Mel's Diary: The journey to goal

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bluestarlight19

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Hi,

I told my story in the new comer area. This is where I want to keep track of things.

My diet has been awful lately.

Breakfast: 2 bowls of cereal or 2 eggs and 2 pieces of toast.
Lunch: spinach and tomato salad, topped with some chedder cheese, plus a sandwhich.
Snack: varies from candybar to an apple.
Dinner: whatever is hanging around

Usually I am so hungry by the time i get home that I inhale half the kitchen before dinner is done. Then I eat dinner anyways because I don't want it to go to waste. I know I doing it because of stress, I just need to break the back of it to get on track. I'm also trying to find motivation to work out in front of my boyfriend. I don't like working out in front of people. The only options I have at home are 3,5,8,10lb weights and an exercise bike. The floor is too thin to do any bouncing around.

Once the weather stops being so snowy around here, I have the perfect walking route home from work that is 3.3 miles. That should be good to get me started. Once I get into that, I plan on biking to and from. Its very hilly too, that should make it a little challenging.

I can't really join a gym, money is very tight right now.

Ok, I'm going to suck it up and do something tonight. Even if its as small as not eating until dinner pops out of the oven. :)
 
Hello!

Happy to have found your diary. I think this is a wonderful place to share your journey. I'm starting out at 27 ... I'm just taking it one moment at a time. Eating is my biggest challenge. I love take-aways, and MEXICAN food! I've become curious about my weakness, and have decided to educate myself. I'm actually learning what a portion size is. It's alot smaller than I thought.

I don't have any tips for exercising. Maybe you can do pilates. You don't really need any equipment, just an exercise mat. It's not really cardio, but it can help tone up your muscles until it becomes spring. :)

Best of luck,
Amy
 
Hi, thanks for responding! :eek: I have done pilates before. I like some videos and not others. I haven't done any in a long time though, so that is worth checking out.

I know about the food thing. I need to relearn my portion sizes as well, some how they have gotten larger over the past few months :banghead:. My weakness is things with chocolate. So basically I get that sugar rush and want more. If I behave myself it gets easier to control, but i've been pretty bad with it the last few months. 1 cookie leads to half a box.

I actually did really good today. I made myself not eat until dinner. lol, I made walking tacos. I should probably get low fat cheese and sour cream for them next time, but i'm just proud i haven't eaten extra things tonight.

I'm going to look into a food diary. Either online or printed. Something to just write down what i'm eating and when so i can try and pick up a pattern. I'm going to buy a scale this weekend, a weighing one and a food scale plus measuring cups. I don't even know how much i've gained yet:svengo:

I'm going walking tomorrow. It should be warm enough. Its right after I get out of work so i have no excuse and can't stop or turn around until i get home. Its 3.3 miles.

I know, I can't wait for spring either. Or at least more daylight in the afternoon. I can handle 30 degree weather, I just don't like dark streets (side affect from used to living in a not so nice city area) creeps me out.

I also want to figure out how to make those neat ticker things.

My goal weight when i did weight watchers was to be 150lbs since I'm 5'7.

When I was exercising and committed before, I got more enthusiasum from completing fitness goals over physical shape/weight loss goals though. Before I fell off the wagon I was working on being able to do a walk for MS in september. It was something like 50 miles over 3 days on the cape. I would have to raise money but being in shape would be a requisite as well. Maybe I should reinstate that goal to motivate myself? I will think about that. I should set up mini goals.

Wow, its late and now I'm babbling but I'm getting into it again. I don't want to do too much too fast though so i will stick with the basics of controlling extra eating, getting the scales and measuring equipment for next week. :) Ok, bed time!
 
getting into gear

ok. Got the scale. Says my start point is 193lbs. That is 13lbs heavier than I was 3 months ago. I also got a planner to use as a food diary...unfortunately it was a 2008 planner :banghead: not sure how that happened. I logged some food items in today but I succummed to a craving and ate about 8 oreo cookies and a marshmellow chocolate thingy. PMS is not helping the chocolate craving at the moment. I made my self stop though, and change gears. I jumped into the shower instead of eating more and now i'm going to bed soon.

I haven't been sleeping well lately, for the past week or so. Having weird dreams but it makes me drag ass at work all day. Survived with morning coffee which i don't normally do. However, I made it through my second walk of the week, and I even jogged some of it. I may get a more jogger friendly backpack, but it didn't help that I had stuffed my winter coat in it because it was so nice and warm out :)

then I went food shopping. Bought all kinds of fresh foods. I usually eat salads for lunch anyways, its the easiest thing to prep before hand. I have taken to wraps as well. I cut my wrap in half, then eat half at lunch with my salad and half on the way home along with some no sugar added motts applesauce and a protein bar. that seems to have been helping my hunger drive a little on the way home from work.

I would like to work in some weight training but the weekend looks to be a bit hecktic with random time being spent all over the place. We shall see. So far, so good :)
 
firstly welcome to the forum :)

there is plenty of exercises you can do with the small selection of weights you have :)
 
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