I know depo can. I have heard stories about women on depo gaining over 10 pounds. I have also heard you can gain weight on the pill as well. It just kind of depends.

When I went from the pill to the patch I lost weight with out trying. I think it really all depends on the amount of hormone.

The patch and the pill are the same thing: estrogen and progesterone. With the patch you absorb the medicine through your skin, with the pill, you absorb it through your digestive tract. The dose may be different, but that's it.

ETA: complainign about going from a 3 to a 5... geesh.

Yes it does cause it. Sucks huh?

-Rudey

I don't know about cold, hard facts or studies or anything, but I know that doctors warned me about that when I first went on the pill and I know of a lot of girls who totally BLIMPED OUT (not even exaggerating here) when they started. So, yeah, it could cause it...

Size 5 is still really thin.

I don't like stores that measure their sizes in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 - that is the way cheap high-scool type junior-size clothes come. I like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc..., the way nicer brands do it. Or, for jeans, I like them in waist sizes - 24, 25, 26, etc...

Also, it bugs me how Express does 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, and so on.

Sorry, I just had to rant - I know it doesn't really belong in this thread, but the size thing came up, so...

Co-sign... it makes no sense that I have trouble fitting into a size 5 but I can wear Gap jeans in a size four ok. I don't get it.

Is everybody ready? I am battling a nasty case of bronchitis :( But here is my plan

I will be doing:

A FIRM workout video tape (for the first segment of the challenge) it will be FIRM Maxiumum body shaping, 3 days a week.
Here is the video
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
It can easily be modified and it keeps the heart rate up there :)
The other 2 days will be the Winsor Pilates intro tape.

I will journal food on paper and eventually fitday.
Start by drinking 6 glasses of water and aim for 8 or more
3 fruits/veggies a day and aim for 5

I recorded my weight and measurements (hell no you are NOT gonna see those) and I will weigh and measure every other week

Okay, I'm on board too! I gained 60 pounds while I was pregnant, and I've only lost about 45 of it. I weighed a little more than what I wanted when I got pregnant, so to be at my fighting weight, I'd like to loose 25 more.

I'll post more about my goals later, but it's late here, and I'm going to bed!

Good luck everyone! WE CAN DO IT!!!!

aj

Well, everyone, how did it go?


.....Kelly :)

I lost 17 pounds! Its nice because everyone is like, "you look really good!" I've challenged myself to lose another 20 by 12/1.

Yeah... Jen fell off the wagon and got left in the dust. I had lost like 2 pounds and then gained it all back and then some. Yeah... But I am officially off depo on the 17th so maybe when I work out the weight will actually come off and stay off.

But writing everything down... yeah that stopped after I came home from Hawaii at the end of June.

I lost 5-6 lbs. :) I would like to lose 10-13 more.
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My new gym in my neighborhood opened today. I plan to go there tonight for a couple of hours. I need both the physical and mental release after the day I am having.........My goal is to lose 15 pounds and get back to 120. My weight goes back and forth. Ugh.