New to MFP....Advice needed!!!

Hello and welcome to MFP the best website ever. I it here and I think you will too. This site is so supportive, motivational, helpful and is so easy to use. I just wanted to tell you good luck on your weight loss journey. You can do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Don't despair, your diet sounds nearly identical to mine and I promise you if you stick with it, the scale will start to show your hard work. With only being one week into it, you might be showing the week before's weight on the scale, I too live in the country and can not get out walking due to narrow crazy busy roads, I brought myself the 30 Day Shred by Jillian Michaels, its only 20 mins, totally kicks your butt but its worth the pain trust me. I have no excuse that I can't fit 20 mins into my day to work out.
I think you have a good plan reading your post, my only advice is stick with it and soon you'll be posting about your lose. Keep us updated.

As for as exercise goes. A good one is the Walk Away the Pounds by Leslie Sansone. She has walking and jogging dvds. Maybe the 10 minute solutions DVDs may help with you being a mom. You can do these when the baby is resting. I have started doing 10 min treadmill intervals. 3-4 minute warm up then power walk and sprint for 3 minutes then cool down.

Hope this helps!:flowerforyou:

I actually just did a walk away the pounds workout this morning in my living room thanks to the on demand section of my cable. I love it because anytime its raining or things are crazy and I can't really get out of the house this is what I do. I did Jillian Michaels 30 day shred the other day and it nearly killed me so I am going to stay away from it for a bit...anyway, it's fun and convenient, you should really try it!!

Buy a bunch of Ground turkey. Use it like you would ground beef. It has less flavor so i really spice it up with corriander, cumin, diced carrots, peppers, and onions. stay away from rice, pasta, iceberg lettuce, juices and other things high in carbs. Try a dressing that has less calories and fat. If you wan tbread go with whole wheat and read the label. There are Whole wheat breads that have low cals and are high in fiber. My hubby likes salads and what I make so I am pretty lucky there. he only ate iceberg lettuce for years until we made our lifestyle change. After the change I started buing fresh spinach that has already been cleaned. We LOVE IT!! He won't eat salads if I don't have it in the house. The grocery store we shop at has a very large (for the two of us) package of spinach. I use it ALOT. I make salads with it. I also Cook it and put it in meals. Here's a couple recepies.

4 eggs (2 with yolk 2 white only)
2 Pieces whole wheat bread
1/2 cup cottage cheese
2 cups fresh spinach
4 wedges laughing cow cheese
1/4 2% mozzerella Cheese (lower in fat and calories)

Cook the spinach (steam or boil) and remove excess water

wet the bread so it's breaks down a little (you don't want it soggy, just wet)add the cottage cheege, eggs, and laughing cow cheese to a food processor or blend it REAL good with a fork. Untill it's smooth

Mix the bread-egg-cheese mix, with the Mozzerella and cooked spinach.

Pop it in the oven at 350 for about 30 minutes. The top with be nice and brown.

When it's done it will be SOOOO yummy. I Don't know exact calorie count but it's high in fiber and protien and very filling. I figured it out and once serving is about 1/4 of the dish.

Another pasta one I make and LOVE (even my 13month old eats it.)

no yolks egg noodles
laughing cow cheese
cottage cheese
2% mozzerella cheese
Spinach Cooked

Cook the noodles
Add 2 wedges laughing cow and 1/2 cottage cheese (previously blended together) and 1/4 to 1/2 cup mozzerella cheese and spinach to the noodles.

It's a simple Cheesy spinachy noodle dish. Sometimes I add chicken or ground turkey to make it a main dish.

Play around with low cal low fat foods.

If you want cake. This is what I do. Use a box mix. Naughty naughty I know. Replace the Oil with apple sauce and use egg beaters that have no fat in them. I believe it's the original one. My mother-in-law (a junk foodie) can't tell the difference. She also like when I make her taco's or burito's with ground turkey.

It's a change from the same old thing everyday. and most are quick to make as I don't have alot of time with 2 dogs and baby and a hubby in college.

I hope this all helps you ! I log all this stuff and when I do i take everything I have put into the dish and if I ate 1/4 of it I divide what when into the dish by 4 and there's what I had. Everyone tells me to get a scale but we can't afford one. I may document more calories than I had but that's ok if you are excersizing. I think so anyway.

Good luck!!