Wednesday Weigh In
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Up again. I despair of my poor habits. Ah well another week, another try
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Up 1 from last week. DS is buying a lot of vegetarian foods which are frequently not low calorie. I hate to cook, so he does most of it. We also went out for Dim Sum for my GS' birthday. It made me feel old to have a 30 year old GS. Of course I am old, but manage to forget it most of the time.
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Down just a fraction, which is better than up!
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No scale with us on the trip, but I can tell I'm up, up, up by the way my pants are fitting (or not fitting!). The calorie laden southern food is not doing me any favors.
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Down 4 pounds...the hard way. Acute bronchitis...ugh! Why do I get sick so much! I was never sick before BC! Could it just be results of radiation or the lymphedema??? I seriously was never sick! Even as a child I missed 7 days out of 12 years of school! I just dont get it!
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Same as last week. Just a little (3lb) higher than where I want to be.
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Dismayed to step on the scale and still be the same 10 lbs over where I’d always been before BC. According to MyPlate I’m netting around 1300 calories a day. No sugar either. Ugh.
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stayed the same this week - which is an improvement on recent weeks
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Varga, how can you be sick & still get more steps than me??? Slow down, girl!
I am not down. I know why.....it's because I've been eating too darn much!!
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Ruth- I am sleeping 2 hours every afternoon! I usually have 23,000+ steps a day I'm averaging 15,000 a day since Friday. I feel terrible! I actually cried Sunday and Monday I feel so bad. This cough is killing me. When the doctor told me to rest I said ok I'll sit down when I fold the laundry 🙄
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Get some cough syrup with codeine. When I had pneumonia and was coughing my lungs out, the cough suppressant they gave me did NOTHING & I quite hysterically demanded the codeine. Since I never take drugs (and probably sounded demented), they gave it to me. That is the only thing that could quiet the cough so that I could rest and heal.
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I'm allergic to codeine and prednisone 😭! They prescribed Benzonatate capsules and I can take 3 a day. Also have a pro air inhaler. They both help but I have had a fever since Friday! When I went to the doctor back for my recheck they are still saying acute bronchitis. I'm on a strong antibiotic (doxycycline ) and it makes me so nauseous. I have 5 more days of the antibiotics. I'm trying to spread my cough pills out. I can have steroid shots so I was able to get one last Friday and I felt so good after it....then came Saturday 😷🤒🤧. Just can't figure out why this keeps happening!
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Once you are so sick, I think your immune system gets out of whack and you are more susceptible to other bugs that come along. One winter I had strep throat, and I really didn't feel 100% until that summer. Boo Hoo!
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I feel that's exactly what has happened! It started with a sinus infection and spiraled to bronchitis! I think we're going to stay home bound for about 2 weeks! Give our bodies a chance to build back some immunity after all the antibiotics.
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Varga take it easy - so sorry to hear you are under the weather. I’ve lost a kg this week - finally moving in the right direction again!
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down a pound, but out of town next week so it will probably be packed back on by the time I return.....
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Varga- sorry you’ve been sick!
Ruth and Scot- congrats on the pounds shed.
I’m still still still the same! Despite tracking on MyPlate and exercising almost every day I haven’t been able to drop any weight. So today I fasted for a full sixteen hours and then ate lunch- tofu and broccoli divan over spaghetti squash . Seriously. And for supper I made homemade salmon cakes and kale salad. I am pretty hungry it’s bedtime and my stomach is rumbling.
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Falconer, it may take a month to get used to this schedule. According to this article though you could consider
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/well/eat/the-be...
a "gradual decrease over a period of four months in the hours and days of restricted eating and in the amount of calories consumed on fasting days."
I've dropped about one pound by cutting back on portions while doing the 12-13 hour daily fast. I somehow can't imagine I did a whole year (except for vacations) on about 17 hours a while back. It's a mind game. Your body can do it but the brain says something else. Also if you are exercising everyday, particularly if that exercise is during the fasting window, there's a very good chance you are gaining muscle / losing fat, which is helpful in and of itself.
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A friend of 40 years and I, who have been dieting ever since we met, decided we could star in a soap opera called, "The Edge of Fatness".
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Heidi and Ruth, you two are the best. Bless you both. I laughed aloud at your post, Ruth.
Heidi I did see that article and of course this got me: “A man I know in his early 50s said he had lost 12 pounds in about two months on what he calls the 7-11 diet: He eats nothing from 7 p.m. until 11 a.m. the next morning, every day.“
Ive heard women who are dieting alongside a man (often one they live with, AKA their husbands)and they'll lose a pound in three months and he'll lose 12 in two.
Anyway, I've been on this 7-11 diet since September as my schedule at school is perfect for it- I teach from 7:30-10:45 and get my break then. I was having breakfast at that time, but now I'm just going for lunch and skipping breakfast altogether. The truth is, except when I was pregnant, I've weighed about the same my whole adult life. So is it the hormone therapy?
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It does seem like hormone therapy doesn't help. But then you hear of bodybuilders who go on hormone therapy to cut estrogen to reduce fat even with the hot flashes that brings.
After about a year on 8 to 12 I did notice slowly re-gaining weight (stuffing myself more to get through the fasting window) so I stopped it to go on 8 to 8 but cutting portions. Now I need to either go back on 8 to 12 or do a combination or exercise for longer. My clothes still fit so there's no urgency yet. Plus the weather is warming up and I could probably go on long back rides soon, and get to a state of LISS
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Finally down a pound. Now just ......too..... many to go!
Spring Break starts for me next Thursday - 10 nights in Hawaii - would like to lose another couple before then to at least be basically even after the vacay.
Happy to see February will be in the rear view mirror soon...on to Spring! TT
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I'm up 2 lbs. I'm sure the girl scouts are partly to blame. I haven't done anything unusual, so I'm a little baffled. It does explain why the jeans I planned to wear yesterday didn't fit.
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Vargadoll:
My theory of laundry is that most of it is perfectly fine staying in the clean clothes basket. Except when I had cats I had to protect it with a sheet because one of them thought it was the perfect bed.
I hope you are feeling better.
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I didn’t weigh myself this week, which is ridiculous buthere’s why- we noticed some cracked tiles in our bathroom and a feeling that the floor was caving in. We hired a contractor who came Tuesday and sure enough the entire pan around the tiled shower was rotted away along with most of the wood framing the shower. It’s going to be about a 15 grand renovation that we weren’t planning on doing. So everything tub toilet tiles came out of the bathroom and the scale is buried. If only the weight would fly away as fast as the cash.
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Yikes, on the bathroom caving in.
I've been trying to do a 16-17 hour fast and it seems to be working. Lost a kilo but still not at pre-Christmas weight. I have one week to get there before I'm vacation-bound.
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Down 1.5...leave for spring break tomorrow. 10 days no scale, but lots of outdoor activities - going to Hawaii!
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I went to the OBGYN Monday and weighted 144 pounds. I want to be at 130 so i am making a commitment here to get on it! I hopeto weigh in every Wednesday....see you next week!
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Okay, I am vacationing. I WILL report a loss next week!!
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Down 1 from last week, which was way way too high. So still several pounds above where I want it to be. Keeping at it.
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