Wednesday Weigh In
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Down 100 grams as of this morning. Just demolished half a box of chocolates tonight along with 2 glasses of bubbly. Happy New Year everyone!
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OK, today my two weeks of eating with abandon are over - way too many cookies, drinks, party food, football food, time to get serious about weight control (for me, it is all about mouth control lol). So I got on the scale this morning, and I was 164 - up a pound since two weeks ago. Not bad, considering I majorly fell off the wagon. Major incentive, my daughter is getting married in June - so my goal is to get down below 150 in time for the wedding. Of course, that is a weight I haven't seen in years, but I can do this! Brought in the rest of the Christmas cookies to work today, and hid all the bad for you snacks in the basement. Hubby is on board too, so we start today!
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I finished a cake all by myself so I won't have to see it tomorrow. I start, well, not tomorrow as I still have some chocolates. Then we go to Italy and will get more goodies there. I will start being good next week!
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Up 1.5 to 134. Maybe it was the Italian dinner to celebrate our wedding aniversary. Or maybe the black-eyed peas, cornbread, etc. Or the pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting and pecans. You think? I see my onc (another new one) on the 22nd, so I have a goal and a deadline. I thought losing over Christmas was a little odd.
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I am so glad I found this board! I thought I was going crazy during treatment as my weight just kept going up and up and I thought I was eating reasonably well and now after 6 months of chemo I weigh more than I ever have. I am so happy to just blame it all on the steroids
I am up 1.2 lbs from last week......but I had chemo last Friday so I am sure it is water weight. Not the cheese fondue or chocolate cake or sausage rolls. It is definitely water weight.
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I would like to join you ladies. I am three years out from tx. The only thing I liked was the weight loss from chemo. But over the years it has crept back on. I weighed yesterday at 152.5 and my goal is to lose 10 pounds by the end of May. That doesn't sound too hard does it? But I know it will require a big effort on my part.
Look forward to getting to know you.
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OK the party is over for me.... tomorrow is THE DAY...time for me to get back at it.
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Hi Ladies, I'd like to jump in for the start of 2013. The holidays did me in and I'd really like to lose at least 25 lbs before I have my final reconstruction. I've been stuck at a plateau for a year now. This year, I'm determined. Logging in with my Wednesday weight of 175.6.
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Down .2 since last week. Not much, but I'll take it as a good omen for 2013 that it's not a gain.
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Hello All,
Haven't weighed this week but I'm here again! Climbing back onto the wagon and getting myself moving again. Holidays, a funeral, my birthday, and several batches of Christmas cookies ... it's no surprise that my clothes are fitting a little tighter!
See you all next week,
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hi ladies, missed Weds weigh-in but here I am on Thurs. Went off the healthy eating wagon over the past weekend and gained several pounds. It comes off so slowly but comes back so quickly! But I'm back on track and now know I have a wheat addiction and must avoid the stuff if I want to lose those last ten pounds.
welcome sheryls, Gill, and Jane - I'm pretty new here myself - glad to have your company!
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Yesterday was day 2 of getting back on track - Chineese New Years luncheon at work - and I took a little of everything! so much for self control - though I did manage not to go back for seconds. Funny, I was sitting next to a larger than me woman who kept encouraging me to go back for more (I must have looked forlorn LOL), she kept saying life is short, enjoy your food! Then last night DH had to be somewhere by 7, so we grabbed subway sandwiches for dinner - would have been OK if I got a 6 inch, but no, I got a foot long and ate the whole thing. So today I will be good - tomorrow we are going to NYC to visit our son who is working there now, so I'm sure it will be some more bad choices, but at least a lot of walking to counterbalance it. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Tomorrow is back to WW! Missed the past two Mondays since one was Christmas Eve and the other was NY's Eve. I don't have to weigh in since I'm a lifer but will have to before Jan. is over. Good luck to all of us in dropping those holiday lbs.
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ok carole I will weigh in tomorrow too . . .
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Got a message from a family member yesterday about joining their weight loss club - 4 sisters who are feeling a little plump, and want to slim down for my daughters wedding in June - so I am joining them, as I already want to slim down for the wedding! So now I have my family as well as my BCO sisters to hold me accountable! They are doing weigh in on Tuesday's, my traditional day for years has been Wednesday, so I guess I will start weighing in twice a week now! Of course, my eating this weekend was out of control, out to dinner both nites and was a member of the clean plate club - ugh!
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Of all the things my mother taught me... clean your plate was one of the few I regret. It's very hard for me to quit eating just because I'm no longer hungry. I can't "waste" all that good (or even not so good) food. We ate out the other day and I ordered a not too unhealthy steak with a side of veggies. The waitress brought fries, she also brought the brocoli when I complained. Guess who munched her way through the (not all that great) french fries along with the meal I ordered. argh.
