That sucks, ivylass. Hopefully your doctors can give you more insight into what you can and cannot do. If nothing else, you can try to maintain. On Spark, you can change your settings so you’re not trying to lose weight. It should give you a calorie range that should be about right for maintenance. To me, counting calories is not a diet. I also don’t see why you couldn’t do some light cardio, such as walking, if you’re feeling up to it.
So can somebody explain to me how last Tuesday I weighed 171.4, Sunday I weighed 167.8, and last night back to 171.4? Same scale, same clothes. I’m really feeling discouraged!
peedin, bodies are weird. I think water usually has quite a bit to do with weight fluctuations like that. It takes the body a while to get adjusted to a new way doing things, whether it’s a change in diet or exercise, and holding onto water is one way that it can react. The good news is that there is no way you ate enough to gain 3.6 pounds in two days. If you are discouraged by fluctuations, you might not want to weigh so often. Either that or use physicsdiet.com, which goes by averages.
That’s part of my problem right there. When I really settle in for a weight loss attempt, I am obsessive with the scale. Like as many as 4 weighings a day. I really need to cut that crap out.
Mind if I join in?
I’ve been doing pretty good with the long-term weight loss until recently (been out of high school for three years and I’m down from my peak weight of almost 375 to 260.2). The hard part has just been keeping it all off. Plus, being diagnosed with diabetes last October failed to make things easier as well. (To Hades with you, genetic predisposition!!) I do have a gym membership and I go as frequently as possible. My biggest problem is that I’m finding a difficult time balancing a good sugar count with a healthy diet. The diet I was originally on before the diagnosis kept my sugar far too high for the lower carb life I’m trying to gain. Also, it goes without saying that low carb can be outrightlandish in price!
I weigh myself every two weeks, the Sunday after payday. That way I can see progress and not the day to day fluctuations. Try hiding the scale in a drawer or something until you’re ready to weigh yourself…out of sight, out of mind.
Welcome, Your Majesty 
! I can’t speak to your diabetes, but good luck!
Thanks! And also, thank you for the link to SparkPeople!
I’m obsessive with the scale, too, and weigh in at least twice a day. That’s why I like physicsdiet. Even if I weigh a pound more today than I did yesterday, it averages out to a very small gain.
Okay, well, just now I weighed myself for the first time since Saturday. I’ve decided to try twice every week for a start, to see how that schedule suits. And…
WOW! If my crappy little scale is right, I’m down more than 4 pounds, ie a pound a day! :eek:
Congratulations in order I guess? 
Most definitely!
I might have blown it big time today. Ivylad and I went to Gator’s Dockside for an early dinner, and I got the turkey muffaletta. I only ate half of it, figuring I was doing good.
Gator’s doesn’t have their nutritional info available (this is becoming a peeve of mine) so I googled other turkey muffalettas, figuring I could use that info.
Half a serving of a Murphy’s Deli Turky Muffaletta is 1098 calories! The sodium is over 3360mg! I found one for Jason’s Deli that was a bit more reasonable, only 790 calories, but…YIKES!
Next time, I’m ordering a salad.
I went for a run yesterday - it was my rest day from the gym, but I wanted to do something. So I ran to the end of the next village and back - a total of 3.5 miles, in about 40 minutes. It wasn’t fast, but I didn’t collapse at the end. I’ll do some more running on the treadmill to work on speeding up, and go for some additional distance.
I think 10km in an hour is pretty achievable within a few months.
I’m pretty chuffed actually.
Si
I’m here, not actively ‘on a diet’ so to speak but more preparing myself for the attempt. I gave myself a pass until I’m done with the high-stress job (two more days!) and my daughter’s graduation party. But in the meantime I’m reading the SparkPeople articles and learning, and sort of getting my mind right.
I realized recently that I don’t even own a scale, and I can’t remember when the last one died.
Yup. I’ve been using Wii Fit and it encourages you to do your weigh-in at the same time each day due to body fluctuations. It claims that a 2-pound fluctuation within a day is common.
I’m around 155 currently, which is good but I’d still like to trim my stomach and thighs. I didn’t need to lose a lot of weight to start with (I’m down around 15 lbs from the start of the year) but as I tell heavier coworkers who ask why I think I need to lose weight - I’m too old to be “outgrowing” clothing, and I’d had to go up a pants size. Earlier this week I hadn’t weighed in on my bathroom scale for quite a while and thought the Wii Fit board was weighing way too light. I adjusted the board properly for use on carpet, then used the bathroom scale - whoa, I was lighter! I was going off my pants-fitting cues and was so used to wearing those larger pants that I was estimating my weight based on what I used to be. (On Tuesday I packed away those larger pants in the top of the closet, marked with a label so I can see them and know what will happen if I let my eating get out of control.)
