Feeling funny?

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

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

"Wendy" wrote in message
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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

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

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

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...
:-)

What he said!

Chris

On 15 Oct 2003 17:50:45 GMT, Ignoramus4027
wrote:

outstanding post.

i

Julianne's excellent post omitted

"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.

"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

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