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Old 10-08-2018, 02:42 PM   #76  
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Good Afternoon 146.2 another new low

For me the poo stuff is like I only go every 2-3 days at this low volume of food and it actually does seem to make a significant change in weight.

Well the meeting with my teammate went terrible. I won't go into personal details because I just don't intend to say anything. I am "all good" and moving forward. The past week has been probably one of the worst of my life in regards to the team. I have been a member for 15 years and I am "ok"..all is good...God is good..

Bra shopping was a wash. I did go to Walmart and all they had were 38s, 40s, and 42s with the bigger cups. I mean. Really? Seriouly that was the ONLY sizes they had in Playtex Bras and most the other ones were cheapy junky things and a lot of sports bras but not good ones. They wonder why most women wear bras with bands too big and cups too small but I have no desire to have "side boobs" or "uniboob". Tomorrow night I may run up to Kohls. It seems they may have a good selection. At least I know that a 36 is as big as I can go and a 34 may work and that the cups to a 36DD are not big enough but those to a 38DDD are too big. Kohls even has the F and G sizes. Once I settle on a brand and a size, I can buy it. Wear it for awhile and then order some online.

Nancy - I am sorry. I would be frustrated as well and hope it is water / poo fairy /salt and it drops right off. Grrrrrrrrrr

Jendiet - Congrats on the New Low and hope your toe is all better soon. Sounds like you always have adventures. Cool that the autosave worked. It pulled me out once too!

Northernchick - Every day that is good is a victory!

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It was a 3 day weekend so I organized the kitchen and bathroom. I am trying a minimalist approach. So if items didn't bring joy or wasn't used often they were donated.

My fibromyalgia caused spasms a lot this weekend.

I still am unable to exercise.

I followed my diet strictly this week. Every day is 5 Optifast shakes and 64 oz of water. I am down to 240 so it is good enough.
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Good evening to alll
just posting calories and carbs.....cal 897 carb 25 and doubt I will have more this evening.

I did not make it to the gym I realized my gym bag had been packed when the weather was warm not cold, wet and 50 degrees so brought it home and repacked for cooler weather for the ride home.
duranochoa wow you are amazing to stick to so strict a diet...congrats to that and wow I have been pairing down too to minimize and DH is just the opposite LOL

granny I know how stressful you week has been by your posts and I am sorry about that, then top it off with bra shopping yikes!

Yeah Jen on the new low!!! Keep you focus on you and your children not the ex

Diana the scale is moving the correct way

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Hi Everyone!

Total Approx 1335 Calories +

Breakfast (430 Calories + )
spritz olive oil in pan
2 large eggs 140 calories
300g. Veggies 90 calories
14 g. shredded cheese 50 calories
1 piece thin sliced bread toasted 60 calories
Fruit spread 30 calories
juice equivalent to 60 calories
coffee w/sugar and cream

Lunch (415 Calories)
2 pieces thin sliced bread 120 calories
Smoked Turkey Breast 50 calories
Laughing Cow spreadable cheese wedge 35 calories
Siggi's vanilla yogurt 110 calories
Apple 100 calories

Dinner (490 Calories)
Cracker Barrel
grilled chicken tenderloins 230 calories
2 orders steamed broccoli 80 calories
turnip greens 100 calories
1/2 biscuit 80 calories

Exercise: I got about 1 1/2 hours worth of exercise today, which is more than normal
Jessica Smith 1 Mile Upper Body Circuit w/5's
Jessica Smith 1 Mile Lower Body Circuit w/5's
TJ 20 minute workout
30 minutes treadmill

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I'm going to try with head swimming from melatonin...

