320 Sticks of Butter

320 Sticks of Butter		durgy
		Jul 11 2008 18:14
If I was to spread a nice even layer of 320 sticks of butter all over my body, me plus butter weight would equal what I weighed in January. Mmmmm . . . butter. I would like to wring out another around 70 sticks of butter before I go to a maintenance eating plan. Maybe instead I should try to get this monkey off my back (average weight of a adult male rhesus monkey is about 7.7 kilos). Do you have any imagery like that that you think about your in terms of your own weight loss? Please share.
Edited Jul 29 2008 00:40 by smwhipple Reason: 7/15/08: Stickied for one week; 7/28/08 unstickied.

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#1	defrog3	Jul 11 2008 18:22
Ha!!! This cracks me up--I also use the sticks of butter analogy in my head, but I go by the pound :( 60 packages of butter--that's what I have to lose (60*4=240 sticks?). I've lost 10 packages (40 sticks!) so far--wow, as I type this, I like the stick analogy better!!! :D
#2	thmheh	Jul 11 2008 18:22
That's great - haha! I just sometimes think in bags of sugar - as of this morning I have now lost 5, 5lb bags!
#3	amk042900	Jul 11 2008 18:26
I have been working on a 40# weight loss - I always say I need to lose a small child off my body! Ha! Thanks for sharing!
#4	faieriesunshine	Jul 11 2008 18:29
I've lost 220 sticks of butter! great analogy!
#5	jess1979	Jul 11 2008 19:19
I've already lost my eight year old child - haha not actually, but equal to his weight. GO ME!!! I couldn't imagine carrying him around with me all day. Oh and to add - that my goal is to lose my 4 year old child too! Or another 35-40 lbs...
#6	halizabeth	Jul 11 2008 19:24
I read your profile Durgy and I like your spirit. You mentioned not taking a before and after shot, but the close up on your face side-by-side shot says a lot. You have done a great job. Your butter analogy is inspiring too. From my highest weight of 230 pounds till now, I have melted off 200 sticks of butter and I have another 140 sticks to go. Just 60 more sticks till I am no longer in the obese category.
#7	victorechka	Jul 12 2008 18:23
I've lost nearly four gallons of milk since I first started eating better! (A gallon of milk weighs about 8.5 pounds, for those who don't know. :) ) Hooray! Just another 4 or 5 gallons to go! :giggle:
#8	bettypage4	Jul 12 2008 18:35
That butter imagery is funny and inspiring. I guess I lost about 4 newborn babies worth of weight from my highest of 190 around 10 years ago. My recent weight loss is equal to more than the big bag of corn tortilla masa in my cabinet.
#9	dinarly	Jul 13 2008 01:36
Yes; I've lost about sixty pounds (it varies) so far, and my older cat weighs about fifteen. I think about what it'd be like to carry four of her around all the time, and that I actually did do that.
#10	amilagirl	Jul 13 2008 01:49
I think of 5 lb bags of potatoes. I've lost 30 pounds...that's 6 bags of potatoes!
#11	melly991	Jul 15 2008 18:26
I think of the 20 pound bags of kitty litter we buy. I've lost two of those, plus a 7 pound bag of cat food on top of it. It would be a challenge for me to carry all of that at one time (although I could do it thanks to my weight training!), so it's insane to think that I used to carry it around every day all the time.
#12	wiliwigi	Jul 16 2008 03:30
Oooh what a great visual. Pounds of butter melted away. For me it would be about 208 sticks of butter. But imagine the caloric value of what what you have lost. Place it into your used-to-be favorite food, your old Achilles Heel, and then see what it would equal. I have lost 52 lbs. (182,000 Calorie deficit). My old favorite was the Krispy Kreme Glazed Doughnut (200 Calories each). I have burned off the equivalent of 910 individual doughuts or 76 dozen Krispy Kreme Glazed doughnuts.
#13	mediar	Jul 16 2008 17:14
Ive lost about 4 cats(using my 1 year old 12 pound cat as a basis) :)
#14	gibsonartist	Jul 16 2008 18:30
5 bags of chocolate chips gone... and I DIDN'T eat them... Now to get rid of that JUMBO bag 3 more times.
#15	tmck99	Jul 16 2008 20:00
Haha, I am going to spend a lot more time in the dairy aisle this week visualizing the 30 packages of butter I've lost. Too bad I've still got 20 packages to go.
#16	friendinneed	Jul 17 2008 06:40
woah woah woah, wait a minute.... does 1 stick of butter equal 1 pound? sorry for the stupidity. ha, im just a wee confused.
#17	durgy	Jul 17 2008 10:27
There's 4 sticks of butter to a pound.
#18	renekane	Jul 17 2008 18:44
I'm still working on losing one more 10 lb bowling ball... Eek! :)
#19	ka2007	Jul 20 2008 10:02
well i have lost about 300 small bananas:)
#20	medveditsa	Jul 20 2008 22:01
I've lost 4435.2 Hershey's kisses.
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