Going Bonkers! Weight Loss Diary

Hello Toronto! Nice to see you in my diary tonight.

Here's the thing with calories. There's a guy on here called Steve. He's great. He taught me how to calculate how many calories to eat and how to cut back moderately so that I could comply with it over time, in other words, get enough so you want to do it again tomorrow.

Take your weight in pounds x 14 calories per pound. You will soon see that a larger body burns more cals, like a larger automobile burns more gas over a given distance.

For me that would be 193 x 14 = 2702 calories to maintain body weight
Now cut back by 20% so 2702 x .20 = 540 cals
2702 - 540 = 2162 calories will give a deficit. I did this last year and lost 20 pounds in four months. During that time I could NEVER even get under 1800 calories.

Having said that, I'm back and I've learned a new trick and its called FIBRE.
Do you have any idea what 30 - 40 grams of fibre looks like in a day? It is a LOT of vegetables, bran, whatever. So, you want to be full, and its possible to be full on less, the secret is fibre. I recommend you use fitday or myfooddiary to track your nutrients.

So I've been around 1550 calories a day this week and the reason I can do it now where I couldn't last year is VEGETABLES. Also I put a tablespoon of flax seed oil on my food twice a day, so that is 240 cals. It is a healthy fat that satisfies the urge to eat fatty foods and it is good for you.

YOu're doing great, its a learning curve and once you find your pace it gets easier.
 
Hi Brittany :) Thanks for popping by my journal and for the congrats. You making some awesome progress with your weight loss! :hurray:
 
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My weight loss has been going well, but I don't know anymore what my life will be like.

I believe I have genital herpes (HSV 1). It's unconfirmed. My gyno was closed today, the day I needed to get it tested (I have an "out break"). I had to have given it to myself (I have HSV 1 through cold sores). I haven't used much in the way of public toilets, and have yet to have sex with anyone. I'm only 19..I feel so ripped off.

I don't know if my life is worth anything now. I'll have to dump my boyfriend. He won't stay with me when he finds out. I'll never be able to find a husband, and I won't be able to have children without risking serious complications because of the herpes.

My future is all I had to look forward to, it's my reason for wanting to lose weight, and now I have nothing. What's the point now?

Why now? My life was getting better. Everything was getting better, and now this. It's not fair. I was always so careful to keep my hands clean...why...porn stars can have sex with a hundred people and not have this happen to them. Women on talk shows can have unprotected sex with 50 men, and have not a clue who their baby's daddy is, and not have this happen to them.

I'll admit, I haven't been the greatest person in the past, I have done some stuff I am not proud of (and sex happens to not even be on that list!!!!!!!!!!!), but is this my punishment? Is this what I deserve? To have my dreams taken away?

I am not that strong.
 
don't worry about it til you have something to worry about - and even then....

while there's no cure for herpes... it can be controlled and it doesn't mean that you will pass it on to someone else...
 
maleficent said:
don't worry about it til you have something to worry about - and even then....

while there's no cure for herpes... it can be controlled and it doesn't mean that you will pass it on to someone else...
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I know in the back of my mind you're right, and I'm trying to tell myself the same thing....I'm just such a wreck.

Thanks for posting Mal, I needed the encouragemet.
 
I feel weird. I am approaching the 20lb mark (one pound away). It's taken me almost exactly 7 months to lose 20lbs.

Now well any loss is a loss, I should be happy, I'm still a little sad that it wasn't more. When I started this journey I was wanting to lose 10 pounds a month. If I had done that, I'd have been approaching the 200lb mark now instead of the 250lb mark. I thought I was eating enough to lose better weight (2100 calories a day), and I had been exercising regularily. I got off track a few times, but I thought surely I had done enough to lose more than 20lbs in 7 months.

It's hard to keep in mind that I've been over 200lbs for 6 or 7 years. I try to keep that in mind, reasoning that's why my weight loss is so slow, but maybe I'm just not doing enough. Everyone around me seemas to be getting results so much faster.

It's tempting to become radical. I know with all of my heart and mind I shouldn't, that I should take it slowly, that I'm doing it right, but I'm impatient. I want great results now.
 
Hey, sorry to hear about the possible herpes... BUT IT WILL NOT RUIN YOUR LIFE. Not if you don't let it anyway!!

And being as patient as you are with your weight loss is the absolute best way to go about it. Stay strong, there's much more courage inside you, just find it!
 
Starting Stats:

March

Bust: 47"
Waist: 47"
Hips: 49"
SWeight: 270 lbs
Height: 5'4"
Age: 19


October

Bust: 43.5"
Waist: 43.5"
Hips: 46"
Weight: 250lbs
Height: 5'4"
Age:19

Total Loss: 9 inches

OMG. FINALLY 20lbs down...FINALLLLY 250lbs....holy crap, finally. I must say, I am excited.
 
Congrats on 250 and on losing it slowly. That's twenty pounds you won't see again if you keep working at it. I hope you take a fresh look at that last post about having herpes and see what a dismal approach you took to it. You must be feeling rotten because you sounded so down. Believe me, it might be a cruel blow at first but you'll learn to live with it and still be happy. You will.
 
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