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Hello everyone,

I have been struggling with my weight my whole adult life. I have tried many different diets and programs. I have had some short term success but long term success has eluded me.

Last night I resolved to try again. It can be hard to get motivated sometimes, so I also decided to join this forum and participate.

I will try to post my weight, food, exercise and thoughts here everyday.

This morning I weighed in at 325.

For breakfast I had an Orange, a Banana, Kix cereal, Skim Milk and decaf coffee. I calculated a total 537 calories for that meal.

Well, time to get on with my day!
 
hello and welcome! I am glad you've decided to do this and have joined this forum :). Starting isn't easy - believe me, I haven't been doing this long myself - but you feel great once you start to see a loss.

What sort of exercise are you planning on doing?
 
Good for you for comming here. The first step is always the hardest for me. Now you've done that!! Good luck with your diet and if you have questions or just want advice, this is the place to do that.
 
End of day 1

Well it's the end of the day and I though I would update my diary.

Thanks to everyone for the encouraging news.

I was on the go today and I ate out in restaurants. It makes it harder to measure the portion sizes but here is what I ate:

Lunch at the salad bar at Whole Foods: Tuna and Avacado sushi (1 roll), 12oz chicken soup and small salad with dressing.

Dinner at a diner: Turkey burger and a baked potato.

For exercise I am planning to lift weights 2-3 times per week. I used to lift regularly and I would like to resume that routine. In addition, I am planning on some basic cardio like treadmill or walking. Today I spent two hours cleaning out my garage, that should count for a good mix of weight lifting and cardio!

Again, thanks to everyone for the encouragement.
 
Hi from Canada
Congratulations on taking the first steps to a fitter you! I love, love, love to eat out, but I make sure that when I do, the first thing I do is mentally divide my meal in half and take half home. That way I don't overdo it. Mind you, restaurants are so expensive here that I am lucky if we go out once per week.

Good luck to you, keep us posted on your success!
 
September 24th

Hello everyone,

Thanks for the tip ABBAgirl! Thats is a good idea.

I can start today by telling you all some more detail about my plans. I have tried many diets in the past and I am combining what I have learned to create a what I hope to be a healthy and successful plan.

Each day I will account for everything that I eat. One problem I have is admitting when I don't eat right. It seems like it doesn't count if I don't say it. I will post it all here, the good the bad and the ugly.

Each day I will try to eat a total of about 1800 calories. I will adjust this up or down as needed. I am getting my nutrition information from the USDA online food database. I will try to get those calories form a well balanced diet including all food groups and favoring whole grain and lowfat items. Standard stuff.

Here is todays information.

I weighed in at 323 lbs. this morning.
breakfast was a bowl of honey nut clusters with skim milk and blueberries. This was about 355 calories. This was not enough as I was still hungry. I stopped a 7-eleven for a black coffee and gave in to a sausage egg and cheese sandwich. <ugh!> Rather than give up, I resolved to look up the nutrition information and adjust the rest of my day accordingly. Add 382 calories.

Lunch was a smoked turkey sandwich with fat free cheese on whole wheat bread with mustard. I had an Orange for desert and drank a Coke Zero. This brought my daily total to 1105. Hey I still have some room left for dinner.

Dinner will be meatballs (from lean ground beef), stewed vegetables, corn, and an apple for desert. This should bring my daily total to 1790.

That's it for today!

Thanks for the help, speak to you tomorrow.
 
Good Morning

Hello,

Just starting my day. I have to get to work early today so I will make this brief.

I need to go shopping, not much food in the house to choose from.

Breakfast: I had a healthy version of the sandwich I had yesterday. 1 light english muffin (100c), 3 veggie sausage links (120c), 1 slice ff cheese (30c), 1 cup skim milk (80c) and one large apple (110c). Total = 440c.

I'll post again later. Have a great day everyone.
 
Each day I will account for everything that I eat. One problem I have is admitting when I don't eat right. It seems like it doesn't count if I don't say it. I will post it all here, the good the bad and the ugly.

Each day I will try to eat a total of about 1800 calories. I will adjust this up or down as needed. I am getting my nutrition information from the USDA online food database. I will try to get those calories form a well balanced diet including all food groups and favoring whole grain and lowfat items. Standard stuff
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to save yourself some time, you might want to use a site like or - they both reference the same database and save you the trouble of keeping the calculations - plus they give you all sorts of neat graphs and such...
 
It's been a long day

Good evening,

Maleficent, thanks for the tip. Fitday looks like it will save me some time.

Today was a long day. I had to get in to work early and stayed late. I hate days like that.

Anyway, I had a good day in terms of food. I brought my lunch in, a Turkey sandwich, yogurt and carrot sticks. (442c) Dinner was leftovers chicken, baked beans, cabbage and a yogurt for desert (870c)

I know I had a turkey sandwich two days in a row, but I wanted to finish the turkey before it went bad.

It really feels good to be getting things under control. Thank you to everyone who has posted replies. It is nice to have the support.
 
What am I doing?

