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Help! I have so much weight to lose

@Gudrun

Hey, good to see you again!

Sorry about the carb creep, but it happens to the best of us. And it has happened to me too, often enough.

Glad you are back though!
 
Thank you thank you . I behave with the carbs most of the time and it was starting to be more of the time over the passed few weeks . I think what I've done wrong was to decided to stick to being about 11 stone until
March and then work at loosing half a stone . I'm 11 st 2 lb and not going to put on more . It stops now . Winter is always my difficult time eating wise for me and I just want to hibernate. I'm not hibernating because of my challenges so that's a positive.
 
nice to see you posting again on here. Glad that you feel ready to get back to tackling the weight. I'm finding it harder as it's got colder but managing on maybe an extra 100 cals. Hoping that being freezing 90% of time will burn it off!
 
Brunneria said:
@Gudrun

Hey, good to see you again!

Sorry about the carb creep, but it happens to the best of us. And it has happened to me too, often enough.

Glad you are back though!
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Thank you all for the welcome back. I've had a couple of days on low carb now and it was as easy as stepping back into an old pair of slippers after a long walk.
 
Treat every day as if it's the first day of the regime and forget what happened before it. Hugs to you dear. Xx
 


scandi I put on 2 lbs the week before last and plateaued last week

I have had a bad day food wise today - it is my youngest son's birthday and the food has been all wrong. The thing is I feel awful afterwards and wish I hadn't eaten it. Back to normal tomorrow...
 
peacetrain said:
Treat every day as if it's the first day of the regime and forget what happened before it. Hugs to you dear. Xx
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Hugs back to you @peacetrain and @aqualung
Was hoping for 11st 7 around Christmas but be grateful if 12st. Still it's a marathon not a sprint! Good job as I'm built for comfort not speed!
 
@Scandichic I know you are busy with work, but have you tried upping the exercise at all. I've found it has given a boost to my metabolism and as long as I don't then go and overindulge, my weight keeps shifting a bit. Do you count calories at all as it's all to easy to forget that the calories in fat soon add up. Some people seem to be lucky in not having to watch the fat intake but I've found only way to lose weight is carb cutting coupled with a calorie restricted intake. Perhaps start writing down what you have to eat and tot calories up for a week to see what you are averaging. I reckon about 1400 is my tops to still lose a bit every week.
 
I aim for 1200 these days but now that's to ensure I keep to around 1500. Mostly I'm around 1300 to 1400 though. Just a bit of kiddology ;-). Since returning to work in September I've upped my calories but I've still lost a stone.
My daughter had been having a bout of anxiety and as I was giving her a hug the other day she said "you don't feel like my mum anymore."
:-(
 
Gudrun said:
Thank you all for the welcome back. I've had a couple of days on low carb now and it was as easy as stepping back into an old pair of slippers after a long walk.
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Good for you. Just in case you feel you have a mountain to climb, my BMI was the same as yours in August 2013. It's now 26.5. It's probably come down a bit quickly, but that's just the way it happened for me. I walked a lot. Not long distances but for 20 minutes most days and it gradually increased to 40-50 minutes daily. Alas, I haven't done as much this last 3 months, but I am on my feet all day at work. I bought a stepper with bungee ropes on it ready for the winter. It's good for the leg and arm muscles.
Good luck.
 
That's excellently done, Peacetrain. Bringing down your weight from the BMI similar to mine to nearly normal is brilliant. Alas, I can't exercise as I have chronic fatigue and it has been getting worse over the last year or so. I have to live a very sedentary life and I ought to adjust my calorie intake accordingly.

Still, I can only do what I can do so will try and plod on with the LCHF (or, LCMediumF, which is more like what I used to do).
 

