Jenn's Food and Fitness Journal

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Hey everyone!
I thought as a self motivator I would set up my own diary on here, for the world to see. Hopefully I'll never have to type "had 8 donuts today" =)
I started to work on my new and improved self yesterday. I'm trying to lose 15lbs, I lost 25 last year, got stuck on a plateau and totally let it ruin me, but not this time. I'm going to get down to 120 (5'6)

I had 1200 calories; here's what was in them: (Order: calories, carbs, fat, protein)

Banana, fresh, 1 medium (7" to 7-7/8" long) 109 28 1 1
Apex Chocolate Shake Dry, 1 serving 150 21 2 14
Milk substitutes, Lowfat Vanilla Soy Milk, 1 cup 100 10 4 6

Lean Cuisine Three Meat Pizza, 1 serving 350 48 9 21
Weight Watchers Carrot Cake, 1.5 serving 120 24 4 2

Weight Watchers Smart Ones Three Cheese Macaroni, 1 serving 290 45 7 12
Hot Dog Bun Whole Wheat, 1 serving 110 20 2 4
Jennie O Turkey Frank, 1 serving 70 1 5 4
Flavorite Mild Cheddar Shredded Cheese, 0.1 cup 44 0 4 3

10 cups of water

I had sooo much energy yesterday it was great, however, I ended up staying late at work so I did some leg lifts in my office while reading a proposal (sounds silly I know but at least it was something)
After that I headed to the gym and did 25 mins on the ellpitical. I start my weight training schedule today and in a nerdy way I'm really excited about it.

Hope everyone else is having a great day, and thanks for reading!
 
Well Hi Jenn !

Welcome and sounds like you are already on a great start sounds very healthy to me. ;)

The only thing I would suggest is to get a BF% done and find out what it is.

Also the prepackaged meals hold a ton a sodium and other preservatives that are bad for you if you eat them alot .

Try not to eat the prepackaged deals so often , but if its the only thing you have time to do I understand. The sodium intake tho is very horrible for you in those.

Make sure to eat every 2 to 3 hours and you are already including lots of protein ! ;)

So , just keep it up and keep us updated.

:)
 
Hi Jenn,
I just want to add another suggestion to what Jaymie posted. I understand that you want to lose weight, but you need to be eating more than 1200 calories a day. That won't be near enough to support your system, especially if you are weight training and doing cardio. Good luck with your goals :)
 
Thanks for the tips guys! I need to plan out my meals a little better so that I'm not stuck eating frozen dinners a lot.
Do you think I should bump my calories up to 1400?
 
Well Jenn, let me say it this way. If you are used to only eating 1200 cals a day, then just bump it up to 1400 for now. But I think you can easily consume 1800-2000 cals a day (good food,of course) and lose weight and look great. Just takes a bit of planning, but it will be the norm, once you get used to it. :) Be consistent in your workouts and diet and you'll do fine :)
 
Welcome to the forum...

I'm not sure if your calories were spread over three meals or not - if so, try spreading them out over 6 smaller meals, to keep the metabolism fueled and going throughout the day.

Congrats on your decision for a healthier lifestyle - having done so myself a year ago, I know it's hard going, so good on ya.
 
Sorry, should have made that more clear about the meal plan, it was separated out over 5 meals with one snack.
I can't thank everyone enough for their helpful comments =)
 
Just as a side note, I'm very excited! I opened my own business yesterday (its an event planning company) I hope this does not count as spam, I was just really excited about it and wanted to share. Look out parties here I come! Let's just hope I don't eat too much cake!
 
Cloud2003 said:
Just as a side note, I'm very excited! I opened my own business yesterday (its an event planning company) I hope this does not count as spam, I was just really excited about it and wanted to share. Look out parties here I come! Let's just hope I don't eat too much cake!
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Nah - not spam at all... Congrats on your new venture.
 
