My fat adventure

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I would like to start this off saying that this is super weird but god do I hope it will get me back on track. I started losing weight about a year and 3 months ago, starting at little under 240 pounds. At the current moment I am a little under 200 pounds which overall sounds great, but it could have been much better. For about 4 months I haven't tried to lose weight at all, and at this point I'm just thankful I didn't gain anything back. Realistically I want to be about 170 pounds. To achive this I AM going to take my diet that a doctor gave me (which is the diet that lost me 40 pounds) and workout at the very least 30 minutes a day on the treadmil. The diet is basically I can eat whatever (with reasonable proportions) except sugar and all my carbs for the entire day should fit inside my fist. At dinner I eat a hearty amount of vegetables and I only snack on fruits. Probably the only reason I havent gained weight back is because I somewhat still followed the diet. Although, recently I havent been able to control the snacking part and am hoping to look at this diary as motivation to quit the snacking. One other thing is that during Christmas I got hooked on sugar but giving that up wasnt hard before and I don't see it as much if a problem starting now. (p.s I am open to any suggestions)

Okay, now that I got that out of the way, lets start the adventure.

Day 1: Today I woke up and made a really good wrap with chicken, onions, bell peppers, cheese, and lettuce in a low carb tortilla which served as my breakfast and lunch. I had two kiwis in the middle of the day and made fettucini for my family for dinner. I did my normal fist sized amount but simply wasnt satisfied and had seconds. After I ate a jolly rancher and before bed I ate almost a full can of pringles watching tv. I felt digusted with myself after looking in the mirror wiping crumbs off my chest and made this account to get back on track. I want to start eating something in the morning like a piece of fruit so im not so hungy later in the day. Also I need to start making some kind of vegetable when I made pasta (the only dish I currently make without a vegetable). This is my last day of not being conscious about what I eat.
 
One thing I forgot to mention is that I only drink water or fizzy drinks with 0 calories like ICE lemonades. Every once and I while I might drink a diet root beer but haven't drinked any sugar packed drinks in years and have no problems staying away from them.
 
Hi Embarrassed and welcome to the forum! No need to be embarrassed, by the way, we´re all here because we either are or were struggling with healthy eating. I think your diet plan sounds sensible and I wish you all the best on your journey :)
LaMa
 
Day 2: After waking up today I felt actually pretty full which in reality probably due to how much carbs I ate yesterday... Although I made sure not to make all the time I wasted a big deal and my first meal was my usual chicken wrap but instead of the normal salsa I put some of the leftover pasta sauce on it. I then started my workout and for the first 4 minutes it felt great and was running at my tredmils heighest speed, but the next minute I really started to have a hard time and for about 5 more minutes I walked VERY slowly as I tried to catch my breath. After that I spent a little over 10 minutes fluctuating between speeds. I think I pushed myself to hard in the beggining and need to work on creating more of a balance with my workout. Im also gonna try to look into workouts other than running that don't require any equipment. Inbetween lunch and dinner I ate a few grapes and for dinner I had a large porkchop and broccoli. I ended up eating another porkchop but it was very small, smaller the size of my palm. I sat at my computer and had a hand full of peanuts at the end of the day. Overall, I think it was a good first day and it was so much easier than I had imagined it in my head. There where I few times I walked into the kitchen randomly pretty much out of habit but thinking back to this post really helped me and i'm glad I did it. Despite my imperect preformance today, I looked at myself in the mirror before laying down to write this and felt accomplished, a feeling I want to remember throughout this "adventure".
 
Welcome to the forum. I thought I had posted in your diary already, but I must have been interrupted, so I'll start again :blush5:
Don't be embarrassed about your weight. We are all pretty well in the same boat. Typing in your diary regularly does help you to stay more on track I find. I'll leave this here as now my husband has arrived home. When he left this morning at 10 I was in the forum. He'll think I have been on it all day! EEK! It's now 3.30 pm. I'll be back, I promise :)
 
