Posts by thevillageidjit

Forum	Topic	Date	Replies

Weight Loss	Find your twin on CC!	Apr 17 2007 03:21 (UTC)	2,395
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The Lounge	What Do You all do for a living?	Apr 09 2007 19:01 (UTC)	54
I'm a stay-at-home mom...but my babies are no longer babies (sniff). I used to work as a teacher assistant and was fairly active running after 5 and 6 year olds for 6 hours a day. I decided to give it up and I gained 20 lbs. within a year after that! I guess I got a little bored. Now I'm re-learning what a healthy portion is - and the difference between hunger and appetite. ugh
Games & Challenges	The person below me!!!	Apr 09 2007 01:19 (UTC)	6,985
true... I guess... I have a bamboo plant, but no aloe plant tpbm frequently goes skiing.
Weight Loss	manual or electric scales? Help loosing motivation	Apr 07 2007 21:30 (UTC)	9
I had a similar problem with my non-digital scale - I had to make sure that the "arrow" (or whatever it's called) was exactly on zero before I stepped on the scale and check it again after I got off the scale, as it would have a tendancy to move off it's mark if I wasn't very ginger about stepping on the scale. I could lean on it one way or the other and make myself gain or lose 5 or 6 lbs instantly! ...but then I'd weigh in at the doctor and was always heavier than what I got at home. I bought a digital scale and it seems to be much more accurate - it's right on with what I weigh at the doc's office. Maybe if you have any free weights (i.e. a 10-lb. dumbell weight or something like that), you could place that on the scale to see if your scale weighs that accurately. I agree with previous posters - I would gain 5-7 lbs in a day if I was close to my time of the month. I've also noticed if I eat a lot of high sodium foods one day, I'll weigh a few pounds more the next day (probably from water retention). Are you nursing the baby? If so, that may have a lot to do with the flucuations too. I weigh myself every day just for grins, but that can be depressing some days, so I only record my weight once a week. Don't get discouraged and don't give up, it'll get better! Even if you're not seeing the weight loss you'd like to see right now, you're still doing so much for your health by exercising & eating right.
Weight Loss	New and need help	Mar 28 2007 22:28 (UTC)
Hi Sillywillykelly! I'm new to this site also and just LOVE it. If you click on the "Tools" tab toward the top of the website, there's a section that says "Allowance". Clicking on that will bring you to a page where you can add your age, height, current weight, goal weight, etc. and it will advise you on how many calories you should consume per day to reach your goal weight. It's a handy little tool!
Health & Support	weight loss & blood pressure	Mar 23 2007 15:04 (UTC)	7
I know blood pressure can flucuate... it's just a little disconcerting to be questioning whether or not I'm getting an accurate reading from the doctor who's putting me on medication for it. I've never been on hormone replacement therapy, don't drink, don't smoke... I'm 42 and overweight so I just figured weight, age, and heredity were catching up with me. It was 168/96 before meds and diet/exercise. I did bring my BP machine with me to the doc appointment yesterday and my reading was 101/72 within seconds after the nurse got 128/80. I was told if the top number comes down to 120 or less, they would at least cut back on my dosage. Since the doctor doesn't feel that my BP machine is accurate, he pretty much dismissed any of the readings I got from it over the past several weeks and attributed my lightheadedness & dizzyness to the side effects of the drug.... and I'm thinking, "yeah, the side effects are that it's lowering my blood pressure too much!"...but I didn't say anything. :c( They didn't weigh me to see that I'd dropped 15 lbs. since the last visit either. I left there thinking I'd wasted a lot of money on a piece of junk home BP machine, but I went to Target right after the doc appt. to fill a prescription and checked it on their machine just for grins -- it read 96/56. After seeing this I'm thinking, without medication it might be close to normal. What kind of home BP machines do you use? Mine is made by Omron. I'm not ready to toss it just yet, not without getting it checked by another professional...just don't know where to go. I think I need to bring a doctor-visit-buddy with me to my next appointment to ask all the questions I forget or am too afraid to ask. Never even thought to ask the doctor to check it himself... but now I wonder if they've had an influx of high blood pressure there recently? ;c)

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