Going to Lose: My Weightloss Journey!

I’m still feeling really good about staying on plan and saying no to various food temptations. i do think I’m going to stick to this general plan for a while, but I’m going to make some slight modifications after the
weigh in on thursday (tomorrow!)

Breakfast: 1/2 banana (55), yogurt (70), 15 almonds (130)- total: 255

Lunch: Chicken Breast (115), some roasted potatoes (110), salad (55), ketchup (30), nf milk in coffee (45) lunch total: 355

Snack: 1 green apple (35), 11 almonds (95)-snack total: 130

Dinner: a variety of things which I will total to about 730 cals

Snack: frozen yogurt with strawberries (120)

total cals eaten today: 1590–>DONE

Workout: 47 min elliptical and 40 min weights and abs

Also! i wanted to thank the peeps who have been reading/commenting on my blog! i really appreciate it! I dont usually get much feedback or direct support, so it’s so nice to get people’s support and input, and it’s so motivating!!!! thanks! I definitely read everyone’s blogs to motivate me!!!

lunch: tomato basil soup (320?), 4 almonds (34), 1 cup of fresh fruit (100), 1 box of raisins (130)-584

snack: 12 almonds (103), 1 yogurt (70) -103

dinner: 1 green apple (35), 2 slices of turkey (17), brown rice vegetable sushi, with the avocado taken out (385), small nf sf vanilla chai latte (150): total: 587

snacks: strawberries (150), yogurt (70)- 220

total so far today: 1494–>Done!!

Workout: 33 min elliptical, 17 min treadmill, 35 min arm weights and some abs.

although this plan right now i’m on is a bit restrictive in terms of carbs and cheese, I actually love being in control. for example, today i completely said no to oreos, cookies, fried things, etc. and it felt good. i think if i decide to stay on it after thursday I will need to make some adjustments so that it’s a bit more flexible, but I think if it works out, I’ll keep it around! i also just said NO to nachos and cheese! yay!!!!

feeling good!

(hoping some of these weirdo pounds come off)

Breakfast: 1/2 banana (55), yogurt (70), some strawberries (30)-total: 155

Lunch: some green beans (80), tiny bit of teriyaki tofu (55), 1 turkey hot dog (200), some salad with 1 egg white (50), tiny piece of h20melon (5), some nf milk in my coffee (45) and 3 pieces of extra sf h20melon gum (15)-lunch total: 450

Snack: 12 almonds (103) and 1 green apple (35)-total: 138

Dinner: chicken (225), roasted potatoes (175), 1 egg white (20), some baby carrots (15)-total: 435

Snack: frozen yogurt with some blueberries and rasberries (200), coffee with some nf milk (45), 5 almonds (43) and 1 green apple (35) -323

Total cals: 1501

Workout: 33 min elliptical, 17 min treadmill, 35 min weights and abs

my weight keeps bouncing between 203.5-205.5 and it’s driving me nuts. two weeks ago I was at 2o2.4 but i guess it barely lasted, and now im trying to battle these pounds that I thought were long gone.  So, I’m gonna try to go on a semi-restrictive plan until thursday.  if the plan works, I think I will stay on it until i at least reach 200lbs, but if I my weight isnt any lower by thursday, I’ll have to formulate a new plan.

So, here are some things that I will DEFINATELY NOT Be eating this week:

-no bread (wheat or white)

-no pasta (wheat or white, rice, egg, etc)

-no white rice

-no crackers, popcorn, pretzels, etc

-no processed carbs i forgot to mention

-also no carbs in sweet forms like: cookies, brownies, cakes etc etc.

-no cheese. period. (low fat, melted, etc etc. NO!)

-anything fried! (chicken, potatoes, veggies, etc)

Exceptions:

-Bread or cheese as part of salads (ie croutons or some shaved parmeasean) as long as they are not a main component.

-I can eat Kashi Go Lean Cereal

-I can eat cereal bars/Fiber1/Protein Bars

-I can eat potatoes in the baked or roasted form, but not mashed or fried.

-I can eat brown rice

ok, this will be starting tomorrow. let’s see how it goes.

