Weigh In - February 29 - March 6
wiredkell
Posts: 755 Member
Good Morning All!
So I hope you don't mind, but I decided to start this thread with a new title. I am planning on changing my weigh in days after this week to Monday and since all of us weigh in on different days of the week, it'll help know which thread the post belongs in. It's hard to pick the best day of the week to weigh in with my crazy work schedule, but I thought about it and I think Monday is best. It's the day I drive North for 8 hours to get to work and the following day it's my last day of work before I drive my 8 hours home the next day.
I really like that we've been keeping each other accountable this past week. I've had some rough moments and knowing that I'm posting on this site, it's helped me keep going.
My boyfriend has decided to start paying more attention to what he's eating in March. He calls it "going on a diet" but that's not really how I see it. For me, I don't "diet". I try to make it a lifestyle change. I know I've gained weight since we've started dating and it's because of a few reasons. Some days, it's just easier to eat what he's eating, but that consists of pizza, burritos, hamburgers, tacos, etc. I just have to remember that I can't eat like that all the time. I also don't need to eat as big of portions as what he's eating. Also, with the kids, it's always easier just to eat whatever they're eating... which has resulted in my weigh gain. Time to take the time to make myself different meals that are more healthy and suitable for me. It'll be easier now that Shawn is willing to eat healthier too.
Light - Thanks for the vitamin/supplement response. I've been doing a lot of research to see what's best for me.
Time to head to my CPR course!
Enjoy your Monday!
So I hope you don't mind, but I decided to start this thread with a new title. I am planning on changing my weigh in days after this week to Monday and since all of us weigh in on different days of the week, it'll help know which thread the post belongs in. It's hard to pick the best day of the week to weigh in with my crazy work schedule, but I thought about it and I think Monday is best. It's the day I drive North for 8 hours to get to work and the following day it's my last day of work before I drive my 8 hours home the next day.
I really like that we've been keeping each other accountable this past week. I've had some rough moments and knowing that I'm posting on this site, it's helped me keep going.
My boyfriend has decided to start paying more attention to what he's eating in March. He calls it "going on a diet" but that's not really how I see it. For me, I don't "diet". I try to make it a lifestyle change. I know I've gained weight since we've started dating and it's because of a few reasons. Some days, it's just easier to eat what he's eating, but that consists of pizza, burritos, hamburgers, tacos, etc. I just have to remember that I can't eat like that all the time. I also don't need to eat as big of portions as what he's eating. Also, with the kids, it's always easier just to eat whatever they're eating... which has resulted in my weigh gain. Time to take the time to make myself different meals that are more healthy and suitable for me. It'll be easier now that Shawn is willing to eat healthier too.
Light - Thanks for the vitamin/supplement response. I've been doing a lot of research to see what's best for me.
Time to head to my CPR course!
Enjoy your Monday!
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I can relate. My hubby is one of those fortunate people who simply has a high metabolism. His resting heart rate is about 20 beats a minute higher than mine. (He keeps telling me to check my breathing--I could be dead! LOL)
His eating patterns are complicated by the fact that he is now pre-diabetic. I think he has his genes to thank for that. But because his blood sugar dips, he has to eat often. It seems to me like "often" is about all the time some days. When you add to it that he has taken up cooking as a hobby, sometimes I really feel like the deck is stacked against me. He laughs and says "eating" is his hobby, and he took up "cooking" to support it!
Fortunately, we don't eat fast food hardly ever and that's probably my saving grace, but it is certainly not a silver bullet. We eat meat, vegetables, salads, that kind of thing--but hubby like to season things with lots of butter, salt, and pepper. Week before last he made homemade jambalaya using tasso ham and Andouille sausage. Just looking at that will make you gain a pound.
I think my only hope is accepting that I have to eat one way and that he both "has to" and is "able to" eat another. He left for a business trip to Boise this morning (thought about you Sheesh ), which means I have a couple of days that I don't have to worry about what someone else wants or needs to eat or when they need to eat.
And I agree with Kelly--thanks everyone for the posts last week. It helps to feel in "in touch."0 -
So true Sarah. I guess the best way to think of it for us is... do we NEED to eat or is it just we WANT to eat. I always have to think about it for awhile... and usually it's just a WANT. lol0
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Kelly, thanks for starting the thread. I'm not sure why I weigh in on Wed, LOL! That was the day I weighed and measured with my trainer, and it's good for me since it gives me a couple of days to get the weekend gain off, ha ha!
