I'm starting to get back into exercising and eating right.   I fell off the wagon when I met my ex and gained 25 pounds throughout the year of knowing him so now I'm trying to lose that and then some.

Okay folks. I'm back on the band wagon.

Last week: 171.5 lbs
This week: 167.4 lbs
Goal weight: 140-130 lbs

So, this past Monday I changed my eating and exercise routine. This is what I do which may help others on this same journey.

I went to the grocery store and bought several different things to snack on like jello, yogurt, snack bars, poptarts, veggies, crackers, cereal, oatmeal, nuts, etc. I eat every two hours to speed up my metabolism which will help with burning fat. I start off with a snack at 8am, then at 10am. At 12pm, I have a normal lunch. Then I snack again at 2pm, at 4pm, and have dinner at 6pm. I exercise for 45-60 minutes starting at 7pm. I do not drink anything other than water and natural fruit juices.

I find that this method works very well for me. I do not feel hungry at all throughout the day like before.

Jen, how much of those snacks do you actually eat, by the way? When it's snack time? Just one-two cookies, a few almonds, etc., or more?

I might give it a try.

Quote from: Maja.V on March 16, 2012, 02:22:53 AM
Jen, how much of those snacks do you actually eat, by the way? When it's snack time? Just one-two cookies, a few almonds, etc., or more?

I might give it a try.

The loose snacks like dry cereal, nuts, small carrots, etc..I use sandwich bags. It's about a handful or little more. Don't force feed though. If I don't feel like eating it all, I don't. You should definitely try it and let me know how it works for you.

Quote from: JenJen2011 on March 16, 2012, 07:40:01 AM
The loose snacks like dry cereal, nuts, small carrots, etc..I use sandwich bags. It's about a handful or little more. Don't force feed though. If I don't feel like eating it all, I don't. You should definitely try it and let me know how it works for you.

Well, the thing is, I'm 5'11 and sitting at 163 pounds, and I really want to get down to 140-ish, and I've kind of hit a wall now. So I'll give your method a try and see how it works out for me.

It's frustrating that I used to lose so much weight and now it has slowed down considerably to almost a stop. Might have to revise my eating habits and portions yet again.

The worse thing about weight lose is that to get to the weight you want to have you actually need to consume less/burn more then you would when you finally are on your goal weight and want to maintain it...

The last few weeks I'm at a stand still. Today it's 130 kg. I drink about 3 lt water every day so there is a margin of about 1.5 kg that's just water, so the difference between 129 and 130 is not significant enough to say anything.

I think I need to do more (low resistance) cardio for longer

I also got the "ballet beautiful" series and I'm looking into yoga, Pilates, contortion as a way to get more in contact with my own body; to push what I can do with it; to tone for a long, slender look, not bulk; to optimize for endurance, to be stronger for longer; and to learn to move with graceful fluid movements and a greater agility.

I have to start exercising more than once a week and I have to stop with the Coca-Cola, which should be relatively easy given I've no money to buy it.

Anyway, here are the dates and weights of when I bothered to do the body test on the Wii Fit (starting with when I decided to lose the 25 lbs I gained over the last year):

03/01/2012:  202.6 lbs

03/02/2012:  201.3 lbs

03/11/2012:  199.7 lbs

03/18/2012:  198.4 lbs

10 lbs until my goal of losing 15 lbs in the next 3 months.   I think I'm going to make it because I'm really wanting to do this to feel better physically and emotionally.

Eating wise, I could be eating better so I just eat a little less/try and eat cheaper healthy things given that I am a college student with limited funds.

Quote from: MeghanAndrews on January 22, 2011, 10:57:28 AM
I have a goal to get "back into the 140's again." Realistically, I'd REALLY like to get to 140. I used to weigh 186, got down to like 145 pre-transition and got back up to 163.4 (like a week ago or so) and realized I need to get back down in the 140's before I wind up in the 170's again. I'm 5'5" so that little bit of extra weight really shows on me. I'd like to post on here maybe like once a week with where I am. So here's my plan:

1) Limit the amount of sugar (I have a serious sweet tooth, like REALLY bad) I eat
2) Continue with daily diet: 80 cal yogurt at 8:30 am, fruit at 11:30 am, boiled chicken/veggies at 2:00 pm, more fruit 4:00 pm, pretty much same dinner as lunch.
3) I REALLY need to add cardio to my exercise regimen but I get so blah about wearing workout clothes and going to the apartment gym.

So this morning I weighed in at 158.5. That'll be my start point, we'll see how I do. Thank you all for your support

Um, so it's a year and a few months later and I weighed 165.3 this am. I feel so big. I did cut out sweets for the most part (I don't buy my own candy anymore but I'll eat some at work if someone has some). I've exercised a few times but not regularly. For me, it really just comes down to DOING what I say I'm going to DO! Ugh, frustrated.

Although most jeans of size 4 in the US always fit comfortably to my wiast, A CK denim jean of the same size I purchased several years ago was always too tight for my waist. Today I wear it again, feeling comfortable with it. Yesterday I ran about 29 km, or 18 mile, burning 1,847 + 365 = 2,212 cal:
http://runkeeper.com/user/sjung/activity/76028584 http://runkeeper.com/user/sjung/activity/76030781 .