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Welcome to the forum. I thought I had posted in your diary already, but I must have been interrupted, so I'll start again :blush5:
Don't be embarrassed about your weight. We are all pretty well in the same boat. Typing in your diary regularly does help you to stay more on track I find. I'll leave this here as now my husband has arrived home. When he left this morning at 10 I was in the forum. He'll think I have been on it all day! EEK! It's now 3.30 pm. I'll be back, I promise :)
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This really means a lot, thanks very much
 
Day 3: I want to start this off by saying that I really didn't want to write this. In some way I think I was subconcoiusly trying to avoid this diet. Something in my mind told me how much easier it would be if I just skipped it tonight and made up some lie about it tommorow, this was to the point that I started to think about how I could combine day 3 and 4 into one post. But as I looked in the mirror today I reminded myself that i'm so much better than that and that I can and will push through this. So that being said, I started today out with the usual chicken wrap. After I didn't even feel the need for a snack until dinner when I had a taco salad which was pretty much just lettuce with some taco meat on it. For my workout I did a much steadier run for about 14 minutes and then tried to do a few different excersizes from a youtube video. I don't feel that they where very helpful though because they where to simple and didn't seem to strain me. After this I had a few walnuts before finishing off my day and as a side note I need to get more fruit. Overall I end today feeling good about myself that I didnt cave in and am really happy I started posting here.
 
Yay, I´m glad to hear that! Lying in your own diary would be... lying to yourself, I guess, which rarely helps with anything. So well done. Every time you make the right choice makes the next one that little bit easier.
 
Being honest with us & yourself will certainly make things easier in the long run. Well done! This learning to look after yourself properly will end up being your new norm :)
 
Day 4: I'm ending my day off pretty early today because I'm really not feeling very well. As I noted in my last post I don't have much fruit right now and that I needed to get some. The one thing I had where some old grapes in a ziplock bag and after diner I though I would have some which turned out to be a mistake. I've got a horrible stomach ache right now and can barley stand to even write this but after yesterday I figured it was worth it to keep up with the persistance. One problem is that I didn't work out due to the pain so I'm hoping to get an early start on tommorow and do extra to make up for it. Besides all the complications I still stuck to the diet. I had my normal chicken wrap at lunch then for dinner I had a very reasonable amount of ham and a salad which was just lettuce with a little bit of shredded cheese on top (after this was when I had the grapes). Overall, today I didn't get to achive my work out goal but besides that I can really feel my desire for snacking going away after just this short period of time.
 
Losing your appetite for snacks is proper progress! Having a sore stomach is a decent reason for missing a workout, please don't punish yourself for it :(
 
Day 5: I woke up feeling much better today and was able to get some proper fruit. It was my first day actually eating breakfast and I think it really gave me a lot more energy in the day time even though it was just a banana. Also I think I can surely say that I have total control over what I do and dont eat after I stared down probably my favorite drink (chocolate milk) for a solid minute before fully deciding it wasn't worth it. This might be off track and weird to say but I really can't remember what it feels like to be hungry. Before the diet I just ate whenever I felt like it and in a way just out of habit constantly but now I have to remind remind myself that I should eat. I just thought I would write that down for my future self; now for what I ate today. As I said I started with a banana and actually did my workout pretty early a little bit after that which was about 25 minutes on the tredmil (still need to find other workouts to do). For lunch I had a chicken wrap and for dinner I had some pot roast with a salad. Overall, it was a good day and controling my appetite is so much easier than I thought it would be, looking forward to 1 week!
 
Day 6: It's almost been 1 week and I think I've got a pretty good handle on my diet. This being said I think I am going to chane a few things. Starting with the fact that after this post im only going to post every other day instead of every day. This is because I still would like to keep track of everything, including what I am eating, but I think posting every other day will be a lot easier on me with the same effect. Also, im going to stop ending my workouts early. Up to this point I have only been going until I felt like it in my workouts but if im going to lose this weight I need to go outside of my comfort zone. Now that these changes are in place its time for what I ate today. Today was stressful and I didn't end up eating until dinner time in which I had two stuffed bell peppers with some cauliflower. I then worked out for a little over 15 minutes and shortly after is when I decided these workouts simply werent going to cut it. I then ate an orange before laying down to go to sleep. Overall, im happy that my diet is under such good control but I need to push myself harder in other ways.
 
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