Back at it, woman. Talking to myself here.

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  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,674 Member

    @cmriverside : Hunger is such a complex state of mind. I think we evolved to feel it more when we're idle. When I'm engaged in something, it goes away. I can totally sideline hunger for a time by exercising. Also, my hunger is a brat: when I give in to it, it comes back for more. If I eat cookies one night after dinner, it will remind me the next night.

    I have had good luck with intermittent fasting. For more than a year, I've been skipping breakfast and eating my first meal around 11-12. I also enforce "no snacks after 8" almost every night. (The fancy term for this is "16/8 intermittent fasting," but it really amounts to "skip breakfast and no snacks after dinner.") I still have my tea with milk and honey in the morning, but that's it. It does not replace logging because it's easy for me to overeat at the two other meals plus snacks, but there's something about proving to myself every day that I can stave off my first meal. It's empowering!

    You can also do a "clear broth day." (My wife does these.) You do a day where you drink clear chicken broth for all three meals. It's also important to stay hydrated (I recommend taking a low-calorie electrolyte drink.) She has a cup of black coffee as well in the morning. She actually did this for 4 days in a row quite recently.

    Best of luck!

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member
    edited April 24

    Yeah, I don't really need advice, but thanks for taking the time. Maybe your post will help someone else, Jthan.

    I've been around the block for nearly 20 years. I've tried all kinds of things. To each their own!

  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,674 Member

    @cmriverside : I was just rambling. I know from your many posts that you are very knowledgeable. Well, none of us would be here if we didn't struggle at times with our weight! The struggle is unending for me, anyway. Best of luck!

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member

    Thanks, Jthan.

    One Day At A Time, yeah?

    I have been doing my PT, and walking the stairs (250 total stairs) and walking a minimum of one mile daily. I'm not ready to step on the scale again, I'm just focusing on Wins.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member

    Maybe I should have been a little more realistic on that "I'll lose this 8 pounds by June."

    Yeah. Sure. It took me nine months to lose that last 15 pounds back in the day.

    I hate to think this is going to take six-ish months, but I'm not able to eat less without quite a bit of discomfort and I can't push my activity much higher without a lot of pain.

    I stepped on the scale.

    I haven't gained any more in the month I've been logging again, so yay. Focusing on the win.

  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,782 Member

    @cmriverside that's a HUGE win. 👏👏👏 Definitely an excellent accomplishment. I think the hardest thing I ever had to figure out was that every time I tried one of those crazy crash diets I always ended up gaining. And the weight I gained was fat. You are doing great. One day at a time. sustainability and all that. 🤪🙃😳

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member

    Thanks, SummerSkier.

    It's so hard when I'm already within a healthy weight range, even without losing that 8 pounds, and my doctor says as an older woman that the "more" ideal BMI is 25-27.

    Ugh. I'm not happy at this weight, regardless.

  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,782 Member

    oh puleeeezzzeee! DO not get me started on that whole - elderly folks need to have more weight because when they get sick they need more "pad" stuff… 🤬🤬🤬 Now granted we don't need to be walking skelators, but we can be fit and petite and lower BMI and should not let the excuse of age have anything to do with it. 💪💪

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member

    Teehee. Tell us how you really feel, @SummerSkier

    I kind of understand though because some long-term meds such as cancer meds can cause lack of appetite and fast weight loss…and that's not good if there's not much weight to lose.

    I had to go on a long medication regimen about twenty five years ago and it caused me to not be able to eat, it was so bad that I acquired hemolytic anemia and had to go to weekly hospital visits to treat that, but I still couldn't stand the smell or thought of food and I was a walking skeletor!

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member

    Well, not exactly walking. I had zero energy, could barely walk to my car and back.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member

    I hesitate to post that I was less than 200 calories over yesterday. Fair play though, I was 900 over the day before. The yo-yo is getting me.

    HUNGRY.

    Eat too much.

    Cut back.

    You know the rest. The struggle is real with so little weight to lose. Do not likey.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,225 Community Helper

    I empathize, @cmriverside .

    Obviously, I have no useful input that you don't already know, but I'm reading your thread routinely, sitting over here silently cheering for you. It's kinda like those situations where a person watches someone doing some difficult physical feat on video, and subconsciously tightens up the muscles the person in the video is using, and then relaxing when they succeed.

    Which you will. I know that, you know that.

