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Thanks for the kind words, Ann. Just dealing with the last of the congestion today. I'll be fully recovered by Monday. Taking the dog for a walk later today. The cold air should help me clear my throat and lungs.
You're so right about the roller coaster. Always something new to deal with.5 -
Do not sure what is going on..I have been under or right at my calorie goal all week and have walked 3 days this week and I have gained back all the weight I lost in the last 3 weeks. I have to admit I did have a few chocolates this week but I did log them and still was under my calories. This is very frustrating. I ate the same 2 breakfast as I did the previous weeks, upped my water intake, weighed and measured my dinners and walked 3 days this week. Not sure what else to do. I'm not giving up but am very depressed with my results. I will have to be more careful with my food measurements and try get out for a longer walk and more often. Besides that I don't know what else to do.
Starting all over again this week.5 -
My son that lives with me had Covid 2 weeks ago. He had been vaccinated x2 but not boosted. I had all 3 shots and didn't get it. Thank God because we have been inundated at work with people needing Dialysis. I'm working over 60 + hours a week!
@alteredsteve175 Glad to hear your on the mend! And your girls didn't get it!6 -
Sistersue3285 wrote: »Do not sure what is going on..I have been under or right at my calorie goal all week and have walked 3 days this week and I have gained back all the weight I lost in the last 3 weeks. I have to admit I did have a few chocolates this week but I did log them and still was under my calories. This is very frustrating. I ate the same 2 breakfast as I did the previous weeks, upped my water intake, weighed and measured my dinners and walked 3 days this week. Not sure what else to do. I'm not giving up but am very depressed with my results. I will have to be more careful with my food measurements and try get out for a longer walk and more often. Besides that I don't know what else to do.
Starting all over again this week.
If you're doing pretty much the same things that have been working for a while, I honestly think the best idea is just to stay with it . . . and try not to let it get to you. Bodies are weird.
I've been calorie counting for 7 years come April, and tracking daily weight (on graph paper first, then the Libra trending app) for even longer. I understand my body's flavor of weird pretty well at this point, I think. Most of the time, I can predict surprisingly accurately what my weight will do if I eat over maintenance, under maintenance but unusual macros/sodium, change workouts, etc.
But still, every once in a while, the ol' bod throws me a curve ball: A gain (or loss) I don't expect, suddenly, sometimes multi-pound. If I'm quite sure calories don't explain it, through any combination of movement and eating, then I've learned to pretty much let it ride, and go on with a proven routine. Sooner or later, the scale tends to end up in the predictable place . . . eventually.
Repeat: Bodies are weird. Please don't give in to depression.
If you haven't read this yet, I recommend it:
https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations2 -
@alteredsteve175 I came down with COVID same time as you, even tho vaxxed & boosted. Only had 3 days of cold/sinus symptoms, pretty much better now, except still a little runny nose & a little drainage that I cough up. That seems to bother my asthma a little. Hard to figure out where I got exposed.4
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Great article, @AnnPT77 Hang in there @sistersue3285 It will come!!2
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Greetings, all. Fully recovered from the 'rona. Back to work today, but I gotta' wear the mask for a couple of more days when I'm out. I have had two Pfizer injections and a flu vaccine, but not the booster. Now I'm hoping for natural immunity after my infection. 🤞🤞🤞
Got a little whoosh going on the last few days. Appetite has been off, so that's probably the reason. Regardless, I'll take it.
Hang in there, @Sistersue3285. As others have noted, your situation is not unusual. Things will even out eventually and you will start losing again. Don't give up.😁8 -
Glad you’re feeling better Steve.2
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Hello I am 62 and need motivation. I have to lose 30 more pounds and the scale has been the same for over a month. I watch what I eat and drink lots of water, exercise on the treadmill every day for 40 minutes. Getting frustrated.4
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labelledaniele wrote: »Hello I am 62 and need motivation. I have to lose 30 more pounds and the scale has been the same for over a month. I watch what I eat and drink lots of water, exercise on the treadmill every day for 40 minutes. Getting frustrated.
Are you watching what you eat and drink? Or logging what you eat and drink? For me personally, there's a big difference. If I'm only watching what I eat, it's too easy to over-serve portions or forget when I had a snack (albeit a healthy one!).
How much weight have you already lost? As you lose weight, your body requires less calories to move. Think how much more effort it takes to lift 20 pounds instead of 10. So your body might be requiring you to eat less calories to see the same result (Of course, never go below the recommended number of calories in MFP!). To put it another way, the closer I am to goal the more anal I have to be with my calorie counting. When I had 90 pounds to lose, I could "guesstimate" and still lose weight. Not any more.
Just a couple of thoughts that might help.5 -
labelledaniele wrote: »Hello I am 62 and need motivation. I have to lose 30 more pounds and the scale has been the same for over a month. I watch what I eat and drink lots of water, exercise on the treadmill every day for 40 minutes. Getting frustrated.
@ridiculous_59 has it just right, IMO: What matters is calorie intake, and logging that routinely, and as accurately as possible, will be a help. Approximation, or eyeballing portion sizes, or relying on other people's recipe entries in the food database, etc., can work . . . until it doesn't. Then, care and accuracy in logging will highlight where the problem lies.
(One MFP-er reported, to her shock, that she had been eating nearly 1000 calories daily in condiments, dressings, cooking oils, and other "small" things that added up to big numbers, once she started logging every bite, lick, and taste. I'm not saying you're doing anything that extreme, but any of approximating/eyeballing/"cheat days"/skipping logging do have pitfalls, if relying on calorie counting to manage weight.)
