Dis Lose 1 stone for Xmas! weigh-in week 5

[Netty]

This week I have lost 1.5 pounds. Really pleased with that.

Hope everyone is having a good week.

well done Flo!!

 

[disneyholic family]

Beth - how on earth do you do so long on the cross-trainer??? 20 minutes is my limit and I usually have to stop every 5 minutes for a drink and to get my breath back!!!! I'm like you - always been "chunky" (!), on and off diets all my adult life, now in my 50s. I've always avoided exercise like the plague but it's the only way I can lose weight now - my body's so used to diets that it just ignores them and knows I'll soon get fed up and start eating normally again - so exercise is the only way even though I really don't enjoy it at all! Good luck!!!

i've always had a great deal of stamina.....and always was very athletic, despite being overweight.......i've been overweight since about the age of 2 years old....
my first diet was when i was 14 years old, under the care of an endocrinologist....i lost 50 pounds....and kept it off for about 4 years......i was very thin then....weighing about 115 pounds.....then it creeped back on......i should say that in those years (college and grad school), when my weight slowly creeped back on, i worked out at least 3 hours/day.....running 5 miles/day and swimming a mile/day....and working weights....and barely eating anything.....not really a sustainable thing for a lifetime...

and even with all that, i slowly gained it all back....and have yo-yo'd ever since....
i had another major weight loss when i was 35 (getting way down to model thin when i was on that doctor supervised liquid diet)....i lost 60 pounds that time around...
and in between and since i've gone up and down 30 pounds.....all that roller coastering is terrible for the body...

but as i said, i've always had great stamina and have been very athletic and strong.....i could probably stay on the trainer for hours if i had the patience......i used to be able to swim miles and miles and miles in the pool (i was a distance swimmer on the university swim team)..

but none of it puts a dent into my weight problem.....which i guess i'll take to my grave.....i'm probably again about 50 pounds overweight....which seems to be the point to which my body always wants to get, no matter what i do....

 

[disneyholic family]

and no i don't have to stop and rest.....i do those 70 minutes straight through....
l just look out of shape....i'm healthy....just fat....
life isn't fair....when i walk down the street, i'm sure people think i'm some lazy couch potato......my daughter....who is very tall (5'11") and very thin (with a body to die for) and eats about 6 times what i eat a day, looks like she works out 10 hours a day.....she hasn't exercised a day in her life.....she's just built that way and has great metabolism (DH's side of the family)....
so when we walk down the street people think I'm a lazy fat pig and they think she works out and takes care of herself….
Yup….life isn't fair….
But the truth is, if one of us had to be this way I'm glad it's me and not her…..i'm happy that she'll have it easier than I have in terms of this lifelong (losing battle) against weight…..
And at least I'm healthy…..

 

[musketeer]

Just back from WDW haven't lost or put on anything so that's something seem to have been stuck at the same weight since August.

 

[emmaness]

Those of you who are saying you have trouble keeping the weight off... have you ever considered that you might have an underactive thyroid? NHS doctors rarely diagnose it as your test results can come back perfectly "normal" - basically because your thyroid gland is trying its absolute hardest to compensate! And as a result you feel tired, put on weight, and generally have a rubbish metabolism.

This is what I've got and as soon as I got diagnosed (I had to go to a private doctor, but he was great, if expensive!!), I felt miles better. I didn't even realise that the reason I had been putting on weight was down to my underactive thyroid, or "hypothyroid", and I lost a few pounds without even doing anything! But the main thing is that I had gained loads more confidence and stopped being so depressed.

Wow, erm... I do go on a bit!! I don't mean to preach or anything, but some doctors reckon thyroid disease is as common as 1 in 4 people, and more amongst women. They also reckon that most of the women who can't lose weight or can't keep the weight off are suffering from it. Thyroid UK is a good website, it lists the symptoms of the disease. If you have a lot of the symptoms it's really worth getting it checked out, and always ask to see your test results!! As if your TSH, FT3 and FT4 (feel free to ignore the terminology ) are in the bottom third of the range, it's highly possible you have an underactive thyroid.

Okaaaaay I'm going to shut up now, lol!! I didn't mean to launch into such a rant! It is related to weight loss, honest!

