On the way to loosing the weight!

The grocery store ..

ok well I made it thru yesterday. I even drank my 6 cups of water! YEAH! I ended up eating a extra granola bar and a mini frozen yougart though. So I ate 1150 calories yesterday.

I am out of food already. I cant believe I have to go back to the dang grocery store. I am going today. I am so tempted to buy crap. I am going to make a list before I go and stick to it.

food plan today:

Breakfast:
Tea
Granola Bar
200 calories

Lunch:
Cottage cheese
Crackers
250 calories

Snack:
fruit ?
100 calories

Dinner:
Vegie and chicken stir fry
300 calories


Ok I am going to drink 7 glasses of water today !!!

here I go again .....
 
the grocery store is a hard one, particularly if you're hungry. Try to go just after you have eaten so you're not dying in front of the chips. Water is a tough one, especially if you're not thirsty, but I tried that Aquafina flavored grape, and it was sooooooo good. Keep up the good work!
 
what to eat on the go?

Well I had the best of intentions yesterday. And ended up not doing so well. I started the day great , ate my breakfast. But I was so busy that I did not end up eating or drinking anything until 4 pm!! So Bad! Then of course I was starving so I ended up overeating hummus and crackers. Then 3 hours later ate subway instead of cooking my healthy dinner bec I was tired. I only ate 1200 calories but I did eat way to many carbs and not enough water. So lesson learned , I need to keep food with me for those situations. What does everyone keep with them for healthy easy food on the go?

Ok so food for today:

Breakfast:
Granola Bar
Tea
200 calories

Lunch:
Cottage cheese
crackers
250 calories

Snack:
Banana
150 calories

Dinner:
Either Applebess weightwathers dinner (350 calories) or
Salad with grilled chicken

I am going to try and drink my 7 glasses of water.

Any on the good healthy suggestions are greatly appericiated :) Thanks everyone!
 
HI,
Hope you are having a good one!!!! You astill did awesome yeaterday, no worries...You can do this... Svae your money for next time.. Everytime you wanna go buy something instead of making it at home, Just put that money in a jar for your rewards. So everytime you lose 5 lbs. You have money to go buy something or treat yourself to go eat out... You can do this. Stay Positive and drink your water... Lets get to 7 cups real soon..:D
 
The weekend..

Well I did ok again yesterday. I ended up eating 2 granola bars for breakfast ( I was hungry) and frozen yougart with topping for dessert. I think I need to learn to avoid the topping. The yougart itself is totally fine. I ended up eating 1200 calories , which was good, but not the 1000 I was shooting for. If I had cut out the topping and downsized the yougart I would have been able to get there. Good lesson for me to learn - I dont have to give up things just substitute and eat smaller portions! I did much better with my water , drank my 7 glasses! YEAH!

Tonight I am going to my sisters house for dinner. Which has me worried. She is what I call an "enabler". She hates that I am thin now (or at least alot thinner than I used to be) and so she cooks my favorite Bad foods and fills the house with choc and says things like "oh just try it" etc. I Think I may bring along a salad and a healthy side dish and I can eat more of that than her dinner. It is dessert I am worried about. I am going to make a stand right now and say - NO DESSERT tongiht. I can show the self control.

Today is weigh in day. One week and I am down to 148 ! I am very proud!

Food Plan today:

Breakfast:
Granola Bar
Tea
200 calories

Lunch:
Cottage cheese
Strawberries
200 calories

Snack:
Banana
150 calories

Dinner:
limiting myself to 500 calories. Portion control. I can do it!

New goal for next weeks weight loss - 146. Scary, I are so excited for that number. I almost feel like I cant do it. I will do it!!
 
YAY!!!!! I'm so happy for ya!!! You are doing soo good.. Hope everything went well at your sisters. That's sucks when you are doing so good with your health and other people want to bring you down for... Especially family. My mom does that to me... When I am heavy then she nit picks on me and One time I went down to 130 and She still nit picks.. So i just ignore her negative vibes and concertrate on my health...
So, Keep up the great work and DRINK YOUR WATER :D
 
I did awesome !

