Posts by bibsey

Newsflash..........................soup is available other than in a can, which is half water!

I am so sorry your father makes these comments to you.  Unfortunately your problem with him seem to be bigger than your past weight problems.  We can handle our weight but our relationships need two people to be successful.  Good luck with what appears to be a stressed relationship that should be a supportive, loving one.

Personally I take responsibility for my weight, both when it is down and when it is up.  Not my  mother's fault, my father's fault, giving birth to my children, grief on losing someone I love, or any of the myriad of reasons people give to be overweight. 

I hesitate to agree with techdog, don't want to make him get after me!, but he is right on target.  Everyone has those excuses.  Few of us are totally free of emotional and spiritual pain.  The only way we win is to take control and be healthy.  I still have problems with that at times but I know I am the one who makes the decisions

That "hate my mom" is a very strong comment!  I would hope you could control your own diet without hating your mom.  If you do hate her, I think there may be more going on than diet.

I loved the food in China!  We took snacks like granola bars that we ended up giving to the hotel staff because we sure didn't eat it!  I never saw anyone spit food out, they hold the bowls up to their mouths because it works while trying to eat with chopsticks.  The fruit was outstanding at breakfast. 

I would advise you to stay away from the fast food imports and enjoy the local foods.  You will find the fried rice is a whole new food, nothing like what we generally find in the USA..........very very good! 

Go and enjoy it.  My month in China was my favorite overseas trip.  I would love to go again.

RN here and I identify with one of your problems.  I eat too fast, always did while in school, then while working.  My husband and I sit down to eat and before he is half through I am finished and loading the dishwasher.  Lately I am makingan effort to slow down.  Good luck with your efforts!

I wish we could all get past the word "diet". The original meaning of diet was "the food you consume to live".  It is what keeps our body going and is a good thing!  We tend to sabotage words..........for instance a drug now means a bad drug...........it is most often medicine and not bad!  Semantics does cause lots of problems.  We all have diets, we should probably not "be on one", but have a healthy one!  How about that for a Monday morning rant.  Hard weekend on my choice of foods, but fun!  I am  back to my healthy diet plan today.  Don't agonize over a mistep, just resume your healthy diet.

I seem to be stuck the last two weeks, still counting but the scales are slowly creeping up instead of going where I want them to go.  this weekend I had a girl's weekend away.  I ate much more than usual over the last six months, but in no way did I grossly overeat..  So we shall see what happens, if it is like my past experience the weight will take a month of careful counting to get rid of and that will get me back to my previous weight, not lower.  I think my body just doesn't understand this "eat more to lose more routine".  But it was one fun weekend!  I need a better educated body that understands that 3500 calories is needed to gain a pound!

Original Post by ezzied:

Already being the short height of 5'1", I'm screwed when i become elderly.

 Hang in there!  You will find "elderly" is a fun time and the pounds on many of us come off at the same rate as when we were younger.  You adjust.  I exercise for 15 minutes 3 times a day instead of 45 minutes at one time.  Keeps my metabolism up and if I eat healthy, the pounds go.  If not, the pounds come!  I think there is too much analyzing of weight loss and gain.  It is pretty straight forward for most of us.  Eat too much, exercise too little..........hello! you gain weigh.  Eat healthy, exercise regularly...........you stay the same or lose.  I agree with the earlier post that contended people under count calories.

I think it is very important IF YOU WEIGH,  to weigh on the same scale all the time.  The numbers don't matter to me as much as the direction in which they are going.  I bought a digital scale that retains my last weight and I am most interested in whether it is going up, down, or stays the same...........and it does all three.  I find that scales vary too much to just weigh randomly.

Sorry but I don't think running for two weeks, probably even two months would make your muscles "weigh more".  Most authorities say this is one of the myths that is passed on.  If anyone has authoritative information that this is wrong I would love to read it.  It takes a lot of muscle to make you weigh more and very few people reach that point.........and surely not in two weeks!

Been there done that................not helpful but too true!

In the last week I have started "over snacking".  Where for months I have eaten exactly what I should for a snack, I have found myself drifting back and having two instead of one,  a second snack instead of just the one............

DANGER LOOMS!

I need to shape up and get back totally into the program!

Original Post by foofooguardian:

, I will use my tax return money (lol) to take me and my s/o to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in Feb...

Go somewhere now ....................THERE WILL BE NO TAX RETURN MONEY FOR A LONG TIME!  You will probably be paying more money withint the next 12 months instead of less.  We are truly in a mess!

ALWAYS EAT SOMETHING WHEN YOU ARE RAVENOUS!   Just eat the right kind of food and give yourself a few minutes to react to what you eat before you eat everything in sight!  It usually works for me.  Occasionally I head back to the pantry too soon and have to say "wait a few minutes" and usually the ravenous feeling goes away after a reasonable snack, which I count in my calories for the day.