Lots2Lose & over 40 (CLOSED GROUP)

Monday Check-In: I am absolutely amazed that I was able to do that long walk yesterday. It wasn't that long ago, that I would never have made up that first hill! My blood sugars are continuing to improve and know that's from all the exercise. I feel a little tired this morning and a bit sore, but not as bad as I feared.

I have ordered a new bathroom scale. The one I have is inconsistent and unreliable. It makes me crazy because it can show up to a 6 pound difference in my weight just by my stepping on, off and back on. The new one should be here tomorrow and I'll continue with my Thursday and Monday weigh in days. I'm looking forward to seeing an accurate weight and having another measure of the effort I'm putting into my health plan.

Congrats on the walk. woot woot! Great accomplishment!
IE Scales: I have a love/hate relationship with my scales. haha Good luck with your new ones!

Katzpawz - I love "colthes shopping" in my closet. Although it's been a looong time since I've been able to do that, I am looking forward to it. Congratulations on fitting into those jeans! Isn't it a great feeling! I hope I can do this soon too. Good for you. Keep up the good work!

Jolene - Congrats on losing your 5lb gain! Maybe starting wrok on Fri. will get you back into a routine - sounds great except for the 6:30am wake up (yuck, that's when I get up too. My nepohew gets here at about 7:15am). I think we all have a love?hate relationship with the scale: we love it when it goes down ......and hate it when it goes up! haha!

I forgot to post my NSV!!!! Every year my husband and I go to Las Vegas to this great weekender filled with music, bands, dancing, friends and shopping. Anyway, I pulled out all my vintage dress and skirts to mend, iron, and dry clean and realized they are TOO BIG!! I put a few items up on ebay to sell, but I am having a couple altered to fit. I am SO happy! I can't wait to go shopping, but that will have to wait a while, as paying for the repair bill on my car really put a dent in our budget. Here's the link if you would like to take a peek at what we'll be doing!

http://www.vivalasvegas.net/vlv14/

Monday checkin- after my marathon gardening yesterday i am still able to move today so off to the gym i went. I am finding that i do nothave much of an appetite lately so i am not sure how i am going to get all the calories in today. On a good note...i took my taxes in to be done and just found out i get a huge refund!! i made sure they triple checked it.....now i can have someone cut the lawn for me this summer and help my daughter pay her tax bill before she goes to ireland.
hope everyone has a successful day

karen

Monday Check In

I had a diet soda last week because the restaurant had nothing but tap water - I don't drink tap water! It was the first diet soda I've had in 2 months. It tasted ok but nothing I couldn't live without. I immediately went back to my water. I still don't care for water but I know that it's healthy so I keep after it. I think it's kinda funny that I've turned into a "water snob" & won't drink tap water. It just tastes so nasty! :sick:

I've been calories cycling for the last week & am up 1.5 lbs. I don't think it's supposed to work like that & I don't like seeing the scale go up. I'm going to give it another week just to see if it will work out for me. If not, I'll not be climbing back on that bicycle! :laugh:

@Mollie - I do change my ticker up or down on my weigh-in day. If I don't change it, then I feel like I'm cheating. I feel that it is important for me to see exactly what's going on to keep me honest.

Christy

Hi ladies. Have had a very busy Monday off - just now getting a chance to check-in.

Last week for me was pretty good. No change on the scale Tues/Wed was a little disappointing and toward the weekend, was feeling pretty tired. Ended up having to eat out Friday evening and Saturday for lunch - why is every social occasion and eating occasion??? - but think I made pretty decent choices and stayed under calories even with having a medium blizzard Saturday night since I managed to get my workout in. I weigh in tomorrow for my March challenge and then again Wednesday to report to Mollie and am hoping for a loss, even if just a slight one. But, if not, I will give myself a pep talk and keep on going.

I have recognized a food issue for which I would like to seek the group's input. On workdays (Mon-Fri), I take my breakfast, lunch and snacks to work with me and eat those. They usually total around 800-900 calories. Given my daily allowance of 1770 per day, that leaves about 1/2 my allowance for evening snacks and dinner. The problem comes in if I workout. I average a 500 calorie or so burn per day. If I want to eat any of those calorie, that means I have to eat quite a bit in the evening. I have tried to eat more during the day, but get kind of panicked if my tracker shows just 400 or so left for the evening - like if I do not get my workout in, that would not give me much to play with for food in the evening. Do you all eat more earlier or later? Any suggestion on how best to distribute my calories throughout the day?

I also seem to have a problem on days that I am off work. Have to take my thyroid meds at least an hour before I eat. If I manage to sleep in a bit (vs. the 6 am when I get up for work), it is past breakfast and maybe even past morning snack time before I am allowed to eat. This leaves me with a huge pile of calories (esp if I workout) to use over just 1/2 a day or so. As you all know, it is hard to eat enough healthy food to use up so many calories as healthy foods tend to be low in calories. This leads me to eating a fastfood meal or something to take up those calories. I still come in under calories for the day, but know I am not making the best food choices. Any ideas how I might avoid this eating pattern but without eating under my calories for the day? Thanks for any input!

Mollie, sorry you are in a bit of a slump now. I know that you are doing all the right things and that the scale will get moving for you soon. Just hang in there!

L, sorry you had a down weekend. Hope you are feeling better today!

Wishing everyone a wonderful evening. After figuring out dinner for tonight, I will try to get back to catch up more on the other posts.

Hugs as always!!! :flowerforyou:

@ L,
Sorry your weekend was crappy. Hope you are feeling better soon. Hope the doctor can shed some light on this matter.

@MJ,
IMO at your size your size you do not have to make yourself eat those calories. I just do not buy it. When you look at these shows like the Biggest losers and Heavy these people are not eating that much over 1200 calories per day. If you starve your body it has to let the weight go at some time. Until you are closer to your ultimate goal I just don't think your net calories being at 800 is going to hurt you at all. I know many may not agree but this starvation mode stuff going around MFP is over-rated IMO. If I could eat less than 1500 calories I would do it in a heart beat. I know I am bigger than you but when I was smaller and I ate 1200 to 1400 calories a day with exericise I always lost weight without a doubt. I plan to get under that 1500 calories a day if it kills me.....:-) Why do you feel you need to eat all of your calories and eat some are all of your exercise calories? Were you stalling for over 4 weeks at some point and tried to jump start your weight loss? Just curious?

On April 13th I have an appointment with a weight management group I use to go to about 2 years ago. Thier diet was good and healthly and was between 1200 to 1500 calories. I can't find the diet for nothing now. So the only way to get it is to go back. I am not taking all those test over again. So if the doctor insists on that I will only be going the one time to get their packet or as for long as I can get away with without taking all those tests. I liked have them monitor my diary and now that I am with MFP I have a nice looking diary to just print out and go over with them. I know for me 1900 calories is too high and I think that may be why I am not losing weight. I know I should not be gaining needless to say. But since I think I am in peri-menapause I am going to chalk it up to that and keep on trucking.