Will be going on on fitness forum. Come and join us in becoming fit, healthy, and beautiful for the Valentine’s Day.
Post your goals in miles or minutes and get your walking shoes on.
Happy New Year to all of us, Happy, Beautiful, Healthy, and Fit Buddy Slimmers.
Ladies, I suspect that you have more comments on your blogs that you know of.
You may want to manage your blogs.
Have a wonderful Sunday.
The user you refer to in many blogs is no longer on this site. It would be great to remove the blogs about her to refocus on what is really important here.
Have a wonderful, healthy, and productive day.
If you find a blog or a poster offensive, please, do not engage in endless arguments. It only fuels their need for attention.
Exercise your right to report such a poster and/or the blog to the owner of the site, Dr. Mark.
if you have valid suspicions about people being exploited here in any way, you need to report it to Dr. Mark as well.
I myself reserve the right to report every blog where other people are called out by name, judged, and berated without their consent.
I find it unethical and detrimental to the weight loss community and against the mission of the site. It makes this place unsafe and lacking the general courtesy of communication.
Well, I surrendered walking as an exercise. I have funny z-coil shoes with springs instead of heels which, according to my doctor, absorb 50% of shock that my feet get when I walk. I am still in pain though…
THEM SHOES ARE UGLY.
I’d like to get in touch with people who bike because I really need support. Biking is a new activity for me. I use a recumbent bike in the basement. The plan is to get brave enough and learn how to turn on a real bike. Because I can ride a bike if it’s going straight but I fall immediately if I have to turn.
I biked 14 miles on the recumbent bike yesterday. It took me 43 minutes. I don’t know if it’s enough for a recumbent bike? I don’t know anything about biking. How many miles are good, what is mediocre, what is stellar? In addition, I don’t really like biking but I have to learn to love it because this is the only cardio exercise that I can do.
Anyway, for now I would like to start a thread on biking on the weight loss forum. My personal goal is to bike at least 14 miles a day, starting today. Please join me or just stop by on the biking thread. Share your experience, support, advice, or funny biking jokes.
I don’t know how to react to this in a good way. I mean, I did say good bye to running 3 miles every day about 4 years ago after I injured my knee. I did say good bye to tae kwon do at the same time because I couldn’t jump anymore. I said good bye to aerobic classes I loved. I’ve changed my identity from “runner” to “walker” and was kind of fine with it. Then, last year, too much pain and swelling in ankles made me stop walking. I thought that I could recover and continue walking again which I did, or I thought I did…
Yesterday I saw a very good orthopedist and he again diagnosed me with “severe tendonitis” and told me to stop walking altogether if I don’t want to wear a cast for a few months and become really immobile. I am to have physical therapy for two months, wear special ortho shoes, and switch to cycling and swimming. There might be surgery in my future and some other restrictions.
My body is betraying me. I am mad and miserable. I picture myself using a walker or something in the future. I have to rethink the way we travel and go hiking and camping and walking everywhere instead of driving a car. No walking challenges either.
Now I have to teach myself to fall in love with cycling and swimming. See, the trick is that I only exercise if I love doing something. And I can only ride a stationery bike! I am ashamed to admit but I can’t make turns on a real bike, I fall. And swimming… I only swim for fun, not for exercise.
And yes, I totally realize that I am having a pity party here.
Life sucks.
I haven’t blogged in awhile. Life is good and very, very busy. I apologized to everyone I haven’t responded to. Thanks for your boosters and messages. I am sorry I wasn’t consistently supporting the threads I started with challenges and the binge thread. I’ll have more time in September.
The weight is still coming off. However, I am with Jennifer on that, I stopped obsessing about counting calories and thinking about bad foods and good foods. Consequently, I stopped bingeing altogether. I really enjoy the food I eat. When I eat, I ask myself if this is the best food I can find at the moment to enjoy. Do I really like what I eat or do I eat it because it’s “lowfat, or low carb, or another fad.” LOL
What has truly changed for me this summer was exercise becoming a natural part of daily routine. I do walk 4-5 miles a day and sometimes 8-14 miles a day. I still work out with the trainer and exercise at a gym. I want to exercise and I think about finding time to exercise immediately when I wake up in the morning. So that 30-day walking challenge actually created some new neuronal pathways in my brain resulting in thinking and doing exercises almost automatically. I never even question if I SHOULD exercise. I want to, it’s that simple. Like breathing, laughing, reading a good book, enjoying a good company, or sharing great food with friends and family. Exercise is now in the same category of enjoyable activities.
Size 10 clothes are too big. I packed three huge plastic bags for Goodwill. My closets are barren. I need to do some major shopping! It’s a nice task to have.
This morning my husband and I walked 3 miles and he shared with me that he will start working out with a trainer and going to the gym next month. He NEVER thought about doing that before. Now, looking at the changes I have made, he wants to have a hot body as well. I am thrilled for him.
Have a great Sunday everyone!
Calling all the dedicated walkers on the site and inviting everyone who wants to use walking as a great and gentle fat-burning exercise.
Let’s challenge ourselves by walking 4 miles a day or an hour a day (maybe using interval walking) until the Labor Day weekend.
There will be a new thread on the weight loss forum with the rules.
You may want to sign up and tell us what you use to count miles: a pedometer, treadmill, time, track in your neighborhood, etc).
There will be weekend challenges but no competition.
Who wants to shrink belly? Strengthen legs? Improve core?
Who has limitations that don’t allow running or other exercises that are hard on knees, ankles, and hips?
Then walking is for you. Simple yet so powerful in weight loss.
See you all on the walking challenge thread,
Tatiana
Has been going great. Walked to the park and did tai chi for an hour. Then did a boot camp class in the park for another 45 minutes. Then walked fast for about an hour. What a feeling I have in my body - joyful, happy, and silly. Right now I am making lunch - baked salmon, broccoli, green salad, whole wheat bread, and blueberries for dessert.
The weight has been going up this week. Two pounds of gain. Consequently, the trainer measured me and said that I lost 2 pounds of lean body mass. Meaning that when I am losing weight, it is in muscles instead of fat. Meaning that I am becoming weaker and the weight loss is going in a wrong way. She said that there could be two reasons: not eating enough food or not enough protein and not exercising enough. I exercise 2 hours every day so it’s not that. One of my buddies advised me to eat more and I upped daily calorie intake. I will weigh again on Monday to see if the weight gain stopped.
Shanna posted a wonderful comment on my blog and everything she said was true. I do have a curvy figure and excellent health, according to doctors. I don’t want to starve myself and lose shiny hair, white teeth, and damage my skin. I think I was heading to a dangerous zone of starvation eating only 1300 calories a day and burning 600-800 calories only by exercising. My BMR that measures the amount of calories that a person needs to just maintain the body functioning lying in bed and not moving, is 1450 according to fitday. com. Simple math shows that my body, after burning 600 calories in exercise and 1450 calories just by breathing and living, was starved if I ate only 1300 calories a day. Hence the loss of muscles and then weight gain.
I am so confused sometimes. I don’t know when I am really hungry or if it is a familiar pull to binge, to stuff the belly with food, and to feel pain. I think because of yo yoing for so many years, my hunger locator is screwed up. I am afraid that losing 12 pounds in three weeks was a result of starvation rather than stopping binges.
So much to learn about the way my body functions. So much to learn about patience and frustration and nurturing, rather than punishing myself.
Thanks to Sarah, Dara, Debbie, and Tina, my buddies on the binge thread for support and sage advise.
This is something worth watching and I cry every time I do. And then I smile and smile… all day long.
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