I think my stomach is on speed

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Seriously, that is how it has felt all day today. My metabolism felt completely overactive today. I ate a waffle as part one of my breakfast and within an hour, I was hungry again. I knew I wouldn't last until lunch if I ate part 2 too early so I waited even though I was hungry. I then ate part two of my breakfast which was a peanut butter sandwich and within an hour I was hungry again. By this point, I was glad I was going to chipotle for lunch because a burrito bowl always keeps me full and I usually don't have to eat dinner. Well, after a about 2 and 1/2 hours of being hungry, lunch finally came around. I ate all my food and was satisfied and full thinking I will likely be full for the rest of the night.

Nope. It lasted longer then everything else, but not as long as usual. Within 3 hours, I was hungry again...which I know should be usual, but if you've eaten at chipotle, you know they serve you A LOT of food. Anyway, I came home from work and ate a 6 inch subway sandwich. That was an hour ago and I am already beginning to feel hungry. I refuse to eat though. I will go to bed instead.

While I am happy my metabolism is more active, when you don't have any healthy snacks to snack on(due to no shopping), it blows. I just wasn't prepared for this. What is really interesting is that I started my experiment because I noticed my metabolism had slowed down. It appears my experiment may actually be working. But it's still too soon to know. I have to wait until Sunday to weigh in and even if there isn't much of a loss, I will continue my experiment to see what happens. I will also go shopping this weekend and fill the house with healthy snacks.

  

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BUTEAFULL 8/21/2011 11:06AM

maybe you can find a bottle of fiber wafers somewhere, they expand with water to keep you feeling full without any calories, and help keep you regular too, I have some fiber capsules, but they just keep me regular not feeling full, like the wafers did Report Inappropriate Comment

Experimenting isn't going so well

Friday, August 19, 2011

Well, as my last blog said, I decided to experiment with a couple of things. I was going to experiment with my foods constantly changing so my body doesn't get use to a certain number of calories and with my exercise as well.

Anyway, what isn't going to well is my eating. While I have eaten high in calories, I haven't eaten very low either. I ate today without tracking and when I finally sat down to track, I had eaten 1632 calories. That isn't too bad but I need low days so the next two days have to be 1200 calorie days. I am already planning my food for tomorrow and Saturday is a pool party and two of the people there do weight watchers and we are already planning our low calorie foods. Lots of fruit, Hebrew national 97% fat free hot dogs and 120 calories hot dog buns. So I am not worried about Saturday but I want to make it to the gym tonight and tomorrow because I know I will not go to the gym Saturday and plan to swim laps and tread lots of water for exercise that day.

Since I am still weighing myself daily to track my fluctuations, I am only down a pound, but at this point, it doesn't mean anything. We'll see how things look on Sunday.

  

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ERIECANALGAL 8/19/2011 12:27AM

You'll find what's right for you. Report Inappropriate Comment

GINGER89 8/19/2011 12:25AM

That is so great that you are planning ahead like that,keep it up, make sure you don't stress yourself out weighing in that often. Report Inappropriate Comment

Experimenting

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

I don't know if this is going to work, but I was recently reminded that our bodies get use to anything we do consistently. More specifically, eating 1200 calories a day. I started doing that a couple weeks ago but didn't have as big of a weight loss as I thought I would. When I posted about it, I was reminded that I could lose more weight if I keep my body confused. I remember doing this last time I was on here and it did work. So I am trying it again. I went a little overboard on sunday and ate 2300 calories and then yesterday I ate 1600 calories. Today was a 1200 calorie day and tomorrow will be 1400 calories. I hope this triggers more weight loss. We shall see. I am experimenting it for 2 weeks.

Another thing is I was reading on another website about the difference between working out extremely hard and working out so that is doesn't feel so difficult. I am not putting this exactly as it should be but the idea is that if your heart rate gets above a certain amount, you are burning carbohydrate calories and but if you stay below said amount, you are burning fat calories. You won't burn as many calories but you'll be burning fat calories and will teach your body to burn fat calories. So I am going to try that as well. When I get on the elliptical, it has a program for weight loss and it's pretty easy to do. I am going to stick with that and see what happens for a few weeks. If it works, that means I don't have to push myself as hard as I have been and will decrease the chance of burning myself out.