I also want to ensure that I keep eating a healthy diet - it’s too easy for me to order takeout when I’m tired, and my husband really does need to lose weight and keep eating healthy, so this needs to be a team effort for us.
Plus we’re going on vacation next week so eating healthy will be harder, but at least we’ll be doing a lot of walking. (The downside is that the Fit trainers will be disappointed in me for missing a week, and will let me know!) Since we’re staying with friends, my husband suggested that I try to cook at least a couple meals there, instead of us going out to restaurants so often like we usually do, and he’ll try to grill some interesting food too.
Hey all - thought I’d post as well even though my attendance in these threads is a tad erratic.
Had my weigh in at WW on Monday and was 12’2 (170lb) which is good as it’s down 2lb from my last weigh in a couple of weeks ago. I seem to have broken through the plateau I was experiencing which I’m putting down to a little extra exercise as well as getting the WW pedometer which is making me walk everywhere. Now rather than sometimes getting the bus from the station to work I ALWAYS walk it, and I nearly always get off a stop earlier on the train for the 25 minute walk home rather than the 10 minute walk. It seems to be having the desired effect.
I also went to yoga this week for the first time in years and was shocked and dismayed at how bad I am at it now. I used to do it regularly and was quite good, now, not so much. I’m thinking of going regularly as I enjoyed it and felt like I’d given my muscles a good run for their money, and the extra activity points were welcome of course. Getting rained on heavily walking there and back I could have done without, however.
Finally I’ve ditched the WW ready meals in the evening mainly because they’re very carbohydrate-heavy, and I now have much more protein based meals (scrambled eggs and ham, ham/chicken salad with vinegar, fish and vegetables) which are better to have in the evening as well as being enjoyable and simple to make. I think this will have a positive effect on weight over time too.
I resisited the urge and did not weight myself last night or this morning. I’m gonna try and make it until monday morning.
I hit the workout room monday night and last night. (Skipped tuesday because of a late meeting) I’ve been watching my diet very carefully and my only real slip was a can of coke.
I weighed myself last night (I almost never weigh myself I night, I weigh myself on Sunday mornings before I eat anything but after I go to the bathroom so I can push the numbers as low as possible lol) and I have lost a pound and a half since Saturday! My roommate used to really push my diet and order pizza and bring home brownies and chicken nuggets and stuff and with her gone I don’t eat that stuff on a regular basis. I had no idea the extra food had been causing such a problem but apparently it was. I am excited to see how much I can lose now that I am able to focus more time and energy on weight loss.
jtgain and royalIMFness, you need to create a SparkPage so I can friend you.
And someone named DVOSKUIL joined SP…who’s that? I friended you.
Don’t feel bad, pbbth - I weigh myself once a day, right after I wake up. It’s after the first-thing pee, and before I drink or eat anything at all, so that it’s the lowest I’ll be all day. That way I feel all accomplished and shit. It serves a dual purpose, too - I’m using the WiiFit body test as my scale, because it is pretty close (within a pound or two) of what my digital scale says. Since I do it first thing, that means that when I have gotten a bra on and hair put up, my fat little Mii is still there looking at me, essentially going “So, we’re going to work on making me not an embarrassment now, right?” I find I’m much more likely to go ahead and get my 30 minutes of yoga and strength and whatever in, rather than going straight over to my computer and starting work and Dope surfing and screwing around in a sedentary way.
Of course, today I totally failed at that - got all pissed off last night, skipped supper, and was too hungry to work out on an empty stomach this morning. So I am feeling vaguely guilty that I haven’t helped my Mii not be the fattest one in the house. She has gotten skinnier since I started, though, which is nice. We’ll see if I manage to get off my duff before 6 o’clock, heh.
Weigh-in tomorrow…but I had a sneak peek at the doctor’s office on Tuesday, when they weighed me.
I’ll wait for the “official” ruling tomorrow…but I kept hitching up my jeans at work today!
I didn’t have a weigh in this week (I skipped WW in favor of my anniversary lunch) so I don’t have a weight to report but…I’m in a size 14 jean this week!