200+ Haulin' Off The Weight

Rikki: I have PF in my right foot. It reared its ugly head in May when I started this. My doctor ( I LOVE HER) told me there are three things that will help me. 1) Lose weight (working on it, lady, geez!!) 2) Work out barefoot whenever possible (I did the 30 DS and 30 Day Slimdown barefoot EVERY DAY for 60 days.) 3) Orthotics (I am cheaper than cheap and would rather be in pain than pay for those, so I skipped that step.)

I still struggle with the pain in the morning but I just stretch it out and keep moving. It usually only take 20-30 minutes before I don't think about it anymore. But, if I sit down during the day, like for lunch, it will tighten back up and I need to walk it off again.

Strangely, this has helped my distance running immensely. If I run for 2 or 3 miles and then want to stop, but am on a 10-11 mile run, I won't make it. If I start walking too soon, the pain will start and I can't keep going. However, if I get a good 7-8 miles in before I stop or walk, I am usually able to walk a block or two and then run the rest. It hurts less when I am running.

Basically, I have resigned myself to it and just push through it. I also have Rheumatoid Arthritis and kidney disease but I refuse to let that slow me down either. I am 33 years old. I have a lot of life left in me. This time last year, I was on dialysis three times a week and 230 lb.

I think you are doing the right things. We all have to start somewhere and though we would love to see large losses right off the bat, that usually doesn't happen. My first three weeks on MFP I GAINED 7 lb. :huh: So, knowing i didn't want to do this forever, I became the "All or Nothin'" Girl. And so far, it has worked for me. It doesn't work for most. Just find what works for you and do it consistently. Focus on how you feel abut each choice you made and think about how you will feel about each choice you are about to make. Going to bed at night, knowing you made an entire day of good choices will encourage you to do it again the next day. Minute by Minute. That's how I have to do weight loss. Perk up, Buttercup. You're not in this alone. Promise.

You ladies make my day!!! I *heart* reading your posts.

Rikki - freeze an ice bottle or golf ball and rub your foot over it for 10 min. Stretches are important. Shoes or inserts to better align your feet during exercise or daily walking is important. Avoid high impact aerobics!!! If you decided to do 30 day shred, modify, modify, modify!!! The entire video is high impact. I known many people that injure themselves trying to keep up. I'd actually suggest starting with one of Leslie Sansone's walking videos which are low impact and broken up into 12 to 15 min segments of "walking" miles. They are really low impact aerobics and fun. Much better for your body if you're just starting out. I've been at this 2 years now - the first 3 months all I did was walk and do Leslie Sansone videos. Then I started C25K. After 6 months, as I lost weight I became more agressive with exercise. My point is start slow and get a friend to do it with you - accountability makes you do it!!! As for diet changes, my first goal was making sure I got 6 to 8 servings of fruits and veges a day. It's amazing that once you start that, you're more full and eat less crap. My food scale is my #1 friend. I will eat all foods but watch portion size. I'll weigh out 1 serving of chips, put the bag away and savor every bite. Looking at my diary, makes me more concious of what I eat/drink. I made small changes, one at a time that I could live with. For the most part, they have stayed. Hence, I've not gained all the weight back (just 10 frigging pounds) from my lowest. I'm happy where I am and exercise to eat... You and only you make the choice of what you put in your mouth. I believe 80% of weight loss is diet. Amy has shown us, you can lose weight without exercise. If you want to do this bad enough, you will succeed!!! We will be here for you through all the ups and downs.

This is a Public Service Announcement: Wearing clean socks on a freshly waxed floor while carrying an 'almost' 2 year old will result in a very bruised tailbone, a sore shoulder, and an excited toddler who wants to do it all again. Use caution.

**beeeeeeeeeeeep**

ouchie, hope your not too sore

Rikki - I've got really wide feet, too. I only wear T.U.K. brand heels, pretty much, as a result. :P

Sarah - Youch!! I hope you feel better soon!

I have issues with portion control. Keeping track of every. single. thing. that goes in my mouth helps, but then I end up eating like 1,000 calories most days because I don't want to get too close to my limit. (Last winter, I was tracking my calories in/burned on another site. Some days I had to really force myself to eat more than 700 calories because I saw how hard it was to work off all those calories.) I wish I could find some happy medium that didn't involve Nerd telling me I have to eat more.

