Jackie's scenic route

[JaxieD]

Hi all!


Like many of you I think I've been on every forum on Minimins over the past few years :-( I'll not go into my disastrous diet history but needless to say after a 3.5 stone loss on CD 4 years ago and despite struggling to lose more or stop the flab piling back by both exercise and strict calorie reduction/fasting/VLCD/WW/SW/paleo (get the picture here, lol?) I am now back to square 1 when about 8 weeks ago I just gave up and have been eating what should be maintenance level for a woman of my stats in the hope it would kick start my metabolism. Unfortunately and hardly surprisingly the weight has just PILED on and I am now too scared to get on the scales......EEEEEKKK! I have gone from a 14-16, to an 18-20 in those eight weeks eating approx 2200 cals a day (with some exercise included) so today I am starting a cut in calories and praying that my metabolism responds as I haven't been able to lose a single pound for a year without resorting to VLCD :'(.

I'm 44, 5'4" (must be around 15 stone .....I know I'm gonna have to weigh myself sometime) and I plan to eat around 1800cals a day with more on days I exercise (don't want to go under my BMR which should in a normal me be around 1660 cals . I don't want to be a stick insect and a couple of stone would do me as I looked great at around 12.5 stone a couple of years back....

So good luck to you all....... And let's hope to see some great losses this week

Jackie

 

[linski24]

Hi all!

Like many of you I think I've been on every forum on Minimins over the past few years :-( I'll not go into my disastrous diet history but needless to say after a 3.5 stone loss on CD 4 years ago and despite struggling to lose more or stop the flab piling back by both exercise and strict calorie reduction/fasting/VLCD/WW/SW/paleo (get the picture here, lol?) I am now back to square 1 when about 8 weeks ago I just gave up and have been eating what should be maintenance level for a woman of my stats in the hope it would kick start my metabolism. Unfortunately and hardly surprisingly the weight has just PILED on and I am now too scared to get on the scales......EEEEEKKK! I have gone from a 14-16, to an 18-20 in those eight weeks eating approx 2200 cals a day (with some exercise included) so today I am starting a cut in calories and praying that my metabolism responds as I haven't been able to lose a single pound for a year without resorting to VLCD :'(.

I'm 44, 5'4" (must be around 15 stone .....I know I'm gonna have to weigh myself sometime) and I plan to eat around 1800cals a day with more on days I exercise (don't want to go under my BMR which should in a normal me be around 1660 cals . I don't want to be a stick insect and a couple of stone would do me as I looked great at around 12.5 stone a couple of years back....

So good luck to you all....... And let's hope to see some great losses this week

Jackie

Good luck luvvy ... I'm in the same mind ... I don't want to be stick thin just be around 9st7lb - 9st 12lb .. I felt I looked good at that ..!! I'm 10st 6 this morning .!! I'm 5ft .. And 43years x
I also ate up to my maintenance as set out by this MFP road map thing and iv I'm now bigger than I was ..!! I want to eat 1400-1500 cals a day watching my carbs x
I'm sure we can do it .. We can't just be lost causes .!!!
We can all help each other x

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[ingeh]

Hiya,good luck. I was lucky and ate maintance of about 2100cals for a few weeks and didnt gain so I guess I was lucky! Im eating tdee minus 500 so 1600cals a day and adding exercise cals onto that. Yesterday I did shred it with weights and still ate 1400cals and didnt add exercise cals onto that so prob was at around 1200cals yesterday. Need to use my heart rate moniter tonight and work out in a mo.
We will ALL make our goals x

 

[linski24]

Hiya,good luck. I was lucky and ate maintance of about 2100cals for a few weeks and didnt gain so I guess I was lucky! Im eating tdee minus 500 so 1600cals a day and adding exercise cals onto that. Yesterday I did shred it with weights and still ate 1400cals and didnt add exercise cals onto that so prob was at around 1200cals yesterday. Need to use my heart rate moniter tonight and work out in a mo.
We will ALL make our goals x

I did level 2 of shred yday and used HRM and burned 200 in one level .! I did the nearly hour long banish fat boost metabolism DVD last week and burned nearly 400 cals x
Will be interesting to see how many I use at my class which is very like jillian michaels stuff ..!
Let you know next week x

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[JaxieD]

Well done girls....I walked 4 miles with hubby which was fairly energetic as where I live in the country the roads are very hilly. Food wise not bad......Back to work tomorrow so that should make things slightly easier for me as well xx

 

[JaxieD]

Well I did ok today. I netted 1500 cals due to my exercise and although I have said I would eat back my exercise cals I really am not hungry.

Just need to find the nerve to weigh myself at some stage but maybe next week

 

[linski24]

Well I did ok today. I netted 1500 cals due to my exercise and although I have said I would eat back my exercise cals I really am not hungry.

