Weight Loss Momentum

[scarlettina]

Haven't posted much about weight loss lately, mainly because progress has been slow this year. (It's been a bitch of a year, frankly, and so I'm cutting myself some slack for the slowed-down momentum, but it's been hard--which is part of the point of this post.) As of last night's weigh-in, I'm down 56.4 pounds and at a weight I haven't seen in a

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[anaka]

Swimming is a small vanity hit, but really... nobody's looking at you. They're doing their own exercise thing. I am faced with the same issue, and it sucks, but it sucks less over time.

[willowgreen]

Weight loss always slows down after a while -- it's one of the things that's always discouraged me. I'm so impressed with what you've accomplished and with your determination to continue!

[e_bourne]

This has been an insanely difficult year, and your knee hurts. Getting your knee fixed is really a priority for exercise. That you are still losing mites of pounds is a wonderful accomplishment and not to be forgotten in this very tough year.

Also, we should talk about that exercise bike I have with your name on it.

[matociquala]

This.

[scarlettina]

I'll see you Saturday. :-)

[fjm]

apologies if you have already done this:

My knees have been far better since I invested in custom orthotics. I've gone from a cane, to walking a couple of hours a day. I still can't do hills but it's a huge improvement.

[scarlettina]

I haven't done it; it hadn't even occurred to me. I've made an appointment to see my doctor next week, so this is something I'll ask about and see what she says. Thanks for the suggestion.

[matociquala]

<3

It's taken me six years to get within 30 pounds of my goal. Keep at it--finally, this past four months or so, I've realized that my body is fit and it works and it does everything I want it to.

It's so amazing to *have my body back*. More or less healthy. Strong.

Would working out on an elliptical help the knee?

And you are beautiful.

[scarlettina]

Thank you. :-)

Every time I complain about or consider how long this process takes, I remember the first time I said something like that to my Weight Watchers leader. She said to me, "You need to be somewhere? You on a deadline? Nope, didn't think so. How long did it take you to put on the weight?" and I realize that it may, in fact, be unreasonable to expect the weight to come off faster than I put it on. She has a point: the process takes as long as it takes. As long as the general trend is downward, I'm achieving my goal: a healthier weight and a healthier life.

If I feel the press of time, it's because this is a landmark birthday year for me, and I guess I'd like to lose the weight before age takes its toll on my body and makes the weight loss take a back seat to other issues that need to be addressed. I want to enjoy my body while I'm still young enough to do so, and the fact that I let myself balloon to 232 pounds in the prime of my life still makes me feel like an idiot. But I'm better now.

[matociquala]

I hear you. Oh boy, do I hear you.

The important thing is, you're doing something about it.

Every time I go to my climbing gym I see men and women in their sixties who still climb. They may not crush 5.12s anymore, but they climb--and they do it with elegance and practiced grace.

I want to be one of them in twenty years.

And I feel better at forty than I did at thirty-three, which was pretty much the nadir of my taking care of myself.