The dietpower code I got from a program my husband downloaded that cracks the code. However, like I said, if we had a job, I would've paid because its definitely worth it. Its similar to the fitday website actually but I like it better. (I believe fitday is free though).
Well, today is the day we leave! Now if the darned weather was better!! It barely got to 50 yesterday, with rain...rain is forcast for today (scattered showers) and still too cold for my liking, but gotta go! I'll have every piece of my insulated, armored, Kev-lared gear on
Here's our itinerary-
Leave Vermont this afternoon, as soon as husband can get out of work. Head south...get as far past Albany, NY area as possible. Spend night in some fleabag
Thursday - head to Chesapeake, VA where a fellow biker lady is hosting us for the night. She's then continuing on with us.
Friday - get to Myrtle Beach! Staying for three nights.
Monday - leave, and basically backtrack as above.
We get back Wednesday the 12th - I'll try to let you know ASAP when we roll back into town, safe and sound and hopefully a little tanner
Hello everyone and great job on all of your progress! I don't normally post here, but in my 3FC travels I happened upon your discussion of DietPower, and I thought I'd just echo Silence in saying it's an AWESOME program! I love it, and have found it soooooo helpful! I'm absolutely certain that it has been instrumental in my 27 pound weight loss. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone interested in tracking not only their caloric intake, but also all aspects of food's nutritional impact. It stores all of your information, so you can see all the data since you started using the software, and it gives sources for all nutritients, even utilizing your own entries, as in, "Your intake of Potassium is too low. Foods that you like that are good sources of Potassium are......." It's just really great. I love the breakdown of fat into sat, poly and mono, also the carb breakdown, and all the rest of the micro- and macronutrients......and the ability to see an ongoing weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly average for everything, so you can see where you are for the week, for example, rather than freaking out over the splurge of one day.
You can make great graphs, it has a huge database of caloric expenditure for a CRAZY amount of physical behaviors (Silence have you looked through that....some of them are good for some laughs!) and calculates your burned calories *using your current weight* which is of course critical. There are so many conveniences and there's such a wealth of information available, it's absolutely worth the money. I paid for it, and haven't regretted it for a minute. And if ever I did, I could get my money back no questions asked. They have a lifetime guarantee that allows you to change your mind at any point. Also, if you're a known purchaser, you get emailed discount offers on their merchandise, as well as a sizeable discount at the time that you initially purchase the software. When I bought the software, I also got a bodyfat scale and a food scale (both by Tanita) and got not only a $30.00 discount, but a free pedometer to boot! I get emailed $10.00 discount offers all the time. Additionally, they have a good forum where you can speak to other members and get technological support, ideas for usage, etc.
Hey Silent, don't you love the weight loss graph? I love to look at my projected weight line drop below my goal line! Woo wee! And I love also the ability to enter a recipe, the number of servings it yields, and then enter a single serving! (I also do that for my breakfast, supplements, and water -- things I absolutely have every day. Then it's just one item, not multiple.)
Can you tell I love it! Sorry to chat your ears off -- just couldn't help myself! I'll shut up now, but not before I wish you all every success on your journeys....
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Reason: I forgot something!
VM, sorry I missed you before you left... hope you are having fun on your trip!
Sarah, I've yet to get the projected weight down to my weight goal but I've only been using it a few weeks so hopefully I'll get there! The exercise list can certainly entertain
I got an email today offering the program for $10 off ($39.99) if you input the code 'mommy' just incase anyone is interested. If I had the money for it, I'd go legit and pay for mine but we're still broke and jobless!
My weight is fluctuating this week. Up a pound, down a pound. I'm just considering this almost like a 'week off' because I'm eating mostly 'maintainance' calories. As long as I don't gain, I'm happy. Then Monday I'm going to try to get back to the loss-levels.
Hello, I have been reading this thread tonight and thought you all sounded like such an interesting and diverse group of chicks. I would love to hang out here with you all.
I am 34 years old. Married to a great guy, we have a baby girl, she will be 1 yr old on the 23rd of this month, and a 8 year old son who is my biggest motivator at this point in time.
Although I have not been overweight my whole life I have been dieting my whole life. I went through highschool size 5/6. And I look back and see pictures and wonder what was wrong with my brain!!! Cuz I thought I was fat and I did every diet that came along. My best friend and I were always on a diet plan together and she was thinner than me. In college I started to put on a few pounds and got up to a size 8. So I starved myself, I went for a couple of months only eating 500 calories a day, and every stick of gum counted for calories also, plus I was doing about 3 hours of exercise a day. I ended up passing out one night at work and had the paramedics come to rescue me from my own stupidity. I continued to try every diet that existed, made up my own, etc... I usually stayed around size 8. But I was up and down all of the time. Then after my son was born I was horrified to find that I now weighed over 200 pounds. I decided to stop destroying my body and to change my life a become a healthy mom. And I did, I lost down to 135-138 watching my calories and fat and I started to love exercise. So for almost 4 years I ate good, exercised and kept my weight off.
