Weight Loss and Exercise #5

Mountaindewed · Mar 11, 2024 at 04:29 PM

I'm kind of just like it will happen when it happens with my weight. I'm on the Wellbutrin, I'm wearing my smart watch, I'm drinking more water. I don't really have a goal anymore of when I want to lose it. If it happens in October, cool. If it happens a year from now, thats fine too. I'm just going to stop being so hard on myself.

I'm at 1,262 calories once I fix dinner. High on carbs, low on sodium, and mediocre on protein.

LadyShadow · Mar 11, 2024 at 08:25 PM

Getting used to routine of weighing myself every morning and going to the gym. Using a smart scale and the MyFitnessPal app. They both work pretty well together. Not burning enough calories at the gym yet, I don't want to push myself to hard yet.

But cheers to progress!

Tart Cherry Jam · Mar 12, 2024 at 12:39 AM

I was thinking of you in the evening at Orangetheory fitness, Disco and Unaluna.

I worked so hard, was red in the face (in a good way), and sweated for an hour, and as a result, burned only 305 calories. And beta blockers rob you of the ability to expend 200 calories or more a day just by living your daily life. So you have to work much harder because of what these meds do to your metabolism. So unfair!

Tart Cherry Jam · Mar 12, 2024 at 12:44 AM

Spent one hour at Orangetheory fitness doing floor exercises with weights, a little bit of rowing, and a fair amount of power walking. Burned 305 calories.

14 mins in Blue zone
28 mins in Green zone (for the first time was able to go about 80% of my max HR by rowing, having the fastest split of 2:18 min per 500 m which for me is very fast)
6 mins in Orange zone. So, only 6 Splat points today but that is because power walking intervals weren't that hard today and weights, which were hard, did not cause that much HR elevation. I am glad I did the weights as I really worked my muscles till failure today.

AVG HR 118
PEAK HR 149

Mountaindewed · Mar 12, 2024 at 04:27 PM

Today I've been out all day. Riding in the car for several hours and in and out of multiple stores doing a lot of shopping. I've had about 1400 calories to eat and I've burned 2,331 resting and active calories. I drank close to 60oz of water.

BeyondtheRainbow · Mar 12, 2024 at 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Mountaindewed

I drank close to 60oz of water.

That's great! I didn't like water much when I went on lithium and had to learn to drink it (not hard when you're that thirsty). Now I drink lots of it but I do remember the struggle to change from soda to water.

How is your stomach today?

Tart Cherry Jam · Mar 12, 2024 at 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Mountaindewed

I'm kind of just like it will happen when it happens with my weight. I'm on the Wellbutrin, I'm wearing my smart watch, I'm drinking more water. I don't really have a goal anymore of when I want to lose it. If it happens in October, cool. If it happens a year from now, thats fine too. I'm just going to stop being so hard on myself.

I'm at 1,262 calories once I fix dinner. High on carbs, low on sodium, and mediocre on protein.

Great that you dropped the goal of being at a certain weight by October.

I would suggest that you develop fitness goals and shift your focus from weight to fitness. Whatever matters to you: stronger, faster, nimbler, exercising more regularly, you name it. Just not the # on the scale. Plus, fitness goals are more in your control with far less chance of a disappointment down the road.

Tart Cherry Jam · Mar 12, 2024 at 09:20 PM

My quads were seriously sore today after the dumbbell exercises at Orangetheory yesterday evening.

Today, I have not time to exercise but I will wear my weighted vest while cooking. I have a lot of cooking to do.

Tart Cherry Jam · Mar 12, 2024 at 10:47 PM

It turns out that all that weight lifting has been paying off!!!

I just went to Trader Joe's. As the clerk was ringing my groceries, I realized that I had forgotten to buy water with electrolytes. I asked if it was Ok for me to run get something else. The clerk said yes. I ran to where by the entrance to the store they have packs of water, found the 12-pack of 1.5 liter bottles, grabbed it, and ran back to the clerk with it. Then, I raised it further to place on the checkout platform. And it did not feel heavy for me.

12X1.5L=18 liters of water. Not. So. Bad.

Mountaindewed · Mar 13, 2024 at 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow

That's great! I didn't like water much when I went on lithium and had to learn to drink it (not hard when you're that thirsty). Now I drink lots of it but I do remember the struggle to change from soda to water.

How is your stomach today?

Ever since I started wearing my glasses my stomach has been totally fine. I've been able to do so much these last 3 days since I haven't felt sick.

Yeah I know what you mean by the Lithium thirst. I think I've gotten it on Wellbutrin. I've been so thirsty for water since starting it.

