Kgirl's Diary

kgirl

kgirl

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Starting Weight: 207 // Current Weight: 195 // Goal Weight: 160 // Long-Term Goal Weight: 125 // BMR: not sure different sites give me different numbers

How much weight do you want to lose? 70 lbs total

What is the timeframe for reaching your target weight? Hopefully 160 by around new years maybe a bit later, 125 by September 1, 2008 (but I would love to reach goal by the beginning of next summer).

How do you want to accomplish your goal (what methods do you want to use)? Eating healthy and exercise (going to curves and using some exercise vids at home)

Who or what can support you in reaching your goal? Everyone I know is supporting me

How realistic is your goal? According to fitday I need to lose just under 1.5 lb per week to meet my long term goal.

When will you start? I started September 1st, 2007.

I have to say that an episode of Oprah was my initial motivation, and I started walking 30 mins a day at first. When I found this site, I got the extra motivation I needed to really change my diet and really exercise, I joined Curves on the 5th (since I am a student and do not have time for long daily gym visits) and I have to say that so far I am loving it. I no longer feel the need for naps in the middle of the day, and I don't need to sleep as long as I did to feel rested. I can actually climb stairs now without feeling winded.

I am finding it difficult to get up to my daily calorie limit since stuff that is good for you doesn't seem to have many calories in it, and I feel like I am stuffing myself if I try to push it up to the minimum calories I need. So far I am trying to get up to 1200 calories per day, I have read the forums and know that I should be taking in more but it is very difficult to eat more when I am already full. On most days I end up taking in about 1100 calories. I am trying to work on upping my calories, looking for recipes that will help with that. I am taking a multivitamin to make sure I am getting my minerals and vitamins daily.

I am happy I found this site and look forward to chatting with you all.
 
Hi ya..

**Biggest Loser** inspired me this year..lol

Hey, what ever it takes right? The first step is always sooo hard!

*Congrat's for taking it!*

Have A Goal Reachin' Day! ;)
 
I so need to stop weighing myself everyday. I haven't lost anything since last monday and it sucks. I did have my monthly weigh in today at curves and I lost 6" overall this month so that made me happy.

I tried a new yoga tape on Saturday and oh boy am I still sore today. I did pretty good at curves there was only one machine I had to go lightly on, good thing today is a focus on cardio day. I have decided to really try to up my calories a little bit for a few days to see if that restarts my weight loss.

Today started off a bit depressing because of the scale but now I feel so much better. A few more pounds gone at the end of the week would make me feel great.
 
Ok, I am happy with my scale again. I knew eventually it would stop hovering and just drop and this morning it did 192 yippie. Almost into the 180's Considering the big drop some of those pounds might be back tomorrow but as long as it doesn't go back up to 195 that's ok.

I just got the slim in 6 videos and I think that will be a bit more my speed than the p90x yoga that caused the pulled muscles in my legs on Saturday. The muscles are almost better one more day and they should be back to normal. I was about 20 calories away from 1200 yesterday so I am also happy about that, although I felt pretty stuffed.
 
Great job on the loss so far! I know how hard it is to not weigh yourself every day. I keep telling myself that I am going to stop doing, but I still do it. I often weigh myself multiple times a day... it is bad and very obsessive!

Welcome to WLF and good luck on your journey.
 
I have decided I am only going to weigh myself on Friday this week. Since the drop was by alot yesterday I don't want to see some of the pounds come back (which usually happens for a few day when I loose alot over 1 day) and I don't want to have to change my ticker lol.

Still can't workout to my potential, the left leg muscle is still sore and I don't want to injure it, seeing as it feels more like a sprain than a pulled muscle at this point. It isn't all bad though I can focus more on upper body and abs until it feels better and I can still walk with no problems it's just stairs and hills that make it hurt. I'm going to try one of my slim in 6 videos a bit later and see if I can do it with my leg the way it is.

I'm doing good food wise, I made it to 1200 calories 2 days in a row now so that is much better than the 1000-1100 calories I was getting, slowly but surely.
 
So I waited till today to try the slim in 6 exercise. It was tough on the arms but I feel great after doing it. Tomorrow is weigh in day so we shall see what the results of this weeks trials are.
 
I missed some days of journal writing and my friday weigh in, my great grandmother fell on Thursday night and broke her hip, then a whole onslaught of family drama ensued. I only got home sunday night. I do have to say I am proud of myself, as I was out of town all weekend and I stuck to my diet even though my stress level was through the roof. Even with the temptation of a large amount of egg rolls, with everyone saying they were the best they ever had, we tempting me for 2 days I stuck to my goals and resisted.
 
