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Hi everyone! I would love to join your group, if it's not too late. I'll post my weigh in results on Monday, February 8th. I'm glad that I found this group! Best wishes to everyone! [emoji]9786[/emoji]
It is never too late, welcome to path that leads to new life!Hi everyone! I would love to join your group, if it's not too late. I'll post my weigh in results on Monday, February 8th. I'm glad that I found this group! Best wishes to everyone! [emoji]9786[/emoji]
I log everything I eat. I keep my notebook and pen handy at all times. I have found if I log what I eat I tend to lose more. I have a food scale and my measuring cups. I measure or weigh everything. I am determined to lose weight this year. I have tried versions of about every diet out there and have found that just logging and being in groups like this helps me more. Nutrasystem can get pricey and I dont have the money for that. It's what I am doing now just they do the measuring for you. I like my pasta and bread to much to do Atkins.Yes! Thank you! Let's do this! Let's make February awesome! I'm going to force myself to get out on my elliptical again. It's in our attached garage. I've had it over 10 years, used to a lot when I first got it and it wasn't even that much of a chore. With my back pain, even simple tasks are difficult. I refuse pain meds or cortisone injections. I need to drink more water. I literally used to drink a 6 pack of soda per day, I've cut back to 2 (OK, sometimes 3) pops per day. I have 2 cups of coffee per day. I NEED caffeine. I get severe caffeine withdrawal migraines if I even drastically cut back. Have you guys tried Atkins? I love carbs. [emoji]128549[/emoji]
I see the Nutrisystem commercials with Marie Osmond, she looks fantastic... I'm sure it's expensive.
I make plenty of excuses for myself. Sometimes I get so lazy!
My will power is super weak. I feel as if my fiancé sabotages my weight loss bc I have to cook for him. Lol, if I'm not around food, it'd be easier to avoid, ya know? Maybe I'm better off single. No, I love him, we've been together for 15 years but when he's eating ice cream and Snickers and asking me to make mashed potatoes and fried foods, it's a temptation. He is scrawny and doesn't gain weight. He's 52, 5'11 (Thank goodness, he's taller than I am if I wear my flat shoes!) He weighs only 175. Still wears his size 32x32" Levi's. It's not fair how men age so well. He looks my age and he's 9 years my senior.
I'm going to weigh myself and post my weight even if it's really bad. Oh no, worse than I thought, all time high=148#! Ok, trying not to think of suicide, this can be remedied, right? Ugh. Well, Nala Ava Marie is 5.1 pounds so she's getting fat too! Lol. She'll be 5 months old on Tuesday.[emoji]128571[/emoji]
Hang in there. It's been an up and down journey for me since 2012. I have slipped a few times this week. I am expecting it to show on the scale too. I dont measure my waist yet because when I do I get so depressed. I weigh myself once or twice a week. The main thing is to keep trying. If you mess up one meal make better choices at the next.Welcome all Newbies to the thread " waves person"!! I can't do that on my phone
My scales and waist measurement have always- always gone down when I eat less and always gone up when I overeat. In the past I have gone too low in calories and then I get so hungry and cranky that I get to after dinner and binge/ overeat everything in sight. This comes from impatience. I want it off and I want it off now!!! Anyways I've been consuming 300 cals less than my maintenance cals for 15 days now. This is a good amount of food for me. I do feel a little hungry at times but it's manageable. I feel in control and I really need that. My delemma is that at first it was working and then the past few days I've had a swing up on the scales and waist measurement. I did eat pickled pork ( very salty) and I cooked some marinated beef which I suspect was also salty. I also had a small serve of icecream but that was within my cals. I don't really eat refined sugar as a rule so maybe that has made an impact?? My first reaction is to cut cals drastically but I'm telling myself to hang in there and trust the process. Someone please tell me it's normal to have ups and downs. It really is isn't it??? Bloating, particularly in women seems to be quite common. I honestly think this is happening to me. Please tell me to hang in there. I need encouragement. Please.
You also started new difficult training program, right?Welcome all Newbies to the thread " waves person"!! I can't do that on my phone
My scales and waist measurement have always- always gone down when I eat less and always gone up when I overeat. In the past I have gone too low in calories and then I get so hungry and cranky that I get to after dinner and binge/ overeat everything in sight. This comes from impatience. I want it off and I want it off now!!! Anyways I've been consuming 300 cals less than my maintenance cals for 15 days now. This is a good amount of food for me. I do feel a little hungry at times but it's manageable. I feel in control and I really need that. My delemma is that at first it was working and then the past few days I've had a swing up on the scales and waist measurement. I did eat pickled pork ( very salty) and I cooked some marinated beef which I suspect was also salty. I also had a small serve of icecream but that was within my cals. I don't really eat refined sugar as a rule so maybe that has made an impact?? My first reaction is to cut cals drastically but I'm telling myself to hang in there and trust the process. Someone please tell me it's normal to have ups and downs. It really is isn't it??? Bloating, particularly in women seems to be quite common. I honestly think this is happening to me. Please tell me to hang in there. I need encouragement. Please.
Thankyou. Thankyou. Thankyou I really needed reassurance. I'm going to get reading those articles prontoYou also started new difficult training program, right?
Thing that happens is that your muscles start to break up, which is good, they get sore, which is good and your body starts to heal your muscles, which is also good.
Weight increase is at least partly because now your body is transferring all kinds of repair tools and gadgets to your muscles to make your muscles stronger, liquid is used to get stuff in right places and that is what increases your weight.
It might take couple of weeks to settle down.
There is more about why weight increases when starting workout or starting new program:
http://www.beachbody.com/beachbodyb...do-you-gain-weight-when-you-start-working-out
So keep doing what you have been doing and ignore weight increase, it is not real, it just looks like a weight increase
When you have calorie deficit, it is really difficult to increase weight, it is possible to increase amount of fat while loosing weight, but it would require horrible amount of carbs and very little protein, you have low carb diet, so for you it is not possible to gain weight when you have calorie deficit, imo. Now remember you did not gain weight, it just looks that way, but it will go down after you find that new workout easier.
I hope you got encouraged, isn't science wonderful? ;D
Oh yes, something interesting I stumbled upon:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...r-losing-weight-and-gain-muscle-a6839036.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160127132741.htm
Want to increase bone density?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/ppr-slh102315.php
I use " myfitnesspal" it's a free Ap. It's easy to use and others on this thread use it too. Good luck.Hang in there! I'm trying as well. I'm going to try a food log. I can also try measuring and weighing my food. I've kept food diaries before in the past and as i recall, it was helpful! Never had a food scale though. I used to sometimes eat out of measuring cups though I really had no need to lose weight at those times. I have my little handy tape measure, it's just been put in a cupboard. Ugh! Depressing. Actually my waist isn't as horrible as I had anticipated but still 5"-6" bigger than before I gained the 30-35 lbs. I had a fairly tiny waist (I just have this big, fat, curvy a$$!) my waist was 24" now 29 1/2", that's actually pretty bad bc I remember around Halloween I measured my waist and it was only 27". It's below my waist that's puffy & fat. I look like I'm 3-4 months pregnant. I forced myself to get on the elliptical but it's such a pain bc the left foot pedal thing is really wobbly and unstable. 20 minutes again today. I'll eventually do more time but don't want to overwhelm myself since I'm so far out of shape. I ate a spinach salad, a grilled ham & cheese on rye and tater tots, only a few. I should look up the calories. I did have a Pepsi. I'm not going to buy anymore when this case is gone. I'll just have to find a better alternative. I've read some positive information about coffee so while I may cut back, I don't think I need to completely eliminate it.