My Weightloss Journal

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tymaboy

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I officially started my journey today. I have decided to try to watch my carb intake. I will not follow the Atkins diet to a T but just lower my intake. I have trouble reading those stupid food labels but I do understand the carb part of it better then anything else. I did pretty good all day food wise until dinner time. Ryan & I went to Marcos (Italian) so needless to say The carbs went out the door for dinner. I inputted my dinner into FitDay & to my surprise I still have less then 2000 calories & less then 200 carbs.

I played the Wii Fit for about 30 minutes today. When Ty gets home we will play more, its more fun with him around, we like to try to beat the others scores & he always hooers at me when I make a new high score which makes me want to do it again.

My sister & I have a little compition going on to see who can loose the most. Hopefully come Sep. We will both have lost & in smaller sizes then we are now.

I still need to meassure myself but I weighed in at 155 :(
 
i find carbs are the easiest food items to cut out of my diet. no breads, no pastas, no chips, no popcorn, no beans. just eliminating these food items helps me lose weight. good luck!
 
Thanks. My problem is I love carbs, bread is no big deal I hardly eat it but pasta is a different story. Low carb probably works well for me due to the fact of how many carbs I do eat.
 
Well I talked to my sister today. She said she lost 1lb, me I have gained 2lbs since we started our compition. I did very well eating all day till dinner again. After we picked Ty u at the airport he wanted Arbys so thats where we went. I thought a turkey wrap would be the best chose but I couldn't refuse the frys & I did have a pop too. Even with that screw up I still did better then yesterday calorie & carb wise are both lower. I made sure to go downstairs & workouted out on the elliptical. I was proud of myself I made it twice as long as I had before.
 
Even though I have been self conches (sp) about what I have been eating I have been having troubles with it. I tink my body is adjusting to the new diet. Everytime I turn around today I am hungry. It shorlty after noon & I am already high on my fat & carbs, even my calories are higher then they should be.
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I have no clue what to make for dinner, if I'm realy lucky I will be able to find something in the house thats good for me & won't mess up my intake anymore then it already is.
 
Instead of worrying about how much carbs and proteins and stuff you eat, try concentrating on just the calories at first? Thats how I started off. I made sure to have a caloric goal for the day, and tried to stick with it. Once I got used to that, THEN i started to concentrate on protein and carbs... (I'm still lazy on doing that)

I have a physical trainer friend and he told me to eat whatever the hell I want, but just make sure I don't exceed my calorie limit for the day.
 
You have a link to your Fitday account (Click on Home, click on Make my Journal Public, copy & paste the link)? If you tell me what you're aiming for in terms of carb and protein levels, I'll try to think of something for dinner.

(Figuring out what foods go together to reach the target you want takes practice - at least a couple of weeks. After that, it gets a *lot* easier. Until then, keep on trying to do your best, but don't be too hard on yourself if it doesn't work out every day.)
 
I didn't know I could do that with FitDay. I guess I never really looked that hard at it. I decided to make split pea soup w/ ham (not can) I figure that was safe for me tonite & I already checked to see where that would put me for my carbs (I'm still good)

Carb wise I would like to stay under 150. I know I can easly eat more then that. I guess I realy dont care what my calories are as long as my carbs are withing reason.
 
Ya! I stayed on track today. Evrything is in reason. I am affraid to hop on the scale yet, I think it may be too soon for that to change. I'm not sure what tomorow will bring. We will be going to a Brewers game with a tailgate party. I won't do much drinking on the bus since all they will have is beer & I don't do beer but I will probably have a few pops.
 
I did much better then I expected to yesterday. I took my own snacks on the bus trip cuz I knew that the only snaks they would have would be chips. At the tailgate party I stayed away from the desert table & didn't touch the bread. I did take a couple bites of Ryans chocolate chip cookie - it looked to good. Game was boring - Brewers lost. This was my 1st baseball game & have no desire to go to another.

