Fuunkymonk
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Okay, here goes:
I'm 21 years old, female, and 5'4". I believe I weigh about 240 pounds, roughly.
Ouch.
I want to lose 90 pounds and when I'm done I'd like to maintain a weight of 135-145 pounds, depending on what looks best on me (ie, where my curves are, what size chest and butt I have, because I don't want to be "skinny," I want to remain feminine. Having a curvy figure is much more important to me than being able to see my ribs.)
I want to do this in the period of a year or so, give or take (probably give) a few months.
How to: How to...how to...what a question. Well, first things first, I'm a ten year octo-lavo vegetarian (which by the way, at start will probably make you drop fifteen pounds...I can't imagine what I would look like if I ate meat.) I plan on losing the weight. So I eat eggs and dairy products, but no meat, poultry, or seafood. I plan on creating balanced harmonious vegetarian meals for myself, combined with exercise (I'm hoping to scrape together the cash for a membership to Curves after my ankle surgery) to aid me in losing weight. My college has an amazing advanced free gym, which I have used in the past, but I feel like something like Curves, which provides the support of other women will help. If I like Curves I'll still do walking and stretching, or visits to the school gym on days I don't go to Curves. I'm knocking out soda (oh, Dr.Pepper, how I will miss you...) and planning on drinking at least one gallon of water a day (yes, that means carrying around a jug of water.) I'm also going to pre-prepare snacks (like portioning bags of Cheerios, layering plain yogurt with fruit in snack size cups, and cutting up vegetables and putting them in bags to go) and I'm going to start drinking wheatgrass (yuck!) and adding spirutien to soy fruit smoothies on days I drink smoothies. I'm considering also using caffeine free Metabolife or Hydroxycut. Thoughts on these? Anyone tried them?
Who Can Help? Ugh, well unfortunately, deep down I know I'm the only one who can help myself. However, by reading a lot of these threads and seeing the support everyone is providing to each other I hope that YOU can help a little as well. My best friend, as much as I love her, is my height and about 105 pounds and a junk food junkie and exercisephobe. A few girls at work are big into fad diets, but I'm not interested in any of those, especially not the low carb ones, because they're unrealistic for vegetarians. So it's all me here.
How realistic are my goals? Well, I'm aiming to lose five pounds a month in a 1 year period, roughly, give or take few months (I calculate a year and 4 months to lose 80 pounds.) I think this is a safe and realistic, although painstaking goal.
When will I start? Today! Sort of...
Lets see...
I just got back from Christmas vacation at my mom's in my hometown 3 hours away. I have nothing in my house except for two gallons of soymilk, a bag of catfood, and junk junk junk! (Junk has so many preservatives that it lives forever!)
I had a tiny can (probably 3/4th of a cup) of pure apricot nectar, because that's all I have!
I stopped at Publix on my way to work and got a salad of romaine lettuce and 5 cherry tomatoes, with some Naturally Fresh honey mustard dressing and a little pre-made fruit cup, which had a few chunks of fresh pineapple, 5 fresh strawberries, and some kiwi slices. I ate it when I got to work (where I sit in a cubicle and do tech support,) and I dip the dressing fork dip trick.
Then I had to take a lunch break about 4 hours later, so I went back to Publix and got some of their premade veggie sushi, containing avacado, carrot, and cucumber and another little salad, this one with mandarin oranges on it and some Naturally Fresh ginger dressing. I also got a package of trail mix, thinking it would curb my urge to hit the vending machine in the break room later in the evening. I had my sushi and salad, and then I starting snacking on the trail mix, which has peanuts, almonds, cashews, raisins and little chocolate pieces...ugh...I ate a lot of it. The nut-raisin ratio was much high than the chocolate, but I'm not crazy about nuts, so of course I picked around them. So I feel a little defeated, even though I know the nuts have good protien and the raisins were also good...I have to work on my snacking. I desperately need to go grocery shopping and premake all of my own stuff, because buying already made things at the store is way too pricey...I spent $16 total on my meals for today. The good news is, I had my gallon of water!!! Yess!!!!! I must stick to this. I must I must I must. I can go grocery shopping Monday (work again all day tomorrow.) And I also have to do my Pilates video until I can figure out what's up with my ankle, which has been killing me all day long. I'm excited about feeling and looking better though!
