January Challenge
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Woohoo get it @Kirstie155!!! Congrats on that under 200 mark, very exciting!
I actually forced myself to do a 30 Day Shred workout this morning since I have today off of work. It kicked my butt, but felt really good to sweat a little bit. I need to make an exercise plan and stick with it.
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@jennamae102 Good job getting a workout in!
I'm making some progress shedding the holiday weight:
Start weight (around 1/10 I think?): 136.6
Current weight: 134
2/1 Goal weight: 133.6
I'm glad I've been able to lose some of the weight almost as quickly as I felt like I put it on. My ultimate goal is 125 and I always have a hard time crossing the 130 mark, which is pretty much my happy weight but still on the high end of healthy weight range for my height. I'm really enjoying the spreadsheet! It's making me track more religiously since I want those calorie numbers to be accurate. Thanks @VeryKatie for that!0 -
Ermagerd can't make myself make an exercise routine! Urrrggg.1
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2 more pounds for me this week! 5.5 total loss for January.
Jan 3 - 176.5
Jan 6 - 174
Jan 13 - 173
Jan 20 - 171
I got in a few workouts and tracked all of my intake. I know its always easier in the beginning but I'm feeling good.
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@VeryKatie Do things you enjoy however many days a week you want to do them. Does that help? hahaha =P
@jennamae102 Awesome job! You're doing great!!
As for my goals, I feel like January has had some growing pains so to speak. haha but can still be salvaged. haha0 -
@jennamae102 #5.5 is awesome, way to hit your goal this early in the month! Keep up the great work!
I'll do my official weigh in on Monday. I think I'm going to start adding in some Zumba videos to my workouts. I restarted strong lifts but am not able to lift 3x a week because the squats make my leg hurt, so I'm taking it easy and only getting in the routine once or twice a week.
I'm doing very well on my eating plan, and losing bloat and pounds. Off to a good start for 2017
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Progress this week though!
1/1: 207 (water from indulging on NYE)
1/5: 204
1/9: 201.6
1/16: 199.6 Hello ONDERLAND!
1/23: 199.0 So close! I saw 198.x earlier in the week-next week for sure! I only did one workout this week, work was rough and some sickness is going around. Trying to fight that!
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Weigh Ins:
January 3rd: 205.8
Jan 3rd: 205.8
Jan 8th: 199.6
Jan 15th: 203.8
Jan 23rd: 200.6 (was out of town yesterday so didn't have my scale. Considering how I've been eating this is lower than I was expecting)
Goal:
February 3rd: 202.82 -
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Thanks Katie! And Kayla, way to smash your goal early, great job ladies! How is everyone else doing this week?
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Thank you @Kirstie155! Hopefully it sticks! haha0
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Wow @WifiresGettingFit and @Kirstie155 ! You're crushing it with the weight loss! Good job!
I'm bouncing around 135. I was 135.4 this morning. I've been eating all of my exercise calories (and more one day last week) so I think I'm going to have to reduce the number of those I consume. Also when I consume them it's generally in the form of beer, which I'm sure doesn't really help matters. I've really gotta step it up if I'm going to lose 2 lbs in a week! Can't believe it's already almost February!0 -
I am going to do some zumba or Jillian Michaels today when I get home, and a 5x5 workout. I've been looking through the success forum, and getting super motivated. Oh, how hot and skinny and strong I could be right now if I had just kept going! Come on ladies, lets kill it for the rest of January!
I've been doing really well for the past 2 weeks on my diet, but slacking on my workouts-but not anymore!
@Pezhead I wouldnt eat back all of your exercise calories, you usually get an off reading
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Thanks @pezhed! You've got this!
About your exercise calories, I'd try just eating 75% of them and go from there.0 -
Thanks for the advice on the exercise calories! I'll be a little more careful with them.
I did weigh this morning and reached my goal, weighing in at 133.4 (goal is 133.6). I'm not going to hang my hat on it yet. This is the first time I've ovulated in years (first month without the pill) so I'm wondering if that had anything do with the slow and then sudden loss? Does ovulation have any effect on your weight patterns? I'm at the end of the "fertile period", according to Glow app, now, assuming my cycle is actually 28 days--which I still don't know for sure, haha.0 -
@pezhed Ovulation can definitely cause water retention. I don't know if you've seen the post on the forum about women, their cycle etc but I'll post that below just in case as I found it to be pretty insightful.
Also if you don't mind my asking (and anyone else is welcome to chime in as well as I'm genuinely curious) how are you feeling since you've stopped taking the pill?
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10359984/women-menstrual-cycle-weight-and-fitness-matters/p1
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@VeryKatie thanks for the info on your weight. That is helpful!
