Here's a link to our prior progress reports:
viewtopic.php?t=6751
As for me, this week has been the same - holding steady with no weight loss. Tomorrow is my first group training session, for my half-marathon in May. Our first group training is just 2 miles, so shouldn't be any trouble for me. The good news - my husband is interested in walking with me in the mornings - so I'm hoping that will help me get my lazy rear out of bed to walk
If you'd like to see what I'm doing the marathon for - here's a link to my TeamInTraining info site - I'm walking in honor of cancer patients and to help raise money for research. https://www.active.com/donations/fundra ... ntxKSteven
Hope everyone else is having a great week - keep on keeping on!
TGIF
Karen
Friday Weight Loss Club - Week 4 Check-in
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Friday Weight Loss Club - Week 4 Check-in
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Hello all,
I've been missing a couple of weeks, but I'm back. I ended up in the emergency room a week and a half ago to find out the excruciating pain was a kidney stone. Talk about pain...YIKES!!!!! Anyway, the nurse told me that fluids are very important...namely drinking 2 liters of water a day. That would help pass the stone. He said in the winter many women don't get enough water and that can cause problems.
Now for the great news, this little trip got me to start drinking better. I haven't had a Coke in a week-and-a-half. I AM drinking 2 liters of water a day. Of course, that means many more bathroom trips but that's ok. Also, I am now drinking Diet Pepsi. I am very proud to say that while I used to drink 3-5 12oz cans of soda a day (and Coke at that!!!), I now have only 1 12oz can and sometimes even less. I've even gone a couple of days this week with no caffeine at all. I don't drink coffee so pop is how I get my "fix".
Also, I'm working on cutting my portions down. I no longer use a regular dinner plate and instead us a salad plate. This way I don't have to think too much about it. I still need to work on my overall eating habits and add in more fruits and vegetables, but I think I'm heading the right way.
As for exercise, just haven't made it there yet. I'm trying to slowly change my bad habits one at a time. I'm hoping this method will make it easier to stick to the changes. Anyway, that's it for now.
Melinda
I've been missing a couple of weeks, but I'm back. I ended up in the emergency room a week and a half ago to find out the excruciating pain was a kidney stone. Talk about pain...YIKES!!!!! Anyway, the nurse told me that fluids are very important...namely drinking 2 liters of water a day. That would help pass the stone. He said in the winter many women don't get enough water and that can cause problems.
Now for the great news, this little trip got me to start drinking better. I haven't had a Coke in a week-and-a-half. I AM drinking 2 liters of water a day. Of course, that means many more bathroom trips but that's ok. Also, I am now drinking Diet Pepsi. I am very proud to say that while I used to drink 3-5 12oz cans of soda a day (and Coke at that!!!), I now have only 1 12oz can and sometimes even less. I've even gone a couple of days this week with no caffeine at all. I don't drink coffee so pop is how I get my "fix".
Also, I'm working on cutting my portions down. I no longer use a regular dinner plate and instead us a salad plate. This way I don't have to think too much about it. I still need to work on my overall eating habits and add in more fruits and vegetables, but I think I'm heading the right way.
As for exercise, just haven't made it there yet. I'm trying to slowly change my bad habits one at a time. I'm hoping this method will make it easier to stick to the changes. Anyway, that's it for now.
Melinda
Hi Guys!
What a week. So busy at work, been using the stairs instead of the elevator, must have made 300 trips up and down. And that was ONE DAY!! Holding my own with water, exercise and portion control.
Milinda, my pain is with you, I too had kidney stones, by far worse than the pain from childbirth
And Karen...as a cancer survivor, BLESS YOU and your dedication, go out and make us proud! (more proud than we already are)
Have a happy, healthy & "think positive" week....
What a week. So busy at work, been using the stairs instead of the elevator, must have made 300 trips up and down. And that was ONE DAY!! Holding my own with water, exercise and portion control.
Milinda, my pain is with you, I too had kidney stones, by far worse than the pain from childbirth
And Karen...as a cancer survivor, BLESS YOU and your dedication, go out and make us proud! (more proud than we already are)
Have a happy, healthy & "think positive" week....
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Don't forge that caffeine will increase your appetite, so try to switch to the non-caffeinated sodas as soon as possible. If you need a caffeine fix, drink water. Usually tiredness, especially in the morning is related more to dehydration than needing caffeine and will give you the same results. Especially if you are on xPAP!
Try to follow the low glycemic inded diet as much as possible. Chances are if you are very overweight you could have undiagnosed diabetes or what is now called pre-diabetes, which they are also starting to treat with daily injections that also might help you lose weight. Basically, most startchy foods contain sugar: corn, white flour, white potatoes, white rice, white pasta. But vegetables and fruits can also be very high in sugar: green peas, citric fruit, raisens and other dried fruit, grapes, and believe it or not bananas!
Most commercially produced whole wheat bread is still mostly white flour (read the ingredients), but if you have to have bread, sourdough or some of the darker rye breads are much better for you.
