muddy's trip to healthyville

[muddy2533]

Well this is my first post/thread about my goal to lose weight. I decided to join this place after reading through some of the different threads. Not only is it a good place to keep track of what I've ate, how much I've exercised, the community is so kind and supportive and know what I will be going through. So I did not hesitate to sign up right away to. Even if nobody reads this, it's nice to know I'm in a group of people who are working hard to make their lives better.

Anyways, I'll introduce myself:

I'm Muddy (college nickname.) I'm a 24 year old female. I am a grad school student at the University of Alabama.

I currently weigh 190.6 lbs. Do I feel that big? No. But I know I've gained the weight. Pounds don't mean that much to me honestly; I've always weighed more than my friends but fit in clothes quite nicely. But now I'm feeling the unhealthy side affects of weighing too much and that scares me. I'm 24, I don't need to be having heart problems.

So I'm going to start losing weight, get in shape. It will be hard; it's summer and I have a fun social life with friends (this basically means food and alcohol.) I also live with my boyfriend who can eat whatever he pleases (darn men ) and not gain any weight. But I am dedicated and fed up with were I am. I'm tired of being the fattest person in the room; it's time to change that.


Luckily I have already been working out with a personal trainer. I will start up again this week (have missed the last two weeks due to a week at the beach and a week in NOLA for my best friend's wedding... which means no exercise and lots of food.)


I look forward to keeping track of what I eat on this. I think that will truly help me make sure I don't let my portions and calories, etc get out of whack.


Here's to me and to all of y'all that are on this journey to a good life with me.




-Muddy

Starting weight: 190.6 lbs
Goal weight: 150 lbs

Amount lost: 0 lbs

 

[muddy2533]

Day 1: June 17, 2010

Today was my first true day on my new life to eating healthy. Everything went pretty well. It's not easy to start cutting out good food; I feel like a bit like I've went withdrawl... I was eating great food recently: my boyfriend's amazing homecooked meals, beach food, wedding food. Not that eating healthy necessarily tastes bad, but it doesn't compete against stir fry or fried chicken.


Started back up with my workout trainer. It feels so good to do some exercise again; and he really knows how to kick my butt. I went for 40 minutes and will be going again tomorrow.

Here's what I had for food today:

Breakfast: Oatmeal with Protein Powder 240
Snack: TCBY small NSA vanilla yogurt 130
Lunch: Veggie Pizza 450
Snack: Pistachios (45) 160
Dinner: Chicken and Small Salad 400
Total: 1380

Not bad. Add in the fact that I had a hard work out and I probably clock in around 1280 to 1250 calories for the day. I'm pretty satisfied.


-Muddy

Starting weight: 190.6
Goal weight: 150
Lost: 0

 

[ecky1]

Hi, Now's the time to do it while you are still young. I have been overweight since before I was 30, over 20 years, and have missed out on doing so many things over the years. I'm now about 10lbs off being in the normal weight range and can do so much more than before. I'm planning a parachute jump with my kids which I would never have considered while fat as I would have been too embarrassed. What I'm trying to say is if you do it now your future life will be so much more fun

 

[muddy2533]

Hi, Now's the time to do it while you are still young. I have been overweight since before I was 30, over 20 years, and have missed out on doing so many things over the years. I'm now about 10lbs off being in the normal weight range and can do so much more than before. I'm planning a parachute jump with my kids which I would never have considered while fat as I would have been too embarrassed. What I'm trying to say is if you do it now your future life will be so much more fun

Thanks for being my first person to reply!

Though I think eating right and exercising can be done at any age, I certainly know it's much easier when you are younger (just getting into shape now is so much more difficult than it was when I was 20!!) I also know it's very easy to develop poor habits than can really hurt you in the long run - my grandfather had to have a triple heart bypass surgery in his early 50s. I can't afford to do that, I need to start now.

I'm so glad you are going to go do something you were previously too embarrassed to do! That's a totally wonderful feeling, finally finding the confidence to conquer something you wanted to do but didn't feel like you could. I would love to hear what it's like; one of the things I wanna do before I die is parachute!

