Mary, I would say you are having LOTS of NSVs. 1500 cals for you is great on a big celebration day. You really are doing wonderfully.
Yesterday I ate LOTS. Truly, way too much. Are you sitting down before I post the number??? 2235 cals. So that is way, way more than usual. So now I will post the calories exercised - 1189. So the net was 1046 cals. I wish I had eaten less but I was hungry from a 2 hour 45 minute bike ride. We biked 35 miles and today my legs are gooey. Not sore at all, just tired. I realized I was just shy of 10 weeks post op and we biked 35 miles. So even though my cals were too high, so was the exercise and I'm thinking it balanced out ok. Or not. Either way, it is done. Today is back to my regular eating and exercise schedule.
Marie
1615 calories, about 14 carb serv. Another celebration day and I had to guess a lot at the calories but I didn't feel I stuffed myself. We took our dd and the grandchildren out to celebrate her birthday. I ate about 1/3 of a large hamburger and 5 or 6 dinner fries, and shared dessert with dh. I ate most of the dessert though. Breakfast was 1/2 small banana, and tonight I had a PB2 mocha and later a serv of popcorn. So not so healthy but was tired and lazy.
Hello, Challengers! I am new to this thread but not to 3FC or to weight loss and wonder if it is okay if I check in here now and again or maybe daily or weekly or just to say hi.
I used to weigh more than 100 pounds from where I am now. That was decades ago and I've never gained THAT back but have had my smaller ups and downs and now am currently at this slooooooooow 20-pound challenge that will take me to what I have decided is the perfect weight for me. I've 20been lower, been higher, but this challenge I am at (which I call the Lighthouse Challenge for a variety reasons, one being that I motivate myself with tales, fantasies and parables about my journey so if I post in the third person, don't mind).
Amarantha2, I couldn't agree with your signature line more - regaining and relosing is a constant battle. Welcome to the group. I'm dealing with a 20 regain as well.
Mary, many celebration days is a good thing yet a hard thing when we're trying to lose, isn't it??? Your carb servings seem pretty good from reading where you like to be over the last few months.
I was a hair over 1600 cals yesterday. I was going to elliptical but my legs were still a little gooey from the long bike ride on Sunday. So I just swam leisurely in the pool and will elliptical tonight instead. We did the 1.5 mile doggie hike before work yesterday (and today). Living in the mountains makes for a lot of ups and downs and I can feel the walking in the legs and lungs.
Marie
Always impressed with your exercise, Marie! Yes celebrations are difficult. Today we went to our retirees monthly brunch. It's not quite so bad. Hopefully life will be more "normal" for a while.
Amaranatha2, Welcome! I'm impressed with your weightloss! I 've struggled for years trying to lose 30 lbs....I have just recently got to a place where I'm not so focused on a number but rather on staying within my calories/carb limits. Calories are not such a problem anymore...I do go over on carb serv but am doing better than I was.
Huzzah and thanks to Marie and Maryea for their welcomes!
I ate in the 1900s yesterday, which was an improvement over the more than 2000 on Monday. Sunday was in the 1600s, which is where I lose weight calorie cycling up and down to, but it is slow. But I've learned not to try to go too far afield from my own individual magic number at any given point in the journey as that way leads to defeat and I will not be defeated.
It is not a struggle for me, more like a hobby at this point lol.
I don't post my exact weight much on the internet anymore as in some places I've posted about diets and such, numbers get controversial. However, a tiny share is that my IDEAL WEIGHT (aka THE GOAL NOW) is 125. I've been lower and happy and higher and happy and MUCH MUCH MUCH HIGHER and less happy lol.
I feel my goal is just right for me at the place I am entering in life.
I don't limit carbs per se but am leery of them. I sometimes am waylaid though by EVIL DONUT DEMONS and such but mostly I try to stick to a low glycemic diet and I calorie cycle and occasionally do intermittent fasting, never for more than 18 hours and only to feel better sometimes and focus, not to lose weight.
