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SaraNoH

SaraNoH

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Ok...So I just got off crutches about three weeks ago and I decided then that I would start this diet thing. Well I havent done so hot with it but for some reason yesterday i kicked in gear and got a big boost of motivational enrgy and decided that this was it. I cant really excercise just yet, but I am strating to eat better. I need to go to wal mart and buy the viactive chewable tabs becasue they are supposed to be really good for vitamins. I have done great since yesterday. I am ready to conquer this and not stop! My current weight is 251.8lbs. I am 6ft tall. My goal weight is 180! I can do it!!! :p
 
You can do it and you will do it!!! Just hang in there.
 
Ok so I have been on this diet for one week now and guess what! I lost three pounds!!! If i can keep this up then I will be doing great. I work in an ER and there is always snacks and all kinds of stuff around. I went all weekend (worked 2-12 hours shifts) and only ate the good stuff I brought and didnt eat any of that junk food. So im pretty proud of myself for that matter anyways. But when people ask me how many calories i am on i tell them 1500-1800 and they look at me like im nuts. i had a doctor in the ER tell me that i may go in starvation mode and my body may loose a lot at first but overtime i will stop loosing weight. I understand that it may slow down, but is that too little calories for a diet? I go see a nutritionist on valentine's day and she will set me up on meal plans. so hopefully it will work out good for me.
i hope to start excercising this week a little more. hopefully, my foot does okay with it. Its getting better day by day. this week we plan to set up our weight room in the garage that we have been working on cleaning out forever. we dont use it as a garage so this should work out good. then i can save some money on a gym membership. we plan on getting a treadmill and another excerise thing to work out with. so hopefully it will work out for the better :)
 
Congrats on the 3 pounds. I understand with the junky snacks around. So hard to resist sometimes... so good job on that!!! The minimum diet is 1200 calories.... so you're eating more than that, so it sounds like you're eating enough. But your body will tell you in time :).

Good luck, keep it up!

Tams
 
sorry if i type bad..for some reason my cat seemks to thinki he needs to lie on the keyboard or right next to it on my lap when i am on the computer. its annoying imove him and he is right there again. grr...anyways...last night was super bowl night and my friends all got chips, cheese and nachos, and more chips and ponderosa fried chicken wings. I love those chicken wings, so that was hard to resist. i would have normally ate a ton of those but i only ate four of them...and i ate celery and carrots and baked doritos. i had them get me a bag of them because they are a lot better. i only ate about two servings worth frot he entire super bowl. i had to have something and really that wasnt that bad. still feel a little bad about it beacsue i know i have the will power not to eat it but im not going to beat myself up about it, im going to just go along and go on to the next day. im doingpretty good. wigh in days are on sunday for now on...i think it will keep me motivated more to weigh myself once a week rather than more than that. so heres to staying more motivated. :
 
Last night at work...yet another scucessful night of not eating all the junk laying around. didnt even go to mcdonalds, like everyone else...they were all trying to get me to give in also...and i didnt. i ate my salad and was happy and my apple as well. i had a rice cake for a snack and some broccoli. good job!
Tonight my husband and I went out to eat. we went to a local resturaunt here in town. Its kinda like a Frisches big boy. Its called Abby's. I had baked cod and a baked potato and a salad with fat free french dressing. I used a little bit of tarter sauce but that was about the only bad thing I did with that meal. For lunch I had a salad. I have not drank a lot of water today but i was on the go all day and forgot to grab a bottle when I left which caused me to slack. But other than that, I am pretty proud of myself. Thanks for your guy's motivation. I come here everyday and it reminds me of how well i am doing and how much i am proud of myself for keeping it up. One week down....one day at a time, one week at a time...thats all it takes!
 
five minutes of pleasure is not worth hours of guilt....but today i felt bad and ate a piece of cake because my husband is the sweetest guy i know and i couldnt have asked for anybody better...i would never find anyone better than him. he made me dinner tonight that was excellent and had candlight with a teddy bear and everything. O this was all done for me when i got back from the three hours at the spa that he sent me too also. he is awesome. i cheated a little on my diet because of that...but its the first time in two weeks, i have done so well and i ate that damn chocolate cake. but i didnt want to hurt his feelings...and i know that isnt a good excuse but its the only one i had...he did such a nice thing for me...and the cake was the only bad thing really. just lots of cals and fat..and im feeling a little guilty now..but i weigh in with myself on sunday so i gotta be good tomorrow :) i go to work tomorrow night, so i must be good at work...just like i have been doing.
 
They think you are going to go into starvation mode on 1500 - 1800 calories a day?! They must be crazy. As was posted above, as long as you get at least 1200 calories, you should be fine. Since you lost three pounds on what you are doing, I think that is great! Don't worry about the cake. It was a special occasion. You have to let yourself cheat every once in awhile or you will go crazy and it will be harder to stay motivated for the long term.
 
Thanks for the feedback guys...I wieghed myself today and only lost about 2 pounds this week. So a total of five all together for two weeks. Not bad i guess..wish it was more..but i think friday night i cheated too much. but thats ok...next time i will know how much to cheat. :) Plus I meet with the dietician tuesday morning and she will be able to give me some pointers as to what it is im doing wrong/right. Aight, its off to another night at work...another night of fighting the temptation of the junk my co-workers try to force me to eat.
 
