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I pretty much bombed!
I was good until the day I did the baking for Pesach. I just HAD to taste the cake batters to make sure I wasn't poisoning my family on Yom Tov. And you know what? During one of those taste/lick-a-thons I did detect some cyanide-tasting traces, so I kept tasting even more to see whether my suspicions were correct, and when I saw that I wasn't dying I knew that I had made some tasting misjudgments, but by then 'I was all sugared up'. Then along came Pesach, and I was good at the beginning, but then I broke my chocolate-pact with myself and started snitching a bit on chol hamoed and snitched through the rest of Yom Tov. My BIG question now is as follows: from all this cheating I gained only 2 pounds B'H, and I can usually knock it down within the first 4 - 5 days of tschuva dieting. Why then, does it take me upwards of 4 weeks to lose 2 pounds when I am seriously dieting, with no binges and no cheating for weeks?
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sportsmom
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Registered: 12/06/08
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It's nice to be back....... in every way...... back to the forum and back on the program.......
I didn't do too well either. It turned out that matzoh wasn't my biggest problem during Pesach..... My pact should have included, "do not eat all the leftovers while you are putting them away, especially if you need a lot of food for the next day..........
At one point I ate a whole side dish that was supposed to be available for a seudah the next day. Oy!! Don't ask......... And surrounded by all the goodies and preparing for the family..... It is not easy when you are cooking delicious stuff for everyone else and you relegate yourself to the non-fat, non-sugar things.... so I "slipped" a few times, but I enjoyed every morsel............. then I suffered the physical consequences of low energy, etc.........
Meanwhile, I won't go on a scale, but I tried on my Bar Mitzvah outfits yesterday and I think I'm back to whatever I was before Pesach........
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MarciaB
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Hi - it is good to be back to routine after such a long time away....
and from what i have heard and seen this week is that most everyone wishes they had done better BUT everyone says that being connected in SOME WAY - on line members, class members, forum members - helped them and as bad as it gets, it's not as bad as it COULD GET if there were no connection and accountability.
Oink, as far as "why do i lose so slowly....." - every time we lose weight we lose it more slowly and every time we gain it back we gain more quickly.
This is because when we lose weight, we lose some muscle along with the fat (that is inevitable) and when we gain weight we gain all fat - so those few pounds we lose and gain are not the same few pounds - and this is important because muscle helps metabolize fat so when we have less muscle to begin with, we lose the fat more slowly and each time we gain it back we add more fat and lose more myscle - i hope I have explained this clearly....so, what's the answer? Lose it and dont gain back - easier said than done!!
Sportsmom - if you are back to where you were before Pesach and that suit fits you YOU'RE GREAT!!!!
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I've been doing what I consider a slow weight loss (ok,ok I know that slow in that direction is better than no loss or a gain in the other direction) of 10 pounds so far. Ideally, I'd like to lose another 10 pounds. I know that eventually I could do it. But now I'm at a point where if I eat the wrong thing (even too much fruit or too much meat) on one day (only!) my weight starts to plateau for a little while.
So here's my question: Is my "ideal" weight really 10 pounds less than I am now? Or is it my "let's-have-a-few-pounds-to-play-around" weight? I feel like maintenance will bring me right back to the point where I am now....
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Sweet, make sure that you take into account your body type, age, and physical activity level when you are thinking about how much you want to weigh or what size clothes you want to fit into. Not everyone should weigh 100 lbs. or wear a size 2. From your question, it sounds like 10 lbs. less would not be easy or natural to maintain.
I bet you are very fit right now and another pound or 2 is all you need "to play around with." The plateauing on so little extra food probably means that you are where you should be.  |
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