Healthy living support thread for feminists

Weightloss can happen in strange patterns Yonic. I was stuck at a particular weight for ages, every time I stepped on the scales I was within about 100g of the same weight, then suddenly this week I've dropped almost a kg for no reason at all - I've had a really rubbish few days with diet and not been at the gym nearly as much as normal. Sometimes it just doesn't make sense.

Glad you're feeling better about things now FF, it's also weird how our perceptions of our bodies/selves depend so much on mood(/hormones).

I'm clearly just going to have to work hard to get a taste for vodka/gin/beer . Though I don't think I'll ever like gin, yuck (sacrilege on MN, I know...)

There's always going to be down days. Just went through one last week, just feeling really gross about myself (Didn't help AF was on the way).

I'm not sure TFF, DH thinks my shape has changed a bit.

Went on a long walk in The sun yesterday PM and feeling more postive today!

Yes,Yonic but have you lost inches?

That's awful feckity but like Sera said, I also have friends who developed an intolerance to wine. They generally stick to a vodka, gin or beer when they choose to have a drink now.

Feeling so much better this week then last , can't wait to hit the gym and really work it. Today is chest day, and I like chest day so looking forward to it. (Tomorrow is back day, so can't say the same :P )

Hello all

Went to the gym first thing this morning (it opens at 7am). Better mojo than last time, I decided to stick to my "best" achievement on the machines not extend it and then give up early. Worked much better! Going to try going swimming tomorrow night.

I know it's not about weight but am a bit dejected that I haven't yet lost any weight. Never mind, I do feel fitter!

Welcome OThe!

Sorry about your MC

Can I join? I feel very strongly about focusing on being strong and healthy rather than thin and pretty and love the idea of this thread.

Right now I'm clawing my way back from very fat and unfit after a year where injury and a 9wk pregnancy followed by MC totally derailed my previously regular and enthusiastic running. I started a Couch to 10K app a couple of months ago and am now running a steady (if slow) 30-40mins again. It's been really hard to accept being right back at scratch after running my first half-marathon a couple of years ago, but also really satisfying to be fit enough again to get that 'second wind' and meditative feeling from running, albeit only for a few minutes after which I want to die again. I'd love some feminist support for healthy living

Gym was a bit if a slog last night but pleased I went anyway. Then DS2 had a bad night so zzzz

Morning. I think I might have to give up alcohol. I hardly drink at all anyway. I went out on Wednesday night and had two small glasses of wine and felt significantly woozy. I tried to drink plenty of water before I went to bed but still woke up at about 3am feeling awful. It happens even if I just have one glass of wine, it's not like a normal hangover kicking in, it really feels like my body is reacting to some kind of poison - heart racing, really shaky and hot, and I can't get back to sleep for ages. I don't feel too bad in the morning, just knackered because I haven't slept. But I think it's obvious alcohol just doesn't agree with me at all any more.

So I went for a swim yesterday but had to go into the sauna to overheat myself before I could face getting in the pool, was too tired and cold. I'm still not feeling great so I might try to get to the gym later, but got various jobs to get through first.

Hope everyone else is feeling healthier than me at the moment!

Off to the gym (and bumping!)

Hola.

I've been on holiday so not paying attention to health I'm afraid. I did find that eating at irregular times meant that I ended up actually feeling hungry, which is a good thing, although what I ended up eating to feed that hunger might not have been so healthy.

In Spain, anyone is allowed to wear a bikini - there are definitely no bikini body enforcers.

Also, when I used to gain weight back when I was single I'd starve myself for a week....so.....In general I'm much healthier now.

See why I need this thread ;)

Well lets say I'm a 12 at M&S, and a 14 at Debenhams. :) At American Eagle I struggled to fit into US size 12! Although at Gap I'm a US size 8. It makes no sense.

I should do a fat measurement, and will the next time they offer it at my work (we do health and fitness tests every few months, as well as diabetes tests and everything, the joy of having a Type II Diabetes research team on campus :P ) The last time I did one, the stupid woman who read it though ( a nurse they brought in from a local hospital) tells me that I still needed to lose 4 kilos (I was 11 stone then), although in the fat to muscle ratio I was listed as healthy.

I think you must be pretty muscular to be a 12 at that weight (also given as you say it was your PG weight!)

If it would help, you could do a fat % measurement?

I would be happy to be a 12 again too! Mostly I am concerned about staying fit into middle and old age. I have lost very little weight yet but I feel fitter and can manage a bit more at the gym each time which is fab.

My BMI labels me as overweight. I'm 5'6 and weigh 13.2 stone. I understand that muscle is denser, but still! I weigh the same as I did when I was 9 months pregnant and a size 18/20.

Part of it for me is seeing myself NOW knowing what I looked like 5 years ago.

I eat so much better having a family then I did when I was single. Focusing on home made meals and having to plan lunches in advance has really been the kicker for me. When I was single it was a cinnamon bun (or 2) for breakfast, Chillis, or Subway or McD's or some other take away crap for lunch, and pasta or nachos for dinner with at least 3 bottles of beer or 3 rum and cokes. However, SOMEHOW I was a size 6-8 and always struggling not to fall into the underweight category. Now, it's 2 scrambled eggs with a little tiny bit of goats cheese for breakfast, some strawberries for a snack, some type of little salad with some kind of protein (chicken or nuts) for lunch, and some kind of protein with veg for dinner (tonight will be baked chicken with sweet potato mash). And I'm a size 12 on a good day, and cannot for the life of me get into a healthy weight bracket. :(

Not eating unless you're actually hungry is definitely the key. I went through a major reeducation for my body when I first started losing weight, to teach myself that actually, you can go quite a few hours without eating, and continuous grazing is not at all necessary. I have to go through it a bit again now as I've fallen back into snacking since reaching my original goal weight. But I'm going to try today, at least as some kind of balance to the excess cake yesterday.

I'm feeling quite down today. I know I'd feel better if I went to the gym, but it all seems a bit hard right now. Especially with it being so miserable outside. I want to curl up and drink tea and eat crap.

Good stuff!

To expand a bit more on my last post - before I went to the gym in the morning, I had a banana. Then when I got back around 1130 I had a tuna sandwich. Then nothing till pasta with the kids around 1800. And some naice ham before bed. But I felt hungry for both of the meals - usually I eat when not hungry as eating is being fitted in around life!

Feeling better today. Pretty much spent yesterday in bed after picking up DS from school (except for when he had to come and chat with me for 20 minutes at a time every 40 minutes or so). Looking at an easy day at the gym though.

Weird isn't it, about food?

I wonder how I would eat if i lived alone and wasn't tied to mealtimes.