I remember well the times after I first got married to my Mr. Eating Machine.
I eat more when I'm happy, and he eats a LOT (his weight never changes, grrr). I remember my big thing was "it's not fair!". After some introspection (and gaining a lot of weight 
) I realized that I was actually competing to a degree. Crazy huh? Yah, I'm a little crazy. I made the connection that because I had grown up in a poor family, with one brother being 13 months younger and very competitive with me (and a food hog) I was actually trying to keep up with my husband's eating. And to "share" our fun and happiness with him by eating and drinking. It was a light bulb moment. It was hard, but I had to really accept that it would never be "fair" or "equal". I'm a small woman. I have to eat like a small woman. Sometimes it still bugs me, though.
As far as supplements, I don't take a multi. I read somewhere that we don't need them. I take vitamin d every day. Fish oil some days. Glucosamine (Osteo Bi-Flex) which I swear by, but you don't need because you're young. Calcium some days (if I don't get any milk). Magnesium some days, and zinc when I feel like I'm getting something. When I eat well, I take less stuff. When I eat poorly, I supplement. By the way, some supplements have calories 0 -
Sheesh, that's two more things we have in common--grew up in families that didn't have a lot of money and have spouses with the metabolism of hummingbirds!
Kelly, I forgot that you asked about supplements. I am bad about remembering to take medications, so I seldom take vitamins or minerals. Part of the reason is that I have to take a thyroid pill first thing in the morning and you can't take any other medications (OTC or otherwise) for several hours after that. So I typically get involved in work and never think of them again. But if you don't eat a well-balanced diet, a multivitamin is probably a good idea.
When I can think to take it, I actually think that Ocuvite helps with floaters I developed in my left eye several years ago. I wish I taken it regularly before then, and maybe I wouldn't be dealing with this issue. However, I think it's probably important for folks who are over 40. I believe they say that's when the fluid in the eye begins to thicken.
A few years back, my doc checked my vitamin D level and said it was low, which surprised me. I love milk and cheese, and in the summer I'm in the sun quite a bit. I took the pills for awhile, the level went up, and then I started slacking off. It all goes back to my undisciplined pill-taking behavior.
Sheesh, my knees are pretty good, but every now and then ... Maybe I'll try the Osteo Bi-Flex. My walking buddy asked last week if I thought we should start doing some stair work at the mall.0 -
SW; 156
LW: 145.2
TW: 143.8
Hallelujah! I weighed the same yesterday morning and was terrified that I'd get up today and be at least a pound heavier. I've had those depressing 2 to 3 pounds jumps in weight so often. I don't feel comfortable until I've held a weight for a little while considering how long I kept going right back to146.4. Gosh how I began to hate that number! I think being on my own this week has helped. Hubby was not in the kitchen channeling Julia Child and Paul Prudhomme! Now if I can just level out for a few days and then head down a little more.0 -
Congratulations Sarah! That's a great loss in one week!
I have a Fitbit goal of 10 flights of stairs per day, which I usually do, sometimes going up and down at home to get it done.
SW: 156
LW: 126.5
TW: 127.5
Gained 1 lb
I'm chalking that up to our going out last night for Italian dinner, wine, and then the theatre. Hopefully it will come off quickly. 0 -
Well it's officially Friday morning, as it's 12:30 a.m.. We got in around 10 p.m. and watched the news and then hubby moved the television into the sitting room so I could walk while we watched Top Chef, which I had taped. Best laid plans. . . The power went off for awhile and I didn't even make 10,000 steps by midnight. Rats! Don't know if it caused the power failure, but it's pouring snow and ice outside. I also hurt my right hand a bit when the treadmill suddenly stopped and my hand hit the rail. Took a couple of aleve and I think I'll call it a--well, I guess, a morning! I really need to get to bed earlier. Hope everyone has had a good week. We've made it to Friday!0
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I failed to weigh in this am. Rough start to the day. Super stressful week, but the energy from the stress has pushed me onto my treadmill. This week I've gotten in at least 3 additional "intentional" miles. Kinda happy about that outcome. Not sure it's worth the added stress, but at least I'm getting mileage in.
