Inez Finding Her Happy Weight

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mrsinez

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Hello to anyone reading-- this is (obviously) my first entry in the diary, just registered on this site. Technically re-registered, as I used this website approximately three, I think it was, summers ago, had a little diary here and had pretty good success with losing weight and getting in shape. So, I'm back again, needing a bit of motivation as I finish up my weight loss journey again!


The back story:


This year, I've lost quite a bit of weight, basically all of it that I've been wanting to lose for several years, so that I'm nearly nearly almost at my very ideal, healthiest and happiest weight. And I'm so glad of that! I feel great about myself and my body, feel like I'm in good shape and health, basically just loving to look in the mirror now. That said, I really want to continue just a bit further, to tone up, lose maybe another inch from my waist. However, it's getting more and more difficult, as expected, I guess.


Right now, my weight loss efforts consist of hitting the gym most days of the week for approximately an hour, doing cardio and weight training, and having lean protein and veggies only for breakfast and lunch, with a more indulgent dinner. It was almost too easy, following that kind of a plan, felt like I wasn't depriving myself at all. However, to continue my weight loss, it looks like I'm going to have to take a few more steps even, just until I can get to a maintenance point....so here are my goals.


Weight loss plan:


1. Watch what I eat at dinner more closely. I don't want to be very strict about it, because my husband and I both love cooking and eating, and having at least one meal a day we can enjoy without worrying is important to me. But, I can work on just eating exactly enough food to satisfy me, not overdoing it even if it's super amazingly delicious, and not having as much "filler food," like the rice we always have, that I don't like all that much but eat just to round out the meal.


2. Not snack after dinner. I cut that out completely for many months, but as I've gotten closer to my goal, I've felt like I could give in a bit and started snacking again, and to not so good results! So as much as possible, I'm going to stop eating after dinner, allowing myself maybe one or two nights a week to eat again afterward.


3. Add extra casual exercise when I have the opportunity. I don't want to go to the gym any longer than an hour a day, mostly because I have kind of an obsessive personality, and if I don't put a cap on it, I actually worry I could end up working out TOO much (as I have done in the past). However, I am going to try and incorporate random calorie burning things whenever I have the chance... like when my husband is off doing something and I'm alone, just go for a walk or something. That should do double duty, actually, as those times when I am getting bored are also the times I tend to start snacking.


Wow, that was long. Anyway, hope to come back here and update regularly.


Oh, and Current stats and goals


As of this morning, it looks like my weight is about 52 kg (my scale is analog and a bit difficult to see precisely, lol), and my waist 25 inches. My goals are to shoot for 24 inches at the smallest part of my waist and to hover my weight about 50 kg mid-day, meaning with a bit of clothing on and food in my stomach. So that gives me, I figure, just about 4-5 kg left to go!!
 
Actually, just in case anyone is reading this, to add a bit of interest, here is a bit about myself.


About me:


Recently turned 23 years old, female

Graduated from university with a degree in chemistry and going back for a second undergrad degree in computer science this fall

Living in Vancouver, B.C. at the moment

Very extremely happily married, all of 8 months or so now

Pretty short, which is why my weight loss goals seem to be a lot lower than a lot of people on here

Likes/hobbies: walking, reading, jigsaw puzzles, food, foreign languages, mycology (which is why my profile pic is mushrooms!), NPR, church activities, computer games, music (recently re-realized my love of Fiona Apple), and meeting friends for coffee and chats :)
 
Hey sweetpea! Welcome back :hurray:


The last few lbs must be sooo hard to lose. It comes off so quickly when you first start out! I understand about the cooking with hubby part--cooking with my boy is the best part of my day! so much fun :) Anyway, good luck my lovely! Post your food and we can try and give you some tips :p xx
 
hello and welcome back! Looks like we do share a bit of the same struggle.... I got to maintenance weight and fell back into snacks myself... want to get away from snacking altogether maintenance or not. And Wow! good job on all the exercise!
 
Thanks for the comments, Sunflower and Rainyforest!!


Well, let's just say, yesterday was probably not the greatest day as far as an introduction to a weight loss diary! haha xD

I had a good time at the gym, ellipticalled for 45 minutes and did strength training and then did the mile's walk home.

But for dinner......we finally had the sukiyaki party I'd been begging my husband for....

