Dieting Really Really Stinks!

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Dieting Really Really Stinks!
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Thu, 05-06-2004 - 3:11pm
As if it's not bad enough to try to lose weight before summer, all three of the boys are in growth spurts so they are eating CONSTANTLY!! LOL! My whole house smells like home made macaroni and cheese right now (which they insisted that I make for them for dinner). I'm thinking of raiding the fridge, but the picture that I hung on the door of me bent over in the flower bed is a powerful deterant. Hubby was snapping candid shots out in the yard while I was weeding and the kids were playing, and lets just say that I was shocked by the view from that particular angle. Maybe I should just buy a mu-mu, and tell everyone that I'm afraid of getting sun burned. UGH#%)!)+!~

Angela

Starving, again.
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Thu, 05-06-2004 - 5:02pm
Good luck with the diet. Hopefully you can get out and do a little exercise too. That always helps speed it up.
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Thu, 05-06-2004 - 7:29pm
Yes, dieting really sucks. However, when you succeed, you are soooo happy. I have lost 15 pounds and it really shows. It is worth all the "suckiness".

What I would recommend is to go on a specific diet and find out what the safe foods for that diet are. I am on Weight Watchers and foods like carrots, egg whites and such are practically point free. But if you are on Atkins (or one of the variations), then I don't think the same safe foods are allowed. Stock up on the foods you can eat with moderate abandon and try to keep the really trigger foods out of the house. Your family can eat them elsewhere!

Good luck!

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Thu, 05-06-2004 - 8:02pm
angela, you are a TRIP girl!! doesn't the starving suck butt?? nothing like a candid shot of the gut to make you go on a crash diet though, lol. i'm on the other end of the spectrum (have to eat like a horse so i don't shrivel up and blow away) but dh is a little "snuggly" as he likes to call it, and he gained all my baby weight when i was preggers with ds. after i had the baby i was back to 110 in couple of weeks, but he held onto the chub for a while. finally i got so annoyed with his spare tire that i did exactly what you did: took a less-than-flattering belly pic and taped it to the fridge, lol. cruel yes, but it worked!! i told him that if that didn't stop him i was going to get one of those battery operated cows or pigs that moos, oinks, or just insults you whenever you open the fridge door!!

hey, maybe the diet will help you get over the baby blues. just remember what it's like to feel like a beached whale as you sit by the pool in the world's ugliest maternity suit, lol. remember when you couldn't see your feet?? you don't REALLy want to be knocked up again do ya??

clarity

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Fri, 05-07-2004 - 8:27am
My dh put on weight with me while I was pregnant, but I lost mine (all but 5 pounds anyway). My dh didn't. I would tease him a little or pat his belly, but he didn't care. Then, just the other day we were out to eat and he ordered something he never does at that place (chicken alfredo). When I asked him about it he mentioned that he somehow sloutched in his chair at work and his belly looked really big and caught his attention and this was his last meal before starting the atkins diet.

Last night we had cheeseburgers (minus the bun for him), but what is a hamburger without fries so I had cheesefries with mine. He stole just one fry before I threw away what was left on my plate. Oops! I guess I should try harder not to tempt him, but I think the atkins diet is unhealthy anyway. It's all fat, at least the way my husband does it. I don't know how he loses any weight, but he does.

Tanya

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Sat, 05-08-2004 - 11:14pm
I know how hard dieting can be. To make matters worse, my hubby is a pretty buff guy who spends 5-6 days a week in the gym and has only gotten hotter in the 9 years we've been together LOL I, on the other hand, have gone from a 4 to a 16 and back to a 10! I'm not sure how you feel about Atkins/South Beach but that's what I've been doing and I am never hungry. I have dieted off and on for years and this is the easiest diet I've ever done. I lost 30 lbs on WW last year but counting points got pretty tedious after awhile. It is hard when my toddler is eating cereal or mac and cheese but it's not hunger that bothers me, it's the cravings for carbs. After about a week they really diminish and it gets easier. Good luck with whatever you are doing. Dieting can be hell LOL
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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 9:40pm
Ok, I just had to tell you this--when I was pregnant with the twins I got absolutely HUGE--and as if that wasn't enough fun on it's own, my goober husband convinces me that floating in the pool at the health club (it's salt water) would make me feel better, so off I go to find a maternity suit that would actually stretch across my behemoth belly. The first suit I try on I really should have suspected was going to be bad, but I was delusional, what can I say. Picture this: it was black, with a white hour-glass shape on the front, I guess to give the impression from a very very far distance of a waistline. What it actually did was make me look exactly like an orca whale. All I needed was a dorsal fin, and I could have been Shamu. It was horrible. Even the woman in the dressing room (which you had to WALK OUT of to look into the big should-be-against-the-law three way mirror) couldn't keep it together. I don't know what sadistic turkey designed this thing, but I've been traumatized ever since LOL....

