Weight-Loss ACCOUNTABILITY with SUPPORT

Weight-Loss
Claud

Ya need carbs anyway ya know...I think the fact alone that we are more aware of many or little we are gettig is a good thing...I feel so much better with them almost eliminated but i have slipped up too hear and thee it is hard and I find it harder to find food to eat, lol, when you take away breads and sugar and starch LOL...
 
Thursday...

Skipped my walk, I was so exhausted I came home and went straight to bed...

Meditated before sleep

sonny boy hot cereal
glass of milk

2 cups of coffee

Mighty Ceasar Salad from Mcdonalds

a fish steak
some yam

abt 30 oz of water
 
Hello Cerella,

How are those new Salads from McD's? I think it's great that they have apple slices in the kids meals...:party: ( I recently saw that commercial )
 
I have a few slip ups to report but they are minor and i guess with how i am now eating i am seeing that a little bit here and there doesnt cause alot of damage it is adding the slip ups to already eating too much of the wrong foods.

I was starving on Thursday night before work so I ate 2 pieces of the cheese little ceasars pizza in the fridge with some garlic dip.

Friday morning I had 2 pieces of frozen pizza for breaskfast and another piece later on for lunch, lol. On the ferry i had a large white spot french fries with ketchup. Damn they were so good no regrets there eating those!LOL

I also had two slushies this week and one can of mug rootbeer oh and two glasses of sprite lol.

Friday food

3 pieces of frozen pep and cheese pizza
glass of milk

raspberries

larger french fries from white spot with ketchup

2 bowls of steak soup with a few servings of crackers (so damn good) soup had carrots and green beans in it.

small fountain pop (it was so damn goodLOL)
lots of coffee

water not much...


I came to the island yesturday so i was super bagged and just needed caffine - normally i would have done worse damage with pop non stop and so on to try to stay alert.

Im at mom and dads for the weekend to spend father's day with my dad. I have the hardest time watching what i eat here.So im gonna try my best to stay on plan...but I know I will be far from perfect.Am not gonna set myself up for disappointment but with try to eat cleaner than i normally do here.
 
Omega said:
Thankfully my weight has stopped going upwards and has even started going back down.

On todays weighing I am 2.6 pounds up from my low weight of 12 days ago. Not as bad as it was at the start of the week - but far from exemplary. This business of maintenance is not as easy as people can think. You feel obliged to mess things about - eat a little more and exercise a little less - because you are supposed to be ensuring that you do not go down any further.

Part of you wants to go straight back on the "weight loss" exercise level and food control.

I remember when I was big thinking that it must be nice to have as a problem the fact that you looked slim but weighed just a couple of pounds from where you want to be. I can tell you that seeing your ticker head upwards away from that goal is no fun - that is why I am not changeing it.....

So I am sitting here with an out of date ticker hoping that my body gets itself back to where my ticker says that it should be.
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Hi Omega, I can totally understand how scary it would be to see that ticker start to move up, especially after you have worked so hard to lose the weight, and dont want to go back to the way you were. * I think if someone has never been heavy, it may not as big of a deal for them, because they have not felt that desperation of needing to lose a huge amount **Not to say that a slender person isnt happy when they gain a few pounds, i just feel it would be a bit less desperate for them**
For me, I have only lost a small fraction of what I need to, but when it fluctuates, I feel very deflated and mad at myself. Its a tough one
That said, I think you have done an amazing job of how much you HAVE lost and you have lots of support here to help you with the *oh nooooo ive gained* moments. ~ Michelle
 
Well, today I am doing all of my last minute running around before my trip. There are going to be some treats to be had and drinks to be sipped on, sooooooo I do have some goals for myself this week, and will let you all know wen I get home next week, how they went for me.
1 - drink lots of water daily *more, if ive had some alcohol
2 - Walk or swim every day actively *floating around for a bit is ok, but actually work my body, or walk at a good pace, after ive checked out the scenery.
3 - Eat smart for the majority of the day - *Dan and I have planned out healthy meals for each day (with room for some goodies) Each of the 7 of us are cooking a dinner for the whole group and they seem to be all tasty but healthy meals
4 - bring some snacks that are NOT just chip based - *I love veggies and dip, so am making sure i have it there
5 - *and this is a tough one* :D Have fun, Im not going to stress over what I should and shouldnt do, just set myself up for success instead of failure. * I dont enjoy eating and drinking crap, so why do it just cuz im on vacation???
 
