If there's no struggle, there's no progress!!!

3.12.2013
Weigh-in: 194.0
BM: 4, all solid, yeah, "foot ball length" intestines, huh?

Food
Snack: 1 cheese stick, 1 pretzel, 125cal
Lunch: 3 cups of egg flower soup, 10 piece of sushi, egg roll, 1 cup veggies, 4 fried shrimp, 1000cal
Snack: 1 snacksize m&m mcflurry, 350cal
Snack: 2cups pineapple, 100cal
Calories: 1,575

The weather is so nice, sunshine + mcflurry = damn, i think I just went to heaven. I'm going to drink water and munch on pineapple for the rest of the day.

I applied to be part of a DASH diet study for 14 weeks, follow diet, no alcohol!, get food provided, blood work done, meet with a nutritionist, get measured, but i'm not allowed to lose weight. I e-maild them about that. I also get $1000.

Too good to be true, not sure if I want to pass this $1000 opportunity. I don't eat chemicals, clean food, increase fruit and veggies consumption.

Dietbet.com damn you, I might have to try to weigh in as close to 188/187 during my initiation to at least win my investment in.
 
Hmmm... I think that getting to your goal is more important than $1000... But then if you are almost there anyway, you may as well do it.

What is your BMI?
 
Overtherainbow, excellent point. How important IS $1000?

Being that I will be in school for four years in August, so I will not be able to have a job, I'd like to save every penny.

Being that my self-esteem and confidence has a direct link to my weight loss, I'd like to lose as much before school starts. Podiatry school won't be easy.

I've been told to keep my weight at 3% of initial weight. So, in my mind 1) I can win my diet bet money back and 2) still lose 6-7 pounds.
 
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Well, after much thought and consideration within the past 6 hours, I've decided to decline on the study.

I think weight loss and my sister promised me $1,000 shopping spree if I hit 150pounds. So, it's a win win situation if I lose weight and I will get money that I would've put towards a brand new wardrobe.

Overtherainbow, you were the spark to get me to second think. Seriously, Thank you! I really appreciate it. =)

Tomorrow is a new day. Now, if I can get to 150 in 14 weeks, that'll be a great challenge.

For now, I need to stop gorging on food and be a bit more sensible. Tomorrow is a beautiful day!
 
3.13.2013
Bm: 0

Food
Breakfast: 4oz smoothie, 75cal
Snack: chinese egg tart, 2 thin mint, 250cal
Lunch: edamame, string cheese, 1/2 apple, 2 pretzel stick, 400 cal
Dinner: 2 chicken thighs, 1 cup pasta sauce, 1 cup broccoli, 1 chinese egg tart, 2 cups pineapple, 700
Calories: 1,425

Exercise
None


So, I woke up today and decided that I wasn't going to keep eating a bunch of crap and continue my weight loss. So, I'm on the right track thus far. I'll cook chicken thighs and pasta sauce tonight for dinner. I'm craving pasta sauce with chicken! I'll add some broccoli too! Yummy, I am excited.

I need to exercise because I vowed to not do the DASH study. Also, I'm embarrassed that my hips were so sore from the hike on Saturday, my hips were still in pain on Monday!

I came home after work, stripped and weighed in at 194.6, Not so bad after yesterday's damage. I didn't poo, but I peed all clear today. Weird.

I'm going to go clean the kitchen and cook.
 
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3.14.2013
Weigh-in: 193.4
BM: 1


Food
Breakfast: 2 chicken thighs, 1/2 mango, 1/2 avocado, 500cal
Lunch: carne asada nachos (didn't feel/taste oily at all)
Dinner: 1 cup pineapple
Calories: 2,000

I felt quite full and bloated after lunch today. I did learn how to knit! A knitted a ruffle scarf this afternoon. A hobby that'll keep my hands busy and my mind off food. =)

I ordered a night splint for my right foot. This Plantar Fascitis is no fun. Becoming a Podiatrist couldn't have been more of an irony right now. Hmm, I can't wait to practice steroid injections in my heel...Steroid or cortisone?...whichever.
 
