Veronique's Diary

Time to face the music

Ok so I have been looking over my diary because I seem to have such a hard time loosing the weight, and I am annoyed with myself usually when I set my mind on something I do it 100%, this time around I slack a lot I stay with in points most days but since I am only recording what I eat on here sometimes when diner changes I don't update and could end up goin over but not counting it.....also I am not as strict as I used to be with mesuring stuff and I just look at it and say ok that is about right and count the point value with out really mesuring. Startin this weekend I will mesure even if it is time consuming I have to start , the weight needs to come off
 
I was just reading through your diary...I find it very interesting. Our stories are very similar. I am pretty new to this site and I am just starting to meet new people. I weigh 181 right now. I am a mother of a 9 mo old son. I am finding it EXTREMLY HARD to stay motivated right now. When I first came on this site I was full of motivation...but now a couple of months have passed and I have lost it. I have only lost 6.6 lb in 3 months. I was hoping to lose at least 20 lb by this point. :( I have a very supportive husband. I just can't seem to stay motivated. I try to follow the food for life program. It's just basically eating by the canada's food guide. In a day your allowed 5 grains, 2 protein, 2 milk, 8-10 fruit & veg, 3 fats, 125 cal for extras. Like you I use to measure, etc. Now I just guess...and most days go over on grains, proteins, etc. I own a treadmill, WII fit, Wii active, yet i will look for any excuse to not use them. I wish there was an easy way.
A few years ago when I found myself overweight I joined the Food For Life program. It was weekly meetings and weigh ins and keeping a daily food journal. I lost 30 lb in 2 months. I loved it...It felt so good. Then over the past few years after marriage, having a baby, I find myself 50 lb overweight again. So I thought ok i'll use the food for life program again and this will be easy. WRONG... I am so down on myself everyday, I cry most days...and where do I go for the comfort...FOOD!!! Today is friday, because my husbands works long hours all week, we usually try to do alot on the weekends...which means eating out at restaurants, watching movies and snacking, just enjoying each others company. So I feel even if I do have a good week...I always blow it when the weekend comes. Not to mention that my husband is a phys. ed teacher and coach so he is in excellent shape. So when we do go anywhere i feel embarrassed because he is good looking and fit, I feel like people look at us and think what is he doing with her. He says I'm beautiful and losing the weight is up to me...he loves me the way I am.

So i just thought I'd say hello and your diary is an inspiration to me...sorry about the rant, but it actually made me feel better to get it off my chest. LOL
Congrats on your weight loss so far.
 
Monique01 said:
I was just reading through your diary...I find it very interesting. Our stories are very similar. I am pretty new to this site and I am just starting to meet new people. I weigh 181 right now. I am a mother of a 9 mo old son. I am finding it EXTREMLY HARD to stay motivated right now. When I first came on this site I was full of motivation...but now a couple of months have passed and I have lost it. I have only lost 6.6 lb in 3 months. I was hoping to lose at least 20 lb by this point. :( I have a very supportive husband. I just can't seem to stay motivated. I try to follow the food for life program. It's just basically eating by the canada's food guide. In a day your allowed 5 grains, 2 protein, 2 milk, 8-10 fruit & veg, 3 fats, 125 cal for extras. Like you I use to measure, etc. Now I just guess...and most days go over on grains, proteins, etc. I own a treadmill, WII fit, Wii active, yet i will look for any excuse to not use them. I wish there was an easy way.
A few years ago when I found myself overweight I joined the Food For Life program. It was weekly meetings and weigh ins and keeping a daily food journal. I lost 30 lb in 2 months. I loved it...It felt so good. Then over the past few years after marriage, having a baby, I find myself 50 lb overweight again. So I thought ok i'll use the food for life program again and this will be easy. WRONG... I am so down on myself everyday, I cry most days...and where do I go for the comfort...FOOD!!! Today is friday, because my husbands works long hours all week, we usually try to do alot on the weekends...which means eating out at restaurants, watching movies and snacking, just enjoying each others company. So I feel even if I do have a good week...I always blow it when the weekend comes. Not to mention that my husband is a phys. ed teacher and coach so he is in excellent shape. So when we do go anywhere i feel embarrassed because he is good looking and fit, I feel like people look at us and think what is he doing with her. He says I'm beautiful and losing the weight is up to me...he loves me the way I am.

So i just thought I'd say hello and your diary is an inspiration to me...sorry about the rant, but it actually made me feel better to get it off my chest. LOL
Congrats on your weight loss so far.
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Thank you for stopping by Monique..the Diaries are made for ranting and I too find it helps I love reading other peoples diaries I find motivation and new idee. I love meeting new people. We can do this!!!!
 