 

[muddy2533]

Day 2 - June 18, 2010

Today was pretty rough. Even as I'm writing this I am actually quite hungry. It's rough to cut out so many calories out of what I was eating and also be doing some intense exercise for 30-40 minutes 3-4 times a week. I also didn't sleep very well (my kitty keeps jumping up on my stomach a couple of times a night wanting cuddles, which I can't deny her); I also had to do an 1 1/2 of tutoring in a house that felt extremely hot to me.

Anyways, just an all around long, tiring day. But it's almost over and I stuck to my diet even though I have watched quite a few delicious food commercials and wedding shows (gotta love wedding food.) I can also feel my craving for Mexican food coming on. I'm going to try to make a Potato and Jalapeno soup tomorrow that I got of fitness.com to get my spicy Mexican fix. Not quite chips and salsa with cheese dip, but it's going to have to do. I'm going to HAVE to find something healthy that's Mexican flavored because I can't go very long without Mexican food... I literally have to have it once a week.


What I am really looking forward to is waking up and going to the farmer's market in the morning with my boyfriend. Nothing beats fresh veggies and fruits, and you get really great deals at these places. I think having all of it in my kitchen will help beat some of my food blues away.


Here's what I had to eat today:
Day 2 - 6/18/10 Calories
Breakfast: Oatmeal with Protein Powder 240
Lunch: Chicken and Small Salad 400
Snack: Pistachios (45) 160
Dinner: Veggie Pizza 450
Snack: Low Fat Yogurt 170
Total: 1420

Not bad as I did a really rough workout today... Oh I can feel the soreness kicking in, I'm going to be hurting tomorrow. So I probably came out around 1350 to 1300 calories for the day. Not bad if I do say so myself.


Now I'm off to drink lots of water (thankfully basically the only thing I like to drink except lovely alcohol/wine) to fill up my stomach's emptiness.


-Muddy

Starting Weight: 190.6
Goal Weight: 150
Amount lost: 0

Next weigh in: June 24th

 

[ecky1]

Actually I think in some ways it is more difficult when you are young as you probably have a lot more of a social life than I do. My 20 year old daughter is dieting as well but has to deal with a lot more temptation than I do as her friends are always out for meals and drinking alcohol etc and she finds it really challenging to resist whereas I mostly eat at home and don't come across so many temptations. I'm really proud of her as she has now lost about 25 lbs and has just gone into a 'normal' weight range. The point I was really trying to make is if you go up instead of down you could end up missing out on so many things later on. You sound like you are totally on the right track.

Though I think eating right and exercising can be done at any age, I certainly know it's much easier when you are younger

 

[muddy2533]

Actually I think in some ways it is more difficult when you are young as you probably have a lot more of a social life than I do. My 20 year old daughter is dieting as well but has to deal with a lot more temptation than I do as her friends are always out for meals and drinking alcohol etc and she finds it really challenging to resist whereas I mostly eat at home and don't come across so many temptations. I'm really proud of her as she has now lost about 25 lbs and has just gone into a 'normal' weight range. The point I was really trying to make is if you go up instead of down you could end up missing out on so many things later on. You sound like you are totally on the right track.

Thanks

And you're right, temptation is around every corner here if you want to keep up a social life as a young adult and be healthy. My friends and I meet up for food and alcohol; that's our get together. And it's usually Mexican food - my weakness, and I have a hard time staying away from a gallon of salsa and a load of chips. But I've already armed myself with what I will do, and I can tell my friends ahead of time to help make sure I don't go overboard. Great friends do that for you.... Though it will be hard to see them have 2-3 margaritas while I drink my water


Luckily I have found now that I'm almost 25 that my desire to drink till the sun comes up has largely diminished. I recently had a friend's bacherlorette party on Bourbon Street and I suffered all the next day. What happened to the days where I could drink for 6 hours and be fine? Those are long gone.


