25 TO LIFE month 2

jlauren6

Ooh I like the push up at the top of the stairs idea!!

jenbar

jlauren,
Your baby is SO cute!!!

Let's all try for 14 (1 lb.) to 25 (1 to 2lb. alternating) pounds by July!!

twin2

I wish I wasn't an emotional eater. I cut cokes COMPLETELY out Monday, but these past couple of days have been rather hard, emotionally, actually the next few months will be. So any ideas on how I will just say NO?!?!?

buckeyebabe

Well I am new to the site and today was my first weigh in.
I weight in at a featherly 332lbs. I stated in December at 362 and I have been pounding at it. So I would definitely love to bring August in at 300lbs. So I am officially joining you. Lets do this.
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buckeyebabe

Thanks for the encouragement! Sometimes I don't think I pay enough attention. I eat everything that I should, but as far as following exactly the carbs/fat/protein input, I usually go over/under. Are you guys trying to do exactly?
It's kind of hard when you don't know the nutritional values on things until after you input them... then you find out you went over, but your calories are still under. Weird.

I wish someone would just tell me exactly what to eat.
What are you guys eating for breakfast/lunch/dinner?

I never eat the same thing day after day....your metabolism will start to slow down. I mix it up...Here are a few of my choices for breakfast: an egg omelet (1/2 C. of egg beaters ...no cholestoral and it's only 60 calories) or I will eat a packet of instant apples and cinnamon oatmeal...130 calories. These two things stick with me the longest. I have also eaten a yoplait fat free yogurt 110 calories with a slice of whole wheat toast (70 calories) or a bowl of fresh fruit and a couple tablespoons of granola.
Because I am constantly on the go I find myself eating a lot of Lean Cusine's. If I am home though I like to make veggie wraps (and I mean loaded with veggies, salsa for dressing, and a low fat/low carb wrap) I eat Tuna fish wrapswith mustard instead of mayo and lots of salad. I have found that I love the spray dressing...only 2 calories per spray and it has a lot of flavor. I will also eat a fat free lunch meat wrap or a ground turkey burger without a bun. Dinner: I pretty much eat whatever I want within my allotted calories. I just try to make sure that whatever I am sticking in my mouth I can give an exact calorie count to. These are just a few options that I have found to be helpful. Eating is like exercising...you never want to do the same thing over and over, your body will start to accomodate for the routine and slow down. The other suggestion I would make which I was told by a exercise physiologist (PhD) She told me that I should never eat an exact amount of calories each day...in other words I am allowed 1200 calories daily to achieve 1.7 pounds of weight loss a week. (1200 x 7 days = 8400 per week) So, I just make sure that I eat 8400 calories (total) per week (not including my exercise calories) and I balance how many I get each day. This way my body is constantly confused with my intake. This method has proven to do well for me.

jenbar

Thanks Buckeye!
Your meals sound almost exactly like what I eat.
eggbeaters (with yolk now! yeah), slice of toast, cottage cheese, fruit
yogurt, flax seed sprinkled on top with added fruit, hard boiled egg white
oatmeal packet or homemade with fruit
fiber cereal, 1% milk, fruit

lunch
smart choice/lean cuisines
today I had a garlic portabella burger/turkey bacon/FF cheese, let, tom. on whole wheat english muffin
salads
soups
leftovers
turkey sandwich, FF cheese, let. tom. reduced mayo, Whole grain bread
grilled cheese with FF cheese (brummel and brown yogurt spread) sometimes made on panini grill with oil spray
all depends on the day

dinner
try to make a healthier meal (husband doesn't appreciate it) but to him!
and I sometimes have 300+ calories left over (if I workout)

jenbar

HELLO!! Anyone out there!
Let's start posting! Want to hear how everyone is doing!?
Can't do this alone!

so far this morning
Fiber One Caramel Delight cereal with blackberries and 1% milk for breakfast.
Going to exercise right now! Let's get rid of some calories!

