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mishi

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I have been struggling with weight it seems forever. When I was young I had a kidney disease that made my face swell up and though I wasn't "fat" I looked fat and it was good enough for the kids at school to tease me. That has always stayed with me and I am rarely comfortable in my skin. So a new resolve and the continuing struggle to adopt a new way of life. I am really working on my nutrition via fitday.com and trying to get myself into a exercise routine. It is the next beginning and there have been many but I am trying to take it a day at a time and not give up when I don't see the scale move. I am 200lbs now and I am hoping to eventually get to 135 but it sometimes doesn't seem possible. So I am setting mini-goals. This one is to lose 20lbs by February 1, 2007. I am wanting to get my food under control. I am an emotional eater and I was eating to the point I was sick from being so full. Everyday I was doing this and I am sick of it. I am getting my eating under control but it is still the "honeymoon" phase of my diet and I know there will be ups and downs. That is why I am here. I need support... even if not now I know I will and I want to talk to people in similar situations and have someone who understands how I feel if I fall off the wagon or if I drop some weight:D. So I am getting back to what feels good and trying not to starve and keep things healthy. My friend lost 100lbs on Atkins and though I am impressed and I will admit a bit jealous if I lose weight I want to lose it in a healthy way and a way that makes me feel and look good. So here it goes:)
 
Welcome to the forum... I am an emotional eater, too. I weighed 195 at my highest and am now at 151 on my way to 135, too... Keep on keeping on and you CAN do it! SparkPeople has great articles and support for emotional eating...check it out. Have a great day...
 
Welcome Mishi, and good luck in getting started. You're down 4 lbs already - you can totally do 20 by February!

It's good to recognize that there will be ups and downs - just never give up! It doesn't matter how many times you start and stop, so long as you end up where you want to be.

It's hard to have friends that lose a bunch of weight. You know they put in so much effort, but it's so hard to not feel jealous. Stay on track and soon people will feel jealous of you!
 
thanks for the support guys:) stepped on the scale this morning and sunk as I saw the 200 again. My weight just bounces and it is discouraging:(
 
Welcome to the forum Mishi. I think you'll find the support you need here and then some. I look forward to watching you succeed!
 
mishi said:
thanks for the support guys:) stepped on the scale this morning and sunk as I saw the 200 again. My weight just bounces and it is discouraging:(
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I think we all know how you feel. I have been hovering around 191 for over a week now (Actually, right now i'm at 192.2)

Start charting your progress and you'll see that the overall trend is downward and that might help encourage you.

The Hacker's Diet (hackersdiet.com) provides some great excel charts for monitoring your progress. I highly recommend them.
 
Stress

It is a bad time to worry about dieting let alone trying to fit exercise in. I am a high school teacher and it is finals time and the excuses, the last minute rewritting of finals, the staying after so kids can try to get caught up all make for so much stress and use of time that by the time I get home I just want to collapse but taking care of my little one needs to be done. I feel crazy and mean right now just because all that is going on. I am upset because the scale keeps raising even though I have cut a 3,000 calorie plus diet down to 1,500- 2,000 calories and am keeping at least a little active through my day:( . It is frusturating. When I change something I do it gung ho and I put a lot of effort into it. Sometimes I do it too far. This time I am holding myself back but I have put so much into watching what I eat and it is so frusturating when I can't go gung ho and I am not seeing results. Patience is a virtue that for this week just isn't there. I will be committing to exercise over my break and hopefully settling into a routine for the rest of the year. I am just disgruntled and bitching now trying to keep hope that things will change:eek:
 
Feeling much better. I have successfully stayed on my diet for 6 days! yay!!! but I have a question!! I am aiming to eat 1,500-2,000 calories a day. Is that where I should be? I know if I don't monitor I eat between 3,000 and 5,000! It is amazing how you can lose track of what your eating! I am 5'3" and moderately active during the day. How many calories should I be aiming for??
 
Try Sparkpeople.com. It will take your height and current weight and give you a good calories goal.

Keep it up! Winter break is a great time to figure out your new exercise schedule!
 
This morning I jumped on the scale to see where I was at. The scale bounces for me and can vary up to 5 lbs. I hate that! So it's nice when it goes down but when it goes up the next day it can be frusturating! So this morning I jumped on and saw 195... agian... and actually it was leaning to 194!!! The scale can affect my mood for the rest of the day!- that bastard!;) and today is a good day:D
 
5 lbs seems like a lot to vary from morning to morning. Try testing your scale out. Get on and off of it several times in a row and make sure it is constantly giving the same reading each time you try.

Do you use an analog or a digital scale?

