Sigh.....suggestions please
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| Sat, 04-21-2007 - 7:03pm |
Well, I haven't posted in a while. My dad's doing better now, but his brother, my Godfather, has brain cancer. The doctor's are giving him less than a year to live. He's already had surgery and they removed 90% of the tumors and now he's on chemo and radiation.
My weight loss is now weight gain. I don't understand it. I'm biking (recumbent bike) an average of 20 miles per week (535-6.0 mph), plus volunteering to walk some very hyper dogs two days a week (1-2 hours per day). I'm eating much healthier than I was. I'm taking my sodium tablets and drinking water like a fish. Yet somehow, instead of losing weight, I'm back up to 289. What on earth is going on? Granted I have seen SOME increase in muscle, but shouldn't I be shedding pounds by now instead of GAINING?
I'm debating seeing my doctor about some weight loss pills. I really don't want to, but I'm so frustrated. The walking is what really kills my joints (bad ankles and all). My thought is that if I could get a boost to lose some weight faster (at least to get me below 250) then the exercise wouldn't hurt my joints so much because they wouldn't be supporting so much weight. Then I could do more exercise to keep losing the weight. Does anyone have any suggestions?
PS I got into the university I applied to and will be starting school part time this fall. Nursing will be my main focus, but I'll be taking some animal behavior classes too. YAY!

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Well, I'm sticking to it. I've increased my cardio, so now I'm doing 8 miles on the bike about 5-6 days a week (takes about 45 min). Hopefully, it was just that I wasn't doing the cardio long enough per session to have much of an effect. I'll have to go get a check up from my doctor before I start school, so I'll talk to him and see if he has any more input.
Dee
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Congratulations on getting into school - it sounds like you are a very caring person and if you do end up in nursing, your patients (animal or human) will be very lucky.
My suggestion to you is to journal your food. I find it very hard to do-it takes a lot of time, and it makes me face some things I don't want to admit sometimes, but it works for me.
Everytime I go back to it, the weight drops-every time I stop, the weight stays the same (or creeps up).
I've done it a bunch of different ways-fitday.com, which will give you a calorie count, writing it in a notebook I carried with me, writing it on colorful index cards at night, planning in advance what I'd eat, then checking it off and adding in what I added in, keeping a journal here. Each one worked, and even though I go away from doing something, I try to think of it as that I made a decision to not do it, or to try something else, not that I 'failed' at that.
Writing it down does three things for me:
- Lets me see what I am eating that I don't 'admit' to myself, and then plan better substitutes. For example, I believed that I never ate between breakfast and lunch-when I wrote down that I went for a muffin or scone three days a week, I decided to pack a snack and eat it at 10:00-yogurt or a granola bar at 100 carlories every day was the equivalent of one of the muffins I 'didn't' eat, and I have something to look forward to each morning.
- Makes me not eat something because I know I don't want to write it down
- Gives me a sense that I am in control, not the food-especially for the times I find I am eating because I am mad/sad/disappointed. It helps me ask myself-how is this bag of chips going to make me feel better exactly? Especially useful when I am 'punishing' someone else for disappointing me by overeating-now if the chips would go directly to their hips, it might be a good plan, but how exactly does it make them feel bad that I've got big hips? Oh yeah, not!
Anyway, its been said here before that you have to either add exercise or eat less to a total of 3500 calories for each pound-and as much as I love exercise, it can be a lot easier to not eat 200 calories than it is to sweat it off.
Best wishes on your journey.
SJ
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