What I Hate About Watching My Weight/New Lifestyle/Dieting, etc. (A Place to Vent)

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  • Ayehmwhy
    Ayehmwhy Posts: 75 Member
    Right now, kind of having a hard time with the weather becoming colder, winter approaching, holidays are upon us and everywhere I go l, there is some kind of high calorie sweet treat being offered to me. There’s just so much indulgence this time of year and I’m trying to resist the urges to overeat and hibernate haha
  • EliseTK1
    EliseTK1 Posts: 483 Member
    GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
    pyrusangeles wrote: »
    GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
    pyrusangeles wrote: »
    I so need this vent thread.

    I hate that my husband is able to manage his hunger so easily while I am not. Hunger is actually painful for me sometimes (thanks gastritis!) so I have to chew on Tums, drink lots of water, and hope the pain subsides.

    I hate that my RMR is so low. I had it tested and found out that I'm quite a bit lower than I should be for my height and age. All the strength training I've done has only raised it by about 20 kcal/day.

    I hate that when I eat "intuitively" or "moderately" I gain weight, rapidly. For the first time in my life, my health is at risk, all because I tried to let go of monitoring my diet like a hawk. I'm not capable of letting it go and being ok. I think I will have to be strict for the rest of my life.

    I hate that I get migraines when I lift weights. I hate that we're coming up on Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I want to enjoy them to the fullest extent with decadent food and drink but can't. I hate that every single meeting and celebration at work involves highly caloric food and sweets. I hate that my favorite foods to cook from my childhood are so calorie dense.

    The one thing I do like- four days into getting back on the wagon, I've dropped a bunch of water weight and am no longer bloated. Good feeling.

    I got migraines when I tried lifting heavy. Exertion induced migraines are a thing.

    You can still get benefits from progressive strength training by using moderate weights and doing more reps and sets.

    I have pretty bad chronic migraines, but they're fine if I keep the weights moderate for me and lift this way.

    That's great that they're manageable for you. I hoped they would be for me.

    I've been working on different ways to strength train without triggering a migraine. I used to train 4-5 days a week for about a year and had migraines pretty much constantly. I'm on a preventative which helps with the instantaneous migraines I get when I don't warm up enough, but my trigger now seems to be any kind of muscle soreness.

    I stopped lifting and have been pretty much running exclusively for a while which helps. I was astonished that the day after only one very mild yoga session last week, I got a migraine. My shoulders were barely sore. My neurologist told me to stop strength training altogether. Maybe I need a new neurologist.

    That sounds just awful!

    What kind of protocol are you on for your treatment? Maybe that makes a difference for me.

    I'm going to be starting Aimovig and am currently getting botox. I'm also on an SSRI, topomax, and some supplements.

    Currently on Depakote for prevention and Maxalt as an abortive. I heard about Aimovig and really want to try it. Topamax had some odd side effects for me. (Blocked muscle memory- couldn't play the piano temporarily- scary!) I hear Botox works well but takes about a year of treatments to start to work. Is that true for you?
  • kstarallen
    kstarallen Posts: 116 Member
    @Bobble11
    Omg I died laughing. Thank you so much for the different variations bahaha
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    Bobble11 wrote: »
    ferrenmariec97 wrote: »
    My beef is myself. Not in a degrading hateful way. BUT I get so caught up in eating right and exercising and then I get bored or it isnt happening fast enough or life gets tough and I just quit. I just wish i could get over that hump without going straight back to unhealthy.

    You're not alone. We've all felt that way. I can feel that attitude creeping up on me right now. My aim is to be "good" until Christmas but I don't think I'll last that long.

    I'm on around 1400 calories a day plus 10,000 steps with means I'm actually between 1200-1300. (nobody @ me about how this is all wrong. I'm not asking to be corrected - it's working for me). When I get the grumps about the hard slog that is "being good" then I take a break and go up to 1500-1800 calories a day plus 10,000 steps. I usually find that allows me to eat a bit of what I want but still keep me on the right track. I don't lose a lot (if anything) but I don't gain. I stay around the same.

    Sending you love x

    As long as it's working for you keep it up :).

    Since my hours widely vary now for work anywhere from 7-12 start times & can end anywhere from 4-9 typically I have been trying to push my first meal back to around 11-2 & then eating the majority of my calories around 4-5 when I am on lunch.

