Striving to Be a Weight Loss Champ

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I've been keeping a blog, but this place is starting to feel like 'home', kwim? So I'm keeping a log of my weekly goals. Who knows, maybe something'll work right this time around losing weight and my log can help someone else. :D

Here's this week's goals (started on Monday):

My Week Four Challenge

1. 10,000 calorie intake limit (~ 1,400 a day)

2. 60 8-ounce glasses of water minimum (~ 8.5 glasses a day)

3. 10 hours of exercise minimum (~ 1.5 hours a day)

4. 30 cups of fruits and vegetables minimum (~ 4 cups a day)

5. 300 grams of protein mimimum (~ 40 grams a day)

It's Wednesday night and so far, so good for the most part. Here's my stats:

1. 5,900 calories (I've either got to control my eating better or up my calorie intake a bit. Guess which one I want to do. :p)

2. 28 glasses of water

3. 5.5 hours of exercise

4. 11 cups of fruits and veggies

5. 130 grams of protein
 
I did something horrible today and I should have known better. I wasn't feeling hungry before I left the house this morning, so I just packed a cup of corn cereal for the day. Four o'clock rolls around and I was faminished. Not a big deal if I just went straight home and ate a healthy meal, but I had to go to Target with my daughter. She wanted that yogurt-strawberry Cherrios cereal (I owed her from yesterday for good behavior), so we headed down the cereal aisle.

Then what happens next becomes a blur. Next thing I know I'm at home munching on chips and cookies. 1,000 calories worth of junk down the hatch. It's 7 p.m. and I'm at 1,500 calories. I threw away the rest of the chips and cookies, so hopefully I'll have a salad later and exercise, then call it a day.
 
Welcome, Champ! :)

Don't feel too bad about binging a little ^_^". We all have our setbacks, but so long as we get back on track, we'll be all right ;). How'd the salad and exercise go?
 
Thanks for stopping by, Readytolive and Wishes. I ended up not exercising last night and then went on to eat more. My calorie intake was 3,000. :( But life goes on and today's a new, better day. :)

Yesterday's calorie intake was a big flop (and today I'm 2.5 lbs more floppy, lol). I've always been a big eater - except for the couple of years I lived by myself - and need to work on this.

I need to understand why I binge. My best guess is that it's part habit, part environment, and part anxiety. Growing up, my mom gave me junk food every day as a way to make up for working so much. Also, we lived in a bad neighborhood and I wasn't allowed to go outside and play. My mom got me a TV for my bedroom (even though I asked her not to buy it). I ended up watching a lot of TV (and reading a lot, too) - but both activities didn't burn calories.

Cut to my early adult years. When I was at my thinnest, I lived alone and brought only nutrious foods into my house. I was extremely active and had friends who were the same way. Instead of eating out with friends, we hiked and camped and danced.

And now here I am married, a mother, and going to college full-time. My husband is a big eater and enjoys going out to eat (something I didn't do before). And while his body can handle the large amounts of food, mine can't - but I feel akward not eating while he still is.

He also likes to watch a lot of TV - something I didn't do when I was single. I like to be near my hubby, so I stopped exercising as much and started relaxing more in front of the TV.

Hubby's parents are also big eaters. They celebrate holidays with days' worth of fattening foods and treats. It's hard to say no when his mother repeatly asks me if I want this or that. She'll even bring me a plateful of food when I've told her no several times. I was always taught to respect my elders, so this puts me in a delicate position. Usually, I'll give the food to my hubby or daughter, but sometimes when it's sitting right in front of me and smells so delicious, I cave in and eat it.

Studying for classes is another weak area of mine. I am a slow learner and get anxious when I'll be studying or doing homework for hours and still not understand things completely or am not finished with the work. And this also gets me feeling guilty that I should be playing with and educating my child. Food feels (momentarily) comforting when I get anxious and guilt-ridden.

My last weak area is that overeating has just become habit. I need to re-train my body to eat less food (especially junk foods).

Whew! I feel like a mess. But writing down my flaws and trying to understand the reasons why I overeat is a start. Now I need to figure out ways to combat my weaknesses. :)
 
Its good that you recognize your problems though and attack them head on rather than denying you have a problem or waiting for somebody else to fix it for you.

Amazing how many people kid themselves into thinking they dont have a problem, heck im sure most of us did that whilst being overweight anyway at some time or other.
 
Wishes, I can't deny my problem - especially when only one pair of my pants are fitting right now. :eek:

I think my next strategy is focus on my "anxiety eating". The next time I feel like eating just because I'm anxious, I'll ask myself the following questions:

1. What is eating going to do for me? Will eating solve my current problem?

2. How will I feel after I've eaten this food? Is eating now worth the 'pain' it causes later?

3. How else, besides eating, can I feel better about my current problem? How else can I help myself?

Well, that's my plan for now. I'm going to print out these questions and write down my answers so I just don't skimp on my answers.

I have a good feeling that this will work. :D
 
awesome work.
Im lucky in that respect, i never really binged, i never really hd any problems like that - my only vice is eating when im tired.

If i dont get overtired then i dont eat! so simple solution.
I admire your guts getting in there and whipping its ass
 
Thanks, wishes.

Yesterday I threw my lower back out as I was in my final 5 minutes of my workout. I ended up spending the rest of the day not doing much of anything because of the pain. I vow to never do alternating marching in place and leg kicks again - that's what I was doing when my back got injured.

Today I'm still in pain, but at least I can move around better. After this pain is gone I'm stepping up my weight training program so hopefully this doesn't happen again.

I really want to exercise later today (on the elliptical trainer - that's a pretty safe exercise). I also don't want to get moving again before my lower back is fully healed. But I feel so icky if I miss a day of exercise. And I already feel somewhat icky because I had planned on doing a second workout yesterday but couldn't.

*sigh* I feel so old and feeble right now. And I'm only 30! Just one more reason to step up my game and lose this excess weight. :)
 
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