Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Hi,

I know how hard it can be this is my first official week with eating healthy and exercising every day. I find it so hard at work today a group had a pot luck and of course they were inviting everyone..it smelled sooo good. but i just kept walking...i find that if i go out for a run or walk before work it helps me stay on track.

Just hang in there..I have only been on this board for a couple days but already i know when i feel like caving in and eating something i know is not good it side tracks me.
 
Hi cocobrownlopez -
I know what you mean, my work does the same thing. They always do a potluck for people's b-days too. And no one ever brings in a salad or a fruit bowl or anything healthy. It's always BBQ or Rum Cake (mmmm rum cake).

BTW - you need the BBC code in you sig
 
Congrats

You put lemon juice on the brocolli right? That sounds really good. I like Tae Bo once in awhile. It's really fun. Congrats on loosing four pounds already! That's really awesome! Glad you ended up resisting that ice cream. Keep up the good work Manaola! Your during super!
 
I'm so glad you bounced back. Twin is right. It is really hard at first. I had a bad day yesterday with all the calorie counting. I think we need to just sit back and take a deep breathe sometimes. Your doing great. Hang in there.
 
Thank you VonArtiste & Pineola for the words of encouragement, it really really helps!!!

So I get home last night and was going to make homemade pizza but my husband calls and wants to go out to dinner and go shopping. So I think great here's my first restaurant challange since starting this diet.

So we go to the retaurant and they have only 3 options listed under low fat menu items and two of them were salads. Did I mention how tired I am of salads. So I look over the menu to see what else they have that I can alter. There was a grilled chicked with seasoned rice and veggies dish. I got the sauces on the side :D Good for me!! So I get the meal and it looks really good. But way too much food. So I only ate one of the two small chicken breasts, squeezed more lemon over my mixed veggies (brocolli & green beens) ate all of those. I love steamed veggies with lemon. And half of the rice. I took the rest of the rice and the other chicken breast home for another meal.

So I'm thinking I'm doing pretty good, right. So I didn't go to bed until 11 pm even though I was tired and as I lay there I realise that I'm really really hungry. So I drink the water that I have by side of my bed. And lay there some more, yup, still hungry. :( Not just kind of hungry, I'm talking stomach growling sharp hunger pangs kind of hungry, and I'm not one of those people that can go to sleep hungry. So, of course, I go downstairs to find something to eat. I end up making one of the individual pizzas. What is wrong with me? I have never gotten hungry that late at night before.

So I didn't sleep well, which makes me grouchy. But when I wake up this morning I'm not hungry at all. But I also know myself and I figure that I'll be hungry by the time I go into work. So obviously I can't make myself eggs like I normally do while I'm at work and I'm not in the mood for cereal or oatmeal. So I take the leftover chicken and rice for breakfast. So I had my breakfast about 2 hours later than normal.

For lunch I packed a turkey & ham w/lettuce rolled up in a sun-dried tomato wrap. I make a quick cucumber, brocolli, & carrot salad w/diluted low fat italian dressing. Seems lately some things like dressings seem really strong tasting so I have to dilute them with water. And the last of the Jello. I don't think I'm going to make Jello for a while, after I eat it it seems like I crave more sweet things right after. From now on I'll have a peach or a banana for desert.

So I picked up a new bike seat with more cushion to it. We're going to install it tomorrow and go for a bike ride. Yeah!! :) I love riding my bike!!!
 
It seems like I can taste a lot more/better than before.
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I totally agree with you on that. Sometimes I'll be eating something that never would have interested me before, and I find myself saying out loud "This is freaking delicous"!!!!! Sometimes I'm the only one in the room, but I say it anyway! LOL!

And congratulations on the four pounds!!! You need to change that ticker!! We want to watch it move with you.
 
Hey, that's cool you found that exercise stuff. I'm thinking of buying an exercise bike of some sort. I have done some exercising at home this last week and I kind of like it. I didn't think I would stick to it, but I figure a couple nights of some free weights is better than nothing. We just need to move more, right?

I had a pear like that peach you had the other day. I think in my case it was just a really good pear because we bought some more later and they were not as good.

Have a great weekend. I think you are going to do great!
 
Another Monday

Thanks everyone, for the words of encouragement. This forum really helps. :)

So over the weekend it was OK. We went out more than normal, but I ended up getting mainly chicken and veggies for my meals and taking half the portions home. The only really bad meal was the beef nachos and I couldn't finish those and they didn't taste as good as normal.

My hubby found his old Weight Watchers books so we're going to try following that too. I bought a couple of workout videos so that I can start working out again too. Tae bo just makes me cringe right now because it's so hard.

Went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of fresh veggies and more fruit. Was going to get up early this morning and go for a bike ride, but I kept tossing and turning last night so I just slept until my normal time.

Tonight though I'm going to work out to my video and if it cools down before it gets completely dark I'm going to go for a bike ride. I'm going to hold myself to that too. No copping out tonight.
 
awesome that your husband is going to be your partner in this... :) it'll be much easier than going it alone... :)

sounds like you did have a good weekend.. well done... :)
 
It will be a lot easier, Maleficent, if he goes along with it, but he's more like he'll go along with whatever I put in front of him, but he won't make those choices when we go out to supper & stuff. Like this weekend, we went out to lunch and he ordered three kinds of fried shrimp with french fries. Doesn't bother me much because I don't really like fried food or seafood. But there were a lot of other things on the menu that he could have ordered that were better, but he didn't. But I can't make him change and I'm just happy that he's willing to go bike riding as much as he does.

So today's been pretty good so far.

This morning I had one egg with lots of onion & peppers in a 1/2 a whole wheat pita pocket. Maybe around 160 calories.

