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General Weight Loss Support Thread
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Having a crappy day here too, I sliced my finger open on a tin of beans this morning when making my breakfast and spent two hours waiting to see if I needed stitches or a tetanus shot. It's right below the joint so I can't bend my finger which means I can't write, which will make college difficult until it heals
I'd hoped to do some exercise but I can't exert my hand for a day or so so it doesn't bleed again (which would mean I'd need stitches)
I'm just miserable, and kinda bored
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Hi there, I hope ye don't mind me joining in, I read through the posts and have a lot in common with many of ye.
I have recently won a local competition of a free gym membership and 4 weeks personal training with my local gym, including great support, personal training etc, and a meeting with a nutritionist next week.
I am 40 years young, and 14 stone...
I am only 5ft 3.5 with a medium frame and I know that if I don't sort out my problem now, as a single Mom my kids won't have me around when they are my age....
So plzz keep your fingers crossed for me, I love my food and my vino etc.. Am going Cold turkey and aiming for a 10k walk at the end of the month...
Ye are all so inspirational... I want to change my life for good....And this forum seems filled with people on the same path...
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Crappy crappy day. I had mcdonalds for lunch, I was starving and tired and was like 'feck it'.
Ever since I have felt like crap, I feel ill, lethargic, stodgy (if thats a thing you can feel) and generally meh.
I realised there about ten mins ago that this is how I used to feel all the time! :eek:
Lesson well and truly learned, I enjoyed it while I was eating it (and ive decided not to feel guilty about it either), but never again!
Making soup with BNS, carrots and sweet potato for dinner, its all I can face. It'll be some colour
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doctorwhogirl wrote: »OK...some before and afters...vomit. But maybe they're of interest!
I've just done direct links as some are quite big!
BEFORE:(
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/217315_1055044428547_1598914168_136341_7833827_n-1-1_zpsa429a0f3.jpg
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/user254136_pic6113_1272895006-1_zpsad29e6fc.jpg
Actually had lost about a stone here
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/SDC10354-1_zps1bde0f9c.jpg
AFTER
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/SDC10982-1_zps2cd86019.jpg
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/SDC109983-1_zps6ffa590e.jpg
Can't locate any more afters, but as I said they're on my albums in my profile...
Bit mortified now!
OMG, couldn't read and not comment. Holy mother of god that's amazing!!
You should write a book! I don't know if you realise how rare what you've achieved is?
Seriously, you've exceeded gastric bypass like success in your weightloss.
Does anyone recognise you now?:)0 -
El_Dangeroso wrote: »OMG, couldn't read and not comment. Holy mother of god that's amazing!!
You should write a book! I don't know if you realise how rare what you've achieved is?
Seriously, you've exceeded gastric bypass like success in your weightloss.
Does anyone recognise you now?:)
You have made my night! Seriously! I was feeling huuuge and generaly bleurgh!
Now I don't!
Thank you so so much!
I'm 3 years at this weight now so I think people are used to it now! I would actually say more people know me now at this size than at my bigger size, which is nice
I also have brown hair as of last week!
Might as well update on my week. I've been very on plan this week. Minimal picking and eating well.
Exercise is going well also. Monday was weights, Tuesday football, Wednesday rest and tonight was football. More weights tomorrow and Sunday then.
I would love to get under 10st 4 this week. Haven't been there since I got to goal, my weight has always hovered above it. So it would be a brilliant feeling.
I've a course saturday and they're providing food but I think I'll bring my own in a lunchbox. I know I should take advantage of what they have but I'll see what it is first and then decide. At least I have the option of eating my own healthier stuff if needs be then. It's usually very gloopy concoctions anyway! I'd rather save the calories for my Saturday night chocolate!0 -
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doctorwhogirl wrote: »OK...some before and afters...vomit. But maybe they're of interest!
I've just done direct links as some are quite big!
