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Conflicting nutrition info
On 7/24 my doctor says: "As a woman you need a lot of calcium, so try to eat more low-fat cheese and yogurt, since you don't like milk." On 7/30 my health club nutritionist says: "As a runner you need lots of protein to build muscle and you need fat to feel full, so eat more eggs (yolks and all) and meat and greek yogurt.…
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Formerly Fat
This was me in 2005... 5'3" tall, weighing in at 215 pounds and wearing size 20 pants. After that I became more active and lost 45 pounds on my own, which lasted until a major knee injury kept me inactive for four months. I thought when the injury healed and I got back to being active the weight would come off again. But…
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Progress pics--67 pounds lost
I just got back from my yearly ski trip, and looking at the pictures I realized that I had a lot of the same poses as last year. Since I'm an instructor, I'm also wearing the same uniform (except two sizes smaller this year). I think it's really fun and inspiring to see the pictures that others post of the same pose and…
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Skiing NSVs today
I joined MFP and started losing weight when last ski season ended because I thought that would be when I would have the time and energy to really focus on it. So between ski seasons I have lost 54 pounds. When I went out to the ski hill and taught my first skiing lesson of the season today, I was really noticing how much…
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Changing helmet size?
Have any of you noticed your helmet size decrease as you've lost weight? Today I put on my helmet for the first time since last winter, and even with the chin strap adjusted to the smallest possible size it was too big. My helmet also slid around on my head pretty easily, too. I know I've lost my second chin, but could…
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Pizza is a vegetable
Congress officially ruled that pizza counts as a vegetable. Things like this make me so mad! No wonder so many Americans have such a distorted view of food! http://www.thejournal.ie/us-congress-rules-that-pizza-is-a-vegetable-282033-Nov2011/
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Binding settings
Since the end of last ski season I have lost 50 pounds, so while my skis are in the shop being tuned up, I'm having the binding settings changed for my current weight. I assume that 50 pounds is a significant enough change for this to be necessary. Do any of you know, though, if I keep losing weight during this ski season…
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My NSV today
When I became a ski instructor, I started to lose weight due to the huge increase in my activity level, so I bought a smaller pair of ski pants and a smaller uniform jacket that I fit into at the time. Then I was injured and gained most of the weight back. So last winter I was pretty much bursting out of my ski pants, and…
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6 month progress
It's my birthday today, and it's also six months since I joined MFP, so I thought I would indulge in posting progress pictures, if I can figure out how to do that. :smile: I had started losing weight on my own about five years ago, but then I suffered a serious knee injury and gained almost all of it back. After my injury,…
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Any other skiers out there? Calorie burning question
I'm new to this site, and I'm a downhill ski instructor. When I've entered the time I spend out skiing (about four hours actually out on the hills), this site has told me that I've burned 1800 calories. That seemed high to me, so I checked other websites, all of which gave me higher estimates than that. I know that being…
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Hello!
I'm pretty new to this website, but so far it's been just the tool I've needed to work on my weight loss goal. A few years ago I started working on it and lost 45 pounds. Then last winter (12/09) I sustained a major knee injury on the ski hill that kept me inactive on my couch for four months. I also got pretty depressed,…