Doing a better job at logging my foods as well. We'll see what the scale says tomorrow.0 -
It has been a little hard to get in my steps the past few days. A close friend's brother committed suicide on Monday. We've had things to do and the funeral to attend today. Sometimes priorities have to shift. I was grateful to find that the suit pants I couldn't button when hubby's brother died in October buttoned just fine today. What a difference just a few pounds can make. We don't eat a lot of fast food, but today, we were tired and hungry and picked up Popeye's chicken on the way home from the funeral, so my fat and salt intake was way high. I will need to watch both for a few days and really up my water intake.
Hope all is well with everyone. We have some more rain and snow coming in tomorrow, so it's either TM or mall for me, but I'm just so grateful for the quality of my problems today compared with other people around me that even cold, wet weather won't get me down.
Sheesh, I ordered the new Ghosts 8's and they arrived late yesterday. I haven't even opened the box yet, but I'll let you know. 0 -
Sorry to hear about the loss in your friends life Sarah. Very tragic. Priorities definitely have to shift when we have these events occur in our lives. Is your hand feeling better?
Lois, I hope the stress you had happening in your life has disappeared, never to return. I think you and I probably deal with stress in the same ways. We struggle with the minor stresses in life and let them get to us sometimes. It's a struggle for me to turn to exercise instead of food, but I'm getting better at it. Just gotta keep focused on being a healthy me.
That's a great goal Sheesh! I never really focus on the stairs but maybe I should, just to switch things up a bit.
Happy Sunday all! I have set a big step goal for myself today, so I better get going.0 -
The weather front passed us by and we actually had sunshine today. I got in 5,000 steps just running errands and doing things in the house, then I got in another 7,000 walking in the mall. If only I didn't have to spend 9 or 10 hours a day at a desk Monday through Friday, I might be able to do that every day.
Thanks, Kelly for the kind thoughts. It's hard to see a good friend in such grief. Life has lots of bumps and I'm learning to be grateful for ordinary days when nothing special is going on. Sometime I think I need more excitement in my life and then I realize how precious just an ordinary day can be.
I don't think I did as well with sodium and water today as I had hoped. We had a late lunch and just weren't hungry at dinnertime tonight so we decided to just graze if we got hungry. I stayed within my calorie limit, but I'm embarrassed to say that what I decided to graze on was blueberries and cheez-its! I've been able to steer away from sweets and the squirrels' peanuts lately, so now I need to work on my love of crackers.
Lois, I hope all is going okay with your mother-in-law.0 -
SW 238
LW 207.4
TW 207.0
Well, this was Saturday morning and I was thrilled. See what Friday holds.
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Congrats on the loss Lois! I hope you're having good weather for your activity. It definately is a stress reducer, and gets my endorphins up.
Sarah, I'm so sorry about such a tragedy. A friend of my daughter's husband committed suicide a week ago also, and she attended the funeral. It's hard to talk about it with her because it's so difficult to grasp that degree of suffering. So, so sad.
BTW, I ordered and received my Ghost 8's, and have worn them for a couple of workouts. I really like the fit and feel, but I got the black with turquoise and a little purple on them. They're not that cute but, oh well, they're comfortable!
Kelly, your steps over the weekend were awesome, to say the least! I don't think you need to add any stairs to that, lol! I do stairs to keep my knees moving and strong. I figure that as long as I can run stairs, and sometimes two at a time, . . I'm NOT OLD, ha ha ha!0 -
Sheesh, I ordered the light gray Ghosts with the dark teal and kind of a cross between wine and dark pink. I like the look, but don't know yet about the feel. I put them on for the first time today to wear just in the house to see how they do. I really like that Zappos let you return items for free if you need. My hating change extends all the way to shoes! It takes me a little while to figure out how something will do.
Lois, hearing that traveling from AZ to CA to help your MIL is the least of your stress makes me really feel for you. I'm sending the most positive energy your way that I can. I'm not under a lot of stress right now, thank goodness, but I know sure what it's like, and I hope things improve very soon. Take care of yourself.
Kelly, you are my mileage goddess! 0
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