The Weight Loss Support Group - 2016

Oh Tammat, how wonderful!! 

Today is Monday. The scales went right back up again. I actually ate under my calories yesterday so my weight in the morning was a fluke. Luckily I posted :lol3: It was great to roll around in that glory for a day anyways and see what is possible. I still have lumpy thighs so I thought I would have to go down another kilo more to see it gone. Hopefully I won't need to.
So my official weigh in is 900 grams lost. That's awesome for me

Good luck everybody. We can all do this.

A loss of 1.4 pounds for this past week. Not much, but I'll take it. I have nine pounds to my (temporary) goal.

I didn't measure last night; completely forgot about it.

I weighed in this morning with a two pound gain from last week. I had been weighing myself daily because someone suggested I do it to see how much the body fluctuates. I was doing so good Friday morning I hit an all time low. 210 I was under 35 BMI. Then TOM started on Friday. All Hades broke lose. I couldn't exercise on Saturday I was hurting so bad I gave in to cravings on all three weekend days and even ate around midnight last night. I pray that I get back control of my eating. I don't want to be that old me again. 
 

I just need to get out old writings and letters to me and see why I started. 

Louann Jude said:

I weighed in this morning with a two pound gain from last week. I had been weighing myself daily because someone suggested I do it to see how much the body fluctuates. I was doing so good Friday morning I hit an all time low. 210 I was under 35 BMI. Then TOM started on Friday. All Hades broke lose. I couldn't exercise on Saturday I was hurting so bad I gave in to cravings on all three weekend days and even ate around midnight last night. I pray that I get back control of my eating. I don't want to be that old me again. 

 
I just need to get out old writings and letters to me and see why I started. 

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Same issue here this weekend. I was down 2.4 pounds from Monday to Friday, gained 1.4 back on Saturday and am down a little from there but still a pound over my weight on Friday.

I made detox water today, that helps keep me full, makes me drink a lot of water and usually helps me lose a bit the day I drink it.

catlover19 said:

Same issue here this weekend. I was down 2.4 pounds from Monday to Friday, gained 1.4 back on Saturday and am down a little from there but still a pound over my weight on Friday.

I made detox water today, that helps keep me full, makes me drink a lot of water and usually helps me lose a bit the day I drink it.

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From Friday to Sunday I went up 4.6 pounds but down a pound this morning despite eating a bunch of Buckeyes I made my SO for fathers day. So what is in the detox water. I just usually flush my system with lots of water. It sucks but it happens. 

Louann Jude said:

From Friday to Sunday I went up 4.6 pounds but down a pound this morning despite eating a bunch of Buckeyes I made my SO for fathers day. So what is in the detox water. I just usually flush my system with lots of water. It sucks but it happens. 

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About 1/3 of a cucumber, a lemon and mint leaves with lots of water. I usually put it in one of those big juice jugs in the fridge and let it sit for a couple hours minimum before drinking it.

Keep going everybody.
Hugs louann jude be strong girl. You have come way too far to go backwards. You can do this.

I mentioned this in the dinner thread, too. Yesterday a pizza craving hit me big time. All I could think about was pizza, pizza, pizza. I wanted a pizza so badly I swear I could have wolfed down an entire large pie by myself, I needed it that badly. Rick said he'd call for a pizza if I really wanted it, but at that point, I knew it wasn't a good idea. So while we were at the grocery store, I picked up a Lean Cuisine French Bread pepperoni pizza and that was my supper. 

Was it a wonderful pizza? No. But it was OK and it took the edge off the pizza craving that I had and it was only 310 calories  I'm good now.

I don't know what the heck came over me yesterday, but it was nasty.

Oh, and remember the package of Double Stuf Oreos that Rick had tucked away in the freezer? He's working on them at night, after I go back to bed. And honestly? I'm good. I don't even want them. They're not calling me.

But it scares me. I'm doing well with the cravings and finding alternatives. And I'm scared that one of these days, the duck doodoo is gonna hit the fan big time.

Part of it is that I can't walk. And if I can't walk, I can't eat. So my willpower is really getting tested with this sciatica crap.

Yesterday, I was really anxious about my weekly weigh-in. After the extra sodium I had on Saturday, I felt so bloated with fluid retention. I ate really light on Sunday and drank a lot of green tea. 

