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"The Cheesecake Diaries"
Current Weight: about 165
Height: about 5'6
Long-term Goal: about 125
split into short-term goals of:
- End of February: about 155-158
- End of March: about 145-148
- End of April: about 135-138
- End of May: about 125-128!


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Hi everyone,
I just joined this forum, and am starting my weight loss diary today.
I've struggled with being overweight since childhood, and want to lose some weight before my 19th birthday (which is coming up in less than a month) and CONTINUE to lose weight until I reach a healthy weight. I have very little self-control, and love to eat, mostly out of boredom.

The reasons I want to lose weight:

- I want to get healthier. Both my parents have diabetes (though not the serious kind), and I want to prevent myself from asking for it.
- I want to fit into better clothes, look better, and FEEL better.

So, as of today, I'm hoping I can follow the rules I've always set up for myself, but never stuck to. By joining this forum, and starting this diary, I swear I will try my VERY BEST to do this.

My birthday is in 21 days, and I want to look GOOD!

So, here are my rules:

- Drink lots and lots of water
- No coffee
- No fast food
- Avoid rice (this might be hard, since I come from a South Asian family.. so I can't completely ban it.. my mom makes it everyday)
- Avoid pasta
- No SODA AT ALL..
- More fruits
- Work out (AT LEAST 30 min of activity every day)
- NO EATING after 8 pm
- No eating while watching TV.

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I'd like some feedback if you have any...
Do you think this weight loss is possible? Do you have any tips for me to stop eating so at random times during the day, and especially at night?
 
1 percent of your body weight a week is usually a reasonable expectation...

Don't make your diet so restrictive that you will crave the stuff you've banned -- most everything in moderation will keep those cravings at bay.

Using an online food journal, like the one offered at is a good plce to keep track ofwhat you are eating - makes it easy to track trends and such.

as for tips to stop eating at random times - my best advice on that is find something else to do - watching tv i find is deadly -it's the mindnumbing boredom that is television that makes me want to snack... have something to keep your hands occupied .. .get a hobby, read a book, go out for a walk..

welcome to your diary and to the forum - much success on getting where you want to be
 
I love cheesecake. I love cheesecake. YUMMY YUMMY Cheesecake!
Ok, I'm done with that! Now back to your regularly scheduled program!!!

Hi & Welcome! You should join up in the Feb Weight loss challenge, If you know what you weighed around Feb 1, enter that info and weigh in is every Thursday for the month of February! We have a goal of 2 lbs per week or 8 lbs in the month which goes right along with your Feb goal.

I am currently doing several challenges both in the Club section and personal challenges. I am tracking weekly as well as with my daily update of the trackers in my signature. One moves quite regularly, the other one, well.. it's not going anywhere yet.
 
Thanks for the tips guys!
One of my concerns is that I don't know how much I weigh exactly.. I have to buy a new scale, because the one I have is kind of broken and works weird... so I'm estimating.. I actually gained a bit, because I was around 160 in December (must have been the weight training & the Christmas eating, I'm assuming)...

Maleficent, thanks for the FitDay link... I just joined, and I'm going posts what I eat simultaneously in this journal and that one..

So I just came home from working out. I did about 15 minutes on a Crosstrainer (the one with the oval-shaped foot movement and the forward position), and another 15 minutes (at a moderate-to-slow speed) on the bicycle equipment. I did a couple weights (for the arms), a few lunges (not enough to make a difference, I think), and drank water throughout my work-out.. I'm quite hungry right now, but I promised myself I wouldn't eat after 8 pm... So I can't..

I'm planning to make my meals for tomorrow..
I think I'll have oatmeal for breakfast (either that or two hard-boiled eggs), prepare a snack for 10 am, have lunch at 2 pm (after my French test), have another snack around 4 pm, and come home for dinner at around 7 pm. I'm not sure if I'm going to work-out. If anything, I'll come home and do some crunches, and maybe dance around for a bit, haha.
 
