That sounds like a great deal Rho! No stress eating - it sounds like you've made a really good decision. No payments is good - or you can 'pay' those payments straight back to your savings again.
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Maybe instead of thinking about the losing weight portion concentrate on how much better you feel without the carbs and how cruddy you feel after eating them..
Really good advice! I feel like death warmed up this week (bad eating has continued, but I feel so awful it's not going to last long). The funny thing is, when I'm very low carb I feel good in many ways but I do feel tired (not in general, but walking up hill kills me) and faintly nauseous and I think that's the metformin. I probably don't need it when I'm really low carb tut I also don't want to stop until I see my doctor. But eating high carb, like I've been makes me feel awful! Feeling leaner, even if it does go with feeling a bit queasy, is still way better than I've felt waking up all carb-hungover. Ugh, I can't believe how my mouth feels in the morning, I'd totally forgotten that used to be normal.
I read somewhere on one of these boards (maybe the low carber one?) that 'being fat is hard, losing is hard, maintaining is hard, choose your hard' and it's so true! I don't feel 100% below 30g per day, but when I go above I get hungry/cravings again. But higher carb isn't the answer either - it's not like it's made me feel any better! So I pick low carb, lean feeling, losing weight and a bit queasy vs high carb, hungover-feeling, aching and getting pudgier by the second. And I need to do the proper clean progression through the rungs so I can find a level where I lose without these nutty extremes.
Thank you for your support! It's been great, even if my progress this month is less '15lbs by new year' and more 'how many times can you gain and lose the same 3 pounds water weight!'. Hee.
MsGetRight - I love the simple cream cheese dessert suggestion! I do sometimes make cheesecake, but can't be bothered with the oven... but micro-waving a bit is super easy! Thanks!
bee: Glucophage is one of the few diabetic medications least likely to cause hypoglycemia. It reduces the sugar released by your liver. But you might not have the sugar store when you exercise to keep up. I always found, back in the day when I was more able, that I could exercise longer if right before I had a little carb. Not a "carbin up" thing like some athletes do, but that's when I'd have a carb serving - like a small apple, and it would get me through. Otherwise my exercise efforts ended in hypoglycemia even on low carb.
I've had a moderate day, so I expect to be at "break even" right now.
I haven't been on the forum in ages, but I din't forget or fall off.
I was 207 the day I found this thread. I'm a slow loser, 15 pounds in two months is unheard of for me, so I modified my goal to 10 pounds (which is still very agressive for me) and so far I'm on track. I weighed 199 last weigh in. Big challenge will be to keep it there through the holiday days...
AnaBee try taking a handful (I think 28 is considered a serving) or an Individual 100 calorie bag of almonds with you and try having them when you are walking. Also do you have a blood glucose monitor? I bought one just to check my reactions to foods (yes I'm weird I want to know lol) I just explained to the pharmacist what I wanted it for and he helped me pick one out that wasn't expensive and the strips aren't terribly expensive either. I check it a few times a week in the morning and then if I have something different (like the scallops with the LC flour) an hour and then two hours later to see what it did ... Anyway that was a really long explanation before I got to what I wanted to say - if you have the numbers to give the doctor (like morning numbers and evening numbers and maybe numbers when you feel crummy) it would help him in a decision too.
Another thought are you eating enough in general? I enter my food on CarbsControl and while I don't actually worry about calories it does show as a part of it and sometimes I am shocked at how low my calories were for a day. I never could keep to eating less than 1000 calories a day but there are many days I look in the evening and I only had around 800 calories ... I'm full and could care less but the calories are low. I find that I slow up in weight loss if that happens too much and I feel yucky too. So I will have some almonds or I take a few slices of ham or salami and smear it with cream cheese and roll it up and eat it -
I haven't been on the forum in ages, but I din't forget or fall off.
I was 207 the day I found this thread. I'm a slow loser, 15 pounds in two months is unheard of for me, so I modified my goal to 10 pounds (which is still very agressive for me) and so far I'm on track. I weighed 199 last weigh in. Big challenge will be to keep it there through the holiday days...
Hi I doubt I will make the 15 either - but I figure I will be close and I can live with close - (actually my own major challenge along with this has been to hit 50lbs lost by Jan 4th.) I wanted the challenge to be work for everyone - even people who lose fast - I probably should have gone with 10 lbs because of it being the holidays maybe. I average about 1.5 lbs a week loss so I was working with that as an idea of a base. ...
So should the next challenge be a Valentines Day or St Patricks Day one and how much should we think about doing? Just to put it out there to everyone .... . I do find the challenges a big help.
rho: doesn't matter to me. I'm in, but if I make it or not, it gives me some focus.
sara: good job! ONDERLAND is such a milestone. Who cares if you make goal, you made a milestone anyway.
today I've been quite the good girl. took the stairs a little.
Breakfast: omelet, fried bologna, coffee n cream
Lunch: salad with burger patty n cheese in cafeteria - avoiding the food in the next meeting of many that was the same caterer as that LAST meeting with the all sweets meal. And it was the same meal. 3 sweet foods - the salad, the sandwich and the dessert - all sweet. Glad I ate my other food, even though it really brought me a lot of peer pressure attention today. I didn't give in.
Afternoon: finished my lunch salad, a few pepperoni, one hershey's kiss.
Supper: planning to cook some meatloaf and veggie of some kind to be determined.
We all need a little pie sometimes! This weekend, I was craving sweets, so my favorite treat is Cream Cheese -- A couple tablespoons to a quarter of a cup should do the trick -- with a bit of vanilla extract and enough Splenda to get it to your liking. I microwave it for a few seconds, stir it up and put it in the fridge to cool (or not). It's just what I need to kick every kind of sweet craving.
