Weight Loss and exercise

I take trileptal which is similar, I'm also 5'4

9831 steps. Exercised for 4.33 miles. I have burned 468 calories. This makes for a target of 2668 calories. I have consumed maybe 2463 calories, which is 200 calories short. I will make up this tomorror. Now if I am unabke to eat a scoop of ice cream, the calories consumed will be next. I am very full now. I need to start eating my meals early in the morning which will give my stomach time to digest all of the calories. I do not like feeling this full.

I weigh 172 pounds today. No exersize for me today. I have been using the MET approach for a month now. My weight has been up and down from 173 to 171 with a brief excursion down to 170 pounds. I have no idea why. The best I can say right now is that I may have dropped a pound during this time.

I went stupid again yesterday going over 700 calories past my goal. It was a coworker's birthday and a really good ice cream cake. Kicking that can on down the road...

I worked out hard at the gym this morning, logged somewhat conservatively, had a light breakfast, light lunch and no snack yet. I logged just a chicken breast for dinner. I brought it to work to have with salad but there was chicken taco meat out from the group lunch we had yesterday. they put leftovers in the fridge and bring them out at lunchtime for a day or two. So I will take the chicken breast with me when I go paddling and eat it around 4. I am currently 1154 calories under goal (including the pre-logged chicken breast and a lunch dessert I decided to add) and I will paddle this afternoon. I think I will have a 90 calorie protein bar as a snack in a bit.

With paddling calories and maybe some fruit later I will still probably have a deficit well over 1000 today to make up for some recent overages. I will weigh in the morning and then probably not again until Tuesday after I get back from NY. I actually expect to maintain a deficit on the trip. In the office or at home I am surrounded by treats/fruit that is there for the taking on a whim.

My weight was 163.6. At 2 this afternoon. That seems more accurate. It probably wasn’t a good idea to weigh immediately after having stomach issues. I’m probably still under 160 though. The topamax works good but it does a number on my stomach. It has worked best to just eat 3 decent size meals a day. Usually a big 400 calorie snack at work at 10, then 400 calories at lunch at noon and then 400 calories at dinner at 5.

Today I have logged 1450 calories consumed, 950 calories from exercise. 4.6 miles of SUP paddling and ~75 minutes of fairly high intensity exercise. Since my goal was 1500, this leaves me about 1000 short and should make up for the last couple of days. I will weigh in the morning.

A little under 158 this morning. With all the exercise yesterday and feeling a little dehydrated, I most likely would have been over 160 if I had weighed yesterday. But I didn't, so I have officially stayed in maintenance range. I won't weigh again until Tuesday and after lunch today, nearly all food will be estimated. I will be able to work out a time or two where my son lives but it probably won't be as long as I work out at the gym lately.

I weigh 160.6. I’m really hoping to be below 160 at my next morning weigh in on Sunday. I ordered a couple pairs of used True Religion jeans online. I’m hoping they fit. They are size women’s 31. If not I have a new goal.

I want a chicken sandwhich without sauce and medium fries from McDonald's today. That is 780 calories. Then We plan on having chicken done in the oven which I think is about 270 calories. So that’s 1,050. And then I’ll probably have 3 servings of baby carrots and that will be about 1,155. A little low but not too bad for right now. I am off work today and I’m not doing too much,

My weight is 171 pounds. Not too bad. My weight goes from 171 to 172, with brief excursions up to 173 and down to 170. I find this odd. I am going to exercise today even though I am not up to it

Yesterday, I had exercised for 4.28 miles. I had burned 470 calories. So this had made for a target of 2670. I came very short yesterday. I need to eat my meals on time. I also cannot let time slip by for this to happen. Maybe snacking through the day will help too? I will not exercise today.

I was 163.2 this afternoon. I had some French onion soup right before which probably had a lot of sodium. I’m guessing on Sunday morning I’ll be 159.8.

Does anyone know where I can talk to a reliable nutritionist or a dietitian? I don’t know what the difference is. I don’t need one right now. I need one when I am ready to maintain. I obviously can’t maintain on 1,200 calories. I really have no idea how to do it. I’ve looked at calculators online and I don’t think I need 2,1200 calories to maintain 135 pounds. I don’t have a doctor. I have a therapist who is also a nurse but she has no idea what’s she’s talking about and you will not believe the stuff that spews out of her mouth when it comes to counting to calories and weight loss. She thinks that all intentional healthy weight loss will lead to eating disorders and other things like that. Does Medicare pay for a session with a dietiction or should I be looking at a fitness center or park district type thing? I just need one session since i don’t know what I’m doing. One session shouldn’t be that much money I should think.

Stayed just under 1500 calories yesterday, no exercise. Probably will go over at dinner tonight, but there is a 24 hour fitness center where I am staying and I will exercise later.