@WifiresGettingFit I haven't seen the post, I'll have a look at that. The only emotional change I've really noticed has been feeling more frisky than I did before. I'm curious to see how PMS will be because I know the pill has a way of minimizing that. Also waiting to see if my skin gets out of control because the pill took care of that, too. Mentally it feels nice to not have any artificial hormones circulating, but that's entirely in my head and not physiologically manifesting in any way So more to come as I round the corner of my first natural cycle!
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@WifiresGettingFit for me it was a huge relief getting off hormonal birth control. I felt so much more like myself. I became more like the happy go-lucky woman I was before BC (not that I wasn't happy on it but it still felt like a huge difference). I stopped crying as much. I also found my hunger easier to control. Plus all the physiological issues I have on BC went away and that was beautiful. My periods became heavier again but I'll take it. I honestly never, ever want to use hormonal birth control again. I hate it - even more now that I'm off it than I did while I was on it. I've tried 5 different brands and they all had the same effects. I guess I'll just have to have like 10 babies.1
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@pezhed I hope that's one of my benefits of going off BC. haha I look forward to hearing more about your experience as time goes on. Hopefully it isn't too bad for you! I'm glad you found the post helpful!
@VeryKatie I'm also hoping this is the case for me (minus the heavier periods) and I'm right there with you. I am detesting hormonal birth control but I really feel like even though there are so many other options out there, none of them really suit me. Do you hate it more now that you're off of it because you've noticed how much it actually affected you? or is it because of something else?
I guess I should share why I'm so interested. haha The other day Andrew and I had a conversion about birth control. I actually brought it up because I'm almost to my last pack so I wanted to discuss what our next steps should be. I mentioned that I could either call the doctors office to see if they will give me another prescription without seeing me (they will not set up an appointment without having insurance and I do not have insurance right now) or if I should just go off of it. I did mention that I would like to go off of it because I feel like it's the cause of most (maybe all haha) of my issues and he said that he was actually going to suggest I just go off of it because he was thinking the same thing and that I seemed happier when I wasn't on it and that he believes it'll make it easier for me to reach my weight loss goals and so in about 7 weeks, I will no longer be taking birth control and I know it's different for everyone but I really wanted to get some insight from people who have gone through it that way I can at least try to prepare myself. I've been on birth control for 3 1/2 years so it's going to be a huge change and I'm really hoping it's a positive one.0 -
I stopped taking the pill last May. I had a health scare and had to go to the ER, and the doctors assumed that I had a blood clot due to birth control pills (this was not the actual case, but it freaked me out.) I had already wanted to go off of the pill for other reasons, so this was just the final straw for me.
I was on the pill for 10 years, so this is my experience now being off of it for 7-8 months..
My periods are much heavier....being on the pill for so long, the last 2-3 years I hardly even had a period. I stopped even buying tampons because it was never heavy enough to need them. I have a much more "normal" one now. Usually the first day I have pretty bad cramps/soreness and feel like crawling back in bed. I forgot that this was even a thing since it had been so long since I experienced it.
On a positive note...sorry if this is TMI...but I'm also much more, uh, naturally lubricated, than I was on the pill. This has been one happy change 0 -
@jennamae102 Thank you for sharing your experience! That's scary and would definitely freak me out too! Is everything okay now? HUGS!!!! I like detailed responses and because of that there is no such thing as TMI for me. haha I really hope my period goes back to the way it was before birth control but that's probably wanting too much. haha I'm glad that you had at least one positive outcome so far! I know I'll probably have to take some bad with the good too so if heavier periods means I get better lubrication...I'll take it!0
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@WifiresGettingFit I think I hate it more now since it seemed like I got happier FAST. Where as on the pill I got sadder slowly lol. So maybe the difference was more noticeable. I also noticed my libido increased once I was off the pill too. Which is fun lol.
I also had the added side effect from every birth control I've been on that I would essentially have a very light period for 2 - 3 weeks of a month with 1 week off - which isn't normal but not a single doctor I went to and talked to about it gave a *kitten* or if they did, their recommendations didn't make sense (like recommending a Depo shot instead - which to me would just mean a birth control I can't get rid of for 1 - 2 years that might still cause the same period problems and in some women has caused permanent infertility and also causes bone loss - and I'm already the type of person who later may be more susceptible to osteoporosis.). So it freaked me out that maybe I was the problem and wouldn't be able to get pregnant (my mom and aunt only ovulated 1 - 2 times a year. That was true for my mom until she did manage to get pregnant and my aunt never did). I'll take an 8 day period any day over that. When I say my periods are heavier, I don't mean that they're massive. 4 days of heavy/moderate flow and 4 of light "just go away already" flow. BC never helped my skin or cramps or anything (I rarely get cramps so there was nothing really to fix on that front). It never made my boobs bigger either haha. Just the stupid periods.
