Diary of the Damned - Now Sugar Free!

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TheEd

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Age: 26.


Beginning Weight: Walrus


Goal Weight: Adult Wolf


Plan:

Food - Less of it.

Excercise - More of it.


LOL.


Welcome to week 1, ladies and gents. I weigh in at 240 lbs, my waist measures at 42 inches, and my hips at 52. Ye gods, and I thought I was fat at 170 with a 36 inch waist. I want to be about 140 lbs. That's 100 POUNDS of me that I'm going to make go away (even if I have to poke it with a fork until it gets annoyed and leaves of it's own free will). I'll give it a year. By August 26th, 2012, I WILL BE 140 lbs!


I eat kinda healthy for regular meals - potatoes, broccoli, spinach, chicken, stir-fry veges, rice, rice, more rice. PROBLEM: I snack. Oh boy do I snack. Icecream, cookies, cheesecake, boxed candies, fast food... I constantly find myself hungry. SOLUTION: I am cutting junk food out, for an entire week. I figure that it's hard if you say you're cutting it out forever, so I'll go a week. And then the next week I cut it out won't be quite as bad. And as long as I can trick myself into believing that I'll get it eventually, then I won't give up. Saying "Just one more minute" on the treadmill 30 times is a lot easier than saying "Just 30 more minutes".


PROBLEM: My motivation sucks. I won't excercise for the sake of excercising, I'll only do it if I find it fun. I enjoy dancing, as long as it's to a song/style that I like. I love pop music and Glee. SOLUTION: DDR and Zumba.


I plan to do bouts of DDR, for at least 30 minutes a day, every day. Except today, because it's almost midnight and if I do, I don't think the old lady who lives downstairs would be very impressed with me.


Next week, or hopefully later this week, I'm able to get a member ship at the YMCA and make a fool of myself doing some advanced class Zumba, which they hold 3x a week. More than likely next week, since we'll probably get paid on the 1st.
 
It only feels right to make this a seperate post... Today was the first day of my week of no junk. And what hell it was!


Breakfast was... a cheese-string. Man I love those. And some fruit, the pre-packaged cut up kind - pineapple, honeydew, cantelope, watermelon.

Lunch was... gross. The husband tried to feed me a bowl of salad - the leafy kind - with cut up bits of pre-cooked-oven-baked chicken fries, and ceasar sauce. I managed a few bites and then ditched it for a bowl of cereal: Almond Oatmeal Crisp. I hate the leafy lettuce, it tastes like grass.


Damn, I'm a picky eater.


No excercise today, beyond a few experimental lunges while I was watching X-Weighted, but I think I was doing it wrong.


Unless, vigorous upper-body chair dancing to a Star Trek: TOS fanvid counts as excercise?


I'm debating putting together a list of upbeat dance-y songs to listen to as soon as I wake up in the morning, to put me in a hyper-energetic happy mood. Suggestions?
 
A[quote name="TheEd" url="/t/51523/diary-of-the-damned-now-sugar-free#post_804169"]Beginning Weight: Walrus[/quote]


I'm so glad I wasn't drinking something when I read that...it would of been ALL over my laptop. hahaha! omg..too funny. I'll definitely be reading your diary. Welcome to the forum and Good luck! :)
 
AWelcome. Nice to see another DDR player around. Though I dont plan on getting back on until at least 20 more pounds come off. What level do you play on? What are your favorite tunes?

You seem really psyched about this and have a good sense of humor. Please do share your list of upbeat music (im always looking to add new workout songs). Best wishes in your goals :)
 
Haha you have a brilliant sense of humour! well just so you know i went cold turkey on the junk food a few weeks ago now and ive honestly never felt better! The first few days were torture watching everyone around me eat all my favourite treats, but after a while you honestly dont even miss it! Your attitude is really good so im positive your going to reach your goal by next august. Best of luck to you and i look forward to reading your progress!
 
Hey TheEd!! Well done on starting a change! I have a snacking problem too!! I loved your first post, you are hilarious!!


Goodluck on your journey to losing weight, i'll be rooting for ya;)
 
Hi theed. (What's your name?)


You sure do sound psyched and raring to go and that's a great way to start off isn't it. I know what you mean about the constant snacking and being hungry though. I think a lot of it is habit. Its cured to a great extent by finding activities to do. So keep on the lookout for ways to be more active. When you are so active you dont' have time to eat and you won't feel hungry or bored. I also find it helpful the way i time my meals. Breakfast sometime afterr rising, lunch only about 3 hours later because i am usually hungry by then, glass of wine around 4-5pm (which takes care of that hunger moment) and then dinner earlier after that. Then avoid eating after dinner. Everyone around here too is big on drinking water and i support this though you don't have to go overboard. 2 litres a day is enough so long as you do it throughout the day. Water when you are hungry does help a little unless you are really bored.


Lettuce isn't bad if you make a nice dressing. Or do you still don't like it. I like lettuce with tomato and a bit of avocardo. If you just use 1tsp of olive oil with either lemonjuice of balsamic vinegar, you should find it nice. But if you really don't like lettuce you can try some other salad greesn or just give them up. You can make a salad with raw vegetables like tomato and cucumber, or carrot.


but here is a delicious french style salad you might want to try.


