Weight-Loss WLF Team Challenge - TEAM FIRE
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Hey everyone, I am so sorry that I didn't update my scoresheet this past saturday. My grandmother unexpectedly passed away and my family and I had to travel 6 hours to her funeral.
So sorry for your loss, that's understandable.
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I didn't want to post in the reply above this, because I thought it would be inappropriate.
Just did a walk around the neighbourhood with my friend. I am trying to get her into exercise
. We didn't make it as far as I wanted, but she has asthma and I told her we would go at her pace and as far as she could go, but we did walk for an hour, with my exercise and water, yippee, full points for today, so completely lost out on the drink no calories, had a cup of veggie/fruit juice and hazelnut coffee
will try to at least get ONE DAY of the drink no calories, unfortunately not today, and tomorrow isn't looking to good either.
Does the protein shake I have after strength exercise still count towards drinking calories since its not technically a meal for me but a builder and refreshment?
Just did a walk around the neighbourhood with my friend. I am trying to get her into exercise
. We didn't make it as far as I wanted, but she has asthma and I told her we would go at her pace and as far as she could go, but we did walk for an hour, with my exercise and water, yippee, full points for today, so completely lost out on the drink no calories, had a cup of veggie/fruit juice and hazelnut coffee will try to at least get ONE DAY of the drink no calories, unfortunately not today, and tomorrow isn't looking to good either.Does the protein shake I have after strength exercise still count towards drinking calories since its not technically a meal for me but a builder and refreshment?
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Quercus, I'll do my best, but the scales are not being friendly with me at the moment.
Have to disappoint, Belinda from Team Success beat you, so it's up to her to come up with a new challenge.
In other news, I'm feeling a little bit better. Hopefully that will reflect in my weight at some point. I'm flunking on the 'drink no calories' thing though. Good on everything else, so I think I can live with not getting those points.
Have to disappoint, Belinda from Team Success beat you, so it's up to her to come up with a new challenge.
In other news, I'm feeling a little bit better. Hopefully that will reflect in my weight at some point. I'm flunking on the 'drink no calories' thing though. Good on everything else, so I think I can live with not getting those points.
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Good night everyone.
Don't worry San you aren't the only one flunking that one. I have tried, one day I made it all the way to bedtime, where habit kicked in and before I knew it I was having a glass of veggie/fruit juice. That was a bummer, but I guess that habit won out, and ever since then I said to hell with it and drank my coffee every morning since then.
The good news, I have my water and exercise in... ah well, minus 7 points for the 'drink no calories', but so far I have ALL the rest, don't know the last time I was able to say that.
Don't worry San you aren't the only one flunking that one. I have tried, one day I made it all the way to bedtime, where habit kicked in and before I knew it I was having a glass of veggie/fruit juice. That was a bummer, but I guess that habit won out, and ever since then I said to hell with it and drank my coffee every morning since then.
The good news, I have my water and exercise in... ah well, minus 7 points for the 'drink no calories', but so far I have ALL the rest, don't know the last time I was able to say that.
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New challenge starting Saturday:
I'd like to see us expanding our horizons. I've never done this before, so this is a perfect excuse. Eat 1 serving of an organic food each day for two points. This can include both produce and meat. Go by the product label to determine the serving size. And because organic is more expensive than conventional, it can be the same food for each day. And to try a different exercise each day for another two points (i.e. swimming, walking, running/jogging, situps, pushups, pullups, sports, jumping jacks, weight lifting, biking, rowing, dancing, etc). To make sure every one is doing a different exercise, they need to update their team thread with which one they did. This will also give others on their team ideas of ones they can try.
I'd like to see us expanding our horizons. I've never done this before, so this is a perfect excuse. Eat 1 serving of an organic food each day for two points. This can include both produce and meat. Go by the product label to determine the serving size. And because organic is more expensive than conventional, it can be the same food for each day. And to try a different exercise each day for another two points (i.e. swimming, walking, running/jogging, situps, pushups, pullups, sports, jumping jacks, weight lifting, biking, rowing, dancing, etc). To make sure every one is doing a different exercise, they need to update their team thread with which one they did. This will also give others on their team ideas of ones they can try.
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I'm seriously considering to throw the towel in. Something's not right, and I can't figure out what it is. I'm eating well, stay within 1200 - 1700 calories, exercise every day, and my weight is not budging at all. And it's not as if I'm 150 lbs and only trying to lose a couple of pounds. I'm still over 330 lbs, and only started losing again a few months ago. There is no way I should be struggling so much at this point. Not only do I not lose - I'm actually putting weight back on. That shouldn't even be physically possible!! ARGH! 
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Do not throw in the towel...
My weight is up a bit too - so you are not alone...
