Biggest Loser...How Did That Happen?
Filipe? Did you two just say FILIPE? I can't stand Filipe!!! 
Filipe has NO respect for women...I assume that may have something to do with his Tongan ancestry. When he had a problem with Jillian, instead of talking to her and working out the problem, he totally disrespected her and stormed out of the gym and then went back to Bob, therefore I have no respect for his loud mouth, arrogant, self centered self.
When he was trying to distract Helen during the last challenge, I just wanted to slap him in his smugness and make him fall on his immature A$$!
Filipe? For real???
Mary
Filipe has NO respect for women...I assume that may have something to do with his Tongan ancestry. When he had a problem with Jillian, instead of talking to her and working out the problem, he totally disrespected her and stormed out of the gym and then went back to Bob, therefore I have no respect for his loud mouth, arrogant, self centered self.
When he was trying to distract Helen during the last challenge, I just wanted to slap him in his smugness and make him fall on his immature A$$!
Filipe? For real???
Mary
Hi Mary, I know it has been a while. I am kind of ashamed of how I am doing but that is a post for another day. As for Kristen, I am still angry over it. Kristen did work her ass off, she was my favorite and I hope against all hope that she comes back at the finale and kicks some serious A**. As for how it happened, I had the same thought you did about "that time of the month". Maybe the combination of that time of the month, not enough calories for how hard she is working out (cause you know the girl is working it!) And add stress to that. I guess what I am trying to say is maybe it was 1 pound that came from a few different places.
Life is short, laugh easily, forgive quickly, and never regret anything that made you smile.
Hey Jen! 
Yanno, I've been thinking about how she must have felt. Can you imagine? Some people work out an hour a day three times a week and then ***** if they don't lose a pound that week. She's in the gym literally working her toockuss off for hours and she GAINED a pound. It just seems to defy the laws of physics. I'm starting to think that she must have a metabolic syndrome. That's how it was with me and the PCOS. I'd lose three and gain two for no reason. And when I was on low fat and low calorie I gained weight because of the insulin resistance. I think if she would have had Jillian for a trainer she would have caught that because she has a whole section on that in her new book..."Master Your Metabolism".
Now what's this about some bad behavior? Whatcha got planned to fix that?
Mary
Yanno, I've been thinking about how she must have felt. Can you imagine? Some people work out an hour a day three times a week and then ***** if they don't lose a pound that week. She's in the gym literally working her toockuss off for hours and she GAINED a pound. It just seems to defy the laws of physics. I'm starting to think that she must have a metabolic syndrome. That's how it was with me and the PCOS. I'd lose three and gain two for no reason. And when I was on low fat and low calorie I gained weight because of the insulin resistance. I think if she would have had Jillian for a trainer she would have caught that because she has a whole section on that in her new book..."Master Your Metabolism". Now what's this about some bad behavior? Whatcha got planned to fix that?
Mary
Mary, That is honestly what I love about your posts, you get right to the heart of the matter. Have you ever been in the place where "reasons" meet "excuses"? I know I am at a crossroads. I have tough decisions to make (just like we all do). My pain level is way up. I got a rowing type exercise machine and I was stoked, my back went out after I used it once and now I am just at the bottom again. I am depressed and making all the wrong choices because of that. I am frustrated and alternating between thoughts of giving up and thinking more seriously about surgery to help me get started. All of this is on me, and I am done making excuses. I wish there were people closer to me that I could meet with. I do much better with support. So that is my whiney story.
Life is short, laugh easily, forgive quickly, and never regret anything that made you smile.
Well Jen, I'm happy to here that someone likes my "get to the heart of the matter" style, cuz sometimes it can be percieved as being, shall we say...a li'l 'indelicate'. But when it got comes to weight loss, I have more of "Boot Camp" style for masself. Unfortunately, they ain't nothing delicate about that!
Hmmm...where reasons meet excuses. I totally understand what happened with being stoked about the rower and then getting flatlined by your back going out. Bummer Dude. But what I don't understand is your choice of equipment. Did you actually GET ON that rower before you bought it? You may not have realized this at the time,
but rower's aren't exactly made for chubby girls...just sayin'. What I decided was best for me was a recumbant cycle. It has what I call a big butt seat, you are not putting any pressure on your spine, and it has cross training settings that can work you hard, or it has settings to go for a leisurely ride. Maybe you can find a used one to see if you would like it, or go to the equipment stores and try one. I love mine.
Can I make an observation? From what I can see, you want to do this on your own but you are having difficulty. Weight loss has to be a from the heart commitment to yourself to diet and exercise to get the fat off of your body. It seems to me that as long as you have surgery in the back of your mind as a back up if you fail, you're sabotaging your commitment to weight loss on your own. From what I know about how my mind works, that would be like...well, if I spend my rent money this month, Mom will back me up and pay for it. That is what I call 'no commitment' to learning a budget!
You are going to have to either make a commitment to doing this on your own, or make a commitment to having surgery...until then, you are just gaining weight and losing self esteem while you are sitting on that fence!
Either way, I'm glad to hear that you are done with excuses!