Ah, i weighed myself unofficially today and I’m back down from some of my higher weights this week! which is good. I’m at 203.4 so i”m going to try and hit 201-202 this week! i really have to stay focused and stay on track. the weird thing is that I just dont understand how my body works, and why sometimes my weight is really high when I seem to be doing everything perfectly, and sometimes I dont go to the gym for two days and it gets lower. oh well. so weird. I just have to keep pushing through. a friend of mine who I would have never expected to hear anything told me the other night that it looks like I’ve lost weight since I’ve been going to the gym so much, which was the first person who was not my family to say something about my weight loss, which was nice.

anyways, i’m about to go to the gym to do a big 1.5-2hr work out!

woohoo:

Breakfast: 1/2 banana (55), 1 yogurt (70)-125

After gym snack: fiber 1 bar (150), 6 turkey slices (50), and 1 green apple (35)- 235

Dinner: Small personal pizza with some pesto and ham~750? guess, but i think it’s pretty accurate, i’d rather estimate it too high rather than too low

Snack: SBD snack bar-100

Snacks and drinks: Gin&Tonic 180, popcorn 140-320

Food total for today:  1530! –>DONE

Workout: 45ish min on ellipical, 17 min on treadmill, 55 min of weights abs and stretching

on track and not quite off track. I need to get my act together this weekend.  I can’t lose motivation. I can’t let go.  I will do this.

Breakfast: 1/2 banana (55) and 1 yogurt  (70)-125 total

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why I’m gaining weight!

I know I havent been exercising and weight training AS much as I have the past few weeks, and I also know that I havent been eating as perfectly and accurately as in the past, but I dont understand how and why I am gaining so fast and so quickly! I had such a great weigh in last thursday and in less than a few days I have gained a couple of pounds. it just doesnt make sense! i havent binged or done anything entirely crazy! but this makes me want to because If I am eating so well and gaining, I might as well eat badly and gain.  I’ve restricted myself down to 1400 calories for tomorrow to see if that helps at all with the weigh in on thursday. then next week (from thursday until the following thursday) i am going to go back to sticking strictly with my 1600 plan and complete exercise regimen.  if by that following thursday I’m not back down to 202.4, where I was last week, it’s time to change it up and switch over to my nutritionist’s plan that I was given, that isnt about calories, but about specific foods and food groups and servings.

ugh, i was so close to the ipod nano. and now im so far. why cant this just be easier. what happened? i was doing so well!

omg, i did an unofficial weigh in the morning and I’m up to 204.8. that’s awful! that 2.4 lbs more than I was on thursday! in way under a week! I really hadnt thought that I did that badly this weekend or yesterday, but apparently, i really did! shit, this is really bad. well, I’m not going to be down to 200 this week, but I do need to do major damager control and lower this number by thursday! oh man only two days away! i’m SO sad that I’ve gained this much! I dont even know how it happend, I really didnt think I made that many bad choices, but i guess i’m learning that a bad choice here and there really add up.

Ok i’m going to try to limit my total calories for the next two days, including evening snack to 1400 again. So i’m thinking:

Breakfast: yogurt (70) & 1/2 banana (55), and sugar free redbull (10)-135

Lunch: soup (70), rice cake (30), string cheese (60), turkey (50), apple (35), pudding (60): lunch total: 305

Snack: fiber 1 bar (140)

dinner: 600

evening: 200

Total calories eaten so far: 440 ; appx left: 760

I’m also really mad at myself because last night I was hungry and made myself a sensible 100cal bag of popcorn. i didnt want anything else and my friend was really hungry for junk food. i told her i didnt want anything else, but she really wore me down and I ended up eating some junky fried food. I’m so mad because I really lost my willpower there. I was satisfied with my popcorn and my friend was like “well you’re not full with popcorn” blah blah and I ended up eating fried food which I’m sure is a direct reason for my horrible weigh in. I also didnt go to the gym last Friday and Saturday which I had planned to do, and ended up not doing. And I’ve been really irresonsible about food on the weekends. I guess I interpret it as this invincible time where the food I eat doesnt really matter, or doesnt add up, but it does. And I do really need to take that into account and actually track on the weekends and at least try to estimate calories etc. Man this sucks. Blah. ok i’m back on track now with a full day cal limit of 1400 INCUDING evening snacks. no off tracks or anything. I have to fix this!

I woke up this morning and did just my normal non-counting morning weigh in, and I was exactly one pound higher than I was on thursday. that’s absolutely awful. i must get back on track so that I can see a loss this week! and not a gain, or a stay the same. blahh the weekends always do me in!

breakfast: 1 yogurt (70), 1/2 banana (55), 1/2 cup KGL (70)-total: 195

Snack: 1 fiber 1 bar (150), 3 turkey slices (25)-total: 175

Lunch: 6 inch turkey sub on whole wheat with provelone and 1 green apple -365

Dinner: Tiny dollop of mac and cheese (140), tofu (20), 1 small fried chicken drumstick (80), 1 piece of matzah (110), some pb (40), some butter (35), matzah ball soup (65), some salad (50), 1/2 cup of milk for coffee (30), small piece of watermelon (10)-dinner total: 640

Evening Snack: popcorn (100)

Total Cals so far: 1475 ;appx left: 125

Workout: 45 min elliptical, 50 min weights abs etc