* I can't stay fat forever! *

Well Tuesday I weighed in at 221


I've don'e pretty good this week been eating salads, tuna, chicken breast, broccolli, I had a couple not so fine moments, I ate 4 oreos last night but I'm not beating myself up about it. I know I'm going to do good all weekend, I'm back to about 1,000 calories a day all weekend. It is so hard to count calories when I cook, some things are easy to count but some are hard, but I've continued to make healthy coices, instead of potatoes and macoroni and cheese as side items which I use to do, I ate Broccoli and Salads, instead of regular pop corn I got 100 calorie bags.


I know most people already know this and it's pretty much common sence but getting something that sais "light, reduced fat, or fat free" instead of your usuals, can really make a difference! Everything I buy, I look and see if there is a "light, or fat free" version of it, I already use light sour cream, and light miracle whip, and well, my mom use to use Fat free Ranch dressing and it was terrible to me but the other day when I was grocery shopping I thought "Light Ranch" can't be that bad, well I was wrong, I personally don't like it but I got it and I use it anyway,.. it's HALF of the calories of regular ranch dressing!! I can't tell a difference in any of the light, or fat free versions of things other than salad dressings.


Well I've been thinking about it and if I do really really good!! I think I'm still going to be about 4 pounds away from my Mini Goal which is 210 by Sep. 19th my birthday, but I mean being 4 pounds away from a goal isn't too bad at all and I'm still proud of myself but I know I could have made it if I had done better. I am going to try on my new Jeans in about 2 weeks, I haven't tried them on since I got em It's been about a week and a half since I got em and there were a couple inches from even buttoning so I'm not looking for them to fit for about a month but I'm going to try them on in a couple of weeks and see if I notice any progress in my stomach.


Going to do some Zumba later and probably walk about 30 minutes after that
 
OMG Jess... I hate frogs too... actually have a frog phobia which sounds ridiculous, but I'm much more comfortable squashing a large spider than trying to figure out how to deal with a huge frog hopping in my direction. We have wet season coming up here, and last year there were frogs EVERYWHERE! I'd drive to work at 4:30am and the roads were covered in them, you drive over thousands of little hopping things every day. And they sit under all the fridges at work, and we get massive green tree frogs coming out of our sinks and toilets, and there was ALWAYS frogs in the staffroom at work. People would catch them with the foam coffee cups and show me before they put them outside *shudder*. Actually our first week here my husband went to use the toilet and a giant frog threw itself at his head- hahaha heard him yell out from the other side of the house! Ick.


I had a few slip ups this week too (my first in 6 weeks, so I'm ok with it!) The main thing is you keep moving forward!


How do you find Zumba?? Haha I so wasn't born with a dancing gene... Holy moly. Actually I don't think I have much in the way of grace or coordination at all! I used to watch in awe as other people got right into it and looked awesome. Ha.


Make sure you check ingredients of things marked low fat or light, they are usually more processed and have a much higher amount of added sodium and sugar. I don't even use low fat dairy products anymore, with dairy the sugars should be less than 5g per 100g (that's lactose) and anything above that is added sugar. I think out of fat and sugar fat is definitely the lesser evil, your body needs it for so many things (diet should be around 30% fat) and your body can definitely survive without sugar. Actually would probably be better off lol.


Anyway, have a great weekend!!! I'll make sure I try to get pics up before I leave!
 
Wow I didn't know that about the added sugar and stuff in the low fat foods,.. I had no idea,.. that makes me so mad, why do they make it sound so good for you when it's not! Ugh!!


I've been hearing about Zumba for like a year from people on facebook and stuff and I just looked it up on youtube.com and copy what they do lol I wanted to try it out before I went and baught the dvds, I can't dance either I use to dance good but now I just look rediculous so when I do it I make sure noone walks in on me lol.


Way to go on 6 weeks of no slip ups, that's really great! Have a great trip!!



