The Weight Loss Support Group - 2016

That's great keep up the good work. The trick is we all have to stick with it and the pounds do Come off. It's so hard at times, but I drink a ton of water. Keep it up all you can do it. Summer is around the corner.

Good Morning (or afternoon, depending on where you are in the world!)

Loss this week: - 1.2 lbs

Loss this year: - 30.2 lbs   

This week was a struggle. I was retaining water for the first 1/2 of the week due to a new workout routine. My muscles were holding about a pound and a half of water while healing, so I was weighing up all week. Finally Friday, I dropped the water and weighed what I should. I'm officially at that only 10 lbs left to lose weight, and these last few pounds are definitely sticking. Apparently the closer you get to goal, the slower weight drops off. I knew this in theory, but I was still kind of surprised when it happened. 

It kind of sucks though, because with a 1700 TDEE (my maintenance calories to stay current weight) - to lose a pound a week, I still can only eat 1200 calories a day, (500 cal deficit x 7 days = 3500 cals [1 pound]) I don't mind the low calories, I eat really healthy so those 1200 cals fill me. It's just crazy that all that work, the MAX I can lose is a pound. That and eating 1,686 a day forever (my maintenance cals at goal weight) kind of sucks. Ben & Jerry's just announced they're coming out with a vegan ice cream and I just want to eat an entire pint!

I hope everyone else had a fantastic loss this week!

PMS! Hate it. Still weigh exactly 150 lbs on my scale. Tried on jeans last night, everything is way too tight! Seriously could only fit in jeans from laundry basket I wore twice that were stretched out a little. Well, measured my waist this morning, 28". Last time I measured, 29 1/2". i should be happy waist measurement is down 1" but back in October, my waist was 26 1/2". Tried on a pair of Lucky jeans size 28 (6) oh good Lord! I couldn't even get them up over my hips. Tried on size 8 jeans that used to be my go-to "baggy" jeans, luckily I could get them on over my ginormous ass but had to lay on the bed and suck in the zip them and stood up to big rolls off fat spilling over and I couldn't breathe. Wow. I look like I did when I was 8-9 months pregnant. The weird thing is the reason I wanted to try on jeans I actually thought I was having a "skinny-average" day. Last week though I went to Culver's, Wendy's, DQ, and last night I ate at Arby's.
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I'm going to take Nala Ava Marie on a stroll in her new stroller. I'm going to bounce back from this. I've also discovered these delicious French Toast bagels which I slather with cream cheese, peanut butter and strawberry jam! Ok, those absolutely must go! I even got right on elliptical after scarfing that down! 20 minutes on that contraption feels like 2 hours.

weighed in at 185. Didn't do much working out but did cut out half of what I normally eat at night. Last night instead of a sandwich I only ate half a sandwich and some pickles. surprisingly I wasn't that hungry after. Did not eat junk after. Started using that website myfitness pal and it logs the calories. The biggest problem is sugar-they have added so much sugar to regular food that its almost impossible to find it without sugar added. I can eat complex carbs but not sugar. so this week going to focus on more protein and less sugars.

I have had bit of rise in weight, but it is to be excepted.

3000-4700 calories wasted in a day and I have tried to eat enough so I have had not much of deficit, but I have managed to do really lot of exercising, close to 3 hours as a day average when resting days are included.

Monday morning here again. I lost 1.2 kg and 1/2cm off my waist. Yay!!! I really needed that. I'm now back to where I was before Easter. I'd really like to see how I look with two less kilos and 2.5 cm off my waist. I wore my favourite jeans on Saturday. They looked alright but were just a smidge too tight.
Good luck everybody. We can do this.

Slow week. These last 8 pounds are going to suck.

Down -.6 lbs this week

Down -30.8 lbs this year

Seriously, fighting for every single ounce lost sucks. I need to get back to working out, but getting such tiny results makes it almost not worth it. 

Also, this should be a happy thing but ALL of my stupid jeans and capris I bought last year are too big now. Normally, YAY!, but that's hundreds of dollars in clothing that are now super baggy. But buying all new isn't in the budget at the moment. I just hate wearing baggy clothes, it makes me feel heavier than I am. 

