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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / July 2004I'm back, dumpy and lethargic
It's noon and I'm still in my night-gown. I feel fuzzy-headed and so dumpy that I can't believe my size 14's still fit. I'm scared to weigh-in: I can see the pockets of fat that grew. It was a week of heavy drinking and less exercise than I'd expected. For example, we went on a five hour canoe trip that turned out to be 1/2 an hour in a bus each way, three hours of drifting down-stream with no paddling required, and a lunch break involving chocolate birthday cake. I'm pretty sure it was net-calorie-positive. I got a puncture wound in my foot and ran less than I expected, only went out running twice - but who feels like exercising when they had five drinks the night before? Most of the week involved sitting around a camp fire drinking or sitting in a fishing boat watching a bobber. Not exactly intense exercise. But there was an incident involving 150 bales of hay and putting my nice deadlift form to work. That certainly counts. I also took my kids and dog on a 90 minute hike once. None of the rest of my family were willing to go with us (they drove in a minivan to the same place I hiked to) and it was nice for my kids to realize that they were less wimpy than their cousins. We had to drive all night Saturday night to get home, then we had a huge day Sunday - three hours of sleep then had to get a kid off to the airport and then we went to the Women's U.S. Open golf tournament, then we had friends over for fireworks at our house in the evening. I'm just a puddle today. So if anyone has any words of encouragement I'm listening. I'm supposed to be at the gym right now. Instead I'm thinking of making another batch of coffee, shaving my legs (a week in the woods, guys, we need a sickle here) and digging into all the phone messages and emails. I think today I'll just start with drinking lots of water. Lots and lots of water. Back to basics. Dally > So if anyone has any words of encouragement I'm listening. get off your big fat butt and go work out. sheesh. >>So if anyone has any words of encouragement I'm listening. > > get off your big fat butt and go work out. > > sheesh. Oh, like, "shut up and lift"? Got it. Thanks. Dally > >>So if anyone has any words of encouragement I'm listening. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Oh, like, "shut up and lift"? Got it. Thanks. no, like "get off your big fat butt and go work out." it's the same advice i'd give myself, or anyone else. you've gotta get back into it sometime - why wait? Well Get some rest then today and tomorrow be ready to take on the world again. As far as the drinking is concerned, I just can't do it anymore. The carbs/sugars kill me more than the alcohol does. If I have even 1-4 beers or drinks I'm miserable for a day or two. Drink lots of water, take the day to rest and slowly get your life back in order. You'll be fine and back where you need to be in a day or so. Susan 280/190/140 > It's noon and I'm still in my night-gown. I feel fuzzy-headed and so > dumpy that I can't believe my size 14's still fit. I'm scared to [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Dally I know that when I feel the most "dumpy" and tired, exercise can really turn it around for me. Going to the gym might be the very thing to help you start feeling your normal self again. Just go and plan to spend some quality time focusing on energy and self. I love to follow up my exercise with 15 minuites or so in the hot tub. I then go and do several laps in the pool to top off my time, and feel so good after!!!  SignatureHopeful (282,279,145) highest...294 > It's noon and I'm still in my night-gown. I feel fuzzy-headed and so > dumpy that I can't believe my size 14's still fit. I'm scared to [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Dally > I know that when I feel the most "dumpy" and tired, exercise can really turn > it around for me. Going to the gym might be the very thing to help you > start feeling your normal self again. Just go and plan to spend some > quality time focusing on energy and self. I love to follow up my exercise > with 15 minuites or so in the hot tub. I then go and do several laps in the > pool to top off my time, and feel so good after!!! I agree that exercise is self-re-enforcing. Thanks for the nudge. Dally Welcome back, Dally! I'm sure no lasting harm was done to your diet. I'd recommend spending a couple of days eating clean and -- as you mention -- drinking plenty of water -- before you weigh yourself. There's no point in being bummed out by seeing a high number that probably mostly reflects water weight. You'll be back on track soon -- I promise :-). Chris 262/144/ (145-150) > Welcome back, Dally! I'm sure no lasting harm was done to your diet. > I'd recommend spending a couple of days eating clean and -- as you [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Chris > 262/144/ (145-150) Good guess. I had to work all afternoon (and from 7-9:30 this evening) but I had to take a kid someplace at 