Imaninjadangit's Weight loss Spectacular!

Fair enough :) Different things work for different people. I find looking at and planning recipes helps me to stay on track by keeping my food interesting (and I increasingly find I can look at- and even make- high calorie food and not eat it because of my budget thinking. It's rarely worth it in my mind, and sometimes looking at a foodgasm cake then working out it's 1500 calories for a small slice can be quite therapeutic, for me anyway). I've also really started to love cooking while calorie counting, funnily enough.

Do you want me to stop linking you recipes? (The ones I searched were either low kilojoule- on Taste- or 400-600 calories on BBC Good Food) I don't want to do something counterproductive for you on your page.
 
Dang Girl!! You got it down! Isn't it funny? you eat Chinese food and it SHAKES your weight loss???

Keep it up, i guess a little cheat meal here and there will zap your weight loss efforts!

Yeah, i always try to drink more than 8 cups of water and less than 14 cups of water. my mouth and my toilet is kept busy all day! LOL!
 
I'm the same as Amy in regards to cooking - I love making new stuff to keep it really interesting. Tonight on my diet I'm allowed hamburger meat with salad vegies and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm going to make up a tomato salsa to put on top of the burgers to make them exciting! No bread allowed, but that's ok. You can have mayo, just the light kind, and a little bit of it. It nearly made me fall off my seat when I saw how many cals are in the regular kind of mayo!

You sound really positive love, keep up the awesome work!
 
Thank you! When I just see the 1lb amounts coming off, I'm a little sad. When I look at the big picture, though, it's awesome!
I am 1lbs away from my May goal of 267. I think I can do that in a week! I really didn't expect that pound to come off. Lol

"Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est."
 
Thank you, ladies!

I have Zumba on my computer. I'm going to start it today. I've heard it's awesome cardio.

"Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est."
 
I have an external hard drive for my computer, where I keep all of my movies, tv shows, and some weight loss videos. I stream them through my router, to my Xbox in the living room. My Zumba files were in the wrong format, SO...I couldn't do that today. I did, however, play Dance Central. I loooove that game. It makes me sweat SO much. It also said that I burned 100 calories for 15 minutes of dancing. I know I burned more, though, because when the songs were loading, or I was going through the menus, I marched in place. I also did all of the tutorials for the songs I didn't know..which was, like...most of them. That racked up a bunch of calories. All I know is that I feel awesome.

Last night, I was sitting at my computer, and had noticed that my biceps have gotten HUGE. I already had some guns, but these are all out military grade, now! Bleh! I would post a pic, but there's still a nice layer of fat covering the actual muscle. My boyfriend's biceps aren't even this big, though. :smilielol5::smilielol5: That's what I get for doing so many wall pushups! :banghead:

When I work on school nights, I have to walk the kids to their school on our campus. Normally, my building is relatively close. Last night, however, it was at least a 4 minute walk. I decided to try jogging for half of that. I actually did pretty well. That, combined with the running upstairs every 15 minutes to do bed checks...yeah. I think I had a fair share of exercise today. :D My knee feels just fine, too.

I love the endorphin rush you get after a workout! I may just go solve world hunger right now!! :biggrinjester:
 
My boyfriend recently started a job where he lifts books all day and walks a lot. Naturally, after going from sitting all day long, to actually moving, he has lost about 10lbs. Tonight, while I was dutifully counting my calories, he remarks, "I think it's hilarious that you have to do all of that work, and I don't. The weight is coming off me, and I can still eat whatever I want."

I wanted to split his lip right there.
 
Urgh. That's so horrible. He may not have meant it, but yeah, I think I would've burst into tears at that comment. (And then, knowing my boyfriend, he would've had a guilt trip lasting for months- he's still feeling guilty about the time he made me cry in October when he told me I needed to replace some of my clothes because they were digging into my skin and painful. He was right, I'm over it- he's still cut up about making me cry)
 
My boyfriend is super innocent. He would never, ever try to hurt me. He is just clueless. I'm his first girlfriend. lol I have to remember that he's still learning. The problem is that he has been SO fantastic 99.9% of the time. When he does seem to mess up, I'm blindsided by it, and just automatically think that he should have known better.
His dad is kind of crude. No tact whatsoever. I'm really surprised that my bf came out as well as he did. Not saying his dad is a bad guy. He would do anything for the people he loves. He just lacks etiquette. And tact. And politeness. lol
For good measure, I had my boyfriend sleep on the couch last night. While I understand that it was an innocent comment, he needs to learn to think before he speaks...and that I'm serious about it. Training men is a life long job! :svengo:

The whole reason we even had the discussion last night, was because we decided to get take out food. I was going to cook, but just didn't feel like it. We started with the idea of pizza. A lot of places have online calorie counters now. We went through Domino's, and decided that the healthy options didn't sound appealing. I went to Rally's(Checker's) site. omg. The biggest burger they had was 800 calories! The smallest was around 500! Their fries, at the smallest, were around 400. SO...I said no. :banghead:
Taco Bell was the final decision. I went through a few combinations, at which that was the point he made his comment. When he was done, I told him that he may be losing a little weight now, but when he's 30 and having his first heart attack, I'll try not to say, "told you so." I told him that he was losing, and gaining, water weight. I told him that people who eat junk build up fat around their organs, first. When you first start losing fat, that's the fat that goes first. He's not losing that fat. I am, because my eating habits are healthy. He fluctuates, in a week, between 280 and 270. He never goes below, and never maintains. I told him that when he loses, and doesn't keep losing, or at least maintain, he should be giddy about it. He's not doing his body any favors. I told him that if he just gave up his 24oz Mountain Dew that he has every day, he would see a world of difference. It would be hard at first, but it WOULD get better.

Losing weight isn't easy. Putting it on only seemed easy, because I didn't realize what was happening. Losing is hard, though, because you have to change all of the bad habits, and keep it that way. Yesterday was especially hard on me, because it was my long day. I was up for 24 hours, and kept it to 1500 calories. I exercised, just so I could eat a little more. All I know, is that my calorie fluctuation and my decision to do cardio is working. I weighed in today at 266. 2lbs less than yesterday!
:party::party:

Thank you ladies for your support!!!
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