So I switched off of my holiday break from being healthy and back to more veggies a couple days ago. And It’s a good damn good thing I live alone, cause I am a gas factory right now. 
I’m trying to make small changes too. Right now it is one healthy/home cooked meal a day. I am doing ok on that and will swap to eating more healthy meals soon, I hope.
Last summer, I went empirical. I planned week-long diets with very precise amounts of food (in terms of protein/fat/carb proportion as well as calories) and stuck strictly to them, taking notes and measurements. I made charts and graphs, analyzed them to find maximum loss points, then planned a diet based on sticking to the best of them (750-800 calories/day) for a week-long “on” period, then return to normal (but not excessive) eating on the off-week. I’ve been losing about 10 pounds/month, even allowing for the holidays (when I went off the diet).
I’m going to stick to that as long as it keeps working. I’m also going to repurpose a post left behind where I tore down a fence this week to make a pell (a padded post for sword training), so I can practice with my heavy wooden swords as well as my boffers.
Dude, don’t. Just don’t. After all the threads where people smugly announce they drank less beer and lost weight–after all the threads where people excoriate fat people for never eating a vegetable–after all the crap I go through with my five separate metabolic disorders. I cannot lose weight without being hungry and crabby. It doesn’t happen. I have to suffer. More than most. And I am trying really damn hard, and it’s not working, and I don’t need throwaway comments from people who know nothing about my health, my life, or my weight loss history.
I am so tired of people who lost weight when they stopped force-feeding themselves tons of crap coming in and crowing at me that if I just did what they did, I’d lose weight! You know what? If you lost weight that way, then you were the one eating too damn much of the wrong damn stuff. My diet’s always been pretty fucking good, it’s just that I have a shitty body that can’t regulate itself.
Perhaps mentioning that up front would have been informative to my comment. But if you’d rather ambush someone so you can be righteous, be my guest. :rolleyes:
wow, good luck!
I understand that you are frustrated but most people do mean the “typical” situation when they give either advice or criticism.
I’ve learned from struggles with depression if I listen to “typical” advice about how to do more or achieve more, I am just going to get frustrated. It is best to address my situation on my own terms.
Back on Lite ‘n’ Easy and recharging my Fitbit. It’s a start, right?
whats FitBit?
I live about 5km from my work so I’m doing an eight week Couch-to-5-km program (Zombies! Run) which is a lot of fun. About 1/2 way through that at the moment. If I can do that OK I’ll switch over to the regular version which is a lot more story driven.
I can’t stand going to the gym so my current program is:
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[li]Mon-Wed-Friday: C25K (mix of walking and jogging) to work. Walk home [/li][li]Tue-Thurs: cycle to and from work [/li][li]Weekends off but I chase the kids around, do yard work etc[/li][/ul]
Which works OK in summer. Once winter hit’s I’ll see how I go.
winter outdoor work/exercise is ok if you have the proper clothing. it sound slike yo ulike to stay active. thats good.
Step/kilometre/stair counter.
This is the biggest thing that worked for me. I found that right after work was the best time to exercise. I tried in the morning and my blood literally doesn’t get flowing right. I just can’t work out hard enough.
People are different, that’s what so many don’t get. They think, well if I can do it, so can everyone else. Not the case.
Do what works best for you. Me, I go straight to the gym on the way home. I also didn’t try to fill every single day with exercise, hence the four days a week. That way it’s nice to look forward to the weekend, AND, if I miss a day, it’s easy to make it up over the weekend.
I don’t like to run or job (impact!) so I just don’t. I tried the couch to 5K but I will tell you right now if you hate an activity you just won’t do it. Find the things you like to do and do them.
Winter is a problem as I don’t like winter and don’t like winter sports, but when spring comes back I intend to do some hiking and kayaking again and bikeriding, too.
Summer is my major barrier right now. I hate gyms and might go back to swimming but I quite like walking. Unfortunately, for most of the day, it’s just too damned hot to get out there and pound the pavement.
Do you have an indoor shopping mall or an IKEA store you could walk in? It’s apparently a popular pass-time here in it’s too hot to be outside.
Excellent idea! It’s going to hit 40°C today and I’m just back from the mall. The world and his wife were there, trying to stay cool but I think if I got there early it’d be a good idea.
I bought myself a swimming costume while I was there (40% off - yay!). First one in well over ten years. Now I just have to work out which pool is the closest/most convenient etc and get myself going.
I’m back on using My Fitness Pal for calorie counting. I’ve generally gained a pound a year since high school, which was fine for quite awhile as I was pretty damn skinny to start with. But it’s true, you know, what they say about middle age. It comes with a decreased metabolism. Halfhearted healthy eating and exercise ain’t cutting it anymore.
Bah.
Watching this thread for ideas and waiting for February to come and go…I’m participating in a study that requires me to maintain my current weight, diet and exercise level for six months and I’m finally down to four weeks remaining. The study is testing a supplement on people who have Metabolic Syndrome…way to feel great about myself, right?! Anyway, as non-intrusive as this study is, I can’t wait til it’s over and I get my $$.
Beginning of March I’ll be cleaning my diet and increasing my activity as best I can. I already eat pretty well (cook at home, lots of whole grains, fish & vegetables) but have tendancies to binge out on pasta and drink a little too much wine.
Goals are definitely to lose some weight in addition to getting my clothes to fit better, improve my general health, help my creaky knees support my body and get me out of that Metabolic Syndrome group.
I live in a quiet neighborhood, so walking is a good thing. I can also walk at work during lunch if I make myself. 
Am also thinking about joining the gym to get some resistance training, but may also try to just do it at home with an app. I’ve tried the 7 Minute Workout and might go back to that. I use Daily Yoga occasionally (although I suck at Yoga and basically hate it, I feel better afterwards) and love My Fitness Pal and Map My Walk. Might be able to make good improvements without shelling out for the gym! And of course, more (ballroom/latin/swing) dancing on the weekends when we can find it. That’s the kind of workout that never feels like work.
Thanks for all the ideas, everyone.
I think I need to stop drinking alcohol. I’ve been monitoring my diet carefully but wine is my downfall.
If carbs didn’t exist, I’d be as thin as Twiggy.