lose weight

after a lot of reading and thinking and youtube videos i decided to go the atkins route and begin with the 3 day fat fast, starting with an atkins brand coconut bar. it was pretty good. then later..well i have a few ideas. my schedule is sporadic at best. i will make this work and not forget to eat every few hours. 1 hour ago

i wake up every morning thinking today is a new day. i will only do this this and this. i will not eat this or that. then i sabotage myself first thing by doing something crazy like having cake for breakfast. or i do well until i get home from work. why? because i’m scared. scared of change, or succeeding and seeing what will come with it. i LOOOVED it when i lost weight before. each and every time i have LOVED it. so why am i always afraid of it? afraid to start and to stick with it. afraid of not having my sugar. the fact that i call it ‘my sugar’, and when i notice i haven’t had dessert or a sweet the whole day i start to panic. this is truly an addiction. 4 hours ago

the mind is crazy. my will power is non existent. and stress is a bitch and a great saboteur. after reading how stress raises cortisol and promotes belly fat, i swear i feel my belly growing every time i get stressed out. 7 hours ago

So as you might be able to tell I’m STILL stuck at 196lbs. Have been since, oooooh before xmas?? Bobbled up the scales a wee bit then back down and then up a wee bit then back down, but here I am, still STUCK. GRRRAHMMGGGNRRRPPPPHHHHAAARGH!!!!!

It’s my own stupid fault, and I know it, I’m not being as good as before with my food choices. My exercise is going really really well. I now spin and zumba every week, plus try to fit in a power walk and a run and some light weight training. I do know I can step up the power walk to a run and the light weights can be switched to slightly heavier ones soon (or many more reps), but it’s these food choices that have to be gotten under control. I guess life + more exercise = less time. Less time = less foody organisation and forward planning which = eating convenience foods and chocolate to get energy. Not a smart plan.

So I’m going to make sure I tackle this properly with a little by little approach (like I have done with everything else to do with losing the weight – this works for me). My goal this week is to food shop on Sunday night so there are healthy choices in the fridge for Monday breakfast, packed lunch and then to cook a pot of something Sunday night for Monday’s tea as well. That is it. That is my goal. To shop for food. Seems simple to do, especially since I have a supermarket at the end of my street, but for some reason this basicest of basic steps has gone out the window. I’m bringing it back, baby, with BELLS on. :)

Keep up the good work you lot, you all seem to be doing a tad better than moi! 11 hours ago

You know, the hardest part, really, is the workplace. I say that because there ALWAYS free food around. FREE. How does one say ‘no’ to free food? 13 hours ago

Today has been a mix day. I started the day really well.

Ate breakfast (250 calories)
Worked out (burned 250 calories)
Snack (100 calories)
Lunch (150 calories)

Then it all went downhill. After lunch I went to mall for some errands. I was passing food court and my mind started making all kinds of excuses, oh you have been so good, one junk meal can’t hurt, you barely go out these days…so cant hurt to just enjoy something you like while you are out. I walked into the food court and out a couple of times before gravitating slowly towards cheesy fries and a glass of pepsi. Felt good while I was eating it but now I feel so bloated and fat. Yuck.

Pepsi and small fries/cheese (estimating it to be 500 calories)

Net calories for the day-750 calories.

I am aiming at keeping it to 1200 calories a day. I can still save today! Going to have some fruits, when I am hungry later afternoon and then a bowl of veggie soup for dinner.

Any tips on how to resist the fries and soda? 15 hours ago

I think 20 lbs lost would be a good goal for this year.

I weighed-in at 185 lbs yesterday afternoon which, I believe, is kinda at the bottom end of being overweight for my height (5’11”).

I’d like to get back down to my junior-high weight of 165 lbs, which is more within a healthy weight range. 17 hours ago

I have to lose about 9 kgs in about 60 days to reach my ideal weight. I am in a diet and I do lose weight but my resolve is weakened by snacks.. I lost a lot of this weight a year ago but I gained it all back during Summer vacation 17 hours ago

Yesterday was a bad food day. I had a dinner planned but R came down with the stomach flu and I didn’t feel like making said meal just for myself. Instead, I developed my own illness – a case of the bingies.

