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Back after a long absence
I've been gone several months because I wasn't dieting or exercising due to a hospitalization and a new medicine regimen. I'm back now, in better shape from the fibromyalgia than I've ever been before, and ready to start up again, though I've gained back most of the weight that I lost in the first place. Well, back to the…
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What do I do about cookie-binge cravings?
Okay, I know all the stuff that says if you really crave something, let yourself have a little bit of it, budget it into your calorie total for the day, and walk away. The problem is that (a) I already ate brunch out today, meaning I'm close to my calorie budget by evening just on the one meal and will have to go over with…
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My first 10 pounds!
I have lost 11 pounds since I began this diet. I've never, ever succeeded on a diet well enough to break the ten-pound-loss mark before!! I've got a long way to go -- another 54 pounds to my target weight -- but this has really made me believe that if I keep it going, slow and steady, I can DO it!
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Dieting with/for fibromyalgia
Hi, I'm new. Not just to MyFitnessPal, but to dieting; I've never needed to until this year, and I didn't acknowledge that I needed to until fairly recently. I have severe fibromyalgia which keeps me housebound and in pain a lot of the time; the combination of crippling fatigue which kept me from exercising, along with a…
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What do people think of the Time Magazine article...
...titled "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin?" http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857-1,00.html for those who haven't read it and want to. It seems like it makes sense to me, but I don't know what to think.
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I have discovered PICKLES!!
I've just found out that my favorite Claussen kosher dill pickles are 5 clories per spear. An ENTIRE JAR of them is 65 calories total! This means that I can eat pickles ANYTIME I WANT, as many as I want, and this makes me insanely happy (and my girlfriend a little nervous; she hates pickles and won't kiss me after I eat…
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Post-Thanksgiving
It's two days after Thanksgiving, and I had to spend the days leading up to it eating a lot in order to recuperate from a nasty virus as well -- and I *still* weigh exactly what my lowest pre-Thanksgiving weight was a week ago! I haven't lost anything this week, but I haven't gained an ounce either! With the combination of…
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Feeling like a failure
I'm not exercising. I can't exercise. I can't get out of bed. The fibro flare is kicking my tail beyond belief. I can't even get my normal chores done, like picking up my kid from school (my partner did it), or doing my laundry. I'm still eating consistently under my target calories, even when I really want more.…
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Getting ENOUGH calories??
Boy oh boy, did I not think this was going to be my problem when I started to diet. I keep saying I'm going to stick close to, not far under, 1200 calories and I end up around 600-750. Today I said I was going to go for 1600 because my body was screaming for food, so I did what felt like eating everything in sight, all…
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The first five pounds
I weighed in this morning and stared in astonishment at a scale whose first two digits were a 1 and an 8, not a 1 and a 9. It's been several months since I saw a 1 and an 8 there! I have succeeded in taking off the first five pounds of my intended 65-pound journey, and I'm now at 189.5! I am so happy! I've been so very…
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Small victories
I've been exercising in absolutely microscopic quantities, because I've been entirely sedentary (mostly bedridden) for more than three years now and because I've got fibromyalgia and overdoing physical activity will trigger a flare quicker than anything else I know of. So it's been five minutes here and five minutes there.…
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Okay, this is kinda stupid, but...
I've only been on this diet for three days, but it is my first diet EVER, and I've been scrupulous for those three days, and I weighed myself and it read three pounds less. This is ridiculous and I'm sure that two of those three are just normal fluctuations that will go up and down within a range over time; I know all…
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I just got one heck of a challenge...
My mother, who has been heroically not urging me to diet for the past two years, but has been silently worrying about me until I decided to do it for my own reasons, has offered me a reward challenge. When I reach 155 pounds, she'll give me a thousand dollars. When I reach 130, my final target weight (my intended…
