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naesue

Well I'm still here I'm still alive but just barely! I'm just not feeling it right now I will still log in every day but I may or may not be finishing my food log every day. Had a horrible nights sleep. Couldn't turn my brain off! The worst part about all of this is that I have to wait 2 weeks before I even have my biopsy and who knows how long after that before I get my results. It is a long long long wait and the longer it goes the more freaked out I get.

Melroxsox

im so sorry! my prayers and thoughts are with you! you have been strong enough to lose this weight....don't ever quit being the strong inspirational women we look up to! if you ever need to talk you can always Pm me( or im sure anyone else on this thread for that matter..) much love to you my fellow cyster! keep us updated.

Alright ladies since you really are my family on here and I can be honest with you all I will let you all know what specifically is going on with me. So you al know I went to the doc a week or so ago because of this unending TOM and I had gotten a call back that said my labs came back negative well I assumed that to be that all of my labs had come back well no! I got another phone call today and the results of my pap came back and it was abnormal alright I can deal with that I've had abnormal paps before but then they tell me that my HPV test came back positive!!!!!!!!! For any of you that don't know HPV is the Sexually Transmitted Disease called Human Pappiloma Virus, it is the cause of cervical cancer in women and genital warts. There is a vacine out there for it that you can start giving your girls once they reach the age of 11 I think maybe younger but when it came out they put a cut off age of 24 and I was already older then that so was unable to get the vaccine. I reccommend that you all if you have daughters get them immunized against it and I believe that there is a vaccine out there for boys as well. Anyway I am sceduled to go back in on the 6th for a biopsy to see if there are any cancerous cells. I'm really upset by this finding for a number of reasons 1 a year ago when I first saw my doc and he did the initial round of tests on me he never once thought to do a pap on me even though it had been a year since my last one. 2 I got this from my husband! The last person I was with was my daughters father and that was years before meeting my husband and have had normal yearly paps every year from then to now. 3 Depending on the results of the biopsy it could either permanently put a halt on future babies with my husband or significantly speed up my window of opportunity to have a child with him. 4 I am finally getting some of my PCOS symptoms under control with the weight loss and now I have to deal with the fact that I will forever be at risk of developing Cervical Cancer. It just sucks all around!!!!! I'm so mad and so upset and so scared!!!!!!! So there it is there is the story of what is going on with me.

Melroxsox

this is a metformin question....
I notice when I eat healthy low carb and low sugar that my tummy can't handle my prescribed dose of 500 mg met twice a day...but if I eat carbs that day or a bit too much sugar my tummy is fine. isn't it supposed to be the other way around? should I have my dose decreased? maybe im not as insulin resistant after losing 40+ pounds? thanks for any info gals!!

pattynava

Sorry everyone...kind of Late..Starting weight 280lbs...where I am now 275 OH-YEAH:drinker:

naesue

I would talk with your doc because yes as you lose weight things can change in your body and your need for the metformin might not be as necesary. I notice that the first couple of week of taking it after not taking it for a while I will get an upset stomach but if I sandwhich it in my stomach between food it does a lot better (for example eat half my meal take the pill then eat the other half). Never really noticed a difference in the carb intake but I am one that keeps or tries to keep to a fiber and protein rich diet with few simple carbs if at all. Any carb I eat is a complex carb with a good deal of fiber. But I would definatly talk with your doc. A lot of our symptoms can go away or greatly diminish as we get our weight down to a healthy range!

