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Oh dear .... there's nothing worse when trying to eat less, than having to eat something you don't actually like!
Good news on the AC1. 2.7 is very low for total cholesterol! Well done for staying on track!
Good luck with the MRI
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Yea on the 1/2 pt. Suzanne!! Like I always say ,at least it 's coming down and next checkup you will see better results!
Not sure what 2.7 is in US readings, but it must be much better than at 4.9. I agree with you on the bran buds....YUCK!!
Good to know you can have a MRI to see if it is a tear. Hope not, though!! Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Suzy , Vailara...I hope all is well with you.
Shout outs to all our other 3 or 4 followers!! I hope all is well with you, too!!
I'm still fighting head and chest colds....drying up a bit.
Still not ready to claim the pound yet, maybe tomorrow, if I see it. Thanks for the pre- kudo's!!
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Wouldn't it be great if we actually weighed what MFP predicted we'd weigh in five weeks time? What a wonderful world that would be! Hahaha! If only!
My brother (who is nine years older than me...he's 64) has been eating more healthy for seven weeks and has lost 22 pounds. No exercise at all. How is that possible or fair?!?!?!!!!! Gah!!!!! It makes me want to tear my hair out!!!1 -
its completely unfair .... wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!!
we can't smack him cause he's your brother.... but.... we can completely wanna curl up in the fetal position and cry over the unfairness!
a bunch of the guys at work last year went on a weight loss challenge... frankly they mostly just stopped drinking beer .... that's it.. and each dropped a lot of weight.. I was like REALLY?? really?????? BITE ME bro.... with all due respect as your Suzy's bro of course.. but.. bite me lol
Vail - I read your post this morning about maintaining going to be a continuous struggle.. to be honest it kinda depressed me even tho I know its true cause I flunked maintenance for that very reason; got complacent when I hit my goal weight and voila.. 25 lbs of the 60 regained.
and this time around it is WAY harder losing it than it was initially ... the slowness of the losing this time is what's challenging me even tho I've been concentrating more on portion sizes and better food, it should still be getting me better results in the weight loss area by virtue of less and better intake. So the thought this will be a forever struggle kinda bummed me out. I think mentally i'm just going to have to replace the word struggle with something else.. maybe just "work".. continuous work.. I can't deal with it otherwise
i went off the rails last night; no reason at all except i was stupid enough to buy some treats and i think i actually binge ate. ive never done that before... so im just guessing.. but i just kept stuffing myself.. wasn't hungry, wasn't mad or sad or whatever... it was just .. there.. so i kept eating it. i have been avoiding keeping anything crap related in the house and it was a bit scary watching myself go crazy.. so i guess it was just another lesson learned.... ugh.
anyway.. its a new day and will write yesterday off as just a "tree" day and keep focusing on the whole forest (all of me)
have a great day everyone!
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Yep, totally unfair.....but we'll just add it to the long list of things that frustrate us with this whole weight loss journey. I too let my weight creep back up but I was never at my goal weight. I agree that this time around it has been much much harder to lose the weight. I know maintenance will be a constant challenge but I'm looking forward to it. I imagine that it will be a daily awareness of my weight and not letting it go up more than five pounds before getting really strict with myself. At least I'm hoping it will be that simple...I've never been in maintenance mode so I don't really know.
I've totally been there on the binging thing. It's like I'm sitting up in the corner of the ceiling looking down at myself in horror! It's that downward spiral I've talked about before....a rolling stone gathering pounds instead of moss. It's best to just forgive yourself and move on. Forgive but don't forget.
We're heading out for an overnight hike today so I'll check back in tomorrow ladies!0 -
I'm sorry for my depressing post, Snoozie! I know, it was a bit of a downer. (For those who aren't on my friends list, I'd been admiring a colleague who lost about the same amount of weight as me a few years ago and successfully maintained. However, she said it was a constant struggle). I'd found it a bit comforting, because I DO find it difficult and it's nice to know that it's not just me being pathetic! But yes, I think it's one aspect of our lives that we can never, ever relax about, sadly. And yes, losing is slow. I lost faster recently, but that was using more extreme methods. (I don't regret that though, because it's such a relief to finally get that weight off. It started creeping up more than a year ago, and I should have done something about it then. The trouble was that I thought I WAS doing somethinb about it - lol! But what I was doing wasn't enough).
