What Have You Done Today to Make You Feel Proud?

Well I'm excited...it's been ten days on Induction Hell and I have lost a half a pound!  For those of you who don't know my 'cir****tances', it's almost impossible for me to lose weight without extreme measures, which I have recently put into place and given masself three months to lose six pounds, so to see a half a pound for me is big...huge...gargantuan...EXCITING.  I so proud! 

I hope everyone else's scale is moving in the right direction, too!

 Mary 

Mary,  What's your exercise routine like?  Are you walking, doing gym aerobics, weights?  One thing that works really well for me when I start to stall out is intervals

Babs, I have a recumbant cycle that has seven different levels of interval training that I do about three times a week and then sometimes, I just get on the thing and ride while I'm watching TV.  It makes me feel better when I'm watching Biggest Loser!  On the days that I do upper body workouts I power walk four miles and on the days that I do lower body workouts, I power walk three miles.  Between the PCOS, the insulin resistance and menopause, I have to work out at this level and diet just to STAY at this weight.  Seems my body is hell bent on getting alla it's fat back!

I have lost 129 pounds and doc cut off 25 so I'm not exactly "desperate" to lose, I just wanted to finish the last six pounds, so that's why I went from Atkins Maintenance to Atkins Induction.  It's my anniversary present to masself to finish what I started.  Since it took my crazy metabolism six years to lose 129 pounds, three months to lose 6 is pretty "reasonable" for my special bit of weirdness!

Thanks for the tip, any more will be greatly appreciated,

Mary 

Yay you!  Glad to see the scales moving for ya.

Thanks Holl...yanno, for me it's kind of an odd feeling to see the scale move in the right direction for a change.  I'm the only person I know who diets and works out without expecting to lose anything! 

Mary 

That sort of reminds me of what I was just saying on the other post.  Balance..here you work your tail off, dieting, and working out, living the life how you suppose too on maintenance just to keep yourself stable!  One person I knew years ago that lost a lot of weight and fought to keep that weight off for quite a few years (think it was like seven years or so) before she could actually eat like the next Joe Blow.  

I also wonder if this is the amount your body wants to be at?  Guess all you can do is shock the heck out of those last six pounds!  I wish you all the luck on it, sounds like you are pretty determined to lose those last stubborn pounds.

Holly, after reading everything I have about the metabolism and metobolic syndromes, I believe that once you have ever lived a long time being over a hundred pounds overweight and then you lose it, you will never be able to eat like the next Joe Blow.  At least not the garbage part of it anyway.  I have a cousin who weighed 350 pounds in her teens and early twenties.  When she lost the weight thirty years ago, she still eats like someone on a low calorie diet just to stay where she's at.  Both of our metabolisms have been shot to hell and really have to be stoked just to keep them burning at all.  So you see, this journey never ends...just because you lose the weight doesn't mean you are done, it means you still have to work just as hard to keep the weight off.  My cousin eats like a bird and runs ten miles first thing every morning, she wears a size two and has looked damn good for thirty years, but she was willing to make the sacrifices that her body required for her to stay there.  She NEVER eats junk...NEVER.  She's my hero!

Mary