With tons of anticipation and foreboding, I stepped on the scale; to my astonishment, I lost some weight!! 

I am down 1.4 lbs!!!! The largest weight loss I have had. Most of the loss has been 0.5 lbs increments!

I was ecstatic!! 

I did volunteer for the shelter yesterday. Plans were for me to go to the gym right after; but I was so tired, I came home, showered, had an apple with almond butter, and received a ton of phone calls..so that was my day.

Back to the gym this morning..dreading the darned elliptical..the scourge of my existence!!

Winchester said:

I mentioned this in the dinner thread, too. Yesterday a pizza craving hit me big time. All I could think about was pizza, pizza, pizza. I wanted a pizza so badly I swear I could have wolfed down an entire large pie by myself, I needed it that badly. Rick said he'd call for a pizza if I really wanted it, but at that point, I knew it wasn't a good idea. So while we were at the grocery store, I picked up a Lean Cuisine French Bread pepperoni pizza and that was my supper. 

Was it a wonderful pizza? No. But it was OK and it took the edge off the pizza craving that I had and it was only 310 calories  I'm good now.

I don't know what the heck came over me yesterday, but it was nasty.

Oh, and remember the package of Double Stuf Oreos that Rick had tucked away in the freezer? He's working on them at night, after I go back to bed. And honestly? I'm good. I don't even want them. They're not calling me.

But it scares me. I'm doing well with the cravings and finding alternatives. And I'm scared that one of these days, the duck doodoo is gonna hit the fan big time.

Part of it is that I can't walk. And if I can't walk, I can't eat. So my willpower is really getting tested with this sciatica crap.

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Keep going girl I'm feeling the same. We can do this. We really can. There are lots of people out there who "used" to binge. We are going to be them. Yesterday I had a craving day. Nothing in particular just anything and everything. My mind kept telling me to only have one but I knew one would turn into 15 so I fought it. I went to bed at 8pm and woke at 11.30 and it was on again. I nearly posted on the thread then but I just waited it out. This morning I'm good.
We all can do this.
Group hug :grphug:

as I posted in the exercise thread. I felt thin this morning, so I took a chance and weighed myself....

I was skeptical this week, so I was apprehensive and curious.

To my surprise I am down 2 entire lbs from last Monday!! 

This makes a total of 15.2 lbs since I started this journey, in April.  I am in Happy Dance mode!! but taking the dancing easy because of my knee..

Also discovered that the recumbent bike really bothers my knee. The elliptical did not.. harder to do, but does not bug the knee--just slow and easy.

sorry guys, I had to brag about this.....

I realize I have to be careful because I can gain those 2 lbs back overnight. I do not know if they are real or not. I will have to wait a week to find out!! 

Weigh in day for Tammat I went to bed excited because all week the numbers were down. This morning the scales shot back up
Exactly the same as last Monday. I'm disapionted however I may see a good loss next week?
Good luck everybody

I won't be weighing in this morning. I have been up since 3 and my DD decided she would get up at 3:30. My son has a speech evaluation this morning. I am so excited because it's for a communication device. I am hoping it will help him communicate better. He gets so frustrated. He is so smart and has so much to say but because his little brain is wired differently he can't. 

Any way yesterday I was at 211.0 I lost the weight I gained finally. 

Down 8/10 of a pound. I was hoping for more, to be honest, but it's getting harder. 

8.2 pounds to my (temporary) goal! Yes, I'm counting! 

Congrats to all the losers this week. And to those who stayed the same? Well, staying the same is much better than gaining! 

We all rock! C'mon everybody!

I didn't loose this week. Went up. Back at 191 but I didn't workout and My eating needs to get reined in. I am blaming it on hormones. I am trying to cut out soy in my diet and see if it makes a difference plus low sodium. My ankles swell up pretty good by 10am no matter if I walk or stand in one place. I don't sit all day. I feel fat and lazy so I stand all day. I am afraid if I sit I will gain even more weight not to mention my pants hurt when sitting so I try to stay upright as much as possible. I am NOT buying a size bigger. I plan on hitting the gym today. I have obligations on wed and Thursday so going to try to get there tonight and tomorrow then Friday. I envy people with self control. I didn't buy any snack. I bought bananas and supper type food. no snacks. I will try to eat oatmeal instead of junk. I let myself go last week for some stupid reason. I don't remember what it is. -Of course- the death of a friend- how quickly I forget. I pretty much ate whatever. This week starting back with low carb high protein.