Verobc said:
Ok so I have been looking over my diary because I seem to have such a hard time loosing the weight, and I am annoyed with myself usually when I set my mind on something I do it 100%, this time around I slack a lot I stay with in points most days but since I am only recording what I eat on here sometimes when diner changes I don't update and could end up goin over but not counting it.....also I am not as strict as I used to be with mesuring stuff and I just look at it and say ok that is about right and count the point value with out really mesuring. Startin this weekend I will mesure even if it is time consuming I have to start , the weight needs to come off
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Good for you! I need to tighten up too and get back on track! It's good that you were able to pinpoint these things, sometimes it is so easy to overlook the little things that are so essential! I have a feeling that weigh in next friday will be a little lighter for you:) Go for it Veronique, WE CAN DO IT!!!
 
Xenon said:
Good for you! I need to tighten up too and get back on track! It's good that you were able to pinpoint these things, sometimes it is so easy to overlook the little things that are so essential! I have a feeling that weigh in next friday will be a little lighter for you:) Go for it Veronique, WE CAN DO IT!!!
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Thank you Xe......How about we both have a great week this week that should give me anyways my motivation back!!!! I don't know how I can go from super motivated to blah why am I working so hard on this?? This weekend I wanted to go throught my whole kitchen and throw out anything I shouldn't eat, but really how it that gonna help my will power???? So we can do this.......We are having ourselves a good week!!!!
 
April 26 2010

Happy Monday! Ok so this weekend I did a lot of thinking, and I was supposed to plan my meal for the whole week but didn’t'’ cause I spent most of my waking hours in the park, we even ate in the park so at least I was doing something, not sitting all the time but since we where not home, my eating wasn’t that great, we ate McDonalds on Saturday I hat the spicy Thai salad but I am sure the dressing has a tone of calories but at least there where veggies in there and I didn’t add the noodles I figured at least I am cutting down on calories also I ate it with the grilled chicken not the breaded one, I ate pancakes for breakfast at least I replaced half the flour for oatmeal and added some flaxseeds in there and I put a tbsp. of peanut butter on there.. I skipped lunch on Sunday not un purpose I just was busy and forgot to eat, then I made southwest chicken for diner so that is about 7pts per portion which is not too bad. Starting today I will measure everything better also halfway through last week I realized that my point allocation for the day was suppose to be lower since I had weighed under the 175lb unofficially on Sunday the 18 so that probably added to the fact that my weight didn’t go down. This week I will eat 24pts a day and I will measure out my portion no just say ok that is about a cup I have to measure I slacked a bit on water last week too I was busier at work and didn’t drink as much so starting today 88oz + a day. I will walk every morning from where the bus drops me off because I have no choice lol and if the weather permits I will walk for 30 min at lunch and go run at least 3 times this week. On the days I don’t run I will still workout but concentrate on toning! Today did not start great my alarm didn’t go off, and as if I wasn’t already late the dog ran away I looked for him for 30 min but then I had to leave, I took his cage outside so if he where to come back during the day he will have a place to sleep and his food, water and fave toy, and my neighbor is suppose to keep an eye out for him too. Hopefully he will be back tonight my daughter was crying when we left, all of this to explain my choice of breakfast

Breakfast
Coffee 2pts
Tim’s breakfast sandwich on 12 grain bagel (no meat) 9pts
Snack
Green Tea
Lunch
½ a serving of Southwest Chicken 3.5pts
1 cup of pineapple 1pts
Snack
Kelloge granola bar 2pts
At this point 13.5 pts
Which leaves me with 4.5 pts for diner …not too bad but I don’t want to eat too much for my evening meal cause I still have to work out after that! Maybe I will split it in two and have a snack I will update this in the morning!Hubby decided that we are having pizza for diner, so I am going to have a slice along with some salad (no dressing) so I should still be with in my points range since my pizza is veggie and I always ask that they only put 1/2 the cheese on mine and the place where we order from has a very thin crust, still bad but it could be worst!I will count 4.5 pts for one slice and have no snack after my workout! I will only drink water tonight no pop or wine!
Have a Great Day!
 
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Hey!! Our stories are so much alike, it's almost scary...lol I'm so happy to have found people who truly understand how I feel. Big congrats on being under 175lbs. I remember seeing that number when I was on the way up.....I hated it then....I would love it now. I hope you find your doggy :)
 
Verobc said:
So we can do this.......We are having ourselves a good week!!!!
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Damn right! :)

I just wanted to invade your diary to let you know I tried the pita pizza thing you recommended. DELICIOUS! 155 cals AND I had 5 slices of turkey pepperoni on it :D Thanks so much for telling me about it!

I really hope your dog came back already and he's safe!
 