I aim for 1200 knowing that some days it's nearer 1400 ( especially if cold)- I try and make the extra calories something like half an apple so at lest some of it is passing straight through! It's all about finding what tricks work best for you, isn't it?
Please give your daughter an extra hug from me as I know what anxiety is like. Nothing comes close to how dreadful it is, I don't think, as you can't run away from yourself. I'm having CBT at the minute and that is helping but I'm beginning to think that the Metformin is contributory factor as I seem to have a panic a few hours after it.
 
@zand , how are you approaching all this this time around? Are you calorie counting at all? What sort of daily carbs are you aiming for?

I haven't quite decided yet. I'm more or less aiming to get the BS back where it was a couple of months ago, and think I'll need to up the fat, but lose some protein.
 
@RosieLKH I am approaching it slightly differently this time. I am aiming for <30g carbs and not calorie counting at all. This scares me! I have done it before and it worked well for a while. I need to be careful with having enough fibre! That was what stopped me continuing last time (before I joined this forum) and it took me a long time to recover from the setback. I will be having 3 meals and no snacks.... and no alcohol.

I also need to make a note of how much water I drink because if I don't I always forget to drink enough. Yes I need to up the fat too (I think) I don't think I have been in ketosis for long enough before, so that's the aim. I don't have a target for my BG's as such. I'll look at tweaking my diet to improve them more if necessary later.

Rosie I am so sorry I didn't post very often on your thread. It wasn't boring at all! I enjoyed reading it. Thanks for these chats, you are making sure I stick to my plan which at this time of year is difficult for me. We can both do this, can't we? Have you any other thoughts on what you will keep the same and what you will change?

edit: When I started calorie counting last time it was to make sure I ate around 1200 calories at least, because I checked for a few days and wasn't eating enough and I didn't want to wreck my metabolism again, because that's what caused this weight problem in the first place!
 
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This comment reflects my own experience with the diary/blog thread I started, then abandoned and then returned to when I needed to get back on the wagon again.

Writing about oneself is an excellent way to work through things emotionally. I know it helps me do so a great deal. There is something about putting something down in writing so that someone else can understand, that forces us to put our thoughts into a coherent sequence and that ultimately helps us understand issues better ourselves.

But I also felt it was a self indulgent thing to do. I guess it is hard to imagine that anyone else would find reading about us interesting.

A number of people were kind enough to compliment the thread but I still felt they were just being polite, or just responding to the pretty photos I was posting; photography being a bit of a passion of mine.

I do not know how many people have seen the thread to date, but last time I signed in using my computer instead of the phone app, the number was in the thousands. Once I got over the initial shock, I actually felt guilty about this as by posting daily updates I have effectively been bumping the thread myself.

But at the end of the day, I came to realize that writing the blog was helping me at least maintain my focus on keeping this disease under control. If someone else found what I wrote, or my example useful in any way then that would be a very welcome bonus.

All the best to you and @zand with your efforts

Pavlos
 
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Nooo - don't apologise and I sure hope we can do it!

Your experiences do sound familiar - at least if I've understood them right. I am also having to make a big concious effort to drink lots of water, having spent a week doubled over in agony when things stopped moving!

I did think I ate enough fibre, but I also think I upped my protein a bit too much.

I'm going to use My Fitness Pal again, but more to carb count and record weight loss (fingers crossed) rather than worry too much about calories. I have shopped today and gone for quite a bit of fish and veg, because I like them and I need to feel I'm treating myself. I have also bought cream and will be trying some creamy sauces to beat the winter blues, plus cream in coffee to get that full feeling. I have nuts, but have to restrict how many I have as my danger is sitting and munching through a few hundred grams with no trouble!

I shall resurrect my old thread tomorrow. You are right @pavlosn if writing a blog helps me, that will be a good enough reason to write it, but if it also helps someone else that'd be great.
 
I think that you should treat yourself to some nice perfume and get her to get used to your fragrance rather than your huggability!
 
You should not feel guilty! If by encouraging and informing others through your personal experiences you are also being motivated that has to be good for everyone. So please continue when you are able.
 
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