Posts by aftonmae

Well I looked at my numbers for last week and according to them I burn 2,200 calories a day. I was pretty shocked by that considering CC says 1800 and it seems if I have a bad day and eat 1900 calories I will GAIN 2 pounds overnight! But it's like you always hear, the last ten pounds are the hardest. That has turned out to be especially true for me! I.ve been fighting to loose the last ten pounds since, lol, the day after Thanksgiving 2007!! WOW. But after loosing 50 pounds and feeling soooo much more comfortable in my own skin I've definitely become a lazy dieter, not taking it as seriously. Plus I've always been torn between CC activity choices, between light and moderate. I chase 4 kids around, not to mention cook and clean and all that fun stuff for my large family of six. Do the soccer Mom thing, go to school, go to the gym, and garden and maintain my acre lot. At the same time I'm a spoiled housewife, I'm busy, but I can sit down and take a break any time I want, do things at my own pace. So because of that I choose light activity. Better underestimate then over, I figured. But I just changed it to moderate and it says 2100 now. So I guess I'm more active then I thought. Now if I could just stick with the calorie counting for a few months and loose that last ten pounds!!

I would guess thats about 800 calories, myself. Thats exactly how I eat, every 2 hours all day, each time something very low in calories. Except that I eat at 8 pm and 10 pm as well. My target is 1200 calories a day, which is what Calorie Count recomends for me. But I am short, only 5 ft, and not overweight. So I need less calories then say your average height female that is overweight. I think a girl 5 ft. 6, and 50 pounds overweight could loose weight on 1,800 calories a day. But I would gain if I ate that much. So it really just depends on the person! Fad diets don't take the needs of the individual into account.

I had a huge one the other day. Sometimes when I go into town to go shopping my hubby calls me and asks me to pick him something up at a drive through. I usually don't get anything for myself, just what he asks for. SOMETIMES I get a small chocolate shake, If I am doing well on my diet and know it wont blow my day. BIG treat for me. The other day I hadn't eaten anything but a cup of coffee that morning. It was like 2 pm. I was starving. My husband asked me to get him Taco bell. I've only eaten taco bell a handfull of times my entire life. Nachos sounded sooooooo good. So I got myself a "Nacho's BellGrande". Ate it on the way home, a good 30 minute drive. Get home, look it up...... 790 calories!!! I'm on a 1200 calorie diet!! Long story short. My day was blown....

From my understanding its common to implant several embryos in the hopes that one takes. On the rare occasion more then one takes the Dr.s talk to the patient about selective termination of the excess embryo's. And in this case the Dr. did but the mother refused. And unfortunately (when thinking of cases like this) a women has the "god given" right to have as many kids as she wants. So there was nothing the Dr. could do to stop her from carrying out with all 8 embryos (they only knew of 7 until birth). The Dr.s job was only to ensure this women was making a informed decision by explaining the medical risks. I have to think that this women must have concealed her situation from the clinic that helped her get pregnant. I don't know anything about who helped her with fertitilty treatments but I do know that the Dr.s that took care of her during pregnancy and with birth came across her after she was already in her first trimester. I have to blame this entire situation on the mother. No women in her right mind who has 6 kids (not sextuplets by the way, 4 singles and a set of 2 year old twins), is single, living with her parents, and on welfare would go in to have fertility treatments to have more, even if she only MEANT to have one more. And the latest news, by the way, is that she is now seeking 2 millions bucks and a TV show deal with Oprah Winfrey. This lady is nuts.

I got so scared over this. One of the products that was recalled was the Austin brand PB sandwich crackers. I had a box of those and my kids had eaten all but a few packages. My son had inexplicably started vomiting the night before. As soon as I read the article in my local paper it became explainable...... I knew salmonella poisoning could take up to 72 hours to show symptoms, and that a few people had actually died from the outbreak. One in Idaho which is  not far from where I live..... I was just waiting for my kids to all become violently ill! Luckily, other then my sons vomiting episode none of them did. I am definitely blaming my sons vomiting on the crackers though. He definitely ate a lot more of those crackers then any of my daughters. He eats non stop! So he must have gotten a small but luckily harmless dose of salmonella. There isn't anything else that would explain it.... I am just so relieved that was all that happened.

Im 5'1"

SW: 180

CW: 130

GW: 115

I picked 115 because at my height a BMI of 22 (right in the middle, or "perfect" BMI) is 116.....and 115 just sound nice and round. But to be honest, if I could just get under 120, I would be stocked!

