jussayno2fasfud
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Hello everyone! I have recently begun a journey of weight loss and I was shopping around for some pictures or personal success stories for motivation and I stumbled onto this site so here we are. I also noticed as I was reading through the diaries, that there aren't very many where the total weight loss goal is smaller (i.e. fewer pounds lost each week). If anyone else out there is looking to lose 20-25 ish pounds then I hope my story helps you. If no one reads this, its still cathartic to write about dieting ups and downs.
Sooo, what's happened so far.... I began my weight loss journey eight days ago a.k.a. eight days and twelve hours off foodlove. Foodlove is what I call my obsession/addiction to food. The foods I usually set my sights on are greasy/fat-filled/three times as many calories as I need type foods, you know the ones. So needless to say that my affair with foodlove is not healthy, nor is it good for me. However, I like to call it my 2nd and more dominant personality because it seems to be controlling me at times. In the past, I've had no will to fight it but this time I'm declaring war! I have been struggling with poor food choices for the last year. Through this time I have gained about 15 pounds. I know that doesn't sound like a huge amount but I wasn't my dream size before I gained the extra weight and I'm only 5'4.5" (don't mock my half inch, i'm pretty protective!). Also, contributing to it feeling like much more than 15 pounds is HOW i gain weight. I only gain around my lower stomach, hips, and upper thighs. Therefore I look like I'm carrying a five month old fetus. As you may imagine, this is NOT ok with me! So I had a thought, before this baby gets to term, maybe I ought to do something about it! Its a novel idea, I know... I don't like my body so I'll change it.
I began to realize that things may be spiralling out of control when one evening I had just finished my dinner of sonic (complete with large size fries and vanilla coke) and I had sat down to watch TV when I saw a commercial for a new style chalupa at Taco Bell. I'm sure you've seen it. Its huge and wonderful in all its nacho cheese glory! Obviously I didn't need this chalupa, but I didn't need the entire bag of family size dorito's that I had eaten earlier in the day, but that hadn't seemed to stop me then, so I went ahead and ventured back out to go to Taco Bell. When I finished the chalupa, I felt utterly gross. I also realized that my "fat pants" (you know, the pants that your exiled to when your regular pairs don't want anything to do with you anymore?) were extremely tight. I had to open the button just to get some air! I realized that I actually needed NEW/BIGGER fat pants
As I am on an extremely tight budget what with being in graduate school right now, I knew that I could not afford new jeans so it was either lose a few pounds or go in sweats all the time. Not cool. The next morning I was officially checked into the Jussayno2fasfud Food REHAB.
I am trying a diet program that my parents have been on for almost a month now and they both are seeing amazing results! I am so proud of both of them and thought that maybe since its working for them... maybe it could possibly work for me? Let me tell you a side story... My mom is a lot like me. Enjoys food, gains weight the same as I do, is happy with herself for the most part regardless of what her body looks like. However, unlike me, she has resigned herself to sweatpants. No worries, she's happy. Anyway, a couple of months back my dad was travelling out of town for a couple of weeks and my mom was looking forward to his trip away because she was excited to make a pan of brownies and eat the whole thing with ZERO shame. That's my mom and that's me. We just love our food... don't hate. Anyway, so the woman who fantasized about an entire pan of brownies is loving this new diet she was trying. Needless to say, I was instantly curious. The idea behind this diet is that it determines your unique body type and metabolism and designs a daily food requirement specific to your body's needs. It divides your daily caloric intake into six smaller meals and demands that you cut out sodium and lower your fat intake as much as possible. Both of my parents had really great luck with it so far and so I expected to see similar results. I lost 2.8 pounds in the first week while their losses had easily quadrupled that in their first week. I was a little discouraged. I want to lose 25 pounds so I still have 22.2 pounds to go! I know I can get there, it'll just take a while at the rate I'm moving.
