Tbone1234's Diary!

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tbone1234

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Hi guys,

I've never made a food diary before (or a diary of any sort for that matter), but here's a go at it. I'm going to keep this up to date with everything pertaining to my weight loss journey... so I apologize in advance if I may be cynical, depressed, or overly excited with joy!! Haha.

I'm hoping this will be helpful because I'll feel accountable to everyone who reads this, that I don't slack off on my diet. Anyway... here we go! Day 1 begins...
 
My current height is 5'10". I'm 242 pounds, and my overall goal weight is 180 by next May. However, I want to do it in increments... so my goal is to trim down to 200 by December (that's 42 pounds to lose in 4 months... 10 pounds a month, a little over 2 pounds a week). I'm trying to push myself to not be lazy, but also to be realistic with my weight loss goal.

I'll be posting later today with my fooding habits, etc. Hopefully I'll look back on these beginning posts by December and be overjoyed by my success!
 
August 4th:

Food log - For breakfast, I had a cup of lime juice with warm water and honey (I'm going to start drinking 2 cups of these regularly... one in the morning on an empty stomach, and one in the evening). Lunch time, I had a couple wheat tortillas, eggplant/peas/potatos mixture, and yogurt. Not sure the exact calorie count on this, but I ate in moderation. For dinner I plan to have the same as for lunch. I'm also currently half way done drinking my 3L water bottle (I recommend everyone gets the big 3L ozarka bottle to meet their daily water requirement).

Exercise log - Not much today... 30 minutes on the treadmill alternating between 0,3,5 inclines for 5 minutes each while keeping a consistent 3mph speed. I want to up this, but for now I'll keep it as is.


Additional comments - This is the format I'll likely keep for future posts. Maybe I'll change it up a little as I get some ideas from other people's diary. But yeah! I have to be honest... I never would've thought I'd be keeping a food diary. It just sounded so weird to me, like a little kid thing. But I'm beginning to understand how helpful it is, and I'm pretty excited about it!!! :coolgleamA:

One thing... the lime juice/warm water+honey is amazing! I've been drinking it for the past couple days (2 cups a day). I've read amazing things about it, and I feel good with it. It doesn't taste amazing... but hey, it's only a cup right? I'm sure it'll be better during the winter times and not 105 degrees outside. :p
 
So I just woke up from a nap (I'm going to be up all night now, ughhh), and I accidentally skipped dinner time. So I'm definitley running on a shortage of calories for the day, but I don't want to eat right now because even though I'm hungry... it's like 11pm. How do I fight these late night cravings.... I assume will-power.

I was wondering what ya'lls opinion was about afternoon naps. My sleep cycle is all kinds of messed up, so I end up napping int he afternoon for like 4 hours. I know this slows down the metabolism a lot... but, as dumb as this is to say, it prevents me from overeating right? Can't eat when you're sleeping!! haha. :rolleyes:

Anyway... I plan to try to get back to sleep, or just not eat anything for however long I'm awake. Maybe some goldfish or something.... lol.
 
My sleep pattern is a mess as well. You're right, you can't eat if you're sleeping. However, the afternoon naps will or could keep you up later throughout the night and that gives you time to over eat as well.

Why not a small snack at night if the cravings are too bad? If you are going to be up for a while longer, maybe an apple or toast.

Good Luck with your goal.
 
WOW!! It's been about 3 weeks since I last posted!!! Let me just give a quick update:


So as I mentioned before... I've been applying to medical schools which is a very stressful, intense, time consuming process. During this process, I ate HORRIBLY!!! My weight jumped from 242 to about 248. I couldn't control myself... I just felt the need to make an excuse to not diet since I had all this pressure in applying to medschool.


HOWEVER... I recently got my first interview invite (followed by two more!! :D ), and the first one is on September 29th. Since I got the invite (8/22), I've been busting my butt on the treadmill, eating low amounts each day... and my weight this morning on an empty bladder was 137.8. So I went up, but I made up for it with interest!! :)


I'm worried I'm eating too few calories though. Here's what I've had the past couple days:


Skinless, boneless chicken parmesan (I'd say it's about 350 calories, but I round it up to 500).