iluvsparkles

Ok so after a very stressful week with a night in the hospital (everyones fine now!) I managed to weigh before swimming yesterday, and i was down to 167, which is two pounds down from Monday!! I still havent entered my measurements, but Im excited about that. I wish i had put them in when i Began this awesome website a week ago.
So far it has helped me to loose those 3 pounds ( and maybe more, because i started dieting before ever finding this site)

Every morning before breakfast my man and I do a 20 minute hike up our very steep mountain ( gotta love the beautiful smokies!)
My Meals usually go something like this :
Morning Coffee w/sugar and cream
Ceareal Bar
Banana in mid morning before lunch if i get too hungry, sometimes
Lunch is usually 300 calories or so, be it a turkey sandwhich, or leftover grilled veggies from the nite before, along with my biggest weekness, sweet tea

i usually sneak a few hershey kisses in the afternoon

After work jog and swim. I have to wait for the swimteam to finish up in the pool so i decided to kill that hour in a healthy way by just walking the track outside while i wait. Even if my heartrate dosent get too high, its better than just sitting

Swim for 45-hour pretty vigerously. I love swimming because you cant feel yourself sweat, and it has helped with the huffing and puffing of my early morning hike.

Dinner is almost always a lean meat, 4 oz or under, usually fish or chicken, very rarely a beef dish. Most of my dinner consists of grilled veggies, in any combo of squash, onions, green peppers, mushrooms, asparigus, green beans. Very rarely we wil have a potato but usually get our share of starch from corn on the cob which we eat ALL the time.

Then depending on how far i am from my calories (im under my cals at bedtime about 99% of the time) I may have cottage cheese with pineapple, or like last nite, a TRUE scoop of icecream, (not a whole bowl full) which i eat directly out of the measuring cup, to remind me of how much i am actually having.

jenbar

Great Job!!!
Don't worry, when we post on Monday I'll post your last weeks weight at 170.
You get lots of great exercise!
I use to be on the swim team in h.s. People don't understand that you actually sweat in the water!
You know what's yummy! cottage cheese, banana and drizzle of honey! yummm!

Keep up the good work!:drinker:

kerridwen

maybe I should figure out what I'm going to eat the night before and log it in and stick to it? I tried on and almost bought a pair of size 10 Tommy Hilfiger jeans today! very exciting. And started trying on dresses for the dreaded wedding in July. Her bridal shower is on the 13th and really want to find something flattering (but hate dresses, so want to find pants/shirt or a cute little trendy suit) to show off to the inlaws.
I have to say, it was exciting to see how much my stomach has gone down since I started. If I tried those dresses on 4 months ago I would have been so discouraged! But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I didn't feel like a whale today, ... maybe a dolphin, but not a whale! That's a start!

I'm going to figure out what I'm going to eat now!

That's so great!!

kerridwen

Welcome Brownieeyes! This is an awesome site and a very supportive group of people. I will warn you though... the site is very addictive!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I just love it!

Very true!! This is the best weight loss has ever gone for me, I don't think I've ever felt so good about it!

You guys are great

That said (i didn't see the new thread so posted on the old one) - I started at 190 2nd week of March or so and today I'm down to 182!!! Despite not being able to do more than walk.

Glad to hear you're all doing so well!!

kerridwen

I wish someone would just tell me exactly what to eat.
What are you guys eating for breakfast/lunch/dinner?

For me, I have to have something like pizza once a week. It's the only way I can stay down to the number of calories/day is if I allow for a little indulgence. Also, I eat all my daily calories. That's about 400 or so for each meal since the only real exercise I get is a daily walk.

For a treat - A peice of 70% chocolate with tea is a really great treat (plus, good for happy feelings) subs pretty well for sweets. I switched out soda for Coke Zero when I can't resist, too. But I really should give up the caffeine for best results.....

Breakfast:
-I have something very high in fibre everyday. I love homemade bran muffins and get things like the AllBran psyillum cereal. I've had to do this before (previous riding injuries haha) and I find that fibre helps a lot.

