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Okay...I'm ready to do this....again (writing this post, that is, seeing as I just finished writing a rather long winded post and tried to post it and found I had been logged out... :mad: )

So let's try this again. I'm 16, 5'11", and about 50 or so pounds over the weight I want to be (140-150...with muscle).

My plan?

To drink loooots of water (I do so, anyways...)
1500-2000 calories a day, unless I eat mostly fruits and then I'm full and there's really no REASON to eat high calorie foods...
Weight train three times a week (muscle eats fat, though it weighs more, it's slimmer).
Cardio 5 days a week (on days I do weights, I'll only do ten to 20 minutes, on the other days I'll try to do 30-40).

Goal before the fall semester: To have lost a lot of fat and replaced it with muscle. To have a great confidence boost, high(er) metabolism, and at least to be in a size ten....if it's less, fine, but size ten is my goal. But that's my long term :D

Short term (in two months or less...less, hopefully): To drop 10-20 pounds, 3-4 dress sizes.

I hope these are realistic goals...:) I start my exercise on monday, but I've all ready (basically) started the diet part.

My diet is simple, I've started using Mega T Green Tea supplement, which helps curb appetite, burns calories, and boosts energy, as well as reduce body fat, increase metabolism, metabolise fat and elimate excess fluids.
I'm trying to eat 4-6 small healthy meals-snacks a day.

Today I had:

Breakfast: Apple (I woke up rather late, and I'm never that hungry in the morning, unless I wake up early).
Lunch: tuna with mayo and mustard and some crackers
snack: yoplait strawberry yogurt
Dinner: a tony's one serving pizza (never again...nasty...nasty...high in calories...nasty...nasty...)
dessert: peach
snack: applesauce.

About a total or so of 1500 calories. And I'm....full, not at all hungry. I've had 2 liters of water and am about to go fill up my water bottle again.

The only real killer I had today was that pizza...bleh.

Cheers,
Cort
 
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Welcome, Cort. You sound motivated and strong! Keep up your great attitude and your hard work. I'm looking forward to your posts!
Totallyscrappy
 
Thanks totallyscrappy :) *waves*

Well...today is, yet again, a new day.

I havn't had anything to eat yet, but I just woke up, so I'm trying to get that nasty taste out of my mouth.

Last evening, I was stupid and took one of the green tea supplements...goodness gracious, they weren't joking when they said it boosts energy *laughs* I was bouncing all over the place, quite literally, (a norm for me when I'm excited or extremely tired...but I was neither, at the moment :p).

My plan for the day:

Go for a bike ride (unless it's wet outside, and I haven't looked, so I don't know...)
If it's wet outside, then I'll take my puppy out for a walk (she's a poodle...she likes water as long as it doesn't mean bath)
Eat very low calorie foods, since I'm taking my parents to Schloctskies tonight, and, being a picky eater, the only real thing that appeals to me if the 700 calorie 8 inch double cheese pepperoni pizza ( mmmmm....). But I won't get the meal, because I don't want/need the chips.
To do 15 minutes of cardio type stuff...
To do 15 minutes of weight lifting.

Speaking of diet type stuff, my dad and I had a spat last night, for no particular reason. I was just telling him my calorie intake for the day, and he said 'that's kind of low...' but then said try it for the week (....). Right, then he got into the 'you don't know it all, and niether do I. You need to weigh yourself once a week."

Seeing as I hate the scale, I did a bargain and said every 2 weeks. Dad again said one, and I said 2. Then he yelled at me and said I had problems because I didn't want to weigh myself once a week, and I told him yes, I did, I didn't want to get discouraged right off the bat.

grrrr....*bangs head against a brick wall*
 
Nope! I'm not going to let it.

I did...fairly good today, not excellant, but fairly good.

Foodwise:

Breakfast: Apple
Lunch: A couple bites of liguine noodles with paremesan (I would have had more, but as I found out due to the wierd smell of the noodles, either the pot I used to cook them in wasn't fully rinsed of soap, or the collender wasn't....blech!), and a yoplait lemon cream pie fat free yogurt
Dinner: a 8 inch double cheese pepperoni pizza from Schlotskies (can't spell it, can't pronounce it :p:p)
Snack: Will either be a fruit or some strawberry yoplait yogurt...or both.

So...about 1000 calories. I really should have had more, but I'm full! I can't have more!

