Michelles Journey to a new world

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Hey everyone! My name is Michelle, I am 17 years old, and a senior at my high school. I am 5'2 and weigh 158 pounds. My goal is to get down to 120 pounds, then I'll see how I look and feel then, and if I want to get down lower, my new goal will be 110 pounds. I've dieted so many times before, last year, at the beginning of my junior year, I weighed my lowest weight ever of 119 pounds (but my body wasn't very toned back then and still had quite a big of fat on it, but this time I plan on toning up as well as loosing weight) but the holidays took it's toll on me last year, and ever since then I've tried "getting back on the wagon) but failing so many times and just end up binging, and as a result I;ve gained alot of weight, and now I realize it is time for me to stop that! This time I'm going to stick to a healhy eating and exercise plan and finally getting this weight off for good! One of my goals is to reach 125-130 pounds by March because I want to be in my schools track team, and I won't be able to do that with all this extra weight on me. My diet plan is to eat 3 healthy meals a day and at least one snack if I feel like I need it. I'm also not going to restrict myself so much this time, one of my problems is when I start "dieting" I restrict myself to much, thinking I can't have this or that, and thats also something that has to stop. My fitness plan is go to run 3 to 4 miles on my school track 3 days a week, and to either go to the gym I'm registered at (Bally Total Fitness) or to go to my schools weight room twice a week if I can't make it to the gym (my school weight room is only open from 2:10 to 3:10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so my workout will be kind of limited if I go there, but it's still better than nothing) I don't have any exercise planned for today, because it's raining outside where I live and my dad is watching football so he doesn't want to take me to the gym, and Sundays are usually my days off anyway, so next week I'm going to be consistent with my eating and exercise :) Food so far today:

Breakfast: 1 packet of regular quaker oatmeal with splenda, and half of a banana, and 1 cup of coffee with splenda
Lunch: breakfast barritto on a high fiber, whole wheat tortilla, scrambled eggs, a sprinkling of pepporini, a sprinkling of mexican cheese, and salsa, 3 prange wedges, and 4 pear slices
Snack: Planning on having an apple later on
Dinner: Going to be a bowl of homeade turkey soup, and a fat free mochachino pudding cup
Overall a great day as far as nutrition, I just wish I could get in some exercise along with it. Oh well, tomorrows another day :) If you all have some advice for me please don't be afraid to state it, I'm always open to advice and suggestions :)
 
Hi Michelle..welcome to the boards.

DO NOT LOOK at this as a diet. This is a lifestyle change. If you diet, then you do it for a while and then go back to old habits. Where does that get you? 1 year later - regretting it and starting over?

This is your lifestyle change for the better. That does not mean you cant have a holiday meal, but have one a week. Allow yourself that 1 cheat meal each week but then that is it. Stay clean the rest of the time. Of course this is also life and well sometimes life also gets in the way. But get back going in the right direction as fast as you can if that happens.

Also - make sure in your breakfast you have some protien. You do not have any listed with the oatmeal, banana, and coffee. You need some sort of protien to help you along.

GOOD LUCK! I look forward to following your journey. Remember to take it ONE MEAL AT A TIME!!!!

Traci:seeya:
 
Thanks alot!! I know your right, I'm trying not to look at this as a "diet" but it's just kind of hard not to sometimes...And as far as the protein in my oatmeal, I always put some milk in it, so doesn't milk cound as protein? If not, what other things could I have with it that has protein in it?
 
Put in some protien powder into your oatmeal or eat some hard boiled eggs minus the yolk - you can also search the recipes for other suggestions. Milk really is not the protein your looking for.
 
Alright, I'll keep those in mind, but I don;t know if I can eat just egg whites, to me eggs aren't worth eating if I can't have the yolk. I don't have any protein powder, do you know where I can get some? My food kind of changed tonight, I didn't eat that apple because I didn't feel hungry, but for dinner I had homeade turkey soup, 1 small piece of garlic bread, and a fat free machachino chocolate pudding cup (60 cals) So today was quite a nutritious day, except for the garlic bread. It definitly fit into my calories for the day, it just wasn't very nutritious. I loooooove garlic bread though, it's very hard for me to refuse. Ughhhh I'm dreading going to school tomorrow, I have some assisgnments that I'm procrastinating on doing because I just don't feel like it, but I know I have to if I want good grades and want to get into a good college. I just hate doing homework lol. Well guys I'm off for the rest of the night, I'll report on my day and my food and exercise tomorrow :)
 
Hey everyone! Well today has been great as far as food goes and ok as far as exercise goes...I was going to either run the track or go to my schools weight room after school to work out, but it's been raining nonstop where I live these past couple of days and the track was way to slippery to run (and it was still raining) and the weight room was closed today because our power went out at my school during 6th period, my school has backup generators but the weight room was still closed :( But, I did get a good workout during P.E, we played a game called "Vegas" where the whole class forms a circle and a deck of cards is in the middle. Somebody has to pick a card, and whatever physical activity that the card says, we have to do, and if somebody pulls a Joker, the next card is double, and if somebody slacks off during an activity, then the next card is double. We had to do alot of running, frog jumps (where you get all the down to the ground and jump up again just like a frog) bear crawls, pushups, crunches, so it was a good workout. What doesn't make any sense to me is I can run 3 to 4 miles relatively comfortably, but it's those kinds of activitys that totally ware me out, definitly something to work on. I absolutly can't stand my P.E. teacher!! He called me out in front of the class because I had a hard time doing the frog jumps..He's a jerk...Lol sorry for the little "mini rant" Anyway here is my food so far...