It might feel like you are not being rewarded - but the bottom line is that even if we do not lose weight some of us are rewarded because the alternative is often gaining weight. People like us can gain the weight of a person if we throw in the towel and leave it there for a while... I suspect that your current gains are comparatively little (like mine)...
Don't forget that you got one of the best percentage weight losses during the last challenge - losing 8.22% across the 10 week duration. Indeed - the weight was absolutely dropping off you and only two prize winners got more percentage weight loss than yourself. Frankly had you not been bereaved, injured and hospitalised all during that challenge - it is fair to say in my opinion that you would have lost even more weight and probably won the challenge. That challenge only ended as this challenge began. It is certainly not abnormal for people to have their weight drop and then the following month be one of locking in their achievements before another spurt of activity...
Are you still on painkillers for your injuries? I remember that I was once on some tablets that contained sodium... I considered it a form of medical sabotage and changed the painkillers... Check the small print on any medication.
Have you checked how much sodium is in your diet? Too much sodium always sends my weight so high it is silly. It is no harder than counting your calories... Try to keep the sodium level under 2300mg every day. If you use fitday you can set it as one of your custom nutrition goals. It may be worth boosting your water above the 3 litres too... I know that this is onerous but it can help if sodium is involved...
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*sigh*....I know. It's just that this year seems to be determined to drag me down. I can't even remember a week so far where I haven't been ill or injured, and it just doesn't seem to want to let up. And that's apart from the other crap that's happening. I'm on the third kind of antibiotics now, I've had a raging headache for almost a week, I don't sleep properly, and all my doc tells me is that I should lose weight and take some vitamins, and 'take it easy'. Yeah. Ain't nobody got time for that! Or maybe he does, but I sure don't.
I'll look into the salt thing. I haven't taken any painkillers last week because they don't work anyway, and just upset my stomach even more than it already is. And I have to admit, I have never paid attention to how much salt I eat. At the moment, I don't think it's that much - I don't eat enough food to get too much salt. :/ I'll keep a proper diary again next week and see what it looks like.
I'll look into the salt thing. I haven't taken any painkillers last week because they don't work anyway, and just upset my stomach even more than it already is. And I have to admit, I have never paid attention to how much salt I eat. At the moment, I don't think it's that much - I don't eat enough food to get too much salt. :/ I'll keep a proper diary again next week and see what it looks like.
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You certainly have been having a rotten year... A horrible series of unfortunate events - but they are not connected and the next thing that happens to you may be a perfect example of good luck. I keep hoping that the lottery win is next...
I think that doctors tend to suggest weight loss every time they see people over a certain size... That certainly has been our experience... You would think that I was both blind (for not spotting that I was on the big side) and had amnesia (for not remembering the previous advice to lose weight)...
It sounds like your doctor is pretty stupid... You have a disabled stepchild to look after so you are not really going to be able to take a few days off work like some people can. If he had been thinking he would have probably asked if someone could look after your child for a while to give you a break... maybe someone via your carers association... if not then maybe the social workers that organise respite care can suggest something to give you a few hours break...
With luck the new antibiotics will do the trick. I am sure that getting rid of the headache will help you get to sleep.
You are working on the weight - and when you get out of this "pause" he will be stunned as to how successful you will be at losing weight.
As for sodium - I have seen me gain over 8 pounds in three days of not eating anything because of saline drips... Sodium can have an enormous impact on weight.
Any of us that ever get prescribed Diclofenac or Dicloflex as a painkiller should be aware that the full name is Diclofenac Sodium... I've seen my weight climb purely because I was prescribed those painkillers... I certainly learnt my lesson about reading the small print about medication I was prescribed...
I havent sprinkled salt on my plate or in the cooking for about six years - but when I count my sodium I am sometimes well over the 2300mg level...
I think that doctors tend to suggest weight loss every time they see people over a certain size... That certainly has been our experience... You would think that I was both blind (for not spotting that I was on the big side) and had amnesia (for not remembering the previous advice to lose weight)...
It sounds like your doctor is pretty stupid... You have a disabled stepchild to look after so you are not really going to be able to take a few days off work like some people can. If he had been thinking he would have probably asked if someone could look after your child for a while to give you a break... maybe someone via your carers association... if not then maybe the social workers that organise respite care can suggest something to give you a few hours break...
With luck the new antibiotics will do the trick. I am sure that getting rid of the headache will help you get to sleep.
You are working on the weight - and when you get out of this "pause" he will be stunned as to how successful you will be at losing weight.
As for sodium - I have seen me gain over 8 pounds in three days of not eating anything because of saline drips... Sodium can have an enormous impact on weight.