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Cindy I so understand the fries thing one of my major weaknesses and if they were on my plate I would eat them too.
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Cindy - wow, did your post hit home. I'm also of that "clean-your-plate-there-are-children-starving-in-China" generation and you're right - it trained us to ignore the body's signal that it was full. After 50+ or more years of ignoring that signal, my body's signal is rather faint by now. Trying to listen for and respect that signal has been one of the hardest things to work on for me. Our moms meant well, but they just didn't know any better - I think wasting food was a sin to that Depression era generation and that was the overriding concern for them. From what I've read parents are wiser now and allow children to stop eating when they feel full - I sure hope so.
Since I don't instinctively recognize when I'm full, I've adopted some strategies that set up "checkpoints" for me during meals to check to see if I'm full. These are old strategies, but I do find they work for me. One thing that honestly helps me is that when we're eating at home, we put dinner on salad plates, not dinner plates. Cleaning a plate is a childhood signal to me to stop eating, whether the plate is a large dinner plate or a smaller salad plate, so why not go with the smaller salad plate? On rare occasions, if I'm still hungry I will indulge in a second helping, but a second helping on a salad plate is about what a single helping would have been on a regular plate. So most of the time I'm eating much lesser portions without feeling deprived. When I go out to eat, I tend to cut my food in half and place half of it on my bread plate. Finishing the first half is like cleaning the plate, and is another way to remind me to pause and check as to whether I'm full or not before reaching for that second half. Before I did that, I'd just mindlessly eat the entire dinner.
I still work very hard at trying to recognize when I'm full, but I find those things help a bit.
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Good ideas Nats, I'm going to try the salad plates! At home I don't have a terrible time with portion control, I weigh or measure just about everything. Eating out is another story. Years ago (30!) I did NutriSystem and one of the things the counsolor recommended for eating out was to just ask for a 2go box up front and to put 1/2 to 2/3 of the meal in the box from the get go. I did that back in the day, and probably should start again. Portions "out" are just insane.
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I read that plate size has been increasing as well. My 10 inch corning ware plates hold food out to the rim. My old Fiesta plates are also 10 inch, but have a border that effectively limits the area for food.
Our senior center serves generous, but balanced lunches. Two of the ladies bring containers to put their salads in. They say after the big lunch, all they need for dinner is the salad. Now if I could skip the dessert, that would be wonderful.
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This past Thanksgiving (my first on solid food after Optifast), I chose a small portion of turkey, about a tablespoon of homemade gravy, a tablespoon of stuffing (bad idea, DH made it and refused to use the whole spice packet and it tasted like wet bread), a tablespoon of mashed potatoes, and a few tablespoons of green beans with caramelized onions and mushrooms.
It all tasted good (except for the dressing
) and I cleaned my plate. But then - almost as if I were being controlled by some alien spirit - I got up from the table, went back to the serving area, and started to pile seconds on my plate.
I had a huge AHA moment then....WHY was I doing that? I wasn't hungry...but at holidays, it's just what we do. We scarf up whatever we pile on our plates, eat fast, and go back for seconds and thirds, whether we're hungry or not. I put the food back, and waited patiently for the pumpkin spice "ice cream" I'd made for dessert.
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We have another tradition at church..it's our Senior's Lunch. Once a month we have a potluck. You wouldn't believe the amount of food that is brought. And man, those church ladies (and men) sure can cook!!!
DH and I are "technically eligible" - the minimum age is 55 - but I think the AVERAGE age of the group is 80....
So for the past few years, he and I do all the set-up, serving, and clean-up. Then we eat.So there they are, these frail older seniors, with their plates in hand (or on their walkers), piling on the food. If there are five different platters of fried chicken, they will take a piece from each platter.
But the horrifying part is the dessert table - you do NOT want to get between a Senior and that table!!!
They've all learned that if they wait to get dessert until after lunch, they may miss out on something. So now that's the first place they head.
We set out small dessert plates, but NOOOOO!!! These folks are hard core. They get big DINNER plates, and take one of each dessert. That adds up to a lot when there are 14 or 15 desserts on the table. Pies, cakes, cookies, cobblers, pudding, candy, homemade ice cream, you name it.
I know that many of them cannot cook at home, and for many of them, this is the only home-cooked meal they'll get for a while. So we offer styrofoam take-out containers, and encourage them to take home any leftovers they can.
It's funny - we announce that there is plenty of food left over, and to please come and make up a plate to take home, or to another homebound friend or neighbor.
No one makes a move.
