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| Weight Loss | The Incredible Shrinking Boobs! | Nov 08 2007 23:59 (UTC) |
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When I lost my 25 lbs I went from a big D-cup to a small C, and initially my poor boobs looked like empty socks. I wasn't as upset about the shrinkage so much as losing the perkiness! However, over the next few months the skin seemed to tighten up slowly, and now all is well. Cherish your mini-boobs, srsly. It's so much easier to wear clothes with an A-cup, and most guys don't really care anyway. |
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| Weight Loss | Plan your meals!!! | Nov 08 2007 18:31 (UTC) |
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| I like planning my meals, for health reasons but also because -- listen up, peoples -- it is SO MUCH CHEAPER. And it goes really fast once you learn how; my husband and I sit down to plan our week's meals and shopping every Thursday, and it only takes us about an hour. Our grocery budget is very happy and so is the scale... | |||
| Weight Loss | Fiance not being totally helpful | Nov 08 2007 18:09 (UTC) |
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Don't "do anything" about him. It's your body, and it's your job to keep it healthy. Maybe you could try talking to him about how his comments make you feel, but unfortunately a lot of guys seem to have unexamined proprietary attitudes towards "their" women's bodies, and if this is the case with him, he might not understand at all. If I were you, the next time he makes a comment about your ass, I'd grin real big, say "tough toenails, buddy" and move on. It IS NOT your job to customize your body to please him. |
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| Weight Loss | Taking it slow anyone else? | Sep 11 2007 03:06 (UTC) |
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"I actually told myself I am going to enjoy this process." YOU CAN. You totally can. "Dieting", aka changing one's eating and exercise patterns to facilitate health and cuteness, can actually be fun. Learning to enjoy healthy food and exercise? That is a gift. It is a gift that can be yours, if you succeed at shucking off cultural expectations and just learn how to be mindful of what you eat and what you do to move your body. Don't just enjoy the weight loss; IMO that's a dead end. Enjoy the good food; enjoy moving your body. Brown rice and veggies and grilled fish are actually REALLY TASTY. Learning how to cook healthy food for yourself can open all kinds of doors to cultures and foods you never knew existed. In my pursiuit of weight loss, I have discovered Malaysian and Ethopian food, which I never ever would have found otherwise, and whaddaya know, it's deliicious! Exercise, if you're doing something you like, is a whole lot of fun. I don't know what I'd do without my workout -- I train krav maga, which has not only made me sinewy and fit but has given me a solid idea of how to protect myself and my loved ones if the shit hits the fan. LOVE IT! Go on with your bad self, girl. You're improving your whole life. Weight loss is just a bonus. |
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| Weight Loss | Taking it slow anyone else? | Sep 10 2007 21:51 (UTC) |
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Did it. Worked great. I started out in January of this year with a vague eye to losing 22 lbs; this morning I made my goal weight. There were long periods of maintenance eating in there, and I yoyoed a bit with changes in exercise regimen etc., but I just took it easy and cut myself a lot of slack. Told myself "this isn't a race, it's your health". I feel really good now (and look pretty cute too). Yay, stats: Start date 1/15/07 Start weight 147 Current/goal weight 125 |
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| Weight Loss | Yup, eating more DOES work! | May 31 2007 22:35 (UTC) |
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| These threads come up every so often, and they always make me smile. Doubters, it's absolutely, 100% true. My weight loss stalled whenever I ran a deficit of more than about 500 cals during my weight-loss phase. Now that I'm maintaining, my weight jumps if I undereat. Eating? Is v. good. Necessary even. Cheers, brightestblue! Keep up the good work. |
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| Weight Loss | What sizes do you wear? | May 31 2007 01:29 (UTC) |
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| 5'11", 130-135. I wear a straight 6 in vanity sizes and a 10-12 on the traditional size chart. I would probably be a 4 if it weren't for my D-cups and the fact that I don't have much of a waist. | |||
| Weight Loss | Birth Control options that DON'T make you gain weight? | May 30 2007 19:19 (UTC) |
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um... abstinance? :)" That would tick off my husband real bad. |
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| Weight Loss | Birth Control options that DON'T make you gain weight? | May 30 2007 04:10 (UTC) |
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| 1) It hurts more than anything I've ever felt being inserted. Man oh man, you sure aren't kidding. Not only does it hurt like hell, it's a really unpleasant kind of pain. Kind of horrifying, actually. Though I hear it's much easier if you've had kids. Tip for those considering getting an IUD: take the day off work. And the next day too, if you can. And enlist a friend, family member or romantic interest to be very, very nice to you while you are recuperating. You won't be sorry. |