Cutting out salt, bread, and fat hasn't been easy. Sacrifice isn't without cost. On the night of the second day (less than 48 hours in), I was ready to say screw the whole thing and go fat-kid-crazy Armageddon-style on my entire pantry. If it hadn't been for my friend, Actually (obviously that isn't her real name but that's what we're going with), I totally would have. But she talked me down lol then we went to Target and found me some "cheat" cookies (sugar-free vanilla wafers with next to no sodium and much much MUCH less fat than the contents of my entire pantry... not my first choice, I wanted some Reese's peanut butter cups but who knew they weren't good for you?). I am extremely proud to say that in the last eight days I have only had occasion to eat ONE cookie, twice!! Hooray! Actually is also doing the diet with me. She has been extremely helpful so far and will continue to be instrumental as I continue with my weight loss. This is because I'm sort of a pansy and tend to let myself off the hook when I feel discouraged. What can I do? Nobody's perfect. So we've also agreed to do our exercise (walking) together. This means that we've just transformed the gab sessions that we would routinely have parked on the couch or hovering over some greasy fast food so that now we're vertical and moving the entire time. She's also losing weight so far so of course we're all very proud of her!!!!
The hardest part so far is living with a boyfriend who is perfectly happy with the way he is (not that he would have any reason not to like his body) and eats the way, I am now only allowed to dream about (literallly I dream about food/meals every night). I know he's not meaning to flaunt his food in front of me but at times its like it takes every ounce of restraint I have to not rip the McDonald's out of his mouth to have for myself (I'm kind of a ravenous animal, aren't I? well, grrrrrrrrrrrr). But I am pleased to report that the cravings are already beginning to fade and the dreams aren't quite so real anymore that I wake up still tasting the chicken strips dipped in gravy. Let's just hope that these trends keep going!
Anyways I think that's about it for now. I plan to post every few days to update on the challenges I'm facing as I say goodbye to foodlove and, of course, to report on all the weight I'm losing I'm a very open book, so if you'd like to know more about me or my diet please just ask. Also, if you have comments I'd love to hear them. I'm trying to keep a sense of humor about my journey so I would appreciate no "debbie downers".
TTFN (as Tigger would say!) a.k.a. tata for now
C
22.2 pounds to lose
Sooo, what's happened so far.... I began my weight loss journey eight days ago a.k.a. eight days and twelve hours off foodlove. Foodlove is what I call my obsession/addiction to food. The foods I usually set my sights on are greasy/fat-filled/three times as many calories as I need type foods, you know the ones. So needless to say that my affair with foodlove is not healthy, nor is it good for me. However, I like to call it my 2nd and more dominant personality because it seems to be controlling me at times. In the past, I've had no will to fight it but this time I'm declaring war! I have been struggling with poor food choices for the last year. Through this time I have gained about 15 pounds. I know that doesn't sound like a huge amount but I wasn't my dream size before I gained the extra weight and I'm only 5'4.5" (don't mock my half inch, i'm pretty protective!). Also, contributing to it feeling like much more than 15 pounds is HOW i gain weight. I only gain around my lower stomach, hips, and upper thighs. Therefore I look like I'm carrying a five month old fetus. As you may imagine, this is NOT ok with me! So I had a thought, before this baby gets to term, maybe I ought to do something about it! Its a novel idea, I know... I don't like my body so I'll change it.
