I did it! (OT - a bit!)

Congrts Kate!

My mother pushes me almost every week to lose weight. Well I need to lose about 12 kgs, but she (in her 76) achieved to lose 18 kgs(39.68 lbs) in six months. Shame on me!

She is swimming every day, planning her meals every day, counting her calories every day. I only play tennis twice a week with DH, swim once a week, and walk three times a week 30 minutes. I love vegetables, but the wine....in the evening one glas is already too much.

I will see her on my holiday, trembling already now. Suzan from Amsterdam

Don't let her push you! You will do it in your own time, for yourself.

Try WW: it really is VERY easy! You can eat whet you like on the Points system - you just have to account for it! :)

Don't! just be supportive of her efforts, tell her there is no competition, and you'll do it successfully whan you are ready.

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I need to go back, and I swore I would as soon as the kiddies started school. I was in WW before we moved here, and it's the only program that ever worked for me.

What killed me though is how easily DH lost weight apparently just from hanging around me. He'd eat the proper portions and all, but I'd find pizza boxes in the back of his car! And he would still lose more than me.

Can I ask a personal question? Did you have problem with loose skin? I know a guy who lost 70 lbs, and he had folds of loose skin. I'd almost rather be heavy if that's going to happen.

Men lose better than women anyway, the rats! ;)

Not really, but then I've lost it over a looooong time! It took me three years.

Angrie.Woman skrev: > Can I ask a personal question? Did you have problem with loose skin? I

Hej!

I don't do WW per se, but I exercise regularly (as well as having a part-time job that involves running up and down stairs a lot) and generally eat a low-fat, high-fiber diet. I became overweight in 1997 when my thyroid went wacky. As I tell people, I got the beer belly without the fun of getting to drink the beer! :-(

Anyway, I've been losing the excess weight slowly and steadily over the past 7-8 years. I still have a bigger tummy than I would like but even that stubborn stomach is FINALLY shrinking!!! And I don't have a problem with saggy skin thank goodness! I think Kate is right that the body adjusts to its new size better if we don't crash diet, but take it slow and steady.

Hope my rambling helps answer your question!

Erin

I tend to lose in stages: lose the fat, then the skin tightens up a bit before the next lot of fat goes. I'm going to give it a good couple of years at goal before I consider anything like cosmetic surgery. Hey - I'll be 50 in December: at that age I don't expect to have totally sagless skin as I did in my 20's! :) As I see it, the sag isn't so bad I cannot live with it, and the worst thing about losing the weight is the varicose veins show more. If I can live with them, a wee bit of the sags isn't going to bother me. ;)

Am adding my congratulations and heaps of admiration! Have been away for a large part of the summer, then trying to catch up on everything that accrued. Just got to this point in the qued messages. (Never realized how prolific y'all are in this group - but don't slow down!)

Have a great time getting your slim, trim new self all fitted out in those gorgeous new togs!

Sharon

Sharon, thank you! :) The first new thing is on my web page, in the chocolate velour section. :)

Kate Dicey wrote

Beautiful skirt Kate-----and you look smashing in it!! What a little thing you are!!

Thank you, Pat. :)

Still slightly sturdier than I want, but it's better than when I was like this:

And I'm pea green with envy! AK in PA

Very nice! You look like you have a little Captain in you. ;-)

I don't guess you have the Captain Morgan rum ads on your tv, but here it's a running joke that a person posed like this:

a little bit o' the captain in them. Most of them don't have a barrel, but that doesn't stop them.

Beverly

;)

Arrr, Jim-lad... Talk Like A Priate Day, isn't it? ;)

Avast there, ye bonny wench! Ye have the right of it, ye do! Thar'll be no plank-walking for ye today.

Not at all: ye have that right, Missy! I be a-going up them ratlines to me sewing loft to put a stitch or three in garment. No grog 'til the sun be down for me! :(

Jean

It's well over that now, but iffn I starts sippin' me grog afore it goes down again, I'll be sewing seams like a map o' the coast of the He Brides! ;)