I have been so stressed this week. Most of the stress lifted last night, I talked to my cousins and we decided that the problems that our mom's and aunts and uncles have with each other is their own problems, and we have seemed to fix the family tear (within our own generation anyways, the previous one has too long a history to be fixed). I finally realized that I will succeed in my goals for sure this time because through this whole thing, I stayed on track and didn't even feel tempted by the junk food that is in my house. Also my whole outlook on myself has changed, I no longer see myself as "fat" but I see myself as "in progress".

My weight this morning was 190, hopefully I will break into the 180's by the weekend, I just love it when I hit a new level like that, even though it has only happened once. If all goes well within the next week or so I will be able to post my 20lbs lost pictures.
 
So I have been having a tough time breaking into the 180's. Since I weighed myself last friday, the scale bounced back to 192 for a few days, but now it has come back down. I woke up yesterday thinking that I was getting sick, I had a sore throat and was really tired. My mom has this nasty cold/flu that is going around and I thought she had given it to me. I woke up this morning without the sore throat and no where near as tired as yesterday so I may have dodged that bullet for now :). I ate some rotisserie chicken the other day from St Hubert and was really irritated by the service I got. I asked the girl to make my chicken skinless and to substitute rice for the french fries, and she looked at me like I was crazy and went into the back to ask the chef. I could hear how she was asking him and it was not a nice tone of voice. I decided not to say anything since her voice was muffled and she was speaking french and I did not understand everything she was saying.
I was finally able to go grocery shopping and replenish my fridge so I was happy about that. One person did tell me something interesting on Saturday and I don't know if it is true. I was told never to eat meat with a grain product, such as chicken and rice, something to do with the fact that the meat digests last and it is better to have a potato with meat. I have never heard this before and was wondering if anyone knows what she was talking about? Well gotta get ready for class and go workout.
 
I have decided that I need a new scale lol. Yesterday I woke up and weighed myself and was 189 (woohoo), today I wake up and weighed 190 (argggg). So irritating as last month this didn't happen, I would either loose or stay the same. It only started to do this the last 2 weeks or so, maybe it's broken (ya that's it lol). I am also irritated by BMR calculators, the one on fitday claims that my maintenance is around 3000 calories (takes into account occupation when calculating) another one from I don't remember exactly where but got the link from here says that my maintenance is 2000 (take into account amount of exercise), I don't know which one to believe, I am trying to up my calories so that I am getting enough energy but and still losing 2lbs per week. From what I've read to do that I need to create a 1000 cal per day deficit, this is so complicated. Right now I eat about 1200cal per day and exercise 6 days a week at curves and the last 2 day I have been doing slim in 6 in the evenings, which I want to incorporate into my daily routine.
 
kgirl said:
Hi,

You are doing amazing, congrats.
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Thanks so much! :hug2:

RE: Scale.. I went through the scale nightmare as well..

I finally found one that matches the dr. office!

It's the WW Dig. Scale. You can get it at Wal*Mart for $19.99!

Hey, yer doin' great! :jump:

Especially w/some of the crap you've had to deal w/lately! lol

*Hang in there!*

:hug2:

*Stacy
 
Hi kgirl,

Firstly, you're doing really well so far - bet you feel lighter without those 18 pounds:D Secondly, very well done for coping with the family trauma and still sticking to your diet...that is just sooo hard to do.

I'm with you when it comes to feeling full on very little food. I was perfectly happy eating 1300 cals a day but I just wasn't getting anywhere on that so I've been slowly increasing week by week and you do get used to it, trust me. If you're stuck at the 190 mark for a while it might be worth trying. You certainly sound as if you're doing enough exercise to be eating a fair bit more than you are and still lose weight.

About the "chicken+rice=bad" thing, I think that's alluding to the principles of food-combining. It's all to do with the rate at which different food types digest and where in the gut they digest. Meat ie. protein requires a highly acid environment to digest so it stays in the stomach several hours. Starch ie. carbohydrate starts digesting in the mouth, breaks down a lot quicker and requires a mildly alkaline environment, therefore if it is eaten at the same time as meat the two will "fight" in the stomach and neither will be properly digested. As for fruit, that breaks down so quickly it more or less ferments in the stomach if it gets trapped there with other foods so is better eaten away from anything else. At least, that's the theory as I understand it.

I don't pay much attention to food-combining but I do find I feel less bloated after a meal if it consists of just meat/fish and non-starchy vegetables, so maybe there's something in it.

