Today sucked as far as eating,and its my rest day but i really had no options i guess had to wakeup early and go do a friend of mines hair for her wedding today and then go to the wedding so the eating was rushed inbetween, i failed at it and deffinately didnt get in my water that i normally do, oh well back on the wagon tomorrow 
woo congrats
i stepped it up a notch today did the max ont he eliptical the machine would let me which is 28 minutes doing the cardio kicked my arse, but ive also really began to try to understand the good stuff im taking in as far as food goes and how much i need to be taking it, aint gonna lie its overwelming so hopefully it will all even out and i start seeing these results i want
Amanda2010
New member
I'm 221.8 as of this morning.
Started my journey at 250lbs, lost 80lbs and was at 171lbs and have since "fell off the wagon" and am back to 221lbs.
Not happy with that at all.
It feels like the second time around is harder because I'm really struggling.
Started my journey at 250lbs, lost 80lbs and was at 171lbs and have since "fell off the wagon" and am back to 221lbs.
Not happy with that at all.
It feels like the second time around is harder because I'm really struggling.
Needing a support system in this foreign land...
Hi everyone. I am from Canada and have been in Hong Kong since January. I am somewhere around 260lbs (although I have been afraid, as of late, to weigh myself because I know I've gained back the 20lbs I'd lost).
I don't know many people here and, as a result, I spend most evenings at home soothing loneliness with TV and food.
I am starting to become quite concerned with my health and would really like to be able to lose weight. I have been thinking about it a lot lately but its so hard to get going (at least for me) without a support system in place.
Anyone out there feeling they could use the same type of support?
Hi everyone. I am from Canada and have been in Hong Kong since January. I am somewhere around 260lbs (although I have been afraid, as of late, to weigh myself because I know I've gained back the 20lbs I'd lost).
I don't know many people here and, as a result, I spend most evenings at home soothing loneliness with TV and food.
I am starting to become quite concerned with my health and would really like to be able to lose weight. I have been thinking about it a lot lately but its so hard to get going (at least for me) without a support system in place.
Anyone out there feeling they could use the same type of support?
Amanda2010
New member
That's why I'm here for some support.
My husbands supports me a lot but sometimes I feel as though I'm "overloading" him since he is all I have..he's heard the same rants and complaints for 2 yrs now.
When I was a member of SFL (nutritionist) I had someone to keep me accountable and now I don't.
My husbands supports me a lot but sometimes I feel as though I'm "overloading" him since he is all I have..he's heard the same rants and complaints for 2 yrs now.
When I was a member of SFL (nutritionist) I had someone to keep me accountable and now I don't.
Korrie
Moderator
Hi Kaylove!! I could use the support!!! 2 mths ago I was at 250lbs....now i'm down to 230. I was down to 228 the other day. My weight for 2 wks now has been back and forth back and forth for 2 wks...driving me NUTS!!! I've started slipping up on my diet now, I think i was getting so frusterated that I didnt' care. But I can't do that.....I have to get back to it!!!
So, some info about me...I eat 1200 cals a day and have started walking about 4 miles a day.....not all in one, I walk 1 or 2 miles at a time then do it a few times a day.
So, some info about me...I eat 1200 cals a day and have started walking about 4 miles a day.....not all in one, I walk 1 or 2 miles at a time then do it a few times a day.
Amanda2010
New member
Korrie, congrats on the 19lbs lost!
Wow! Great progress, Korrie!
20 pounds is a LOT to lose in two months! Good work! Don't get discouraged if your weight plateaus for a few weeks to process the weight loss. That happens to LOTS of people, and it's perfectly normal. Your challenge right now is to hang on and ignore your body's attempt to get back to the old weight. Let yourself eat a bit more and exercise more to compensate. Maybe add some strength training to build a little muscle while your weight settles in at the new lower level.
If your body works like mine you won't be able to lose any more weight for a while no matter what you do (4-6 weeks for me) and your body will be urging you to EAT EAT EAT to replace the weight you've just lost. If you accept that a weight plateau at this point really is PROGRESS, you can get through this! And then you'll start losing weight again.
20 pounds is a LOT to lose in two months! Good work! Don't get discouraged if your weight plateaus for a few weeks to process the weight loss. That happens to LOTS of people, and it's perfectly normal. Your challenge right now is to hang on and ignore your body's attempt to get back to the old weight. Let yourself eat a bit more and exercise more to compensate. Maybe add some strength training to build a little muscle while your weight settles in at the new lower level.
If your body works like mine you won't be able to lose any more weight for a while no matter what you do (4-6 weeks for me) and your body will be urging you to EAT EAT EAT to replace the weight you've just lost. If you accept that a weight plateau at this point really is PROGRESS, you can get through this! And then you'll start losing weight again.
