Frog's Diary

frog0726

frog0726

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I want to lose 20 lbs.
I don't really have a timeframe to reach. By summer would be great, but I'm not going to beat myself up over it.
I am already cutting my calories (around 1400 a day) and I've started exercising. Right now I'm doing Tae Bo. And I count calories on fitday. I also plan on walking, and progressing to jogging, when the time changes.
This board is my support.
I think my goal is realistic. 15 lbs in 3 months isn't unrealistic.
I've already started! I guess I started my healthier eating about a week or two ago. I have been exercising the past 2 weeks. I need to find a good strength training routine. I was told the fitness magazine routines aren't the way to go, which is where I was planning on getting them from.
 
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So far today I had 3 egg whites and 100% whole wheat toast for breakfast with some skim milk. I had a carton of Activia yogurt for a snack and for lunch there is a turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread toasting alongside some veggies (squash, zucchini and carrots). I wish it would hurry up!
 
Last night was really tough for me. My husband got Chinese takeout. Sesame chicken....mmmmmmm...I took one bite of his chicken and that was it. I was really proud of myself, because I really wanted that chicken. But I ate it, and found that it didn't taste that good to me for some reason. Psychological? Maybe.

Today is not one of my workout days. I have library day with the kids, I need to pick up dry cleaning (Wednesday is my errand day) and I have 2 jobs I have to work today, plus homework help for my kiddo (he's having a rough time in math) and karate lessons, so I make Wednesdays one of my off days so that I don't feel like I have 10,000 things to do crammed into 24 hours. But I waitress tonight so that should make for some exercise.
 
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OK, so I feel I have a little bit of personal venting to do.

This journey is becoming hard for me because I'm going at it alone. I have no one to work out with, to talk to when I need support etc. And that can be a bit frustrating. It isn't that no one cares, but I think everyone has their own things going on and don't want to 'complicate' whatever routines they have. And I don't really want to go around 'pleading' for someone to be my encouragement, KWIM? If someone is going to be my encouragement, I'd rather them do it on their own free will than out of 'pity' for me.

When I tell people about my healthier lifestyle and my attempt to lose some weight, I always get, "Why? It isn't like you're fat." OK, so I'm not obese...yet. But I'm on my way there. My belly makes me look like I'm pregnant, and I'd die of embarrassment if I had to get into a bathing suit right now. I use to eat candy like it was being discontinued. So yeah, I have a little work to do. But it isn't even about weight loss, per say. My grandma and my mom are both overweight and both have diabetes. My granddaddy died from a heart attack and was a borderline diabetic when he died. And I had borderline Gestational Diabetes my 2nd pregnancy and full-blown GD with my last one. All those factors put me at a higher risk for developing daibetes, even if I'm not obese...yet. But the way I was going, I could get there very easily.

It's pretty difficult and discouraging when I go to my niece/nephew's birthday party (I have 12 of 'em) and pass up cake and someone waves their plate in my face and says, "You sure you don't want some? MMMMMM. Look how yummy the cake is. Sooooo good. You don't know what you are passing up."

Like this morning. I don't want to work out. I have yet to get to the point where I'm like, "Yeah! I can't wait to work out! It makes me feel great!" So, having no one to answer to, or to give me that push, makes my journey I'm taking all the bit more difficult. I'm going to work out, but it's just hard when you don't have a buddy to encourage you, KWIM? Plus I have so many household things to do, I work 2 jobs, and I have the kids, and sometimes it's all so overwhelming to me. Some days I just want to skip a workout so I have more time to do what I need to do.

Anyway, I ate pretty good yesterday. I had Kashi Go Lean Crunch for breakfast, a cup of yogurt for a snack, lunch was egg salad sanwich (which consisted of 2 hard boiled eggs with yolk from 1/2 an egg, fat free mayo and 100% whole wheat bread) and some carrots. I tried eating a Lean Pocket on my way to work, but apparently, my microwave has nuclear abilities, because it fried that sucker and I couldn't even bite into it. So I had a plain turkey sub with only mushrooms at work. Not the greatest thing to eat, since the sub was on -gasp- white bread, but I could have noshed on those breadsticks doused in butter that Sheena offered me, or I could have opted for a huge plate of spaghetti, but I went for the latter. So I think I made a pretty good choice. And I was so hungry that I wanted to gnaw my arm off...so I had to eat.
 
So, I did my Tae Bo Live DVD this morning. Pretty good workout. By the end, I was feeling it. It was a total of 35 minutes.
 
good for you for gettng thru the workout.. .

and regarding your vent - support we're good at -- pity not so much:) and it doesn't matter if you have 5 lbs to lose of 500 - it's a challenge and you are entitled to the same level of support and respect for making the change in your life.

it sucks that family doesn't get it - No thank you should be enough - but i suppose it makes them feel guilty if they are chowing down on cake when you passed it up for your own reasons. you couold always invent an allergy... eliminates discussion...
 
Good for you for sticking to your diet/exercise plan. I know how hard those tae bo dvds are, I can't make it to the end of "boot camp" yet.
 
That sucks about the encouragement. I just recently had friends join me but I did the first five months alone and it's tough.

Try to think of it like this: when you do it without encouragement or someone pushing you then you know that YOU can do it. It's tougher to start but it's longer lasting.
 
