Hey there.
I never thought I'd do something like this online forum business for inspiration, but here I've found myself reading everyone else's tales and it seems rather motivational. To give some background, I've always had an athletic build after being a swimmer for a long time, but now I'm finding that I'm not comfortable with my weight. I'm not sure how much of the weight can be attributed to muscle, as I seem to gain that easily, but regardless I'd like to lose the fat and some muscle if I can. I went away last summer and the food was awful, so I gained for sure, and this year the cafeteria food, while I did manage not to gain, made sure my weight stayed a steady 145. I'd like to get this down to somewhere between 125 and 130. I'm 5'5, so that seems normal to me. Maybe lighter if we get going.
Alright. For some reason I feel like I'm speaking as the voice of someone else, this is a weird feeling.
All I'm going to do here is post daily exercise and eating.. experiences? I have shin splints at the moment, so running is unfortunately not an option. Unfortunate. THUS, here we go. Oh one more thing, I also work in a place where bad food is readily available and free for us, so that adds some difficulties in terms of temptations.
Yesterday (June 28)
Breakfast:
Bowl of shredded wheat with skim milk, banana on top
Lunch:
bag of fruit, bag of vegetables, honey raisin multigrain bagel with butter
snack:
piece of whole wheat bread toasted with margarine, another toasted with margarine, cucumber, and salt and pepper
dinner:
haddock, rice, green beans
after dinner:
frozen yogurt (I caved and did this, it was a bad call)
for drinks: lots of tea,,
Exercise: 5 minutes running/ walking, I stopped because it started to hurt when I ran, and I'm trying to get better. SO I did some crunches and hopped on the stationary bike for 30 minutes.. not enough I know, but something at least. Also, I worked 7.5 hours with 15 minutes off, and that's on your feet 100% of the time walking around doing stuff, doing loads of dishes, etc.
June 29:
breakfast:
shredded weat w/ skim milk, banana chopped on top
lunch:
spinach salad with vinaigrette, bit of goat's cheese, and roasted red pepper
Honey raisin multigrain bagel with little bit of butter
other stuff at work: (BAD)
2% milk iced latte
chocolate milk / coffee / ice / chocolate syrup concoction
nibbles of a cookie, muffin (literally a quarter of a bite of each, but bad nonetheless)
haven't eaten dinner yet, but I find if I can actually MAKE it to dinner, I don't eat badly afterwards.
Exercise: going to the gym in 5 minutes after having done 7.5 hours of work again. I'm planning on doing the elliptical for 45 minutes, possibly 30 with 15 minutes on the stairmaster.
So, any thoughts? I'm finding it hard to cut out chocolate entirely, but at least writing this down makes it easier to track when I'm going wrong and get some advice as to how to lose these pounds, they're being difficult for sure and I'd like to lose a fair bit (obviously not all, I want to do this healthily) before the end of July. Is it awful to have a couple small bad things each day? I've heard you can eat a little chocolate and have it not even register with your body, is this true??
Thank you for any advice or imput you guys have, I really appreciate it. The success stories here are really awesome.
Thanks in advance.
I never thought I'd do something like this online forum business for inspiration, but here I've found myself reading everyone else's tales and it seems rather motivational. To give some background, I've always had an athletic build after being a swimmer for a long time, but now I'm finding that I'm not comfortable with my weight. I'm not sure how much of the weight can be attributed to muscle, as I seem to gain that easily, but regardless I'd like to lose the fat and some muscle if I can. I went away last summer and the food was awful, so I gained for sure, and this year the cafeteria food, while I did manage not to gain, made sure my weight stayed a steady 145. I'd like to get this down to somewhere between 125 and 130. I'm 5'5, so that seems normal to me. Maybe lighter if we get going.
Alright. For some reason I feel like I'm speaking as the voice of someone else, this is a weird feeling.
All I'm going to do here is post daily exercise and eating.. experiences? I have shin splints at the moment, so running is unfortunately not an option. Unfortunate. THUS, here we go. Oh one more thing, I also work in a place where bad food is readily available and free for us, so that adds some difficulties in terms of temptations.
Yesterday (June 28)
Breakfast:
Bowl of shredded wheat with skim milk, banana on top
Lunch:
bag of fruit, bag of vegetables, honey raisin multigrain bagel with butter
snack:
piece of whole wheat bread toasted with margarine, another toasted with margarine, cucumber, and salt and pepper
dinner:
haddock, rice, green beans
after dinner:
frozen yogurt (I caved and did this, it was a bad call)
for drinks: lots of tea,,
Exercise: 5 minutes running/ walking, I stopped because it started to hurt when I ran, and I'm trying to get better. SO I did some crunches and hopped on the stationary bike for 30 minutes.. not enough I know, but something at least. Also, I worked 7.5 hours with 15 minutes off, and that's on your feet 100% of the time walking around doing stuff, doing loads of dishes, etc.
June 29:
breakfast:
shredded weat w/ skim milk, banana chopped on top
lunch:
spinach salad with vinaigrette, bit of goat's cheese, and roasted red pepper
Honey raisin multigrain bagel with little bit of butter
other stuff at work: (BAD)
2% milk iced latte
chocolate milk / coffee / ice / chocolate syrup concoction
nibbles of a cookie, muffin (literally a quarter of a bite of each, but bad nonetheless)
haven't eaten dinner yet, but I find if I can actually MAKE it to dinner, I don't eat badly afterwards.
Exercise: going to the gym in 5 minutes after having done 7.5 hours of work again. I'm planning on doing the elliptical for 45 minutes, possibly 30 with 15 minutes on the stairmaster.
So, any thoughts? I'm finding it hard to cut out chocolate entirely, but at least writing this down makes it easier to track when I'm going wrong and get some advice as to how to lose these pounds, they're being difficult for sure and I'd like to lose a fair bit (obviously not all, I want to do this healthily) before the end of July. Is it awful to have a couple small bad things each day? I've heard you can eat a little chocolate and have it not even register with your body, is this true??
Thank you for any advice or imput you guys have, I really appreciate it. The success stories here are really awesome.
Thanks in advance.
and welcome