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Come on cheesecake...you can do it!!!

I find that my diary works best when I write down everything that happened that day...good, bad, food, exercise...everything. You can start to see patterns and well...things that are helping you along and things that are dragging you down.

Do you have a fitday account? How much are you exercising and what kind of exercises? Are you drinking soda? (a big trouble maker for me, I don't lose anything when I drink soda) How many meals are you eating in a day? etc...
 
A Revised Plan

So, here's my revised plan for weight loss.. Instead of having rules like you see in my first post, I'll follow these simple steps:
- When I'm hungry, I'll drink water. If I still feel hungry about 10 minutes later, I'll eat.
- When eating, eat fist-sized portions, and slowly, so that I feel full faster.
- Eat less from school.
- Do not eat late at night

One of the reasons I've gained a couple more pounds instead of losing is because I eat a LOT at school.. at Tim Hortons, A&W.. there's no healthy eating on campus..so I've got to restart making my own lunches..
 
You know what stinks....all of this freakin' quick and easy fast food, while it takes so damn good....it's loaded with fat and sodium. It sucks! It's like these restaurants are trying to get people fat because they know that people are just so busy they'll take the evil food just so that they don't starve! Evil I tell you!
 
Hi cheesecake...just wanted to give you some encouragement...hang in there...take it one day at a time....small steps forward, learning new habits...and don't be too hard on yourself.

I think that mal gave you some good advice early on....don't take away all of your treats...everything in moderation and balance...aim for healthy. :)
 
I worked out a little bit this morning.. I'm trying to change my work-out schedule.. I alternate between low intensity and high intensity every two minutes (on the treadmill, elliptical machine).. I didn't work out too much today, because I didn't stretch properly, and after about 6 minutes on the treadmill my right left felt strained.. I lifted some weights, did a few crunches, but I'm still glad I worked out, even though I started back up really slowly. I'm having chocolate milk and yogurt for breakfast, and am trying not to eat fast food today (which is the cheapest to get on campus).

I read that other girl's diary, where she said she went on a mono diet (dairy products for two days, fruits for the next two days, etc).. And she only eats the most calories between noon and 6 pm.. I found that interesting.. maybe I'll eat less in the morning and after 6..and will try my best to follow my own version of that diet..

The biggest struggle for me is going to be not to eat out of boredom and procrastination (when I want to delay studying, I eat). This mostly happens at home of course.. so I'm going to study elsewhere, BUT will have to remember to pack food, otherwise I'll waste money on fast food..

Thanks guys for your support... It really means a lot, seeing that not a lot of my friends need to lose weight like I do..
 
Monday April 9

MORNING:

`` 8 - 8:30 am : worked out
- 6.5 mins on treadmill (2 min walking, 2 min jogging, 2 min walking, etc)
- 9.5 mins on elliptical machine (2 min slow, 2 min fast, etc)
- several sets of weights (12.5 pounds, 15 pounds)
- 12 crunches using gym ball
- note: strain on leg during jogging (must remember to STRETCH:p ) & strain on right arm (still present... don't know why:confused: .. must try and do weight exactly the same amount of times with both sides)

`` past 9 am: breakfast of
- some chocolate milk (170 cals, to be consumed throughout morning)
- vanilla yogurt (180 cals)

(TO BE CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE DAY)
 
Hi there and welcome back!
Here are a few tips which you might try out:
1) Set yourself a smaller goal, 5 or 10 pounds down from where you are now. Decide how you're going to reward yourself when you reach that goal. Choose something which you really REALLY want. Preferably not food related..
2) Find the good things in what you have done today, that will keep you in good mood and motivated. Don't think of the things that went badly.
3) Try planning your days meals in advance. Find out how much you should eat in a day and stick to it. You can then integrate things that you want to your diet without going over your calorie limit, which is the one that counts, if you want to lose weight.
4) Stay away of funny sounding diets, things that promise a lot but give you nothing. I'm guessing you want to keep the weight off after losing it once. These miracle diets won't help you there...

You are the one who decides what, when and how much you eat. Enjoy the power!
Juliette
 
hey cheesecake. hope you are still on track and still kicking ass on your workouts. let us know how youre getting on!! :)
xx
 
Hi everyone, I'm back. Well, third time's the charm. I've started a new summer semester at school, and for the past two days, I've been eating healthy (my only weak point because dinner, where I eat the most, and I'm working on that).

I've just printed out a contract and a table (where I'm going to keep track of what I eat).

The hardest struggle for me in my failed attempts is avoiding eating something when I see it. I was in the kitchen today and saw cookies, and I had one. Then I saw poptarts, I had one of those too. No matter how many times I've told my parents to stop buying junk food, they don't, because my little sister demands it. If they can't practice a healthy lifestyle, it is up to me to resist temptation.