Any of us that ever get prescribed Diclofenac or Dicloflex as a painkiller should be aware that the full name is Diclofenac Sodium... I've seen my weight climb purely because I was prescribed those painkillers... I certainly learnt my lesson about reading the small print about medication I was prescribed...
I havent sprinkled salt on my plate or in the cooking for about six years - but when I count my sodium I am sometimes well over the 2300mg level...
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Hi guys, I am so grateful that I actually came to the thread today.
Like San, I had given up. this morning I went on the scale 277.2.
It does not make sense to me, I am exercising, EVERYDAY... I am not on a rabbit diet, but nor am I excessively eating everything in sight. I stop eating when I'm full and I drink the required amount of water EVERYDAY...
Yet today, that d@mned scale is mocking me. My old injury is acting up, and my thoughts were, how many more signs do you need, the hip ACTING THE FOOL, the knee, ACTING THE FOOL, the hand FELT JEALOUS, SO NOW IT'S ACTING THE FOOL... the fact that its my right hip, right knee, right hand... PRICELESS....
Thats why its so late with me checking in, I was about to come on and tell you guys thanks for the music, but I give up... everyone wasn't meant to be skinny, I guess I'm one of them.
But hearing you guys encouraging words to San, I guess I need to suck it up, realize that there will be bad weeks/months, because this scale not budging has been happening for a while, but I should keep on trudging on until it does. Its just so disheartening when I'm trying, I know I'm trying, I'm not phoning it in with the exercise, and the diet I am working on, but I am not eating like I used to, and I can't get WHY THE WEIGHT IS NOT MOVING...
I must be feeling sorry for myself, partly because tonight was supposed to be a girls night out and with my hand acting up and my having to take the medication, looks like it's going to be my night in, and add to the scale, and the feeling sorry for myself...argghh...
Farther Along we'll know all about it I guess.
So sorry for the epistle, just had to get that off my chest. I can't do anything about today, but tomorrow I am going to redicate myself and BEAT THIS... All I have to say is thanks to you guys, because I really was about to turn in the towel, but seeing that others are struggling and not giving up, and if San with all of her medical problems can wade through this quagmire and still see victory in her sights, then I can do the same.
So San, I won't give up, neither will you, we will have tough times ahead, but we'll make it through, I have to believe that, or the 50+ pounds I have already lost is it for me, and I refuse to accept that I will not make it to my 120+ pound loss goal.. It just gets so dang hard considering the first 50 was really a cake walk to lose and I guess I got cocky..
Here's to at least a lost in weight by next Saturday, I don't know what it'll be, but I'll take what I can get.
Like San, I had given up. this morning I went on the scale 277.2.
It does not make sense to me, I am exercising, EVERYDAY... I am not on a rabbit diet, but nor am I excessively eating everything in sight. I stop eating when I'm full and I drink the required amount of water EVERYDAY... Yet today, that d@mned scale is mocking me. My old injury is acting up, and my thoughts were, how many more signs do you need, the hip ACTING THE FOOL, the knee, ACTING THE FOOL, the hand FELT JEALOUS, SO NOW IT'S ACTING THE FOOL... the fact that its my right hip, right knee, right hand... PRICELESS....
Thats why its so late with me checking in, I was about to come on and tell you guys thanks for the music, but I give up... everyone wasn't meant to be skinny, I guess I'm one of them.
But hearing you guys encouraging words to San, I guess I need to suck it up, realize that there will be bad weeks/months, because this scale not budging has been happening for a while, but I should keep on trudging on until it does. Its just so disheartening when I'm trying, I know I'm trying, I'm not phoning it in with the exercise, and the diet I am working on, but I am not eating like I used to, and I can't get WHY THE WEIGHT IS NOT MOVING...
I must be feeling sorry for myself, partly because tonight was supposed to be a girls night out and with my hand acting up and my having to take the medication, looks like it's going to be my night in, and add to the scale, and the feeling sorry for myself...argghh...
Farther Along we'll know all about it I guess.
So sorry for the epistle, just had to get that off my chest. I can't do anything about today, but tomorrow I am going to redicate myself and BEAT THIS... All I have to say is thanks to you guys, because I really was about to turn in the towel, but seeing that others are struggling and not giving up, and if San with all of her medical problems can wade through this quagmire and still see victory in her sights, then I can do the same.
So San, I won't give up, neither will you, we will have tough times ahead, but we'll make it through, I have to believe that, or the 50+ pounds I have already lost is it for me, and I refuse to accept that I will not make it to my 120+ pound loss goal.. It just gets so dang hard considering the first 50 was really a cake walk to lose and I guess I got cocky..
Here's to at least a lost in weight by next Saturday, I don't know what it'll be, but I'll take what I can get.