Desk job here too- that's why I lose so much better with super low calories- like, 900 to lose weight. To "maintain" or slowly drift down, I can do 1200-1400. 1500 tops or I start to gain back. Oh, the joys of being short.
I keep drifting my goal weight a tad bit lower. I maintained for years at 110, but before that I was under 105 for a long time. I'm noticing that the tubby belly is still there at 107, so officially dropping down to 105 as a goal, maybe even a lb or two lower. Hunger, you still in? Cause we're neck and neck!
Well, we were neck and neck, but now you're beating me by more than a nose (I'm at 109.8 today)! I think your metabolism is better than mine, if you're drifting down on 1200 calories. I have to fight tooth-and-nail to lose even a tenth of a pounda week on that many calories, but I don't think I'll go below it. As long as I'm below 110, the loss can be as slow as it wants to.
I too have a "desk job". I have found always taking the stairs (never the elevator, unless you are on some ridiculous floor in a highrise), and finding excuses for "mini-breaks" helps a lot to get some movement.
Mini breaks maybe bathroom trips, trips to get hot water for tea, lunch breaks shopping at nearby mall, trips to cafeteria for coffee. I also have done some lunges or calf lifts in my office for some movement to increase circulation.
I'm going to be somewhere on the 11th to 16th floor (and I'm not sure about where our stairs let out, it may be you can't get out until the 16th) but I've definitely thought about using the stairs! I actually don't even know where ether are (I summered at this place but didn't take the stairs) but I should try it. I hate the elevators anyways.
My diet/fitness this week is officially out the window! I was selected for Jury duty so Ill be sitting all, day all week and have to scramble to find something to eat for lunch near the courthouse. Major bummer for me after having such a good weigh in this morning.
Hi there feathers! Today, I have officially hit a number below 140 (139.6). I know tomorrow I might still be at 14-something, but it still feels goooooood! I've been exercising really consistently, and yeah, it shows. I'm gonna reward myself by visiting a charity shop - I've got this pair of über-fancy cropped Ralp Lauren trousers (really luxurious wool, sorta vintage-looking, coming just below the knee) I found from a thrift store YEARS ago, but never wore them - I bought them around the time I had just started to regain, thinking I only need to lose a little bit back... never happened. Well, they're starting to fit now, and they're like the fanciest piece of clothing I own. I just don't have any shirt currently that would match the colour, so I guess this is the right time to start searching!
It's so true about the low calorie thing. I give you guys credit for being able to stay at 900 calories for an extended period of time. I don't know if it's age or what (37 over here), but I also gain weight if I eat over 1500 calories, and that's with an hour of cardio daily.
Oh, discovery of the month! Batteries make you gain weight!! (Kidding. I know that correlation is not causation). Here is what happened:
We have a scale in NY which is our "higher" scale and a scale in PA which reads a pound lower. All of a sudden, our NY scale started to read lower than the "low" scale. After about two weeks (and a 117!! weigh in), we replaced the battery. My weight went over 120 lbs for the first time in a while and my husband "gained" like four pounds. It was nice while it lasted
I also fount out that I can't eat carbs over 100 g net or the weight will follow. This weekend, I bought a small countainer of baked oatmeal (oatmeal, eggs, milk, oil, salt) with chocolate chips. It was supposed to be a single serving but was closer to two. My calories were the same and I hit 121.8 lbs. I haven't seen that in months. I kept it 900 calories plus cardio and am under 120 lbs again and cut the carbs to under 100 g. Man, maintaining and not even losing is still a perpetual diet. It's okay though!
I'm going through another mind map readjustment and it is weird. Tonight, I went shopping (by myself, so exciting! ) and tried on a blazer in a size 10. It was a bit boob-squishy, but fit fine in the arms, shoulders and waist. This blows my mind and I can't quite accept it. The really ridiculous thing was that I looked at a pair of size 12 jeans and thought "no way, those are tiny" at the same time I was wearing a pair of size 12 jeans. The cognitive dissonance, it hurts my brain!!
If I see myself out of the corner of my eye in a reflection somewhere, I'm actually happy with how I look. But this doesn't seem to translate to confidently trying on new clothes?? I find charity shops less intimidating for some reason.
Anyway. I only have 1 pair of jeans that actually fit mostly OK (the waist is a bit tight but at least they won't fall down if my kids tug on them) so I will have to get over it soon. Tomorrow I'm wearing a loose fitting Jersey dress with tights so I don't have to think about jeans shopping again!
