The Weight Loss Support Thread - 2015

[catlover19]

My first 21 days is coming to an end this weekend but I've joined a clean eating challenge starting July 1 for 30 days. I have lost 8.8 pounds in 19 days. I'm getting close to my first goal of 10 pounds.

I have a big family party tomorrow with lots of food. I will have to be good, I don't want to end my 21 days with a gain. I'm trying to make it to 9 pounds lost by Sunday but I won't be home this weekend so I will have to weigh myself on Monday.

 

[tammat]

My first 21 days is coming to an end this weekend but I've joined a clean eating challenge starting July 1 for 30 days. I have lost 8.8 pounds in 19 days. I'm getting close to my first goal of 10 pounds.

I have a big family party tomorrow with lots of food. I will have to be good, I don't want to end my 21 days with a gain. I'm trying to make it to 9 pounds lost by Sunday but I won't be home this weekend so I will have to weigh myself on Monday.

Wow!!!! That's so fantastic. You go girl. Be good at the party. I know that's easy to say but you will be dissapointed if you don't. My trainer always tells me to eat before you go. A serving of protein will help satiate you. Good luck. You can do this.

 

[catlover19]

I made it through the weekend without gaining any weight. I did really well, I resisted most of the bad food and had just one slice of cake. I did cheat on Saturday night and had a few alcoholic drinks while out with my sister.

I finished my 21 days with a loss of 9 pounds. My clean eating challenge starts Wednesday.

 

[tammat]

I made it through the weekend without gaining any weight. I did really well, I resisted most of the bad food and had just one slice of cake. I did cheat on Saturday night and had a few alcoholic drinks while out with my sister.

I finished my 21 days with a loss of 9 pounds. My clean eating challenge starts Wednesday.

you have done so well. Congrats and good luck with your clean eating challenge.

 

[parsleysage]

Hi folks, I'm still around, just overwhelmed with non-internet stuff these days (ain't real life just a BOTHER???? heehee).

I can't remember what my last update was, but I'm still struggling with bouncing around between the same 2-3 lbs. Right now I'm .75 lbs higher than my lowest weight so I'm hoping to push through this week and lose 1-2 lbs to break through that barrier and get back to consistent losses. I'm doing Slimfast temporarily, about a week. We are between houses at the moment, so all my time is spent running back and forth. I've cooked a few times but seem to always have a few straggling ingredients at the "other house" (no matter which house I'm in at the time!). I also kept forgetting the dang can opener and had to hack into several cans with wire cutters

 So with all that it's been too easy to turn to fast food, Chick-fil-a, McD's, etc. Tired of doing that, too expensive, makes me gain weight, and makes me feel poorly as well.

So with the Slimfast that's two meals I don't have to think about or plan for. I do breakfast and lunch and then have snacks throughout the day. I did some bulk cooking yesterday so we'll have dinners for this week all sorted. Hopefully that will result in a nice loss this week. It's not something I would want to do long term (not least of all due to the taste of the products!) but it is an easy way to me to lower my calories to around 1200-1300 temporarily.

The other thing I'm learning about is how to eat for insulin resistance, one of the health conditions I have. This is essentially a prediabetic state in the sense that if uncontrolled it will cause diabetes (though it is not prediabetic in the strict medical sense of having elevated fasting blood glucose--I did have that tested recently but don't know the result yet). I read the ebook "The Insulin Resistance Diet" and it's pretty simple to follow. No more than 30 grams of carbs in a meal, excluding carbs from veggies, beans, and milk. Pair each set of 15 grams of carbs with 7 or more grams of protein. So if I eat a food with 27 net carbs, I make sure to pair it with 14 grams (or more) of protein. Examples would be eating my daily banana with a side of string cheese, or eating my Fiber One brownie with a glass of milk to drink. This plan also wants you to eat every 2-3 hours which is what my dietitian has told me to do as well. The idea is that you are minimizing your blood sugar spikes and therefore your insulin response. Over time you can improve (but not heal) the insulin resistance this way. I've been doing the Slimfast and IR diet combined for about 2 days and I'm fine so far, no extreme hunger or anything! 

Good luck to all with healthy eating and fitness!!!

 

[catlover19]

I just hit my first weight loss goal of 10 pounds. I'm taking it 10 pounds at a time, total goal is 50 pounds.

Definitely happy seeing that number this morning. This clean eating challenge has been a bit rough but seeing the scale go down and hitting my first goal makes it much easier. I was so close to eating shawarma while out shopping last weekend and wanted lunch. I resisted, waited until I came home and made my own chicken on a pita.