Your daughter has done an amazing job. At 20 is when I blew up in weight (from lots of drinking/late night food sessions.) Losing 25 pounds is totally amazing, and it's so cool y'all can share the experience together. I hope that me losing weight can help inspire my mother (also my best friend) to do it as well. You and her are an inspiration!

 

[muddy2533]

Yum

Okay so I just made the Potato and Jalapeno Soup (Recipe: Potato and Jalapeno Soup - Fitness.com) and I am veryyyy happy with what I created. It is so yummy and incredibly filling. I didn't even have that much but with all that potato you get really full. There's nothing better than eating something that's filling and tastes really great.

I did have to add some extra tabasco because I like my meals really spicy. With some tabasco thrown in boy it was great.


I've been going through the fitness recipes list and have been bookmarking the ones I will try out. I also cooked a beef vegetables mexican stew tonight in my crockpot that I will try out later when I get hungry again. I will have to decide what next to cook!


I very much enjoyed going to the farmer's market with my boyfriend and getting fresh veggies - though next time I will have to wake up earlier than 9:30 because the fresh fruit sells out around 8:30.


Anyways, if anybody is a spicy lover like I am give this healthy but tastey soup a try. It's not hard to do at all and I have a large amount of leftover.

 

[muddy2533]

Day 3 - June 19, 2010

Well day 3 was accomplished quite easily. As with my previous post I made a pretty damn healthy potato soup that was delicious and very filling. My food diary definitely reflects my enjoyment of it.


Tomorrow's Father's Day and my family is cooking out hamburgers for it. I'm going to have to exercise beforehand and then make healthy decisions when it comes to the meal. I know I will already forgo the bun, which helps cut out probably 100 something calories and goodness knows how many carbs. No mayo, only ketchup, and that's another couple of calories too. I will have to see what else my family is making to try and be good. This will be my first "test" I guess you could say of eating well in a social situation.



Anyways, today I didn't exercise too much. My love and I walked to the store and back for the few additional items I needed for my soup and stew. That was probably about 1 to 1 1/4 of a mile. So although I didn't technically do a full on workout, I still got in some movement.


My food for today:

Day 3 - 6/19/10 Calories
Breakfast: Oatmeal with Protein Powder 240
Lunch: Potato and Jalapeno Soup 324
Snack: Pistachios (45) 160
Dinner: Potato and Jalapeno Soup 324
Snack: Low Fat Yogurt 170
Total: 1218


All in all, not too bad. I was so much less hungry today compared to yesterday, thanks to not having a hard workout. I would say, considering I walked for over a mile, I probably clock in around 1195 or so. Not bad at all.


Now let us see if I can get off my butt and get into the gym tomorrow. I'm still pretty sore, and the idea of running does not appeal to me right now. However I just uploaded some new tunes onto my ipod and that usually psyches me up to exercise too. I'm also going to have my boyfriend try to push me out the door and get some workout in as well; that helps as well.

Hope everybody has a great night!

-Muddy

Starting Weight: 190.6
Goal Weight: 150
Amount lost: 0

Next weigh in: June 24th

 

[muddy2533]

Well first let me say Happy Father's Day to any Dad's out there!

I did an okay job with eating for our celebration of it. I had a burger on lettuce with tomato and just ketchup. I had a three devil's eggs (my weakness), and some chips with baked beans on top. Even this meal wasn't so bad, it was the dessert where all the calories packed on.

My stepdad made homemade vanilla ice cream drool5 in his new ice cream maker and by gosh it was worth every calorie and possible set back it gave me. God it was SOOOOO good, and I don't even like ice cream. And I did semi-okay in the regards of eating dessert by not having my own bowl; I actually shared mine with my boyfriend. That's a positive as usually I would make a HUGE bowl for myself and dig right in without sharing. We split the bowl 50/50. That's something, or I tell myself so I don't feel too guilty I suppose.


Anyways, my boy and I did go on a walk beforehand to try and combat some of the calories in this meal. We walked for about twenty minutes around a park that's rather hilly so I think that probably helped with allowing me to eat one or two bites of that ice cream and that's it hahaha

Here's my diet for the day, I did a bit of a guess with the calories for the dinner. It's an educated guess and I could be close or way off, but it's hard to count calories when I have no hand in the making of the food.