Now the only reason I am attempting these two things is because I did this last time and it did work. Last time, my calorie amounts changed day to day. I actually kept to my spark range. I didn't have a set amount like 1200 and stick to it. I also didn't have a gym membership at the time, so to exercise I simply walked. Not run, walked. Walking doesn't get my heart rate up very high and I didn't burn a ton of calories each week. But I still lost a lot of weight. 50 lbs in 5 months actually. So I think there may be something to it. So I am going to give it try and see what happens this time.

  

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EARTHMOM56 8/17/2011 12:48AM

Good Luck on your rotating day-to-day calorie total. I hope it works for you...message me if it does. I may try it! Report Inappropriate Comment

Week 7 and 19.6lbs down....under 300

Sunday, August 14, 2011

So I did end up losing this week after all. I lost 1.8 lbs. I hit a milestone of being under 300lbs and weighed in at 299. Woo-freaking-hoo. I am so behind on my personal goal and wanted to be down 30 lbs by the end of august but now I have 2 weeks to lose 11lbs. Not going to happen. I did really well this week and should have lost more then 1.8lbs. I keep telling myself that really, I have lost 6.6lbs in 2 weeks. If I take the average, that is 3.3lbs each week. That is really good. But since I didn't lose anything a few weeks ago, it has really screwed up my goal.

I'm just venting. I need to express myself so that I don't do anything stupid like give up and pig out or fall off the wagon. So instead I am venting.

Now on to some good news that I am actually happy about and will not be complaining about. While I haven't pulled ahead in the competition, I have gotten much closer to the lead. Here are the percentages at this point:

Shayna: 6.25%
Me: 6.15%
Vivien: 4.11%

Shayna didn't lose any weight this week and had skipped weigh in last week in which she may have gained and then lost this week, but we don't know. So she is exactly where she was 2 weeks ago. Vivien skips weigh in often and skipped this week so I am using last weeks percentage. But as you can see, I have gotten much closer to first place. I am determined to take the lead. If I had lost an extra pound this week, I would have taken the lead...or if I had lost 0.4 of a lb, I would have still taken the lead but only by a very slight amount. So now I know what I need to do to take the lead and damn it, I am going to do it.

This week I ate great until I started feeling discouraged. But even then, I never went above 1600 calories so it was still really good. But I had been putting myself on 1200 calories diet and when I posted my blog yesterday somebody responded saying that I may need to confuse my body by changing up the number of calories each day. I think I am going to try that this week and see what happens. Because of my new routine with having to get up early and take my son to school, it has really left me feeling exhausted in the evening and therefore I only made it to the gym once this past week. I am going to work extra hard this week to make it at least 3 times this week even if it is just for 30 minutes. I am going tonight no matter what. Then I can go on Wednesday and then either Friday or Saturday. Most likely Friday because I have a swimming party to go to on Saturday in which case, I will swim laps and tread a lot of water to burn more calories.

So here we go for a new week. I know I can do this and take the lead next weight in. I am determined, strong, capable and most of all, too damn stubborn to lose. To also give myself some more motivation, I changed my computer background and screen saver to motivational sayings and pictures so that way I have a constant reminder of why I am doing this.

So here is to a new week and good week. No giving up. No quitting. And most of all, no more feeling discouraged!

  

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Feeling Discouraged

Saturday, August 13, 2011

This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I busted my butt and did well, not perfect, but well in the nutrition area. I admit I didn't go to the gym that week, but that really shouldn't have mattered. I should have lost a least a pound, but I didn't lose anything. This week, I have consistently eaten around 1200 calories(with the exception of the past couple of days because of feeling discouraged) but even when I ate above the 1200 calories the highest I ate was 1580 which for a 300 pound woman should still be considered great! But because I am tracking my weight each day to see how the fluctuations work, I have noticed I have not lost any weight. I had a huge weight loss last week of almost 5 lbs but I still remained consistent and nothing appears to be decreasing.

