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Enjoyed reading these! I can sympathize with the scale. Ours eats battery power. So DH, being "frugal", takes the battery out when not in use. PITA to put it back in so I just don't use it. I go by clothes sizing. I started a low carb/low sugar diet last September before I had to have a major surgery. I started with pure keto and had the typical keto flu with horrendous headaches and nothing would help. So I modified a little bit and it helped. Unfortunately I also developed some hair loss that I never had before. I always had thick hair (I'm female) and seeing all the hair in the sink and shower bothered me. I really notice it when I'm washing my hair as it just doesn't feel as nice as full. I tried some collagen powder but it would never dissolve and there's nothing like lumpy water and tea! So now I'm taking biotin tablets but the progress is slow. Weight loss has slowed, but mostly because I'm bored with being in the house. Haven't been able to do my 6 month (now 7 and counting) yet to use their scale.
Enjoyed reading these! I can sympathize with the scale. Ours eats battery power. So DH, being "frugal", takes the battery out when not in use. PITA to put it back in so I just don't use it. I go by clothes sizing. I started a low carb/low sugar diet last September before I had to have a major surgery. I started with pure keto and had the typical keto flu with horrendous headaches and nothing would help. So I modified a little bit and it helped. Unfortunately I also developed some hair loss that I never had before. I always had thick hair (I'm female) and seeing all the hair in the sink and shower bothered me. I really notice it when I'm washing my hair as it just doesn't feel as nice as full. I tried some collagen powder but it would never dissolve and there's nothing like lumpy water and tea! So now I'm taking biotin tablets but the progress is slow. Weight loss has slowed, but mostly because I'm bored with being in the house. Haven't been able to do my 6 month (now 7 and counting) yet to use their scale.
Surgery and weight loss can both cause hair loss. It's called telogen effluvium and it's temporary.
Enjoyed reading these! I can sympathize with the scale. Ours eats battery power. So DH, being "frugal", takes the battery out when not in use. PITA to put it back in so I just don't use it. I go by clothes sizing. I started a low carb/low sugar diet last September before I had to have a major surgery. I started with pure keto and had the typical keto flu with horrendous headaches and nothing would help. So I modified a little bit and it helped. Unfortunately I also developed some hair loss that I never had before. I always had thick hair (I'm female) and seeing all the hair in the sink and shower bothered me. I really notice it when I'm washing my hair as it just doesn't feel as nice as full. I tried some collagen powder but it would never dissolve and there's nothing like lumpy water and tea! So now I'm taking biotin tablets but the progress is slow. Weight loss has slowed, but mostly because I'm bored with being in the house. Haven't been able to do my 6 month (now 7 and counting) yet to use their scale.
Yeah, I need to weigh in regularly. I am overly tall for a woman, so it takes 20 pounds or more to make a difference in clothing size or to be noticeable to others, for that matter. Too easy to lie to myself.
Interesting about the hair loss. I have never heard of that. I hope the issue resolves itself in your case.
Being hungry most of the time can create emotional resentment. Fortunately, I live alone and my cat is currently 500 miles away, and I'm in New Jersey where we are socially distancing because so many people are sick so I can't hurt any living creatures.
But the other day I murdered my scale. I literally stomped the damn thing to death.
It hadn't been working right for a while. It originally had some sort of memory feature that went wonky early on, but it was still in there, so sometimes I'd get on the scale and it would show one number, then if you stepped off and back on, it would show another.
I've been seriously planning my food choices, recording in Myfitnesspal every day for about 50 days now, walking two or three miles whenever weather permits, and I've lost around 13 pounds. But for two weeks there, the scale showed no weight loss at all. Stuck on the same number. I'm eating vegetables and fish, no bread, no sugar, cut my wine consumption in half, and I'VE LOST NO WEIGHT???? ARE YOU KIDDING ME????
Then one day during this period I stepped on the scale and the 0.0 showed up for a second and then it went dark. I turned it upside down and realize the little battery door was loose, and then I noticed that it was loose because the bottom of the scale was coming away. So, I got some duct tape and tightened it all up, made sure the batteries were in securely, and I stepped on the scale and turned out I had lost four pounds. The memory thing must have been stuck on that old number and that's all it would show. OK.
Used it for another week, was more or less OK, then the other day I woke up super hungry. I could not go back to sleep but I knew it was too early to eat or I would be hungry again in four hours and eating again and it would go that way all day, and that is not acceptable. I try to do most of my starving during the day so I can eat decently at night and feel full for a little while.
So I got out of bed and as is my habit now, I got on the scale. It showed I'd lost another pound. But because I couldn't trust that scale, I stepped on it again. Read 2.5 pounds higher. I got off, stepped on it again, still 2.5 pounds higher. Got off, stepped on it again, and now it was some new number between the first number and the second.
