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There's only one thing that can prevent you from reaching your goal, and it's giving up. Sooooooo,
DON'T GIVE UP!
Plan ahead, that's my advice. Plan what you eat. Plan how and when you exercise. It's worth it!
You can do this! :)
Juliette
 
Thanks for the motivation!
I'm sort of starting to feel skinnier, although I don't know if I've lost any weight (my scale is wack).. I have been eating after 7:30, but I'm staying up later to make up for it.. Also, I eat healthy for pretty much most of the day, but sometimes I have rice or something (I also had apple turnover today).. I haven't worked out in like two days, but I'm trying to do crunches at home. I think tomorrow morning I will get up extra early (like 6 am) and walk 8 laps around the park (10 if I have enough time, since I have to get ready to go downtown to study)..
 
I wish I could check how much I weigh! One scale says just above 160 (that's impossible, I know), and the other says either 170 or 173-ish ... and sometimes even 180 if I tip a little.. :S
 
If it's any consolation, your absolute weight means nothing to anyone (but possibly you). People can't ever see the number on the scales. They see you. How you look, happy, sad, confident, insecure. They see when your cheeks get narrower, they see your waist getting smaller. They see your clothes become looser. And you feel all of those things. If you trust that, who needs that number on the scales? :)
Julie
 
Juliette makes a great point. Take your measurements and just go by that. Once a week, take them and write them down and compare to the week before to see how you are doing. It's weird because my weight was stuck for two weeks, but in that time, I went down a pants size! So the scales are not always the way to see your progress.
 
Hmmm you guys are right..
Well.. here's the sad news of the day.. after a good day of eating good food.. I just sort of had a meal of lots and lots of calories! Maybe 500-something.. And i haven't worked out in a couple days. This is soo hardddddddddddd
 
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After having written in my previous post, that you feel the good changes inside you, I, of course, have to add that sometimes you feel like crap as well, and it has absolutely nothing to do with actually being crap at that moment.
What's one 500 calorie meal going to do to your overall effort to lose weight? I had a 582 calorie lunch yesterday. Dinner had some less calories. During any given 24 hour piece of my life I'm supposed to eat about my daily 1700-1900 calories. That's on average.. So even if I eat 2500 calories today (and I probably will, since it's my cousin's school graduation..), and then eat 1600 for the next four days, my average stays the same. Or add three 30 minute bike rides in the next few days. No biggie.
About not having worked out in a couple of days: why not go out for a walk today? Is your foot healed enough for that? Or just do some ab&back muscle exercises in front of the tv if the weather's not good? Any exercise is good for you, it need not be 2 hours at the gym or 10 miles of walking. Start small.
There have been good discussions here on the forum about negative thinking which causes negative action (or inaction). The key is not to let yourself think negative things about yourself in the first place, or stop doing that immediately. Console yourself with the fact that you are here worrying about your health, weight and attitude because you ARE already IN THE RIGHT TRACK!!!
I wish you a good weekend and hope to see you here a lot! :)
Juliette
 
Thanks Juliette..
I'm going through a personal crisis right now, and I haven't eaten anything since last evening except for half a can of milkshake. I'm in the most depressed moods, because of a family situation. As well, I have university assignments due in a day and have not started, and I am completely stressed out. I'm feeling really bad about myself and life right now. It's going to be such a long, slow, day
 
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I'm really sorry for your personal crisis. There's nothing I can say to make it better, unfortunately. I hope that you cope there, with all this stress and your assignments. Is there any chance you could ask for more time to finish them?
I'd like to strongly encourage you to eat something. When in crisis, physical or emotional, our bodies go to this "panic mode" where the hunger disappears and everything concentrates on survival. However, eating will make you feel better (or not feel worse at least) and keeping your body nourished will help your brain to function when you need it the most. :)
My thoughts are with you.
Juliette
 
Thanks, those words mean a lot.
I did eat today, after sleeping for a bit.. I also had some chocolate.. so it wasn't healthy eating, but at least I'm feeling better now..
I'm thinking about trying a mixed type of dieting, so that my body doesn't get used to a certain intake of calories each day and burn only a certain amount of calories.. Kind of like the one-day diet (which I heard doesn't work) but healthier..with working out involved.. does this sound like a good idea, or should I just stick eating a certain way?
 
cheesecake said:
I'm thinking about trying a mixed type of dieting, so that my body doesn't get used to a certain intake of calories each day and burn only a certain amount of calories.. Kind of like the one-day diet (which I heard doesn't work) but healthier..with working out involved.. does this sound like a good idea, or should I just stick eating a certain way?
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I'm not really sure what you mean by a mixed type of dieting, maybe describe it a bit. Can't really comment otherwise.. :)
What I can say, is that you might want to consider some kind of cyclical diet. The idea is that (and this is just an example, the numbers have to be modified according to your own needs!) you eat 1600 cals one day, 1800 the next, 1400 the one after that, for example, which gives you an average of 1600 cals a day, but keeps your body guessing a bit. I think there are more thorough explanations of this in the Nutrition or the Harsh Truth sections.
I live in the kind of culture, where people don't believe in anything they can't see with their own eyes. So "miracle" diets aren't doing very well here. ;) From my own experience I have to believe that the only thing that works is not dieting at all but modifying your lifestyle in a healthier direction so that you can actually keep it going for the rest of your life. All the other things either lead to yo-yoing or just plain fail.