Finally, we yell "O.K.!!! If no one wants this food, it's going in the trash!!!" And THEN the stampede starts. Yes, it's the depression mentality, and not letting food go to waste.
BTW, since my surgery, and DH's kidney disease, and my liquid diet, we haven't been back to Senior Lunch. And guess what? We don't miss it at all!!! And new folks have stepped up to be servers and cleaners.
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I think when I'm 80, I will load up the big plate too!!
But for now.....this is really my first day back of trying to eat 'right'....if I can just make it to bedtime with no snacking, I will have had a successful day. I think I maybe better post DAILY!
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I always wondered when I could just relax and stop thinking about what I eat but I think it just gets harder as I get older. My mom passed away a year ago st 84 years old and the last few years she hardly ate anything. She said food didn't taste good anymore. I cannot even imagine that.
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Carrol, we lose so much as we age that I wouldn't be surprised if some older people lose their sense of taste. That could be why sweets are so popular with the elderly. My mother just turned 90 and still lives alone. She doesn't like to cook any more, partly because her back hurts when she stands for any length of time. I and another sister live close enough that we see to it that she has some real meals. What she especially enjoys is a gathering of family at her house where everyone eats. Of course, she doesn't do the cooking or the cleanup. She just enjoys the company.
The WW meeting was packed yesterday, as expected in Jan. I didn't weigh in but on my scale I was 159.5, two lbs above my low before the holidays. Not bad. I'm back in WW mode. What happened to me at Christmas was loss of control over my "space," to use WW speak. DH made his oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, dozens and dozens of them, and they were here in the house. We give cookies to the neighbors for our Christmas present and have cookies for Christmas day, give the surplus away to the family on Christmas day. But meanwhile those cookies were here in the house and I snacked on them. One thing leads to another... And I got off program.
I don't buy or bring into the house anything that will tempt me to binge and get into mindless eating. DH likes chips with his lunch but having them around doesn't bother me. We keep Ghiradelli dark chocolates in a bowl in the living room and we each have one for dessert after dinner. They don't tempt me. But don't bring a box of Little Debbies in some variety of chocolate because I would eat the whole box!
Another WW "habit" that I follow is to always bring a healthy snack with me when I will out and about and likely to get hungry. It's usually an apple that's cored and cut into slices. Otherwise, when I get hungry I'll be looking for something to eat like a candy bar!
I really don't mind being on WW because I eat very well. But I will have to stay on it to keep my weight down to a healthy number.
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Well, tonight is my Lifestyle class....part of the year-long follow-up at Kaiser that you attend after finishing Fasting and Transition on Optifast.
Last month I met my goal of losing 60 pounds. Then I got sick and lost a few more. Thank goodness for that, because during the holidays I just layed around and ate ice cream and cookies and other things that were NOT ON MY LIST!!!!
I also have not exercised since August, when I had my Exchange surgery. I had a ridiculous amount of restrictions thanks to all the pocket work done, then an incision refused to close, then I fell and ruptured the bursa in my right knee, then a display fell on me in Best Buy and cracked two toes, and then I got the flu. Oh, and four months later, my right incision opened up again!!!! "Spitting sutures!"
My only exercise has been padding back and forth to the kitchen for snacks!!!
I'm also heading back into the severe joint and muscle pain arena, this time from Arimidex, and if I can blame the weight gain on the drug, you betcha I'll do that, too!!!
But here's the difference: I've done it once, I know I can do it again. I know I can get back on track, and I know that once I'm cleared to go back to the therapy pool, I'll start feeling less pain. I'll also be less likely to sleep til noon, and be more determined to put only healthy things in my mouth.
So even though I may be up 5 pounds over the holidays, this time I will face the scale bravely instead of making up some excuse to stay home!!!
And I do miss my classmates. We've been through a lot together, and we build each other up.
So I'll suck it up (literally!) and go to Weigh-In tonight.
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You all are so inspirational! It's a new year, and everything is possible
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Well, I've been away since the beginning of December. Was so scared to get on the scale, because I did almost no exercise during this time except for a few walks and swimming a few times. Eventually weighed myself and I'm up two pounds - not too bad. I thought it would be five. Will have to get back to eating well and exercising regularly.
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I didn't lose any weight from beginning to end of 2012. Maybe 2013 will be it. I don't want to be at the weight I was when I was 20 but maybe 2 kilos more given that I have more muscle now (thanks to exercise!). Clearly I need a new strategy to get there.
Down 300 grams.
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165.5 - up 1.5 from last week. What a great start to my new years weight loss journey (she says sarcastically).
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Horrible week. Major LE flare. Gainned, gained weight everyday last week. But lost 2 lbs from yesterday to today.
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