5:00 and as long as I was out I grabbed my gym bag and tricked myself into the gym. ("I'll just go and see whose there," I say, then "I'll just change as long as I'm here" and "I may as well just warm-up" then "Let's see if anyone is using my squatting rack".) If I can just get myself in close proximity to the iron then my body knows what to do. Sadly, I wasn't able to avoid the scale. Up three pounds. :-( Dally 244/179/170 My bf is big on camping and "roughing it". I can totally relate to the sitting around a campfire and eating and drinking way too much. However, with bf, there is always another grueling hike waiting around the corner... So yeah, after camping I come home dying for a bath and a razor, anything that doesn't smell like B.O., camp smoke or bug spray, and REAL food. But I love the time we spend doing that kind of stuff, and it generally only takes a couple days to get back into the swing of things. Definitely gives you an appreciation for the comforts of home we tend to take for granted! det > It's noon and I'm still in my night-gown. I feel fuzzy-headed and so > dumpy that I can't believe my size 14's still fit. I'm scared to [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Dally > My bf is big on camping and "roughing it". I can totally relate to the > sitting around a campfire and eating and drinking way too much. We had four campsites for the 17 of us and it turned into a sort of progressive drinking game. Margaritas at my sister's, wine at my mother's, beer at one brothers, tequila shooters at anothers... I typically have one glass of wine a week. Four to six drinks a day was much more the norm on this outing. I had prepared for the wrong battles. I was worried about my diet, but the food ended up being really good - one brother has turned out to be a fantastic camp chef. (Ever see anyone go camping with a cooler full of fresh herbs and three or four kinds of vinegar and oils? He even had toasted sesame oil, my favorite!) He made marinated grilled chicken breasts the first day and there were enough left-overs to keep me sated for most of the week. We had fried fresh fish one day, but honestly if you're going to eat fried food once a year it OUGHT to be fresh fish caught by yours truly! I just hadn't thought through what I'd do if a brother handed me a tequila shooter, salt shaker and piece of lime and a bunch of 40 year olds started chanting my name until I drank. Hmmm. Great example we set for our gaggle of teen-agers! > However, > with bf, there is always another grueling hike waiting around the corner... I was "Athletic Director" on this outing. I just did a poor job of it. I picked up a trail map and got one nice hiking/mountainbiking trip out of it, but on the second mountainbiking trip we ran into some rangers and they informed us that mountain bikes were NOT allowed on the trail. You know, the one that says "non-motorized use only" and has no "no bike" signs on it. Guess we were supposed to figure this out psychically. (What really pissed me off was that the entire week we were there we were the ONLY ONES using those trails. If we hadn't run into a ranger at a trail head we wouldn't ever have seen anybody else.) > So yeah, after camping I come home dying for a bath and a razor, anything > that doesn't smell like B.O., camp smoke or bug spray, and REAL food. I've had three showers since my last camp fire and I still smell smoke. I think it's in my nostrils! I'm swearing off bug spray, too, since I got DEET poisoning on Wednesday. That was our big canoe trip and I was trying to keep the deer flies off of me and got quite liberal with the DEET, drenching myself until I started to feel sick. Didn't deter the deer flies, either. :-( I felt so sick that I had to beg a shower off of my parents (who brought their 32 foot taj mahal RV with them and got grumpy when anyone wanted to go in it.) > But I > love the time we spend doing that kind of stuff, and it generally only takes > a couple days to get back into the swing of things. Definitely gives you an > appreciation for the comforts of home we tend to take for granted! I'm trying to figure out what comforts of home you mean. I love being in the woods on that river. I'd love to jump in the canoe right now and go enjoy the moonlight. Sadly, it's no longer tied to a nearby tree. Dally (who has a new canoe) >I just hadn't thought through what I'd do if a brother handed me a >tequila shooter, salt shaker and piece of lime and a bunch of 40 year >olds started chanting my name until I drank. Hmmm. Great example we >set for our gaggle of teen-agers! Oh, I guess that's where I lucked out this weekend.... we didn't bring any alcohol, other than that found in bug spray. :) >I was "Athletic Director" on this outing. I just did a poor job of it. > I picked up a trail map and got one nice hiking/mountainbiking trip [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >were there we were the ONLY ONES using those trails. If we hadn't run >into a ranger at a trail head we wouldn't ever have seen anybody else.) Ya know... argh... why do they have to take all the fun