I'm going through another mind map readjustment and it is weird. Tonight, I went shopping (by myself, so exciting! ) and tried on a blazer in a size 10. It was a bit boob-squishy, but fit fine in the arms, shoulders and waist. This blows my mind and I can't quite accept it. The really ridiculous thing was that I looked at a pair of size 12 jeans and thought "no way, those are tiny" at the same time I was wearing a pair of size 12 jeans. The cognitive dissonance, it hurts my brain!!
If I see myself out of the corner of my eye in a reflection somewhere, I'm actually happy with how I look. But this doesn't seem to translate to confidently trying on new clothes?? I find charity shops less intimidating for some reason.
Anyway. I only have 1 pair of jeans that actually fit mostly OK (the waist is a bit tight but at least they won't fall down if my kids tug on them) so I will have to get over it soon. Tomorrow I'm wearing a loose fitting Jersey dress with tights so I don't have to think about jeans shopping again!
I feel for you there! I keep picking the too big sizes from the rack too. I'm completely unaware of my current dimensions. Lol!
I bought a £3 pair of size 12 jeans today. I figured, for that little, if they don't fit right I'm not worried. They give me a muffin top but the last time that happened I was in them 2 weeks later. So I'm kind of in-between sizes but I think that if I could just get some high waisted jeans for my mum-tum, I wouldn't have a muffin top! These low-slung jeans are not for me!
It's a bit ridiculous though - I've been dreaming for a long time fitting in all those nice clothes I used to wear when I was slim last time, few years ago. Thought those clothes were so classy and all. But now when I'm near, I'm realizing that yes there is a couple of items that are really cool - but actually, I think my fashion sense and style has gotten a _lot_ better during the last couple of years and a lot of what I used to think was really pretty is a bit mehhh now. And I feel already sad about some "fat" clothes I will have to let go. I'm not that much into modifying clothes and would rather recycle nice things so someone else can wear them than ruin them by sloppy efforts to resize them.
Well lucky there is charities. I have a pretty good eye - and especially hand for that; I can usually pick the quality stuff apart by just touching. I guess that's 15+ years of shopping mainly in thrift stores and second hands for you.
It is! And also, I just loathe clothing stores mostly. Too bright lights, too loud music, nosy sales clerks... I'd take a thrift store over that any day! But then again, I like going through other people's old junk anyway so
It is! And also, I just loathe clothing stores mostly. Too bright lights, too loud music, nosy sales clerks... I'd take a thrift store over that any day! But then again, I like going through other people's old junk anyway so
I don't know if you guys are familiar with Poshmark, but it is a great site to buy and sell clothes. I am always posting my stuff I don't wear, or buying stuff from other people. I have some stuff to post this weekend. I love it because I was able to find a few of my recently bought clothes in smaller sizes.
Checking in. Have fifty zillion things to do, but sitting down to eat to my heart's content because woot woot! I made weight! Tenth of a pound down from last week.
Jen, when I changed the batteries in my Weight Watchers scale, it upped the ante by quite a bit - bummer!
Everybody sounds like they're doing the hard work - good going! Like another program, weight loss is really one day at a time.
Hey everyone I'm still stuck in the lower 130's I fired my trainer becuase she was rude and didn't acknowledge my existence when I saw her at a Halloween event.i found a new trainer and will be starting hopefully in January.Its a guy and he specializes in injuries and things of that nature.im going to Disney for 9 days and then I'll be at my grandparents for 2 weeks.so I'll be gone almost all of December.my Disney rule is 2 healthy meals and I'm not sure what to do at grandparents since its a lot of eating out.my new guy supports me wanting to go to 118 and wants to work out together.
(He's dancing to "Waterloo." 
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I was selected for Jury duty so Ill be sitting all, day all week and have to scramble to find something to eat for lunch near the courthouse. Major bummer for me after having such a good weigh in this morning.
Today, I have officially hit a number below 140 (139.6). I know tomorrow I might still be at 14-something, but it still feels goooooood! 
I've been exercising really consistently, and yeah, it shows. I'm gonna reward myself by visiting a charity shop - I've got this pair of über-fancy cropped Ralp Lauren trousers (really luxurious wool, sorta vintage-looking, coming just below the knee) I found from a thrift store YEARS ago, but never wore them - I bought them around the time I had just started to regain, thinking I only need to lose a little bit back... never happened. Well, they're starting to fit now, and they're like the fanciest piece of clothing I own. I just don't have any shirt currently that would match the colour, so I guess this is the right time to start searching! 
Like another program, weight loss is really one day at a time. 
