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2006-02-12 12:32 PM

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Subject: ARGH! Stupid weight that won't come off!
I am really frustrated that my weight isn't getting lower and my stupid body fat is a fluxuating nightmare! So, here I am still blubbery and chunky. I weigh a whopping 139, which doesn't sound big until you put it on a petite 5 foot frame. i am still going to workout and everything, but I am having a defeating day. I know that this doesn't come overnight, but for the most part I am eating well. I know part of it is due to "womanly" issues, but still. I feel really frustrated. I think I am really frustrated is because I was the right weight for my size right before I got pregnant. What's even more frustrating is that everyone (that doesn't workout) says that I will never get back down to my original size. I also don't condone they stupid ways either. "Oh, lets just pop a pill and not workout." or "The cabbage soup diet works for me." (then a week later, they gain it all back)

I don't care if I am not skinny. I just don't want to look like I am 4 months pregnant anymore. I know that all of this will pay off, but I am frustrated because I have been working out since the beginning of January and nothing has come off. I hate wearing clothes that are even remotely formfitting. I don't even want to be touched or anything, because I feel so frumpy.

I feel even worse, because my wonderful hubby bought a nice pink lingerie set and when I tried it on, I wanted to cry. I looked like a pink pig.

Well, sorry for the depressing blog, but I really hard to get this off of my chest, well actually, belly.

Krisy Bean


2006-02-12 12:39 PM
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Subject: RE: ARGH! Stupid weight that won't come off!
So what are you doing about it? Does "eating well" mean counting calories? How often are you working out (your log doesn't show much)? The equation is "Calories in minus calories out=weight loss," no shortcuts or "womanly issues" will effect that in the long run.
2006-02-12 1:09 PM
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2006-02-12 2:21 PM
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Don't get discouraged. It's been a month - your metabolism needs time to change (speed up). Keep up the hard work!!
2006-02-12 3:00 PM
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I completely and totally relate!!!!!! In fact a few minutes ago I posted a similar blog, including the flu, lack of adequate winter training, and weight gain....

I was a size 2 through 4 a year and a half ago, weighed in between 117 and 120.

NOW the scales say 137 to up to 140, I squeese into a 10 and I AM also 5'0. The short women's fate! Being of Sicilian ancestry does NOT help!  I want to add that before January, I was swimming 3x week, running betw 20-30 miles/week and trying bike when the weather cooperated

This is after also being on an antidepressant for my severe PMS (which, by the way worked like magic, even the low dose I was on...ask my husband...he doesn't even seem to mind the extra 20 pounds LOL).

So I understand so well. It sucks. When I get over this flu I am going to swim every day, run 5x week and try to bike even 1x week in this awful weather. But then i'm afraid the overtraining will put me back here in this place of complete exhaustion!

Yikes.

Keep in touch, because things have simply GOT to improve for us!!!

sincerely, Dawn



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2006-02-12 3:33 PM
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You've only been at it for a month. Don't get discouraged but fitness is a long term investment. Cleaning eating is 90% of the battle. Like bear said Energy burned vs Energy consumed equals weight gain or loss. It's a law of Physics, no one escapes from it.


2006-02-12 3:50 PM
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Subject: RE: ARGH! Stupid weight that won't come off!
thank you everybody, including Bear. I appreciate the encouragement!

Also Bear and NBO10, you are both right about output should be more than input. I am now logging my nutrition, which is going to be rough for me. Not the discipline of doing it everyday, but about getting too wrapped up in what I eat. I am a recovering anorexic and have been healthy for 8 years now, but I have to be careful not to slip into old bad habits concerning food, which is probably why I avoided logging my nutrition in the first place.

Thanks all.
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