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I was making a pretty good effort at the beginning, making better food choices. But I still was eating poorly on the weekends and wasn't exercising, or drinking enough water. Lately, within the last couple of weeks, things have really changed. I have cut my bad eating down to one meal a week. I have been eating more salads and keeping my meals at less than 400-500 cals each. I have cut drinking down to just friday and saturday nights. I have been averaging about 1700 cals, which is where I want to be. I am drinking more water. And the biggest, and hardest, change has been that during the week, I've been getting up at 4:00am to exercise! That is a huge deal not only because that's really freaking early, but because I hate exercise. We've also bought bikes and have been biking on saturday mornings. Yesterday, we went to this lake that has a path around it and we biked 5 miles! (that was totally accidental: we made it to what I thought was almost to the parking lot again when we discovered a dead end! We had to turn around and bike 2.5 miles all the way back, up and down hills in the hot hot hot heat. 
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I am so worried that this is going to be like the last time I lost weight: a few years ago, I lost 40 lbs and was exercising etc, and I got an injury and just gave up and gained all the weight back. I hope that doesn't happen. I really feel like, at this point, I have some control about what is going on. I don't feel like I am letting food control me. I'm so scared. I am doing so well. Now that school has started (this past week), things are going to get hectic and I am going to be stressed and feel like I need all the time I can get to sleep. I am going to be wanting to eat for comfort. Atleast that is what I've done in the past. Will this be the time I do things differently? I hope so. I really do. I'm going to give myself a hug, because I need one right now:
Originally Posted by trooworld
I've noticed that I've slowly been changing my ways. I was making a pretty good effort at the beginning, making better food choices. But I still was eating poorly on the weekends and wasn't exercising, or drinking enough water. Lately, within the last couple of weeks, things have really changed. I have cut my bad eating down to one meal a week. I have been eating more salads and keeping my meals at less than 400-500 cals each. I have cut drinking down to just friday and saturday nights. I have been averaging about 1700 cals, which is where I want to be. I am drinking more water. And the biggest, and hardest, change has been that during the week, I've been getting up at 4:00am to exercise! That is a huge deal not only because that's really freaking early, but because I hate exercise. We've also bought bikes and have been biking on saturday mornings. Yesterday, we went to this lake that has a path around it and we biked 5 miles! (that was totally accidental: we made it to what I thought was almost to the parking lot again when we discovered a dead end! We had to turn around and bike 2.5 miles all the way back, up and down hills in the hot hot hot heat. ) I am so worried that this is going to be like the last time I lost weight: a few years ago, I lost 40 lbs and was exercising etc, and I got an injury and just gave up and gained all the weight back. I hope that doesn't happen. I really feel like, at this point, I have some control about what is going on. I don't feel like I am letting food control me. I'm so scared. I am doing so well. Now that school has started (this past week), things are going to get hectic and I am going to be stressed and feel like I need all the time I can get to sleep. I am going to be wanting to eat for comfort. Atleast that is what I've done in the past. Will this be the time I do things differently? I hope so. I really do. I'm going to give myself a hug, because I need one right now:
trooworld, i lost touch with you! i think i needed more posts to be able to continue private messaging and i didn't realize that. I was drawn to this thread: LITTLE CHANGES ADDING UP, b4 I knew it was you because that's my very favorite topic! I have been driving my family crazy and everyone around me because I keep talking about something very boring: not extreme weight loss or extreme exercize or extreme dieting, as in, "I only ate once today..." No, I've been going on and on about how I had a "half" a cheese stick in stead of a "whole". About how I had "3" saltines instead of "5". About how when I didn't have time or energy to do a full on workout, so I did stretches or walked a bit. I'm like you: these changes really do add up! I have faith for that. I'm also like you: I wish the weight loss came faster this way. But, I guess it's like the studies show: that slow weight loss is usually more permanent. Right?? And, I think you will not gain it back this time; because, THIS time, you're making changes in your head and habits internally, not just the external calorie cutback/exercize formula. Miss ya! 
p.s. I have been biking around our lake, too. Last month I fell on my head--I think I told you about that. So don't forget to wear a helmet!! xoxx
