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| Health & Support | how I got my period back... | Jan 12 2008 01:31 (UTC) |
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| I want to join in this party too! I just got my period back today
after 9 months without it! I think it's back because I've put on
15 pounds... I'm NOT happy about the 15 pounds, but I never thought I
could be so happy to have cramps... I'm facing a dilemma now... does anybody know or care to share their opinion... if I try to lose the 15 pounds that I've put on, do you think this will make my period go away again? Losing 15 pounds or so will not make me underweight, I would still be in the healthy weight range for my height. I want to get back into my size 6 jeans (I hate my 8's... I feel like a cow), but I want to keep my period because I someday want to have children. Anybody have an idea? Congrats to all of us who have finally gotten our periods back, lol! |
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| Health & Support | I had serious problem. and i think i will end my life soon | Jan 10 2008 03:10 (UTC) |
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| You just told the story of the last 6 weeks of my life. I'm not
sure how to help you... but I just want you to know, you are not
alone. I too am fighting an eating disorder, and just when I was
able to pull myself out and maintained a healthy weight for almost 3
months, I started binging... and couldn't stop. I tried... but I
couldn't. It's like, my body wanted what I didn't let it have for
so long. I just spent the last 2 days crying because of the 15 pounds I have gained. I too have also struggled with cutting. I have not cut in 10 months but I came oh so very close just last night. I finally left my apartment and hid out in a lounge on my college's campus where I knew no one would be and cried because I felt so ugly and fat and I just want to be my perfect 132 pounds, size 7 again instead of this ugly pig who barely fits into her size 9 "fat pants". This is hard, I know sweetie. I am struggling against my eating disorder at this very moment, having pushed myself on the track today for 4 miles in 37 minutes and doing an intense Flip Fitness aerobic workout as well as playing raquetball... and at 10PM I have eaten 800 calories, and I know I should eat more... but I can't. I've had a headache all day long that I know will be cured by eating... but I just can't let myself. Many times I struggle in my head, tell myself I must choose between starving or cutting because I am too fat and ugly to be kind to myself. Sweetie... please know... YOU ARE NOT ALONE. I am struggling just the same as you are right at this very moment. But the one thing that keeps me going is knowing that I am not alone, and that this will pass. I surround myself by people and with things that comfort me. Do you like music? I am a music major and I know when I am angry with myself, I'll pop in a CD of some great pipe organ music or one of Mahler's symphonies, and I get so lost in the beauty of it that I forget myself and my problems, at least for the moment. Try to find something that you love to distract yourself with. I find this to be the only way to fight the urges. It doesn't cure them, but it at least delays them, and then you can chalk that up to one more day survived. I also find that light does some good things for me. I suffer a bit from seasonal-affective disorder so winters are especially hard for me. I turn on every light in my apartment when I feel bad and get nice and warm in my electric blanket. I also go to a tanning bed a few times a week and the light and warmth from the bed does a lot of good for me too (as well as gives me a good tan... even if I can't ever be skinny, people ARE so jealous of my tan). Feel free to PM me if you'd like... I can't make it better, but I can listen (or in this case, I can read). Sometimes all you need is just knowing that you aren't alone in this and that there is somebody there who listens. |
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| Health & Support | ~~Bingers Anonymous~~ | Jan 02 2008 05:01 (UTC) |
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I was doing pretty well not binging until tonight... ugh, I had like
2500 calories today, which I guess isn't bad until you consider that it
only takes 1700 calories for me to maintain, and I didn't work out
today (my mom and her boyfriend came home from their Christmas in
Hawaii and I was so excited to see them and my mom sat down with a bag
of peanut M and M's and we passed them around the circle and traded
stories... and yeah, I had a lot more M and M's than I thought I did...) Back on the horse tomorrow, I've come up with a menu for the next 3 days. I've never done the whole menu-for-the-day thing, I've usually set a calorie limit and tried to keep it within that. I'm hoping that having the menu will help me stay on track. I'm also going to make myself run 3 miles each day. Man, I remember the days of this passed summer when 3 miles was nothing for me, and I was doing it twice a day... I really miss my lean, athletic days and I need to get them back!!! I really enjoy running and with the lack of time that I had this passed fall (really REALLY busy courseload) I wasn't able to keep up with the running and 10 pounds has crept on me... I didn't realize how much my running really helped to keep me "thin" (not thin... just thinner than everyone else in my family...). I also find that when I'm running regularly, my appetite is more in check and I don't have nearly the problems that I'm having now with binging... hopefully the coming of spring (and graduation!!!) will motivate me to get back to that... Kellybb-- as far as low cal/large portion size food, this is what I know: 1. Popcorn (100 calorie packs are great, Orville Reddenbacher has 100 calorie packs of kettlecorn that are amazing) 2. Sugar free jello-- I dump the entire box in a big bowl and chill it in the fridge... it's 4 servings, but each serving is only 10 calories so it's a total of 40 calories for the big bowl. You can even top it with some Cool Whip Lite, which has 20 calories for 2 tablespoons. Good stuff... 3. Cucumbers-- 1 1/2 cups slices has only 25 calories. I like to eat veggies with salsa, which has 10 calories per 2 tablespoons. (I personally LOVE salsa with cauliflower the best but cucumbers are what is in my fridge right now) Hope this helps you! |
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| Health & Support | ~~Bingers Anonymous~~ | Dec 23 2007 21:57 (UTC) |
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| It is nice to know that I am not the only one who struggles.
