Hey everyone! My name is Marcy. Been battling weight loss and gain my whole life. I was a chunky kid, too skinny in high school cause I was obsessed with diet pills and being like the skinny models. Turned 18 started to gain weight, gained a ton of weight after two kids, lost a ton and then gained a ton back after having twins last year. Right now I'm sitting at my highest weight ever (236 age 30) even more than when I had two babies in me! I'm disgusted in myself and I've been trying like **** to lose weight! I've tried all the diets like Atkins, alli, weight watchers, south beach. I was put on metformin before but it made me extremely sick and did not help to lose weight. I have a very high heart rate and can't take phentermine anymore. I'm just trying to find something that works, I'm not looking to get skinny fast. A pound a week and I would be happy. So the last two weeks I've been counting calories, start weight 237 dropped to 233 then back up to 236! It's so frustrating! I'm not going to give up though!
I'm loving this site so far, been lurking all morning and love how motivated, accepting and welcoming this site seems to be! Thanks for reading my story and hope to get to know you all more as I start my challange!
Hi! I'm in Utah also. I reached my original goal of a healthy BMI over 7 months ago, and have been working on maintaining. I have post on the end of the Maintenance intro thread. It's kind of cumbersome not being able to post links and stuff, but I kind of like this site so I'll try and stick with it.
Weight can fluctuate a lot with sodium, hormones, and glycogen all affecting water weight. How do you track your calories? I just started using loseit (I hope that's okay to mention, they don't have a forum I don't think). I like it because it's very clean and simple and it lets me count sugars, which my previous tracking program didn't do.
Hi Marcy! I'm Sandy. I'm 46 and feel your pain. I've tried everything!! I'm soo frustrated with myself I can hardly stand it!! I'm 208 and need to lose at least 50lbs. What's your plan of attack? It's so confusing with all that conflicting information out there. Count calories-don't count calories. Watch carbs-don't watch carbs. Etc..... where to start?
My 2 cents, there's not one right answer for everyone. But I find tracking food (which tells you calories but is not necessarily counting calories) was really effective for me. I was able to stay in a sweet spot where I lost weight, but not starving myself (which has defeated me before.)
Tricia- thanks for replying and Congrats! That's amazing news! Right now I'm using my fitnesspal app. I'm tracking 1300 calories. I think my biggest problem looking over these past two weeks is 1 I'm not drinking enough water and two I'm not getting enough veggies in and eating too many bread carbs. It's my weakness, I love bread lol.
Sandy- it is very frustrating and hard, but looking over the years it took me to gain this amount of weight we have to put in the time to loose it, right? So my plan of attack is counting calories, I go on daily bike rides pulling my twins, one year olds and I average about 5 miles a day. Also I plan on drinking more water. I never have drank enough water and I'm going to set an alarm for every 2 hours so I start to Chung. In about three months I'll do a juice cleanse which I love to do for about 15 days. I guess that's it for now. I need to eat the right calories and not the bad. So no more goldfishies for me! Lol
Last edited by UilleannMT; 07-28-2013 at 12:11 PM.
Water is essential. I was nursing throughout my weight loss, so I was really good about that. Nursing was an asset for my calories out, though every other time I've gained a lot of weight nursing, probably because of uninhibited eating that went with it.
I've heard good things about fitness pal. Maybe while I'm looking around, I'll check it out. I tried fitday, but the ads are obnoxious. I mean, there's ads here but they're just on the side. fitday has them over,under, around and through. I was trying to find a way to link a blog to here, but the profile option went to a 404 broken page. I guess I'll just have to be patient until I get my sig.
Hi from Utah!