Snoozie, at least you didn't regain the whole lot! So many people seem to regain what they lost and then add some on. I know from my own experience that it must have taken self-control not to keep gaining after the 25 pounds! I like your idea of replacing "struggle" with "work". Work, we can do!
I hope the hike went well, Suzy! Were you really hiking through the night? That sounds rather adventurous!1 -
Lol no worries vail - i just fixated on the words "struggle for life" and depressed myself lololol
I definitely think for me I will have to use something like vigilance for life...... It's not quite as overwhelming for me that way lol. I know it's absolutely true and was something I had to accept because when I get back to my goal weight I not gonna flunk maintenance again !!2 -
Hello hatters! Snoozie you may have to come to Atlanta and give me a real kick in the pants! What is wrong with me!?!? Ugh!!! I can't seem to get back to the gym or eating right! I'm taking the Scarlett O'Hara approach..."tomorrow is another day!"
Vailara, what I meant to say was an overnight backpacking hike...which means we carry our fully loaded packs with our tent, sleeping bags, food, water and such and hike to a good place to camp and then back out the next day. However, we did watch the sun set from a beautiful overlook and had to use our headlamps to see our way back down the trail to our tent!
My problem is that I rationalize my poor eating choices because I hiked two days. And that's okay...on those two days but then I use that excuse for two more days when I'm not exercising. I'm only hurting myself. I'm meeting with my YMCA coach tomorrow so maybe that will help motivate me. I'd like to be able to give the whole maintenance thing a try one day soon.1 -
That still sounds pretty adventurous, Suzy. I used to do that when I was young, before having a child, and loved sleeping out, but don't think I'd be able for it now. I really admire you for being able to do it. Not just carrying full packs (that was a struggle even when I was young - especially coming down hills), but being able to sleep without a good mattress.
I know all about rationalising because I do it myself! So frustrating. I think that if we were big, young men, we could get away with it, but as older women we just don't burn nearly as much from exercising, and it's so easy to wipe that out even with small amounts of extra eating. I'm still doing some intermittent fasting, which works well, but for instance, last night, I had a meal after a 24 hour fast, and it ended up being much bigger than normal, which essentially wiped out all the calorie deficit from a WHOLE DAY of not eating! Apparently fasting has benefits beyond calorie restriction, so I will continue, but psychologically I need to stop rationalising and to tell myself that I have to eat the same size meals as I normally do, not "reward" myself (with extra food!) for not eating.
Good luck with the YMCA coach.
"Vigilance" is good, Snoozie. Maybe "commitment" as well? I'm trying to think of it in more positive terms too, after your comment!2 -
Yep, I get that whole "I fasted so I can eat extra" thing. That's what I was doing when I tried fasting twice a week. I decided that I wasn't ready for that approach yet. Hahaha!
I like positive terms. Commitment, lifestyle (not diet), healthy decisions...all good! I met with my YMCA coach today and they're starting a new program in January for weight loss. Instead of focusing on what you eat it's going to focus on why, when and how much. It's a new approach based on research that was done on people who have successfully maintained their weight loss. He recommended me for the program and I think I'm going to do it. I kept think that this was kismet (is that the right use of that word?). It's all the things we've been talking about here. There's also a clinic on Friday where they tell you how much fat, muscle and water makes up your weight and talk about metabolism and how to fire it up. I may go to that but I'm afraid it will be more depressing than motivating.
Anyway...I have a question for y'all. My brother said his doctor told him there are three things that he looks at in your blood test results that determine if you're prediabetic. I know about A1C but what are the other two? Any ideas or did he misunderstand? My A1C was a bit high (which is what started me on this whole health quest journey) but not quite at the prediabetic point.1 -
Oh! And I kicked my own butt today and went to a Barre class!!! Go me!!!!0
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That weight loss programme sounds really interesting, and also one that you can probably fit with how you like to eat. I initially lost weight just by sticking to three meals a day, good-sized meals (but I was a lot heavier then) and no sweets. The "why, when and how much" - I'm really interested to know how they deal with that. Plus there's the added motivation of being a in a group.