When I got pregnant with my daughter I started eating a lot of fast food and ice cream and everything that I shouldn't. And eating to excess. I gained a LOT of weight. And after she was born I fell back into the search for some quick fix, something that would make me thin again. I have wasted 11 months looking for this miracle that does not exist. So 3 weeks ago I got all of my old recipes out, got a plan of action, and started thinking and caring about what I was eating. I have done pretty good. I am trying to keep my calories around 1200 (although I think I am going to try this zig zag calorie method I read about on 3FC somewhere), my fat around 20 % and I like to divide my carbs and protein equally 40%. I try to eat the leanest protein and have a large amount come from soy sources. And I try to keep my carbs natural, fruit, vegetables, grains. So thats my plan. I keep track of everything on my palm pilot it has a program that tracks everything and calculates fat carbs protein, cholesterol, sodium, sugar, etc.... I love it. I know that this is what I will have to do forever. And I don't want to have to lose the same 80 plus pounds a third time. So I am going to do it.
I really enjoyed reading all of your bios. Sorry to just stick mine in the middle here. I hope this didn't end up a novel. I will keep checking in. I weigh in for the first time since I started on Wed morning. I'm nervous and excited. But hopefully the scale will bring good news.
You sound like me through the years. I have lost 40 lbs 2 times and working on the third time now. I have found that every time I am experiencing a life-changing event in my life I gain weight and it takes me forever to get it off.
I used to teach aerobic exercise classes and absolutely loved it. I was like a junkie. Anybody that wanted someone to exercise with would call me and I was ready to go! I am proud of the fact that I was teaching 9 advanced classes per week when I was 9 months pregnant. At one point I had to stop because of an injury. I gained lots of weight and boy was I mad. I remember thinking to myself, "After all that work, how can this happen!" I felt that my body was betraying me. Now I am back to that point again and couldn't hate it more.
Sorry, to ramble. I just wanted to say welcome. I have found lots of support here and I am sure you will.
Hi everyone, completely new person to 3fatchicks and this thread too, so I guess I should introduce myself. I'm 24 years old, and I go to the university of Iowa. I have a BS in Anthropology/archaeology but I'm finishing my BA in native studies and my BS in geology, so I have probably 2 more years of undergrad, then I go to grad. :P It never ends!! I have overall very good health, the only problem is my stamina and my weight. This is a significant problem because in order for me to get my BS in geoscience, I need to literally walk a mile hike up a mountain in Utah, doing stratigraphy charts the whole way (read: carrying a backpack with some books) and keeping up with the group. So I really need to be in shape before I do that, and so this is not only a goal for my health, but a goal for my degree! My heighest weight was 270-280, and I'm 5'3".
I did Atkins and a bunch of planned-meal diets, where they give you a list of acceptable foods for each week. Atkins worked for a while, but I couldn't get below 220. I hit that plateau at 220 and stayed there for something like 8 months until I gave up. I hit 260 again, and I decided to get my stomache stapled, because I was desperate. I want to have some kind of college life before I graduate, and I feel that my weight is isolating me from other students and harming my confidence. I didn't get gastric bypass, but it is still an option my doctor recommends if my current dietary changes do not work.
Then my doctor referred me to a nutritionist while I was considering going on the waiting list for gastric bypass. My nutritionist talked to me about portion sizes for a long time, and about calories, starches, and the different types of meats. After realizing how much food is in a normal meal, I used Healthy Choice, Lean Cuisine, and Smart Ones because those are super easy to make and they are good portion sizes. But I do incorporate "real" foods also, and my personal goal is to have one serving of fruit per day. I don't focus on drinking water as much as other people, because it really turns me off entirely. I hate water. I know, it's stupid, but just give me the freaking diet vanilla coke, it's one calorie and I will actually drink it.
So, I use fitday, and ever since I started eating low-calorie, low-fat frozen dinners, I've had a major decrease in total food eaten.. it's not that I'm not as hungry as before, I think, it's that I am not eating beyond my "satisfied" level now. So, I've gone from 265ish to 238 since March 27th or so. I've cut out all fast food except for low-calorie foods, which as you can imagine, is pretty skimpy. Subway and salads are all I get from fast food places now. Basically, all I do is count calories and fat, use fitday, and exercise at Curves 3 times a week.
I'm going to try this DietPower thing you guys recommended, it looks neat! I hope I can become a regular poster here, it looks like a nice board. Nice to meet other people doing "old fashioned" moderation and exercise too.
Last edited by niksa; 05-12-2004 at 02:09 PM.
Reason: Fixed something.
I have found that every time I am experiencing a life-changing event in my life I gain weight and it takes me forever to get it off.
