Photocrazed - Journey to a Healthy lifestyle

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Preliminary Responses to questions

1. I want to lose approximately 29 lbs.
2. I have a goal of 130 or 6 lbs a month for 5 months, but hope to meet the Feb Challenge of 8 lbs lost or (2lbs per week)
3. I plan to reach my goal via low-fat and low-cal diet and an exercise program created by my husband (modified as I become stronger).
4. My support network is going to be family, friends and this forum.
5. How realistic is your goal?--I think it is very realistic, but if others think not, please help me out.
6.When will you start? Lost 6 lbs since January 1.


I have attached a photo of the body I used to have. There is no six-pack, but I was very happy with it and this is the goal that I have. I want this body back!!!!!


The photo in my avatar pic was taken last March. I weighed approximately 146-150 about that time.
 
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Consumption

Breakfast:
Kashi Go Lean Cereal w/ff organic skim milk

Lunch:
Minestrone soup and ff saltine crackers & an apple

Snacks: Yoplait Nouriche Super Smoothie
1 slice of bread w/1 tbs peanut butter

Dinner:
1 Whole Wheat bagel w/deli sliced turkey
10 turkey pepperoni's
1 bite of 2%fat cheese
1 tbs Lite Mayo


Beverages: 71 oz water, 2 small cups iced tea sweetened w/Sweet N Low, 1-16 oz coffee w/lite cream and sweet n low

Exercise
Treadmill: Program 1 Fat Burn
Time:41:30
Miles: 3.03
Speed Range: 3.0-5.1
Incline Range: 0-5
 
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2007
Consumption

Breakfast:
Kashi Go Lean Cereal w/ff organic skim milk

Snack: 1 Med banana

Lunch:
Kashi bar Peanut butter
Cals: 140
Fat: 5g
Fiber: 4g
Protein: 7g


Snack:
Kashi bar Peanut butter
Cals: 140
Fat: 5g
Fiber: 4g
Protein: 7g
1 Banana w/about 1 tbs pb

Dinner:
1 pb sammich 2 tbs pb
small salad w/lite ranch dressing.
2 bites of yeast roll

The peanut butter got the best of me today. UGH!!!!


Beverages: 86.6 water, 20 oz low fat cappuccino, 1-8 oz coffee w/cream and sweet n low, 1

Exercise
Walking across campus to and from class 20 minutes. --that's all it gets today. :(

I have no idea about counting calories and such, I don't normally keep up with numbers, but maybe I should.
 
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Peanut butter is a MAJOR weakness for me! I love Jif peanut butter- the full fat stuff. I have tried the reduced fat, which only reduces by 4g, but I cannot seem to make myself eat it. I tried buying a different brand of reduced fat since I can't really compare it to its full fat version and this worked a little. I try not to eat it, but I could just grab a spoon and the jar and have dinner. I could eat a 40 oz jar of pb easily in less than 2 weeks. :eek:

I had a huge wake up when the Jif singles came out a while back and I looked at purchasing just those, but when I saw that each of the containers are 32g F I almost flipped. I guess I had never put into context how bad peanut butter really is (especially the amount I like to consume in one sitting) compared to the supposed goodness of protein that it provides.. it doesn't really seem to be THAT beneficial.

I have found that the SB diet peanut butter cookies are GREAT packing only 5gF and 100cals. YUMMY! I try not to eat them on a regular basis though.
 
yayy another peanut butter junkie like me :)
except now i have a dairy intolerance. so that peed on my bonfire :[
well done for your progress so far
 
One of my worst nightmares is to somehow get a peanut allergy. My neighbor said it happened to her sister as an adult. That totally terrifies me.
 
Wednesday Jan 31, 2007

Breakfast:
Yoplait Nouriche Super Smoothie
Fat: 0
Calories: 260
Protein: 10g
Fiber: 5g


Lunch:
Turkey Sammich w/yellow mustard
2 slices bread
100 cals
2g Fat
Turkey
100 cals??