Okay I just can't help but actually picture a piece of cake on a treadmill now!

I think it's great for you to be trying to create better habits for yourself so that you can maintain any weightloss over the long term. I gotta say, cutting out fast food was probably the best thing I ever did for my health. Fast food and full-sugar soda (I can't kick soda altogether, I'm still a diet pepsi fiend! Pepsi Jazz doesn't even taste diet either) are easily replaced by way better options. Actually the smell of a McDonald's sickens me now, because it just smells like grease to me. I will admit to eating in food courts, but not all food court food is fast food. Subs, wraps, salads, and other tasty and healthy food are just as easily attained as something deep friend and pressure grilled.

It won't be easy, but its so worth it, so keep it up! We're here if you need help!
 
Ah, it's been a tough morning. I had to rush out of the house, so I didn't get to carefully pack everything for the day. I had one hard-boiled egg for breakfast around 7:20 am (didn't get to eat the other one)... I wanted to eat around 9:15 am.. even though I was supposed to wait until 10 for a snack, but I gave in and had a banana with a small piece of a baguette.. At about 11:10 or something, I had a salad that my mom had made (with tomatoes and lots of stuff), as well as a twix bar (that my friend gave.. I said "No" at first, but I ended up eating it.. ).. I regretted the Twix as soon as I saw how many calories just two of them have! 290! So the one I had was 145! That's crazy!
After I came home (which was about a half hour ago), I ate little random things from the kitchen.. A little more of the salad, the second hard-boiled egg that I didn't get to eat this morning, a little beef, and a raw egg (boiled until warm).. I feel guilty about that, because since I ate a little of different things, I feel like I ate so much. It's the most I've eaten all day, and I had a sip of orange juice.. Instead of drinking from the water bottle I promised to finish today. I feel bad about eating all that..

There's still hope for the day! I'm sure I did not consume over 1000 calories.. Probably only 3 quarters of that.. at most... well, I'm hoping, anyway.. So since it's 2:12 pm, that means I'm entitled to a snack in a couple hours, and dinner... and I'll do some exercises some time in the evening.

I think the reason that it was hard for me to control what I ate today because I didn't keep myself busy. I spent my morning in a study room doing nothing, just waiting for my class at 1 pm. I was bored, which I why I kept wanting to eat all the stuff I brought to school. And, when I got home, I was planning to have just an egg (the raw, warm one that my mom used to give me when I was a kid), but I saw the boiled one from the morning, and then there was salad in the fridge, and some beef that my mom had made.. and orange juice..

Well.. they always say that the first few days of a diet are the hardest..

This is going to be a LOOOOOOOOOOT of work..

At least it's not as bad as yesterday, when the only thing I could think about all day was CHEESECAKE.
 
I didn't end up buying the scale & the weights, because I stayed home this evening. Around 4-something pm, I ate a meal (rice, beef w/ potatoes, salad, plain yogurt, and "parupuu" [don't know what it's called in English]). That's probably the biggest meal I had all day.

I had oatmeal (with a banana) around 7 pm.. I ate a tiny piece of a baguette with cheese while I waited for the oatmeal to finish..

I also didn't exercise a lot. I did a handful of exercises that probably did no good. My first day of diet didn't go so well, so let's hope tomorrow goes better.
 
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Oh, I love your avatar.

And changing habits doesn't happen over night. It took some time to create them, so it'll take some time to change them!

I'll give some unsolicited advice if you want..... If not, just disregard and go on to the next post.

You have to make yourself eat enough in the day to sustain the activities that you are doing. You burn more calories in the day, than later around dinner time (from what I have read). This is why, I have to disagree with this statement "I think the reason that it was hard for me to control what I ate today because I didn't keep myself busy."

I think maybe if you had some more filling foods earlier in the day that it would have helped carry you through to the time you wanted to eat. Maybe you could play around with your breakfast until you find something that fills you up longer.. Such as a few egg whites (since the yolk has so much cholesterol) and some whole wheat toast and fruit for breakfast. Or Oatmeal and fruit or something that will give you some filling fiber.