Diana, I ate 2 large eggs too...I love eggs when I don't feel well, the zinc makes you feel better

granny, so sorry team has got you down...you are succwedding in your goals, I pray this team issue is also successful...

nancy, thank you...your calories are so low and your activity so high...maybe a refeed will stoke your metabolism back up...

duranocha, way to go, fasting is hard. .how much loss is that so far...does it taste good...downsizing stuff is good too...

ok, TOM graced me in the middle of day...glad I was on the lookout. .toe does feel A LOT better but it was making my whole foot/leg ache terribly. I called my mom and she talked me to sleep...

ex, is saying it's work related, so I'm going to leave it at that...I told him when play was and he seems satisfied. ..

my 4 year old had a slip and fall (tried to jump up on the loading counter at aldis, lost his grip turned sideways and knocked his eye on the floor (thankful he didn't go straight back)...

I scolded him for jumping up there ...but also held him tight rocking him kissing his head thankful he didn't do worse....but did notice he had a bruise in the middle of his forehead that looked about 2 days old. .asked him and he said a friend at his dad's accidentally smacked him with a door (also four)..

anyways. The kid had 2 more accidents....not injurious...

I felt like tying him up in the soft bed....

I would have done better diet wise but I wanted this German apple walnut almond cake ...and I got it....420 calories a slice...go me...

1465 calories for the day. Have an early day with work related stuff..

will add more in am...
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Good Morning 146.0 New Low

One thing I have seen with my scale is it has a memory so it seems and I have to pick up something heavy when my weight "holds" and reweigh after I put it down.

Yesterday 994 calories, 16,355 steps
Today. You know. Not sure. Not planned. My husband and I are going to get out on our kayaks. I think "outside" even though it will be a bit of a cooler windy day will be good for me.

This issue with my team. No, I feel I let the team down and have things inside of me I am struggling with. Part of it was because a teammate who was being challenged by leadership about some long standing personality issues (nothing of a moral or criminal fiber, but he got very defensive and tried to throw me under the bus to protect himself instead of doing the one thing I begged of him. To simply listen and not react) - I told him I was hurt by his behavior, felt I could not trust him as I felt that if something ever did happen on a call he would try to shift the blame off of himself to another, and that I would no longer mentor him in a specific discipline and I currently am the only person doing that discipline. I just could not take it anymore. I feel fully responsible for letting the team down in that regard as he is an excellent dog handler and he resigned last night. I would have been willing to work with him in a team construct and be amicable; I just could not mentor him one on one anymore. I am not in trouble with the team but I know over the next time there will be a lot of questions and I will be doing a lot of praying. Honestly, I am burned out and ready to retire from it and only staying because I am needed in that one discipline.

Then the neighbor with the dog who bit me. Is demanding I be removed from the HOA board. Well the board sees it for what it is. They have no plans to remove me but I think she may be planning to raise a ruckus at the annual meeting of the community. I don't need more drama right now. Honestly, I had already hoped to step down as it has been 3 years and I tried to step down last year but nobody else volunteered to serve. This year, I found a replacement and was planning on rolling off anyway. No hard feelings between me and any one else in the neighborhood and many have thanked me for being the first person to report the dog. The fact that I turned in her dog to animal control after the dog bit me, then the dog got loose and tore up another dog, then repeatedly got loose and terrorized the neighborhood, the got seized and put to sleep is not my fault. She is just fixated on the whole thing and I think when something goes bad in her life I become her new target. I have been doing all I can to not escalate things with her by avoiding her. She is mentally unstable.

Well, work is going fine. Family relationships are going fine and my DD and SIL have both lost about 20lbs doing my diet and are so happy with how healthy it is!

Nancy - I think Jendiet may be onto something I do know that for me, there seems to be a sweet point and when net calories get too low the body does not want to let go the weight. I think the "starvation mode" theory is a total myth but It does seem for me the optimal place to lose is around 1200 calories and, yes, lower on the carbs.

Jendiet - I am not sure I could have survived sons though getting girls through teenage years was a whole 'nother experience though the same could be said for boys. My zinc is kind of low. It is also good for the immune system. Ok. Eggs for breakfast! Since DH and I are off today maybe we can go to "our" breakfast place .

Duranchoa - I am glad the optifast is working well for you and hope for resolution with the fibromyalgia. Do you take anything for the pain? I take gabapentin (very low dose of 200mg) for nerve pain from foot damage and it also helps my RLS. I gather Lyrica is supposedly very good for the fibromyalgia (it is related to gabapentin) but I don't know. I need to make time to do that kind of clean up as there is a lot of clutter in our lives.

