Hey there! I guess I just wanted to say that I've been lurking for months and I finally got brave enough to ask for advice/support/help
I used to weigh 292 lbs. And at 5'2", I looked like a teapot. Literally. Now I love teapots! Just not on myself.
So, I made subtle changes to my diet. I cut out cooking with butter, oil. I stopped making mac and cheese once a week. I stopped using cream sauces on pasta. I changed from white pasta to garden pasta. Little things. Doing that, I lost 35lbs, which is great! But it's nowhere near where I need to be.
So, 5 days ago, I drastically cut back portion sizes. And when I say drastically, I mean I started using the recommended portion sizes. That, I'll be honest with you, has been hard. I've been starving.
I also started using myfitnesspal on my smartphone to help me track calories and activity.
I also purchased a treadmill and walked for 70 minutes..a slow 70 minutes, but I wasn't used to doing much of anything. So it's an improvement. I'll gain more speed and time as the weight goes down. I hope it goes down!
So, I guess my point is that right now I have myself on a 1000 calorie diet while walking 70-90 minutes a day on the treadmill, doing housework and playing kinect sports (the party mode, so the sports are random) for 45 minutes 5 nights a week. I walk every day and do housework every day.
breakfast looks like this, a cup of tea (unsweetened no creamer), 1 cup of special k, 1/2 cup silk vanilla almond milk
lunch is usually a lean cuisine or slim fast shake
dinner varies. But last night it was 1/2 cup of brown rice, fresh green beans 3oz, 3oz fresh carrots, both blanched in water and 1 tbsp of lite soy sauce and 10 large shrimp in siracha. Tonight will be 2 cups of romaine lettuce, a turkey burger on a wheat bun, alfalfa sprouts, lettuce, mustard, ketchup and pickles.
Is there anything more I can do? Anything I should add? Is my diet too restrictive at 1000 calories? Thanks in advance for the advice and help!