I am in an 18 jeans now. I can't imagine ever fitting into a 8 or 6 jeans Glory! How tall are you if you dont' mind my asking? Wondering if there is hope for me to get below a ten. Which is the smallest I've ever been >.<
I am 5'7" I never knew it until I lost weight, but I actually have a very small frame (tiny wrists, I wear a 4.5 ring, etc). Some of it is vanity sizing, I was a size 10 in high school at my smallest. I would consider myself a circa 1990 size 10, but a 2009 size 6.
I'm calorie cycling
I've never had a bad experience with calorie-counting, and I do hope that this will become habit for me for the rest of my life. I am in the middle of a long process of learning what foods are truly healthy and which are absolutely not. I'm also learning how to control the amount of food I eat. Rather than sitting in the kitchen watching tv and eating for countless hours late into the night, I'll eat my dinner (though I haven't given up on watching the tv while eating, it's one of the few times I actually get to tune into cable and catch the news) and then I'll leave the kitchen. There was a time when I thought I'd never be free of nightly binges that left my stomach stretched and painful, and occasionally even made me sick.
However, for many nights in a row now I've put my dinner dishes in the sink, gone to my room to study, and fallen asleep without even shoving a handful of nameless faceless carbs into my face.
I think that, as personal as weight loss is to each individual, there are differences in the way we feel about certain words or certain methods. "Diet" is the big one, I think. To me it brings to mind childhood memories of my stepmother downing slim fast shakes and having a diet pill for lunch, then tearing through the drive-thru of Krispy Kreme for a dozen and consuming half on the ride home before dinner. It also brings to mind weeks of starvation, binging and purging during high school, when I never lost more than 10 pounds, but lost the same 10 pounds 8 times.
So I definitely understand the sensitivity towards the word, and the mindset that it carries along behind it for so many of us. I'm sure that a world without fad diets and magic pills would be a much happier place.
Calorie-counting, against a weekly, not daily average. I eat as close to whole food as I can, but don't refuse anything except for non-fermented soy products (documented sensitivity). Mostly just eating slower and smaller - I'm an enthusiastic omnivore.
I'm not doing a diet. I'm just trying to make a lifestyle change. Since last week, I've started working out six days a week for an hour - focusing mainly on strength training. Then, I'm eating six small meals a day while making sure I get plenty of protein, fruit, and veggies. I'm also not going to weigh for awhile so I won't be discouraged.
If you have to put a name on it, I would be a "calorie counter". I simply watch what and how much I eat everyday - all food is 'planned'. I shoot for a big deficit (both diet & exercisewise) Monday - Friday so I can eat at maintenance on the weekends, so I guess I "calorie cycle", too. I try to load up on fiber and protein so maybe I'm "low-carb" as well? I don't know what to call my exercise/diet routine, but for me, it works!
I don't eat sugar, fried food, meat or fish. I eat fresh veggies and fruit through the whole day and a normal healthy lunch - whole grains with veggies, tofu stir-frys, veggie soup, salad... I don't measure anything or think about calories that much, as long as its healthy I eat until I'm full. It has become clear to me that without tasty food I can't last long on a diet. So I prepare super healthy stuff I like and eat without feeling guilty.
But I also exercise exercise exercise.. And drink a lot of water!!
It works for me. But it's not an overnight thing unfortunately and you have to work at maintaning too (where I failed)
I do a modified program that was offered through my company. It is called Kinetix (company is called Kinetix Living) and it is basically eat a set number of calories based on your body weight and activity level, eating 6 small meals a day, and ensuring that each meal contains 40% carbs, 40% protein and 20% fat. The food portion also incorporates 3 days of cardio and 3 days of weights. The food is meant to compliment the physical portion of the program so you do not lose lean muscle (hopefully gain!) while losing fat.
It has worked wonderfully for me in the past but I completely fell off the wagon due to depression that went untreated for a year. I'm back to it and going strong!
Calorie counting here! I don't have a problem with the word diet, to me it means whatever you are eating. You could be on a big mac diet, and still call it a diet.
I never knew it until I lost weight, but I actually have a very small frame (tiny wrists, I wear a 4.5 ring, etc). Some of it is vanity sizing, I was a size 10 in high school at my smallest. I would consider myself a circa 1990 size 10, but a 2009 size 6.
