Confessions of a food Junkie

Wow- it sounds like you did a fantastic job at your in-laws. And I agree with everyone else- walking is your best bet at this point. And it really does help shed the pounds! If you check out Cannon's diary, I am pretty sure walking is his exercise of choice and he's been doing a good job losing weight. Good luck on the challenge!
 
I think the husbands have a hard time with wives who are losing weight. They often don't know how to be. You're smart to lay it all out for him. Good job! Keep it up!

Go Belly Busters!!!
 
Hey Kallie. I'm glad to see that you're doing good. Don't beat yourself up everytime you make a little mistake. Just ask yourself what you can do better next time. I'm glad you had that talk with your husband. Hopefully he understands about supporting you, and it'll help you out a lot. If I was you, I would definately cut down on the soda, but I wouldn't do it all at once. I mean, if you drink soda a whole lot your body is really used to the caffeine, and you'll get major headaches if you just cut it out all together. Try going down to like, maybe 1 soda every other day or something.

I'm glad to hear that you're doing good, and you're really excited about the challenge! You'll do awesome~
 
OK, so over the weekend I started thinking about the reasons why I want to loose weight and become healthy and I decided to make a list for myself so that I can come look at it whenever I feel discouraged.

In no particular order:

I DON"T WANT TO LIVE LIKE I'M ALREADY DEAD ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want more engery
I want to be able to run with my son
I want to be able to take dancing classes and actually be able to participate.
I want to know that I am doing everything I can to take care of myself
I want to have a better body image of myself (I wanna think I'm hott:eek: )
I want to pass on a healthier lifestyle for my son
I want to be able to ride fair rides again
I want to see my toes and be able to touch them
I don't want to worry about seat belts fitting in cars or planes
I don't want to worry about my weight breaking something
I don't want to run out of breathe from being out of shape
I want to be able to participate in a tri-atholon ( I can't spell)
I want to have confidence in my apperance
I want to have sexy clothes
I want to be able to go to the pool and not be embarrassed
I want to take some coaching clinics and head after school sports when I am teacher.
I want to look great for my grad in 3 years.
I want my outside to reflect the inside.
I don't want my life to revolve around food


This is just my short list. I'll add more as they come to me.
 
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Sounds like you're off to a good start! It's always hard when the husband doesn't understand. I've just finally got mine mostly trained. :p
If you like salsa, you might try it on your baked potato, I love it that way. It seems a little dry otherwise for me. Keep up the good food choices!!! :D
 
OK, so I am about to go for groceries but I am already having cravings for bad things and I just had that kind of thing on the weekend. GGGGrrrr.

I want it so bad and then I get it and then when I'm eating it, it doesn't even taste good to me anymore. How screwed up is that????????

How do you guys get through your cravings if you have any???????

Oh yea and anything and almost everything triggers cravings for me. LOL typing this I got one for pizza and wings. I get them from seeing t.v. comercials for things, seeing them in stores and times like that. Some last a couple minutes and others last for days or as long as I can hold out.
 
I've also decided to post daily goals, weekly goals and monthly goals as well as a schedual for myself.

Tomorrow my schedual is:

1. Wake up at 8am have breakfast
2. Go for walk with my son at 8:30 - 9:15 or 30.
3. Have snack at 10 am
4. Lunch at 12:30 pm
5. Clean up house (another form of exercise for me)
6. Have afternoon snack at 3pm
7. Start preparing supper for 6 pm.
8. Go for a family walk around 8pm (after Big Brother hehe)

My goals for tomorrow are:

1. Get in the two walks tomorrow for intentional exercise
2. Eat all 5 small meals at the appointed times
3. No binging
4. Stay away from the scale all day

My weekly goals are (to be posted every monday):

1. To loose atleast 2 lbs a week.
2. Make and maintain meal plan and exercise.

I'll post my monthly goals on the first of every month. I'm using July as a trial period to see how things go.
 
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great list of goals... something to strive for... :)

I like your daily goal.. taking it one day at a time is the best way to do it... :) you've got support and tons of encouragement here if you need it... Good luck :)
 
I just wanted to thank everyone who's taken time out of their day to read and comment in my journal. Thank you!

I also just want to let you all know that I am working hard to read your diaries from beginning to end so I can post in yours too. It's going to take me a while just to let you know, but I will do it.


Ok so today was groceries day and I stayed under the amount of calories I was told by my doctor to intake (to start 1800/day). I definately didn't eat good today (way to start off the challange) but it could have been worse.


I had 3 yogurt cups (@ 40 cals/cup),

1 serving of carrots this morning @ 35 cals

and one whopper sandwhich from Burger King @ 650 cals.

Grand total for the day is 805 calories.


I was wondering how to count calories from fruit??? Like how do you know??

I like counting and I want to, but I need some advice.
 
