Posts by sbatt1

I know what you mean. I lost about 40 pounds since January and in the last month or so I haven't seen a change on the scale, I have actually been feeling really frumpy. However I have gotten several coments lately about how good I look and my pants are barely staying up without a belt. I don't know how its happening without losing any weight but I'll take it. I started out a size 18 and I am in a 12 currently. I figure even if I don't lose a lot more weight I will at least get into a size 10 which is what I was at High School graduation! So congrats to your new size.

Since January I have lost 40 lbs. I haven't went to the gym once. I track my calories and I make sure I have a healthy defficit. However I do get plenty of activity through out the day. I take the stairs and park farther away. I also have 2 small children at home. When I come home of an evening I only have a few hours with them before bed time. I honestly don't even get to sit down other than to eat dinner once I walk through the door. I usually start dinner the second I come home then I clean up after dinner and go in and play with my kids. We do a varity of things, sometime we turn on music and dance around, other times I get down on the floor with them and they climb all over me. They like to do the superman thing where I lay on my back and lift them up with my feet. It is like a work out and I am spending time with them. I hate exercise and so finding things that keep me active is important to me. My kids love to go to the park and sometimes on the weekend we walk there. My son is 2 so he rides in the stroller but my 4 year old daughter walks with me. They are learning to stay active without having the thoughts of exercise and dieting shoved down there throat. My 4 year old would tell you she isn't allowed to eat junk food, and she would tell you what junk food is. She also knows that eating healthy will make you grow up healthy. We don't mention weight and that helps me too! Even if your child is an infant you can do lots of little things with him that will keep up your activity. Even when my kids were babies we would dance around. They loved it then and they still do, they laugh at me and think that its funny, but they still ask to do it all the time. Start now and it can be something that you do with him for a long time to come, you'll be a goofy mom but he will love you for it.

I have been married for 6 years now and when I married my husband he was about 300 pounds. At the time I was at a healthy weight, but after less than 1 year of marriage I started to pack on the pounds. I had a baby on top of it and ended up about 40 pounds overweight. I decided enough was enough and I joined weight watchers, I stopped buying junk food and started cooking healthy meals. My husband lost about 50 lbs just by changing his eating for 1 meal a day. I only cooked enough for each of us and no leftovers, this way he couldn't eat 4 helpings of anything. He started to notice how much better he looked and felt and now it has been 4 years, he's kept off the weight and lost another 15 lbs. He started to make changes in his diet after he noticed what was happening. Our family doctor has made several comments about how great he has done. He has a family history of heart disease and diabetes and our doctor says the he has greatly reduced his risk!

I think  making dinner for your family is a great start. Honestly if you can cook well you can make healthy foods that taste as good or better than the high fat foods. I have found ways to make our favorites without all the fat. I know the importance of good food, cooking is a passion of mine and I was raised on southern style foods that are loaded with fat. Believe me, you don't miss the fat once it's gone. 
Good luck and remember that you don't want to push your family. Just offer them better choices and changes could happen before they even notice. Good Luck.

So glad you posted this. I premeasured some oats and put them into a baggie to heat up at work. I use a scale to weigh my foods. My friend who also counts calories yelled at me saying that I wasn't eating enough and there was no way that could be a serving. The oats that I had used were weighing in at twice the serving size, 1/2 cup was twice the weight of the serving so if I want one serving I basicly have to measure out 1/4 cup or always be sure to weigh. Food scales are what I live by, everyone makes fun of me but I always have awsome results if I am counting calories and weighing out all of my foods.

1. Do you go to a gym to exercise? If yes how much do you pay per month?

Sometimes, where I work has a gym and it is one of our benifits to use it for free.

2. What is your favourite activity?

Swimming

3. Favourite food?

Anything sweet

4. How many calories do you aim to consume each day?

1300-1400

5. How much is the price of gas where you live?

$3.86/gallon

6. What is your form of transportation?

Chrysler 300

7. Do you have a cell phone, if so what provider are you with & do you hate them?

Razor, AT&T,NO

8. Do you collect anything, if so what?

NO, I have too much junk as it is.

9. What are you currently reading, if anything.

Don't have time to read books anymore, occasionally read a Rachel Ray Mag.

10. Where do you work or go to school?

Work for the Hospital System in my town with the computer program team.

11. On a scale of 1-5 how boring was it to read these, 1 being boring, 5 being boring x5.

Its 5:30 am, not much else to do now- 1

It's so frustrating. I hit one for about a month. I was very strictly sticking to my intake, no cheat days and doing everything I was supposed to. I tend to stick to the lower end at 1200-1300 cal though so to break it I increased my intake for about a week to 1500-1600 cal and I am back to a good loosing streak. After my month at 184 for I quickly dropped to 177. I guess it is true, sometimes you do need a higher intake. Good luck!

Yeah, NO is the answer. Sleep is included in the total burned for the day so unless you have slept for 24 hours staright you shouldn't or it will through off the number burned.

Zarelha, I was just about to say the same thing.

BMI is not BS- "Body Mass Index is a formula for measuring a person's level of overweight or obesity using measurements of height and weight." (quoted from About.com) BMI is a good measurement that medical professionals use to determine health risks that may be associated to weight.

A knowlegable professional will not use BMI, but in conjuction with body structure and body fat percent.

I will say one thing- Just because you may have weighed a certain number in the past does not mean it will look the same now. At age 16 I weighed 150 lbs and I wore a size 10, at age 20 I weighed 160 and I wore a size 12, now at age 25 after 2 kids and getting up to 215 lbs I weigh 180 and I wear a size 12, and it is loose on me. So for the 18-20 year old girls on this site that really don't need to lose any weight, until you've walked a mile in my shoes you really don't know how they feel. I have read many post from these young things on here putting down older women who talk about feeling and looking good at "unhealthy" weights, I'm tired of it and if a woman that is 5'0 feels good at 150lbs than who is anyone to judge especially if she has spoken with her doctor.

Your appetite will depend on you. Your body will adjust best if you eat small amounts frequently throughout the day. If you don't let yourself get too hungrey you will not have a problem there. Ideally you could eat 5-6 times a day 3 meals with 3 snacks. Just be sure to balance your fat, carbs and protien.

Your last question I think what you want to know is if you burn 2500 cal a day how many should you eat? If that is what you want to know the answer is 500-1000 cal differnce. You will hear it called your defficit. For example on average I burn 2200 cal a day so I should eat at least 1200 cal but can have up to 1700 and still lose. I try to stick to about 1350 a day. It works well for me.

I feel your pain. I weigh 180, down from 215 in Jan. I am a big girl. My husband tells me all the time, "you need to eat, What have you developed an eating disorder?" I mean seriously, I wouldnt be able to function if I weren't eating. I also hear this from people at work. These are people who either A.) are overweight or B.) are way thin and eat junk all the time. I eat 1350 a day and I think that is a ton of food. I wish people would just shut up. Who's buisness is it if I want to be healthier. So what if I pass up on the junk food in the break room, I have a perfectly balance healthy lunch waiting for me along with all the snacks I might need. I have started to pretend like I can't hear them when they say these things, I hope it will eventually stop.

Oh and Congrats on the loss, 1 lb and you're there!