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| Weight Loss | I think I need help | May 30 2007 03:44 (UTC) |
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| Could you ask your coach for tips, maybe? Or ask him/her to talk to your parents for you, even? Grownups often will listen to other grownups more than their kids, even if the grownups and the kids are saying the exact same thing. If your parents are also heavy, they may be defensive about it, and see your desire to eat healthier as a criticism of their lifestyle. That might be mitigated if the request is coming through someone outside the family. Also, and I can't stress this enough, if you don't already know how to cook, teach yourself. A good cook can eke a healthy existence out of someone else's groceries a lot more readily than a person who depends on others (or cans and boxes) for food preparation can. |
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| Weight Loss | How did you become overweight? | May 30 2007 03:38 (UTC) |
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I should say that I am not overweight -- I am actually quite slim. I'm here because over the last year or so I started gaining weight rapidly, which was due to a combination of stupid food choices and the natural slowing of metabolism that happens when we age, and I wanted to nip it in the bud before I did get overweight. Obesity runs in my family and I don't want to end up that way. Anyway, apart from just not being a kid anymore, I got stuck in a nasty rut of mindless eating and drinking. It doesn't help that I'm a serious cook who will eat pretty much anything. My husband and I lived in a group house for a long time, and I got in the habit of cooking for four. When we moved out on our own I was making the same quantities of food, and the two of us were eating all of it! Duh! I was also drinking like a fish. I put on 20 pounds, hubby put on 30, and that was when we decided something had to be done. Now I'm eating maintenance calories, and with the help of CC I've gotten much better about eating mindfully and sensibly. Those 20 pounds came off (it took four months), and now I'm svelte again. I tried "dieting" for a few weeks, just to see what would happen, and nothing did; it seems that I have an ironclad set point. Anyway, I'm content. |
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| Weight Loss | 6 feet tall ladies out there! Let's talk!!! | May 30 2007 02:36 (UTC) |
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Eh, I don't mind the shoe thing so much -- I actually like wearing heels. Though Cole Haan makes some really beautiful, professional (and, unfortunately, expensive) women's shoes in a range of sizes; they're my go-to for flats. They even have a line of dress shoes with invisible Nike Air technology, so they're really comfortable. I thought of an illustration of the silliness of height/weight charts and how they don't serve tall women well: some years ago I had a roommate who was 6'2". She was a runway model. She worked for Givenchy, Calvin Klein, Galliano, Thierry Mugler, you name it. Her weight? 170. And she was not plus-size. Feh. |
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| Weight Loss | 6 feet tall ladies out there! Let's talk!!! | May 30 2007 02:25 (UTC) |
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| I don't mind the shoe thing so much -- I actually like wearing heels. Though Cole Haan makes some really beautiful, professional (and, unfortunately, expensive) women's shoes in a range of sizes; they're my go-to for flats. They even have a line of dress shoes with invisible Nike Air technology, so they're really comfortable. I thought of an illustration of the silliness of height/weight charts and how they don't serve tall women well: some years ago I had a roommate who was 6'2". She was a runway model. She worked for Givenchy, Calvin Klein, Galliano, Thierry Mugler, you name it. Her weight? 170. And she was not plus-size. Feh. |
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| Weight Loss | 6 feet tall ladies out there! Let's talk!!! | May 30 2007 01:59 (UTC) |
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| I think that the powers that be do not believe that 6' women truly exist. This is also my theory for why I can't find pantyhose where the crotch doesn't hover around my knees. I am 5'11" and hover between 130 and 135, and despite my very small frame I'm still pretty scrawny. I could go up to 160 easily and still be a stick. I think you're doing just fine; us tall folks can often carry weight more easily than smaller ladies. Moral: most objective standards are BS. |
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| Weight Loss | Name a thing or two.... | May 30 2007 01:48 (UTC) |
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| Regular pasta. I'll eat it once in a very great while, but it's not a staple like it used to be. I have also bagged peanut butter, except for those days when I've undereaten by hundreds of calories; then I'll have a couple tbsps of PB to pad my calorie totals. I've changed my approach to most things rather than cutting them out. I am more mindful of cheese, for instance -- I save it for cooking and don't snack on it anymore. I've also been treating potatoes more like a vegetable than a starch, like they do in India, and that seems to be working out great. |
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| Foods | Whole wheat vs. Regular pasta noodles. | May 30 2007 01:43 (UTC) |
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| Not so much for something that simple, sidblack. I'd save it for a maintenance day and go all-out with a quality regular pasta, like De Cecco. | |||