I'm 21 years old, female, and 5'4". I believe I weigh about 240 pounds, roughly.
Ouch.
I want to lose 90 pounds and when I'm done I'd like to maintain a weight of 135-145 pounds, depending on what looks best on me (ie, where my curves are, what size chest and butt I have, because I don't want to be "skinny," I want to remain feminine. Having a curvy figure is much more important to me than being able to see my ribs.)
I want to do this in the period of a year or so, give or take (probably give) a few months.
How to: How to...how to...what a question. Well, first things first, I'm a ten year octo-lavo vegetarian (which by the way, at start will probably make you drop fifteen pounds...I can't imagine what I would look like if I ate meat.) I plan on losing the weight. So I eat eggs and dairy products, but no meat, poultry, or seafood. I plan on creating balanced harmonious vegetarian meals for myself, combined with exercise (I'm hoping to scrape together the cash for a membership to Curves after my ankle surgery) to aid me in losing weight. My college has an amazing advanced free gym, which I have used in the past, but I feel like something like Curves, which provides the support of other women will help. If I like Curves I'll still do walking and stretching, or visits to the school gym on days I don't go to Curves. I'm knocking out soda (oh, Dr.Pepper, how I will miss you...) and planning on drinking at least one gallon of water a day (yes, that means carrying around a jug of water.) I'm also going to pre-prepare snacks (like portioning bags of Cheerios, layering plain yogurt with fruit in snack size cups, and cutting up vegetables and putting them in bags to go) and I'm going to start drinking wheatgrass (yuck!) and adding spirutien to soy fruit smoothies on days I drink smoothies. I'm considering also using caffeine free Metabolife or Hydroxycut. Thoughts on these? Anyone tried them?
Who Can Help? Ugh, well unfortunately, deep down I know I'm the only one who can help myself. However, by reading a lot of these threads and seeing the support everyone is providing to each other I hope that YOU can help a little as well. My best friend, as much as I love her, is my height and about 105 pounds and a junk food junkie and exercisephobe. A few girls at work are big into fad diets, but I'm not interested in any of those, especially not the low carb ones, because they're unrealistic for vegetarians. So it's all me here.
How realistic are my goals? Well, I'm aiming to lose five pounds a month in a 1 year period, roughly, give or take few months (I calculate a year and 4 months to lose 80 pounds.) I think this is a safe and realistic, although painstaking goal.
When will I start? Today! Sort of...
Lets see...
I just got back from Christmas vacation at my mom's in my hometown 3 hours away. I have nothing in my house except for two gallons of soymilk, a bag of catfood, and junk junk junk! (Junk has so many preservatives that it lives forever!)
I had a tiny can (probably 3/4th of a cup) of pure apricot nectar, because that's all I have!
I stopped at Publix on my way to work and got a salad of romaine lettuce and 5 cherry tomatoes, with some Naturally Fresh honey mustard dressing and a little pre-made fruit cup, which had a few chunks of fresh pineapple, 5 fresh strawberries, and some kiwi slices. I ate it when I got to work (where I sit in a cubicle and do tech support,) and I dip the dressing fork dip trick.
Then I had to take a lunch break about 4 hours later, so I went back to Publix and got some of their premade veggie sushi, containing avacado, carrot, and cucumber and another little salad, this one with mandarin oranges on it and some Naturally Fresh ginger dressing. I also got a package of trail mix, thinking it would curb my urge to hit the vending machine in the break room later in the evening. I had my sushi and salad, and then I starting snacking on the trail mix, which has peanuts, almonds, cashews, raisins and little chocolate pieces...ugh...I ate a lot of it. The nut-raisin ratio was much high than the chocolate, but I'm not crazy about nuts, so of course I picked around them. So I feel a little defeated, even though I know the nuts have good protien and the raisins were also good...I have to work on my snacking. I desperately need to go grocery shopping and premake all of my own stuff, because buying already made things at the store is way too pricey...I spent $16 total on my meals for today. The good news is, I had my gallon of water!!! Yess!!!!! I must stick to this. I must I must I must. I can go grocery shopping Monday (work again all day tomorrow.) And I also have to do my Pilates video until I can figure out what's up with my ankle, which has been killing me all day long. I'm excited about feeling and looking better though!
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