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

[eliz991]

-2.6 this week! Still above my starting weight but I feel like I am on a pretty good path now. Got a lot of exercise in and didn't go hog-wild over the weekend.

Has anyone here done/heard of Michael Thurmond's six week body makeover? I have a friend who just started and she loves it, but I can't decide if it's worth it or not.

 

[GoofyWife]

weather has kind of settled down here - we went from mid fifties to mid ninety's in a week and now back down to 70's which is how I like it - so definitely going to start walking at lunch again, even if I can only fit in 20 minutes or so and some strength training - I definitely want to get on track and stay on track

 

[gellybean]

-2.6 this week! Still above my starting weight but I feel like I am on a pretty good path now. Got a lot of exercise in and didn't go hog-wild over the weekend.

Has anyone here done/heard of Michael Thurmond's six week body makeover? I have a friend who just started and she loves it, but I can't decide if it's worth it or not.

I just ordered it. It's been shipped but I haven't gotten it yet. I'll let you know more when I get it in.

Would love to hear more of what your friend thinks!

I'm a little scared of it. No salt, no fat, no nuts, no dairy, etc. It seems very restrictive. But I'm not gonna say no to it until I at least check it out for myself. If it's one of those induction phases and then gradually add back that's one thing. But I know if it's something like that for the rest of my life, it's not realistic for me. I like food too much.













Speaking of liking food too much I really blew it Saturday and Sunday. And the sad thing is really blowing it now isn't half as bad as a normal weekend used to be, but it was still way too much fat, cals, carbs and sodium.

And the scale showed it. I was up + 1.8 this morning. I'm hoping some of it is water retention and I'll pull a larger - number next week.

The sad/frustrating thing is I worked out harder, longer and more often last week than I have to date. Made it to the gym 5 days, got 3 days of weight training and increased the time by 10 mins. Worked out on the bike at a higher resistance for longer and more periods of high rpms for interval training and tried the treadmill for the first time!

So I refuse to beat myself up.

I'm owning and moving on.

Thanks to Dawn and Dan's talk DH and I discussed it and he's back on the bandwagon with me. Not that he's totally given up but when I switched off Weight Watchers, he drifted. So I found a free app on our phones to do WW again. So this way I don't have to play the monthly fee, we can still do WW together and I'm still gonna track on Livestrong.

I joined My Fitness Pal too. Both it and sparkpeople have much lower cal goals than Livestrong. I still prefer Livestrong Daily Plate's format, so I'm gonna stick with it for my tracking. I just adjusted my calorie goal to the median of all 3 sites. And verified it with my own math using the calculators you can find online.

So I'll be double tracking WW and Livestrong. Here's hoping this'll work!

I feel like I'm spinning my wheels as far as the scale goes. However, I know I'm losing something. Just not weight. My clothes fit better, I'm in a smaller size, my body looks different, I'm noticing I'm not winded as much, that picking up DS2 out of the basket at the grocery store or squatting over to pick something up is all much much easier! So I'm not giving up! Just tryng a different strategy and getting back to tracking EVERYTHING, and drinking water water water!


I had Panera today for lunch. I'm in love. Wish there was one a little closer to me. The closest one is about 20 mins away (over by you Duchie!) There BBQ chicken Salad is YUMMY! 500 cals for the whole thing, very filling! And it's half the cals of the same type of salad at Chili's! WOOT! They have lots of good choices there if you do your research and I love their nutritional calculator on their website! It's definitely my new go to spot!


Congrats to EVERYONE! We're still here! and it's what... week 8 or 9 or something?? That's saying something! This is longer than I've ever truly tried to diet/change my lifestyle. And I haven't exercised this consistently since Jr. High. Despite my scale whoas, I refuse to believe these things aren't benefitting me tremendously.

I guess I thought once I actually started trying, it would just melt away. And I gues this was my biggest fear. What if I actually try and nothing happens? So I used that as an excuse to not try. I told myself, if you don't try, you can't fail. I'm glad I'm not that person anymore.