| Foods | Whole wheat vs. Regular pasta noodles. | May 30 2007 01:33 (UTC) |
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| Whole-wheat pasta, almost without exception, sucks. It's gritty and crumbly and horrible, and I'm speaking as someone who loves whole grains and does not crave white starch. That exception, I find, is Ronzoni Healthy Harvest brand, which still takes some getting used to but is OK. The cooking times are a lot less forgiving than with regular pasta; be prepared to check for doneness frequently. Also, whole-wheat pasta is less versatile than regular. It works best with chunky, spicy, robust sauces; don't even try using it for fettuccine Alfredo or anything like that (not like you would anyway.) Now that I'm used to whole-wheat pasta, I've gotten addicted to it with marinara sauce and organic turkey sausage. Sausage and whole-wheat pasta are BFF. |
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| Foods | What did YOU eat today? | May 30 2007 00:59 (UTC) |
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| jenniferger, that's my kind of dieting. Mmmm, raw fish. Today: Breakfast -- chocolate brownie Zbar, coffee with half and half and a little sugar Lunch -- Trader Joe's brand instant miso soup jazzed up with dried shiitake mushrooms, scallions and some extra tofu, and a fresh peach Dins -- A token amount of brown rice and black beans, a big saute of summer squash, garlic, onion, roasted poblano peppers and shrimp, with cilantro and some queso cotija on top Dessert: Dreyer's strawberry whole-fruit bar Snack: Orvilla Redenbacher's 100-calorie bag of popcorn |
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| Weight Loss | Birth Control options that DON'T make you gain weight? | May 30 2007 00:43 (UTC) |
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| I only gained a little weight on NuvaRing -- under 10 lbs -- and it didn't kill my libido until I'd been using it for three years. I switched to Mirena a couple months ago, and I couldn't be happier with it -- TTOTM has entirely disappeared, I lost the weight I gained with NuvaRing, and I haven't noticed any side effects at all. If it stays put, it's a keeper. For the person who asked whether the strings attached to IUDs interfere with sex -- any guy who bitches about the strings is a big old baby who deserves nothing. The strings are about an inch long and really thin -- like thinner than dental floss. Even if he can feel them, it won't be obtrusive. (I get really annoyed when guys whine about minor stuff associated with birth control, if you couldn't tell. Until there's a male pill, they can all enjoy a big bowl of STFU.) |
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| Weight Loss | Dieting and Marriage, oh my! | Apr 19 2007 02:28 (UTC) |
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| If it's not too late -- to everyone else's advice, I would add this: when you talk, don't talk about her. Don't talk about her diet, don't talk about how she looks. Talk about you, your feelings. It isn't necessary to go into super-confessional Sensitive New Age Guy mode, but she needs to know how you're reacting to her zealousness. Ex.: "I really feel a disconnect between us on this diet thing. You're so far off in your world of calories and working out that I don't feel we're seeing eye to eye about anything these days." View this not as an end in itself, but as an opening for a discussion. And listen to what she says. The point here is not to "make" her do anything, but to arrive at a consensus about how you, as a team, are going to deal with her lifestyle change. You might want to find some athletic activity that you can do together-- just for fun, not necessarily to lose weight. It's a good idea to move your body anyway, even if you're not trying to lose. My husband and I train in krav maga together, and I gotta say it's become very important to our relationship. We socialize with people from our classes, dissect classes after we're done, compare notes -- and hey, how many couples do you know who get to beat the bejesus out of each other for three hours a week? |
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| Weight Loss | Good and evil and sin and shame... | Apr 12 2007 06:24 (UTC) |
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| Thanks for reminding me what "bad" means; kindergarten was an awfully long time ago, it's true. manewell, can you explain why the assignation of profound moral value to questions of diet -- "bad" vs "good" etc -- seems to be most widespread in a country and culture where obesity is on an alarming rise? And why it is not found in cultures with developed cuisines and significantly lower obesity rates? |
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| Weight Loss | Good and evil and sin and shame... | Apr 12 2007 03:39 (UTC) |
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| lysistrata, I would be able to get behind that mindset if it worked in helping people be healthy. Unfortunately, all indications suggest that making dieting a moral issue does not work, and is actually counterproductive. | |||
| Weight Loss | Good and evil and sin and shame... | Apr 12 2007 03:02 (UTC) |
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I personally think that when most people say they are "bad" because
they ate a twinky, they simply mean that they are disppointed in