I don't know about the prediabetic tests. I'm guessing they'd also test for blood glucose, maybe a fasting level and a non-fasting level?
Well done on the Barre class!
I'm thinking of trying a class called Metafit. Has anybody tried it? Seems to be HIIT, bodyweight exercises.0 -
Morning Hatters!
Sorry haven't posted.. been a little distracted for a few days.. am going to start this and keep editing so I can go back and re read and reply so might take a few minutes... if I don't do it that way i'll lose my post LOL
vAIL - I love the commitment word... that's even better for me personally so i'm totally gonna steal it LOL... its a much more positive word for me than "work" and will remind me hopefully it is indeed a lifetime commitment to better health!! love it thanks!!!
Suzy and Vail - I ccan totally relate to the "rationalizing" mentality; holy cow... I do the same.. I still find myself thinking i'm going to "reward" myself for being good for a few days.. yeesh I thought I was over that crap but apparently not... I rationalize it by saying I can have a treat.. which turns into 2.. which turns into a binge.. and the sad part is I KNOW its not a treat at all its just an excuse to eat garbage.. which makes NO sense.. if someone put a garbage can in front of me and said "have at it Snoozie... reward yourself all ya want" i'd be fine... but if it comes wrapped pretty yet still garbage, i'm all in..
hmmm.. maybe I can use that garbage can visual whenever I think i'm rewarding myself with something crappy........
Suzy... awesome on meeting with the coach.. and getting in a barre class!! you didn't need a kick after all you kick started yourself!! well done! just my opinion but I think the class on pounds being made up of water/fat/muscle would be really good to go to... I remember something about that from one of my classes.. it wasn't depressing but it was a little.. disconcerting I guess.. because if I recall they said each pound is made up of a percentage of each of those... so when you lose weight you don't know which you have actually lost... water/fat/muscle... and the one thing you DONT want to lose is the muscle part.. hence why the strength training is so important to build muscle .. I think.... its a little fuzzy memory wise but it was well worth knowing ... so the clinic if u can go wouldn't hurt.. and might be the timing is part of that whole kismet thing.. right time right place??
Vail - as for the large meal after the fasting wiping out the benefit... as yu said earlier there are more benefits for you from the fasting than just the calories saved, so since the fasting is something that you want to continue to do, maybe try a mind switch to thinking of it as more to do with your overall health rather than the weight loss? I had to do tht with my walking.. it took me EONS to get my head to switch my mentality about my walking... I no longer think of it as exercise like I used to.. I walk for my diabetes only to keep my blood sugar in check, its not counted as exercise. that was a tough one for me tho... because it made me realize its the ONLY exercise I was doing.. and since I couldn't count it as that... gak... It means im doing nothing exercise wise. Sigh. Tht will hve to change ... but... I finally managed to move the walking to the diabetes side of the chart so to speak..
so maybe you would find it easier to think of the fasting as something positive you are doing for your overall health and not for weight loss? Just a thought..
p.s. Suzy just read your post about kicking your own butt... LOL.. obviously as I posted above that you seemed to have kicked your own butt, great minds think alike!
Vail - I haven't heard of Metafit... but if it's a HIT thing im guessing it would be awesome; a lot of research lately has been talking bout HIT being the way to go... and our Gail (Time2) has already had experience with that so maybe she has some info??
Suzy.. hmm as for your brother... I don't know what the 3 things might be... I know here they use the fasting blood test to determine whether you might be pre-diabetic (called insulin resistant here).. if you do show you are IR they usually send you for the fasting glucose test.. fast and then drink this god awful sugar stuff and have to sit there for 2 hrs and then they take a blood test to get your blood sugar level. For that test, below 7 is considered pre diabetic.. 7 and up is full on diabetic. When I was first diagnosed mine came back at 8.4 . The only other thing re the diabetes my doctor monitors is my cholesterol; the good and bad numbers.. so maybe those 2 numbers plus the A1C or the blood glucose test is what he meant by 3? Supposedly a cholesterol normal level is 2-3 overall, mine was 4.3 when I was first diagnosed and is now 2.7 I think... but my doc says for diabetics they want it below 2 now. So that's all I got LOL... I'd be interested to know tho if you find out what 3 his doc told him??