I need to get rid of the negative thoughts in my head. I'm afraid I could be my own worst enemy. I'm a very negative person by nature. If I tell myself to do something, or that I can do something, I always hear "but..." inside my head, and I wish that voice would just SHUT UP! I'll learn to shut it up one day, but for now, I just have to learn to ignore it. That voice hasn't been deterring me thus far.
 
This weekend was extremely frustrating. My DH worked all weekend, so I didn't get a break from the kids at all, and by Sunday I was tired, grumpy, in need of a break, and in NO mood to cook. I did decent, though. Saturday night, I could have ordered a pizza, but I made me some stir fry and the kids some chicken nuggets (out of shake 'n bake and chicken breasts~which is a LOT better than McDonald's, IMO) And Friday I went to the mall and instead of noshing on Chic-Fil-A like the kids did, I went to the Hibachi place and got Teriyaki chicken with zucchini (they offer onions too, but I'm allergic to onions). Exercise wise I did OK. I worked out for 30 minutes Friday night, and although I didn't work out Saturday, I got a good workout anyway, because I cleaned literally ALL DAY. I dusted, vacuumed, mopped (scrubbing on my hands and knees), did 6 loads of laundry (which I have to haul up and down the stairs to the laundry room), de-cluttered, moved heavy objects around...so yeah, I'm sure some calories were burned. Sunday there was no work out. I made Sunday an off day on purpose. Church starts at 9:30 and we usually aren't out until almost 1:00, then we run some errands, and darn it, I deserve some time to relax (whatever relaxing is with 3 kids in the house). So, I made Sunday one of my off days.

I must express my frustrations. I changed my eating habits 3 weeks ago, and threw in sone exercise 2 weeks ago, so I don't understand why I'm not seeing better results. My DH has been eating a *little* better than he use to eat, but has not been working out, and he has lost *8* lbs in 2 weeks. I've lost 2 lbs in 3 weeks. That's definitely frustrating, especially since I wanted to be down 5 lbs by our trip to Baltimore on St. Patty's Day weekend. I've worked so hard, and it's really discouraging to see someone around me who isn't putting nearly as much effort into it as I am melt pounds off, while I work my ass off and see virtually nothing. My pants aren't fitting better, either, so I know my lack of weight loss isn't from more muscle. I don't know what I can do to step it up a notch. I'm eating between 1400-1500 calories a day, and I'm really reluctant to go below that. Should I go up on my calore intake, since I'm working out 3-4 days a week with cardio? (I know I probably need to be doing more, but I wanted to start off slowly, instead of starting off full-throttle with 1 hour of exercise 6 days a week) I'd love some feedback!
 
This hasn't been a very good day. I tried to work out, but I've had a killer headache all day, and working out started to make me feel nauseous, so I had to stop. And food isn't too appealing right now either. Blech.
 
Sorry you're having a hard time Frog - slow results can be SO frustrating.

It sounds like you're eating reasonably. I'm not sure what to tell you except to stick with it! I think Steve and some guys in the Exercise and Harsh Truth areas may be able to give better advice than I can.
 
So, for breakfast I had an Egg McMuffin and a coffee with Splenda. I had a tuna sandwich on whole wheat for lunch. That's about all I could stomach today. I'll probably choke down a salad for dinner. Food isn't too appealing to me right now. Oh, I had a few peanut butter crackers (natural panut butter) for a snack.
 
Hi there!

It looks as though you're doing really well and it is pretty frustrating when results don't show themselves right away. And it's especially frustrating when someone else is getting more results before you with less effort. You need to keep on going though, the results will be there eventually and everything you're doing will be worth it.

You seem extremely busy and the fact that you've made this decision to be healthier and are sticking to it should be something that you should be extremely proud of!

Good luck :) and hang in there!
 
I've been slacking.

I haven't worked out pretty much all week. 2 of my kids were really, really sick with a stomach virus, and I've felt flu-like all week (really tired and achey) so I decided to just stick to the diet and chill on the exercise. That's the thing about being a mommy of little ones; if they get sick, your whole life gets put on hold. So, I probably won't see much in the weight loss department this week. I'll just have to pick it up next week.
 
I got to take my dog for a walk today, which was a pretty good workout for my arms...she weighs about 70 lbs, and she was trying to take *me* for a walk.

I need to eat more fruits, because I've been slacking. Darn the in-between paycheck week. We are sooooo broke right now, eating healthy is a struggle nutritous foods generally cost more). I'm doing the best I can, though, on a tight budget, so I'm pretty happy with myself that I'm not slipping up.
 
I got my 35 minutes of Tae Bo in this morning. My eating could have been better, but on a broke budget, I think I did alright.

Breakfast-scrambled egg whites and whole wheat toast
Snack-yogurt and a banana (I was hungry)
Lunch-tuna on 100% whole wheat bread with fat free mayo and those Baked Lay's
No afternoon snack...my choices were limited and sounded pretty unappealing
Dinner-Spaghetti made with the whole wheat pasta and the jarred sauce. I didn't use ground beef, and I didn't eat any garlic bread, with a small side salad with fat free Italian dressing
I'm currently scouring the cabinets for a snack. I'm hungry!
 
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