Today Mongolin Grill opened which we have been waiting for. We went the for lunch (a late lunch) I think there is a good chance that I will not be very hungry at dinner. Lunch was not as bad as I thought it would be for my carb intake.
 
I did awsume today. I did the elliptical today plus my food intake was good. Now if I can keep it up I'll be good to go. The Wii Fit said that I am down .7lbs. Not much but its better then nothing.
 
I had weighed myself this morning but decided to do it again tonite since at night is usually when I weigh myself. This morning it said that I was down 2lbs now it says I am down 3 :hurray: Which puts me at 150.8 :jump: I realize it is just the water weight coming off but its a satrt for me.
 
Why I want this

I am sick of feeling the way I do. My SIL's are both skinny minis so every time we are around them I feel HUGE. I have been the smallest of my sisters although within the last year my oldest sister was able to loose a ton of weight – stress, health issues & slim fast. Growing up I had been the 'big boned' child, although I don't think being a size 5 was big, but compared to the size that my sisters were I was. Ever since I had my son (15yrs) I have never lost the weight. Right after my pregnancy I was in a size 16 (from a 5) I was able to get down to a 12 for most of the time. I want my old body back! I want to wear clothes they way they where meant to be wore & not always wear loose fitting clothes cuz of how fat I feel with anything else.

In 2004-05 I was able to get down to size 8-10 (depending on how clothes are made) But then I started getting migraines all the time, so I stopped working out at & lost the muscles that I had gained. For the last 2-3 yrs I have been able to hold the weight but something happened (not sure what) I have been gaining like crazy lately My migraines have not been bad lately so I have been attempting to workout again. I am very slow at getting into a routine – mainly cuz of how out of shape I have become.

I have been gaining so much weight that if I don't start loosing it I will need to buy new clothes – now who wants to buy bigger clothes? I would much rather buy new clothes cuz what I have is too big.

Its really kinda sad that it takes an upcoming event to get me to do anything about it. I want my family to see me as the skinny person I used to be, instead of the over weight one that they saw at the beginning of the yr. My one sister & I are trying to do this together. She has gained a lot of weight too, due to medications that she is on. We are trying to see who can loose the most pant sizes by September, when I will be going to NC for my hubbies cousins wedding.

My son has been working hard to get in shape, he wants that for me too. He has slimmed down since he started back in April & dropped 2 pant sizes. He wants me to go to the Y with him to work out – which I have done twice now. I want him to be proud of me, I want to show him & everyone else (including myself) that I can do this. Its another sad thing when your child is the one who gets you off your butt & makes you workout because he knows I would not workout as much if he didn't.

I want to do this the natural way – watching what I eat & exercise. I have to admit that I have been tempted to use some sort of an aid but they do scare me, not knowing what they will do to the health in the long run plus I don't want to gain the weight back plus some later on down the road.
 
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:cry: I gained 3lbs back :cry: I took my measurements & the good news is I have not gained any inches there. I realy didnt think I would loose anythng this week due to the fact that on Thursday we went to 6 Flags. There is no eating good there plus we where in a group so on the way home we stopped at Burger King again nothing good there. Yesterday was the block party - again hard to eat deceint with the foods offered.

Wed. I worked out with Ty at the Y. I went into the free weight area to help him lift 160lbs. I lifted 55lbs. It sounds low but I thought it was pretty good since I have not done weights in a long time. After the free weights we went into the other room where I think he was trying to kill me. I kept telling him that I did not want to be real sore the next day when we are at 6 Flags. Needless to say he still did not take it easy on me. On Thursday I did more walking around the park then I did riding any of the rides. 6 Flags has mostly roller coasters & I do not like most of them, mainly cuz I can not ride on anything that goes upside down. I took it easy on Friday cuz I was a little sore. Today I have done good excersizing - I was on the elliptical, cleanned off the weight machine, jogged on the mini trampoline & did the Wii Fit. I need to keep this up so I can loose the gained weight again & plus some.
 
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