(The last 2022) Friday weigh-in thread, 12-30-2022
steve0mania
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Yo. How'd you do?
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I feel as though today, the question "how'd you do" might not only reflect today's weigh-in, but might also reflect on the whole year.
I'm down 0.4 for the week. Blah blah, just bouncing around.
At the same time, that's how I feel about my year. There have been ups-and-downs from a weight-perspective, but in the end, I never really got my head fully in the game. Thus, blah blah, just bouncing around.
I'm not a big one for New Year's resolutions (at least, secular New Year's resolutions), but I like to remind myself that I walked into my first WW meeting as part of a New Year's resolution (that was 14 years ago!!!). Perhaps, then, it's not such a bad thing to use New Year as a starting point?
So, as always, I hereby recommit myself to focusing on weight this year.
I also want to claim a key NSV for this year: I hit my running goal for the year, and even exceeded it by 10%! I made it to 550 miles this year. I know for "serious" runners that's not a very impressive number, but for me it represents a serious commitment to keeping up with my running, and I will pat myself on the back and say that I had a very consistent year!
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Steve
Good report, congratulations to your 2022 accomplishments.
After three years of following my own plan with no WW meetings and no physical exercise plan I have NOT gained back all I lost from SW 376 to GW 184 May 2018!
The scale say 186 but I am not healthy. The pandemic really changed my lifestyle all to bad choices. My next birthday will be 75, I know I need to CHANGE to enjoy life.
Having friends on line is nice but not like IRL. I had three social groups before Covid. Now one is only occasionally.
Saddest loss is family visits.
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Was officially up 6.4, since last week. Still within WW parameters.
Was off the rails from last Wednesday (after WW meeting) until Tuesday (yeah, day before WI).
Working on it again.
New Years is not an obstacle (haven't seen Midnight for years.
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So, Steve, the distance you’ve run in a year is more than I’m comfortable driving in a day - just for context. Heck, it’s probably more than twice the distance I can drive between restrooms!
One thing that WW has been emphasizing lately is “intentions”. I prefer that to goals or resolutions, which seem more binary. An intention is a plan or an expected direction, so it’s a bit more forgiving. My intention for 2023, then, is to find what is a comfortable weight to maintain (at daily weighings) and to define some Green/Yellow/Red boundaries and associated behaviors.
It was an odd year, with drops and plateaus, peaks and valleys, etc. I finally got my act in gear around August and made fairly steady progress back to “free Lifetime” in November. From my last weigh-in in 2021 to my last in 2022, I’m down 19.2#, which is just slightly less than my intention to average two pounds a month. I’m at 178.6 versus a goal weight of 180.
Some semi-NSV? After a couple of trips that triggered plateaus, I had some trips where I effectively managed my choices without feeling restricted. I also navigated Thanksgiving and Christmas with out large swings. And finally, there have been instances this year where I sat at a meal and said, “Self - I think you’ve had enough.” That’s a new behavior for me.
Going forward? My intention is to keep doing what I’ve been doing to create a little more cushion for my monthly weigh-ins. That will probably take me through the first quarter. At some point, I’ll transition to more of a target range and focus on what pleasures are available when not trying to lose. It’s also my intention to try to be more accurate (less sloppy) in my tracking.0 -
"Intentions" is a nice way of saying it. Mine is to drop down to the weight I'd like to be. 20# less than my current WW goal, and 11# more than my original (1997) WW goal. These weights being my, as God sees me, rather than clothed WW readings.
Would really like to eat my breakfast and drink my coffee BEFORE the meeting.
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I'm down 1.4 lbs from last week. So today Saturday last day of the year I'm up 11 lbs since the 12/31/21.
The issue is I'm 51 lbs up from last low of 295.5 sometime in 2019 I think.
So reminiscing since September of 2019 I lost my next oldest brother then 2 months later December I lost my eldest brother. This leaves my youngest Brother and I out of six Siblings. I don't believe that had anything to do with my weight gains during that period but who knows.
In December of 2019 I began having heart issues and by January of 2020 started with pacemaker, followed up by aortic valve replacement 5 weeks later.
During 2020 because there was an issue not with the valve surgery but a tape tear I had over 102 Dr visits for 2020 alone.
Could my heart issues have anti to do with weight gain? I can promise you it can. Can't put my finger on it but I believe my metabolism is screwed up royaly. I've been to weight specialist etc; and will lose on a flash diet but it will come right back on. Yes I misbehaved.
Anyway I'm going to give it a go again for 2023 with the thought of staying with it every single meal of every single day. I'm going to be visiting my electrophysiologist in February and have a real discussion about this.
I've got pretty bad edema in my left leg so we've got to address that.
Good bye! 2022 Hello! 2023.0
