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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / November 2003Another thought on why I gained the weight back
It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big factor in that was the colder weather. The cold is making me extremely hungry. I'm still logging what I eat and even after I've reached my daily allocation of calories at which point I wasn't hungry when it was warm, I'm still hungry. So far I've been able to tough it out but it's so very hard. Hopefully I'll be able to overcome this by drinking a lot of non calorie hot tea and wrapping up in a blanket so I won't be so cold (and it's not that cold here in Lubbock.) Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Tonia >It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began >my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Is anyone else suffering like this? Yup, it's not that cold here either, (southern california), but with it getting dark earlier, and needing a jacket, salads just don't appeal as much as a nice bowl of soup. Maybe you can switch to some high veggie soups? I make an adapted chicken tortilla soup (without any tortilla chips, cheese, and sometimes skip the avocado) that ends up pretty low calorie. I wouldn't be too surprised if you find out you do need a few more calories in the winter, but I think the hard part is finding how many more you can handle. Good Luck. > >It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began > >my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Good Luck. I'm going to try some soups next week. We'll see what happens. Thanks, Tonia > It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began > my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Is anyone else suffering like this? Were you on a low fat diet? I read that cold weather makes you want more fat. If you were eating carbs instead, you were not satisfying the fat craving. I am not yet suffering like that, but we'll see. i > > It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began > > my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > i Not particularly low fat but I try to moderate everything. I like a balance. This time around I'm particularly watching my carbs and trying to keep consumption of them to around 35% of my calories. I don't track the fat grams and I do eat meat but not excessively. My DH said he saw a newsreport that was about winter eating and it said it's normal to be hungrier and that's why along with the 4 big holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, that people party on, that most people gain weight during the winter. Tonia >> > It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and > began [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > keep consumption of them to around 35% of my calories. I don't track the > fat grams and I do eat meat but not excessively. Only 35% of calories from carbs? That strikes me as pretty low. I am not questioning your diet choice, but I would not describe it as "moderate everything". > My DH said he saw a newsreport that was about winter eating and it said it's > normal to be hungrier and that's why along with the 4 big holidays, > Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, that people party on, that > most people gain weight during the winter. Sure... plus, it is dark and more depressing. i > Only 35% of calories from carbs? > That strikes me as pretty low. > I am not questioning your diet choice, but I would not describe it as > "moderate everything". Wouldn't that be more than 1/3 of their calories, with the rest coming from protein, fats and alcohol? My understanding is that the average American diet is 40% fat. Say 5% of calories come from alcohol... coming up with 35% calories from carbs and 20% from protein seems fairly reasonable (and believable) to me. Wendy What are you doing for exercise? One of my problems is a bad circulatory system, but the exercise I do counteracts it in many ways -- no more cold feet, fewer migraines. If you exercise, you can eat more without regaining weight because you work off calories. Some of us have also found that aerobic exercise depresses the appetite for up to an hour. You should substitute hot veggie dishes for the salads. There are plenty of them: Chinese stir fry; India style recipes; colcannon (an Irish recipe, mashed potatoes with steamed kale and green onions). Soup is another hot food that is easily filled with veggies. You can even make completely veggie soup with fennel bulb as a base, but I wouldn't put cabbage in it because that's overkill. And I stick veggies in other stuff, like I stick baby peas in mac&cheese. The variety of veggies you get is probably also restricted because you're eating so many salads. This constricts your nutritional variety and that can contribute to cravings. > It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began > my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tonia I've been working out Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at the gym where I walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes, then I do 20-30 minutes on the recumbent bike and then 20-30 minutes on the elliptical trainer. On the other days, I use my ski machine and I'm up to 20 minutes on that b*tch. I know I should get back to the dumb bells but I just don't seem to be able to. The salads I make are complicated things with lots of different veggies, romaine or green leaf lettuce, spinach, broccoli sprouts or mustard and alfalfa sprouts, tomato, green bell pepper, carrots, celery, mushrooms, red