Learning2LoveMe

Alright ladies since you really are my family on here and I can be honest with you all I will let you all know what specifically is going on with me. So you al know I went to the doc a week or so ago because of this unending TOM and I had gotten a call back that said my labs came back negative well I assumed that to be that all of my labs had come back well no! I got another phone call today and the results of my pap came back and it was abnormal alright I can deal with that I've had abnormal paps before but then they tell me that my HPV test came back positive!!!!!!!!! For any of you that don't know HPV is the Sexually Transmitted Disease called Human Pappiloma Virus, it is the cause of cervical cancer in women and genital warts. There is a vacine out there for it that you can start giving your girls once they reach the age of 11 I think maybe younger but when it came out they put a cut off age of 24 and I was already older then that so was unable to get the vaccine. I reccommend that you all if you have daughters get them immunized against it and I believe that there is a vaccine out there for boys as well. Anyway I am sceduled to go back in on the 6th for a biopsy to see if there are any cancerous cells. I'm really upset by this finding for a number of reasons 1 a year ago when I first saw my doc and he did the initial round of tests on me he never once thought to do a pap on me even though it had been a year since my last one. 2 I got this from my husband! The last person I was with was my daughters father and that was years before meeting my husband and have had normal yearly paps every year from then to now. 3 Depending on the results of the biopsy it could either permanently put a halt on future babies with my husband or significantly speed up my window of opportunity to have a child with him. 4 I am finally getting some of my PCOS symptoms under control with the weight loss and now I have to deal with the fact that I will forever be at risk of developing Cervical Cancer. It just sucks all around!!!!! I'm so mad and so upset and so scared!!!!!!! So there it is there is the story of what is going on with me.

Oh my gosh girl, I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine what you must be going through *hugs* I'm praying that your biopsy comes back negative. Hang in there, we're all here for you

caroltina

Thought I would share I am challenging mysel to see if I can do full press ups - I managed to squeek out 3 last night, not the best looking ones but I did it

Learning2LoveMe

Ok I think I'm definitely a scale addict. I can't stop thinking about how much I weigh... have I done enough this week? Am I losing still? I'm feeling lighter... is it just my imagination? Its driving me crazy.... I was trying to get the fiance on the scale and I said to him "well, I can't weigh myself and I have this need for the scale so let me weigh you!" (He's afraid to look cuz he's been gaining weight, but he wants to continue to eat lots of food and drink soda like theres no tomorrow) LOL Do they have help programs for my addiction? :laugh: :laugh:

NeuroticVirgo

Thought I would share I am challenging mysel to see if I can do full press ups - I managed to squeek out 3 last night, not the best looking ones but I did it

Have you tried this site? Its neat, and it slowly gets you into being able to do 100!

http://hundredpushups.com/

Ok I think I'm definitely a scale addict. I can't stop thinking about how much I weigh... have I done enough this week? Am I losing still? I'm feeling lighter... is it just my imagination? Its driving me crazy.... I was trying to get the fiance on the scale and I said to him "well, I can't weigh myself and I have this need for the scale so let me weigh you!" (He's afraid to look cuz he's been gaining weight, but he wants to continue to eat lots of food and drink soda like theres no tomorrow) LOL Do they have help programs for my addiction? :laugh: :laugh:

If you find one, let me know, I think I need it too. I've been good on my calories and exercising...and once again CAVED into the scale...only to see I'm actually UP .6... :grumble: :explode: I think I'm being punished for lack of will power when it comes to the scale (But dang it...I'm using it all up to eat right and make myself exercise!). So let this be a warning to all you fellow scale addicts...if you peek, you probably won't like what you see! Tomorrow is my normal weigh-in day...but now I don't know if I should. But then again, Saturday I'm going to be on the road and away from home from 6am till about 1am Sunday...the prospects for sodium is going to be outrageous...so I can't imagine a good weigh-in for Monday either... <<< See OBSESSED.

kimberly702

AAaaaaaah, what a week! Where do I begin??? First off, it's been a great week up untill today exercise wise... didn't get much cardio in today.. just a walk with the dogs and 30DS. Which is good... my calorie burn was like 720 but it's been 1800. Been eating decent too... but not good enough I guess... even though on days the scale will say I've lost... on others I'm up. Keep going between 247-251. I guess I have had a couple bad nights... been a lot going on, and food used to be my go-to for comfort. Not so much anymore, although I do cave once in a while. Good thing is it almost makes me sick to my stomach when I eat a bunch of crap anymore... more reason to no too! So it's been 2 days since I've looked at the scale. I guess that's the thing this week? Not getting on the scale everyday? (Sorry, still trying to get back in the swing of things with the group after being gone a while).

Blah... I could go on and on and on. Just needed to vent.

Melroxsox

I tuned in to this thread a couple days late this week to see the challenge of not weighing everyday...lol but I havent weighed today or yesterday!............I can hold out till sunday! I think..........oh dear!