AnaBee try taking a handful (I think 28 is considered a serving) or an Individual 100 calorie bag of almonds with you and try having them when you are walking. Also do you have a blood glucose monitor? I bought one just to check my reactions to foods (yes I'm weird I want to know lol) I just explained to the pharmacist what I wanted it for and he helped me pick one out that wasn't expensive and the strips aren't terribly expensive either. I check it a few times a week in the morning and then if I have something different (like the scallops with the LC flour) an hour and then two hours later to see what it did ... Anyway that was a really long explanation before I got to what I wanted to say - if you have the numbers to give the doctor (like morning numbers and evening numbers and maybe numbers when you feel crummy) it would help him in a decision too.
Another thought are you eating enough in general? I enter my food on CarbsControl and while I don't actually worry about calories it does show as a part of it and sometimes I am shocked at how low my calories were for a day. I never could keep to eating less than 1000 calories a day but there are many days I look in the evening and I only had around 800 calories ... I'm full and could care less but the calories are low. I find that I slow up in weight loss if that happens too much and I feel yucky too. So I will have some almonds or I take a few slices of ham or salami and smear it with cream cheese and roll it up and eat it -
The glucose monitor sounds kind of fun! I don't have diabetes, I take the metformin for PCOS and insulin resistance, do you think the glucose monitor would still show me how I react to foods? If so then I'll look to getting one, it could be really interesting. Metformin isn't supposed to drop your blood, but it is usual to feel quite crummy on it (PCOS forums are full of people wailing about how they feel). If I don't eat a proper dinner, I can't take the night time dose because it will make me feel really bad the next morning. I'm lucky in that I generally are pretty ok - I don't get the stomach distress that a lot of people get -but nausea is pretty common. It's one of those medicines where you sometimes feel like the cure is worse than the problem! But I've been on it over two years now and it does help, I think.
I think I eat enough (around 1400 cal usually). The nuts are a great idea though - I will get some and portion them out. Thank you for all the ideas.
Anabee I'm not diabetic either and I don't take metformin or anything but I figured it would be interesting to see how my body reacts to foods and also if something made me crave what it was doing too. It does change after foods but not I'm sure as much as it would if I had a problem.
One other thought is be sure you are drinking enough water and you aren't dehydrated.
10 lbs by Valentines sounds good to me for the next challenge if everyone else agrees - its doable but also means work to make it - and if anyone gets to 10 lbs they can add a few more to their personal challenge if they like too.
I like the idea of a Valentine's challenge. I think a shorter period of time is a good idea after the holidays (instead of St Patrick's). I like the idea of committing to do my best for a certain number of weeks, but I personally don't like the time-bound weight goal with it, probably because I usually lose slowly and with time goals I tend to be really sad about the pounds I 'should have' lost instead of celebrating the pounds I ACTUALLY lose. So I'll join you all for the next phase without the number goal attached.
Right now I'm hoping to get another pound or two off before we leave for x-mas. That number will be my goal for January 2nd weigh in (hold steady from Dec 23-Jan 2).
I like the 10 pounds by Valentine's too. I've been sick now since Saturday. It's been awful. I strayed from LC big time. All I wanted was carby foods. I need to make a LC soup and freeze it so I'm prepared in times when I'm sick. I really need to plan ahead like that. I'm scared to see if I gained back the little bit I lost.
I've decided just to stay off plan until after this weekend. We are having Christmas dinner at my mom's this Sunday so I might as well wait til after that since I've already blown it.
Sarah maybe you can do a days on plan or weeks on plan instead of lbs lost and maybe mark them with smilies or something in your signature. Or / for days and a for a week or something. Just a thought - you don't have to have anything in your signature and you don't have to shoot for any specific number to join in just come on in and read and post ... It's all about the support.
Vi so sorry you've been sick - there are a variety of bugs going around this year for sure. Because of your experience I'm going to set up a note page on my iPad with ideas for things to eat when I'm sick. Quick and easy things to just grab ... And maybe make up some soups to go in the freezer in individual portions to just grab and throw in the micro. Thank god for PeaPod I can always order and have stuff delivered if I need to (well that's actually my normal shopping method but if I'm sick I can place a order of quick and easy things as long as I have a day or two worth of stuff to hold me over)
We have a Xmas party Friday night and I KNOW there will be people there who are sick and shouldn't be there - it happens every year - and I usually end up catching something or hubby catches it and mutates it before sharing. I have upped my vitamin C hoping to avoid it. And last year the food kinda sucked hope they have better this year. And it is an obligation party not a gee I'm looking forward to this party party lol. Can you tell how excited I am to be going heheheh. The one really good thing is is it close to home - it is an old restaurant that was turned into a catering place and I could literally walk home from it. My strategy is to talk and drink my seltzer during the cocktail portion and order the prime rib (usually one of the choices) and eat that and the vegetable - ignore the potato and dessert and most likely the salad - I seem to remember their dressing is on the sweet side. And maybe I'll eat a hard boiled egg or some almonds or something quick like that before going so I don't go in hungry..
I'll tell you -- having the doctors appointment on January 4th and the blood work being done between Xmas and New Years is working great as a way for me to be sure to stick totally with my plans. The doctor said he expects the blood work to change because of the time of year and that it does for everyone -- but I walked out swearing to myself that I would be the exception to that rule -- and I am nothing if not stubborn..
Rho, I think I'll look for a glucose meter, it sounds like an interesting tool. It's nice to have some data to go along with how I feel. And it sounds like you have a good strategy for the part. Crossing fingers you don't get sick!!
Vi, I'm sorry you've been so sick. It's really hard to stay on plan when you feel awful. I hope you feel better soon.
Sarah, I'm glad you can join us and amending to suit your needs is a good idea.
). It's just what I need to kick every kind of sweet craving.