Support for Kalove
That does sound tough, KaLove. It's easy to get depressed when you're alone and isolated, and then it's hard to get motivated to take care of yourself. It's got to be hard to get out and meet people in a foreign land where you don't speak the language.
I'm afraid I can't help you with that part, but here's a crazy idea that just might click for you. Do they have Japanese shops or restaurants in Hong Kong? If so, try learning about bento.
I've gotten into bento as a hobby, and now I pack all my lunches in decorative bento boxes. It's a little complicated to explain, but google "bento" and you'll quickly get the idea. Hong Kong is such a commercial center, I'll bet you could find some really beautiful bento gear for great prices if you looked around. It makes it so much more fun to make balanced, healthy lunches that look so pretty you can hardly wait to eat them. The small boxes give you built in portion control, and you find yourself buying more fruits and vegies just because they look so pretty in your lunch.
You can use any kind of food in a bento lunch - doesn't have to be Japanese. Chinese foods like shumai dumplings and gyoza pot stickers are wonderful bento ingredients. In fact, I just had a wonderful little bento lunch made from leftover Chinese food, carrot sticks and roast chicken breast. Mmmm. (I generally skip the traditional rice, filling in my lunch with salad or fruit or cottage cheese.)
That does sound tough, KaLove. It's easy to get depressed when you're alone and isolated, and then it's hard to get motivated to take care of yourself. It's got to be hard to get out and meet people in a foreign land where you don't speak the language.
I'm afraid I can't help you with that part, but here's a crazy idea that just might click for you. Do they have Japanese shops or restaurants in Hong Kong? If so, try learning about bento.
I've gotten into bento as a hobby, and now I pack all my lunches in decorative bento boxes. It's a little complicated to explain, but google "bento" and you'll quickly get the idea. Hong Kong is such a commercial center, I'll bet you could find some really beautiful bento gear for great prices if you looked around. It makes it so much more fun to make balanced, healthy lunches that look so pretty you can hardly wait to eat them. The small boxes give you built in portion control, and you find yourself buying more fruits and vegies just because they look so pretty in your lunch.
You can use any kind of food in a bento lunch - doesn't have to be Japanese. Chinese foods like shumai dumplings and gyoza pot stickers are wonderful bento ingredients. In fact, I just had a wonderful little bento lunch made from leftover Chinese food, carrot sticks and roast chicken breast. Mmmm. (I generally skip the traditional rice, filling in my lunch with salad or fruit or cottage cheese.)
Amanda2010
New member
Night time snacking is going to be the ruination of me!
I was doing so good yesterday (even with it being Thanksgiving) and ended up having some low sodium ritz crackers and light cheese, then some salsa, low fat sour cream and light cheese with low sodium corn chips...absolutely no need for 2 snacks..but I swear I could've ate more.
I get so picky at night...just want something all the time, even after I brush my teeth and for the most part it's mental..not because my stomach is growling!!
I was doing so good yesterday (even with it being Thanksgiving) and ended up having some low sodium ritz crackers and light cheese, then some salsa, low fat sour cream and light cheese with low sodium corn chips...absolutely no need for 2 snacks..but I swear I could've ate more.
I get so picky at night...just want something all the time, even after I brush my teeth and for the most part it's mental..not because my stomach is growling!!
Amanda2010
New member
Still can't seem to get below 220 but working on it!
Thank you!
Thanks everyone, so much, for all the support an advice!
It is tough to be alone (well, fairly alone, I do have my husband but like others have said, I don't like to put too much of it on him because its my own problem) but I am trying to battle against the snacking anyways.
I have good days and bad days. I walk quite a bit and I've decided that from now on where there are stairs, I will use them instead of escalators. For those of you who have been to Asia, you'll know that means a lot of stairs for me.
A girl I met has been trying to push me into doing activities with her--a dance fit class, for instance--but I would be the only obese out of shape person there amongst a sea of skinny asians and I just can't work up the courage to go. She got mad at me and told me, basically, that I will die and leave my husband alone. I know she was trying to help but I feel like I have to do it in a way that works for me, or I just won't do it at all. Unfortunately, her pestering made me feel guilty which made me want to eat...
I got Wii Fit so that I didn't have to venture out into public with my workouts but I don't know how useful I find it. I know that, I my size, I need to do pretty intense cardio but wii fit doesn't offer much of that.
Anyways, I'll stop the rant now...the bento idea was really cool, I'll definitely look into it. There are tons of japanese stores and restaurants here.
To all of you who have lost weight and keep working on it--congrats!! Keep up the good work!!
Thanks everyone, so much, for all the support an advice!
It is tough to be alone (well, fairly alone, I do have my husband but like others have said, I don't like to put too much of it on him because its my own problem) but I am trying to battle against the snacking anyways.
I have good days and bad days. I walk quite a bit and I've decided that from now on where there are stairs, I will use them instead of escalators. For those of you who have been to Asia, you'll know that means a lot of stairs for me.
