Posts by veganmamma

you would need to post your stats to make sure you were eating enough.

As for problems associated with quick weight loss it depends if you have done this by dropping your cals too low.  I lost a lot of weight on 1200 cals a day but regained a good chunk of it because I had messed up my metabolism :( which is why I'm now on CC trying to put it right!!

Original Post by kishmish:


veganmamma - i was just wondering what is implied when one says 'premenopausal' - r there any effects since u havent hit menopause yet?

Kishmish:  its not the best website but I'm a bit rushed today and it was the first one that seemed reasonably accurate and that is: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-premenopause. htm  I think you call it perimenopause in US.  My GP has said she wants to consider hormone therapy but I am going to try alternative remedies first.

Buhri113: "inches coming off but pounds staying the same".  Its a pain in the rear because I think I've become conditioned to seeing the weighing scales as being the measure of progress! 

Anyway on a general note - sorry I haven't posted for a while (a week) - I battle with depression and I tend to stop posting when that happens. 

Speak to you soon.

Yep - I'm confused about activity level too.  I work from  home (home educating my daughter) but workout:

Monday:  40mins cardio, 20 mins ab toning exercises

Tuesday: 40 mins weight training

Wednesday 60  mins cardio

Thursday 40 mins weights, 20 mins ab toning

Friday: 40 mins cardio

Saturday: 40 mins weights, 20 mins ab toning

Sunday: rest

Given your previous answer should I enter "moderate" and not enter my activities to get my calorie target?

 glad it helped

Let us know how you get on!!

BRILLIANT!  Congrats!

Haven't a clue what David is talking about - you have done so well so don't let his comments affect you.

As starry and others have said - we're proud of you!

As you know I have explained my problem in a PM and so I think it is more appropriate to speak about this privately rather than take up thread space.

If you check this thread I never commented about the listing of vegan/vegetarian foods.  I think your reply is for tridymite and not me at all.

I was simply commented commenting about regional differences in the UK regarding perceptions of vegans!

OK - it seems that I am being challenged on several counts. 

1.  As far as the tape measure is concerned I think it is far healthier for me than weighing myself every day.

2.  A slight movement in the tape might explain 1/4" but not the 1" to 1.5" I am finding but then I don't ask you to justify whether your weight loss is water/muscle or fat do I?

3.  The points that you have both made (Sue and Alylou) about "twisting, swinging, slipping, needing to use marker pens" - miss the point.  I could have said the same on this thread about weighing every day and the disadvantages of doing so given daily water fluctuations.

4.  What makes you feel the need to criticise my method of evaluating my progress?  I have never done this on this thread - believing it was about mutual support and encouragement.  Clearly I was wrong in that belief.

As far as the vegan decision is concerned

1.  What made you think....despite the growing number of vegetarians and the increasing evidence about the health risks (let alone anything else) attached to over-reliance on meat/dairy....."I need to continue to eat meat/dairy?"  No, I won't ask the question.  It is invasive and perhaps unintentionally rude.

2.  What has being British got to do with anything.  I have discovered two things on this CC forum generally:  firstly don't have "vegan" in your screen name or refer to it - people feel they have a right to question your beliefs.  Secondly, stating you are British frequently leads to unwelcome associations and unpleasant jibes.

I have been looking quite critically at this forum for some time and have come to the conclusion that the only reason to continue participating, despite the trolling, flaming, judgmentalism and eating disordered behaviour was that there were some supportive people - mainly in this thread.  Clearly I was wrong.

Original Post by leiela:

Original Post by amethystgirl:

Abs workout will do almost nothing to get rid of belly fat, no matter how many different kinds you do.

Read the article that floggingsully posted.

Yup this is spot on .... all exessive ab's workouts will do is make you even more bulky around the tummy, the ONLY way of getting rid of the tummy flab is to lower your body fat % all over by losing weight.

Do do wieght training on free weights to burn off calories rather than cardio because they will work your whole body, and your tummy is a good stabaliser so it beniifts from mosts forms of free weight to a lesser or great degree so they will get nice and tight without getting chunky and making you look wider. 

Lower your fat and carb intake and lose weight because it doens't matter how nice your ab's look you wont see them hide beneith a layer of fat.

And be patient because tummy fat is always the last to go... trust me i know

 

 ok - now totally demoralised.  I thought that by doing cardio and weight training 6x a week and by eating healthily and within my calorie target my abs exercises were going to be helping.  Now I hear you say I'm just going to end up looking bulkier????

I'm really glad that the "weigh in" can be measurements as the scales aren't budging but the inches are (very slowly!!)

I was ok with my food/calories/exercise but have felt physically lousy.  Its TTOM and I'm pre menopausal (47 years old) - anyone else here like that or am I the oldest "old fart" here?

oreos are vegan???