Want2Lose's Diary

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July 20

Menu

Breakfast: Yogurt, whey powder, blueberries
Snack: Fruit (grapes, strawberries, cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple)
Lunch: Cheese, tomato, black tea
Snack: Popcorn
Dinner: Omelet (egg, egg white, skim milk, spinach, onion, garlic, cheese, cooking spray) with corn tortilla and salsa. Salad (lettuce, red and green pepper, cucumber, low-fat dressing)
Snack: Apple, peanut butter

Exercise

Walk 40 minutes

A good day. Plenty of energy, appetite under control.

I've been thinking about my lifetime eating habits. I remember as a child eating bowl upon bowl of sweet cereal. Sugar-bread was another favorite. When I got to college, I could eat an entire pizza in one sitting. I used to go round the vending machines, buying several kinds of snack cakes and candy bars. Pints of ice cream. Submarine sandwiches slathered with cheese and mayo. It's amazing I stayed at 165. I have always binged on carbs. I'm pleased to have broken the cycle at last, and hope it stays broken.
 
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July 21

Woke up at 5 today. So much energy.

Menu

Breakfast: Low-fat yogurt with blueberries and walnuts
Lunch: Cheese, apple, baked potato crisps
Snack: Walnuts and raisins (Yikes! already over 1,100 calories. Note to self: do not have two servings of walnuts in a day. Also, the baked crisps were unnecessary.)
Snack: Blackberries
Dinner: Salmon and vegetables (cauliflower, turnip, carrots). This was the most unappetizing meal I've had since starting a food journal. Since my fat carlories were so high from the nuts and cheese earlier, I opted to boil the vegetables and broil the fish with nothing added. Absolutely foul. Part of the trouble is that I woke up so early, 5 am vs. my usual 8 am, that I got hungry and wanted some extra food in the morning.
Snack: Milk and decaf coffee. Saccharin.


Exercise

Walk 40 minutes.
 
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Try checking the lost and found. If your name is in the diary, hopefully someone can return it to you. Good Luck, I hope nothing too personal was in it.:leaving:
 
And now for a relevant post. :)

I understand your aversion to the gym. I do not fear it, but I do find it to be horribly de-motivating for some reason. You could always do bodyweight exercises, buy some dumbbells, and/or mount a pullup bar of some sorts.

The food co-op deal sounds sweet. I have heard of similar before and it always sounded nice. But $200 a month in produce alone? My god, I'm not sure I eat more than 200 a month in groceries sometimes.

Anyways, you seem to be doing well and on track. Good job on getting protein in with most of your feedings and keep up the great work.
 
July 22

Thanks, MGR. Those are good suggestions about resistance training without joining a gym. I just have to make up my mind to do it. I have a friend who does 300 sit-ups a day. That just blows my mind. Right now I can do 2. Why did I let myself get this out of shape?

Menu

Breakfast: Hot cereal with raisins and skim milk, half banana
Snack: Zoic nutrition drink (half can)
Lunch: Salad (lettuce, feta, walnuts, garbanzo beans, tomato, red and green pepper, carrot, cilantro, onion, lemon juice, low-fat dressing)
Snack: Blackberries, apricot, yogurt
Dinner: Omelet (egg, egg white, skim milk, spinach, tomato, garlic, low-fat cheese, cooking spray). Corn tortilla.
Snack: Popcorn. Decaf coffee and skim milk. Sugar, saccharin.

Exercise

Walk 45 minutes.
 
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YW. And there are a ton of other ideas too. Google for bodyweight exercises for more ideas. You also might consider a light hitting bag of some sort. I have a heavy and it does a nice job on the upper body whilst engaging the core and providing a nice cardio component too.

Anyways, I really posted because I wanted to say yum to that omelete. The salad looked nice too, although the feta made me crinkle my nose. I do wonder where your calories are at though, as I suspect that might be kinda low. Did you sign up for Fitday?

Last thing, I swear (sorry so chatty today. I am off work and I am not doing hosuework or errands today.....it's my sit on my butt, play xbox and be a slig day) You said the other day you had to broil your salmon and veggies and I wondered how you normally prep and cook them?
 
Hi MGR! That boxing bag sounds ok, but I live in a pretty small condo, and not sure where I would hang it. Also (I know this sounds fussy) I don't like the sensation of hitting things. Makes my hands sort of hurt and just feel strange. I am going to start with situps/crunches and try to do five today.

You don't like feta? Cheese is my downfall. I used to love going to Whole Foods and getting a few kinds of specialty cheeses, scarf them down with a big box of crackers. This limiting myself to one or two ounces at a time took a while to get used to!