Hello everyone :). I am really really pleased this morning as something caused my weight to go 1/2 a pound BELOW my recent plateau-lowest weight of 146 lbs (since around Dec). I ate so much less this weekend, partly because I had company for the weekend and a big party on Sat so was extremely busy. But usually I manage to eat a lot anyway, especially junk food and simple carbs. We did get pizza one night as it was late and we were all tired and hungry but I only ate 1 slice and I really didn't enjoy it at all (a miracle). Yesterday for breakfast I easily avoided the soft fresh bread and focused on the eggs/avocado/tomatoe cucumber salad. What a nice breakfast my dad made. I live in the apartment building my dad owns, on the floor above him, and my sister came to visit with her kids this weekend. Sure makes it convenient to live in the same building for easy getting together. Anyway, I ate some of my daughter's delicious birthday cake but otherwise was pretty uninterested in food. A first. At the party I admit to being quite into the Jolly Ranchers though, a DELICIOUS drink made of watermelon Bacardi and cranberry juice. Y'all will NOT BELIEVE how much this tastes like those watermelon flavored hard candies. Everyone at the party was loving them! Anyway, I will keep this avoidance of grains/simple sugar up as long as possible in the hopes this is the answer to my problems?? Also, I've been taking the insulin blocker my doctor prescribed, but I'm taking half the dose and only on days when I eat simple carbs. I think the effect and goal is the same with the food and the insulin blocker pill--to minimize insulin since it both causes hunger and prohibits fat loss.

I really need to get back into working out, that is one thing I have not been doing and it makes me feel bad. I will resume my gym membership in July but will do the elliptical and walking in the meantime.
 
Hey all!

I am so impressed with the realism and self-love going on in this thread. I think we all understand just how hard it is, and that a support group IS NOT a sign of weakness :)

I have not been waking up early... BUT I have a new running partner(newbie needs guidance - from me the beginner, haha)

So this weeks mini goals:

- 3 runs
- no sugar (hey, just hopping on the apparnet trend here, lol!)

No but really, I physically feel more "addicted" to sugary foods the more often I eat them. Basically the more I eat sugar, the more I eat sugar :)

So I don't really want to cut it out entirely, therefore I will be having one small treat per week and one bigger one per month. I think this could work :)
 
Margaret I think you have managed to control your sugar cravings by being so diligent about cutting them out. You eat so much fruit and veggies, but I rarely see any bread/rice/pasta/cakes/candy on your menu and look how wonderfully you've done on this diet. I had an 8 grain bagel this morning because I started feeling so depleted though I had strawberries for breakfast, but will avoid all simple carbs the rest of the day and see what happens. Upon the advice of my endocrinologist I started on the pill (YAZ) to increase estrogen and spironolactone to block testosterone (as my levels are high); spiro is a diuretic so this is probably nothing more than water weight but water makes you look as big as fat, and fat cannot burn off when there is too much water weight hanging around. So hopefully all of this will help!?!!!????&^*(^&*)%^&*(%&%(
 
Please remember that the pendelum (sp?) swings both ways, on the obese to slender sides of things. Just because someone may be on the slender side of things throughout their life time does NOT mean they haven't had just as much strife and pain with their appearance or Health as a bigger person. Plus with that said, once you get down to those few pounds, and you hit a plateau for a number of weeks it is DAMN hard work losing much of anything. Also when I was losing it seemed surreal, I kept thinking how it was just going to go right back up on me because I may not be doing it right. So if you don't know every detail of what someone whom is slender is like maybe you shouldn't judge. I've had just as much hate on me by "average"-"over weight"- "obese" people throughout my life, as I seem to be picking up that a lot of average-over weight- obese people have had from slender people off of this forum. All in all it is too bad. BUT there are a lot of very kind ppl here as well. :)

I've also read quite a bit on here about how ppl think certain ppl pick you as their fat friend and what not, and than what they think of about you and how they treat you after losing a bunch of weight. If they are choosing you because you are bigger, than they probably were never your friend to begin with. If they have a real problem with you now with your weight, either it's how you feel, not what they've said (maybe not even hinted) than you need more work on you. Or they really need help whether or not they are "SELF-AWARE" they're having some real problems with themselves, and maybe it's time for ppl to move on. *you* (all people in general terms) As I have this theory that weight is not actually about weight.

