What A Difference A Year Makes...

2006-01-11T03:15:00.000-08:00

I was just looking at my first Jenny Craig Picture,

and considering how different I now look, so I hauled out the sweater from that picture, and took another picture.

Here... compare and contrast.

The one on the left is me some 60 pounds lighter.... and the one on the right is me on my first day of the program.

Yes. Jenny Craig Works.

Yes it does.

Why I find it Difficult to Relate to the JC Message Boards

2006-01-11T01:13:00.000-08:00

For the most part - when I log onto the message boards... most of the time, people are only ever always talking about FOOD.

Do you know what?

FOOD is NOT the problem!

Food has never been the problem. There are thousands of people every day who eat food and they don't end up like those of us with weight problems.

Food is an OBSESSION, much like Alcohol is an OBSESSSION to the Alcoholic.

I'm not obsessed with food anymore.
I am obsessed with healthier living, looking better... buying make-up, getting my hair cut and styles. buying clothing.

I don't want my first thought of the day to be about food.. and I realized a little while ago that I had started to break this compulsion, obsession, when I no longer was driven by "food" as an obsession.

Thats part of why Jenny Craig works. You buy your meals, you spend 10 minutes a week at the center picking your menu, and then for 7 days, you don't even have to THINK about food for the rest of the week.

I think that has had more of an impact upon me, and changing my habits than portion contol or counting calories or anything else.

Update 292.2 Lost 5.2 Pounds This Week

2006-01-10T23:43:00.000-08:00

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Net Loss of 57.7 Pounds Total

Jan 3 Weigh In 297.4

2006-01-03T06:42:00.000-08:00

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Net Loss 52.5 Pounds

Weigt Loss By The Week in Phase 1 Of JC Program

2006-01-02T07:23:00.000-08:00

Dec 22 349.9
Dec 29 345.4 - down 4.4
Jan 5 342.0 - down 3.4
Jan 12 340.0 - down 2.0
Jan 19 337.8 - down 2.2
Jan 26 336.0 -down 1.8
Feb 16 324.4 -down 11.6
Feb 23 315.2 - down 9.2
Mar 04 314.4 -down 0.8
Mar 14 311.4 - down 3.0
Mar 24 311.4 - down 0
Mar 31 308.8- down 2.6
Apr 11 306.0 - down 2.8
May 11 304.0 -down 2.0
May 23 301.4 - down 2.6
Jun 02 298.6 - down 2.8
Jun 21 297.6 - down 1.0
Jun 27 294.6 - down 3.0
Jul 19 294.2 - down 0.4
Jul 26 290.6 - down 3.6

Total Loss Of 59.3 Pounds

Gained 10 Pounds from July 26th 2005 to Dec 27th 2005

Back to JC Dec 2005 for New Year

2005-12-27T06:27:00.000-08:00

So - last year I started, and I did really well, I went from 349 to 290 - but in July I ran out of money to keep up with the Jenny Cuisine and I quit going.

But with Santa being generous this Xmass, I sallied forth back bravely to see what damage had been wrought by 6 months off the program.

Good news! Only 10 Pounds!

And luckily my rewards package hasn't expired...

So... I'm back at it.I've decided to be more pro-active about this.I'm going to blog each day -- about how I am doing and upload pics of progress.So here goes.For Dinner tonight I drank some water, and I also had the Chicken Fettucini and for snack I had the walnut choco brownie. I am currently drinking coffee with splenda and non-dairy creamer, as well as water.We''ll see how my weight is in the morning.I also bought the JC Tanita Scale, because our scale is busted. It was giving really weird readings... driving me and my husband crazy.Have to step on it three times - because the first read would be off by 10 pounds or more.Here are my most recent body measurements which you can check against past body measurements to see the slow but steady progress..

Bust 51.5 -- (down 6.5 inches from original)
Waist 49-- (down 7 inches from original)
Abdomen 56 - (down 3 inches from original)
Hips 56 -- (d0wn 3 inches from original)

Total Loss of Inches is still 19.5 Inches Overall

(Net Loss of 49.9 Pounds)

Body Measurements from June 2005

2005-06-15T06:21:00.000-07:00

Bust 51 - down 7 from start
Waist 45.5 - down 10.5 from start
Abdomen 49.5 - down 9.5 from start
Hips 50.5 - down 8.5 from start

Total loss of 35.5 Inches

Body Measurements From Feb 2005

2005-02-01T06:19:00.000-08:00

Bust 55 (down 3 inches from Dec)
Waist 51 (down 4 inches from Dec)
Abdomen 53 (down 6 inches from Dec)
Hips 52.5 (down 6.5 from Dec)

Total Loss of 19.5 Inches

First Day At Jenny Craig Dec 2004

2004-12-22T06:12:00.000-08:00

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I was 349.8 pounds at the time - my highest weight ever.

I was on Doctors orders to lose weight for the babybeing 6 months pregnant at the time.

Body Measurements taken were as as follows

Bust 58

Waist 56

Abdonmen 59

Hips 59

Stats to Consider

2004-12-20T05:56:00.000-08:00

BMI Index
289 - 42
299 - 43
309 - 44
319 - 46
329 - 47
339 - 49
349 - 50

Starting at 349

1 % loss is 3.49 Pounds
2 % loss is 6.98 Pounds
5 % loss is 17.45 Pounds
10 % loss is 34.9 Pounds
15 % loss is 52.35 Pounds
16 % loss is 55.85 Pounds
17 % loss is 59.33 Pounds
18 % loss is 62.82 Pounds

Starting at 349

Losing 1 % is 3.49 Pounds
Losing 2 % is 6.98 Pounds
Losing 5 % is 17.45 Pounds
Losing 10 % is 34.9 Pounds
Losing 15 % is 52.35 Pounds
Losing 16 % is 55.85 Pounds
Losing 17 % is 59.33 Pounds
Losing 18 18 % is 62.82 Pounds

I have lost 60.3 Pounds thus far or 17% of my total mass since inception Dec 22, 2004