I've honestly never thought of trying a forum before, but I'm at the point where I'm feeling a little frustrated and I think I need advice. I am currently 24 years old, 147 lbs and 5'2. When I was in high school I hit rock bottom and let my weight and bad eating habits get the best of me. Two years ago I had finally had enough of feeling so terrible and self-conscious about my weight that I decided to finally get on a scale. Turns out I weighed in at 207 lbs.
Over the last two years I have completely turned myself and my habits around, unfortunately not in the healthiest way. I have had a personal trainer who was extremely helpful throughout my entire trial and I went on the dr Bernstein diet. Sure the diet works wonders, but at 500-700 calories a day ( the injections and the vitamins did not make me hungry ) I lost weight quick, but felt extremely weak and unhealthy. My blood pressure had a rough time staying up, at one point I measured in at 90/20 and decided enough was enough when I lost my gallbladder to the diet.
Since the diet, I chose to start a new goal for myself. I want to lose the last of my weight and go down to my goal weight of 115 lbs naturally and in a healthy way. I'm a little frustrated that, naturally, I gained 7 lbs once I got off the diet (and ended up in hospital for gallbladder surgery) and another 4 lbs since trying to turn things around.
I do bootcamp style workouts with a personal trainer 3 times a week for one hour each. We are gradually changing the difficulty and I do everything from cardio to weight training, skip rope, ball exercises, resistance etc so the workouts are continuously changing and become more and more difficult as we go, on nice days we also incorporate half outdoors and half indoors. In between I do two half hour workouts comprising of squats, lunges, some weight exercises, abs, cardio. I don't think it's the exercise that's my problem and I'm pretty sure it's my eating.
I am lactose and glutten intolerant and do not have any trouble staying away from fatty dairy and bread products. If I have anything resembling milk or cereal I usually have a low fat organic cereal from the local health food store with the 70 calorie silk milk lactose-free product. I've been told I should, with the workouts I do, be eating approximately 1600 calories a day, but I think this is where my problem resides. I keep a log on what I eat and the calorie amount and find that I am below 1600, usually ranging from 900-1100 calories as I am attempting to get over the small amounts I used to eat, and I lack in protein. I have a harder time eating protein and I think I need to find other alternatives for protein intake that maybe I haven't thought of, that and I am unsure just how many portions I should really have to lose weight, during bernstein I was only allowed 6-7 oz of protein a day. I'm also not sure if it's best to do three meals or if I should be having snacks in between and what constitutes as an okay snack. I do also drink high amounts of water and do not drink pop, coffee or concentrate juices. The only juice I will touch is Kiju, which is non-concentrate and organic.
If anyone can give me some tips about what I can do here, I'm hoping to at least set a realistic goal of losing 15 of those pounds by this December. I've come a long way to lose the pounds I've lost so far and I want to do this right.
Over the last two years I have completely turned myself and my habits around, unfortunately not in the healthiest way. I have had a personal trainer who was extremely helpful throughout my entire trial and I went on the dr Bernstein diet. Sure the diet works wonders, but at 500-700 calories a day ( the injections and the vitamins did not make me hungry ) I lost weight quick, but felt extremely weak and unhealthy. My blood pressure had a rough time staying up, at one point I measured in at 90/20 and decided enough was enough when I lost my gallbladder to the diet.
Since the diet, I chose to start a new goal for myself. I want to lose the last of my weight and go down to my goal weight of 115 lbs naturally and in a healthy way. I'm a little frustrated that, naturally, I gained 7 lbs once I got off the diet (and ended up in hospital for gallbladder surgery) and another 4 lbs since trying to turn things around.
I do bootcamp style workouts with a personal trainer 3 times a week for one hour each. We are gradually changing the difficulty and I do everything from cardio to weight training, skip rope, ball exercises, resistance etc so the workouts are continuously changing and become more and more difficult as we go, on nice days we also incorporate half outdoors and half indoors. In between I do two half hour workouts comprising of squats, lunges, some weight exercises, abs, cardio. I don't think it's the exercise that's my problem and I'm pretty sure it's my eating.
I am lactose and glutten intolerant and do not have any trouble staying away from fatty dairy and bread products. If I have anything resembling milk or cereal I usually have a low fat organic cereal from the local health food store with the 70 calorie silk milk lactose-free product. I've been told I should, with the workouts I do, be eating approximately 1600 calories a day, but I think this is where my problem resides. I keep a log on what I eat and the calorie amount and find that I am below 1600, usually ranging from 900-1100 calories as I am attempting to get over the small amounts I used to eat, and I lack in protein. I have a harder time eating protein and I think I need to find other alternatives for protein intake that maybe I haven't thought of, that and I am unsure just how many portions I should really have to lose weight, during bernstein I was only allowed 6-7 oz of protein a day. I'm also not sure if it's best to do three meals or if I should be having snacks in between and what constitutes as an okay snack. I do also drink high amounts of water and do not drink pop, coffee or concentrate juices. The only juice I will touch is Kiju, which is non-concentrate and organic.
If anyone can give me some tips about what I can do here, I'm hoping to at least set a realistic goal of losing 15 of those pounds by this December. I've come a long way to lose the pounds I've lost so far and I want to do this right.