| Height: | 166.0cm |
| Start weight: | 266.50lb |
| Current weight: | 260.00lb |
| Goal weight: | 150.00lb |
| Lost to date: | 6.50lb |
| Remaining: | 110.00lb |
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Just wanted to let everyone know, that I had a 4.5 lb loss this week! I've been working out every night, and the scale is showing! I haven't updated in awhile, so tomorrow, I will update everything. Just wanted to report to everyone, I'm ecstatic! Hope everyone is doing just as well!!!
I am SO prepared for this week, and of course upcoming weeks. Chris and I went grocery shopping lastnight and got tonssss of healthy stuff. I cleaned out our cabinets and got rid of all the junk food, food pornish items and replaced them with TONS of great food. Tons of water, veggies, fruits, etc etc. I am really excited! I also got some desserts that were low in calories, so If I wanted to "Cheat" it wouldn't be all that bad, and it would satisfy my sweet tooth.
My husband and I are both doing it together, he finally had enough when it was messin' with our sex life. Shortness of breath (Not the good kind, haha.) So, we both decided we are GOING to do this. :-) It's not healthy to be this way.
Lastnight we went swimming, and did laps in the pool, now my arms are really sore. But, it felt good.
Anyway, hope everyone has a FANTASTIC on program week, and I would love to see what everyone's daily/weekly challenges are so we can hold eachother accountable.
My Challenges for the Week:
Anyhow, those are my goals for the week, anyone wanna join, and share your own?
Good Luck!!!
-Kim
Well, here I am, I have not updated in awhile, WHY? because I can not seem to stick to any plan. I feel pathetic. I do not get it! I HATE what I see in the mirror, however, I can not overcome it, and DO something about it. Have I been eating right? No! I have not been going out to eat, but, I have not been eating my best. It's really sad. I really don't know WHY I can't do it.. it's very depressing.
I skipped my period for the month of June, I used to be regular to a T, but now.. It seems like my period comes whenever it feels like it. I'm guessing It's because I'm overweight. What do yall think? (Sorry guys for all the "Girl talk") I used to be regular up until I was about 250 lbs, now I come and go. I'm not pregnant I took a home pregnancy test that came out negative. Has this happened to any of you ladies?
Well, I'm going to try to do this again tomorrow, a New day. What tips can you'll give me on staying on plan? Not giving up, and not bowing down to all this bad food, and not exercising?
Any info WILL be appreciated!
Have a great weekend!
-Kim
This is for all the scale Kings/Queens! Frequent weighers. :-) Hope this helps someone.
Why The Scale Lies
We've been told over an over again that daily weighing is unnecessary, yet many of us can't resist peeking at that number every morning. If you just can't bring yourself to toss the scale in the trash, you should definitely familiarize yourself with the factors that influence it's readings. From water retention to glycogen storage and changes in lean body mass, daily weight fluctuations are normal. They are not indicators of your success or failure. Once you understand how these mechanisms work, you can free yourself from the daily battle with the bathroom scale.
Water makes up about 60% of total body mass. Normal fluctuations in the bodies water content can send scale-watchers into a tailspin if they don't understand what's happening. Two factors influencing water retention are water consumption and salt intake. Strange as it sounds, the less water you drink, the more of it your body retains. If you are even slightly dehydrated your body will hang onto it's water supplies with a vengeance, possibly causing the number on the scale to inch upward. The solution is to drink plenty of water.
Excess salt (sodium) can also play a big role in water retention. A single teaspoon of salt contains over 2,000 mg of sodium. Generally, we should only eat between 1,000 and 3,000 mg of sodium a day, so it's easy to go overboard. Sodium is a sneaky substance. You would expect it to be most highly concentrated in salty chips, nuts, and crackers. However, a food doesn't have to taste salty to be loaded with sodium. A half cup of instant pudding actually contains nearly four times as much sodium as an ounce of salted nuts, 460 mg in the pudding versus 123 mg in the nuts. The more highly processed a food is, the more likely it is to have a high sodium content. That's why, when it comes to eating, it's wise to stick mainly to the basics: fruits, vegetables, lean meat, beans, and whole grains. Be sure to read the labels on canned foods, boxed mixes, and frozen dinners.