My BMR is also around 1380. 1385 to be exact.  I've been dieting for 2 years now. I am not the best dieter. If I were, I would have reached my goal weight a year ago. I've been struggling with the "last ten pounds" for.... I don't even know how long..... Actually gained back some as well :( So now I am working on "the last" 15 pounds! But I have been dieting long enough to know that at my size and activity level, I really have to eat the bare minimum (1200 calories) to see results. I also know that it is really easy to have little nibbles throughout the day without even realizing it. Just one little bite of something here and there doesn't seem like it would be significant to add up to anything that would effect weight loss, but trust me, it really does. 3,500 calories equals a pound. If I eat 1200 calories a day, I will loose a pound a week. But if I don't watch what I eat I can VERY easily eat an extra 3,500 calories in in 2 or 3 days, and GAIN a pound instead. It's much much easier to gain then to loose, at least for me. .....Easier to eat more then I should, then less then I need...... you know? And as far as activities go, I find it much easier to just pick my activity level (sedentary, light, moderate, active) I figure I fall into the light category......and just leave it at that. If I do anything intensive that i know is extra calories burned I don't even bother to try and log it. I just live my life, and try my best to control my will-power and eat healthy. And when I am good, I loose weight. When I am not, I don't.....or I gain! So I guess my advice to you is, don't pick, or nibble. Really plan and think about what you eat. Get a food scale for sure so you REALLY know exactly how many calories you are eating. And don't even worry about logging your activities. That probably only makes you think you have burned extra, so you can eat extra, and is going to mess you up!

Edit: Now I just looked at your profile and see why our BMR is the same. We are the same height ( I say I am 5'1" cuz I like to round up. lol) and have the same goal weight, 115!

LOL santonacci. I have that laziness too. Except I will have those nibbles anyway. It always happens at night. I start nibbling on things I shouldn't and they don't get logged. Next thing I know I have no clue how many calories I have eaten, I just know it's probably not good.

And yes. I have a HUGE problem with sugar. Carbohydrates in general to be more specific. The way my body reacts to sugar is down to a science. I react to them the way anyone's body does, but to an extreme. Being that If I eat anything high glycemic, I produce a lot of insulin which makes my blood sugar drop, when my blood sugar drops I crave more sugar/carbs to bring my blood sugar back up. When I eat more my blood sugar drops more, etc. etc. A vicious cycle. A year ago I was sick all the time. Nearly passing out practically every 5 minutes. Literally passing out a few times a day. So I went to a DR. and after lots of tests my Dr. Diagnosed me as being insulin resistant. I make WAY to much insulin so my blood sugar gets dangerously low. Which explains it all. Once I knew what that was I completely understood everything. Why I felt the way I did. How it connected to what I ate. I know now what I have to do to keep myself comfortable, happy and healthy. Even what to do to loose weight. I just get stuck in these ruts that I can't seem to get out of! And a lot of it has to do with what I see in the pantry! I don't look in the pantry when I am looking for food for myself. I keep all my "diet" stuff in a separate cupboard. When my kids want a snack they ask, I tell them what I will allow them to have, and they get it themselves. Honestly, the late night give-in's are when I am packing my hubby's lunch for work!

I just have really sucky willpower.

Anyways, the reason for this post in the first place was only to see if any other mothers (or parents, not to leave out night or any other Dad) in my situation have any tricks up there sleeve they utilize to get through the day with there willpower in tact. I've come up with several myself but after a while they just quit working.

 And I am out of ideas!

Thanks smwhipple, I will have to try those!

My kids will know what they are missing! LOL . I have 4. The oldest 9. When I went from buying Cookies to granola bars (examples) 2 years ago, at first everyone was ok with it. But the more time that passes that my kids don't get things like cookies or ice cream, the more they complain about it. My oldest is the toughest. She complains about being hungry so I give her options, and she says no to each one and mopes around and whines. Reason being? She wants a cookie or ice cream, and knows we don't have it, and I wont buy it, and if she even asks......she will get a scolding! My 7 year old is the same. The 4 and 2 year old are a lot easier. 4 year old was only 2 when I started making changes in what I bought.  And of course, my 2 year old was just born. But I really do my best to keep an even balance between buying my children snacks and treats while keeping it healthy for them. But still, I feel these things are good choices for my kids, but not myself as I am trying to loose weight. And I am one of those people who does just fine all day until late at night. Then I give in to temptations. And late at night it doesnt take very many slip ups like that to take your calorie intake from deficit to maintaining. And when you do that, your obviously not going to loose weight. This is my problem......