Ok... if anyone is still awake after reading all this lol..
I'm not doing too badly.... up a wee bit this week (less than 1/2 a pound so not worried at the moment as it culd simply be normal fluctuation) but I am still struggling a bit with the smaller portions. Right now as you know i'm working on the theory for diabetics about how the volume of food in your stomach is important.. eating smaller amounts or the same amounts at every meal with smaller snacks inbetween rather than loading up your belly with big meals here and there.... I find most of the problem is simply habit tho.. i'll make up a salad and some cold chicken say... and just from habit will make a dinner size plate... then realize what the hell that's a LOT of food.. but then I eat it anyway. I honestly don't realize how much it is because I just make it up as usual amount wise. so to help combat that i'm using smaller bowls to prep stuff and have a plate that's kinda in between the size of a bread and butter plate (or dessert plate) and a dinner plate... dug it out of my china cabinet and measured it against the other two LOL.. i'm hoping if I keep it on the counter to eyeball when i'm prepping it will help me out..
my 2nd biggest prob is laziness.. I wait til im starving before I eat.. cant be bothered making a snack i'll just "wait" for dinner.. and then end up of course pigging out.. anyway.... it IS getting better.. im definitely making progress but VIGILANCE and commitment are gonna be called on more frequently hahahaha!!!
ok going to finish my last coffee and attempt to get human... altho i'm tempted to stay in my jammies hahaha later taters!
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p.s. I have just realized there are only 9 weeks left in 2016... and I want to be in a new set of numbers by the end of the year.... i'm still 25 pounds away from my goal weight, but only a few pounds away from the 150's.... I wanna be into the 50's even if it's 159.9 by the end of the year, so i'm putting it in writing here and now on the world wide web .... to help motivate myself!!!! I WILL be there before the new year!!0
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No, Vail , I can't help with the Metafit... but as for HIIT...I just do my version of it...going as fast as I can for as long as I can on the Gym bike...then rest until I can breathe correctly and making sure my pulse does not get over 140. It is said to have long term results throughout the day for my Diabetic numbers....but the Metafit, is probably the same concept...high quick reps as long as you can...You will do great!
I'm with you on the new numbers by end of year, Snoozie, I want to see 199 but I will settle for 205 that gives me 2 months to drop 10 pounds...... we can do it!! fingers crossedXXXXx a little extra help never hurts...lol
Suzy, I do the same thing about rationalizing my eating.....oh, well I'm down a bit, so I can have this....and that, and some of those...and a bit of this, too...ugh!! it is sabotage and I've been doing it for the past two days. So far so good , but today is young and nighttime is my kryptonite.
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Gail, I have the worst time controlling my eating at night! I'm such a night owl and when I start getting a bit tired my control slips and then BANG! I find myself just having a cookie...well then I have something salty...then I want something sweet...it's a runaway train! I wish I had the discipline to make myself go to bed earlier...I think that would help in soooo many ways! I guess that needs to become a new goal.
Okay, since we're talking end of year goals, I'll set mine. I'd like to be at my lowest weight again by then...179. I'm twelve pounds away from that as of this morning. I think that's a bit ambitious but definitely something to work towards. Thanksgiving and Christmas are always tough for me....see previous note on the runaway train syndrome! Hahaha! So...goals:
1. Stay below daily calorie limit (may eat a bit of calories back if I'm on a long hike though)
2. Go to bed by 11:00pm
3. Workout at gym at least three times a week (preferably more but I'll set a goal of 3)
4. Drink 64 oz of water a day (or more)
5. Daily walk as weather permits (we walk after dinner and daylight savings is going to put us walking after dark!)1 -
Yes, Runaway Train Syndrome is an excellent name for it...I always figured they came up with that sweet & salty granola bar just for me...since that is exactly how I eat...
Great goals!1 -
I emptied my china cabinet and moved it to 3 different walls so far.. but can I find THAT in calories burned?? nooooooooooooooooo
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I hear you about alternating salt and sweet! Except I think "Well, I'll just finish off with this small, sweet thing (e.g. some chocolate chips", and then I'm left with a sweet taste, and think "Well, I'll just finish off with this small, salty thing (e.g. a small piece of cheese)". And then I settle down and it starts again. Next think I know, the whole deficit for the day has been wiped out, and I might as well have not bothered being careful. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it does - lol! I usually have a "no eating in the evenings" rule to stop it happening.
