My husband's 95 pound and my 58 pound weight loss...

[Leah]

Hi. My name's Leah.

Um, well Kayla asked me to post about my husband's 63 pound and my 58 pound weight loss.

It took about 9 months, the doctor told us to take it slowly and our bodies would never know the weight was gone. That seems to be true, I've kept all but 2 pounds off this winter while basically ignoring the problem... I'm starting up again, because I still have 20 pounds to lose to get down to my pre-baby weight - no, I'm NOT going to mention how old my youngest baby is...

To start with , I got a "Body by Jake's Total Body Trainer". It's a little machine that is easy for a very overweight couple to use. You just bend forward and back without straining, and think nothing is going to happen because it doesn't hurt.

The machine came with a formula to figure out each person's diet numbers, they are all different. I can post that if you want me to - I think I can explain it well enough...

 

Kayla, help please - Is this the sort of thing you wanted to know?

 

 

 

[ArmyOfFive4God]

I think it's wonderful that BOTH of you were able to do such a wonderful job! I think it figuring out your numbers is a very interesting thing. I mean you can go online and find "calculators" for that.

 

So did you change your eating habits? Or did you guys just get up and move?

[HSmom]

That's terrific Leah. I'm in the process of losing 50 pounds. I started with the new year & am half-way. I've just watched my portions and choices, using WW points as boundaries.

 

I'm curious, was your dh self-motivated or did you bring him on board? My dh is about 50-60 pounds overweight and very unhealthy (diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, family history of early heart attack, etc). I so wish he'd lose weight - for all of our sakes.

[Leah]

The young fellow who worked at the desk a little way away from DH went in for a quadruple-bypass. He is 20+ years younger than my hubby, and a lot thinner.

At the same time, I had lost 23 pounds.

So-o-o, he finally asked me to figure out his numbers.

 

I had him write down everything he put in his body with no changes, and then compared those numbers with the ones I got from 'Body By Jake'. He does well with the fat and the carbs, it's the calories he needs to watch. In my case, it's mainly fat grams I go over.

 

The moving, not so much. Hubby is gone 12 hours a day and more for work and commuting, so has little desire to run marathons and such when he IS home. I started a little yoga and bellydancing. We both do the bending thing on the machine - it's a minimum of 50 each way every day, takes about 4 minutes.

 

[Dee]

Very good you two. I hope you're very proud of yourselves!!!

[Snowmom]

to both of you. You are doing so great.

 

Wish we could get some of the extra pounds off both of us. Old Pine needs to lose more than I do, but I need to get rid of 20 pounds at least. I don't want to get down as low as I was before I started having babies. But would be nice to get down some.

 

Now, Old Pine has always been heavy/over weight, but he would like to lose about about 40 pounds, I think. I'll have to look into this thing you are using.

 

for posting. This is the kind of posts we like to see.

[zzelle]

me too me hubby are both trying to lose weight. i have lost 29 and hubby has lost 29 we still have more to lose me around 22-25 to go hubby 20-30. we are trying to excersie and watch are calories.

[zzelle]

me too me hubby are both trying to lose weight. i have lost 29 and hubby has lost 29 we still have more to lose me around 22-25 to go hubby 20-30. we are trying to excersie and watch are calories.

[Jewlzm]

That is excellent Leah!

How do you figure out the numbers? Are they just numbers for fat/calories/carbs? Or repetitions on the machine?

[Leah]

It takes a few steps, but I think I can make it make sense...I'll do it for a 200 pound person who is sedentary.

 

Take your weight and multiply by 10. (200 x 10= 2000) mark that 'A'.

 

Take 'A' times .20. That gets you "B" ;(2000 x .20 = 400)( if you are active use .40; if very active use .60)

 

Add "A" + "B" = "C" ; 2000 + 400 = 2400 "C"

 

Take your "C" - 750 = "D" ; 2400-750 = 1650 "D"

 

Now take "D" x .50, then divide the answer by 4

1650 x .50 = 825 divided by 4 = 206.25 (this is your carb grams)

Take "D" x.30, then divide the answer by 4

1650 x .30 = 495, divided by 4 = 123.75 ( this is your protein grams)

Last, take "D" x .20, then divide answer by 9

1650 x .20 = 330, divided by 9 = 36.66 ( this is your fat grams)

 

So the 200 pound sedentary person would have - 1650 calories; 206.25 carbs; 123.75 protein grams; and 36.66 fat grams.

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Did that make sense?

 

 

[Leah]

We try to eat 5 servings of fruit and veg, and 3 servings of dairy in those numbers.

I get the dairy by using fat-free half&half in my coffee. Hubby uses cheese for most of his.

He needs to watch the calorie count most, because he likes beer and wine; I need to watch the fat count most because I like chocolate...

[preparing]

If you lose weight then do you recalculate all the numbers?

[Leah]

We recalculated after 50 pounds, to be sure we were still staying below what we needed.

[Leah]

Hubby's down another 8 pounds. Yeah!

[S.K.]

your diet sounds good you and your husband are doing a great job. i started WW where you count the points. keep up the good work .

[Leah]

Hubby weighed today - down 83 pounds total!

 

 

[HSmom]

Terrific! Congratulate him for me!

[Leah]

Hubby says thank you very much! He's quite proud of himself.

 

He's buying 'new' clothes because the old ones fall off him - it would NOT be good for his reputation to 'moon' someone...LOL

[ArmyOfFive4God]

YAY!!!

 

PS- I'm down 13 pounds from beg. of June & down 18 from Jan!!!

[Leah]

Good going - back atcha!It makes you feel good, doesn't it?

We just need to keep plugging away. If I eat too much on one day, I might cut back a little on the next, but there's no point beating myself up about it. This is a lifestyle change for us, not a diet.

He weighs himself at work, the scale I used to use was in a store but they took it out. Bummer, it was almost exactly what the doctor's scale read...

[ArmyOfFive4God]

Yes, it does! I'm the same way- no diets for me. If I feel I eat too much, I exercise somewhere extra (sometimes formal exercise, sometimes I might hand wash the linoleum instead of mopping, etc) to compensate. I've also started making healthier food choices. I eat a lot of fish and raw veggies anymore. Don't get me wrong, I still eat chips & chocolate and such, but not near as much as I used to. PMS is the WORST time for me *sigh* If I can come out of that week each month and weigh no more than I did the week before, I'm happy, LOL.

 

And doncha just hate the difference in like every scale you get on?

[Leah]

Hubby down 89 pounds now! YOWSER!

[Momo]

Way to go Mr. Leah!

[Leah]

Doctor has Hubby maintaining at 95 pounds down for a few months.

His body needs to get used to this size, and to feel that it's his normal weight.

 

Oddly enough, I think nearing retirement is giving him the push he needs to stick with this. He says he doesn't want to sit in a rocking chair on the porch all day.

[Leah]

Hubby (whom you all know as Hippie Dad now) is starting to lose weight again.

 

He's down 104 pounds!!!!!

And fellows, he still gets to drink beer!