A long term weight loss thread

[gigglebox]

Ha, no I'm definitely not gaining muscle. I have been eating my weight in cadbury mini eggs my diet has just been bad. But it's been much better the past few days plus getting walking in so I expect it to start going down soon...maybe.

Luna & cews heck yeah well done!

Luna I LOVE wedding things! Dresses, flowers, the rings...I am super girly in that respect. Do you have any pics of the dress?

 

[pacificlove]

Gigs, funny you mention mini eggs... DH did some grocery shopping while on the island yesterday. I saw 2 big bags (the big 2 lbs bag) in our cupboard this morning.. not even going to mention the big bag of skiddles!
Here is to the next 4 lbs my baby will put on over the next while?

Luna, well done and congratulations on your upcoming wedding!

 

[gigglebox]

Ugh the scale says I'm up another pound...despite my best diet and exercise efforts these last few days. But........just got my first postpartum period this may explain my gain (bloat probably) and my insatiable cravings for chocolate.

When I diet I step away from the scale usually for a week during my period because i ALWAYS put on a couple extra pounds. So i'm going to come back to it in a week or so and see what's up.

 

[Cewsbaby]

I had to skip my workout yesterday because I pulled a muscle in my calf which weirdly enough made my knee hurt. Stepped on the scale and my weight is back up a little from 2 days of not eating the best. Still below 180 but just barely. Ill see after I work out what it is. Im also due for my period any day now so I am sure some of it is bloat and constipation which I always get pre-period.

 

[MollyMoon]

Congrats on the weight loss !

I am still not really able to maintain a diet yet but it is getting better and baby is finally starting to get a sleeping pattern during the day, thank God! I was starting to get burnout bigtime.

So for exercise it's been mainly power walking around the house carrying dd. I did manage to do kettlebell swings with my dumbbells last week, one of my favourite exercises. And today I did a modified HIIT video on YouTube for bad knees. Slow starting but we'll get there!

I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow morning. I usually do it before I eat anything with minimal clothes on.. How do you all do yours?

Snow is finally starting to melt here so then we have mud around the farm yard so hoping things dry up fast I'm anxious to get the stroller out and get better walks!

Hope y'all are doing well

 

[gigglebox]

Oooh molly a fellow farmer! What do you have?

I also try to weigh in the am with minimal, if any, clothes.

Cew period definitely could be the culprit on your gain. Gl

I'm doing ok i guess...grazing throughout the day on sugar but my meals have basically been salads. Idk. I'd be better off if i could cut out the sugar completely but i'n not there yet!

 

[Cewsbaby]

Still haven't started my period so Im wondering if this is one of those weird months where I won't have one. Zero chance of being pregnant though! Did have a dream last night that I had a little girl. My heart melted. DS#2 was up ALL night last night. Not sure what's going on with him. It was crazy. I have a photoshoot in an hour and I am guzzling coffee to try and wake up.

Im honestly not too concerned if my weight has gone up some because I know I can get it back down but I have been eating health and watching what I eat so I don't know why it would go up so drastically. Oh well.

Doing easy oven fajitas tonight without tortillas. So chicken, onion and bell peppers! Lol

 

[MollyMoon]

The cheap son of a - - - scale kept dwindling between 135-136! (138 initial weight) so finally making progress... Dont think it's water weight cause I been downing lemon water.

Gigs-we just have some horses now. We used to have cows horses goats chickens pigs but dh has been struggling with some health problems last few years and we have been trying to cut down the work load. We're actually looking for a place in town now... So scary and depressing but it's too hard to keep up the place we've been here 17 years. We trained horses as our main income.

I'm trying to avoid sweets and have been doing better than I ever thought I would lol

 

[Cewsbaby]

Well... good news is that I didn't gain anything this week (injury and junk food!) and I lost .1 lbs! lol! So this week I went from 177.6 to 177.5. Not a great week TBH but at least its better than gaining.

TMI I have been seriously constipated for the past few days and this morning had the most painful trapped gas in my lower stomach. Postpartum gas had nothing on this bubble. I thought for a second my appendix had burst it hurt so bad. Still haven't been able to use the restroom yet. Hopefully soon and it will relieve some of the tightness in my belly. Also, 2 days late on my cycle. Zero chance of pregnancy so it must be from working out so much.

Out of the entire month of March I cycled all but 9 days. Woohoo!

 

[gigglebox]

You guys are killin' it! My son's birthday was yesterday so you can imagine how my diet was...not to mention all the leftover cupcakes on my counter top right now!

I may make a weight loss bet with my MIL. We did this after I had ds2. It was $75 to the person who lost 20lbs first. I kicked her ass lol. She never lost though so she still has weight to lose. We talked about it briefly yesterday but if I see her this week I'll ask if she was serious about it.