NeuroticVirgo

quiet today. lol

Today I decided I might have to hermit myself to the house and order all my groceries and other needs online....the candy craziness has started. First it will be Halloween goodies...then Halloween goody clearance!...then right into Christmas goodies (sorry Thanksgiving, you just get one fat day)...then into New years goodies...and then Massive holiday clearance goodies!

Nikkie_too

NeuroticVirgo ~

That is a big wall of pure evil there! The way I was feeling today I'd have walked out with one of everything. You, my dear, showed remarkable restraint (and good taste) with the poprocks.

ADTeachTX

Well...so far so good. I have been exercising everyday this week and doing alright on my calories...(granted its only been 2 days..but whatever lol).

So, speaking of heart-rate monitors. Do those of you who use one subtract your resting calories burned from it before entering in the exercise?

I had a MFP friend post a blog about this a while back...I'll see if I can find it and post the link. But it made a lot of sense to me.

Here is how it works (I'll use myself as an example).

According to MFP and my activity level (which I have at sedentary) I burn 2,290 calories just being me. No gym etc.

So that means if I take 2290 (calories I burn in a day) / 1440 (minutes in a day) = I burn 1.5 calories a minute just living life with no extra exercise.

Now lets say I walk for 60 minutes and burn 300 calories. In that same 60 minutes I would have naturally burned 90 calories.

So MFP is already accounting for 90 calories on my food diary when it picks how much I should be eating for a deficit..

If I add the full 300 burned from exercise, I'm actually adding 390. Before adding exercise, you should be subtracting what you would have burned without it.

Therefore, walking 60 minutes is 300-90 = 210 EXTRA calories burned.

Yes...seems like a lot of math, but once you get it, its not really. But if you think about that. That means that if you eat back all your exercise calories everyday. Then your actually eating an extra 90 calories.

One little caveat that you forgot to account for...when you exercise your body burns calories more efficently after you stop for a while but MFP does not adjust for that extra burn after stopping the exercise so I think that the extra 90 calories is really all in the wash. Does that make sense?

theonlychuck

so i made an appointment with the obgyn(finally found one) my toms are all over the place! so hopefully ill get some good answers, answers period would be good! this week has been crazy!! busy busy having a girls night saturday, beyond excited. another very long week next week but im doing really good!!! im very very proud of myself lets do this!!

NeuroticVirgo

AAaaaaaah, what a week! Where do I begin??? First off, it's been a great week up untill today exercise wise... didn't get much cardio in today.. just a walk with the dogs and 30DS. Which is good... my calorie burn was like 720 but it's been 1800. Been eating decent too... but not good enough I guess... even though on days the scale will say I've lost... on others I'm up. Keep going between 247-251. I guess I have had a couple bad nights... been a lot going on, and food used to be my go-to for comfort. Not so much anymore, although I do cave once in a while. Good thing is it almost makes me sick to my stomach when I eat a bunch of crap anymore... more reason to no too! So it's been 2 days since I've looked at the scale. I guess that's the thing this week? Not getting on the scale everyday? (Sorry, still trying to get back in the swing of things with the group after being gone a while).

Blah... I could go on and on and on. Just needed to vent.

Vent away That's what we're here for. Yes the goal is to not look at the scale this week. I totally understand what you mean about jumping back and forth between numbers...its very annoying! But you got this, pretty soon it will be jumping between 245 and 247, and then 240 and 243 and so on. Will still be annoying...but will be progress.

kimberly702

AAaaaaaah, what a week! Where do I begin??? First off, it's been a great week up untill today exercise wise... didn't get much cardio in today.. just a walk with the dogs and 30DS. Which is good... my calorie burn was like 720 but it's been 1800. Been eating decent too... but not good enough I guess... even though on days the scale will say I've lost... on others I'm up. Keep going between 247-251. I guess I have had a couple bad nights... been a lot going on, and food used to be my go-to for comfort. Not so much anymore, although I do cave once in a while. Good thing is it almost makes me sick to my stomach when I eat a bunch of crap anymore... more reason to no too! So it's been 2 days since I've looked at the scale. I guess that's the thing this week? Not getting on the scale everyday? (Sorry, still trying to get back in the swing of things with the group after being gone a while).