But  I can say I can tell when my hormones are out of whack. The plus side is because I lift heavier weights maybe that fat has converted to muscle so I try not to pay attention to the number on the scale. I feel stronger. I can walk farther without my knee hurting and I have increased strength almost 3 times from when I started so I try to look at it that way. I may look like a pear but I am stronger than people think..but I want to get rid of that fat butt. I just need to commit better. Hats off to all who have worked so hard. You are an inspiration for the rest of us who keep crashing and burning.

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I didn't loose this week. Went up. Back at 191 but I didn't workout and My eating needs to get reined in. I am blaming it on hormones. I am trying to cut out soy in my diet and see if it makes a difference plus low sodium. My ankles swell up pretty good by 10am no matter if I walk or stand in one place. I don't sit all day. I feel fat and lazy so I stand all day. I am afraid if I sit I will gain even more weight not to mention my pants hurt when sitting so I try to stay upright as much as possible. I am NOT buying a size bigger. I plan on hitting the gym today. I have obligations on wed and Thursday so going to try to get there tonight and tomorrow then Friday. I envy people with self control. I didn't buy any snack. I bought bananas and supper type food. no snacks. I will try to eat oatmeal instead of junk. I let myself go last week for some stupid reason. I don't remember what it is. -Of course- the death of a friend- how quickly I forget. I pretty much ate whatever. This week starting back with low carb high protein.

But  I can say I can tell when my hormones are out of whack. The plus side is because I lift heavier weights maybe that fat has converted to muscle so I try not to pay attention to the number on the scale. I feel stronger. I can walk farther without my knee hurting and I have increased strength almost 3 times from when I started so I try to look at it that way. I may look like a pear but I am stronger than people think..but I want to get rid of that fat butt. I just need to commit better. Hats off to all who have worked so hard. You are an inspiration for the rest of us who keep crashing and burning.

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I'm sorry about your friend.

It's funny you should mention oatmeal. I eat 1/2 cup of the old-fashioned oatmeal with 1/2 cup skim milk now every morning throughout the week. No sugar, sometimes a sprinkling of cinnamon over top. It fills me up and it's good for me. Supposed to be good for cholesterol, too. Rick refuses to eat the old-fashioned stuff; he prefers the instant flavored oatmeal. But I'm good this way. 

If the junk doesn't come into the house, for the most part, I'm OK. If Rick brings it home, then all bets are off. He knows that and most of the time, he won't buy it or he'll buy something out of the machine at work.

The bad thing about me enjoying cooking is that, even if there's nothing in the house? I can make something. If I want potato salad, I'll make it. Doesn't take long. Cookies? No problem.....I have all the ingredients. So if I want something bad enough, I can just make it. So I'm trying to find better choices and things to do, so that I stay out of the kitchen.

Grrrrrrrrr My co-worker just walked into my office with a dozen doughnuts.   One of them is a sour cream glazed doughnut, which is one of my dearly loved favorites. I said, "Thank you.....now go away!" He laughed. 

But that doughnut is now calling me! It's been about two months since I had a doughnut. Two months! I can do this! Go away, doughnut.....just go away!

Weight 1.5kg up, waist 2cm up.

I hear you about the donuts. We have donuts here every weekend and yesterday I ran away. you can do it! OR split it with someone=I find having a bite is almost as good as eating the entire thing. So maybe a bite but not the whole thing

ok what about jello puddings? would this substitute? I hear you about the food. I am too lazy and wish I was like you and liked to cook. By the way I added more dressing to the chicken this morning while I was preparing it for my midmorning snack-I will stick it out. I also buy frozen pad thai dinners-so today I will mix the chicken in with the pad thai. I only wish it was spicier.