I'll post my food stuff later today, just wanted to post my workout.
I formed a workout group at my work during the lunch hour. Today we did:
10 mins taebo
30mins Pilates
Now I just need to get my weight training in which I always put off until last.
 
hey cloud, great job so far!
i wouldn't necessarily up your calories to 1400 and definitely not 2000 if you want to lose weight. are you hungry all the time? if you are, then try 1300...but you are only 5'6" 135 lbs right? so you probably don't burn more than 1700 per day (without considering exercise). i find weight loss is extremely slow unless you eat 400 calories LESS than you expend per day, especially when you are at a normal weight for your height (as you are). maybe others disagree though...
but for a 2 lb weight loss per week, which is healthy, you need to burn off 1000 calories per day. that's A LOT. even if you cut 400-500 from your diet, you'd still need to burn off 500-600 from the gym, which is like 1 hour of cardio :eek:
 
This is something I'm curious about too. Jenn, I almost have the same stats--5'6, 137 lbs, and 23 yrs old, and I lost a lot of weight on a 1200 cal diet, but towards the last couple of weeks I was hungry all the time (because of all the exercise probably) and I plateaued. So I upped my fat intake and went up to 1400 and dropped even more weight pretty quickly. But now I'm on 1600 and am not seeing results. So I'm going back to 1400-1500, which I think is optimal.
 
awakening said:
hey cloud, great job so far!
i wouldn't necessarily up your calories to 1400 and definitely not 2000 if you want to lose weight. are you hungry all the time? if you are, then try 1300...but you are only 5'6" 135 lbs right? so you probably don't burn more than 1700 per day (without considering exercise). i find weight loss is extremely slow unless you eat 400 calories LESS than you expend per day, especially when you are at a normal weight for your height (as you are). maybe others disagree though...
but for a 2 lb weight loss per week, which is healthy, you need to burn off 1000 calories per day. that's A LOT. even if you cut 400-500 from your diet, you'd still need to burn off 500-600 from the gym, which is like 1 hour of cardio :eek:
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Awakening while I do appreciate you throwing in your input I have to strongly disagree with your statments. You always need to eat above your resting metabolic rate. What that means is basically if you layed in bed all day long and didn't do anything this is the amount of calories (energy) your body needs to function. The problem with these baseline 1200 calories diets is that yes you will see weight loss, but at a price and no one can stay on that forever. This is the way to the YO-YO factor.

Given her stats her Resting metabolic rate is rougly 1429 calories. So this means she need to eat AT LEAST that in a day to function healthy and properly. Throw in any activity from walking to the car to doing pilates and we up that rate. So lets caculate her at a light to moderate activity level and we reach roughly 2100 calories a day if she maintains a continuos workout routine that isn't highly stressing.

Losing 2lbs a week may be healthy for someone who is largly overweight, but someone her size should be losing at a rate of 1 pound a week or less. Faster isn't better or permamate for that matter, losing it any faster than that usually means you are depriving yourself, will hit a plateau and have to start all over. As much as it even frustrates me in fat loss there just aren't any shortcuts, only good methods. So given all this if she has been eating under her resting she needs to slowing introduce more calories starting at 1400-1450 and then move it up by 50-100 till she hits around 1700. Then bounce around 1550 to 1800 for a while and see how that reacts with her workout routine. BURN FAT, dont starve it. Statistically people who lose weight through more focus of activity keep the weight off for longer or for good.

And look at it like this, maybe she might lose fat at a slightly slower rate however she gets all the nutirents she needs, can eat more and have more energy because of that towards working out and if she decided once a week to have some pizza its not going to crush her efforts and cause fat storage. We eat to lose, that is the tried and true method.
 
Hey woman, congrats on the weight loss. I know it doesn't seem like alot, but it's something. Just remember that. If you have a bad day, just remember tomorrow is another day.
 
Ok so today, I'm not doing so hot. Our group went out to lunch and since I woke up to late to catch breakfast (two negatives I know).
I ordered sweet and sour chicken, but told them to only bring me out 1/2 of it. I had 1/2 cup of steamed rice and some of the chicken. On a positive note, I have had a lot of water today and have already scheduled time to make myself a really healthy dinner. I've been doing leg lifts and lifting an 8lb free weight to do some arm exercises while no one is in my office, but I totally screwed up on lunch.
At least, I didn't say "oh well" to the rest of the day, I guess
 
Yup you can always get back on track with the very next time you eat. So keep your chin up and focus on the positive.
 
She47441 said:
I second that.
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Again??? :eek: :) :D
 
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