Getting Fit Before Baby

[drjo718]

Stats:
Height: 5'6
Starting Weight: 184 lbs
Goal Weight: 145 lbs

Weigh-ins:
December 15: N/A
December 22: 184 lbs (one day early)
December 29: 183.4 lbs
Total for December: - 0.6 lbs

Planning to actually start my diet plan and exercise on new years! I see the fertility specialist on Jan 5 so I don't have as long to lose weight before the appointment as I was anticipating, but I'm ready to figure out what's wrong and have some help.

 

[cupcakestoy]

Way to go to all thw "losers" this month! lmbo I'm sure we all can feel the anticipation of the New Year creeping in! Super excited to watch us all melt away in 2015!!!

 

[ireadyermind]

Good job losing a bit this month, DrJo! Losing weight around the holidays is always so difficult!

In fact, I'm really struggling even with the idea of exercise these past couple of weeks. As a general rule I don't sleep well unless I take some sort of sleep aid (usually herbal stuff like Valerian Root instead of commercially prepared stuff like Nyquil), and since I'm TTC I'm avoiding taking anything when at all possible.

I'm so tired by morning that the idea of expending energy on exercise seems crazy! lol

What do you gals do to get yourselves into "workout mode"?

 

[cupcakestoy]

I'm starting myself back on Vit d, b12 & b6 to help me get over the fatigue, as well as starting plexus when it arrives(scheduled for tomorrow!) I've decided to go ahead & join the gym next week too. Seem to do better when I pay to sweat?! LoL Most Dr.s let ladies use unison or benadryl for sleep during pregnancy.

 

[EmmyReece]

Hi, I was wondering if I could join in too? I'm trying to get as much weight gone as possible (I have a big chunk to lose) so that we can qualify for help if we need it, though I am hoping I get a bfp in the meantime.

I am trying to get back into the swing of things with slimming world after christmas, new year tonight and my birthday on saturday. I'm hoping not to put anymore weight on though at my next weigh in, so fingers crossed for that and I can start to repair the damage from Christmas (a 2.4 kg gain )

Stats:
Height: 5ft 5
Starting Weight: 167.2kg
Goal Weight: 95kg

Weigh-ins:
January 7: 166.5kg
January 14:
January 21:
January 28:

Total for January: - 0.7kg

Things I struggled with this month:

Things I did well this month:

 

[cupcakestoy]

Welcome Emmy! Glad you joined us! We ARE going to do this Sister!

 

[deafgal01]

Heard about this thru another journal so thought I would come over here to see... I am not too overweight but can stand to lose maybe 30 lbs. ideally, I should be 140ish for my height but I consider myself to be big boned so I would be ok with 155 lbs. I will do my stats after I have had my sleep.

Edit: Back to add my stats... I hope to try yoga/pilates moves this month while maintaining my healthy eating habits (we decided last month to stop having poptarts for breakfast and trade that out for egg muffin like things instead to make it healthier for on the go breakfast).

Stats:
Height: 5'4
Starting Weight:192.1 lbs
Goal Weight: 155 lbs
Total loss: 2.4

Weigh-ins:
October 19: 188.8
October 26: 189.7
I got off track and gained a little back over the summer. The past two weeks I've been on Fall break so I told my husband we needed to start cutting back on our carbs and going for our daily 5k walks. That's finally giving us the results we have been trying to get - weight is coming off slowly finally.

Spoiler

April 6: 184
April 13: forgot to weigh in (183.3 Sunday to 184 Tuesday)
April 20:


March 2: 181.5
March 9: 181.6
March: 16: 182.2
March 23: (gone on cruise- out of contact)
March 30: 184.6
Things that I struggled with this month: finding motivation to exercise and eat right
Things that I did well with this month: walking around a lot when on cruise

February 2: 184.6
February 9: 179.4 (note: I have been sick yesterday and Saturday- still sick today)
February 16: 183.0 (went out to Olive Garden with family Sunday plus cupcakes over past weekend)
February 23: 181.0

Things that I struggled with this month: motivation to exercise (plus I was sick so for a week that reduced my ability to exercise and eat well).
Things that I did well with this month: increasing my numbers of steps during the week (weekends not so much though)


January 5: 193.0
January 12: 189.5
January 19: 188.1
January 26: 186.1
Total for January: -6.9

Things I struggled with this month: Finding motivation/time to do work outs (First half of month I did great with that, then the second half of month I kept having excuses or something kept coming up.)

Things I did well this month: Tracking my food daily (considering I ate out a few times and couldn't find the nutrition info for the restaurants) so I could see how that affects my weight.

Weightwatcher, Myfitnesspal, and Lose it! apps are all I have for tracking food/exercise so "Deafgal01" is the username to friend on those if you have those.

 

[cupcakestoy]

Welcome deafgal!