So regardless of the scale's numbers, I can't view this as a failure. I'm still changing me for ME. And that's AWESOME!

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Grrr.
Didn't get a lunch break today so I had a Luna bar and cocoa almonds. Then later I had some strawberries. My salad will keep until tomorrow. It was a good looking salad too! But I didn't want to eat it at 3:30 and then go home and eat dinner in 2 hours.

The bad part is I've been digging in the candy bowl in my office. Robins Eggs from Easter are one of my favorites!! I just don't have the will power to pass them up. Must go for a long walk tonight and do more exercise.

Go Twins! (First day at new ballpark!)

 

[eliz991]

I just ordered it. It's been shipped but I haven't gotten it yet. I'll let you know more when I get it in.

Would love to hear more of what your friend thinks!

I'm a little scared of it. No salt, no fat, no nuts, no dairy, etc. It seems very restrictive. But I'm not gonna say no to it until I at least check it out for myself. If it's one of those induction phases and then gradually add back that's one thing. But I know if it's something like that for the rest of my life, it's not realistic for me. I like food too much.

She has only been doing it for a week. It is pretty restrictive, I think the salt is hard for her, but she has lost 7 pounds and her boyfriend has lost 3 or 4 and they haven't been at all hungry and she says she hasn't been craving anything. They came over for dinner last night and were able to eat what we made (grilled steaks, chicken breasst for her, fresh veggies and they each had a small potato - DH and I had corn). From what I understand you can add things back in over time.

I have been looking at it all day...but I am going to wait I guess before I order it. Should talk to DH too and see what he thinks.

 

[littlepeppers]

+1.5

Darn DH!!!!!!! He always wants to go eat out & I don't have willpower yet.

 

[tiggerplus5]

I'm down 1 pound although I didn't send in my weight last week - I had ended up gaining 2 lbs. over Easter weekend, so I really lost 3! too bad I gained the two in between

I did the same thing!

Also, why is it I can walk past the candy bars in the supermarket without a second glance, but let a holiday come by and all the candy is wrapped in pretty colored foil and I'm like a pig sniffing out truffles for the pretty, pretty candy?

My computer screen just got a shower!

Hello everyone!

I'm still lurking around here. I've been up and down.

Down this week -2.8 lbs.

aunt flo really messed with my system again last week. I was up last week so it's really only --.8 down l think.

I had pizza, easter candy, chinese food and a half a package of nutter butters last weekend. Nutter butters are my weakness. worst thing to have in the house. I was in line at the check out at walmart and they were ON SALE and I had a handy dandy coupon buy 2 get $1 off. So I bought two! There's still a package hiding somewhere in this house. I made DH hide it on me. Mindless shopping. That's definitely an issue. I will make improvements next week. Own it and move forward.

I finally stopped coughing incessantly. DH and I took the dogs for a long walk at a local state park/campground over the weekend to assess the STILL flooded management area. I'm not up to high impact aerobics yet but maybe I'll try in the AM.

It's great that there's so many of you that keep working at it. Remember, muscle weighs more than fat!!!

mndisneygirl-Go Red Sox! (hey, she started it!)

 

[luvsJack]

Pretty good day today. Didn't get the water in, actually didn't get any water in. Was really sleepy today and thought I needed caffeine so I drank unsweetened iced tea all day.

Tomorrow I go back to challenging myself on the water intake. And will get in my two workouts--1 in the am and 1 in the pm (did walk this afternoon though)

Grilled chicken and asparagus tonight (YUMMY!) put a Hawaiian sauce on the chicken. Really good.

Got another motivator to lose--30 year high school reunion next year! I had completely forgotten that next year was it!! So I am aiming for a 60 lbs loss in 12 months--5 lbs a month.

Time for a nice long, hot bath and early to bed!

Go BRAVES!!!! (I love baseball)

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

I was up 1.4 this week. I did ok at work, but then starting on Friday it was a complete BUST. I coudn't stop eating. It was a cloudy rainy weekend so I couldn't go out for the walks that we wanted to do and I just didn't get it together enough to go to the gym. I'm hitting that point where I'm past the initial stage where I'm all excited about tracking and I'm not interested in the gym. I'm trying to make good choices but I can't seem to stay away from breads and even scrounged around and found some old Halloween candy.