I know from what I've gotten off of here that being slender or rather not hardly over weight nor obese for your life time it ain't nothin to lose a measly 30 lbs, but I really believe that is ignorance on a lot of people's part.

I indulged over the weekend's Bike Trip, waaay too much. I can feel my body still evening out. I wonder how long until it's back on track again, even with being back on track. I've noticed that when I had indulged b4 that it would take a couple of weeks to get back to where things were...

Last week's goal of only checking my weight once in the morning or in the afternoon only with one foot after a Power Walk, didn't go too badly actually, still needs some work though. Since I was away for a few days I didn't have a scale to check constantly throughout the day.

So still working on working that into the equation as well as power walks, keeping my drinking of water up to around 2.5-3.5 Liters per day is this weeks goal.
 
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Please remember that the pendelum (sp?) swings both ways, on the obese to slender sides of things. Just because someone may be on the slender side of things throughout their life time does NOT mean they haven't had just as much strife and pain with their appearance or Health as a bigger person. Plus with that said, once you get down to those few pounds, and you hit a plateau for a number of weeks it is DAMN hard work losing much of anything. Also when I was losing it seemed surreal, I kept thinking how it was just going to go right back up on me because I may not be doing it right. So if you don't know every detail of what someone whom is slender is like maybe you shouldn't judge. I've had just as much hate on me by "average"-"over weight"- "obese" people throughout my life, as I seem to be picking up that a lot of average-over weight- obese people have had from slender people off of this forum. All in all it is too bad. BUT there are a lot of very kind ppl here as well. :)

I know from what I've gotten off of here that being slender or rather not hardly over weight nor obese for your life time it ain't nothin to lose a measly 30 lbs, but I really believe that is ignorance on a lot of people's part.

I indulged over the weekend's Bike Trip, waaay too much. I can feel my body still evening out. I wonder how long until it's back on track again, even with being back on track. I've noticed that when I had indulged b4 that it would take a couple of weeks to get back to where things were...

Last week's goal of only checking my weight once in the morning or in the afternoon only with one foot after a Power Walk, didn't go too badly actually, still needs some work though. Since I was away for a few days I didn't have a scale to check constantly throughout the day.

So still working on working that into the equation as well as power walks, keeping my drinking of water up to around 2.5-3.5 Liters per day is this weeks goal.
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RunningGirl - I dont know whether my comment on my friends is what caused your statement. All that I can say is that I like my friends and they remain to be my friends. I can also say that for a number of years I was well over 100 pounds heavier than she was. When I started losing weight they were supportive and when we visited served healthy food. They now serve more fattening food than they did over the decade prior to my project. I honestly think that they do not think that they are doing it - but we have both noticed it happening. I certainly would never mention it - but it does make me think twice about visiting too often.
 
Hello Omega, I do not know you and I do not know your friend. If she is doing that in spite of you, well than that is too bad, but maybe she is having some of her own personal problems. I never said that you shouldn't like your friends, and that you should just drop them. But if that is the case with a friend than I would think that is not a very great friend to have, no matter how long one has known them for. Also if you think she is doing it in spite of you and she is such a good friend, I would bring it up with her. Maybe it really has absolutely nothing at all to do with you. :)

I am sorry you took this as a direct hit on you, as I did not mean for it to be, I just feel that it is one of the common idea's that go on on this forum. It was just the last straw for me I guess.

