April 21, 2006
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Weighty Matters
Well, so here I am, almost two months after starting the workout routine at the fitness center and I'm not happy with the results. I'm sure that I'm stronger. But other than that, I have issues. I'm not losing weight. Oh, I've lost some percentage of body fat, but the bottom line for me is whether I am smaller now than when I started and the answer to that question is "NO".
I followed the dieting instructions of the trainer, but that was just simply WAY too much food for me. I had the suspicion that I was gaining weight even though he swore I wasn't. But you know, when you can't zip your jeans ...
SO I bought a new scale and yes... I weighed more than when I started the program. Not a happy result.
See, I'm sorry, I KNOW I'm supposed to want to care about lean muscle mass and strength and all that other good stuff but I don't. I want to be just strong enough to walk around in my size (several smaller than now) jeans and be admired without passing out from the exertion of it all.
I'm back on the kind of diet that I know will get me the result I want. It's hard to say WHAT kind of "diet" it is, because it's not South Beach, it's not Weight Watchers, it's not the Jerusalem Diet, the Weigh Down Workshop, or grapefruit and eggs, but it has been influenced by all of the above. I'm trying to eat the variety of foods recommended by South Beach (mostly), stay within the number of points alloted by Weight Watchers, eat only when I'm hungry and stop with I'm staisfied, and enjoy grapefruit because I like it.
I wieghed on Sunday morning and I will weigh again (officially) this coming Sunday morning. Unofficially so far I'm down by 1.2 pounds. Oh, and did I mention that I'm competing against my best friend Mary? We have a date to get together the last week of July. And the way this will go down is that whoever loses the most is paid $5 per pound of difference. Did that make sense? So if one of us loses 30 pounds and the other 20, the "winner" is paid $50 by the "loser".
If there's anything I hate, it's losing. If there's anything I hate more than losing, it's parting with my money. If there's anything I hate more than either of those, it's not being able to zip my jeans! SO, I'm on it.
And btw, I don't really think of it as losing weight, I think of it as gaining freedom!
Never give up
Never Surrender!
NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER
Comments (7)
I've got a similar battle with the jeans, and I'm not ready to buy new clothes. So....
First of all you know more about your body than anyone else. Second muscle weighs way more than fat, Judi
Yeah, I'm on it, too. With this surprise vacation in a week and I still can't get my summer pants zipped, I am sitting here sipping tea and water. If I get much more hungry I will go to bed.
Please keep posting with progress reports!
I've just started trying to make my way back down from the heaviest that I've ever been in my life. I started on Monday, and I'm already feeling a bit discouraged, so I need to see othe rpeople's sucess stories to keep me motivated.
I went through about 6 months of reading and studying up on diets and metabolism and biology. I needed to lose about 60lbs. I settled on the Zone diet with a few deviations of me own. It is not really a diet to me, it was learning about how our bodies metabolize food and what all the constituents were and what they did. Read the Zone Diet by Barry Sears and Protein Power by Dr. Michael Eads and Dr. Mary Eads. The science on Fish Oil is especially worth reading. Dr. Sears book, The Omega Rx Zone is a good place to start on that. I would go to the library for the books if you want to read them because some of Dr. Sears books are after he got famous and he just started publishing follow ups that basically have just recipes and carb lists etc. His book "The Zone" and the "Omega RX Zone" are worth buying but the other ones are rips for the most part. The book by the Ead's is a good buy also. I lost the weight in about 5 months. I did take some pills that were herbal and just speeded my metabolism up but I did not take them continuosly just on days I wasn't too active. I am in Durango, Colorado now and my landlord has a good friend that used to work for the Pharm. industry. He has a good line of supplements and he is reachable by phone. There is one called serotonin fx that a lot of people have had success with when first changing eating habits by suppressing sugar cravings. The website is http://www.health-fx.net. It is a l-trytophan which is a serotonin precurser and has been clinically proven to boost s'tonin levels. The other one 5HTP is a rip. Your body cannot use that one to make serotonin. I know ob docs out here that recommend the Serotonin FX for P. Partum blues. Anyway he has some ephedra free Met. boosters. As far as i know, and i feel fairly educated on the subject, herbal Metabolic Boosters the are ephedra free are safe AND a good way to assist in weight loss as long as you make lifestyle changes and not just temporary diet changes. Anyway there is my couple pennies worth of unasked for advice LOL. I really understand what you are going through. I am a kind of obsessive person when i want to do something. I tend to educate myself, maybe too much by some standards, but i like to be able to weed through all the BS you can run into. Like in the diet industry. There is so much money involved you know there has to be BS. Just like the skin care industry. Something else i went through when i wanted to get rid of some scars.
I'm on a kind of weightloss program too! >.<
We've already had this discussion...but I'm still so proud of you not giving up!!
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