Got to finally stay under my 1600 calorie day allowance today=-IF I don't eat crap tonight=I started logging every bite. lick. taste. on my fitness pal.com. The first 7 days I only logged exactly what I ate=no wonder I am not loosing. I need to find another way to consume my herb concoction with orange juice-it tastes like heck by itself and there another way to take with water but I just don't have the patience. So I have cut back on how much orange juice I mix with the powder and today I only drank 1/4 carton of orange juice rather than my typical half gallon a day.

some days I ate over 4000 calories. Now that I have joined their site-I am seeing other people's choices for food and doing the substitute method=ask myself if I really need that candy bar or French fries vs a piece of fruit or small salad. the biggest thing is sugar-there is so much sugar added into our food and sodium-I more than likely will start growing my own potatoes and cook everything from scratch this fall if I cant find good clean food without added salt. I remember food 20 years ago that was processed didn't have all the junk in it like they do now.

Slowly making better choices. The scale is still stuck at 185 but I didn't gain so  I will take it. I am getting more definition on my arms and legs still. Slow and steady wins the race always!

My waist has increased 2cm in a month and weight is up almost 3kg, not doing so great despite having almost 20 hours a week exercising for each week of this month. It is easily possible to eat too much junk and it is completely impossible to burn it all off.

I bet its muscle=you do ALOT Of heavy lifting=try measuring your arms/thighs etc=and see if that makes a difference. If you see the same measurements then maybe not as much muscle build but I wouldn't be surprised if you were not starting to bulk up.

Weigh in day comes around so quickly. I've tried a new strategy this week so I was very interested to see how I went. I only lost 100 grams however my waist is 1/2 cm smaller. I am very happy with that . Now my waist is finally back to where it was the week before Easter. Oh how quickly I can devour 2 apple pies with icecream and oh how much work it takes to undo.
So I guess I have 2 new strategies. I have a new exercise programme designed to help me keep well rested. For me fatigue = FATigue. The fatigue comes on slowly and so does the eating. I start out eating a cookie here and there and then I'm eating 15 in a day. I'm now training mon, tues, thurs frid and resting 3 days. On the days I train I'm eating high calories/ high carbs and on my rest days I'm eating low calories/ high carbs. Basically I'm carb cycling. I'm well prepared for the week ahead with meals in the freezer and I've even written up some daily menu plans. Woo!!

I hope you all have a good weigh in. We can do this.

Rememeber that carbs will be main source of energy if those are eaten 0-4 hours before exercising, so no fat burning if you eat carbs 0-4 hours before exercise, it is good thing in there that they allow you to workout harder/longer without fatique.

Fat burning happens only if there are no carbs taken before workout. So for example, before breakfast jog burn more fat than after breakfast jog. Another benefit before breakfast jog would be that what you eat after is put to build you stronger, but drawback is that it surely feels much more difficult to jog before breakfast, as there is no boost from what one ate.

Protein then is such that it is not getting into system instantly, it takes time to digest and what I have read it is best to have at least 30 grams of protein when you eat it as 30-40 grams is needed to trigger muscle rebuild, also it is not so much important if one eats protein before or after workout, more important is that one keeps getting enough big loads of it at regular intervals.

So my current way is to eat can of tuna at morning, eat normally during the day and last time I eat, it is again can of tuna, low calories high protein and quite easy to eat, so that is helping to stimulate muscle rebuilding by adding protein to system constantly.

If I know there will be really a lot of calories burned during the day, something like 4000-5000, I tend to eat at morning about same as at dinner, then during the day I eat tuna cans as I won't have time to prep a proper food during such day, but I'm trying to keep body thinking there is enough food coming in by eating protein. Also I might sip orange juice during the day to boost my performance, so I can push harder and longer.


With those kind of planning I have been now at 88-89kg while my waist has been 91.5cm which is pretty much lowest it has been, my lowest weight has been bit over 85kg, so weight is higher, but I'm not overly worried about higher weight as my waist is not getting bigger with the weight.