Though I am not and was not ever underweight, I was at a healthy
weight, neither too fat nor too skinny, before this 10 pounds crept
on. It's not like this 10 pounds has made me obese, but my size 6
pants are a bit tight and that makes me sad considering how hard I had
to work to get into the 6's. I've done pretty well today, though
I still feel disgusting, I've not over-eaten or under-eaten, though a
part of me has half a notion to go run 6 or 7 miles and then fast
tomorrow. I'm so determined to not binge that I put a picture on the fridge of me last month (before the 10 pounds, which is probably more like 13 pounds after the last few days!) and I'm trying to use that as inspiration to stay out of the fridge. So far, it's working. That, and there isn't any more open packages of cookies in the house, I tossed them all away last night in the garbage, and I'm thinking about taking anything else that I might binge on (the unopened jar of peanut butter, the unopened box of raisin bran, and the unopened yule log) out to the garage so that if I really want any of it, I have to go get it. I can't throw out too much food; my mom and her boyfriend are on vacation and I can't tell them that I threw out all of their food or that I ate it all while they were gone... Does anybody have any tips on how to make it through Christmas gatherings? My family likes to eat and especially since I've lost all of this weight, they especially like to make ME eat. Most of them are happy to hear that I've gained a little but I REFUSE to gain any more. Any ideas on what to say when they offer me those rude little cookies? Also, I need to admit this out loud because it's scaring me a bit... I've actually considered fasting for the next 2 weeks. I'm an all-or-nothing kind of gal (I either do my homework well or I don't do it all, or I eat well or don't eat at all) and all through today, I've found it comforting to consider fasting because then I won't have to worry about eating and "accidentally" binging... I know it's bad, I know, I know... but there's still this part of my brain that is fascinated and yearns for the control that I had one year ago when I could go 10 days without eating anything. I just have to say, it makes me feel so much better knowing that I am not the only one who struggles with these eating tendencies... |
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| Health & Support | ~~Bingers Anonymous~~ | Dec 22 2007 19:37 (UTC) |
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| I feel your pain, all of you. I too am off from college for
Christmas break... one year ago I could have been considered anorexic
(except that I wasn't underweight, but I had lost nearly 50 pounds
through fasting/restricting). Now, on the road to recovery, in
the last month I have started binging and I've gained 10 pounds!