Cews how is your leg? Ugh i had bad bloat yesterday! Not sure if it was period related but i think it was a vegan "energy cookie" i had for my lunch. Supposed to be some complete meal thing...yeah never again.

Molly i feel ya on the farm workload. We have been reducing our flock (we were up to about 80 ducks but now down to 16) to simplify life...except I just stuck 7 additional goose eggs under my broody goose sooooo....i also have two broody ducks. Thinking of selling their offspring though.

But also they aren't our livelihood. We just had a side egg business.

 

[Cewsbaby]

Giggle, my leg is back to normal. I just rested it that one day and by the next day I was right back on the bike. I get the cheating on the diet for kids birthdays! DS#1 turned 4 and we did pizza and cake and then over the weekend we took him to Chuck E Cheese and had pizza again. I freaking LOVE pizza so it was hard to just eat a little and not over indulge.

I think the non weight loss was due to bloat. Today I stepped on the scale pre-work out and fully clothed was 177.8 and post workout 176.4 so it had to have been whatever was going on with my stomach yesterday. Im hoping to get to 170 in the next 4 weeks or so. Still no period and now officially 3 days late. Not too concerned as I am not regular pre or post babies.

My lunch for the last few weeks have been sandwich wraps with 2 slices of turkey and 2 slices of ham chopped up with a mound of lettuce on a low calorie wrap. Topped off with mustard and some hot cherry peppers. I crave it! So delicious!

Today is an awesome day though! 13th Anniversary today! Seems crazy when I think about it.

 

[gigglebox]

Congratulations on 13 years! We're coming up on 8 years of marriage, 12 years of dating. Time really does fly!

My new food obsession is homemade fresh thai spring rolls -- the type with the clear rice paper wraps and peanut sauce. It's full of veggies and usually shrimp but i do fake crab sticks and they are low cal and yummy!

 

[MollyMoon]

Omg peanut sauce.... reminds me of how much I love Thai food .. And the porn continues haha

 

[Cewsbaby]

Congratulations on 13 years! We're coming up on 8 years of marriage, 12 years of dating. Time really does fly!

My new food obsession is homemade fresh thai spring rolls -- the type with the clear rice paper wraps and peanut sauce. It's full of veggies and usually shrimp but i do fake crab sticks and they are low cal and yummy!

That sounds soo good! Do you have a recipe? Im going to be scrolling pinterest to see what I can find. I make a bomb sweet and spicy chicken (extra spicy in this house) that I might make with some quinoa instead of rice! Yum! Now I'm getting hungry again! lol

 

[gigglebox]

Here's the sauce recipe link. I use it extremely sparingly so it lasts me quite awhile. I just covered and threw in the refrigerator. Also because i was working with ingredients on hand, i used peanut but with sugar, no syrup, no ginger, and white vinegar instead of rice. It still turned out delicious!

Simple Thai Peanut Sauce

 

[Cewsbaby]

Im betting this would be an amazing salad dressing too! lol

 

[pacificlove]

Gigs, I read about this just now: so here is my (worthless) contribution to food porn.
Vegan-Friendly Cadbury Creme Egg Frapp Arrives at Starbucks
I am not a Starbucks fan...but maybe you are?

We are having pork steaks and steamed broccoli tonight unless I can find some fancier inspiration for how to prepare it different.

 

[Cewsbaby]

We are having pork steaks and steamed broccoli tonight unless I can find some fancier inspiration for how to prepare it different.

Im doing Pork Chops in the crockpot with Fat Free cream of chicken and dry ranch over some quinoa.

Package of boneless or bone in pork chops

1 can of Cream of Chicken soup

1 packet dry Ranch dressing mix

Directions:

In crockpot layer pork chops, add the cream of chicken soup, then sprinkle dry Ranch dressing all over.
Cover and cook on high for 4 hours OR Low for 6 hours.

Its a weight watchers recipe

 

[Cewsbaby]

Ok ladies... I have hit a workout wall. I DONT want to workout. This entire week I have dreaded knowing that I have to workout. As soon as I get on the bike I want to get right back off. I push through it and do my hour/20 miles/500+ calories but its a struggle. Im seeing the results and today post workout I was back down to 175.5 and pre-workout I am 176.8/177.0 but I am forcing myself to do the workout. Any tips? I really need to get a treadmill or something to have some variety.

 

[Cewsbaby]

Food Porn Time!!!

Veggie Burger Bowl...

Veggie Bubba Burger (any veggie burger) chopped up with lettuce, red onion, and Chrissy Teigen burger sauce (1/3 cup Mayo, 2TBS ketchup, 2TBS Chuhula Hot Sauce, 2TBS Dill Relish or 3TBS chopped pickles mixed). I added some hot cherry peppers to mine to make it spicy.

This was similar to a BigMac but so healthy and delicious! I’m stuffed but seriously want more.