Snack:
1/2 banana w/1tbs peanut butter
banana: 52.5 cals
pb= 95 cals, 8g fat

Dinner:
1 7oz petite sirloin
206 cals
5g fat
Steamed broccoli
129 cals
8g fat
White Bean Chicken Chili Soup
109 Cals
4g Fat

1 8oz glass fiber OJ
120 cals


Total calories: 1202

Beverages: 118.3 oz water, 2- 8 oz coffee w/1 cream and 2 sweet n low, diet sunkist


Exercise:
3.25 miles on treadmill (47 minutes)



I am feeling better about my body. I can really tell that I have been drinking more water and eating better. I don't feel as sluggish and bloated as I normally am. I also am starting to feel the actualy rumblings of hunger again when it's time to eat! I am trying to ignore the girls in my office, who say they want to lose weight as well, but bring in combo meals from the local fast food joints and smell the office with the greasy food smell.

Today, I am going for at least 90 oz of water and 3 miles on the treadmill.
 
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Can someone help me out about my caloric content? Am I eating too few calories? I don't really keep up with them, but have been thinking I may not be getting enough.

I ate some soup and drank some OJ tonight to push me up to the 1200 mark.

Thanks.
 
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Hi Photocrazed- It's my understanding that a woman should never consume less than 1200 calories a day. An Endocrinologist I used to work for told me this (a doctor specializing in the metabolism of the body as well as a multitude of other things). He said it puts your body and risk for many things including osteoporosis (spelling?). Perhaps try adding something to your breakfast and lunch menu. Here is some suggestions from my diet that might help:

lowfat cottage cheese
vegies w/lowfat dip or lowfat humus (I make mine my own-yum)
hard boiled eggs (they keep in the fridge for several days)
thinly sliced apple with thinly sliced parmesan cheese
Whole grain/whole wheat toast with slice of lowfat cheese
adding dried fruit to breakfast cereal

These are only suggestions. What ever you do, just make sure you are getting enough calories- you can put yourself into starvation mode along with hurting your future health. Take care and good luck.
 
Thanks for the insight! I'll try to add some healthy calories to the meals I am eating. I also have a problem sometimes when I get out of bed at 10 or 11am and finally eat breakfast, by then it's almost lunch time and trying to eat again is hard. I'm going to aim for 3-4 hrs between meals & or have small caloric intake 2 hrs after etc depending on my hunger level, however with me adding more calories to the meals, I should be able to last longer between meals right?

Thursday February 1, 2007

Breakfast
1/2 Banana w/tbs PB. 147.5 300 cals
Kashi Go Lean Cereal w/skim milk 300 cals

Total: 447.5

Lunch
PB and banana Sammich
2 slices bread: 100 cals
1 med ban 110 cals
2 tbsp pb 195 cals

Cals: 405

snack
2 turkey pepperoni 9.5 cals

Dinner:
baked chicken 125 cal
Pinto Beans 120 cals
corn muffin 100
creme brulee 145 cals

Total dinner cals: 490


Total calories: 1398

Beverages: 86.6oz water, 1- 8 oz coffee w/cream (30 cals) and 2 sweet n low, diet sunkist 0 cals
Dietary Supplements Fiber Choice plus Calcium 1 serving (16 cals.)

Exercise:31.20 minutes;1.77 miles treadmill incline 3-4 ; speed 3.4-3.6
 
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Way to go on the 6 pounds. I feel like I'm less motivated now, but as long as the scale is moving in the right direction. And I too have recently rediscovered my love of peanut butter. Peanut butter and Jelly, Peanut Butter and Honey, peanut butter and apples, peanut butter and crackers, peanut butter off the spoon...the list goes on and on.:)

And I also support making sure you get enough calories. I used to skip breakfast and such, and then wondered why I was maintaining. It probably put me in starvation mode so that my body held onto everything. Since I started trying to lose weight more actively(probably a little over 2 weeks now), I'm eating more than before (but healthier and spread out over the day), exercising more, and losing weight. And I feel a lot better, too.