I don't usually weigh myself daily. I just started that about 2 weeks ago because I wanted to see how the fluctuations work and then after the first week, I noticed something interesting. The fluctuations didn't bother me at all until this week. Likely because I was losing weight everyday. This week there were a couple of days my weight increase. Since it is obviously bothering me to see that, I am going to give it one more week and see what happens and then I will go back to weighing myself weekly instead. I don't want to feel discouraged.

It is kind of good I get to see this now because I put myself on a strict 1200 calorie diet(I am calling it a diet because I didn't know what else to call it...this is a lifestyle change but when referring just to what I eat, I couldn't think of a better word) and I am wondering if maybe I am not eating enough. I know if you don't eat enough to cover all your activities over a period of time, you could stop losing weight because your body will hold on to it as a precaution. Seeing that as a possibility over a weeks time is better then waiting a couple of weeks of not losing any weight, so for that, I am grateful. But I will give it another week to see what happens. If I continue not to lose, I will increase my food to 1350 calories for a while and see what happens.

Tomorrow is my official weigh in and so we will see what happens and maybe I will drop 2 lbs over night, but I highly doubt that. I am going to the gym tonight and tomorrow night, I will continue to track my food and strive to remain under 1300 calories. I will do my best to burn the calories and just wait the week to see what happens. Maybe I am not losing weight this week, but maybe I have lost inches. Maybe my body refuses to do both at the same time. lol. We'll see. I will continue to remain consistent with few hiccups during my journey. I will do the best that I can and try not to stress about some of the roadblocks.

  

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DEELYNNE1 8/14/2011 7:57AM

My experience pretty much parallels CANNIE50's: I lose weight better if I vary the calories and exercise a little. I have also noticed that I tend to lose pounds when I add strength training to my exercise routine (which is mostly cardio, I have to admit). I only did it on my doctor's advice because I have hypertension and had read that lifting weights was inadvisable for people with that condition, but she told me to stick with light weights and I've found her to be right, it does make the weight come off a little faster. Just wish it wasn't so boring; but that's just me! Hope this helps! Report Inappropriate Comment

BS2678 8/13/2011 5:00PM

Hey don't be discouraged....but if I can offer you a suggestion....the amount of time you are worrying about if you lost a pound or not...instead use that moment to move. I say this to you because I have been there in your same shoes....I would sit and ponder why the scale wasn't moving and when it did I was like "finally" only to be disappointed the next day. So, now when I get the urge to get on the scale or sit and wonder why....or feel the need to snack....I get on the treadmill (if you don't have one....walk around the block. When I started doing that...I was preoccupied, I stopped snacking, and I was so thirsty that I ended up drinking water which helped me fulfill the 8 glasses that I needed. I hope this helps. I will tell you that to see real results...you need both, diet and exercise. Good luck and join me as a workout buddy. Report Inappropriate Comment

CANNIE50 8/13/2011 4:58PM

This is strictly my humble opinion, and based upon my experience, but I will share it with you and you can do with it what you will. The "steady Eddie" approach does not work for my body in terms of convincing it to let go of weight. I find if I vary my food intake from day to day, and change up my exercise week in and week out, I have better results. For example, I will eat 1500 calories one day, 1400 the next, 2200 another day, etc. In terms of exercise I will do 30 minutes one day, 2 hours the next, etc. I began SP weighing 193 lbs and I am committed to losing 50 lbs and I have 20 lbs to go. I simply cannot function well on 1200 calories. I need fuel to have energy, and I especially need protein to build muscle. I am not interested in thin, I strive for strong. When our bodies carry the burden of extra weight, whether it be dumbbells or body weight, they are under stress. They need proper fuel, adequate sleep, regular hydration, and some TLC. I am sorry you are discouraged but I don't know anyone who transforms their body who does not get discouraged. I find committment works better than motivation. Hang in there - you've got this. Take care. Report Inappropriate Comment