I can't stop this... it's like, there are cookies everywhere, and one
year ago I NEVER let myself eat cookies, whether it was Christmas or
not... and now I can't stop. Every time my family lets me alone,
I'm going through the cupboards for cookies and chocolate and peanut
butter. I'm so disappointed in myself... I've promised myself the
last 3 days that I wouldn't do it, yet I have. This 10 pounds makes me feel digusting. Though I really can't tell where the 10 pounds is on my body, I feel like crap just knowing it's there somewhere. Half the time I can't even look at myself in the mirror. And the worst part is, I'm not so concerned with how I feel about the 10 pounds, I'm more concerned with how everybody else around me will feel about the 10 pounds. I told my mom and her boyfriend, and my mom's boyfriend actually congratulated me... said I needed to get some meat on my bones... but if he knew HOW the 10 pounds came on, he wouldn't be so happy... Sorry... just ranting... has anybody else ever dealt with binging when recovering from an starvation disorder? |
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| Weight Loss | "The Thanksgiving Ten" - losing those last annoying pounds challenge & support group | Oct 02 2007 17:49 (UTC) |
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| I noticed that it seems like a good bit of the women in this club are around the same height as I am, 5'3". Can I ask how many calories per day you are eating? I find it hard to stick with 1200 calories per day sometimes when I'm really busy during the day with all of my school activities... I either don't have time to pack low calorie lunches and have to eat at the college snack shop instead, or I do really well throughout the day but then find myself starving at night and end up telling myself that I can eat up to my maintenance calories just that one day... but then I do the same the next day, and the next day, and I've been on this plateau for over a month... Anyways, this question is for you 5'3" ladies out there... how many calories do you eat per day? Do you compensate for exercise, and if so, how much? How much do you lose per week eating that amount of calories? I'm really excited to have other people to talk to about these things! I hope we are all skinny-minis by Thanksgiving! |
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| Weight Loss | "The Thanksgiving Ten" - losing those last annoying pounds challenge & support group | Oct 01 2007 16:43 (UTC) |
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I've got to join this!! These last 10 are soooo hard for me,
especially with my busy class and work schedule which has me eating
junk at midnight because that is the only time I have to eat and who
wants to cook vegetables at that time of night when you can just toss a
Hot Pocket in the microwave? I've done a fairly good job
maintaining in the last month (the scales say I've put on a pound and a
half in the last 2 weeks but some of that I think is water weight or
muscle weight as I have increased the amount of time I spend weight
lifting and decreased the amount of time I spend running and doing
cardio. My arms have really bulked up in the last few
months!) I am dying to hit the 120's... and I'm so close! I
think I just need encouragement, so let's encourage each other and
maybe we'll all get there! Sex: F Age: 23 Height: 5'3" CW: 132 pounds (jumps around a bit depending on the day) GW 1: 124 pounds (I'd like to hit 122 by Thanksgiving, but 124 would be ok) |
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| Weight Loss | 5'4" size 7 anybody? | Sep 30 2007 04:33 (UTC) |
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| I'm 5'3", 132 pounds, size 6 in women's, 7 in juniors. Would probably be smaller except that I've lost a lot of weight (almost 100 pounds) and have some excess skin around my abdomen that takes up a little space (though it is shrinking down as I keep running and weight training). | |||
| Weight Loss | 130/120 Club? | Sep 19 2007 18:41 (UTC) |
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| Sorry, all... I've been bad at this in the last few weeks. I've
gotten really busy with classes and band practice and stuff and
counting calories has sort of slipped my mind. Not that I'm doing
bad stuff like binging and eating junk, but I've not been as hard core
at creating a calorie deficit like I was over the summer. The
last two weeks have been maintaining for a day or two, having a day
with a 700 or 800 calorie deficit (usually on the days that I have time
to work out) and then maintaining again for another day or two. Went to see my endocrinologist on Monday. His scales said I weighed in at 131.75 lbs., and this was in the middle of the afternoon with all of my clothes on. So, I'm probably still around the 131 and change that I've been at for the last few weeks. And actually, i may have to stay here for awhile, as my endo was a bit concerned about the 6 pounds that I have lost in the last couple of months, added to the 11 pounds I lost in the months before that, I've lost a total of 17 pounds in about 5 months. I know that's not a bad rate, and my BMI is now at 23.2 which is still towards the upper end of the healthy weight bracket, but the endo mentioned that with me being an athlete and being built like I am (especially in my calves) that I will naturally weigh more than someone who doesn't run like I do, and so I look like I have a lower BMI than I actually do. He suggested that perhaps I should try to maintain my weight for awhile, especially now since my last labs came back a little messed up and I'm finding that I might have some pituitary issues besides my hypothyroid stuff now. I went in for a bunch more tests yesterday so we'll see what happens... but anyways, I'm still being very conscious of eating and exercising, but perhaps I need to not be so concerned with losing now. All of this to say: CW: 131.75 GW (which seems like it may be awhile in coming: 124.2 pounds 7.5 pounds to go |