I'd had enough of this thing's unreliability. I started just smashing the frikken thing with my feet. I stomped it until the plastic cracked over the green numbers and kept stomping till it was unreadable. Then I got off and went into the other room and I could hear the scale dying. Little tiny things inside kept clinking and falling for the next two or three minutes. I finally put it in a bag and walked outside and tossed it in the Dumpster.
I know I wouldn't have been so angry and destructive if I weren't so hungry. But it all worked out. Obviously that scale was at the end of its life anyway, and I've ordered a new one that I chose based on reviews about reliability.
I hope it understands that it had better work as it is supposed to.
I am DED. Lol.
Thanks for sharing, oh Mighty One! I am going to avoid getting on your bad side!
Thanks for sharing, oh Mighty One! I am going to avoid getting on your bad side!
Well, I'm usually pretty mellow, but hunger can turn me into something else. Just make sure you have a snack in your pocket to throw at me if I get out of hand.
My new scale is very nice, by the way. Consistent. If I step off and step back on, it still says the same number. Which is three pounds less than when I bought it!
There are no side effects, but it should be a lifestyle. If initially you will force yourself, sooner or later you will get tired of it
I’ve done unsustainable diets that limited food groups, only to go back to old eating patterns.
I’ve lost weight several times and only one time with a side effect. It was a rapid wight loss, >2 lbs a week, and I had three respiratory illnesses in rapid succession during that time. I put it down to my immune system being affected by the weight loss since I rarely was sick even though I worked in healthcare. It could have been a coincidence.
Losing more than 15 pounds at a time makes me look older .
My rounder face tends to bring the youthful look out.
As the pounds come off my face gets long and the cheeks get long too!
Same with boobs. They disappear.
Pandemic has me very heavy right now.
5'2 at 150.
Need to drop 20.
If i lose more than 30 i look very sick.
Thanks for sharing everyone. I need to workout. Gyms are still close. I bought a stretch band and I've done a few fulll body workouts, but the lactic acid has my chest and shoulders so sore. I need sone Icy Hot.
A side effect I got from intermittent fasting was crazy headaches and dizziness. I've found that I can go only about 3 hours without eating a fruit or veggie during the day.
Being hungry most of the time can create emotional resentment. Fortunately, I live alone and my cat is currently 500 miles away, and I'm in New Jersey where we are socially distancing because so many people are sick so I can't hurt any living creatures.
But the other day I murdered my scale. I literally stomped the damn thing to death.
It hadn't been working right for a while. It originally had some sort of memory feature that went wonky early on, but it was still in there, so sometimes I'd get on the scale and it would show one number, then if you stepped off and back on, it would show another.
I've been seriously planning my food choices, recording in Myfitnesspal every day for about 50 days now, walking two or three miles whenever weather permits, and I've lost around 13 pounds. But for two weeks there, the scale showed no weight loss at all. Stuck on the same number. I'm eating vegetables and fish, no bread, no sugar, cut my wine consumption in half, and I'VE LOST NO WEIGHT???? ARE YOU KIDDING ME????
Then one day during this period I stepped on the scale and the 0.0 showed up for a second and then it went dark. I turned it upside down and realize the little battery door was loose, and then I noticed that it was loose because the bottom of the scale was coming away. So, I got some duct tape and tightened it all up, made sure the batteries were in securely, and I stepped on the scale and turned out I had lost four pounds. The memory thing must have been stuck on that old number and that's all it would show. OK.
Used it for another week, was more or less OK, then the other day I woke up super hungry. I could not go back to sleep but I knew it was too early to eat or I would be hungry again in four hours and eating again and it would go that way all day, and that is not acceptable. I try to do most of my starving during the day so I can eat decently at night and feel full for a little while.
So I got out of bed and as is my habit now, I got on the scale. It showed I'd lost another pound. But because I couldn't trust that scale, I stepped on it again. Read 2.5 pounds higher. I got off, stepped on it again, still 2.5 pounds higher. Got off, stepped on it again, and now it was some new number between the first number and the second.
I'd had enough of this thing's unreliability. I started just smashing the frikken thing with my feet. I stomped it until the plastic cracked over the green numbers and kept stomping till it was unreadable. Then I got off and went into the other room and I could hear the scale dying. Little tiny things inside kept clinking and falling for the next two or three minutes. I finally put it in a bag and walked outside and tossed it in the Dumpster.
I know I wouldn't have been so angry and destructive if I weren't so hungry. But it all worked out. Obviously that scale was at the end of its life anyway, and I've ordered a new one that I chose based on reviews about reliability.
I hope it understands that it had better work as it is supposed to.
Thank you for speaking about this. Rage due to hunger is a very important side effect that not many people consider. If you are on a calorie deficit diet, it will be a while before the body and the mind get used to it. So you should be prepared for its possibility and work on keeping yourself calm.
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