A Day In The Life of m2m :)

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Yeah, baby!

Woo HOOOOO!!!!! Way to go! I am extra motivated this weekend. Gotta keep up with you! I have SO much house cleaning to do today - I only got on to see how you did. I'm so glad I did. You did great!!! Talk to you later. :D
 
Hi avajayne - it will be amazing once they start noticing though, right? ;)

TwinMom, your housecleaning is going to put the jump on me, I'm going to have to go figure out something to do today.

I might swim :D

As for food today:
Prebreakfast snack:
Non fat yogurt 60 calories

Breakfast
2 eggs 140 calories
1 tortilla 150 calories

Lunch
Pria Bar 170 calories
Canned pears 60 calories

Total through lunch 580
Water so far 24oz
 
Hey, M2M, awesome job on the weight loss this week!!!! I'm with you ... I haven't told anyone except for my best friend that I've started dieting (and I know she'll support me). I don't like to be "judged" either. I believe that you can fit any food into your regime as long as you're truthful with yourself and add the calories to your daily total. Portion control is the name of the game in most instances. You're doing terrific! Keep it up!
 
Oh valapalooza - thank you for mentioning fitday.com I went over there and input my weight loss weekly since 20 January until now, and what I've eaten for the last 3 days - it definitely makes counting calories easy - right down to calculating the 10 grapes I snacked on that I forgot to count ;)
 
Hi m2m! thanks a lot for the encouragement in my journal. I just read through your journal and you are doing wonderful! Congratz on your weightloss so far. I will be dropping in regularly to check up and see how its going.

Anyone who is in this process and succeeding is such an inspiration. thanks again.
 
Phew - you guys weren't kidding when you talked about how hard it is going out to eat.

My husband came home and had been craving hamburgers ALLL day - tomorrow is shopping day, so there isn't much in the way of anything delicious or quick to fix in the house.

So we hit fast food - I haven't had fast food since I split a subway sandwich with my daughter 7 weeks ago.

Oy!

With the help of fitday.com, I have started entering what I've eaten - some of the items weren't listed exactly right in nutrition or calorie content, and I used the calories gathered from for where we went...

I have been trying to keep the calories around 1200 a day, today's the first day I've really gone over, or felt like I binged.

The calories aren't EXTREMELY over, and I'm still under what I need to lose 2 pounds a week, but I'm feeling over full and I don't like it :(

Pre Breakfast Snack
Dannon Light 'n Fit 60

Breakfast
Tortilla, flour (wheat) 140
Egg omelet or scrambled egg, fat not added in cooking 140

Lunch
Pria Bar 170

Dinner
Jack in the Box Hamburger deluxe with Cheese 460
Milk shakes, thick vanilla 350 (a medium split in half with my daughter)
Regular Taco, no sauce 160

Total 1480

I'm telling myself this truly isn't bad considering I had a burger, taco and some milkshake - but...I'm still glad I don't do this every week!

It could have been worse, my husband ate two Ultimate Cheeseburgers and one Large vanilla milk shake for a grand total of: 3,030 calories. :rolleyes:

Pineola and lazyone, thanks for the encouragement, and Cannon, yes, I need yogurt AND eggs in the morning or I am *starving* all day!

Anyway, NO MORE FOOD for today, I'm off to go walk a mile or two!
 
well done- you went out for dinner and didn't kill your diet -and still ate good stuff :) good for you :)

Enjoy your evening stroll
 
maleficent - thank you for your encouraging words! I also checked out your thread on nutrition and fast food restaurants! Great Info!

Now, I have a question -
I went for a 2.153 mile walk for 40 minutes, my pedometer says I burned 475.9 calories.

I went to www.fitday.com and entered in my activity as 40 minutes of walking a 3 mph moderate walk and it calculated my calories burned as 124 :(

I have no idea which is correct - does anyone know?
 
I think that FitDay does something different because of basal metabolic rate. For a person of my size walking 20 minutes at a 3 mph pace burns about 260 calories. On the other hand Fitday lists me at like 116
 
Oh, if that's the case for one mile cannon, then it would be 520 calories for two miles, which is closer to what my pedometer says.

I certainly hope that walking 2 miles tonight helps but the Jack In The Box sitting in my stomach!!
 
Hi M2M! This message board is great, isn't it? Everyone I've seen has seemed really supportive, and I love reading other people's diaries when I get a chance. It's comforting to know that other people are dealing with the same things, and also inspiring to see someone succeed in his or her goals. :)

I've always found counting calories to be frustrating (it's okay if it's packaged food that has the calorie content listed right on the side, but if it's not, it leaves me scratching my head and going "HUH?" :p) Thanks for mentioning fitday and foodfacts - I'll have to check them out. Maybe it'll make things a bit easier!

Good luck to you!
 
