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heres a tip. Dont go down isles you dont need too. if i go into my local super, i go down fresh veg and fruit isle, skip the next 3-4 isles (junk food, fizzy drinks, chocolate, cookies etc) then go down baking isle, easy meals and tinned food isle, skip beauty isle unless i need soap or shampoo (otherwise i spend too much), then hot the frozens, though i avoid the ice cream side!
What i dont see, i dont want! Whilst at the checkout ill read a mag to avoid looking at all the crap they have there at the checkout.
 
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heres a tip. Dont go down isles you dont need too. if i go into my local super, i go down fresh veg and fruit isle, skip the next 3-4 isles (junk food, fizzy drinks, chocolate, cookies etc) then go down baking isle, easy meals and tinned food isle, skip beauty isle unless i need soap or shampoo (otherwise i spend too much), then hot the frozens, though i avoid the ice cream side!
What i dont see, i dont want! Whilst at the checkout ill read a mag to avoid looking at all the crap they have there at the checkout.
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That's a really good tip, about staying to the outer aisles. I think I'm definitely going to try that! What makes it difficult is my fiance. He's a big guy and has no desire to eat healthier. I think I'll make him take a seperate cart to the center aisles for what he wants. Heck, he might appreciate me not hanging over his shoulder asking, "Do you really need that?"
 
Dinner
1.5 cups Baked Ziti (meat and cheese sauce) - 550 Calories
1 tsp Garlic Powder - 9 Calories
3 oz Caesar Salad w/ Light dressing 100 Calories
8 oz Sugar-Free, No Calorie Peach Carbonated Water
Total Calories: 659

Snack
8 oz Sugar-Free, No Calorie Peach Carbonated Water
1.1 oz Flavor Blasted Xtra Cheddar Goldfish - 140 Calories
Total Calories: 140

TOTAL CALORIES TODAY: 1357

I was aiming for 1200, but then I realized I need to adjust if I'm exercising (and I am now). So...I could actually do 1500, but I'm happy with today's number.

I'm absolutely exhausted. It was a really busy day. I think I'm going to bed early.
 
tell your other half
"You can have your junk food, but you go buy it,you pay for it, you keep it on your shelf/cuboardwhatever, you eat it when im not around, i dont want to see it'

Make it clear how important it is too you. It worked with me and my other half. Took him a few pointed looks and reminders and then he even went as far as jumping on the band wagon :D
 
I had a terrible headache yesterday. By evening, it was a migraine. I slept for nearly 12 hours (9pm to 8:30am)!!! I needed it though. I feel much better today.

6oz Coffee w/ Splenda and 2 Tbsp Cream
(I'm thinking about switching to skim milk for my coffee instead of cream. I have to see how much that would decrease my fat and calorie intake).
1 c Grapes, seedless
Total Calories: 195

Today is going to be difficult. I'm not used to planning my meals like this, and I didn't think ahead for today's schedule. I have a crazy work schedule to begin with. It isn't that I work a lot of hours, per se, but I work varied hours. It's hard to create a schedule for eating. I had plenty of time for breakfast. I'll have enough time for "lunch" this afternoon, but I don't know if I'm going to get to eat another meal. I'm going to try to figure something out that I can eat on the run. I don't have a lot of "healthy" food here atm, other than what I bought the other night, and I don't have time for the grocery store today. Hmmm. I need something easy that I can eat in the car.

A few minutes later...
So...I can do a Subway turkey breast wrap for 380 calories. I think I can manage that if I'm careful about lunch! Yay...problem solved.

I've been thinking about the scale again. I think I should only weigh myself once per week. First, I hate the scale. Second, I don't have a digital scale, so I won't see tenth and hundreth pounds, etc. Therefore, it seems kind of pointless since my goal is 1lb loss per week. That means my next weigh-in will be Monday, 3/3 in the am. Until then, I think I'm going to try to forget about the scale. It's evil and gives me nightmares! I'll just focus on doing what I need to do, and see what happens on Monday.
 
Lunch
4.5 oz Light Caesar Salad
16 0z H2O Fruit Water
Total Calories = 311

CRAVING COCA-COLA TODAY!!!

I might let myself have 80z...it's not a full can, but at least it's something. I'm going to finish this water first and see if I really want it.
 
Snack
Banana = 125
Fruit2O Water = 0 Calories
Total Calories = 125

Dinner
Subway Turkey Breast Wrap w/ fat free Honey Mustard = 420
Fruit2O Water = 0 Calories
Total = 420

After all this, I realized I was under and hungry, so...
Lean Pocket = 270
8 0z Vitamin Water = 50
Snack Pack = 100
Total = 420

TOTAL FOR TODAY: 1266

I probably could have done without the snack pack, but I really really wanted something sweet.

Despite being at 1266, I somehow feel this hasn't been a good diet day. : /
Maybe it's because it's the first day I finally ate in a way where I didn't feel hungry often.
 
Breakfast

8 oz Coffee w/ Splenda and 2 tbsp half&half
1 medium Banana
Total - 192

Planning to do Tae Bo this afternoon before dinner.

If it weren't 20 degrees Farenheit, I'd go for a walk. I can't wait for spring. It's supposed to be 50 degrees here Sunday. I can't wait.

