Diet & Weight Loss Support #3

[Nadine216]

Hoody I get what you saying about DH fooling around!! When I sit down, mine will poke my thighs and make a whale sound He thinks it's hilarious, I beg to differ.
I am exactly your height and my goal is also 66kg!!!! I only have about 4.4kgs to go, but HELL they are stubborn!! I'll be keeping my eye on you

[Tracey Habron]

Hi there,

This is your professional support person speaking......and I'd like to join in if that's OK. Bit of a long post but it will give you my background.

I would like to be actively involved here, not just to help you and share my knowledge but perhaps to help myself as well. Never had the issue of post pregnancy weight gain (maybe 'cos I never got pregnant?) but I have battled weight issues all my life and even overcome bulimia which I had for 16 years until my early 30's. I stopped throwing up my food and got bigger and bigger – I got to 90 kilos before I got serious about my health. I am only 159cm or 5'2" so I was rather large even though I carry it well.

I got down to 70 kilos which is heavy when you go by the silly height and weight charts but is fine for me ‘cos I carry a lot of muscle - I was size 12. Actually, at 90 kilos I was only size 16 which the weight watchers lady couldn’t understand. When I got on the scale and it was 90 kilos, she looked at me, asked me to get off so she could calibrate the scale but I told her 90 kilos was right. I don’t think she had seen a 90 kilo size 16 person – usually they would be size 20 plus. I have a friend who weighed 10 kilos less than me, was even taller than me and was a size bigger than me. She couldn’t get her head around the fact that muscle weighs a lot more than fat but takes up a lot less space…….the realty in life is – it isn’t our weight, it is the size that counts.

When people ask me to help them lose weight, I have to change their mindset from weightloss to getting smaller. I ask them if it would be OK if I dropped them two dress sizes but their weight remained the same, or in one case, would it be OK to drop a dress size and gain 3 kilos……because it happens and they look fabulous!

Back to me……

Two years ago I had a c-section to remove a very large fibroid – the size of large grapefruit. Didn’t worry abut it – no cancer, menstrual cycle normal etc etc. Then a year layer, I have a polyp and mid month bleeding so thought that perhaps I should get myself checked out.

Being the kind of girl who prefers natural rather than medical, I found this excellent medical doctor who treats naturally and she did a lot of tests at great expense and discovered I have almost no hormones in my body. She really couldn't work it out because I am built like a woman (think Marilyn Monroe), the health symptoms I was experiencing was to do with oestrogen dominance and I have a totally regular, normal menstrual cycle........wierd.

Anyway, she put me on natural progesterone suddenly I was goingin an average of 1.5 kilos a month! At first I thought it was me. I had started a new job, maybe I wasn’t as active as I thought I was, maybe I was eating too much - pretty crappy getting larger all the time when I am a health practitioner and exercise instructor. So in October I wore a pedometer (was walking 11000 to 15 000 steps a day so I wasn't sitting on my butt), really monitored my eating, even did low carb for 10 days which usually quickstarts my program and drops 3 kilos in the 10 days - I only lost .5 kilo - then I knew something was not right and it wasn’t me……

So I went back and asked her if this progesterone treatment can make you gain weight and she said it can in some cases and sounds like I am one of those cases. I am now off the treatment and the weight is coming down again but I am going to have to work at it. I have the head callanetics trainer coming here next week to train myself and two other women and I feel so large!!! At least I am in good shape thanks to callanetics – by butt may be big but it doesn’t wobble……

I have just returned from 4 weeks in Europe and only gained 1.5 kilos which is a record for me – when I travel I love to eat and I have a few drinks which I don’t do when I am home as alcohol really stacks weight on for me. I went to Hong Kong once for 10 days and gained 3 kilos……and I don’t eat and drink heaps – I am just talking a glass or two of wine with lunch and dinner and a bit of chocolate everyday and wham……3 kilos!!

That’s my story – this is where I am at – need to drop 15 kilos as that is what I have gained this year on hormone treatment. I look forward to sharing my knowledge and supporting you wonderful women and in doing so, support myself.

[Tracey Habron]

You will have to be patient with me as I learn the acronyms. I don't know what TMI is. I presume you are talking about being constipated. How much water do you drink a day?

If you don't drink enough, eating all bran makes the problem worse by soaking up the little bit of water around and almost acting like cement.

I use inliven that Kelly has talked about - In-Liven - Why Our Members Are In-Love With Mivitality In-Liven! which is totally natural and helps the colon.