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3.15.2013
BM:1

Food
Breakfast: 2 cheese sticks, 2 pretzel sticks, 1 thin mints, 2 chocolates, 440cal
Snack: tuna salad snack kit, 300cal
Lunch: chow mein, 1000cal
Snack: 6oz breyers mint chocolate chip

I got 2 cans of sugar free red bull for tonight's festivities. I'm going to go get "white girl wasted"...don't get offended, folks. It should be a hot mess tonight. ;)
 
3.16.2013
Bm: 2

Food
Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, 1 cup spicy green curry, 1/2 cup brown rice
Snack: 1/2 viet trader joes wrap, 1 serving popped chips
Snack: 1 tostada salad, heavy dressing
Dinner: 1/2 black bean noodles, 5 chicken wings
Dessert: 1/2 geisha float

Exercise
Walked for 7 hours of shopping.

Bought and wore a foot splinter last night for a few hours, took it off while sleeping due to discomfort. At my hospital job, feeling the heel flare up.

I was planning to hike, but I don't want to make it worse. And I think I feel it in my left foot now!
 
Hi Laura, How goes the battle? It sounds like you're fighting hard!
7 hours of shopping?? I haven't done that much in one day in 10 years... ugh. I hate shopping. :)
 
Hey Don! Thanks for stopping by, love the visits ;)

I feel like I've settled into this "comfort" at 193. On a fat day, I weigh 193. 193 is my new comfort weight. I hate that I've gotten comfortable.

I'm nursing the foot splint, while lounging on the cough in the living room. I'm nursing the foot splint on my right foot, will switch over to the left in a few hours. Sleep with it on the right.

I can't make any promises, I feel like I just go beyond them. I have lost my strictness with my diet. Eating things I shouldn't eat. Now with both of my feet out of commission, I need a swimming cap...there I go on amazon.

BM: 0

Food
Breakfast: jack in the box: meaty burrito in pita bread, with oj, 800cal
Snack: 1 orange and 1 cheese stick, 125cal
Lunch: 2 corn tortilla,s 2 fried eggs, 2 chicken wings, 1/4 cup shredded cheese, 450cal
Dinner: 1 boiled egg, 3oz beef, 1 cup vermicelli noodles, 1/2 cup rice, 3 romaine leaves
Calories:

Exercise
I just worked my hospital job, so I stood for 8 hours straight. NO SITTING, only for my 25min lunch break. I had to run to the 4th floor for a code blue.
 
Take care of your feets as best as you can. You can add "rowing machine" to the list of low impact workouts. For some reason that seems to be a guy thing though. Rarely see women on it.
 
3.18.2013
BM: 2
Weigh-in: 197.8

WOW but I've been feeling pudgy. 193 my arse! I was 193 Sat AM after a night of drinking, oh dear, sugar free red bull + grey goose = makes me feel like i'm in college again!

Food
Snack: 1 pretzel stick, 50cal
Lunch: 5oz thinly sliced beef, 1/4cup noodles, 1 cup brown rice, 2 boiled eggs, 700cal
Snack: 1 chocolate truffle, 70cal
Dinner: 2 cups brown rice and green thai curry ground turkey mixed, 2 corn tortillas, 1/4 cup cheese, 1/2 cup 1% milk, 800cal
Calories: 1,620cal

My right heel is seriously flaring. I feel it even though I am wearing my beloved Danskos. I only had the foot splint on for 3 hours while sleeping last night, expecting magic here folks, but nothing.

I just want to go home and put my foot in a splint and work on my knitting. Also, I expect my menses within the next 7 days, fabulous. Talk about gaining a few LBs and feeling bloated. We'll see it when it happens! ;)
 
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3.19.2013
BM:2
Weigh-in: 195.4

Food
Breakfast: 2 cups green ground turkey thai curry w/ brown rice, 2 boiled eggs, 1 corn tortilla w/ 1/8cup cheese, 650cal
Lunch: Togo's mini turkey and avocado on wheat with NO mayo, doritos cool ranch, 500cal
Snack: 1 soft serve , 100cal
Dinner: 1/2 avocado, 1 cup green thai curry, 2 boiled eggs, 1 mango
Calories: 1,900


My stomach/intestines feel like they are on FIRE cause of the green curry. Talk about a reved up metabolism. I definitely feel it.
 