I call it French Green Bean and tomato salad.


Steam some green beans that you've cut into 1 inch lengths. Rinse under cold water or iced water to stop them overcooking.

Dice tomatoes


Put both in a bowl with 1 tbsp (or less) dijon mustard. It can be smooth or seeded and 1 tbsp of balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, salt and pepper. If you weren't on a diet you could add oil but its not bad just like that.


Then this salad is nice left to marinate so you can make enough for two meals. Tjhere should be quite a bit of salad dressing to slosh up with some wholegrain bread.
 
My name is Ed. ^.^


I like romane lettuce for sammiches and regular normal head-of-lettuce for salad. For some reason the Husband insists on getting these bins of pre-chopped leafy lettuce. Pfft. He can eat it then.


I am probably the pickiest eater you'll ever meet. I hate tomatoes, I hate pasta, I hate peppers, I hate cooked carrots... the list goes on, but that's a huge chunk of food right there.


100% of what we eat is mexican food (tacos, taquitos, chilli)... various forms of chicken with rice, and stir-fry veges (baby corn, green beans, peas, brocolli). We ocasionally do a pot roast, or get the trays of fruit, or blocks of cheese, or the packages of cheese strings. I get two packages of frozen spinach per month and eat those all by myself, since the kids don't like it and the Husband can't stand the smell. but I love it. I could eat it alone for weeks.


I used to do a lot of tv dinner type things, but we cut those out months ago because they're too expensive. We also used to eat out a lot, a habit ingrained in me from my dad - My dad doesn't cook and we didn't have a mom, so a lot of our turned out as either take-out, or going to Gram's for supper. And Gram didn't like me, so she'd purposefully cook foods that I didn't like, so I starved until I could acquire food on my own.


I'll share my list when I make one up :D



Breakfast: Cereal (again), and yogurt!

Lunch: Time Horton's, but the healthier side of it - Chicken Salad sammich, on whole wheat bread <3 Me and the Husband split a bottle of apple juice that's so small I doubt it would even half fill my kid's sippy cup.

Snack: I failed the universe here. I made berry shakes for me and the Husband (celebratory, since Grampa took the kids for the night) and they had berrys of all kinds, milk and icecream.

Supper - One chicken breast with nothing on it, stir-fry veges and rice. (You'll see this a lot on here)


That's up to now, I'll try not to eat anything else, but I may falter and go hunting for a pair of cheese strings. Just talking about them makes me want to....
 
Just watched an episode of Extreme Makeover, Weightloss Edition. What amazingness is that? A woman went from 456lbs, down to 255lbs in one year. She lost her first 100lbs in THREE MONTHS. I wish they showed more of how they did it, I would love to get my 100lbs gone in three months.
 
Maybe she had liposuction.


Well it sounds like you are like quite a lot of quite healthy foods so i wouldn't worry too much about what you don't like.
 
Had a crazy bout of depression last night. I weighed myself and it turns out I'm 260. I gained 30 lbs this past month. That's insane. If I kept going like that, then I would have been three hundred by the end of September. Good thing I got to me when I did, right? OTL I also found out that my DDR pad is not compatible with USB or the xbox360. It can be used with the Wii or the PS2 or the original Xbox. So my solution has to be either hit up the pawn shop and see if I can find a PS2 or try to find a mat for the 360.


On the upside, the Husband promised to help me with loosing weight :D He's making me boiled eggs right now. Which I have half a mind to turn into egg sammiches <3
 
Music Time! I'm doing a playlist that's an intermingling of upbeat high-energy stuff and motivational stuff to keep me going. This is what I got so far:


High School Musical - Bet On It (The lyrics! Such motivation!)

Poe - Walk the Walk

Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand

Queen - Under Pressure

Cascada - What About Me

Crazy Frog - Popcorn

Heart - Alone

Cast of Glee - Fire

Depeche Mode - Tainted Love

Guttermouth - Do You Like Waffles

Josh Groban - Don't Give Up

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

FallOut Boy - I Don't Care

Mandy Moore - Stupid Cupid

NightCore - Look At Me Now

Jounathan Coultan - Code Monkey

Panic! At the Disco - Lying Is The Most Fun

Queen - Killer Queen

The Ramones - What I Like About You

Panic! At The Disco - I write Sins Not Tragedies

Keane - Is It Any Wonder

Madness - It Must Be Love

Mika - Rain

Mika - Happy Ending

The Muppets - Somebody to Love

Three Doors Down - So I Need You

Mika - Big Girls (You Are Beautiful)


And then a loooot of Mika songs.
 
I've been watching Extreme Makeover: Weightloss Edition. It's really inspiring to me. I just watched about 5 episodes in a row and I've decided that if I work hard, I can aim for the goal of loosing 50lbs in three months. That would give me September, October and November. and put me somewhere very close to 210lbs by December 1st.


