Hello Everyone or Anyone!
Stumbled across this website the other day and got carried a little carried away by it!
I am 33 years old, and on April 29th of this year (2009) I weighed in at 234.8 pounds. I had noticed I had been getting bigger over the later part of winter but this year something really upset me about it.
I went through this process last year as well. Last spring I weighed in at 233 lbs, went on a big binge, peaked around 210lbs and quit in frustration. Unfortunately what I wasnt aware of at the time was recent workout changes had began building a fair amount of muscle in a hurry... and trusting the scale was my bane. As I lost fat I developed muscle so the #'s werent diminishing as fast as I would have liked and like I said, I got frustrated and quit.
This year, I took a lot longer to get myself mobile and took a serious look at my lifestyle and why I was fat. It came right down to my eating habits. I realized I had certain things / times / etc. that were triggering my desire to eat... I spent a good couple weeks trying to identify these and figure out WHY they caused me to eat. In most cases, it came to a matter of immediate gratification.
2 months ago, my daily diet intake was approximately:
2-3 BIG cups of coffee (ea. with 2 tbsp of sugar and a few tbsp of hazelnut flavored coffee creamer).
I would have a dinner sized lunch, often all you can eat chinese food.
I would eat until I couldnt eat anymore at dinner... until my stomach actually felt "bulging" like too much turkey at christmas. Daily.
For me to bake up a 9" pan of spaghetti at 11pm and devour the entire thing was a regular occurance.
Top all that off with 8-12 hours a day of sitting on my ass in front of a computer or my playstation 3 and its a recipe for L A R D!
The 2 hours a day I spent doing any amount of activity just didnt cut it. The sheer volume of really unhealthy foods I was eating was slowly killing me as well.
It was time for a change!
About the middle of may I began making my changes. I began by starting walking 8km every day. I stopped drinking coffee altogether and began replacing alot of my foods of choice with things a little better than me.
From the middle of may to May 28th my average daily food intake consisted of:
1 cup of green tea (nothing added)
1 Smoothie (1/2 cup skim milk, 1/2 cup light yogurt, 1 banana, 1 tray of ice cubes, 1/2 cup of any other fruit)
1 bowl of rice (white) with 1/2 cup of skim milk, 2 tsp of brown sugar, 2tbsp raisins.
1 piece of thick whole wheat bread, often accompanied with a slice of cheese.
1 burger with all the fixing (cheddar, ketchup, lettuce, tomato, mayo, mustard) on thick whole wheat bread.
(If I am still hungry late in the day I may have a light snack of leftovers ( a burger patty minus all the fixings and bread as example).
*Throughout the day I will consume as much water as I am comfortable with... between 6 and 10 bottles (591ml).
*I eat snacks of celery stalks, carrot sticks or a banana as I see fit.
As of the morning of May 29th, 2009 I weighed in at 213.6 lbs. I had lost 21.2 lbs in my first month!
Stumbled across this website the other day and got carried a little carried away by it!
I am 33 years old, and on April 29th of this year (2009) I weighed in at 234.8 pounds. I had noticed I had been getting bigger over the later part of winter but this year something really upset me about it.
I went through this process last year as well. Last spring I weighed in at 233 lbs, went on a big binge, peaked around 210lbs and quit in frustration. Unfortunately what I wasnt aware of at the time was recent workout changes had began building a fair amount of muscle in a hurry... and trusting the scale was my bane. As I lost fat I developed muscle so the #'s werent diminishing as fast as I would have liked and like I said, I got frustrated and quit.
This year, I took a lot longer to get myself mobile and took a serious look at my lifestyle and why I was fat. It came right down to my eating habits. I realized I had certain things / times / etc. that were triggering my desire to eat... I spent a good couple weeks trying to identify these and figure out WHY they caused me to eat. In most cases, it came to a matter of immediate gratification.
2 months ago, my daily diet intake was approximately:
2-3 BIG cups of coffee (ea. with 2 tbsp of sugar and a few tbsp of hazelnut flavored coffee creamer).
I would have a dinner sized lunch, often all you can eat chinese food.
I would eat until I couldnt eat anymore at dinner... until my stomach actually felt "bulging" like too much turkey at christmas. Daily.
For me to bake up a 9" pan of spaghetti at 11pm and devour the entire thing was a regular occurance.
Top all that off with 8-12 hours a day of sitting on my ass in front of a computer or my playstation 3 and its a recipe for L A R D!
The 2 hours a day I spent doing any amount of activity just didnt cut it. The sheer volume of really unhealthy foods I was eating was slowly killing me as well.
It was time for a change!
About the middle of may I began making my changes. I began by starting walking 8km every day. I stopped drinking coffee altogether and began replacing alot of my foods of choice with things a little better than me.
From the middle of may to May 28th my average daily food intake consisted of:
1 cup of green tea (nothing added)
1 Smoothie (1/2 cup skim milk, 1/2 cup light yogurt, 1 banana, 1 tray of ice cubes, 1/2 cup of any other fruit)
1 bowl of rice (white) with 1/2 cup of skim milk, 2 tsp of brown sugar, 2tbsp raisins.
1 piece of thick whole wheat bread, often accompanied with a slice of cheese.
1 burger with all the fixing (cheddar, ketchup, lettuce, tomato, mayo, mustard) on thick whole wheat bread.
(If I am still hungry late in the day I may have a light snack of leftovers ( a burger patty minus all the fixings and bread as example).
*Throughout the day I will consume as much water as I am comfortable with... between 6 and 10 bottles (591ml).
*I eat snacks of celery stalks, carrot sticks or a banana as I see fit.
As of the morning of May 29th, 2009 I weighed in at 213.6 lbs. I had lost 21.2 lbs in my first month!