Hailie: awesome win at the casino! For c25k I really had to just force myself to do it for the first three weeks. After week three I was so exhausted and felt I just couldn't go on. I took a weeklong break and walked on the treadmill for an hour nearly every day. Then I tackled week 3 again, then once more for good measure lol. I just listened to my body. What's the rush? Now, my body is begging me to run. Sometimes it's all I can think of. Just stick with it! It really is an amazing program!

To all of you ladies who hate heels: I just can't fathom it! I love heels. Despite my gross fat body, ive got some killer legs. Perhaps I will post a pic sometime. One girl at work is constantly telling me how beautiful my legs are and she swears it's because I'm always in heels. Who knows! Anyway, my feet aren't that big, but they are wide. Look into Cloudwalkers shoes. They make cute heels/boots in larger sizes and wide widths.

Oh geez...I've been fighting it since Monday but I am definitely sick. I even went to bed early last night and took a day off from exercising. But I STILL have the headache I've had for the past 3 days, my stomach is all queasy and my throat is really, really sore. Did I mention I have to take 3 finals tomorrow?? My body has great timing.:grumble:

Hosanna: Can you make Greek style yogurt with a machine? I'm not really into regular yogurt but Greek yogurt is AWESOME! Have you tried vitamin D supplements? You could become vitamin D deficient pretty easily with your night-time work schedule.

Rain: YAY for heels!! I LOVE heels. I'm 5 ft 8 but I still wear heels that make me taller than The Hubbs - he thinks it's HOT.

Jessi: My mom is super short (barely 5 ft 2) and I never understood why she would get all pissy about asking someone to reach the top shelf for her until I had surgery and had to ask for help with everything - now I get it. Also, we have ALL had problems with eating too little while trying to lose weight. Most of us who have been here for a while, will tell you that not eating enough will lead you right into a plateau and frustration. Try eating the amount of calories your log tells you to eat and see how that works before you cut your calories too drastically.

Sarah: OMG, are you ok? Feel better and ice your injury!!

Victoria: I U

Hailie: You are right, wine has some serious calories! And, I'm so glad someone called you pretty, you ARE pretty!!!!! :flowerforyou: (and funny, and witty, and smart, and AWESOME!!!!)

Lacey: I was thrown off from the first episode of True Blood with the whole Sookie was gone in Fairy world for a year. That was weird and it took a while before I got over the weirdness of that. And this whole witch thing will NOT go away....grrr.....

Annette: It's NEVER too early for Halloween talk!!!! I live in a country that doesn't even celebrate Halloween and my neighbors already think I'm weird since we are Americans and our German is pretty terrible and we let our dog lock us out of our house and the neighborhood had to rescue our dumb @sses. So, The Kid is surfing Martha Stewart and making cut out bats and ghosts and hanging them up in our windows and I'm totally cool with that.

I haven't plugged my BMF in yet this morning so I'll post my check in for yesterday later on but my scale is seriously on crack because it has me UP 2 pounds from yesterday!! I didn't even eat my calories yesterday because my stomach was all wonky so I KNOW I didn't gain 2 pounds over night but that really ticks me off!!!!!:mad:

Happy hump day!!! I need to get ready for work but am procrastinating.

Good morning all you lovely ladies!!

Victoria- GOOD MORNING!! :bigsmile:

Amy- I didn't say it before, but I LOVE your Halloween dress!!! It's So Cute!!! And you get to walk around all night and when people ask who you are (cause they always ask) you can say "I'm Um, from Umbridge" hahahaha!

Hallie- that sounds like a pretty bad a s s birthday to get complemented and win that much in a casino! They must have known it was your birthday and are trying to get you addicted for life! And super yay for feeling pretty! It just totally makes the whole day better!

Rain- I like how you did c25k. The previous times I've attempted it, I got stuck on week 3 as well. When I get there next time, I will copy you!

