aoikirin

Discussions

Purging gone but overeating continues
I was bulimic for a year, and have managed to avoid any purging for a few months now. At this point I feel confident that I will not relapse. The problem I face now is that I still have horrible urges to binge and I do act on them sometimes. I want to stop this because I know that binging is not good for you, even if it…
I keep falling off the wagon after doing so well :(
I am really struggling to maintain compliance with the amount of calories I am supposed to be eating. I will do great for 4-7 days, but then get horrible cravings to overeat. There is a diner place right by my work that has great pancakes. They are my weakness. I never want to go there again but it's hard. The craving is…
Cardio works - tell me tell me
I am so lazy. In spite of being super compliant with my food of late, I cannot bring myself to go to the gym to do cardio. I have about 25-30 lbs left to lose. I am hoping to hear from some people who feel cardio really helped them in that last push to lose. Please tell me it's not a useless exercise. ;-9
Cheat meals or days - good or bad?
I go back and forth on this one. I think sometimes it's really important to have some variety and a sense of freedom when you are restricting calories and the types of food you are eating, but I am afraid that if I do have a cheat meal it will ruin my momentum. What do you think. In my definition a cheat meal is a meal…
Body Image and Relationships
So I am sort of in a funny position. I am in the best shape of my life but I am dating someone who does not like my body. I have explained that I have loose skin from having been over 300 lbs but this extenuating circumstance seems to make no difference. I sensed the lack of attraction so I pushed and pushed to understand…
Finally Back On Track!!!!!
Well it took long enough but today is my second consecutive day without any cheating or binging for many many months. I was doing so well but once I got within 25-30 lbs of my goal I started to binge and have problems up to and including purging my binges. So two days without binging, purging, or cheating. Just the right…
Chafing vs. Support - Help Please!
I have always had inner thigh chafing, but now that I have reached normal weight I don't have it much. I do have some loose excess skin there, but not enough to create huge problems. Part of the solution for me has been for me to use Underarmour compression shorts that go all the way to the knee. I don't even have to use…
Binging
Anyone else get the urge to eat eat eat eat ad nauseum until vomiting? I know that isn't normal but sometimes when I feel down I get the urge to binge - not even appreciate what I am eating but just stuff myself with everything in sight as quickly as possible until I hurl. I think this has more to do with feeling depressed…
I need help with getting some motivation
.... to go to the gym... lol. I don't understand myself. I am less than 10 pounds away from my goal, and yet I have not been going to the gym. Cardio helps one lose weight right? I just need to hear that. LOL
Need help with motivation to exercise :(
I have a physical job where I am on my feet all day. I have to do various kinds of patrols and the nature of the work is quite physical. I really like my job but it is exhausting. I started 2 months ago and ever since then I have found it hard to push myself to do my normal cardio. I never have two consecutive days off, so…
How is this possible?
I weighed myself on 8/21 and was 245, and I weighed myself today after a whole day's food at the end of the day and was 238.5! This was done on the same sliding scale at the same gym. Is this possible? Maybe I was retaining water or something? I have been doing this since May, so 15 lbs since then isn't tons overall…
Excess skin on upper inner thighs
Ok so this is kind of gross, but I used to weigh 323 ( I am 6'4 though) and now have loose upper thigh skin. Not tons. It's not like some of the pics I have seen online where it just hangs down. It's just loose and there is extra. Anyway, I have always had big thighs - I have a heavy build outside of being fat, and my…
How do you know when a first date went well?
So I am back from a first date and don't really know how it went. We went to dinner, and were in the restaurant for about 2.5 hours. We sat around talking long after the bill was placed there. We had no awkward silences or anything like that. I was very surprised after leaving the restaurant that he was ready to part. It…
Monthly amount of weightloss? Is 5 lbsa month sustainable?
I lost five pounds my first month on here and was wondering if it is possible to maintain that level of loss more or less every month from here on out until I reach my goal (33 more pounds) I know that the less weight you have to lose, the harder it is to make if come off your body. From here on out should I expect little…
How does weight loss actually happen in the body?
I know this might be an obvious question, but how is the fat slowly broken down and then redistributed as one loses weight? Fat is solid - where does it go and how does it transform? I know this might seem like a stupid question but I have no idea.
First weigh-in in a month and since starting MFP tomorrow
I am so nervous. I plan on going in the morning before I have had anything to eat or drink and after I try to eliminate everything possible. I really hope I have lost. :( I did work really hard. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to handle it if I have gained?
What do you set as your daily Sodium intake?
1,000mg ? 2,000? 2,500? I still eat a lot of processed food so I try to stay under 3,000.
Skin Creases
I was wondering if anyone else has noticed the following. I have little creases around the areas where my arms meet my chest, and also around the area where my lower thigh meets my knee. They are slight and not disfiguring. I also have one very large one around my neck sort of in the pattern that a necklace might fall on a…
Do you ever go over your daily calorie limit?
The last few days I have gone over by 50-80 calories. Does this matter if it happens once in a while?
Rash to the left of my armpit from heavy exercise?
I do elliptical for an hour daily, and use the kind where there are movable handles you push back and forth. I have this sort of itchy rash not in my left arm pit, but sort of to the left of it right along where my arm, back, and chest meet to the left of my armpit, nearly under my arm. It is a hard spot to describe but I…
Do you ever distrust the nutritional info provided on foods?
I don't normally, but there are these fantastic Chinese scallion pancakes I got before starting this that claim on their packaging to be only 81 calories each: http://www.tyloon.com/goods/10718/scallion-pancake.html I do not see how this is possible. Granted, these do not have lard, which many other versions do but still!…
Does anyone else not enter their exercise on here?
I don't like entering it because it changes my food numbers and says to eat more....to the tune of 1000 more calories! I just don't like my pretty numbers getting messed up ;0 BTW I know a lot of you advocate eating more to lose, but I joined this site after eating 2500 a day with an hour of cardio every day and GAINING 2…
Weight loss and pictures
So am I the only person who is waiting waiting waiting for more weight loss before taking new pictures? I know this is silly because I weight LESS than my current ones and would look better, but I have gotten greedy and want to wait until the fat in my face has all but gone. lol ;0 As I lose more I get greedier and…
I didn't realize there were so many feline users here
;-0 So many users here have kitties as their avatars :) meow!
Maximum sodium per day and what it does for weight loss?
I have read different sodium numbers from 1500mg, 2000mg, even 2500mg per day. Which is best? Does excessive sodium intake really inhibit weight loss?
The most advantageous situation in which to weigh oneself?
By advantageous here of course I mean under which circumstances will you weigh the least possible. I assume it would be in the morning, before eating or drinking anything, and after voiding and eliminating anything and everything possible? Is it true that you can weigh 1-2 pounds less after exercise from just water loss? I…