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Weigh Your Prepackaged Foods
I'm so mad at both myself and Superstore. My SIL sent me there for sourdough bread that she said was very low calorie. I glanced at it and hey, 130 for 2 slices! Whoah. Gotta get some of that. Get home and look at the faded label and that 2 slices is supposed to be 50 grams. I weighed them. Try 115 grams. I should've…
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I Don't Want Any More Meds
If you'll permit me a small pity party: My doctor put me on a PPI for my mystery stomach pain, saying I clearly had too much stomach acid. Now instead of hurting sometimes, it hurts all the time. And I swing wildly between nauseous / disgusted by food and ravenously hungry. I'm so tired. Every time my doctor gives me some…
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76% to Goal
MFP spit this out today. I've got 25-30 lbs left to lose as of finally breaking my 7 week plateau. I'm at 178 lbs from 272. I know the last 10 or 20 is slow as heck, so for now my goal is 165 by Christmas, and hopefully a healthy BMI by my 33rd birthday next February.
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Alternative to Rows
I've been doing Stronglifts 5x5 because its simple, straightforward and enjoyable enough, except... I really, really hate rows. Like. HATE. They're uncomfortable, I keep hurting my back because the form is hard for me, I feel self conscious and weird doing them in public... ugh. The worst. I see absolutely zero meaning in…
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No Longer Obese
For the first time in some 12-15 years, my BMI is 29.7. I'm just overweight! When I started MFP just over a year ago, my BMI was 44. I was obese class 3 and miserable. I've lost about 88 pounds since then. Just around 40 left to lose, which isn't nearly as intimidating. This time next year, just wait for it.
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A 365 Day Retrospective
Today is my 365 day mark since downloading MFP and trying actively to lose weight. I've dropped from 276 to 192.2. That's a solid 1.5 lbs per week for 52 weeks. Not that it was ever that linear lol. I've had two or three month long stalls. I've had a few bad weeks where I ate SO much and gained weight. I've had days where…
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It's My Turn: ONEDERLAND!!
It took ten months and 72 pounds, but I finally, finally did it. It's real. I weighed myself like 4 times. I finally made it! Last April I never would have believed it was possible. Persistence pays off!
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Can Eating too Little Make the Scale Go Up?
I know starvation mode isn't a thing, I'm not asking that. What I wanna know is if its possible that eating less means I'm holding on to more water or something else that would cause a bigger scale number? I cut my calories a bit more (1500 to 1350 ish) in advance of Christmas and because of a plateau but the only drop…
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Almost Cried at the Gym
Because, despite my best efforts, I utterly failed to do a single push up. So I had to do the one they used to call the "girl pushup" when I was a kid, the one on your knees. I've always extremely resented that it was called that and that it was offered only to the girls like we were weaker and inferior. I always refused…
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Low FODMAP is Confusing, Help
After nearly five months of suffering my doctor has determined I have gastritis and almost certainly IBS. So I'm to go on a low FODMAP diet for now. But it's very confusing. No two websites seem to agree on some foods, and every website is completely vague on how to even figure out what foods have FODMAPs. Can I eat buns…
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3 Checkpoints for the Price of One
Finally broke out of the 20's and am 219.4 pounds, which ALSO officially puts me under 100 kg AND at over 50 pounds lost. 219 feels like the start of the final countdown to getting the next huge checkpoint, onederland. I really, really want to hit that by the new year if I can. I know its optimistic but, not impossible I…
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The High Wears Off
For the first 4 or 5 months, every time that scale dropped I had a surge of joy and excitement. Sure I had a million miles to go, but progress! That's better than before. Now when it drops I just feel tired. Half a year of hard work and my reward is... harder work. And I guess 50 lbs gone. But my pants are the same size…
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The Gym is Still Scary
My trainer wants me at the gym 4 times a week, and gave me a 4 day schedule to follow. I tried, but it seems hopeless. The easiest time for me to hit the gym is after work. That's when its easier for everyone else apparently because it's busy af usually. That's fine when I'm with the trainer, but I just can't by myself. My…
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3 Months and 30 Pounds
Went from 272 to 242 in 94 days. Might actually be a bit lighter. The less I weigh, the more trouble I have with my stomach. :< Not the point though. 30 pounds felt impossible in April. But now it's gone. Gone despite the 1600 calorie slice of cheesecake and the entire birthday cake, the occasional fast food dinner, the…
