Healthy Weight Loss

[sylvie]

Working on loose skin is something i am working on right now.. Mostly the arms, but also the tummy a lil bit.. i have lost 98 lbs so far with pretty much no toning, except on odd occasion.. Nothing constant.. So now i really need to start toning along with my work out to see what i can get rid of on my own..

i met with a guy a work with yesterday and he spent an hour and a half with me, going over different weights & exercises, how often i should do them, etc.. It's going to be a lot of hard work, but i'm a worker, and i'm up for the challenge, especially if it prevents surgery in the future..

deedarino, what i've been doing is online searches and finding out lots of information that way, have you tried that route? What specific areas are you trying to tone? In my opinion the best way will be a good weights program targetting those areas, and being consistent with that along with cardio.. i am still searching additional things that might help as well - hopefully i'll have more to offer but for now that's all i've got! ♥ i'd be willing to share what i learned yesterday re: weights, etc if you like & whatever else along the way!

Leaving for my dietician appt soon..weigh in day, i know it won't be good and there is a gain, but maybe that's what i need to refocus and quite sitting on my rear...

[Lady_Di]

Originally Posted by sylvie

Working on loose skin is something i am working on right now.. Mostly the arms, but also the tummy a lil bit.. i have lost 98 lbs so far with pretty much no toning, except on odd occasion.. Nothing constant.. So now i really need to start toning along with my work out to see what i can get rid of on my own..

i met with a guy a work with yesterday and he spent an hour and a half with me, going over different weights & exercises, how often i should do them, etc.. It's going to be a lot of hard work, but i'm a worker, and i'm up for the challenge, especially if it prevents surgery in the future..

deedarino, what i've been doing is online searches and finding out lots of information that way, have you tried that route? What specific areas are you trying to tone? In my opinion the best way will be a good weights program targetting those areas, and being consistent with that along with cardio.. i am still searching additional things that might help as well - hopefully i'll have more to offer but for now that's all i've got! ♥ i'd be willing to share what i learned yesterday re: weights, etc if you like & whatever else along the way!

Leaving for my dietician appt soon..weigh in day, i know it won't be good and there is a gain, but maybe that's what i need to refocus and quite sitting on my rear...

Sending you the virtual work out bands over at Spark People. I am happy to say they are actually being used here now. Versus being ornaments in my home

Please please please, read The Spark for his inspiration is priceless, seriously. His experience, strength and hope... worth the 5 bucks it costs to get his book. Plus you get points over at spark people, a good thing. Silly but good, lol I like silly. I like things that make me smile, spark people often times is one of them these days. Anyhows, something I will remind you of what he says about exercise and knocking our selves out, read about what he does, what his brother did and how unsuccessful his brother was in the end, after training like a muther pucker each and everyday... hours and hours, when he could no longer do as much, classes or whatever got in the way. Versus how he only forced himself to move, whatever it was for 10 minutes a day. Anything over that was Extra Credit, which helps give you a ego boost when you go beyond a mere 10 minutes a day. And btw, grrrrl... walking counts! You are doing good. Stop beating up my friend, dang it!


as for da skin flapping in the breezes here...

Alas, for me there is no way around the extra skin I have except via surgical intervention. But I am much older than you, no doubt. Not older and wiser, just older, lol... which means I do not make the collagen you younger folks do, thus you can do a lot to get your skin to stretch back into place, a bit.

As for the surgeries I will be having before I know it... they will be no walk in the park. Very painful surgeries, from what I have heard. And have seen first hand as an RN. These pannectomy and the tit job, since they are like sling shots at this point. *** my mentor likes to say she was once a 44 FF, now she is a 40 Long! LOL ***

The surgeries, which will be way harder than my recent two surgeries... my total knee replacements. Which I am happy to say are healing up nicely and am so excited at being able to jump on my bicycle once again. Those huge bones spurs are gone for good now. Nothing is there to interfere with my range of motion. It was awful that I did not even have the range of motion to be able to use a bicycle. But that was then, this is now. And my pretty little green Schwinn is just as happy to see as I am to see her, imnsho~!

My ex was so embarrassed by my legs not being able to straighten, I did have legs that were that of a very sad out of shape 90 year old. Today my legs are more like a healthy happy 30 year old. Just with some extra skin. Not too shabby being that I just turned 54 last week!



I go to a local Bariactric Support group here, several actually. One is free and open to anyone, whether or not they are going the path of surgical intervention or not. By definition Bariactrics is simply the area of medicine that focuses on obesity and the study therein. One of these groups is run by a wonderful sports psychologist here, health educator, too... she keeps adding letters behind her name, loves to learn, study AND amazingly, likes to keep things very simple. I have lost count of how many PhD's she has right now. anyhows... Her group is only 20 bucks a month and well worth it, my health is worth that! Hey that is the prices of a couple of burger dinners, no?


Dr. Betty's best advice. Concentrate on 4 things:

Nutrition
Exercise
Sleep
Water

Of course there is much more to each of those areas, as to why they are so critical and what not. She likes to focus on brain chemistry and what our behaviours do to alter it. Like breathing, she always starts off with us simply taking deep slow breathes, holding it for 5 seconds and the even slower blow it out. And if you do that 5 times, you will change your biochemistry noticably. Your neuro chemicals in your brain take on a whole new perspective. Our bodies respond so very much even to the most basic of things like that. I could go on and on about dopamine and serotonin, but I can just see your eyes glazing over, lol. But that deep breathing, that is one of the essences of why yoga works so effectively. I love my yoga, restorative yoga for the win!


There is so much research in the area of obesity, from a scientific standpoint, and we are discovering more everyday. Most of which is common sense, like sleep is imperative, circadian rhythms and all that bloody rot.

Yes, obesity stuff is big business.... sadly. I hate that. But for many people this life and death, though I know there are lots of healthy fat folks, I know for many years I was one of them. I still have the best dang cholesterol and triglycerides levels going, my blood pressure on average is about 110/60 - 115/70. As an ex cardiac nurse, I can tell you that is damned good no matter what size you are. My pulse rate is that of an athlete, which I sort of was before I gained all this weight to begin with. But my athleticism was relagated to the ballet studio which I practically lived in at one time, long long ago. Anyhows, I digress... nothing new there.

My point is that many in that Bariactric Support group will not get the extra skin taken off, they consider it a badge of courage and are proud of their 'wings'.

I am not so proud of em, though I do not hate anything about my body. I love myself at every weight I have been, big little and in between. That is not the issue for me. Though I am sure I have had my pity parties upon more than one occasion. I am simply glad that the g forces upon my joints is less. I have done those PT calculations for every pound how much pressure is exerted. Simple math exercise, such fun~! I do love math and science, as you may recall. Bottom line, being lighter is easier to carry me around, my joints are still complaining to me, though now it is not about weight, it is about lack of bone density.

I am diligent about taking my calcium q8 hours, which is the fastest our bodies can absorb the minerals in question. Not just calcium is imperative for me, but so is magnesium and Vit D, amoung other things. Lately I have been reading up on Iodine definciency as well, which is sadly more and more common in this day and age. Knowledge is Power. I firmly believe that. And I will act accordingly. And I do. Just doing it. Whatever it takes to be healthy here.

Just got my monthly shipment of my Shaklee Vit D, which I have to say I am awe of. Also their chewable calcium tabs are delicious, who would have thunk it!? Does anyone else here supplement and if so, what are you guys doing?

I realize everyone has a different story, there is no one size fit all solution here. Health and wellness, whatever works for you... *I know I am redundant here...* just do it!

Still willing to go to any lengths for my health here,
d'getting smaller grrrrl