About the calories, I use fitday. I was shooting for 1700 to 1800, but then I did a BMR calculation, and to lose a pound a week I find I should get 1,600 (assuming I am what they call "moderately active"). Yesterday was 1,500. My two-week average is 1,500 and my four week average is 1,600 (rounding to nearest 100). I guess I could bump it up a bit. My journal here doesn't show quantities, so that might be why it looks a little low. For example, I use a full cup of milk in my coffee, and a full cup of garbanzos in the salad. Do you think I should bump up the calories?

About the salmon and veg, I usually do broil the salmon, so that was no change, but veggies, especially bland/bitter ones like cauliflower and turnips, I like to roast with a little oil, maybe sprinkle some parmesan. But my fat was at nearly 40% that day, so I just boiled the veg (and drank the cooking water too). Gosh, it was repulsive!
 
Eh, if your BMR is 1600 then 1600 it is. It's hard for me to gauge it 100 percent of the time.......especially since I need so many more calories myself. I can eat 2000-25000 and lose, so anything under 2000 tends to be suspect. (I ran your numbers as best as I could without knowing your age or height and you are in the right neighborhood for sure)

I can understand that you don't like to hit, I was just tossing ideas out there to get you thinking. As for where to hang it though....I live in a 1 BR apartment and just mounted it off the support beams that make up the bottom of my upstairs neighbor's deck/patio.

And I shuddered when you said you even drank the water you boiled the veggies in. That DOES sound repulsive. For cauliflower, I like to do it like I do my brocolli......steamed and mashed with a block of low fat cream cheese. And roasted with parm sounds great. I'm a cheesehead too, I just don't like feta or blue cheese.
 
I'm five foot five and 41 years old, which I think lowered my BMR. Stephen King has a story, "Stationary Bike", about a man trying to lose weight and his doctor says, "After forty, fat sticks to you like a baby's s*** sticks to a wall." But better late than never.

The cauliflower/cream cheese dish sounds fantastic. I'll try it for sure.
 
July 23

Menu

Breakfast: Yogurt with whey powder, blueberries, apricots, almonds
Lunch: Cheese, tomato
Snack: Popcorn, zoic nutrition drink (half can)
Dinner: Salmon and roast veg (Potato and ketchup, zucchini, garlic, cooking spray), salad (cilantro, tomato, green pepper, carrot, onion, tofu, avocado, lemon juice, light dressing)
Snack: Half apple and peanut butter (this put me at 1,700 calories, a bit over my goal, but still well in deficit. I tried to forgo it, but was too hungry)

Exercise

Walked about 40 minutes. 5 abdominal crunches.
 
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Want2Lose said:
I'm five foot five and 41 years old, which I think lowered my BMR.
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For sure. I put you in at like 30 or 35 and 5'5".

Want2Lose said:
Stephen King has a story, "Stationary Bike", about a man trying to lose weight and his doctor says, "After forty, fat sticks to you like a baby's s*** sticks to a wall." But better late than never.
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LOL

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The cauliflower/cream cheese dish sounds fantastic. I'll try it for sure.
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Just make sure it's lowfat CC. =D
Speaking of which, the microwave just said my chili is done, I gotta scoot......
 
July 24

Menu

Breakfast: Yogurt, blueberries, whey powder, apricot, almonds
Lunch: Kidney bean stew (kidney beans, spinach, tumeric, cumin) with cheddar cheese and corn tortilla. Salad (tomato, avocado, onion, cilantro, carrot, red, orange and yellow peppers, celery, lemon juice, light dressing).
Dinner: Scrambled eggs (egg, egg white, skim milk, cooking spray)


Exercise

Walked 70 minutes (but part was sauntering through a botanic garden; probably only 40 minutes of brisk walking)
 
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July 25

Menu

Breakfast: Hot cereal, raisins, skim milk, cinnamon. Zoic nutrition drink (half can)
Snack: Almonds
Lunch: Cheese, plums
Snack: Popcorn, watermelon
Dinner: Salmon with lemon juice, sauteed vegetables (okra, corn, tomato, tofu, carrot, onion, garlic, hot red pepper, salt, olive oil), pinot grigio (this is the first alcohol I've had in 5 mo.)

Exercise

40 minutes brisk walk (20 in the morning and 20 in the evening). About two hours heavy gardening (mulching and weeding).

Went to open air market today. Great bag of lettuce, a watermelon, some summer squash, okra, corn on the cob, bell peppers.
 
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July 26

164 pounds today. I have now lost the 20 pounds I put on last year. While I have never been below 165 in the last 2 decades, I'm going to keep going and try to hit the magic 150, which will give me a BMI in the healthy range. 14 more pounds to go.

