Posts by nubianxess

i don't know the exact number because everyone is completely different. hormones affect everyone differently, just think about birth control. and i completely understand your pain because i am in the process of opening my own business while being a stay at home mom with a nine month old and i have NEVER been this stress in my life.

anyway, i do know the NUMEROUS ways stress interferes with your life and then interferes with weightloss.

#1) stress was once only an emotion/phsyiological response to primitive and serious situations such as starvation and being under attack. the major one being starvation. so cortisol is the stress hormone that your body sends out to keep you from losing any weight. because at the dawn of time, losing any weight could equal death. it does this by:

    a) slowing down your metabolism

and

    b) not allowing you to shed any fat

#2) stress has a fun way of interrupting sleep patterns. this is a problem two fold.

    a) when you don't get enough sleep your body doesn't function properly, including burn calories at an optimal level

    b) it's medically proven that when you don't get enough sleep your body physically craves more unhealthy foods

#3) stress affects your blood sugar. if it's too off it can cause weight gain. that's why it's so hard for people with type one diabetes to lose weight.

And there are plenty more, but those have to do with stress eating and cravings and since you keep a pretty clean diet these don't affect you as much.

they affect me greatly :)

i know it's much easier said than done, but you need to slow down. worse than not being able to lose weight, stress can affect your organs, blood pressure, and is linked to cancer.

if you're working out switch out some of those work outs for yoga. try to meditate. get out and enjoy the day.

once again, easier said than done, i know.

good luck with the exam!

Relish in it!

something close to this happened to me last week, i lost five pounds in five days.

unfortunately, getting on the scale today i'm up two pounds. i haven't been as strict as i could be with my diet, but i've only been one or two hundred calories over for the last two days, so i know this isn't fat. i keep telling myself this isn't fat.

but it still gets me irritated.

anywhoozle, congratulations! and let me know what kind of scale you bought! i may need to pick it up :)

Current height: 5ft 6in

weight: *sighs* 205lbs

pant size: 14/16

Good Ol Days

height: 5ft 6in

weight: 150lbs

pant size: 8/10

opening up a coffee house with two great friends, hopefully this fall

getting my anxiety in check, it's been all over the place lately

be an amazing mom

learn how to relax, not crawl under a rock and come back out feeling no more refreshed and put together than before i went under

take more time for me

*i feel like all of these kinda go back to being an amazing mom*

i'm with you!

start weight (august 9th): 210lbs

current weight: 205lbs

goal for october 1st: 190lbs

goal for november 25th: 175lbs

final goal for march: 150 lbs

Original Post by foxriver:

Heh. I stopped answering that question a loooong time ago. I have also been both very slim and exceedingly overweight at various times.

Not only that, I am just not talking about my diet/ exercise program to anyone this time around except my hubby and the people on CC. Of course, it is early in the game, so my losses so far (nearly 14 lbs) don't show to other people yet. 

But I have already decided that if people do comment, then I shall simply say I am eating more healthily, with no mention of the D word whatsoever... In my past experience, if you say you are on a diet you get two reactions;

Reaction 1: People always want to know what you weighed at your heaviest, and how much you have lost and what you want to weigh when you have reach your goal... I am now convinced that they ask all this so that they can be shocked at how ginormous I was and also so that they can compare themselves to me (as in, "oh, I can't be fat because I don't weigh as much as her").

Reaction 2: (sometimes combined with Reaction 1) they proceed to offer all sorts of useless and sometimes very unhealthy dieting advice. Some that have been suggeested to me: take laxatives every day (seriously?), the cabbage soup diet (tried it before, doesn't work), cut out carbs (tried that too, ditto), eat melon before every meal (that would get old quick), only eat two meals a day or only eat 1000 calories per day (just... no). And don't even get me started on the exercising advice... terrible would be putting it kindly.

Then after all that.... they try to guilt you into eating this super-special-high-calorie-full-of-fat-and-su gar, thing that they made/ bought. I still can't decide if that is because they want to test my resolve (as in "ha! Diet, my ar$e!") or, if they are jealous of my success and want to sabotage my efforts.... maybe both.

Personally I don't get it. I am always happy for someone else when they have worked hard to get fit and healthy. And I don't need all the gory details to feel good for them.

my husband and you guys are the only ones who know about my diet program too. it'll come up in conversation with friends in the same boat that i'm trying to eat healthier and that i'm exercising, but i'm not trying to make it such a big deal.

a) i don't want to fail and get a resound "aww..." and b) i dont' want every thing i put in my mouth be analyzed by everyone around me.

thank god most of my friends are women with my same issue and we can be honest with each other. we talk about our triggers. our ups and our downs.

but none of us EVER say the actual number on the scale.

it's just not important.

Original Post by jeslyn54:

I'm curious what other people do about "cheat" days or cheat meals.  I can't go for too long without having some of the (unhealthier) snacks and meals that I enjoy on occasion. 

i'm really strict with my diet and my water intake sunday evening until friday afternoon which includes making ALL of my own meals throughout the week. whatever i eat, i know exactly what's in it.

but i give myself weekends off. when I let myself just enjoy my weekends, the feeling that i NEED something isn't nearly as powerful as it used to be.

i still make most of my food on the weekends, and whenever i cook it's healthy, but i let myself have my sweets, which is my weakness.

but i also bake my own sweets now. so i know everything that goes into them as well.

i really hate eating blindly, never know exactly what i'm putting in my mouth, and when i do eat out a lot, i balloon up to where i am now.

if it helps, i'm not a fan of many fruits and veggies either. but i keep the ones i do like stocked in my house. i have a banana and an apple almost everyday. tomorrow i'm making shrimp creole so all my veggies (tomatoes, bell pepper, onions, garlic, peas and carrots) for dinner will be in it and i'll serve it over brown rice.

Okay:

August 9th (starting weight): 210.2

August 10th: 208.2

August 11th: 208.8

August 12th: 207

August 13th: 205.2

August 14th:205

August 15th: 206.2- ate cupcakes, but was still in my caloric range and didn't drink enough water. weekends are my slack days, so we'll see how this week goes.

Yep! This was my mini goal anyway :)

Start weight *august 9th*: 210lbs

Current weight:205lbs

Goal weight: 200lbs by September 1st

Final goal: 150 by mid march

i haven't binged in five days.

my secret?

LOTS OF WATER.

my diet goal is to be super healthy sunday evening-friday afternoon. then i can eat my sweets on the weekend.

but even my sweets are made from scratch, by me, so i know what's in them and can substitute where i can.

and i made CUPCAKES. super moist chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting.

they're in the fridge :(

i'm not even hungry. i drank so much water after dinner i haven't had an urge to eat.

i also eat a big breakfast AND a big dinner and snack lightly during the day, maybe a turkey sandwich.

i know people say to eat less at night, but i'm up for well over six hours after i eat, and if i eat a salad, i will try to find ANYTHING to eat. which won't always be healthy.

plus i think a little reverse psychology is working. now that i'm allowing myself to eat these delicious morsels whenever i want in the next 48 hours, with no guilt, no anger, no self loathing, they just don't seem to be as big of a deal as they were a week ago.