Ladiibug:

Hey hun! Yeah kefir helps the belly fat too! Do NOT knock yourself. Do you know what your maintenance cals are? For me , no exercise, staying at this weight it would take 2200 cals a day to maintain, so if all I did was drop 500 cals a day, to 1700, I would still lose 1 pound a week. IF I exercise 60 minutes, a day I can eat 2766 cals a day and maintain.

So if I reduce my cals to 1766 a day, AND I walk 60 minutes, then I lose 1000 cals a day! and I can lose 2 pounds a week. Every 3500 cals = 1 pound

Its just a simple numbers game hun. If you want me to run your stats, let me know. I would never recommend anyone eating 1200 cals a day. Not unless they were 5'0 and were near skinny. :lol:

1700 is still a losing number for me but I aim for lower cause I tend to creep higher than what I aim for. Like week 1 I aimed for 1400, and wound up at a 1550 average for the week. Week 2 I got cocky, plus was mad at the scale, I wound up at 1900!!!! ugghhh. SO Last saturday I decided to show my body who the boss was and had 2 days at 1200.

I survived, probably cause of all the excess food I had the week before but day 3 my tummy was HURTING. Not just hungry, but hurting! And seeing as how I walk 90 minutes a day almost, 1200 doesn't cut it. :lol:

So I am trying to stick with a 1400-1600 average range plus my walking. We just need to do what we need to do, not obsess about the scale and let our body's catch up. If we don't eat enough we will binge when we get ahold of food. If our meals are too strict and aren't what we want to eat, we will binge. This has to be livable.

That is why this has taken me 2 years to be down 75 pounds. Cause I refuse to be too strict, cause I want to enjoy treats and my food. (Also cause my ex stirred up trouble back in jan but that is another story. lol)

Yesterday I had 3/4 cup of kefir, 2 cups of cantaloupe and 2 cups of coffee(at 180 cals from creamer!) for breakfast. Lunch was 2 ww tortillas that are great but only 50 cals each. I splurged a bit on the cheese and had 2 servings, had 1 cup of beans and some salsa. I ate an entire bag of popcorn! But it was 94% ff and only 15 cals a cup.

For dinner I had 1 cup of ch. breast, 1 cup brown rice, with onion, bell pepper, garlic, and 1 cup broccoli with 2 tbs sweet n sour sauce. 1 multivitamin, 1 diet rootbeer and a ton of water.

Clocked at 1678 cals, 25%fat/48% carbs/28% protein

Did I feel deprived? No. Was I hungry? No. Did I eat enough to make my body happy? Yes. Did I eat too much and won't lose weight cause of it? NOPE!! My maintenance cals yesterday would of been 2672 since I walked 50 minutes. I ate 1678, so I burned almost 1000 calories.

You can do this without being hungry or skipping out on what ya want! Some tricks are to take foods you like and make them healthier!

Today, I want pudding, so i will work it into my plan. Saturday I want to go out to eat at a buffet, so i am going to probably do basic maintenance cals that day, you know, 2200. But I deserve it. by then I will have been eating really great for 7 days! And this isn't a diet, its a lifestyle. So make it something you can do and stick with!

You all are gonna think I am crazy, but this is how I weigh....DAILY. Yep, I get on that scale every morning and weigh. Then I record my weight in the 3FC diet blog and at the end of the week I AVERAGE my weight. Then I compare that to my previous weight. I have had a loss every week since I started. When you weigh in once a week you set yourself up to fail. Let's say your weigh in is Friday. You've been good all week, worked out, stayed on plan. You can't take the waiting any longer so on Thursday you take a peek. Unofficially (because it is no weigh day) you are down 2 pounds! You can't wait to Friday to make it official. Friday comes and you step on the scale and for whatever reason, your 2 pounds down has turned into 0 pounds down! You are crushed! Your motivation is dead, your spirit squashed like a bug...

Now if you weigh in everyday you do several things.
#1. You eliminate the waiting game. You will know your progress every morning.
#2. There are no surprise let downs. So you have an UP day. So what. You stay on plan and watch that number fall tomorrow. It is so much easier to let go of the up/ no loss days when you know you get another shot at it tomorrow.
#3. There is a DAILY reminder to stay on plan. What better motivator then to watch that number creep down every day. Your eyes are literally always on the prize. And if you have an up day you usually know exactly why..."I shouldn't have eaten the entire chocolate cake!"

