Skittles Weight Loss Diary

I weighed again this morning and found that I had lost another pound. My old clothes are getting closer to fitting again and I love it. This morning for breakfast I ate about 3/4 of a healthy pizza. I'm taking some of my left over chicken parmesan for lunch today and maybe a bowl of carrots. I'm off to suffer through another day of work.
 
My fiance and I were trying to figure out good diet hacks for things like chili dogs and pizza. We pretty much have pizza down by using a high fiber wheat pizza dough, vegetable and chicken breast toppings and low fat mozzarella.

Chili dogs though, I can't find a high enough fiber bun, or a low fat enough hot dog or chili that isn't so healthy that the fiance hates it. Lol.

Great work on your intake though! Just keep chugging along and it'll become natural.
 
For supper tonight I had a six inch chicken breast sub with light mayo. I still have to do my aerobics but I will probably wait till later to do it. I usually don't excercise until about midnight. For some reason I prefer to excercise late at night.
 
Today has already started out as a little of a splurge. I had two pancakes for breakfast with syrup. The pancakes were made out of heart healthy bisquick and instead of using a whole egg I used egg whites. The pancakes when made with whole eggs have about 140 calories each so I don't know how many calories it had with just using egg whites. My splurge was in the syrup. The only syrup I can eat is the pure maple syrup and it has 200 calories in 4 tablespoons. I don't think I had more than four table spoons, but I will have to keep lunch and dinner pretty light. If it isn't too cold out i'm gonna try to go for a run to work off the syrup.
 
I just got back from my walk/jog and I feel like death warmed over. I don't know exactly how far I walked but I know it was quite a ways. As soon as I get my tire changed I'm gonna go out and clock it on my trip meter. It took me a little over an hour. I think i'm ready for a nap now.


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I think you're doing a great job of being food conscious. A key thing in weight loss in maintenence is making sure if you do splurge that you work it off. Great work!
 
I really wanna go walking again but I don't want to go by myself. That is the hardest part for me about excercising, I hate to do anything by myself. If my best friend gets here soon i'm gonna see if she wants to go walking with me. Atleast my MP3 player is charged this time, so I can atleast listen to music.
 
Hi Skittles! Great job! You have a really great attitude and I really hope you make your goals!!

skittles22 said:
Thanks, I was trying to figure what I had eaten today and ended up being 551 calories, 19 grams of fat, 55 carbs, and 43 protein. I wasn't trying to go to far with the diet but if the figures on fitday are right then my carbs and fat still seem a little high and the calories seem actually to be kinda low. Especially considering that I do 50 minutes of aerobics a night. I think yesterday I had 750 calories.
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Be careful you don't go into starvation mode where your body stock piles the fat you eat. 750 calories is really really low! Be careful. Try more like 1400-1600 calories-- its more appropriate for your current weight. If you starve yourself its more likely you'll give up because you're holding yourself to too strict standards. You want to focus on a lifestyle change that you can be happy and comfortable with for life. Plus if you are exercising on that low of a calorie intake you are going to make yourself sick.

I agree with Lana if you focus on a high fiber and high protein intake your carbs won't matter. Just try to eat whole grains... nothing overprocessed. Pay attention to how much fiber is in the carb rich food. Also make sure you get 5-7 servings of veggies/fruit.

You're so right about lowfat milk. I used to really shy away from dairy but I find that milk, yogurt.. etc really help me feel fuller and healthy!

Keep up the good attitude, girl!
 
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Tonight's dinner was by far the best I have had since being on this diet. I had half a chicken breast cooked with a little olive oil, white wine, chicken broth, just a little white wine vinegar, basil, thyme, and diced tomatoes served on a bed of white rice. It was fabulous and according to the recipe only has about 350 calories. For dessert, I had a 100 calorie hostess cup cake pack.
 