And to night, the reason I made this post is because I DO have issues with sugar. And Bananas are in fact high glycemic, I am not just making it up.  If your not sure what this means, I recommend researching it, it could be very helpful to your diet. I also do the shopping and do as you. Buy what I think is fine for my kids, and different things for myself for my diet. But like I said. I have poor willpower at times. Especially at night. Which is my problem! And if I only bought apples, carrots, and celery as snacks for my whole family (5 of whom are NOT dieting) I think there might be a riot......

LOL. Thanks Altagracias! It's all so true. I believe I have been eating out of depression. Of course eating and gaining only makes it worse. It's a vicous cycle.  And I have also eaten candy and junk I shouldn't because I felt I had already gained back so much weight, why try to deny myself something I want! (like M&M's). Such a horrible excuse of a thought process. I remember when I was so dangerously close to 200 pounds, thinking "your already fat, might as well just eat what you want, what difference is it going to make?". I'm starting to realize now I am getting back into the frame of mind I had back then, when I was obese (I sooo hate saying that. I think that is my least favorite word, but it's true! I was!). Thinking a few cookies or a bowl of ice cream or a chocolate bar here and there wasn't going to make any difference in my life. Maybe even added some extra enjoyment to my life. When in reality it is what was ruining me. I can't let it ruin me again! And you know the saddest part of it all? I am insulin resistant. When I eat sugar or High Glycemic foods I get really sick! Yet, I do it anyway.....

Well Jen. I lost 50 pounds by not really eating any meals, so to speak. I would have coffee for breakfast. A sugar free energy drink for lunch. I would tie in a few slim fasts when I was starving. Maybe a few Jell-O's. And end my day with nearly a pound of steamed broccoli or carrots so I was so stuffed I new I wouldnt eat anything else before I went to bed! Eventually I started cutting out slim fast and adding in Bowls of oatmeal or Fiber One cereal. I think I did really good for a full year......as I got tired of one thing I was able to tweak what I ate to keep myself satisfied while still eating at a deficit and loosing weight. When I broke 130 I got a little too confident maybe? Got to 126 and I remember thinking that day "I could easily be 125 by tomorow if I am really good, and then I will officially only be 10 pounds away from my goal". I think that thought alone sabotaged me. I really got too confident. I felt really good about myself. Thought I looked great.  And I guess I ultimately thought I could loosen up a bit. Started eating whatever. Some days I would weigh 127, some days 128. But I knew that that was just normal. For weight to fluctuate when you weren't literally counting how many calories you ate to ensure I slightly lesser number on the scale the next day.  But I didn't freak out because I wasnt gaining at least!

Well, now I have. And I am having a hard time figuring out how to loose again!! The only things I feel to eat are things I SHOULDNT eat if I want to loose weight!

So, I don't really know exactly what I am asking for. Just if anyone has any ideas that REALLY work for them or meals any of you guys think are just the bee's knee's throw it out there. I'm open to all suggestions!

What did I have in mind?

Just someone to talk to! Moral support.......someone to keep me accountable, hopefully, lol. And if you have any good ideas on yummy, filling, low calorie things to eat....that always helps too!

Hey everyone!

My name is Afton. I am 5'1". I started 2 years ago over 180 and got down to 126. My daughter was injured and my life pretty much stopped and revolved around her and I ended up gaining back 5 pounds! My ultimate goal is to weigh 115 (I am large framed). I am hoping to reach this goal by March.

I'm the same. I am really honest and put my foot in my mouth because of it sometimes in social (real life) situations.......I've been trying lately to be a little more reserved and think before I speak.........maybe I should online as well.......If I continue to be that way online I'l never stop in real life!

I've seen that done on several weight loss television programs. And I have just never even wanted to try. I've lost 50 pounds. 15 more to go (which is proving to be extremely difficult, suddenly). But When I think about carrying 50 pounds around I just think about all the times I bought 50 pound bags of dog food. Just putting one of those in a shopping cart is a monstrous task. Let alone carrying it from my truck in the driveway into my house 20 feet away. It kills me! Luckily for me I don't have a large dog I have to buy 50 pounds bags of food for anymore!