And that it is hurtful, for someone such as myself for people to believe unless they intimately (personally) know how someone is like that to be "skinny as a rail" your whole life, isn't as great as it is cracked up to be. And than to gain 30-40 lbs in a few years due to illness, is also not any fun. Losing weight & maintaining is difficult if you have 250 lbs or 40 lbs (PERIOD)

I was never aware that there was such a slender: "We do not have that "always slim person"'s confidence streak that says that it only happens to other people I was not aware that the "slender people of the world" such as myself had this type of stigma. (this is what I found to also be hurtful)*
 
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To chime in on the topic at hand.. I've always been proud of my lifelong WORK to keep my weight in a reasonable range. Over the years I've ranged from a size 6 to a size 12, and any time I got up to a 10, I would work harder and get the weight back off before it got out of control. I could have given up completely, as I would have loved to do many times, and just ate what I wanted and declined to exercise--but I didn't. I hung in there and fought HARD to maintain. So sometimes it looks so easy--but for many people it is just evidence of a struggle and fight that they are winning. From all those years of watching my weight, I gained a lot of diet and exercise knowledge. So yeah, I've noticed a negative attitude at times from a small percentage of our larger members but I just try to ignore it and carry on in the knowledge that there are those who appreciate my advice and support.

I barely ate anything today, not sure what's up with my appetite. Still no exercise! What a cow I am!
 
I try to ignore it too Blancita, but sometimes I just snap, it is one of another aspect in my life that I am striving to work on, Self-Control in how I perceive things. Need to just breath and relax. :willy_nilly: ;)
 
hmmm... I always wondered where I "fit in" to this picture... as I have ranged from a size 10 (ideal weight) to a size 18 (obese according to the bmi). When that "obese" word came up, I kinda felt like I had just been categorised... and I wanted out! I never actually wore a size 18, as that would mean shopping in the "larger women's section", so I squeezed into 16s and got my ass into gear!

Then I lost the majority of my weight and got comfortable (but still overweight slightly). The thing is, at this weight, there's no big deal about it really. If I were to say I'm dieting or trying to lose anyone I know would disagree. And that is why I think I have still not reached my goal and have been at the same weight for 6 months now (up and down all the time... more up)

Gotta keep the goal fresh in your mind!
 
There most certainly is an "always slim person's confidence streak" about the possibility of becoming seriously morbidly obese. I know because I was always slim until I was nearly 27 years of age when I had a sudden and dramatic weight gain.

I could envisage putting on a few pounds - but never anything like what happened. People may think they might under certain circumstances go up into the next BMI category - but rarely do they think that a greater gain is likely.

Did you think that having a BMI of over 40 (not to mention 50) was on the cards for you when you were slender?

I still cannot get into some of the clothes that I still have from that time yet my bones and veins are quite visible....

I still have these clothes because I am wondering whether I will be able to get into them after my surgery.
 
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And that it is hurtful, for someone such as myself for people to believe unless they intimately (personally) know how someone is like that to be "skinny as a rail" your whole life, isn't as great as it is cracked up to be. And than to gain 30-40 lbs in a few years due to illness, is also not any fun. Losing weight & maintaining is difficult if you have 250 lbs or 40 lbs (PERIOD)
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People that have lost 40 pounds may struggle to maintain - but they will envisage themselves by going up again by very little more than the lost 40 pounds. They do not envisage themselves gaining 160 pounds.
 
This thread has fundamentally changed from being a one directed towards mutual support to one of criticism. I personally do not find the current direction to be in any way supportive or helpful. Life is too hard to face this kind of upset.

I have therefore decided to leave this thread in order for it to hopefully return to it's original nature.

There is no need for any of my earlier postings to be replied to as I will never read them.

I may delete some of the content from my earlier postings as I tend to be very open about my experiences and situation - and have been appalled at the manner in which my statements have been quoted with such a critical tone.
 
haha, let me tell you how i saw it, right:

Omega said fat chicks have it harder, running girl (a thin chick) got very defensive.

Both of yous coulda just expressed opinions without judging one another.

Phew, now remember, you also can't read tone of voice, so even if a post seems mean, reread it and try to read it within that person's context.

Anyway, love ya all, sorry we had to lose Omega with her vast experience... but we're still here!
 
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