themselves because they didn't resist the temptation. OK, but there's a distinct difference between saying "Uh-oh, I went off my planned diet, I'm not really sure what's going to happen now, I feel kind of alone in this, please advise" and beating the metaphorical crap out of oneself for being Bad. Why does "bad" have to come into it at all? Even if it's an exaggeration for dramatic effect, it's still an exaggeration which cleaves quite closely to the dominant culture's wacky ideas about food-as-moral-values. That's worrisome, I think, and it isn't necessary to believe one is "bad" to get healthy, though many people seem to think that they can't get healthy without beating themselves up. I think it is not the food that is the subject of a "quasi-religious" feeling in most people. It is DIETING and EATING which are religion-substitutes. HOLY DIET is the ethical or religious framework in which people define themselves and their food as "good" or "bad." lambea, I thought your post was really interesting. I'm not sure that we disagree at all. I want you to know that though I'm not religious myself, I in no way intended too rag on religion. I do a fair amount of ragging on hollow, destructive dogma, which can be found everywhere -- in religion as well as dieting -- but I agree that spirituality can be a powerful force when one is learning moderation. |
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| Weight Loss | Good and evil and sin and shame... | Apr 12 2007 01:37 (UTC) |
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| Yeah, bigtwinky, I know it's really obvious... I just got a little shocked at how many people have been talking about their food-related shame on the boards today. | |||
| Weight Loss | what size at what weight? | Apr 11 2007 03:20 (UTC) |
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| I'm 5'10", 132 lbs and I thought I was a 6, but when trying on clothes today could only fit into 8s. Lovely. | |||
| Weight Loss | I love calorie counting!! | Apr 11 2007 03:17 (UTC) |
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| I really enjoy it too. I usually plot out my calories at the beginning of the day -- it takes about ten minutes and gets me feeling positive about how I'll be helping myself along that day. I always leave about 200 calories' wiggle room, and if I blow it, so what -- I just readjust here and there. I always laugh when I hear diets like Atkins or those weird Jenny Craig/Nutrisystem arrangements (how the hell are you supposed to maintain a diet like that for life, anyway?) promoted with the claim "no counting calories!" Uh, that's a positive how? You can forbid yourself entire genres of food, or only eat frozen crap that comes in the mail, or you can write some stuff down for a few minutes a day. Gee, I know what I'm going to pick! |
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| Weight Loss | 5'3..and i cant wear a bikini | Apr 08 2007 01:20 (UTC) |
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I've got legs like an Amazon, but with skinny jeans on, they just make my tush look HUGE!!!! Curse those skinny jeans. I am also tall and also have good legs, and skinny jeans also make me look like an ice cream cone (great visual). Except in my case they flatten my butt and make my thighs look huge. Can you tell I hate them? Because I do. Bleh. |
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| Weight Loss | 5'3..and i cant wear a bikini | Apr 08 2007 00:52 (UTC) |
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| Skinny jeans are of the devil. Skinny jeans make Sienna Miller look like a heifer. Do not wear them. Not because you are fat, but because they suck and the fashion industry must not be permitted to foist them upon us. Also, in case the fashion industry is listening (not bloody likely): Shoulder pads? Never ever wearing them. Ever. Even though they are plotting a resurgence, if Paris Vogue this month is any indication. Don't even think about it. Thank you. |
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| Weight Loss | 100% my own views on cheat days | Apr 07 2007 23:38 (UTC) |
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Whether or not to have a cheat day, and even what constitutes a cheat day in the first place, is a decision that must be made after ruthless self-examination. Some people can do it, some can't, and it all has to do with our own, personal relationships with food. I don't like junk food, and I only overeat when I get careless or unconscious about what I'm eating. Therefore, I never feel guilty about maintenance days. And, curiously, I always seem to notice a 1-2 lb loss after maintenance days -- even if I've been plateaued for a week. "One day a week adds up to 4 times a month with then is 48 days a year. Well, over a month and a half of eating poo? enough time for your body to develop a disease from it!!" Sorry, han, I'm going to have to call BS on this until I see at least one source. What diseases are you talking about, and by what mechanism does "eating poo" cause those diseases after a month and a half? Do you have any support for this idea? I'm pressing it because there's a lot of uneducated scaremongering out there, and dog knows we're all messed up enough about food without being misled. "It's just my opinion that eating 'poo' causes diseases after 48 days" is not an honest or reasonable sentiment. |
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| Foods | What did YOU eat today? | Apr 01 2007 05:41 (UTC) |
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Good food today. Breakfast: Stonyfield Farms organic strawberry smoothie Snack: Cherry Pie Larabar Lunch: Spring rolls with crabmeat and avocado, from the gourmet grocery store Dinner: Potato-asparagus-and-shrimp curry with coconut milk, made by me Dessert: Skinny Cow ice-cream sandwich Bedtime snack: little bag of SmartPop I've been zigzagging, this was a zig day for sure. |
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