Breakfast, regular quaker oatmeal w/vanilla soymilk, splenda, half of a banana, and a cup of green tea w/splenda.

Lunch: Turkey sandwhich on poppysead bread w/mustard, onions, and pickles. 1 small green apple

Snack: 1 pear

Dinner: Going to a burger w/ ground beef, an onion bun, mustard, onions, lettuce, and tomatos, a small handful of seasond fries (baked)

Dessert: My dads going to make homeade chocolate shakes...I'm deciding whether I should avoid it all together or just have a really small amount of it...What do you guys think?

I hope everyones having an awesome day! :)
 
Yeah Michelle, I totally hear you on the rain, because even though I go to the YMCA, I really hate to drive in it. It's been pretty rainy these last couple of days, too.

There's lots of stuff you can do at home, though. Ski jumpers are good for your legs and butt-you jump sideways and land in a crouch, jump to the middle and land in a crouch, jump the other direction and land in a crouch...you get the idea. Mountain climbers, too. Pretty much anything they do boot camp style is going to give you some major results.

I play a game with myself during the day that if I catch myself watching a TV commercial, I do crunches or modified pushups until it's over (I'm too much of a pansy for real pushups yet. My upper body strength sucks!)

That Vegas game sounds similar to one that I play on my own with pushups and crunches. I have to do the number on the card, ten if it's a face card, double if it's a joker and I get a break if it's an ace. It's a pretty fun way to exercise. :)

Good luck!
 
Hey everyone! Thanks alot for posting Maverick. Yeah the doing different exercies while watching tv commercials is a good idea, I never even thought of that lol. Well food and exercise has been good today, again I didn't get to exercise after school today because I'm in my schools Select Choir and we have rehersal from 2:10 to 3:00 after school Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and I would have ran the track or gone to the weight room after that, but my dad is going somewhere at 4:30 today and he has to pick me up so he wanted to pick me up right at 3:00 today, however in P.E. we walked around the school for the entire period (indoors) and it was a decent workout because we had to do w brisk walk and we walked up a bunch of stairs, so that definitly got my heart pumping, and of course the majority of my class was yelling at all of the "fast walkers" to slow down, but of course we didn't :) Right now, I'm having a particulary "hungry" day, I just got done having a snack (an apple) but I still feel hunger pangs, maybe to keep me from snacking on something bad, I'll have an earlier dinner. Man I hate these kinds of days, I feel like I want to eat all the junk I can get my hands on, but that definitly needs to stop :) Food for today:

Breakfast: 2 pieces of whole wheat toast w/ 1 tablespoon of peanut butter, 1 cup of green tea w/splenda.

Lunch: Teriaki dippers, brown rice, steamed peas and carrots

Snack: Apple

Dinner: Going to be leftover shrimp fajitas from my favorite mexica restaurant, I'm just going to eat the shrimp and vegetables, and a small portion of rice and beans

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I want some chocolate sooooooooooo bad!!! Man if only there wasn't some in the house!
 
Ok I totally suck!!! Last night I gave in to my sugar cravings and had a bunch of chocolate candy (mini reeses, kisses, mini hershey bars,) a bowl of ice cream, and I also had some chips with my dinner as well....Man now I feel totally awful and I regret that I did it, I really feel sick and lethargic, I don't even feel like doing anything lol. Oh and I also went to a sleepover last night with some friends and I had a few regular pringles and multi grain crackers. Ughhh what in the world is wrong with me? Well today is DEFINITLY going to be better than yesterday, and I know I won't be binging anymore, this just reminded me of how terrible I feel when I do :) Food so far:

Breakfast: 2 pieces of multi grain toast w/ t tablespoon of natural peanut butter, 1 cup of coffee w/splenda
 
Hey, don't worry about it. Relapse happens. It's only worse around the holidays, because there's all that darned junk food and candy hanging around waiting to be scarfed.

Ugh, peanut butter and toast is my favorite. I may have to have that for lunch today...:D

All you can do is put it behind you and try to do better today. After all, yesterday doesn't even exist anymore. There's only today and the illusion of tomorrow. ;)
 
Hey everyone! Well, I've had a [retty crappy couple of days as far as eating goes...All I'm gonna say is I ate a bunch of junk and sweets that I shouldn't have and now I am kickung myself in the butt for it...But I am back on the horse now and I am gonna be consistent this time :) And I was gonna weigh in this Sunday, but I think I shall wait till next Sunday..lol

Breakfast: 2 slices of whole wheat bread w/ 1 tablespoon of peanut butter, 1 cup of green tea w/splenda

Lunch: Gonna be leftover shrimp primevera from the Olive Garden

Snack: Gonna be a pear

Dinner: TBA
 
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