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mrskurt

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Hello everyone,
I'm a female CO (corrections officer), I'm in grips of mother natures final curtain call to motherhood the old "menopause". After countless sleepless nights, horrible hot flashes, chronic fatigue, bouts of terrible depression a lot of weight gain 25 lbs to exact on top of 20xtra pounds that needed to be gone a decade ago. Anyway I'm now on (hrt) premarin and I feeling like my old self again, its the weight that won't budge no matter what I do. I can't get off the premarin and have any quality of life worth living. Any suggestions? I'm desperate I'm thinking of having one of the inmates write a workout plan. Anyone else going through hrt and stubborn weight loss?
 
Someone made a comment a couple of weeks back when I was discussing how much weight I had lost. It was something along the lines of "wow you lose weight easily". I took offence at that comment 1) because I thought does this person realise how hard I work at losing weight and 2) is that what's stopping this person from losing weight - the thought that it's easier for some than others.

People over-complicate weight loss with ideas about diets, salads, grapefruit etc.

Here are some tips on what is working for me (these are not diet tips but my ideas on living a healthier lifestyle). What works for you may be totally different but try and work out what's right for you.

1. Drink soya and almond milk instead of cows milk
2. Limit alcohol to weekends
3. Drink lots and lots of water (add squash if you like)
4. Reduce the amount of bread (I haven't had shop bought toasted white sliced bread in 6 weeks)
5. Do at least 30 mins of exercise every day 7 days a week (walk for half an hour or simply jog on the spot for 15 mins twice a day)
6. Treat red meat like alcohol and chocolate - as a treat
7. Eat 3 meals a day and for 5-6 days a week lunch is my main meal
8. Plan and prepare meals in advance

I don't think there's anything radical in the above and it's helped me lose 24 Lbs in under 6 weeks.

In that time we've had 3 barbecues, a dinner party, 1 trip to Pizza Hut, a fish and chips takeaway and celebrated our wedding anniversary with champagne and chocolates.

I hate salad and I hate soup. I continue to enjoy the foods I have always enjoyed just in smaller portions and look at some things as treats as opposed to every day essentials.

People ask well what do you eat?

At the beginning of this week my wife and I made enough couscous with chicken, nuts and dried fruit and that lasted us 2 main meals, breakfast and dinner has been fruit and/or cereal or eggs. Yesterday the main meal was rice with roasted vegetable curry (optional boiled egg) and today we're having homemade pizzas and there's vegetable curry left over for tomorrow or salmon and pasta.

The lunch main meal works for me because I work from home.

Good luck :)
 
Welcome to the forum.

Its great that you feel like your old self again.

Maybe a rigorous workout plan from one of the inmates would not be a bad idea... LOL I suspect that quite a few of us feel that would explain our own rigorous levels of exercise...

I must admit that I always get a bit twitchy when I see people write that they cannot lose weight "no matter what I do" because many of us said those exact words in time gone by - and have eventually come to the conclusion that we must not have been doing enough then...

What exactly have you been doing regarding food control?
What exactly have you been doing regarding exercise?

My food control is taking a break at the minute because I have flu (and I am being punished at the scales for it)...

I can however easily list my standard exercise plan (maybe your inmate will be kinder to you)...
I do walking every day - and always get my pedometer to at least 15,000 steps by the end of the day - sometimes much more...
Mon - 1 hr aerobics, 1 hr hardcore zumba (sometimes a 2nd hr of zumba)
Tues - 3 salsa dance classes plus social salsa dancing
Wed - 1 hr hardcore zumba
Thurs - 2 salsa dance classes plus social salsa dancing
Fri - 1 hr hardcore zumba (sometimes 2 extra salsa classes and social salsa dancing)
Sat - 1 hr salsa lesson, 1 hr hardcore zumba (sometimes an extra salsa class and social salsa dancing)

As I say - I often get my pedometer up much higher than the 15,000 steps minimum that I set myself... on Tuesday for instance - my pedometer got up to 35,702 steps.

I am probably a similar age to yourself. I will be 54 next month. I cannot comment on HRT - but I have long had stuffed hormones... Lots of us are coping with stubborn weight loss - but stubborn does not mean that it cannot be budged if we push hard enough...

I suggest that you read the following thread - it may help you settle in and make friends
http://weight-loss.fitness.com/threads/57955-My-advice-to-newcomers

Good luck with your project.
 
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