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| Weight Loss | 130/120 Club? | Sep 14 2007 01:58 (UTC) |
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| Oy... no change from last week. Actually, the scale said I gained
a pound but there's no way that's true considering how busy I've been
with classes and how much I don't have time to eat. So Current weight: 131 pounds, 4 ounces Goal weight: 124.2 pounds 7 pounds to go! (Oy, that sounds sooooo far away) |
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| Weight Loss | 130/120 Club? | Sep 07 2007 13:29 (UTC) |
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| Oy... so busy this week! Classes started this week and I have
been so busy that I really haven't had time to count my calories, I
have just enough time to shove in a meal and then move to my next
thing. This week has turned into a maintenance week but hopefully
once things settle down it will get better. Lost 5 ounces last
week, though, so here is my new stats: Current weight: 131 pounds, 4 ounces (131.25) Goal: 124 pounds Left: 7 pounds |
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| Health & Support | Synthroid and Topamax | Sep 01 2007 19:26 (UTC) |
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| I found that synthroid didn't really make me involuntarily lose weight. The thyroid hormone that helped me drop weight quickly was cytomel. On synthroid I just found it a bit easier to maintain my weight, instead of keep gaining like I was pre-synthroid. It's the cytomel that has made my metabolism take off and work the way it should have been all of those years. Though I still have 7 pounds to lose (and I don't really HAVE to lose them as I am in the healthy weight range for my height now, but I'd like to lose them), I'm finding that I need to eat more than I ever have before, and I am still losing. You will need to keep a close eye on your weight, and keep tabs on the number of calories you eat to determine what amount you need to lose/maintain/gain. That's all the advice I can offer you... it's different for everybody, so perhaps the synthroid will have less/more of an effect on you than it did on me. Who knows. But feel free to message me if you think I can help you any more! | |||
| Weight Loss | foods with fat | Aug 31 2007 12:44 (UTC) |
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| Those are good ideas. Thank you for your advice. I've been thinking about switching from the non-fat stuff to the 1 or 2%... I just have to get it out of my head that these things are going to kill me on calories. 1% cottage cheese is only 10 more calories per serving and that won't kill me, I don't NEED to run another mile in my workout to work off those 10 calories. I will try buying those things at the grocery store this weekend and see how it works. Thanks for your advice! | |||
| Weight Loss | thick thighs? | Aug 30 2007 03:44 (UTC) |
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| Lol... I have thick thighs too. Actually, I've noticed it more in my calves than my thighs since I started running last October. I have HUGE calves that are just hard, solid muscle and almost look out of proportion with the rest of my body when I wear shorts or mini skirts. I mean, I guess it could be worse, my calves could be all big and flabby and they could jiggle when I walk... my thighs are big too, still a bit jiggly but much more toned than they were a year ago. I wouldn't worry about the big thigh thing, it's much better to have solid muscle in your thighs than to have jiggles!! | |||
| Weight Loss | 130/120 Club? | Aug 30 2007 00:21 (UTC) |
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| I don't have a weight yet for this week... I missed my usual Saturday weigh-in because my dad woke me up early in the morning, drove me to the train station, and took me to New York City to see Les Miserables on Broadway! A music major's dream... except when I had to eat at TGI Friday's, but I got the house salad no dressing, and the French onion soup with the cheese and croutons on the side, so it can't have been that bad. Either way, I didn't weigh-in like I normally do, and rather then spend 50 cents at the mall twice in one week to weigh I'm just going to wait until Friday or Saturday to do it. So, as far as I know, I've maintained at 131 pounds, 9 ounces, aiming for 124... and we'll see what this weekend holds for me (praying for 130... *fingers crossed*) | |||
| Weight Loss | Does your doctor comment about your weight? | Aug 24 2007 17:50 (UTC) |