Thanks for the advice on HIIT, Gail. Unfortunately, I'm not supposed to push too much with my heart, but I spoke to the person running it and she said it would be fine to go at a level of intensity which suits me. I know I won't get the full benefits of HIIT, but I'm hoping maybe I could build it up a bit.
Good luck to everybody with their goals! I'm not a great goal-setter, but this time I've joined a thread to lose a stone (14lb) by Christmas. I know there isn't the slightest hope of me actually losing a whole stone by Christmas, but I thought that checking in and at least HAVING a goal might motivate me! I do have a long-term weight goal in mind, which is about 20lb below where I am now, but haven't decided if I really want to go for it. It has been hard enough trying to lose the pounds I gained, never mind some new ones!
Yes, the fasting isn't really just for weight loss, but for health, and I need to remind myself about that, but I can't seem to help still wanting to see regular "results".1 -
Morning Hatters..
the wee gain is gone along with a couple of extra ounces, so putting it down to normal fluctuation. Keeping vigilance and commitment in my head - helps drown out the voices anyway hahaha
Suzy - did you see my repLy above for the 3 things your bro thot he heard? not sure if the ones I mentioned might be the ones he thought but if you do happen to find out would appreciate knowing!
As far as all our goals for the end of the year; whatever they are, I think it's great that we are working on ourselves and for me, although I do want to break into a new number, its more about not finding myself in a funk on December 31st ... I want to be in a positive, happy place to start the new year and I know for me personally, if i can be down even a few pounds from my weight yesterday (which is when i realized there are 9 weeks left of the year lol) and if i can be pleased with my progress in improving my eating choices and habits that last day of this year, then i will be able to avoid that mental and emotional funk i hit last year with the regain :0 I'm looking forward to doing the happy dance at midnight LOLOL.
and nodding my head at the sweet/salty demon.... yup here too! today i am actually craving a "warm meal"... been eating mostly salads and sandwiches and cold veggie with dip etc and its cold and rainy here today so tonite will be cooking lol... got a nice recipe from skinnytaste that i like for chicken in a creamy balsamic sauce and since i have leftover chicken, even quicker to make.. have some leftover broccoli and carrot and cauli from a veggie tray so those suckers can get steamed on the side... but gotta remember not to pig out LOL!!
VIGILANCE.. COMMITTMENT... it's all good ladies!! rock on!
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Morning Hatters..
its more about not finding myself in a funk on December 31st ... I want to be in a positive, happy place to start the new year and I know for me personally, if i can be down even a few pounds from my weight yesterday (which is when i realized there are 9 weeks left of the year lol) and if i can be pleased with my progress in improving my eating choices and habits that last day of this year, then i will be able to avoid that mental and emotional funk i hit last year with the regain :0 I'm looking forward to doing the happy dance at midnight LOLOL.
Snoozie, After reading the above part of your post ,especially...I am just realizing that since joining MFP and the Hatters, I don't go through that funk feeling at the end of every year for the past 25 some odd years......of saying " I'm never going to be able to lose this weight! I wish I could find a magic pill and just wake up not fat!" I hate myself!! That was my depressing state of mind for so many years and it is fantastic to know that I can lose it...it may take a bit of time but it will happen!!
Rock on Positivity!!
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gail that's awesome to hear... its fabulous and I agree... did the same for so many years!! once I started losing any weight it was all good, but last year end was a little tough in that regard for me because of the regain, so hence my goal for me by this years end is to be able to be a little closer to getting back to my goal weight and feel the positive happy vibes that i'm getting there
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FBG 127!! still high but usually I have Dawn Phenomenon syndrome and it's over 160...so I am pleased! I hope to keep up the trend!
NSV: Didn't eat many carbs at Dinner and did not let the Sugar demon get to me!!3 -
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Packing my bags!!!0
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Love it!
I always claim that it's my height that's wrong, not my weight!1 -
BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!1
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Happy Halloween!!0
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Hello ladies and Happy Halloween!1
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