Angie'z WeightLoss Attempt Documentation #1

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First things first, here's some information about me

Name: Angela - known alias : ANGIE
Age: 19
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. LAND OF THE LIVING SKY
Height: 6"
Starting Weight: 255lbs
Goal: 160lbs
Occupation: Data entry. That means I sit at a desk for 8 hours a day typing.

Weight loss has been a constant struggle for me, through periods of being driven and focused (and losing 10 lbs) to losing sight of my goal, becoming to relaxed with my current weight and bouncing back to what I was at originally. I'm sure that sounds familiar! Now, what I'm hoping is that trying to keep a public diary, where people can comment on how I'm doing and...Well, give me some well-needed pushes.

The information that I want to keep on a daily basis is how many steps I've walked (by help of a pedometer) what kinds of exercises I did etc.

The majority of the exercise I'm going to be able to do throughout the summer is walking, biking, rollerblading etc. A lot of it is going to be cardio...I need to find interesting ways to get some strength training in there as well. (what to do, what to do? Yard work, etc?)

Tomorrow is going to be my first day at documenting how many steps I've taken etc. Hopefully I can wake up with enough energy in the morning to walk or longboard to work..

Wish me luck!
 
Planned menu's?

:conehead:My boyfriend has a personal view on ... well, food. He thinks that a great idea is to make a weeks worth of food at one time, so that you can just take a serving out of the fridge/freezer and eat it.

For him, that means easy/lazy options for supper. For me, that means pre calorie counted meals that are controlled and...well, ones that I can't splurge on.

One of my biggest problems is that I can't stand leftovers. I ALWAYS end up eating the left overs. It's something that's been burned into my head from being in a low-income family. Some habits are very hard to break.

Now what I need is foods that I can make into seperate servings for throughout the week. Hmm... Anyone have any ideas?
 
Pedometer Frustration

This is the problem I've had with pedometers since I've started using them...They're never as accurate as I'd like. The fact that it's constantly overestimating my steps is so frustrating. I wind up constantly resetting it and trying to make it work properly again, but obviously it's not going to do any better the next time.

Once upon a time I had a pedometer that allowed you to adgust the sensitivity of the mechanism, but I haven't been able to find one like that again. Booerns. Very frustrating.

I didn't wind up walking to work this morning. I'm so tired in the morning's, it's hard to drag myself out of bed in time to go to work. Since I didn't wind up walking to work, that means at lunch I'm going to go for a walk and after school, I am determined to walk home.

Hopefully I pull it off!
 
Eye-Opener

Jeez! This is ridiculous. I know that I was dreading what was bound to happen, having to tally up my pedometer work at the end of the day, but it turns out I only walked 2,673 steps today.

Food for today:

Breakfast: Nothing (unfortunately, I have to try to teach myself to wake up early enough to make breakfast. I'm determined to rectify this by making meal-replacement smoothies in the morning, so at least I'm eating SOMETHING

Lunch: Had to run home for lunch so I didn't eat out. I would up having a plain burger with some mustard and ketchup on it. That was all I had time for, however.

Supper: One slice of pizza and some strawberries.

I figured that because of how sedentary my lifestyle is typically right now (because of work etc.) that not eating a lot is obviously not a big deal, although today I ate less than I normally would have.

I bought groceries today, mostly fruits and vegetables. We'll see how that goes and we'll see how much I can step up my walking tomorrow (considering it's Canada Day and a STAT all at once.)

Wish me luck!

-Angie
 
day 3-4 of weight loss trial.

As it turned out, I wound up losing my pedometer today. I know that when I looked it last I was at 5600 steps (and this was before my trip to Diefenbaker Hill for the fireworks.) So I would estimate that I took about 8500 steps today. That is a HUGE improvement to yesterday. Kind of shows how much my job cuts down my activity levels.