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| My doctor is actually the complete opposite. When I saw him in March, I weighed 149 pounds, with a BMI of 26.4 (slightly overweight). Though people told me that I didn't look it (I'm a runner so I'm pretty muscley), he gave me the deal about being right on the edge of normal weight/overweight. Didn't matter that I was feeling good and was probably fitter than he was (could run 3 miles in 30 minutes). I dropped some weight and went to see him in June. Weighed 138 pounds, BMI of 24.4, a "healthy" weight, was running 3 miles in 28 minutes. He didn't say a word about my weight, because I was in the "healthy" weight range according to his wonderful BMI chart. All I'd lost was 11 pounds! He was harping on 11 freaking pounds in March??? I was so mad! I've lost a little more since June (only 6.5 pounds, but at this lower weight, 6.5 pounds looks like a LOT on me, and I've really had to struggle to lose those pounds). Stupid doctors. I have a BMI of 23.3 now, still a bit on the upper range but still "healthy", and I'm told that I do not look like I'm that heavy. Stupid charts... they don't matter. Go by what you look/feel like, not a chart... silly doctors... |
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| Weight Loss | 130/120 Club? | Aug 21 2007 20:52 (UTC) |
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| 8/18 (which will count for 8/22): 131 pounds, 9 ounces (131.57) Goal (for now): 124.2 pounds Left to go: 7.37 pounds It's getting harder now, the closer I get. Plus I can't work out as much now as I have earlier this summer because I'm so busy trying to get ready for classes to start up again. Can I do it? I want to be 129 by September 1, though I guess I could settle for 130... *crossing my fingers* |
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| Weight Loss | For people 5 foot 3 inches | Aug 15 2007 16:23 (UTC) |
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Height: 5'3" Current weight: 132 pounds Short term goal: 124 pounds Long term goal: 115-116 pounds |
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| Weight Loss | 130/120 Club? | Aug 15 2007 16:12 (UTC) |
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| 8/11 (which will count for 8/15): 132 pounds, 2 ounces (132.125) Goal (for now): 124.2 pounds 7.9 pounds to go! I thought there would be damage after eating out and eating junk for 2 weeks while on vacation, but there wasn't... I actually managed to lose .75 pounds in those 2 weeks... AMAZING... |
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| Foods | What does your packed lunch look like? | Aug 14 2007 19:30 (UTC) |
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| This is what I pack for lunch: Dannon Light and Fit yogurt, single container (6 oz.) any flavor: 60 cals 1 medium Golden Delicious Apple: 60 cals EITHER A milk and cereal bar (I buy a box of the mixed Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, or Cocoa Puffs... mmm!): 160-180 cals OR A peanut butter and jelly sandwich using two pieces of Liter 35 lite wheat bread (70 cals), one tablespoon sugar free Smucker's blackberry jam (10 cals) and one tablespoon of peanut butter (95 cals)=175 cals 1 12 ounce can of diet soda (either diet mountain dew, diet dr. pepper, or diet wild cherry pepsi): 0 cals Total: 280-300 calories Some days when I know I worked out hard in the morning or I know I will be working out hard later I'll add in an extra 100 calories. This is usually a 100 calorie pack of anything I found at the grocery store, anything from a Pringles 100 calorie pack to Chex mix to cookies. I tend to not eat much during the day as I get busy and distracted at work/class, so this is a "bird" lunch... but I eat better at night when I'm at home, I swear!! |
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| Foods | eating out tonight. Please help answer my questions so i'm not panicking at the menu!! | Aug 11 2007 19:39 (UTC) |
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| As shiptona said, it really does depend on the salad and what's on it. These are a few things that I keep in mind when eating out (and I just had to go through a week of vacation eating out all the time and somehow I still managed to lose around 1/2 pound last week). Salad dressings are evil (not all are, but a lot are). If you can, try to eat your salad without the dressing, which is what I do. If you can't go without the dressing, try to get a light or fat free dressing if you can, and ask for it on the side instead of on it. Cheese is evil too. Of course, you can have a little bit of cheese, but lots of restaurants put WAY too much cheese on their stuff and not enough of other stuff like vegetables. I love cheese; I have a cheese and peanut butter addiction, actually. But one way to cut calories is to ask for 1/2 the amount of cheese on a salad, or if you get a sandwich or a burger, ask for it without cheese. Because really, on a sandwich, there's so much other stuff on it that you really don't taste the cheese, so if you take it off, the sandwich isn't that different except that it has 100-200 calories less than it did with the cheese. Fried foods/grease is bad. Avoid French fries at all costs, or if you have to have them, eat them in moderation. The grease that this stuff is cooked on is high in calories and bad stuff that you don't want in your arteries anyways. Eat vegetables and fruits. Though these things at restaurants are usually higher in calories than fresh stuff straight from the farm/orchard/grocery store, they still aren't that bad. Ask for a side of broccoli tips instead of the French fries or biscuits. Get the fruit cup and low fat yogurt instead of the apple pie with ice cream for dessert. If you know what restaurants you are going to beforehand, and it is a major chain restaurant, many places have their menus on their websites and you can see what they have. Some places also offer nutrition facts for some of their items on their website, and if they don't, check here at c-c.com, as this website has a lot of nutrition facts for many chain restaurants as well. Hope this helps you in some way. Good luck tonight, and remember, it's only one meal, so as long as you are being conscious of what you're eating, you should be fine. Enjoy it! |
