My fiber today was 30 g. Much better than yesterday, but I still want to up it a bit. My main sources of carbs were my breakfast cereal, my bagel, and my tortilla. So, not so good. They could be worse but could definitely be better. I'm just having a terrible time cutting them out! We only have flour tortillas, but I plan on getting whole wheat tortillas upon moving into my own place (in 18 days! YAY!) and stocking up with my OWN foods. In fact, I plan on having a vast majority of fruits, veggies, and whole grains to eat when I am out on my own and making all my own food decisions.
Just wanted to drop by and say Hi to everyone!! It's been a odd couple of days because I had to work out of a different office and well that kinda through me back into old eating habits. I only gave in on Thursday and not Friday. So I am being pretty good at maintaining right now. I was 132.2 this morning!!! Went shopping this morning also and got 2 new shirts for our vacation to the races in a couple of weeks. I got a large in one of them and well I should have got a medium I think. The girls just aren't as big as they use to be, lol. But I think that it will be ok. Hope that everyone keeps up the great work!!
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Hello Everyone! Happy Saturday!
Ohhkay- That's cool!! Congratulations on getting a place of your own! That's a good way to keep yourself healthy without other people around. I live with two guys (boyfriend+brother) so it's like a frat house sometimes.
Petra- Hey girl! A medium? (sigh) I'm waiting for the day when I can get into that!
RockNRoll- You're pretty close girl! Way to go!!!
I'm just chilling out today, had my hard work out already early this morning now, so this afternoon going to have my light work out! Have a great day everyone!
Tinky: Thanks! I'm actually going to be living with my best friend- we lived together last year as well. We have made a pact to get our diets into gear and our bodies into shape, so hopefully we will be able to motivate one another!
RockNRoll: You are doing so awesome!!! Keep it up!
Petra: Medium, whoohoo!!!
Calories today were 1581. I was on my feet at work for 8 hours and had my cousin's birthday afterwards so I was way exhausted by the time I got home at 11 and didn't get a workout in. I'm sure I burned a good number of calories at work though! Speaking of which, I work part-time in the mall DIRECTLY across from the food court... talk about temptation!!! I was good though and got a 6-inch turkey on wheat with lots of veggies and fat-free honey mustard from Subway, along with a package of their apple slices. And it was yummmmy! Especially because I didn't have to feel guilty about eating it! (: I did however splurge a bit at my cousin's and had one piece of Larosa's cheese pizza. SO bad for you but I was really after working all day and it was pretty much the only option. Tasted great but not great enough to divert often! I also had a few pieces of White American cheese- my grandma gets it from the deli and her house is the only one that has such good cheese. It was too hard to resist, but luckily it won't be temptation in the future since I am onlyat her house a couple times a year.
Breakdown:
31% fat (the pizza and American cheese did that to me!)
50% carbs
18% protein
Not my best day. The good news of the day though was that a lot of my carbs came from fruits and veggies today, so I'm on the right track there. I just need to be more fat cautious.
ohhkay- Great job making the right choices!! I used to work in a mall and to get to the food court I had to walk by cinnabon and a pretzel cart. My mouth would always water but I felt a lot better eating my greek salad than splurging on sugary calorie laden foods! It sucks because the good stuff smells SO good! I guess if you close your eyes feta cheese can smell good too
Yesterdays calories were pretty low- I did not wake up in time for breakfast so my whole day was out of wack. I woke up later today but I ate a mini breakfast so I won't be so messed up.
To reward myself for my weightloss I am getting my hair cut AND colored on Wednesday! Yay! I have been feeling pretty lately and now I get to enhance it all! I wonder if my hair stylist will notice my weight loss- nearly 20 pounds is a lot right?