Blah... I could go on and on and on. Just needed to vent.

Vent away That's what we're here for. Yes the goal is to not look at the scale this week. I totally understand what you mean about jumping back and forth between numbers...its very annoying! But you got this, pretty soon it will be jumping between 245 and 247, and then 240 and 243 and so on. Will still be annoying...but will be progress.

LOL So true! And I can't wait till it's smaller numbers that I'm jumping between!

pattynava

Well...same-o, same-o here...Walking, walking, and hmm...did I say walking? :huh: but all is well...I'm drinking lots of water, and thinking more & more everyday, that I can do this....(other days thinking I hate doing this, but NOT TODAY ) Hope everyone has a blessed weekend.....

theonlychuck

okay so i had to weigh in for my other challenge and im going to stick to this # for this week and change my weigh in day to Fridays! i kinda have liked this not weighing everyday kinda keeps me in the right state of mind ya know!! so anyways I'VE LOST ANOTHER 2LBS!!!!!! i am beyond excited i just had to share!! so i want to get down to 198 before feb. 12 this is my husband and i's ( i know great grammar right) dating anniversary (this is also my wedding weight) then i would love to loose another 20 lbs before july (summer) thats 1 lb a week, i can sooooooo do that!!!

KateHubb

Just checking in!!!! I'm 216.4 today, which is a 2.2 lb loss since last Friday. My goal was to be 215, but I can't be disappointed with my loss! I feel awesome!

Hope everyone has a wonderful, and HEALTHY weekend!!!!!!

NeuroticVirgo

***** ************************** Need your weigh-ins for this week ***********************************************

Hey everybody. Please post your weigh-in for this week between Friday & Monday (Monday before noon please).

So just follow this link, and you can enter this weeks weigh in: you enter +/- in week 2. Lost -2lbs, gained 1lb etc...though of course we're all looking for losses You don't need to adjust your current weight or total lost, the spreadsheet will do it automatically.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnInOlpiuL1mdC1lU1U5aWloS256ei16c3lPX2Q1UWc&hl=en_US

PS - it auto saves, just so you know.
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naesue

So I ended the pity part yesterday I had to had to get out of bed and shower cause I had to go babysit two precious little girls for my Pastor. And today to really say this pity party is over I was at the Gym working out with my trainer. She basically had me do all the same exercises from the previous session because it had been almost a month since I had been to the gym. But my form was all still there and I pushed my way through it all and killed it. I even got a couple of compliments from people at the gym telling me that I am working really hard and they are happy to see that and proud of me it kind made me feel like what big girls aren't supposed to work their a$$es off at the Gym but i took it for what it was intended. So I am still fighting and still hanging on. On another note I had to push my apt backfrom the 6th to the 11th so even more waiting now. I am supposed to be having my cycle on the 6th and they can't do that while TOM is visiting. But they did put me on the cancelation list so if there is a cancelation they will call me and I will go in. Have a good day everyone and make good choices.

caroltina

No progress for me this week, still 224 never mind, the way it is so tough ha! Seen the doc about being exhausted all the time and I am being sent for blood tests on monday so lets hope it is something and nothing!

mrssavvysteve

***** ************************** Need your weigh-ins for this week ***********************************************

Hey everybody. Please post your weigh-in for this week between Friday & Monday (Monday before noon please).

So just follow this link, and you can enter this weeks weigh in: you enter +/- in week 2. Lost -2lbs, gained 1lb etc...though of course we're all looking for losses You don't need to adjust your current weight or total lost, the spreadsheet will do it automatically.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnInOlpiuL1mdC1lU1U5aWloS256ei16c3lPX2Q1UWc&hl=en_US

PS - it auto saves, just so you know.
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I can't get into the google document from Work...
I have lost 1.4 lbs as of today WOOHOO!! Hoping it's 2 lbs for WOW by Monday

andijohn

Well...so far so good. I have been exercising everyday this week and doing alright on my calories...(granted its only been 2 days..but whatever lol).

So, speaking of heart-rate monitors. Do those of you who use one subtract your resting calories burned from it before entering in the exercise?

I had a MFP friend post a blog about this a while back...I'll see if I can find it and post the link. But it made a lot of sense to me.

