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Yay for new shoes!! I agree - break those puppies in before doing the 4 miler. 1900 is a great calorie range! Keep up the great work!! :D:D
 
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Thank you Pequin and Qjay. I was just going to come and write out my frustrations and I found your posts. Right now I'm eating carrot sticks and I'm conflicted because now I've been told "carrots are high in sugar". ARRGH!

I am relieved to know you both think that 1900 is good for me. I could feel I'd burnt it all up by the time I went to bed.

I feel so much better now, more importantly, I can carry on without frustration.

QJay, I think mentally I feel better than I did a month ago since taking control of what I eat, drinking the water and exercising with purpose. A month ago I felt hopeless about my weight and hadn't considered the impact of "wanting to stay fat", that I would then never have even a chance of being thinner unless I did something. So I have thought about my thoughts a little.

Also a month ago I would eat whatever until whenever, got up at 9 or 10, drank coffee and watched two hours of a.m. t.v, was hardly hungry for breakfast, and basically didn't move until 11 a.m. Now I wake up hungry at 8:30, the TV IS OFF and I have breakfast in the quiet and get out for my walk earlier. I have to walk before I start drinking water or else I have trouble holding it out there. So exercise is the first thing I do in the day rather than tv. This was a lifestyle change I knew for a year or more that I had to make and it took some time but now its here...

Those are the biggest changes in me that I see. Thank you so much for inquiring.
 
Carrots are great for you, you could eat pounds of them and not have an excessive amount of calories in your diet. A cup of sliced carrots only has about 50 calories, and a large (2.5 oz) carrot only has about 16 calories.


As for their sugar content, it IS high when you compare it to other veggies, but it is lower than most fruits and lower than most grains (Carb count) plus they are high in fiber.

Eat carrots all day long, and the only problem you'll have is "too much fiber" and probably some bloaty feeling, but you won't mess up your calories for the day with carrots ;)

Anyone who says such a thing is just looking for reasons to avoid them :p

One thing to remember about eating healthier is this: You're not planning to stop, right? So if you get onto 2000 calories a day (like I try to maintain), then you will be eating a diet which is pretty normal and you would be hard-pressed to gain weight from all that food. Exercise would be likely to help you increase your lean body mass, even if it doesn't show as a dramatic, instantly visible change on your scale.

I come here for help and support with my regular diet; my food plan is not going to be able to change... I just need help staying on it and staying motivated with eating normal foods. I don't diet, and I don't plan to change how I eat after I reach my "goal weight" because that is just as likely to cause me to gain the weight back as it is to turn my views of "food as a reward" back to how they were.

Okay, enough rambling, just know that you can eat all of the carrots you want, even as a binge, if it's just the carrots. If you want them cooked, I highly recommend picking up some butter spray or some of those salad spritzers, they add flavor while keeping the calories reasonable.
 
carrots away

QJaY Thanks for the good advice. Like M2M told me, I just have to find what works for me, and like you say, that I can do for the rest of my life. To learn how to eat for life and lose some excess is a marvelous thing. I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas. So back to me...

I am stoked because my snack after supper was modest yet satisfying. A single string cheese stick (60 calories) a whole red pepper which I ate like an apple (40 calories) and some celery. The cheese took the gnaw out of my stomach. I'm learning what works.

Totals today, 1636
Jog (first time) 15 1 minute intervals
Walk 1.5 hours
 
Thanks for the suggestion! I got my calorie range from sparkpeople, i heard alot of people on here using it. My calorie range is supposed to be 1250-1600 a day, which is usually pretty easy to stay under and not feel starved. Do you think that I should up it? It seems to be working good so far. Thanks, Holly

Edit* I know alot of people on here are going to tell me that I am starving myself, that my calories are WAY to low, that I am doing damage, etc....But I think that everyone needs different things, this is what is working for me and yes, as time goes on I will be upping my calories as I up my exercise.....
 
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jogging

Could feel it after.

Thursday

1430 calories
Swim - 30 minutes
Leisure walk - 80 minutes

Good to get my heart rate up today in the pool. First time in a while
 
Happychubette said:
Could feel it after.

Thursday

1430 calories
Swim - 30 minutes
Leisure walk - 80 minutes

Good to get my heart rate up today in the pool. First time in a while
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You should try running/jogging in the swimming pool vs swimming if you get bored with it. I think I heard somewhere that there is 15% more resistance in water than running on land, so you get a harder work out. Just a suggestion. You might burn more calories.

I love swimming, but am afraid to put on a swimsuit and go anywhere in public just now...I feel like a beached whale.
 
I. Love. Cheesestrings! Sometimes, I like to eat them real slow and pull them apart and maybe braid the strings, sometimes I just munch it right down because it's just a quick snack on the go.

Something else you might want to try is jerky. Fresh deli jerky is the best, but sometimes I like the bagged stuff by Oberto as well - a whole 80g bag is barely 320 calories, and it tastes great! Of course you shouldn't eat a whole bag of jerky at once, but I'm just saying, that's a pretty good ratio, especially since they're really low in fat (and carbs if you're on that kind of diet), and come in lots of flavours that really don't affect the calorie outcome - actually the Oberto brand's teriyaki flavour has less calories and carbs than the plain kind!
 
Wanted to stop and read your diary and say Hi :) Sounds like you are doing great and jogging all ready! woooo thats an awesome achievement ! I hate jogging lol

""I think mentally I feel better than I did a month ago since taking control of what I eat, drinking the water and exercising with purpose""

Thats all it takes, all those other physical changes will show up very soon! :D
 
Hi! Thanks for stopping by diary!!

You, yourself, are doing really, really well!! I really admire your positive attitude and dedication!!
 
Thursday morning

Bad sleeps lately and cranky this morning but maybe I should think about celebrating. The scale (analogue) said 190 today. I have to look at the number a few times. 190. 190. If it lasts till Monday then I will change my ticker. Don't want to jinx it.

I will put jerky on the list. Thanks for the tip.

Going to swim and walk regularly and throw in a walk/run maybe once a week. Listening to Stadium Arcadium, which rocks (Chilli Peppers), and Nelly Furtado's Loose.

Thank you WLF. I'm unofficially in new territory.
Catch you tonight with today's results. Ciao.
 
I love that feeling, when I look at the scale and need to do a dbl and even triple take, lol, and of course pick my chin up off the florr...Congrats on your hard work it is paying off!!!
 
Snap, now you're into the 180's! It might be a small change, but take it for what it is: progress. Once you start losing, it's all downhill - the good kind of downhill that means easy! Well... maybe not easy, but at least you've got the encouragement from a tangible source (the scale), and it makes it seem easier to keep doing the same things.
 
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