Kraem's Weight Loss Journal

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Kraemder

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Just weighed myself in at 203 lbs. Ideally, I should be about 175 lbs I think. So that's 28 lbs to lose. I avidly study Japanese and I started and have maintained a language studying journal on a website that hosts that sort of thing. I think it's fun motivates me to keep at it when I might otherwise get distracted by something else and lose focus. It struck me that I could do the same thing for weight loss - I post a little to Facebook but really, my Facebook friends aren't -that- interested in reading about my struggle to lose weight every day. So I did a quick search and found this site. I think it'll be fun writing and reading other people's journals. Just like studying languages, this is really a challenge and takes a lot of will power and dedication.

The first two big things I need to change are not eating at the local hospital where they serve huge portions of delicious food for $4.50. The second thing to do is stop drinking beer. And the third is to increase my exercise as much as possible and control my eating in general otherwise but the first two should be big. I have gained 13 lbs about since I started eating at that hospital last summer. That includes a month or so where I was getting a lot of exercise, running 6+ miles 5 or 6 times a week and doing some weight lifting too. I can't do that now because my knee acted up and it's really frustrating. It takes more discipline to work out indoors on some boring machine I think.

I'm actually pretty excited about this weight loss journal because I really enjoy the Japanese one. I look forward to bragging about my success and reading about other people doing their best to do lose weight and or exercise more too.
 
I had to repost that a couple times and forgot a few things I wanted to blog the 3rd time. The last time I successfully dieted was when I was 35 and just started a Japanese class and there was a really cute girl in the class whom I liked. It provided all kinds of motivation as it has in the past if I'm trying to impress a girl. Unfortunately there's no girl (specifically) this time, but I want to brag and on this forum so that might be as good? I think I was losing around 2 lbs a week although I didn't keep a diary it might have been more or less depending. I tried to eat as much low fat food as possible - IE salad. I avoided beer drinking it like once a month and when I did eat fat food I kept the portions low. I didn't cheat more than once per week and might have gone some weeks without cheating. I'm hoping to duplicate that success again. The weight stayed off for a while. It gradually came back and hovered around 192 or so for the last year and then I started going to the hospital as mentioned above. That hospital has been killing me. Their food is too delicious and they give you too much.
 
Welcome aboard!

The beer was one of my biggest stumbling blocks as well, though it really was only an obstacle during the last part of a very long journey. I'm still looking to lose 10 more pounds myself, but since quitting the beer I seem to be on my way.

Not sure I've ever heard of a hospital being renowned for great food, but I guess you found one.

Good luck and keep us updated.
 
im going to be so sad tomorrow if I actually manage not to go to the hospital. It would be the first time ever.
 
Kraemder said:
im going to be so sad tomorrow if I actually manage not to go to the hospital. It would be the first time ever.
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I went to the hospital. Initially, I was going to buy a salad in the break room but someone else got tot it first. I then went to the hospital and it was burger day. They serve huge burgers. Two good size patties with cheese plus bacon plus more special cheese/sauce and fries. Amazing. I forced myself to eat just half and then finished the 2nd half tonight for dinner. So that's less food than I would normally eat but I'll have to discipline myself not to eat anything else tonight and even then, I wouldn't call this a success. I don't think it's possible to lose weight eating that burger with those fries even if you split it up into two meals. I looked hard at the salad bar at the hospital but I am not that disciplined. I will have to get a salad somewhere else and eat somewhere else instead. If I have to go to the grocery store then I'm doing that. You could call this the salad for lunch diet. That's the goal.
 
I'm pretty sure I gained weight when I was staying in the hospital with my mom for several days. The food was incredibly cheap and really good. I thought for sure before I went that it would be easy to stay on track because who wants to eat hospital food, right? WRONG. It was really good. haha!

I look forward to reading your journal. Welcome to the forum! :)
 
Yeah you wouldn't think good cheap food and hospitals go together but they do. I guess they can't serve doctors bad food after all. Or sick patients. Well I've managed not to eat any snacks or anything tonight just a little tea. Ideally I'd go to bed a little hungry to lose weight. I am a little hungry so maybe today isn't as bad as I feel. But man. That burger. I should have taken a picture.
 
Every time I've had hospital food it's been awful :/. But I'm glad you found something you enjoyed. Try adding lentils or other beans to your final meal and see if that helps combat some hunger. You'll find a good balance that won't even seem like you're trying soon enough. Hang in there!
 
Well I managed to avoid the hospital but we had a pizza party with cookies to celebrate people leaving my team at work for promotions. And so I ate pizza and cookies. Today was fail but it was a one time special occasion. I'm not worried about pizza party's happening too often and throwing me off. But I started this journal and haven't made much progress yet, which is disappointing. Tomorrow should be easy. It being the weekend I can relax and there won't be stress so less desire for fatty food and no hospital.
 