out of things. >> So yeah, after camping I come home dying for a bath and a razor, anything >> that doesn't smell like B.O., camp smoke or bug spray, and REAL food. > >I've had three showers since my last camp fire and I still smell smoke. > I think it's in my nostrils! Me too... last night I washed my hair 3 times and every time I'd rinse I'd still smell the smokey smell - although I couldn't find the source - it must be in my nostrils. and its so annoying. >I'm swearing off bug spray, too, since I >got DEET poisoning on Wednesday. That was our big canoe trip and I was [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >of my parents (who brought their 32 foot taj mahal RV with them and got >grumpy when anyone wanted to go in it.) yuck... I know it did help with the sweat flies and knats and mosquitos. I came home with 2 ant bites and 2 mosquito bites to contend with. But since west nile is an issue in Florida - we take many precautions. >I'm trying to figure out what comforts of home you mean. I love being >in the woods on that river. I'd love to jump in the canoe right now and >go enjoy the moonlight. Sadly, it's no longer tied to a nearby tree. My back was certainly thanking me for sleeping in my bed last night. My back hates sleeping on other stuff - especially the camper's bunks. It spasams all night long and then I toss and turn and sleep like crap. But thank god the popup has AC. Imagine camping in FL in 90 someodd degree heat w/ no ac. > But thank god the popup has AC. Imagine camping in FL in 90 > someodd degree heat w/ no ac. Must be no tent campers in FL. We always sought out campgrounds that catered to tenters so we wouldn't have to listen to all the noise from generators. iirc, the one place that allowed them required them to be shut off by ten pm. I like quiet when I camp <s> SignatureWalking on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 >> But thank god the popup has AC. Imagine camping in FL in 90 >> someodd degree heat w/ no ac. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >generators. iirc, the one place that allowed them required them to be shut >off by ten pm. I like quiet when I camp <s> Generators? Nope - electrical plug ins. There were campers. Most had multiple large box fans that they had setup to get the air circulating. I even saw one with a portable A/C unit. When the coolest it gets is 80degrees, you need something to keep the body cool.... This campground had both electric and water hookups. I personally prefer to have the electric, especially if we are camping for more than a few days. But for just a weekend campout, as long as here is water at the site to do dishes, I'm good with cooking by campfire and lighted by candles or lanterns. > Generators? Nope - electrical plug ins. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > water at the site to do dishes, I'm good with cooking by campfire and > lighted by candles or lanterns. Amazing. Now I think I know why my husband left FL. The *high* here is rarely 80 :-P I liked the electric hookup myself. I always have to read before I can sleep. SignatureWalking on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 > >I just hadn't thought through what I'd do if a brother handed me a > >tequila shooter, salt shaker and piece of lime and a bunch of 40 year [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Oh, I guess that's where I lucked out this weekend.... we didn't > bring any alcohol, other than that found in bug spray. :) Damn, what's the point? : ) Even when I backpack for a week at a time, I bring a flask of bourbon....Actually, I haven't done a hardcore backpacking trip for about four years, but I used to do one to two weeks at a time backpacking in the wilderness. It's an amazing experince, one where you push yourself way past any limits you had before. I would like to do some mountaineering next year, which will probably the only thing close to a two-week backpacking trip. It's an amazing thing...... Martha > > >I just hadn't thought through what I'd do if a brother handed me a > > >tequila shooter, salt shaker and piece of lime and a bunch of 40 year [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > which will probably the only thing close to a two-week backpacking trip. > It's an amazing thing...... Yes, backpacking is an amazing thing. You see things that one can only see if they are willing to travel by foot over rough terrain. But I'm surprised that you think there's no point if alcohol isn't involved...For one, when i backpack, if it ain't absolutely neccessary, it doens't go in the pack. I'd way rather have an extra pair of dry socks than a flask. Also, alcohol makes me sleepy and dehydrated - not really great for demanding hikes... Welcome back Dally! > I got a puncture wound in my foot a Ouch! I hope that you are healing up... > it was nice for my kids to realize that they were less wimpy > than their cousins. This made me laugh! I'm sure that you are right on target though! Hang in there, you'll be back on track in no time! Signaturejmk in NC |
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