Barbie~~

I weighed myself a few minutes ago with nothing but my glasses on and I'm 250. and I'm 5'4.  I am morbidly obese but lets try and see if I can bring that weight down some within the next few months.   I have been lazy in drinking water but I'm about to start back up and drink less sodas and juices.....or at least try to.    I'm going to work out more as well on my ps move as soon as I can figure out how to put the leg strap on.

TIME TO START WORKING OUT N' LOSIN' WEIGHT
I got the P90X stuff from a friend who never really used it, so got a work out program.
Eating differently will have to happen slowly, since I grew up in a household that basically ate whatever tasted good, and since I have a sweet tooth I never really ate much vegetables, BUT I'M WORKIN' ON IT.
As of today, I'm a hefty 231 pounds and about 5'6'' tall.
I'm ready for the fight.

Quote from: Vine on March 20, 2012, 05:21:10 AM
TIME TO START WORKING OUT N' LOSIN' WEIGHT

I'm ready for the fight.

I got an extra pair of gloves and the "Shes a maniac" song ready to go for ya. 

Quote from: Malachite on March 20, 2012, 05:40:16 AM
I got an extra pair of gloves and the "Shes a maniac" song ready to go for ya. 

And don't forget "The eye of the tiger".

Quote from: Maja.V on March 20, 2012, 06:23:40 AM
And don't forget "The eye of the tiger".

How could I forgot that song?   

As a back up track we can have "I'm so excited".

Time to break out the 80's music.

We were out of town last weekend on a long road trip to pick up Shannon's new dog so I didn't update this thread.  Unfortunately there was a lot of fast food and snacking since I drove the entire trip and it was around 36 hours on the road (east TN to Ft Lauderdale FL).  We also had a couple of out nights for birthdays that week.  But I've stuck to the diet this week and it isn't much loss, but something is better than nothing.

In the last 14 days I've lost 1.2 pounds and I'm almost out of the obese range.  One more good week should do it for me, so I'm going to try for it this coming week.

well, i went to my gyno today and got confirmed to be back down to 207... been stressing out recently...

Well, after dieting and exercising vigorously, I've plateued (spelling) for a while. Finally found the reason behind it - I've not been eating enough.

I took in about 1200 kcal daily, and burned around 800 through exercise, leaving my body with only 400 to work with. My weight stopped dropping, even went up, because it went into starvation mode and nommed onto muscles for energy instead of fat.

So guys and girls, be careful of your intake. You *must* consume at least 1200 calories for your body to still burn fat, and that's with exercise included.

So for example, you workout in the morning, burn 600 calories, so you have a deficit of calories which need to be replaced:

-600 (calories burned) + 1800 (calories taken in) = 1200 (weight loss calorie deficit)

I've used the 1200 in my example for my body mass, height and age, producing an approximate number to be reached for weight loss (2 pounds per week). I suggest googling for a BMR calculator to see your daily caloric needs, and work from there.

If you own a smartphone, I would suggest downloading an application called MyFitnessPal, it's free (with some annoying ads) and it has a massive database of foods to track your daily calorie intake and usage. You can also add in your own foods, etc.

Anyway, I hope this helps out someone out there to lose weight. Wish you all luck with it, I know it's a pain.

And this past week has been terrible for weight loss.  We ended up eating out 3 times and we had a big birthday party + a big breakfast the next day since his best friend slept over too.  I enjoyed every bit this past week, but it has had a terrible cost to my goal.  I'm 222.4 today.  So that is up 4.8 pounds from 217.6.

To be honest I expected to gain weight last week so I suspect my weight then was a fluke and over the past 4 weeks I've really gained each week.  Fortunately the birthdays (except mine) are all over now so maybe I can get back on a schedule.  I also had a few really down days last week and I tend to eat a lot more then.

I did notice that the BIG gains came back when I wasn't able to plan my meals last week.  I didn't track anything and gained a lot, so that has sold me on tracking and preplanning.

*SIGH*

I'm not giving up and this does CLEARLY show how important it is to keep track and preplan.

Hi All-

Okay - time to jump in.  Around new years I was about 93.5kg and now I'm about 87.5kg and hoping to get down to 70ish but would be happy enough with 75ish.  At 6', 75kg (165lbs) isn't too bad, but if I can get to 70kg (~154lbs) I'll be really.  And back to my weight at 18...

S.x

This thread has died again.  Sorry I've not been posting because we've had equipment here to dry out some water damage and now we're going to lose our kitchen for 2-3 weeks while they tear out everything to clear any possible mold behind the cabinets since it was the dishwasher that was leaking.  Flying up to Detriot was almost like a vacation because I could set the temp in the hotel to whatever I wanted and didn't have to melt.

I think I'm a bit up, but we've had to eat out so much because of the heat and noise here at the house.  And now we're coming up on eating out tons because we won't have the kitchen even if we can stand the heat.

We at least have a home and will have food so I won't complain, but I am not expecting no losses for a month or so.