a Hillbilly diary

Lee, I think you've done a great job cutting out the sugar. That and caffeine have to be the worst withdrawals to go through. So kudos to you, my friend.

Also, with the eating potatoes and rice this week....I'm really starting to believe in this faking out your body every so often with something you haven't been eating. That way it doesn't think it's being entirely deprived. Any kind of deprivation your body thinks it's getting it starts to "hold on". So if we fake it out every once in a while it will keep on losing. Looks like you are a testament to the theory.

Congrats on the three more pound....your total lost number just keeps getting bigger while you keep getting smaller. Cool!!!
 
Sday~ yea it would be. I'm checking into a gym with a pool. All the other pools I know of are outside and I'm having sun issues at the moment.

Someones scale is wrong. I weighed the other day and I got like 379. Last night I ate at golden corral and ugh real food but back to the scale lol.... after 2 large glasses of tea and two cups of coffee and the dinner I got on there scale fully clothed and full and was only at 376 so I think I'm going to put a couple of weights on my scale and check the calibration because someones scale is broken. I'm running a day behind due to moving some friends of mine so here is yesterdays food....

Breakfast--- 1 fried egg and 1 piece of wheat bread
(140 calories)

Lunch---- 0

Dinner at Golden Corral-- salad plate of Iceberg lettuce bacon bits blue cheese and tomatoes, some pea salad and some of that carrot raisin stuff.
The main meal was 1 hamburger patty with grilled onions and some creamed spinach. I was going to get one dessert thing but as i sat there drinking my coffee the fuller i became. By the time I got home I was sooo full that it took a bicarb to keep from exploding lol..... All that food there and most of it didn't even look good. I have noticed I like a different kind of food now. OH no I'm turning into a rabbit lol.. finished the night with half a bag of micro pop corn. I not going to try to guess at every little calorie but I'm sure I'm still under my 3000.
 
well my calories were pretty low for the day. I just cant quite make it on that few just yet..... I decided to make a salad to give the numbers a little boost.
Breakfast---coffee
(0 calories)

Lunch---- 2 fried eggs and 2 pieces of whole grain wheat bread {70+70+80+80}
(300 calories)

Snack--- 1 sugar free individual pudding and 1 piece of sugar free candy{65+16}
(81 calories)

Dinner--- 1 catfish fillet grilled and one baked potato with just a smidge of butter{150+120+50)
(320 calories)

Made a salad with 2 cups of iceberg lettuce and 2 pickled eggs and 1 package of that wafer thin lunch meat and about 2 Tbsp of thousand island dressing.{16+100+110+160}
(386 calories)

Total--- 1087 calories
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Ah, that’s ok.. Ladies fancy a bit of wiggly rabbit tail on a man..:D

I am buying your scales!! Your scales sound dreamy.. :rolleyes:

Have a great day :)

Sday~
 
well the calories for today are way low for me but I'll see if I can add something else later tonight......


Brunch--- baked catfish fillet, 1 serving of corn with a smidge of butter {150+80+50}
(280 calories)


Dinner--- McDonald’s side salad with Kraft thousand island dressing. {20+80}
(100 calories)


Snack--- Bowl of fruit harvest cereal with 1% milk. {120+120+100}
(340 calories)

Drinks--- 1 cranberry juice, water, hot tea
(130 calories)


Total--- 850 calories
 
well I have been noticing some small changes. I can see a little in my face and when i look at the tattoo on my arm I cant see as much of it as i did before so my arm isn't quite as wide as before. I wear one of those weaved belts and it just keeps grabbing a spot a little further back. So I'm losing pounds and inches as well so I guess its a good thing. Even with coming off the diet food once a week its not hurting me since I cant hold near as much food that the portion makes up for any extra calories since there just isn't as many going in. The sweet tooth is always there. somedays are worse than others but mostly I have been losing an interest in fried and fatty foods. Let me tell you being from the south thats a huge deal since we are surrounded by it. I thought I would miss Mexican food more than anything else but its not a big issue. My body still thinks white starch is an excuse to crave sugar but I still don't allow it. It makes for a rough couple of days. So if i thought i was addicted to sugar I know it now. even if I have something like splenda the sugar craving comes up a bit. I use it here and there but mostly on a whipped milk desert or something like that. I use it more for an ingredient rather for a straight on sweetener. I came off of my diet pills for two days and it was unbearable all i wanted was something sweet. so I'm back on them. I just wish i could find something to kill the sweet tooth; Because, I don't really need the rest. since I have lost the 40 something pounds my energy has been through the roof.
 