 

[ireadyermind]

Heard about this thru another journal so thought I would come over here to see... I am not too overweight but can stand to lose maybe 30 lbs. ideally, I should be 140ish for my height but I consider myself to be big boned so I would be ok with 155 lbs. I will do my stats after I have had my sleep.

Edit: Back to add my stats... I hope to try yoga/pilates moves this month while maintaining my healthy eating habits (we decided last month to stop having poptarts for breakfast and trade that out for egg muffin like things instead to make it healthier for on the go breakfast).

Stats:
Height: 5'4
Starting Weight:192.1 lbs
Goal Weight: 155 lbs

Weigh-ins:
January 5:
January 12:
January 19:
January 26:
Total for January: +/-

Things I struggled with this month:

Things I did well this month:

I used to try myfitnesspal and weightwatcher- both of which I still have but haven't updated at all in at least a year.

Welcome, deafgal! Good to have you with us. I hope our little support group can help you kick the last few pounds you want to lose!

I'm in the same boat as you are. The height and weight charts say I should weigh 165 pounds, but I'm very broad shouldered, almost 6 feet tall, have big feet, etc. and I feel that if I weighed 165, I'd look like a skeleton.

I'd be happy with 180 pounds and that's what I'm working toward.

I haven't been exercising enough in the past couple of weeks and I think that's hurting my weight loss results, even though when starting this new diet it was recommended to me that I don't work out for two weeks to allow my body time to adjust.

I'm kicking that to the curb!

Anyway -- welcome, welcome and here's to sticking to all our new year's resolutions!

 

[ireadyermind]

Hi, I was wondering if I could join in too? I'm trying to get as much weight gone as possible (I have a big chunk to lose) so that we can qualify for help if we need it, though I am hoping I get a bfp in the meantime.

I am trying to get back into the swing of things with slimming world after christmas, new year tonight and my birthday on saturday. I'm hoping not to put anymore weight on though at my next weigh in, so fingers crossed for that and I can start to repair the damage from Christmas (a 2.4 kg gain )

Stats:
Height: 5ft 5
Starting Weight: 167.2kg
Goal Weight: 95kg

Weigh-ins:
January 7:
January 14:
January 21:
January 28:

Total for January: +/-

Things I struggled with this month:

Things I did well this month:

Welcome, Emmy! Glad to have you with us.

I too am trying to repair the damage from Christmas. I did a good job with portion control and not overeating, but the TYPES of food I was eating were not the greatest, and I ended up gaining a couple of pounds in addition to retaining TONS of water due to all the sodium in the stuff. Blech.

I have heard that losing weight puts your body into "baby making mode" just because your cycles tend to regulate, and it's easier for your body to control the amount of hormones you need, simply because your body's smaller than it was.

I hope that's the case for all of us! I know there are many of us who are struggling with fertility issues (myself included!) and losing weight is the least expensive, most feasible option we have available.

Good luck and baby dust to you!

 

[Mrs. Tigger]

Hi Ladies,

First weigh-in for January: Down just over 1 kg from last week. It's still moving in the right direction, so I'm happy.

Hope everyone had a happy Christmas and a happy New Year. I've been more or less taking a break from the threads (except to come here to weigh in every Monday) in order to focus on non-TTC related stuff (focusing on TTC so much was really depressing me), so I'm not really up to date with what is going on anywhere, but I hope you are all doing well.

 

[cupcakestoy]

Hey Ladies! Down 2 pounds this week, so maybe I on;y gained 2 for Christmas lol Oh well at least its a loss. I did do fairly well with my plan until yesterday. DH was in the hospital & I did not get to take Plexus, plus we ate Chinese (my weakness is coconut chicken or shrimp lol) Sad to report that he passed yesterday while we were there. We knew he was terminal, but was shocked it happened so quickly...I am properly starting the Plexus products today, but will have to wait about joing the gym until Weds, as we have the viewing & funeral the next couple of days....This is my last Femara cycle & I have yet to get a +OPK, but I think I might have gotten it Saturday if my urine wasn't so diluted from the water! Anyways we have gotten in good bd so far, but not sure how it will go now. I will continue Opks for 2 more days, since the latest I have had is cd 16. Praying that God will give us a Miracle this last time around, but if not then onward we go! Hope the scales are good to everyone else today!!!!

 

[littlejune]

Can I join in? Just got my last bfn until we resume trying in the spring. Until then I want to be as healthy as possible!

My goals aren't necessarily weight related but I would like to lose bout ten lbs.

Some back ground and goals: I suffered from a terrible not fully diagnosed ibd bout last year- I lost 25 lbs rapidly (which I have regained +10 or so) began losing hair and eventually my body shut down and I was hospitalized briefly. Needless to say this threw my body off big time I was way too skinny to ovulate or have a period. I am luckily healthy and able to get by without my toxic meds but my cycles are funny and my metabolism is dead. I want to create a perfect environment for a little bean come springtime!