Besides the scale, varying from day to day is completely normal. Several people here have decided to only weigh in weekly to help avoid the emotional trauma. If you find it is getting you down that might be a good idea.
 
Welcome to the forum mishi, if you havent checked out sparks yet i think 1500-2000 is great. dont worry, we all fall of the wagon at times, but the true success stories are made by people who get back on! don't worry about the excersizing for now if you are stressed, just work on your eating until things settle down, then jump into a gym membership-that always helps me! p.s.-doing yoga has helped me minimize stress and get a great workout at the same time =-)
 
Good luck, Mishi! You can do it! :) And I agree with Llamabean - don't weigh yourself everyday. I know you'd like to. :) I'd like to, too, but I've managed to keep myself away from the scale for a whole week. I believe you can do it, too. ;)
 
Thanks fsaiidni for the encouragement. I have been doing great on my eating and have been tracking everything at fitday.com. I have met my goal every day!! I am so excited! Only 2 more days until I can have some time for the gym:D
Tritoom- I swear doing that is the hardest thing for me. I have a friend who lost over 100lbs with Atkins and she would drop like 10-15lbs in a week and I just got obsessed with the scale. I have to keep reminding myself that I am not looking for the quick weight loss but I like to see where the numbers are. It is hard to put it away. This is terrible but it tends to validate what I do. I have weighed myself so much that I know around what I weigh at certain times of the day and how much it fluctuates at any given weigh-in! It really is an addiction and I am having issues with wanting to let it go.... here I want to say I won't get on the scale for tommorow... what's one day but I am thinking I will weigh myself as soon as I wake up because though it sucks to see any weight gain I am on top of cloud nine to see even a small loss. How can I change this mindset?
 
If anyone is interested in checking out my fitday.com the address is:
it is great for helping me keep track of diet and exercise and charts my progress.:)
 
Try to keep in mind that 3500 calories = 1 pound of fat. Unless you eat nothing and work out insane amounts there's no way you're gonna lose much more that 2-3 lbs a week. Sometime more because of water, but only 2-3 lbs of fat.

I am entirely on the weigh-every-chance-I-get boat as well and it can lead to violent shifts in mood attached to a number. The way I avoid this is by using moving averages that help even out the daily ups and downs. For example, this is my chart from September: . You can see that sometimes I gained like the weekend I visted my dying pastor, but the red line dampens the effect.

has a section on using moving averages to help alleviate some of the stress of weigh ins. It's in the section called Signal and Nose. I found it very helpful and they also have downloadable tools so that you don't have to figure out how to do it.
 
The Good Days!!

These are the good days! The days you can see the scale go down and the days where you pants feel a bit looser:) I know I have far to go but successes of any size cause me to celebrate:D I am down 2lbs today. I am pretty sure this recent weight loss is from water weight loss but I am excited to add exercise next week and see what i can lose... I am also a bit worried because when I exercise I gain muscle and that weighs more than fat and the scale usually stops moving... however I have never added diet and exercise together... this will be the first time. I need to make sure I don't count on the scale too much. I have taken my measurements as well and I am using those to track my progress so if I have a bad weigh day I can use those to remind myself that I am ok:) Only a day and 1/2 to go of finals for my students. I am so excited to be done. It has been a crazy year this year and I am needing the break to recharge. I start softball next semester- as a coach not a player- and I am nervous about it. I am wanting to connect with the kids in a different way and I think coaching would be rewarding but I am always nervous about commiting more time when I am already so stretched. but for now "only 2 more days!" Hope you all are having a good one!!
 
It sounds like you're doing great!

And yes, muscle weighs more than fat so it may stall the scale for a while. But muscle also burns more calories than fat, so it's like you get extra credit for every day life with more muscle.

I think you'll be a great coach!
 
I can completely sympathize. I am struggling with weighing every day and this is what I tell myself. It is a bit of a lecture, but it's working so far.

My little lecture to myself ( the constant weigher)

Here I am doing all this hard work, all I want is some results.

Knowing that my weight changes slightly day to day, am I really seeing results when I step on the scale EVERY day?

In truth, the results will be in how I feel. How are my clothes fitting?

If I get on the scale and see any kind of a gain, instantly I am replaying every bite I had the last 24 hours. I am coming with any excuse I can . . it's water weight. . it's the gravitational pull of the moon. . .

If I get on the scale and see a loss, well WOOHOO! I am thrilled. Am I going to stop exercising now? Am I going to have a bunch of fatty foods now? Nope, I am going to keep on going like always.

So what is the point of weighing myself EVERY day? There is none.

Once a week is perfect for me. It will show my progress and that's what I am looking for. Then perhaps, I can offset a bad day with a really good day, and never have that sinking feeling when scale shows a little leap midweek.

HTH!
 
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