Snacks
-I try to have milk a few times every day,
-I keep a lot of meal replacement bars/slim fast drinks around in case I'm ever "really" hungry and in a rush, so I don't grab fast food or something. They don't last for me, but tide me over until I can make a snack.
-Cottage cheese and peaches is about my favorite thing in the world to eat
-apples and chunky peanut butter!
-Popcorn

Lunch/Dinner

-make sure my veggies are greater than my meat/protein portion each night, whatever is around/looks good (green beans, peppers, etc)
-I'm also eating a lot of spicy things, b/c I heard that helps the metabolism, haha. Like thai green curry and jambalaya!
-Veggie sandwich (crusty bread, some olive oil, pesto, various red/yellow/orange peppers, piece of tasty cheese, fresh basil leaves and a piece of lettuce - best ever!!)
-almost always a side salad
-once a week - pizza/wings etc lol

**Plus, Frank's Red Hot Sauce goes on *everything* without adding any sugars or fats.

Also, apparently cucumber is good for women's hormones (I have no idea if this is true, but I figure it's another veggie full of water, what's to lose?) - and those fluctuate every month no matter what age you are so don't feel bad about a bit of bloating here and there!

jlauren6

Okay, I'm starting to fall off track the past couple days...
My grandpa passed away this week and I have just been so emotional it's hard to focus on eating right! Then after I eat like crap I feel even worse!! It's not a good cycle. Hope I can get back on track, because I was doing well before!

jenbar

Okay, I'm starting to fall off track the past couple days...
My grandpa passed away this week and I have just been so emotional it's hard to focus on eating right! Then after I eat like crap I feel even worse!! It's not a good cycle. Hope I can get back on track, because I was doing well before!

So, so sorry to hear about your grandpa!
We're here for you. I know it will be hard to pay attention to what you put in your mouth right now, but try! And remember that crappy feeling you get after you eat bad, and remember you don't want to feel that way. You WILL get back on track! Start each day as if it were your first. One day at a time!

jenbar

Kerridwen,
I saw your post on "last months" thread.
I do think I have gained muscle. I can definately feel it in my legs. But we all know we would love to see the scale go down! Psychological, I know. Makes you feel better. But I do feel myself standing straighter. I don't have as much stomach hanging over my pants. Little things. Pulled out some clothes I haven't worn in years! Just gotta remember to keep going. Everytime I start to lose weight, I get to the 25 mark, think "hey, I look way better than I did 25 pounds ago!" and then just completely forget about losing. But NOT THIS TIME! I WILL KEEP GOING!!!

kerridwen

Jbaranello - Glad to hear there's progress!! Feels good doesn't it? (: This method is new to me, and I'm finding I've adjusted to the calories per day and don't feel the need to have more. I'm hoping that means the change will be more permanent all around? Three months to break a habit right? haha

jlauren6 - I'm so sorry.

twin2

I have a question, I was in the grocery store and I was waiting inline and overheard a wife tell her husband (I assume) not to get skim milk b/c it was bad for him. We have been drinking skim milk for several years now, and I can honestly say I have never heard that skim milk was bad. ?????????:huh:

sindyb9

Thanks for the encouragement! Sometimes I don't think I pay enough attention. I eat everything that I should, but as far as following exactly the carbs/fat/protein input, I usually go over/under. Are you guys trying to do exactly?
It's kind of hard when you don't know the nutritional values on things until after you input them... then you find out you went over, but your calories are still under. Weird.

I wish someone would just tell me exactly what to eat.
What are you guys eating for breakfast/lunch/dinner?

I KNOW I'm not doing enough cardio since I don't belong to a gym, nor do I like doing aerobic tapes/dvd's. Or taking walks (which is bad, I know, but my knee sometimes feels bad half way through and I feel like I'm going to strand myself somewhere in the neighborhood!)
So I have only been relying on dance dance revolution for my cardio plus the stretch band/weights that I do after which really gets my heart pumping.

My son just started baseball practice tonight and when it gets warmer I'm going to walk around the park while he practices. So I could get a good hour or so walk in. It was too darn cold and windy tonight to do it. I was hiding under 2 fleece blankets!

