Over 200 New year New Me Part 33
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Cris: If you were to look at my food diary, you'll see the 1800 calories I eat a day are NOT necessarily healthy. I'm focusing on trying to limit sodium more than anything and I'm also watching my sugar intake now thanks to Meokk. I agree with Ann; just do what you know works for you. Just be as healthy about all if it as you can. It all takes time and as you now know, it has to be something relatively easy to stick to for the long-term. Working out constantly and eating things you don't like as well will not stick with you. Yep, I still eat fast food and all of the foods I love...just in moderation and if I overdo it, I try to work out to make up for it. I haven't been stressed about any of it because that just makes the weight stick around. I know you've heard all of this before, but make your weight loss program work for you!!0
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Well sai Heather!!!:happy:0
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Cris-I agree with Heather and Ann. Just try to do things in moderation and think portions. I've only made changes I plan to stick with. Like wheat bread..things like that. But these are things I know that I will continue to keep doing. And obviously beer drinking. We know I cant handle not having beer. You just have to tailor it to what works for you. You will find something that works for you. I know you will. You've come this far and done so well! :flowerforyou:
It's rainy and yucky here. I was late for work, yet again and it put me in a foul mood. Not to mention I forgot they are here working on the kitchen so I don't have anything to heat my food up in. I really want some soup. Why does soup have to be so high in sodium!?0 -
cris - i am sorry you are having a hard time with it...but like the other girls said do what you feel is right for you and what works for you.
Jess - I am sorry that your kitchen is out of commission, if you worked near me i would bring you some soup
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I caved. I suck. I ordered pizza cause I'm too lazy to go out. I made it light sauce and light cheese with only veggies and chicken. Don't know what kind of calories that is or how to find out. There goes tomorrow weigh in. :noway: I've been craving pizza for so long and caved. :laugh:0
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Jess - sounds like you made a good choice though with the lite sauce and cheese and chicken and veggie...where did you order it form.0
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Ok here is my whine for the day- I really dont like eating around 1500 cals, its really impossible for me to eat that much and make them healthy calories...seriously I cant do it. I can find a bunch of crap to eat that will get me to 1500 but what good is it if its all junk? AND besides that, I supposedly burned 766 during spin class, since I ate about 1500 cals that still nets me at 734...so WTF is the point of excercising it just makes my goal of netting 1200 cals even harder for me. Im confused, and frustrated and I just want to go back to my 1200 calories....and work out moderatly ...someone talk me off the ledge please
Cris -- IMO, the point of exercise has very little to do with my diet and how many calories I can and can't eat. The point of exercising is improving my physical health. I want to make my heart and lungs stronger and more efficient. I want my other muscles to be stronger. I want to look better. That's the point of exercise in my book.
A handful of nuts and a 12 ounce glass of milk can add probably 400 calories to your day. You said you like both. Sooo... yeah, you really have no good excuses about that whole thing.
Cheese is pretty good for you. Couple ounces of cheese = 200 cals. Have cheese & grapes (or some other fruit that you can convince yourself to try 
) as a snack. I love cheddar with grapes. Parmesan with apples. Gorgonzola or feta with pears. Now I'm drooling. It's an easy 250 cals. Anyway, I'm going to keep pounding my point that there are plenty of high calorie healthy foods out there. Low calorie does not equal healthy and high calorie does not equal unhealthy. Dark chocolate has health benefits. Have an ounce. Enjoy some butter on your bread -- research shows saturated fats aren't really the devil they've mistakenly been made out to be. Don't use so much "light" or "fat-free" stuff. Those things are usually full of ingredients that are far worse for you than calories and fat. It's this whole other way of eating against the way ignorant American society has taught us to eat.
The "light," "low-calorie," "fat-free," and "sugar free" processed foods being marketed as "healthy" is one of my biggest pet peeves. It actually disgusts me. Mainly because I've been the person trying to lose weight and be "healthy" who didn't know any better.
