Petite_Mint's Get Me in Shape Countdown!

Petite_Mint

Petite_Mint

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Hey guys. My name is Daine, I'm a 19-year old college student. I am by no means overweight, however, I am not comfortable with my body. I'm not tall and I weigh 116 pounds, which is a little chubby for my height and body type. I'm a more artsy sort of person, so I don't get all that much exercise. I'm making a journal so I can watch what I eat and my exercise routine. I'll be aclorie counting and writing down my emotions in here. Hope fully I can get some support from you guys?

Food is my comfort when I am sad or depressed, and this year especially I've been having some depression issues. When I get like that, I often think "I have a right to have junk food", and so I get all my favorite junk and pig out. For a few moments I do feel better, but then I realize what I've done and it maks me feel even worse about myself. it's not fun.

I want to have a positive attitude about this and not think "I can't do it". Because really to me that's just another excuse not to get in shape.

My biggest indulgence is sugar, which I hope to cut back drastically on. My goal weight is 108, which is not that far off! However, i also want to get my body not also slender, but in shape. That means running and crunches(gah!). Well, I'm really going to try to do this. My avergae caloric intake in the past has been pretty low, like in the 1100s or 1200s, and if I want to lost weight, I'm going to cut down on that by about 400 or 500 calories a day. as long as that is enough, and I'm not feeling deprived or tires, hopefully this will work. So my average calorie intake will be about 700-800.

I want to lose 8 pounds and get in good shape by June 21.

I think I can do this! I hope I can! It'll be great to hear what you all think.
 
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Oh also one more thing...I'd love to get some more healthy, low-calorie, but filling recipesa and foods. I've also looked in the recipes forum and they have some cool ones there...
 
Hey, everyone. I did alright yesterday. There wasn't tiem to keep track of calories or exercise(sad, I know), but I didn't binge or anything. I'm about to go and have some oatmeal for brunch. YUM!
 
Well, today has beenhard for me. I had to go out to eat a lot because I was so busy,and I didn't go any exercise! WAH. I did, however, work on portion control.

Brunch: -oatmeal, whole wheat crackers, apple
Lunch: sandwhich
dinner: strawberries, 1 piece of pesto pizza(bad me!)

Hopefully I will do better tomorrow. Very disappointing day.
 
Hey everyone! I've had a pretty good day so far! I've kept a fairly normal day in terms of eating habits. I'll do a summary of everything tonight but I had a bowl of oatmeal, which I actually really enjoyed, and an apple at lunch. I am now anjoying a banana and some iced water for a (late) afternoon snack. I feel great! I'm planning on going for a run later today, but I'll fill you in on the details of the exercise later...

I just wanted to share some of my observations about my own weaknesses. Being a young student, I'm constantly with people of all shapes and sizes, and yet I definitely feel the pressure to be stick thin and "perfect". However, that's not what I want. I want to be healthy and confident in my own body. It just gets so hard, because its easy for me to fall into unhealthy eating habits(both eating too much and too little) with all these influences trying to tell me to eat junk food(there's al lot of junk food at my school) or not eat at all. I don't want to go to either extreme. I want to eat a balanced diet. However, it also gets really hard when I'm out with my friends to tell them that I am trying to eat more healthily. Most of them simply don't understand because they have amazing metabolisms and weigh about 100 pounds. So after awhile of being with them, I find myself convincing myself to eat like they do, even though when I'm on my own I know I shouldn't. How should I fix this problem? They're my friends and I want to spend time with them, even if they are sometimes unhealthy influences.
 
Ok guys. So here's my summary for today:

Food-
Breakfast:no time(I know, it's bad!)
Lunch @ around 11:40 am:
-Oatmeal
-apple
Afternoon snack 5:15 pm
-banana
Dinner:
-1/c cup indian lentils
-2 whole wheat crackers
-1/2 cup applesauce
-1 cup balled watermelon(dessert! yummy!)


Exercise: 25 min jog
50 sit ups
20 lunges

Well, today was great, and I feel really good about this whole thing. the past few days have not been the best, but I feel I did really well today. I think my calories came in at around 800(?) but I wasn't counting exactly. I also loved running. It was very relaxing.

Just one question about the sit-ups...I was able to do 50, but I think I may not have been doin them well. I use the bottom of my desk to support my feet, but I'm worried that I may be suign my neck and/or leg muscles more than I should and am not actually getting the best workout for th abs.

Any recommendations?
 
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hi Daine,

its awesome too see ur progress, and im a bit surprised no one has replied yet... anyways im not exactly experienced in this area, coz im tryin to lose weight myself, but i'd just like to say its really good too see what you are doing.

as for your friends, i wouldnt be fussed with it, enjoy the time you spend with them, but dont let them influence you when its not what you want, im sure no one ever abandoned a friend because they didnt eat the same as what everyone else did, who knows, some of your healthy motivation might rub off onto them....

thanks for sharing :D

by the way my names Nathan.

good work and keep at it!
 
oh and as for ur sit ups, you shouldnt be using something to hold your feet down, if you can't make it all the way up, then do some crunches instead, thats when u lift your shoulders just off the ground like a sit up, but as your lifting them just off the ground your tensing your abs as hard as you can, you will find it is quite challening.

hope this helps
 
lowie57 said:
hi Daine,

its awesome too see ur progress, and im a bit surprised no one has replied yet... anyways im not exactly experienced in this area, coz im tryin to lose weight myself, but i'd just like to say its really good too see what you are doing.

as for your friends, i wouldnt be fussed with it, enjoy the time you spend with them, but dont let them influence you when its not what you want, im sure no one ever abandoned a friend because they didnt eat the same as what everyone else did, who knows, some of your healthy motivation might rub off onto them....

thanks for sharing :D

by the way my names Nathan.

good work and keep at it!
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Thanks! You're my first commenter! I appreciate it. It's weird that no one else has commented, but whatever.