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| Motivation | when you reach your goal weight.. | Aug 10 2007 18:06 (UTC) |
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| I'm going to be just like vstar_pilot and get my belly button pierced if I ever get to my ultimate goal of 116 (only 17 pounds away...) C-C.com has me shooting for 124 (9 pounds away). If I ever get there, which may be never at this rate, I may go let myself go on a bit of a shopping spree, but not a large one as money is not copious for me (thank you, college, for soaking me dry by making me pay ridiculous amounts in tuition). 116 will be the belly button piercing day... and it had BETTER look good! | |||
| Weight Loss | "You're to skinny, what do you eat in a day" *rant* | Aug 09 2007 19:45 (UTC) |
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| AMENNNNNNN! Puh-lease... 133 pounds for a 5'3" female is NOT too skinny. A big size 6 for someone my height is NOT too skinny. Don't tell me to eat ice cream, don't force brownies and cake and fatty butter-laden biscuits at me because you think I don't need to lose any more... the fact is, I do. Let me show you the rolls on my stomach and then you decide... Of course, most of the comments I get about being too skinny (which I certainly am NOT) come from the members of my family who wear sizes 18 and 20, and I guess in their eyes, a size 6/8 is small. Except that they are all like 10 feet tall and I'm not, so NO, size 6 is NOT small. Get over it, let me eat the salad instead of the steak like I want, let me run 4 miles/day if I want. I'll come and ask for your opinion when I think I need it. Sorry to rant... |
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| Weight Loss | 130/120 Club? | Aug 09 2007 03:39 (UTC) |
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Oy... vacation... I just got back from the beach. The beach and vacation DESTROYS diets... and gives me farmer's tan... I don't even want to step on the scale right now. It was so hot and I drank as much as I could, but for the last 2 days I have not had to use the bathroom as often as I usually do, so I'm sure my body is retaining water like whoa. That, coupled with the fact that we ate out a lot (I tried to avoid it as much as possible by hitting up the Subway right down the street from our hotel and by eating food I brought from home but what's a girl to do when her aunt and uncle want to pay for her lunch and dinner every day?) I'm sure I've put on a few pounds of water weight. My goal was to maintain over vacation... I'm hoping that the two morning runs I took on the boardwalk (2 miles one morning, 4 miles the other) coupled with all of the walking I did on it while shopping (got some cute jewelry and a pretty new jean skirt... a size 6, and might have been able to get into the 4 but I didn't want the skirt to be any shorter than it already was) will keep me at my 132 lbs, 14 ounces, but we'll see. So, let's say that I've maintained this week. I'm back into the diet tomorrow, and Saturday I will weigh myself and see what the damage actually is... CW: 132.9 lbs. GW: 124.2 lbs. Left to go: 8.7 lbs |
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| Weight Loss | ladies looking to lose the last 10? | Aug 04 2007 20:03 (UTC) |
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| Oy... the last 10 is sooooo hard... I've got just under 9 pounds to lose yet and I just can't get the scale to budge. I've only dropped about 10 ounces since June 30 but I guess that's partly my fault because for a week over 4th of July and this passed weekend I ate to maintenance (which to me feels like binging... I'm not sure what's going to happen when I do actually need to maintain, as I can eat to maintenance for about 2 or 3 days and then I feel really guilty and cut way back or excercise like crazy). When I get to my goal of 124 (BMI of around 22), I think I might want to go a bit lower (not much, maybe only 7 or 8 pounds more)... I can't imagine how hard THAT will be... I've got to buckle down. My goal is to hit 130 by the end of August... just under 3 pounds in about 4 weeks... I sure hope I can pull it off but it's hard because creating a calorie deficit without going under 1200 is difficult as I get smaller... I HATE THE LAST 10 POUNDS!!!!!!!! |
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| Fitness | elliptical machine vs others | Aug 02 2007 21:54 (UTC) |
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| I have just started using an elliptical so that I can cut back my weekly running totals and start saving my joints. However, I find that I cannot last as long on an elliptical as I can when running on the track, and the problem has nothing to do with my heartrate or struggling to breathe, it has everything to do with my legs hurting. My thighs have NEVER hurt that much after running on the track... which is worse, hurting knees or hurting thighs? I'm not sure... Other than that, I don't mind the elliptical. I'm going to use it today. I'm going to run 1.5 mile, use the elliptical for 10 minutes, and then run another 1.5 miles (I miss running and moving around the track a lot...) |
