Heritage Weight Loss Thread

[AroModerator]

I wish you the very best in your achievement of your weight loss goal!

[Candice SappierGeek]

Thank you so very much!

[r4chel77Geek]

this lady’s recipes are kickin’ lol http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/

they are sooooo good- try the mockafoni and cheese (it’s cauliflower instead of pasta)

long story short, i HAVE to eat low-carb and this is helping a lot.
since i was 12, i have been a size 10/12. i was literally a size 4 just one year before that, before i got diagnosed with an endocrine disorder. i got obsessed with losing weight and ironically became a 14 fits most of the time. it sounds like you all might know the story; you try really hard losing weight and before the week is over, you totally indulge on one or two things you shouldn’t have. my senior year of high school, i was somehow down from a 14 and back into that 10/12. i wasn’t totally pleased with how i looked, but i was a lot more confident and never had days where i felt ashamed (i know i shouldn’t, but if you’ve struggled with your weight emotionally, i’m sure you understand). i want to get back to this point and try to just accept that maybe my body is meant to be at that 10/12 size. i’d love to ideally be a size 6 or 8 but if i start obsessing over that, i’ll end up at a 20 by next winter. i think the reason i was successful with it during my last year of high school was because i didn’t ever deny myself things so much that i felt like i was constantly starving; i literally would have my healthy lunch and then a salad dressing container sized portion of mac and cheese (i am an addict). i snacked on raw veggies constantly and exercised when i could; i realize now that i didn’t try to diet so hard or work out so much that it was torture to maintain. i spent time with friends; i somehow lost weight even though nearly every weekend we had late fast food runs together. i was active, happy and not obsessed with food or exercise, although most of the time i did stick to a very low carb diet. it really is about balance.

[r4chel77Geek]

also, i agree that BMI is a joke. i, too, have friends that way 30 to 40 pounds less than me and wear the same size. the thing is, if you’re at a store and you see people picking up the same jean size as you, you’ll probably notice that they might look completely different from you. there are women who appear much thinner and much heavier than me and will be at the same part of the rack. we really shouldn’t obsess over clothing size or weight because it really doesn’t equal health and confidence.

[AroModerator]

See, that’s just it. I didn’t indulge.

I was advised by 4 doctors and 2 dieticians to eat a low carb diet after being diagnosed with PCOS in my early teens. To cut a long and rather boring story short, I was essentially told that my situation was particularly bad, that I would never have children, I’d be lucky to make it out of my teens without cancer, and I would probably be dead before I was 36. You tend to find it easy to completely change your life and stick with it when death is on the table. So, I’ve spent almost two decades doing exactly what doctors and dieticians advised, eating a healthy low carb diet and exercising on a daily basis, and it simply didn’t work for me.

I agree, it is about balance, but balance for one person isn’t necessarily the same for others.

I don’t think anyone here is obsessing over clothing size or weight, and while I agree that weight doesn’t equal confidence it does have a connection with health, more so for some than others.

[r4chel77Geek]

i never indulged until i reached a 14. pcos has made me gain weight no matter how healthy i have been. i started a low carb diet and i always feel like i’m starving unless i eat vegetables all day long. that leads to indulging in several servings of a carb at least once a week. it’s horrible =( i can’t get out of this habit, eating well, binging, eating well, binging.. which is why my clothes are hardly fitting.

[AroModerator]

I’m not really sure why low carb would mean you can’t eat vegetables all day, especially given that dieticians have been recommending that a person eats at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day for the past two decades. Granted, on low carb you’re suppose to cut out/down the starchier vegetables, but that still leaves a lot to choose from.

As I said in another post, I believe in the one day off rule, which for me was potatoes for dinner, Maori potatoes if I could get my hands on them.

I feel you on the PCOS weight gain, and it not mattering how healthy you are. When I was in my teens I was heavily into martial arts. I trained before school, during lunch breaks and instead of taking gym class, I had actual classes I took after school three (or more) times a week (sometimes travelling so I could take classes every night) with an additional all day advanced class on the weekend, there was always a group of us who’d hang around an hour or two more after classes to go over additional things, and I’d also train on days after school when I didn’t have classes. Plus, I even took trips away, getting a week off school to go to other towns to train and teach, and there were week long camps or day/night seminars I attended. As anyone would suspect, I was extremely fit. The thing is, I was still obese.

Maybe instead of trying to enforce unrealistic standards on yourself you should simply eat a portion of carbs each day (I have no idea how large a salad dressing container is, unless you’re talking about bento containers which are only able to hold around a tablespoon). That’s a lot healthier than binging on them, it should allow you to slowly cut back on the size of that serving and mix in a day at a time of meals where you don’t have carbs.

Thing is, what if eating carbs isn’t actually what’s causing the weight issue?

[ShellyGeek]

Thing is, what if eating carbs isn’t actually what’s causing the weight issue?

Exactly. Besides that, your body needs carbs.

[AroModerator]

I agree, the body does need carbs, and low carb diets aren’t meant to be completely void of carbs.

[r4chel77Geek]

people with pcos literally cannot process carbs. we need to eat protein and cut out carbs as much as possible. i know it sounds crazy and untrue to most people, but literally, that’s what it is. most people have more than half of their caloric intake come from carbohydrates. people with pcos need to be extremely active and only have one or two servings a day of oats or whole grain brown rice.

[AroModerator]

Women with PCOS can process carbs just like anyone else, the issue isn’t with the processing of carbs it’s with the fact that a lot, though not all, women who have PCOS also happen to have insulin resistance. Which is why medical professionals advise a low/restricted carb diet. However, the strange thing is, is it’s not in fact a low carb but instead is a low-glycemic index diet which is advised to those with insulin resistance. A low-gi diet does in fact include carbs, but focuses on those with a low glycemic index.

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