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Hey Kallie! Glad ya joined us- I love it here(I've been on vacation for a while, but I'm back, and I'm frickin religious about this site, so it'll be nice getting to know ya :) ) its a great place for support... In an earlier post ya asked about how to get over cravings, and I've got a few things that I do: Sugar free jello and puddings- with whip cream- soooo yummy if ya need sweets! And total, even with the puddings and wc, it equals about 75 cals. So thats an awesome deal. Or rice pudding cups(90 cals) with a tbsp of honey(60 cals) is yummy too. THeres also 100cal packs of popcorn if you crave something thats not sweet, and ranch rice cakes are a good one to...lol... I've been doing this for about 7 months now, so I could go on and on, but I'll quit now :) have a great day!!
 
Great diary

Hi Miss Kallie
Just had to say great diary. You really sound like this is the time to do "it" and that nothing is going to stop you. I admire your daily goals.

Walking is the best exercise, I love it as well as cycling. I usually do my workout at a gym on treadmill, bike and do weight sessions about 3 times per week. You'll find it is amazing how quickly your fitness improves if you just keep walking everyday. It doesn't have to be far or intense to begin with, the main thing is to get into the routine of incorporating a walk into your daily life.

As for cravings, I usually try to drink lots of water:) Though when I do give into the cravings, I don't beat myself up anymore, I just move on. After all no one's perfect.
 
Miss Kallie -
I love your diary! You are so motivated. Your list of reasons for losing weight made me want to cry. It is so inspired! I know if you keep those reasons in mind, nothing can stop you. Your walking goals are fantastic. It is really great that you are starting and maintaining realistic goals for yourself. I'm so glad we're on the same team!
(BTW I love the triathlon one!!)
 
Good morning everyone (HAHA),

I had a very late night last night and didn't get to bed until almost 3 am and I just pulled my butt out of bed right now :( (10 am) I am already 2 hours behind my schedual.
***I now have a new goal for today and that is to be in bed by 10pm so I can wake up in the morning.***


Thank you guys sooooooo much for your comments. It means a lot to me.


So in my stupor fog I was in when I woke up I got on the scale but then I remembered and never looked at the number lol. I didn't even realize what a habit that was for me.

Now I will have my morning snack (missed breakfast due to ZzzzZZzz's) and then I will get out side with my son this afternoon instead of this morning and I'll tidy the house until lunch time instead.

I really want to start this walking plan because last year in September when I started university I never dreamt that I would have to do that much walking in that short of time. I was often the last person and late for my classes that were far apart. I even went to the doctor because I was getting these extremely painful cramps in the back of my legs that wouldn't go away until I had been sitting for a half hour. The doctor said that it was because those were muscles that hadn't been used in a long time and it was going to hurt until they got back into shape. I have been out of school since April and I haven't done hardly anything so I'm quite sure that they are out of shape again.

I kind of want to surprise people when I go back to school. I figure if I lose my 2 pounds a week, I can be 20 lbs lighter.


Oh and I've got a question for you all.....I have not be able to get a job. Like the basic job ex. cashier job at a safeway or cashier at a mac's store. I sometimes get this feeling like they think I'm lazy or that I won't work hard because I'm big. I also know satistically speaking that at the interview, the employer decided whether or not to hire someone within the first 30 seconds.....am I crazy for thinking this????
 
No, you are not crazy about that at all. Unfortunately, that is the way things often are out in the world. People have preconceived notions about all types of people, including the overweight. I think about the best you can say about being rejected based on such a thing is that maybe you would not have wanted to work for that kind of person anyway.

One thing you might do to find a job is network with family and friends. Tell everyone who knows you that you are looking for work, and see if they could be a reference. A good reference goes a long way toward dispelling stereotypes. Good luck!
 
Just checking your to do list for today and I hope you just had your 3 pm snack!!! :)

For cravings - try brushing your teeth. You won't want to eat after you teeth all nice and shiny.

For calorie counts - I like to use

You're doing good honey...you made some awesome food choices while you were at your in-laws.
 
I missed my breakfast this morning but I had my morning snack, lunch and afternoon snack at the appointed times. I've only consumed 407 cals but if I had woken up in time for breakfast, it would have been closer to 800.


I've had 32 fluid oz of water so far. I'm working on getting my third 16 oz cup finished. I plan to drink 80 fluid ozs a day.


I think I'm doing really well but I haven't gone for that walk yet and I haven't really cleaned much. I've only put a load of laundry on. I seriously need a kick in the butt for exercise. It's so crazy because I know I love the feeling. I used to walk 4 miles a day and I absolutely love sore muscles, especially from lunges (sp??). It makes me feel alive. SO why do I have such a hard time going??????

I've been thinking about getting a treadmill or something to that effect. I was just reading in Hillbilly's diary about him noticing that a lot of equipment have this 250 lbs max rule and I have noticed that too..not helpful to me. Any suggestions on where to look and price ranges?????
 
a decent treadmill is gonna set you back a few hundred or more dollars.. what you might try is www.craigslist.com to see if people are sellng used equipment in your area...

Actually when I bought my bike from nordik track - I asked about the weight limit -and the round about answer i got was - unless it's a stair climber - then then the the weight limit is more for - well lady you weigh 360 lbs ya sure you're ok to be doing that??? there is soem equipment that is shoddily made though,and you get what you pay for.. those i woldn't trust at 150 lbs..
 
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