Hi Sara! :) Welcome to Team Conquest! :) Check out our thread underneath The Club! :)

It sounds like you are doing really great with your weight-loss efforts. I hope you had a good night last night and was able to avoid temptation! Glad to have you on our challenge Team! :) Look forward to supporting you in your weight-loss success!! :D
 
I think five pounds in two weeks is great! Congrats on the weight loss! So much fun to see that scale move down...and so motivating too! Keep up the great work!! :)
 
Ok, so I survived another night at work. I know you are prolly tired of hearing about all this with work and all, but i work night shift for 12 hours and i work with a lot of skinny people and people that work out a lot and dont have to worry about their weight, so they bring in cookies and chips and all kinds of junk foods. I gained all my weight from working nights because of this and because i study all the time and just sit..and i cant just sit and read..i have to be eating something. So my goals are to now eat carrots and dip or pretzels instead of chips and all that junk when i study. I am so motivated I want to loose this weight so bad. I have tried a few times to do this and this time i seem to be really motivated more than ever. I meet with the diet counselor and dietician tomorrow morning at 8:45am. That right there tells you I am motivated because I am not a morning person and Im crawling (i mean crawling) out of bed that early just to meet with them. Ha! Anyways..i will post tomorrow and tell everyone what she says for some pointers that everyone can try.
 
Good luck with the meeting, and welcome to the team conquest :)

5 pounds in two weeks is awesome...your calorie range is perfectly acceptable.

I understand fully about eating and reading...I absolutely love to sit down with a good book and some nice fatty food. I probably gained ten pounds during my first reading of lord of the rings...I litterally shut myself in my room all day (ALL day) and read from the moment I woke up to midnight, sometimes, and only came out to get something to eat (during that time, maple sausages (lots) and cheese crackers and the like). It's a hard habit to break...but that's a good idea about grabbing something healthy to snack on instead of the bad foods.

I look forward to your next post :)
 
Hi there SaraNoH....
Just wanted to say hi and GOOD FOR YOU! You are doing great! I loved your little story about your candle-lit dinner...SO SWEET!! (good for you for enjoying Every part of the evening!) Keep up the good work - we are all pulling for you!!
 
Great job on the 5 lbs.! I think that sounds great that you are going to see a dietician. Let me know how it goes. I was considering going to one at my gym. It's $50 an hour or so. I may need to do that.

Oh - and your name cracks me up!

Go Team Conquest!
 
ok...so I met with my wt. councelor today. She gave me some stretches to do that dont involve my foot, so that i can still excercise some. I also have a food journal that I have to take back on Monday and then I have to have my weigh in on Monday also. I am eating so much better but it doesnt seem i am losing anything. It kinda sucks because I eat my calorie diet but something isnt right because I feel like after writing my foods down I am not eating very good. I mean i eat healthy stuff but my intake on the food groups is horrible. I meet with the dietician on march 1. So we shall see how that goes. Hopefully I can do better. I have therapy tommorow afternoon. They say it might be my last one. Hopefully it will be..but I love going there. In fact going there is what has inspired me to lose weight. It actually inspired me to go to the gym. My husband's uncle has a whole gym with a stair climber and treadmill and a nortic gym in his basement and I am going to start going over there. He said I could use it for free tonight. So that should help as well. Free is always better than paying $37 a month for the YMCA. Aight well I am going to go to bed early tonight because I am tired and have busy day tomorrow. Night everyone.
 
Morning Sara. Sounds like you are really progressing. I think its so great you are meeting with a dietician. Ooh I'd love to do that! I am sure she'll help you figure out if you're on the right and healthyt track with your food selection. I imagine you are probably better off than you think. I mean I am sure you are not sitting there writing down, chocolate donuts for breakfast, burgers for lunch etc. :D So.. keep up all your work..you will get some where! Hopefully it will show some Monday on your weigh in! ;)
 
hey everyone....today i did pretty good. I had a lean turkey sandwich and some pretzels for lunch. I had a bowl of corn flakes with a banana for breakfast. For supper I had ham, green beans and potatos all mixed together. For a snack I had a 100 cal popcorn bag and earlier I had some raisins and peanuts. Is that bad? Im eating better than I have been before I started this diet thing, but IM still not quite sure if it is good. Gosh I cant wait to see a dietician...i need help on that matter. We got our taxes done today!! Woo hoo...except we are getting like 600 less than what we got last year. I hate my uncle Sam. taxes are stupid. And what is even more stupid is the fact that i have to send money for our property taxes from that money because i forgot to set back money for those. Another stupid assett to our money issues. I cannot wait until I get done with school and actually have a job that pays money. Im tired of being broke. Anyways...pretty good day today....O went to therapy and thought that it was my last day, but she thinks i should get more. GRRR!!! O well, i guess since my insurance pays 100% then i should just keep going until i am totally fine. its just a pain...therapy, school, work...im getting worn out. and now i have to meet with a diet councelor and all that stuff on top of everything else in my life. Im just a busy person. o well...aight well im off to bed for the night.
 
AWw Sara things will settle down soon enough. :) I know it seems crazy now. Your diet sounds really good! :) Just be sure not to eat too many peanuts/raisins, as there is fat & calories in those, but a handful would be fine. You need the protein and some fat! :) As long as your portions are a decent size, you sound like you're doing great on your food!

As for your therapy, I know its a bummer when you want to be done, but don't take it for granted. If you need it, you need it. You could pay for it years later having skipped a few sessions..so run with it. Plus 100% insurance pay.. that's awesome!! :D

Keep up the great work. And keep us posted on your meeting with your diet counseler. I am sure we can all use the advice. :)
 
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