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Good Morning, Everyone!

Last night: Full body stretch & exercises from the Dr.
This morning: Oxycise

Calories for yesterday: 1335 +
Weigh In: 189.4
Down: .2

Have a Blessed day!

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Isaiah 26:4
Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

Lettuce! Celery! Low-fat cottage cheese! Yeesh! It never got any more interesting. The same old bland foods got tiresome after awhile. Debbie thought she would go crazy before long. She knew what she was doing was a good thing. She really wanted to lose weight. She wanted to look and feel great. Sometimes she didn't know whether it was going to pay off. She believed that God was happy with her desire to lose weight. She trusted that He would help her. Often, it was only the strength she received from trying to please God that kept her going. She was thankful that God gave her that kind of strength.

Today's thought: The only thing I'll give us is being fat!
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Good morning, beautiful people Today is school picture day so I hope our staff photo is before my lunch work out! I did well yesterday- ended up around 1300 and I'll be sure to count carefully today. I didn't work out because I hadn't taken a day off in ages and it was a holiday Monday. Back on it today! I also have been saving up loads of pay cheques and finally booked my flight to South Africa! So, not the best calorie weekend but a good one for the soul!
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Good morning to all
Crazy WI scale......got on same high as yesterday, got off moved the scale around a small space in my bathroom and got everything from yesterdays high to 5lbs lower it finally settled on .8 lower than yesterday...

Jen and Granny I did give thought to your comments and I do want to put out there that my calorie count is not precise. For example last night I did not add in the cocktail sauce I dipped some meatballs in, small things like that or did not count all the tomatoes in a salad or milk in my coffee, so over all I am sure the count is a few 100 higher. But I do see you point. But please remember the past two weeks I have not been to the gym either only the walking on fitbit which avg around 10,000 in a normal day and none breaking a sweat so to speak. So I feel I am a good range and my energy is not down. I am not 'dragging'. My sleep however is another issue but has been for some time.....This weekend we replaced our old worn out mattress and last night was the first night I slept on our memory foam bed. Sheesh I get hot! but fitbit showed I slept better than I have in w e e e e k s!

Ok today I am going to try to go to the gym, and have the appropriate clothes to leave the gym in so I don't get chilled. Also since I will be doing the gym my calorie count will be going up at least 300, I will log later this morning and post the final outcome.

Granny, I applaud you for taking the high road with the drama in your personal life. My sister and her husband had been volunteer fireman for over 20 years, at one point they were helping to reorganize a district for the volunteers and spent almost a year on this project before they had to make the sad decision to walk away. The paid higher commands were so threaten by the shape and scope of the new volunteer program they refused to help organize or support the funding. Even though this would improve the overall response time. So sad when those that want to help can not open their minds and ears and listen to experience. BTW yes your dog neighbor is crazy

northernchick13 wow l would love to travel like that!!!!
Jen a soft bed for a boy will not stop the ouchy's lol he is a boy, hug and kiss him and send him on his way
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Granny, I'm sorry for the drama, but you know your limitations. Geesh, about the HOA situation...

I like to say "if you don't have a Judas, you are not doing it right" it encourages me when I'm back stabbed. I still cringe when the office calls me because the last times I got fired or laid off it was conspiracy type stuff, back stabbing though I had pulled extra shifts, did extra work, went the extra mile for bosses or coworkers...I have come to expect it in life. The last big one was my ex and his family after my coworker backstabbed me and I lost my job...so I just leave the pain in God's hands and trust His plans are good. Plus the added comfort "the steps of the righteous are ordered by God" I'm praying with you and we know "in this world, you will have tribulation"

Nancy, that makes sense. I know you outfit a lot of people by the description of what you do...the scale sounds wacky...

my current scale has memory of my previous weight but it is one of the most accurate scales ever! It never varies...it also displays the change from previous...

