Getting back in the driver seat again!

tuni8220

Hi i am new again here at MFP, I did this a couple of years ago and just lost track of it. I find it hard to keep log of the food I eat, although I am aware of what I put in my mouth. Last year Jan. 2015, i weighed in at 210 lbs. before I joined a weight loss program in town, called The Max Challenge (10 wk program). It was calisthenics nutrition education for 10 weeks. I enjoyed doing it, met great inspirational people. I managed to lose 30 lbs and decided to stay after the 10 wk program was over. I was doing fairly ok attending classes but it was the nutrition is where i struggled. I have always been active, play pick up basketball at 5am 3x a week at the local Y, ride bikes and attend the classes. I hit a plateau and as the story goes the last 10 lbs was the hardest to hit. I lost the drive of coming to class daily and found it a bit boring since. I left the program this summer due to possible tendonitis on my right wrist - mind you I held the longest plank in the program for 20 mins. So now, I thought again if I can only track the food and the calorie intake that would probably help me alot. I know the weight loss is 60-80% is really all about nutrition and the rest is exercise.
August being my birth month I will gift myself a healthy new body. Currently I weighed at 193 lbs. (8/1) , and hoping to at least hit 180 lbs. on my birthday. And continue from there to hit my goal of at least 160-170 lbs. and maintain it. One of the hard part of my diet is that I am Filipino and most of our dish is around rice, I eliminated the white carbs from my diet when I started the 10 wk program and it helped. Now if I can only learn how to count calories when I make tuna or chicken salad to go on my ezikiel bread or salad. I would try to eliminate pork and fried food from my diet as well. I have a scale at home and would try to use that as often as I should - that's the reason I bought that.
So if anyone can give me a quick and easy advise on how to use or measure my food I would surely appreciate it.

Regards and more power to everyone on this journey!

Mark Miranda

RachelElser

honestly a food scale is the best way- there are some very inexpensive ones at Walmart or Kmart. Just put the bread/salad on it first and zero it out, then put on the tuna or what not and it will give you the amount of sandwich filling. Or if you want to do the measurements by the cup, Pampered Chef has these neat measuring cups that will 'push' the tuna salad out so you know exactly how much you got.

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tuni8220

RachelElser, thanks....i had the scale but never used it. Will try soon!