BEFORE:(
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/217315_1055044428547_1598914168_136341_7833827_n-1-1_zpsa429a0f3.jpg
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/user254136_pic6113_1272895006-1_zpsad29e6fc.jpg
Actually had lost about a stone here
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/SDC10354-1_zps1bde0f9c.jpg
AFTER
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/SDC10982-1_zps2cd86019.jpg
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r41/catheadnavan/SDC109983-1_zps6ffa590e.jpg
Can't locate any more afters, but as I said they're on my albums in my profile...
Bit mortified now!
Doc, I just want to add my congratulations to this thread. What a fantastic achievement. Inspirational
I myself am 27 y/o male, who was 21st (5ft 10 in height) in September 2011. Since then I had dropped 2 stone by August 2012.
However, I tore my ACL and MCL knee ligaments at rugby training right at the end of August and I was laid up in bed for a month or so and I've only been working out lightly since November and properly since mid December. Then there was a full on xmas.
Thankfully I only put on 5-7lbs during injury and that is dropping again now that I'm rehabbing more and more.
Hope drop a stone by the end of march and another by June.
I should mention that my numbers don't drop in big chunks as I do a lot of heavy weight sessions. I tend to measure in inches and how loose my clothes get.
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Another 2lb down today Happy with that as I've been reintroducing fruit this week, trying to transition from low to moderate carb as it's much more manageable (for me).
Well done, I did the same myself and I do find the variety makes life so much more liveable long term, even if the weight loss is a little slower.
My personal tip for increasing carbs without gaining would be to stick with 'cellular' carbs, i.e carbs that have their cell walls intact. i.e. fruit, rice, spuds, whole oats. These are digested in a healthier way than carbs that have their cell-walls broken down (so sugar or 'flour' of any kind - even oat)0 -
That is a great tip, thanks! I will definitely remember that about flour. I’m one of those rare people that prefers rye bread and brown rice to white varieties. I do enjoy a roast spud cooked in a little oil with lots of lemon and back pepper, thoughEl_Dangeroso wrote: »My personal tip for increasing carbs without gaining would be to stick with 'cellular' carbs, i.e carbs that have their cell walls intact. i.e. fruit, rice, spuds, whole oats. These are digested in a healthier way than carbs that have their cell-walls broken down (so sugar or 'flour' of any kind - even oat)
Doctorwhogirl, I remember your Food Diary thread, it was seriously inspirational. Bravo on keeping the weight off too, that’s an even more epic achievement, imo \0/ 0 -
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Glad I found this
I am now at a time where I am at my heaviest. I once weighed just over 11 stone and now I am at 14 stone.
It a started when I started my current job- almost 2 years ago. I was being sent away with expenses and basically eating what I wanted to eat and not thinking about it.i was sent to Italy this year and managed to shed a stone but now I'm back in London and the weight has creeped back
I really want to lose weight and get to about 10 stone. The past two weeks I have made meal plans for each day so I don't stray.
Typical breakfast:
Porridge with skimmed Milk and chopped bananas
Egg in a cup with brown wheaten bread
Lunch:
Chicken dim sum
Sushi
Soup and half a roll
Duck wrap
Panini
Dinners:
Steak/prawn salad
Chicken/beef stir fry with lots of veg
Fish
Stew
Fajitas
Exercise:
Recently joined the gym, I generally spend about 1.5 hours and spread that between x trainer, bike, treadmill and stepper.
I also might do an hour long class instead.
I have to be careful with types of exercise as I injured my coccyx before Xmas and its still not right
Myself and my oh eat out once a week as a treat.
I think my downfall is carbs... I love white bread I also come home to Dublin twice a month and have a take away
Current weight: 14st
Height: 5 4
Goal: 10 st 70 -
Glad I found this
I am now at a time where I am at my heaviest. I once weighed just over 11 stone and now I am at 14 stone.
It a started when I started my current job- almost 2 years ago. I was being sent away with expenses and basically eating what I wanted to eat and not thinking about it.i was sent to Italy this year and managed to shed a stone but now I'm back in London and the weight has creeped back
I really want to lose weight and get to about 10 stone. The past two weeks I have made meal plans for each day so I don't stray.