This week i am going to average a pound down...and I am PMS-ing. If I had waited to weigh in tomorrow like I did before I would probably show no loss or a gain! But becasue I average my weight I get the benefit of all those down numbers earlier in the week. :)

So that is how I handle the scale. I don't fear it. It is my friend... I don't allow it to become a beast or tormentor. Because I keep it in check. I thought some of you would like to know, since there has been alot of "scale hatin" going on. :lol:

jasmine, you are doing amzaing things. no worries if it's slow. i'm glad that you still allow yourself to enjoy things. =)

as far as weighing goes, i used to be pretty obsessive about it, but lately (partly because it's been such a downer, i suppose) i've been focusing more on how i FEEL and how things fit me. it's probably a better indicator anyway, because weights can fluctuate so much and because of the whole muscle vs. fat weights. however i think i AM due for a check-in with my scale soon...

Just a quck check in as I still have dusting to do and get the car packed and find my daughter's cat who is hiding somewhere, YUMM!!! Got Dad's shopping done, only little visit though, better next time I hope.

Today I weighed in at 216.2, lowest yet, pleased with that, but blue it tonnight with three pieces of chicken lightly breaded and a few roasted pot. and a drink. Oh yes and a rollo ice cream on a stick. Bad bad bad! Hopefully will make up for it tomorrow.

Have a good week all, talk to you soon.
Sharon S.

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Today's exercise...I ran 20 mins. I walked/warmed up/cool down/ stretching for 15 minutes, and Firm Yoga for 30 minutes. A total of 65 minutes today...Yay me! :cheer: I am a little more then 3-60 minute workouts away from my goal! So I should meet it this weekend! This will be the first goal I think I have met in a long time...years actually! :D I am happy. I will be even happier when I have met it and I can say that I did not sabotage myself this time. :cb:

Food today not so good. I did not do my calories. But I ate too much. I worked a 10 hour day and was famished and too tired to cook so we went out to eat, mexican and I ate my favorite chicken fajitas and they were delish! :love: So I ate too much and am still way too full right now! But rather than get upset about it I will shake it off and get back on the diet wagon tomorrow.

Went to the grocery and bought some crap. :yikes: I bought a thing of brownies, some caramel treasures, chips and dip! :devil: WTH? I was hungry so I bought a little of everything! I told DS1 that he could eat most the treasures, to keep me from eating them. :lol: He didn't mind as he usually eats most of them anyway. I did tell him just a few a day. it's a small bag so it won't last long in my house. The brownies I will allow myself one small one and the rest will go to Mom's for the kids afterschool snack. The chips and dip...Hmm...Maybe I will forget they are there. I do that sometimes. I did use some sense and bought the tiny container of chip dip and the light chips so if I did lose my mind and eat it all, It wouldn't be as bad as the full fat version. Small steps...I will get there!

Well off to bed! :tired:

REALLY bad day yesterday everyone. Started out on plan with breakfast and lunch. Got a call around 12:00, found out my ex passed away that a.m. from a heart attack!!! Oh man, so many mixed emotions going on right now. :(

We went and got pizza. STill wound up at 2200 which is still maintenance so that is cool.

I am really upset about this. SO are the kids. :(

Hope everyone has a great day.

I'm so sorry Jasmine

sorry to hear that, jasmine.

i came so close to having a good day yesterday, but blew it at the end when i visited my parents... something atrocious like 2600 cals was my total.

today has been all right so far - breakfast and lunch according to plan. i need to not mess up at dinner (or before it) and go running (em - well, jogging)... day two of the self plan.

melody, congrats on coming so far toward your workout goal!

oh, jeez. less than an hour after posting that, i've already binged today.

AAAARRRGHGHGGH! i'm frustrated with myself.

i want to take a nap now but i know i should push through the day.

Jasmine, I am so sorry. I can imagine the mixed emotions you are having. I will pray for you and the kids. :hug:


Today was a bad day. Work was stressful. Everyone walking around b*tching about everybody else. My new assistant is a moron. I was ready to leave work.