I just got back from my work trip to Virginia Beach. It was fun overall but I got sick the 2nd week thanks to the people from San Diego coughing up a storm next to me in class. I think I got bronchitis. I might have lost a pound over the two weeks I'm not sure I'll have to weigh myself a couple times.. While I was in Virginia Beach I got an email at my work email address informing us that the Hospital was closing until further notice. I don't know the why or how but that's GREAT news for my waist. This is going to be so much easier to follow through in terms of losing weight now. I'm feeling rather motivated to work out and diet right now except I sort of have bronchitis. It seems to be getting better now as opposed to getting worse and I've started exercising some but I'm basically doing 1/2 workouts or even 1/3 workouts. I don't want it to backfire on me. And I'm not really dieting either - I've heard that you feed a cold and I hate being sick so I'm eating. But I'm trying to eat healthy stuff. I had Japanese last night and campbell's soup (with extra rice) and cereal and a chicken sandwich. No fries or soda or anything. But a lot of Orange juice - I know that stuff has calories and drinking a carton a day isn't something I'd normally do.
 
Tonight I weighed in at 197.3 lbs. That's after jogging (and drinking some juice) but still after exercise so maybe not so accurate. Still lower than the 203 lbs above. I did have two hotdogs for lunch but just a half a piece of pizza for dinner.. well I've had worse days as far as the diet goes. Hard to say if I managed to lose any weight including the jogging. I also ordered the Apple watch. A friend at work has it and she seems to like it. The big thing I like is the heart rate monitor. I can tell from the few times I've used one that it really helps you get the most out of a workout. An exercise bike at a gym I used to go to ages ago had one that worked on it - you just grabbed the handle bars and the sensors were in the handlebars. The cycling computer for my street bicycle has one (if I can find it) but it goes around your chest and well, when I put it on I just felt fat. I think I weighed about 205/210ish at the time so roughly the same and I would get the same feeling again. The apple watch is really stylish (opposite of feeling fat) and much less of a hassle to use. I think it'll be worth it. The apple pay feature will be fun too. Unfortunately they're back ordered through July. I wasn't expecting that. I was half expecting it to be a failure haha.
 
I weighed in at 200.6 lbs just now. It's the middle of the day so probably a more accurate reading of my normal weight. 197.3 sounded better though. I got some anti-biotics from my doctor - I've been sick for 2 weeks now and it didn't seem to be going away. It's easy to go easy on yourself doing a workout if you're coughing etc. Probably even a good idea so I hope it goes away soon. 2nd day on antibiotics.. still coughing so it's still there but maybe it's less? I plan to do a harder workout than I've done recently. Eating habit wise.. I'm doing better than I had been. Eliminating the hospital food is huge I think. Going back to work so full my stomach hurt some just can't be good for the waistline. I'm not eating terribly healthy however. I have worked in salad some as my lunch but as mentioned I've also had hotdogs. After work I often get pizza. The Whole Foods is right near where I live and it's yummy so that's hard to eliminate. But I'm eating smaller portions. Sort of. Before if I got two slices I would always finish, even if I weren't hungry. Now I'm using some common sense - if I'm full then I put it in the fridge for later. However, I think I need to consciously think to do that before I start eating since I'm still over eating some I think compared to what I could be doing - it's good that I didn't eat two whole slices yesterday but I probably could have been good with just one slice (or 3/4 of a slice) instead of 1 and a 1/2 slices. They're big slices.
 
I haven't been too serious about the weight loss but I still think about it a lot. I'll check my weight tomorrow and post it. I'm hoping its power than my previous post haha. I ordered a gadget scale on Amazon. I was talking to a friend at work and she somehow knows about all gadgets and well I found out they have scales that wirelessly hook up to your smart phone and log your weight in an app so can totally track your weight day to day easily and over time. I ordered it for a hundred bucks. Yeah it's s lot for a scale but I'm kind of excited.
 
I got the scale this weekend. It took a week to get shipped from the east coast by ground and I wish I had paid the extra shipping because I used that as an excuse not to diet last week. But I have it now and it sends the weight to the app on my phone as promised and I plan on weighing myself every day. It has some sort of target weight and makes a date I think of when I can achieve it by losing the maximum 1.3 lbs per week. I'd rather go for 2 lbs per week but the app doesn't support that. 1.3 is really good though but I'll hope I'll out perform it. Probably not but I hope. The hospital cafeteria is back in business but I've stayed away from them for a while now and lost a couple of lbs and stopped gaining weight. I have to be strong and not go there. Omg so delicious. Need to think how attractive girls will think I am if I lose this weight... Think of the girls.. =).
 
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