Frogged
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Originally Posted by Sparked
Whew! Busy week! I kept wanting so badly to write in my diary but every day was like wake up at 5:30, spend half the day at school, spend the rest of the day at work, drive home at 8:00 pm while I talk myself into working out, get home, eat dinner, study, knockout P90X and then pass the eff out!
My school has a massive health center (complete with an unbelievable gym, and 19 year olds who live in their sports bras, so I'm still a little gym-phobic about attempting that one) so I made an appointment to see a nutritionist. The meeting was really helpful and I learned a ton about nutrition and also cleared up a a few misconceptions. She weighed me and measured my body fat and said that I have a surprisingly high amount of lean muscle mass (that's right, I'm super ripped! Who knew??
), and that she could tell that I had been really active, so that was kind of exciting. She also had a long talk with me about carbs and starting to put them back in my diet. This is mainly because she said I still haven't developed a healthy relationship with food, before it was about binging and excess and now it's about obsessive restriction, both of these are extremes and a way to attempt to gain a sense of control in my life through food, she told me that I know that I can do this now and that I need to find a happy medium and stop letting food control my life. I don't disagree with this, it's something I've been thinking myself.
She also said that I am not getting enough fat in my diet and that is one of the reasons that my shin splints would not heal and that they worsened so quickly. I left the meeting with a plan that she made that would increase my fat intake by twice as much and my carbs by nearly 4 times as much! Kinda freaked me out a little, but she said I can do it slowly. The app I have on my phone that I track all my calories on makes these nice little pie charts that tell me where my calories are coming from, you can see I've changed the composition of my diet a lot over the last few days!
I'm a little worried about adding the carbs back in... just because I like them so much! Right now I'm sitting here eating some low fat frozen yogurt with fresh blueberries and a few almonds and it's soooo good... but there's a whole carton of froyo in my fridge now... I'm gonna have to put some head phones on so I don't have to hear it begging me to come eat more! Grrr carbs >.< evil.
Day 16 - When did you first decide to lose weight?
Um.. in utero? Seriously, I can't remember a time when I couldn't pass for at least chubby and wasn't completely aware of it. I was even a chubby toddler (obligatory childhood photo)
ugh the cheeks, and they just never went away! However, deciding that I need to lose weight and actually doing it have been two different things. I've stopped and started and succeeded and failed enough diets to make Oprah look like total noob hour. But, this is the most successful I have ever been and I seem to be on a roll, hopefully I can keep it up!
Cute as a button! hehe
Yeah, go slowly with that change, and don't get discouraged if you see a gain. Your body will no doubt be adjusting to the updated intake, but just give it time to balance out and continue on
You will undoubtedly make Oprah look like newbie hour, and you will be super successful!
Not that you already haven't accomplished amazing things already, but great things are in store for you, Sparked!