Basically, each of us ate our own full kilogram of beef, plus probably another kilo of vegetables, all in a very salty, sugary sauce and dipped in raw egg!

Because this is one of my favorite things in the world, sukiyaki (and also eating a gigantic ton of food, lol), I didn't feel like doing anything but enjoying myself without worrying about portion. And believe me, it was awesome!

After dinner I also ate like 10 cheap cookies, which was not so great. :/ I mean, they were yummy enough, and it wasn't one of my lonely snack binges since my husband was eating cookies too, but it kind of came from a place of the "already ate too much, what the heck, why not more?" that I'm sure we are all familiar with!



Anyway, this morning my weight is obviously higher, but looks like measurements are mostly the same.

(Yes, I'm an every-day-weigher!)

I don't regret overdoing it yesterday at all- in fact, it's one of the perks of being almost nearly at my goal weight, and already pretty slim, that I can indulge from time to time and not feel guilty at all.

It's also good to have days from time to time that I eat more, because it really does assist my weight loss, I have noticed. About a month ago, I hit a seriously bad plateau that only ended once I stopped eating strictly diet-level calories and hit a few very high calorie days mixed in with lower ones.



Buuut ANYWAY, I am getting my butt back on the weight loss train today!



Have a nice day, everyone.



On a side note, has anyone watched the TV series Firefly? My husband, K, and I watched it on Netflix last night, the first episode. I kinda liked it! Very space cowboy...
 
Bored so updating again today!


I had a very good day in terms of food. Even dinner was healthy for once! haha Since my husband wasn't hungry at our normal dinnertime, and he knows I don't like eating late at night, he said I should just go ahead and eat and he'd eat later, which meant I got to have my favorite meal of a salad and grilled fish (well, any vegetable plus any plain grilled meat is what I call my "favorite meal"), which is obviously very healthy and lo-cal compared to our usual dinner. Somehow I just grew up eating very healthy and very bland food, and it makes me very happy to eat like that, but my husband is just the opposite, so I just can't do it every day anymore! But at least for today I got to.


Anyway, I'm feeling very optimistic. And then tomorrow, I found a recipe for Jamaican jerk chicken that I'm going to make for us, which is actually quite healthy because it's basically grilled chicken, but it also sounds tasty enough because there are lots of spices and flavors!


No snacks for the rest of today for me! I have to be honest, we went out shopping today, and I bought fruit and some other snacks for myself, and I am admittedly quite a fruit binge-er......going to try my best to not go crazy and eat it all today OR tomorrow so I can have two "good days" in a row, and hopefully keep on track.


P.S. I wrote a topic on the general forum: http://weight-loss.fitness.com/t/55453/seriously-struggle-with-moderation. It doesn't look like there's much activity compared to the diaries here, so if anyone reading this here could check out my topic and reply, I'd appreciate it!!
 
Hey lovely :) That special dinner you and your hubby had sounds HORRIBLE! Raw egg!? Why does it taste nice?! Where does it come from?! I'm disturbed and interested at the same time!


Glad you got to have a nice healthy simple meal. I love stuff like that as well. Used to have plain chicken breast with plain rice and plain salad when I was at Uni and loved it! Then I got a spice rack and my life changed foreverrrr! :drool5:
 
Thanks for commenting, Sunflower!


Today was a little better, except for the fact that I just slammed my toenail in the door!! I don't know how it's going to work with going to the gym....hmm..we'll see about it tomorrow!


Anyway, yeah, yesterday was not so great. Sometimes, I really get it into my head something like, I'm basically done dieting, I've come far enough, may as well enjoy myself, etc. But it's happening way too frequently now! The closer I get to my goal, the harder it is to lose more weight, BOTH because my calorie requirements are less AND because I'm letting myself go off the plan more often. And then, that ends up making me frustrated, that I'm losing weight slower, which only makes me more likely to start thinking, what the heck, I'm close enough, never going to get there, and then I binge eat, and then the cycle starts again, lol.


Basically, I had a larger than usual helping of some pretty oily Thai food for dinner, and then over the course of the rest of the evening, I ended up eating (confession time!) several pieces of fruit, like 20 large rye crackers, 4 cookies, 2 packs of dry roasted beans, and 3 chocolate truffle bars... wow, didn't feel like that much when I was eating, but seeing it written down is kinda scary, haha. Hopefully, next time, knowing that I plan to 'fess up here and have other people possibly reading how much I binged will be more motivation to not do it again. :/


To be honest, I've been a binge eater for a long time. I kinda thought I was over it, but only just lately it's been creeping in again from time to time, rarely as bad as last night though. I used to binge all the time when I was very skinny, in high school and early college, and I guess now that I'm thin again, it's making me feel like it's OK to do. But I know it's not! It's just a hard habit to break though....