Hi WorkInProgress :)

I really, really, really thought I would never count calories for a multiple of reasons. I didn't want to 'focus' too much on food, I just wanted to eat less and enjoy what I ate and of course, there was that dreaded "HUH?" of which you speak ;)

I've only been actually counting for a few days, and I'm really happy I started. Like you, it was easy with the prepackage things, but harder, when I whipped up some dinner. Not only did I not know calories, I had no idea quantity when I scooped a wooden spoonful of prepackaged rice on to my plate. It was way more work then I wanted to put into it!

What I really like about counting calories now, is that I know at my weight, I can eat 2760 calories and not gain weight. I know that if I want to lose 3 pounds a week, I need to eat around 1260 calories. Knowing that, I can decide what I want to eat, not feel deprived and stop (hopefully) somewhere around 1200 calories. Pretty easy.

For me, I generally have to have something in my mouth at least every two hours - and I didn't do that today, the last thing I ate was the Pria Bar around 12:30 - No wonder by 5:30, I agreed with my husband to fast food ;)
 
That is great M2M. Like you say, if you weren't counting calories and had been good all day then had fast food, you would have probably thought you had spoiled your diet and been down on yourself. But by counting calories you were able to realise that you have actually been very good, and even if you ate that every day you would still lose 2 lbs a week!!

I tend to do portion sizes combined with healthy choices, where I have a list of what a portion is and I have 7 carb, 7 fruit and veg, 2-3 protein, 2-3 dairy, 2 fat and 2 'occasional' foods a day. But if I have something that I don't know where it would fit in, like a sandwich filler with lots of mayo, or something from a take away, I switch to calorie counting to check on what I have had that day. It saves that whole, I can't quantify it so I might aswell munch whatever!, feeling.

Good going and keep up the good work ;)
 
Thanks Mrs. B It sounds like your portions idea is a really good way to make sure you're getting all you need! And you're right, if I hadn't been counting calories, I would have felt like I "blew" the diet - this way, I just incorporated the calories into the daily total and walked 2 miles to burn it off.

I feel much more in control!
 
I don't count calories mainly because of my ED past - it is too easy for me to become obsessive about it! At the same time, I've done so much calorie counting in my life that I can usually estimate what I'm consuming so that I don't go way off track.

You are doing so well. The weight you've lost already is such an accomplishment, and it's only the beginning! You can do this!!!!
 
SillyGirl, thanks for the words of encouragment! When you have so much to lose, it really is easy to get discouraged - but every time I get to move that ticker down towards my goal, I am reminded that I CAN DO THIS!!

It took me 16 YEARS to go from 185 to 257 pounds - that's only 4.5 pounds a *year* and I took off 3 pounds last week. That's almost a year's worth of weight gain, lost, in a week!

I have never in my life felt more empowered to say enough is enough, I want to be healthy.

Several years ago, I applied for health insurance, and my application came back rejected because I was too over weight - in truth, it wasn't rejected, it was just a HUGE amount of more money because I was over weight. I decided not to pay it and have been without health care coverage because of it.

That is SO stupid! I know it is! I haven't been to a doctor since I was pregnant with my daughter in '96. Ten years I've been playing russian roulette.

My luck can't hold out much longer! ;)

When I was 257 pounds, thinking I would be 230 pounds seemed almost unattainable - but now I know different. I have a party at my house on 23 August - realistically, I can be down to 210 by then - that would be 20 pounds in 8 weeks - and a total weight loss of 47 pounds! That's less then I've already lost, so I *KNOW* I can do it!

:D

As for my daily intake so far:
Breakfast
60 calories Dannon Light 'n Fit
170 calories - Pria Bar

Lunch
156 calories - Grilled cheese sandwhich (1 slice 100% whole wheat bread, 1 slice 2% lowfat american cheese, 1 tsp Smart Balance Light Spread)
154 calories - Orange, mandarin, canned or frozen, in light syrup, drained

Totals 540
 
M2M said:
It took me 16 YEARS to go from 185 to 257 pounds - that's only 4.5 pounds a *year* and I took off 3 pounds last week. That's almost a year's worth of weight gain, lost, in a week!
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That is such a good way to look at it, and it is so true. :cool:
 
M2M said:
Adriana, Did your husband say why he didn't want you to lose weight? The side effects are working in your favor eh? ;)

As for not telling anyone, I really don't like to feel 'judged'. If I decide to eat some chocolate, some cheese & crackers, or wine, I wouldn't want anyone looking at me and thinking "that's not exactly on a diet". I know no one would say it, but I think the thought of having what I eat judged, has been what's kept me from saying anything.
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He doesn't want me changing ... he says he loves me just like I am. And that's really sweet, but he just doesn't seem to realise how much it matters to me and how I feel about my body. If he's not willing to motivate me, I'd like him to at least support me in this... :)

The judged feeling is a motivating factor for me. I'm good even when I eat out because of it. If I choose to "cheat", then it's my perogotive. But it does feel worse, I know what you mean.

You're doing so good on your food! Keep it up!
 
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