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On 15 Oct 2003 12:51:39 -0400, Wendy wrote:
Beeswing wrote: And as well meaning as my husband is, I'd like to trade just one of his "You've always looked great to me" for a "Congratulations on the weight loss! I know you've been working hard on it, and you're looking great." LOL, I know what you mean. My husband inadvertantly slipped up the other day and said something exclamatory about how I'm going to be a real babe soon. I let him off the hook for the contradiction. :-) Seriously, he is VERY well trained to not make any comment. It's the inscrutible female thing: if he says, "those pants look good on you" I'm likely to say, "oh, do the other ones make me look fat?" I imagine your husband is equally adept at avoiding Husband Hell. :-) Wendy My dislike of getting compliments on weight loss is based on the fact that I've been here so many times over, and every time I've put all the weight back. I don't really want to know that people notice when I lose weight, because that must mean they also notice when I regain it, and I can do without knowing that, it just adds to the agonies of regaining. All I ask is that people treat me the same whatever size I happen to be at - I'm not sure from your original post Beeswing if you're saying people actually treat you differently from before, or is it just that they make no comment? I think there can be a big element of anti-climax after you've lost a significant amount of weight. Even those who "dared" comment on my weight loss last year don't say any more about it now the novelty has worn off. That's how I prefer it, but now the excitement is over it's up to me to go on living with it successfully.. janice 233/161/133 |
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Ignoramus4027 wrote:
In article , Wendy wrote: I know this bothers you a lot, and it bothers me, too. I said elsewhere that I feel gypped because I've been doing BFL for a year and the motto is "Look Good Naked" and I don't. we won't know unless you post pictures... What was that about cultural cross-overs from MFW? I can promise you that you won't ever see any nude pictures of me on the internet. Consider that a solemn oath. I saw your pic on the page about your son's emergency treatment and you actually looked good. it was a small cutout picture though, it was hard to tell. That was at my absolute highest weight, in May of 2002, around 244. (probably higher, I didn't weigh myself until I was ready to look.) I'll post pictures around Thanksgiving. I think it might be a good exercise to admit defeat in the beauty contest. I've got a dumpy 40 year old body and I'm not going to win any "Hot or Not" contests. But I can do six nice reps with 85 pounds, I can haul the largest size of dog food and I can tuck in my shirts and belt my jeans over it. Maybe that's good enough. Wendy |
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"Wendy" wrote in message ... But I can do six nice reps with 85 pounds, Bench press, or what? What does your weight lifting routine look like these days? Still toying with hst? Just curious, as I'm trying to shake up my routine lately... det |
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determined wrote:
But I can do six nice reps with 85 pounds, Bench press, or what? Oh, sorry, yes that was olympic bench. I squat around 125 in free squats at 6 reps. I'm particularly proud of adding two 25 pound weights to the hack sled for 130 pounds x 12 reps. I don't do free squats all that often because the squat cage is non-functional at the moment so I've been doing a lot more hack squats and leg presses. On the nautilus leg press I do 12 reps at 350 pounds. I can do 6 good reps on the assisted chins with a 45% assist - that is truly pitiful but is slowly improving. Do you ever use the gravitron? Fact is, most of my weights haven't been going up: I really feel like I'm doing all I can to preserve muscle mass as I shrink. Igor mentioned elsewhere that he thinks all my muscle is making me crabby and I had to laugh - all my muscle is the only reason I can feel okay about being such a large woman! I'm planning on doing HST in January. I'm planning on using December to figure out my weights and to take the training break it appears I need. Wendy |
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Ignoramus4027 wrote:
wendy, I almost guarantee that if you get to low body fat (say 20%) that you will look much better than now (not knowing your BF% now, I have to hypothesize what it may be), at least dressed in tight clothes. I'm getting around 29% by the tape measure method. It makes sense because of all my visible blubber, but also doesn't make sense because I know I am "denser" than most people, i.e., heavy bones, lots of muscle, thick skin. I don't dare try calipers - what on earth will they do with my thick empty skin! But I'll check it with bio-impedance at some point. (Maybe not until next April.) BTW, my BF% hasn't been going down by measurements, but the pants-o-meter and mirror both suggest that I'm rearranging my body a bit and I think the excess skin is screwing it up. -- Wendy |
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:17:29 -0500, "Julianne"
wrote: I am 100 percent convinced that I wouldn't have a single ounce of extra weight if I never ate when I wasn't hungry. with all the negatives in that sentence, I'm lost. That whole double-negative makes a positive thing... :-) |
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Chris On 15 Oct 2003 17:50:45 GMT, Ignoramus4027 wrote: outstanding post. i Julianne's excellent post omitted |
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"Chris Braun" wrote in message ... What he said! Chris On 15 Oct 2003 17:50:45 GMT, Ignoramus4027 wrote: outstanding post. i Julianne's excellent post omitted Thanks to you both. |
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"Wendy" wrote in message ... determined wrote: But I can do six nice reps with 85 pounds, Bench press, or what? Oh, sorry, yes that was olympic bench. I squat around 125 in free squats at 6 reps. I'm particularly proud of adding two 25 pound weights to the hack sled for 130 pounds x 12 reps. I don't do free squats all that often because the squat cage is non-functional at the moment so I've been doing a lot more hack squats and leg presses. On the nautilus leg press I do 12 reps at 350 pounds. I can do 6 good reps on the assisted chins with a 45% assist - that is truly pitiful but is slowly improving. Do you ever use the gravitron? Fact is, most of my weights haven't been going up: I really feel like I'm doing all I can to preserve muscle mass as I shrink. Igor mentioned elsewhere that he thinks all my muscle is making me crabby and I had to laugh - all my muscle is the only reason I can feel okay about being such a large woman! I'm planning on doing HST in January. I'm planning on using December to figure out my weights and to take the training break it appears I need. I haven't been using the gravitron, but I do seated cable rows, I think they work "about" the same muscles, and I row 75 lbs. I'm guessing that I could chin that much too, if I tried. My current workout is entirely made up of free weight squats, bench, DL's, and seated cable rows. I only have 30 min for a workout, so I do this 3 x per week on my lunch break. I can squat 95, bench 65, dl 95 and seated cable row 75. My goal is to squat with those two big wheels on the barbell! (uh, that's 135, right?), bench 85, and do an unassisted pull up. I do 2 weeks of high weight low reps, then 2 weeks of low weight high reps. Not hst, not really sure what it is. But I enjoy it... det |
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determined wrote:
My goal is to squat with those two big wheels on the barbell! (uh, that's 135, right?) Right. I typically put two medium sized ones on - that's 95. :-) But I worry too much about form and dumping the bar and knees and stuff when I go heavy. I don't mind doing it at lower weights - and I often do, but I don't push my quads with the squats just because of the form and fear factors. I do 2 weeks of high weight low reps, then 2 weeks of low weight high reps. Not hst, not really sure what it is. But I enjoy it... "Energy for Women" calls it "periodization". There's an article about itin this month's magazine. I get it by subscription and I actually read it. :-) Wendy |
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