I'm going to keep trying.

 

[WyldLynx]

Well it is going slowly but at least it is going again. Only down 2 lbs but once I get walking 2+ miles a day again plus my time on the Wii Fit that is getting back to 1hr a day. I am watching what I eat and drinking as much water as I can stand, up to 3 - 16oz bottles a day, but got weak and drank a 12 oz Root Beer yesterday. Old habits die hard but at least it was only 1 and not 6 or

 

[gellybean]

I need a banging my head against a brick wall smilie!

My weight this morning was back down to my weigh in weight for last week. That +1.8 would've been a +/- 0.0 if we'd weighed in today. NOT that I'm trying to change my weigh in weight from yesterday. It's just odd! I think my body knows it's Monday weigh in days and sabotages me but holding on to every ounce of water possible.

I guess I should be looking at this differently. Potential for a killer loss this week.


Hope everyone has a great day!!

 

[Dizneydawn]

Hi everybody.

Sorry for being MIA yesterday. Had 2 doctor appt's for my Dad at.

Between the appt's there was time and thought it would be nice to take him by a wildlife center he enjoyed by where he grew up.

Paths, ponds, woods. Perfect. He was in a wheelchair and I can push him. My weight pushing his 260 pounds would be an awesome workout.

We were on a floating walking bridge over the pond and it is made up of planks. Things are going smoothly until the weight of us caused the planks to sink in one area and the difference in height between where we were and where we were going was not made to be handled by a standard wheelchair.

The stupid front wheels, fell into the small rut and my Dad went down and out of the chair as the wheelchair tipped forward.

He landed with 100% of his body weight on his amputated stump.

I am 5'4 and he is 6'2. I was not tall enough or strong enough to lift him up off his leg and the wheelchair was behind him, caught on his back right leg.

It took almost a minute to get him unstuck, rolled to his right and seated.

This Thursday will be 4 weeks from the surgery thank God. He had just had all the staples removed in the morning from the first doctor appointment.

I cried and felt so bad. He cried and felt so helpless. The pain was excruciating, I know.

Here we were on the ground in a place he used to hunt and fish and spent 1/2 of his childhood and now as a 61 year old man, he couldn't even get up off his leg without assistance.

I went home after his second app't then went back last night as he was not having a great time of it.

We have a mtg this morning with the transitional care facility he is in to assess where he is and where he is going in the next few weeks. Then I am on the mission to find a more suitable wheelchair.

I will be back later to post the totals for the week. I have not even weighed myself yet. Yesterday after the spill, I ate like an emotional fool.

Anyway, sorry for dumping and running but you all deserved an explanation of where I was yesterday and this morning. I like the fact I feel accountable to this group - even if the times are not the best.

 

[ancestry]

Hi everybody.

Sorry for being MIA yesterday. Had 2 doctor appt's for my Dad at.

Between the appt's there was time and thought it would be nice to take him by a wildlife center he enjoyed by where he grew up.

Paths, ponds, woods. Perfect. He was in a wheelchair and I can push him. My weight pushing his 260 pounds would be an awesome workout.

We were on a floating walking bridge over the pond and it is made up of planks. Things are going smoothly until the weight of us caused the planks to sink in one area and the difference in height between where we were and where we were going was not made to be handled by a standard wheelchair.

The stupid front wheels, fell into the small rut and my Dad went down and out of the chair as the wheelchair tipped forward.

He landed with 100% of his body weight on his amputated stump.

Dawn -- I am so sorry! That had to be so difficult for both of you. You are a fantastic daughter though and I am certain your father is grateful for your love and support!