Women may also retain several pounds of water prior to menstruation. This is very common and the weight will likely disappear as quickly as it arrives. Pre-menstrual water-weight gain can be minimized by drinking plenty of water, maintaining an exercise program, and keeping high-sodium processed foods to a minimum.
Another factor that can influence the scale is glycogen. Think of glycogen as a fuel tank full of stored carbohydrate. Some glycogen is stored in the liver and some is stored the muscles themselves. This energy reserve weighs more than a pound and it's packaged with 3-4 pounds of water when it's stored. Your glycogen supply will shrink during the day if you fail to take in enough carbohydrates. As the glycogen supply shrinks you will experience a small imperceptible increase in appetite and your body will restore this fuel reserve along with it's associated water. It's normal to experience glycogen and water weight shifts of up to 2 pounds per day even with no changes in your calorie intake or activity level. These fluctuations have nothing to do with fat loss, although they can make for some unnecessarily dramatic weigh-ins if you?re prone to obsessing over the number on the scale.
Otherwise rational people also tend to forget about the actual weight of the food they eat. For this reason, it's wise to weigh yourself first thing in the morning before you've had anything to eat or drink. Swallowing a bunch of food before you step on the scale is no different than putting a bunch of rocks in your pocket. The 5 pounds that you gain right after a huge dinner is not fat. It's the actual weight of everything you've had to eat and drink. The added weight of the meal will be gone several hours later when you've finished digesting it.
Exercise physiologists tell us that in order to store one pound of fat, you need to eat 3,500 calories more than your body is able to burn. In other words, to actually store the above dinner as 5 pounds of fat, it would have to contain a whopping 17,500 calories. This is not likely, in fact it's not humanly possible. So when the scale goes up 3 or 4 pounds overnight, rest easy, it's likely to be water, glycogen, and the weight of your dinner. Keep in mind that the 3,500 calorie rule works in reverse also. In order to lose one pound of fat you need to burn 3,500 calories more than you take in. Generally, it's only possible to lose 1-2 pounds of fat per week. When you follow a very low calorie diet that causes your weight to drop 10 pounds in 7 days, it's physically impossible for all of that to be fat. What you?re really losing is water, glycogen, and muscle.
This brings us to the scales sneakiest attribute. It doesn't just weigh fat. It weighs muscle, bone, water, internal organs and all. When you lose "weight," that doesn't necessarily mean that you've lost fat. In fact, the scale has no way of telling you what you've lost (or gained). Losing muscle is nothing to celebrate. Muscle is a metabolically active tissue. The more muscle you have the more calories your body burns, even when you?re just sitting around. That's one reason why a fit, active person is able to eat considerably more food than the dieter who is unwittingly destroying muscle tissue.
Robin Landis, author of "Body Fueling," compares fat and muscles to feathers and gold. One pound of fat is like a big fluffy, lumpy bunch of feathers, and one pound of muscle is small and valuable like a piece of gold. Obviously, you want to lose the dumpy, bulky feathers and keep the sleek beautiful gold. The problem with the scale is that it doesn't differentiate between the two. It can't tell you how much of your total body weight is lean tissue and how much is fat. There are several other measuring techniques that can accomplish this, although they vary in convenience, accuracy, and cost. Skin-fold calipers pinch and measure fat folds at various locations on the body, hydrostatic (or underwater) weighing involves exhaling all of the air from your lungs before being lowered into a tank of water, and bio electrical impedance measures the degree to which your body fat impedes a mild electrical current.
If the thought of being pinched, dunked, or gently zapped just doesn't appeal to you, don't worry. The best measurement tool of all turns out to be your very own eyes. How do you look? How do you feel? How do your clothes fit? Are your rings looser? Do your muscles feel firmer? These are the true measurements of success. If you are exercising and eating right, don?t be discouraged by a small gain on the scale. Fluctuations are perfectly normal. Expect them to happen and take them in stride. It's a matter of mind over scale.
The weekend's are always so hard for me! We go out and about, and on the way home I'm tired and I don't want to cook. I have been sooo lazy! So, I'm always telling Chris "Lets make a stop at such and such fastfood place." And of course he agree's and then here we go, sometimes he doesn't even get fastfood and I'm still wanting it, lastnight Whattaburger tonight Subway, I just can't say NO! I usually have a foot long and tonight I got a 6 inch, but.. I just don't understand WHY I can't say no, it's all in my head. I should think about it like this "Would you rather eat that fatty food, instead of losing weight and feeling great?" You'd think It would be a simple "Of course I don't want that!" But, it's so hard for me.
