Starting Today 10/10/09 to Lose Weight-Anyone Join?

  Cake,  The weight loss isn't really going, but thanks for asking.  I can oddly enough see a change in my shape....not as much flab as there was  in the gut area and I am starting to get a waist back, but so far as showing up on the scales, it isn't.  It is good I started WW as soon as I started on this medicine because I was losing at first and that sort of gave me an advantage because now even though I am not losing and am actually picking up a pound or more some weeks, I still am below where I was when I started....if that makes any sense.  But then again I did wear my shoes at the original weigh in so guess that added about two lbs to my starting weight.   Glad you are feelilng better.  I had a friend who didn't have any weight problems with tamoxifen at all...or any problems with it at all for that matter. 

    I was watching this commercial for Zumba on the tv this weekend.  I had to really talk myself out of ordering the tapes.  My father says there is a Zumba class at the life center he goes to and most of the people have lost a lot of weight.  But I am wondering how it would be with a knee replacement.....doubt if it would be good for it. 

http://www.alternative-medicine-digest.com/health-benefits-of-magnesium.html

Always check with your doctor before trying anything you read here. Everyone is different, and what might be good for some people might be bad for you, considering your medical history and medications.

Health professionals are trying to educate the public about the health benefits of magnesium. According to Dr. Nan Kathryn Fuchs, who publishes the Women's Health Letter newsletter, it's not more calcium you need for stong bones; it's magnesium. Although the government has raised the RDA for calcium from 500 milligrams to 1,000 milligrams a day, and U.S. women have one of the highest levels of calcium intake in the world, osteoporosis has gone up instead of down. Fuchs (no relation to this writer) says that the problem isn't too little calcium but too much. In order to be absorbed, she says, calcium must be taken with magnesium, yet experts estimate that most American women are deficient in magnesium.

What happens to that unabsorbed calcium? It gets stuck in your muscles, where it can cause cramps and even fibromyalgia; it gets stuck in your joints, where it can cause arthritis; it gets stuck in your kidneys, where it can form kidney stones; it gets stuck in your arteries, where it causes the plaque that contributes to heart disease.

and then there's this:

http://purehealthmd.com/supplements/minerals/magnesium/magnesium-benefits.html

JO, my twin - whatever are we going to do with you???? 

I'm still at the 10-12 lb weight loss.  Trying to figure out a way to jump-start the body again (and, no JO, not going to try your method!)

  I went to WW tonight and was ready for them to say up .5 pounds or you put on a pound as they usually do, but low and behold the lady at the scale said I was down 3.2.    At first I was ecstatic, but then I started thinking Hmmmm, the main SE of Megace is weight gain so what does this mean?  I did not do anything different this week than I have been doing so can't explain why this week was different.  All I know is that I am going to have to stay on a diet for a long long time to eat all the Fiber One bars, All Bran crackers, Quaker Delilghts and Edy's sugar fruit bars that I have stocked up on....oh and popcorn...I have tons of the Jolly Time 1 pt. snack packs.    I am staying away from things with massive amounts of soy like the soy burgers, roasted Edamame, soy nuts, etc, but my oncologist said there is a little of it in just about everything so I am not worrying unless it is one of the main ingredients. 

Today for the lst time my hands were cramping up to the point where my fingers were sort of curling up....wonder if this is a diet issue?  Oh, and I forget if I posted before that I got my cholesterol results and although my total is 191, my bad cholesterol is high.  So far the cardiologist has not called me to discuss this, but I told the nurse that I am actually eating healthier than I have for a long long time. 

Welcome KK and congrats on talking yourself out of those donuts.  Sounds like a good workout as well.  Keep it up.

Marybe, congrats on the 3.2 loss - girlfriend, embrace it.  Sometimes we do things we don't realize that will take the ounces off - maybe you drank more water or didn't snack twice last week.  Who knows but take it and run!

I'm still at the 10-12 lb loss - been there for weeks now - but the suit I wore today fit better, no straining.  I do feel healthier so I'm a happy camper.  Will be a happy RV'er if I can drop another 15 but the camper will suffice for now.