    Hang in there.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member
    edited April 30

    @AnnPT77, thank you. I appreciate your support. I feel much less alone knowing someone is reading along. Thanks for that.

    Thing is, it's really not that big a deal if/when I lose the weight. . .except that muffin top. 😆

    I'm afraid to not try though. It feels slippery.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,824 Member
    edited April 30

    It feels slippery.


    my first thought is the muffintop?

    And then I empathize because yes, yes they do. Like they have a slippery little mind of their own. An explosive one. Like whack a mole. Squeeze and pinch in here and it just pops out somewhere else.

    Like that novelty kids’ pig toy where you squeeze here and the eyes bulge, and you squeeze there and his bottom pops out.

    That’s my slippery muffintop.

    And yet I don’t think that’s what you meant at all, but it’s where my mind immediately goes. 😅

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member

    hahaha, @springlering62 no that's not what I meant, but I've read your stories about the leftovers from your weight loss.

    Slippery as in, "I could just keep eating all the peanut butter and granola. It's good for me."

    …But then I get used to always being full and that's the part that's hard for me to break away from. Eating what I want when I want to until I'm super full.

    Thanks for checking in. I'm out till tomorrow.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member
    edited May 5

    It's been a few days - not much new with me.

    I tried to increase my activity and it's too painful. Sitting around unable to do much leads to eating too much.

    I'm probably going to abandon this thread. This just isn't the time to lose weight.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,824 Member

    hugs.

    Your choice, but sometimes a permissive whinge among friends is the best medicine.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,225 Community Helper

    I'm sorry this is being so challenging, @cmriverside . Sending you hopes you can find a turn-able corner soon. You're an obviously strong woman, but challenges are challenges for anyone. Best wishes.

  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,782 Member

    @cmriverside oh so sorry that movement is soooo ooooo difficult right now. I had the advantage of being able to use a pool and summertime when I was at my worst. All I did was put a life vest on and tread water. I think the lifeguards about flipped out the first time they saw me crutch to the deep end.

    I think this is a really good thread for maintainers so I hope you continue it. Even if to say you are not actively trying to cut calories but just to keep your head in the game.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member

    Thanks so much ya'll.

    I just feel like it's not the time. I'm working at it, but I don't want to continue to post about it. This injury has been a huge blow in a few different ways and this weight is just one of them.

    Like Ann said, I'll turn a corner at some point. I'm still logging every bite. I'm much more mindful in my daily food. I have an old-school non-digital body weight scale and at least it isn't showing a gain. Could even maybe be a slight loss in the last three weeks. Too hard to tell with the ups and downs and fuzzy little tiny numbers on the dial in ten pound increments. Don't tell me to buy a digital one. Cannot work with those 0.2 pounds. Crazy making.

    I feel better in my body and my mind for having cut back on sugar and wheat.

    I enjoy figuring stuff out and working the weight puzzle. I will find my mojo.

    Springlering, I'm not a big complainer by nature. It makes me feel worse to talk about this stuff. Thinking I could journal this effort online of all things just reaffirmed that. I'm an only child (waves at Ann) and I'm fiercely, overly independent, so putting stuff out there is uncomfortable for me.

    SummerSkier, I've thought about a pool but there isn't a good one close by, I do love to be in the water so that's something that might help me mentally and physically. I suppose I could find a way to get in the water instead of all this navel gazing. I would like to not hurt for an hour. Sitting isn't helping that.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,225 Community Helper

    The physical recovery results so far sound really good, @cmriverside, and I know it's taken persistence and dedication to accomplish that. Sometimes people, maybe especially people in our demographic, give up after an event like that, but you are not a giver-upper. Really good show!

    The weight loss progress sounds good, too - taking it slowly while healing is a really good plan, which I know you don't need me to tell you.

    Thanks for the update. Keep on keeping on!

  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,782 Member

    Progress!!!!! Great news. It sounds like things are slowly turning around for you which cheers me immensely! thank you for the update.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,824 Member

    you are amazing.

    I hear so many people with “I can’t, I can’t”.

    Pat yourself-long and hard-on the back for being an “I can” kind of person!

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,818 Member

    Oh my gosh, you guys don't know how much this means to me. Thank you for your support.

    It's been a struggle, but I'm not ready for a wheelchair! I will fight!

    LOL at me thinking a third floor walk-up would be fine (when I was 34 years old though…)

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