 

[MulanUSAF]

Oh Dawn, I'm so sorry to hear about the wheelchair accident. I did something similar once when I was babysitting this little girl who suffered from MS. I took her out for a stroll around the neighborhood in her wheelchair and somehow it went off the curb causing her to fall out! I felt so horrible even though she just laughed it off and said that happens all the time. Don't blame yourself too much, things happen even when we try our best to be careful.

Maybe this is something your dad needs to get out and about in the woods

Google "tank chair"

 

[Mndisneygirl]

mndisneygirl-Go Red Sox! (hey, she started it!)

Sorry for your loss!

I need a banging my head against a brick wall smilie!
ME TOO!!!
My weight this morning was back down to my weigh in weight for last week. That +1.8 would've been a +/- 0.0 if we'd weighed in today. NOT that I'm trying to change my weigh in weight from yesterday. It's just odd! I think my body knows it's Monday weigh in days and sabotages me but holding on to every ounce of water possible.
AGAIN - ME TOO!!!
I guess I should be looking at this differently. Potential for a killer loss this week.


Hope everyone has a great day!!

I hate it when I'm up on the weekend/Monday and by Wednesday it's down again. But I like to keep checking b/c it's a reminder for me to watch it every day. I know it will fluctuate, but weekends are my tough time for eating.

Dawn - so sorry your Dad is having a tough time and about your accident with the chair. You were trying to do something super nice for him, and I know he'll see that after the pain. I'm sure it will be a long adjustment period for him. Must be horribly difficult. Forgive yourself for the eating and just go back to work! You can do it!! We've all had that kind of day. You saw us through with motivation - so "right back at ya babe!!"

 

[luvsJack]

I need a banging my head against a brick wall smilie!

My weight this morning was back down to my weigh in weight for last week. That +1.8 would've been a +/- 0.0 if we'd weighed in today. NOT that I'm trying to change my weigh in weight from yesterday. It's just odd! I think my body knows it's Monday weigh in days and sabotages me but holding on to every ounce of water possible.

I guess I should be looking at this differently. Potential for a killer loss this week.


Hope everyone has a great day!!

Must be a group thing! I did the exact same thing this morning. Weight exactly the same as it was on Monday of last week!! A good thing, but a day late!

Hi everybody.

Sorry for being MIA yesterday. Had 2 doctor appt's for my Dad at.

Between the appt's there was time and thought it would be nice to take him by a wildlife center he enjoyed by where he grew up.

Paths, ponds, woods. Perfect. He was in a wheelchair and I can push him. My weight pushing his 260 pounds would be an awesome workout.

We were on a floating walking bridge over the pond and it is made up of planks. Things are going smoothly until the weight of us caused the planks to sink in one area and the difference in height between where we were and where we were going was not made to be handled by a standard wheelchair.

The stupid front wheels, fell into the small rut and my Dad went down and out of the chair as the wheelchair tipped forward.

He landed with 100% of his body weight on his amputated stump.

I am 5'4 and he is 6'2. I was not tall enough or strong enough to lift him up off his leg and the wheelchair was behind him, caught on his back right leg.

It took almost a minute to get him unstuck, rolled to his right and seated.

This Thursday will be 4 weeks from the surgery thank God. He had just had all the staples removed in the morning from the first doctor appointment.

I cried and felt so bad. He cried and felt so helpless. The pain was excruciating, I know.

Here we were on the ground in a place he used to hunt and fish and spent 1/2 of his childhood and now as a 61 year old man, he couldn't even get up off his leg without assistance.

I went home after his second app't then went back last night as he was not having a great time of it.

We have a mtg this morning with the transitional care facility he is in to assess where he is and where he is going in the next few weeks. Then I am on the mission to find a more suitable wheelchair.

I will be back later to post the totals for the week. I have not even weighed myself yet. Yesterday after the spill, I ate like an emotional fool.

Anyway, sorry for dumping and running but you all deserved an explanation of where I was yesterday and this morning. I like the fact I feel accountable to this group - even if the times are not the best.

for you and for your dad.

This group is really helping me this time too. I have been a part of a group IRL with a couple of ladies at work and we seemed to sabatoge either other more than help! We are friends and love to go to lunch together, we thought that would help. No, it didn't. We just talked each other into eating things we shouldn't have!

