Posts by kathleen_i

I feel the same way.  I don't want to work out in the morning or during a 'lunch break' or whatever because I'll have to take a shower, re-do my hair and makeup, and that's just not something I want to do, it takes too long!  So I work out in the evening, once I'm home for the night.

Surprisingly string cheese and wheat thins.  They're not even my favorite foods.    Give me a favorite like pizza and I can have an appropriate amount and then stop.  But if there's a bag of string cheeses in the house, I will eat *all* of them!  I am completely unable to stop myself.  Same with wheat things, I'll tell myself, "ok, here's my one serving" and then put the box away.  Wont work, I'll keep eating and eating until it's all gone.  I simply am unable to have those foods in the house.

Hi Danabell, if you're losing motivation then something's up. Are you 'spending' your daily calories on high calorie foods? If you're drinking a lot of calories and eating calorie dense food, then the volume of food you eat is going to be less and you'll end up hungry. Try eating more filling, lower calorie foods so that you can eat more. Remember, this needs to be something you can do for the rest of your life, not something you just white-knuckle through until you've lost the weight. I know exercise sucks, but you need to have a positive mindset about it. It only takes about an hour from your day, which isn't much, and you get so many benefits from it. Don't think of it as a tool to lose weight, think of it as a healthy habit (like brushing your teeth), that if you don't do you'll have serious health consequences. Even thin people need to exercise for good health.

Ok, weigh in!

SW: 132

CW: 126

I've lost 6lbs since I began this weight loss journey!

I'm glad to be back at 126.  I'm hoping for 125 at next week's weigh in.  My weight seems to fluctuate a lot, but my BF% is down, and my clothes are getting loose, so that's all I care about!

Simignonne: I recommend you take zinc.  I take it daily, and haven't had a cold in about 7 years.  When  my husband gets colds (he doesn't take zinc daily), he'll take the zinc or buy zinc lozenges and gets over his cold in a day or two.

Morisht: A good way to check the accuracy of your scale is to weigh a weight on it.  For example, place a 10lb free weight on it and see what it says.  If it says anything other than 10lbs, you'll need to do a little math when you weigh yourself on it.  Even though I own an expensive digital scale, it weighs everything as being half a pound heavier, so I just keep that in mind when I weigh myself.

In my opinion your diet sounds perfect.  Just keep up the good work, better slow losing than slow gaining is what I always say.

1650 sounds good to me for a day when you don't exercise.  1800 on days you do exercise.  What's your exercise regimen?  Make sure you're also lifting weights 3 days a week so you don't lose muscle mass.

I weighed myself this morning and I was back down to 126!  I'm so happy!  I just hope that I don't have another crazy water weight gain for tomorrow's weigh in.

that's true, but you're not going to die of thirst drinking diet coke, it's 99% water.

I have a cheat day once a week, usually Saturday.  I figure I'm probably going to mess up on the weekend anyway, better to have it planned than to feel like I'm a failure and binge.  Even though it's a 'cheat' day, you should still regulate it.  Yes, go ahead and eat more calories than usually, but don't turn it into a massive binge.  For example, I'll order something at a restaurant that I know is a couple hundred calories more than I would normally get, and then I might have a lower calorie dessert.  That's my cheat.  It's not straight up stuff your face with whatever the hell you want for 24 hours.  Anyway, the additional calories tricks your body so it doesn't go into starvation mode and revs up your metabolism.  On Saturday when I cheated I had some pizza and a snickers ice cream bar.  I thought that maybe I had over done it, but the next morning when I weighed myself, I had lost weight.

There's also quinoa (pronounced "keen-wah").  It's a grain/seed and you cook it sort of like rice.  It's a complete protein like tofu.  You can make it however you want, so no sodium or sugar if that's what you're into.

Adavis is correct, carmine has been used for a long time as a dye.  It's very hard to find makeup that doesn't have it in it.  Everydayminerals.com uses minerals instead of carmine though.  As a vegetarian I avoid carmine as much as possible.

Well, I never eat at fast food restaurants, but at other restuarants I've figured out how to get 500 cal dinners from most places.  Noodles and Co, Panera Bread, Chipotle, etc.  Some places, like Macaroni Grill or Unos are a little more difficult.

Hey, if you want to be 130, more power to you.  My husband is 6' and 145lbs, so you're probably aiming for a build similar to his.  He's just naturally slim.  I'd have never guessed you were biologically female.  As a straight woman I have no problem telling you that you look really hot!

Gals, I'm kind of sad now.  I weighed myself this morning and I weighed 129.  I've been sticking with my diet and exercising.  I'm pretty sure that it's just water weight because I feel very bloated and my BF% has gone down even though the scale has gone up 2.5lbs.  Even though I can be logical about this, it's just kind of upsetting...  I've been working hard, I want to see the scale go down, not up!  I guess I just have to keep on keeping on.

They say you need to switch it up at least every 2 weeks.  I use the elliptical, but I set it at a program that changes the intensity randomly throughout the workout, so I think that helps.  I also follow the regimen in 'The Body Sculpting Bible For Women' book.  It changes every 2 weeks, and then after 6 weeks you start over (increasing your weights as you go through).