I am 279 pounds.I started my diet on wednesday,sticking to between 1000 calories and 1400 calories a day.On tuesday next week I start yoga classes and I will do other exercise too.I am diabetic since 2003 but it has been badly controlled for years,so have stopped all sugary treats and drinks.I hope to lose half my body weight.

My weight is about 171 pounds from what I remember. My previous shortage amounted to 1100 calories. My target is 2200 calories for this day of no exercise. I have consumed 2692 calories. So I am over by 492 calories. This offsets the previous shortage by about one half. I will exercise tomorrow.

Omg, this is super frustrating...I have tracked every calorie for the past week and had an 1000 deficit each day, worked out nearly every day and on days off did low impact walking to keep up the calorie burn, and the scale says I gained weight! I will say that I can distinctly feel me clothes a little less tight and a lot stronger, so I'm hoping it's just a reaction of shock from my body and if I keep at it, the number will start to drop. And no, I'm not cheating, I track every calorie religiously. In and out.

I don't need any advice or suggestions, just venting my frustration. This can be normal to have to fight your body for a bit to get out of its comfort zone. Trying to examine the macros in my diet to see if I can adjust things there and make a difference.

My weight is 172 pounds. Today I will stipulate that my earlier shortfall of calories have been met by yesterdays overage. I am going to exercise today. I have measured my body fat with a caliper. Earlier, using photos on the Net, I had determined it to be about 20%. I am now using the Jackson Pollock 3 “point” method with the caliper. The more “points” that are used on the body, the more accurate this method is. For any more accuracy. I would require another person to help me. The percent body fat calculated in this way is 21. I think body fat measurements are more useful than tape measurements of the body. My $5 caliper with some practice makes this doable.

For my particular case, I think this figure is a bit misleading. I do have a comparatively small measurement of fat at my thighs. However, most of the fat is in my abdomen, and the rest at my chest area. The problem is that Risperidone has arificially increased my breast size. I think this is causing erroneous results when the model of a man is used in the calculations. The Jackson Pollock 4 point method does not use a chest measurement. However, I now need the help of another person.

I just weighed myself a few minutes ago. My weight was 162.6 and it is early afternoon. So I am most likely below 160. I’ll see tommrow morning. I usually wear bigger size 8 pants or size 10 but today my smaller size 8 fit again. My hoodies are bigger then when I got them in the summer too.

Struggling a little bit because I really want a day of doing absolutely nothing, but then I end up hating those days...like I've had enough days of doing nothing for a lifetime, plus, it's not like I'm doing nothing with someone, which is far different than doing nothing alone. Nothing with someone can be relaxing and fun...nothing alone is literally nothing. I end up asleep.

Don’t worry about day to day weight differences of a pound or two unless have health concerns such as kidney disease or congestive heart failure where increased weight is a health concern. Focus on long term goal of healthier habits such as cutting back on empty calories such sweetened drinks, eat less fast food, and gradually increase walking on a daily basis. Short term goals are good to help make changes for the long term and can include this week make a goal of fast food once or twice and healthier or homemade foods more often. Add fruit once per day if previously not eating it all for a goal on the second week.

Was doing great yesterday until I had one of my usual issues - snacking after dinner. I think I ended up only 300 over goal and goal is a deficit so not terrible. Lots of estimation on consumption and burn. I feel pretty sure I will still be in maintenance range when I weigh back at home on Tuesday.

I agree about the long term habits. Don't cut things you plan to eat again once you hit goal; just be careful about portions and having things too often. The only thing that has worked for me is tracking as accurately as possible. If you eat less calories than you burn, you lose weight. If you eat more calories than you burn you gain weight. All strategies end up adjusting calories whether you count them or not. No diet counteracts physics. No diet lowers or increases metabolism enough to make a significant difference. Knowing the score works better for me - total calories in the right range, making sure I get enough protein and a few veggies in there.

After losing over 65 pounds, I have now maintained a BMI below 25 for over 7 months. It has been around 35 years since I was last at a healthy weight and in good shape for more than a brief period at the end of a crash diet and even then it wasn't really a true healthy weight.

How I eat is the major determining factor for what I weigh. How much exercise and what kind is the major determining factor for how fit I am. Trying to exercise away pounds usually fails. "Eating healthy" (which has about a million meanings depending on what you believe) will not improve your fitness.

A word of warning to those working on loss - maintenance has been almost as hard as losing, maybe harder. If you crash diet to lose, then maintenance is harder still because you don't know how. I just slowly allowed larger portions of some things and other things more often. I didn't have to change what I eat. But it's a commitment for life. I know I can get away with splurges and make up for them, but it could easily get out of hand; I used to binge. I don't get much positive feedback anymore. People were cheering me on and encouraging me when I was losing and congratulating me when I hit goal. Now this size and fitness level is the norm and almost no one else realizes how hard it is to maintain. Don't get me wrong - I love the new me. I enjoy a lot more things and have better odds of living a long and healthy life. It is completely worth the effort, but there is a lot of effort.