2 peaches (one for lunchish, one at night)... I'd say each peach is about 50 calories... so let's say 100 total.


Snack on goldfish .... so about 150 calories?



Overall, I feel like I'm taking in less than 1,000 calories a day. I feel hungry sometimes (like right now), but nothing enough to drive me out of my mind. In any case, I'm going to see how things go... I'll keep this updated though, if not for ya'lls reading pleasure, then at least my own. :) And I think I'm going to reset my "Day"s back to 1 starting tomorrow, since I never really got to Day 2 did I.... lol, whoops.
 
Hey! I've just rejoined after years of not being on here, lol. You can check out my diary (the last few posts are the recent ones). Basically, I lost 60, gained back 50, had baby, trying to lose again. LOL... to sum it up briefly!


Good luck on your weight loss journey and your interviews!


Just to comment on your calories, if you're eating 1000 that's really not even close to being enough. I know for women, calories should not go below 1200. For men, I'm not sure but it would be more. If you want sustainable weight loss, I would really try and increase the calories. There's some easy ways to do this, for example, adding whole grains (good for you too!) like at breakfast, have a piece of whole grain toast with eggwhites (I liked to cook mine with salsa and peppers!). For snacks, yogurt is awesome, but adding some nuts like almonds will add some calories and healthy fats at the same time. Lunch, if you make sandwiches, wraps or salads, putting avocado in it will add some calories, give you the healthy fats and it tastes awesome (good substitite for mayo). Also cooking with a little bit of olive oil (again the healthy fat). I also heard we should have protein with every meal (that one can be a little tough for me) so I would have a protein drink if I didn't have anything else. Hopefully some of this will help!


What may help is calculating your basal metabolic rate (bmr), then finding out what your daily calorie needs are. Knowing those numbers and then subtracting 500-1000 cals per day (equals 1-2 lbs weight loss per week) will help you know what calories you need to eat to lose weight but still be healthy. I used this site http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ At least it'll give you an idea!


Feel free to visit my diary anytime you like :) I need all the help I can get! lol
 
Hi Risty! I just posted on your thread. Thanks for visiting! I'm very very serious about my weight loss this time and I, like you, can use all the support I can get. :)


I hear you on the calorie count. I weighed myself this morning and was 135.8. I like the way the scale is going, but don't want to do this an unhealthy way. With the medschool interview coming up, I guess I'm getting anxious to lose as much weight as possible even if it means jeopardizing my health. I need to rethink my strategy!!


I'm still wanting to get down to 200 by December, and 175 by next June. I feel this is attainable and healthy. Right now, I've been doing the treadmill for about 30 minutes a day, alternating inclines and doing jogging intervals. I change it up as much as I can and give myself about a minute's worth of rest on 0 incline and 3mph speed, then kick up the incline and/or speed. I'm wanting to up the time, but honestly... the treadmill gets so BORING after a while! And it's way to hot outside to play tennis or basketball :( . I guess I'll just keep at it!!


My meal yesterday was:


2 turkey dogs + buns = 300 calories

goldfish = 100

homemade chicken parmesan with fat free cheese = at most 400 calories

2 peaches = 70 calories


So yeah, I'm under 1,000 cals again. The thing is... I feel hungry but not dying of hunger... so I feel like I can sustain this type of eating without indulging at night. But I know this is unhealthy, so I'll start eating more.


My meal today has been/will be:


2 supreme lean pockets = 450 calories

homemade chicken parmesan with fat free cheese = 400

peach = 35 cals

Weight watchers ice cream bar (for a night snack) = 90 cals
 
Yeah going at it in a healthy way is the way to go if you want it to be long term! People who do it unhealthy gain it back. I'm sure you can reach your weight loss goals by doing it healthy :)


Good luck with your interviews! I hope they go well :)
 
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