*~*Reality at it's best*~* - UGA's Weightloss Journey

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Hi everyone,

I am new to this site as I was trying to find a great place to offer me support. I think I have came to the right place in just reading the threads.

Here is my post that I did in the introduction forum just in case any one didnt see it and wants to read about me:

Hi everyone,

I am new here and wanted to introduce myself. I found this site while I was looking around for a support group that will actually "support me".

A bit about myself:

I am 32 and a mom of four. Yup I did say four! LOL. I have a daughter (taylor) who will be 10 in January, Mikayla who will be 8 in April. My only son, JT, who will be 3 in January and my last daughter Madison who will be 1 in January as well.

I am done having children. We wanted four and we got that now time to let them grow up and spend as much time with them as I can. And now to concentrate on me!!

My husband and I are big Georgia Bulldog fans. I also love to play tennis and just spending time with my family. I enjoy a few good margaritas from time to time and visiting the beach.


I use to be very skinny, in shape, and big into sports and the gym. Then I got lazy for some reason and the pounds just keep creeping up on me. Right now I weigh 161 lbs but I am only 4'11" tall so on me it shows that I am really over weight.

I am determined to reach my goal weight of 120 by June 1st. I know I can do it. I just need support to help me get through the bad days, the good days, and everything in between. So hopefully I am at the right place. The kick in the pants to get started was when my son grabbed my "growing double chin" this weekend and went "gooble gobble gobble". That was it. I was embarressed and was determined to set a great example for my kids. So tomorrow I start the gym as I had to go in and sign up today and my diet starts as well.

My problem areas will be:

Quitting the sodas. I LOVE COKE and I HATE water. Any suggestions?

Cardio - I hate it. I love lifting weights but I hate cardio. I will just have to push myself through it and hopefully I will come to grips with it.

So that is me in a nut shell. I hope to be around for a really long time to come. And I look forward to getting to know everyone here.

Thanks!
Traci:waving:


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So tomorrow is the start of day 1. I am starting at 161 pounds. I plan on taking my measurements and before pictures tomorrow. :puke:I have 187 days to reach my goal of 120 pounds. I know I can do it it is just a matter of sticking to what I set as my weekly / monthly / and even daily goals.

So tomorrow morning at 5:30 I will be dragging myself out of bed and heading to the gym to start my journey. Wish me luck! I will post my day tomorrow as I go along. I will also post my foods that I have planned for the day.

Oh and I am not on any "program". I am doing a weight lifting / cardio routine and I am just eating 1200-1300 calories a day.

I CAN DO THIS! I WILL SUCCEED!! :beerchug: Here is the that success!

Thanks,
Traci


 
Hi Traci,

I started yesterday at 172 and also have a thread somewhere called gees can't remember, think it's under diet & motivation. Basically called "this is it, I am doing it"

Anyway, know where u r at and let's wish us both a learning and rewarding experience. Not a diet but way of life. Me too, no program, just back to the gym and eating better.
 
Welcome, Traci!

Good luck with tomorrow! You're a better woman than I if you can get up at 5:30 to exercise. :)

Might I suggest a few more calories? suggests more like 1300-1500 for your height, weight, and activity level. You need energy to work out!
 
Thanks for stopping by and comment ladies. I can use the support for sure! Ok so I am actually going to eat between 1350 and 1450 calories a day. I am going to try and rotate days. One day I plan on having around 1350 and the next day around 1450 and vice versa.

So the big question.... Did she get up and work out this morning at 5:30?? The answer........



YES!! :willy_nilly: I was out the door at 5:45 to head to my gym. I work about 30 minutes from my house, and we have a special deal with the gym only 1 mile away. Since I have to come to work, I joined that gym. It was at a price I could not pass up anyways. Plus they are building a gym just like it about 4 miles from my house so when it is built I can visit that one free of charge since it is in my area so I couldnt pass it up.

I got to the gym, and felt like all eyes where on the "new lady". You could tell everyone knew everyone there as they all seemed like the regular crowd. I had this thought as I was walking to the dressing room to drop off my gym bag that they were all wondering how long I would last at the gym. Would it be a week? A month? Maybe even two? I had to chuckle as I told myself I was crazy.

So I get on the treadmill and I went at a pace of 3.0 for 30 minutes. For me that is great because A) I hate cardio B) I havent done any sort of cardio since I stopped playing tennis in September C) Because I am REALLY out of shape!!

So it was a good morning. When I got done, my legs felt a little like Jello to say the least. Then I got my shower, got ready and headed to work.

When I got to work I had an email sent from my hubby this morning telling me he was proud that I got out of bed and actually when to the gym. This is coming from a man that just last night as I was preparing my foods told me that he loved me just as I was. Well that is great and dandy and all but I DO NOT LOVE ME THE WAY I AM. I miss the in shape, toned, feeling great ME. I do not like feeling fat, being tired all the time, and just not being able to fully play with my kids. Plus a girl always wants to feel sexy especially when out buying clothes, lingerie etc.

So I stepped on the scale today and I weigh 160. I have already drank 25 ounces of water and for me that is great condsidering how I hate water. My big issue today will not be my food, but will be SODA. I usually have 3-4 a day. (Yes you read that right) and now I am going to try to get down to zero. So my goal today is only to have 6 ounces of soda and then NO MORE. The rest of it will be water. My water goal is 80 ounces. Again this is a great goal for me because I drink ZERO water daily. I just hate it.

My food is spot on except for breakfast. I know I need a balance of protien and healthy carbs at each meal but I forgot my breakfast which was to be egg whites and oatmeal and I am eating my snack of Quaker rice cakes which are 90 calories.

The rest of meals for today are like this:

M1 - Rice Cakes (eating that now)
M2 - Chicken and spinach salad with Almonds on top + light dressing
M3 - LF Yogurt, Carrots, and a small piece of Chicken
M4 - Same as M2
M5- Will either be grilled chicken, grilled veggies, and sweet potatoe OR Grilled salmon with grilled veggies and sweet potatoe (I havent decided yet)
M6 - will be fruit, and cottage cheese


So this is day 1 - I am taking this ONE DAY AT A TIME! But just so you see where I am going here is my goals:

1st Mini goal - Work out 5 days this week. (Day 1 down)
2nd Mini goal - be down 8 lbs by January 1st
Major Goal - Be in a size 4 again by June 1st. Right now I am in a 12.

I will be setting weekly goals as I go along so this is a start.

Have a great day all!!

Traci
 
Way To Go or should I say Weigh to go

Hi Traci,

We are going thru the same crap, so I love reading your posts.

Thank you as I realize, I didn't write my goals and that is important to me.

Also, I don't drink water either. What I do at work is fill this 40 oz bottle I have in the morning. Before I allow myself to go to lunch, I must finish the water. Then after lunch refill it and the same thing, before I can go home, must finish it.
This way I am very conscious of it. Otherwise for me to just say, oh yeh, must have water, doesn't work.

I am shooting for 10lbs by January1st.

Let me go and post my goals.

By the way, I remember when I first started out w/ wts, gees,hate to date myself here but was about 20 yrs ago. Purchased a book by Joyce Vedral, the book showed before and after pics of exercises and a list of do's & don'ts
while doing the exercises. She had a chapter for at home and the gym.

I took my book to the gym and had it opened as I did the exercises, constantly referring to it. Now, u have to realize about 20 yrs ago, didn't usually see women working out in the wt section of the gym. Crap, don't even think they had anything less than 12lb wts.
Talk about all eyes on ya!!!
But the funny thing was, the guys were very impressed and really liked her book. I would have to ask them to spot me and they did.
 
Quitting the sodas. I LOVE COKE and I HATE water. Any suggestions?
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Start cutting back - not only the calories in the coke are detrimental to weight loss, but the chemicals in the soda are really bad for you (there's an email that floats around how police departments use coke to clean blood off the highway, etc etc - but in truth, a can of coke does make my toilet bowl all shiney white - do you really want to drink that? :D

Diet sodas aren't much better for you.

Try water with lemon slices in it -or lime slices - or other fruit slices.. to flavor it a bit...
 
Private Message

Hi Traci,

Tried to PM u but u r not set up.

Anyway, just to thank u for reminding me about the goals.

Had my water.

time for lunch
 
you have to be here a minimum of 5 days and 10 posts before the PM feature becomes active... it's in place to prevent spammers from trying to pm members..
 
Oh, Thanks Mal.

I wont fill up Traci's thread here, but have a ? about the tickerfactory. Went to create the ticker but where and how do you place it in your profile?
Thanks and sorry about this Traci. Next time I'll pm her.
 
NO worries!

I can help you there. If you go to your UserCP and click on edit signature you can put your ticker factory code there.

I will have PM one of these days. :)

So I am doing well. I have had 45 ounces of water, I have had meals 1,2, and 3 and I am have only had 6 ounces of soda. There will be no more soda for me today! Tomorrow I want to cut down to 3 ounces of Soda and by Friday I shall be at ZERO!!! :party:


I was thinking today of a way to keep me movitated and going. So I decided to pay myself each day that I reach a goal. It would work like this:

For each day that I eat 100% clean - I get $1.00
For each day that I exercise at LEAST 30 minutes - I get $1.00
For each day that I reach my water goal - I get $1.00

So I can make a possible $3.00 per day for a total of $21.00 per week. I am allowing myself one cheat meal a week and of course that would not hinder my dollar for that day as long as it is ONLY one meal for the week.
My goal is 187 days away. That is a possiblity of $561 dollars if I stick to my plan. I plan on making me a money jar tonight when I get home to stick my ones in there each day to pay myself.

The money I earn for myself will go to buy my new Summer wardrobe for my vacation that is in July. That to me is exciting in itself and a great motivitator. Soooooooooooooo I have earned 1 dollar today for my workouts and on track to earn the other for my water and food. :)

WISH ME LUCK!

Traci
 
Ps...This is one of the dresses I want to buy with my money = this picture is going on the front of my money jar:



Sorry I cant seem to get the picture to post but there is the link.

T
 
I just had to put it out there...

It is 4:41 pm and I HIT MY WATER GOAL ALREADY - 85 ounces down and still going strong. :party::party:
 
WooHoo - love it when we hit goals.

Love the Dress!
It will happen - i like your idea of eating clean.
for me, i have to get some food from the store so i have the right stuff available for my snacks.

did the water, so psyched about that and then wont eat after dinner. the only way I could do that before was to go to bed early. lol

Not buggiing me too much tonight, not sure why. but happy it's not
 
Welcome

Hi Traci!

Wanted to drop by your diary and welcome you to the WLF!
Sounds like you have a good plan in place for acheiving your goals within your timetable.
Being in Ga too I know EXACTLY what you mean about your Coke! I was the same as you. I had probably 3-4 Cokes a day at least. If you cut me I would bleed carbonated cola goodness! Middle of June I stopped. I actually switched to Sprite for about a week but then I quit all soda cold turkey. It was tough for the first week but after that it got alot easier. It helped that I like to drink water to begin with. I have only drank water and some fruit juices since June. I actually stopped the Cokes before I decided to start losing weight. You can do it though! If I can anyone can!

oh and How bout them Dawgs! :D
Glad to have a UGA fan on the forum!

Keep up the hard work and enjoy the forum.

Paul
 
HI Paul - I am so stoked about the Dawgs being 4th!! Now if Mizzouri can lose which I think they will to Oklahoma and if some MIRACLE falls out of the sky and West Virginia losses to Pitt then we are golden. Although if we cant get in the title game then I am up for playing in USC in a BCS bowl game for sure. Should be an interested football day on saturday. Although I am sad the season is almost over. I love football. Congrats on quitting those cokes. Yes anyone in the south knows that Cokes AND Sweet Tea at a big thing here. I love them both. Although I can do without the sweet tea but the soda gets me. I did only have my 6 ounces yesterday and the rest of the day was water.


Ok so today is day two. This morning when my alarm clock when off at 5:30 I rolled over and growled at it. My bed was nice and snug and cozy. But I got up. NO more execuses! So I got the gym and got on the treadmill. I am sticking to cardio all this week and then on Monday I will start with the weights and cardio. So yesterday I kept a steady walking pace of 3.0. But today I kicked it up a few notches. I wanted to try the HIIT and see how I did. So I started out walking 3 minutes at 2.7 and then I ran 2 minutes at 4.0. I kept this up for 30 minutes. It kicked my tail but I made it through it. I was surprised that I actually could keep up the running. And boy did that 30 minutes fly by on that treadmill today. Where as yesterday it was so slow.

Food is packed and laid out for today as well. MY water goal is 90 ounces. I had a goal of 80 yesterday and ended up drinking right at 90. So today my goal is 90 and lets see how I do. I will also only be drinking 3 ounces of coke today so that by Friday it is out of my life!

Here is my food today:

M1: Rice Cakes / Oatmeal
M2: Tuna / Green Salad
M3: Chicken salad (just chicken, golden raisins, almonds, and a tiny bit of light mayo) / Green Salad
M4: Same as M2 / LF Yogurt
M5: Not sure yet - will be healthy though!!!
M6: Protien Shake with Fruit


I will try to post my measurements tonight when I get home. They are not pretty! LOL But at least it gives me something to work towards and to have it in my journal will give me something to look back on.

Oh and yesterday - I was rewarded $3:hurray: so I am on my way!!


Traci
 
Oh and when I stepped on the scale this morning it showed 159. I know that it is water weight that is disappearing but still it was down!!

I weigh myself every morning just to see how I am doing. But my *official* weigh in day is Wednesdays. I document my weight on Wednesdays. So lets see what next Wednesday will bring.
 
Water Weight or not, I'm taking it!

Hi Traci,

Actually stepped on the scale and I too was down 1.5 lbs, might of been 2 but thought, don't push it, take the 1.5.

Yes, I thought the same, water weight. But I am not kidding when I tell ya my cal intake was probably easy over 3500 cals a day! So, now, probably cut out a good 1000 and then the water. My body is probably saying, wtf, where's our wine, where's the chocolate? lol

Didn't get to the gym this morning, kind of surprised that i was that tired this morning. Though, did go to sleep about 12, but still, w/ the no eating after diinner, thought for sure my body would of sprung up about 4 and said "hey, where the hecks the food????"
Well, don't care will go about 4:30 after i drop my kids at religion and have hubby pick them up, so i don't have to rush out of there. I don't think I've ever gone to the gym or this gym that late. Whole new crowd, wonder if it will be busy and no room in the wt. area?? Oh wells, have to deal.

Thanks Traci, u r keeping me in line here. Hope I am helping u as well. Loved the pic of the dress, use to have legs that looked great in those outfits. Gosh, what happened??? lol

Drink that water!!! I have 90 minutes to finish my 40ozs.

Speak to ya
 
Thanks for the post loseit. It keeps me in line as well.

So update on the rest of my day:

I am at 75 ounces of water - I have 15 more ounces to go before I go to bed. For dinner I had tilipia, sweet potatoes and sugar snap snow peas.

I have tomorrow's food plans out. I can not get to the gym in the morning as I have to take the kids to day care for my hubby who has to be in Atlanta super early. Sooooo tomorrow for my exercise I will do Tae-bo when I get home. I guess every day can not be perfect.

On another note - football saturday is just around the corner. We have the SEC championship which I am praying that tenn wins. I hate tenn with a passion but I am a big fan this weekend ! LOL

Ok time for me to go watch tv with the kids. I shall catch up tomorrow.

Traci
 
Day #3

Ok so I had a bad night last night and my morning is not to grand either. I know that not every day is going to be perfect and right on target but I like to think that I can come damn close.

I went to bed early because I had a headache. I am sure it is from caffiene withdrawel. Anyways, I woke up about 2 hours later to severe stomach pains. It was the worse gas pains. I could not pass the gas at all. You know when you have surgery and they blow you up with gas and then tell you later that it will hurt before it all passes? Well I had those pains alll night long. It hurt just to get up to walk to the bathroom. I still have them now but it is better.

My hubby says it is from the protien and green veggies I am eating this week like salad, etc. He is probably right but damn it is painful. So hopefully it is just my body adjusting to this healthy eating. I mean I go from eating out 3 times a day, drinking lots of cokes, and having a candy bar or two and then jump right into lots of water, healthy foods, and cutting my calories down to 1400 or so. I guess I have to reliaze that my body will go through a shock just like anything else.

Also me and the potty are becoming best friends. When does the running to the bathroom all the time stop? Man I am in there more than I am at my desk I think! LOL

Ok so this morning I did not make the gym which I knew I wouldnt. I will be doing cardio at home tonight when I get home. I had to get the kids to daycare for my hubby since he had to be in Atlanta super early. I forgot my foods for today as I am not use to having to worry with the kids. I am use to getting myself ready, and heading out the door before anyone ever gets up. Soooo I have some rice cakes at my desk, that will be my breakfast, I will also eat that as my snack. Lunch will be a salad out, minus any cheese, and a light dressing put ON THE SIDE and then I will stop by Publix on the way back to the office and get me some cottage cheese and yogurt for afternoon snack.

So even though my day is not going as planned I am still staying healthy. I mean I could have chaulked it up as oh well it is a wash and just dug into fattening stuff but I am not. I am keeping in line as much as I can.

Oh I almost forgot- I awarded myself $2 yesterday. I did not meet my water goal. I was shy by 5 ounces. I know I know I should have chugged that five ounces but I didnt. So I am up to $5 total now. Also I weighed in this mroning at 157.5 - I was quite proud of that number!!!

Will type more later - I have a funny coworker story to share about weight loss..... lol....

Traci
 
Hey Traci,

Man, that's great in regard to the wt. loss.

How's your water going today?? Come on, u don't want to lose another buck!

Next week, I will get a little more restricted on food.

Right now, trying to understand about fats/calories/bmr/hr/ss/hiit/calorie cycling, etc... So, much stuff, trying to grasp, feel like I am on overload.

To think of all the stuff I've read over the years. The last one was the Body for Life guy and I thought is he for real. Now, it seems like he was.

The one thing I found very interesting is the calorie cycling and changing your bmr. Wonder how long it takes to set your metabolic rate?

You know, if u go w/out food, they say your body goes into starvation mode, meaning changes metabolism. Well, how long do u have to eat before it changes it's rate? okay, another question for the forum. They r going to hate me after a while. lol

It's just overwhelming all the info out there. It's like going on a diet, weight watchers, atkins, zone, scarsdale, california, ice cream diet, everyone swares by one of them, but what is really correct? Not dieting anymore, just learning to eat in moderation and eat healthy. Might use the body for life guy's thing, where one day a week, u can eat what u want. Sunday, would be my day. But again, don't want to feel like I am depriving myself and want to really see this as lifestyle change.

k, get chugging there.
 
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