2012 Fall Fatty ChallengeFollow

I'd love to get into this, but for the life of me, I think my body has basically said FU and won't change since this last year. Since June, when I got really serious about losing weight, ive been drinking 80-100 oz of water a day, riding the exercise bike an hour a day, or doing a Zumba work out, five days a week. Protein shake with almond milk in the morning, light lunch, smaller portion protein dinner, and maybe a glass of wine twice a week. Add on top of that vitamin B12 and oxy elite pro thermogenics I've lost a total of........ 8 pounds. And I keep see sawing between five and eight.

I'll keep at it and watch you guys with progress, but I'm not holding out much hope on losing anything drastic.

Well I did descending sets of burpees on Sunday going from seven down. All day my latissimus dorsi have been extremely sore. I barely could lift my arms and when I tried to do a pushup I collapsed and decided I would rest for a bit on the floor.

Edited, Aug 21st 2012 11:06pm by Criminy

144.0.

This. You sure you don't have Hashimoto's? Have your MD run your TSH antibodies, much more reliable than basic TSH test.

I cut out all gluten and have been dropping inches but the scale is disappointingly the same. I am down one dress size, two on a good day, and thankfully once again have a waist and can no longer see my tummy past my boobs. It's odd to me that everything seems to be slowly shrinking but that it doesn't reflect on the scale. I'm not working out at all though, so that's probably what's missing. I always MEAN to, but then I fall asleep (exhaustion being another lovely side effect of my thyroid self-destructing).

I always picture Joph as a velociraptor in a suit.

...and wearing glasses (not the cool sunglasses).

This thread got the best of me. I just went and weighed myself - 120lbs. I feel best when I'm at 118 so I might make an effort to drop a pound or two before heading into winter and holiday gorge season.

I started back in March. Had a bit of an awakening, and decided to do something about it. I tipped the scales at 308 at 5' 11". After seeing a bunch of ads on ESPN and doing some research, I signed up for Nutrisystem. I've lost 55 lbs so far, hoping to get down to 220 by Christmas.

How does that work exactly. Are the meals they send you all microwave meals or...?

The second dietary change I made was reducing added salt. It's like people say about quitting smoking - after you get over the hump, food tastes so much better

The really good news is that the better tasting food doesn't make you want to have a pile of salt afterward that much more, either.

Pretty sure my at-home scale is just a little wonky. That Publix scale weight (201) from Wednesday night was before a bit before a BIG dinner (like, 1500 calories: went out with friends). Last night, at home scale says 204.5. So it does seem pretty likely that I'm losing weight, but it's hard to figure out how much. Best I can seem to do is weigh myself at the same time, on the same scale, in the same clothing, each night.

My appetite is... weird. I'll typically get the urge to eat around 3:00 or so, but I wouldn't call it "hunger," more "habit." Yesterday I only ate around 850 calories by 8:00pm. Had to force myself to up it to 1350, because sub-1000 is dangerous and will work against me if I go into starvation mode. But I wasn't hungry at all; the ~350 I had for dinner filled me up (and I drank around 12 large glasses of water throughout the day; likely kept me feeling full). I think my stomach is getting used to less food. But heading into the weekend I'm getting nervous. The consistent schedule of a work week is really useful in keeping my time (including eating time) in nice chunks. The weekend is a lot tougher, because
A) I'm around the house, which has food.
B) I don't have anything set to do. Sure, I have gaming for ZAM, but I find that every hour or so I go for a snack. That adds up.
C) There's a huge temptation to sleep in (and thus skip the 4:30am workout, which I've done for 4/5 days this week), and perhaps worst:
D) There's a huge temptation to drink

On that last part, this week has actually been pretty good. Whoever said that waking up early would lessen the desire to drink was right: going to sleep around 9:30 each night and waking up at 4:30 has killed most of my urge to drink. That said, I'll need to keep myself from picking up something on the way home from work tonight. Trying to combat that urge by going to run stadiums with a co-worker and his wife. Stadiums... heh. I'll be lucky to survive!

Still, I've dropped at least a couple lbs this week. This thread is great motivation; thanks all and best of luck on your goals too!

Schedule an activity/meeting of sorts that requires you to drive in the evening (this can be anything just has to require you to drive so you can't drink, heck do your groceries late, pickup a friend from work). Get up early, but not 4:30 am early, sleep in a couple of hours as a treat but make sure the first thing you do when you get up (other than eat) is go to the gym, it'll set the tone for the day and make it so you're ready for bed at a decent time (which, again, will help with the drinking which is probably what's been putting you to sleep for years.)

I wish I could say it's a thyroid/gland/something on why I have gained weight lately. But it's because 1) I'm overeating and 2) I haven't been too physically actively.

I wish I could say it's a thyroid/gland/something on why I haven't lost weight. But it's because 1) I haven't modified my eating habits and 2) I'm being too lazy.

This.

And the bad thing is, I'm not caring as much as I should.