StarvingDiva Member

I do both. I lift weights and do HIIT as well as walk with my friend 3 times a week. I do yoga on my two rest days.

Most people who have WLS do have to speak to a counselor but unfortunately there is no standard in the WLS world either, some people come out of WLS and aren't even given a meal plan, which is bizarre.

I have mixed feelings about the show. Sometimes I watch and am just overwhelmed and happy and then other people I watch on there and end up screaming at the tv. There was one set of brothers on from RI and one got the surgery, the other did not. The one that did was such a belligerent twit to the hospital staff, the…

I know, I see a nutritionist and an exercise physiologist and the exercise physiologist said this to me, she's like how many steps are you getting in, I am like not much I work from home, so how many I get going up and down the stairs, or walking around the house. But then I'm like heres my workouts (almost 1.5 -2 hours a…

I love boxing, that's how I really got into fitness, I went to a boxing gym, and I did boxing, kickboxing and bootcamp classes, I used to go to two classes a night I loved it so much, I was the happiest I ever have been going to that gym. All the frustrations of the day taken out on the punching bag.

I tend to shoot for a weekly goal more so, I don't worry on the daily, some days I feel ravenous and want to eat a lot other days not so much so I feel like it all evens out at the end of the week. I never worry about a couple hundred calories.

Size 10, upped to a 15 lbs weights and can finally see my collar bone.

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Unfortunately any hormonal bc can cause weight gain, I have had issues with pcos for years, and I actually think the hormonal bcp I was put on only worsen my condition, I actually went on the copper IUD (paragard) due to this because I just didn't want any synthetic hormones being put in me.

I hate cardio, I only do it three times a week and I lift 5 days a week. Do yoga on my two "rest" days.

I only put down actual exercise as well, but I don't judge anyone who chooses to put down other activities, maybe they were someone who never did those things before and now as they are losing weight actually have the energy to do those things and it is "exercise" to them because they were completely sedentary, maybe it…

Try an Epsom salt bath as well, it can help with it.

IUD with no hormones-Paragard

I have been consistently low, had to have a couple rounds of prescription and now I take it regularly. I will get my blood work done again next month to see if it's maintained.

I use a Polar HRM only to just get an idea of what I may have burned and it is a weird accountability thing for me. I don't eat back exercise calories.

Motivation and support is key. Feel free to add me. I'd be happy to support and help when I can.

Awesome that you found your way back on track! :)

I'll add too.

I find the prepared foods section at the market the easiest for the car, fruit cups, veggie cups, hillshire farms small plates, all easy to eat on the road, balanced breaks.

I was doing it, before Daylights savings, now I wake up still at the same time because I put myself to bed, but I just lay there instead. LOL it really is ME being lazy. I fully admit it. lol I feel like some days I should come to the gym at work that way I have no excuse not to get up I just leave the damn house, but I…

What she said. Heck I am a single person with no kids etc. but I still put myself last over family and friends and other peoples needs.

I do work out at home, I just wish I could get my butt out of bed before work to do it.

YES. this is me too. I finally can be more than 10 ft from a bathroom after a meal.

I could get behind a peep cleanse. and Double Stuff are old school anyway I meant the new flavored ones, seem yucky to me. But I do like peeps. Must not eat the peeps. They resemble animals, that can't be vegan.

I don't know when I did P90x yoga I was sweating like crazy. But I don't know what kind of yoga that was, long and torturous yoga. Now I just do a yoga dvd at home, two days a week for flexibility because I am very tight in my hip and shoulder area from being hit by a Mack truck. It helps tremendously and the next day I…

Right? But just the traditional ones, none of those new fandangle ones.

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I totally understand this, I was probably one of those people back in the day saying that to someone who "seems" to have been thin all their life, and now I realize I was so wrong in saying that to someone, that we all have our own insecurities, what I see on the outside of someone else (beauty, firm body etc.) they…

People with PCOS definitely have to workout smarter not harder. I think many people not just those of us with PCOS think we have to spend hours at the gym, and that may be true to get great results but with PCOS, you do have hormonal issues that work differently and putting in that much time at the gym isn't necessarily…

I've done it a couple times, I do the IbreatheImhungry websites version, that way it's not just eggs straight for 5 days, there is some variety, it works pretty good and gets you into ketosis fast.