Well I'll be going home in a couple of hours, I ate my second t.v dinner a couple of hours ago and after I ate it I was still hungry but I kept drinking water and about 10 minutes later I noticed I was actually Full! So that's going to be my key for now own, drink water and wait a while to see if I get full or not. I was going to go home and eat some 100 calorie pop corn but now I'm debating on that and an apple or a salad... I think I might eat a salad but I don't know yet. I havn't done any excercise at work so I absolutly have to when I get home, I kept trying but I've had the worst headache all night and I've been so tired all week, it seams like everyday this week I was just SO tired, I have no idea why I'm also on my TOM so maybe that has something to do with it,.. I'll make a new post tomorrow!


I hope everyone has a great weekend!!
 
I have some pretty fantastic news! Well I said I was going to try on my new Jeans in 2 weeks, you know, the ones that were about 2 or 3 inches from even buttoning... well I have NO idea why but I had the biggest earge today when i was getting ready for work to try them on, I knew I would be dissapointed but,.. THEY BUTTONED!!!! They are still a little too tight for me to wear them comfortably but OMG THEY BUTTONED! It's been less than 2 weeks since I got them and I couldn't even get them to button.


The funny thing about that is, I was going to have a cheat day today, I was laying in bed this morning when I got off work and I was so sick I was running fever I had a migrane and I just said "screw it I'm not going to count calories tomorrow I'm just going to eat like a normal person" but when those jeans buttoned today, it opened my eyes! This is the first time I've actually been able to see results other than on the scale. I know it's probably not that big of a deal to alot of people but it means the world to me, I had no idea my stomach was actually shrinking some, so that motivated me to keep going strong so I can keep seeing better results!....... I just wanted to share that moment with all of you.


Well I ate my 2 tv dinners at work last night and I had some cheeze its, and a serving size of bugles, which was around 800 calories all together, when I got home this morning I made a salad and ate some roast beef and a slice of wheat bread so I have no idea what that brung my calories to...

Also my sister just started to diet Tuesday and as of yesterday she's already lost 4 pounds, but she has always been able to lose it fast, much faster than me


Tonight I'm having a lasagnia tv dinner, 270 cal, a beef stew Dinty moore, 250 Cals, a serving of cheeze its and a serving size of bugles, about 800 calories, then when I go home I will eat something around 300 calories
 
Hey Jessica,

Congratulations on the new pants buttoning! So happy for you! Your good choices are paying off!! You go girl!

Sarah
 
Thank you Sarah, I know it sounds kind of crazy but it was my moment lol




Well Since this is my diary technically, I have alot of thoughts running through my head and I think I'll feel better if I just put it all in here.

I don't even know where to start, well my initial "goal" was to be 180, but that's still too much, I was decently happy with myself at 180 but seeing pictures of myself at that weight from years ago, I didn't look all that great so I'd REALLY like to get to 150 and stay there, but I will work on getting to 150 when I reach 180, if I set a goal that high I know I will get depressed and quit, so for right now I'm just thinking of trying to get in the 180s by Christmas, it will be hard, but I know it is possible, but anything under 200 by Christmas I will be greatful for!


Another thing I keep thinking is how on earth I am going to maintain that weight, I have all these ideas in my head, I know this is a lifestyle change and hopefully by then I will know how to eat my favorite foods and not overeat, I don't want to completely cut out fast foods and cakes, I want those things in my life every now and then but I'm scared I will be terrified if I eat it I will get fat again, I know it's a long time away from now to even think of how to maintin the weight but I can't stop thinking about it anyway. I keep telling myself I will always and forever weigh once a week, pretty much for life, that way if I start slipping away from my weight and notice a few pounds on the scale move I will work to keep it down. But if it were that easy then why did I gain all this weight in the first place?