While at the hill, I went for a run with my dog to tucker her out as much as myself. Then I went for a walk around looking for snack food that we could munch on. My first feat of self control happened here! Instead of getting my favorite treat ever at these events, elephant ears, I bought some cherries instead to share.

An elephant ear, by the way, is a batter that is deep fried and has cinammon sugar or icing sugar sprinkled overtop of it. It's absolutely delicious and obviously terrible for me. I felt really good about that.

Athena, my dog, is definitely my motivation and weight loss buddy. She can go for endless walks and runs even if I wake her up out of the blue. :) It's amazing, but she's three months old so trying to teach her at the same time is proving to be interesting.

Things I had to eat today:

-Baked chicken breast
-Cherries
-1 Peach
-1 Nectarine
-Burger

Goals for tomorrow:
-Walk home from work (since I'm normally too tired in the morning)
-Have fruits and vegetables for lunch OR Healthy sandwhich
-Walk 7,000 steps minimum.
 
It feels as if there's nothing going on on this forum for me. It's slightly disappointing. I feel much the same as I do when I'm writing to myself on a piece of paper. There's still no feedback, no nothing from this site.

I've realized the problem that I have with my boyfriend, with my roommates, even if I mention something about me losing weight...About how I need to lose a few pounds, they get mad at me.

I realize that I'm unhealthy being 250 pounds, and I would like some sort of support in what's going on because otherwise I wind up just giving up. Hmm...

I weighed myself today and I've lost 4 pounds.

I'm on the way, I guess. I've got puppy classes today. So, there will be more running and exercise
 
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I feel very upset lately. This tends to be a trend in the beginning of each time I start trying to lose weight. The only difference is now I feel even more like I have no one to talk to. I thought that keeping a diary on here would help, would make me feel less alone in this but in all reality it doesn't. Nobody is giving me comforting words or motivation or advice, I feel like I'm being met with as much dead silence as I would be with a piece of paper.

Yesterday was a very emotional day. Charley had shown me pictures of this girl on facebook, simply because she is a girl his friend is now dating and he thought she was a cute little goth girl. I seriously took the computer and flipped through every single picture, comparing myself to this girl and wishing that I could be shaped just a bit more like here. She was thin, had pictures in cute corsets and short skirts that showed off her thin beautiful legs.
I was very quiet after this and Charley had no idea what to do. Sometimes telling me that I'm beautiful and not fat is nice, but when I know that I'm bigger, that I'm overweight and someone keeps trying to convince me I'm not...It doesn't make me feel better or more confident when I'm looking at this girl.

I need to do something with myself to make myself less upset while I'm trying to get somewhere. I know that once I start seeing results I'll simply be happy with that, but until then... It's just feeling hard to stay on track.

There's some other interesting things going on. I found out that my job might be moving to a different office. The new office is literally NEXT DOOR to my gym. By next door, I mean they're in the same building. I would NEVER be able to get away from it haha but now I have to make the choice of whether or not I want to go to the new office or stay here? hmm
 
I'm running into some pretty interesting things about my eating habits and weight loss in general for me. I believe that one of the big reasons why I keep rebounding is because when I attempt to go onto a diet/eat healthier I cut out all of the bad things from my diet.

Bad things take up a LOT of my diet, and take some inventing to replace just as much food/calories with that. Seriously. I cut out all of the premade things from my diet and tried to eat fruits, veggies etc for the last several days but realized that there's NO way that I'm making anywhere near the caloric intake I need to safely meet my goals. The reason that I can tell it's not safely happening is because in a week I lost 5 pounds.

What to do what to do? Is it water weight? We'll see. I'm going to try to drink 8 cups of water today at least and see what happens to my weight tomorrow.
 