    On my days off I eat my first snack around 10-12 then it depends on how hungry I am when I eat my first meal.
  • HoneyBadger302
    HoneyBadger302 Posts: 2,085 Member
    When your home scale decides to have a hissy fit! This morning I went through my usual morning weigh in routine, was right about where I expected to be, but accidently bumped the scale as I got off, so moved it back and decided to re-weigh. It came up over 1/2 pound heavier - then reset the scale position, reset it, and then it weighed me at 1.2 pounds heavier! WTH?!?

    I gave up after that and just used the original since that's where the scale has been the past couple weeks - but still, so annoying! I "know" it's just a number, and only one day, but I like to track my trend and make sure I'm keeping headed in the right direction.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    njitaliana wrote: »
    PS, Yes, I know I could have popcorn, but those tubs have 1200 calories and I'd rather save the calories for a real meal after the movie.

    Gotta admit, if I'm going to the movies, I'm having the damn popcorn. Overpriced, overoiled, too many calories, whatever. I need the movie theater popcorn for the experience to be complete.

    But you are not wrong. :)

    I usually don't. In fact, we usually plan to eat dinner right after the movie, which means I have an incentive not to eat it (we do have coffee at the theaters I normally go to, however, and I might get that, might get a diet coke).

    However, every once in a while I feel like going to an early afternoon matinee and having a small popcorn instead of lunch. Sometimes it just hits the spot. (No clue how many calories, I do prefer it without butter, at least, but I'm sure it's a lot.)
  • ritzvin
    ritzvin Posts: 2,860 Member
    njitaliana wrote: »
    PS, Yes, I know I could have popcorn, but those tubs have 1200 calories and I'd rather save the calories for a real meal after the movie.

    ..especially when you know how to make it tastier yourself for way fewer calories (aerosol butter flavor oil spray sprayed on in smaller batches -and, my personal preference, topped with grated parmesan...as opposed to the movie theater mix of super-over-gobbed on oil on some kernels and plenty with none. Fake-butter-flavored oil works SO much better in aerosol spray form then a pump.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    HoneyBadger155 wrote: »
    When your home scale decides to have a hissy fit! This morning I went through my usual morning weigh in routine, was right about where I expected to be, but accidently bumped the scale as I got off, so moved it back and decided to re-weigh. It came up over 1/2 pound heavier - then reset the scale position, reset it, and then it weighed me at 1.2 pounds heavier! WTH?!?

    I gave up after that and just used the original since that's where the scale has been the past couple weeks - but still, so annoying! I "know" it's just a number, and only one day, but I like to track my trend and make sure I'm keeping headed in the right direction.

    Oh, I feel you! My scale has a certain spot it has to sit in to be a consistent weight. It's just a number but it also affects my morale!

  • ShayCarver89
    ShayCarver89 Posts: 239 Member
    Well, Thanksgiving is tomorrow sOooOoooo
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    FutureMrsCarver89 wrote: »
    Well, Thanksgiving is tomorrow sOooOoooo

    I have to work tomorrow so not really going to eat a ton of food.

    I have in my diary already to eat a pint of Talenti's Pumpkin Pie gelato.
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,899 Member
    FutureMrsCarver89 wrote: »
    Well, Thanksgiving is tomorrow sOooOoooo

    I'm giving myself maintenance calories tomorrow (so about 2500). That will let me fit in coffee for breakfast (my norm), snacky stuff for lunch (sausage, cheese, veggies and dip, deviled eggs) and a dinner with mashed potatoes, turkey thigh, gravy, stuffed mushrooms, carrot and turnip mash, green beans, stuffing and ham. Also half a bottle of wine and a small piece of chocolate mousse pie.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    coderdan82 wrote: »
    Most goals can be reached faster and with better quality if you put extra work into it. I got out of debt fast by getting an extra job, cutting out all non essential expenses and shoveling every single cent into my loans. I finished some reno projects quickly this summer by working on them every weekend and sacrificing some vacation days. But with weight loss... it's 1-2 lbs per week... that's it... There is absolutely nothing you can do to speed it up. If you try you'll lose muscle at best and cause serious health problems at worst. There are times when I have nothing to do and I start thinking about how I can spend that time to make progress on my weight loss and the realization that there's nothing I can do is infuriating.

    The pace is a learning tool! Lean in to it, you're developing habits to stick, hopefully, so might as well get used to them :smile:

    My gripe: been whittling my calories down for ten days or so and edging down under the middle of my maintenance range so I can act like eating is my job today, but the kitchen was so clean and the fridge so full of prepared food we went out and grabbed some fajitas last night. The unusual for me salt content kicked the scale up a pound. You know what scale, you don't own me!
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