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[subduedjoy]

Hello All,

I gained 10 to 15 pounds over the last two years. I'm now somewhere between 142 and 145 pounds, depending on the time of day. I need to get down to 130 pounds in the next three months for our upcoming dance performance.

Is it possible? How to do it? I feel like I'm starving all the time. I just baked about two dozen chocolate cookies and ate half of them. I couldn't help it. I was craving something sweet and the recipe called for one egg, which meant I couldn't cut the recipe down to a smaller amount.

What do I do with the left over cookies? Throw them away? Is it possible to throw something so tasty away?

Need advice.

 

[Sunflower2]

It sounds like you need to practice moderation. One or two cookies would have been fine but eating a dozen cookies in one sitting wont do you any good! Maybe freeze them for now and you can get them out one at a time when you want one! If you feel starving all the time, you're not eating enough. How old are you? And your height? You need to work out how many calories you are allowed a day. The bare minimum is 1200 so if you are eating less than that, then eat more!

 

[bluebuckeye]

I think 15 pounds is doable if you're vigilant about your diet. It's just slightly more than a pound a week, so yeah, it's definitely doable. What I'd do is track absolutely everything you eat for a week. Don't change what you're eating, just track it. Use FitDay or LiveStrong or SparkPeople. That's the only way to get a feeling for how many calories you're eating. Once you figure out how many calories you're eating now, subtract 500-700 from that and eat that many calories. That will put you in the rage to lose about a pound a week, which would put you right at your goal.

I've found the best thing for cookies when you have a craving, is to make all of the dough, portion it out into cookie sized balls, and then flash freeze most of them. To flash freeze cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and put the balls of cookie dough on them like you were going to cook them. Then freeze, uncovered, until frozen. Remove from the cookie sheet and toss into a freezer safe container. That way you can bake however many cookies you want to eat at that time, and you'll have ready-made dough (that can go right from freezer to oven) the next time you want some. If you put the recipe ingredients into the recipe portion of SparkPeople then you can know exactly how many calories are in a cookie, so you won't have to keep re-calculating them. And you will be able to plan them into your calories for the day. PLUS there won't be the temptation of made cookies sitting out on your counter, begging to be eaten before they go bad. It's a win win. You could probably freeze the ones you've already made too so they aren't so tempting.

 

[subduedjoy]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll going to look into FitDay, LiveStrong, SparkPeople and subtract 500-700 calories from that.

I also noticed that most posters have a loss ticker of some sort. Good idea. I'll have to get one of those.

I ended up throwing all the cookies away last night except for one, which I left for my boyfriend to eat when he woke up this morning.

I have issues with binge eating on sweets; so I can't have anything sweet in the house. The only reason I had the cookie mix was that I had made cookie mix jars for people for X-Mas, and I still had enough ingredients for one more jar. My sugar cravings are so strong that I will go out and buy a pie, cake, box of cookies, ... and eat the whole thing in one sitting.

I'm 49, 5'7", and exercise a lot. Normally I eat very well. However, I loose very, very little weight when I eat normally. Plus, I feel like I'm starving. And then I binge eat. And that one pound I was able to loose, I gain it back just like that.