When Did I Get Voted Off of Skinny Island & Why is This Fat Shadow Stalking Me?

[adsrtw]

Congrats to all of those who did the Princess Marathon!! I think that should be my goal for this next year. I am no runner by any means of the word! but I think I need a goal to work towards....

I'm not a runner either, but I did it! Oh the stories and the tears. I didn't run as much as I would have liked, but I pounded the pavement here and there on the course.

 

[gellybean]

We have spring break coming up next week and I have a week off after that so 2 weeks of being at home. Thats when I have to be my strictest about food!

I am aiming for extra exercise and staying on the low end of my cal range. I tend to eat a lot more when I am home, so I have to set a goal for these weeks and keep myself really busy!

I'm in the same boat. Heading to my mom's with no internet access and no gym!! I'm terrified.

Going to try to make a plan!! Taking my ipod and my dog and his leash to walk with him! Or rather be pulled by him. Also taking my Calorie King book and my phone, so I can try to track calories. I've already asked my mom to please NOT fry chicken while we're there!!


I definitely eat more at home, too. Keeping busy is HUGE for me!

Hey guys! I haven't been getting as much exercise this week - it's been raining so I couldn't walk on my lunch break!
But I have been eating well - not too much. The scale is continuing going on its downward trend, so that makes me happy. My tough time will be the next three days - weekends are hard for me. Plus my DD9 is having a slumber party for her birthday. Can you say junk food? I'm hoping I can get some extra exercise before and after that!

Sorry the weather hasn't been cooperating for you! Good luck with the slumber party!! Thankfully my kids aren't to that age yet! I know I'd have a hard time resisting!

Just keep reminding yourself how quickly the weight will come off later once you build muscle. Remember a pound of muscle burns A LOT more calories in a regular day than a pound of fat. The weight training will really help to speed up your metabolism.

I am trying to remind myself of that!! I just feel like I'm stumbling blindly sometimes! But I'm too chicken to hire a trainer!

I'm hoping the weight training will build more, thus burn more and re-train my metabolism in the long run. I'll just feel better when I can see some results, be they on the scale or in the mirror!

I am the same way. I eat more when I am home too much and the sad part is I work from home. I have had to make a great effort to stay busy and to ban myself from the kitchen during most of the day.

I don't work from home but I'm a SAH mom. I totally get it. I have to be really careful to not just stand in front of the fridge/pantry all day. And the other issue I run into is if I run out of food at home, that's when I tend to order out or call for delivery. I've yet to find a heathly delivery option!







Worked out on a higher resistance level on the bike tonight, was trying for 45 mins but got a call to pick up DS2 38 mins into the workout --he needed a diaper change. Instead of going to change him and getting back on the bike for 7 more mins, we just called it a night.

I'm just happy I've made it to the gym every night this week! I wanna make it to the gym 5 nights in a row for 4 weeks in a row, and then I attempt something more difficult aka scary than the bike. Or maybe not? I'm getting pretty comfy on the bike. Gonna have to challenge myself at some point. But baby steps, right?


Happy nearly Friday everyone!

 

[luvsJack]

I am the same way. I eat more when I am home too much and the sad part is I work from home. I have had to make a great effort to stay busy and to ban myself from the kitchen during most of the day.

That's one of the main reason I knew I couldn't work from home! I would eat all day! I already have a list of everything I want to get done in the next two weeks: closets to clean, dd's room to re-organize and de-junk, cabinets to clean out, and dh is going to get the tiller going tomorrow to get my flower and veggie gardens started. Plus I am planning to workout each morning and walk at least a mile each afternoon. And the second week I will be keeping my grandbaby some too. Its more than I can actually get done but I have really need to stay busy, so I plan a lot and do as much as I can.

 

[Anna114]

Not my best week. Probably have a big goose egg on Monday. I've eaten out twice and had Corned beef and cabbage on another, so I could be doing a lot worse. However I stayed on the treadmill and extra 10 minutes today on the hopes I can possibly shed 1 lousy pound. Keep on keepin' on gang!

 

[TB'sWidow]

Hey everyone,i hope your weeks better than mine. I have developed a respitory infection which has totally derailed me this week. I'm trying to be good with eating but I have no energy to exercise. Mary

 

[gellybean]

Hey everyone,i hope your weeks better than mine. I have developed a respitory infection which has totally derailed me this week. I'm trying to be good with eating but I have no energy to exercise. Mary

Hope you feel better soon!!!!!

