Goal Day

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says...
As of 6AM Pacific, I weighed in at 164.8, which makes my original goal of
165 official. (Yesterday, I still had half a pound to go.) I'm male: 5'
8"

During the 1980's I had reached 165 with a starvation diet. I had
remembered thinking that was a good weight at the time, so I set my goal at
165. Now that I am recovering from having been as high as 320, my body does
not hold its fat evenly distributed. Thus, it is obvious I need to continue
on. My new goal is 150.

Congrats again (OFFICIAL congrats :-)!

I know what you mean about revising the goal weight. I don't know how
I'll feel about it when I get to 125 lbs (and I WILL get there
eventually), but I know that when I was at 137 lbs before, I was
thinner. The big difference this time is that I have a lot of sagging
skin, so the extra skin is not shrinking IN so much as it's simply
sliding down until something stops it , whereupon it just bulges at that
point :-( It may be the same in your case.

OTOH, while I'm enjoying looking better (SO much better), my main focus
on a goal weight is to take stress off my feet, knees and back, so
having some jelly-like bulges is annoying and disheartening, but not as
important to me. From a purely detached point of view, it's actually
kind of fascinating in a warped kind of way :-)

--
Saffire
205/137/125
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

In article ,
"Cubit" wrote:

As of 6AM Pacific, I weighed in at 164.8, which makes my original goal of
165 official. (Yesterday, I still had half a pound to go.) I'm male: 5'
8"

During the 1980's I had reached 165 with a starvation diet. I had
remembered thinking that was a good weight at the time, so I set my goal at
165. Now that I am recovering from having been as high as 320, my body does
not hold its fat evenly distributed. Thus, it is obvious I need to continue
on. My new goal is 150.

Congrats!

I'm 5' 8" as well, and recently hit 165 (248 starting weight). I too
decided that wasn't enough after getting there, even though quite a few
pounds ago it certainly seemed like a low enough weight.

FWIW, In addition to deciding to lose a few more pounds, I've been doing
some basic workouts (pushups, crunches, and lunges) 5-6 days a week,
which seem to be helping. I haven't been losing any weight the last few
weeks, but my clothes are definately fitting more losely (I had to buy
more medium sized shirts and 30 inch waist shorts, which I cannot ever
recall wearing in the past), so some changes are still taking place. I'm
certainly feeling better since I started exercising.

--
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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com

Cubit schreef:
As of 6AM Pacific, I weighed in at 164.8, which makes my original goal of
165 official.

WOOHOO!! Congratulations!! :-)

recent chart: http://techmart.com/~cubit/Chart71.gif

Wow, that's impressive! Do you have any before&after pictures?

Berna (101.5/67.5/64 kg)

--
( )_( ) Berna M. Bleeker-Slikker
/ . . \
\ \@/ / http://www.volksliedjes.nl

"Cubit" wrote in message
m...
As of 6AM Pacific, I weighed in at 164.8, which makes my original goal of
165 official. (Yesterday, I still had half a pound to go.) I'm male: 5'
8"

During the 1980's I had reached 165 with a starvation diet. I had
remembered thinking that was a good weight at the time, so I set my goal
at
165. Now that I am recovering from having been as high as 320, my body
does
not hold its fat evenly distributed. Thus, it is obvious I need to
continue
on. My new goal is 150.

Cubit 311/164.8/165
311/164.8/150

recent chart: http://techmart.com/~cubit/Chart71.gif

Congratulations! This is quite an accomplishment.

Good job!

"Cubit" wrote in message
m...
As of 6AM Pacific, I weighed in at 164.8, which makes my original goal of
165 official. (Yesterday, I still had half a pound to go.) I'm male: 5'
8"

During the 1980's I had reached 165 with a starvation diet. I had
remembered thinking that was a good weight at the time, so I set my goal
at
165. Now that I am recovering from having been as high as 320, my body
does
not hold its fat evenly distributed. Thus, it is obvious I need to
continue
on. My new goal is 150.

Cubit 311/164.8/165
311/164.8/150

recent chart: http://techmart.com/~cubit/Chart71.gif

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:01:54 GMT, "Cubit" wrote:

As of 6AM Pacific, I weighed in at 164.8, which makes my original goal of
165 official. (Yesterday, I still had half a pound to go.) I'm male: 5'
8"

You made goal! Here's me doing a happy dance just for you:

Tango...bunny hop...hop...fling arms...shimmy...fall on tush...fling
arms...wave...wiggle...Charleston...slide headfirst into home
base...Egyptian wavy thingy...daintily collapse onto chaise...

Yay!

Myra

Hi Cubit,

I'm running behind on posts, but wanted to say congratulations on
reaching your original goal. You are such an inspiration!!

Nicole
290.5/153/137 monthly-goal: 4.5 month-start: 153.5 since: 19/04/2004


On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:01:54 GMT, "Cubit" wrote:

As of 6AM Pacific, I weighed in at 164.8, which makes my original goal of
165 official. (Yesterday, I still had half a pound to go.) I'm male: 5'
8"

Thanks.

You usually outperform me, but it looks like this month is starting slowly
for you.

Have you changed something?


"Nicole {Freezing in Wisconsin}" wrote in message
...
Hi Cubit,

I'm running behind on posts, but wanted to say congratulations on
reaching your original goal. You are such an inspiration!!

Nicole
290.5/153/137 monthly-goal: 4.5 month-start: 153.5 since: 19/04/2004


On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:01:54 GMT, "Cubit" wrote:

As of 6AM Pacific, I weighed in at 164.8, which makes my original goal of
165 official. (Yesterday, I still had half a pound to go.) I'm male:
5'
8"

Hi Cubit,

I'm trying to figure it out. I track *everything*, but yet can't find
anything triggering the slowing in weight loss.

Frustrating!!

Nicole
290.5/153/137 monthly-goal: 4.5 month-start: 153.5 since: 19/04/2004

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:37:27 GMT, "Cubit" wrote:

Thanks.

You usually outperform me, but it looks like this month is starting slowly
for you.

Have you changed something?


"Nicole {Freezing in Wisconsin}" wrote in message
.. .
Hi Cubit,

I'm running behind on posts, but wanted to say congratulations on
reaching your original goal. You are such an inspiration!!

Nicole
290.5/153/137 monthly-goal: 4.5 month-start: 153.5 since: 19/04/2004


On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:01:54 GMT, "Cubit" wrote:

As of 6AM Pacific, I weighed in at 164.8, which makes my original goal of
165 official. (Yesterday, I still had half a pound to go.) I'm male:
5'
8"