AmbaLove is Tracking the Journey!

HIYA

Hope you feel better soon

And well done joining the gym great little find there with the discount! and there is a choice to pick from, will be great for swapping for the classes they put on and if you like the pool better in one and the equipment in the other way to go you!!!

So is the challenge still 15lb by christmas?

Sarah
 
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Okay, I ate a snack after I wrote last night, and after conferring with Kimberly, we decided it was calories for yesterday. Even though it was after midnight. So my updated calories for yesterday was 1620 (Respectable).

So far today I am at 730.

I also went to the gym and did 25 minutes on the treadmill, 25 minutes of resistance training in the therapy pool and 15 minutes of swimming laps for a total of 65 minutes of exercise. I am not going to edit it in yet, though, as I may take a walk with my husband later.

Rah, my personal challenge is still to be at 205 on Christmas day. Will I hit that? At this reate of loss, no...but I am hoping with my new gym membership and increased weight lifting that I will. But I will try my hardest and definately be lighter on Christmas than now! You seem to be doing well, also!!
 
AmbaLove said:
my personal challenge is still to be at 205 on Christmas day. Will I hit that? At this reate of loss, no...but I am hoping with my new gym membership and increased weight lifting that I will. But I will try my hardest and definately be lighter on Christmas than now!
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You will do it all the exercise your doing at the gym and your doing really good with the cal counting
And if you dont hit 205 i bet you will be sooooo close!

I always say the day ends when you go to sleep not when it turns midnight or working nights would be a nightmare to count!!!

Sarah
 
No other exercise, as just going to the store for water, juice and kleenex completely wore me out. No walking for me.

Total calories today:1690. I am going to bed soon, so I do not anticipate adding anything to that total.
 
Great job with the calories, Amber! :D I also noticed you've been busting your ass off at the gym. I'm sure with the amount of work you're putting into your workouts and the calories you're logging, you'll be close to that Christmas goal weight, honey!

-Sheryl
 
Daaaaaaaaayuuuuum Amber! You're kicking major booty at the gym, that's awesome!! :]

Are you feeling any better than the other day hun? I hope so! :)
xoxox
 
No, Elle, I feel worse today. I did get some Zithromax, which will hopefully help!

I only lost .2 lbs at weigh in today. GRRR. WIth all the exercise I did this week, I expected better results. Ah, well.
 
AmbaLove said:
No, Elle, I feel worse today. I did get some Zithromax, which will hopefully help!

I only lost .2 lbs at weigh in today. GRRR. WIth all the exercise I did this week, I expected better results. Ah, well.
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:[ That's no good! I'm sorry :hug2: Good that you got some meds though! I've taken Zithromax before and man, it killed whatever was going on quickly! I hope it works that well for you too. :]

I know you wished it would have been more, but .2 is way better than nothing! It's .2 more towards your goal :] I'm sure your weightloss will increase more once you're not feeling so cruddy. Whenever I'm sick, I don't really lose anything. (this time being sick was a shock that I even lost, but then again I didn't really eat anything. lol)

AmbaLove said:
Oh, and my right elbow hurts really bad...possibly from the water resistance exercises.
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:( sorry about the elbow. You're just falling apart missy! Sick & a really sore elbow... I wouldn't be such a happy camper, and I'm sure you're not right now either. Get better soooooooooooon!!! :hug2: :hug2:
 
hey girl,

im sure your body is in shock form all the exercise.....give it a few weeks to get used to the workouts and your weight will be flying off im sure!!!
sounds like you are doing great....wish my gym had a pool!!!!
keep up the awesome work and i hope you feel better!

rena
 
My dietician says decongestant (which I am on tons of) makes you retain water, and that is probably why I did not lose any more this week.

I also remind myself that I weigh in clothes at the dietician. Since I do not wear the same outfit every time, things are a little skewed. If I weigh in jeans and a t-shirt, I will get different readings than in khakis and a camisole or slacks and sweater. It's all an "estimate" of sorts.

I want it to be a bit more consistant, so to that end, I have decided to wear the same thing to the dietician every week, even if I change into something else in their bathroom so I can go to work. I will wear my khakis and my navy blue t-shirt every week (at least until I get too small to wear the khakis!). Then I will really know what changed. I will still be up from my true (naked) weight, but I will at least know exactly what I lost or gained.
 
Hi Amber

AmbaLove said:
Margaret, I don't know about the things ABBA is taking, but I take chromium and gymnema sylvestre supplements for my PCOS. It may be coincidental, but I regained natural bleeds (not provera induced) about 2 months after I started my supplement regimen. My sugar levels have balanced and my liver enzymes were decreased. Some of this is probably the weight loss, but I contribute a lot to the supplements also, as I had only lost 10 lbs or so when the bleeds started back up. (They aren't true meses, as I don't ovulate, but at least the lining is shedding without help.)
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Thanks for posting this in Janice's diary. It is nice to meet you. I will try and get these supplements. It is wonderful to get a personal recommendation like that. I am really pleased that you are seeing positive results. I dont know about you - but I have lived much of my life on an emotional knife-edge with PCOS. My husband (who after over 20 years married to a PCOS lady deserves a medal) swears that I have become more tranquil since I started walking quite vast distances. That is my only PCOS improvement thus far from my weight loss project.