Jon hates spicy so I tend to keep things bland for him but lately he suprises me when I see him eating spicy chili. Is chili a good health food? I would think if I used turkey and beans that it would be ok. Not sure why my mind keeps drawing a blank when it comes to food. We love potatoe salad in our home too so its hard to not use mayo. but we add veggies..does this count? If I cook potato salad I know it has no msg or sodium but I have to check the label on the mayo. I use pickles, celery, onion, lots of eggs and diced green and red peppers too. I would add more but Jon is fussy so I make half of it like his way then I add the kitchen sink to my half and half the mayo.

yep jon buys candy bars but I don't like chocolate so it doesn't faz me. Its the lemon squares or cake type deserts that are my weakness. You can run from that donut!!! you  can do it! I will not eat any junk from the machine today. I did yesterday. Today I got my bananas on my desk. We can do this. One day at a time!

I stayed away from the donuts yesterday. 

Last night there was a meeting in the building and the leftover snacks are back in the cafe. Plus, our employee appreciation luncheon is today, so there's going to be a ton of food and leftovers and soda back there all day. I don't attend the luncheons; too much temptation and it's better to not even go back to the cafe on days like today.

I should just go home now before I do any serious damage!

I should start doing my weigh-ins on Tuesday mornings; hopped on the scales this morning and dropped two pounds! Now if they would just stay off instead of creeping back on, I'd be fine.

6.2 pounds to my (temporary) goal!

Foxxycat, we don't buy Jello puddings anymore. We used to, but then they reduced them from six containers down to four (for the same price, I might add), we stopped buying them. I do make homemade puddings for Rick from time to time, but I'm not eating them right now.

What does help me are the Slim-A-Bear ice cream bars. And the Outshine fruit popsicles. The S-A-B is vanilla ice cream with a chocolate shell. They're pretty small, about 100 calories. When I really need something sweet, I'll grab one. The Outshine fruit bars are pretty good and 25 to 45 calories, depending on which ones you buy. They can be expensive, though, so I buy them when they're on sale and I have coupons. They take the edge off the cravings, esp the S-A-B because of the chocolate....I can be a serious chocolate hound sometimes. 

Since I got my head out of my butt back on May 9, starting with the Flat Belly Breathrough for three weeks, I've lost 22.8 pounds.

Since the beginning of December last year, I've kept gaining and gaining and, even though I was still walking seriously back then, this year, we've been snacking too much, just generally eating too much, we were going out to eat way too often and the pizza delivery guy knew our names. When you call down to the pizza place and the guy says, "Oh, hey Pam!" well, there's a problem. Rick was bringing donuts home every Thursday night after bowling. The whole thing was just ridiculous and I was completely out of control. You can only live on Pepsi for so long. My walking was probably the only thing that was saving my butt from looking like the broad side of a barn. It was getting nasty. I got depressed over all the other crap that was going on and spent a lot of time in tears, both from the other stuff and from the weight I was gaining. I hate being fat, I'm sorry, but I just hate being fat.

Rick and I had agreed to start the Flat Belly Breakthrough on May 9. Rick had gained weight, too, and it was bugging him, and I needed something to kick-start me. So on May 9, I got on the scales and.....holy crap. 169 pounds. Cripes, I haven't weighed that much in years. This morning, I weighed in at 146.2. My temporary goal is 140 pounds with a permanent goal of 135; I can't go any lower than that or it won't be pretty. A toned 135 is better than a 125-pound woman who's still out of shape. Trust me. And instead of living in x-large sweatshirts, I'm wearing my size 10 pants, still in large shirts, but I do have a Medium shirt on today and it looks nice. I could go into size 8s if I wanted to bad enough, but I'm OK; they're still a little tight and I like to be comfortable. 

After I started having trouble with that piriformis muscle and decreased my walking, I started to hang out more with my dumbbells and the Bowflex in the basement. For the first week? Every blasted muscle in my body just ached. And ached. Rick said I even cussed in my sleep when I rolled over in bed. I'm not a wuss, honest I'm not, and I'll put up with a lot of pain. But wow. I didn't realize I was that bad. Yesterday, I started my third week of working out....still have some aches and pains, but minor stuff. Nothing big, nothing exotic, nothing that I can't handle. I'm continuing this week yet with only 8-pound dumbbells, but next week, I'll go up to ten pounds and see how it goes. On the Bowflex, I'm using 30-pound rods for most of my workout, but using 45-pound rods for my abdominal exercises.

So that's where I'm at. I had never actually mentioned my weight as I was really embarrassed to be so heavy. But that's been my 2016 so far.