 

[diberry]

and no i don't have to stop and rest.....i do those 70 minutes straight through....
l just look out of shape....i'm healthy....just fat....
life isn't fair....when i walk down the street, i'm sure people think i'm some lazy couch potato......my daughter....who is very tall (5'11") and very thin (with a body to die for) and eats about 6 times what i eat a day, looks like she works out 10 hours a day.....she hasn't exercised a day in her life.....she's just built that way and has great metabolism (DH's side of the family)....
so when we walk down the street people think I'm a lazy fat pig and they think she works out and takes care of herself….
Yup….life isn't fair….
But the truth is, if one of us had to be this way I'm glad it's me and not her…..i'm happy that she'll have it easier than I have in terms of this lifelong (losing battle) against weight…..
And at least I'm healthy…..

Wow - I'm very very impressed by your athleticism!!! You must be incredibly fit! Like you I have a slim daughter who eats anything and everything! I agree - I'm so glad for her that she didn't inherit my body shape!!!

 

[diberry]

Those of you who are saying you have trouble keeping the weight off... have you ever considered that you might have an underactive thyroid? NHS doctors rarely diagnose it as your test results can come back perfectly "normal" - basically because your thyroid gland is trying its absolute hardest to compensate! And as a result you feel tired, put on weight, and generally have a rubbish metabolism.

This is what I've got and as soon as I got diagnosed (I had to go to a private doctor, but he was great, if expensive!!), I felt miles better. I didn't even realise that the reason I had been putting on weight was down to my underactive thyroid, or "hypothyroid", and I lost a few pounds without even doing anything! But the main thing is that I had gained loads more confidence and stopped being so depressed.

Wow, erm... I do go on a bit!! I don't mean to preach or anything, but some doctors reckon thyroid disease is as common as 1 in 4 people, and more amongst women. They also reckon that most of the women who can't lose weight or can't keep the weight off are suffering from it. Thyroid UK is a good website, it lists the symptoms of the disease. If you have a lot of the symptoms it's really worth getting it checked out, and always ask to see your test results!! As if your TSH, FT3 and FT4 (feel free to ignore the terminology ) are in the bottom third of the range, it's highly possible you have an underactive thyroid.

Okaaaaay I'm going to shut up now, lol!! I didn't mean to launch into such a rant! It is related to weight loss, honest!

That's really interesting Emma - thank you! I've had a thyroid test which came back "borderline" which did make me wonder. I can never understand why I can eat very very healthily and go to the gym 5 days a week for about 2.5 hours a day and only lose about a pound a week when other people my age just diet and lose 2 - 3 lbs a week. Maybe I'll try a private doctor as I do have a variety of other symptoms. Thanks for the food for thought!!

 

[disneyholic family]

Those of you who are saying you have trouble keeping the weight off... have you ever considered that you might have an underactive thyroid? NHS doctors rarely diagnose it as your test results can come back perfectly "normal" - basically because your thyroid gland is trying its absolute hardest to compensate! And as a result you feel tired, put on weight, and generally have a rubbish metabolism.

yes i have very low metabolism....it was first spotted by the endocrinologist when i was 14......at that time it was just diet (he didn't give me thyroid)..
at the age of 33 things got really bad....i was having really terrible symptoms of very low thyroid (i didn't know it, but the moment i mentioned it to the doctor i was checked)....
it turned out i had a growth in my thyroid that had caused it to basically shut down....half my thyroid was removed (the growth turned out to be benign - they couldn't tell before the surgery as the biopsy came back inconclusive)...

anyway, since then i have been taking thyroid......but i still have low metabolism despite that....the doctors explained to me that they can only replace my thyroid to what it would naturally be in my body (i.e. low)...
i don't understand why that is, but they seem to understand...so i guess that's ok....

Like you I have a slim daughter who eats anything and everything! I agree - I'm so glad for her that she didn't inherit my body shape!!!

yup....my husband is 6'7" and has always had a great physique despite putting total garbage in his mouth.....his whole family is like that.....
i lived with his sister for a year when she and i were in university together......she would eat mass quantities of food and was thin as a rail....and now.....so many years later, she still can pack it away.....when she wants to lose a few pounds she cuts back from 4 brownies a day to 1... no joke.......and my daugther takes after that...lucky her....
i don't know what i would have done had i had a child with my problem....neither of my kids do.....i know how terribly difficult childhood is when you have a weight problem...kids are cruel (as are adults for that matter)....

 

[diberry]

Total weight loss this week is 3 lbs bringing the total so far to 64 lbs.

 

[musketeer]

Very interesting as i feel tired for most of the day i think a trip to the doctor is in order

 

[diberry]

Very interesting as i feel tired for most of the day i think a trip to the doctor is in order

But even when my tests came back "borderline" I got the old:"Come back in 6 months" routine!!