Day 4 - 6/20/10 Calories
Lunch: Beef and Vegetable Stew 400
Snack: Low Fat Yogurt 170
Dinner: Father's Day 950
Total: 1520


-Muddy

Starting Weight: 190.6
Goal Weight: 150
Amount lost: 0

Next weigh in: June 24th

 

[ecky1]

Well done on not eating like crazy at the meal. It is so easy to give in on days like that. You were absolutely right to have some dessert or you would have felt deprived and I always found the one thing that has made me give up on a diet in the past was because I felt resentful about not being able to eat certain things especially at special occasions.
Keep it up , you're doing great

 

[muddy2533]

Well done on not eating like crazy at the meal. It is so easy to give in on days like that. You were absolutely right to have some dessert or you would have felt deprived and I always found the one thing that has made me give up on a diet in the past was because I felt resentful about not being able to eat certain things especially at special occasions.
Keep it up , you're doing great

Thank you so much


You are very kind to keep cheering me on.


Well diary, I have to be honest to you if I am going to do this the right way. I stayed up way later last night than I meant too. I didn't go to bed to about 1:30 AM. Poor boyfriend is mildly lactose intolerant and the ice cream he had with me yesterday made him very ill. So I didn't want to go to bed until he felt alot better... Problem is, we ate a pretty early dinner, around 6, so 7 hours later I was quite starving.


So I had some of my soup. Do I feel guilty about that? Sort of, I hate eating later than 8 or 9. But I was starving, and for once my late night snacking consisted of something healthy. Usually I hop in the car and go get some late night fast food because it's very convenient with the 20 places right around me. So I'm disappointed I ended up eating, but I'm also happy I did it with something healthy.

Tonight I shouldn't have that problem. I'll be going to bed around 11:30 to 12, and I will also eat much later.


Time to start the day. Gotta finish the HW before my class starts today.

 

[muddy2533]

Day 5 - June 21, 2010

Well today has been both good and bad. I got a bill from Comcast that completely took me by surprise: over $300 is due by July 5th. I have no idea where this amount comes from, and I will call them tomorrow to see what is up with it. I always pay on time so I can't believe that the cost of moving to a new apartment would run me over $150. That's just absolutely unacceptable; especially when Comcast never told me of any fees in moving cable/internet.

Anyways, the reason why I bitch about this is that my boy said maybe tonight would be a good night to just relax, have a date, and go get some Mexican food. So that's what we did. Yeah, probably not that great to get a big meal after Father's Day but overall I didn't do too bad I think. I had basically nothing to eat today as I was busy all day, and I made some sacrifices to save calories. One: no sour cream and cheese dip with my chips 'n salsa. Two: less chips. Three: Split chicken fajitas with the man. Therefore I ate half a meal, only two small tortillas of chicken, some beans, salsa, and just a tiny bit of sour cream (REALLY proud how little sour cream I used, I am such a lover of it.) So I did an estimate of what the calories were, based on what I ate, and I still came in around the total amount that I like too in a day.


I also walked for 20 minutes today across my university's campus so I did get some light exercise in. Thankfully the next three days I will be back in the gym working out hardcore so I should burn off some of that excessiveness I had with this meal and Father's Day. Still, I'm proud of my cutting out the little bits. I saved probably 350-450 calories just by not having the bowl of cheese dip and the big glob of sour cream.


I've also done a bit of research. I have gone to several websites to see how many calories I need to cut out to lose about two pounds a week. Based on what I've done I don't need to go over 1400. Looking at my diary (besides Sunday) I've done pretty well. Thankfully in my life I'm not in any mad dash to lose all this weight. I will be happy truckin' along with 1-2 lbs a week.


Tomorrow I will get this thing straightened out with Comcast (GOD I hate them, but unfortunately that's all we have around here, because I can't get satellite at my apartment), and go in for a nice, hard workout. I will work out even harder if Comcast gives me a big F-U and says "bwahaha you owe us this ludicrous amount because we suck at life!" Man, can you tell I absolutely hate Comcast?