Good luck breaking that plateau - you will do it!:D
 
I weighed in today and the scale is still at 190. Arg!! I am thinking it may have been stress, yesterday I had a midterm with a teacher who is a really hard marker (it borders on unfair), he gave me my first C ever on the last quiz. I was so stressed out about it that I almost had a panic attack in class right before the exam, my heart was beating and my lungs started to tighten up, and I had an over all bad feeling. I was able to stop it which I am thankful for. I was sure that since it was an abnormal psyc class and that we had learned about panic disorder and attacks a few weeks prior that he would think I was being a hypochondriac, especially since I haven't had a panic attack in many many years. Good news it I got through the exam and I think I did well (we will see though I thought I did well on the quiz that I got a C on. I so hate essay questions the marking is so subjective).
I also drank alot more water yesterday than usual so that may also be a reason the scale stayed the same (water weight). I have decided that today I will up try to up my calories to 1400, since I seem to have hit a plateau.
I have done my slim in 6 workout 3 days in a row so far, my body was a bit sore the last few days but today I woke up feeling good, my body must be getting accustomed to working out 2 times a day. I am also happy to report where Tuesday I could only do 1 or 2 push ups yesterday I was able to get about 5 or 6.
 
KGirl

Good job on your progress. Sounds like you a good balance of exercise and diet which is great.

Maybe try upping your calories for a while and trying to have more intense or longer workouts. Might help your body. I don't really know why, but I have found with myself that if I constantly do different workouts at the gym (different types of cardio, different types of weights) it just seems to work better.

Here's my take on the scale, I completely understand that it's very different for everyone.

I actually like to weigh myself multiple times each day, I think it's kind of fun. The key is that I only focus on the macro changes not the micro changes. I like to weigh myself at different times to try to learn more about things like what happens overnight, before/after the gym, etc. But I understand that it varies wildly and I am only interested in the overall trend.

There have been times where in a week I have had 3 great days, with little to no scale change, then a horrible weekend, and come the next monday I've dropped 3 pounds. I frequently have days where my weight varies as much as 8 pounds due to water, food, etc.

I think of it like a stock ticker, lots of little ups and downs, but overall I want it to be down.

If you had a good day of food/exercise, and you weight goes up a pound I think you can feel confident that you did not add a pound of fat to your belly.
 
For added motivation I am going to post some pics of me when I was in high school (at my hottest)
me at 14


15


15 or 16 I think 15


I was this way once and I can be again!!
 
randomcards said:
KGirl

Good job on your progress. Sounds like you a good balance of exercise and diet which is great.

Maybe try upping your calories for a while and trying to have more intense or longer workouts. Might help your body. I don't really know why, but I have found with myself that if I constantly do different workouts at the gym (different types of cardio, different types of weights) it just seems to work better.

Here's my take on the scale, I completely understand that it's very different for everyone.

I actually like to weigh myself multiple times each day, I think it's kind of fun. The key is that I only focus on the macro changes not the micro changes. I like to weigh myself at different times to try to learn more about things like what happens overnight, before/after the gym, etc. But I understand that it varies wildly and I am only interested in the overall trend.

There have been times where in a week I have had 3 great days, with little to no scale change, then a horrible weekend, and come the next monday I've dropped 3 pounds. I frequently have days where my weight varies as much as 8 pounds due to water, food, etc.

I think of it like a stock ticker, lots of little ups and downs, but overall I want it to be down.

If you had a good day of food/exercise, and you weight goes up a pound I think you can feel confident that you did not add a pound of fat to your belly.
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That is an excellent way of thinking, Thanks.
My weight can fluctuate about 3 pounds during the day, it is the lowest in the morning right when I wake up and have "taken care of business" lol. I am sure I an just stuck here for now and when I finally goes down it will be a big drop, that has happened to me before.
 
Hey K
I think that you are doing great!!!
Definately you need to up your cals. You are sending your body the message to hold on to its stores cuz' it's not getting enough "energy" in.
Also make sure to be drinking water. Believe it or not your body holds all the water too. So by NOT drinking water it won't release any. Once it feels that it is going to be replenished all the time it will let go of its stores as well.
I myself am also a daily weigher. Though I tend to not let myself get discouraged by the number.
I use it as a tool. If it is a bit high one morning I think about what I ate/drank the day before. Did I eat something with a high salt content, did I maybe miss out on my water.
And remember as you build muscles your metabolism will go up. But also muscle weighs more than fat. And it may take a bit for that to level out.
I use to do a job where I lifted 30-40-50 pound boxes all day for 10 hours. Prior to that job I had NO MUSCLE!! The only thing I ever did at my job was push paper.
It took me 3 months of doing that physical labor job before I saw one pound lost by the scale. Because I was building muscle mass at the same time that I was losing fat.
So don't get discourged!
You have already made huge accomplishments. Your not allowing yourself to slide back and your taking charge of your health.
Embrace that and you WILL succeed!!!!
Have a great day!!!
By the way how is yor grama doing?
 
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