Mary, don't be impressed with the exercise yesterday. I didn't elliptical. The dentist put a yucky sealant on my teeth and the idea of exercising with that taste and texture was just plain yucky. So I didn't. Instead I tried to eat the taste out of my mouth. So my cals were 1586 and the overage was totally trying to find something to get rid of the taste. BTW, it was the iced mocha that finally did it. I just should have started there.
Amara..., you sound so like me. I've been lower and happy. I've been higher and happy. And way higher and not happy. I actually pretty much like where I am now. I wouldn't mind losing another 10 pounds but I don't want to be at my lowest as I thought my face looked way older then. I, too, find logging my foods and exercise a hobby as I can't stop or I'd be back in the not happy phase. I did give up the scale though. It made me grumble too much.
Cals and exercise were mentioned in my paragraph to Mary. Today is nearly a bust already. I had a 1/2 donut (which is way better than a whole one) and then my boss commanded me to a celebration that she was pushing cheesecake at everyone. I do love cheesecake but I wish it had been pushed at me before I'd had the 1/2 donut. That I would have not bothered with. Alas, the rest of the day I can make up for those cals. And I will elliptical after work. DH and I did the doggie hike before dawn and the sky was awesome.
Marie
1316 and almost 12 carb serv. Been busy shopping and learning about my new computer.
I'm happy and feel good at my present weight. I wouldn't mind terribly if I just maintain but I also want to lose to helpfully be healthier and to be able to fit into a dress. I used to weigh more than 20 lbs what I weigh now and I was happy then too. I was even healthy at that time although I suspect I was headed for trouble with my health if I'd kept going gaining. But at the time it was just getting hard to find clothes to fit plus I sorta looked like a football player ...
Huzzah, all! I was at 1670 calorie wise for Wednesday. Happy with that. Tried for the 1400s to balance a possible overage tomorrow when having lunch with someone in a chancey place but life goes on lol.
I am going to put my streakity streak log in here today but won't bore ye with it all the time. I post and blog about this streak all over the place sometimes and don't really need to but it motivates me to see it:
Here be the streakity streak:
THURSDAY, May 17, 2012, Day 238 of streakity streak of no day missed of daily exercise, 25 min walk, 5 min abs, 30 min weights, total streakity streak minutes so far 17,990 (Previous: 288 consecutive days of exercise, 18000 exercise minutes!)
Marie, yea, I do enjoy my "hobby." But for me the scale is really important as long as it is in the context of other NSVs and parameters such as inches gained or lost and where they are gained or lost, etc. (e.g., inches in biceps good, inches on waist not so good, that sort of thing). I don't weigh daily, though, as learned the hard way during my major weight loss that wasn't for me. I don't get negative when the scale doesn't move or goes up. I just view it as data lol. I must say I get happy when it goes down to where I want it to go. That is fun, so for me the fun outweighs the risk that I'll see a gain some Sunday mornin' lol.
Maryea, you certainly don't look like a football player now. You look fab. Woot!
I also am in the camp of being pretty happy with my weight and always for me maintaining is an okay result. I have basically been gaining slowly since an accident in 2010 (just affected arm but a lot happened to my life) and earlier this year was slacking and more out of shape and kinda blah. Better now, feel like I just might get somewhere lol.
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Mary, I hear you about being healthy at a higher weight. I was very heavy and every test was "you are so healthy". Fast forward a few years to Feb when I had the colonoscopy. I had three polyps that had to be removed. The surgeon said there were three risk factors for the precancerous polyps. 1 - Smoking (I shook my head) 2 - African American (shook my head again_ and 3- obesity. I nodded at that one and he said he knew based on my tummy tuck scar. So the fat did damage years after I lost the weight. So now I fight and fight the fat monster and it's because of my health. The 10 pounds I'd like to lose is totally vanity because I'm at a safe, good weight. Anyway, you never know when that fat will bite our behinds. at my not subtle pun.
Amara, I read your streakity streak and the flash of sad blew through me. We are so much alike. I had a six year, three week streak going. Then I had surgery. The only bad part of the surgery was losing my streak. Mostly I'd gotten over the lose of a main focus of my life, but your streak made me temp sad. I'm working on 28 days now but it just pales in comparison. You go girl. I'm proud of you! I had my streak all logged in a database I wrote and I loved printing the annual and total amounts. It was mind boggling. I haven't gotten myself to get into the log yet. But I have it logged on my iPhone. Easy to add to the "real" database.
