Sorry to hear the boot camp didn't work out. That's a bummer. Severe pain does not sound good. Walking is great exercise. They say for every minute you walk you'll live another minute! Cool, isn't it?
Evening snacking kills me. I won't even be hungry, but I'm grazing.
I've lost about 20lbs since July. I'm maintaining, but it's really hard - day to day I do fluctuate.
To lose it I counted calories religiously. I was hungry a lot. I even wrote down what I ate for about 2 months but eventually gave that up. I've been eating a lot more nuts - almonds, walnuts. That small snack amazingly fills me up somehow. While I was really shedding weight I was doing Dance, Dance Revolution in the evenings. I also upped my gym visits from 5x/week to 6x/week. I think that made a difference. I've been focusing more on lifting weights and less on cardio at the gym as well.
I also bought a ton of new clothes that I adore - when I feel like pigging out I remind myself that I won't fit my awesome new Aero jeans and it usually works.
Now I'm experimenting with how much I can eat without gaining and without feeling starved. It's a balancing act!
In the winter it seems easier to want to snack. I gained a few pounds so far. I just have to remain conscious of what I am eating instead of mindless snacking.
(12-06-2011 11:55 AM)catsnotkids Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry to hear the boot camp didn't work out. That's a bummer. Severe pain does not sound good. Walking is great exercise. They say for every minute you walk you'll live another minute! Cool, isn't it?
Evening snacking kills me. I won't even be hungry, but I'm grazing.
I've lost about 20lbs since July. I'm maintaining, but it's really hard - day to day I do fluctuate.
To lose it I counted calories religiously. I was hungry a lot. I even wrote down what I ate for about 2 months but eventually gave that up. I've been eating a lot more nuts - almonds, walnuts. That small snack amazingly fills me up somehow. While I was really shedding weight I was doing Dance, Dance Revolution in the evenings. I also upped my gym visits from 5x/week to 6x/week. I think that made a difference. I've been focusing more on lifting weights and less on cardio at the gym as well.
I also bought a ton of new clothes that I adore - when I feel like pigging out I remind myself that I won't fit my awesome new Aero jeans and it usually works.
Now I'm experimenting with how much I can eat without gaining and without feeling starved. It's a balancing act!
Evening grazing = boredom in my book. When I am busy, going out, have company, etc-no evening snacking! It is when I am home and bored, DH is having a nap, nothing good on TV, not in the mood to read-I gravitate to the kitchen. I try to just get it together and go for an evening walk.
Ya, walking is amazing, IMO. I lost more weight walking then these hard-core gym people at work. Plus, every under-60 ortho patient that I care for that had surgery because they refused to listen to their MD and continued high impact joint destroying exercises is a weekly reminder to NOT do high impact exercises....walking great!
CNK, ya, you should
never feel starved. I don't feel that is healthy eating to be hungry all of the time.
Have you had your thyroid checked lately? Or recent blood work? You sound like you hardly eat anything, plus, working out 6 days a week, plus evening exercising? You should not be struggling with keeping weight down at all.
I love walking. I just put on my iPod and go. It's difficult in the winter of course. Not only because of the cold but because the sidewalks are usually covered in mounds of snow and it's difficult to get around.
I used to have the treadmill that my mom gave me but she took it back for a friend of hers to use. On the treadmill I can read or watch TV. An hour just zooms by when I'm watching TV.
Thanks, bb. I have to get my thyroid checked every 6 months because it's "subclinical" hypo. I'm just on the border where they medicate. There's conflicting evidence I find online about if people in my situation should be medicated or not, but my doctor doesn't seem to want to prescribe anything so I go on.
Since I've lost the weight I've abandoned evening DDR sessions - that was just during the time when I was really trying to shed. I'm experimenting a lot with eating - the cornerstone so far has been weighing myself every single day.
I'm also starting to wedding dress shop, and thinking about trying on dresses is huge motivation to put down the fork. But with the holidays here, it's really tough. There's all kinds of treats around at work and it's tempting!
WEDDING DRESSES-CONGRATS!! That's great! How exciting-details-details............
Oh, about the thyroid meds, it really isn't a miracle pill like many people make it out to be, IMO. I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis (dx at age 21-22) and have been taking pretty high doses of Synthroid since. It doesn't make it any easier for me lose weight. My skin and hair do look a lot better though. My hair was falling out. My cousin sees a lot of patients (always women with easting disorders who order thyroid meds on the internet and self-dose and fuck up their systems). Plus, they don't even lose weight!
One perk with thyroid meds-it is dirt cheap-I get 3 months worth of generic pills for $4.
The price sounds great! That's great it helped with your hair and skin.
J's divorce is VERY CLOSE. All the papers are signed - waiting for the judge!
And thanks!!! I'm aiming for June. It's very exciting!