Hi Angie,
I am in very much the same boat you are. Im 20 and also just recently joined this forum..3 days ago to be exact. Feel free to check out my diary (only 2 posts so far but it will give you a good idea of my struggle-MicheeH's Journey to a Healthier Lifestyle) I too am having a lot of trouble with the whole "eating right" aspect of weight loss. I have no problems working out..ive actually grown to love it and cant wait to go home after my days at work to do a workout. I aim to do at least 40 mins a day...mostly cardio. You mentioned your bf in your posts...i have a bf too who has quite the outlook on food as well...he either doesnt eat or he pigs out on junk and get this...DOESN'T gain a pound!! When you spend so much time with someone it definitely is hard to eat a different menu thats for sure...but we have to realize that we cant eat that menu because, well, it goes right to our gut. Anyways, it would be great if we could chat more about this. I have msn and facebook if you want to chat more send me a private message and we can go from there. Good luck! look forward to talking more!

Michelle
 
MicheeH said:
I have no problems working out..ive actually grown to love it and cant wait to go home after my days at work to do a workout. I aim to do at least 40 mins a day...mostly cardio. You mentioned your bf in your posts...i have a bf too who has quite the outlook on food as well...he either doesnt eat or he pigs out on junk and get this...DOESN'T gain a pound!! When you spend so much time with someone it definitely is hard to eat a different menu thats for sure...but we have to realize that we cant eat that menu because, well, it goes right to our gut.
Michelle
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I definitely have some problems working out, but that's mostly because I can't always figure out what to do for a workout. Walking home is always the most efficient thing to do, as is walking my dog, but it turns all my workouts into low-impact cardio workouts.
My boyfriend weights 130llbs, eats absolutely NOTHING but junk and refuses to gain any weight at all. It drives me absolutely nuts. When we walk through stores he's the first one to point out awesome deals on candy/junk food and I always have to remind him that I can't always eat that kind of food.

I want to try to start running but it's so hard on my ankles/knees etc when I'm as heavy as I am. (Not that I'm like CRAZY heavy, but I've been heavy a long time and it's worn away my ability to have that kinda impact on my legs.)

Ain't that true - it ALL goes to our gut! I keep thinking that if I eat just a little bit, it'll be fine but it's SO hard to eat just a little bit, isn't it? Or drink just a little bit of pop?
The never ending struggle of sugar!
 
men might start out thin and not gaining weight no matter how much they eat but it does catch up to them in the end as my husband is now finding out.

your doing ok, keep up the good effort :)
 
O belive me it does catch up with us, i remember a time when i could eat asmuch of anything i wanted and not put on a pound, now i only have to look at a bar of chocolate and can feel weight jumping on me lol
 
Angie, sometimes us older veterans on this forum are guilty of not stopping in on new diaries and seeing how people are doing. Pop in and post on some of the longer journals and more prople will stop by and se your journey too.

BTW, saw your first post, 6 inches tall huh? :biggrinjester: I'll assume a typo and you are in fact 6 feet tall? wow, tall girl (lady, sorry). twenty odd years ago, I would have been stalking you, I'm 6' 8". Now of course I'm in my mid forties and happily married, but, back in my single days...

I'm now officially subscribed to your diary. I won't promise to be here every day, but I will stop in and see how you are doing from time to time.
 
I want to try to start running but it's so hard on my ankles/knees etc when I'm as heavy as I am. (Not that I'm like CRAZY heavy said:
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I find the same thing Angie! When i was younger i had asthma so running for me has always been kinda out of the question. I would like to work up to that now someday hopefully. It definitely is hard on the knees and ankles at our weights, so i was thinking i would like to tone up in other ways before starting trying to run. As of now i do some pretty kick-ass workouts on the elyptical trainer (my parents have one in their house) or i go to the gym at my college. I also have been doing some videos in my own basement that i really really love. Walking is also part of my day...i do have a car but i try to walk to places that i can within walking distance...but ur right its only low impact cardio and i know for sure i need something a lil more high impact. I try to do at least 40 mins a day of the things i mentioned plus a 20-30 min brisk walk. So far it has been working because i feel muscle gaining and have had compliments about looking thinner (although i havent lost any weight yet). I am hoping the weight will come off when i can get the diet thing straight....and i hope that is soon!! I'm so bad at the eating part...ugh very frustrating!

