Diary: Curvie Girlie: A Yo-Yo's Reformation

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Sophie335 said:
i dont think you should be too worried about the 130lbs and losing muscle issue. surely it would be better to be toned and fit and to look as if you weigh 120lbs than to be 130lbs with not much muscle :)
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Thanks, I agree--Steve reminded me that the number is not as important as fat loss and great muscle composition. Therefore, if I am 135 and can't really get any lower, and I look great and there's not really any fat bulges to speak of, then I'll just work at maintaining that. One thing's for sure: I'LL NEVER GIVE UP WEIGHT TRAINING. That's a fact. I heard as women age, we lose a lb of muscle a year naturally after age 25 or something--and gain a lb or two of fat, but that depends on what we're doing. We can stop the age-related weight gain!
 
daiseeangel said:
ugh, please post something about the whole time of month issue! i would love to read whatever you have. i experienced that this week, and i was hungry all the time! i was able to fend it off, but i still didn't lose any weight. grrr!

and by the way, good morning, pretty lady! :)
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Thanks, morning to you, too, Beautiful :) !

AHHH, weight loss and that time of month. I need to gather my notes and read a little more and then start a thread. I also need to do some archive digging in case someone has already thought of this. This will take a while, but it's Friday so, if not today, then tomorrow.

Here's a quickie: During the luteal phase (if Day 1 is when you start your period, then the LP starts around Day 15), levels of Luteinizing Hormone (which prompts the egg to be released) and Follicle-Stimulating Hormone start to ebb. The uterine lining thickens. If no conception, levels of progesterone and estrogen drop around day 28 and your period begins. This drop in these hormones makes us feel crappy--hence PMS. The bad news: cravings for treats, no matter how strong, are not psysiological in the purest sense--they are emotional. Because when we feel bad, we crave a treat to make us feel better--usually carbohydrate and sugar-rich, or for a lot of us, chocolate (Drewnowski found that eating chocolate causes the brain to produce natural opiates, which dulI pain and increase a feeling of well-being).

SO it supposedly goes back to the "all in our head" thing, which I don't like.

The Good news: the luteal phase (Day 15-28) is the best time to burn fat. With higher levels of Est and Prog, your body has a higher ability to burn fat, not only while you're exercising but at rest, too. Interestingly enough we don't want to work out while PMSing. The best thing is to keep doing it, and try to eat as well as possible, and have that chocolate--but have dark chcoclate, plain, with no creams and peanut-butter-cream.

OK I have to shower and get to work!
 
Steve said:
Osteoporosis is a huge issue too.
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WORD. My great grandma had it--and it hunched her back, and she DID fall and break her hip, too. She lived to be 91 or something. It sucks so bad that a lot of women are so intimidated by weights at the gym, or worried about looking silly (ahem, MAL). Weight training is so good for your body, even better than resistance training. I heard that fat isn't just heavy and annoying--it contains hormones that can adversely effect your health and well-being. I think its presence ups the estrogen levels and that can be a bad thing, contributing to cancers. But not always--I think the research is sketchy.
 
hands cg a cough drop - yu should really have that looked at

i dont want to look like an idiot in public - i want to do the stuff at home... theres a big difference - if iwas 20 something and cute i cold get away with it - I cannot
 
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Friday Update

Yay, it's FRIDAY!

OK, so I woke up this morning and like an addict, went to the computer upstairs to see how everyone was doing (well I had to get the laundry too). Anyway, when I went downstairs to shower and do my dalily weigh in:

141.5

Yesterday I was 143.5. Acutally, here's the crazy zig-zag that is my weight for the past couple months:

Dec 26th: 155.5
Dec 27th: 155
Dec 28th: 153.5
Dec 29th: 155
Dec 30th: 154
Dec 31st: 154.5
Jan 1st: 154
Jan 2nd: 152
Jan 3rd: 152.5
Jan 4th: 152.5
Jan 5th: 152.5
Jan 6th-7th no scale
Jan 8th: 154
Jan 9th: 153
Jan 10th: 151
Jan 11th: 151.5
Jan 12th: 152.5
Jan 13th: 154
Jan 14th: 154.5
Jan 15th: 152.5
Jan 16th: 154
Jan 17th: 153
Jan 18th-21st: 154
Jan 22nd: 153.5
Jan 23rd: 153
Jan 24th: 152.5
Jan 25th: 151
Jan 26th: 150
Jan 27th: 150
Jan 28th: 149.5
Jan 29th: 151
Jan 30th: 150.5
Jan 31st: 150
Feb 1st: 149.5
Feb 2nd: 149.5
Feb 3rd: 150
Feb 4th: 150
Feb 5th: 152
Feb 6th: 151.5
Feb 7th: 150.5
Feb 8th: 149
Feb 9th: 147.5
Feb 10th: 146.5
Feb 11th: 149
Feb 12th: 149.5
Feb 13th: 149.5
Feb 14th: 148
Feb 15th: 149.5
Feb 16th: 149
Feb 17th: 149.5
Feb 18th: 147.5
Feb 19th: 148.5
Feb 20th: 147.5
Feb 21st: 145.5
Feb 22nd: 146.5
Feb 23rd: 146
Feb 24th: 146
Feb 25th: 145.5
Feb 26th: 145.5
Feb 27th: 142.5
Feb 28th: 143
Mar 1st: 145
Mar 2-4th: 144
Mar 5th: 147 (?)
Mar 6th: 143 (?)
Mar 7th: 142.5
Mar 8th: 143.5
Mar 9th: 141.5

Dizzy yet? Can you see how I can get frustrated? Thank goddess I know about salt, dehydration, and glycogen stores andf how they can make your weight all crazy.

The problem is: what is my true weight? I'm never quite sure. I hope that I will someday weight the same every morning. That would be nice!

Anyway, I'm out of fruit and soymilk and no use getting them on Friday, so I had:
sprouted wheat cinnamon raison bagel (280 cal) with 1 tblsp wheat germ oil (130 cal) and 1 cup chocolate soymilk (120 cal) for 530 calories, all good and healthy for me :)

Tonight I'm having sushi with my BF and my buddy, which should be fun. I don't feel like drinking tonight so I'll try not to. My mind is subject to change.

OH!

Last night I came home from school exhausted, and my BF was upstairs, re-arranging the living room and hooking my PC and his Mac together. I was downstairs for 30 minutes before he came down to our room, where I was laying on our bed, reading. He said,

"I didn't even know you were home"
I told him I knew he was busy and I was tired and didn't feel like going upstairs, although I planned on doing laundry.
He said, "I just want to make sure I worship you enough," and reached out to touch me.

He's so sweet! :eek:
 
maleficent said:
hands cg a cough drop - yu should really have that looked at

i dont want to look like an idiot in public - i want to do the stuff at home... theres a big difference - if iwas 20 something and cute i cold get away with it - I cannot
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Yeah, fuck the gym if you have everything you need at home--then you can grunt and sweat and no one can see you!

Man I wish I was rich enough to have a home gym. My gym is a good 15 minute drive away :(

Pump that iron MAL!
 
Hi :D My numbers are like yours too. Have you tried keeping an average of several days? I may have missed this in your diary. I see a bunch of people keeping 5-day averages. I started doing that last year and you see trends appear and usually see the downward trend instead of lots of ups and downs :D
 
Rachie said:
Hi :D My numbers are like yours too. Have you tried keeping an average of several days? I may have missed this in your diary. I see a bunch of people keeping 5-day averages. I started doing that last year and you see trends appear and usually see the downward trend instead of lots of ups and downs :D
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Hmmm, I haven't...but trust me, I'm not worried about it. Now you want me to do more math?? ;) :D
 
Haha, I am a complete dork and like to see what numbers look like in graphs - it works to keep me motivated. Must see the slope go down! I use excel a lot at work so it was almost natural for me to use it to keep track of my weight :) Point taken about math though ;)
 
No, you're not a dork--I got those numbers from a line graph I was keeping (or we're both dorks). I use Excel but I use archaic pen and paper for my weight chart. I liked making graphs in science because it realy shows what's happening (the trend) :cool:
 
CG, my weight flops around just like yours -- I think that's a very common thing, because our bodies are about 60% water. All sorts of things can influence water retention or loss, and most of them don't correlate very well with what we ate the past few days.

You mentioned that you keep track of your weight on a spreadsheet. So do I, but I also keep a 5 day moving average, which really tends to show the trends much more clearly.

Lots of times, if I get freaked out by the daily weight, I look at the trend and feel better. If I get freaked out by the trend -- well, then I just exercise harder!
 
TomO said:
You mentioned that you keep track of your weight on a spreadsheet. So do I, but I also keep a 5 day moving average, which really tends to show the trends much more clearly.

