Hajni's Diary: I will do it because I can

yarmiah said:
its amazing how busy you are, but you always get ur exercise in. Its great that you make that a priority! I was reading your previous post and it reminds me of myself in the past "1 step forward, 2 steps back", but I am determined not fall off, and reading ur journal, and knowing the similiar struggles and success you have had is quite motivating. So, now you know YOU have to keep going so I can keep going LOL
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Yarmiah, thank you for your support, I promise I will keep going, nothing makes me happier than to know I helped somebody else to keep on track and reach their goals!!
As to being busy and finding time for exercise I have to give more credit to hubby than myself. He makes it possible. He is extremely supportive although he is not the kind to constantly praise me how good I am doing or how good I look, but every time I need him to do things around the house or watch our daughter so I can take some time to exercise he does it with no complaints. He adjusts his schedule frequently to allow me to have more free time and also many times he is rushing home from work so I can make it in time to the gym. He understands how important this is to me. Like last night : I told him I only have enough time to do one of the following : either cook dinner for him or get my exercise in. He did not even think twice and said , just go get my exercise in, he will take care of his dinner. How can you not love that??
Of course he enjoys the benefits too.:D I have energy to do more things and all and all I am a happier person since i lost the majority of this weight.
The biggest changes in me are not the physical aspect of it but the mental aspect. I was a miserable 200 lb person. I had no self-respect or self-confidence and I was bitter at myself so I was bitter to the world. Now it is a lot different!!!!
 
hajni said:
HI Icandothis!!,
I am afraid I won't be a good role model for weight loss.:D I started losing nice and steady since I started my diary here, but before it was a lot more struggle. To loose this 42 lbs, it took me a little over 2 years!!!:( I wasn't dedicated or motivated enough. I would concentrate on it and give my 100 % for like 3 weeks and then fall back into my old ways. It was 2 steps ahead 1 step back. If you are really motivated and stick with it, you will lose the weight a lot faster than i did. I take it one day at a time. I don't think about how many more lbs to go or how long it will take, i just decide every morning that today I will do good as far as food goes and I will get my exercise in no matter what. I don't think about that I have to do this tomorrow and the day after.....This helps me.
Good luck on your journey!! I will be checking out your diary a little later.
Hajni
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Hey Hajni, I think losing over a long period works better in our favor - it's easier to keep off. :)

I know it takes me a long time to lose weight and maybe I'm not motivated enough?

But kudos on your progress!
 
Hello All,
Today I feel like eating sweets and not food, but I kept on track. Then I was not hungry at dinner-time but by the time I made it hunger caught up with me.
Work was again annoying, I don't know what is going on, some new crisis arises every day that takes up 1/2 my day to fix then I fall behind...etc

Breakfast: 1 c. ff milk (90), 1 ½ c. Kashi protein cereal (200), ¾ c. strawberries (45), 1 s bread (35), 1 tbs jelly (10) coffee (50) = 430

Snack: 1 apple (120)

Lunch: Lean Cuisine Four Cheese Canelloni (230), 2 c. broccoli (50 ), 1 c. cantaloupe (55), 1 jello (10) =345

Snack : 7 wheat crackers (65), 1 tbs p. butter (100) = 165

Dinner: 2.8 oz tofu (40), 2. c. lettuce (10), 2 ww tortilla (100) , 1 Quorn veggie chicken cutlet (80), 1 tbs nayonaise (35), =265


Dessert: 1 jello pudding (60) = 60, 1 frozen fruit bar (25,

Total calories for the day : 1410

Exercise: 40 min walk on 5 incline, 3.6 mi/hr speed on the treadmill in the morning (350), at night : 20 min turbo jam, 13 min. boot camp, +1 mile running (400 cal) = 750 cal burn

Calorie Deficit: 1140
 
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Hey girl sorry i missed you online tonight if you were able to log on. anyways i didn't get in my exercise today besides cleaning the house as alex refused to nap then didn't go to bed until 11pm on top of that. so tomorrow is double time for that. anyways hope you have a great day. i'll be off and on tomorrow as i have an appt at 11am but after that my day is pretty much clear. see you tomorrow.
 
Hey there girl...I just wanted to drop by and say hey teamie!!! You seem very dedicated and I admire that especially when you have a little one at home:) Heather speakls highly of you and tells me she chats with you - so of course that alone put you in my good books!!! I hope you ahve a great day and a great challenege - here's to meeting your challenege goal!!!
 
HI Heather, I was so busy too and my workout turned out to be longer than expected, so i was online on maybe 10 min. I got to bed at 10.30, that only gives me 7 hrs of sleep, I think I need to go to bed earlier if I want to get up at 5.30 am every morning. It is taking a toll on me, I get slower and slower as the week progresses as well as more tired during the day. Right after I got home last night, I cooked dinner for DH and my daughter( I don't eat what they eat), baked some tofu, did laundry, vacummed my whole house, gave DD a bath,put my food and DD's food together for the next day, ate dinner then exercised over 40 min, took a shower and it was already 10.30pm, where did the time go???

I looked up my "ideal" weight should be (not really based on BMI or anything, but an average ideal weight) and it says: 133.:eek: That would be an extra 12 lbs to lose above my goal weight. Well, I am not sure I will do it. I think i will re-evaluate the situation once I reach 145 and how I feel at that weight. My most important thing is to be comfortable with myself, I don't care how much the scale says. I remember I was quite happy at 145 last time (it lasted about a month LOL) and I was in size 6. That sounds quite good to me, I don't think I need to be in any lower size. DH liked it too. LOL
 
cinderelly said:
Hey there girl...I just wanted to drop by and say hey teamie!!! You seem very dedicated and I admire that especially when you have a little one at home:) Heather speakls highly of you and tells me she chats with you - so of course that alone put you in my good books!!! I hope you ahve a great day and a great challenege - here's to meeting your challenege goal!!!
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HI Cinderelly,
Thanks for stopping by Cindy!! Heather told me she chats with you too.. LOL
I am glad for this forum and the friendships I made here keep me going strong!! I don't think I would be doing half as good on my own. Heather is a big part of that with her cheering me on!!
Good luck to you too for your goal by Halloween!!
 