PS: thanks for the PM, ur added :)
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arron23 said:
O belive me it does catch up with us, i remember a time when i could eat asmuch of anything i wanted and not put on a pound, now i only have to look at a bar of chocolate and can feel weight jumping on me lol
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I'll have to tell my boyfriend to beware than! :smilielol5:
 
reluctantcabbie said:
Angie, sometimes us older veterans on this forum are guilty of not stopping in on new diaries and seeing how people are doing. Pop in and post on some of the longer journals and more prople will stop by and se your journey too.

BTW, saw your first post, 6 inches tall huh? I'll assume a typo and you are in fact 6 feet tall? wow, tall girl (lady, sorry). twenty odd years ago, I would have been stalking you, I'm 6' 8". Now of course I'm in my mid forties and happily married, but, back in my single days...
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I realized yesterday that the best thing I could do was put myself out there. Before, I was shy to say anything because I'm not really one of those troopers that have lost 15 llbs and going strong...Or one of those peoples that are at the gym for an hour each day doing intense workouts. Now I'm realizing that even just a few words of encouragement goes a long way to making a person feel like someone is there for them, or at least there watching to make sure they don't go completely off track.

Oops to the typo! I'm really not a leprochaun but I really do wish I had a pot of gold at the end of my rainbow! Ha, maybe I do! :)

Ironically, my boyfriend is 5'5 or 5'6. I've never dated people shorter than me before (I've typically dated guys that are 6'1"+) so this has been a new experience in confidence for me. I always feel almost shy being so much taller than him, but he's completely carefree about it so it's hard for me not to be.

Thank you for stopping by! I really do appreciate it and I will any time that you happen to come by. :seeya:
 
MicheeH said:
i would like to tone up in other ways before starting trying to run. As of now i do some pretty kick-ass workouts on the elyptical trainer (my parents have one in their house) or i go to the gym at my college. I also have been doing some videos in my own basement that i really really love. Walking is also part of my day...i do have a car but i try to walk to places that i can within walking distance...but ur right its only low impact cardio and i know for sure i need something a lil more high impact. I try to do at least 40 mins a day of the things i mentioned plus a 20-30 min brisk walk. So far it has been working because i feel muscle gaining and have had compliments about looking thinner (although i havent lost any weight yet).
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I'm so excited for you! That's awesome that you're looking thinner, even if you haven't lost any actual lbs yet. Like they always say, if the scale isn't telling you that there's a difference maybe the tape measure will!

What kind of workouts are you doing in your basement? I'm thinking that I might try to join some of those classes at the gym (spin classes etc) and that way I don't have to ge tall sweaty in front of the guys at my house.

Yesterday, on my walk home from work, I tried running a little bit. An amazing some came on and I was like "aaah I could just jog to the beat" and I did. Less than half a block and my heart was pumping and I was kind of out of breath but it actually felt GOOD. My legs were burning and I stopped before my ankles and knees started hurting, then I kept up a brisk walk the rest of the way home.

It's looking like I might have to go to my gym and put my membership back into effect before the end of summer so I can get a chance to go there. I just hate going to the gym and aimlessly doing stuff. I need some sort of direction, some sort of guidance. Time to get a personal trainer to set up a circuit or something maybe!
 
hey angie, just wanted to say hi, good luck and have fun! as far as low impact goes, the elliptical or swimming are you best bets. There are tons of workouts online for you to examine, and there are books that help too. i started with the abs diet which was a fun read and gave me a lot of information and helped me develop a full body workout to start with. after that, they regs at the gym halped me varied it up and such where now i figure out which ones i am going to do for the week. anyways i'll ramble if i am on here too long so i will chat ya laters!
 
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