Posts by odie03

I wish you nothing but the best muffinbug! We are all as individual as our ways of acheiving the same goal, weight loss.

I have been a member here for over two years and have come here many times in need of a friend, with a problem, a question, sometimes just to vent and other times just to log my cal's. I am going to delete my account, it's nothing personal. I just think there are way too many websites out there with informative information, whereas this one is a case of the blind leading the blind. Posting ques on here is great if you are just looking for each persons individual opinion on something, but as for getting educated advice here you will not.

Besy wishes to all!

Original Post by michachu:

Original Post by odie03:

 

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Thanks, all good info. I wish I only had 5 lbs to lose. Lol. I've gained 15 lbs just since June because of stress, depression etc. I just haven't updated my profile because it makes me sick to think about it. I do eat small healthy snacks often and drink enough water to float a river. I have tried most of what you mentioned but I'll just keep trying. I do believe presistance pays off. I'm just extremly frustrated. I'm hungry and irritable all the time, burned out on doing an hour of cradio 5 days per week, sweating like a pig with no results but I'll keep on keeping on. :(

Good answer! So when do you think is the best time to weigh? I know they say once a week first thing in the morning but if what you just said above is true how do i really know when I'm losing and/or gaining fat? I guess I could put the scale in the closet and just measure once a week, but wouldn't the same rule apply as for water? What do you think?

Ohhh la la!!! A massage would be fabulous if I could afford it, but that's exactly the kind of answers I'm looking for. Maybe I should just enjoy a bubble bath, give myself a pedicure or rent a movie. See, now you've got my brain thinking, Angie. Good job! :)

Original Post by trhawley:

I lost $500.00 one night in Vegas.

 That's hysterical! So you lost your ****, right? Lmao!!

I know exactly what you mean about the gym being over taken by the heavy weight lifters!! I feel so intimidated going in there not even sure if I using the machine correctly and then the stares. Lol. Nothing annoys me more than for some body builder type to walk up and say "let me show you what your doing wrong." It's horrifying. Lol.

But I am going to have to agree that weight lifting is very important for weight loss. Buy a video tape to do with your resistance bands & try to increase your time and weight with your dumbells. There's tons out there. Cardio can only do so much because your body adapts to it so quickly. Also are you trying to eat only the healthy carbs that digest a lil slower. A bowl of 100 cal oatmeal used to go a long way for me in my "OMG I'm starving" phases.

Congrats on the 60 lbs girl!!! Your doing great, just stay at it. And to ultimately answer your ques, yes you can increase your work out to create a bigger deficit but also try those other things mentioned.

I'm back to sq one myself, I've lost and regained the same 5-10 lbs atleast 100 times now. Funny thing is I don't have a problem losing. It comes quite easy. I have a problem with mantaining. That's when I start to gain again and then it usually gets out of control before I can catch it. :(

Best wishes!

I was always under the impression that it's the deficit you create that determines weight loss. That's why some ppl can sit in thier butt's day after day and eat nothing to lose, while others can eat thier maintenance cal's and burn past that to lose weight. Isn't it the 3500 cal deficit your looking for to drop a lb no matter how you get there? Although don't get me wrong dieting w/o exercise can mess up your metabolism.

I do both. You might also try this, for anywhere between one day to one week, (depending on how soon you want to lose the weight), of decreasing your cals by only 100. Once you get used to that drop it down another 100 for the next couple of days or week. That's kind of what I have to do when I'm trying to get restarted. The decrease kills me at first, but I do eventually get used to it.

PLEASE HELP!!!

Hey, sorry to keep bringing this topic up but I thought maybe some of you that use flax seed could help me with this. So they say it doesn't last long or keep well. How long is not long and when do I know to throw it away? Will it smell or dry out? Mine has been in the fridge for two weeks and still taste great.

Original Post by erialc57:

Get "Bob's Red Mill Organic Flaxseed Meal

 

it's the best! it's not low-fat. you don't really want to get a low-fat version. sort of defeats the purpose. all those omega-3 fats in it are so good for you. good for your skin, your digestion, and your metabolism! flaxseed promotes weight loss actually. and it's delicious. 

 That's actually exactly what I bought today. I had a huge spoon in a bowl of chili tonight, didn't even know it was there. I'm very excited about giving it a try. I thought I'd start with 1 tblsp and work my way up to 2. Do you store yours in the fridge? I thought it was fairly inexpensive too compared to what I had looked at online.

Thanks everyone!!!

I found a flax seed meal today that is already ground. Is that the same thing? Does it need to be redrigerated? Can you freeze it?

Original Post by monkfish998:

you don't need a lower calorie flax seed, as you need so little of it. 5g is plenty- i think sometimes i only use 2g. i like the texture on salads, and a little goes a long way. its also good added to breakfast cereals, or topped over cream cheese.

don't worry about the calories, you wont use enough for it to blow your daily allowance, as the above posters have pointed out- the health benefits outway the calories.

sorry i can't help about where to buy it .... i live in the UK, so no help there.

Enjoy

 That sounds wonderful & thanks. But for the record I wasn't concerned with the cal's just the fat, but I get that it's a healthy fat and I'm fine with it. I just don't know what I'm looking for and would love to hear about some of the success and/or failure youve had with it.

Thanks!! :)

Kate, I commend you on admitting to being an alcoholic. I think the rest is silly no nonsense BS so I'm not going to comment on it.

I'm on your side girl so don't get mad at me for saying this but I'm going to have to agree that an alcoholic can NEVER drink casually. And the fact that you are testing this and proud of yourself for stopping before becoming completely sloshed isn't really saying alot for yourself or future binge drinking.

Stay in therapy and work on your sobriety. It all starts with just one drink and I think you know this.

One last lil thought, if you were really doing so well you would have gone out with those friends and had none, you know?

Best wishes to u.

I wish I had the answers and was glad to read about the elctrolites since I had never thought about that, but I STILL get very nauseus after a good work out and I've been back in the gym for 1 1/2 yrs now. I always eat a complex carb 1 -  1 1/2 hrs previous and I always follow with a protein shake then a light meal within an hr of that and I'm not drastically reducing cals either so I think I've eliminated alot of other things.

Maybe you & I both should discuss it with our doctors. :(