I'm guessing there might be swoosh coming at some point, I have been doing so much lately, also tuna's bad part is amount of salt in it, but as I sweat a lot I don't think that is going to be a problem.

Looks like I am still steady at 185/187. I was down to 183 but my appetite has been roaring lately. Also going to try ^^ with the tuna/protein an hour before my workout and again after. Trying to cut more carbs out. I still eat too much sugar. I ate protein bars at night instead of chips. still too many calories..but I am getting better with the running/jogging. So no weight loss but no gain either. holding steady. Only took 1 rest day last week-Thurs? Fri/Sat/Sun worked out for almost an hour each day. Gonna continue to try this again today...

One more pound and I am half way to my goal. I'm at 171 pounds right now, I'd like to get to 155 (and maybe lower but just working on this goal for now).

Finally got that "WOOSH!" I dropped from 146.6 to 144.4 between Saturday and this morning. I did heavy duty yard work (building raised garden beds, planting bushes, carrying giant leaf bags) for 12 hours on Saturday, and about 6 hours yesterday. I don't think I sat down except for a 20 minute lunch on Saturday from 7am - 9pm. Super active weekend. But I guess it was the kick in the pants that my fat was waiting for, because "Woosh!" Gone! I am crazy sore and will be resting and not doing anything tonight though.

Down - 2.2 lbs this week

Down -33 lbs this year

I have 6ish pounds to goal, and I'm trying to decide whether I just drop the last 6 lbs, and then start recomping and toning (since it's pretty hard to build muscle in a calorie deficit) OR start concentrating on toning/building some stomach and leg muscle now, while losing slowly. I feel AWESOME with clothes on, but I'd love to look awesome in a bikini and feel comfortable in shorts this summer.

I visited doctor and it seems I have issue with kidneys Cretin was 138, values above 10 are considered to indicate kidney issues or that is what I found from web.

So I have to cut down amount of protein and try to change my diet so that kidneys get easier time for now just as a precaution. Maybe it is just a fluke, who knows, we will see that when results of control come in.

@JTbo   I just Googled a bit, and at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003475.htm they say "A normal result is 0.7 to 1.3 mg/dL for men and 0.6 to 1.1 mg/dL for women". So I'm wondering if your result was 1.38 and not 138.    Either way, take care of yourself. 

rubysmama said:

@JTbo
  I just Googled a bit, and at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003475.htm they say "A normal result is 0.7 to 1.3 mg/dL for men and 0.6 to 1.1 mg/dL for women". So I'm wondering if your result was 1.38 and not 138.    Either way, take care of yourself. 

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I did check print and it says 136 umol/L, not 138 which is what my doctor said.

According to this converter it is ~1.54mg/dL:
http://www.endmemo.com/medical/unitconvert/Creatinine.php

I have also issue with Thyroid according to print, 4.81mU/L is too high, those two are connected so that Thyroid issue is showing up as kidney values looking too high, but doctor did not say anything about that.

It would explain though why my heart rate is not getting enough high if main issue is Thyroid and kidney values are messed up because of that, should find out in few weeks, but I guess I play safe and take it bit easier for few days.

At least I have good reason to totally stop consuming sweets now...

It's been a while since I posted. I have been going back and forth between 228-230. It's getting so frustrating. I have been looking around the internet with info about different things and it's getting so overwhelming. So I am calling for a dr. appointment in the morning and have him send me to a registered dietitian. I have come to far to give up now. When I started my waist was 57" and now its 45.

Here is a picture. The first was taken last year when I started I was 288 pounds after losing 20 pounds I gave up and gained it back so being scared I wouldnt stick to it I didn't do a before pic this time. When I started in January I was 283 so not much of a difference. Saturday I was 228.  

JTbo said:

I did check print and it says 136 umol/L, not 138 which is what my doctor said.

According to this converter it is ~1.54mg/dL:
http://www.endmemo.com/medical/unitconvert/Creatinine.php
 

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Still above normal, but not as extreme as 10 vs 138.  At least you know, so you can monitor it.