I ate a LOT, and most of it was crap, but there was one point where I was ready to stuff my face with cookies and candy and instead said, “hey, how about a clementine first.” And that’s exactly what I ate. It inspired me – my next food choice was much healthier – a toasted english muffin with egg, cream cheese, roasted red peppers, and cucumber. Delicious and under 300 calories! I still ate two mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups before bed and I definitely didn’t have a calorie deficit, but it could’ve been so much worse.

I’m still feeling temptation today. I am craving all sorts of bad-for-me goodness. Pad Thai, meatloaf, gyro meat… yum. But I just ate two more clementines and it’s making me feel healthier than I did this morning. Maybe it’s all in my head, but I hope it’s enough to inspire me to make smart choices at lunch! And if not, I’ll get back up and try again at dinner. 18 hours ago

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” 18 hours ago

Day started off good..

breki – 2toast with banana and cinnamon on top and a mug of coffee

snack – 2small apples

lunch- sweet and sour prawn and mushroom stir fry

dinner – chicken pitta

snack- greentea chai, 2oranges

then at midnight i had some serious cravings and i binged! __

had a bowl of cereal 2toast with honey a twix cake slice and a penguin chocolate

urgh i feel so :( i really hate binge eating!

i think tomorrow im going to go out and buy Paul McKenna – i can make you thin book..ive read alot of reviews about it and alot of people had the same binge eating problem i have and found after reading the book it helped them overcome their binge eating problem..so i guess it wont hurt to give it a read

heres hoping it will work :( x 1 day ago

Cw 136.5
Gw 132 1 day ago

I’ve purchases protein shakes from CostCo as a meal-replacer. The numbers are amazing: 30g protein and only 160 cals. I’ve been drinking them instead of having lunch for 3 days now.

So far, I have tons of energy and I’m not hungry!
We’ll see how this works. 1 day ago

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier,not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.” 1 day ago

but there is a long way to go 1 day ago

“Comfort food” is never as comfortable as feeling good in my own skin and, in fact, usually causes me to feel less comfortable in my own skin. 2 days ago

It’s been….......about a month, and I see a difference in my stomach and my thighs, and my mom has noticed too (besides myself, she’s my biggest critic). I feel like jumping up and down with excitement! I haven’t touched a scale though. I think, that once you see the numbers, and they aren’t what you want to see, you get it in your head that “OMG I NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT I’M LIKE THIS WALKING WHALE OUT OF WATER I NEED TO GET DOWN TOinsert number here”. And coming from someone who’s had an eating disorder, that can lead to disaster. Honestly, SEEING the difference matters more than just some numbers on a scale. Because once you start building muscle, you’re gonna weigh more, at first. So far so good though! 2 days ago

I think that I am kind of stuck in that 75.0 area. Still clinging to that this week. Though the scale in the gym showed approximately 73.5 today. I am quite sure that either my scale is inacurate or the gym one is, because the difference of 1.5 kg is pretty huge. Well. At least I am not gaining. That is a good thing. 2 days ago

So it turns out I’ve lost 10lb since my last assessment 8 weeks ago and that’s including all the junk I ate over the christmas period! Not bad going really!

Treat myself to a subway today for my achievement :) Now to work it all off again! It was so worth it though. 2 days ago

Breakfast – 2 slices of wholemeal toast with a mashed up banana with cinnamon on top (SO GOOD) and a mug of green tea coffee

Snack – 1 green apple 1 small tangerine

Lunch – 4 small scrabbled egg whites with 3 tablespoons of cottage cheese, spinach, peppers and mushrooms in a wholemeal tortilla and 1 and a half cups of boiled veggies

Snack – Half grapefruit and a chunk of feta cheese

Dinner – Butternut squash skinny soup- no bread and greek style yogurt with almonds and honey YUM!

I ate quite abit of carbs today :( nevermind! plus i felt really full after lunch so had a light dinner..i still ate quite healthy today so im happy :)

im not so into calorie counting and i like feeling full after i eat a meal, i hate eating something low in calories and then feeling hungry after an hour cause then i end up snacking alot until the next meal..i mean whats the point?? :S

Anyway’s here’s hoping tomorrow’s going to be a good day :) x 2 days ago

“Live in constant gratitude. No matter what the condition today, no matter how dark, how dreary,how painful and difficult… today is merely the passing outcome of yesterday’s nonsense. How you feel today, and what you give your attention to, builds tomorrow.” 2 days ago