September 04, 2005
Weight Loss Contest
Well, John wins the $500 this month. I don't know how much he lost, but I gained 1/2 pound.
Between vacation in San Diego and the Cheesecake Factory, I'm lucky I didn't gain more!
This month, I'll win!!!!
Posted by Beth at 08:43 AM
August 01, 2005
August 1st
John and I are having a contest. Each month, we will weigh ourselves on the first and the last day and whoever loses the most weight, gets $500 to do what he/I want to with it.
Heck, nothing else has worked much, and we are both pretty competitive - yes, even with each other!
I'll let you know the results the last day of the month!
UPDATE: This is what we'd like to look like again - at least as far as our weight! This was taken back in 1994 at Rocky Mountain National Park.
Posted by Beth at 06:44 AM
November 29, 2004
Wow!
I actually lost 2 1/2 pounds over the Thanksgiving Holiday! I was trying hard to be careful not to eat too much, and I certainly had enough good food. If I keep this up, I'll be down a size or two by Christmas!
Posted by Beth at 09:10 AM
May 25, 2004
Trying to diet
I signed up for Ediets.com diet stuff - figured it could not hurt. There are a wide variety of diets there, and they set up meal plans for you. But I can't find a meal plan that recognizes that I travel 4 to 5 days a week. Everytime I try to select a plan that will let me eat out 3 times a day 4 days a week, it tells me I can't lose weight that way.
Arrggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
I simply can't cook when I'm in most hotels. This is making me crazy.
I guess I did wake up grumpy.
Posted by Beth at 07:57 AM
March 17, 2004
Well, that hurt!
But it was a short enough work out I'll try to do a little more tomorrow. Once upon a time I could probably out sit up anyone. Now, just a few crunches and I'm burning.
sigh.
Posted by Beth at 07:21 PM
Don't laugh
I'm going to try to follow a DVD and do what I can with an abs workout tonight.
Isn't there an easier way to look thinner?
Posted by Beth at 07:00 PM
November 15, 2003
no loss no gain
same as yesterday.
Posted by Beth at 07:30 AM
November 14, 2003
2 pounds went away
Just like Dean Esmay said they would. Dean and his wife, Rosemary, have a lot of weighty (heh) information on obesity and all the issues surrounding it on their blog, well, I guess it is Dean's blog, but Rosemary writes there a lot. In fact, Rosemary should have her own blog.
But the weight is coming off. Perhaps this going public thing has merit.
Posted by Beth at 07:15 AM
November 13, 2003
bad beth - up 2 pounds today
and I expected it. I ate quite a few salt and vinegar chips yesterday. Hopefully, it will come back off soon. but.it.was.worth.it.
Posted by Beth at 08:10 AM
November 12, 2003
no loss no gain
same as yesterday. Better than gaining!
Posted by Beth at 06:58 AM
November 11, 2003
lost 2 1/2 pounds
67 pounds to go. To those of you who may be concerned that I'm just losing water weight, I should tell you that I started watching my food intake last week, and dropped 9 pounds (this was mostly due to my monthly bloating going away) and I have been on diuretics for some time. So I think it is real weight.
What's very odd, though, is that I am not counting calories or weighing food. I am trying very hard to just eat when I'm hungry.
So maybe there is something to my public commitment - we'll see as time goes by, how long this happens.
Posted by Beth at 07:03 AM
November 10, 2003
down 1/2 pound
69 1/2 to go.
Posted by Beth at 05:58 AM
November 09, 2003
no loss no gain
same weight I was yesterday!
Posted by Beth at 10:36 AM
November 08, 2003
Commitment Experiment
I have been reading a book, "Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion", by Robert b. Cialdini, PHD. The book has been around for awhile, but I have just now found it. It explains how simple it is for people to be persuaded to do things they might not otherwise do - from Prisoners of War being convinced to colloberate with the enemy to people being convinced to become an Amway Dealer - to a smoker successfully quitting.
One of the very interesting techniques involves writing down a goal and making that goal public.
Well, in the interest of science ( I was a psychology major, lo those many years ago!), I decided to make public my rather embarrassing goal of losing a lot of weight.
To be exact, I need to lose a minimum of 70 pounds. I have tried many diets, but after I lose 10 or 20 pounds, I just gain back that much and more. Thus, I have gone from a size 10 (that I shoulda been happy with) to a size 20 in the past 10 years. Yes, even the famed Atkins diet (which caused all sorts of embarrassing farting noises that emanated from my bum during the night) failed me.
So, I am not going on a diet, but just letting everyone know that I have a goal of losing 70 pounds. As part of this goal, I will weigh myself each morning and post my loss or gain.
I ain't telling nobody how much my current weight is, but I will tell you how many pounds I have gotten rid of and how far from my goal I am.
This will be the only long post about this, - the rest will just be tiny little notes under my Beth's weight loss category.
Thanks for putting up with this interruption. Back to blogging.
Posted by Beth at 01:35 PM