Weight loss & fitness log

Congrats, Ameriscot. I read your comment and results early this a.m. and my thought was, "What a disciplined lady."

According to my notes it is a day shy of three weeks since I weighed. I am down some. So I'm starting over today. I need to lose quite a bit of weight but I'm sitting more modest short term goals. I'm still working on a meal and snack schedule. Right now, I want to weigh less than two hundred pounds. My weight this morning was 206.5 pounds. My goal: 199#. Good luck everyone.


Nancy, I've been in your shoes ever so often. It's a struggle. I tell my self, 'you gotta keep on keeping on.'
 

Well, I was afraid with my, planned, cheat day, I might not be losing anything this week, but, seems the scale seems to be happy and rewarded me kindly, down 3 lbs more since last weigh in.

I knew after that first weigh in prior to us starting this journey, I had to do something, I had just been to my doctor's office and been weighed and I wasn't happy, I'd gained another 10 lbs since the previous year and frankly, I planned to do something, but, I couldn't stay focused. Have to say, this little group, help me get focused and now it's all on me. So far, I've not been having any difficulty keeping in tune, something this time just feels different than previous times, but, it's early, we'll see, how things are in the weeks ahead, but, as it is now, I am determined to stick with my food plan of avoiding the white stuff and other bad things on a daily basis. Well except for things like cream. I still haven't made that cheese cake, maybe I'll head to the market and pick up the ingredients later. :)
 
Ameriscot and April, good job, congratulations on your losses! :cool: Nancy, being sick among other things can really affect our weight, a wash isn't so bad, better luck this coming week. :love_heart: Drifter, I'm happy that you've gone down some in the past three weeks, that's very good! Good luck in reaching your goal weight!

Well, as you can see, I'm up 2 pounds this week, only thing I can say is I haven't put in that extra exercise this past week, busy with other things. :awman: When I updated my ticker today, it actually automatically changed here, so that's a good thing anyway.
 

Good for you, April. Good for you.


SeaBreeze, I think it's hard to keep the scales moving in one direction. I know in the past my weight loss would always be in a zig zag fashion. It's an up and down affair for most of us. You can see in my photos, I never show my gut.
 
drifter said:
To loose weight I have always relied on eating less of whatever we have and skipping the evening meal, which results in being hungry most of the time. I have only a week or so ago started skipping the evening meal again. I don't usually confess to a skipping meals because of a diabetic situation but over the years, I have found that's what works best for me, or I think it does.
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Drifter, as others have mentioned here already, I agree that you should be more careful as a diabetic when dieting. I think that skipping that last meal and going so long without food is a mistake. Eating smaller meals throughout the day would benefit you more, and keep your blood sugar more stable.

Here's an article with some recommendations for those with diabetes, worth a looksee about what to eat and how often for weight loss. http://www.helpguide.org/articles/diet-weight-loss/diabetes-diet-and-food-tips.htm

Off-topic, I don't have diabetes (yet), but it is prevalent in my immediate family. When my fasting glucose reached 99, I started to use two supplements. One is Chromium Picolinate and the other is Bitter Melon, the latter is actually used in poor countries to help people who can't afford health care to control their diabetes. As with any supplements, research side effects and drug interactions, especially if on prescription medications. My sister was on pills for her diabetes and her doctor approved her taking Chromium Picolinate, I don't know if she's still using it, but she's not yet needing injections.
 
Thanks, Sea, Drifter.

I agree with Drifter on that scale figgle thing, it can get cranky, the body may decide to up the anti and just hold onto the weight, retain fluid, build muscle, or just any reason for the weight to go in one half of a dozen different reasons any given day or week. I'm happy for my loses, but, I know things won't remain consistently on the losing end, I'm bound to have a stall or even an upswing at some point down the line, it's happened on every weight loss plan I've ever been on followed by an eventual loss again. We just have to stay the course and be patient.
 
Drifter, April and I are using this site. http://lilyslim.com/Weight_loss.php . Once you pick the design and the moving ticker you want to use, you enter your information.

I logged in there first before starting, and use my link to them saved in my email they sent me to update it weekly. To put it in your signature, copy their link of your final ticker, use the Image URL, click on Settings at the top of the forum page, go to Edit Signature and enter the link to your ticker there, save signature.
 
drifter said:
Congrats, Ameriscot. I read your comment and results early this a.m. and my thought was, "What a disciplined lady."

According to my notes it is a day shy of three weeks since I weighed. I am down some. So I'm starting over today. I need to lose quite a bit of weight but I'm sitting more modest short term goals. I'm still working on a meal and snack schedule. Right now, I want to weigh less than two hundred pounds. My weight this morning was 206.5 pounds. My goal: 199#. Good luck everyone.


Nancy, I've been in your shoes ever so often. It's a struggle. I tell my self, 'you gotta keep on keeping on.'
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Thanks Drifter! My challenge is to keep it off and stop overindulging when we travel.
 
