Hi all,
I stumbled across this site quite some time ago and read it quite thoroughly. Now I'm back for hints and tips. I'm trying to crack down and get strict about losing some weight.... make that a truck load! I could probably afford to lose around 40 or so kilos.
A bit about me, I'm 31, engaged to a wonderful man, work as a team leader in a call centre. My weight has yo-yoed all over the place. I was a chubby teen who was then diagnosed with Crohn's disease, and managed to gain around 60 kilos thanks to the evil drug prednisone. Once I finally came off of it (its not something you tend to stay on for too long, lucky me got to be on it for 3 years), and in the mean time got diagnosed with osteoperosis (thanks to the pred, at the ripe old age of 23), the weight slowly start to drop. Then I went on the best diet ever, gall stones (probably brought on by the rapid weight gain caused by the pred)! Even better, go through the public health system so you have to wait eons before you get your gall bladder removed so lose even more weight. I was looking relatively good, I was about 10 or so kilos off my goal weight. But then I had the op and I could eat again. I gained about 10 kilos. Then we (it was the partner's idea) quit smoking. Gained a bit more weight (I was very conscious of not replacing smokes with food) but I think I gave into my cravings and quitting smoking slows down your metabolism (that's if mine could've actually gotten any slower). I'm about 25 kgs off my heaviest but still teatering between double digits and triple (but shoosh its a secret).
Last year my partner proposed. My first thought was I need to lose weight for the wedding! A wedding date has never been set because a)we need to save enough money first, and b) (and the most important) I need to be thin. So a year has passed, nothing really happened weight loss wise. We recently moved and we now have the room, so I have hired a treadmill. Its early days on the treadmill but boy I have to really push myself to get on it. I've never been a sporting type of person. I don't mind the treadmill so I thought it would be my best option.
I'm yet to have any children, we're planning on waiting until we're married. You would think I would do everything in my power to achieve my goals (lose weight) so we can hurry up and get married so we can start trying (I'd desperately love children and it really cuts me up that I'm yet to have any).
I'm not afraid of being thin, I don't use my weight as a thing to hide behind, I absolutely hate looking the way I do. I don't comfort eat, I don't have a food addiction, so why am I finding it so darm hard to motivate myself???
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toyotachik
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Posted 2 years ago # -
ivycat
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Welcome! You have been busy and I know the ups and downs of Crohns as my baby sister (35) has it and did the whole prednisone routine. She was an angel and donated eggs for her old sister(45) from which we have a lovely daughter, but the treatment triggered the Crohns again and she has had to go on meds again
Im new to all this as well and have found for some reason this site seems to motivate me more than anything I have tried before. When I gave up smoking a while back I did it by doing more exercise - but my secret was to never ask myself if I felt like doing it - only to ask myself how I felt AFTER I had done it - and I got to like it more and more because I always felt better afterwards! Bit weird but thats the way I keep motivated with exercise.Posted 2 years ago # -
toyotachik
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I'm still waiting for the exercise buzz to kick in. I never get it. I just feel absolutely exhausted (is there a term for being more than just unfit)?!? Lol.
My younger brother also has Crohn's and swore black and blue that he'd never go on prednisone because he saw what it did to me, but in the end he had to go on it. I got some wonderful news (not) about a month ago; I have yet another illness (I swear I collect them, there's the Crohn's, osteoperosis, fibromyalgia, and now.... drum roll please), sarcoidosis. And the treatment is... prednisone! I'm asymptomatic at the moment, so fingers crossed it stays that way cos I certainly don't want to go on that drug again, ever.
I've never really consciously tried to lose weight before. Its evil how weight is so easy to put on, yet so hard to get rid of.Posted 2 years ago # -
Liz Quilty
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Heya and welcome to the forum!
Posted 2 years ago # -
astral_monkey
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Hi toyotachik, welcome to the forum!
Have you tried the Couch to 5K? I had a treadmill for a while last year, and I used this plan to get me motivated and using it. It starts you slow and builds up, so it's great if you're unfit.
I actually didn't like the way they formatted the plan on the original website, and so dropped it into a spreadsheet, printed it out and stuck it on my wall. Then after each workout I would tick the box so I knew where I was at. If you like, I can email you the spreadsheet.
Good luck with you weight loss! It sounds like you're doing great so far!!!
Posted 2 years ago # -
F B Stard
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Hi toyotachik, welcome to the forum. Sounds like you have definetly drawn the short straw with the different illnesses you have encountered. That's great news that you hired a treadmill but like you said it is always hard to get motivated to use it for other than a expensive clothes hanger :-). Start off slowly and build up day by day. Sounds like you have gone out 100% to early. People usually get the bug to exercise and then end up exhausting themselves making exercise feel like a bad thing. Not sure what the couch to 5K program is but it sounds similiar to what I get people to do. Make up a spreadsheet and start with 5 min exercise then 6 minutes, then 7 minutes etc. Before you know you will be doing a 1/2 marathon. Remember as long as you are puffing you are burning calories and making your lungs and heart work. If you are gasping for air you are probably pushing it to hard. Once you get into it you can push yourself that little bit harder. Good luck and keep at it.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Liz Quilty
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Hmm reminds me of something from way back, check out the Couch to 5km program at http://www.c25k.com/ for a nice easy way to get into running a 5km within a few weeks at a nice easy pace.
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