Anyone want to jump on the health bandwagon with me???

[wemple2]

I agree with the age thing...it's so much harder to lose a pound now and keep it off. I'm just kind of stuck at the same weight, but happy I'm not gaining. Congrats on the good work getting those added pounds off...I know how hard it is, frustrating.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by DBlain

hello, I am back from NY and like I knew I would I ate anything and everything I wanted. So I would up almost 7 lbs heavier, I manged to get that back off and now I am a pound lower than when I left but it is getting harder and harder to get the scale to move and that is frustrating since I have given up booze and snacks and eat mainly veggies, yogurt and protein. If my food life is this dull I want results. I increased my exercise as well. LOL I will blame it on being 58, the older you get the harder it is to loose. So my advise for you young gals is get it off now, don't put if off since it will only be harder the older you are.

How do you gain and lose so quickly? How long were you gone and how long have you been back?

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by wemple2

I agree with the age thing...it's so much harder to lose a pound now and keep it off. I'm just kind of stuck at the same weight, but happy I'm not gaining. Congrats on the good work getting those added pounds off...I know how hard it is, frustrating.

Pretty much the day I turned 25 I noticed my metabolism change. I'm 34 now and even back then I wanted to lose 5 more. Looking back, I did not need it. I'd be so happy is I was 10 lbs more than what I was back them when I wanted to lose 5 more.

[wemple2]

Oh yes, how I wish I weighed what I did when I thought I was fat...now I know I am.

[DBlain]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

How do you gain and lose so quickly? How long were you gone and how long have you been back?

I know it's crazy, sounds almost made up. I was gone 6 days, I weighed my self the morning I left which was on a Wednesday, then the following Tuesday I was 7 lbs give or take some oz. heavier. But when I was with my family we ate like we were in a food contest, sick I know but it happened, I ate a lot of carbs like breads, pizza, snacks and sweets, plus I drank a lot of wine. The initial weight, like three pounds came off in one day so that might have been water. As of today I believe it's 8 or 9 days that I have been back. I have stuck to a strict diet once again with increased exercise, but now the scale is not budging, so my pattern seems to be I loose weight quickly then it slows way down. When I go on vacation with my husband during a week or so he will loose several pounds and I almost always gain about 5lbs, I seem to put on weight very quickly, LOL of course it could have something to do with the fact that when gone from home I go "you know what" very few times. So maybe when I get home and the explosion happens is why the quick weight loss occurs

[Christinee]

Originally Posted by wemple2

Oh yes, how I wish I weighed what I did when I thought I was fat...now I know I am.

LMAO!! That is too funny!

[Christinee]

Originally Posted by DBlain

I know it's crazy, sounds almost made up. I was gone 6 days, I weighed my self the morning I left which was on a Wednesday, then the following Tuesday I was 7 lbs give or take some oz. heavier. But when I was with my family we ate like we were in a food contest, sick I know but it happened, I ate a lot of carbs like breads, pizza, snacks and sweets, plus I drank a lot of wine. The initial weight, like three pounds came off in one day so that might have been water. As of today I believe it's 8 or 9 days that I have been back. I have stuck to a strict diet once again with increased exercise, but now the scale is not budging, so my pattern seems to be I loose weight quickly then it slows way down. When I go on vacation with my husband during a week or so he will loose several pounds and I almost always gain about 5lbs, I seem to put on weight very quickly, LOL of course it could have something to do with the fact that when gone from home I go "you know what" very few times. So maybe when I get home and the explosion happens is why the quick weight loss occurs

Go you know what woman!! I don't think it's healthy to hold it They say that if you hold it too much, your body kind of trains its self to hold it and you can become constipated and not be able to go.

I hope you had an awesome vacation.

[DBlain]

Originally Posted by Christinee

Go you know what woman!! I don't think it's healthy to hold it They say that if you hold it too much, your body kind of trains its self to hold it and you can become constipated and not be able to go.

I hope you had an awesome vacation.

I know it's not good, but it's not a matter of holding it on purpose, it just seems to happen and short of taking laxatives which I don't want to do on vacation I just hardly go when away from home. A lot of my friends seem to have the same problem.

[Christinee]

I just seen this and love it's message so had to share..

[capt_noonie]

My sister said when she went to Japan for the first time that she didn't have to poop very often at all. But I think bc she said there food there is just so healthy and fresh that there isn't much that the body can't use to make it into waste.

When I am on vacation i usually eat a lot but either lose or stay the same bc of so much extra physical activity that i don't usually get when I'm at home.

[Christinee]

My jeans slipped on with ease today. My love handles are getting to the point they are barley noticeable. But I am still not getting on the evil scale. Not yet. hahaha

[capt_noonie]

WTG! Keep it up! I say burn that damn scale. I would too but they aren't mine. MIL leaves them (yes them, there's two!) out. I guess a not so subtle hint for me? At least she is not longer grabbing my belly and saying fat in viet anymore. After one time I gave her the evil eye, she stopped.

[Marhcarter]

Originally Posted by wemple2

Oh yes, how I wish I weighed what I did when I thought I was fat...now I know I am.

This is so very true. In high school I thought I was enormous at 145lbs, 5'5". Now at age 47, am am 50lbs heavier than that and can rarely walk Huey in my neighborhood because there are so many steep hills and I am almost sick by the time I get to the top. Enough is enough, so yesterday I started! I started the Shaun T Focus T-25 workout program. I have done 2 workouts so far, and since I barely made it through the modified versions, I am even more motivated to continue until I can "nail it".
Anyone else here doing any of the "Beachbody"workouts? Insanity, T25, P90X, hip hop abs? If you do and are on the team beachbody web site, let me know & we can be "workout " buddies.
Wish me luck. My follow through in the past has been abysmal, but I am going to Florida in May and I hate when those animal lovers keep throwing me back in the ocean...

[Christinee]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

WTG! Keep it up! I say burn that damn scale. I would too but they aren't mine. MIL leaves them (yes them, there's two!) out. I guess a not so subtle hint for me? At least she is not longer grabbing my belly and saying fat in viet anymore. After one time I gave her the evil eye, she stopped.

LOL when I get the courage I will get back on it just to see where I am at with my weight. I am not quite ready for that yet. MY jeans are still tight, my love handles are just shrinking. But even just that has boosted my confidence. The last think I need is the scale to say it barely budged to get me all PO'ed and not as motivated. I will wait until my jeans start feeling lose, then I will jump on it.

[Christinee]

So I just pulled my gym pants out of the dryer and put them on. When I did, the back side of the pants were pulling lower than normal on my back and the front was higher than normal and I couldn't figure out why. lol Well it took me a second to realize I put them on backwards! That scared me. I thought my back side grew for a second there.