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| Fitness | music for workouts? | Aug 02 2007 21:46 (UTC) |
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| This is what I'm currently crazy about right now: Anonymous-- Bobby Valentino Summer Love-- Justin Timberlake What I've Done-- Linkin Park Say It Right-- Nelly Furtado Bleed It Out-- Linkin Park Do You Know-- Enrique Iglesias Easy-- Paula De Anda Rehab-- Amy Winehouse I've got a ton more music on my mp3 player and sometimes I just put it on a random setting and I'll have anything from Crossfade to Mozart playing, but when I need something to motivate me to move, this is what's on the playlist that I currently love. Hope it gives you some ideas! |
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| Weight Loss | 130/120 Club? | Jul 31 2007 21:27 (UTC) |
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| Can I join this club? I've been lurking here for awhile in hopes that I wouldn't have to join because I'd be out of the 130's, but I just can't get out of here!! So, I'd like to join until I can... perhaps the support and knowing that I have to post my weight weekly will motivate me through the week... I usually weigh myself on Fridays or Saturdays, though, not on Wednesdays, but on Wednesdays I will post my weight from the passed weekend. So, here is mine for tomorrow: Goal weight: 124.2 pounds (for now, may go lower, but I want to get here first!) Current weight: 132.9 pounds Left to go: 8.7 pounds |
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| Weight Loss | Hypothyroid Question | Jul 26 2007 22:01 (UTC) |
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Hi Sammy, I've read in this thread that a lot of people have mentioned Armour Thyroid to treat hypothyroidism. I have heard lots of good things about Armour, but have not personally tried it myself. I've been diagnosed hypo since 1995. I started on just plain levothyroxin/synthroid, prescribed by my family doctor, when I was 11 years old. For some people, synthroid does help some of the symptoms. I'm really not a good person to say whether or not treatment with synthroid is better than no treatment at all because I was so young when I was put on it and I really can't remember how I felt before. I didn't really lose weight when I was put on synthroid, but I looked like I did because I hit a growth spurt right after I started taking it and grew 4 inches in 6 months. What I CAN advocate for is a hormone called Cytomel. Synthroid is the name brand of the synthetic T4. Cytomel is the name brand of the synthetic T3 thyroid hormone. In March I was referred to an endocrinologist by my family doctor due to some TSH issues, and he prescribed me Cytomel in combination with my Synthroid. Let me tell you, it's made a HUGE difference. I've dropped 15 pounds effortlessly (though I AM pretty active as I run almost every day, so that could be it too), and I have changed from hating getting out of bed to being a very chipper morning person. I call this my "new metabolism", and it's something that I never had on just straight synthroid, I needed the T3 boost to get this. Now we're just trying to adjust the dosage of each medication to find that "perfect fit", but we should be pretty close to it come October or November. If you haven't seen an endocrinologist about your hypo yet, I would highly recommend it, as GP's usually don't know much about hypothyroidism other than to stick the patient on the traditional synthroid and measure TSH yearly (which, as you are probably finding out as you research your new condition, is NOT the most important thing to consider when treating hypothyroidism). Anyways, hope this has helped you, or at least "broadened your horizons"! If you think I can help answer any more questions, send me a message or something, I'd be happy to share my hypo story with you and any other information I know! |
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| Weight Loss | Vent: People who are delusional about their size... | Jul 26 2007 21:42 (UTC) |
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| You all are right on this. My nutritionist once told me that whatever size you are in your teen years, you will always feel like you are that size, regardless of what size you actually are. So, if you are thin while you are in high school, you can be wearing a size 28 when you are 30 and still think there is nothing wrong with what size you are because you are still skinny. It also works the other way; if you are big in high school, you can lose weight and become thin in your 30's and you will still always feel big. I suffer from the latter (though I'm not 30 years old yet, only 23). I was large in high school and I still feel large. I still feel like I should pull the size 22/24 off the clothing rack when in reality I really need a 6/8. Sometimes I stand in the dressing room when trying on clothes and I check the size 3 or 4 times to be sure that I'm really fitting into the 8 (or that stupid vanity sized 4 skirt that was STILL too big on me at Old Navy...) I tell myself, there's really no way that I can be thin like that because I was big for over 20 years. While the scale reads 134, in my mind that 134 looks like 234 on my frame. The mind is a funny thing, isn't it? |
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