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Got the Blues Bad Today
I walked out of my last doctor's appointment and thought, maybe I'll become one of those statistics, one of those women who died of something treatable because all the doctors would look at is weight, and not the actual problem. I spent last night biting my shirt so my screams wouldn't wake my husband. That's how much pain…
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No Pain but No Strength
The PT was having me do walking lunges yesterday and after the 15th one I lost balance, my right leg failed instead of catching me and I fell pretty hard. Today my legs aren't that sore or anything but they still feel like they have no strength, like they wanna give every time I put weight on them. Is that normal? Soreness…
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Mini Rant: Peer Pressure
Two coworkers I share an office with are also using MFP. Which is sort of cool, when they bring in snacks they share barcodes to scan and stuff. But. Well. Today is a pizza party, and they were setting up when I grabbed my lunch from the fridge. And I got "we're eating pizza, you have to eat pizza." And I just wanna yell…
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Frustrated by the Gym
The new gym I joined, it turns out, is moving locations at the end of the month. And nobody told us before we signed all the paperwork. I'm upset and feeling tricked now. I thought they were decent but now I'm frustrated that this is just another gym where they mess with you to get your money. But I also don't want to just…
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Had my First Session with a PT
So uh... how long before I'm less of a wet noodle person? ;_; Things I was expecting from a personal trainer: guidance and teaching on how to use equipment and what exercises to do. Things I wasn't expecting: Muscles being sore in places I didn't know muscles were. A farmer's carry hurts my chest like whoah and like damn.…
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But I Look the Same :( :(
Just me whining a bit. I've lost 38 ish pounds. I took the same picture in the same place wearing the same clothes. No discernible changes. Looking at myself naked, I have knees and that's it. You'd think nearly 40 lbs would mean something more than just my knees looking nicer. :( I know, I know, I'll get there, it's just…
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Too Sick for Food
This is just a mini rant. I have a choice. I can eat nothing, or I can eat small amounts of cake. Everything else hurts and makes me feel like I'm dying. I've pre-logged my usual food for today but the more I think about it, the more I want to throw up. Even water feels intolerable. God. I hate being sick.
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Patience is a Virtue
But it's not my virtue. I want to lose all this weight yesterday. I'm progressing normally at an average of 2 lbs per week and I'm down quite a bit but I'm still fat and health wise I'm struggling just as much if not more. But where before I heard that I felt sick because I'm fat, I now hear I'm sick because I'm losing…
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But I Like Cardio More
Everything I read is like, "you don't have to do cardio, its overrated and pointless and dumb" (I'm exaggerating slightly) and on and it seems like cardio is this huge chore to most people and they hate it? But I like cardio and hate lifting. Lifting embodies everything that drives me away from physical fitness: boring…
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The Solution to Chocolate Cravings
I found it. Its McCain's Deep and Delicious Chocolate Cake. The only cake to taste like air and ice somehow had a cake baby. The only food to taste like cold. It's the Lacroix of cake. Like someone thought about chocolate while making it instead of adding any. It has completely killed any desire I have to eat more cake.…
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Fun With Faire Food
The faire is here next week! Which raises some important questions. If I eat the soft serve cone coated in 24K gold, does gold have calories? Do you poop gold bricks? How much protein is in scorpion pizza? Or the bug bowl, which is ice cream topped with assorted insects? How many life choices will I question following the…
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The Fatigue
It always happens. I make some positive changes in my life, feel better, get healthier, and then... The Fatigue. I slept 8 hours last night, and all weekend, but I'm shaking with exhaustion and having micro sleeps. I feel dead on my feet. I hate being sickly. I hate it so much. I just want to feel OK.
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I Haven't Eaten Anything Today
I feel like I'm dying. I'm shaking all over, I have no energy or strength. I feel nauseous. People who fast/do OMAD on purpose... how do you survive? 0_o I'm definitely not doing this on purpose, I just literally haven't been able to find time for breakfast and lunch. After tomorrow things will go back to normal more or…