:( I saw a friend of ours today and he has lost sooo much weight. If he can do it, anyone can. Not that he's lazy or anything, but he has lost so much. I need the willpower, encouragement. I just don't know what to do anymore. I know my husband feels bad if he would have told me "No hunny you don't need it!" I don't want to become defensive either if he told me that, but it would be best for ME and my weightloss. :( I hate putting him on the spot.
Tomorrow is another day/week, and I will try harder. I need to do this! If anyone around my weight, or anyone in general would like to pair up and become E-mail buddies and hold eachother accountable I would love that! :-)
Have a great week!
-Kim
I figured a lot of us will be having a family get together, or some sort of party for the 4th! Here are some tips I found online that are awesome! :-) I know it's very hard for me when we have a Holiday get together. Hope you'll enjoy them, and have a happy safe 4th weekend! :-) I will have a regular entry later. :-) So far I have had a 2 lb loss, WOOHOO!!
Party Tips
Here are some general tips for the holiday season too.
Watch your portions - using a smaller plate really helps and you won't notice the difference.
Sit down and eat slowly. Take time to really taste, savor and enjoy your meal.
Clear the table straight after a meal to avoid picking at leftovers (or have serving dishes on the side).
Try not to shop for food when you are hungry - or stressed!
Keep up a regular meal pattern - rather than nibble and graze all day long.
Half fill up your plate with plenty of vegetables or salad - for different tastes, colors, nutrients and textures.
Drink plenty of water over the day. Enjoy a drink, but aim to stay within healthy limits as much as possible.
Opt for lean red meat and chicken/turkey or fish without breadcrumbs, batter or fatty skin. Remember to bake, grill, stir-fry, steam or char-grill rather than fry.
Carefully select your foods - compare labels and choose those lowest in fat (a low fat food has no more than 3g of fat per 100g).
Skip the butter or margarine on bread - or on vegetables (try adding herbs for rich flavor).
Enjoy baked potatoes or mashed potatoes (with low fat spread) instead of roast potatoes or chips. Or 'dry roast' - par-boil potatoes, shake in the pan, and then bake.
Try tropical fresh fruit for dessert or as a nibble platter. Treat yourself to all those exotic fruits you wouldn't normally buy.
Add seasonal low fat flavor to turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce - and skip the spread or mayo.
Go for a nice, long energizing walk - every day if you can
If you have a blow out or a bad day, don't despair. Just put it behind you and get back on track. Making changes always has ups and downs - you can always get back!
We probably don't need to tell you how tough it is to lose weight when you sit at a desk all day, five days a week. What's a dieter to do?
"Weight control is simply a mathematical equation," says Melinda Hemmelgarn, MS, RD, nutritionist at the University of Missouri. "To lose weight, you must burn more calories than you take in." If you sit at a desk all day, you're sedentary and more likely to snack, which may make it difficult to win the calorie contest.
9-to-5 Diet Strategies
The solution is to make the most of your desk's diet potential. We surveyed weight-loss experts and dieters who've done it. Here are the tricks they believe work best.
(I Found this off of a message board, and I think it hits home.)
It's back to basics time.
Are you journaling?
Are you exercising?
Are you getting in your waters, dairy, veggies and fruits?
Many people compare our challenge to alcoholism. I can see the comparison. We are getting some kind of payoff from the overeating or we wouldn't be drawn back to it. But, like the drunk we wake up the next day with two problems instead of one...Try one of the tools that AA uses. Fake it 'til you make it.
AA members cannot go off program. The results are too disastrous. We also don't have the right to disrespect our bodies and our dreams. The results of our binges are equally life threatening.
Can you do One Day?
So, do the program perfectly one day.
The power you gain from doing it well one whole day will make you strong enough to do it again the next day. The strength you get from that will push you on into and through the next... Pretty soon you will not be faking anymore.
Find out then what the payoff is...Stress relief, celebration, boredom, grief, whatever. Put a name to it. In one of his early books Dr. Phil McGraw said that "When you name the demon you can face him. When you face him you can defeat him."
