145 :-)

Congrats, Chris !!! You are a true inspiration !!!!!!

glo

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:52:59 -0500, "Rainbow-Seeker"
wrote:

Congrats on reaching your goal!!! Your numbers are truly inspiring!!! How
long did it take you overall to reach this goal?

Thanks! It took just under two years. My two-year anniversary is
July 8. I averaged almost exactly 5 pounds per month. As I was
aiming for 4-6 pounds per month, this was pretty much on target :-).
I wanted to try to preserve muscle as much as possible, and to eat in
a way that would be sustainable for life (including occasional treats
and such), so didn't want to lose too rapidly.

Chris
262/145/ (145-150)

That's fantastic! I hope to acheive the same sort of goal!

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"Chris Braun" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:52:59 -0500, "Rainbow-Seeker"
wrote:

Congrats on reaching your goal!!! Your numbers are truly inspiring!!!
How
long did it take you overall to reach this goal?

Thanks! It took just under two years. My two-year anniversary is
July 8. I averaged almost exactly 5 pounds per month. As I was
aiming for 4-6 pounds per month, this was pretty much on target :-).
I wanted to try to preserve muscle as much as possible, and to eat in
a way that would be sustainable for life (including occasional treats
and such), so didn't want to lose too rapidly.

Chris
262/145/ (145-150)

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:47:46 -0500, "Rainbow-Seeker"
wrote:

That's fantastic! I hope to acheive the same sort of goal!

Just take it a day at a time, and you will. If I can do it, so can
you!

Chris

Chris Braun wrote :

Absolutely. I bought some clothes earlier in the season, and several
of the pairs of pants went into a pile to take to the tailor to be
shortened. With one thing and another, I didn't get there when I
should have, and am heading out in a few minutes to go. I just tried
on the pants in the pile this morning, and several pairs -- unworn --
have gone straight into the charity pile. They're 10s that are now
too loose. (There are also a couple of 10s that are still more or
less okay, and that I like enough to invest in shortening. And
there's one pair of 6s that I bought this week :-) .) But this shift
from predominantly size 10 to predominantly size 8 has been only a 6-7
lb. weight change.

I found that there were fewer pounds between the smaller sizes. I
skipped from 12 to 6 - missing 10 and 8 completely. I wasn't buying
clothes as often as you perhaps, but there were only a couple months in
there. Conversely, there isn't very much wiggle room in the other
direction either!

(going to pet and stroke my pile of size 4 jeans g)



--
Walking on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

On 20 Jun 2004 02:21:52 GMT, SnugBear wrote:

I wasn't buying clothes as often as you perhaps ...

Hardly anybody buys clothes as often as me :-).

Chris

Phil M. wrote:

I'll tell ya what's really fun is wearing my 15-year-old son's clothes.
;-)

My husband was sorting laundry on our bed the other day and complained
in disgust that he can't tell my clothes apart from my 13 year old
daughter's anymore.

Heh. We're converging.

Dally

Chris Braun wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:47:46 -0500, "Rainbow-Seeker"
wrote:


That's fantastic! I hope to acheive the same sort of goal!


Just take it a day at a time, and you will. If I can do it, so can
you!

Chris, honestly, this is one of the reasons I make time to read your
food journals. The sheer honesty of what it takes to lose weight, along
with seeing your results has been so affirming as a role model... if you
can do it, so can we, indeed!

Dally

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:06:01 -0400, Dally wrote:

Chris Braun wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:47:46 -0500, "Rainbow-Seeker"
wrote:


That's fantastic! I hope to acheive the same sort of goal!


Just take it a day at a time, and you will. If I can do it, so can
you!

Chris, honestly, this is one of the reasons I make time to read your
food journals. The sheer honesty of what it takes to lose weight, along
with seeing your results has been so affirming as a role model... if you
can do it, so can we, indeed!

Dally

Thanks, Dally! It's nice to think that posting the journals is useful
for someone besides me :-). It sometimes seems to me sort of
self-serving to use the newsgroup this way (as I mainly do it keep
myself honest). If it helps anyone else, that's wonderful.

I don't really feel like it has taken sacrifice to do this. It's more
like a job or something -- you just keep doing what you have to do.

Chris
262/144/ (145-150) {Down a pound today at the gym -- it has
definitely been a whoosh week. I'm not going to do anything about it
just yet.}

Chris Braun wrote:

I don't really feel like it has taken sacrifice to do this. It's more
like a job or something -- you just keep doing what you have to do.

My best friend said I lost weight like it was a job. Most of the time it
seemed like a hobby to me.

--
Walking on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03