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Guess What!!
I casually mentioned to my employer that my birthday is this Friday.
I just got back to my office and there was an envelope waiting for me with a note : wish you a happy birthday and would like to give you a PAID DAY OFF ON FRIDAY. Now how cool is that? And my DH is off on Friday!!!!
Whoo I am a happy camper!!!!!! Off to find something really fun to do!!!!!
 
Sweet! off with pay? now THATS a bday present!

Happy Birthday (early) to you!

You are right to go with how YOU feel about your weight, and not rely on some chart to tell you how much you should weigh. That's how I'm doing it too- set a reasonable goal and go from there.
 
hajni said:
Guess What!!
I casually mentioned to my employer that my birthday is this Friday.
I just got back to my office and there was an envelope waiting for me with a note : wish you a happy birthday and would like to give you a PAID DAY OFF ON FRIDAY. Now how cool is that? And my DH is off on Friday!!!!
Whoo I am a happy camper!!!!!! Off to find something really fun to do!!!!!
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Wow what agr8 presnt!Sorry for not being around much I have been so busy with kids and their schedule I manage a lil time to check on teams and update my diary and thats about it.Looks like your doing good still keep up the good work have a nice day Tammy
 
ok,Somehow I feel I ate so much today that I am ready to burst. I really feel very full and looking at my calories I did not eat more than usual.

Breakfast: 2 Morningstar Farms Breakfast Sausages (80), 2 wasa breads (60), 1 c.ff milk (90), 1 tbs sgf choc. Syrup (12) 3 tbs sugar free jelly (30), coffee (60) = 332

Snack: 1 peach (70), = 70

Lunch: Muir Glen garden vegetable soup (160), 2 c. lettuce (10), 1 tomato (10 ), ½ c. ff cottage cheese (80), 1 plum (40) = 300

Snack : 1 100 cal. pack graham crackers (100), 1 jello (10) = 110

Dinner: 5.6 oz baked tofu (80), 1 pita bread (130), 1 c. ff plain yogurt (80)= 290

Dessert: 1 jello pudding (60), 1/3 c. trail mix (235) = 295

Total calories for the day : 1397

Exercise: 42 min walking on treadmill (350 cal burn), another 2.5 miles for 275 cal. burn tonight = 625

Calorie Deficit: 1025
 
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Ok, so old habits die hard, so I weighed myself this morning for my usual Thursday weigh in and after seeing the number I remembered I have to wait till Sat.
Not that I did not lose since Sat. I gained!! 0.2 lbs. Surprisingly though I does not make me mad or sad, I think I anticipated this since the 2 lbs loss for one week last week was way above the norm for me. Even if i stay at this weight for Sat. it is an average 1 lb/week loss which is what I need to reach my original goal of 145 by Christmas.
I was lazy again this morning, did wake up at 5.30 then rolled around and went back right to sleep. Even that I went to bed early last night at 9.30, I was still exhausted.
Tonight is boot-camp at the gym, i think I can make it for sure and probably jump on the elliptical. Shooting for a 500 cal burn, I will be happy with that.
Getting ready for my day off tomorrow, i still have to get my exercise in as i already had a rest day this week and I can't let my team down!! I am shooting for the max. 15 points/week for my team!!
 
You could never be lazy! You want to know lazy, I didn't roll out of bed until after 7:30! My oldest son had already left for school. ;)

I think that you are doing great! Don't call yourself lazy!

And .2 lbs - pffft! Throw that scale out. :p

Ok seriously you and I both know you don't really have a gain, it's just that stinkin scale is so accurate! I don't even have that accurate of a scale, I think it only measures out to the .5 lbs. I'd be devastated to have such an accurate scale. ;)

Wish I could come to boot camp with ya!

Have a good day!
 
it's a CONSPIRACY Haj! I stepped on the scale today and gained as well! Bah, lets blow the roof off and ignore that stupid scale- all progress not measured by scale movement :). You continue to do what you been doing, and contineu to motivate me, and others as well. Have a great day!
 
Hey youyour doing a gr8 job on your menue and exersicing!
Your goal is also my goal to 145 I so wanted that by xmas but not going to happen at this rate but I will someday soon.Keep up the hard work,Tammy
 
Hey Hajni, thanks again for the spreadsheet. Its so cool. I figured out my goals with the same type of timeline thing you did to see where my weight would be and by christmas of this year I will be down to hopefully down to 212.2 if i lose 2 lbs a week. From here on out. which would be great considering I haven't been down below 220 since november 2003. I can't wait... Hopefully we will both have some great numbers at this weigh in on saturday. Talk to you soon and hope you enjoy your day tomorrow. Happy Birthday girl. Hope its a blast for you.
 
Thanks everybody stopping by.
I wrote a long and detailed post last night, including my food and exercise and I see, somehow it is not here. HMM So I don't remember now the individual foods I ate , but I know it came to 1420 calories and I went to the gym for about 1.5, 30 min on elliptical and 45 min. boot-camp, burning 650 calories, so my deficit for the day came to like 1030.
Off to have fun today, it is my birthday!!!!
 
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