Here is how it works (I'll use myself as an example).

According to MFP and my activity level (which I have at sedentary) I burn 2,290 calories just being me. No gym etc.

So that means if I take 2290 (calories I burn in a day) / 1440 (minutes in a day) = I burn 1.5 calories a minute just living life with no extra exercise.

Now lets say I walk for 60 minutes and burn 300 calories. In that same 60 minutes I would have naturally burned 90 calories.

So MFP is already accounting for 90 calories on my food diary when it picks how much I should be eating for a deficit..

If I add the full 300 burned from exercise, I'm actually adding 390. Before adding exercise, you should be subtracting what you would have burned without it.

Therefore, walking 60 minutes is 300-90 = 210 EXTRA calories burned.

Yes...seems like a lot of math, but once you get it, its not really. But if you think about that. That means that if you eat back all your exercise calories everyday. Then your actually eating an extra 90 calories.

That is so good to know! thanks for the info!

Learning2LoveMe

Today has been one hell of a crazy day and its only lunch time! I get to work and one of my co-workers is flipping out.... her son & his gf were robbed at gunpoint last night. They took all of their possessions and then demanded money... they said they didn't have any so the robbers almost raped the gf and killed them both! The gf started shouting that she gets paid tomorrow (today) so the robbers let them go and said they would be back today for their money!! So needless to say, they are packing up whats left of their stuff and moving out before the robbers come back! I feel horrible for them, and I'm praying the robbers aren't waiting/watching for them to get home... please pray they can make it out of their apartment unharmed!

andijohn

Hello everyone! So checking in for this week! It has been super crazy!
first I had to get an ingrown toenail removed, which is a good thing because it hurt! but it kinda put a damper on my workouts for a few days.:ohwell:
second, I went to visit family for 4 days and it was super hard to stay under calorie goals, but I didn't go too crazy and was never over more than 100cal so I call that a win!
third, due to my trip home I was super behind on homework for Grad School, so I spent all my extra time reading and writing papers, so no workouts for me :grumble: BUT!! next week should be a little slower so I can't wait to ramp it up a bit.

ALSO! in this crazy week I still lost 1.8lbs I am super happy about that.:happy:

AND....I took my measurements today, and I have lost 1.5" in my bust! (this is a good thing) but my calf and arm gained inches, I am hoping that it is muscle :bigsmile:

NeuroticVirgo

Today has been one hell of a crazy day and its only lunch time! I get to work and one of my co-workers is flipping out.... her son & his gf were robbed at gunpoint last night. They took all of their possessions and then demanded money... they said they didn't have any so the robbers almost raped the gf and killed them both! The gf started shouting that she gets paid tomorrow (today) so the robbers let them go and said they would be back today for their money!! So needless to say, they are packing up whats left of their stuff and moving out before the robbers come back! I feel horrible for them, and I'm praying the robbers aren't waiting/watching for them to get home... please pray they can make it out of their apartment unharmed!

I hope they call the cops!

Learning2LoveMe

Today has been one hell of a crazy day and its only lunch time! I get to work and one of my co-workers is flipping out.... her son & his gf were robbed at gunpoint last night. They took all of their possessions and then demanded money... they said they didn't have any so the robbers almost raped the gf and killed them both! The gf started shouting that she gets paid tomorrow (today) so the robbers let them go and said they would be back today for their money!! So needless to say, they are packing up whats left of their stuff and moving out before the robbers come back! I feel horrible for them, and I'm praying the robbers aren't waiting/watching for them to get home... please pray they can make it out of their apartment unharmed!

I hope they call the cops!

They did... cops came out and took a report but thats about it. I'm hoping they call and get a cop or two out there for protection while they move their stuff

rae_mayer

Hi Ladies!
I just posted my weight for the week. I lost 2.2lbs which not only puts me at 35lbs lost, but back into the 250's! I haven't been in the 250's for about 5 years. I feel like I'm going backwards in time!!

I hope everyone else has a good week for weigh-ins too. I'm trying another fitness class tomorrow morning. It's water aerobics so I have to break out the swimming suit! Yikes! :noway: Hopefully I'll like it though.

Anyway I'm sure I'll talk to you all again this weekend!