Ceejaytee, here’s hoping you find a good doctor soon!
I haven’t been making such good food choices sometimes lately. I think my calorie count is OK but I could eating more healthily. Been bouncing around in the 146-147 range for a week or two and am thinking about maintaining at this weight maybe until after the New Year, while trying to get back on track nutritionally.
Right now, I just want to get over this rotten cold-thing that’s been going on for over a week now. These things don’t tend to last that long with me. I’m convinced it’s my dirty work environment that brought it on. I took the day off today and am not looking forward to going back. Thankfully, it’s a temp job and I can quit with a few days’ notice. Just would like to have something else lined up first, so am spending time online today checking out my options. Or maybe I’ll just go back to bed. Ugh!
Malacandra, it seems like you’ve found a happy balance in deciding where to make trade-offs! That’s so much better than going “whole hog” into ‘diet’ mode, then getting fed up with it a month later and gorging!
WTG on the great progress!
I am so impressed! Congratulations and keep up the good work. Oh, and keep us posted! (I say that both because I’m truly happy for you and because I’m selfish - successes like this keep me so motivated.)
For what it’s worth, I didn’t lose anything last week, but the good news is that I didn’t gain anything, either, which is really saying something since my mom was staying with us for a week. Before this year, holidays of any sort (or even birthdays) usually meant a weight gain of at least 2-5 pounds, which I would later lose, regain, lose, regain, etc. And the even better news - for me, anyway - is that this evening I was finally able to run a full 25 minutes again without having to stop to walk at all. I haven’t been able to do that for more than two years!
Thanks! I was wondering, on my evening walk last night, whether I’d eaten too much dinner, but then I figured the walk itself was burning breakfast and lunch put together, and the dinner above wouldn’t be enough calories to maintain weight.
I’m some way from being able to do any running though, 'verbose - I need another fifty pounds off first, at a guess. OTOH the walking muscles and general cardio fitness are both doing great, and that’s obviously giving me the kick I need to keep losing. And I’m not feeling hungry!
ceejaytee, I guess the silver lining is that if the meds have been causing all this weight gain, it should just melt off when you get them fixed - good luck.
I think I was up after the weekend, but am sure to lose a few pounds…along with the appendix that was taken from me yesterday. (Not that I’m likely to sustain a loss that only comes about by not eating for 36 hours and then only subsisting on clear broth and jello for the next who-knows-how-long).
Sorry to hear about your appendix. Sending healing thoughts your way. Each of my operations has given me a significant loss and I usually keep (some of) it.
Today’s Official Weigh In result was 202.4; I’ve lost 1 pound since the last Official Weigh In.
I am up from my Unofficial Weigh In last week, but since it was a different scale, a different time of day, and right before I ate Thanksgiving dinner, that’s not a big deal.
For what it’s worth, the only reason I’m still able to run is probably because I never stopped - I ran through my eighth month of pregnancy and started again three weeks after my son was born. But somehow I still manage to carry around about 50 extra pounds. Go figure.
On a completely different (and disgusting note), my toddler just barfed all over me. So it’s just a matter of time before I get a weight-loss boost. Just kidding. Okay, I’m probably not kidding (it seems inevitable that I get whatever disease he gets), but I try not to look at things that way. Still, I really don’t think I’ll want to eat anytime soon after that experience, which will probably make any food cravings I have null and void - at least for a day or two. If anyone wants to borrow him as a weight loss aid, I’m renting him out.
