Ouch no way. Cant believe my weight!

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  • DarcyChops
    DarcyChops Posts: 1 Member
    Well done! I also struggle with accepting my weight, I feel like the scales i have fluctuate within a stone everytime; if I lean the right way they don't look so bad.
    I really want to buy a new set of scales that are more reliable and won't let me cheat myself this way!
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    captbobwoods wrote: »
    What a great group of inspiring people on here. Ty you all. Im worried about not being able to exercise like i want. Fire Department worked my knees down to the cartilage so im trying to get weight down and off of my joints to possibly get knee replacements. I hoping caloric reduction can get me to desired weight but can only really walk for exercise. Thoughts?
    Worried in Charleston.

    I right knee is pretty stuffed with bone and cartilage being worn away. I am now almost half the weight I was and the only exercise I did, and still do it walking. I could swim if I didn't hate being in the water though! I really should do some weight training that doesn't put too much strain on my knee but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

    Just believe in yourself can continue to believe that you can do this. That and the community here is right behind you, supporting you on your journey.
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    captbobwoods wrote: »
    Im so embarrassed ....I couldnt even be honest on my own profile. Feeling like mountain to big to climb but im gonna try.

    What gets measured gets managed. Small steps, best of luck.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    As a suggestion that I don't think you will like at this point, take a couple of pictures of yourself. I was 330-340ish 2 1/2 years ago and refused to take pictures. At ~210 I really wish I had for comparison purposes. I can barely even find holiday pictures of myself.

    Other than that, walking or swimming sounds good. Put your stats into MFP, trust the process and the weight does come off.
  • CindyJNC1963
    CindyJNC1963 Posts: 895 Member
    Welcome to MFP!! Yep, as others have said, it is best to be brutally honest with yourself. Before I started 7 weeks ago I refused to let anyone take a picture of me, much less post one on any social media site. So, on day one I took a photo and posted it here for everyone (primarily me) to see. Every 20 lbs lost I will update the photo. The main thing is track your food and be honest with it. I admit that I don't weigh everything yet, but I do weigh things like fruit ( my pear this morning weighed 286 grams....yikes...who would have guessed that?).

    I have a bad back and can't do any heavy exercise. I am able to take short walks throughout the day and that's what I do. I also have a recumbent bike. You might want to look at getting one of those if you don't like going to the gym. They take the pressure off of your back and knees. Mine was fairly inexpensive.
  • martaindale
    martaindale Posts: 2,333 Member
    captbobwoods wrote: »
    Are people here losing weight here without heavy exercise routine?

    You can absolutely rely on diet alone to get the weight off. In fact I found it easier to focus on my diet first and not worry too much about exercise in the beginning. I used activity mostly as a way to keep myself busy so I didn't bored eat, which I noticed I tend to do at home, and I tended to do low impact exercises like walking. Once you start losing you may find that you want to be more active as your energy level improves and you notice the progress. Also, once the diet becomes easier to manage you have brain space to start focusing on exercise. Exercise also helps break some of the inevitable plateaus as the weight starts to come off and it get harder to see the scale move. Currently, I exercise 5-6 days a week doing a combo of running and rock climbing and I feel blegh if I skip workouts. It's amazing how much the mindset changes as the weight comes off!!

    Good luck on your journey! You took the hard first step and got started! Just keep going!
  • brenn24179
    brenn24179 Posts: 2,144 Member
    i went to the gym for 1 year and never lost a pound. When I started watching my food intake then the pounds came off. My hubby loses weight when he is active, I guess everyone is different. I love the gym, I know weird but made lots of friends there and enjoy it.
  • bigbandjohn
    bigbandjohn Posts: 769 Member
    Danp wrote: »
    captbobwoods wrote: »
    Are people here losing weight here without heavy exercise routine?

    I lost a significant portion of my weight with zero 'working out' and I'm far from alone.

    Weight loss comes down to maintaining a calorie deficit which can absolutely be achieved with diet alone. In fact once I got to a weight where I could comfortably begin to exercise it had no impact on my rate of weight loss at all. The additional activity I was doing meant that I was naturally hungrier and naturally ate a little more so even though exercising was helping me to get fitter and healthier it didn't really change the size of my calorie deficit and therefore had no effect on weight loss.

    Lose weight in the kitchen, get fit in the gym.

    G'luck

    I started from a point I couldn't really exercise. Now I do a lot of walking. Not working out, but walking. Find what works best for your lifestyle. To me, exercise is not really a requirement, but definitely an extremely helpful tool.
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    Scales suck. You'll get this Capt!!!
  • captbobwoods
    captbobwoods Posts: 6 Member
    Ty Ali. Nice to have people here who get it. Rob
  • njitaliana
    njitaliana Posts: 813 Member
    I had to have my husband weigh me and log it without telling me my weight for the first month. I couldn't deal with the scale. For exercise, try aquatic therapy. It's what I am doing. It's the only exercise I can really do. I have 41 lbs off since the first week in July, tho!
  • Danp
    Danp Posts: 1,561 Member
    The scale can be a real struggle for some people.

    It can be difficult but try to detach emotion from the number on the scale. Try to view it as data. It's just information. It's just cold facts and nothing more. It's all just information that you're gathering in order to achieve an outcome. Every time you weigh, regardless of the result you've Gained more useful information.

    Scales go down - Great! use that's interesting information to get better at managing your weight
    Scales go up - Awesome! use that's interesting information to get better at managing your weight

    You'll notice that I called it 'weight management' rather than 'weight loss'. This is another way I found to approach the whole process more analytically. If you're trying to 'lose weight' and the number goes up that can feel like a failure, a bad thing. However if your trying to 'manage your weight' then the number going up isn't a failure it's actually a good thing as it's a valuable 'indicator' that adjustments might need to be made to continue to successfully manage your weight.

    Judging by some of the posts on this forum trending app seem to help with this. Weighing in every day and analysing the trends and the numbers, seems to help decouple the emotion from the data.
  • Zinka61
    Zinka61 Posts: 563 Member
    I think most of us here are in the same boat, so there's nothing to be embarrassed about. All of us want to improve. I've lost 28 lbs (though I've kept only 22 off --have been working on regaining the last lbs for about 3 years now) with walking and yard work as my main exercise. I just don't like running for more than short distances. I have a pack of dogs and walk them as much as I can. When time allows, I go to the senior center gym and lift weights, but it's been awhile. I lose regardless, just by cutting calories. So you can totally do this. I can't remember how I set things up, but only my pounds lost/pounds to go are visible, not my actual weight. Hope that helps.
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