I ended yesterday at 1435 cals (plus or minus 100 cals for the guesswork in a bakery roll) and I ellipticalled as well as the doggie walk. Spent loads of time working on our home network so I ended up tossing 1/2 my mocha when I realized I forgot to drink it. Yes, Mary, I know - that's just sacrilege.
Marie
Lots of challenges today and some sadness but I am proud to report that I didn't eat my way through it. Here are my totals for the day:
Calories 752, carbs 76, fiber 22. 36 oz water. not enough protein, fiber and water today. I am planning to have a smore tomorrow night at a cookout so I will eat sparingly tomorrow as well. I was just sad today and I had no appetite.
Mary, you are doing well. I am proud of you.
Marie, I hear you about the healthy - until you aren't. In october 3 years ago, I had good numbers. less than a year later.... high blood pressure and high blood sugar.
I'm sorry you are so sad, Rie. I hope things work out for you soon.
Marie, I too had a healthy unitil not point. When I was heavy everything seemed ok. I lost 33+ lbs and got down to what the doctor said would be good and after that I got high BP and cholesterol. I'm sure all the eating I had done got me to those but they didn't actually show up until I'd lost weight! Now he tells me to drop the weight and it will likely help my diabetes. Well Medifast proved if I eat less carbs my bs becomes normal (most of the time), but of course that's because I'm eating less carbs and fat. It is not just the weight but of course it all goes together.
My calories today were 1581 and my carbs were almost 14. I need to get back to focusing more on my carbs. I can usually handle the calories now but I sometimes forget the carbs when I have calories left.
Welcome back, Rie. I hope the sad leaves you quickly. Good job not eating through it.
Mary, I think the left over calories nearly always turn to carbs for me. Carbs are the tasty calories. I know I'm lucky that my blood sugar and blood pressure are still really low. My BP is usually so low, they retest it over and over again. In the hospital and after the colonoscopy, they didn't want to let me leave. My mom was the same way until her mid-40s, then bam, she had high BP. I keep waiting for that bam but I'm now significantly past where she was age wise. But I know it can happen. I'm hoping the devotion to exercise will stave that off forever.Like till it is 0/0 and I'm ashes.
I had a good eating day yesterday. 1414 calories and most were even healthy ones. Today, however, was SBUX Friday and I got my normal skinny, SF mocha. But the banana bread called my name. I only had a half piece but after looking up the nutritionals on SBUX site, I can see why. 490 cals for one piece. So lunch and dinner will have to be low cal and that I can do. Tonight is an elliptical workout. Yesterday evening I was a bum. I read. It was so nice and peaceful and decadent. I loved it.
Marie
A too high day for moi at 2115 but so enjoyed because spent the entire day with an old friend, had a good restaurant lunch with broc and a lean steak that was unfortunately ruined by a not so good sauce but still was a good lunch. Sadly in the process of providing my friend with some donuts for her freezer, one large one got eaten by moi but that's life!
Had a great walk and some jogging before I went to see her. It helped vis a vis stress from a long, late work day.
Thanks for kind words re my streakity streak, Marie. Sorry you lost your six year/3 week streak because of surgery. That was an incredible streak, you will always have that to be proud of. Congrats on 28 great days into a new one. Woot!
Riemontana! Woot also! Thanks for welcome and nice to meet ye. Sorry ye had a challenging, sad day. Good work on not eating way through it.
Maryea, woot, too. Great work on focusing on carbs. I also think it is not just about weight.
People think I am very weight conscious and I am in a monitoring kind of way, because it all goes together to impact my health.
Woot! I like that word, it means I am very happy! Good night, all.
at my not subtle pun.
You go girl. I'm proud of you! I had my streak all logged in a database I wrote and I loved printing the annual and total amounts. It was mind boggling. I haven't gotten myself to get into the log yet. But I have it logged on my iPhone. Easy to add to the "real" database.