Oh, and I've been using fitday.com to check my calories/nutrients. A) It basically counts my calories for me, so I know how much I'm consuming and B)It also gives other nutritional value--I think it's easy when you're cutting things out of your diet to forget to make sure you get enough calcium or protein or whatever, so I like to see evidence that I'm getting enough, or know that I need more. Not that you have to use that exact program, but maybe something like it.

Keep up the good work.
 
Well, I'm really excited. I have met, slightly exceeded, my treadmill goal for the week and it's only Thursday. I had a fleeting thought of increasing the # of miles, but don't want to make the goal seem unattainable! I'm definitely thinking that I can incorporate some of the strength training things that I was talking about in a different thread. However, I don't want to push myself to max since I already have a full plate.
 
Friday Feb 2, 2007

Breakfast
Yoplait Nourich Super Smoothie 260 Cals
1- red Starburst (20 cals???)

Lunch
Lean Cuisine Pizza
Cals 350
Fat 9g
Fiber 4g
Protein 21g

Snack
SB diet PB cookies 100 cals

Dinner
Thin crust pepperoni pizza Dominos
700 cals (hopefully best overestimate based on research I have done)

Total calories: 1430


I'm subbing today, so it's hard to drink the water since I can't go to the facilities every half hour.


Beverages: 1 Diet Coke 20 oz; 1 cut iced tea- 2 sweet n low; 52.9 oz water

Exercise:
 
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Ok, I need help please. My BMR says 1516.2. Based on that, how many calories should I be consuming daily to lose 2 lbs per week? I don't know how to figure that all out. Can someone point me in the right direction?
 
Feeling a little alone!

Saturday Feb 3, 2007
I don't normally get in enough water consumption on the weekends, so a goal today is to get in at least 80 oz water. Plus my water yesterday was low.

Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean Cereal w/Skim Milk
1 glass OJ
500 cals -- had a big breakfast since I woke up late. :(


Lunch
Yoplait Nouriche Super Smoothie
260 Cals



Dinner
2 slices bread brushed w/olive oil and garlic salt/powder. 160 cals
Whole Wheat Spaghetti 300 cals
Homemade Spaghetti Sauce w/97% fat free beef. 300


Beverages 2 cups coffee w/sweet n low, 111.9 oz water, (OJ from above), 1 Diet sunkist 12 oz.

Exercise OH YEAH BABY YEAH! 2.43 miles on the Treadmill 35.30 minutes. speed 3.0-5.5 incline 0-3 today the incline hurt my calves and the arch of my left foot. I put it on program 1 which uses 0-5, but couldn't hack it. So 0-3 for me it is. YEAH!!!


Total Calories: 1520. Ouch! Too many calories today.. since I'm trying to stick around 1300, but based on my 2.43 miles etc, I don't feel too bad about it.
Weekly Mileage Goal: 8
Weekly Mileage Actual: 10.45
 
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to lose one pound per week i read that you should eat 500 calories beneath the amount that you should eat to stay the same weight (i think that is the bmr) daily.
you might want to check on that though - but i think it is right.
 
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to lose one pound per week i read that you should eat 500 calories beneath the amount that you should eat to stay the same weight (i think that is the bmr) daily.
you might want to check on that though - but i think it is right.
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So let's say I eat 1400 cals per day, I will be 100 cals less than my BMR and then should burn the other 400 with exercise?? Per day??

Or should I decrease my caloric intake to 1000-1200?

I would like to lose at least 2 lbs per week! UGH!
 
i suggest
1300 cals per day... anything under that is really a bit iffy tbh and probs will slow metabolism down.
then
200 calories per day to burn weith exercise isnt that bad. 15 mins of situps in the morning and 15 mins in the evening would burn about 202 cals for me but my bmr is about 2250. you could try going for a walk/jog before breakfast. i sometimes do it and its supposed to boost metabolism amazingly for the day so then your metabolism is on like superturbo
just some ideas :]
good luck
 
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