weight

[jesse_dylan]

I rode bike to work every day last week, spent lunch walking outside every day. I guess I had sort of hoped something miraculous would happen and I'd have lost weight, but I actually gained it (and I don't think it's muscle). Sucks being old and fat, because you just get older and fatter.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. The walking isn't anything new, and I had been working out every day after work anyway, which I no longer do (riding bike up that hill has got to be close to equivalent). Anyway, who has the time/energy for more than that? I'm not going to have another workout after getting home all sweaty and tired.

Alternately, I haven't weighed myself in a long time, workouts had been spotty, and eating had been not the best due to travel and stress and whatever else. It's entirely possible I gained weight, lost it, and ended up back where I was. Maybe if I keep up what I'm doing, my fat cells will shrink.

Eating is tough when it's your main source of comfort, and all the exercise makes me even hungrier. I guess I just need to be more careful. Nobody ever wants to do anything except go out to eat. It makes me fat and poor, and the healthy food I have at home that I meant to eat goes bad.

Comments

[ophelia11]

I feel the same, I always think like, well I'm working out a lot and trying to eat well and it's not working! But actually I guess I'm just not doing it for long enough, or I have a change in lifestyle and go back to eating badly/not doing enough exercise again. I cycle a lot, but then I also eat a lot of bad food alongside all the good food I eat, so I manage to maintain the weight I'm at but don't really manage to go down :( I want to try a lot harder in the summer and maybe go to the gym? I like good food though, sigh. And I like dessert. I also hate when my food at home goes bad and feel a lot better when I spend less out and just make everything from home. It's amazing how much money I can save by basically making the same stuff at home....
(weird self-centred rambly message..)

[jesse_dylan]

It's not self-centered because it's exactly how I feel!!!

[jesse_dylan]

I was really good yesterday and also cycled my @$$ off, and I ended up gaining 2 lbs! I will just chalk it up as a fluke. It's just annoying, because people (mostly my brother and mom) kept being like "I want a treat! do you want DQ? I want donuts! do you want donuts?" and I just kept refusing, even though I wanted it.

[stripedsocks]

I've found weight watchers to be the best thing ever as far as dieting. It pushes me to eat better things (like fruits and vegetables are free!) and has been an amazing thing in my life. It's not for everyone, but it's helped me make the diet changes I've needed.

[jesse_dylan]

Yeah, maybe it's time I do something like that, some type of tracking. I hate calorie counting. But I like how weight watchers does it with the points and stuff, and yeah, making fruits and vegetables "free" is brilliant, because then it gets people eating the really good stuff instead of just having 3 ice cream bars and a potato. Like, you can have your 3 ice cream bars (not that it's recommended), and then you can still have fruits and vegetables too! Otherwise it's easy to max out on junkfood, then just never eat anything healthy, and hate life.

[stripedsocks]

I failed a lot of times at calorie counting. LOTS. And WW weights the calories differently depending on what's in them. For example, I can have a big Yasso Greek Yogurt chocolate fudge bar for only 3 points whereas an equivalent ice cream bar (so no protein) would be closer to 15. So it steers me away from carbs and fats (because they're too expensive!) and towards fish, vegetables, fruits, proteins. And I'm now down almost 22 pounds and I feel SO MUCH better.

[jesse_dylan]

Yeah, I think that's the only way to do it. I am baffled by how many programs seem to accept as gospel this fiction that all calories are created equal. It makes no logical sense!

I will research what WW does these days and look into it.

[stripedsocks]

I think my favorite part is that I was able to choose to have online only and NOT go to meetings. Because I don't WANT to go out and see other people and weigh in publicly. Nope nope nope nope.

[jesse_dylan]

hahaha I MIGHT consider going to the meetings, but I have it easy, being a guy. I imagine there are not many guys usually at WW, especially around here. But I might quickly convert to on-line. That's really cool that they do on-line meetings! What a great idea! That would have always been my preference in the past.