A girl I met has been trying to push me into doing activities with her--a dance fit class, for instance--but I would be the only obese out of shape person there amongst a sea of skinny asians and I just can't work up the courage to go. She got mad at me and told me, basically, that I will die and leave my husband alone. I know she was trying to help but I feel like I have to do it in a way that works for me, or I just won't do it at all. Unfortunately, her pestering made me feel guilty which made me want to eat...
I got Wii Fit so that I didn't have to venture out into public with my workouts but I don't know how useful I find it. I know that, I my size, I need to do pretty intense cardio but wii fit doesn't offer much of that.
Anyways, I'll stop the rant now...the bento idea was really cool, I'll definitely look into it. There are tons of japanese stores and restaurants here.
To all of you who have lost weight and keep working on it--congrats!! Keep up the good work!!
Maybe you can talk her into going bento-box shopping with you instead.
At least it's a chance to spend time with another person instead of at home with your TV and Wii. She does sound a little pushy, though.
One last autumn push... help?
I managed to rack up a solid 20-pound weight loss this summer, which doesn't sound like much considering what some of you people have done, but it was an important 20 pounds. I broke through some kind of weight loss barrier where suddenly people started commenting on how good I looked and I had to sort through my closet and retire about half the clothes in it. My goodness, I can't believe how huge and baggy those 2X tops seem now!
But now it's fall in Minnesota, and I have a hard time just maintaining my weight through the winter with the dark and the cold. We're having an unexpected spurt of beautiful autumn weather, and I want to take advantage of it to do one last diet push for the summer and finally get out of the 200s club (I'm at 203 now). Looking for a little company and motivation here. It doesn't sound like much, but I haven't been below 200 for nearly 20 years and I'm not sure I can do it.
I've been plateaued at about 203 for 6 or 7 weeks now. Looking back at my diet history, that means that I should be ready to drop another 5-10 pounds if I just buckle down and DO it. So today I'm starting a 4-day low carb quickstart diet. I find low carb really hard to handle, but I should be able to manage it for 4 days. I've done this twice already this summer and both times it worked to get me off my diet plateau and into weight loss mode. So here goes.
So far I've made it through breakfast and am about to head over to a nearby rink for a little lunch-hour skating practice.
MONDAY'S PLAN
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EXERCISE: ice skating (1 hr)
BREAKFAST: Rice chex (1c), skim milk (1c), 1/4 cup fresh raspberries, 1T toasted hulled sunflower seeds, coffee.
LUNCH: Big pile of lettuce, roast chicken breast (4 oz), fresh strawberries and canteloupe chunks, Greek olives/feta cheese and pickled onions with about 2T of the olive-oily juice they came in, 2 piquante pickled peppers stuffed with low-fat ricotta cheese.
SNACK: strawberry fruit smoothie with 1/2T flax oil
DINNER: lean turkey burger with grilled veggies (asparagus, mushrooms and whatever other vegies my husband comes up with).
I managed to rack up a solid 20-pound weight loss this summer, which doesn't sound like much considering what some of you people have done, but it was an important 20 pounds. I broke through some kind of weight loss barrier where suddenly people started commenting on how good I looked and I had to sort through my closet and retire about half the clothes in it. My goodness, I can't believe how huge and baggy those 2X tops seem now!
But now it's fall in Minnesota, and I have a hard time just maintaining my weight through the winter with the dark and the cold. We're having an unexpected spurt of beautiful autumn weather, and I want to take advantage of it to do one last diet push for the summer and finally get out of the 200s club (I'm at 203 now). Looking for a little company and motivation here. It doesn't sound like much, but I haven't been below 200 for nearly 20 years and I'm not sure I can do it.
I've been plateaued at about 203 for 6 or 7 weeks now. Looking back at my diet history, that means that I should be ready to drop another 5-10 pounds if I just buckle down and DO it. So today I'm starting a 4-day low carb quickstart diet. I find low carb really hard to handle, but I should be able to manage it for 4 days. I've done this twice already this summer and both times it worked to get me off my diet plateau and into weight loss mode. So here goes.
So far I've made it through breakfast and am about to head over to a nearby rink for a little lunch-hour skating practice.
MONDAY'S PLAN
-----------------
EXERCISE: ice skating (1 hr)
BREAKFAST: Rice chex (1c), skim milk (1c), 1/4 cup fresh raspberries, 1T toasted hulled sunflower seeds, coffee.
LUNCH: Big pile of lettuce, roast chicken breast (4 oz), fresh strawberries and canteloupe chunks, Greek olives/feta cheese and pickled onions with about 2T of the olive-oily juice they came in, 2 piquante pickled peppers stuffed with low-fat ricotta cheese.
SNACK: strawberry fruit smoothie with 1/2T flax oil
DINNER: lean turkey burger with grilled veggies (asparagus, mushrooms and whatever other vegies my husband comes up with).