Honestly I think going off it now can be good. Some women's bodies can get rid of the effects right away but for others it can take several months to start ovulating again. So depending when in 2017 you're thinking (I skimmed the challenge spreadsheet haha) sooner rather than later sounds good to me!0 -
@WifiresGettingFit I have no problem sharing, so that's good!! Yes, everything is okay...long story short I had a complex migraine that presented like a stroke (droopy left side of face and body, couldn't talk/focus, immediate blurred vision etc). I had been on a plane that morning, so the EMTs & doctors initially thought, oh 28 year old woman who was on a plane and takes birth control, must be a blood clot. Thankfully that wasn't what happened, but that reaction was enough to make me pull the plug on the pill.
Now that I've done more research, I'm upset that myself, my mother, and my doctor didn't really think twice about putting me on the pill at 18. I wish I had been better informed and understood my body better. Now that I don't take the pill, I track my cycle (I think I've read on here that a lot of you do as well) and it feels empowering to know my body better than before.
I'm trying to be more diligent about tracking in 2017 so that I have a good 8-9 months worth of data when we do start trying to conceive!0 -
Wow, you ladies have been chatty today
Jenna, that sounds really scary- I dont blame you for a second for getting off the pill. I think it (well, all medications really) is given to young people and doctors dont really know all the risks. I mean read the fine print on any pharmaceutical commercial. Depression, acne, liver damage, suicidal thoughts, death. Then you go the doctor with these symptoms, and they give you something else to "fix" the depression, acne, liver damage, suicidal thoughts, death.
Okay, anti pharmaceutical soapbox rant over.
I stopped taking the pill about 14 months or so ago, and had been on and off it for years and years. I had a lot of issues with it and just kept coming back to it because it was supposed to work, and so many others had no problem. I felt like I just had to find the "right Pill" but never did. Also had an IUD for about 6 months, and it was awful...its like it was piercing me and caused god awful cramps. I literally felt relief from the pain when they took it out. Now we use non hormonal methods. I'm never using hormonal contraception again. I'd like to use a natural family planning or rhythm method, but my husband doesnt trust it. I dont think he knows how the female body works, and thinks I can get pregnant all the time.
I have found that with cleaning up my diet, my cramps have gotten better. I still have a period of about 4-5 days, but honestly your body is supposed to do that...its part of cleaning house when you don't get pregnant. I know they can be annoying, but I don't mind anymore. One of these days I'll get a baby in there instead 0 -
@VeryKatie That would be terrible to bleed for that long. I can't believe that was the only solution they could come up with. I've had relatives who had bad experiences with Depo, I wouldn't go near it when the time came to choose. My period is definitely different on birth control it's actually longer (not terribly longer but it went from 3 days to 5) and I cramp more - though the cramping I have noticed has been less and less probably in the last 6 months. I hadn't cramped since like 6th grade and I was like wtf. haha Of course all of this has been going on for a couple years now. When I had talked to my doctor about it previous (like a year after starting birth control) the solution was to get a higher dose one which is the current one I'm taking and I feel like getting a different one isn't going to help anything, it's just going to exacerbate the issues probably. My conclusion is that hormonal birth control isn't for me. (I'll know for sure once I go off of it of course.) The plan (and we all know how well those go haha) is late this year to start trying but I agree that going off BC sooner is probably best to give my body time to get back to it's new normal.
@jennamae102 That sounds like an awful, awful experience, I'm glad everything is okay now and that it wasn't a blood clot - though migraines suck too. Hindsight is always 20/20 but at least you know now!
@Kirstie155 I remember talking to my doctor about everything and she was like "well if you don't like this one, there are plenty of others. We'll find the right one for you, don't worry!" except getting the higher dose one didn't help. haha but it gets expensive to keep going back especially because she's considered a specialist so I've stuck it out up until now. I've read quite a few horror stories about the IUD and I gave a hard no on that one when it came time to choose. My whole thing is if it can happen to someone else, it can happen to me.
I've never really had issues with having a period but I have to say I don't really care for the ones I've had while on birth control. I could probably go without the moodiness though. Andrew can usually tell when I'm about to start. haha
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1/2/17: 184
1/10/17:179.6 *** S Seeing if its for real or not?! I have been very good this week!
1/26/17 176.8 ... So i am inching closer to my lowest weight since having a baby..which i hit once before..but didnt keep!
Goal: 2/1/17: 180
I am going to come back and read this thread!...
by the way. i went to the OB the other day for a check up and he told me my home work is to. "Make a baby..." Oi.1 -
@krizaten33 BWHAHAHAHA omg that's so funny - seriously? LOL.1
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