I wanted to give myself a reward for losing the 50lbs, but the Husband absolutely refuses to let me get a dog. And we can't really afford an excercise machine.


I'm on day four of eating no junkfood. It really, REALLY sucks. We have a pack of cookies in the cupboard that are supposed to be for the kids. Evan (our oldest) has had one today, and the Husband had two! I feel like they're flaunting it in my face. The husband told me he'd love me and think I was beautiful even if I weighed 500lbs and I can't help but be unhappy about that - I need him to not be okay with me being huge. If he thinks it's okay, then I'll start to think it's okay, then it'll get worse and worse.


I feel like I have no support in this. The Husband has told me a couple times in the last few days that "We've been through all this before, why should this time be any different?" And I have tried to lose weight before. And how will ever work if I don't have him to support me? I mean, how am I supposed to succeed if everyone around me is so damn sure that I'm going to fail?


Trying to do good...


Ate cereal w/milk and a yogurt for breakfast at 7am

Had some eggs about an hour later, 8am

Didn't feel much like eating, so lunch ended up as a pre-packaged burritto (it has some sort of sauce, rice, beans and chicken), somewhere around 1 or 2pm.

Its 330pm and I haven't eaten since.


I did some excecise. I stood up and sat down on my chair a bunch of times in a row for about 6 minutes. It doesn't sound like much but its HARD. My legs are jelly.
 
Oh i am so sorry that you are finding your husband not on your wavelength. That must be hard. Tell him you need his unconditional love right now. He needs to put aside his views and opinions and just give you what you need.


if people eating biscuits in front of you is hard, ask them all if they cannot do it. Tell them how you feel about it and tell them that you find their behaviour undermining. Ask them for their strength. Of course you mustn't do this in any sort of accusing way but appeal to their better nature.


If they refuse, you have no choice but to let it go and find other ways to keep yoruself strong. Try not to let resentment build up as that will also undermine your determination. Be happy about what you are doing. You know its about your health as well as your looks. Maybe you can remind your hubby of that vital aspect. Ask him not to give up on you.


I'm evangelising about buddhism at the moment. Buddhist mediation can help you in your resolve. Maybe find a centre where you can learn some of the basic things - you don't have to swallow it whole. If something doesnt' sit right iwth you that's ok. With me i don't believe in karma and reincarnation but i still attend the centre becuase it helps me in my meditaiton which helps me in my daily life projects. Though yesterday i had a big disappointment and caved in. You are probalby not interested in it but i thought i'd put it out there anyway as you never know what sort of ideas will be right for someone.


Anyway be less dependent on what your husband thinks and does.
 
I just weighed myself.


I LOST TEN POUNDS :D


Considering the number of times I cheated the no-sugar diet, I'm amazed.


Everything tastes different now. I had a sip of the Husband's pop (Big 8 Root Beer) and it was so gross. It tasted like tar mixed with inordinate amounts of sugar. It was sooooo bad. I can't believe I used to like that stuff. Sadly, chocolate is still a major downfall for me. There are no more chocolate covered chocolate-chip granola bars left (they have all been eaten), so that's good. I've managed to find a suitable replacement for my chocolate addiction, in the form of frozen yogurt and chocolate soy milk :D


We got groceries and we didn't get any junk food. That gives me joy. We didn't even get taquitos. That was difficult (go figure, the minute we decide to stop eating them, they become 50% off). We got a ton of fruit, chicken, some hamburger (which the Husband turns into tacos of which I only had 2), lettuce - the good kind, and a TON of juice. We are juice fiends. We get really dehydrated, really quickly, so we usually go through about 8-10 litres of juice per day.


I've been eating a lot of grapes lately.
 
Correction. I lost more than I thought I did.


My scale says 240lbs.

How the hell did I lose 20 lbs in 6 days? o_O
 
AMaybe you need to calibrate your scale? It could have also been water weight. I find that I get the best results in the morning, clothes off. Clothing can add lbs.

I had the same thing happen with the soda. I went without it for weeks, and then I tried one, and it really didn't taste as good as it used to.

Glad to see you're sticking to it, though!
 
That's the same conclusion we came to - It's probably half water weight, half me. Still though, it's encouraging. :D


Lesse now,

I've had sausage and egg breakfast sammich for breakfast, with iced tea <3 I figure, if I'm going to eat bad stuff, I'll do it in the morning cause then I have the day to work it off.

I had two bowls of cheerios for lunch, and half a piece of a skinless chicken breast and a lot of white rice for supper. I ate too much, and felt sick for a while, but I'm better now.


It's strange, the amount of food I can eat now is pitifully small compared to the amount of food I could eat before I started this whole thing. But I guess that's a good thing?
 
wow congratulations on losing 20lbs, water weight or not thats really impressive! Sorry to hear your husbands not very supportive, but just use it as encouragment so that when you stick to your plan and lose the weight you can laugh in his face!! I cant have any junk food in the house cause i know for a fact i would scoff it all, the temptaion would be too much! Congratulations again your doing amazing :coolgleama:
 
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