Ok, i do not get it

acatalina

acatalina

Cathlete
I eat really healthy. I bake, broil, eat grains , and lots of fruits and veggies.I rinse my turkey burger after cooking it. I cannot budge the scale lately.

On the other hand , my daughter eats nothing but junk.Pizza, pop,white bread,french fries, chips, doritos.. All garbage food and is a rail..

I work out. She doesn't ..
Life is not fair here...


Explain why this is to me?
 
Anne, are you eating enough during the day? Do you eat 5 to 6 times a day? You need to make sure you're getting enough calories to support what you are doing. If you need help with that, pm me.
 
I'm not sure how old your daughter is, but growing children and teenagers naturally produce loads of human growth hormone, which makes their bodies use more calories than someone who is no longer growing. Adults continue to produce hgh, but in much smaller amounts. So, if you're comparing yourself to someone who is still growing, then you will come out with the short end of the stick.

Sandra
 
How old is your daughter? The younger you are, the easier it is to keep weight off usually. She probably also just has a naturally faster metabolism. My DH is very thin and doesn't pay any attention to what he eats. He only started working out with weights after Christmas and that is very sporadic at best. He has this firecracker metabolism and there is nothing I can do about it! LOL
 
Yes Deb, i do eat all day. If i have no time i will eat a can of tuna, or a 1/2 a power bar..I keep them at work.Once in a while i will have a no eat all day day,but i pack food to take.
She is 22..
Like i just had a veggie eggwhite omlette. She would eat scrambled eggs, bacon and toast or pancakes and bacon.
I skip the butter, she eats it. I use low sugar syrup, she does the heavy duty...
Sometimes i think eating healthy is just not worth it.

Life is not fair...
 
>I eat really healthy. I bake, broil, eat grains , and lots of
>fruits and veggies.I rinse my turkey burger after cooking it.
>I cannot budge the scale lately.
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Oh my can I understand your frustration!!! I don't really need to lose a lot of weight but, I would love to lean out a bit....and I can't seem to budge the scale(BF%) no matter what I do. I eat very clean with maybe one or two cheats a week-eat 5-6 times a day almost nothing processed, use Cathe workouts (a little P90X thrown in there) and nothing!!

My weight fluctuates within the same 3-4 lbs all the time, and my BF within 1-3%. I have tried doing periods of more weights(lifting as heavy as I can-always), periods of more cardio, doing equal amounts of both and I have recntly taken a couple of weeks off from working out hoping maybe that would work..eating a little more, eating a little less and I am still unable to get the bodyfat to go down. I have one of those Healthometer BF scales... I know they are not completely accurate, I just use it as a guideline to see whether or not BF% is going up or down.

It is very frustrating to see other people eating very unhealthy all the time (most of the people at my work-ie-donuts brought in every Monday morning) and who do not workout at all...and we are busting our butts here (I do enjoy a good butt kickin' though a la Cathe;-))!!! You are right.....life is not fair!!!

I keep telling myself that the benefits of what we are doing reach much farter than just scale weight or BF%-so even though it is unfair at times as long as I am able to plugging away at it...I will.

If you figure out the secret please pass it along to me...

Well now that I have written a short story..

I just wanted you to know that there are others out there who can completely commiserate with you!! :)
 
I know that stinks. It's so hard for me to budge the scale too. Some people are just lucky I guess.
 
I would cut yourself a break and not compare yourself to your daughter. Making sure you stay positive about your weight and making sure she is not hearing you complain about your weight will keep her mind healthy in this society of judgment of people due to their weight. You are her single greatest influence for self esteem. Making sure you accept yourself and not comparing yourself to your daughter is so important for the both of you!
 
My DD is teeny tiny. In a few of her homecoming pictures, she posed with me and I was literally twice as wide. Oy!

Nope, it isn't fair, but it just is what it is.
 
Why: hormones, metabolism, more daily-life activity, youth!

But if you look back on your own life, wasn't there a time when YOU could eat the way she does and stay skinny?

I certainly can't eat the way I did when I was in my late teens/early twenties, and I need to exercise to make up for being less active than I was then.

But you're right: life isn't fair!
 
My guess is that there's about a 20 year age difference between you two. Her metabolism will catch up to her and she won't be able to eat that way forever.

Reminds me of the movie "Freaky Friday" and the mother, now in her teenage daughter's body, was revelling that she could now eat fries with no worries of them going right to her hips.
:9

Diane
 
Hi there- I'm no expert but I got really good results after doing a Gym Styles 3 month rotation, was burned out and took 1 whole month off of exercise-lost 5 lbs. still have 5 to go- it CAN be done--deb
 
"Like i just had a veggie eggwhite omlette. She would eat scrambled eggs, bacon and toast or pancakes and bacon. I skip the butter, she eats it. I use low sugar syrup, she does the heavy duty...
Sometimes i think eating healthy is just not worth it."

Anne,
If you think eating healthy is not worth it, try eating the way your daughter does for a few weeks and see what happens! You'll be back to eating healthy in no time. What's the point of comparing yourself to someone else? Your daughter is just lucky. I was an overweight 22-year old, who watched my skinny brother eat 10x what I ate. Not everyone has those genes.

How old are you? I'm finding that my metabolism has improved over the years. I'm not sure why though. I suspect it may be all the calcium in my diet. Studies have been indicating that people who eat more dairy have an easier time controlling their weight. You may want to read about that.
 