Lots of times, if I get freaked out by the daily weight, I look at the trend and feel better. If I get freaked out by the trend -- well, then I just exercise harder!
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I'm workin on that average ;)

Yeah, TomO, I USED to get freaked out--but ever since I've read stuff on this forum, and have been concentrating on my behavior instead of the number on the scale, I don't worry. I KNOW I'm going to get to at least 135 lbs and a low BF %. I can FEEL it. I have the utmost confidence, and even PMSing I still managed to make myself a giant salad--well, it has expeller-pressed oil-based Ceasar dressing (Sonoma Gourmet, mmmh) and fakin bacon and avocado, but I used an entire small head of baby Romaine and some pea shoots, and it's deliciuos (and about 400 calories, not bad!). My point is, I'm doing it, I've been doing it, and I'm going to make it--probably earlier than I thought! :D

Thanks for reading!
 
Big Period Post Coming soon

I've gathered A LOT of info about that time of month, and chocolate. It's going to take me like, an hour to write this. I'm excited! Ok, today I ate 1550 calories already and I haven't had dinner, BUT I'm in for a tough workout (planning on 1 1/2 hours) and a light sushi dinner with no alcohol (I hope). Not to mention eating is an important component of losing weight, apparently--I've read posts about people eating 1000 or less calories and complaining about not losing, so I'm gonna eat up!

Also I realized something: I've lost 10% of my body weight since Dec 2nd, all fat (or mostly likely since I have more muscle since then)

YAY!
 
Geeze, hormones, weight charts, spreadsheets, downward trends...why have I not been in your diary yet? I keep my daily weight chart taped to the back of my bathroom door now (since last week when Amy said she was going to make one for the back of her door). Now I'm going to have to glue a calculator back there to so I can calculate my 5 day moving averages. Great journal btw and I'm looking forward to that PMS/Chocolate post.
 
hey cg!

stupid computer is on the fritz, so i am having to borrow a friend's.

sorry i can't say more at the time, but i wanted to be sure to pop in and say hello!! :)

thanks for the period info!
 
What a Gorgeous Day!

It's so beautiful here in the Santa Cruz Mountains! I'm blessed to live here! This morning I am .5 lb more than yesterday morning. 142.5--it's Day 23 of my cycle and I expect a sharp weight gain anytime now. I left my notes for my period post at work, but I have to go by there anyway because I have to get crystal wine glasses (the wine tastes better in them) at Target.

In about 20 minutes, it's off to the gym for Psycho Michael's Kickboe class--the cardio class where my heartrate gets up so high, the majority of the time it feels like my heart is in my throat! Anyway, last night I drank 2 beers (300 calories) in addition to my dinner (450?) for a total of about 2200. My maintenance calorie intake for my size and "heavy exercise" is 2463. I'm fine with that because I worked out a deficit of about 900 calories yesterday. If I just cut, hmmm, I don't know, I guess 200-500 calories from my food today and continue with my plans for exercising, there shouldn't be any reason why I will not be 137 or so by April 1st. Whew! I DID lose a little over 2 lbs in this first week of March. My period is going to mess up the data for about 7 days, but everytime after my period my weight drops tremendously--usually a pound or two below what it was prior to the weight gain.

Anyway, I can see the finish line........it's right there! 12-13 or so pounds seems like a whole lot--BUT when you take it down to 5 lb increments, that's not even 3 increments! April is coming quickly...if I truly AM 137 by then, then by golly I'll only have 7 lbs to lose. No problem! Except this time, I doubt if I'll be able to lose that fat in just one month--but who knows? It's energy in, energy out. If I continue diligently with my good eating and exercise, and lay off the alcohol, I can realistically see myself in the low 130s by mid-May. How exciting!

WOW. I can hardly imagine, being 130 lbs and a BMI of 20.4 by MAY 1st. Unbelieveable. I'll not rush it. Honestly, I'm looking good lately--I would put on a bathing suit right now, no problem. I just need a tan because it makes you look thinner. I'm starting to get the Skinny Jitters. Do I really want to be skinny? For fuck's sake, some celebrities are around a BMI of 20!!! Wow. To have a celebrity's body. I'd see pictures of them, frolicking in bathing suits in "Us" and other such Trash, and think, "wow they are so skinny," and I always liked the ones who weren't BONY like Kate Winslet and Halle Berry, Beyonce and Scarlett Johanssen. To be around their BMI is kinda freakin impossible to fathom.

Ok, enough! It's time to forget about my body in the aesthetic sense and think about it in the functional sense! I love what it does for me, forst and foremost! The fact that I have all my limbs and that they're functional makes me so happy! That's why I use them to their best ability--never take your body for granted!
 
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