Dh and I have been married two years this summer and both work in jobs we love. I would have to leave my work if I had conceived this early since I work with kids who are pretty severe on the autism spectrum and regularly become violent.

I'm a great encourager and cheerleader so there's my sales pitch haha! Can't wait to become the healthiest mamas (and mamas to be) as possible with you ladies!

 

[cupcakestoy]

Welcome!!!

 

[ireadyermind]

Welcome, LittleJune! You're more than welcome to join us. I hope we can help you and keep you motivated to make the perfect home for a little bean!

 

[ireadyermind]

Well, I stepped on the scale this morning to see that my weight jumped up almost FIVE POUNDS from my last weigh in!

I know for a fact that I have not eaten 16,000 extra calories this week, and in fact I got a lot of walking in over the weekend, so I'm totally baffled as to where this 5 pounds came from.

It's the most disheartening thing! I'm really trying to lose body fat, and here I am, going UP instead of down.

So I went over my meals for the past couple of days with a fine toothed comb, and it looks like some of the meats I was eating (including boneless, skinless chicken breasts!) were SUPER high in sodium. Some of the chicken we'd purchased had been injected with a saline solution and it had 16% daily value of salt in it per serving! UGH.

To correct this issue, my meal plan for the week includes lots of fish (checked labels there, too. The sodium values are closer to 3% per serving -- MUCH better!), possibly eggs, and lots and LOTS of water.

I'm so frustrated.

 

[cupcakestoy]

Hi Ladies,

First weigh-in for January: Down just over 1 kg from last week. It's still moving in the right direction, so I'm happy.

Hope everyone had a happy Christmas and a happy New Year. I've been more or less taking a break from the threads (except to come here to weigh in every Monday) in order to focus on non-TTC related stuff (focusing on TTC so much was really depressing me), so I'm not really up to date with what is going on anywhere, but I hope you are all doing well.

Good job Mrs. T!!!! Way to start off a new year!

Well, I stepped on the scale this morning to see that my weight jumped up almost FIVE POUNDS from my last weigh in!

I know for a fact that I have not eaten 16,000 extra calories this week, and in fact I got a lot of walking in over the weekend, so I'm totally baffled as to where this 5 pounds came from.

It's the most disheartening thing! I'm really trying to lose body fat, and here I am, going UP instead of down.

So I went over my meals for the past couple of days with a fine toothed comb, and it looks like some of the meats I was eating (including boneless, skinless chicken breasts!) were SUPER high in sodium. Some of the chicken we'd purchased had been injected with a saline solution and it had 16% daily value of salt in it per serving! UGH.

To correct this issue, my meal plan for the week includes lots of fish (checked labels there, too. The sodium values are closer to 3% per serving -- MUCH better!), possibly eggs, and lots and LOTS of water.

I'm so frustrated.

Hang in there! Sodium is the devil! You'll see a BIG drop next week with your low sodium plan!

 

[deafgal01]

I did gain about 1 lb since last weight in. Oh well. We will see if this week changes me any with me going back to school to teach and being more mobile than laying on the couch all day.

 

[littlejune]

Well, I stepped on the scale this morning to see that my weight jumped up almost FIVE POUNDS from my last weigh in!

I know for a fact that I have not eaten 16,000 extra calories this week, and in fact I got a lot of walking in over the weekend, so I'm totally baffled as to where this 5 pounds came from.

It's the most disheartening thing! I'm really trying to lose body fat, and here I am, going UP instead of down.

So I went over my meals for the past couple of days with a fine toothed comb, and it looks like some of the meats I was eating (including boneless, skinless chicken breasts!) were SUPER high in sodium. Some of the chicken we'd purchased had been injected with a saline solution and it had 16% daily value of salt in it per serving! UGH.

To correct this issue, my meal plan for the week includes lots of fish (checked labels there, too. The sodium values are closer to 3% per serving -- MUCH better!), possibly eggs, and lots and LOTS of water.

I'm so frustrated.

ugh I HATE hidden food labels. When my digestive system flares up there is a LOT I can't eat so I fully understand the frustration of discovering hidden ingredients the hard way. Good thing that's mostly water weight so it should come right back off.

 

[MissDoc]

Welcome littlejune! Happy to have you.

Congrats to you ladies who lost (Tigger, Cupcake)!! Keep up the great work! You're getting there.

ireadyermind, I'm sorry about the water weight. That is always so incredibly annoying when that happens. Hopefully it melts right back off!

Deafgal, I hope yours comes off super easily too!

As for me, I didn't lose or gain this past week. Hopefully that changes this week! Trying to eat smaller portions and less junk.