I had a Taylor body fat scale and I had to use my hand weights to reset it as well...I would hold them and weigh then get on and weigh again without them..

speaking of wi...today's was 187.2...big bounce bUT it's ok...I didn't sleep well and I'm bloated ..

Diana, yay on the trend down!!

northernchick, wow going to SA...business or pleasure?? Good job on calories

ok, I'm trying to get going, choppy sleep and much needed recovery from 20k steps yesterday...just dragging...coffee not helping

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Good afternoon - just popping in. We started to go gas up the truck and it had a flat - so we found a place that would not take all day to fix it (YIKES I am dead serious) and walked to Waffle House to get breakfast instead of our normal place (double yikes) then came home and crashed about an hour ago. Opened up my emails and a lot of healing with my team is taking place. I thought people would be upset with me but I think they are relieved and I feel like a giant burden has been pulled off of my shoulders.
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Ok update on the fitbit and new bed....guess I was looking at the night before when I slept on my office floor on a blow up full sized bed LOL...I could not understand why I am so tired at work.....total hours 7hr 16 min...Awake 1hr 24 min, REM 55 min, Light 5hr 2 min Deep 1hr 18min....granted those awake minutes were 9 separate times so over the course of the night that is about every 50 minutes or so...no wonder I am tired.

So far Calories calculated from breakfast, lunch and dinner without a snack or any thing like that 725 calores and carbs 26, darn taco salad and mixed kale salad LOL
Given how tired and drained I feel I am going to whimp out again on the gym. The energy level is just down unless I get some kind of second wind. I will however eat some more calories this evening

***side note disregard dinner, invited with friend who we have not seen in months.....will keep as calorie/carb friendly as you can at a pub....so yes my count will be up

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Today my fibromyalgia is terrible. My muscles from the back of my heels up to the back of my neck are tight with spasms all over.

My doctor is not a specialist so she will only give me Flexeril and Tylenol. The rheumatologist I saw in January gave my doctor a list of medicines to try bit so far she will not prescribe them. My insurance won't let me go back to the rheumatologist until I have tried the list of medicines. So I am in a holding pattern until I convince my doctor to work with me.

No exercise again today.

5 Optifast shakes and 64 oz of water.

I finished my water by 3pm today so hopefully I will not be waking up to pee so many times tonight.

jendiet...it tastes good. I have lost 15 lbs since September 1st. I crave savory stuff. I have not indulged since Sept 26th thankfully and I stayed keto when I "cheated".

grannynancy...right now I will take Flexeril and Tylenol. I had bad memory loss on Gabepentin. In January I am switching off Kaiser so hopefully I will have more options.
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Hi Everyone!

Total Approx 1454 Calories +

Breakfast (430 Calories + )
spritz olive oil in pan
2 large eggs 140 calories
300g. Veggies 90 calories
14 g. shredded cheese 50 calories
1 piece thin sliced bread toasted 60 calories
Fruit spread 30 calories
juice equivalent to 60 calories
coffee w/sugar and cream

Lunch (415 Calories)
2 pieces thin sliced bread 120 calories
Smoked Turkey Breast 50 calories
Laughing Cow spreadable cheese wedge 35 calories
Siggi's vanilla yogurt 110 calories
Apple 100 calories

Dinner (700 Calories)
Salad w/grilled salmon & BHF's ranch 700

Exercise:
TJ 20 minute workout (running short on time today)
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Ok gals not bad for pub fare.... 1010 calories and carbs 22.2. I have not had my Atkins snack yet tonight and that will add 200 calories and 3 net cabs. At the pub I just had a plain small steak and a few bites of potato salad, one jigger of whiskey, so all in all I feel good about it. Tomorrows meals are planned but have not logged to see what they come out to be. But it looks something like, b: 2 egg/onion & pepper/ham/cheese omelet, L Kale salad 2cups with turkey kielbasa 2oz and hard boiled egg/ olive garden lite dressing/ d: asian chicken wings (no breading actually boiled in spices then put under broiler), Snacks, cherry tomatoes, moon cheese, possible atkins bar...then done for the day

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