Weight loss and exercise #2

have you guys ever tried or found success in just eating less every day? for losing weight on an AP

as opposed to eating like 1200-1500 calories per day?

Without tracking it is hard to be sure. I don't plan my menus every day; I pretty much eat what I want, track it and make decisions about what else I can have and amounts as I go. So, yes, I do just eat less, but I make sure it really is less by setting a target lower than what I have been eating, tracking and staying under it or nearly so.

I was bad today. I guess I will find out how bad in the morning. 158 wouldn't shock me.

I went to Burger King and then I ate half of a small ice cream roll cake. I ate a normal dinner. My PMDD is rough and I’ve just been struggling.

I said 158 wouldn't shock me. 155 kind of does. About 4 of the last 6 days I went *way* over and my weight has remained pretty steady. Daily goal is a deficit right now, but it seems like I would have bounced up a little. I'll take it, but it's odd.

I have lost 3 inches off my waist since the beginning of this month.I am losing weight and my blood sugars are coming down.

Fantastic! Measurable signs of improving health are great motivators.

This broken record is getting ridiculous. Way over yesterday. Still 155 today. It's crazy how much of this is mental. It's harder to control urges when they don't seem to do any harm. But I know this will catch up with me. I do need to put it in perspective - I am going over a goal that would be a deficit, so "way over" probably isn't bad as it seems. I really want to be in the bottom half of my maintenance range instead of the middle (yeah, bring out the tiny violins) and seem to lack the discipline to get there. It's just annoying.

I was 151.4 today. Yesterday I was 149. I’m about 1.5 days away from period. So the 2 pound weight gain from yesterday is probably PMS weight gain. Yesterday I got dizzy around 6PM and I realized I had eaten pretty much nothing but chips and salsa all day. I had a decent size dinner but it wasn’t a ton of food.

Today I’ve gotten back on track and so far I’ve had 740 calories.

156! Finally, it ticked up to prove to me I am human and will gain weight if I eat too much. Now, to react properly and quit eating like a crazy man. Yesterday was about the worst yet; way, way over.

Well, I actually gained too much weight. There was a large box of fig cookies. I ate all of them in record time. This can be related to the increase of Olanzapine. I am just going to have to get used to feeling hungry. Getting back to exercise will help. Last time I weighed, I was at 182. Hopefully some of this is part of the normal swings in weight. I will check this out by weighing myself every day, starting today.

@Tucson - good to see you back! I have been fortunate to have few med changes, though a change in supplier of one of my generics does seem to make me more prone to slight nausea. Shifting more of my calories to earlier in the day helps with that, but then the trick is staying within goal that night when running low/out of calories.

Sorry to hear this Tucson!Unfortunately Olanzapine increases appetite,I gained over four stones when I was on it,it also put a strain on my heart and damaged my kidneys.I came off it,but didn't lose the weight.

Did well yesterday, though it required a long stint of cardio. Rounded down to 155 this morning. Cardio was last night, so probably a bit of dehydration this morning.

Yesterday when I weighed myself I was 148 exactly. Then I messed up yesterday and today. I’ll get back on track tomorrow.

yesterday was one of my worst days yet and today is starting out that way with an abundance of treats available and me taking more than I should. I did do cardio this morning, but it won't make up for yesterday or the way today is headed. I really need to buckle down. It scares me that I have had the old attitude that got me fat the last few days, even though I have been getting away with it.

I am ravenously hungry. I’ve been this way for a week. I started a strong antibiotic a week ago. Could this be the cause of the hunger? I mean, I ate two bread bowls from Panera today and a giant cup of gelato. That’s kind of extreme. I have two more days of the antibiotics. Today my weight was 151.2. I still haven’t gotten my period yet either.

I have been having the same problem. At least my weight is not as bad as I thought. Yesterday I weighed 178. I am trying to figure out what to do about it. I have not been running due to my depression,, and in part, my laziness. The increase in Olanzapine did not help either.

Mixed feelings about weighing in the morning. I expect it to be ugly. Actually, I hope it will be. It really got out of hand today. I need to really get shaken and get serious. I am not really close to the top of my range and can make this just a little blip on the screen if I turn it around. Major, major stress lately.

EDIT - I did go ahead and weigh a few minutes ago. At night, not completely undressed (took off jeans and shoes), I was at the top of my range. I had to go to the bathroom right after that; naked in the morning I will be a pound or two less. Still is enough of a bump up to take seriously.

Rounded up to 157. The caloric content of what's in my gut is substantially higher than usual, so I am not breathing easy just yet. Light breakfast, packed a light lunch, no snacks in my drawer and hopefully no treats out today. I will have to exercise will power if any get put out. Stress sucks, but it isn't going away quickly. I need to deal with it better. I have probably only gained a could of pounds so far and had made room for such.

I took my geodon and went back to sleep to see if that would make a difference. That’s how I’ve had to do it in the past since the geodon can sometimes make me really tired and hungry. I weighed myself around 7:30 and I was 152.2. I’ve had a lemonade and an eggplant Parmesan TV dinner so far. It adds up to 580 calories total. I plan on having a lean cuisine for dinner which has 260. That leaves me 360 calories left for the day.

My hunger isn’t too bad today. I don’t know. Maybe I just really need to start taking my geodon and going back to sleep again.

I am meant to be sticking to 1300 calories or thereabouts but today I ate 2000.I started with good intentions but depression set in,some emotions came up.I thought I had stopped using food as comfort but today I did resort to comfort eating.

It was a tiring day I has a lot to get done and though I did it,the tiredness meant depression set in.Now I have made plans to go out tomorrow and on friday.But something is telling me I should stay home tomorrow and recharge my batteries and just have a rest day,and I think that s what I should do,but by tomorrow after a night's rest I may find as I usually do that I have a lot more energy and that staying home is boring.But I still think I should stay home and force myself to rest.I hate when I go back and forth like that between two options and can't decide what to do for the best.

I also hate that I force myself to go out and end up at the pub eating food that I shouldn't and that is too high in calories because I can't stand my own company at home and to face the emotions being alone at home brings up.As a child when we moved to another city age 7 and I lost all my childhood companions and my sister stayed in the original home town while I was in the new location with my parents,I dealt with the loss by overeating and using crisps and chocolate to comfort me.But no matter how much I ate I was still empty inside and wanted to eat more and more and did so.Ate 7 I was a normal weight for a child my age by the time I was 10 though I was 140 pounds.So that is crazy and to this day food replaces human companionship for me.Probably because I am depressed I am magnifying how bad I feel about that and my being obese,and I am more in control of my eating now days than I have ever been .So maybe I shouldn't beat myself up and feel bad about today's 2000 calorie intake.

I should weigh myself soon to see if I am still losing!

~1300 for today. Low for an adult male, but it's okay to average across 3-4 days and I quit tracking yesterday at one point but probably in the neighborhood of 2500 to 3000.

I’m finally starting to have cramps. So it probably was just PMS hunger and weight gain. I did stick to my diet today.

153 - WTF? I mean, I'll take it but no way did I lose 4 pounds just by cutting calories one day. I did have a lot more than usual in my gut yesterday morning from going nuts the day before and between that and the water it soaked up I did expect a drop. That's a half gallon. I did 50 minutes on the arc trainer this morning, after weighing and having breakfast. I actually weighed at 2 AM, when I woke up and was having trouble getting back to sleep. I still have to get my head in a good place; the stressful situation is not going to be resolved quickly.