I started logging my food before I eat it was having the same issue and going over. I started 22 days ago and so far lost 8lbs. I have danon activia,oat meal and fruit for breakfast almost every day. I have been walking 5 days a week 35 min, because of leg issues. I am starting this week end to walk so now 7 days. When is your next weigh in?

jenbar

Hi and welcome!
Weigh ins are on Mondays.
Good luck with the walking!

proudmama0118

Haven't been on the site in a few days. Sick kiddo... hard to find the time to get on the computer with a sick 3 yr old. Hopefully I haven't been too bad while not logging this! I guess I will know Monday night after my run when I weigh in!! Today I walked across town and back with the kids. (about 3.5 miles) then tonight we walked 2 laps around our circle which is right around 1 mile. That mile was quite slow though since Amber was learning to ride her "big girl" bike. Anyways, hopefully I will be back on to the site soon since everyone is feeling better.

jlauren6

Okay, I'm starting to fall off track the past couple days...
My grandpa passed away this week and I have just been so emotional it's hard to focus on eating right! Then after I eat like crap I feel even worse!! It's not a good cycle. Hope I can get back on track, because I was doing well before!

So, so sorry to hear about your grandpa!
We're here for you. I know it will be hard to pay attention to what you put in your mouth right now, but try! And remember that crappy feeling you get after you eat bad, and remember you don't want to feel that way. You WILL get back on track! Start each day as if it were your first. One day at a time!

Thanks for your support. I needed someone to tell me to stay focused!

twin2

I know when my Granny, yeah I am from Georgia, passed away in September, it was very hard to stay focused, but lost it over the holidays, her birthday was Christmas day, so there it went and a very very short month later, I had gained the 20 pounds I had worked so hard to loose. You will be in my prayers for God to comfort you and your family in your time of grieving. Hand in there, time does numb the pain (some) and you will get back on track but until you do, we are here for you!:flowerforyou:

dulceluva

Wow. 24 lbs already is amazing.

Well I finally made it to this thread.

Starting from day 1 all over again and not to mention 2 lbs heavier then when started.

I am going to try and not make a goal date or anything because I have done that in the past. I.e. When I was working at a different company last year, I was pretty thin and I noticed this guy was into me and I told myself to get back on track and stay fit, etc. Well.. instead I was eating more, stopped exercising and gained weight. The two of us didn't happen obviously. Then a few months later I was telling myself that I should really try and lose the 10 lbs that I gained so that any future guys won't look at me and think I am fat or whatever...well then I gained more and more and more. Moral of the story (besides the obvious self-esteem issues hahahaha) ... is that goals don't work for me. It feels like a control thing... I work well under pressure but goals are just a different issue for me. I DO make goals for myself but I don't assign timelines to it and I find that I DO get to my goals eventually.

The first initial weight loss took a good 10+ years to achieve and then took only a year to gain it all back.

So here I am again.

With anything else in my life... I live a boring life and I also get bored quite easily. I eat averagely healthy anyways, so trying to always calorie count has become so boring to me.

kerridwen

Wow. 24 lbs already is amazing.

Well I finally made it to this thread.

Starting from day 1 all over again and not to mention 2 lbs heavier then when started.

I am going to try and not make a goal date or anything because I have done that in the past. I.e. When I was working at a different company last year, I was pretty thin and I noticed this guy was into me and I told myself to get back on track and stay fit, etc. Well.. instead I was eating more, stopped exercising and gained weight. The two of us didn't happen obviously. Then a few months later I was telling myself that I should really try and lose the 10 lbs that I gained so that any future guys won't look at me and think I am fat or whatever...well then I gained more and more and more. Moral of the story (besides the obvious self-esteem issues hahahaha) ... is that goals don't work for me. It feels like a control thing... I work well under pressure but goals are just a different issue for me. I DO make goals for myself but I don't assign timelines to it and I find that I DO get to my goals eventually.

The first initial weight loss took a good 10+ years to achieve and then took only a year to gain it all back.

So here I am again.

With anything else in my life... I live a boring life and I also get bored quite easily. I eat averagely healthy anyways, so trying to always calorie count has become so boring to me.

