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Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
Notice:**PLEASE** enter notes in mixed case (CAPS ARE SHOUTING)!
Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Tue Jul 10 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

663.0. "Can you.........Imagine?" by BUFFER::WESTON () Fri Apr 19 1991 21:27

    
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    Can you, Imagine...........
    
    Our dreams coming true.  We are at GOAL..........our own goals of
    weight loss.  One pound or 100 pounds.  We all feel great and look the
    way "we" want to, not the way _____THEY_____ say we should be.
    
    Let's all dream -- here.............. in this file let's be what we
    want to be whether you are there now or the near or distant future.
    
    How do you look?  How do you feel?  Has this changed your life
    positively? or negatively?  Will you be able to maintain and if not is
    it O.K. with you, to try again.
    
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    Just a note to have some fun in.  Elaborate if you'd like....
    
    Mine follows......
    
    
    Carol
    
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663.1I'm Dreaming..........BUFFER::WESTONFri Apr 19 1991 21:3431
    I'm dreaming, of the near future.
    
    As I start, Jenny Craig tomorrow morning---------and the months go by
    with steady weight loss.  I hear praises from family and friends. 
    Some, who have never seen me at such a smaller weight.  I feel myself,
    not "bumping" into corners of tables, I no longer knock things off of
    tables with my "behind".  I can walk straight down the coridors at
    work, no more do I go sideways to let people by.
    
    I have a "whole new wardrobe".  Right now, it's during the winter
    months, and the bulky clothes don't feel like I already have 14
    sweaters for a body!  I can put on a sweater to be pretty or cute, not
    to hide by layers.  I can "OUT LOUD" tell family what my clothes size
    is, for Xmas gifts.  I walk into............................
    
    		" ANY CLOTHING STORE.........I WANT TO!"
    
    I look forward to Spring (if only I could right now).......to put on a
    pair of cotton jeans and tuck in a nice cotton blouse.  Simple things,
    make me happy.
    
    I look real forward too.............my belly being gone, so it is not
    in the way of my closeness with my husband!!!!!!!!!!  TA! DA!
    
    			I do wish upon a star.............
    
    Dreams can come true!
    
    Carol
    
    
663.2My dreams...SWSEIS::WHALENWed Apr 24 1991 00:4520
    
    It's not gonna be a dream for long Carol, soon it will be a REALITY!!
    
    It really is worth it.  I've lost 38 lbs so far with Weight Watchers
    (still have 14 left to get to goal).  Do I feel different?  YES,
    I feel 100% different.  I'm not as self-conscious any more; I can
    go to a store and find clothes with no problem, friends and family
    have praised me up and down, but best of all is that I feel good
    about ME!!
    
    My dreams?  My biggest is to feel great in a swimsuit this year.
    To actually go into a store and just pick one off the rack and have
    it fit me (instead of going to 10 different stores and trying on
    300 different suits, only to go home and cry because they all looked
    terrible).  That's my dream....
    
    I wish you the best of luck with Jenny Craig Carol!!!!! Keep us
    posted on your progress...
    
    Linda
663.3reaching your goalWMOIS::BARDSLEYThu Apr 25 1991 15:0215
    None of us have to dream! We just need to find the will power and set
    our goals to be thinner.  I have resently lost 50 lbs on Nutri Systems
    very simular to Jenny Craig.  What I am struggling with now is keeping
    it off forever.  I have been on maintanance for about 8 weeks now and I
    am finding it very hard.  What's so hard is that I'm not eating enough
    so my metabalism has slow right down , causing a few pounds gained
    instead of losing. 
    
    When I was losing the weight I told everyone that I wasn't so worried
    about losing it as I was to keep it off and I guess I was right.  
    
    Good luck to all of you, it's not easy, but knowing their are many other
    people out there striving for the same goals helps a lot.
    
    Sandi
663.4LESLIE::LESLIEAndy _Digital Services Engineering_ RE02 F/C3 830 6723Thu Apr 25 1991 16:166
    Actually, your matablosim SPEEDS UP rather than slowing down, digesting
    food much faster than before, because there is less of it!
    
    Exercise is a very good recipe for maintenance...
    
    	- andy
663.5Less food => SLOWER metabolismESCROW::ROBERTSFri Apr 26 1991 18:245
    re .4
    
    Research has shown that curtailing caloric input slows down your
    metabolism.  This is precisely the problem with crash diets; your body
    adjusts its metabolism to "famine" conditions.  
663.6Monday Morning DreamsPOCUS::FEINMANMon May 06 1991 17:2024
    Can you imagine...a waitress at a Club you frequent often refusing to
    speak to your husband because he appears to be out with another (much
    thinner) woman?
    
    Can you imagine...your obnoxious brothers and sister-in-law teasing you
    for being the oldest person in the group silenced by the challenge to
    do 100 push-ups because you know YOU can?
    
    Being thinner than your mother for the first time in your life?
    
    Putting on your size 18 wedding gown for fun and looking ridiculous
    because you now have a size 8 body?
    
    They used to be my dreams, but each one really happened.
    
    Now I dream of losing those last 20 pounds and continuing to look and
    feel strong and attractive.  I dream about turning into the person I
    always wanted to be.
    
    Thanks, Carol, for starting me off on these daydreams on this rainy
    Monday morning.  Good luck making your own dreams come true - I know
    you'll succeed.
    
    Sylvia