loose 5 pounds

How I did it: My roommate and I ate out EVERY day last year and I gained  20lbs! and it wasn't just about eating out, i was lazy and did not exercise or really move for that matter. i got huffy and puffy going up the stairs. i was 110 when i graduated high school and 120 when i left college. i hit 140 just last year.

anyways, we moved to a nicer apartment in January and stopped eating out every day because we had a nice place with a nice kitchen. i stopped eating so much that i was incredibly full and ate a bigger breakfast instead. i snacked more to stop myself from binging when i got home from work (that almost always lead to that gross i'm so stuffed feeling) i tried to buy more fruits and vegetables and cut down on the rice and bread.

we also bought the wii fit in february. i worked out on it and it really does work!! i started out at 136lbs, went back up to 140 in a few days (weight fluctuations) and usually stayed at about 138lbs. 

about two months later, i am at a stable 130!!! i'm about 128 in the mornings and night time and 132 after i eat. i suppose that's already about 10lbs!!!

now i think why i was able to loose that much so quickly was becuase i really did eat out EVERY day. i'm 5'2 and should not have been consuming that many calories a day.

i got hungry at first  but after a while i think my stomach shrank a bit. i still get hungry but the 100 calorie snack packs are really good! they have so many different types now and i like that it is portion control. i'm bad at "measuring" or "counting calories" i don't know how people do that. but if you have a large bag of food or a carton of icecream, i would get lost in how much i had eaten and like most of it would be gone. the 100 cal, u know how much you've eaten and it's a great snack!!  kind of expensive but it's worth it!

Lessons & tips: eat breakfast! whole grains! special k or smart start. or even mix some of that with your favorites like honey nut cheerios.

go slow! i tried so many times last year to do a crash diet like the special k two week diet  but i never succeeded and it just made me binge on food more. i realized that if i'm craving a food it's better to have it instead of depriving myself and binge on it later. it's a fine line between doing this and eating everything you want though.

when you get hungry, eat fruits instead of fatty snacks like ice cream or other sweets. to do this, when you go shopping make sure you load up on fruits and veggies! and try not to buy so many unhealthy ones. grapes and oranges always seemed to satisfy me. they're both sweet and good for you!

eat snacks not big meals! before i would forget to eat breakfast and lunch because of work and i would eat a HUGE dinner but feel so stuffed and i was told it's not good for my metabolism. but if we snack often it increases our metabolism and it's easier to loose weight. i also was told that you have to eat something in the morning because our metabolism won't start until there's something to start working off! (or something along the lines of that, makes sense to me though!)

eat out less and cook more!

wii fit! it's hard to get to the gym but the wii fit is in your living room. do the hula hoop and boxing- they really get you to sweat! and try the free step for 30 mins while you're watching tv! if you can do 30 mins a day that's better than nothing!!! :) and i definitely watch a lot of tv so try instead of laying on the couch watch and step for 30 mins.

Resources: 1. wii fit- hula hoop, boxing, free step. and all the others ones but these were the ones that really got me sweating or helped the most! also weighing myself everyday and having it kept track on the wii fit really helped me with my center of balance and showed me the impact of how much i eat directly increases my weight. (it sounds so obvious but it makes a bigger impact when you really see it in numbers!)

2. 100 calorie packs!

3. honey nut cheerios and smart start/ 2% milk (it's better if you drink 2% instead of nonfat. there was study to show that those that drank the 2% lost more weight than the non fat drinkers. i was told this by two different reliable sources)

Apr 28, 03:59AM PDT | 0 comments | 1 cheer