I lived on 100 calorie packs of bs, rice cakes, frozen dinners, and cucumbers for about 5 months in college thinking I was eating "healthy." What an idiot. Of course that's not sustainable. There's pretty much zero nutrition in any of that. One day I caved & ate a slice of pizza at work and I decided that one slice of pizza had completely ruined my diet and that there was no point now because that one slice of pizza erased the 35-40 pounds I had lost and there was no point to any of it because I had been "stuck" (lol) around 210 for 3 weeks and that was the end of that. I proceeded to balloon up to 275+ pounds. Total dummy thing to do, but my point is I really didn't know any better. I didn't know it's so easy to eat healthier. I say "healthier" instead of "healthy" because I'm not going to sit here and claim I eat all healthy all the time. Like Heather said, look at my food diary and you'll see I definitely dont. But I do eat way healthier than ever before in my life so that's a huge win. That's all it really is. Just eat healthIER.
Sorry so long. I just... I hate to see you get so down about it because I want you to feel like it's as easy as it has become for me. Of course I'm not easily losing quickly anymore. But I guess I just feel pretty successful because I'm honestly very easily maintaining (I'm losing like 2 pounds a month on average now) a pretty decent (IMO) loss. 0 -
Lauren brought up a few days ago that we've all started talking about our maintenance cals a lot. I think it's really good we all know right about where we should be eating to maintain & that we know when we want to splurge, we can do it without much fear of gaining any real weight as long as we keep cals at maintenance. And while I'm super happy to maintain (hey, it's WAY better than gaining!!), I do feel like I'm using the idea of "maintenance calories" as a crutch to overindulge a little too often.
Just throwing that out there while I'm being honest. :laugh:0 -
****sigh*****
Is it really wrong that I just want to punch someone in the face right now?
Im having a really hard time focusing...on ANYTHING. I've made two HUGE errors at work this past week that cost a lot of money for my father's business. I cant focus on weight loss, I cant focus on my daily task...I think I seriously just lost my f-ing mind.
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Deb-I got it from Pizza Hut. I have no way of trying to figure out how many calories it was. Maybe juse log a cheese pizza?
Cris-I have the same problem. Weight loss and healthy eating is ALWAYS in the back of my mind except I feel like I can't concentrate on anything else. I was sitting in the extra office on my lunch sitting there thinking that losing weight is all I think about. It really is quite pathetic. I know I don't want to give up but the slow rate of losing is really bringing me down too. We'll get through it together. :flowerforyou:0 -
Apparently the gym is having another 8-week biggest loser competition.
I really should enroll to defend my title...It could give me the much needed motivation to get back on track , we all know how much I hate losing. But on the other hand competition hasnt even been inspiring to me....0 -
I have to agree with Julie about high calories not being bad for you as long as the are nutritious.I know I can't eat an entire pizza and expect to lose weight but I do know that I can eat almonds ,fruit,veggies,and many more other foods and I can still lose weight efficiently.Its all about finding what works for you.If you feel 1200 calories and moderate exercise works for you then do it.If not keep working at a plan until you find the one thats right for you.I am not saying I eat 1200 cals all the time and nothing more but I do know that when I zig zag back and forth between 1200-1400 and exercise moderately and don't eat my exercise cals I lose weight.All of our bodies are different and need different things to lose/gain weight.I am trying to eat more nutritious foods instead of junk so if I don't go over 1200 calories and I know I ate food that was going to be a benefit to my body I don't stress over it anymore as long as I know I am not eating 1200 calories of pure junk food.I hope this helps and I know some may disagree with me and thats ok too.We all are learning and we all have our own opinions.0
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Cris-I think you should totally do it. It was great motivation for you. You don't feel motivated right now but I bet you will when you see other people beating you. That'll push you to work harder I think. I know how you hate to lose.
I feel better about my pizza decision. I looked on Pizza Hut's webiste and they have these Delicious N Fit pizzas or something now I guess. They had the nutrition for chicken, red onions and green pepers..was 180 calories a slice. I had tomatoes instead of onions. And light sauce and cheese. So I think I did okay! :bigsmile: Maybe not with the cheese bread though. Oh well! Gotta indulge sometimes.0 -
Cris, you should absolutely re-enter the BL contest at the gym. You know how much you love to win. Also, it could be that focus you were needing. Sorry it's been a mistake-heavy week. I HATE those and if you're anything like me, they eat me up inside. Deep breath and focus on what you can change.