I began to realize that things may be spiralling out of control when one evening I had just finished my dinner of sonic (complete with large size fries and vanilla coke) and I had sat down to watch TV when I saw a commercial for a new style chalupa at Taco Bell. I'm sure you've seen it. Its huge and wonderful in all its nacho cheese glory! Obviously I didn't need this chalupa, but I didn't need the entire bag of family size dorito's that I had eaten earlier in the day, but that hadn't seemed to stop me then, so I went ahead and ventured back out to go to Taco Bell. When I finished the chalupa, I felt utterly gross. I also realized that my "fat pants" (you know, the pants that your exiled to when your regular pairs don't want anything to do with you anymore?) were extremely tight. I had to open the button just to get some air! I realized that I actually needed NEW/BIGGER fat pants
As I am on an extremely tight budget what with being in graduate school right now, I knew that I could not afford new jeans so it was either lose a few pounds or go in sweats all the time. Not cool. The next morning I was officially checked into the Jussayno2fasfud Food REHAB.I am trying a diet program that my parents have been on for almost a month now and they both are seeing amazing results! I am so proud of both of them and thought that maybe since its working for them... maybe it could possibly work for me? Let me tell you a side story... My mom is a lot like me. Enjoys food, gains weight the same as I do, is happy with herself for the most part regardless of what her body looks like. However, unlike me, she has resigned herself to sweatpants. No worries, she's happy. Anyway, a couple of months back my dad was travelling out of town for a couple of weeks and my mom was looking forward to his trip away because she was excited to make a pan of brownies and eat the whole thing with ZERO shame. That's my mom and that's me. We just love our food... don't hate. Anyway, so the woman who fantasized about an entire pan of brownies is loving this new diet she was trying. Needless to say, I was instantly curious. The idea behind this diet is that it determines your unique body type and metabolism and designs a daily food requirement specific to your body's needs. It divides your daily caloric intake into six smaller meals and demands that you cut out sodium and lower your fat intake as much as possible. Both of my parents had really great luck with it so far and so I expected to see similar results. I lost 2.8 pounds in the first week while their losses had easily quadrupled that in their first week. I was a little discouraged. I want to lose 25 pounds so I still have 22.2 pounds to go! I know I can get there, it'll just take a while at the rate I'm moving.
Cutting out salt, bread, and fat hasn't been easy. Sacrifice isn't without cost. On the night of the second day (less than 48 hours in), I was ready to say screw the whole thing and go fat-kid-crazy Armageddon-style on my entire pantry. If it hadn't been for my friend, Actually (obviously that isn't her real name but that's what we're going with), I totally would have. But she talked me down lol then we went to Target and found me some "cheat" cookies (sugar-free vanilla wafers with next to no sodium and much much MUCH less fat than the contents of my entire pantry... not my first choice, I wanted some Reese's peanut butter cups but who knew they weren't good for you?). I am extremely proud to say that in the last eight days I have only had occasion to eat ONE cookie, twice!! Hooray! Actually is also doing the diet with me. She has been extremely helpful so far and will continue to be instrumental as I continue with my weight loss. This is because I'm sort of a pansy and tend to let myself off the hook when I feel discouraged. What can I do? Nobody's perfect. So we've also agreed to do our exercise (walking) together. This means that we've just transformed the gab sessions that we would routinely have parked on the couch or hovering over some greasy fast food so that now we're vertical and moving the entire time. She's also losing weight so far so of course we're all very proud of her!!!!
The hardest part so far is living with a boyfriend who is perfectly happy with the way he is (not that he would have any reason not to like his body) and eats the way, I am now only allowed to dream about (literallly I dream about food/meals every night). I know he's not meaning to flaunt his food in front of me but at times its like it takes every ounce of restraint I have to not rip the McDonald's out of his mouth to have for myself (I'm kind of a ravenous animal, aren't I? well, grrrrrrrrrrrr). But I am pleased to report that the cravings are already beginning to fade and the dreams aren't quite so real anymore that I wake up still tasting the chicken strips dipped in gravy. Let's just hope that these trends keep going!
Anyways I think that's about it for now. I plan to post every few days to update on the challenges I'm facing as I say goodbye to foodlove and, of course, to report on all the weight I'm losing
I'm a very open book, so if you'd like to know more about me or my diet please just ask. Also, if you have comments I'd love to hear them. I'm trying to keep a sense of humor about my journey so I would appreciate no "debbie downers".TTFN (as Tigger would say!) a.k.a. tata for now
C
22.2 pounds to lose
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So sorry about the bf's temptations..i know how frustrating that can be. Well good luck with your journey. You have a small amount to lose, so in no time at all you will be at your goal weight. 
Hope to see u around 