jjacks1
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I started my diet & exercise program on April 27. At that time, my cholesterol was 231 & I weighed 240 lbs. Today it is July 17 & I weigh 204 lbs. Gained 4 lbs over the weekend! How could this happen?
I'm starting to think I've ruined my metabolism permanantly. For 2 years when I was in my thirties, I was addicted to diet pills & weighed 90 lbs. (I'm 5'5") I thought I looked great. I really looked horrible. I managed to kick my addiction & started eating normally again. I've been fat ever since.
My dirty little diet secret: I eat 1000 or less calories a day. I know everyone says not to do this but it's the only way I can lose weight. I reread the Rotation Diet book & checked some websites & decided to do what everyone recommends. I increased my calories to 1200. I gained 4 lbs in 3 days. It's the first gain I've had since I started dieting. I just don't understand. How is this possible? I guess I really whacked my metabolism & I'm going to have to live the rest of my life on 1000 calories or less. I can't believe it.
My weight loss goal was 140 lbs until a dietician told me that's still too fat for my size frame. Now my goal is 130 lbs. I've lost 36 lbs. 74 lbs to go. Just looking at those figures in black & white - my goal seems impossible. But I have to do it. I'm 47 years old & I don't want to die when I'm 52 or something. I already have high blood pressure, now I have borderline high cholesterol too. I also smoke cigarettes. I'm a heart attack waiting to happen.
The first big goal I set for myself was to get under 200 lbs. 199 was going to be time to celebrate. First time in 15 years I was under 200. Not happening though. I made it to 200, then thought I was skimping too bad on calories. Ha!
Gained 4 lbs this weekend from eating 1200 calories in 2 days. Today I'm back to 1000 or less. I'm feeling very discouraged & questioning whether I can even do this. Maybe I need to call up LA Weight Loss & do Optifast or something. It's not like I haven't already completely revamped the way I eat.
I'm now a vegetarian. This came about sort of by accident. I love horses & used to ride when I was younger. One of my favorite Derby winners, Ferdinand, was sent to a slaughter house in Japan at the end of his days when he no longer made money for his owners. A terrible fate & as I checked around the web & discovered more about horse slaughter here in America, I was appalled. I was giving my husband this big lecture about all the horrid things that go on in horse slaughter & when I was done, he asked me if I thought only dumb animals deserved to be mistreated & slaughtered & eaten. So voila - I am now a vegetarian. I refuse to eat any meat of any kind that has come to my local grocery through the torture & mistreatment of animals. I know this may sound kind of weird but it was a personal decision thing.
I also don't eat anything made with white flour, no caffeine, no alcohol, no cholsterol of any kind & if I can't avoid the transfat, I keep it under 200 mcg a day. Basically, a low fat, low calorie diet.
Todays menu was typical. I'm not a big morning person so when I get up I drink a nice orange glass of fiber. (Ick) 45 calories. Lunch is 1 cup oat cereal (Cheerios) with 1/2 cup skim milk. 160 calories. Today I had a banana before I worked out 105 calories. I always eat an apple after I workout. 81 calories. Total today so far: 391 calories. For dinner I will probably have a salad & later, my special treat. Fat free chocolate pudding. 100 calories. All together, I stay under or at 1000 calories. I stick to fruit, veggies, rice & pasta.
I exercise 6 days a week & that rotten quack who wrote the Rotation Diet (just kidding) said I need to work out 7 days a week so I guess that's next. I walk on a treadmill for 60 minutes. 5 minute warm up, 5 minute cooldown & 50 minutes of sweating. My goal right now is to get to 3.5 mph with an incline of 1 degree. So I wasn't real happy with my workout today. I did my 50 minutes with a .75 incline which was okay but I couldn't keep up the 3.5 mph pace. I wound up at 3.4 mph & finished at 3.3 mph. I think it was the heat. It was 82 when I started & 85 when I finished. According to my heart rate monitor, I was in my target heart zone & at times almost 80% of my target heart rate so I should have burned some calories.
But I'm still not happy. I know I'm very impatient & want everything to happen right away but this weight gain of 4 lbs is killing my confidence. And do you know how I gained 4 lbs? Eating 1200 calories. I had a whole wheat, veg refried bean burrito with 2 ounces of cheese for dinner on Sat & Sun. Add a little sour cream & the total was 530 calories. I was a little under 1200 calories on both days. This just absolutely sucks. I feel so discouraged.
I'm going to keep working out & dieting but if I don't lose something in the next 3 weeks, I'm going to chuck it all & go to LA Weight Loss & see what they can do for me. I'm just soooo frustrated.
My husband, who is a wonderful guy & very supportive, has decided he knows everything after reading the Rotation Diet book, bless his heart. He keeps saying "but you have to build more muscle" I'd like to know what walking 3 miles a day is supposed to be doing. Evidently, not enough.
I'm not going to quit, I'm just too stubborn. I hung a paper sign in front of the treadmill that says "How bad do you want it?" (from the Don Henley song). I want it more than anything. I'm just not sure I can get there. Am I being unrealistic? Setting my goals too high? Expecting too much? I don't know. I may be down & discouraged but I'm not out. I need to quit weighing myself so often.
One day at a time, right? I know I'm being a whiny complaining self-pitying ass but I just can't seem to help it today. I'm not thinking of the good, positive things. My knees almost knock together when I walk LOL Do you know how long it's been since I had to think about that? At least 15 years. I need to be grateful for the little things. I'm going to keep repeating that to myself until it sticks. After all, Scarlet, tomorrow is another day.