When you find the payoff you then need to find a way to get the payoff without over eating. The payoff is what you really wanted in the first place not all that food. So if you need to de-stress go for a run or read a good book (or The Good Book) If it's celebration then find the fun and the love without the points. Getting together with family does not have to be an eating contest. If it's boredom GET BUSY!
Here is the bottom line. If you do not think this is important enough to do then it's not....
EVERYONE's health is important. I hope you'll see it that way too, otherwise we wouldn't be in the same boat now, would we?
You'll are worth the effort.
Ok, so here I am again. Yesterday I THOUGHT I would have been better for my "First day" and as you can see I ate fast food twice in one day. That's ridiculous. I'm not too sure why I have such a problem saying no to fastfood. It's not good for me, it's quite sad.
Today hubby and I got into an arguement, as much as I want to, I am not running to fast food, chips, soda, candy, burgers, ANYTHING. I need to stop emotionally eating. That's probably where most of my weight is coming from, and of course the good ole boredom. When I'm down, I want to eat, that's not healthy, and I need to have that sink in my head.
Instead, I should go work-out, which I did not do yesterday. Shame on me. I feel as if I will ALWAYS be over-weight, because once I start something, I can never finish it. I always say, "Well, I'm going to start over, I will do it!" But, I always fail. BUT, I am picking myself up, and dusting myself off, and giving it another go. I WANT to succeed this time. Sure, we all have slip-ups, but this time if feels different despite of my "Not so good start."
I need to do this for me. I no longer want to be out of breath going up one flight of stairs, I want to be able to bend down and shave my legs and not getting light headed, I want to be able to go to the pool and not wear that nasty white T-Shirt over. I want to be comfortable in my skin, and right now... I'm not.
I will do this... All the encouragement, words of wisdom will be appreciated.
*Updated*
Ended up going swimming with my family, and while I was at the pool Chris ended up sending me an E-mail letting me know that he was sorry, and he in no way wanted to fight with me. That felt good that he apologized, because I can not stand when we fight. It makes me sick to my stomach. He had to go to work, so I will apologize later also, it takes two to fight, right?
Other then that, it was relaxing to go hang out in the pool. It's soooo Hot outside. Gotta love Texas weather!
I'm also about to go work-out in a bit once my food settles, hubby wont be home for another hour 1/2, so it's ME time!
Have a fantastic day to those who are reading. :)
Well, I'm back at it for the millionth time, hopefully, I mean I WILL succeed this time. I have honestly had enough of me being overweight, feeling disgusting, hiding behind baggy T-shirts, not caring about putting make-up on, doing my hair, which I loved to do when I was a size 14 (I used to think that was fat, now look at me now 266.5 lbs in a size 20.)
That's disgusting, how did I ever LET myself get that big, why because I thought it would be ok to eat fastfood atleast 4 times a a week if not more. It is not healthy, I can imagine what my heart is saying by now. I know, I don't feel unhealthy, besides of course the obvious weight problems, but.. I know it's just not good.
From today on, I will discover my outer beauty. I will not just be "Well, you're so sweet, but well you're just fat!" I will love me for me, and not settle for less.
I will be following WW's, however, I will own up to it, and had breakfast at Mc Donald's, I will count up the points, and live up to it. I will workout, and record everything that goes into this mouth.
I think I had enough when I saw myself in the mirror, that disgusting reflection, and when my aunt called me chubby. That's just not right. ;-)
Any thoughts, input would be appreciated!
**Updated**
Thanks so much for the wonderful comment that you left me, I didn't know my blog could be found that easy. I really need the encouragement right now. I would like to hope I could do it w/o it, but, it's hard to, and motivation, always helps!
Today has been a very busy day, stressful, and I've only had breakfast. I know that's not healthy, It's almost 4pm right now, and I'm about to eat lunch/dinner. So far for the day I've had the Sausage/Egg McMuffin (Eeek) and a hash brown, and I drank water with it. I know that sounds horrrrible, but I used to be able to eat 2 of them (The Meals) so a step down helps. Baby steps, Right?
So as far as points go, I know I consumed a lot in breakfast, so I will eat a small dinner, and some zero point snacks.
=14.5 points (27 points for the day I'm allowed, from here on, I will make wiser decisions on what goes into my mouth. I need to look at the ENTIRE picture, and not what tastes good at that moment.) I will also workout tonight. I CAN do this!!
-Kim