Danielle, forgot to mention this earlier, but CONGRATS on the big decision to take the job and move back with your family. A big BOOO to your snotty manager.
Jess, how great to know that you can now order the Delicious N Fit pizza when you have the craving!!
Julie, I'm glad you were "honest" and mentioned using the maintenace as a crutch. That's one of the reasons I brought it up...I think it's definitely a crutch, but also provides a daily goal if we know that losing cals aren't going to happen. I'd much prefer to say, well, I went over that, but I can still accomplish this. That attitude you talked about having when you were living on 100 cal packs and seeing a slice of pizza as the end of the world and therefore the end of the "diet" is what I think the maintenance can combat against. Ugh...so hard to know what's quite right!0 -
Julie-I agree that we do use it as a crutch a lot.
TMI ALERT!
You know you are retaining some serious water when you haven't gone to the bathroom in 7 hours and have had 40oz of water.0 -
Yikes, Jess! Sounds like you need to drink and entire bathtub full of water to get things flowing again.
Julie: I agree on using exercise as a way to be healthier, but using it to make up for an overage in calories is extra motivation. I just love how I feel when my muscles are a bit sore because it means I accomplished something and most likely I pushed myself hard if my muscles are sore at all.
Wow, I'm so bored at work today, which is making me tired.0 -
Hooray for you! I am so psyched. I woke up with 1200 calories and now after swimming 2x I still have mostly that amount left. Walking will take the place of swimming come the cold weather but this is great. I LOVE the visuals and motivation that you get by logging in.0
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Today by the numbers:
600 - calories I ate on one tiny pack of organic honey almond cluster thingies (grateful I haven't eaten much today)
189 - dollars I spent on books for class
48 - minutes I spent driving around looking for a parking spot
11 - minutes it took me to walk from my parking spot, to the bookstore, buy my books, and walk back to my car
3 - number of books I bought
Ugh... I don't even have any energy left to be frustrated by the IDIOCY that is happening at work.
Magically, I still have some 600 calories left over for dinner tonight... and since it's study while the boyfriend is out night, I think it's sushi night! So it'll be just like college: Buckeye football on the TV and studying.
.... that's a lie... I didn't do that much studying then. hahaha
Jess - LOVE the dress! It looks beautiful 0 -
Bump...
8 more days until Ramadan is OVER:sad: :sad:
BTW, I made donuts today because my older son begged for them and they were easy to make. I am fasting so not sure how they taste, but I am not much of a donut person, unless it is chocolate cake donut...but they are no so I am good
Miss ya alll...can't wait until *things* are back to normal
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jess, you look hot in that dress..are you sure you weigh 209:noway:??? You look much less0
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Hello gals...got my workout at lunch in...feel good..
these new things i am eating for lunch are soo good i could eat like 4 of them, pretty much some cream cheese and lunch meat mixed together on a tortilla rolled up and sliced...little high on sodium due to the ham, but yummy.0 -
Julie: I agree on using exercise as a way to be healthier, but using it to make up for an overage in calories is extra motivation. I just love how I feel when my muscles are a bit sore because it means I accomplished something and most likely I pushed myself hard if my muscles are sore at all.
Yup. I just brought it up since Cris was saying she's feeling like exercise is pointless.
Trust that if I want to drink beer or eat something ridiculous, knowing I need to burn those extra cals is awesome motivation for me to exercise. If I didn't want to worry about eating more, though, I might see exercising (and having to eat more as a result) as a burden so it would make me want to not exercise. Enter explanation of how exercise is way more beneficial in ways other than being a calorie burner. Of course we all already know exercise is good for us. :laugh: I've previously found myself in some narrow minded "calories in/calories out" mode about exercise instead of focusing on the bigger picture which is my overall health. 0 -
Hey everyone....work sucks today :grumble: I am stuck thinking about everything I have to do tomorrow to get my daughter ready for school and for moving and my new job. I'd like to be home and getting some of the stuff done so I don't have to do so much running tomorrow. Plus I hurt. I had an awful back pain yesterday and it's just as bad today and my hips are hurting. Stupid rain :grumble:
I am frustrated this week. I am up 1.2 lbs today still from last friday. Other than that 1 day over the weekend I have been at a deficit every day. There is no reason for me to be showing an increase.