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Hey, Laura!
Sorry about the fluctuations... but you know they're bound to happen, even when we're doing most everything right. Hang in there. The only thing I can see that could affect it would be water retention... either TOM, salt in your diet or just the amount you're drinking. That's a problem that'll resolve itself in time, but I keep my sodium low just to avoid big daily fluctuations. Seriously, a salty dinner (ham, corned beef, etc) can make my weight jump 3-4 pounds overnight EASILY. I watch my sodium and drink like a fish to balance it all.

Is that a homemade green curry? You are making me CRAVE a Thai curry... there maybe a veg green curry in my near future.
 
Hey Don! You're so nice! Yes it is green thai curry! So spicy and delicious! Made with coconut milk and sweet potato/red bell pepper/ ground turkey = yummy!

This right foot splint has yet to give me relief. I feel extremely immobile due to it.

Good news is my swim cap should be here tomorrow. But i don't have a swimming pool right next door, there is one 5 miles down the road...but gas around here is $4.30/gallon.

My right ankle feels even worse actually...i've become more sensitized to any pain or discomfort
 
3.20.2013
BM:1
Weigh-in: 194.0

Food
Breakfast: 1.5 cup milk, 200cal
Snack: 1 pretzel stick, 1 cheese stick, 125cal
Lunch: Burger King grilled chicken sandwich w/o Mayo, with small fries, and only one half of the bun, 650cal
Snack: 1 cheesecake brownie from Starbucks, 300cal
Dinner: 1 grilled cheese sandwich, 1 cup pineapple, 2 boiled eggs, 550cal
Postworkout: 1/2 cup 1% milk, 50cal
Calories: 1,875

EXERCISE - OH SNAP, YEAH I DID!
35min cycling
5min rowing
25min swimming (leisurely)

I swear I woke up this morning with less right heel pain. I iced it a bit yesterday night, maybe that's the trick. I'm going to ice it again tonight, but I do have a hospital shift tomorrow. Definnitely going cycling tomorrow because I LOVE the cycling teacher at that gym.
 
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laureelee07 said:
Hey Don! You're so nice! Yes it is green thai curry! So spicy and delicious! Made with coconut milk and sweet potato/red bell pepper/ ground turkey = yummy!

This right foot splint has yet to give me relief. I feel extremely immobile due to it.

Good news is my swim cap should be here tomorrow. But i don't have a swimming pool right next door, there is one 5 miles down the road...but gas around here is $4.30/gallon.

My right ankle feels even worse actually...i've become more sensitized to any pain or discomfort
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It sounds like the swimming pool may be just the ticket for you to take some time and heel up your ankle/foot. I love swimming and wish I could just go down to the beach like when I lived in Hawaii. Maybe someday I'll gain the courage necessary to swim in public again.

How close are you on the dietbet site goals?
 
3.21.2013
BM:1
Weigh-in: 192.0

Food
Breakfast- 1 boiled eggs, 1 chicken thigh and curry, 400cal
Lunch- 4 cups pineapple and strawberries, cheese stick, 1 chicken thigh with curry, 2 boiled eggs, 700
Dinner- 1 chicken thigh with curry, 2 boiled eggs, 1 grilled cheese sandwich, 1 cup pineapple, 900
Calories: 2000


I'm kinda mad that I weighed in this morning at 192 and then after my hospital shift, I come home to 194.6. What's up with that??? I'm actually really frustrated.

I didn't go to the cycling class, but I plan on going to the gym later. I came home exhausted and something is wrong with my gas tank meter in my car, I magically ate 60 miles worth of gas on my trip back home.

I cleaned my bedroom of all the clothes that needed to be hung, wiped my desk, made my bed (which I don't do every morning...) and wiped the bathroom counter. Yeah, I feel better. =)

No gym, but got both my arches wrapped in sports tape, right in a foot splint and left in an arch bandage.
 
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