Glad you only need ideas - I need willpower.  I've gotten my exercising going great but my eating is still wayyyyyyyyyyyyy off.  Guess you have to be ready to make that change, just like everything else.  <  sigh  >

Well, I must be doing something right. I lost weight. 2 lbs since weighing in on Tuesday. Now that I have lost some it doesn't seem so hard not eating "good food".

Where is everyone! No one is posting. Did everyone lose all their weight they wanted to. That is Great! Now I know that didn't happen. Come here for support, let us know how much you are losing so we can congratulate you, Post what you are eating and give everyone ideas. I know it is hard to find good food to eat that is healthy. I lost 1 lb. I am down 3 since Tuesday.

Marybe-Good for you on your WW weigh in.

Jo-5:How are you doing?

Cake: you were really losing after surgery. Good for you!

Patoo-Still exercising?

Hey all,  have not been losing anything lately although have gotten back on the "excercise wagon".  I just made my appointment for my physical with my Dr., so will now (hopefully) be able to start watching what I eat again.  Appointment is for May 4 (so I have some time), but am going in on Monday for my 1st Mammogram and am very nervous, so hope I can stay away from "bad" thing this week-end!!!  Will try to post regularly again, cause it WILL remind me to eat better!! 

   I will tell you some delicious things I have found to eat.  There is a whole grain hard roll that is made by Alexia and it is only one point on WW.  It's 100 cal, 3 grams fiber and 1 gr fat which is how they come up with the one point.  I love starch and that roll just hit the spot tonight.  Also Fiber One makes a lowfat cottage cheese and you can eat more of it that regular low fat cottage cheese because it's got fiber and most cottage cheese doesn't ....the same holds true for FIber One yogurt.  I am learing that fiber is the key.  Oh and there are these Vitatop muffins and muffin tops that are absolutely delicious and only 100 cals and 1 point on WW..1 gr  fat and I think 6 grams of fiber.  I like the cranbran one with my coffee in the morning. The chocolate one is just like chocolate cake.  They are not cheap, but I find them a lot better than the WW desserts.  They are cheapest at Mejier.   Now the downside to all this fiber is it makes some people gassy and also you might find you spend more money on toilet paper. I have so many fiber bars and jollytime snack pack popcorn and Quaker Delights snacks in my cupboards that I am going to have to stay on this diet for at least another 6 months.  I do find that when I am on a diet I am a compulsive food shopper....if it's on sale and is a low cal product, I HAVE to buy it.  Eating healthy is Not cheap!! 

   Lovemyfam,  There are some good junk foods......like popcorn and there is this carmel corn snack with nuts and some of the combos are with berries called Smart Fook, and I am really hooked on some of the fiberbars which fill you up and taste good.  You can learn to like healthy food....I was never really big on fruit, liked it, but just ate much of it because I was too full from eating bad food.  Now I find there is nothing better than an orange and latley the stores have had some really good ones.  Just ease yourself into eating healthy and you might find you like it and for sure you will feel better.

   Don't weigh every day....it's better to weigh just once a week.  The scale can go up 2 lbs in a day just because you ate too much salt and are retaining water....just as in the lst week of WW people always say I lost 3.4 lbs or I lost 2.8 lbs or even as much as 5....but they really did not lose that much in actual fat or body weight, half of it was just water.  DON"T weigh every day. Listen to me, giving diet advice, when I am not even doing that well myself.  But I do know back from when I did used to be able to take it off really easily what works and what you are supposed to do. 

 Boy do I know what you mean about dieting making you more obsessive about food, Cake....I think about it way more than I ever did. I have enough food in my cupboards to feed the neighborhood if all the grocery stores failed to open....providing they would eat fiber bars, fish, fruit and veggies and popcorn.  And Patoo I also am a carb junkie and always have been....I could say no to the hot fudge sundae, but would never turn down a potato.  I can't think of any way you fix potatoes, that I don't love....the same goes for pasta.