I so hear you on the past troubles! I was fine until I starting wanting to lose - since then I've gone up about 20 lb on average (but lost muscle so I'm sure it's actually worse!)

Fortunately, I'm finding this site has been a blessing and eating the right amount daily has become second nature. I just put things in at the end of the day to make sure I didn't go over, and tend to overestimate. Hope it helps you too!!!

jenbar

Had a little panic attack this morning when they said the site was down! But since none of you have been on yet, I'll assume you didn't even realize it!
Dulce, no need for goal dates. Just do it slow and you'll get there. I know, we all seem to forget how long it took us to put it all on, and we magically want it to all fall off in a week!

Me personally, I would like to look good in the dress I will be wearing for my sil wedding in July. Then I'll go from there.

Jennifer

sindyb9

Had a little panic attack this morning when they said the site was down! But since none of you have been on yet, I'll assume you didn't even realize it!
Dulce, no need for goal dates. Just do it slow and you'll get there. I know, we all seem to forget how long it took us to put it all on, and we magically want it to all fall off in a week!

Me personally, I would like to look good in the dress I will be wearing for my sil wedding in July. Then I'll go from there.

Jennifer

I was up early I was checking to see if it came back up every five min. Very stressful. So I went to do dishes and some cleaning came back and was very releaved it was back. I did not realize how much I depend on this site. Where do you put measurements?

twin2

To put your measurements in go to "My Home" and the "Check In", you can add the measurements you want to there. Hope they all are what you have worked so hard for! :flowerforyou:

jenbar

Okay, so I was REALLY bad for the first time in 3 months!! And totally feel guilty! I went to my brothers house for my nephews 16th birthday party. Stayed away from all the appetizers and just kept popping vegetables. Then... the cake came! Which I made, and had a small piece along with... yes, ice cream cake! Then we were chatting and I started picking at the appetizers, crackers, cheese, pepperoni, spinach dip!, more veggies, a bite or two of sausage bread, a tiny buffalo chicken leg. My God! I couldn't stop! What the hell!? I'm paying for it now! I feel like crap, and my stomach feels icky. And of course I got on the scale this morning and thought I saw the thingy move down. I have a LOT of exercise to do tomorrow to make up for all that! ughhhhhh! I'm not eating, dropping Ryan off at school, working out, pooping and THEN I'll weight myself! hahahaha!

twin2

Well, tomorrow is my weigh in day at the gym. A litte scared after last week :sad: , but I am proud to say that I have not had a Coke, my major hangup, in one full week!!! :bigsmile: That is the one thing that I have struggled with during "my whole weight loss life". If I don't loss, I will still have the satisfaction of knowing, that is at least 2400 calories this week that I haven't had. We will see and post tomorrow.
Rhonda

proudmama0118

Okay, so I was REALLY bad for the first time in 3 months!! And totally feel guilty! I went to my brothers house for my nephews 16th birthday party. Stayed away from all the appetizers and just kept popping vegetables. Then... the cake came! Which I made, and had a small piece along with... yes, ice cream cake! Then we were chatting and I started picking at the appetizers, crackers, cheese, pepperoni, spinach dip!, more veggies, a bite or two of sausage bread, a tiny buffalo chicken leg. My God! I couldn't stop! What the hell!? I'm paying for it now! I feel like crap, and my stomach feels icky. And of course I got on the scale this morning and thought I saw the thingy move down. I have a LOT of exercise to do tomorrow to make up for all that! ughhhhhh! I'm not eating, dropping Ryan off at school, working out, pooping and THEN I'll weight myself! hahahaha!

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That is too funny!! I am totally the same way when I have an important weigh in for work!! I think before the biggest loser weigh in on the 25th I will also be hitting the sauna! :laugh: Don't feel to bad about blowing it today. One day will not kill you, may not make for a nice number since weigh in is tomorrow... but 1 day will not affect you in the long run. If that is really the worst you have been in 3 months you are doing GREAT! I wish I could say the same!! :flowerforyou: