Project C

Oooh, that chickpea sandwich sounds great, I should try that! I should buy some chickpeas first though I guess :p

If you keep weighing yourself, maybe you should make your punishment a little harsher: up TWO flights of stairs and down again! Or up and down twice if you only have two stories to your home. And don't walk it, run! With... with a book balanced on your head! Okay, now I'm just getting silly, sorry! :p
 
ok, look...you know you're one of those folks that HAVE to weigh I am too. And there is nothing wrong with that. Just weigh every morning and see how you do with that. Ok, I'm going to shut up now.

Your food is looking very good. Proud of ya chickie poo!!!

Hope your weekend is fab!!!!
 
Cannon - Thanx Cannon. :)

Papermoon - Doing good. Thanks for popping in!

Beagle - I just use canned. It's easy. And I think it's pretty good. And pretty good recipe for vegans and vegetarians.

Scarlett - Yeah... i'm one of those people. BUT, I'm trying to break the habit cause I know it's bad for me. Hopefully, by the end of this, I'll stop weighing myself CONSTANTLY.... Or I lose an extra pound or two from just walking up and down the stairs alot. ;) Hope you have a fabulous weekend too!

dgillygal - Hey dgillygal! Thanks for popping in and hope you have a great weekend too! :)
 
Week 5 Challenge: No Weighing Until Monday! (Cumulative)

Day Thirty-Three:
Okay, calorie count today is abit low... It's only about 950. Even if I round up, it'd only be about 1000. I don't really know why either. I guess cause everything I ate today was very low in fat and oil. I even had 2 pieces of chocolate and 4 cups of air-popped popcorn (with just a DASH of salt, no butter or margarine). Sodium's a bit high... 2700mg. I guess from the popcorn. Ah well... But yeah. Only 950 calories today. About 10% overall fat and 3% saturated. My lowest yet. I guess on acount of the low calories though. Okay, breakfast was multi-grain cereals, milk & 2 slices of smoked fat-free turkey breast. Lunch was a grilled cheese sandwich which was made with 2 pieces of Wonderbread, 2 slices of processed fat-free mozzarella cheese with no butter or margarine. Grilled cheese without extra fat is so simple and easy when you have a non-stick pan. Also I had about 8 baby carrots on the side. Oh! And a chinese herbal tea kinda drink... It's sorta herbal and medicinal. My Mom made it non-sweet but I added some Sugar Twin in it. It's supposed to be like... Iced Tea. It helps replenish your body's nutrients after sweating alot... like uh... Gatorade. And like I said, afternoon snack was 4 cups of air-popped popcorn with just a lil salt. Dinner was Japanese noodles. Mom bought these individually packed fresh udon noodles. They're instant but they're not deep fried. They're pre-cooked. All you gotta do is store it in the fridge (not too long though) and when you want them, just boil them in soup or stir-fry them. I stir-fryed mine with chopped lettuce, julienned carrots, minced garlic, the remainder of the smoked turkey breast slices chopped up (only 4 slices left) and a lil teriyaki sauce. I made enough for tomorrow's lunch! Water is 3L. Weighed myself twice so up and down the stairs I went a couple of times. Last eating time was 10:20-ish... I sneaked those 2 pieces of milk chocolate last minute. So I guess I won't be sleeping til 1:30-ish. One thing though... I did take a nap after my popcorn escapade (ie: I didn't wait 3 hours there). Ah well. Not bad today. I even danced for a lil while today about 20 minutes.

My birthday is in EXACTLY two weeks... Aug 11th if you haven't seen my siggie. ;) I'll be 25 years old. I realize I'm getting older and I'm no longer a kid. And I STILL don't know what the hell to do with myself. Sigh.

My birthday is gonna call for some big mini-celebrations which will but a lil damper on my dieting... On Aug 7th, I'm having a BBQ at my best friend's place for my birthday. Another friend is treating me for my birthday for sushi buffet at my favourite restaurant. And maybe even an Indian lunch buffet. Eeep!
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Hey C I had to pop by and see how you're doing with this fantastic plan of yours! Looks like it's still going well and I haven't been here for a round a week!

I hear you about not really knowing what you want to do, I'm actually thinking for going back to university next year to do a course in vet nursing. Apparently my degree in biology isn't specific enough to get many biology related jobs and my uni was so pants that I don't have enough knowledge in computing to get a job in IT either despite having a join honours in software engineering! Gah!:mad:
 
yeah Crunchie. I'm totally in the same boat. I have a degree in Sociology but it's not specific enough to get a job. I'd need to specialize or get something more before I can get a job. Grr. It's so frustrating isn't it?
 
Week 5 Challenge: No Weighing Until Monday! (Cumulative)

Day Thirty-Four:
Uhh... Today was DEFINITELY a cycle UP day. I did alright up until after dinner time... See, breakfast was my usual breakfast, milk & laughing cow cheese. Lunch was leftovers from yesterday's noodles. Dinner was BIG-A$$ tacos. Basically tacos but using wraps as the taco shells. I had 2 with tomatoes, lettuce and a lil cheese. And that would have been alright if THAT was the end of the day. I'd have had only 1450 calories BUT...

After dinner, I went out with my best friend and her bf to get gelato. I had 3 scoops... Tiramisu, Twix & Pistachio. Then we went back to her house to watch TV and then we made crepes with fruit (strawberries & banana). So my calorie count for the day ended up being just under 2000 calories, 33% overall fat & 14% being saturated fat. Kinda high. Mostly from just the gelato too. Dang it. Ah well. Water was under today. Only 2L and I'm forgoing the sleeping thing today cause I am bloody exhausted. It's 5AM. I JUST got back home 5 minutes ago. *yawns*

EDIT: Oh. I forgot to mention... While at my friend's house today, I was wearing a shirt I had bought last year during the summer. A 4x shirt. While I was wearing it today, I realized how ridiculously big it was on me. I also noticed a few days ago that the straps of my favourite cami kept falling down more than usual. Guess I've lost more weight than I noticed and it's really beginning to show in my clothes. I'm not really sure what to do with myself right now. ^__^;; Anyways, when I got time, I'll post some progress pics for you guys to see. *yawns*

But right now... Time for bed. *collapses in bed*​
 
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oooooh, can't wait for piccies!!!!

Going to bed at 5 am????? Girl, I know it's Saturday night but a diva needs her beauty rest!!!

I know you feel you blew it last night, but you still have to look at averages...twinmom will back me up here. In the past three days you averaged 1383 calories a day. Which I'm sure is less than your BMR at a sedentary rate. But to keep it in the right perspective you need to look at what your average for the week was.

And clothes falling off ya....very good sign!
 
Clothes falling off is a good sign indeed! Unless of course, you're at the super market ;)

C - you are doing amazingly well, and yes, you have to look at the weekly average calories, not just the day!

You're doing a great job C!!
 
Hi C
I was just reading your very first post. For some reason when I clicked on your journal it came up. Anyway you have come such a long way since then. In your post you basically said that you just found out you were diabetic which must have be difficult for you to deal with but you seem to take it in stride. I love the idea of a four year plan because four years goes by so quickly and before you know it you will be at or very close to your goal weight!

I also read that you were not doing exercise when you first began and now you seem to be exercising quite a bit more.

Do you mind me asking what your total weight loss is now? Way to go on the clothing getting to big. Have you decided what to do with the clothes that you have shrunk out of?

Isn't it nice to get out of clothes that are to big instead of trying to squeeze into clothes that are to small?

Congrats!
 
Scarlett - lol. I know. You love pix! ;) And yeah... It was late. I didn't sleep til about 5:45AM. I practically saw the sunrise. I was exhausted. Though I still woke up on my own around 10:45AM. So that's good... though admittedly, I was a bit on the grumpy side. ;) Honestly, I don't really feel THAT bad about the calorie count. I do feel bad about the fat content actually. Cause I want to keep the fat intake low. Ah well. I'm not that concerned with it though... The gelato was REALLY worth it. It tasted sooo great. It was ALOT like the gelato I had in Rome which really goes to show you how great the gelato was.

M2M - Well... I sorta see that if my calories are about the same daily, it is my overall average anyways right? And like I told Scarlett, it's the fat content that bothered me more than the calories. Ah well. And uh... I wasn't at the supermarket, but I was in public. And I'm pretty sure once or twice, my bra could be seen and I know I flashed my bra at my best friend's boyfriend a couple of times. Cause the neckline is sooo big now, it just scoops down like mad. It's a 4x shirt. I used to wear 4x/3x. But now I'm more of a 3x/2x I think.

Jenn - Yep. It actually began as a 5 year plan. Technically a year already passed. It's not horrible if I never reach my goal though. It's just something to strive for. Sides, I figure people always make unrealistic goals whereas losing about 45 pounds a year is totally realistic and doable. My total weightloss so far is 44 pounds. But that's tentative. Cause I believe I've lost some more this week. I won't tell you now. Come back tomorrow night. ;) That's my weigh-in day. But I'm pretty close to my 50 pounds. Clothes that I am getting too big for will likely be donated to charity. I don't want to bother with selling my clothes or ebay or whatnot. And I think it'd be good for some plus-sized clothes to go to charity. There's probably many overweight people who don't have funds to buy new clothes. And I'm pretty sure it's hard for them to find size 4x/3x at the Salvation army. Uh... Well, I guess it's nicer but my wallet is screaming for mercy. heh. Thank god it's Summer Clearance right now. WOOT for cheap affordable clothes.
 
Wow C--I didn't reallize it was a 5 year plan. I'm on a 2.5 year plan myself. I think giving yourself time to achieve is the key. Like you say 45 pounds a year is definitely doable.
 