For a snack I had a small peach and a small plum, they were super yummy, very juicy. Peach 35 calories & plum is 30 for a total of 65 calories.

For lunch was a turkey & pepper jack wrap with lettuce and tomato and a veggie salad with cucumber, green beans, brocolli & cherry tomatoes in a little low fat italian dressing. Yummmmm... I'm stuffed. 436 calories.

Total so far today is 661 calories. That's seems kind of low for as much food as I had.....is that right?
 
Manaola, you're doing great! What you had for lunch sounds so good... Isn't it surprising you can eat all that food, and only have spent 661 calories? I'm glad you made smart choices over the weekend.
 
Manaloa, I get surprised about the quantities compared to calorie count of alot of healthy foods. Like last night we had steamed cauliflower. And 1 cup of the stuff is only like 38 calories. And 50 fresh blueberries are only 38 calories. It's so easy to get stuffed on vegetables and they're not very "expensive" calorie wise.

So sounds like you are making those "cheap" calorie choices, so keep it up!!!!
 
Feels like Monday again :(

Wow, so this is going to a really long post.


So, I think I did pretty good over the holiday.

Monday night we had pork loin chops, grilled, brocolli & baby carrots steamed and corn on the cob. I did have some butter on the corn. :( But after dinner I took my daughter bike riding, she's 8, but she hasn't had a lot of chances to go riding so she's doing a lot of "practicing". We ended going down the bike trail and around the park and were gone maybe an hour. That night we watched a movie and had popcorn (not the lite stuff either, it was one of those with an obscene amount of butter on it) I only had a few handfulls so I think I did ok with it. Around 10:00 that night though I was kind of hungry again, so my husband and I had some tuna & crackers, I only had 4 crackers with just a small amount of tuna (because I still have a hard time eating it because I don't like seafood) so it was maybe 100 calories. Then I went upstairs and did a workout video. It was the Biggest Loser workout. Waaaay tooo many squats & lunges.

Tuesday morning we all got up early to go bike riding. I had two squares of rice crispie treats because I was really tired and didn't feel like making anything. We were gone on the ride for about an hour and a half. We had to stop more often though because my daughter was getting tired.

Lunch we went out to a sandwich shop, and I had a grilled chicken sandwich. I ended up eating half the bread and scraped most of the cheese off and just ate the chicken and tomatoes. I ate maybe a 1/4 cup of the coleslaw a couple bite of my husbands pasta salad, but it was really oily. And one Dorito chip that my daughter offered me. All in all, not a horrible lunch, but I think next time I would order the sandwich differently.

My daughter and I went to the movies right after. But I ended up stopping by the snack bar and getting some peanut M&Ms, which I shared with my daughter. I was too afraid to look at the calorie content.

For supper we grilled again, hot dogs and grilled BBQ chicken. I made some more corn on the cob, and a green salad and I cooked some of those small red potatoes out on the grill. Those were really good. I ended up filling my plate with salad, corn, two small potatoes and the hot dog. I ate everything but half the hot dog. I made sure I ate everything before I ate the hot dog and by the time I got to it I wasn't really hungry anymore. Yay for me!! :)

We went out to roast marshmallows and I only had two. I was going to workout again but I was so wore out after cleaning everything up that I ended up just going to bed.

I was going to get up early this morning and either go for a bike ride or a walk, but I was too sore and tired. :(

But I'm back on track again this morning. I made eggs for breakfast, one whole egg and one egg white with maybe an 1/8 cup of onions and peppers in a half a whole wheat pita bread. So maybe 175 - 180 calories. But I'm stuffed. I think more than one egg is just too much anymore.

I can smell the peaches calling me again, but I'm not hungry so I'm telling myself that if I really want it to wait until after ten o'clock. :p

Oh, and I weighed myself this morning. Down to 234. :D I'm not going to change my weight ticker until Monday's weigh in for the Six Week Challenge.
 
So I ended up having a small peach at 10:30, I was actually feeling hungry so I don't feel so bad about it. That would be ....35 calories?

Went home to have lunch with my daughter, she made a turkey and swiss on the sundried tomato wrap and we split it (about 200 calories) and then we filled up the rest of the plate with salad (150 calories, because of the dressing) But I'm stuffed. So today's total so far is going to be ...... around 565. That's pretty good.

Tonight's going to be grilled pork chops again, salad and brocolli, I think. I won't know till I get home and decide what to make.
 
OK so I went on that spark site where you can track your calories and I input what I had for today. It said that with EVERYTHING that I ate came up to less than 1000 calories. So I thought OK, maybe it's just an off day, so I input what I had for a couple of different days and it's saying they were all under 1000 calories.

OK I think that's kind of weird, not that I'm counting my calories very religiously or anything but I have been tracking what I eat and I thought I would have been closer to 12-1500 calories.
 
Can you cross reference it with another site? Because if you really are only eating less than 1000 then you totally have room to EAT MORE!!! Gosh, wouldn't I love to say that about myself :)
 
I checked the numbers for just calories per item of food and it still added up to less than 1000 calories.

The problem is I don't think I could eat anymore of the food I'm making without feeling way too full. With the meals that I make I eat till I almost groan anyways. I think it's because I'm not eating a lot of bread or rice lately. I haven't really wanted it because it makes me feel sleepy. About the only bread I get is the 1/2 pita in the morning and the wrap at lunch, but other than that I don't have any with supper.

Should I eat more? I know you're not supposed to go under 1000 calories because it's not healthy, but unless I add butter or cheese or bread or dairy to my meals, which I'd rather not for various reasons, there's not a whole lot I can do to add more calories to my daily intake without making myself sick from the amount of food I'm eating.
 
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