Before I leave I look up my books, on the website, for my classes I need and print them out. They all are suppose to be in stock. I drive 45 minutes to the bookstore and can’t find the piece of paper. So I figure I only need my course numbers to buy them. Except there is only one problem…I don’t know my course numbers. So I call trusty sister #4 at work and direct her to my college email, give her my password, and she gives me the numbers so now, I am set. I go in and give the kid behind the desk my info. He looks it up. I have 2 books for my EDU class and 1 for the math class. He looks them up and says there is only one book in stock and it is for the Edu class. I am a little disappointed, but happy I could do some homework and not have to admit to my instructor’s that I am a complete loser and could not afford to buy my books until today. (Classes started Monday!) So I take the book and go to the register where the kid and another girl-kid…a snooty witch, inform me that the book I am holding, so tenderly and protectively in my arms, has been sold to someone else and I had to give it back. WTF??? You can understand that I was beyond mad! :mad: First of all I drove ALL the way up here to get my books which your website said were in stock. Then you give me a book, rip it away from me at checkout, and then inform me that it may be 2 weeks until I recieve them all. Yeah, I am sure that my professor’s will have no problem waiting 2 weeks for my homework!!! The snooty witch wasn’t a bit nice either. The kid was. It was her I would have liked to slap down. So I leave get to the parking lot and my phone rings. It is BF. I try to tell him what is going on and he cuts me off, and asks if I’m staying the night. I say no, he says something…I say I don’t know, just give me a minute…He says I’ll give you all F*ckin day. So I hang up. He calls back and I lose it because I am SOOO sick of everytime something knocks me down, he kicks me! I am so sick of him NEVER being there for me. He just uses me for what he wants and if I don’t do what he wants he gets mad. I just can’t take it anymore so he hangs up on me and I call back and leave it on his voice mail that we are through and for him never to call me again. I just can’t do this **** anymore! So I decide to call college to see when they are going to dispearse the rest of my student loan money. I used almost my entire paycheck to order those stupid books that I don’t have…$300 for 3 books. Ridiculous! So I call, and the girl on the other end informs me they are not expecting loan dispersement until mid-September!!! You mean to tell me that I just spent most my paycheck on a reciept and they aren’t mailing the freaking checks until mid-september!!! I figured I would get it next week! WTH?

So I cried most of the way home. :cry:

I pick up the kids and sit at my computer and just try to breath. Just breath…

As far as diet goes it has been decent today, but because of all the chaos, I didn’t get to dwell on my mini-victory. I haven’t ate the best the last 2 days so I didn’t think when I stepped on the scale I would see a new low…211! And adding in my new low brought my weekly average down to 212, which means I am 2 pounds down!!! WHOOOO HOOO! That is good on a PMS week! I am now 16 pounds down! I Rock! :smoking:

On a sour note TOM finally arrived today. I have only been PMS-ing for a week and a half now! Well Off to find some workout to do!

Love to all!

Iris: Take every meal one at a time. Don't worry about the entire day. Each meal is a new opportunity to get it right. So if you overeat at lunch, get it right at dinner. Think before you eat. I know it is not as easy as it sounds, but you can do this! :dust:

canuk: :cp: Congrats on the lowest number thus far! That deserves a dancing banana! :cb:

lodyangel i completely understand the pains of the bookstores and that fun stuff (im a senior in college). Don't feel bad about not being able to buy books until the end of the week I usually can't either cause my loan check takes forever. Teachers know that books run out all you have to do is tell them....or if you wanted you can go on amazon.com and buy them (that's what i do cause they are usually cheaper). You can have them shipped next day and you wont have to worry about it anymore. At my school most people except for freshman wait until the end of the week to get the books because sometimes teachers request them but don't even use them. Also, since people aren't sure about their schedules they hold off on buying books. My suggestions are to check amazon.com, half.com, or your schools bookstore website (usually there is a link to it on the university email) . Good luck! and don't worry about it....trust me you aren't the only one that hasn't been able to get their books. I'm still waiting on mine! :lol:

Jasmine - I am so sorry for you and your children. Be strong. :hug:

Jasmine:

:hug:Sympathies to you and your children. :(What a terrible shock.

I'll say a prayer for you and the kids tonight.:hug:

OK, two days slightly off plan is over, yesterday I'm back on trace :dance: Pastry aisle tractor beam at the grocery store almost got me, but I managed to resist. I did have two cookies at the bank's Friday Customer Cookie Day, mmmm. But just two! Yea, me.

Sat. & Sun. will walk 1.4m each day with dogs. Looking forward to buying new walking shoes Sept. 1!

Lody Angel:

:hug:Oh, geez, that textbook saga sounds SO maddening!! Have you tried Ebay, or www.half.com (as someone else suggested), or some used textbook site where you might get books quicker and cheaper? You could google 'cheap used textbooks' and see what you find. Or amazon's dealers maybe have something? Good luck.

Sounds like your life is frustrating right now :(. I hope you get to feeling better very soon!

:bravo: Congrats on the new 211 low!!! You DO rock!!

Iris:

Hiya! Keep on trying ... it's worth the effort! :carrot:

Canuk:

Yay! Congrats on your New Low!!! :cool::)