Take care
Best wishes
Margaret
 
I have a lot of PCOS symptoms, but luckily moodiness/emotional instability is not one of them. Insulin resistance, cystic acne, weight gain, liver trouble, and infertility are, unfortunately. I always had abnormal cycles, and was diagnosed with PCOS after I married. We wanted a baby...that led to tests, which led to PCOS. I will probably never have my own baby. For me, that is much, much worse than any of the other symptoms ten times over. It is my personal tragedy and heartache. I feel it every day. Weight loss will help most of the symptoms, but the doctors are giving me little hope that my fertility will return, as it appears I may have never ovulated and may be entirely missing the hormone that causes ovulation.

However, there are other ways to become a mommy, and I fully intend to pursue them. And losing weight will enable me to keep up with my little ones no matter how they come into my life!
 
sorry to hear about the pcos.... i suffer from endometriosis and thought id never have kids....but i did. So never say never. Have you ever been to a fertility specialist? Here in pittsburgh we have one of the best clinics in the world...the jones institute.....they have made sooooo many advances in fertility that you should keep your hopes up that you will have your own children in the future.

rena
 
With dinner factored in (I already know what I am having), my calories today are at 1730, with 1/3 of that being calories from the juice and ginger ale I have been drinking. It is the only thing I drink when I am sick...I know it isn't good for me to have that much sugar, but its only a couple times a year, so I let myself do it.

No exercise today. Blah!
 
AmbaLove said:
However, there are other ways to become a mommy, and I fully intend to pursue them. And losing weight will enable me to keep up with my little ones no matter how they come into my life!
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Hiya

Sorry to hear about the PCOS, must of been a real shock, im not going to pretend iI can imagine I know what your going though because I dont But what a fantastic outlook you have, really positive.

As for your loss this week you have been ill so i wouldnt worry too much and i bet all the gym workouts will kick in next week or the week after once your body knows its normal and isnt trying to store extra energy just a thought... did you count the cals in all the cold remedies you have taken??
Still its once step in the right direction for hitting 205lb on xmas day!

Hope your feeling better soon
Sarah
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Hi Amber

I know exactly where you are coming from re PCOS. The infertility thing was by far the worst side of PCOS for me too. I minded it so much more than the weight gain (I have lived most of my adult life as a very big lady - UK size 30 to 32, at the start of the year I was 294 pounds and had been in the same dress size for about 15 years so I suppose it must have been that kind of weight for a long time).

We never managed to have children and I am 48 years old now.

When they first told me that I was PCOS - they said that they didnt think that I had been ovulating for about 10 years. The doctor looked at me like I was mad (or a simple child) when I said that although my periods had been irregular I thought that if you got a period at all it meant that you had ovulated. It just shows what nonsense my mother told me when I was a young girl.

They suggested that losing weight may improve the situation.

When I was in my twenties and thirties I tried so many diets as they said that losing weight would help. It was such an uphill struggle. I lost so little weight by dieting alone - and I was too big to go running. Weight Watchers told me at that time that walking was no good and you had to run - and I knew that running would kill me. Every weight loss project ended badly. I would end up putting on every pound lost and often more besides.

In the end I just gave up. I decided that I just could not do it - it was impossible. It took me years to reach that conclusion - but that is where I reached.

I still find the whole thing unfair and hard to accept.

After infertility and obesity - my next obvious PCOS joy is that I am a very hairy lady. I have had electrolysis for a lot of years - and get lasered now. Laser is so much better than electrolysis - but the problem with it is that most lasers do not work on white hairs - and a lot of people do not realise this - so if you develop those symptoms it is better to be lasered when you are young.

In February I suddenly decided to give weight loss one last attempt. My time is my own now as I am not currently working and I decided to pretty much take it on as a full time job. I didnt even tell my husband at first that I had decided to try and lose weight again. He knew how hard a struggle I had in the past and how the failure upset me. He would have definitely been quite negative about the whole idea.

Walking dramatic distances is working for me in a way that nothing else ever has. For the first time I am viewing the task as achievable - I just wish that I had tried walking dramatic distances when I was young.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Calories for yesterday were 1665. No exercise due in part to being sick and in part to being at school for parent teacher conferences until 8 pm. I am going to yoga class tonight (my first one at my new gym!), so I am going to have some exercise to put in today!

I may have to update tomorrow, however, as my home internet is down and not expected to be back up until tomorrow sometime.
 
I'm so sorry to hear about your infertility. I have no reason to believe I'll have trouble conceiving, but at 35+, you never know. It certainly does worry me b/c I really want to experience pregnancy and childbirth at least once. But if it doesn't work out that way, I plan to adopt (possibly out of foster care). There are so many children out there who need loving parents. I know you would make a great mother to any child, and I hope you do become one someday--biologically or not. :):hug2::hug2:
 
Yesterday's calories were 1585. I took my first yoga class at my new gym, for 60 minutes of exercise. I didn't like this yoga class as much as I liked my other one.
 
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