Also, drink your water. Do whatever you can to get that stuff down and after a few days, you'll want to drink and drink and drink. It's addicting!

ok, i'm done with unsolicited advice here. :) Feel free to give me some sometime!
 
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P.S. since incorporating exercise/cardio into my plan, my weight has increased, so don't be so discouraged if your weight goes up a little. (Plus my doc told me today that this will probably happen). My clothes feel a little looser and my face looks a smidgen thinner, so I'll go with that.
 
Very very bad day.
In the morning, I had a croissant (with butter & jam), as well as a slice of bread (a new type I'd never tried before) with B&J as well. That was around 7:10 am, with chocolate milk. I went back to sleep (as I was staying home), and around 11-something, I had a B&J croissant again, with a banana. I had lunch around 2 or something.. I microwaved one of those microwavable spaghetti things (about 290 calories), and while I was heating that up, I had a croissant (B&J).. I was having so many croissants because my dad had bought some in the morning, and they were delicious. I also had a bit of cheese with that new bread. I drank a cup of orange juice with my lunch.

About an hour and a half ago, at 10, I had my dinner. When I got home from buying my laptop, I realised it was too late to eat dinner, since it was past 8. However, at 10, my dad had finished making soup, and I was HUNGRY, so I went and ate while watching "Law & Order". And now, I so badly want to sleep, but I want to wait 3 hours after 10 pm.. which is another hour and a half, and I REALLY don't want to stay up that long.

I've just started my diet and I'm already having trouble! And I didn't even get to work out today :( :(

Horrible, horrible day.
I'm not going to lose any weight for a long time :(

- A Very Hopeless Cheesecake
 
I think I'll go to sleep now. I've also changed my goal of 125 pounds to 135. This is because I'm going to be gaining weight because of my work-outs, so I don't think weight measurements will reliably reflect how much I've lost.. So around 135 is something to work towards, but as long as I got down in sizes, I'm fine. I want to go down from a 9 to a size 6!
 
Everyone always has a little trouble when first starting out, but you (and your body) will get the hang of it after awhile and it wont seem so bad. Keep working at it!!
 
Okay I feel like a complete failure. The past two days (weekend) have been the biggest disappointments. I couldn't control my eating, because my parents were home and were cooking so much, and kept feeding me (I know, I know, excuses). I haven't let them know that I've been dieting, because if I do, my mom will go on her crazy and embarassing habit of telling the whole world (and that makes me feel very self-conscious and even worse if there is no change in my weight). And today, my parents bought me fast food (a combo: fries, burger, and coke).. They handed it to me, and I couldn't say no (I was hungry, since they had just picked me up from a day of studying at school). I also had a donut at school (my friend bought me one), because I hadn't brought anything to eat, and the closest thing at school was a Tim Horton's...

God, this is terrible... I almost had an urge to throw up, but I'm not like that, thank God.. I realised when I'm at my most vulnerable time: the weekend. I don't work out and I pig out (because of my parents' cooking, since they're at home) during Saturdays and Sundays. Now that I've realised my weakness, I have to work towards fixing it.. This is going to be tough. Tomorrow's A NEW DAY... Wish me luck guys... this is so difficult... especially because midterms are coming up and I'm studying and staying up late...and hence more hungry...and doing less working out...
 
We ALL have those days, but as time progresses, they will become fewer and farther between.

Keep at it, cheesecake! Hitting that treadmill or other running will be a big boost on the stressful times of midterms, so if you can squeeze a bit in..

Good Luck on them!
 
Well. I started this "diary" about two months I think. Almost two months anyway. I've progressed nowhere... and it's summer almost, so I'm really hoping this will be the summer of change. I don't really know what really led to my failure.. lack of self-control, lack of time to work out (with so much schoolwork)... Let's see if I can get back on track.
 
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