Welcome!!!!
Great to see new people!
Your diet looks yum!
But as lots of people would recommend on here, if you're looking to lose weight it would be an idea to put your food into a database like myfitnesspal or fitday.com to give you an idea of the calories you're consuming. Even if you don't intend calorie counting to lose weight, just make yourself aware. There are sneaky little feckers of calories that can ruin your efforts!
And judging by the face I know you know about the whole white bread thing! :P
It's not that you can't lose weight eating white bread, I have a friend who has lost plenty and never cut her white bread down. I am definitely of the opinion however that if you cut it out/down, weight loss happens more quickly and more steadily! Plus, wholegrain bread is delicious and there are loads of alternatives!
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That's great Doctorwhogirl delighted for you!
I'm having a bit of a crappy weekend, I'm within my calories but I'm not 100% good (I had half a Chinese last night - I literally only ate half of it). I had a sneaky look at the scales this morning and I am UP 5LBs!! :mad: :mad:
I don't get it, apart from that and the McDonalds I am being so good, my diet is unrecognisable from what it was a month ago - I used to eat like that constantly, but never gained at this rate?? I get that when I eat bad food I will gain weight, but Jesus it shouldn't have been *that* bad??
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That's great Doctorwhogirl delighted for you!
I'm having a bit of a crappy weekend, I'm within my calories but I'm not 100% good (I had half a Chinese last night - I literally only ate half of it). I had a sneaky look at the scales this morning and I am UP 5LBs!! :mad: :mad:
I don't get it, apart from that and the McDonalds I am being so good, my diet is unrecognisable from what it was a month ago - I used to eat like that constantly, but never gained at this rate?? I get that when I eat bad food I will gain weight, but Jesus it shouldn't have been *that* bad??
Fairly hacked off right now
Guarantee you that's water weight after the salt etc... from the chinese, and probably the fact that it's quite heavy and would take awhile to digest.
I love chinese but it does violent things to scales.
Don't panic yet. Check again in a few days and drink plenty of water!0 -
doctorwhogirl wrote: »
Guarantee you that's water weight after the salt etc... from the chinese, and probably the fact that it's quite heavy and would take awhile to digest.
I love chinese but it does violent things to scales.
Don't panic yet. Check again in a few days and drink plenty of water!
I really hope you're right!
I have an interview for a grad job next Monday and im going shopping for an interview outfit tomorrow, dreading it, im going to look like a walking rent-a-tent
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I really hope you're right!
I have an interview for a grad job next Monday and im going shopping for an interview outfit tomorrow, dreading it, im going to look like a walking rent-a-tent
Sick of this
I wasted so much of my life feeling guilty for food I have eaten. What the feck? It's just food! The only emotion we need to feel about food is 'I'm hungry.' or 'I'm not hungry', everything else is headfuckery.
Chineses are salty carby things, so you're naturally going to feel slightly bleugh afterwards, but that isn't actualy a representation of what you look like.
Body image has actually way less to do with what you actually look like more than what you feel. I've been heavier than I am now and felt better about my body and less than I am now and felt way worse about it.
I think that's why a lot of people don't keep weight off, they discover it makes you feel better for a little while, but then you are the same person you always were and what's the point. Weight loss doesn't make you happy for more than a little while, so we shouldn't really allow weight to ruin our mood one way or another.
Expend the energy you're currently pouring into self loathing into getting yourself confidant and prepared for this interview. Confidence is the most attractive feature that you can convey and will shine through.
Here's a cool article on how to ace a job interview that I have found helpful.0 -
El_Dangeroso wrote: »
I wasted so much of my life feeling guilty for food I have eaten. What the feck? It's just food! The only emotion we need to feel about food is 'I'm hungry.' or 'I'm not hungry', everything else is headfuckery.
Chineses are salty carby things, so you're naturally going to feel slightly bleugh afterwards, but that isn't actualy a representation of what you look like.
