My Journey to a Healthier Me

MsWant2BHealthy

MsWant2BHealthy

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Day one.
Current weight: 240lbs.

Chest: 46.5"
Upper arms: 13.75"
Natural Waist: 41"
Hips: 52"
Thigh: 28.75"
Calf: 17.5"

My meal plan for today is really simple.

Breakfast: Strawberry smoothie (331.8 calories)
Lunch: Chicken teriyaki with veggies and rice (493.5 calories)
Dinner: Chicken soup (307.8 calories)
Snacks: Baby carrots (112 calories), a banana (66.5 calories) & 1 serving of naturally flavored liquorice (48.8 calories)

This is a total of 1360 calories and, with a lot of luck, it’ll be enough for today if I spread out my snacks. Guess I’ll find out.

As for exercise, again I'm keeping it simple: 30 minutes on the cross trainer (even if I need to spread it to 3 sessions of 10 minutes, I am determined)

Updated: Success for day one.
 
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Hey! Welcome to WLF :) Your food sounds lovely, especially the smoothie! I'm never organised enough to make them in the morning! Let us know how you get on :) xx
 
Welcome, with determination you will reach your goal, luck isn't needed.
 
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Hey! Welcome to WLF :) Your food sounds lovely, especially the smoothie! I'm never organised enough to make them in the morning! Let us know how you get on :) xx
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Thank you for the well wishes and welcome. I love the smoothies; it's funny but when I stop eating right I forget how much I miss some of these foods. I freeze my strawberries in packages large enough for one smoothie, that way I can just defrost the night before I want to use them. I just have to remember to put them out the night before (can be challenging ;) ).
 
Day Two: Again, really simple today (worked well yesterday)

Breakfast: Strawberry smoothie (331.8)
Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich (356 calories)
Dinner: Tuna fish sandwich with onion, celery and lettuce (392.6 calories)

Snacks: popcorn (220 calories), liquorice with no added sugar (48.8 calories), Banana (66.5 calories)

Total calories 1416 (more calories than yesterday, but still reasonable, I hope!)

Exercise: 15 minutes of stretching, 30 minutes cross trainer, 5 minutes cool down.
Breaking up my exercise into 3 sets. 5 minutes of stretching, 10 minutes on the cross trainer--repeat 3 times, followed by a 5 minute cool down. I know it's not rough and tumble, but that's the point, I'm trying to keep it light and ease my way in.

Update: This day did not go as planned, I ended up having a second grilled cheese sandwich and not having the tuna sandwich; I waited until meal time to have it, though so I didn't scarf right away. Also, I got 25 minutes on the cross trainer instead of 30--I'll add 5 minutes to Wednesday.
 
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There's only one problem with the grilled cheese sandwich, and that's when I'm done eating it I immediately want another one (they're really good). I tried having half for lunch, then waiting 20 minutes and eating the other half. It sort of worked, but MMmmmmMmmm it's good.
 
My other half is American (I'm British) and he's made me a grilled cheese sammich before and it was amazing. Like, orgasmic. They shouldn't be allowed, they're so good! Well done on just eating half and waiting 20 mins!
 
Welcome to the forum! Easing into the exercise is perfect - you have to make sure you aren't jumping into a program that will burn you out or worse, get you injured. One grilled cheese is hardly enough for me, either... Have you tried following it up immediately with a small portion of something completely different? Like if you get the licorice taste in your mouth right away it might help curb the craving for a second sandwich. Now if that makes you crave more licorice you might be in a vicious circle, but there's gotta be something that will help :)

Wait, Hana, you didn't grow up with grilled cheese sandwiches??? I can't believe that! :drool:
 
Clarissa, I’m trying to exercise restraint, hehe. It’s tough, but I’m working on it (as you can see, I don’t always stick to the plan if something tastier pops up).

Sunflower, right there with you on how delicious they are. I love them. The thing is my hubby doesn’t like them, at all, so the only time I can have them is when he’s not around (because he says they make him lose his apatite). He worked late last night, that’s why I jumped on the chance at a second one, lol, that and I love them. My mother used to make them for me regularly, they were one of my favorite things growing up :) , don’t think she used low fat cheese though so the calories were probably a lot higher.