cheesecake said:
omgg this is sooo hard... i followed no diet todayyyyyyyyyy :(
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Would you like to post like a list of what kind of foods you eat and we could go through it together and try to pinpoint the good things in it and modify the bad ones so that you'd have some kind of a plan to follow? Just to avoid the bad feeling you get from eating things you consider bad??
Remember, a bit of chocolate never killed anyone.. It's the bad conscience you get from eating the chocolate that says "You were already bad, so this day is wasted, so why not eat more bad foods". And THAT might actually be bad for you.
I hope to hear from you and want to help, if I just can! :)
Juliette
 
You're so helpful.. wow.. I'm glad I Joined this forum..
By "mixed type" of dieting, what i meant was not limiting myself to exactly 1500 calories a day, etc.. Exactly what you were talking about, slightly changing my intake of calories, not eating the same kind of foods... Mixing things I learned from different types of diets together (some diets don't allow meat, and maybe i'll have meet twice a week or something). I think you know what I mean, I'm just very bad with wording things.

Well, the reason that I fail in diets is because some days I won't have time to make food (and some days i"m exciting about making my own meals; those are the days I follow my diet), so I'll eat whatever's there. Or, if I see cookies or something, I'll eat it. We have such foods around the house because I have younger siblings, and even if I ask my parents not to buy it, they will.. SO i have to learn to discipline myself.
Also, sometimes I go more than 2-3 hours without eating (even if I plan to eat 2-3 hours each day) because of circumstances (i.e.: I'm not at home and I don't have any snacks on me).. And if that happens, sometimes I end up buying fast food.
Also, I don't exercise a lot at home (because I'm sort of lazy), and only do so if I go to the school gym. Right now, I'm trying to pick up where I left of over a week ago (when I was on a good diet), but slowly. I'll have to build back up good eating habits, then exercise, etc.
 
You have a plan there. Now just try to do one thing better today than you did yesterday. One thing in a day doesn't sound too bad. And learn to be happy with yourself for doing that one thing better today. Then keep that going tomorrow and add another good thing. You have the rest of your life to live well, so learn slowly (just like you said yourself) and make it last! :)
I see the food dilemma. But if you have the will and the facts to eat well, you also learn to succeed in it better and better all the time and you find the ways to conquer the problems like not being able to control your environment and to prepare your own food all the time. Just believe in yourself!
Lazy is a thing we call ourselves when we don't want to do something that we don't find enjoyable. So try to make it enjoyable.. Go for a walk listening to music. Do your muscle exercises in front of tv first, so you get your mind off the "ahh, I hate this" track. Just a few suggestions, you know best what you like, so vary, modify and invent new tricks for yourself. Just nothing food related, please. ;)
I'll be gone until Sunday evening, so talk to you more after..
Have a great weekend!
Julie
 
Hope you had a great weekend Julie.. I'm pretty motivate now (although I sort of pigged out today and I just came from a barbecue) because I checked my weight at my cousin's house on her digital scale ('cause mine's unrealiable) and I'm at 166.4! Well, I was before the barbecue, but at least I know I'm around there! I'm so happy, because I kept thinking I was at 173 or something. BUT THE THING IS, it could be possible that I've been in the late 160's for awhile (maybe I only lost 2-3 pounds instead of 6-7) because I haven't known what my real weight is for awhile now.. Earlier this year at my cousin's house I was around 172.. Oh well, it doesn't matter, I'm a little closer to my goal! I NEED to get to 160 in about 4 weeks.. I'm going for a weekend beach getaway!
 
6 pounds in 4 weeks sounds very doable. Not that anybody, but yourself, is going to know what the scales say, but you will certainly feel different and that will show!
Make a plan and follow it! I'm sure you'll reach your goal! :)
Julie
 
So this morning, I started off with a little Special K cereal (with the strawberry bits). It doesn't taste so good, but I'm going to try and have that each morning for this week at least. I don't think I'm going to get to go to the gym at school a lot this week (if at all), with an assignment, midterm and group projects to work on.. But it doesn't matter too much, I'm just so happy that I'm almost 7 pounds closer to my goal (even though I probably lost less than I thought seeing how I didn't even know my actual weight)!..
 
So it's been a rough couple of weeks since I last posted. The last week and half have definitely been the worst. Since it's the summer, there's been BBQ, pizza, LOTS OF SODA, and so much junk food. It's getting so hard to control what I eat when other people want to eat out and stuff. I have less than two weeks until my beach weekend getaway, and I NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Man, this is so difficult.
I had a chocolate shake for breakfast, and later today, I want to walk a couple laps around the trail near my house... I've done maybe 2 times in the last week, and I worked out once or twice in the school gym. I could work out tomorrow, but I lost my Student ID card, and they told me I should bring it.. So.. yeah..
 
I hope my messed-up scale doesn't lie but (the old one) says about 163. That would be good news. The new one says 170. :doh:
But the old one was always more accurate :jump:
 
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