Guest guest Posted October 27, 2006 Report Posted October 27, 2006 62 pounds is great!! That is over 15 lbs a month. Don't beat yourself up. You are doing fantastically. Maybe you should up your walking to a longer time and do it 5-6 days a week. If you are doing weights, you are building muscle and that will not show as a loss on the scales. How are your clothes fitting? How do you feel? I bet you are feeling much better and your clothes are looser. Your body is just trying to catch up to the new you. Keep up the good work and walk more and longer. selina_doing_work wrote: It has been almost 4 months. I have lost 62 pounds, 4 pants size. First do not take this wrong because i am very greatful for what i have done. My insurance paid for most of the sugery. Back to the point of my email. I do not post here because i feel like my questions complaints etc.. etc.. do not get answered. I feel like i am in a rut. I walk 30 mins 3-4 days a week. Started lifting weights but feel like i have not lost weight for about 1-2 weeks. Sometimes i feel like i am going back to the old Selina. Execpt for the smoking part. Almost 4 months for that. My question is how can i change the way i feel? Sometimes i will snack, i really try to snack something good. Chocolate days are long gone from my world. My family hates that... I have heard that dark chocolate is healthy. Any inputs.. What kind of excericse should i do increase my weight lose? Selina 282/220/150 PS; I love being a size 20 again. --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. Quote
Guest guest Posted October 27, 2006 Report Posted October 27, 2006 62 pounds is great!! That is over 15 lbs a month. Don't beat yourself up. You are doing fantastically. Maybe you should up your walking to a longer time and do it 5-6 days a week. If you are doing weights, you are building muscle and that will not show as a loss on the scales. How are your clothes fitting? How do you feel? I bet you are feeling much better and your clothes are looser. Your body is just trying to catch up to the new you. Keep up the good work and walk more and longer. selina_doing_work wrote: It has been almost 4 months. I have lost 62 pounds, 4 pants size. First do not take this wrong because i am very greatful for what i have done. My insurance paid for most of the sugery. Back to the point of my email. I do not post here because i feel like my questions complaints etc.. etc.. do not get answered. I feel like i am in a rut. I walk 30 mins 3-4 days a week. Started lifting weights but feel like i have not lost weight for about 1-2 weeks. Sometimes i feel like i am going back to the old Selina. Execpt for the smoking part. Almost 4 months for that. My question is how can i change the way i feel? Sometimes i will snack, i really try to snack something good. Chocolate days are long gone from my world. My family hates that... I have heard that dark chocolate is healthy. Any inputs.. What kind of excericse should i do increase my weight lose? Selina 282/220/150 PS; I love being a size 20 again. --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. Quote
Guest guest Posted October 27, 2006 Report Posted October 27, 2006 First off don't worry so much about the #s!! You have lost 4 pants sizes & that is fabulous! I'm sure you feel much better too! Sometimes we hit plateaus. They do make sugar free chocolate but you have to watch how much you eat. I've heard it can cause the runs. If you feel you're going back to the old Selina then maybe start keeping a food journal for a few days. Look at what you eat & make sure you are eating the right things. Snacking isn't a bad thing if you're snacking healthy. W 380/282/160 selina_doing_work wrote: > It has been almost 4 months. I have lost 62 pounds, 4 pants size. First > do not take this wrong because i am very greatful for what i have done. > My insurance paid for most of the sugery. Back to the point of my > email. I do not post here because i feel like my questions complaints > etc.. etc.. do not get answered. I feel like i am in a rut. I walk 30 > mins 3-4 days a week. Started lifting weights but feel like i have not > lost weight for about 1-2 weeks. Sometimes i feel like i am going back > to the old Selina. Execpt for the smoking part. Almost 4 months for > that. My question is how can i change the way i feel? Sometimes i will > snack, i really try to snack something good. Chocolate days are long > gone from my world. My family hates that... I have heard that dark > chocolate is healthy. Any inputs.. What kind of excericse should i do > increase my weight lose? > > Selina > 282/220/150 > > PS; I love being a size 20 again. > Quote
Guest guest Posted October 27, 2006 Report Posted October 27, 2006 , Thanks very much for those links! There are charts in my company gym too and they say something nearly the same. The links worked too by the way which is strange because Yahoo usually tears them up! Next time try http://www.tinyurl.com to make them smaller. Anyway, according to the POS heart rate monitor that's on only one machine, a treadmill, in the gym my heart rate is around 160-165 which I think is too high so I'm going to check with my physiologist at my next appointment. I might also get something a little more accurate to measure my heart rate in the first place. This thing is something you grip and I guess it reads it through your finger tips. Sounds pretty iffy to me. Do you (or anyone else) have a suggestion for a good (read also inexpensive) heart rate monitor? I don't THINK I'm really over doing it. I don't feel messed up when I'm done or during my 45 minutes cardio exercise. My doctor has hammered home that 30+ minutes of " intense " cardio is what is needed (daily which I think is 5+ days a week). Intense means that you work out and sweat and all that but that you can still carry on a normal conversation comfortably throughout the work out. Well I can do that except that I am panting or breathing a bit hard while talking but heck I used to do that while walking to the damned bathroom when I weighed nearly 500lbs. Mike in GR > > Selina, > > When you snack, make sure it is a healthy snack, such as fruit, cheese stick, yogurt, etc. Perhaps you need to increase your pace when walking and keep your heart elevated for a longer period of time. Depending on your age, there are charts that recommend how long you should keep your heart rate elevated above a certain level to burn fat. If you are walking at a normal place that your body is accustomed to, then you won't burn calories. Here is a link to one of these types of charts http://www.erlanger.org/metabolic/? page=exercise and here is another http://www.cardioconnection.org/frameWork.aspx? cnt=cad/healthyLifestyle/exercise/recommendedHR > > The URLs are likely broken, but you can copy and paste into your browser. > > in Virginia > 299/212/150 > Lap RNY: 5/3/06 > > > Needing help > > > It has been almost 4 months. I have lost 62 pounds, 4 pants size. First > do not take this wrong because i am very greatful for what i have done. > My insurance paid for most of the sugery. Back to the point of my > email. I do not post here because i feel like my questions complaints > etc.. etc.. do not get answered. I feel like i am in a rut. I walk 30 > mins 3-4 days a week. Started lifting weights but feel like i have not > lost weight for about 1-2 weeks. Sometimes i feel like i am going back > to the old Selina. Execpt for the smoking part. Almost 4 months for > that. My question is how can i change the way i feel? Sometimes i will > snack, i really try to snack something good. Chocolate days are long > gone from my world. My family hates that... I have heard that dark > chocolate is healthy. Any inputs.. What kind of excericse should i do > increase my weight lose? > > Selina > 282/220/150 > > PS; I love being a size 20 again. > > > > > > Quote
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