 

[Stacybaeasm]

Hey everyone,i hope your weeks better than mine. I have developed a respitory infection which has totally derailed me this week. I'm trying to be good with eating but I have no energy to exercise. Mary

Feel better soon!

I have been bad this week. I haven't worked out once and made poor choices for eating. last night, I just ate popcorn for dinner. Ok, it was airpopped so that helped a bit, but still - no nutrition there at all. And tonight, I'm going to dinner and a movie with a friend. I am pretty sure I am going to see a gain this week. I just have to get back on the wagon and remember, this doesn't mean I'm going to fail in the long run. Did you hear that self? You are not giving up and not failing. Pull it together!

 

[hanutedmansionmomma]

Feel better soon!

I have been bad this week. I haven't worked out once and made poor choices for eating. last night, I just ate popcorn for dinner. Ok, it was airpopped so that helped a bit, but still - no nutrition there at all. And tonight, I'm going to dinner and a movie with a friend. I am pretty sure I am going to see a gain this week. I just have to get back on the wagon and remember, this doesn't mean I'm going to fail in the long run. Did you hear that self? You are not giving up and not failing. Pull it together!

You can do it Stacy!! Plan what you'll eat at dinner and just get a big 'ol diet coke for the movie. Just get through today, and I will too. We'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow...

We can't let the wagons get us down.

 

[TB'sWidow]

Feel better soon!

I have been bad this week. I haven't worked out once and made poor choices for eating. last night, I just ate popcorn for dinner. Ok, it was airpopped so that helped a bit, but still - no nutrition there at all. And tonight, I'm going to dinner and a movie with a friend. I am pretty sure I am going to see a gain this week. I just have to get back on the wagon and remember, this doesn't mean I'm going to fail in the long run. Did you hear that self? You are not giving up and not failing. Pull it together!

Thanks stacy and enjoy yourself tonite. Pick yourself up an start over tomorrow. Don't beat yourself up!! that's what I'm gonna do if I ever feel better it seems I'm still in the worst of it. Mary

 

[MulanUSAF]

I've been tracking my calories (keeping daily total under 1200) and exercising 5 out of the past 6 days. However, my weight went up 1.5 lbs since about a week ago. Maybe it's water? I also noticed that my average morning fasting glucose was up about 10 points from the week before. I haven't been eating differently from the previous weeks, so this is a bit puzzling. I guess my body is adjusting to the new diet intake?

 

[gellybean]

I've been tracking my calories (keeping daily total under 1200) and exercising 5 out of the past 6 days. However, my weight went up 1.5 lbs since about a week ago. Maybe it's water? I also noticed that my average morning fasting glucose was up about 10 points from the week before. I haven't been eating differently from the previous weeks, so this is a bit puzzling. I guess my body is adjusting to the new diet intake?

Could be water, or your body thinking you're under attack and conserving or could be muscle mass increase.

I'm having the same issue. Been exercising 4-5 days a week for the last 4 weeks and maintaining an 1800 cals consumption each day, which for my weight is a 1000 cal a day deficit and the scale is not budging. I went up the first week and have lost maybe 2 lbs total for the entire month! It's really frustrating, I know! But eventually if we keep at it, our bodies are gonna give the fat up! Hang in there!





On a personal update:

I went out to eat last night and was pretty dang proud of myself. I did go over my daily caloric intake for the day by about 80 cals when I took the exercise cals burned into account. The part I'm proud of is what I ordered/ate.
We went to Chili's, a restaurant I ate at frequently BW (Before WISH). I would have ordered in the past a chips and queso and salsa to share with 1 other person 900 cals/2, honey chipotle chicken crispers with fries and corn on the cob 1900 cals, and split a dessert between 2 people approx 1200-1600 cals/2. So total for that meal for my part would have been 3050 cals.


FOR ONE MEAL! And sadly there were other restaurants that I would have wanted my OWN dessert. So I was easily consuming 4000+ cals on some of my eating out meals.


Last night I ordered the chips and salsa, no queso and shared them with my sister and DS2. 400 cals for the total order so I took 175 of those cals as my portion. We didn't finish the whole order and DS2 did eat some but definitely not a 3rd of them. Then I ordered their BBQ Grilled Chicken Salad. I did eat it with Ranch dressing but it was yummy and satisfying, which is important sometimes, too. I didn't finish the whole thing. The salad was 1060 cals, I accounted 950 for what I ate, because what I left on the plate was mainly lettuce and I omited the tomato pico de gallo from the entire salad.