onion, broccoli flowers, califlower and sometimes baby corn ears, palm hearts and artichoke hearts, . It depends on what I have on hand and how motivated I'm to go to the big grocery store that has the fantastic salad bar. My problem with cooked veggies is that they don't seem to stay warm long enough and I hate eating cold broccoli or green beans and I have to feed my DH also and he won't eat anything "exotic". I'm managing. I got on the scale this morning and I'm down two pounds. It was six days since previous one pound loss and it took nine days to drop that pound. Overall, I've lost 16 pounds in 73 days or 10-1/2 weeks. > What are you doing for exercise? One of my problems is a bad > circulatory system, but the exercise I do counteracts it in [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > > > Tonia Yes, I'm having the same problem. I'm very hungry. But I'm keeping it under control. I have to say, though, it is a daily struggle and it absolutely started with the cold weather. Cat > It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began > my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tonia > Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a > change has to come right there. I want only hot food. > Is anyone else suffering like this? Yes. I want hot foods, too. I've changed my salads quite a bit lately - I add steamed vegetables and warmed up meat on top now. I also sometimes just skip the greens and go straight for steamed veggies with some brown rice or bulgar and some meat all warmed up in the microwave. (I steam huge pots of veggies and eat the leftovers for days.) I've also been eating soup. I make turkey carcass soup: boil turkey bits with some onion, carrot, celery, sage, salt, pepper and what have you for a few hours. Let cool, remove all solids. Reheat the broth and add soup ingredients: chopped up turkey, frozen vegetables, rice/noodles/bulgar, etc. It's not that many calories but is filling. I often have two bowls of this for lunch! Wendy > It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began > my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tonia As I gain weight - it occurred to me that oct-nov-dec are definitely my weight-gaining months. It's hard for me to lose weight under the best of circumstances, between the change in weather, the ability to 'hide' in bulky sweaters and the socializing that comes in addition to the holidays - I'm just a food vacuum. Working as hard as I can to be aware of that - and also trying to consume more no-cal liquids - and making time for exercise will hopefully keep me in check. Good luck to you. Teri Tonia, I KNOW what you mean as I'm having a problem just to maintane ! I want to eat ANYTHING & it's after dinner and I'm through eating for the day that I get the munchees! I feel I just want ONE MORE thing to eat. Hang in there and we can do this. WARMLY:) glo I agree that salads lose their appeal when I'm freezing. :-) To combat the urge to "fatten up for winter" (and it's quite a strong urge) I find that a variety of really yummy and great-smelling herbal or flavored black teas really help -- i.e. apple cinnamon, orange spice, "christmas" blends -- something that smells appealing and comforting. Another plus is that drinking it warms me up and helps get my water in for the day (since I'm not so enthusiastic about drinking cold water while I'm freezing. Hmmmm, I think I'll make a cup of Constant Comment right now. Also, hot steamed vegetables (cubes of zucchini for example) covered with your favorite (low sugar low salt) spaghetti sauce. Baked cauliflower (rub or spray outside with olive oil, season, and bake for about an hour -- (cook it uncovered for the last half hour and the outside gets all crispy and yummy). Just a few suggestions of what helps me! Mary 325-150-145 > It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began > my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tonia > I agree that salads lose their appeal when I'm freezing. :-) To combat the urge to > "fatten up for winter" (and it's quite a strong urge) I find that a variety of really [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Mary > 325-150-145 I found that the cold weather was definitely affecting my water intake until I switched to herbal teas. I also have a recipe for curried cauliflower and some other very flavorful vegetable recipes that I'll be trying in lieu of the salads and raw veggies that sustained me in warmer weather. Till I can manage a low salt soup that has some actual flavor, (I suck at making soup) I'll try making these cooked veggie dishes for winter warmth and comfort. :) Jenn along with the season change, from fall to winter, comes the shorter days, and seasonal affective disorder. get more sleep, and be sure to get as much sunshine as you can......................  Signatureread and post daily, it works! rosie to avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. .......................elbert hubbard > It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began > my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tonia > It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began > my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tonia The problem is that due to the growing lack of sufficient light and cold weather, we (or at least a lot of us) are designed to crave carbs and bulk up during the wintertime. Think bears and hibernation. I just eat more protein and fat and less carbs. I understand if you may not prefer this suggestion. |
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