Wow so I am so impressed with myself. Not only did I make it thru dinner yesterday but I did so amazingly well. Before getting there I had eatten approx 600 calories. That left me 600 for the night. I made a huge salad and vegatable side dish to bring. I got over there and of course she was making a full on mexican meal with tons of cheese. For dessert were these homade choc cakes with homade caramel and homemade marshmellow. Every time I was tempted to snack on all the junk food I drank some water. I ended up drinking 8 bottles of water just at her house last night! So dinner comes around and I had a huge plate of my salad with chicken on it and my veggie side dish. Thats is. I only ate 400 calories for dinner! Every one else consumed at least 1000. When dessert came out I told her I would "share" with my husband. I brought my husband his dessert , had one bite then left. Then came out the choc. They keep it everywhere in there house. So I ate one piece of dark choc ( 80 calories). After we left I realized that I not only had stuck to my calorie intake for the day but actually came under it!!

So I now know I can show self control. and the best part was , I didnt feel deprived at all. I just made healthier choices.

So here is the food plan today -

Breakfast:
Granola Bar
Tea
200 C

Lunch:
Cottage cheese
Whole wheat crackers
250 C

Snack:
Strawberries
100 C

Dinner:
Grilled Fish
Grilled Veggies
400 C

Goal today: do not exceed 1200 calories. Drink 8 glasses of water.

Here I go again!
 
Weekend over , new week!

Well I made it thru the weekend. Must say I am doing great so far! I just keep reminding myself that I am not on a diet. I am makeing better choices. Last night was hard for me. I was stressed about $$ , and I wanted to go a eat. I went into the kitchen with the intent of eating and calmly took out the ingrediants to make tea instead. I ended up just drinking the tea. I was proud of that. I didnt let my emotions rule my apatite. For me that is always my biggest challange. I will be doing great, then sabotage myself. I am not going to do that this time.

Food plan today:

Breakfast:
Granola Bar
tea
200 C

Lunch:
Tuna
spinach salad
250 C

Snack:
Banana
150 C

Dinner:
Pork
Suated mushrooms
Salad
350 C

I am goaling myself at my 8 glasses of water today.
 
Hi! Welcome and thanks for stopping by my diary. It looks like you're doing great! I echo Christina in saying that I really like WW and feel like I'm losing more than ever AND I don't feel too deprived. (I'm hungry at the moment, but thanks to flex points, I'll have a bowl of Cheerios in a bit.)

As far as suggestions, I really like Kashi Go Lean cereal. (Christina doesn't like it.) One bowl is 3.5 points, plus one point for n/f milk. The thing I like is that it keeps me full until noon. Sometimes it gives me the, uh, *toots* (unfortunately for my husband and children). If I eat an apple at 11:00 or so, I can go till 1 or 2 before eating lunch. I also read in a diet book once that eating a piece of fruit on an empty stomache in the morning (not the first thing you eat) and 2 hours before eating lunch, it helps w/ burning fat. I try, but w/ two kids, it's hard to stick to any kind of eating schedule. (My needs come last!) Anyhow, I was reading your post about Atkins. That is horrible!!! Why doesn't the entire dieting world know stories like yours?? My husband went on Atkins and has never been as sick before or since. Did you see that NBC Dateline special on diets? They compared all different diets and Atkins and Southbeach showed the fastest results, but also had the fastest bounce-back gain. Interesting, huh? Probably not scientific, but I thought it was interesting.
Anyhow, here's to reaching your goal weight!
 
So tired!

Wow I just had the worst nights sleep. Bad dreams all night. I hate that! Well I ate really well yesterday .. until 9 when we went and got frozen yougart. Again I got a small (instead of a mini) and a topping. SO I tacked on 300 calrories at the end of the day. I am kinda pissed at myself. I ate 1250 calories yesterday. I actually weighed myself and lost more, but I am nervous that it isnt "real" weight loss. So I will wait until sat to post my weight, bec that way it has been a full week to stablize.

Anywho I made a great dinner. Thought I would share:

Pork marinated (30 min) in Cheriackyi glaze. (glaze had 50 calories for 2tbl).

Roasted veggies.( my fav)
3 yellow squash cut into 1 inch thick pieces
1 yellow onion (chop into LARGe pieces)
1 red bell pepper(chop into large peices)
garlic salt ( 1tsp)
Olive oil (1 tbl)
Basalmic Vinger (1 tbl)
throw in a glass bakeing dish and cook for 30 min at 450.

Total Calories for the dinner per serving (280)

Anyways here is the plan for today-

Breakfast:
Granola Bar
Tea
200 C

Lunch:
Cottage cheese
Crackers
250 C

Snack:
strawberries
120 C

Dinner:
shrimp
squash
salad
300 C

and again - 8 glasses of water.
 