I'm really serious about it this time, and I can't make any excuses for myself. Even if I fail or make mistakes, I have to go on. I've gone on for years with low self-esteem, hating going to parties, taking pictures, because I was overweight. In the past year, I've gained almost 10 points (since starting university), and feel worse because weight is really stressed among my friends (as in, my thinner friends consider themselves fat, and this makes me even less confident about myself).

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SUMMARY OF MY CONTRACT:

I recognize that I am overweight, and have put on excess pounds over 11 years of eating. I am at the heaviest weight I've ever been, at almost 175 pounds. I want to reach a stable weight of 125-135 pounds, and am aiming for about 135 before Christmas. I want to lose weight to look better and feel better. I have tried and failed at many short-lived diets before, but this time, I vow to reach my goal, and then work towards maintaining a stable weight. My reasons for failure and overeating have included psychological hunger, bored, and eating while watching TGV.

(I've created a small list of guidelines to follow in my printed out contract)

I realize that this contract is solely with myself and that it carries no rewards, penalties or punishments other than those associated with the reflection of the strength of my character.*

I will do my best.

_________________________

* that last bit was taken off a contract written by Bob Green on Oprah.com








In this online diary, I don't think I'll write down every single detail of how much I ate, how much I exercised. I'll leave that for my printed out table. However, I will definitely comment on disappointments, failures, successes of each day.

I have about 40 pounds to lose before Christmas, and another 10 before my ideal weight. Wish me luck guys.. for the third and final time. It's no longer an attempt, this time it's for real.
 
Oh, before I forget, I should write down what I'm aiming for.

END OF JUNE ~ 165-170 LBS
END OF JULY ~ 160-165 LBS
END OF AUG ~ 155-160 LBS
END OF SEP ~ 150-155 LBS
END OF OCT ~ 145-150 LBS
END OF NOV ~ 140-145 LBS
END OF DEC ~ 135-140 LBS

Hopefully I'll lose more than just 5 pounds each month, but let's see how it goes!!
 
GAHHH I feel like ranting. I'm bored and I don't want to go to the fridge and eat so I need to keep myself busy.
I have to drink some nasty herbal tea (lemon-flavoured) before I go to bed and I'm trying to put it off.
Tomorrow morning I hope I can get up early in the morning and walk 10 laps around the baseball park behind my house; I usually say I will, but I never get up and do it.. Since I don't have summer school tomorrow, I don't have any excuses.. I just have to quit being lazy..
Yesterday, I had a good workout, I was sweating, I burned 400-something calories, I ate healthy (ate a little too much and dinner though), but today, today was bad. I could barely work out.. I did barely 20 mins (10 mins on two separate machines), and I couldn't go on. I don't know why... I used the dumbells and then that's pretty much all I did today.. and I overate when I got home, and sat around watching TV.

Well, now that I've done my "contract" and all, I really have to get started on this "diet" for real now. It's quite embarassing really, I mean, how many times have I come on this forum saying "I'm starting my diet now..". This is officiailly my third try, and I want it to be my last..
It's so hard because I don't have a real weight-loss buddy. Well, I have one girl that I sometimes work out with, and she considers herself overweight, but I think she's fine. And what makes it worse is that my "friends" say that I'm not "fat" but they call themselves "fat", and they are at least 50 pounds lighter than me. That really frustrates me, and doesn't do much for my self-confidence.. Anyway.. Yeah.. just had to let that out. Okay.. I can't put off this herbal tea any longer.. Good night guys.
 
Nice to see you back here with us, Cheesecake!
I hope this time you'll stay with us! I think all of us have started out more than once, or at least come back again at some point, so nobody's counting. :)
The contract with yourself sounds good. Remember, that you are allowed to feel good already for trying to do good things for you. That's what will keep you going for life.
I wish you the best of luck for going for your goals and hope the WLF can help you through any rough patches on your way!
Juliette
 
cheesecake said:
Oh, before I forget, I should write down what I'm aiming for.

END OF JUNE ~ 165-170 LBS
END OF JULY ~ 160-165 LBS
END OF AUG ~ 155-160 LBS
END OF SEP ~ 150-155 LBS
END OF OCT ~ 145-150 LBS
END OF NOV ~ 140-145 LBS
END OF DEC ~ 135-140 LBS

Hopefully I'll lose more than just 5 pounds each month, but let's see how it goes!!
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awesome! my goals are VERY similar to yours!

END OF JUNE~ 160-165
END OF JULY~ 155-160

ETC...

good luck! and i love your username!
 