I'm glad to see you've decided to do this. I'm sure you'll do great! It's gonna be hard and it'll be along haul, but you can make it...

Thanks for the advice on the friends and also the pushups. I'll try the crunches i guess. that will be better.

Thanks, and i wish you all the best luck!

-Daine
 
Oh one more thing. I'm not weighing myself every day. I don't think it's healthy and I also don't think it's super accurate. I am, however, weighing myself every sunday morning(before food), and hopefully every wednesday morning(before food).
 
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Hey again. Well today was a good day overall. I went for a 20 minture run this evening and did about 45 sit-ups, with a few breaks.

Breakfast: applesauce
Lunch: oatmeal and and an apple
Snack: strawberries
Dinner: yoghurt, granola, strawberries, Wasa crispbread

Yeah. good day!
 
hey there,

thats sounds pretty good, how much calories are you eating at breakfast? just seeing "applesauce" tells me not much hehe, im going for a walk tonight! so should be good, and do some of those crunches also.

good to see ur day was good. :)
 
Hey. A lot of times I don't have time for breakfast, which I know is really bad. However, I've been trying to get more calories at breakfast. I don't know the spedific numbr, but I get a few serving os applesauce...maybe 200-250?

I could eat more protein in the mornings, but honestly I'm not that hungry.

:) Good to see you are doing well too. Good luck!
 
hey, everyone, i'm back again. I did really well, once again, except for a minor slip-up: I had a tootsie roll. It wasn't a huge tootsie roll, it was probably only 30-40 cal. I don't really feel guilty, because it was so very small. But still, it's the little things like that that i need to watch. Well, here'e what I had for food today.

Breakfast: -strawberries(I didn't have time for anything else...i know im bad!)
Lunch:
- nonfat yogurt
-apple
-tootsie roll
Dinner:
-steamed lentils
-2 Wasa crispbreads
-strawberries
-applesauce

I think I did pretty darn well today. I didn't get a chance to weigh myself this morning before I ate, so I think I'll just wait until sunday. I might not really have gotten any results yet. I don't know.

I do have one concern right now. My birthday is coming up a few days before june 21(my goal, though I know I might not make it). i want to treat myself: go out with my friends, enjoy all my of food, eat sugar, go out to dinner with my family. I sould be willing to gain back a little weight for that one day, then work my tail off when its all over. Do you think that's fair of me, or by pigging out on my birthday, am I doing myself a disservice?

It's mainly my belly that I want to get rid of right now, so I'm doing ab exercises and running/jogging every day. I'm going to the gym tonight for a workout. Update on that later....

By the way...where are the responses?!? LOL. Lowry is my only friend......:jump:
 
hey daine, congrats on ur progress so far! i would still try and push to eat a bit more for breakfast, seeing as your breakfast pretty much determins the way ur metabolism works for the whole day, anyhow good work :)

as for your birthday, i think its fine to treat urself on such a special day, but just dont go silly on it :D im sure u will feel a little guilty if u gorge urself on all kinds of crappy food! just my humble opinion, but by all means treat urself to something!

well i best be off, im doing some tae bo this morning down at the local health and fitness center :D wish me luck!! lol
 
Well, I am back. I went for a workout yesterday. it was sonderful. SO invigorating and nice. However, i've been talking with my good friend about my trying to get in shape and lose a few pounds. She thinks I should wait until the summer begins, in a few weeeks, after exams, so i don't have to stress both school and worry about my weight. so I may take a little time off and come back in in a week or two. During the summer im going to have a LOT of downtime, but im prety darn busy right now.
 
i guess you could use your workouts for a school stress relief??

im studying full time at the moment, and im going back to martial arts! which will take up about 5 nights of my week, so if u really want it, then u will find time for it.
 
I know. I've been doing well the past few days as well. I have not weighed myself, but I feel like I might have lost a bit of weight. Workouts are really stress-relieveing and helpful. However, this week is really busy. I'm going to do my best. Try to eat healthy and work out when i can, but I can't guarantee I'll be on track...

Ah, well i can only do my best and look forward to the summer.
 
Darn peanut butter!

Well, I'm back again. Sorry for going so long without posting. Been buried in books and papers.

I decided that lowie was right...if I really want to do this, now is the time. So I've been trying to cram in some exercise for study breaks. I haven't been doing as much as I'd like to, but I've been walking around a lot as well.

Eating habits have been so-so. I'm not logging it because I just don't have time this week. However, I know I've been doing only OK. I've been stress-eating, which is a big problem of mine, eating just because I want to distract myself from my worries about exams. Examples of stress-relief foods? Oddly enough, peanut butter, which I don't usually like that much. GAH.

I'm not weighing in until after exams are over. I hope this doesn't happen, but unless I curb my peanut butter habit, I may gain a pound or two.

Well, my exams are over on thursday...life will be better for me then.
 
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