zoila diary

Gees, what a day! I am so happy that you overcame all of these annoying little things that were trying to stop you from getting there!

I'm so excited for you starting this! If you're cutting out considerable amount of carbs, you will get sugar cravings. Its a good thing that they gave you smth for that. I hope it works. I also have huge carb/sugar cravings if I low my carb intake.

Let us know how it goes and how you are feeling.
 
Wow I Love Your Determination And I Know After All That The Diet Will Be Abreeze Lol! Hope You Werent Caught In That Bad Storm That Hit Australia Keep Safe And Keep Us Posted!
 
Hey Zoila! What a crazy day!!! Hope your car manages to hang in there. The air conditioner on my car quit last week.....grrrrr.......its ok right now, but in a few weeks it will be too hot here to go without air. Don't you hate car repairs?? So expensive!!

Glad you found your friends! Shows us what enough determination will do. :) I am looking forward to hearing more about the new diet you are trying. Please keep us updated on how you like it. I think having friends doing the same diet will be a great source of support!!! I wish I had someone who was dieting wtih me, just so we could sit around and talk about it if nothing else.

Is there really a pill that will help with sugar cravings?? Wow. I could use some of that. lol. I still crave sweets. The carbs I dont miss so much (the breads, and pastas, and rice) but I still need that bite of chocolate every now and then. I keep Hershey kisses in the house and have one or two every evening.

Keep up the great work! :)
 
I wanted to congratulate you too! All those trials coming at you trying to stop you from accomplishing your goal!! Ain't that always the way!!!:mad: Glad to hear you got to the shops and back without any REAL problems. Good luck with the new diet...from the sounds of it, you're absolutly on the right track, and well motivated!! :) Good on ya!! Keep us all updated on your progress!!!
 
Hi guys, gee what a response not use to seeing that many posts lol. It really made me smile to hear all the encouragement. Well today is going really well. The Banana flavour is really yummy and I feel pretty full right now, having that extra protein feels like too much but I guess they would know more then me. THe good thing was I dont have any sugar cravings. I had to go to the shops to get a few things and normaly I am a always strugling with myself about buying chocolate. I mean this early into I diet I know its easy to overcome the urge but the urge is usaly always there. Not today though didnt feel like chocolate or easter bunns at all. That made me pretty happy. For anyone who is interested the tablets are easly access through your local chemist (pharmacy) the one I have is a blackmores brand, dont know if you get that everywhere or not though but there would be other brands. Its called sugar balance, and its actualy chromium. Aparently most people dont get enough chromium through there diet and sends your blood sugar levels all over the place. Chromium helps the insulin to balance your blood sugar levels. Also was told one of the majour symptoms of not haveing enough chromium in your diet is sugar and carbs cravings. So there you go, wish someone had told me that a couple of years ago lol.
 
I agree with ya on the chocolate- love the stuff...badbadbad... :)
Oh- and if anyone goes to get chromium, make sure its chromium picolinate, thats the most absorbable kind to get :D
 
Hi, Zoila,

I'm glad you're doing well! It is GREAT that you did not have sugar cravings. I've never heard of lack of chromium causing sugar cravings. Thanks for the info, I'll definitely look into that. I always get low sugar and sugar/carb cravings if I wait too long between meals or if I have low carb meals.

Keep us posted on how you're doing. What do you do for other meals, that are not replaced with a shake? I am glad that the shakes are filling you up. It was my concern a bit. I hope you'll have great success with this diet.
 
Hey! Just trying to get caught up a little. Lol! I know I have posted in your diary before. I just can't figure out why I haven't been by in so long. It's been a crazy couple of months. Lol! :rolleyes: Anyway, that sure was a crazy morning you started out with yesterday. Glad everything worked out and you were able to find your friends. I hope everything goes well with the shakes. :D
 
Thanks guys. Well mmm the mocha flavoured shake is nice too. lol taste just like a mocha drink. Well for the other meals that arnt replaced, For lunch which is always a concern for me for time (which is why I liked the idea of the shake), today I brought a premade salad. Never got one before, and was really surprised at how much was in it. Enough in one to do two lunches so I think I will buy a heap of them for lunches on the go. I have to have a small peice of protein at those meals the size of my palm. So today I just chucked a bit of chicken in our griller (we have one of those machines where the fat drains out into a pain) so easy to use as I just pop it in close it and wait 5mins chicken done. Sliced it up and put it in my salad yum. it was really nice. Tomorow I will do it with egg as thats counted as protein as well.

Today while I was out shoping, I brought a new top for winter time. and I brought it in a smaller size lol. Thats how confident I feel right now. I am going to look good in that top this winter.

Nice to see ya again Hypo Hippo.
 
You are going to look AWESOME this winter - sometimes just sitting there thinking about it can be such a motivator for me I find myself on the treadmilll haha you're diong great though - good to see you slippin' in that protein! :) Cheers!
 
Zoila, you did great today! Way to go. Glad you figured out the salad. Just be careful of how much dressing you put. Some of salad dressings are like 160 cals per 2 Tablespoons!

Also - great attitude! I am so happy you have your confidence. You can definitely do it!
 
