Posts by seamstresslou

1. I want to be able to walk into any store and know that I can pick anything not just the specially sized merchandise.

2. I want to go to burning man and I see people dress waaaayyyy down on the Playa. I want to dress way down too but not if I have tummy rolls.

3. I know that I am 50lbs overweight now and I keep thinking so what happens if I have kids at some point. I would be 50 plus pregnancy weight.

4. I have to attend a wedding of an old family friend in the summer. I will be seeing lots of people I haven't laid eyes on in a long time and I dont want them to look at me and think damn she's gained weight.

5. I want my stomach to not jiggle when I walk.

6. I want to be able to bend over and tie my shoe laces or shoe straps without having to maneouver around my stomach.

Growing up I always had this idea that when you lose weight it comes off like an onion. One layer at a time, all over. But its not happening that way and its hard to tell sometimes when you are doing okay and when you are not. I took daveyoda's advice and went to the gym for that special scale that measures BMR and fat mass and all that good stuff. My fat mass has dropped 3% even though the scale has only budged 3lbs. Last time I weighed myself there I was 5lbs lighter but my fat mass was exactly the same. I am hoping that by the end of January I will have lost another 8lbs.

I am trying not to gain anything during Christmas.

HELP!!!!

I have a problem, I am fine until Thursday afternoon and then I begin my slow slide off the bandwagon. I don't know why but by Thursday afternoon I start having the wickedest cravings for sugar, chocolate, pizza, wine, potato crisps. I had banned all the above from my house and that has been really helpful because it means at night even when I have cravings I cannot indulge. But I'm at work now and I work for a food company that makes cookies so there is a vast array of things downstairs in the company store that keep calling out to me. I tried having a cup of hot chocolate no sugar and that didn't work so....any ideas.

Preferrably something that can be bought in singles. If I buy a whole box of 100 cal items i eat the WHOLE BOX.

Yes,

I definately worry when I don't go to the gym and work out. But you should, we all ended up here because we didn't do all of the above.

Hi I'm having the same problem, since replacing a lot of the carbs with veggies my caloric intake has been much lower but I feel satisfied. My calculations are that I have a caloric deficit of 1000 - 800 some days but from the posts Ive been reading that might stop you from losing weight. Or maybe I just need to be patient. I want to eat more but worry about that leading to bingeing.

Bf: egg white and chicken slices

Lunch: white meat and veggies

Dinner: tuna salad & wine spritzer

about 5 cups of coffee 8oz of creamer (I'd be a zombie without) splenda for sweetener

My intent was to be on the keto diet but I've been up to around 40-50 calories a day. Be ware of the level of fat that you are ingesting. I think Atkins is great, it works for me because I am on anti-depressants and that makes it very hard for me to lose weight simply by counting calories.  I was actually down to 185lbs when I started with the medication and the weight loss stopped and ALL the weight came back. Eating the Atkins way has also stopped me from being bloated which now I realize has been nearly constant for the last 3 years or so, especially when it was TTOM urrgh I looked like I was preggers. I know its not for everyone and some people have had really bad side effects but I plan to stick with it. I know that I must take care what I eat after and not to lose the weight too fast otherwise I will have horrible folds of skin.

I guess a lot of people think whooo hoo I lost the weight I will eat whatever I want and whatever quantity I want  and I don't need to go to the gym but that will cause weight gain whatever diet that you were on.