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Let me know if you want some names of good kiltmakers. Or if you just want to get a cheaper alternative, I can point you in that direction as well.

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No gain is still success. Not great success, but some nonetheless.
Quality kilts and full Scottish uniforms can get expensive. My marching band outfit (we were the Scotland High School Fighting Scots) cost almost $2,000 for the whole outfit, and I'm sure they can get up even higher than that.

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Should have guessed that :)

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If you're looking for a full 8-9 yard knife pleated 16oz wool kilt and accessories it sure can get costly. With the popularity of the kilt growing, there are other tartan materials available to bring the cost down. I won't buy a hand-sewn wool kilt until I reach my goal weight but I do have kilts that are less than $150 that I wear for everyday use.

Sorry to hijack the thread. I love kilts.

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I guess talking about kilts killed the thread. Oh well... back on track.

Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled with sauteed veggies and 2 pieces of turkey bacon (anyone noticing a pattern?)
Lunch: Chicken and bean burrito on a whole wheat tortilla
Dinner: Pan-fried chicken and a salad
Snacks: one low-fat cheese stick and one cucumber

Did my 20 minutes of cardio of which I kicked ass! And my chest routine. Feelin' good!

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Prices killed the kilt thread. My parents traveled to London back in October. They picked up a scarf w/ the Sutherland clan official colors/plaid. The scarf alone cost well more than what I would be willing to pay. And that was nowhere near what a kilt would cost. (I want to get one someday in the future, just for the hell of it though).



Steak and potatoes, garlic bread, and peas and carrots for supper. Drinking a lot of water tonight. Got my taxes done today, and am caught up in all the puff drama today. No workout for me. Will have to tomorrow.:bh

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Today I had left over Thai for breakfast and lunch, and pizza for supper. Not great, but I got out climbing for a couple of hours. Wasn't as active as usual at the gym, but I was helping out my cute friend and 3 of her cute friends.

I'll make up for it tomorrow.

The material I can get for my kilt is not wool and not that expensive. My wife is a bit of an amateur seamstress, so I'll get her on the job.

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down two lbs this weigh in

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Nice job brother... keep it up!!!

Had tacos for dinner last night. Kept my portions reasonable.

Only got to work out for about 30 minutes at the gym this morning. The bathroom was locked and I had to go back to the house:fl I did run for the whole time though. My endurance is definitely getting better. At this time last year I was smoking cigarettes and I bet I couldn't have run for 5 minutes without stopping.

Breakfast this morning was the usual Fiber One
Lunch is a tossed salad with some leftover filet slices
Dinner is undecided

Have a great healthy day gents.

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it was a shocker considering I thought I blew with what I ate this weekend :)

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I've been eating more left over Thai. Once I have supper that will be all three meals today.

No formal exercise, but I spent a few hours tearing down a couple of walls in my brother's basement.

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Congrats!
I bet that was worth it.:D





Went and had supper at my parents' house. Ate too much, but I only had a bowl of oatmeal since I got up this morning. Hopefully it'll balance itself out. Walked 1 mile this evening. Hope to go a couple more before bed.

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Didn't get out and do any more exercise last night. Got caught up in the forum drama as of late. Looks like it's all behind us though.

Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: jalapeno sunflower seeds
Dinner: going out

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Breakfast - Raisin Bran and a bananna
Lunch - ham sammies
Supper - ???

Going welding for a while today. Practicing some procedures to challenge my next block of school. Not really exercise, but it beats sitting at a desk all day.

Weigh in is tomorrow and it's not looking great.

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im goin a little nuts lately with the eating, thinking of joining weight watchers online. Maybe if i spend money it will help, i duno anymore ;/

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Congrats Perry!!

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I found weight watchers great for learning how to balance my food intake. Learning about what foods were worse or better, and how to watch my portions was great, even if it was just following along with my wife.

Now I just tend to ignore it all, so I'm thinking about getting my wife to send the guides and tools along. I know I need it.

Good luck.

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Join up, get all the material (guides, points scale, etc) then leave. Don't pay the monthly WW fees unless you want someone to support you each month. You can have that here for free.

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Hey gents... short update here... I suck... N exercise, but did eat OK. Going to my son's soccer game now so maybe I can walk the track a bit.

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cant go to the gym because the cold hit me reall bad . Still driving 8 miles a day with my bicycle.
I somehow cant get me to drink 3l water a day...

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If you can afford the $15 a month for the online plan, I would recommend it. The fact that I knew I was paying for it did help motivate me to make sure I was actually recording what I ate everyday. If you think you will stay dedicated to paper and pencil tracking then Andys suggestion is probably better.. but I never remembered to write anything down when I actually ate, so the online database made it quite easy to go back in find values for the meals. It also lets ya save 'favorites' so if you eat certain things often, you just have one click to add those do your daily allowance.