(12-08-2011 03:18 PM)catsnotkids Wrote: [ -> ]The price sounds great! That's great it helped with your hair and skin.
J's divorce is VERY CLOSE. All the papers are signed - waiting for the judge! And thanks!!! I'm aiming for June. It's very exciting!
I am excited for you!! She finally decided to go through with the divorce, huh? If I remember-she was resisting and you were wondering if she would ever go through with it. CNK-time for you to start a wedding thread!
YEAH!!
Generic drugs are dirt cheap now. many pharmacies around here will not even carry the brand name drugs anymore.There is no reason to be paying a lot for drug coverage because most meds are generic and cheap. DH use to pay almost $300 a month for a certain heart med-now generic, gets three months for $9. Drugs are next to nothing these days. Unless someone needs something for a very rare disease and/or it is not a generic med., drugs are affordable. I can actually get many of my meds for free if I fill them at he Pharmacy in the Hospital where I am employed. I just hate giving them my personal info-so I pay anywhere from $4-$20 a month for a 3 month supply elsewhere.
Thanks!!
I started my wedding thread but only noelle responded.
I'm still hovering 1lb over what I was at Thanksgiving - I've also decided to make it a pair, lose that one plus one more. I'm taking it one day at a time, though. I got crazy with the evening eating and decided just to not eat at night for one night and not worry about tomorrow. It's been three successful nights already! I'm going to keep trying with this strategy - do what I can today, not sweat all the rest.
Ugh, all these holiday parties with too much food!
I did get together with ex-coworkers at a Mexican place and had a nice time catching up on the gossip. The food was good, large servings, so I took the rest home. One person gave us cookies she made and candy. I am keeping the cookies and giving away the candy to people at other events, that way I don't leave it around and get tempted to eat it.
How is everyone else doing with going to parties this season?
It's awful, isn't it? Last night I was at one but I ate before I went so I only drank diet soda while I was there. I just avoided the food area. My problem is in our office people keep bringing food in. We have a huge tin of homemade CANDY and there's packaged chocolate covered nuts and cookies right next to my desk. My strategy is to give it way to others when my co-workers aren't around. I just carry it to others in the building. Hey, that's my "share" right? And it gets it all out of here sooner.
This weekend we have THREE Christmas dinners to attend. Total brutality. All will be huge eat-fests.
Another friend has told me she's bringing cookies to me, I don't have the heart to tell her I REALLY do not want them. I'll give them away as soon as they arrive, though. Must be out of the house.
ETA - needless to say - all this food has made sure that I can't lose that pound. I'm flirting with dangerous territory - even gaining another. I'll be glad when the holidays are over.
I'm bummed - I've gained 5lbs. I am trying now, finally, to get it back off. I am going to not fit into most of my new clothes soon at this rate. The winter is killing me - we haven't been able to ski because there is no snow. So we spend weekends lounging, primarily. And I moved the DDR back up to the attic out of the living room so evenings are equally passive. My goal is to find a group of runners who are doing a speed workout once or twice a week after work and try to hook up with them.
I also am going to hire a trainer at my gym to teach me how to use the heavy bag, aka how to throw a punch. There are 2 heavy bags at my gym and I suspect it's a good workout. I've got to try something!
I guess the good news is that in the past month I haven't gained any more - still 5lbs over Thanksgiving. Those holiday pounds do not want to come off. I attribute part of it to inactivity - we are so sedentary on the weekends without being able to ski.
How's everybody else doing?
I gained some weight over the holidays, but am maintaining a healthy weight. I had a checkup at my MD's and scale said 136 which is fine. Gym scale said I was 128 at my skinniest in July. I think maintaining should be my goal, 128 was too thin for me, I could feel some of my vertebrae if I sat on a hard chair and that wasn't comfortable.
I can now fit into this Scottish kilt I got when I was a high school senior!
I love that you have clothes from HS!! So cool that you fit into something from HS! I wish I had any of my old HS clothes.
I would love to find an old pair of Lee jeans like I wore constantly in the 80s - tapered w/o back pockets. Size 7!
I really wonder if I could fit into them now. Sizing has changed so much - even in the past 5 years it seems like the sizing has changed.
Yeah, when I visited my dad last summer his friends were saying I've never seen you like this and it was hard to believe. Then I tried on the skirt from high school and it hit me! I'm hoping my metabolism likes me at this weight and it wont be too hard to maintain.
PS I kept this skirt because it's my Scottish clan tartan.
Time to start writing down what I eat again! I've gained about 12lbs. Pretty depressing. And with summer coming... oh boy. I'd rather not have to buy all new clothing yet again to get through the summer. I hope it doesn't take more than 2 months to get back in shape!
I noticed I've been snacking more and so I gained 10 pounds since the summer. Not that bad, but it's a sign I need to be more mindful of my eating. I was too skinny last summer.