I think I am going to get a couple inches off and get side swept bangs. As for color, since I am a natural blonde I am just going to lighten it a tiny bit. I'm excited
My mini goal is to hit 145 pounds by wed. morning- That way it will be my 20 pound mark reward
Hey, everyone. Just wanted to drop by and say "hi." Life is starting to get hectic around here, but I'll post when I can. I think I may just try my hand at maintaining my weight until after we move. I don't have the energy or the time to struggle with these last 5lbs right now.0
RocknRoll: YAY! Good for you! It's nice to treat yourself once in awhile. Post a picture of the lovely new do, won't you?
Zenor: Good luck maintaining and with the move!
I don't have a calorie count for the day because I don't know the count for my grilled chicken salad at dinner, but I ate a lot of fruit and veggies!
I think I may weigh myself tomorrow for the first time since I started. It hasn't been a week since I last did so, so I don't really expect results. I just want to get used to seeing numbers on a scale.
Ohhkay- I'll post it and then take it down. I'm a very paranoid person Good luck with your weigh in!
Today I actually hit my calorie goal: 1,230 woohoo!
But I have some bad news. I am really 'backed' up and I had 3 tbs of flax seed this morning but that did not work. So, I bought some laxative tea which works in 8-10 hours. They say to take it before bed so I really hope it works. This has been a problem for a few days now!
I don't have a calorie count for the day yet, but I wanted to tell everyone that I weighed myself for the first time since I started all of this 5 days ago (seems like a lot longer than that!) and I lost a pound and a half!!! I know it isn't much and could be a fluctuation, but it's really encouraging to see those numbers move!
hahaha. I'll weigh in tomorrow since my problem is now gone! Boy, one second I was entering foods into *********** and the next second I had to sprint to the bathroom! It was really funny and my brother laughing at me!
ohhkay- WOOHOO! Great job
susan-great job on the weekend! Yesterday I ate a lot of sodium... since it was the weekend we stocked up on deli meats and even bought some turkey pepperoni. Sooo I feel pretty bloated today and I knew better than to step on the scale. Today I am eating clean so tomorrow should be good (I hope!)
A very bad weekend foodwise and emotionally...again. A near-complete repeat performance of last weekend with mom in tears and my DS getting sick all over my car on the way home. I'm back on the horse again today, though. Up 3 pounds last week. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
I am a newbie wanting to join in ...As long as I can remember being alive it seems I can remember struggling with overeating even when I wasn't aware that I was struggling. Last year was when I really saw the depth of the bondage I had to food and how much my weight had gotten out of control. I starting dieting @ 361 pounds last summer - right now I am at 300.5 pounds and that is after having really lost NO weight this year. After the first 60 pounds came off I started losing my fire and motivation part of the reason is that I have been in the past prone to trying to lose weight on fad diets with food plans that I could never commit to for the rest of my life. Another problem for was the reasoning for wanting to lose weight it was always about vanity or some special event or even some person. I have just recently realized the depths of the bondage and addiction that I have to food. My reason for losing weight right now is real simple ..I want to live. I have 2 toddlers that I want to raise up and enjoy life with for as long as possible. It is starting to sink in about losing weight and gaining freedom from food addiction really is about lifestyle changes and behaviour modifications. This is about knowing that overeating crap is not going make whatever situation I am dealing with any better. I am 33 yrs and of course I want to enjoy and experience all these things in life that I never did because of living as morbidly obese person ..but mainly I just want to live......................
Right now I am eating around 1500 calories a day - staying away from flour and sugar. I working on getting in around 30 minutes of exercise a day.
Gagyrl 361/300/218
Happy Monday ladies!
Queenjane: I'm right along with ya! I had such a rough weekend and now I'm up a bit =( I hate the little hiccups that happen and I don't lose any weight. Oh well. At least I'm back on track today.
Well, I'm wondering if I'm exercising too much and eating too little. Do any of you every worry about that? For the past couple of months I've been doing 1 hr. of cardio every day without any days off and have been eating around 1500 cals. I'm wondering if I will still lose if I cut down the cardio and keep my cals at 1500. I'll try it this week and see how it turns out! Well, here's to another week of being a bunch of LOSERS!
Hey girl! A medium? (sigh) I'm waiting for the day when I can get into that! 