Hello and thanks for the welcome. Maybe that is what my problem is. I just go crazy eating with major changes? Makes sense. I am going to have to work on that so I don't have to lose the weight again.
Also, Hello Niska. You sound very busy. Congratulations on your weigh lost so far. You are doing great.
Hello ladies! We're back, arrived home safe and sound late this afternoon. Over 2200 miles in a week!
Welcome new ladies! I'm too bushed now to read up on y'all (hey, I picked up a southern accent, lol) but look forward to getting back on my routine, and reading up past posts!
I'm not doing too great here. Last Monday my official weighin showed no loss or gain. Then this week the numbers on the scale are creeping up. I stopped logging my food religiously and I'm sure this is the reason for my gain. I really need to start logging again and staying within my limits.
Another thing I really need to do is to give myself another goal. I reached 175 by the end of April but never made a new goal. So, instead of continuing down, I'm back up to 176... how frustrating! I'll never get to my final goal at this rate!!
So... I think my goal for the last day of May will be... 173. If I can get back to 175 by Monday, then its only 1 pound a week for the next 2 weeks. I think I can do that! ****, I know if I really apply myself that there's no question I can do that. Now, for the applying myself part!!
How's everyone else today?
Christine
181/176/125-130
Mini-goal: 173 by May 31
Hello everyone. Man, it's been so long since I have posted here! I read all the posts pretty much every day but I'm really bad about posting myself! Hello to all the new people! I have really been kicking things up a notch lately and I figured if I started posting again that I would be more accountable and finally reach my goal. I am VERY happy to say that I have dropped 15 pounds as of this morning since the beginning of April. I'm feeling pretty optimistic even though I have a ways to go. I want to reach my goal of 120 (I'm 5'3") by the end of September. I need to lose about 2 pounds a week in order to do that. I dont know what happened this past year but I started gaining weight like crazy! I was eating everything in sight. When I started having to buy a new wardrobe I realized something has got to change! My husband and I rejoined the gym and have been going pretty regularly. So hopefully I will continue with some success. Looking forward to meeting everyone....again! I promise to stick around this time!
I still can't get myself to behave lately. No exercise still and my eating has not been under control I am only up 1/2 a pound as of this morning's weighin but I'm still not happy with my lack of control! If I'm good today maybe I'll have no gain to report for the week (Monday is my official weighin day). However, I am so ready to start reporting losses again!! I want to get back into the 160s so bad.... I MUST start showing some self discipline again!
On a happier note, my husband is finally employed!! After 6 1/2 months of 'not enough experience' and 'you're overqualified', he finally got something! Its only a six month contract job but hey, its money and it gives us the flexibility to decide if we really want to stay here or more back east (I miss the east coast so much!).
Well, I did my official weighin this morning and amazingly, I was down a pound! Now, to start behaving again so I can reach my goal this month!!
Hubby started his new job today... so I was up at 6:30 with him... yuck! I hope to get us all on a better sleep schedule though. No more late nights!
I am also hoping that having him gone all day will help with my eating habits. I tend to eat when he does even if I'm not hungry. Blah!
DietPower
I don't normally post here, but in my 3FC travels I happened upon your discussion of DietPower, and I thought I'd just echo Silence in saying it's an AWESOME program! I love it, and have found it soooooo helpful! I'm absolutely certain that it has been instrumental in my 27 pound weight loss. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone interested in tracking not only their caloric intake, but also all aspects of food's nutritional impact. It stores all of your information, so you can see all the data since you started using the software, and it gives sources for all nutritients, even utilizing your own entries, as in, "Your intake of Potassium is too low. Foods that you like that are good sources of Potassium are......." It's just really great. I love the breakdown of fat into sat, poly and mono, also the carb breakdown, and all the rest of the micro- and macronutrients......and the ability to see an ongoing weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly average for everything, so you can see where you are for the week, for example, rather than freaking out over the splurge of one day. 
And I love also the ability to enter a recipe, the number of servings it yields, and then enter a single serving! (I also do that for my breakfast, supplements, and water -- things I absolutely have every day. Then it's just one item, not multiple.)
Sorry to chat your ears off -- just couldn't help myself! I'll shut up now, but not before I wish you all every success on your journeys.... 
Hello!
from my own stupidity. I continued to try every diet that existed, made up my own, etc... I usually stayed around size 8. But I was up and down all of the time. Then after my son was born I was horrified to find that I now weighed over 200 pounds. I decided to stop destroying my body and to change my life a become a healthy mom. And I did, I lost down to 135-138 watching my calories and fat and I started to love exercise. So for almost 4 years I ate good, exercised and kept my weight off. 
I am only up 1/2 a pound as of this morning's weighin but I'm still not happy with my lack of control! If I'm good today maybe I'll have no gain to report for the week (Monday is my official weighin day). However, I am so ready to start reporting losses again!! I want to get back into the 160s so bad.... I MUST start showing some self discipline again!