My hubby just said, be patient and wait for tomorrow when it counts, and maybe it's cuz you are in pain. And who knows maybe he's right.
I was over my calories yesterday by 250, but they were all good calories so it's not too bad. I am going to guzzle a bunch of water tonight and hope that poundage is just sodium or stupidity on behalf of my scale.....
Jess-you look awesome in that dress! Keep going and you're going to be a knock out next month :drinker:
Cris-I second Julie's suggestion of trying new things. There is no reason why you can't eat "junk" food only in moderation, but maybe you'll discover some new stuff you actually like! I tend to stay away from "diet" food like Julie and end up having no problem hitting my 1600 cals each day.
Deb-I am happy you got some rest. I cannot WAIT until my little boy decides to start sleeping in his bed all night again. I miss having uninterrupted sleep. Even if he would for 1 night I'd be so happy.
Laila-can't wait to have you back with us! Enjoy the rest of your fasting.
Julie-just wanted to say that you seem to be such a "together" person. Like you've done a lot of soul searching and have it all worked out for yourself. And if you're not really that way good job on faking it! :laugh:0 -
Oh my I am so hungry today! No clue why. All I want to do is EAT!!!! I have my supper with me and nothing else except access to a vending machine which is EVIL!!! oh no clue what I'm gonna do.0
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Danielle step away from the bending machine. Don't let that 1.2 pounds of being up get to you. If your doing all the right things you will see progress. Takes time, I know it sucks! Your in it for the long haul!0
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No vending machine for me :happy: that's all that is available for me though. I am really hungry though. I ate a granola bar and like 20 mins later my stomach was rumbling again. Now I drank my protein drink and 6 saltine crackers that were in my cubby here at work. And I am still hungry. I am so confused as to WHY I am so hungry. I am eating my food I brought with me in hopes that it'll fill me up but so far nada...:grumble:0
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Hi sisters,
I miss you all. I have some stressful issues rearing their ugly heads at work, so I am really busy for a bit. All I can say at this time is to please pray for me that things work out OK. Stay focused girls.
Jess - HUGE diff between the two pics - you look great!
Laila - hang in there - it's almost over.
I love peanut butter and pizza.
Heather - I stayed strong and did not tell my husband I loved him for a long time, wanting him to say it first. Dammit he was waiting for me so we both hit stalemate.
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I am soo angry, i just want to cry.
THe old 1st grade things are coming back, i thought 2nd grade was going to be better, had such a good start ...but not this week...3 days in a row with getting in trouble, today 2 marks for not doing her work...i told her cause she didn't do her work i was going to make her do work, now she is crying in her room cause she refuses to do the work.0 -
Oh Deb I am so sorry. Maybe it was just this week. Stay firm with her and keep reinforcing the good behavior, hopefully she'll respond soon.
Well I blew it today! Well not really I guess. But I did go over my calories. :sad: We shall see what tomorrow brings....0 -
Thanks Danielle. I try to be real with myself and other people. I hate that a lot of times I come across as having a smarty pants attitude. I promise I don't think I know everything. :laugh: I'm just trying to explain stuff in a way that makes sense to me because it certainly didn't always make sense to me in the way it does now. Stuff about being healthier had never been explained to me before in a way that I understood so by trial and error kind of figured out what worked for me as far as a way of thinking about it goes. Of course what works for me may not work for everyone, but I like to offer suggestions anyway. My coworkers get on me constantly because I'm always trying to make everything make sense. :laugh: I'm like Meokk that way.
I'm so happy for you and your new job!! About your supervisor saying you have to give 4 weeks notice -- that's hilarious to me. Like... um... does she not realize you actually have the option to quit with no notice at all? :laugh:
Blue -- Thinking of you! :flowerforyou:
Deb -- Thinking of you, too. :flowerforyou:0
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