My exercise: Not as much as I would have liked. We (bring my parents and I) took my puppy (a 3 month old mini poodle named Morgan) to Petsmart to get her a collar (hot pink with studs!) and also got her some fun vanilla peach deordorant (I call her a candy puppy, now :p) and a clicky thingit for training. Walked around for about an hour, if that matters any. Then came home and ate dinner, and then I took Morgan and our younger collie (9 years old...) out for a walk, ended up doing about a mile (had to carry the puppy most of the way B^). I prolly should have done some weights, too, but I didn't. :| Procrastination is evil :p
 
Oookay...adventurous day!

Breakfast: a single serving container of apple sauce
snack: apple sauce
Lunch: a tuna (with mayo, mustard, and some lemon juice mixed in) sandwhich with some wheat things and colby (longhorn style!) cheese.
snack:none (unless you count a handful of parmesan :p yes, I eat that stuff plain :p)
dinner: will be 1-2 tacos (just meat, cheese, and hard shells)
dessert: either yogurt, apple, peach, orange, or grapes.

Exercise: Wooooo buddy!! I didn't do any 'exercise' per se, but I did do a good amount (about an hour of non stop, minus 5-6 30 second water breaks :p) yard work, dragging limbs that my dad was cutting off of the tree(s) out into the front yard to be picked up on wedsnday by the people who pick them up :p And that was a good deal of lifting and walking (up/down out drive way, which has a considerable slope) and stuff. Then raked up some leaves and hauled them over to the leaf bin and threw them in. Then helped my dad destroy some ant piles.

I feel good! I feel like I burned off all of those calories from lunch and breakfast...I hope I did! I estimate (from the little book we have...) I burned about 400 calories...which would be just about my calorie intake for the day (so far) prolly a little less, but hey! woo! That's exciting...

Cort
 
This is very exciting. Last night I weighed myself, even though I knew I should do it in the morning. And I came out at 203. Eeep. Then this morning I weighed myself...and I was 200! I'm very excited. I know the difference doesn't mean much though, since I still had fluid and stuff in my body, last night, and this morning I had a clean system. Woo! That's a difference of 5-7 pounds since last I weighed myself (about 2-3 weeks ago).

Now...today I'm going full time on this diet/exercise, thing.

I started an Excel spread sheet (2, actually, one for the diet and one for the exercise), to help me keep track of calories.

Exercise Day Check Goal Achieved

Walk Every Day 10-15 min
Sit ups Every Day 12 rep (2 sets)
Push ups Every Day 5 rep
stretches Every Day 5 min
weights Mon, Wed, Fri 15 min
tae bo Tuesday 10 min
v. Cardio Thursday 10 min
Ab Gym basic Tues, Thur, Fri 30 rep (goal)
Ab Gym advanced Tues, Thur, Fri 5 rep (goal)
Ab Gym Strength Tues, Thur, Fri 10 each, one string (goal)

Is what I've written down. Sundays and Saturdays are my resting days. :)

I am so ready to loose some more weight.
 
Sounds like you are off to a great start. Keep up the great work and way to go on the exercising. Sounds like you are doing pretty good.
 
Thanks!

I went out for my walk today with my puppy (but I'm afraid no more walks with her till she gets her last shot...) and did about half a mile, then came in, cooled down, and ate lunch. Then around 1.30 ish I got on the treadmill and did about 4 minutes of a brisk walk for a warm up (about .13 of a mile, 2.5-3.0 miles per hour), then did 15 minutes worth of weight lifting, and then went in my room to do situps, push ups, and 5 beautiful minutes of stretching. I love stretching.

And now my back hurts...I think it was the sit ups. Maybe have to skip on them tomorrow.

Also: mom ordered me a dvd, something like" Dance with me: Ballet workout,' and she might order me a belly dance for beginners dvd from columbia house. I've always loved to dance, and have always wanted to learn...and dancing is AWSOME cardio.

I'm not exactly looking forward to Tae Bo, tomorrow...but I suppose I'll have to do it, or just put in some heavy music and just move to the beat for 10-15 minutes, puting in some Tae bo moves as I go...
 
Hmm...I just noticed these questions in the sticky thread in this forum...


-- How much weight do you want to lose?
About 50 pounds

-- What is the timeframe for reaching your target weight?
Either before my 17th birthday (July) or before the fall semester..I want to be healthy when I go to college.

-- How do you want to accomplish your goal (what methods do you want to use)?
Weight lifting, calorie counting, tae bo, jump rope, and dancing.

-- Who or what can support you in reaching your goal?
My parents, my friends, and this forum :)

-- How realistic is your goal?
Pretty realistic, I think!

-- When will you start?
Started on the diet part last week, exercise part this week :)

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Okay, that done...

For some reason, I feel so guilty about yesterday. Seriously, I do. I wasn't keeping track of my calorie intake. I know for a fact I didn't go over 1500 (my max), but still...I just feel REALLY awful for not writing anything down in my spreadsheet:( Will have to do that today. I also had half a bottle of sprite yesterday (last night...). Only 150 calories, but...still! Mom and I had gone down to the dollar store to get some things, and I was thirsty, so we both got a soda...*sighs*

Today though, I will do better.

I havn't had breakfast yet, but I plan to.

Breakfast:
an apple and some yogurt

snack: some grapes or triscuit/wheat thin stuffsh

lunch: tuna sandwhich and an orange

snack: maybe some popcorn with parmesan..

dinner: no clue :p

Today's exercise might consist of a bike ride, and some tae bo. :)
 
it sounds like you are doing a great job.. you are keeping yourself motivated and keeping track of things, which i know is the hardest part, yet also the most rewarding for me. Congratulations!!!
 
Thanks!

Okay...meals haven't gone as planned...

Breakfast: the last of the apple sauce :)()
lunch: 4 white meat chicken strips cooked in terriaki, pepper, olive oil, and garlic salt with mashed potatoes.
snack: bananna
dinner: will be steak, and some green beans :D

Exercise so far: About half a mile on my bike. I'll do some tae-bo ish cardio, soon.
 
For dinner last night I also had some rice. And for a snack I had a bag of popcorn with parmesan.

Today:

Breakfast: Yogurt
snack: none
lunch: chicken cooked in garlic, black pepper, salt, terriaki, and water :-d The liquid will be drained off and I'll cut up the chicken in little bits, brown them on the stove, and cook some mashed taters.

Yay!! Today is weight day! I love weight training...
 
Woo! Second page!

mid afternoon snack: dried fruit
dinner: will be 6 ounces of steak, green beans, and either mashed potatoes or rice
snack: either popcorn, a fruit, or yogurt

Exercise: About an hour! I walked outside for about 20 minutes, did about a mile, up hill, down hill ,and even. Then came inside, and did about 20-30 minutes doing weights.

I think I'm going to have to stop doing the tricep pull down thingit for a while, my right shoulder doesn't like it too much (it was a stinging pain, kind of like when you pulled a muscle or are about to pull a muscle) so, for health reasons, I'm going to cut that out for a while. Dissapointing, since that's my favorite exercise :(:( Thankfully I can still do the lat pull down without any pain.

I have started to 'feel the burn,' today, in my legs especially. I'm going to be soooore tomorrow! *is happy* but that's good! Means I got a good workout! woo!

Cort
 
Isn't the second page exciting?

You're doing a great thing for yourself. I wish I had lost the weight and learned better eating before I went to college. Now I'm in my third year up to my neck in papers and books and preoccupied with my weight loss. Your goals are realistic and you're doing a great job with your food and exercise choices. Keep it up!
 
Second pages are really exciting *grin*

I'm feeling almost guilty....but I know I shouldn't. I decided for a snack to have some sugarless hot cocoa and some yogurt. The yogurt was fine, but even though the cocoa only has 70 calories (I was hoping for more! So I could get closer to 1500 calories!), and the only bad thing is the sodium (there is a LOT of sodium!), which might explain why all of a sudden I've started to feel a tad bloated, but I should have drunk enough water so far to delute the sodium. I hope.
 
Awww man...it's that bloody time of the month again (pun...not really intended...). Today is cardio day, too. So it looks like I'm going to go for a nice, long walk....

The only problem with that is it's raining outside, and I can't stand our tread mill; it's boring, it doesn't have shock absorbers, and my hip starts to hurt whenever I use it. Grrr.

And I can't do any kind of tae-bo-ish stuff, do to the fact of the time of month, so I can't do any kicks or anything....pfft. Fine time for this to kick in. I will be able to do the ab gym....but I might just have to go easy on cardio today.
 
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