Anna, maybe you can explain this for us!
Anna, if you can share more on the kidneys during pregnancy & with diabetes that you mentioned, would love to hear more.
I got nothin' on the hair.
As for the kidneys, diabetes is stressful: http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kdd/
When you are pregnant, your blood volume is higher, and by the end of the pregnancy, you are filtering for two whole people. That is a lot.
The number one predictor of a macrosomic (over 8# 13 oz) baby: mother's weight at conception. I was 169 when I got pregnant with Will and had an 11 pound baby. I was 152 with Meara and she was only 9 and a quarter. Will's head was 15 1/4 and hers was only 14 1/2. Still huge.
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I posted a 3 lb loss this week... let's hope I can keep it off!
Congrats! Sucks about D's IBS, but probably better eating for everyone in the long run!
Wow, I bow to you Anna, queen of the big and big-headed babies! My sister naturally birthed a 10 lb'er in a birthing center, so I don't get any sympathy from her!! Interested to know what it is that makes them think fat women are on a certain path to c/s. Obviously their research and experience doesn't lie, but is it a general lack of fitness that means the baby can't come out? I cracked my tailbone on the trampoline as a child and still can't sit still for long in folding or hotel chairs or airplane seats without needing to shift in terrible pain and I wonder if that has something to do with it bc I read that the coccix (sp?) has to be able to flex to birth. Sorry to all on the board who we are grossing out with birth stories. But your story about the kidneys reminds me of Steel Magnolias and why they didn't want Julia Roberts' character to get pregnant - I think she only had 1 kidney or was already in renal failure. I heard stones is pretty common during pregnancy and I just can't even imagine that situation - ugh - shudder.
Chelle, glad you found out the culprit behind his pain. I know it will be hard to make the dietary changes, but so worthwhile in the long run.
Thank you so much for that post. I can't tell you how much it helps to hear someone talk about dealing with eating everyday. Your post is officially going on my fridge and where ever else I have to put it so that I can remember that I CAN do it. Thank You!
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Originally Posted by chellez
I posted a 3 lb loss this week... let's hope I can keep it off!
Woo Hoo! I think I asked to use a vacation freebie, but the way it falls it won't help me because I already weighed in on Monday (last monday) I'm one of the early weigh-ers. So I guess I won't be using it.
I am taking motivation from reading the info on 95% nutrition , 5% exercise!
I lose sight of food prep for a balanced diet in the summer but right now I am making a spark on getting back on board and to think and plan out meals.
Hi everyone! I am trying to psych myself up to go to the gym...I want to go, it's just soooo hot.....yea, I cannot use that as an excuse! I am going to get up right now, fill my water bottle w/ nice cold water and drink it before I leave.
hello everyone. DD has to have surgery next month on her eye. She has a blocked tear duct and they need to go in and make a passageway for it. My poor little girl.....she's had so many things happen to her already.
hello everyone. DD has to have surgery next month on her eye. She has a blocked tear duct and they need to go in and make a passageway for it. My poor little girl.....she's had so many things happen to her already.
Sorry to hear that. I'm sure the surgery will go well and that it will correct the blocked tear duct. It's always hard to have your children go through surgery.
We arrived home from Florida late last night. I've been running errands all day and just now have a chance to catch up.
It was awesome to see my girls again and bring them home. My home feels back to normal again and I love it!
The weekend was stressful. Before I left for Florida, a close relative asked to sit down and talk with me and Hubby when we got to Florida. I was nervous about the meeting for several days prior and the meeting was quite confrontational and emotional. I turned to the food again to help with the stress. When I got on the scales this morning, I had gained another 1.6 pounds. I've asked for a vacation freebie for this week. I'm trying to get my head back on track again. I sat down with a Weight Watchers cookbook and planned menus for the week and went grocery shopping today. I'm not quitting. Eventually, I'll get control of myself and my emotions and beat this food addiction.
Gang, I tend to be silly and snarky and post mostly happy or goofy stuff. But I don't want to give anyone the impression that this hasn't been really frickin' hard! I'm not some magical fairy creature that this is just happening to with no effort. As a binge eater, I'm still counting EVERY SINGLE DAY (today is Day 117) that I go without a binge (and probably will count forever). And sometimes I'm counting the minutes because as we all know, some days are just TORTURE. I have the same struggles, the same temptations, and the same difficulties changing my habits as everyone does. Nothing is coming "easy". I say this to make it clear that I'm not some freak of nature who just loses weight without trying. I'm not. I'm working at it HARD.
I do think I've had such good success because I've simply committed 100%. Not to a "diet", but to a new way of life. I haven't put a single off-plan thing in my mouth in 117 days. I've made really, really significant and permanent changes to my lifestyle, mostly my eating. I've consistently made food choices based on "food as fuel" and "food as health" versus "food as entertainment". This has been a HUGE switch for me. I dropped diet sodas, dropped artificial sweeteners, dropped sodium (very significantly), and went from vegetarian to vegan. Of course I stopped binging and I started planning my meals, which I have recorded every single day of this challenge in our menu thread. Pretty major changes.
The exercise I do is cool, yes, but in my opinion, it is way secondary to eating. I'm mostly around an hour a day now, except on weekends when I do more for fun with my husband (mostly because our hobbies are sports-related). But I am very consistent and focused, which I think does count. A hour a day is PLENTY of exercise. But I was a fat athlete when I came to this site -- I wasn't as focused as I am now (because it is hard being a fat athlete) but I was biking and walking and occasionally running carrying that extra 67.8 pounds around. And those pounds weren't going away, they were gathering friends.
Exercise wasn't going to save me from being fat. Changing my food habits IS going to save me.
I guess the reason I'm blathering on is to say that what I am doing, YOU CAN DO, TOO. If you choose to. It isn't magic and I'm not a "special case". Is it hard? Yes. Does it take focus? Yes. Is it impossible? No. Does it get easier? Yes. It definitely gets easier, not that there won't always be those super hard days when making good decisions takes EVERYTHING out of us. But the more days I stick to my guns, the fewer moments are quite THAT hard. I just don't want people to dismiss the possibility that they can make these changes too, because YOU CAN. If I, Miss World Champion Binge Eater Extraordinaire, can make these changes, anyone who really wants to do it can, too.
I cringe when I look at my March pics (particularly the face shot in which I am so sweaty and nasty from pigging out and boozing it up during a poker night), but here ya go. It is reality. And even my awesome hat doesn't save me from looking terrible.
March '08:
July '08:
Wow, sorry for the long post.
Awesome Awesome post! You are amazing and totally inspire me.
Also, your profile in the Hat pic looks like Laurali(sp) from the Gilmore Girls.
We arrived home from Florida late last night. I've been running errands all day and just now have a chance to catch up.
It was awesome to see my girls again and bring them home. My home feels back to normal again and I love it!
The weekend was stressful. Before I left for Florida, a close relative asked to sit down and talk with me and Hubby when we got to Florida. I was nervous about the meeting for several days prior and the meeting was quite confrontational and emotional. I turned to the food again to help with the stress. When I got on the scales this morning, I had gained another 1.6 pounds. I've asked for a vacation freebie for this week. I'm trying to get my head back on track again. I sat down with a Weight Watchers cookbook and planned menus for the week and went grocery shopping today. I'm not quitting. Eventually, I'll get control of myself and my emotions and beat this food addiction.
So sorry you are struggling gf. I am right there with ya, but don't give up. We can do this. We have done it! We just gotta dust ourselves off and do it some more.
Rhonda, you could have told the person that you could not discuss the matter because it made you want cookies.
I ran 2.7 tonight, and felt great, unlike yesterday's fiasco. I think I will make it to three by the end of the week, no problem. Unfortunately, I have a horrible chafing blisters on the inside of my leg, which I never have had before. Suck. Using my blow money for this month on some compression shorts. Fun for all.
Your post is officially going on my fridge and where ever else I have to put it so that I can remember that I CAN do it. Thank You!
I think I asked to use a vacation freebie, but the way it falls it won't help me because I already weighed in on Monday (last monday) I'm one of the early weigh-ers. So I guess I won't be using it.