I'm starting to think I've ruined my metabolism permanantly. For 2 years when I was in my thirties, I was addicted to diet pills & weighed 90 lbs. (I'm 5'5") I thought I looked great. I really looked horrible. I managed to kick my addiction & started eating normally again. I've been fat ever since.
My dirty little diet secret: I eat 1000 or less calories a day. I know everyone says not to do this but it's the only way I can lose weight. I reread the Rotation Diet book & checked some websites & decided to do what everyone recommends. I increased my calories to 1200. I gained 4 lbs in 3 days. It's the first gain I've had since I started dieting. I just don't understand. How is this possible? I guess I really whacked my metabolism & I'm going to have to live the rest of my life on 1000 calories or less. I can't believe it.
My weight loss goal was 140 lbs until a dietician told me that's still too fat for my size frame. Now my goal is 130 lbs. I've lost 36 lbs. 74 lbs to go. Just looking at those figures in black & white - my goal seems impossible. But I have to do it. I'm 47 years old & I don't want to die when I'm 52 or something. I already have high blood pressure, now I have borderline high cholesterol too. I also smoke cigarettes. I'm a heart attack waiting to happen.
The first big goal I set for myself was to get under 200 lbs. 199 was going to be time to celebrate. First time in 15 years I was under 200. Not happening though. I made it to 200, then thought I was skimping too bad on calories. Ha!
Gained 4 lbs this weekend from eating 1200 calories in 2 days. Today I'm back to 1000 or less. I'm feeling very discouraged & questioning whether I can even do this. Maybe I need to call up LA Weight Loss & do Optifast or something. It's not like I haven't already completely revamped the way I eat.
I'm now a vegetarian. This came about sort of by accident. I love horses & used to ride when I was younger. One of my favorite Derby winners, Ferdinand, was sent to a slaughter house in Japan at the end of his days when he no longer made money for his owners. A terrible fate & as I checked around the web & discovered more about horse slaughter here in America, I was appalled. I was giving my husband this big lecture about all the horrid things that go on in horse slaughter & when I was done, he asked me if I thought only dumb animals deserved to be mistreated & slaughtered & eaten. So voila - I am now a vegetarian. I refuse to eat any meat of any kind that has come to my local grocery through the torture & mistreatment of animals. I know this may sound kind of weird but it was a personal decision thing.
I also don't eat anything made with white flour, no caffeine, no alcohol, no cholsterol of any kind & if I can't avoid the transfat, I keep it under 200 mcg a day. Basically, a low fat, low calorie diet.
Todays menu was typical. I'm not a big morning person so when I get up I drink a nice orange glass of fiber. (Ick) 45 calories. Lunch is 1 cup oat cereal (Cheerios) with 1/2 cup skim milk. 160 calories. Today I had a banana before I worked out 105 calories. I always eat an apple after I workout. 81 calories. Total today so far: 391 calories. For dinner I will probably have a salad & later, my special treat. Fat free chocolate pudding. 100 calories. All together, I stay under or at 1000 calories. I stick to fruit, veggies, rice & pasta.
I exercise 6 days a week & that rotten quack who wrote the Rotation Diet (just kidding) said I need to work out 7 days a week so I guess that's next. I walk on a treadmill for 60 minutes. 5 minute warm up, 5 minute cooldown & 50 minutes of sweating. My goal right now is to get to 3.5 mph with an incline of 1 degree. So I wasn't real happy with my workout today. I did my 50 minutes with a .75 incline which was okay but I couldn't keep up the 3.5 mph pace. I wound up at 3.4 mph & finished at 3.3 mph. I think it was the heat. It was 82 when I started & 85 when I finished. According to my heart rate monitor, I was in my target heart zone & at times almost 80% of my target heart rate so I should have burned some calories.
But I'm still not happy. I know I'm very impatient & want everything to happen right away but this weight gain of 4 lbs is killing my confidence. And do you know how I gained 4 lbs? Eating 1200 calories. I had a whole wheat, veg refried bean burrito with 2 ounces of cheese for dinner on Sat & Sun. Add a little sour cream & the total was 530 calories. I was a little under 1200 calories on both days. This just absolutely sucks. I feel so discouraged.
I'm going to keep working out & dieting but if I don't lose something in the next 3 weeks, I'm going to chuck it all & go to LA Weight Loss & see what they can do for me. I'm just soooo frustrated.
My husband, who is a wonderful guy & very supportive, has decided he knows everything after reading the Rotation Diet book, bless his heart. He keeps saying "but you have to build more muscle" I'd like to know what walking 3 miles a day is supposed to be doing. Evidently, not enough.
I'm not going to quit, I'm just too stubborn. I hung a paper sign in front of the treadmill that says "How bad do you want it?" (from the Don Henley song). I want it more than anything. I'm just not sure I can get there. Am I being unrealistic? Setting my goals too high? Expecting too much? I don't know. I may be down & discouraged but I'm not out. I need to quit weighing myself so often.
One day at a time, right? I know I'm being a whiny complaining self-pitying ass but I just can't seem to help it today. I'm not thinking of the good, positive things. My knees almost knock together when I walk LOL Do you know how long it's been since I had to think about that? At least 15 years. I need to be grateful for the little things. I'm going to keep repeating that to myself until it sticks. After all, Scarlet, tomorrow is another day.
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