Health: Lose Weight

Hi all, I am new to this, and pretty new to actually consciously thinking about weight loss every day.
I was vaguely counting my calories for a few weeks and I think I underestimated what I was intaking. Mostly because I would have a snack at night and not count that because I was too tired to think anymore. So that did not work. I now think I can have about 1500-1700 calories per day and lose weight. I was reading someone’s blog about how he was down to about 1000 cals/day and the thought of that truly scares me. I love food, absolutely adore it. However, it seems too easy to attribute my poor eating habits to my lifestyle and how rarely I am at home (except when I am there because I feel unhealthy). So, enough with the excuses. I am going to continue to work on exercises with my physical therapist. I think I will also go to the pool at the gym because the orthopedic nurse suggested I walk laps there. Firstly, however, I have to buy a one-piece bathing suit. :/

So I started WW 3 weeks ago. I’ve lost around 6-7 lbs already. Mostly water weight, I think – but I’ll take what I can get. My pants are already fitting better and when I ran up 2 flights of stairs this AM, I totally didn’t get winded! I’m amazed that I already am starting to feel the effects.

I guess why I am here is to get some addition external support. Sometimes I don’t feel like the people at WW are all that supportive. My husband says that he is proud of me in my endeavor, but then goes and gets really greasy food and eats it in front of me or drinks a huge thing of alcohol. I need to learn how to not have that effect me.

yessss=]]

and the weight and inches coming off, too. Almost 2 weeks ago, with about 6 weeks on Atkin’s, I maeked a weight loss of 18 lbs! I’m trying not to get scale psycho, so I haven’t been on the scale since, but I’m feeling great and losing inches. I’ll weigh in in another week or 2.
This one goes along with the eath healthier thing, as I wanted/wished. I knew if I could find the right nutritional balance for my body, the weight would begin to come off, too. Perfect. Dr. Atkins diet has made such a difference! No more processed foods, (or veeeery rarely), no sugar. Completely off wheat and corn, which it turns out I was much more allergic to than I ever knew. Woot!

I started Atkin’s 4 weeks ago sunday and I’m loving it, feeling good and losing weight. I don’t really know how much I lost the first 2 weeks because I didn’t have a scale, and had no real idea what weight I’d gotten up to. When I stepped on a scales 2 weeks after beginning, I’d lost 6 lbs from the weight I was in February. I’m pretty sure I had gained a bit since then, so my guess is that I lost well over 10 lbs the first 2 weeks. These last 2 weeks I’ve lost another 4 lbs. Not as much as I’d hoped, I admit, but I’m pretty okay with it. I haven’t been counting the carbs quite correctly I just discovered, so 2 lbs a week is cool.

I had managed to lose just over half a stone before my operation – not of course I have been comfort eating and not moving around much over the last couple of months. Now however I am backat the gym and went 3 times this week – 3 times swimming and twice in the gym. Following on from my 10 minute on the bikes on Wednesday I managed a repeat performance yesterday PLUS 5 minutes on the cross trainer.

My choice of machines is governed by wanting no impact so no walking and running – but a smooth strength building exercise which I think the bike and the cross trainer give me. I then do my usual swim routine followed by a couple of lemgths walking up and down the pool.

I was off work Monday and Tuesday last week and only ate dry Chrunchy Nut Cornflakes. Since then my appetite is back, but much much smaller which has meant I’ve lost weight and fat. Yesterday I weighed 69.0kg and was 29% fat.

Took relacort (??)
Rode my bike for 5 minutes.
Ate a donut for breakfast. Not good, but perhaps actually better than my usual nothing until after 3pm or so. We’ll see. Setting daily reminder now.

I’ve put some new batteries in the scales and have weighed myself for the first time in months. I weigh 70.3kg (and 31%fat). This is more than I weighed when I started losing weight for my wedding – hmm not good.

Probably what is worse is that DH has told me this evening that he now weighs over a kilo lighter than me!

woohoo…danced every single routine possible in training this evening…...instead of sitting down and feigning a stitch! kudos!! xxx