Posts by vaudeth

Sorry cookk, but I don't think I'm going to be logging down 3 hours of weeding. Because that's not the only thing I did today. I walked, A LOT, the weeding, the lift of plants, and all sorts of things. I'm pretty sure that my calorie out put would SKY rocket to numbers that would be out of this world by the stuff I'm doing all day long. It just seems unreal. Now working out, or really putting your back into something, I'll count. I didn't even break a sweat weeding. I was sitting on my butt. I think your advise is a little misleading. People are going to be counting calorie for chewing gum. Maybe it works for you. But I'm pretty sure if I started counting sitting on my butt as an activity, and all these other things I do all day long, and then started eating more because I was "burning" more, I would do nothing but gain lots of weight for not really paying attention to what was going on. My original post was just for a good laugh. Come on, 1,000 cal for weeding for 3 hours? Then how come everyone that works in an office is over weight, I mean their sitting on their butts, and put in about 8 hours. Shouldn't they be burning 300 cal/s an hour? Sorry but your comment really upset me, it's misleading for others out there who are just starting this.

Scoutie, that actually sounds really good, and healthy. Thanks! I'm gonna try it soon (I'm going shopping in a few day, can't do it every day since I live about 90 minutes away from a grocery store). I'll post back and tell ya if I like it.

Just thought I'd l'd let everyone know that that was a bad day for me. I had just gotten back from a 2 week vacation, and I jumped right into working. I did hard labor all day, and didn't really account for the calories. It just blew right past me. Plus the fact that someone wanted all the windows open on a 30 degree day, totally nuts! Soooooo, not enough calories for the day......working over time on a body that just rested......and then a heatless home all just got to me. I'm still a little cold now, but nothing I can't handle or cure with a good sweater in about 15 minutes! THANKS EVERYONE!!!

ps. This is totally off topic and I might even post it somewhere else, but how many calories do you think 4-8 hours of manual labor is worth? Raking, hoeing, pulling weeds, moving tree trunks, hauling dirt, building fences. It's all rather random. Breaks are taken, of course. It's in general, throughout the day. Thanks.

I haven't been on this diet for too long. Maybe a month. I didn't lose all 27 lbs by this diet though. I just started out by eating less junk food. Then I started to eat more vegetables. Then I started to cut out sugar. Then I increased my fruits. This has been a work in progress for about 8 months now. Just slowly giving up my vices one by one, and eating healthy things.

Now what I listed as eating food is in general. I mean it isn't always yogurt. I generally eat a smaller breakfast because if I don't I feel sick and sluggish if the meal is too big. And oatmeal only makes me really hungry in about an hour. Sometimes it's an omlette. And as far as red meat.....how do I put this? In the house that I live red meat is a staple for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! We never eat chicken, or white meat, or fish. It's always elk, deer, cow, and buffalo. I just got so sick of it, that for the last 2 weeks I've been eating chicken every other night.

I do take a multi-vit with vitamin B's in it. Also I eat a lot of spinach and that fruit/vegetable tray has broccoli, or sometimes corn, peas, or my fav raw green beans....I try and mix it up.

Movement.....I work outside generally for about 6-8 hours a day (just recently though). I lift rocks, rake, hoe, all that fun gardening stuff. But it's not constant, I do take breaks.

And my body weight....I started at 187ish (about 8 months ago)....and now I'm down to 158. I've lost a majority of the weight in my belly, some in my arms, and some in my chest.

But what I'm trying to emphasize is that I've been cold ever since high school. And last night was just pretty bad. Maybe it was the iron thing. I'm just soo sick and tired of red meat!!

I remember my freshman year (180 something) that I wanted to lose a bunch of weight. When I would lose about 10 lbs, I would get a lot of compliments. And it always put me at a plateau. I would start to wear baggy clothes again, the compliments would stop, and I would lose another 10. Then I would plateau with all the compliments again!!! I was a cycle for me. I didn't realize it till recently. I think it was a huge mind trick. So this time around I'm sticking to baggy clothes all the way through, and then once summer hits (granting I get to my target by then)....BAM!!! Compliments galore and one huge plateau! And this time I don't think I'll mind the plateau.  :)

I'm not on any particular diet....I'm just changing what I eat according to how my body feels. I just have a few rules. No sugar, although close to impossible to do I just minimize my sugar intake to as little as I can (but no fake sugar, I HATE the taste of it, yucky!). I do this because sugar just makes me tired all day long.  I would be up, and then REALLY down. Nothing containing yeast or gluten, I noticed that it slows my body down, I feel tired and sleepy and then my stomach hurts afterwards. Lastly I don't eat anything that comes from a box or a can. Nothing preprocessed. I notice that most of it was just empty in the nutrition value. I do however splurge on these sweet and salty granola bars. I could litterally eat an entire box!!

Basically, I was suffering. I listened to my body, and I fed it what it liked and needed then I stopped eating all that other junk. I am 26.2 lbs lighter. Only 29.8 lbs to go!!!

ps. never did the special K thing. I don't like cereal...it's too bland.

Congrats on your win!!!

I wouldn't be to concerned with everyone worrying you're losing too much weight. I just started out, and within less than 2 weeks I've lost over 10lbs and by gosh I'm eating while doing it! (trying to be funny there) I think your body just really is responding to whatever it is you're doing. Good luck for next month!!

You ever think you might have a tapeworm?

I just wanna say thanks all for posting. I knew one of the side effects was gaining weight, but now that you all said it was through cravings I'll be better prepared. Kinda sucks, cause I just got my shot yesterday, and I just started eating healthier and exercising 4 days ago (trying to lose weight, here we go!). I did notice right away that I was craving sugar, a lot more that usual! It was insane how bad I craved it. lol, I told my bf, no matter how much I beg him don't let me have sugar (I'm trying to cut it out of my diet, it's a real catalyst for making me feeling like crap and slowing me down). I'll post in three months and tell ya'll if I've gained any weight and if I think it's the depo. I would have gone on the pill, but it makes me violently ill (puking, headaches, can't eat anything....etc.) and no kids here so depo was kinda my only shot. But yeah, thanks for the info ladies!!

So on a different note, I was talking to my bf and I told him about depo. How it stops your period, and it generally takes a year after stopping the depo before you can get pregnant. So he asked me, if you can't get pregnant for a year, how come we're all taking the shot every three months? Also, if it tricks the body into thinking that we're pregnant, how come there's no morning sickness, but we have the cravings? Sorry, never had a kid, so I don't know really what happens to the body. Just curious. Thanks!!