I've also been thinking today, there is a website where you type in everything you do during the day, how many minutes u sleep, drive, wash dishes, walk, shop, everything! and it will tell you how many calories you burn on a regular day, mine is close to 3,000 and either that sight is dead wrong or I'm just confused because if I burn close to 3,000 calories a day not even trying and on a bad day over the years probably still eat under 3,000 calories theres no way I should have ever gained in the first place,.... OR maybe I was eating WAY over 3,000 calories,... I'm also confused on why it's so bad to eat under 1200 a day I mean the less calories u take in the more u lose right? I know it makes ur metabolism slow down and they say you go into starvation mode but it still feels like it would only help you. I also don't understand why I keep reading how Diet Coke is bad for your diet, it has no calories, no carbs, no fat, nothing!!


I don't know, maybe I should just stop doing so much research (which ultimately confuses me lol) and do what I am doing and what I feel like will work for me.




Well I know this is bad but it's 2am and I haven't eaten a thing today, well I ate a handful of cheeze it crackers,.. I brung food with me to work tonight I'm just not hungry, everytime I try to eat I just feel like I can't. Well I did 20 minutes of Zumba tonight and when I get home I will do my 50 crunches and some Step ups on my stepping stool. and I've been drinking water like crazy it seams like every 20 minutes I'm having to pee lol

Ready to weigh in Tuesday and see what this week has to say for me!!
 
Well I didn't eat anything last night so when I got home this morning I was going to make a salad (SHOULD HAVE) but ended up cooking a digorno pizza and eating like 3 slices of it and 2 poptarts, that was it for the whole day but man those pizza are high in calories so I think I went over my calorie intake by a little for yesterday.


I wasn't suppose to weigh until Tuesday but I went to my moms before work today and I wanted to weigh,... Still 221 and I've done fairly well this week, I was not expecting that, I just knew it would be at least 1 or 2 pounds but my mom said maybe the pizza just had alot of sodium in it or something and maybe im just bloated or something so I hope so and I will see what the scale sais Tuesday, my official weigh in day. I'm drinking SO much water everday but I have to pee all the time so that sucks! and Counting Calories sucks! lol but I'm doing it... I guess theres nothing more to say right now, I'll post back later and tell what I ended up eating tonight and how much excercise I did
 
Well I'm about to go home, no more work for me until Friday YAY! I have a bad sore throat, I can barely even swallow, I had a sore throat a few days ago and I took some antibiotics and it just went away but man I'm really hurting.


Haven't ate anything today except some bugles and a granola bar, I don't know why I just haven't felt like eating at work, maybe I can go back to a normal eating schedule now that I'm done with my 12 hour night shift work for the week. Andy just got a good job an hour away from our town, it only lasts 2 weeks but it's good money and when this job is over hopefully another one will come available, our schedules are going to be crazy, he has to work 7 days a week so I'm having to get family to keep our son while we both work on the weekends and then it will just be me and my son during the week until he gets home from work, and will probably go straight to bed, 12 hour days and hour drive there and hour drive back, I know I will be able to do good when I'm not having to fix supper for the family, I just feed my son something and then I'll be eating salads and tv dinners probably. So that is good


Still hoping for the scales to move on Tuesday, I don't know how that will turn out. I would really love to have a big huge cheat day but I just don't think I can afford to do that right now considering I haven't lost much this week or last week, so I guess I'll have to put that on hold for a while.


Well I hope everyone has a good week, stay strong, fight the cravings and keep going!
 
Hi Jessica!

Congrats on the new pants fitting that's so great!! I know the feeling and also know that feeling when you can actually wear the pants longer than just being able to button them, you'll be there in no time. Definitely don't 'forget' to eat!! That's like the worst thing you can do for yourself. It sounds like you're doing great on adding exercise to your life; in my opinion that's the best thing you can do for yourself. I was reading an article yesterday how many technically overweight people are healthier than health BMI people because of the their level of activity.


I also understand about goal weight. I think i have mine at 170 right now (or maybe 180). I put that because it seems doable but challenging and because I can't specifically remember a time i was under 180. I think if I can get there and maintain that for a year...maybe i can, like you, move my goal to more of 150.


