Posts by raynsong

137.5 lbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The OP asked that only people who had taken the carb blockers to respond. Ruling out your participation in this conversation.

Hooray!!! Yesterday I went back to the gym for the first time since I hurt my ankle (2.5 weeks ago!). I was only able to do about 25 minutes of weight training and I had lost a lot of strength, but I was glad to be back in the gym. I also only ate 958 calories, which I know is not enough, but I am still happy that I was able to control myself. I was at 800 at like 10 pm, and so I had some crackers and cheese to get a few more cals but there was no real reason to force myself to eat more as I was climbing into bed. Today I have plans w some friends to have dinner and drinks, and I won't get a chance to exercise. So I feel like it's ok to have one really low cal day since today will likely be much higher.

Tomorrow I will be back at the gym, hopefully I can do a little more this second time.

Also I weighed myself in the locker room and it said 141! Which puts me back on track. Hope the gym scale is right...

Today I weigh 144, which is more than I weighed when I started this thread, but less than I weighed late last week. I know I am going the right direction-- will finally get back to the gym this weekend and I've been eating really well. I am expecting to be down to 142 or even 140 by this time next week. To reach my goal of five pounds lost by Thanksgiving, I need to get to 137. I think I can do it! As long as my ankle keeps healing-- I wrenched it this morning hurrying down the stairs and it is more sore than it has been in a week. I hope this doesn't set me back.

And as far as regaining the weight with Thankgiving food... one meal isn't going to ruin anything. I plan to do a little more cardio for a few days before and a few days after, and it will all even out I'm sure.

Anyway, in a nutshell, I'm exhausted, sore, hungry, but optimistic.

Original Post by zip2play:

Throughout history MANY people have fasted for many reasons...sometimes in meditation seeking a "higher purpose," sometimes to break old habits, and sometimes because there simply was no FOOD .

I've tried it a couple times with a goal towards "clearing my mind" and perhaps seeing things differently...sort of quasi-spirituality. My problem is that by day 3 I get a MASSIVE headache that stops me in my tracks.

If you are going to fast remember, you will probably make your system VERY efficient once you go off it, so that may make continued weight loss difficult.

From everything I have read, any fasting should be WITHOUT food...only water. Reason I think juice fasting is silly or worse is that juice is SUGAR, a fast acting carbohydrate and little else. This screws with your insulin levels and blood sugar levels with a constant seesawing up and down. In a REAL fast the body regulates glucose levels and fat metabolism to a steady normal and keeps them there. The insulin response basically goes to sleep and hunger falls to zero. 

This constancy and lack of hunger signals is what aids people in their fast and their meditation. With a steady stream of sweet juices, the body is in constant turmoil...a terrible diet with constant hunger.

Solid food digests slowly and thus is far better for our metabolism than juices.

 

And remember most of all...without food, we are dead in 60 days.

 

 Thank you for an usually helpful post.

Weight Watchers ladies- don't be discouraged! My mother lost 120 lbs in a year and a half with weight watchers and is still going, but only about a pound a month now because her body is running so much more efficiently now.

So it's weigh-in day...

This morning I weighed 144 lbs, which is more than I weighed when I started this thread. I cannot wait to get back into the gym. Soon I hope! Dumb ankle...

How about you guys!

Great to hear from all of you! How about we write a little bit about our situations to get acquainted. (I know some of us have already!)

I started off at 150, and I have been yoyoing between 145 and 136 for about two years now. I had just gotten back into the swing of things and was working out a lot and losing about a pound a week, and then I sprained my ankle last weekend running! I haven't been able to work out for 5 days, and I drowned my sorrows in Halloween candy of course! Over the weekend I regained the two pounds I had just lost and an extra one on top of that. I think I will be able to do some light exercise in just a couple more days (I HOPE!!!) but until then I am trying to keep my calories low to get back on track. Yesterday I knew I was going to have a couple of glasses of wine with my best friend so I hardly ate anything all day. Once I got to the restaurant I was s starving I ate 3 oz of tortilla chips and a few french fries on top of the wine, and ended up with an intake of 1750, which is about what I burn anyway. So I'll call yesterday a draw. Today I am focusing on eating healthier food-- an apple and tea for breakfast, a salad w/ tuna for lunch, muscle milk lite for a snack (I really need protein, had hardly any yesterday!), and I don't know what for dinner, maybe a bean and vegetable dish...

Anyway, that's where I'm at. How about you?

Oh my god excercise. At least walk. Your body is made to move.

Muscle Milk Lite is the best thing ever.

In general, a lot. In this instance, about 80 oz per work day and about 40 oz on the weekends.

Well I am vegetarian, close to vegan but not quite, so that information is very useful to me. Keep it coming!

I have been iron-deficient in the past. Maybe that's come back since I've leaned towards a more vegan like diet as opposed to my usual pescatarianism. I will buy some rasins and see if that helps. Good tip!

I have IBS too, among other problems. I've found that when I feel starving for a few days, and I eat as much as my body seems to want, it just continues on and on and I never stop feeling that way. However, if I try to keep it reasonable and exercise self control, the extreme hunger goes away after just a day or two. Try eating more calorie dense foods in smaller quantaties and see if that helps.

I am 24 years old, 5ft5 and 142 lbs after losing 13 lbs over the last 1.5 years.

I eat some of everything too, besides meat (I get plenty of protien still),and excercise a lot, as I said. But the belly remains.

I agree with you, but also please spell "too" correctly. I am an English teacher- it's a pet peeve.