 

[parsleysage]

Saw a huge one day drop this morning, 1.6 lbs from yesterday. It's not "real" because I only count my weekly weighins, but GOLLY I AM SO GLAD TO SEE THE SCALE MOVING. I think it's been a full 8 weeks now that I've been waffling around the same 2-3 lbs. It's got me very motivated to be strict on my eating... today I was briefly tempted by a chocolate muffin but I thought about that reading this morning and resisted.

 

[pat]

 
Saw a huge one day drop this morning, 1.6 lbs from yesterday. It's not "real" because I only count my weekly weighins, but GOLLY I AM SO GLAD TO SEE THE SCALE MOVING. I think it's been a full 8 weeks now that I've been waffling around the same 2-3 lbs. It's got me very motivated to be strict on my eating... today I was briefly tempted by a chocolate muffin but I thought about that reading this morning and resisted.

Congratulations, good for you!  I just got home this past Saturday after a wonderful 11 day vacation my husband took me on.  From Vancouver Canada, all around parts of Vancouver Island.  British Columbia is beautiful, and we had some special parts - an 18 hour ferry ride up the inner passage towards Alaska, a Grizzly Bear adventure tour (via catamaran) where we saw few bears but lots of bald eagles and orcas

Food was excellent, I was rarely completely on plan.  I gained. So..for the moment, off maintenance, and back to losing.  I retained a lot of water I think (my legs got a bit swollen), and that explains why with good on plan home cooking, I've lost 12.1 pounds since I weighed on Sunday (!!!).  Less than 10 pounds to be where I was the day I left and less than 13 to be back where I want to be for maintenance.

Hope all are well.  I did get one superb idea for a very special brunch.  One restaurant had cauliflower hash on the menu - seemed to be made w/out flours, had lemon, scallion and paprika.  They served it as two rounds..I had them put poached eggs atop and hollandaise sauce for a legal on my plan cauliflower benny.  I had NO idea before this trip as to just how popular Eggs Benedict in many versions, are in British Columbia.  They abbreviate to call it Benny with Holly

 

[jtbo]

I'm having interesting argument with my scale.

Day 1, I weighted myself and scale answers 100kg, I test 5 times and always the same result.

Day 2, I weighted myself and scale answers 105kg, again I test several times, seems to be correct.

Day 3, I weighted myself and scale answers 102kg, testing several times result readings from 99kg to 106kg.

Day 4, I decided I leave my scale to be alone, maybe that will teach it some manners!

Weight is up from last summer, but I guess less than I was afraid of, but I need to workout quite hard to reduce weight so that I would be around 90kg, which would be ok for my size and muscle mass.

I'm failing at my sugarless attempts though, need to try harder. I bought kitchen scale and have been doing some recipes from interwebs with table top mixer, it is so easy when measuring ingredients by weight, but I'm having little issue of balancing cost and amount to eat, I should eat so much more and stay away from sugar.

Also many recipes have quite bit of salt, up to 2% of wheat dough flour content for example, maybe I need to just to cut it a little.

There are only few foods I can eat and I'm overshooting with salt or not getting enough protein and calories.

 

[Winchester]

Well, here I am again. I lost 4.8 pounds since last Monday. Amazing what I can do when I get my head out of my tookus....and keep it out for longer than a day or two at a time.

(I had lost 18 pounds back at the beginning of the year. Then gained about ten of those pounds back. Seems to be the story of my life.)

 

[pat]

 
Well, here I am again. I lost 4.8 pounds since last Monday. Amazing what I can do when I get my head out of my tookus....and keep it out for longer than a day or two at a time.

(I had lost 18 pounds back at the beginning of the year. Then gained about ten of those pounds back. Seems to be the story of my life.)

Welcome back

 

[ellieandwinnie]

Hello I'm new to this thread! So last year I was diagnosed with a heart condition (at 21 years old no less) and I freaked out about not being able to do hardcore cardio and strength training anymore. I used to do an hour of cardio, keeping my heart rate around 180, and I can no longer being my pulse above 140 safely. I also used to follow that with another hour of lifting, and now I have a 40lb limit. I used to wake up and do this everyday. I will say after the diagnosis I got a little depressed and ate my way out of it

Since today is Monday I will say I'm 17lbs down from my heaviest! I've lost only 3 lbs since the beginning of the month but slow progress is better than no progress!

Since I can't do my old workouts anymore I wear a Fitbit (it tracks my HR so that's an added bonus to keep an eye on my condition) and I try my best to stay active through normal activities of daily living. My eating still sucks. I need to kick this soda habit!

 

[pat]

 
Well, here I am again. I lost 4.8 pounds since last Monday. Amazing what I can do when I get my head out of my tookus....and keep it out for longer than a day or two at a time.

