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What are you guys using as a goal in terms of weight loss... is it just a number or how your clothes fit, or how you look in the mirror...
I think about clothes sizes and the mirror.... IDK... I think we get too hung up on the numbers.....
I guess for me it's a combination of the mirror, the scale and the way my clothes fit. I'll also add blood sugar numbers in there because I know when I'm in the 150's my fasting glucose is in the high 90's/low 100's. In the lower 140's it's in the mid 80's. I'd like to get it down to the low 80's.
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Originally Posted by TheBeagleLady
I recently looked at pictures from our Vegas trip a year ago. There are a couple of SD and me standing together. He looks great. Me? Holy buckets! I am appalled and find it difficult to look at the pictures without crying.
I keep a full length mirror in the bathroom right outside the shower. Whether I want to or not, I make myself really LOOK. It is motivating now that I can actually see the changes.
I had posted my fat pics on the weight loss board a while ago. I'm not brave enough to post them again but I'm right there with ya. I look like a completely different person and I have nothing but disgust for myself at my heavier weight.
I weight myself twice a day though, before bed and then again in the morning. It might be obsessive but oh well. Works for me!
I guess for me it's a combination of the mirror, the scale and the way my clothes fit. I'll also add blood sugar numbers in there because I know when I'm in the 150's my fasting glucose is in the high 90's/low 100's. In the lower 140's it's in the mid 80's. I'd like to get it down to the low 80's.
I had posted my fat pics on the weight loss board a while ago. I'm not brave enough to post them again but I'm right there with ya. I look like a completely different person and I have nothing but disgust for myself at my heavier weight.
I weight myself twice a day though, before bed and then again in the morning. It might be obsessive but oh well. Works for me!
I don't keep a scale in the house because I become too obsessive over it. I freak out if there's a little bit of a gain that is just the normal fluctuations from day to day. Weighing once a week works better for me!
Well.. as a man... its hard to talk about this stuff... men genrally don't talk about weight and self esteem and these sorta "issues" at least men of my generation..... you just don't do it..... you look like a "***"... you follow..
But, alas here I am , bustin through the barriers... exposing my soft underbelly... LOL....
I guess for me it's a combination of the mirror, the scale and the way my clothes fit. I'll also add blood sugar numbers in there because I know when I'm in the 150's my fasting glucose is in the high 90's/low 100's. In the lower 140's it's in the mid 80's. I'd like to get it down to the low 80's.
I had posted my fat pics on the weight loss board a while ago. I'm not brave enough to post them again but I'm right there with ya. I look like a completely different person and I have nothing but disgust for myself at my heavier weight.
I weight myself twice a day though, before bed and then again in the morning. It might be obsessive but oh well. Works for me!
Sixy, my glucose numbers aren't affected by my weight, I have something called non diabetic reactive hypo (not hyper) glycemic disorder. It's more of a food allergy of sorts it comes on after I eat a certain food or don't eat at regular intervals like a diabetic, but it's not diabetes. All my numbers are normal unless I have something food that causes a reaction, could be type of nuts, too much white flour, alcohol, chocolate, sugary food type specific, I never know. I just never know how bad the reaction will be. One reason I ended up in the emergency room was the combination of that and other meds, I'd just had anesthesia from a procedure plus I had decided to try a supplement that caused an extreme drop in my blood sugar and could have gone into a coma, I was lucky so I was told.
Most of my food reaction won't be so over the top as that time, but still need to be careful, as I have regular food reactions, just not to the degree of what I had a couple of weeks ago.. I have to head to be now, probably now not as coherent as I should be.
Well.. as a man... its hard to talk about this stuff... men genrally don't talk about weight and self esteem and these sorta "issues" at least men of my generation..... you just don't do it..... you look like a "***"... you follow..
But, alas here I am , bustin through the barriers... exposing my soft underbelly... LOL....
(A big belly as it were)
wish I could stay up for this, but I have limitations. Hugs appreciate you sharing.
As long as you aren't going to be scrapping with me!
Certain family members...have at it...
There is a list of people who'd don't want to cross paths with me. Even more so in a dark alley.
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