Water and exercise are good for a body, but don't in themselves directly cause weight loss: The food side of things needs to be in place. I stayed at a stable class 1 obese bodyweight for over a decade in my 40s-50s, while eating healthy foods, training 6 days a week and competing as a recreational athlete, drinking plenty of water.
Personally, I think patience and establishment of consistent habits (including managing eating) are the key. Motivation or will power are - IMO - less important . . . but that may be because I'm very weak in both of those things. Figuring out relatively easy, relatively enjoyable habits I could stick with, is what's kept me at a healthy weight for 6+ years since losing 50+ pounds at age 59-60 . . . eating the same range of foods as when I was fat, doing the same exercise I was doing when fat, now just managing the calories.
Hang in there, sharpen up your logging accuracy if you can. Sometimes a plateau is just odd water retention, too - can clear on its own. If it doesn't, within the next couple of weeks of staying with your calorie goal, then something else will need adjustment. Careful counting can help figure out what to adjust.
If you've lost a lot already, and haven't taken a break at all at maintenance calories for many months, that's a thing to consider, too. More info about the how/why of that is here:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10604863/of-refeeds-and-diet-breaks/p1
Best wishes for breaking through this weight stall - you can do it!3 -
Swimmom_1. I feel you! I'm just a casual, but have been working 60+ hours a week since early December. Just finished a 10 day stint of working all by myself 12-14 hours a day. I'm the oldest one, approaching 68, and all the youngsters got covid or had to quarantine. Only one other person didn't get sick so she covered nights. At this age, I know I'm not immortal any more, just exhausted! And have covid burnout. I don't really remember the holidays, opened my gifts from family a few days ago when I could finally sit down at home and enjoy them. I didn't focus on myself except to try n get at least 4-6 hours of sleep at night, so I went a bit backwards on the scale. Coworkers trickling back in so I'm hoping to get back on track. I find it kind of ironic that as the oldest person I held down the fort and have stayed healthy (so far....)8
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@SbetaK
OMG! 10 days! I'm the oldest at work. I will be 65 in April. My stretch is only 3 days before my Saturday off. We have Sunday's off. (We have 1 person that works weekend days and 1 on weekend nights for emergency treatments.) Working 14 hour days but still have my 3 days off per week. And co-workers call me a workhorse? I can't imagine even 4 in a row let alone 10!!!!4 -
labelledaniele wrote: »Hello I am 62 and need motivation. I have to lose 30 more pounds and the scale has been the same for over a month. I watch what I eat and drink lots of water, exercise on the treadmill every day for 40 minutes. Getting frustrated.
Same age, same amount to lose lavelledaniele. Need to check in with this group more often. Navigating MFP proves to be a challenge. Would like to put you on my friend list but even that is a challenge but add me and I'll except.1 -
This morning, I got on the scale and weighed in at 196. I still can't believe I'm under 200 pounds. It's only been a week and a half since I saw the one on the scale. Some days, it feels so hard. Those small choices...that piece of chocolate calling out to me after I've logged and closed out after the last meal of the day...going out to exercise when I have many other things I'd rather be doing. When I look back, it seems so easy. Why didn't I ever do this before?
I started over 40 BMI which is considered Extremely Obese and am now almost into the Overweight Category. The weight I felt the best at as an adult was 160 pounds, so that's my goal. Whether or not that's the right place, I'll determine once I get there. That means I'll still be Overweight if I count on the BMI chart, but I've always considered the chart just a guide. I'll know it when I get there and take a few months to settle in.
I know you've heard me say it (or write it) before, but I need to say it again. Thank you all for your encouragement, honesty (sometimes tough love) and your willingness to share your process. Logging and the MFP community has played a big role in helping me stay on track or get back to it when I've gone overboard. Now to get into the 180's!!
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This morning, I got on the scale and weighed in at 196. I still can't believe I'm under 200 pounds. It's only been a week and a half since I saw the one on the scale. Some days, it feels so hard. Those small choices...that piece of chocolate calling out to me after I've logged and closed out after the last meal of the day...going out to exercise when I have many other things I'd rather be doing. When I look back, it seems so easy. Why didn't I ever do this before?
I started over 40 BMI which is considered Extremely Obese and am now almost into the Overweight Category. The weight I felt the best at as an adult was 160 pounds, so that's my goal. Whether or not that's the right place, I'll determine once I get there. That means I'll still be Overweight if I count on the BMI chart, but I've always considered the chart just a guide. I'll know it when I get there and take a few months to settle in.
I know you've heard me say it (or write it) before, but I need to say it again. Thank you all for your encouragement, honesty (sometimes tough love) and your willingness to share your process. Logging and the MFP community has played a big role in helping me stay on track or get back to it when I've gone overboard. Now to get into the 180's!!
Congratulations on reaching Onederland, @coblujay. That is awesome. Your hard work is paying off!
Seconding your comments about the support and encouragement that I find here on MFP. The community is the best feature of the site!5 -
@alteredsteve175 Thank you! I'm so excited to see what comes next as I shrink in size. This community is amazing!!3
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I was a member years ago, counted calories, worked out at a gym with a private trainer and after 6 months hadn't lost a single pound so I gave up. I'm 71 now and just discovered keto. I'm still learning the ins and outs of the program but I'm pretty excited about it. I was told by an allergy specialist 45 years ago that I was allergic to wheat, rye, barley, oats and corn -- among other things. Subsequent tests over the years said the same thing. What excited me about the keto diet is it expressly forbids these foods and several others on my allergy list, and the ones it allows I can work around. Maybe this time I'll finally lose the weight. I'm going to have to ease into this diet though as I don't have enough of the right foods in the house and it snowed today so it'll be a few days before I can go shopping.7
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@alteredsteve175
Thank you so much! I love the quote!
I hit a new low today! In the 150's now. 158.4 lbs!5
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