You're doing so well and I still am so impressed with all your progress!! WAY TO GO!
 
looks like you've stayed put while I slacked off for a few days... good job on the loss!!! and the stepper is a nice way to get some exercise in. I hear you on the friends that are not interested in your eating plans! I had a friend make me a cake last week to be nice since I had a bad day! OMG not what I needed lol... then my kids always try to talk me into getting junk food. Glad your still here plugging away good job
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Thank you both! I've been doing pretty good but the past couple of days wasn't so great so I am just putting off the weigh in for this week and I will weigh next Tuesday, I've got to do really good from tomorrow own, because I can't give up now, I've got to keep going, I'm very proud of myself and I am excited on going further, I sure have needed these cheat days the past couple of days and I enjoyed them,.. now it's time to get back on the saddle and do it hard again,.. starting tomorrow I will be excercising my butt off and eating salads and tuna, and baked chicken. I hope everyone does good and I can't wait to see everyone's progress!
 
Hi

I have seen your positive posts on some of my friends threads so I wanted to wish you well on your quest.


Go get em!
 
I must say, It's very easy to fall off the wagon! This past week I did what I said I wouldn't do,.. I just went off of my diet, the whole week I just ate whatever I wanted, chocolate, cookies, cake, chineese food,.. whatever I wanted,.. It was a very stupid move on my part especially when I've still got so much to keep losing but I'm back on track today and I plan on going at it very hard from now on. But I can't help thinking how easy it was to get off of track, and make one bad decision after another, I don't want that to ever happen to me again, of course every now and then I am going to have days like this but not 4 in a row and especially not every day. But it's been pretty easy for me to get back on track today. Today for lunch I ate a lean pocket and about 4 baked chips my son was eating. I'm drinking a diet coke right now and i have brought a bottle of water with me to work that I can keep refilling and drinking throughout the night. Andy is on his job an hour from our town, he leaves home at around 4:30 or 5am and doesn't return until after I leave to go to work so I will be seeing him for a few minutes in the mornings when I get off work before he goes,.. so I won't have to worry about wanting to eat whatever he is eating (that's been hurting me alot)


Well I didn't weigh in this week because I did so poorly, I plan on weighin in Tuesday (the day before my birthday) my mini goal was to be 210 on my birthday but I know now that that is just not going to happen,.. I assume if I do very good form now until weigh in day Tuesday I will probably just be at the same weight I was before I slurged all week, so I'm pretty much going to work my butt off for a week to make up for my cheat days :( Pretty stupid of me considering I was really wanting to meet my mini goal but whatever, I'm back on track now, and it might take me a little longer no to get to where I want to be, but at least I will eventually get there, that is the big picture anyway.
 
I hope everyone is having a great weekend!


Well I am about to get off of work in about an hour or two, hard to tell exactly when I get to leave depends of who comes and releaves me,.. well I haven't eaten anything tonight other than a lean pocket and a couple baked chips at 3pm and I'm really hungry but I am trying something new... since I did so bad the past 4 days I am not going to be eating very much the next few days, most people say your body goes into "starvation mode" and some say "fastiing" is good for you, so I'm not 100 percent sure but I am going to do a little experiment with my body and see if I can get any results, I'm not going to completely fast, I ate at 3pm so I will probably eat some leftover lasagnia when I get home at around 4 or 5am so it's like a 14 hour fast and then I will eat something small 12 hours after that. I may be completely throwing my body off by doing this, I might be ruining my metabolism I don't know but I'm just curious if you can really "make up" so to speak, your cheat days. I am really hoping so because my mini goal of 210 was suppose to be set for sep. 19th and I KNOW I'm not going to make it but I'd like to be as close to that as I can.


It's been 8 weeks now and so far have only lost 11 pounds (that I'm aware of, haven't weighed in over a week) and the first 6 pounds was in the first 2 weeks, so I have to kind of scream at myself WHAT ARE YOU DOING? because I definately wanted to have more than 11 pounds off by the end of 8 weeks.