Mary
Hmmm...where reasons meet excuses. I totally understand what happened with being stoked about the rower and then getting flatlined by your back going out. Bummer Dude. But what I don't understand is your choice of equipment. Did you actually GET ON that rower before you bought it? You may not have realized this at the time,
but rower's aren't exactly made for chubby girls...just sayin'. What I decided was best for me was a recumbant cycle. It has what I call a big butt seat, you are not putting any pressure on your spine, and it has cross training settings that can work you hard, or it has settings to go for a leisurely ride. Maybe you can find a used one to see if you would like it, or go to the equipment stores and try one. I love mine.Can I make an observation? From what I can see, you want to do this on your own but you are having difficulty. Weight loss has to be a from the heart commitment to yourself to diet and exercise to get the fat off of your body. It seems to me that as long as you have surgery in the back of your mind as a back up if you fail, you're sabotaging your commitment to weight loss on your own. From what I know about how my mind works, that would be like...well, if I spend my rent money this month, Mom will back me up and pay for it. That is what I call 'no commitment' to learning a budget!
You are going to have to either make a commitment to doing this on your own, or make a commitment to having surgery...until then, you are just gaining weight and losing self esteem while you are sitting on that fence!
Either way, I'm glad to hear that you are done with excuses!
Mary
The rowing machine as I called it has a real big seat, and I have it adjusted to go real easy. Maybe it is a recumbant bike, I got it used and for the few mins I tried it, I loved it. I still love the idea of it. Kind of scared to get back on the horse after it bucked me so hard last time.
I wanted to say thank you for putting in perspective the whole,commit to doing it on my own or commit to surgery. I never looked at it that way. If you do not commit to one way or another, then nothing will change, I will be forever in limbo land. Why did it not dawn on me that it was the same as anything else, make a committment and go for it? If not, I am doing what I have always done. I have serious decisions to make and at least now I know that making the decision is actually the step I have to make next. Sounds basic and simple but I need to do that before I can do anything else.
Thank you Mary, you are awesome and very very helpful (more then you know).
Life is short, laugh easily, forgive quickly, and never regret anything that made you smile.
This is my argument against the show...that it makes one think that weight loss is completely linear. It isn't. No matter the math, there are going to be times other factors may enter into the equation. She has lost 100+ lbs in 4 months. Her body might have readjusted. She might not have yet readapted her calories. Her hormones might be in shock to the weight loss and the estrogen impacted the bottom line. She might have overexercised--increasing the water retention the muscles demand to heal. She might have changed her food and it shocked her body. She might have continued to undereat. It could be so many things other than she snuck food and overate.
I hate that this show makes people expect linear weight loss for the contestants and for themselves!
BTW, the TBL website has bonus scenes and Bob met with her and discussed changing her macros to exclude dairy and increase carbs. He might have chosen wrong for her. And lastly, a lot of behind the scenes explanations from previous seasons indicates many fibs the editing of the show creates. A week is not a week and the calories ARE low for contestants. Even the heaviest woman eats 1200c.
I hate that this show makes people expect linear weight loss for the contestants and for themselves!
BTW, the TBL website has bonus scenes and Bob met with her and discussed changing her macros to exclude dairy and increase carbs. He might have chosen wrong for her. And lastly, a lot of behind the scenes explanations from previous seasons indicates many fibs the editing of the show creates. A week is not a week and the calories ARE low for contestants. Even the heaviest woman eats 1200c.
Where you been Girl, I have been dying to hear your input on the subject because you of all people know that it is sooooo NOT a matter of calories in, calories burned! I am seriously loving your possible explanations because some of them I know about, but one I will have to learn more about. But I ain't a gym rat like you or training to be a trainer, so you definitely know more about how muscles work more than I do. VERY interesting!
My weight loss has never been linear because of my 'hormonal cir****tances', but you are right, I do believe that for as hard as these folks on Biggest Loser workout, they should at least not 'gain'! Geeze, I'd be crying in my coffee if that were me. And I think Bob gave her the wrong advice masself. She didn't lose the most weight on campus by cutting out dairy and increasing carbs, she just had ONE bad week.
I'm still reading Jillian's new book and I don't think that she would have ever given Kristen that advice.
Mary
My weight loss has never been linear because of my 'hormonal cir****tances', but you are right, I do believe that for as hard as these folks on Biggest Loser workout, they should at least not 'gain'! Geeze, I'd be crying in my coffee if that were me. And I think Bob gave her the wrong advice masself. She didn't lose the most weight on campus by cutting out dairy and increasing carbs, she just had ONE bad week.
I'm still reading Jillian's new book and I don't think that she would have ever given Kristen that advice.
Mary
where have I been? surviving at a cutthroat job that I have decided I will need to leave soon for my health...! Hard times, that...
Facing what I've faced, it's not about how hard she works out. I workout hard. Exercise is actually a small factor in weight loss. It's like 70% nutrition and 20% exercise (and 10% other factors---my made-up numbers). So something's off in the nutrition. Given her drive, I DOUBT it's rebounding to bad habits.
It's one freakin' pound. Heck that happens. I'm up and down constantly. It's only when I look at the big picture that I can say there's a downward trend.
Facing what I've faced, it's not about how hard she works out. I workout hard. Exercise is actually a small factor in weight loss. It's like 70% nutrition and 20% exercise (and 10% other factors---my made-up numbers). So something's off in the nutrition. Given her drive, I DOUBT it's rebounding to bad habits.
It's one freakin' pound. Heck that happens. I'm up and down constantly. It's only when I look at the big picture that I can say there's a downward trend.
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