Redtailgal's weightloss journal (join me and lose with me)

[SuburbanFarmChic]

I so rarely drink milk that it doesn't occur to me. I only cook with it or use it on cereal. I see no reason why it wouldn't be fine. And the protein is always good. The goal is to cut sugar. Don't go nuts though or your body will wonder where all its food went and will start hoarding calories. Start with small changes. Like if you are used to drinking 3 cans of coke a day, cut to 2 this week and then in a week or two cut to 1 a day. Up your exercise slowly too. Especially if you have been fighting weight. Make exercise a treat. 20 minutes when somebody else has the kids and you can throw on some music and dance around like a fool for a while. Baby steps.

 

[redtailgal]

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[SuburbanFarmChic]

Very true. One person's diet solution can clearly be someone else's diet disaster. Like I mentioned earlier, this is just stuff that worked for me. I wasn't a soda drinker but I did used to drink a lot of juice. Cutting that made a big difference for me.

 

[marlowmanor]

I so rarely drink milk that it doesn't occur to me. I only cook with it or use it on cereal. I see no reason why it wouldn't be fine. And the protein is always good. The goal is to cut sugar. Don't go nuts though or your body will wonder where all its food went and will start hoarding calories. Start with small changes. Like if you are used to drinking 3 cans of coke a day, cut to 2 this week and then in a week or two cut to 1 a day. Up your exercise slowly too. Especially if you have been fighting weight. Make exercise a treat. 20 minutes when somebody else has the kids and you can throw on some music and dance around like a fool for a while. Baby steps.

Noone else ever has the kids, it's mostly just me and DH with them all day. And when he works the night before he will be sleeping half the day if he has to go in that night too. So half the time I am basically a single mom because he is sleeping to prepare for working all night or gone to work for a night. Fortunately he works a swing shift so he isn't working every night. I could dance with the kids though, they'd probably get a kick out of it! I think my big thing is getting up to exercise, I make excuses. It is harder to do with the kids to worry about, but I need to figure out how to do it with them in tow (well at least with the baby in tow,the others are mobile enough to do their own thing safely). I will definately work on some changes, there is really no excuse for me beuing as young as I am being the size I am. I don't want to be tiny (I never have been) my goal is just to get back to what I weighed when I got married.

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

Try things like kids action songs. Head and shoulders, knees and toes. Hokey Pokey. The Chicken Dance. you can be silly with the kids and teaching them the motions and such will get you up and moving. One of the ones we do here is walk around the living room like a different animal. Giraffes reach their "neck" way up tall, elephants swing their trunk back and forth, horses pick their legs up high like dressage, monkeys curl their arms and skip around. 3 loops around the coffee table per animal.

 

[redtailgal]

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[marlowmanor]

Does toting the 20lb baby count for arm weights! I'll have to get into the dancing with the boys, it may actually help their behavior! Honestly with me most people probably wouldn't guess I weigh as much as I do, b/c I am tall and my body hides it well. I've always had weight issues and self esteem issues because of it. I don't want to be skinny, I just want to be at a healthy weight.

RTG: The gaining weight after a hysterectomy comment scared me. I had the papers signed to get my tubes done when I had my last son, but we changed our mind a few minutes before going into the csection. We are considering trying for a girl one more time, but it will be a while down the road, I've said 5 year minimum and that is only after we look at where we are, if we can afford another child and have room for another child. I'd hate to gain a ton of weight after something like that.

 

[elevan]

Marlow getting your tubes tied and having a hysterectomy are two very different things.

Tubes tied just keeps you from getting pregnant. A hysterectomy removes all the reproductive organs and throws your body into full blown surgical menopause. Menopause slows your metabolism.

 

[elevan]

I'll join in RTG.


My name is Emily and I am a chocolate addict

Seriously, though. I need to lose 25# and when I reach that goal I need to lose a bit more. I don't believe in setting the long term BIG number goal as I feel it sets me up for failure...much easier to break it into smaller chunks.

My weight issue started just after I got married. I was having some medical issues and the doctor put me on a medicine with the serious side effect of weight gain. Turned out that the doctor was wrong and I didn't have what he thought and I didn't need that medicine. I was able to lose most of the weight that I had gained and then I had a hysterectomy. Full blown menopause (at age 26) and due to the reason for the hysterectomy I couldn't take hormone replacements for 6 months minimum. My metabolism went downhill and yet I continued to eat in the same way that I always had. I gained back a good chunk of the weight that I had lost and have been fighting to remove it for the past 8 years. I've been able to lose a little here and a little there but gaining it back is always a problem. I also suffer from CFS which makes exercising in a traditional way difficult and when I "go down for the count" I'm in bed for a couple of days.

My plan is portion control, fiber, whole grains and limiting (but not removing) sweets. I am truly a chocolate addict, but I've switched over to dark chocolate and it satisfies with less.

 

[marlowmanor]

Sorry, elevan, my mistake . I plan to reduce sweets as well. I have to have some sweets though just to curb the cravings for them, but I have found that apples work when I get a sweets craving. I love sark chocolate too, but I really have had few chocolate cravings lately.