Hey C, I think you're doing really well. I do, however, think you should always believe you can reach your final goal. It gets much more challenging as your body adjusts, and there will be ups and downs all the time, of course, but keeping your mini goals in focus and your big goal in the background is always a good path. As for fat, I am of the opinion that 30% fat in your daily intake is perfect, but I'm one of those 40/30/30 believers. That happens to work really well for me, but I'm very active, and that probably has something to do with it. Find a nutritional balance that works for you (with some logic & science behind it preferrably, not the all banana diet or something unbalanced ;)) and stick with it. You're doing really well, and I also donated all of my clothes when they got too big as a way to tell myself I"m never going back to that size. I'm really cheap, so giving away perfectly good (although too large) clothing meant a lot to me. Good work girl!
 
Cannon - Yep. I gave myself alot of time. Cause I KNEW I could do it if I did it slowly. I knew if I put the pressure like a year or two, I'd get depressed and give up. Plus I know that plateaus will occur. Long ones even. Where my body will struggle to keep the weight on. Plus stuff outside my control will occur... Parties, events, family problems, career stuff. Sides, I'm losing a whole person practically. Losing weight slowly will help with the skin shrinking back. So I choose a good round year, in my case 2010.

Miss Princess - Well... I hope I reach my final goal in time. But I won't beat myself over the head if I'm 130 on my birthday when I'm 29 years old. That's basically what I meant to say. I hope for the best but I won't expect it outta me. But I will strive for it. I believe in the 30% fat too... However, right now for my body I like to hit about 20-25% max with about less than 10% saturated fats. The reason for this is basically I'm trying to lower my cholesterol really. It's a health issue in my family and I know my cholesterol was pretty high so I'm trying to go really low fat to help lower my cholesterol. See, I'm a money pincher and I think that getting rid of perfectly good clothes is horrible too... But there's NO WAY I can salvage some of these clothes. I'm not the best sewer... So I figured next best thing is to donate to people who really need it. :)
 
Week 5 Challenge: No Weighing Until Monday! (Cumulative)

Day Thirty-Five:
Well, what did you know... I didn't weigh myself yesterday or today. Maybe it will become a new habit! yay. Okay... Back to business. Today I woke up at my usual time despite sleeping near 6am today. So really, I only slept like 5 hours. Bleh. But I didn't nap at all.

Okay, on with the food... Food wise I did about 1300 calories. Not bad eh. And I'd tell you something... For breakfast I had fries with gravy! Yes! Shocking I know! I went grocery shopping around noon and hadn't eaten breakfast yet... My brother went to our fave burger joint which is like a Ma's & Pa's fast food stand. I got fries & gravy and it filled me up. My brother got a full combo though. Later, for lunch, I had my usual cereal, milk & laughing cow cheese. But I ate this fudgesicle. Oh my god. It's delicious. I found it in the dairy aisle. I compared nutritional values like a mad woman. I came up with Nestle's Real Dairy mini fudgesicles. Only 45 calories per popsicle. Less than 1g of fat and about 10 g of sugar per serving BUT it was sweetened with aspartame. It's almost totally guilt free! Dinner, I ate a cup of rice, 2 cups spinach and a salmon steak. I had a small spoonful of heavenly hash ice cream from my mother's bowl. So only 28% overall fat and 8% saturated fat. Sodium was 1900 mg! I'm UNDER! FINALLY! Holy!​

End of the Week Reflection:
Man. Trying to break the habit of weighing urself is hard. But I think I'm getting the hang of it. I weighed myself alot lately earlier this week... But as the week progressed I didn't think of it as much. Funny enough though... Tomorrow is weigh-in day for me. I hope I lost a pound or two. I can't wait to reach the magical 50 pound mark. Eeep! It can't come soon enough. heh.​
 
LOL I discovered fries with gravy on my trip to Canada--Mmm and even better with cheese curds. Man, as if fries weren't bad enough for you lol
 
Fries and gravy... Hmmm. for some reason, that makes my stomach hurt, lol...
Your gonna get that damn 50lb mark very very very soon... I'm at about 41 down, at 50, oh holy hunnies, I'll freak out :) Congrats on finding a yummy fudgsicle replacement... I've tried a few different things, and some are fan-frickin-tastic, and others are blehhhh. But 45 cals, thats awesome, most definately.
 
Hey C 1300 calories are really great and well done for working to find a better alternative to the foods you like but are a wee biut on the er... naughty side.;) Hope you have a good week and you've inspired me to make a better plan for myself.:)
 
Cannon - Ah yes poutine! The great Canadian snack. We also like our fries with vinegar. It's yummy. But I stay away from those now. Hell, I wouldn't even have gotten near the fries if it wasn't like my ALL-TIME favourite place for fries.

Jess - Yep. Very soon. I'm hoping to make it by my birthday. That's in like 12 days! Eeep. It'd be fabulous if I could but I am going to a BBQ next monday... And I KNOW that'll be alot of eating. :p

Crunchie - I know!! I was amazed too. I was totally being on the naughty side I thought but I actually got right on target. Imagine my suprise!
 
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