YellowSub tries....Again

YellowSub

YellowSub

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The title says it all, I have tried to lose weight three times over the past year and failed miserably. This time I would like to suceed and thought keeping a diary might help me deal with my emotional eating and suspected sugar addiction.

I actually work for a fashion company and vendors always send us gourmet pies, cakes, and brownies. It is a chubby girls' HELL, or heaven I suppose depending on how you look at it. Of course I pass the sweets table to nibble um, twice a day. Ok maybe three times. But who's keeping count?

I am currently 5'8" 200lb and would like to be 135lb. Most of my life I have had extremely fast metabolism (which is how I got use to no excercise and ding dongs for breakfast) and now due to a medical condition is it slow as molasses. Going from 115lb to 200lb has been quite a shock and frankly I would like to wear some hoochie clothes again!! :)

Tomorrow I begin my first day of diet (no junk) and excercise (walking to work) so to quote a wonderful band called White Snake, "Here I go Again!" Wish me luck and to everyone who writes these diaries, thanks I have been up all night reading and enjoying!
 
I like your name ;) welcome! Very cool that you posted a diary, WLF is great for support, truly I do not know that I could be doing this without it...good luck YellowSub! :)
 
Thanks so much for the support Lukewarm. Your icon pic is cool I need one of those!

Today I made little changes, went for a walk... I avoided the evil mocha with whipped cream and got a plain (yawn) coffee. Also instead of having my usual bowl of ice cream and coke after dinner I had some dried fruit and seltzer.

In all it was a good but not great day diet wise. I would probably be better off not snacking late at night.....but then I remind myself you have to learn to crawl before you can walk!

I would like to do a detox, if you have any suggestions on one that works post away!
 
Hee hee, hoochie! I love that word :)

Detox can mean a whole bunch of things, and there are lots of ways to do it. I've seen water or tea fasts over a weekend (or other 1-2 day period when you can shirk responsibility because y'ain't doing much on no calories!), and I've also seen fibre cleanses (keep near a potty!). I can say that no matter which detox you choose to do, please do all the research before you start, because it is very easy to cause more damage than harm when you drastically change the way you eat, even for a couple days.
 
Right I agree with Solaani. I think you should make sure you have formulated some solid healthy habits regarding your diet before you embark on a cleanse. However if you do a cleanse, it could be a good way to jumpstart the whole process, I don't know I've never done one. But good luck :) ...do you calorie count at all?
 
How are you tracking your food? Do you know what your caloric range is? Welcome to the forum by the way. Since you've tried and given up I hope you find what will work for you over the long term. For me I decided that I need to eat as much as possible and still lose weight, so I am eating 20% less than my maintenance calories. Many people on this forum track calories and I decided with all that support that that's how I'd go too. Before I was doing Weight Watchers.

Read as much as you can, see the section for newcomers.

Congratulations on your new life.

I just finished reading Passing For Thin and in it she says, among other things, with obesity, you can always have more food, but you can't have anything else.

Think of food as fuel. Get your rewards elsewhere.
 
Thanks! It took me forever to decide between the yellow sub or Elvira..but I figured it should match my name for now.

I registered yesterday with the website FitDay so I can track my calories....wow was I shocked when I saw the total after my first day! :confused: Those snacks can really add up!

Today was much better....lean meat, nonfat dairy and veggies/fruit. I already feel slightly thinner but my mind may be playing tricks on me. I am going to weigh myself on Thurs to see if there has been any progress as that is my one week checkpoint.

I know I shouldn't be a slave to the scale but just want to see how my body is responding.

Tonight I was watching the Shaq special about overweight children....very tough to watch. But in the end I'm glad I did. It made me think over my lifestyle choices and what the consequences of them might be.

Friday will be a tough night as it is the hubby's birthday and I am going to a fancy dinner.....I am planning on just eating lightly and avoiding the booze because it makes me super bloated! Will update here on Friday/Saturday with how it went!

Oh and I am thinking of signing up for some dancing classes....although I can't make up my mind if I want to do ballet, tap or hip hop. Probably hip hop so when I wear my hoochie clothes I will know how to shake my *ss without looking constipated. :jump:
 
Yay success at last! I have been keeping to the diet and was able to do the dinner cruise without over indulging. I did have a few drinks but only ate half my entree and app. and skipped the dessert.

It helped that everyone at our table remarked how bad the dessert was and it resembled a stale muffin. Hmmm....maybe that's the trick...making sure to only be around unappealing desserts? Although seeing as I am the type of person to eat an M&M off the floor (three second rule!) that is easier said than done.

I have already lost 8lbs but am expecting some of that is water weight and I have probably lost more like 2-3 "real" pounds. I would like to step up the excercise next week, first step will be to unglue myself from the couch in this summer heat!
 
After a long (too long!) hiatus I am now back.....I had some family stuff going on with my father being ill and I had to focus my attention on that. I gained a bit but have been working out and eating (somewhat) healthy. What's that saying if you fall off the horse you have to get right back on? I'm trying to do that.......

Last week I was doing an awesome job...working out, eating right. I was a little dynamo! But then Saturday I really effed up and went NUTS with the eating! I was going to "reward" myself with an ice cream and that turned into some popcorn, a soda....let's just say it wasn't pretty and I felt like crap on Sunday. Instead of using food as a reward (duh! Why did I even think that would work???) I am going to give myself a mani/pedi combo for each week I am "good."

I started a support group called "Eye of the Tiger" for other people who are trying to lose weight mostly by working out. It all started with a horrific bathing suit incident I go into more detail about on the thread........

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/club/15546-eye-tiger-workout-club.html

And just as a final though what is up with the lack of cute big girl clothes?? Do people seriously think I want to wear a mumu like tent or ruffles over problem areas?? I know people don't look at me and think "hmm I thought that girl was chubby but with that well placed ruffle hiding her flab I'm not sure." Some NORMAL well cut clothes would be much better in my opinion. :rolleyes:
 
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