I might have subway tomorrow if I do I will get the foot long and eat half at one time and the other half many hours later. As I'm typing my ideas for the weekend, it really sounds kind of stupid but I'm going to weigh in Tuesday and see if I have lost anything after eating very little this weekend and doing SO poorly the past week. The last time I weighed I was 221 and I was hoping to weigh last tuesday and be at least 119 and maybe I would have been but I had alot of chineese food the night before and KNEW I would at least be bloated so I thought there was no point. I'm sure there is alot of chineese food that is not fattening because well, Chineese people are so thin but when I eat it I get (shrimp fried rice, potatoes which are fried, sweet and sour chicken which is fried,.. and this other chicken) So I know it is not good for me AT ALL.


Ok now I feel like I'm just rambling on lol well I will post again tomorrow and say what I ended up eating tonight, and if I end up getting Subway before work tomorrow.


Good luck everyone, please do better than I have done LOL!!!
 
AHey Jessica,
It's ok to experiment, and find out what works for you and your body. I have found that under eating always leads to over eating..eventually. If you eat below your basal metabolic rate (BMR) for an extended period of time, you do risk to screw up your metabolism, so be careful. I don't want to go through life only being able to eat like a bird...so the trick for me has been to find the max calories I can eat and still lose weight, and in y ca right now, that's the calories it takes to maintain my goal weight...so ideally, when I get there it won't be an adjustment! To find your BMR and goal weight calories, there is a good calculator on fat2fitradio.com that you might want to check out.
Good choices my friend!
Sarah
 
Thank you Sarah, I will definately find my BMR!!


Well I weighed today, I wasn't going to but I did and.... 221 still BUT I was thinking it was going to be about 223 because of how badly I did this week so I am seriously hoping that by Wednesday I will be below 220 YAY! I haven't seen below 220 in over a year and I only got to 217 so as soon as I get below 217 I'm going to be so happy because 217 is the lowest weight I have got since I had my child 2 years ago.


Well when I got home this morning I ate some left over lasagnia and a bag of 100 calorie pop corn so I went about 14 hours "fasting" last night, I haven't eaten anything since then and it's been about 12 hours now, I am going to eat a lean pocket and a little bag of chips at around 8 tonight making that another 16 hour "fast" and then I'm going to start eating 1200 calories a day again, I seen a thread on here about "Intermitten Fasting" and I did alot of research about it, supposingly it's good for you to do once or twice a week but I'm not really doing that, I'm just eating very little for a couple of days and then go back to 1200 calories a day. I kind of just wanted to jump start a weight loss because I've been at 221 for almost 2 weeks.


To anyone just starting out or just don't know what to do : whatever way you chose to lose weigh just make sure it's healthy and it's for you, you might have to experiment and see what works for you, I've lost weight on the Atkins Diet (but it just wasn't for me) I've lost weight on a No Fat Diet, that worked really well just doesnt fit into my lifestyle right now, Counting calories Sucks! but It's been working and I'm staying with it, and it's made me so much more aware of how fattening foods can be and how much I need and dont need to eat. A huge key is EXCERCISE I don't get enough of it and I know I need to.... like all of us have been saying, it's going to take a while to get it all off, I would love for it to happen all in one week but it's just not going to, you just can't get discouraged and give up like I've done SO many times because I wasn't seeing the results I wanted,.. just keep going you will thank yourself for it, and you have all seen me slip up many times you've just got to get back on and start over. Because believe me it is an AMAZING feeling being able to fit into clothes that you once couldn't fit in. And I can't WAIT to be able to compare my pictures once I lose more weight.



Well my excercise for yesterday was, 50 steps on my stepping stool, and 5o crunches, and about 10 minutes of Zumba then today before work today I did all of that again.


Good Luck everyone and keep it up!
 
I am so tired! I've still got 3 and a half hours to go at work and a 30 minute drive home,. the time is just going by so slowly tonight! I'm going to go home and eat some cooked broccolli when I get off, I might even cook some chicken breast to go with it.

