Over 200 New year New Me Part 33

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!!

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!?

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:

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.

****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.

DONE

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....

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.

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.

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.

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

Laila

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.

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:

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!

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.

Love you all!

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....