Body image has actually way less to do with what you actually look like more than what you feel. I've been heavier than I am now and felt better about my body and less than I am now and felt way worse about it.
I think that's why a lot of people don't keep weight off, they discover it makes you feel better for a little while, but then you are the same person you always were and what's the point. Weight loss doesn't make you happy for more than a little while, so we shouldn't really allow weight to ruin our mood one way or another.
Expend the energy you're currently pouring into self loathing into getting yourself confidant and prepared for this interview. Confidence is the most attractive feature that you can convey and will shine through.
Here's a cool article on how to ace a job interview that I have found helpful.
Thanks a mill! I really want this job & I know I can kick its ass, just need to get my head in the right place!
I hate havingthis emotional relationship with food, does my head in
Chicken and veg for dinner and keep drinking water to counteract this salt so 0 -
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El_Dangeroso wrote: »Clearly you have the right motivation, you want to be healthy and live a full long life.
Doing this at 22 is a HUGE advantage! I know it doesn't feel like it but you have everything on your side. Habits born in your twenties are carried so easily into your 30's. Also skin bounces back way way better because your collagen production can keep up quite easily.
On the smoking front, have you tried the e-cigarettes? That's how I quit and I thought I'd tried everything!
I haven't tried them no, I used patches last year and was off the smokes for 3 months. I'm actually starting the patches again tomorrow, but if that doesn't work ill give the e-cig a go!
I've been conscious of my weight since I was 16, and have been between a size 8 and a size 20 in the last 6 years, but this is the first time I've said hang on, I need to actually learn about what I'm doing and not have a weight watchers leader telling me what I can and can't eat!
I'm finishing college this year and please god ill be starting my dream job in August and I want to be happy and healthy when I do it, in a way it's properly starting my life and being a 'real adult' 0 -
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I had an epic weekend of birthday parties, shopping and general merriment so I hope it won't affect things too much! I saw my parents for the first time in about a month and they both seperately told me I was looking great which hopefully means I'm doing something right
Today is a fast day and I've had no hunger yet. Chilli and sugar-free jelly later, nyom.0 -
I had an epic weekend of birthday parties, shopping and general merriment so I hope it won't affect things too much! I saw my parents for the first time in about a month and they both seperately told me I was looking great which hopefully means I'm doing something right
Today is a fast day and I've had no hunger yet. Chilli and sugar-free jelly later, nyom.
Always nice to get compliments! So you're doing IF? How do you find it?0 -
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I gained about 4lbs. In that time though I also started weight training properly. I gained weight but lost 1inch off my waist.
I look at it this way. You can't run a car without petrol/diesel so don't expect your body to run on little or no fuel 0 -
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Hmm that's food for thought
I'll give it a go. I'll up the cals gradually, and let ye know how it's going. I've started back weight training after a long time away. Can only fit in one visit to gym per week though. (Working full-time and college part-time ) Should try to squeeze in some bodyweight training at home.
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Gained two pounds over the past week My discipline has been rubbish since Christmas (Though this is the first time since July that I've actually registered weight gain in a given week!) Am back on the wagon, won't be falling off again for some time. 0
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Hiya , Just checking in, great to see how everyone is doing. Keep it up and well done, and if you fell off the wagon keep trying!!!
So I had my 1st weigh in yesterday, I was down 5.9lbs, and I'm thrilled. I've lost more than that before with ww, and lipotrim but this way I know I'm doing it right... So I did my duathlon challenge on Sunday, ran 2k, cycled 5k.. I actually could do it!! I couldn't believe it!!! Yeaaay.. So just started week 2 of this 4 week challenge... and will have a 5k hike on Sat morning at 8am.. God Help me!!!
Meeting with a nutritionist tomorrow.If I get any tips I'll fill ye in..
Is great reading everyones stories and nice to know theres a community of us trying to reach our goals... And for those who got there and have shown us how.. ye are amazing... and a source of great motivation.
Cheer
So here goes week 2!!!!0 -
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