So, yes, staying away from maternity suits is a very very admirable goal LOL!

I have a good friend who has your same problem--she's like the food terminator, but she just stays itty bitty (not in that svelt way, but in that almost looks like a pixie way...). I tell her that she has a calorie polarity problem--they refract off of her negatively charged bony hips and stick right to my positively charged butt. Makes about as much sense as anything... :)

Angela
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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 9:47pm
I tried the Atkins for a while, and had my cholesterol checked before and after, and it didn't affect it as much as I thought it would, but it DID raise it slightly (I was worried because of a horrible history of heart disesase in my family). My MD told me that it was originally intended only as a jump start for SEVERELY obese patients whose health was in danger if they didn't lose weight quickly, so the risks were smaller doing this high cholesterol diet than they were to stay at their current weight. I've talked to a lot of people who do a modified Atkins, where you actually DO watch your fat and cholesterol intake (chicken has more usable protein than steak, anyway, etc) in addition to cutting the carbs out, and they seemed to be doing well on it---I'm not sure I could do it long term though. I prefer just cutting back on the portions and better for me foods in smaller amounts than cutting one group out altogether... I'm a sucker for carbs, anyway lol :)

Angela
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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 11:12pm
I so feel your pain..two boys and dh eat like horses, and of course quick and easy dinners are not accepted. I'm afraid they'd mutiny!

I wanted to give you a littel tip I got..chew sugar free gum while cooking, it will limit your tasting.

I also use online help that is free called freetrainer.com, you enter your profile and they give you specific exercises catered to you. You can even click on home work out and they tell you how to use things in your house to help you exercise..that's the one I use.

Think it's working but I only weigh myself every two weeks..


Good Luck and think positive!!!

Traci

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Thu, 05-13-2004 - 10:52am
o you are HYSTERICAL!!! i swear all maternity suits were designed by women-hating men, lol. that's sooo funny that they tried to optical-allusion a waist, did they really think that would work?? you should have just tried out for a job at seaworld as shamu's double, roflol!

with my first pregnancy i was really into the whole "looking pregnant" deal, so i went shopping for a swimsuit, but left in tears. not about my body, just in horror at the things they wanted me to put my body IN!! it's bad enough when you can't see your bikini area well enough to shave, do they really have to make you look like a whale too? i ended up just borrowing a more well-endowed friend's normal suit and just living with the leg holes being stretched up to my armpits by my ever expanding belly, lol.

isn't it funny how friends always end up being mutt and jeff? i'm tall and scrawny, and my bf is short and round. she's always telling me that i screw up her diets because no matter how little she eats i'm hogging the whole freaking buffet down, and since i never get any fatter i must be sending all the calories her way. i'll have to tell her it's a polarity problem :)

she gets her revenge when we try on swimsuits though, she looks all nice and curvy while i'm desperately searching for something cool in the little girls section! i used to fit in normal clothes, but then i nursed my son and i swear the little bugger ATE what little boobs i had, so now i'm resigned to the pre-pubescent kinda suits!

clarity

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Fri, 05-14-2004 - 2:40am
Hi Hya, I know what you mean about dieting stinks. But you know, you don't have to literally go on a diet. Just watch what and how much of what you eat, and the time you are eating. Drink lots of water instead of juice.

Try do lots of walking. I don't know if you can walk to the store where you live. But instead of driving 10 blocks, maybe you could try walking instead. It does help you know. It really does help.