Buffy01 · Mar 13, 2024 at 09:57 AM

I keep gaining

instead of losing weight

unaluna · Mar 13, 2024 at 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Tart Cherry Jam

It turns out that all that weight lifting has been paying off!!!
. I ran to where by the entrance to the store they have packs of water, found the 12-pack of 1.5 liter bottles, grabbed it, and ran back to the clerk with it. Then, I raised it further to place on the checkout platform. And it did not feel heavy for me.
12X1.5L=18 liters of water. Not. So. Bad.

I love when that happens! I remember one time, i went to slam closed the hood of my 1977 Chevy Nova, and it felt like Superman did it, it was so light!

I've been waiting to hear this kind of news from you.

You work so hard! You keep me going - you should get some orange points for that!

Tart Cherry Jam · Mar 13, 2024 at 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

I love when that happens! I remember one time, i went to slam closed the hood of my 1977 Chevy Nova, and it felt like Superman did it, it was so light!

I've been waiting to hear this kind of news from you.

You work so hard! You keep me going - you should get some orange points for that!

I will take the orange points from you!!

Mountaindewed · Mar 13, 2024 at 03:28 PM

I don't get what the deal is. These last 2 days I've burned more then half the calories I've eaten and walked more than 5 thousand steps when I was only walking like less then 300 before. And I weigh 217. Which means I've gained. Again. I had to buy jeans online since the stores didn't carry my size. I mean what am I doing wrong? Plus gaining this rapidly doesn't sound like its very healthy or good in general. My smart watch has been telling me my stress level has gotten to the point where I need to take a breather. It never used to do that. I'm 31. Dying of a heart attack in your 30's is rare but not unheard of

unaluna · Mar 13, 2024 at 04:05 PM

Again, the human body is not a car. Gallons in equal miles out for a car, but calories in do not equal fat burned for a body. Or whatever you think the equation is.

Exercise - the extra walking - is holding water (addl weight) in your muscles, until they process it. THEN it might show a weight loss, IF you actually had to draw from fat stores, rather than just using any glycogen in your liver. Two days of walking does not burn fat. Unless you are walking 25 miles a day. Which i would not recommend. But you might want to look into training for the breast cancer walk, where they walk 25 miles a day for 3 days. But you work up to it slowly.

Where did you get this idea of instant fat loss? Its 3500 calories to lose one lb, and you have to pee it out, which means your body has to do all kinds of metabolic processes to convert fat to waste products.

Mountaindewed · Mar 13, 2024 at 04:20 PM

Idk but I'm on Wellbutrin and I've heard you lose a shyt ton of weight on that. I have the lower appetite part. So why wouldn't the weight loss part follow too?

Anyways I am aching from my 2 days of non stop activty and my watch told me I did too much and not enough relaxing. I took an Aleeve and I'm lying down.

unaluna · Mar 13, 2024 at 04:30 PM

Maybe find a children's book on the body and how food and metabolism works? I cant explain it to you in a post. I looked at "Boosting Metabolism for dummies" - that has all the info.

Mountaindewed · Mar 13, 2024 at 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

Maybe find a children's book on the body and how food and metabolism works? I cant explain it to you in a post. I looked at "Boosting Metabolism for dummies" - that has all the info.

I mean, I'm not stupid if thats what you mean. My body has been through menopause too.

Tart Cherry Jam · Mar 13, 2024 at 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Mountaindewed

Idk but I'm on Wellbutrin and I've heard you lose a shyt ton of weight on that.

No. Some weight loss but not a ton. And it is not instant. See on Drugs.com:

Does Wellbutrin XL/SR cause weight gain or loss?

Tart Cherry Jam · Mar 13, 2024 at 06:06 PM

From another source: "non-smokers who took bupropion lost 7.1 pounds over two years."

Wellbutrin for Weight Loss: How Effective Is It? | Ro

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Mountaindewed Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Jun 2016 Location: Where the sidewalk ends Posts: 36,408 (SuperPoster!) 7 8,854 hugs given	Mar 12, 2024 at 04:27 PM #125 Today I've been out all day. Riding in the car for several hours and in and out of multiple stores doing a lot of shopping. I've had about 1400 calories to eat and I've burned 2,331 resting and active calories. I drank close to 60oz of water. __________________ Ridin' with Biden
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Mountaindewed Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Jun 2016 Location: Where the sidewalk ends Posts: 36,408 (SuperPoster!) 7 8,854 hugs given	Mar 13, 2024 at 04:20 PM #136 Idk but I'm on Wellbutrin and I've heard you lose a shyt ton of weight on that. I have the lower appetite part. So why wouldn't the weight loss part follow too? Anyways I am aching from my 2 days of non stop activty and my watch told me I did too much and not enough relaxing. I took an Aleeve and I'm lying down. __________________ Ridin' with Biden
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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 39,981 (SuperPoster!) 12 66.6k hugs given	Mar 13, 2024 at 04:30 PM #137 Maybe find a children's book on the body and how food and metabolism works? I cant explain it to you in a post. I looked at "Boosting Metabolism for dummies" - that has all the info.
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