Today was a another busy day. I was so busy I didn't have time to think about food or snacking. That made it easy to stay on track. I kept to my 1800 calorie goal. I have started logging my food and weight in Fitday so I won't post it here unless I have something interesting to say.

I have started thinking about what I am doing, and how I can be successful. I have been reading lots of other diaries in the forum looking for inspiration and answers.

It seems that many people had a moment when they decided enough was enough and they were going to take action. I didn't really have a moment like that this time. It was more of a gradual awakening.

Two years ago I had such a moment. I began a strict exercise and diet regimen that resulted in me loosing about 90lbs in 10 months. Then I lost focus and slowly began to regain the weight. I began to feel very defeated and depressed. It spilled over in all aspects of my life and I spent several months just getting through each day going through the motions. I felt humiliated at my regaining the weight I had lost. So many people had commented on my success as I was losing. They were polite enough now not to say anything but they didn't have to. Anyone could see that I had erased the progress I had made.

A few months ago I felt that I could muster the energy to begin to get things under control. I enrolled in a weight management program offered through the fitness center at work. It succeeded in getting me into the gym but I resisted controlling my food. Finally, very slowly I began to get back the motivation and control I needed.

I joined this forum a few days ago and began posting every day. It has been great to get the encouraging replies from other members. It has also been helpful for me just to have a place to post my progress, or anything else I need to get off my chest.

I don't know if I have any answers yet, but as my screen name says I am definitely ready to try again and keep on trying until I figure it out.

I know I can do this. I have done it before. I want to find the long term success that has eluded me so far. For now I will have to just take things one day at a time, get support where I can find it, and make sure that if things start to slip again I don't wait to address any problems.

Thanks to everyone for encouragement so far. I am sure I will need you one day in future. In the mean time, I will try to see if I can be of help to anyone else
 
Annother good day

Hello,

Today was another good day. Work has been very busy and stressful. That would normally be a good excuse for me to console myself with lots of food. Today was different. I had a planned my food for the day including packing a healthy lunch and I stuck to it.

We had a meeting in the afternoon where some very delicious looking treats were served. I actually was not hungry because it was right after lunch and I was able to skip it without trouble. This may sound simple, but it was a big step for me.

I am very happy to be motivated and moving again.

To top things off, I have been entering my food into fitday for the last two days. As I was figuring out what to eat for dinner I checked out the nutrition report. I was close to having at least 100% RDA for everything. I was able to adjust my portion sizes for dinner to keep to my calorie goal and hit all the nutrition goals as well.

One very good day. Let's hope tomorrow is also good.
 
Finnaly the end of the week is here!

Well,

It has been one exhausting week at work. I have been getting in early, staying late and I still did not finish everything I needed to. At least the week is over.

My food for today was ok. I had a very good start the day with a nice breakfast and lunch. We had guests over for dinner and as I enjoyed the company I also enjoyed a little too much wine and desert. I will tally it all up on fitday later and see what the damage is. It don't think it was too bad and I'm not going to let one bad meal trip me up now. Depending on what the total is I may cut back a little tomorrow to balance things out.

My goal for this weekend is to start back on the exercise. I was able to get the food under control this week, now I need the exercise.

I would like to thank everyone who posts on this forum. It is really a great help me.

Have a nice weekend everyone!
 
Update, I tally the results

Hello,

When I started my diary I had promised myself that I would be accountable for everything I ate. So, I added up the extra food I ate last night. (4 glasses of wine, and one slice of cake). In the end it was not so bad. My total for the day was 2300 calories. That may not be the 1800 I am shooting for but ok. My average for the week is still below 1900 so I will not complain.

It is good to really be honest with yourself about what you are eating. It is impossible to "blow it" in one meal. I used to feel that way, and when I would eat more than I thought I should I would feel like I had failed, get depressed and stop keeping track of my food. Then one bad meal would become a bad day, week, month...

I'm glad I am being more honest with myself now. It's only my first week back on the wagon and I know that there will be more tough and challenging times ahead.

Thanks for listening.
 
Looking back at week 1

Well, It has been one week since I started posting and got serious about losing weight. I though I would use the opportunity to look back and see how I am doing.

Food. I have been 100% honest with myself about everything I ate. My goal was 1800 calories per day. According to fitday, my actual average intake was 2000. That's not perfect, but still very good. It feels good to be in control of my eating. It is also good to account for the slip ups. In my case, none of the "off diet" eating was really so bad once I tallied it up. By keeping careful track I was able to avoid a common pitfall for me, which is feel like I have failed and there is no point in continuing.

Weight. I am down 6 pounds! Yea! I have no complaints here. This is a great result and very motivating.

Exercise. No progress this week. I had an unusually busy week at work. I was going in early and staying late, but that is really not such a good reason. I need to make exercise more of a priority. This is something I will work on for Week 2.

All in all, I think it was a good first week. I still have some things to work on, but I never expected I could fix it all in one week.

It has been very helpful to me to be able to post my thoughts here. Thank you to everyone who has replied with encouraging words. It means a lot.
 
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