We have a great place to walk here. It's a 3 mile walk around a lake with a paved path. There are no bikes or skates allowed, so walkers/joggers don't have to worry about being run down! Hehe. I think once the weather turns nice, I'll start making a habit of walking there a few times per week. I might even be able to enlist a walking buddy or two, but if not, my mp3 player will be company enough! :)
 
I'm still battling Coca-Cola cravings. I know I can adjust my intake today to make room for it, but I also know that it's really bad for me. I'm proud of myself for not having it. I keep telling myself I can have it if I want to. Not barring myself from it seems to help.

Lunch
1c Baked Ziti w/ Cheese and Meat Sauce
3 oz carbonated peach water
Total = 367
 
dont wait for the weather to be nice! just go do it!

I use running/walking when the weather is to crap for cycling (because its really horrid to cycle when the wind knocks you off). You can run or walk in any weather.
 
have some coke, but have diet coke or coke zero. 1 small one to get rid of the cravings - otherwise you are gonna end up bingeing on other things. I think the key to any good diet is to moderate what you eat rather than denying yourself or completly changing your diet so radically that its really hard to stick too.
 
wishes said:
have some coke, but have diet coke or coke zero. 1 small one to get rid of the cravings - otherwise you are gonna end up bingeing on other things. I think the key to any good diet is to moderate what you eat rather than denying yourself or completly changing your diet so radically that its really hard to stick too.
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I will definitely take your advice. I leave to teach a class soon, so I'll grab a Coke Zero on my way home. I think you're right about making radical changes. That's just not going to work.

Because I don't know how to multi-quote, I'm just going to have to respond to your walking comment without the fancy smanchy quote thingie. Hehe.
We've had quite a bit of nasty weather (snow/ice) lately, so the lake path is covered atm. They don't plow/shovel it regularly. I have to wait for the weather to clear up.

However, I could always walk around the neighborhood a bit. :doh:
I do like walking. :)

I guess that should have ocurred to me already, but this is such a huge lifestyle change for me that the obvious just isn't obvious. Thanks so much for your comments!
 
oh yeah snow and ice, we dont have that here so i never think of that side of it :O
Multiquote is easy. Right next to the orange button with the words "quote" is one that has a pice of paper and a ". click that on all and any posts in a thread you want to multo quote, and it turns orange on those ones. then when you have done choosing just hit 'post reply' and it will put them in the reply box.
 
hahah :D
You can click the multiquote button and then go to the next page and click other ones also, so multiquote over several pages works :)
 
I feel good about my exercise today. I pushed myself harder than the first day. I still can't do all of the reps (damned whiplash), but I did more today than Tuesday! :)

Dinner
2 oz Fish (floured & fried)
1/2 large baked potato (didn't finish it though)
1 cup spinach w/ vinegar (now, the bottle says no calories in vinegar, but fitday says there are calories. I'm confused about this)
Fruit2O Water
Total = 278

Total so far today = 936
Something seems wrong the past two days. I feel like there should be a lot more calories in what I'm eating than there are. While not everything is an exact measurement (the fish for example, I didn't weigh it...), I usually try to overestimate the amount to help myself avoid going over. Do I really have 264 calories to go just to hit 1200? If so, maybe this won't be so bad after all! :)

I think I'm going to have some carrots with ranch dressing for a snack later. I'm not sure.

BTW - The coke craving went away at some point, so I completely forgot to pick up a diet or zero. lol I think I got distracted with work and phone calls.
 
Snack
10 Baby Carrots (yumm! I love the way they Snap!)
2 Tbsp Ranch Dressing
Extra Cheddar Goldfish
Total = 337

TOTAL CALORIES FOR TODAY = 1273
 
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I'm not really feeling breakfast this morning. I have an orange sitting next to me, but no desire to eat it. I've never really been a breakfast person. I just don't think it's going to happen today. I don't feel hungry right now.

I'm most likely going to go with a good sized brunch today.

Breakfast (sort of)
6 oz Coffee w/ Splenda and 2tbsp cream
Total - 43 Calories

I'm also very very sore today. I might have pushed it a little too hard with the Tae Bo yesterday. I know to expect to feel my muscles ache a little bit when starting to work out, but I have to be careful. My car accident was only about 4 weeks ago. My neck and back are still very stiff and I don't yet have full range of motion. I might need to rethink how I exercise until I'm a little more recovered. I'm going to adjust reps and stretch more before I begin.

I'm nervous about this weekend. It was 'easy' to watch my calories during the week. Weekends aren't very structured for me, and J and I really enjoy dining out. I'm not going to stop going to lunch or dinner with him just because I'm eating better. I just need to figure out how to do that with diner food! lol. There are salads and wraps on the menu at our favorite diner, so it might not be as difficult as I think. We'll see, I guess.

I just have to tell myself that this is new. This is my first week and in large part, I'm still figuring all of this out. I tend to be very hard on myself. When I set goals, I set expectations for myself, and when I dont' meet them, I really beat myself up.

Wow, I didn't mean to get so wordy and emotional. I just needed to get that out before the weekend actually arrives.

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This is completely off topic, but I just need to say it:
I LOVE ELLEN DEGENERES!!!
She makes me dance for a few minutes every morning, and she makes me laugh for almost an hour! :)
 
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