Just need to find the nerve to weigh myself at some stage but maybe next week

That's a good day

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[JaxieD]

Back to work this afternoon so will have to plan my evening meal and bring it with me........ Although have sone liver in the fridge (yum!). Still in bed at present with my beloved ipad, lazy cow! Gonna be a shock to the system after having been off for 9 days......

Looks like its poached egg and bacon for brekkie with toast......always keeps me filled up better than cereal

 

[JaxieD]

Right, well I gathered the courage and weighed in at 15.3 :'( that means I have a full stone on since I started eating at maintenance 8 weeks ago. Obviously my body is rightly messed up but I'm so hoping I might be able to lose some weight now by doing things properly.

So depressing

 

[linski24]

Right, well I gathered the courage and weighed in at 15.3 :'( that means I have a full stone on since I started eating at maintenance 8 weeks ago. Obviously my body is rightly messed up but I'm so hoping I might be able to lose some weight now by doing things properly.

So depressing

Well you're going to be on the right track now
The only reason I got up was coz the gas man was coming to fix my fire .!!
Then me and my children are going to town x

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[linski24]

Back to work this afternoon so will have to plan my evening meal and bring it with me........ Although have sone liver in the fridge (yum!). Still in bed at present with my beloved ipad, lazy cow! Gonna be a shock to the system after having been off for 9 days......

Looks like its poached egg and bacon for brekkie with toast......always keeps me filled up better than cereal

Cereals leave me starving after an hour so it's protein all the way for me

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[JaxieD]

Well day 2 over and again came in under calorie goal . Trying to eat as little processed food as possible as well but it's nearly impossible these days. >: (

My weigh in today after 8 weeks of eating at maintenance levels and above was very stressful for although I could tell I had piled the weight on it was still shocking to see 15st 2.8lbs which is the heaviest I've ever been. A full stone on as well! And i didnt even go mad during those 8 weeks and counted my cals on mfp 90 % of the time. My body is obviously totally messed up from my yo yo dieting and calorie restriction. I'm just praying that I've now reset things, fingers crossed.

Didn't exercise today and I'm cross with myself about that as I need to get my head back in exercise mode (I was spinning 3-4 times a week earlier last year and love it but didn't lose any weight). So that's my next goal to get back on track with fitness

Think I'll try staying off the scales as long as I can as if they don't move downward I am going to be unbearable to live with (poor hubby )

 

[linski24]

Well done

I was just under calorie too that's day 1 for me x

Lets soldier on x

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[JaxieD]

Just had a yummy dinner after a bit of a strength work out in the garage......my legs are all wobbly, lol!

Whole meal pasta with chicken, mushrooms, onion, peppers, peas and Philadelphia light cheese spread and a wee bit of stock. Finished off with a sprinkling of Parmesan....very tasty and very filling for around 600 cals. Still got a couple of hundred cals left so might use some if them on my weakness which is crisps.....

Another good day

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[LadyJo]

I've just seen new Special K crisps in Asda today they are sour cream flavour, sweet chilli and another I can't remember.only 92 cals per 21 crisps if this helps the crisp fetish?!?!

 

[JaxieD]

I've just seen new Special K crisps in Asda today they are sour cream flavour, sweet chilli and another I can't remember.only 92 cals per 21 crisps if this helps the crisp fetish?!?!

Ooh they sound good....... Only problem is that only have tesco in my town.....might be worth a trip to the nearest Asda to check them out, though

 

[JaxieD]

Found a great website if anyone's interested in nutrition, health etc.....it's called 180 degree health. Run by an ex-chef called Matt Stone. Some really interesting articles and stuff about leptin, cortisol, low body temperature etc and the effect extreme/yo yo dieting has on the body ( for the geeks amongst us, ;-) )
I downloaded one of his books and I could be reading about myself :-(

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[LadyJo]

Ooh they sound good....... Only problem is that only have tesco in my town.....might be worth a trip to the nearest Asda to check them out, though

Hopefully they should be in a Tesco too! Still yet to try them!

 

[JaxieD]

Had a naughty sneaky peak on the scales today (bad girl!!). I know it's early days but I'm 1.5lbs down since Wednesday.......I am hoping this is the start of something good as for over a year with low cal(trying to stay really low) and cardio exercise 3-4 times a week I didn't lose a single pound in a year except via VLCD. Don't want to build my hopes up too much but please god........lol!

 

[linski24]

Had a naughty sneaky peak on the scales today (bad girl!!). I know it's early days but I'm 1.5lbs down since Wednesday.......I am hoping this is the start of something good as for over a year with low cal(trying to stay really low) and cardio exercise 3-4 times a week I didn't lose a single pound in a year except via VLCD. Don't want to build my hopes up too much but please god........lol!

Brilliant x well fine you x

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