Menu

Breakfast: Yogurt, blueberries, peach, zoic nutrition drink (half can)
Snack: Raisins
Lunch: Salad (feta, avocado, garbanzo beans, lettuce, cilantro, tomato, cucumber, red, yellow and orange peppers, carrot, lemon juice, low-fat dressing)
Snack: Watermelon, two plums
Dinner: Swordfish with ginger, garlic, lemon. Baked potato with vegetable spread, salt. Roast summer squash (cooking spray).
Snack: Decaf coffee with skim milk

Exercise

45 minutes very brisk walking followed by a slower 20 minutes. 65 minutes in all.
 
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July 27

Menu

Breakfast: Yogurt, whey powder, dried fruit mix, almonds
Snack: Raisins
Lunch: Feta, avocado, soup (navy beans, tomato, okra, carrot, celery, cilantro, onion, garlic, lemon juice, ginger, citrus seasoning, hot red pepper, olive oil)
Snack: Popcorn, two plums
Dinner: Omelet (egg and egg white, broccoli, swiss cheese, cooking spray), roast potato and ketchup
Snack: Half apple and peanut butter

Exercise

40 minutes brisk walking.

Had an incredibly intense craving this afternoon for chocolate. Trying a technique I learned on these forums, I told myself that if I could wait until 4 o'clock, I could have some, then when 4 came, I made myself wait until 5. Before I knew it, it was time for dinner and my craving went away.
 
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Had an incredibly intense craving this afternoon for chocolate. Trying a technique I learned on these forums, I told myself that if I could wait until 4 o'clock, I could have some, then when 4 came, I made myself wait until 5. Before I knew it, it was time for dinner and my craving went away.
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Good job, and I'm glad you mentioned it. I'm going to try that next time I run into pizza cravings. I've never tried or heard to try it with food, but I do it with the cardio (usually it's "3 more trees") all the time and I feel slow for not trying the transition.

Also, you are kicking butt!! I went back to your 1st post - a day short of 5 weeks ago.

Prior to then it was 13 pounds in 10 months or roughly a 1/3rd a pound a week.

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164 pounds today. I have now lost the 20 pounds I put on last year.
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So another 7 pounds in 5 weeks= 1.4 per week or over 4 times as much weight lost per week for a consistent period!! The diet looks tight too. You got a target goal in mind for losing the next 14 pounds?
 
July 28

Thanks for running the numbers MGR. I haven't decided about a timeframe for the last 14 pounds. I'm not even sure if I am shooting for 150 or 145. I'm going to play it by ear and see how I feel and look.

Your suggestion in the other thread about new workout clothes was a good one. I got a pair of sweatpants today.

Menu

Breakfast: Yogurt, almonds, protien powder, blueberries, peach
Snack: Raisins, red and yellow peppers
Lunch: Black beans with garlic on two corn tortillas. Sauteed vegetables (onion, green pepper, cooking spray). Cheese. Salsa.
Snack: Watermelon
Dinner: Salmon (lemon juice), roast potato (ketchup, cooking spray), asparagus
Snack: Half apple and peanut butter



Walk

40 minutes (broken into two 20-minute episodes)
 
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July 29

Menu

Breakfast: Yogurt with blueberries, almonds, whey powder, coffee with skim milk
Snack: Watermelon
Lunch: Feta
Snack: Popcorn
Dinner: Kidney bean stew (Kidney beans, garlic, spinach, tomato, corn tortilla, cheddar, tumeric). Milk. Plum.
Snack:

Exercise

38 minutes walking (broken into two shorter walks)

PMS is bad this week. More chocolate cravings. Walked to starbucks, where I recalled seeing some small chocolate bars, and told myself if they had dark chocolate with 75% or higher cocoa content, I would buy one. Well, they didn't, so I got my walk in and didn't splurge on chocolate. If this continues, I will go to the grocery store tomorrow and buy a small bar. It will be interesting to see if a taste kicks off a binge, or if I can handle an occasional indulgence.
 
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July 30

Menu

Breakfast: Hot cereal with milk, raisins, walnuts, brown sugar, cinnamon
Lunch: Salmon, boiled potato and broccoli, salad (lettuce, cucumber, tomato, green pepper, carrot, low fat dressing)
Snack: Popcorn
Dinner: Tacos (tofu (cooking spray), cheese, salsa, two corn torn tortillas)
Snack: Yogurt, peach, almonds.

Exercise

Walk 60 minutes (30 of them briskly) in three episodes
 
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July 31

163 pounds this morning.

Menu

Breakfast: Yogurt, blueberries, whey powder
Snack: Raisins
Lunch: Cheese, tomato
Snack: Peach, walnuts
Dinner: Salad (feta, lettuce, tomato, onion, carrot, cucumber, corn, green pepper, lemon juice, low-fat dressing)

Exercise

Walk moderate speed about 50 minutes.
 
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