(I had lost 18 pounds back at the beginning of the year. Then gained about ten of those pounds back. Seems to be the story of my life.)

Welcome back

Hello I'm new to this thread! So last year I was diagnosed with a heart condition (at 21 years old no less) and I freaked out about not being able to do hardcore cardio and strength training anymore. I used to do an hour of cardio, keeping my heart rate around 180, and I can no longer being my pulse above 140 safely. I also used to follow that with another hour of lifting, and now I have a 40lb limit. I used to wake up and do this everyday. I will say after the diagnosis I got a little depressed and ate my way out of it

Since today is Monday I will say I'm 17lbs down from my heaviest! I've lost only 3 lbs since the beginning of the month but slow progress is better than no progress!

Since I can't do my old workouts anymore I wear a Fitbit (it tracks my HR so that's an added bonus to keep an eye on my condition) and I try my best to stay active through normal activities of daily living. My eating still sucks. I need to kick this soda habit!

Welcome!  Have you explored walking or swimming as alternative exercises?  As for the soda, my husband kicked a **serious** soda habit by changing to unsweetened (not even the artificially sweetened zero calorie stuff) flavored seltzer waters - they come plain, simple lemon or lime or exotic flavors. We like the Talking Rain brand.
I am sorry to hear you have a cardiac condition at your age..mine didn't occur until I was in my late 50s.  Still a pia!!!!!!! 

 

[ellieandwinnie]

I do try my best to get in 10,000 steps a day and I take the stairs more often now. Now that you say it, I used to do aquatherapy in the army, and I can't believe I didn't think of that before! I'm not supposed to have caffeine, so this soda drinking is no good. But I drink Mountain Dew like its water! I'll have to try the seltzer water. I'm lucky I happened to work in a hospital, so when I was having chest pain the charge sent me straight downstairs to the ED. I thought I had just pulled a muscle, never dreamed the doctors would think I was having a heart attack!

 

[Winchester]

Forgot to post yesterday....I lost 1.4 pounds for the week.

Welcome ellieandwinnie.  

Somebody suggested to me that, instead of drinking diet soda, I should drink sparkling water with about 2 ounces of fruit juice mixed in. Two ounces of orange juice doesn't have that many calories and the sparkling water doesn't have any calories. So you get a bit of carbonation, plus some of the fruit juice for a bit of flavor. I'm trying it for the first time today for lunch.

 

[jtbo]

I got bag of Xylitol which I did order.

It is just like sugar, taste is very little different, but really just like sugar.

I'm hoping to make my own ketchup with it someday, also replacing all sugar with that stuff. It does not work on baking though, it is not fuel for yeast, but there are ways around it, by not using yeast.

Xylitol is also good for your teeth and if one has small tooth ache, it can help with that too.

For teeth half teaspoon 5 times a day is recommendation.

 

[ellieandwinnie]

Forgot to post yesterday....I lost 1.4 pounds for the week.

Welcome ellieandwinnie.   Somebody suggested to me that, instead of drinking diet soda, I should drink sparkling water with about 2 ounces of fruit juice mixed in. Two ounces of orange juice doesn't have that many calories and the sparkling water doesn't have any calories. So you get a bit of carbonation, plus some of the fruit juice for a bit of flavor. I'm trying it for the first time today for lunch.

That sounds like a good idea!

I got bag of Xylitol which I did order.

It is just like sugar, taste is very little different, but really just like sugar.

I'm hoping to make my own ketchup with it someday, also replacing all sugar with that stuff. It does not work on baking though, it is not fuel for yeast, but there are ways around it, by not using yeast.

Xylitol is also good for your teeth and if one has small tooth ache, it can help with that too.

For teeth half teaspoon 5 times a day is recommendation.

I'm not sure what Xylitol is but I use Stevia in the Raw. You can substitute it for sugar 1:1

 

[jtbo]

I'm not sure what Xylitol is but I use Stevia in the Raw. You can substitute it for sugar 1:1

Xylitol is super food from 1970's, it is made of birch, other name for it is birch sugar, natural stuff, it is kind of Stevia, but it has scientifically proven health benefits, for example it prevents from teeth going bad, as it stops bad bacteria to operate in mouth after you eat something.

There is some more information what Xylitol is:
http://www.superfoods-for-superhealth.com/xylitol.html

 

[tammat]

Everyone is going great
I've been eating cookies the last week. Not everyday but too many. today is a new day and I'm back on track. Winter is no excuse but I do find it harder to keep my dirty little mits out of the cookie jar when it's cold and miserable.
Reading all your posts has inspired me. Thanks.

 

[Winchester]

 Winter is a ridiculous time to try to stay on track.