Jessi- if you ask a couple people around this board, they will tell you that even eating 1500 cals/day wasn't enough. They got the 24 hour calorie counters and found they were actually burning way more than mfp told them. Once they upped their cals, they started losing. I don't have a 24hr cal counter, but I figured so many women here had success when they upped their limits, that I tried it too. I went from 1500 cals/day to 2000/day and I started losing again. Granted, I had been eating around 1500 cals for over a year and I was doing p90x and c25k.....so that might have had something to do with it. But please don't under eat. You'll do more damage to your body than you think. You might lose a few pounds, but when you start eating "normal" amounts again, your body will gain and hold on to as much weight as it can because you'll have thrown yourself into starvation mode.

Hosanna- wtg on the run! If you're sore, then you should take it easy today. Don't over do it!

Sarah (wnt)- I hope you are ok! It's good that the fall didn't scare the toddler though.

Lacey and Megan- I finally caught up on True Blood last night and OMG! It took me a while, especially this season, but I finally like (maybe "accept" is a better word) how they've gotten off track with the books. It makes it way more interesting not knowing what is "supposed" to happen, plus I like Lafayette and Jesus. I wish they would have made it so Pam liked Sookie though. I liked their friendship in the books.

As far as the heels conversation goes- I like them, I like the way my legs look, but I can hardly stand in heels for longer than 5 minutes. Mr. Reunion is over 6ft tall so I will never have to worry about towering over him. If you are looking for hot heels, Torrid.com (a big girl's clothing store) also has wide, tall, hot (and sturdy) shoes.


As for me, yesterday was a great day! I stayed under cals AND sodium!!! And I didn't even make it to the gym!! I have to admit, if Mr. Reunion hadn't come over to distract me from going in the kitchen, I probably would have gone over. The scale has been nice to me the past 2 mornings. I'm hoping it will continue this through Friday (and to infinity, and beyond!).

Tonight I have a "Design your Personal Program" class at the gym with a personal trainer. He'll help me set up a work out schedule. It's an hour long class and it's me and 2 other people. I'm looking forward to it. I still get to brag about losing 45 pounds, and tell him I was doing c25k and p90x when I hurt my foot. That's nothing to sneeze at.

Dood! I thought that WAS the finale of True Blood. Glad there's one more. Frankly, I'm really tired of Lafayette and Jesus, although I like them a bit more than I did last season. And Tara, ugh. Basically anyone who was a background character in the books (or dead) and now has a major story line, I'm just done with. I also really dislike the actress they picked to be Marnie. Every time I see that woman in a movie all I can think of was when she was the horny headmistress in Three Men and a Little Lady. lol

Also, Eric is totally the better choice than Bill. Helloooooo.

As for heels, I love them. I have some pretty cute stuff that smush the crap out of my toes, but I loves them anyway. They make my legs look phenomenal, and I can wear 4 inch heels and Joe still towers over me (5'5" v. 6'ish). Nordstrom generally was my go-to place for shoe shopping, but they've been letting me down lately. The main problem I have with heels is that I have slightly wider feet at the front and crazy narrow heels, so I end up having to get a 9 instead of an 8.5 and my heels slip out. Grr.

Jess, get a stool! I bought one of those bad *kitten* library stools and now have things in cabinets and on shelves that I couldn't use before. http://www.kikstep.com/ The BF totally made fun of me when I bought it, but I love it.

Pam, I think it's awesome that you kept up with your exercise while family was in town!

Amy, I hope you feel better soon! There really is no convenient time to get sick.

Oooh I'm also a Truebie. I love the books and the show. I think it is great that the show is SO different, its like two entirely different things. I think if the show were closer to the books, I'd hate it.

Also, Bill is a tool. My husband is still reeling over Eric ripping that dudes heart out and sipping from his aorta as if it were a straw. He said it was just the redemption Eric needed from being such a sissy the whole season. I think Eric is simply scrumptions, or smexy as I call him, sissy or not. I do miss his long hair, though.

Getting out of work at 2:30 today for class. Its not even one yet, and I'm totally caught up and have nothing to do. Going to make for a looong hour and a half. Typical at my job. Either super busy or dead slow.

I was so lazy today. I slept like crap after being up late doing homework, and therefore did not get to the gym this morning. That means I need to go tomorrow and Saturday no matter what to get my 3 runs in this week. I will do it, I just wanted to go today, and now I'm having that exerise withdrawal feeling, and I just don't have time to go tonight. :ohwell:

On a positive note, I just got one of my assignments done. Its a kick a s s concept map for ed. psych.