The only kind of tooth I have is sweet and I find it a great help eating sugar free bonbons or sweet orbit kinder gum. You should try it. They come with like 2 calories each :p:D
 
Well i guess the family is getting use to eating better. I got up to refill my water glass and I turned around and there sits my 5 year old son with his face in my salad bowl. Then he wanted more and I told him that was the last of the salad and man he got pizzzed. The girls I still have to sneak it; Though, they are getting fond of turkey bacon. I have been instructed to make turkey chili so they are coming around slowly. I have replaced the sugar canister with half splenda and half sugar and no has has noticed. I figured that way they at least are only taking in half as much sugar.
 
Caution real food mentioned here......

I have been sitting and pondering what to give myself as a treat when i hit the fifty pound loss mark. I thought about all the sweet goodies that I crave so bad....... then It hit me. I want a beer. Im gonna get me a full pint of guinness. then im gonna wash it down with an ice cold corona with salt and lime and then im gonna, Im gonna...... hell ill probably just have a salad instead lol..........
 
Hey!

I was thining of that too- I was thinking to myself "On my birthday, I'm getting a medium brownie blizzard!" But then I thought more, and started to think that I don't need food as a reward! It will only be good for me for a few minutes then it's all gone! So I figured, on my birthday, or halfway mark or whatever, I'm going to try and save up for this pricey David Sylvian book- Now that's someting I will be able to keep and enjoy over and over! I say that at your 50 pound mark- maybe instead of food or beer, you could get that new watch you have been wanting... Or something... :)

-N-
 
Hey Lee,

I get that scale thing. I just don't know which one to trust. Anyways, that is so fricken awesome that you are sneaking the health foods into your house!
You are having a huge impact on your families lives for the positive and that is something to be soooo proud of! *applauds* Pretty soon you'll all be health nuts!

The sugar thing is hard for me too. I have to fight it with everything I've got. I think there are two things that keep me from giving in: 1. The accountability that I feel I own the people who support me day in and day out on here and 2. I do not want to be sucked back into that aweful life I had before this ever again for an indulgence. No amount of sugar will ever make me feel as good or make me as happy as being more healthy and athletic *well in a way LOL*

You're doing a great job Lee, Keep it up!:)
 
yea they are a stubborn bunch. The first time I bought ground turkey meat it was like oh gross. even though it looks almost exactly like hamburger meat. So I told them I'm not going to use it tonight I was making chili instead. I ground the spices in my Molcajete(Its a Mexican stone mortal and pestle for my Yankee friends) just like always and they ate and ate and ate. Of coarse I finally had to tell them and then after a good case of griping at the cook they realized it wasn't bad and good food didn't have to taste like diet food. They are slowly coming around.
 
lee, does fresh fruit help with your sugar cravings. I bought some strawberries and peaches yesterday. And lord they are sweet!!!!

I'm right there with you hovering on the edge of that 5 pound mark. We can get there!!! Let's do it together!!!!
 
fruit doesn't seem to bother my sweet cravings. It fills the sweet tooth. I never noticed how sweet fruit is. mostly what sends my cravings through the roof is if I have something like white bread or potatoes or something like white rice. I'm not sure what they have in common other than they are white starches. sometimes if I make something too sweet with splenda the next day I have sugar cravings. As long as I don't have too many of those items MY sweet tooth ain't bad.
 
Breakfast----- individual bag of Doritos habenaro
(200 + calories) forgot to look

Lunch---- 2 egg sandwich with 2 slices of turkey bacon on 2 slices of wheat {70+70+35+35+80+80}
(370 calories)


Dinner--- McDonald's Asian grilled chicken salad with dressing{290+90}
(380 calories)


Snack--- Drinks--- water
(0 calories)


Total--- 950 calories

Had a case of the late night mid term munchies so add 1 mcdonalds grilled chicken breast on 1 slice of wheat with a spot of mayo {150+80+50}
(280 calories)

new total==== 1230 calories

 
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