April 27 2010

Good Morning....ok so I will start with the good news! The dog came back! He was sitting in front of the door when my hubby came back chewing on his fave toy!!! The kids where soo happy, and I got to admit that even if the dog and I don't get along I was happy to know he was safe, car and truck drive so fast right in front of our house I was kind of worried. Yesterday I got to walk at lunch time about 30 min, aside from that I walked up and down the stair with laundry I am counting that as leg and arm work out cause it was heavy. I ate one piece of Pizza I wish my hubby would learn to do the home made vertion I usually do but no "he was too tired", I was also kind of peeved when I saw that he got two medium he buys one with meat that he shares with the kids but why a medium Vegi now I am gonna be eating that for the whole week. Guess what I have for lunch today lol!!! I did drink my 88oz of water yesterday good thing with all the sodium in the Pizza. Also I went to bed at 11:30 I hate when I do that,,,,if I go to bed past 10 pm I know the next day will be hell! It's gonna be hard to resist coffee today I am so tired and the cold wet wheather not forgetting the freaking snow I woke up too are not helping much! Unless there is a drastic change in the weather no walking at lunch so that means mega workout tonight !

today
Breakfast
breakfast sandwich from tims (I am grocerie shopping tinight) 9pts
coffee 2pts
snack
green tea
lunch
1 vegi pizza slice 4 1/2 pts
1 cup of salad no dressing
snack
green tea
diner
chicken and salad with 2tbsp of dressing 6pts
wich would bring me at 21.5 pts so no snack cause I don't know if anything that is half a point!

I am doing my regular circuit training tonight ( i wish I knew all the name of the exercise I am doing so I could write them on here but I don't if I have time today I will reasearch that. Have a great one people
 
Xenon said:
Damn right! :)

I just wanted to invade your diary to let you know I tried the pita pizza thing you recommended. DELICIOUS! 155 cals AND I had 5 slices of turkey pepperoni on it :D Thanks so much for telling me about it!

I really hope your dog came back already and he's safe!
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I am glad you enjoyed it...I just love that I can load it with stuff I want, I love brocolie and zuccinni I my Pizza no restaurent have that in my area also i like different colours of pepper some times even jalepenos not the one soaked in vinegar but fresh ones!!!
 
skinnyB***h said:
Hey!! Our stories are so much alike, it's almost scary...lol I'm so happy to have found people who truly understand how I feel. Big congrats on being under 175lbs. I remember seeing that number when I was on the way up.....I hated it then....I would love it now. I hope you find your doggy :)
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The numbers didn't actually stay under 175 lol by my officiall weight in they where back to the previous week's number...oh well that what happends when you eat sodium......I will get back there. When I read your diary I was like OMG this should have my name on it lol! I know what you mean, about not liking a certain number on the way up but when you change the perspective it becomes a good number lol I now just hope I can leave these kind of number behind altogether! Thank you for stopping by!!!
 
Wow, I just caught up with your diary and it sounds like you had a pretty dramatic week. Good job sticking with it through all that.
 
Just stopped by to say your story helped motivate me and I am down this week to 179.8 YAY!!! Out of the 180's...now I need to stay out of the 180's haha. I agree when your weight goes up the numbr is so dreadful...but coming down so pleasant to see. :) Good luck this week.
 
Monique01 said:
Just stopped by to say your story helped motivate me and I am down this week to 179.8 YAY!!! Out of the 180's...now I need to stay out of the 180's haha. I agree when your weight goes up the numbr is so dreadful...but coming down so pleasant to see. :) Good luck this week.
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I know what you mean every week when I step on the scale I so afraid to see the 180"s comming back! I have to stop the negative thinking...if I eat right and I exercise why would it come back right???? Congrats and keep up the good work!
 
Ok so I decided to come on here again....because I am having tea and I would kill for some cookies or something sweet to go along with it....so I told myself come online and distract yourself don't go looking for a cookie, they have the best ones at the train station......thank god it's freezing out there cause I would be across the street buying a cookie to go with my tea.....then again mabee not cause if it wasn't cold I would not be drinking tea lol , mabe I can blame cold weather for my being over weigt lol!
 
Hi Veronique- I read through your journal. You have had quite the journey so far. Congratulations on the weight loss so far. It is really inspiring to see you juggling work, kids, husband, eating well and exercise. It motivates me to do more. Keep up the good work!!
 
Just a quick drive by post to say g'day.

Excellent idea to come online to distract yourself from a cookie. I have been known to do so as well.

Cheers, matey.
 
juni said:
Hi Veronique- I read through your journal. You have had quite the journey so far. Congratulations on the weight loss so far. It is really inspiring to see you juggling work, kids, husband, eating well and exercise. It motivates me to do more. Keep up the good work!!
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Hi Juni thank you for stopping by......I find it rather hard to jugle all those sometimes I whish I could stop the clock you know just press pause and have a workout and then press play and get back to my daily life. My husband doesn't think I need to loose weight and doesn't get that I need the me time, he will come around lol I am very hard headed!!!!! I will try and stop by your journal today!
 
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