I know, the blood levels are excellent for me and i am in general very healthy.It just really kills me. You work out hard. Eat well, and you still need to loose weight.
Now, I am no where near obese. I was for a while there, but not now, just a little fat i would like to loose..

It makes no sense. I have a client that lives on Pepsi and M&M's and weighs a 110 # and 5"7. I would weigh 300#..

Dinner tonite is Spanish brown rice with peppers onions and Jalipino's and broiled chix.To me this is healthy and low fat and calorie...
 
>Dinner tonite is Spanish brown rice with peppers onions and
>Jalipino's and broiled chix.To me this is healthy and low fat
>and calorie...
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This may sound like a really silly thing to say, but I was doing the same thing you did, eat healthy, low fat, etc.


When I was pregnant with my second child, my OB/GYN told me that I was gaining weight too fast (which I also did with my first one but I dropped the weight within 3 month after birth) and send me to a clinical dietician, they put me on a low fat diet and my weight went off the charts. I kept doing the low-fat thing after my son was born, because I thought, well, she knows what she is doing and it went from bad to worse. I ballooned from 140 lbs pre-preg to 250 lbs

It was only a couple of months ago that I started doing what I had done before my first pregnancy and not do low-fat anymore. And what can I say, surprise, surprise, my weight started coming down at an average of 2 to 4 lbs per week.
My thought on it is, that if my body doesn't get all nutrients, it will go into starvation mode (and it doesn't depend on the amount of calories, I went down to as low as 1000 kcal at another nutritionists advise, and low-fat, BAD idea), my understanding is, that some vitamins are only absorbable if combined with fat (i.e. vitamin A) and if your body can't absorb the nutrients,it will act like in starvation mode and it will not let go of the pounds.

As a matter of fact, I had blood work done 8 or 9 months ago and my cholesterol was really bad, whereas before, my cholesterol was great. Last week, I had blood work done again, good cholesterol up and bad a lot down. And I do 2 % or whole fat dairy products/milk, eat eggs with the yolks a couple of times a week (no sticks and stones please :) ). Other than that I make my salad dressings with olive or pumkin seed oil, and continue to supplement with fish oil. Weight is down 32 lbs and blood work has dramatically improved. And no other changes in my workout or eating.

I am not a nutrionist, this is just my personal experience. Changes were so dramatic that I thought it had something to do with my fat intake. I ate that way before and never had a weight problem, blood work was great, only when I started low-fat the weight went off the charts and my blood work was bad!

Just my 2 cents. Hope this helps!

Carola
 
Thanks, for the info Carola..
I do est healthy fats. Olive oils, and i don't do fat free dressings. I like the South Beach ones which have good fats.

I think i need vitamins too. I am going to take a multi or B-complex. I seem to pick up everything that is going around.

My. Physician told me to keep doing whatever i was doing. She couldn't yell at me for nothing...
 
Hi Acatalina,

If you look the same as your pictures then you look fabulous!. However, I can certainly understand. I eat great all week and allow some slack on weekends and am dedicated to my workouts. I watched a young girl (prob. in her 20s) and with a great figure eat a whole snickers bar and her friend behind the counter says she's addicted and eats them like all day. If I ate even one a day the scale would be going up like crazy.

If anyone looks at me they would say that I am petite. People can't even believe I weigh 130 lbs at 5'3" basically because of having a lot of muscle. However, I would love to lose close to 10 lbs...why?...because I would actually like to look more like a fitness model and be completely comfortable in a swimsuit. Maybe you too have an ideal way to look that is causing you frustration??

Health is the most important thing. Here's another story and one I always remember when my thinking gets out of alignment. In my mid 20s I worked with a girl who was 28 years old, gorgeous, thin and almost everyday she would eat crap. Cheese hot dogs, fries, etc. I wondered how this girl stayed so thin when everything she ate was just garbage. Shortly before I left the job she had developed cancer. Apparently, it was the second time for her at a young age. She is fine today but it reminds me that just because you look good doesn't mean you are good.
 
Anne:

This is not a fresh, unique thought :p , but I would strongly suggest you go straight out and buy two books - Eat to Live, by Furhman, and Thrive, by Brendan Brazier. Both of these books offer a compelling, compelling reason to eat only plant foods, which give you major nutrients without the fat and other stuff that animal foods have naturally. But, most importantly, they both explain how a person's appetite and cravings settle down when they are getting all of the nutrients that we need. You know how you ironically crave dessert after you eat a big, rich steak or cream sauce? That is because you didn't get nutrients (other than iron and protein) that your body needs so it is still craving food in the hopes that you will feed it the nutrients that it needs.

I know you eat a clean diet already, but you still may find some adjustments suggested in these two excellent books that push you off high center. :7
 
Anne, I totally feel your pain. I'm in the same boat. I'd like to lose those last 10 vanity pounds, but I can't get the scale to budge either.

My husband is very supportive of how my body looks right now. He is always reminding me how healthy I'll be as I age, because I have good exercise habits and eat healthy. His take on it is that if I could eat whatever I wanted and not exercise and have a thin and perfect body, then maybe my health would be comprimised down the road. (not to mention, that he likes a woman with some meat on the bones) He's happy, I'm not.

I think he makes good points, but I still want to be smaller and tighter!!

Maggie:)
 
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