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On Thursday afternoon, had went to my doctor and weighed in. I gained 5 Lbs and back where I started from..leaving a 1 Lb loss. I knew I would have gained, since my week 3 food journal,my calories was high 2000-5000 at one day this week.
I was disappointed,but now am even more determined on making this happened!!! No more 2000 or higher calories days.. I am now focusing on a 1000-1200 calories with doing/building up on doing Richard Simmons, 60 mins, low impact video at night.
My next appointment with my medical doctor is on Dec/Jan.
I was disappointed,but now am even more determined on making this happened!!! No more 2000 or higher calories days.. I am now focusing on a 1000-1200 calories with doing/building up on doing Richard Simmons, 60 mins, low impact video at night.
My next appointment with my medical doctor is on Dec/Jan.
I don't remember your current weight, but, I remember you've posted recently that you weigh over 400 lbs. You absolutely cannot expect a 400 lb body to happily subsist on 1200 calories a day or less. As sure as the sky is blue, both your body AND your mind will team up against you if you try to do this. And, as we all know, the mind-body team is a formitable duo. If this team is working against us (because it feels deprived), we might as well wave the white flag, because that's one battle we will always lose.
Since we know that it takes a reduction of 3,500 calories to lose one pound, the safest and most effective thing you could do would be to reduce your calorie intake by no more than 1000 calories a day, which would result in a 2-3 lb loss per week. It would be a nice, steady loss that both your mind and your body would be happy with, because you wouldn't be anywhere near the deprivation zone. At your current weight, you could achieve this by eating roughly 3,500 calories a day.
I found a really cool little calorie calculator on freedieting.com. Just for curiosity sake, I input the numbers for a 40 year old female, 5'7", exercising 5 times a week, with a current weight of 150 lbs. The results were that the person would need to eat 1620 calories day to lose weight, and 1215 calories a day for extreme fat loss. When I changed the weight to 450 lbs, the result was 3,600 calories a day for weight loss and it would not calculate a number for extreme weight loss, which told me one thing - it's not healthy for a 450 woman to do that.
Be good to yourself, hon. Just because you've set your mind to doing this, doesn't mean you have to torture yourself. It doesn't work anyway. (Good example - the 5000 day you recently had.) Focusing on the calorie intake and exercising is great - those are two very important pieces of the puzzle. But, you also have to focus on your mental relationship with food. The exercising and calorie-counting won't magically change that. You have to give mental part its' own LiliannB and Me time.
I keep raving about Geneen Roth's latest book, "Women, Food and God" - for good reason. I'm reading it now, and it's incredible. You're in the book, hon, so you might as well read it if you haven't already. And, from the sound of your post, you haven't read it. Read the book. Beg, borrow and steal to get that book if you have to. Check out the freedieting.com website too. There's some really neat stuff and lots of great information on there!
I hope nothing I've said here hurt you, because that isn't my intention. You're just too nice of a person to set yourself up to fail like this. What you want to do is sooo totally possible, but, you have to be smart about it. Thinking a 450 lb body can subsist on 1200 or less a day is not being smart, which your mind and body will not waste any time at all in letting you know.
Get the book and check out the website.
Hugs,
Janice : )
Another factor that food journaling helped me with is to focus on adjusting my food intake, and took my focus away from some of the emotional turmoil. Worry and feeling bad didn't ever help me lose weight, but tracking food definitely did. I hope it keeps helping you too!
Another help for me was to aim for a 1500 calorie day instead of a 1200 calorie limit. That gave me one more snack of health things per day and really let me feel more satisfied. If I aimed for 1200, I always missed or I was always miserable. Suffering won't help! Find your own comfort level even if it isn't that same old 1200 calorie goal. Success at 1500 (or your own level) will get you much farther than feeling constant failure over 1200, in my experience.
Now I need to go do my own food journal for today! Best wishes for you to keep focused on feeling better and better!
I will check out the new Geenen Roth book and my next shopping at amazon. I have one of her book on compulsive overeating.
Again Thanks.Enjoy your day.
Something I said to you in my last post has been bothering me ever since I sent it, so wanted to clear that up. When I said you might as well read Geneen Roth's new book, "Women, Food and God", because you're in it, I need to clarify that point....we're ALL in the book. It's not like there's a special chapter entitled "LiliannB". Unhealthy relationships with food take on many forms, which is discussed in the book. So, I just wanted to clear that up, hon...
Also, KUDOS TO YOU, LILIANNB, for having the courage to post your progress for all to see and stay honest about it...especially since there is someone here (who shall go nameless - but, I've blocked him because he's an inconsiderate, in-your-face, jerk!) who thinks weight problems are simply the result of being too lazy and worthless to drag our fat asses off the couch and exercise. (If it was that simple, the weight loss industry wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar industry.)
Wishing you all the best. You have my continued admiration and support.
Hugs!
Janice : )