Start reading labels: look for trans fats, sodium, source of fats (avoid partially hydrogenated oils, soybean oil, corn oil), check out the sugar content. Usually things listed as Non-fat or Low-Fat have a high sugar content (high fructose corn syrup),
Start including cheeses, especially white cheese, into your diet. Broccoli and other dark green leafy vegetables (try to avoid Iceburg lettuce which really is pretty empty on nutrition), sweet potatos are great baked with some olive oil margarine on them and cinnamon. There is also whole wheat tortillas, whole wheat pasta, which you should eat in moderation because there is still a lot of white flour in them. Fleishmans makes a soft spread olive oil margarine. Start using olive oil instead of other oils. Lowers cholesterol and is good for your heart.
Portion control is a great idea as well as exercising, but don't forget the weight resistance exercises too. In older people this is necessary to maintain bone density.
If you are not getting deep sleep (still don't feel any energy after several months on xPAP-more than 3-4), you might want to request another sleep study to check for that. After 9 months I discovered I still wasn't getting deep sleep in spite of having been on two different medications to give it to me and one I had accidentally been taking 3 times the prescribed amount. After being put on a 3rd medication I finally felt great and started losing weight on the same amount of food I'd been eating for years (very small portions, lots of protein, no carbs except the good ones, low fat).
Sure I've lost weight before on diets, but usually plateaued out after 10-15 pounds and had hell keeping it there. One of the medications for deep sleep actually caused me to gain 15 pounds in a month. Gabatril--known side effect. I was put on Neurontin. No effect whatsoever. Now, I'm on Xyrem and getting the kind of sleep my body has been craving for perhaps 20 years or more.
Good luck to you all, but don't forget you still may need to use your xPAP even after you lose weight. I do, even though it is at low pressures, and I still need the Xyrem to get a good night's sleep. I was put on a week off it to see if it affected my blood pressure (it didn't) and I slept terribly even taking an Ambien. Sure I slept, but I felt like hell the next morning, tired, irritable. I'm sure you've been there too. A whole Ambien knocks me out so I don't hear anything and feel drowsy all the next morning, so I only take 1/2 and usually sleep all night but feel rested within reason the next morning. But sleep aides do not give you deep sleep.
Try to follow the low glycemic inded diet as much as possible. Chances are if you are very overweight you could have undiagnosed diabetes or what is now called pre-diabetes, which they are also starting to treat with daily injections that also might help you lose weight. Basically, most startchy foods contain sugar: corn, white flour, white potatoes, white rice, white pasta. But vegetables and fruits can also be very high in sugar: green peas, citric fruit, raisens and other dried fruit, grapes, and believe it or not bananas!
Most commercially produced whole wheat bread is still mostly white flour (read the ingredients), but if you have to have bread, sourdough or some of the darker rye breads are much better for you.
Start reading labels: look for trans fats, sodium, source of fats (avoid partially hydrogenated oils, soybean oil, corn oil), check out the sugar content. Usually things listed as Non-fat or Low-Fat have a high sugar content (high fructose corn syrup),
Start including cheeses, especially white cheese, into your diet. Broccoli and other dark green leafy vegetables (try to avoid Iceburg lettuce which really is pretty empty on nutrition), sweet potatos are great baked with some olive oil margarine on them and cinnamon. There is also whole wheat tortillas, whole wheat pasta, which you should eat in moderation because there is still a lot of white flour in them. Fleishmans makes a soft spread olive oil margarine. Start using olive oil instead of other oils. Lowers cholesterol and is good for your heart.
Portion control is a great idea as well as exercising, but don't forget the weight resistance exercises too. In older people this is necessary to maintain bone density.
If you are not getting deep sleep (still don't feel any energy after several months on xPAP-more than 3-4), you might want to request another sleep study to check for that. After 9 months I discovered I still wasn't getting deep sleep in spite of having been on two different medications to give it to me and one I had accidentally been taking 3 times the prescribed amount. After being put on a 3rd medication I finally felt great and started losing weight on the same amount of food I'd been eating for years (very small portions, lots of protein, no carbs except the good ones, low fat).
Sure I've lost weight before on diets, but usually plateaued out after 10-15 pounds and had hell keeping it there. One of the medications for deep sleep actually caused me to gain 15 pounds in a month. Gabatril--known side effect. I was put on Neurontin. No effect whatsoever. Now, I'm on Xyrem and getting the kind of sleep my body has been craving for perhaps 20 years or more.
Good luck to you all, but don't forget you still may need to use your xPAP even after you lose weight. I do, even though it is at low pressures, and I still need the Xyrem to get a good night's sleep. I was put on a week off it to see if it affected my blood pressure (it didn't) and I slept terribly even taking an Ambien. Sure I slept, but I felt like hell the next morning, tired, irritable. I'm sure you've been there too. A whole Ambien knocks me out so I don't hear anything and feel drowsy all the next morning, so I only take 1/2 and usually sleep all night but feel rested within reason the next morning. But sleep aides do not give you deep sleep.
Poor sweetie! Kidney stones are seriously painful. When I had one my wife took me to the emergency room. I was so obviously in great pain that people who were on guerneys dripping blood were saying, "Let that guy go first".
Drink lots of water folks. Trust me on this one, you don't want kidney stones.
Drink lots of water folks. Trust me on this one, you don't want kidney stones.
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