I was fine calorie wise at the point but my sweet tooth got the best of me. Instead of ordering a 1600 cals dessert from Chili's, we went to the frozen yogurt shop and I got fat free frozen yogurt. The sugar content wasn't fabulous but it was such a better alternative, I'm not beating myself up over it!! I had a hard time tracking this, I budgeted 440 cals for it, which may be way over or under! Don't know. I tried to hit the average on Daily Plate of all my options for frozen non fat yogurt.

All in all, I'm counting last night as a victory!! I deficited about 1500 cals for one meal!! Next time I'll try to pick a frozen treat that has nutritional info available!

I'm leaving out of town tomorrow. I may post my weigh in tomorrow morning. Don't know yet. I'm scared to be away from my computer and the gym! But life can't be held in a little protected box!

Hope everyone's weekend is going well!!!


See ya on !

 

[Stacybaeasm]

Why does my scale hate me? Not only is it NOT showing the numbers I want this week (my fault completely) but I just about broke my toe on it a few minutes ago. And it's not the first time I've hit my pinkie toe on it. I hate to be paranoid, but I think my scale is out to get me!

 

[Duchie]

Not my best week. Probably have a big goose egg on Monday. I've eaten out twice and had Corned beef and cabbage on another, so I could be doing a lot worse. However I stayed on the treadmill and extra 10 minutes today on the hopes I can possibly shed 1 lousy pound. Keep on keepin' on gang!

Feel better soon!

I have been bad this week. I haven't worked out once and made poor choices for eating. last night, I just ate popcorn for dinner. Ok, it was airpopped so that helped a bit, but still - no nutrition there at all. And tonight, I'm going to dinner and a movie with a friend. I am pretty sure I am going to see a gain this week. I just have to get back on the wagon and remember, this doesn't mean I'm going to fail in the long run. Did you hear that self? You are not giving up and not failing. Pull it together!

Hang in there ladies! We all have off weeks, but Stacy is right - you can just hop right back on the wagon.

Hey everyone,i hope your weeks better than mine. I have developed a respitory infection which has totally derailed me this week. I'm trying to be good with eating but I have no energy to exercise. Mary

I'm sorry you're feeling icky! I think I'm going to be right there with you this week as I seem to finally be getting the cough/cold crud that the rest of the family has had. I actually skipped my workout entirely on Friday because of it.

I've been tracking my calories (keeping daily total under 1200) and exercising 5 out of the past 6 days. However, my weight went up 1.5 lbs since about a week ago. Maybe it's water? I also noticed that my average morning fasting glucose was up about 10 points from the week before. I haven't been eating differently from the previous weeks, so this is a bit puzzling. I guess my body is adjusting to the new diet intake?

Dr. Oz said something on Oprah once that has stuck with me. He said that the first 10 pounds are the hardest to lose. It's like your body needs to get the message that it's supposed to be losing. Once you lose that 10 pounds, then the body gets in "weight loss" mode and keeps losing. It's the same when you gain weight - the first 10 pounds might add on slowly, but then the body gets in "weight gain" mode and you put them on faster. I hope I explained that well. But it sounds like a lot of us are in that first 10-pound stage, so hopefully it will get easier.

As for me, my family is trying to sabotage me! I didn't feel like cooking so I asked what everyone wanted for dinner. They chose KFC - AAAAGH! But DH got a mixed bucket that had grilled and original recipe in it. The grilled is really reasonable point-wise (4 points for a breast) and REALLY tasty.

Times like this are really important to me because I realize I CAN still do this and live life. I don't know how to explain it, but sometimes it feels like my world is revolving around this diet. So tonight was just a nice reminder that it's not that way at all.

 

[Stacybaeasm]

Times like this are really important to me because I realize I CAN still do this and live life. I don't know how to explain it, but sometimes it feels like my world is revolving around this diet. So tonight was just a nice reminder that it's not that way at all.

I think this is what is most important to remember. We have to LIVE with what we eat. There will be days that we don't do our best. There will be days when we say "I want that popcorn at the movies." There will be days when we are super motivated and the scale registers an amazing loss and we are flying. It's life. We aren't "on a diet" that we will go off eventually - we are changing our lifestyle. And we are human. We make mistakes, we even fail hugely sometimes, but we get up, brush ourselves off, and keep going.