Thanks guys for your support. Dressing isnt a problem cause I am just doing them for my self, I dont have any, never been fond of it really, weird I know. Well today was a bit harder. My husband mucked up with the alarm clocks again, and once again we were seriously late. I was so embarased droping my daughter of at 9.10am for the second time this week. Also meant that as I had to go straight to the shoping centre after wards that I didnt get to have my breakfast shake till 11am. It really threw my day out of wack. After a unsuccessfull morning of trying to find clothes for my cousins wedding I went home to discover, that my husband was still not out of bed and neither had he got our son up. I was so annoyed. That meant that our two year old son didnt get breakfast until 11am as well. So now I am in a bad mood and slightly stressed as it means there will be no time for his usal afternoon nap (the only hr I get to my self). So my meals were all out of line. Plus in the morning I went and brought 3 premade salads, well come lunch time I discovered they were all old and yucky, the cucumbers had shrivialed up at the sides and gone yellow, all three of them were no good. Man so annoyed. Went to pick my daughter up and it started raining like crazy, yesterday was stinking hot and today is raining. We got totaly drenched and the kids are in the car yelling at each other and winging about being wet, and I looked out the window and thought we need take away for dinner. I felt so deafeated by that stage. Especialy since I knew that none of the salad were any good and it was too wet (had the kids) to go back. But happy to say didnt give in and just went home, Still havent worked out what to have instead yet. Will have to raid the fridge see what vegies I can find. Well tomorow is payday, which it means grocery day, and I am set with a list of stuff I need. So heres to a beter day tommorow. Though I did good with the water today, a huge improvement, still not quite enough but much beter then it had been.
 
Hi, Zoila, Sorry to hear you had such a crappy day! Things just don't always workout the way you want them to, don't they?

The main thing is that you stuck to the diet! Make this one single goal in your day, and feel really good when you achieve it! This thinking has helped me a lot. And when you achieve your goal, you will feel really good at the end of the day!

For me, several things have not gone as planned last night, but I made it my goal to exercise, and even got in a little argument with my hubby cause he wanted me to do something else at that time. But I stood strong, and said that I exercise no matter what! And it happened.

You can also do the same with food! :)
Keep it going girl! You can do it!
 
Hey! Just stopping by to check in on you. I am so glad to see you stayed focused on your diet and didn't give in to fast food when you had such a bad day. That is a great sign that you are going to be able to do this. :D

By the way, I'm with you on the dressing thing. I never liked it either. :D
 
What a crazy day you had!!! Sounds like anything that could go wrong did. I hate days like that! But like you said, today is a new day!! :)

I didn't know about the chronium thing. I am not sure I even know what chronium is, but I must not have any. lol. I am always craving sweets.

I am glad the shakes are working so well for you. Sounds like they come in a lot of different flavors. The prepackaged salads sound like a good idea. Stinks that the ones you bought were no good. The idea though is nice, just to have everything already put together so you can quickly eat and keep going about your day. I buy this bagged salad (well, its really lettuce and carrots, everything else I have to add myself). I eat that for lunch sometimes, but mostly I have it with dinner so I dont overeat on what I am making the rest of the family.

I certainly hope today is better for you. Keep up the great work! Buying the winter shirt is a great idea to keep motivated! I am sure you will look wonderful in it when the time comes! :)
 
Thanks guys for the suport. I am here now at the end of my day just about ready to go to bed, am over my tantrum now lol, sorry you coped it all. I was thinking its really more about mind set. See my habit in the past has always been, bad day=food, usaly something fatty or sweet. So as soon as things start to go wrong my mind automaticly goes there. Today sitting in the car watching the rain listening to the kids, that was my first thought, and in the past I would of done it. But the rest of my mind kicked in and said no, I dont want to do that. And I think thats a good sign that my mind set is changing. So many things are automatic to me (bad things) I never realised how much before. Like these new biscuits I got the kids, there vegimite flavoured, never tried them before and as I was pouring some out for the kids found my self reaching to put some in my mouth. Not cause I wanted it but more of an instinct. I manage to stop my self and say hey cant have that, because of the shakes, it makes me more concious of all the little things I put in my mouth out of habbit or boredom, really surpised me.

I'm sorry that you had a bad day as well Nothingtolose. Hubbys have a good way of derailing our plans, They dont always realise how important it is to us to stick to the routines other wise its easy to fall out of them. Hope you have a better day tommorow.

Fluff they come in heaps of flavours and there really yummy, there very new over here in the past these kind of shakes the only flavours were vanila or chocolate. these ones have about 10 different flavours, slowly trying each one.
 
I Am So Proud Of You!!!! You Are Going To Do So Great Now Cause You Have Realised Where The Bad Foods Were Coming Into Play! I Know You Can And Will Do This And The Bad Days Are Just A Challenge For You And Your Being Tested So You Should Feel Great You Passed Them Tests!
 
Wow that was gross lol. Too explain, I realised I needed to top up my protein for today and as I was hungry decided to throw 2 eggs in the microwave. Being easly distracted I then went off to the computer to wait for them, was just about to post when I heard this almighty thud. Thinking it was the kids up to know good I went to investergate. Well I walked into the kitchen to find egg plasted everywhere. Dont know where I went wrong buyt they exploxed big time. So weird cooked them in the a hundred times before, must of not had enough water because it blew the door right open. Oh so gross egg was burnt and it spelt bad, dont think I will be eating egg any time soon put me off them big time lol.

Wanted to say thankyou redneckwoman66 that was really nice, and I agree with you. I know I can do it this time as well

Well just got back from a grocery shoping trip, which wasnt bad at all, didnt get half as much back pain as I normaly do and had a lot more energy today. Plus I left the store with out a single bit of chocolate, or anything sweet. Which if you had seen my usaly trips is a big thing. In the past I would be good up to weigh in day and then "treat" my self which would end up being a whole bad day if not a weekend. I have finaly excepted that at the moment I cant do that. Once I get a taste I am gone. So I am going to focus for the moment and not side track my self as I have in the past.
I had a good day today stuck strickly to my program which I feel great about.
 
Hi, Zoila! Oh, No! No expoding eggs! That must have been a bitch to clean up!

I am so proud of you! Eating protein, skipping chocolate! You're doing great! Just concentrate on making it one day at a time, and you'll be fine! I am also happy to hear that you are feeling better already! Keep it up, and you will lose your first 10 K in no time!
 
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