Day 1 Of "real" Diet

Okay guys.. so today I was awake early (before 7), but I stayed in bed until almost 10. So around 10 am I did my 8 laps (of walking, not jogging) outside. I didn't do the full 10 because my heel got bruised (long story) and I had no sunscreen and I could feel the sun burning into my skin.
I ate lots of meals today, all small, compared to what I usually eat. The only problem is that other than the walk, I wasn't too active today. I lay around, slept in between meals, and since I was staying home and not doing much, all I could think about was food. So, I really need to get myself out of the house or I'll eat my way to 10 more pounds this summer. At least I have school the other 4 days of the week.
I had pizza around 8 (I know it's past my goal of not eating after 7:30 pm, but I wrote in my contract that if I eat past then, I sleep 3 hours after eating) without pepperoni (which I hate anyway).

I'm really confused right now because my scale is weird. I just bought one the other day, one of those analog ones (the digital ones are expensive!) and it differs in the way it measures my weight. I figured I weighed about 175 yesterday, and I know how it goes up a couple right after eating, etc. We have two scales in the house, and our old one said about 170 and the new one said about 180 today. And then, before eating the pizza, the old one said 160-ish (MY, WAS I EXCITED!!), and then the new one said (170-ish). So now I have no idea what I weigh, whether I even lost any pounds in the last 3 days (two days of "pre-diet", and first day of "official diet").





Before 10 AM : Peanut Butter & (Half a) Banana Sandwhich (on White Bread, no Whole Wheat avalable) with a glass of milk

10:05 AM : 8 walking laps around field (7 mins for each lap)

Shortly after 11 AM : the other half of the banana

1 PM : tomato soup (with a little of some mushroom cream stuff and some random stuff I added to make it taste better lol)

3:15 PM : fruits (one kiwi, some pineable bits and peach half)

5:00 PM : fistful portion of rice (with mixed vegetables) with beef

6:30 PM (couldn't wait two hours lol) : 1 poptart & glass of milk

8:00 PM : PIZZA (no pepperoni), sour cream

Had water throughout the day.


COMMENTS:

So, one part of my contract said that I wouldn't eat while commercial breaks on TV. I watched TV today, and that's when I couldn't wait the two full hours between meals and decided to have that pop-tart. That's a mistake right there. So now I've got to learn to control my urges. I also need to figure out ways to be more active when I'm at home. I tried to do some crunches, but did probably 30 crunch exercises.. I've been very lazy, but it's okay, I'll get there.. I'm just worried because I don't want to give up if I don't see fast results.. My diet still needs improvements.. I need to drink that herbal tea today too.. I didn't last night..
 
I'm really confused right now because my scale is weird. I just bought one the other day, one of those analog ones (the digital ones are expensive!) and it differs in the way it measures my weight. I figured I weighed about 175 yesterday, and I know how it goes up a couple right after eating, etc. We have two scales in the house, and our old one said about 170 and the new one said about 180 today. And then, before eating the pizza, the old one said 160-ish (MY, WAS I EXCITED!!), and then the new one said (170-ish). So now I have no idea what I weigh, whether I even lost any pounds in the last 3 days (two days of "pre-diet", and first day of "official diet").
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This is exactly why I splurged and bought a digital. Actually, the one I got was $40 Can., which I thought was a good price, considering I've used it every day for the past 9 months. LOL! Also, with my analog one, it would change the weight if I leaned forward or back even a tiny bit. Very frustrating!
 
The last two days of my diet have been the worst, due to a foot injury (from Friday), and the fact that I couldn't make my own meals (so I had the eat rice and other fattening foods), and ate later at night and stuff.. So since I just officially signed my contract (I forgot to do it when I actually wrote it a couple days ago), I'm calling this DAY #1 of my diet. I made my meals for today :)
 
Good for you! There's nothing quite like the feeling when you know you're in charge, making the decisions about your life. Enjoy! Hope to hear from you soon... :)
Juliette
 
Well, the last couple of days, I've been breaking some rules. Last night, I ate late night at 10:30 pm.. This diet isn't too hard, but the last couple days I haven't been controlling my eating because of this situation at home.. So really stressed out, and I keep eating at odd hours..
I'm drinking this other herbal tea now (taste less bad than the lemon-flavoured one), and I think it's helping. I had Swiss Chalet though today (because my parents bought it), and that was the biggest meal of today.. I mostly had watermelon, tomato soup and some dry cereal today. So the whole Swiss Chalet thing ruined it. I didn't even work out.. so I think I'll do a couple crunches before I sleep, although I doubt that'll help.

I can't wait until I lose weight.. I need some motivation.. I think I'll post pictures of fit people in this thread so that whenever I come by I get motivated again..
 
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Here are some pics..
 

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