I know we have a previous weight loss thread, but it seemed like starting a new one for the new year seemed appropriate. Anyone else planning on losing some weight in 2011?
I'm starting off at roughly 250 pounds on January 3rd. Ideally, I'd like to get down to 200 by Thanksgiving. I want this to be a long, sustained losing, instead of dropping 30 pounds in a summer (like I did last year), and gain most of it back in the fall. Granted, I can be an emotional eater, and I wasn't in the best place when my fiance left for 5 months for Australia.
Either way, if anyone else is working on weight loss, let's talk about it in here, and strategies on how we should do it.
I've adopted a breakfast routine which consists of me eating Kashi GoLean Crunch in the morning with a little bit of whole milk. I'm not one to drink the milk afterwards, so I suppose I'm not getting the bad fat (or the good calcium either). For lunch, I usually eat a Healthy Choice Steamer, although I've just recently seen Amy's organic frozen meals that I'm willing to try out (although, since they're pretty expensive, I'll probably just eat them once a week for lunch). Dinner is a healthy dinner cooked at home (generally). I started working out yesterday with 30 minutes on the exercise bike. Man, I had forgotten how much it burns.
I'm hoping that in the spring I can bring a basketball to work and challenge some people to 1-on-1 and supplement my exercise with that. Also, I'm looking forward to our corporate park's volleyball league, which got me up and around a lot. My major problem with sticking with exercise is that I need to be distracted from it, seemingly. I do better with sports than going on an exercise bike/machine. I've heard the Kinect could be good, but I won't have enough space for it until I move in July, but I'll also be getting a gym membership (since the gym I currently go to is in my current apartment complex), but I think my company pays for half of the membership.
Well, enough about my stuff, anyone else have anything?
I'm starting off at roughly 250 pounds on January 3rd. Ideally, I'd like to get down to 200 by Thanksgiving. I want this to be a long, sustained losing, instead of dropping 30 pounds in a summer (like I did last year), and gain most of it back in the fall. Granted, I can be an emotional eater, and I wasn't in the best place when my fiance left for 5 months for Australia.
Either way, if anyone else is working on weight loss, let's talk about it in here, and strategies on how we should do it.
I've adopted a breakfast routine which consists of me eating Kashi GoLean Crunch in the morning with a little bit of whole milk. I'm not one to drink the milk afterwards, so I suppose I'm not getting the bad fat (or the good calcium either). For lunch, I usually eat a Healthy Choice Steamer, although I've just recently seen Amy's organic frozen meals that I'm willing to try out (although, since they're pretty expensive, I'll probably just eat them once a week for lunch). Dinner is a healthy dinner cooked at home (generally). I started working out yesterday with 30 minutes on the exercise bike. Man, I had forgotten how much it burns.
I'm hoping that in the spring I can bring a basketball to work and challenge some people to 1-on-1 and supplement my exercise with that. Also, I'm looking forward to our corporate park's volleyball league, which got me up and around a lot. My major problem with sticking with exercise is that I need to be distracted from it, seemingly. I do better with sports than going on an exercise bike/machine. I've heard the Kinect could be good, but I won't have enough space for it until I move in July, but I'll also be getting a gym membership (since the gym I currently go to is in my current apartment complex), but I think my company pays for half of the membership.
Well, enough about my stuff, anyone else have anything?
..I think a lot of them forgot that.
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