Sunday. A non workout day.

Menu:
B: porridge/dried fruit/cinnamon/almond milk
L: pbj on whole grain toast, grapes, yogurt
D: veg/pumpkin/sweet potato curry & basmati rice, salad
S: 2 oatcakes w/low fat cheddar
Drinks: tea w/soy milk, herbal teas, flavoured water, water, coffee w/almond milk
Cals: 1239
 
This has been going on since last November... Down two.. Up three... down three... up two... Thankfully I have not gained back the 35 pounds I lost last year... I'm just not able to lose more.
 
That's the way I usually do it QuickSilver. When I get rid of a few pounds no doubt I'll do it again. I'm obese to the second power so I have a long way to go.
 
Monday - Full workout day

Menu:
B: porridge/dried fruit/cinnamon/almond milk
S: oatcake
L: veggie lasagna, whole grain bread, strawberries, yogurt
D: veg/pumpkin/sweet potato/Quorn curry & basmati rice, salad
S: 2 oatcakes & low fat cheddar
Drinks: tea w/soy milk, herbal teas, flavoured water, water, coffee w/almond milk
Cals: 1468

Workout at gym:
30 mins spin bike
10 mins elliptical
4 x 12 on 4 resistance machines
4 x 12 rope/pulley for triceps

Workout at home (upper):
dumbbells - 4 sets of 12 - 11 routines
push ups - 4 x 12
triceps dips - 4 x 12
Lower:
ankle weights, step, mat, dumbbells - for abs, core, thighs, calves, glutes
 
Your meals and snacks look so good and healthy Ameriscot! I've seen a short rope pully at the gym, but I've never used it. If it helps the triceps, I'll give it a go today, thanks.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Your meals and snacks look so good and healthy Ameriscot! I've seen a short rope pully at the gym, but I've never used it. If it helps the triceps, I'll give it a go today, thanks.
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There are all kinds of rope and other pulley extensions for triceps and other parts. Don't count on it getting rid of batwings though unless yours are very small. Very difficult to tighten those up at 'our age'. I've got big tricep muscles but you'd never know it as the batwings are here for good. :(
 
SeaBreeze said:
Mine aren't very big, but I don't have any unrealistic expectations, lol! :p
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Aye. I'd love some nice arms and shoulders - all of which I work on hard. But I know I'm not going to get those nice, toned and sculpted arms. That's okay. I've got muscle!
 
I'm lucky to have some muscle too Ameriscot, I worked physical jobs all my life and have exercised on and off over the years. There are tricep machines that I use where you sit on the seat and push down on the handles, but I don't use them that often. At home I have 1 lb wrist weights, weighted gloves that came with my old TurboJam cd, 2 lb., 8lb and 15 lb handweights, hubby keeps those downstairs with his weight bench. I never take advantage of having those extra weights and bench at home, I should do that at least once a week...hubby uses them 3 times a week.
 
Ameriscot, I followed your lead and did some sets at the gym today, for the first time.

4X12 of 'low rows' @ 55lbs.
4X12 of 'tricep pulldowns (rope) @ 20 lbs.
4X12 of 'lat pulldowns' @ 40 lbs

Along with that I did various other machines of either 10 or 20 reps, like biceps, tricep (seated handle), leg press, chest press, leg/thigh abduction in and out setting, glutes. After that I did 45 minutes on the bicycle machine, random hill (#10) setting, 12 miles. So along with my morning (2ish mile) walk with dog and hubby, it was a pretty good day.

Foodwise, I had a banana for 'breakfast', and a bagel with lox (smoked salmon) and reduced fat chive cream cheese and thin sliced onion for dinner. Dessert later will be plain Greek yogurt with organic honey, organic lime juice and hemp hearts.

Today was a good day, Saturday's 2 pound gain was a wake up call for me to give a little more effort here. I was thinking Saturday, that if I just continued to go up on the scale, and wasn't willing to give any extra effort to reach my goal....that I'd just drop out of this thread and not be a negative drain here. Hoping that this coming weigh in will be more positive. Thanks to all of you here for the encouragement and good vibes. :love_heart:
 
Well Sea, I bet that fussy scale will move soon enough, either way, your presence would be very much missed, you could always just keep in stride with letting us know what you're up to exercise wise and such, keeping up with healthy eating as much as possible and just not worry about the scale so much. You'll do what you can to make sure it doesn't keep going up in the interim if you stick around. I'm only posting my weight lose and that signature on Sats. Not everyone needs to be privy. You could remove yours all together and just put one up for exercises or something else or nothing at all.

Either way. No one no matter where their weight sits on the scale has been a negative influence to anyone I hope, not to me anyway. As I've said before, I always have good results the first few weeks, it really does feel different this time around than the other times, I can't put my finger on it, I guess it's the pain in my back and hip that just is saying, I can't slip back again unless, I wan't to become a complete an invalid sooner than later.
 

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