The other feature I found helpful with the online tracking was the weigh-in chart tracking. Now maybe you are savvy enough to create a excel chart etc to track this, but I honestly think that seeing the steady downslope of the chart while I was doing the diet was one of the most motivating factors.


I haven't really checked in much since the start of this.. but it looks like you guys are doing really well, and staying motivated. Keep up the good work! :ze:ze

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I joined. Not sure how to gauge some stuff tho, like homeade stew or something. How to figure out the "points"

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For alot of home made meals I would either try to find a preset item I thought would be close to what I had made, and if I couldnt find anything I would break it down into the ingredients and then take a points value from what a portion would end up being

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You can track weight via chart for free here.
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Break it down ingredient by ingredient. It's not hard or time consuming to do.

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Going to Olive Garden on Friday, fellas.:dr Gotta workout/exercise extra hard between now and Monday to make up for it.

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Well, I had another minor drop of .4 lbs to make it 244 even. At least I didn't go up. Guess I have to be thankful for the small victories.:rolleyes:

I'm on the way back down to tear apart some more of my brother's basement. I just hope he is expecting me to be able to put any of it back together.:D

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.4 is still down. Congrats! Have fun tearing the basement apart.:)

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Morning all. Official weigh-in this morning was at 205! Woo hoo!!

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First day of weight watchers was yesterday, it's not so hard. Some folks i talked to said "you'll be hungry all the time" didn't find that at all. Lost some weight even. Today is day #2

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Awesome!
If you do it right, you'll find that you will be hungry less often while on the program.

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Off to eat like a horse. Going to Olive Garden tonight w/ the wife to celebrate her getting a new job. Then to see a movie and have a big @$$ bag of popcorn. I've saved up some points for this. And I'm gonna work hard to make up for it too. Eating like this once in a while can't hurt.


BTW, today makes 4 weeks of me not drinking. I think that helps a lot with the weightloss.

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Didn't do too bad last night at the OG. The appetizer was fried calamari (delicious, but not healthy), and for the main course I had seafood portofino (shrimp, scallops, and mussels are pretty light, although the pasta and alfredo sauce were fattening). The large popcorn (no butter) at the movie theater wasn't that healthy either. Yesterday was also my four week mark w/o alcohol.

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I thought popcorn with no butter wasn't to bad for you?

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Movie theater popcorn is still fattening. They pop it in heavy oil. It's not the worst you can do, better than buying the candy at the movies.

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i didn't know that. I'm working on losing a lot of weight myself

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Welcome to the wieghtloss thread. Feel free to keep us updated. The more the merrier. We're all in this together.

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been working on it since 01/15. just a big change in my eating habits. no more eating heavy or late night snacking. I lost 20lbs last year and just lost focus. Now I'm back to the same routine.

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starting weight: 266.7lbs
current weight: 262 lbs
i am going to hit the gym at least 3 times this week
new lifting goal: squat 315

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Air popped is the best way. Then you can add smaller amounts of your own butter/salt or dry seasoning. I've used Mrs. Dash spices for this. Interesting flavours but no MSG.

The other way to to have it the way you like and just eat a smaller amount. I love popcorn so that part is difficult for me.:D

I've been having a decent weekend. I may actually be on track for a good weigh-in on Thursday.

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Woo Hoo!
Finally made it below the 250 mark. Official weigh-in today was 247lbs, a drop of three pounds for the week. That makes it a total of 14lbs in a month.

Breakfast: Wheat toast w/ spinach and asagio chicken sausage (4pts)
Lunch: Same as breakfast (4pts)
Dinner: ?

Hopefully going walking after school with a good cigar.

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Way to go Andy!!! Keep up the good work. :tu

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Congratulations Andy!!!!!

Me I went jogging sat and sun. 4.5 someodd miles doing about 1hr 15min. I will get back down to the 55min mark :ze I know i started out at about 330lbs. And when i was doing things right, eating healthy and jogging twice a week and lifting twice a week i was down to 280lbs. that is my goal again.

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I tried jogging for a while, but I get tired out too easily and always jogging for a short peice, then walking most of the time.

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down 3.5 since my last weigh-in

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Good news! Keep it up.

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Didn't take super bowl off for alcohol? :hb
Sounds like you are doing good Andy.

I would like to lose weight, but I don't have the drive for it. If I don't eat a lot I feel like I am going to starve. Even my girl begs me to stop. just can't :(

Anyway, keep up the good work.

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thank you, a good month for both of us, as I lost 8.5 lbs :) wish I could keep that pace

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You're beating my wife, Perry. She's only lost 7lbs total. Any loss is a good gain.

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Try reducing what you eat by just a little bit. Drastic changes in your diet might be too much, but if you decrease in small steps it might be less noticeable.

You can also try increasing your activity level. Find something you like and it will be easier to stick with.

I'm going to be trying out some of the active games on the Wii to see how they will be over time.

I know first hand that the boxing game gets you quite active. Now I just have to see if it will be something to hold my interest for the longer haul.

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yes it is, even with crappy weekends in there. :)