Being a part of this group, knowing that no one is judging and everyone wants the same accomplishment is really helping to motivate!

 

[stitchfan23]

Oh Dawn I am so sorry to hear about your misadventure. Sending you and your Dad great big

It is easy to do. My last 2 trips to the world were spent in a wheelchair due to a slipped disk in my back (couldn't walk without extreme pain) and DH was pushing me up main street and hit the tram tracks and the wheels stuck and he dumped me. Luckily I had my feet out straight and when the chair went over it sort of stood me up. It hurt yes but could have been a lot worse.

 

[GaRain]

I did not have a chance to weigh myself this weekend. I was kinda down last week after my "personal trainer" episode. I feel like I have a stalker now as he keeps calling me - no, I am not going to pay you $$ to get on my nerves!!
So, my best friend is giving birth today!!! So, she will lose some weight - ha ha ha
I however, will be taking care of her animals while she is in the hospital. So no gym for me after work today! Must get my water in to make up for it!

Dawn - I am so sorry for your episode with your dad. I went through something with my mom, not like, but related. She loves the Botanical Gardens, but until she gets her hip replaced, she can't walk around. So I took her this past December and we got one of their wheelchairs. There were areas where I had to park her and go take pictures of something and bring it back to show her. After the day I had sore arms and calluses on my hands. She felt so bad, but it just make me want to cry for her.
Her surgery is April 26th!!! I am hoping it goes well and we will be back to walking around the gardens (and maybe even Disney!) soon!

 

[Duchie]

Hi everybody.

Sorry for being MIA yesterday. Had 2 doctor appt's for my Dad at.

Between the appt's there was time and thought it would be nice to take him by a wildlife center he enjoyed by where he grew up.

Paths, ponds, woods. Perfect. He was in a wheelchair and I can push him. My weight pushing his 260 pounds would be an awesome workout.

We were on a floating walking bridge over the pond and it is made up of planks. Things are going smoothly until the weight of us caused the planks to sink in one area and the difference in height between where we were and where we were going was not made to be handled by a standard wheelchair.

The stupid front wheels, fell into the small rut and my Dad went down and out of the chair as the wheelchair tipped forward.

He landed with 100% of his body weight on his amputated stump.

I am 5'4 and he is 6'2. I was not tall enough or strong enough to lift him up off his leg and the wheelchair was behind him, caught on his back right leg.

It took almost a minute to get him unstuck, rolled to his right and seated.

This Thursday will be 4 weeks from the surgery thank God. He had just had all the staples removed in the morning from the first doctor appointment.

I cried and felt so bad. He cried and felt so helpless. The pain was excruciating, I know.

Here we were on the ground in a place he used to hunt and fish and spent 1/2 of his childhood and now as a 61 year old man, he couldn't even get up off his leg without assistance.

I went home after his second app't then went back last night as he was not having a great time of it.

We have a mtg this morning with the transitional care facility he is in to assess where he is and where he is going in the next few weeks. Then I am on the mission to find a more suitable wheelchair.

I will be back later to post the totals for the week. I have not even weighed myself yet. Yesterday after the spill, I ate like an emotional fool.

Anyway, sorry for dumping and running but you all deserved an explanation of where I was yesterday and this morning. I like the fact I feel accountable to this group - even if the times are not the best.

I can only imagine how difficult this time is for you. Just know that we'll be here to support you even during those "not the best" times.

 

[ancestry]

Are any of you ever just completely flabbergasted by your scale showing large fluctuations without any rational explanation?

I just don't understand how I can gain or lose 5-8 pounds in a 24-48 hour period. Sometimes I can explain the differences if I weigh myself right after eating but other times I weigh at the same time of the day (early morning before eating) and I know I haven't cheated or eaten calories that would have caused me to gain actual weight. The only explanation can be the changes in water weight and water retention but some days it seems so extreme that it is almost unbelievable.

Any one else? Any one have any explanations for this? Is it just hormones?