I read this a couple of times a couple weeks ago that it's good to drink 2 glasses of water as soon as you wake up in the mornings and I haven't been doing it much lately but when I woke up today I drank 2 glasses and at work I've had two 20 oz bottles of water so I guess that's around 56 oz for today, will probably be more than that seeing as I still have a long way to go before I get off. I had one 20 oz bottle of diet coke today, I can't go without my Diet Coke,.. I love it so much!


I think I'll be eating alot of Subway this week, I'm going to make it a point to eat it 3 times this week, since mine and Andy's work schedules are so crazy right now anyway, that way I wont have to plan on cooking. On my Birthday Wednesday me, my mom, sister, brother in law, Andy and my son are all going to our County fair I'm really excited about it.


I'm going to be doing my stair steps when I get home from work along with some crunches and some "side bends" I dont know if that's what they are really called or not lol. I'm ready to get back to my 1,200 calories a day starting tomorrow because I am starving right now, Sarah is right undereating always leads to overeating!! But I am hoping this boosted my weight loss a little since i've been in such a rut and not been doing that great. I think 2 days of this was too much, I also think that I am going to do this once a week, I did alot of research on the intermitten fasting thing I had read on a post on here which is to fast for either 12, 16, or 24 hours once or twice a week and eat normal other days,.. I'm not going to do that I'm going to continue my low calorie diet but once a week or maybe once every other week I'm going to just eat once every 12 hours, for a whole day and go back to my regular 1,200 calorie days the rest of the week. It has some great reviews and is suppose to be very benifitial in many ways. Like I said though, I'm still experimenting on what works best for me.


I will be posting again tomorrow!


Love to all and keep it up!!
 
Ugh, I feel very bloated today, I have no idea why, I haven't been eating any junk food or much sodium and I"ve been drinking water like crazy. The past couple of days I've felt very good and actually felt somewhat smaller but today I just feel so bloated, my pants dont fit right my stomach so soooo poochy today. My mom gave me a new shirt today early for my birthday and said i could wear it to work tonight but it just didnt look right because my stomach is so bloated, I don't know, I can't explain it but I am definately bigger today than I was yesterday lol I have NO idea why!! So my mood is not the best today


Ok so when I got home this morning I cooked some skinless boneless chicken breast with heinz 57 sauce, and 2 cups of broccoli, then I ate a 100 calorie bag of popcorn. and a few crackers. No excercise, my body was so tired from not eating that much friday and saturday.


Today I ate 2 little bags of baked chips, about 120 calories a piece, I will have a beef stew dinty moore later, 250 calories, later after that I will have a tv dinner about 300 calories. and something small when I get home in the morning. I'm ready for my weigh in day Tuesday, I was 221 Saturday so I'm hoping to be below 220 Tuesday even if it is just water weight, it will motivate me just to see below 220. Well our county fair is Wednesday and I was planning or well "hoping" to be able to wear my new jeans but I still don't think they are going to fit right by then so that sucks!


I just found out today that Andy's job that was suppose to last 2 weeks is already laying people off today and it only started Friday, they layed off 2 people today so I'm sure more lay offs are to come and i'm dissapointed in that, I was counting on that money to go ahead and buy some of my son's Christmas and Birthday presants, pay off some bills and stuff so now I"m just waiting on the day he comes home and sais he's laid off, so now I'll be having to change some of my plans and figure out what we can and can't buy. Today just isn't my day!!!
 
That sucks about his job, I know stuff like that can really weigh on your mind. I don't really have a job to go back to after holidays either which is stressing me out now... trying not to think about it till I get home though.


I SO feel you on the bloating, I get IBS and can be bloated for days at a time. Probiotics help me a lot, also really watching what I eat. Hope you're feeling a bit better tomorrow!!
 
I am hoping for the best for you on the job deal.


As far as the weigh in goes. I think its always best to go ahead and weigh in...even when you have had a bad week.....It will motivate you to get going again.
 
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