Beagle's Rocky Road (no icecream!)

Beagle1

Beagle1

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So as mentioned in my intro thread in the newbies forum, I used to be a regular here (see my post count? :eek: ) Long time ago I was well over 200lbs, and when I left here probably six months later I was 174, and a few months later I've made 2 more pounds of progress. Haha, shows how well I work alone!

So here's the battle plan:
- keep change in my pocket to a minimum (vending machines are my NEMESIS)
- always eat breakfast
- track calories and food at Calorie King (link to my CK blog is in my signature)
--- according to CK, I am aiming for a net of about 1200-1400 calories a day, with certain requirements/limits on particular nutrients (fat, fibre, carbs, etc)
- once every two weeks, I will treat myself to a delicious meal - but only if I've made some progress! Also, nothing that will completely set me back like a 5 course feast or whatever. My first treat will be in less than two weeks though, because the husband and I are having a very nice valentine's day dinner.

My first goal is to get to 165lbs in 6 weeks. That's 7lbs, or an average of 1.16lbs per week. Seems pretty reasonable, don't it? Let's see how well I fare. If I can make this goal, my husband will be taking us out for real Japanese food, which I've never had before!
 
nice to see you back with a brand spanking new diary :D

oooh your reward at the end is divine - authentic japanese food is the yum :D will he take you to Japan for it? :D but let me warn you - sea urchin - while delicious - is an aquired taste :D
 
OMG girl I have missed you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My pc crashed am on my sisters right now! Congrads girl and you can do it!
 
well done for deciding to carry on hun! that is acve - you must have lots of will power. hope to see you around a lot more
sophie
 
Haha, way to kick this off right, yesterday's totals were:
1600 calories (200 over)
200g of carbs (40 over)
60g of fat (20 over)
70g of protein (40 under)
12g of fibre (13g under)
and no exercise.

The reason I was over so much was that I had a donair/gyros for lunch, and forgot that I was getting stir fry for dinner (I had planned to skip dinner, but the stir fry was made specially for me as something healthy and tasty so I couldn't exactly turn it down). In the long run 200 calories is not gonna kill me, and I'll just have to be extra good today!
 
welcome back and nice to meet you :D i never had japanese food either. we don't have any japanese restaurants in my hometown. not many japanese come to live to croatia, but there are lots of tourists :) Lena
 
Wow, doesn't take long for a journal to fall back four pages, does it?

It would seem its taking me a bit longer than last time to get myself under my daily caloric intake, and especially fat intake. Yesterday I was over by like 300 calories and almost doubled my fat intake, but carbs I was under. Only got in a 10 minute walk too.

It's almost dinner time and today I have 200 calories left, and am WAY over my fats, thanks to a grilled cheese sandwich. Margarine and cheese? Good call, Beagle. Good call.
 
Perhaps if I want others to give me feedback and just in general post in my journal, I should give something to respond to, hm?

I'm looking for a job right now. I have a job, but I hate it. Hate hate hate. Well, I guess that's an almost-lie. I love the work I do - I do customer service in a call center for one of the biggest cell carriers in the US, and I get warm fuzzies helping people who need it, and not taking crap from people who give it. What I hate is the management. I hate the constant accountability for every second of my time on the job, and the stream of statistics and quotas I have to understand and fulfill. I hate that after four years I am being paid barely a couple dollars more an hour than a burger flipper. So, screw it, I'm getting a new job. If I'm going to be paid on par with a responsibility-free and socially happy retail worker, then dammit, I want to have the lack of responsibility and abundance of happiness too. Mostly I'm looking at sales and retail, and other positions with the potential for commissioned sales, but I've also got an application in for a "casual" (read: one day a week) research assistant position. If I get it, I'll have to have a second job, but that's okay because it is relevant to my degree (psychology and sociology), and is a foot in the door for similar positions later, and possibly even within the same department.

So there's something about me you probably didn't know. And for my diet progress today: I think it's going pretty good. Breakfast was a fresh fruit salad, with berries, plums, melons, pineapples, and other assorted good stuff. Lunch is being prepared and is going to be a simple bowl of tomato soup and a tuna salad sandwich. Not sure what dinner is going to be, but I'm going to be eating at a friends' house who is also watching her weight, so it shouldn't be too bad.
 
i am finding it a hard job to keep under my calories too - same reason as you had hon, that i will eat during the day and plan what i will have for my dinner accordingly but then someone will have made me something for dinner especially and i will have to eat it! grr i know they are trying to help but still :p
and your fruit for breakfast idea is really good - i think i might use that one as my new challenge for next week
 
Hey Beagle, those foot in the door jobs are so important. I've seen too many people who didn't have to, turn them down because of pay. Work a second job if you have to, but get that relevant experience that gets you doing what you want to do. I'm looking for a new job too and well its scares the heck out of me, but I need to do it.
 
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