I hit 140# today!
Dear Susan,
I didn't get on this computer yesterday and the first thing I read is your post.
Oh my oh my!!! Plan of action is needed, not a kick in the ass.
Your thread was most helpful to me. Planning ahead and telling the world what I was eating kept me on track. Using a measuring cup instead of eye-balling amounts kept me honest. I couldn't write how much went on the plate if I guesstimated.
Some of those old habits seem to slowly creep in. Miss a day or two of the gym, a graham cracker (they are my recent evil vice), not drink enough water and WHAM - the pounds sneak back.
You know I threw away my scale. When I went for my check-up I almost had a panic attack at the thought of stepping on the scale. Sure enough, up 3 pounds. Made me want to puke.
We can do this together. If you have the time to post, I will add my two cents worth too.
Biggest hugs
Annette
I didn't get on this computer yesterday and the first thing I read is your post.
Oh my oh my!!! Plan of action is needed, not a kick in the ass.Your thread was most helpful to me. Planning ahead and telling the world what I was eating kept me on track. Using a measuring cup instead of eye-balling amounts kept me honest. I couldn't write how much went on the plate if I guesstimated.
Some of those old habits seem to slowly creep in. Miss a day or two of the gym, a graham cracker (they are my recent evil vice), not drink enough water and WHAM - the pounds sneak back.
You know I threw away my scale. When I went for my check-up I almost had a panic attack at the thought of stepping on the scale. Sure enough, up 3 pounds. Made me want to puke.
We can do this together. If you have the time to post, I will add my two cents worth too.
Biggest hugs
Annette
Annette 
Susan,
I've been most vocal about my regain and I've always been real honest about what I was doing and my struggles consisted of definite reasons, mainly eating like I was still exercising and regaining because of it. However, what has irked me most is the fact that at 1200 to 1500 calories a day I gain weight, which considering the probably 4000+ I used to eat and probably more, does not make me happy.
When I started on my journey, I had hoped to get to 150 lbs., which by some standards is still fat, but a weight that would have had me at a size 10, which was where I had hoped to end up and one my surgeon readily agreed with me was a good weight for someone my age and height. I got to 156 lbs and the loss stopped happening and over the next year I bounced back to 162 to 165 and stayed there for a year, until some things kept me from my physcial activities and I started stress eating because of my job situation, old patterns and then I got back to logging and eventually took my bfa (big fat a*!) back into the gym and began, very slowly, to lose weight again. I had lost 7 lbs. and it took me over three months, exercising 4x a week, burning about 500+ calories a day, eating about 1300 to 1500. Then in the past month I started with this back issue ,which is affecting more than my back and so my exercise program is sidelined once more, this morning I got on the scale and guess what, it said I had regained all that I lost, though I'm not giving total credence to what I saw this morning, as my clothes are still fitting me like they did since I lost the 7 lbs.
Still, I'm disheartened and feeling a lot of what you speak of, but I am beginning to believe that this is where I am supposed to be within 5 lbs. and quite frankly I am unwilling to eat less than 1000 calories. I plan my meals by cooking on Sunday's and portion sizing things, making healthy choices in most everything I eat and I am tired of this battle. That being said, I do not mean to quit trying to maintain a healthy weight for myself, nor will I say "f it" and go back to consuming massive quantites of what I know is not good for me, besides, in all honesty I no longer desire the food I once ate or the quantities, so I don't quite know how this will all play out, but I do know we arrive at different destinations on this journey and just have to keep walking it to the best of what we can.
You, I, and all the rest of us, who struggle are not FAILURES, we are battling with a body that is programmed differently than those who've never had weight issues and so we must remain vigilant and realize that at different times, we just have to talk among ourselves.
If doing the thread helps, then do it, I will try posting to it, but don't always come to play like I used to, or if I do, I jump on just long enough to see what people are doing and post a few times a week. . . but I'm willing to try.
Hugs and know I feel your "pain". .. Laureen
I've been most vocal about my regain and I've always been real honest about what I was doing and my struggles consisted of definite reasons, mainly eating like I was still exercising and regaining because of it. However, what has irked me most is the fact that at 1200 to 1500 calories a day I gain weight, which considering the probably 4000+ I used to eat and probably more, does not make me happy.
When I started on my journey, I had hoped to get to 150 lbs., which by some standards is still fat, but a weight that would have had me at a size 10, which was where I had hoped to end up and one my surgeon readily agreed with me was a good weight for someone my age and height. I got to 156 lbs and the loss stopped happening and over the next year I bounced back to 162 to 165 and stayed there for a year, until some things kept me from my physcial activities and I started stress eating because of my job situation, old patterns and then I got back to logging and eventually took my bfa (big fat a*!) back into the gym and began, very slowly, to lose weight again. I had lost 7 lbs. and it took me over three months, exercising 4x a week, burning about 500+ calories a day, eating about 1300 to 1500. Then in the past month I started with this back issue ,which is affecting more than my back and so my exercise program is sidelined once more, this morning I got on the scale and guess what, it said I had regained all that I lost, though I'm not giving total credence to what I saw this morning, as my clothes are still fitting me like they did since I lost the 7 lbs.
Still, I'm disheartened and feeling a lot of what you speak of, but I am beginning to believe that this is where I am supposed to be within 5 lbs. and quite frankly I am unwilling to eat less than 1000 calories. I plan my meals by cooking on Sunday's and portion sizing things, making healthy choices in most everything I eat and I am tired of this battle. That being said, I do not mean to quit trying to maintain a healthy weight for myself, nor will I say "f it" and go back to consuming massive quantites of what I know is not good for me, besides, in all honesty I no longer desire the food I once ate or the quantities, so I don't quite know how this will all play out, but I do know we arrive at different destinations on this journey and just have to keep walking it to the best of what we can.
You, I, and all the rest of us, who struggle are not FAILURES, we are battling with a body that is programmed differently than those who've never had weight issues and so we must remain vigilant and realize that at different times, we just have to talk among ourselves.
If doing the thread helps, then do it, I will try posting to it, but don't always come to play like I used to, or if I do, I jump on just long enough to see what people are doing and post a few times a week. . . but I'm willing to try.
Hugs and know I feel your "pain". .. Laureen
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
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