Mmmmm ... what cut of pork do you use? Tenderloin? I have two pork tenderloin roasts in my fridge. I'm going to make one tonight, but it's not going to be healhty! I'm going to wrap it in pancetta. Yum! It's a recipe I've been eager to try, but couldn't find the Pancetta.

Keep up the good work!
 
Just wnated to pop in !!!!!! Your food is good and I'm jealous :D J/K Have a great day and stay Positive.. How is the water coming???:D
 
I agree- the veggies look really good :)

A lot of magazines say this- if you screw up- don't feel like its the end of the world! But just make sure that if ya mess up in the middle of the day, its only one thing. You can still get back on the wagon after your indulgence :) 1250 is really good cal wise- I'm betting your loss is real(the kind we all love :D )
 
HI girls!

Well I did it again. Ate the damn frozen yougart with a topping after dinner. ACKKK!!! I actually only ate 1150 calories yesterday, but still this yourgart thing is killing me. I think I need to limit myself to say - frozen yourgart is fine as long as I only get a mini and only eat it 3 days a week. (right now I am eatting it like 5-7 days a week).

Water intake is going better for me. While cooking dinner I make myself drink 2-3 glasses. This makes me less hungry at dinner so my portions are smaller. Also with every meal I drink a big glass of water. SO I am improving.

Excersise though - what the heck is that? I dont seem to do any of it. My job makes it so hard. Ok wait that is an excuse. I could find the time if I wanted too. This seems to be another thing I have problems conquring.

Now for the good changes - my body. My stomach is getting so FLAT. I feel so good about it! I know I have not lost a ton of weight (well I have since 2003, but i mean since I started this here) But I just feel so much less puffy and leaner. It makes me very proud of myself!

so thats the rant for today -

here is my food plan:

Breakfast:
Granola Bar
Tea
200 C

Lunch:
Cottage cheese
Crackers
250 C

Snack:
Banana
150 C

Dinner:
salad ? (we have a big thing at church tonight. So I am going to eat before we go )
200 C


Thanks girls for all the support and checking in on me. It keeps me focused !!
 
Sounds Like Your Doing Good And Yeps Set Goals On The Frozen Yogurt
 
Hi there! That fro yo will do it. It's such a temptation! A friend of mine had a lot of luck losing weight when she recorded all the temptations in a day that she avoided. As for exercise, it's tough when your time is largely spoken for.
 
The frozen yourgart ...

Ok well yesterday was interesting. I did great until 3pm. I stuck to the food plan and had my breakfast , lunch and snack. I was at 600 calories at 3pm. Then We got ready for our church thing and I forgot to eat before going. So We get there and I am STARVING. It wasnt over until 8:30pm, so we headed to applebees. My first time eating out since starting this . So even thought it was 8:30 at night and I shouldnt be eating , I had to bec I was really HUGNRY. So I ordered a side salad. No cheese, dressing on the side. Ate that 120 calories. Then I ordered the best weight watchers shrimp dinner for 270 calories. And I drank water. So I felt good , that I ate so well when I was at a resturant with alot of temtation. That put me at 1000 calories for the day.
But wait! we had to go to frozen yougart AGAIN. This time though I ordered the mini. Ok I ate the topping , but I improved. That had 190 calories.

So I ended the day under 1200 which was great, But I should never have eatten so much food so late. That is what dissapointed me.

Anyways my husbands car broke down yesterday too, so he has mine and I am stuck at home today. I am proud that I am not letting the stress of money rule my eating habits. Like I normally do.

So thats it.

Here is the food goal today:

Breakfast:
Granola Bar
Tea
200 C

Lunch:
Cottage cheese
Crackers
250 C

Snack:
Banana
150 C

Dinner:
Salmon
Salad
Red Potatoe
400 C

9 glasses of water.

Thats the goal today , I am sticking to it.
 
Hey! Thanks for posting in my diary. I'm so glad to have someone else who knows what I'm feeling. We can support each other!

You do great with eating! As for the frozen yogurt, just try to slowly ween yourself from eating as much. That way you won't feel like you're being deprived. And since you're stuck with no car, go for a short walk if it's nice out. That'll get you jump started into an exercise program. Just a thought!

Again, thanks for the support and I'm here for you. Stay positive and keep up the great work!! I can't wait to cheer you along. :D
 
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