Posts by leahreyne

Thank you bomiyah for actually answering my question

Original Post by firefly57:

If you do not rest it/let it repair itself you can do lasting damage to the ankle. 

 See, this worries me.  I sprained my ankle several weeks ago and am still limping around.  I work 8 hours a day and am constantly on my feet and walking...by the end of the day I am in tears.  I just never have time to rest my ankle. 

Swimming is awesome.  Just the other day I found out that I burned 1096 calories with 3 hours of swimming.  It's the only exercise I can do right now with a sprained ankle, although  I didn't consider it much of a workout since I was having so much fun and time just flew by.  If you think about it you use your whole body so I would imagine you could work/tone the muscles a little that way.

Jagermeister and Red Bull......I'm not even sure of the calorie content....maybe I don't want to know.  I do know that it's ALOT.  Although I haven't stopped drinking this all together I have switched to Sugar Free Red Bull and have cut back from drinking 3 times a week down to 0-1 times a week.  (Well except for this week )

I had just purchased a pedometer not to long ago to measure how much I walk during the day.  I work in a hospital and am on my feet and moving around for much of the day.  The results were quite disappointing however.  I only walk about 2-3 miles/day and the pedometer says that only burns 150 cals. (not quite exact on that #).   I think that I will leave my activity level at sedentary until I add on some sort of "extra" physical activity.  As far as running 3.5 miles goes; I would consider that to be light activity. 

So glad I found this post :)  Pizza is a BIG problem for me too...just last night I snarfed down 5 slices of pizza, two bread sticks, one cinna stick and 240z of pepsi...I could have eaten more but there had to be some kind of stopping point.  I didn't even think my stomach could hold that much food

November 2007...yup...a month after I met my current bf. I started losing sleep...LOTS of sleep, eating more, and definitely drinking more.  I basically adopted his lifestyle and it took me from 105 to 143 very quickly.  The weight gain doesnt bother him a bit, in fact he thinks I was too skinny then and likes my look better now. But a couple of weeks ago I got fed up with it and joined here.  I'm down to 135ish now and trying to figure out how to get rid of all the bad habits I've picked up from him without getting rid of him. 

This subject gets me.....Several months ago I switched from regular soda to diet and actually ended up gaining weight.  I have read articles and what not that do say diet soda can lead to bloating which would make your midsection larger....and then some of you say that you HAVE lost weight while still drinking diet soda..... Guess the only way for me to find out for sure is to try and cut it out completely and see what happens : ) 

Original Post by sealion311:

If you were breaking it up so it wasn't a continuous 8 hours..that would be a problem.  But it isn't a problem (per se) if you are getting 8 hours straight. 

 Wow, I was just wondering about that.  I noticed that almost two years ago when I started losing sleep I started packing on the pounds.  Sunday thru Wednesday I sleep from 3 or 4 am until 7 am....then on Mon/Tue/Wed if I have time I will sneak in an hour or two of sleep from 5-9 pm...Thursday and Friday Nights I almost get 7 hours...So in order to lose weight I have to get 8 continuous hours of sleep ????

Yeah, I've gone over my 1200 cal/day limit just about every day since I've joined CC 10 days ago :( OOPS However, I haven't been logging all of my activity and I'm not sure if my calorie counts are correct since I just pick the closest thing I can find that matches what I've eaten and I'm not always sure about portion sizes.  So I'm thinking that my calorie intake might actually be lower than I am logging.  I don't think you should worry at all.  Especially since you are breastfeeding.  Like the others have said, you should probably increase your calories really.  And don't feel bad..I often find myself eating what my daughter doesn't...just cause I don't want it to go to waste.   I am working on breaking that habit for sure : )  I'm sure you will get back on track soon enough.

Well for those of you wondering what I do eat here is an example: 

TODAYS FOOD

LUNCH: grilled cheese sandwich and Baked Lays

SNACK:  raw baby carrots and ranch dip

Thats about it...oh and one of the doctors I work for bought me a 16oz Coke today..so 200 and some calories were wasted on that.  I'm already up to 910 calories and havent had dinner yet.  My limit is 1200 cals/day.  For dinner I plan on grilling some boneless skinless chicken breasts and maybe have some long grain and wild rice for the side.   Question about smoothies....do they fill you up ? 

I can kind of relate to your situation.  As of September 2007 I weighed 105 lbs.  As of today I am at 141. Basically it happened like this -new relationship ~ new lifestyle ~ extra pounds.  This is the biggest I have ever been (except pregnancy).  I would love to get back down to 105; however at this point I will take any weight loss I can get.  I've never been one to exercise or watch what I eat so I'm kind of taking this one step at a time.  I figure I will cut back on calories first, then add in the exercise slowly.  I too want to stick to this for more than a month- I wan't the weight to come off AND STAY OFF !!!!  So I am also open to any advice or tips that anyone has : )