(I won't lie, I REALLY enjoyed my Mexican food date tonight. I really needed it.)

Here's the list from my diary today:

Day 5 - 6/21/10 Calories
Breakfast: Oatmeal with Protein Powder 280
Snack: Carrots and Humus 210
Lunch: None
Snack: None
Dinner: Fajitas 900
Total: 1390


With the light exercise I did I probably came in around 1350. Still not bad for a rather indulgent day.


-Muddy

Starting Weight: 190.6
Goal Weight: 150
Amount lost: 0

Next weigh in: June 24th

 

[muddy2533]

Day 6 - June 23, 2010

Today was a very great day.

Woke up and called Comcast to see what the hell was up with the $350 bill. Apparently they bill at the beginning of the month (I never notice, because I pay online and they always bill me there at the end of my billing month.) Anyways, I only need to pay my last month's service, and then the rest of that bill by July 22, totally doable. That makes me so happy as money is tight these days. My boi is still looking for a job so right now I'm the only money provider. It's very tight on the pocket, especially with paying for a personal trainer and eating healthy (damn it, it's expensive to eat healthy; I can spend 2 bucks at Burger King and get two hamburgers... it costs like more than that just to buy a green bell pepper at the grocery store...) It's so crazy.


Worked out hard today. One of those workouts where I get really no break. I could already feel a difference though with keeping up some minimal physical activity the last three days since my last workout. By no means I wasn't exhausted, but I held my own. If I had sat on my ass this weekend I probably wouldn't have been able to make the ten rounds.


So here's my food diary for today. Felt bad I didn't eat breakfast, especially since I notice I am much less hungry from the oatmeal/protein. But I ran out of oatmeal and just felt too lazy to find something in the kitchen to make. Dinner was a new healthy recipe. Gonna make some adjustments to it and then I will let post if it's worth keeping in the recipe folder. What I was very happy about was my man ate it with me; I'm trying to get him in on this eating better dealio since he's worse than I am (but damn him, he doesn't gain the thirty pounds from it!)


Day 6 - 6/22/10 Calories
Breakfast: None
Lunch: Small Chicken Salad 400
Snack: Low Fat Yogurt 170
Dinner: Lasagna Inside Out 400
Snack: Carrots and Humus 175
Total: 1145

With the workout I'd say I came in around 1050-1000. Not a bad day... especially after the last two night's dinners.


-Muddy

Starting Weight: 190.6
Goal Weight: 150
Amount lost: 0

Next weigh in: June 24th

 

[ecky1]

My husband was reluctant at first until he started to lose a bit of weight because he was eating healthier food at home. I refuse to keep unhealthy food around as it's too much of a temptation. Now that he has started to drop a bit of weight himself because of it he has started to eat better at work as well.

 

[muddy2533]

Day 7 - June 23, 2010

Don't feel like writing much. I'm completely exhausted after a 12 hour day. I ate bad tonight; family went out for dinner and we joined along. Split the fajitas, no cheese dip, etc. but still, I have had some bad food these last few days. Luckily I was bad and actually weighed myself when I went to my gym and I've lost 4.1 pounds this week. However I will still have tomorrow be my official weigh in but I am quite happy with that amount lost.


Also worked out like a bitch tonight. Holy crap, I am soooo tired. When I came in my trainer looked at me and chuckled in quite a devilish way. I've learned with my time with him is that when he does that I'm going to hurt and suffer. And I did. But I also probably burned like 150-200 calories.

So my diary for today is:

Day 7 - 6/23/10 Calories
Breakfast: Oatmeal with Protein Powder 280
Lunch: Turkey Sandwich 370
Snack: Cup of Lasagna Inside Out 222
Dinner: Fajitas 900
Snack:
Total: 1772

I probably came in around 1650 or so, which really isn't that bad, it's about 100 under what is my target in order to lose 1 lb a week. But still, way too high.

Anyways, I have completely budgeted my money for the month and I don't have any more to spend on yummy going out dinner, so it probably won't happen any time again soon unless I get lucky like I did tonight and have my stepdad pay for it.


