after a great weekend of staying on plan, getting great exercise and being literally perfect on my diet... I've somehow gained 2 pounds. it's very depressing.
March 17th will mark my 1 year weightloss journey anniversary. My original goal was 110, then 105, now 102. I'm spitting distance, but it's all good. There is literally one more spot that I've got fat sitting around my middle, and it's SO close! Onward to March!
Congratulations, Kristi! You really have made spectacular progress!
after a great weekend of staying on plan, getting great exercise and being literally perfect on my diet... I've somehow gained 2 pounds. it's very depressing.
TW - 167.0
I hate when that happens! But you're working on your strategy, and that's what's important. If you don't mind my asking, did you do one of those things where they tell you how many calories you need for your height, weight, activity level, etc.?
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2/8: 112 yoga
2/9: 111 Running/walking and yoga
2/10: 110.6
2/11: 110.6 Running/walking and yoga
2/12: 110.8
2/13: 109.8 I was surprised at the drop, but have added jumping jacks this week to the running/walking routine, and think they may have helped. :-)
Unofficial weigh-in for Valentine's Day, 2016: 110.2 Happy to be in the 110s! The exercising really is helping to keep the gain in check. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone, and I hope you have a wonderful holiday.
2/15: 113.8
2/16: 111.2
2/17: 113.2
2/18: 110.2 Still working out very regularly, just not remembering to post it!
2/19: 110.6 Run/walk and yoga
2/20: 109.6
Unofficial weigh-in for Sunday, February 21: 111.6 (food baby) I have a really good feeling about my last unofficial weigh-in next week. Going to have a good workout and eating week, and plan on making my goal for the month of under 109.2!
2/22: 114.2
2/23: 112.2
2/24: 112.2 Eating late in the day for the last two days. Starting early this morning (with a tin of oysters, of all things - need to go to the store, lol), so can hopefully get a lower start tomorrow.
2/25: 111
2/26: 109.6
2/27: 110.2
Unofficial weigh-in: 108.8 YAY! Made weight for February, which was just anything under 109.2.
I hate when that happens! But you're working on your strategy, and that's what's important. If you don't mind my asking, did you do one of those things where they tell you how many calories you need for your height, weight, activity level, etc.?
well, yes - sort of. I have been using a program called LoseIt - a website. I've been logging my food and exercise and tracking my weight there for almost 10 years now. You can set goals for yourself like, "I want to lose 1 lb a week until I reach 150 lbs" and then you tell it your activity level. because I've always had this issue of a very low metabolism, regardless of how much I exercise, I put in "sedentary" lifestyle. It comes back with a recomendation of about 1200 calories a day -- I've done that for years and can't seem to lose weight. I've been told by many people that I am not eating enough and maybe my body is going into starvation mode.... so I decided about 6 months ago to try upping to 1500 calories a day (which is much easier to maintain) and see how that works. I haven't seen any change at all, so the good part is at least I am not gaining weight... then 2 weeks ago I decided to ADD the weight watchers system to my calorie counting to see what kind of difference that made. there is a big difference between the two, so it's interesting trying to balance them, but I'm doing it. I've always been a big veggie lover, so it's never hard to get the veggies down... I don't have any answers. In the past when I find the where-with-all to "get serious", I will go on a 1000 calorie (or less) per day diet, and then (and only then) do I seem to actually lose weight but this is SO hard to do, and I'm not sure it is healthy.
checking in today -- weight is up again to 167.4 -- yesterday was downright perfect, stayed on both calorie plan and WW, plus one solid hour of hard riding on the bicycle. I just don't understand, so discouraging.
Maybe I am just expecting too much too quickly. this is my log for the past 2 weeks (I'm startting there because prior to that I was logging my weight sporadically: I'm using the 18th as my "official" start date for now but between September 1st and now, I've vascillated between 163 and 170 and the weigh in's look a lot like this last 2 weeks.
checking in today -- weight is up again to 167.4 -- yesterday was downright perfect, stayed on both calorie plan and WW, plus one solid hour of hard riding on the bicycle. I just don't understand, so discouraging.
Maybe I am just expecting too much too quickly. this is my log for the past 2 weeks (I'm startting there because prior to that I was logging my weight sporadically: I'm using the 18th as my "official" start date for now but between September 1st and now, I've vascillated between 163 and 170 and the weigh in's look a lot like this last 2 weeks.
Hmmm...the only thing I can think of is, do you add calories that you are allowed back in, based on your exercise? Sometimes not allowing for exercise calories can help, in my experience. Wait, you got 1200 suggested calories at 5'10"? I'm not a believer in the "starvation mode" model - to me, it's a mathematical (is that how you spell it, lol) equation of calories needed to maintain/calories used, but it seems you would need more calories at that height. My two non-doctor cents!
Hit my February goal two days early.
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If you don't mind my asking, did you do one of those things where they tell you how many calories you need for your height, weight, activity level, etc.?