Laura F, Trying to stretch amply, too. I want to make sure I don’t hurt myself and my knees and I are not on friendly terms, haven’t been for years. The liquerice I save until my hubby is having his evening snacking session (chips, liquorice, icecream, generally unhealthy stuff), that way I can savor my little tiny serving slowly and maybe not drool all over his chips.
 
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Day Three: Still simple

Breakfast: Strawberry smoothie (331.8)
Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich (356 calories) -- my hubby has a long weekend coming up, best eat it while I can
Dinner: Chicken teriyaki with veggies and rice (493.5 calories) -- leftovers

Snacks: Baby carrots (112 calories), a banana (66.5 calories), 1 serving of naturally flavored liquorice (48.8 calories) & popcorn (220 calories)

Grand total calories: 1425

Exercise: 15 minutes of stretching, 35 minutes cross trainer (making up for yesterday), 5 minutes cool down.

Update: Went well today, huzzah!
 
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Day four is going to be tougher, my husband is home today and I'm going to have a difficult time watching him eat his customary day-off "snacks" (an entire bag of chips, various sweets to suck on that he brings home from work, and half a container of icecream). I can do this...I hope.

Breakfast: Strawberry smoothie (331.8 calories--these things are so good).
Lunch: Chicken soup with crackers (425 calories)
Dinner: Chicken sub with turkey bacon and veggies (500 calories)

Snacks: Liquorice (48.8 calories), Banana (75 calories—weighed the one I ate without peel), half bag of popcorn (110 calories)

Exercise: 15 minutes of stretching, 30 minutes cross trainer, 5 minutes cool down.

Update: Today did not go as planned. Breakfast and lunch were fine, but then some friends called and wanted us to stop by. BBQ chicken and all sorts of other goodies, not to mention chips, cheese, crackers. I tried to keep it under control and eat moderately, but after guestimating what it would be I'm roughly 650 calories over what I was aiming for (I had three cups of 7up only to realize it wasn't the diet version, ouch). Sigh. Oh well. Tomorrow is a new day.
 
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Welcome to the forums. Good luck on your journey.

I'm one of the few people that can take or leave grilled cheese sandwiches apparently. LOL They're good, but I've usually had enough after one. This is one of the rare foods that I can have total self control over. Try to be strong and keep up the good work! :)
 
Thanks for the welcome, Mandy.

Grilled cheese is heavenly. I love it. My husband doesn't like them at all, so you're not alone in being able to control yourself. Other people are like that with potato chips and for me if I have more than 50g or so I start to get stomach cramps.
 
Day five: Eep, we're nearing my weigh in day, getting nervous about that scale.

Yesterday so did not go well in the evening, so I'm determined to make it work today. Not sure if I should stick to my original plan of allowing myself extra calories on the weekend or not; I'm torn.

Breakfast: Strawberry smoothie (165 calories; half portion, my stomach was upset this morning)
Lunch: Sub sandwich w/ turkey, cucumber, lettuce, tomato, mustard and a side of fruit (381.4 calories)
Dinner: Meatloaf (369.3 calories) with steamed veggies (77.5 calories)

Snacks: Popcorn (220 calories), 1.3rd dark chocolate bar (367 calories).

Total calories: 1581

Exercise: 30 minutes cross trainer, 15 minutes stretching, 5 minutes cool down.
 
I will say that I'm definitely more lenient with myself on the weekends. I may have a backwards way of thinking, but I bust my butt all week watching what I eat and working out so I like to have little rewards on the weekends. That's not to say every weekend I pig out because that is not the case. For the most part I still eat very healthy foods, but if I want a small slice of cake or a little cup of ice cream I have it. I've been having pretty good results so far looking at my body (I am losing inches), but the scale isn't being so kind. As long as I'm feeling good and losing inches I feel I'm succeeding!

Do you have a tape measure to take body measurements? I've personally found that to be a better way to judge how I'm doing. As I said above I'm losing inches, but my actual weight loss is pretty slow according to the scale. Just something to think about especially if you're not liking the numbers on the scale. :)
 
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