-Muddy

Starting Weight: 190.6
Goal Weight: 150
Amount lost: 0

Next weigh in: June 24th

 

[muddy2533]

Day 8 - June 24, 2010

Crap I have been starving all day long. I had my third workout for the week today and it was still exhausting. I didn't do like running, but had to do push-ups, superman, then crunches from 21-1, decreasing by 2 each round. I HATE push-ups. My arms are so incredibly weak it's depressing.

But I burned around 200 calories today so I'm pretty happy. Especially since I ate like another dinner after my first dinner because I was starving. My workouts have been super intense; on top of that I started yesterday and for some reason during this time I feel much hungrier than most other times.

Here's my diary for today:

Day 8 - 6/24/10 Calories
Breakfast: Oatmeal with Protein Powder 280
Lunch: Turkey Sandwich 370
Snack: Carrots and Hummus 105
Dinner1: Potato and Jalapeno Soup 450
Dinner2: Stew 400
Total: 1605

Still not extremely high, considering after my workout I probably come in around 1450-1400. About 100 extra than I would like to have been at, but all in all not really at that bad. I'll probably eat more this week than normally, it being that time of the month, but I'm going to try very hard not to overdo it and also work out on top of it.

But I weighed today and I have lost 3.5 lbs. I know I have lost more, as yesterday I was down about another pound, but I'm not really worried about using my lower weight. I'm also pretty happy because, as all women know, pounds lost don't seem to show up on the scale when we are on our periods. So having gone down 3.5 pleases me.


Now I'm off to get ready to watch the new episode of Futurama with my boy. A nice way to end the night if I do say so myself.


-Muddy

Starting Weight: 190.6
Current Weight: 187.1
Goal Weight: 150
Amount lost: 3.5

Next weigh in: July 1st

 

[muddy2533]

Day 9 - June 25, 2010

Today was an okay day. My boy was in a bad mood most of the day, and I am learning now that we live together that when he's in a bad mood it has a quick direct effect on my mood. Kind of hard not to get grouchy when he's sitting right next to you.


But luckily we went and got some yogurt (proud of myself for downgrading completely to the kiddy cups now.) That made him pretty happy. And when he's happy, I'm happy.


Anyways, trying a new recipe tonight: sour cream chicken enchiladas. Pretty excited as I had a few bites when cooking them and it tasted sooo yummy. The recipe is very easy to make, and it makes a ton so I will have plenty of leftovers. And what's even better is it's not all that unhealthy for me! Yay

Here's my diary of food today. I haven't eaten dinner yet, but I already know the amount of calories in the serving so I can go ahead and count up what I'll have for today.

Day 9 - 6/25/10 Calories
Breakfast: Bagel with Eggs 400
Snack: Cheese String 70
Snack: Inside Out Lasagna 340
Dinner: Kiddy-cup TCBY Yogurt 110
Snack: Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas 500
Total: 1420

This isn't that bad. Could have cut out alot of the calories if I had had a different breakfast. However I was getting tired of healthy oatmeal with protein powder. Decided to have some veggies and egg whites on a thin bagel. Problem is it adds about an extra 130 calories. Oh well.


Didn't exercise today either so that total is the true total for my total amount for today. Took the day off. Not worried, as tomorrow I am going to walk for about 4-5 miles with my boyfriend so he can apply for a job. Hope it's not super humid after all this rain tomorrow!


-Muddy

Starting Weight: 190.6
Current Weight: 187.1
Goal Weight: 150
Amount lost: 3.5

Next weigh in: July 1st

 

[ecky1]

Keep it up, you're doing great and eating a really healthy diet. I think you are definitely going to be one of the success stories

 

[muddy2533]

Keep it up, you're doing great and eating a really healthy diet. I think you are definitely going to be one of the success stories

Wow thanks so much again for your support. I haven't really gotten a chance to look over everybody's journals here, but tomorrow I'm going to put aside some time for yours. I will try to help encourage you as much as you are encouraging me!