Tomorrow is Sunday, which means church and probably no gym, but I'm going to at least try and stick to healthful meals. Oh, and today I did OK-- fine through breakfast and lunch, then for dinner kinda had a very very very huge chicken breast, lol, which I marinated as Jamaican jerk chicken and was super delicious, but probably a bit too many calories. But at least it was only chicken this time!
 
It's scary when you have a binge and then write it all down! It's always so much more than you think it is! well done on keeping yourself accountable though--come back and read your post when you fancy a late night snack next time! Will put you off! sorry about your toe--feel better!!
 
For sure, having accountability like this is a good thing!!


From today, I'm making a goal for myself: to not check the scale for the next week. This is for a couple of reasons....


1. As I'm basically easing myself into maintenance mode, out of "diet" mode, I'm also easing out of being quite so constantly concerned about my weight. In the long term, I want to be able to just simply monitor that I'm not gaining or losing too much by the fact that I'm not having to buy new clothes, basically, so might as well start getting into that now.

2. I'm not expecting any drastic changes even as I do lose that last bit, and it's going to be slow progress anyway, so there's not much info I can get out of frequently checking.

3. On the days my weight is in a lower fluctuation because of less sodium or whatever, it seems to encourage me to give in and binge, so it's better I just don't see it, haha.


So, that's going to be my main focus, staying off the scale! It's going to be a hard habit to break, especially that first morning weigh-in, but I really want to try! As with everything else, will update my progress here for accountability.
 
That's great how close you are to your goal weight, I can imagine it would be so rewarding and amazing but then again I can see how it would be really frustrating as well.

I am an everyday weigher as well, well not anymore, i lent someone my scale a while back and it's gone now so now i just use my moms when I go to her house. But, I

know how it is, I was actually worse than everyday, I swear, someday I would weigh 3 or 4 times a day, I don't know why really,.. I guess it was just a reallly obsessive thing,

especially if I was the same weight as the day before, I would think, ok I'm fluctuating I'll weigh later, and sometimes I would be less and sometimes more lol I can't figure out why

I would weigh that many times a day, but anyway, once you start weighing every week it will be so much better it will give you a chance to really see some results on the scale after

waiting a whole week.

Well congradulations on all of your success and for sticking with it eventhough you are so close to your ideal weight!
 
OK, soooo I've been thinking a bit, and I've come up with some new ground rules for how I'm going to do this. I really want to go into more of maintenance mode, still hopefully losing the last bit of weight, but honestly, I also don't know how much of a difference it is going to make whether I'm 120 pounds or 110, lol.


So here is my "diet plan" for the next however-long:


1. No weighing except maybe once a week. I'm going to say Sunday as the day I'm allowed to check-in with my weight and measurements. For the rest of the time, like I mentioned before, I'm going to stay away from checking. One reason is because seeing low numbers, even if it's just a fluctuation, tends me make me think I "deserve" to eat too much, lol, and also because frequent checking makes me more likely to skip having liquids or become obsessed with eating very early dinners, just to get a lower weigh-in.


2. No eating after dinner. That was one thing I stuck to strictly when I was more hardcore dieting. Recently I've tried letting up and allowing myself to snack after dinner, but it always end disastrously. I start eating, and I just don't stop, haha. So, if I'm truly hungry, I might have some vegetables or something in the evening, but other than that, dinner is the cut-off point.


3. Go to the gym and workout for 30 minutes every day. There is a very, very high correlation between the days I skip going to the gym and the days I overeat. After I go to the gym, I'm feeling more fit and healthy, and have a post-workout geared meal, and all of that just contributes to eating better for the rest of the day, so I'm just going to say that I need to go regardless of whether I feel like it or not (and gerneally I do feel like I want to anyway!). I used to be shooting for 60 minutes, but with school starting soon, I'm going to just make it 30 minutes. It's more just the fact that I go at all that is most important!


Every day, I'm going to check-in here and post whether I completed those three goals or not!
 
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