I have always been one that was really bad about not eating breakfast food for breakfast. This morning I had one of my healthy pizza's for breakfast. It's funny to me, when I first started my diet I could eat a whole healthy pizza and still be hungry and now I can't even eat a whole one.
 
skittles22 said:
Tonight's dinner was by far the best I have had since being on this diet. I had half a chicken breast cooked with a little olive oil, white wine, chicken broth, just a little white wine vinegar, basil, thyme, and diced tomatoes served on a bed of white rice. It was fabulous and according to the recipe only has about 350 calories. For dessert, I had a 100 calorie hostess cup cake pack.
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This dinner sounds delicious! I try to find a substitute for white rice a lot of the time because it's around 300 calories a cup.

Do you mind if I ask what's in your healthy pizza?
 
I am horrible with trying to figure out how many calories are in the food I am eating. The box of rice that I had said it only had about 130 calories for half a pack of the rice (I used the boil in the bag rice). But, I don't know if they are reporting it correctly or if they are just getting our hopes up. I don't think I ate but maybe 1/3 of the pack though. I need to get me a scale so I can measure everything better.
 
Tonight's supper was absolutely wonderful, I made chicken pizza. I used 1/2 a pita bread (80 calories) and filled it with 1/4 cup of pizza sauce (30 calories)
1/3 cup part-skim mozzarella cheese (80 calories), and 3 ounces of grilled chicken breast strips (120 calories). Also, to help fill me up I drank 1 cup of skim milk (90 calories). I may have a 100 calorie hostess cup cake pack for snack, but i'm not sure yet.
 
For breakfast today I had a really awesome egg white omelette. I made it with two servings of egg whites (50 calories), Half a serving of part skim mozzarella cheese (80 calories per serving (1/3 cup), I used approximately half of the 1/3 cup), and half a serving of turkey pepperoni (70 calories per serving of 17 slices, I used 9 slices) For a total calorie count of approximately 125 calories plus two cups of milk (90 calories per serving). It was absolutely delicious. With milk a total calorie count of 305. I weight this morning and showed a gain of 1 pound but since I am excercising a lot that may be that I am gaining muscle. I'm hoping i'm not actually starting to gain again. I can't really limit my calorie intake much more.
 
Don't worry about a 1 lb fluctuation. Seriously, it's probably water weight. If that's the case, I would just suggest you make sure you're getting 2 liters of water a day and limit your sodium intake. You should see any lbs gained from water retention gone by the next morning.
 
Today at work I they provided us with cake to welcome our new managaer to the company. I tried really hard not to have any but I failed. To make up for it I walked a couple of laps around the track and played ping pong with my friend for a while. I really have to do my aerobics tonight. The last two nights I have gotten lazy and didn't do the aerobics but I really have to make up for it tonight.
For supper tonight I made a whole wheat pita pizza (80 calories) with part skim mozzarella cheese (80 calories), pizza sauce(40 calories) and turkey pepporoni (35 calories).
 
I went for the egg white omelette again for breakfast today. Getting to a plateu sucks. Last week I lost about 8 pounds and so far this week I haven't lost any. It really sucks! I'm glad i'm on this forum, so that I have a place t vent, right about now is when I would normally give up and eat everything in sight. But, I'm not allowing that to happen this time. Is there anyway to get past the depression when reach a plateu?
 
1 week without a loss does not a plateau make... :D a million things can explain not having a loss...

Keep track of what you're eating, make sure you're measuring everything... and staying hydrated... and your weight will move again...

Keep focused on your long term goal and where you want to be and don't let the little speed bumps get you down...

and keep track of measurements - you will often see changes there before you will on the scale
 
Today for lunch I had a oatmeal raisin granola bar (90 calories) and a bottle of apple juice (140 calories) which was all given to us by the company I work for. They also gave us a pack of 100 calorie cheese its but I haven't decided if I am going to eat those or not. Maybe later on for a snack or I may save them for tomorrow. To attempt to work off the apple juice and granola bar I walked three laps around the paved track which I think is about half a mile, maybe a little more. That is one of the big things I love about my company, we have a game room that has ping pong, foosball, and air hockey, outside we have a gravel track, a paved track, and horseshoe pit. Its great, lots of opportunity to get excercise while your here.
 
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