I know the scale is going to be my enemy on MOnday. I know that because I can admit that I did fail hugely this week. But I am still a winner because I didn't give up. I picked myself up, and gave myself a stern talking to that included GOOD grocery shopping today and new goals for the next week and month. I am changing my life. It is slow. It is painful but it is necessary and this time, I will win!! And so will all of you. Look at us. We are still here after a month. We are still trying. Someday, we will all be able to say "I made it to skinny island." But no matter when that happens, we are all winners, we are all wonderful, and we are all amazing women and men!!!

 

[gellybean]

Heading out of town tonight instead of tomorrow! I will try to weigh in from my mom's and post via Blackberry!

Have a great week everyone! I'll be gone til probably Weds or Thurs.

 

[ancestry]

I've been tracking my calories (keeping daily total under 1200) and exercising 5 out of the past 6 days. However, my weight went up 1.5 lbs since about a week ago. Maybe it's water? I also noticed that my average morning fasting glucose was up about 10 points from the week before. I haven't been eating differently from the previous weeks, so this is a bit puzzling. I guess my body is adjusting to the new diet intake?

Just as a gentle suggestion/thought -- are you sure you are eating enough? I have been told by multiple doctors and my personal trainer to never ever ever drop below 1,500 calories a day and on the days I work out I should try to actually eat a little bit more (around 1600-1800 depending on the workout). 1,200 calories a day is very low from everything that I have be told and read about. Could it be possible that your body is holding on to the weight because it has switched to "starvation" mode?

Hang in there! I'm sure you will figure it out. You can do this.

 

[ancestry]

I'm having the same issue. Been exercising 4-5 days a week for the last 4 weeks and maintaining an 1800 cals consumption each day, which for my weight is a 1000 cal a day deficit and the scale is not budging. I went up the first week and have lost maybe 2 lbs total for the entire month! It's really frustrating, I know! But eventually if we keep at it, our bodies are gonna give the fat up! Hang in there!

If I recall correctly you are doing a lot of weight training which I also am doing. It can be really frustrating when the scale doesn't move as much as you want it to even though you are doing everything right. What I do to keep myself motivated is track my inches (waist, hips, chest, and neck) as well as my body fat percentage (I have a scale that calculates this when I weight myself). I don't think I am going to show a loss tomorrow for this past week but I do know that I have lost inches and that my body fat percentage has gone down. So even though the scale may not have changed I can still see the changes that are happening to my body.

The other thing I noticed is that I tend to retain a lot of water when doing weight training. The only way I can get the water to "release" is to go swimming and submerse myself neck deep in water for 60 minutes. I've gotten in the habit of trying to do this on Sunday afternoons which helps for my official weekly weigh-in on Monday mornings. That is my weigh-in cheat secret. lol!

 

[MulanUSAF]

Just as a gentle suggestion/thought -- are you sure you are eating enough? I have been told by multiple doctors and my personal trainer to never ever ever drop below 1,500 calories a day and on the days I work out I should try to actually eat a little bit more (around 1600-1800 depending on the workout). 1,200 calories a day is very low from everything that I have be told and read about. Could it be possible that your body is holding on to the weight because it has switched to "starvation" mode?

Hang in there! I'm sure you will figure it out. You can do this.

I know it's a little low but I spend about 10 hours a day in front of my computer for work and school, so I don't need as much calories. I check my urine for ketones weekly, so I'll know if the body goes into starvation mode. I am eating very little carbs, most of it coming from vegetables. Protein makes up over 50% of my diet, and there's only so much meat and eggs one can eat in a day. My main concern right now is keeping my blood glucose number stable and low, so it's a little different from the regular weight loss dieting.

 

[ancestry]

I know it's a little low but I spend about 10 hours a day in front of my computer for work and school, so I don't need as much calories. I check my urine for ketones weekly, so I'll know if the body goes into starvation mode. I am eating very little carbs, most of it coming from vegetables. Protein makes up over 50% of my diet, and there's only so much meat and eggs one can eat in a day. My main concern right now is keeping my blood glucose number stable and low, so it's a little different from the regular weight loss dieting.

Awesome! Sounds like you have a good plan then. You do seem to be doing fantastic with keeping the blood glucose numbers on track!

 

[ancestry]

-2 pounds for the week. 7 pounds lost total!