all was good until i found out that i have an interview for my summer job this thursday. boy do i have to get over eating for stress. and rlovell had the best advice...she comes home and meditates instead of hitting the fridge. so many good ideas. I will try again NOT to eat an afternoon snack anymore. Perhaps i will stop at Dunkin Donuts everyday for a coffee? do you think that could help me? remember, i eat lunch at 2. then, i could exercise after having the decaf coffee and then have dinner around 6:30. i'm going to try not snacking again. I know its more in my head than anything else.
I overslept by one hour today! It's good I live so close to work because i didn't end up being late for anything that people would notice. :) I am usually pretty good with timing and puntuality haha.
I still had time for breakfast: 240
snack cottage cheese: 110
lunch: cottage cheese and apple: 240
snack: tomatoes and amy's kitchen meal: 300
so far: 890...but i'm wanting something else...binged...4500 total today
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 20 lbs to go!
today was hard in the morning after eating so much sugar last night. i felt it.
moving on! No stress is the name of the game. Although my face is definitely not looking its best due to lack of sleep all week and my "monthly guest," I'm quite happy that I don't have any more studying to do. I'm just thrilled. I was planning on yoga but now, because of what time of the month it is, I'd prefer NOT to do yoga today. Instead, I'm definitely going to the gym. Then, definitely to the supermarket bc i have no food. I especially need some milk.
Breakfast: milk and cereal: 250
snack: cottage cheese pineapple: 110
lunch: pineapple cc and BIG apple: 250
snack: cereal, fruit, milk, also a salad later on...400
dinner: an amy's meal and 2 whole zucchini 380
total: 1390 sheesh, i was hoping more in the 1200s. That might actually be too low but i'm going to continue to aim low.
exercise: just 30 min elliptical. i need to work on my sleeping i was sooo tired today after work.
I want to get OUT of the habit of having a snack after work the moment i get in the door.
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 20 lbs to go!
Planning is going to be your friend!
as i stuff myself with cake and chocolate...
So, tomorrow I'm turning over a new leaf. I have promised myself that from Monday until the end of school I'm going to diet - and diet strictly.
I am a VERY all or nothing kind of girl. I ALWAYS have been. I need to be in something 100% or I don't feel like I'm doing it right. This can be a really bad trait at times. But, I must try to use this totally to my advantage right now.
The only thing I do not want is that after I lose to weight, I completely go in the other direction and gain it all back. So, during the summer I'll have to develop healthy eating habits. I am going to try that now, but I am honestly most concerned with calories right now.
I'm a bit scared, especially after eating too much sugar at one time both today and yesterday because i'm going to feel those effects tomorrow. But, I need to start and I have very little stress for these upcoming weeks. really no stress.
The Plan for this week:
Breakfast: cereal, fruit, milk. 200-250
snack: marathon bar? 150
snack: pineapple cottage cheese and an apple 250
dinner: salad, tuna wrap or tuna and rice and bbq sauce. 400 approx.
snack after yoga: yogurt and fruit or the drink they sell there (I forgot what it's called). 200
total: 1200-1250
basically, I can do it if I stick to my goal. If I want it bad enough. If i think i'm WORTH it enough.
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 20 lbs to go!
Tell yourself to your face in the mirror every morning...I am 100% worth every effort I put into myself, in order to make myself "THE BEST ME" I can be....
Best of luck H_O_P!
You ARE worth it! Don't you dare ever think that you're not! :)
Breakfast: 400 fruit, cereal, milk.
lunch: powerbar 150
snack: mcdonalds southwestern chicken salad 350
snack: gum, large apple, tea: 200
dinner: huge with WAY too much desert. tomorrow is going to be difficult but i'm ready to start this weightloss process.
I've got my two finals today :) I will be EXTREMELY relieved when they are finished. It's been a long, drawn out semester of about 12 Sunday classes that last 6 hours. I'm glad to have my Sundays, and more importantly, everyday back from studying. In September studying will be my job, but right now I have some time to prepare myself for the exciting expectations ahead.
I know I'll get out early from exams today. I plan to get some clothes for my grandmother. Mainly things like light cardigans and other clothes that can be worn during summer but still keep her warm.
Happy Mother's Day :)
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 20 lbs to go!
Hoping that your week ahead is a success for you....
**shoot. I binged tonight while attempting to study for the last time. oh well. the course is finished in the morning and I will be on my way towards weightloss.** (I ended up having 5700 cal.)
i went a smidge overboard on desert (peanut butter and jelly sandwich and some crackers)lol.
total calories today are actually 2650. fine by me. test tomorrow.
breakfast: a bit much, but good. cereal, milk, strawberries 300
snack: yogurt with sugar free jelly, apple: 240
lunch: microwave meal, crackers. 350
snack: too many cookies but ok. 350
snack: apple, diet green tea from nestea (i shouldn't buy it and i don't even like this flavor/brand...but i was tempted!) 80
extra snack: marathon powerbar 150
dinner: veggies and boca microwave lasagna 350-400 depending.
1920-1970 depending.
exercise: easy walk, 30 min.
all in all a good day.
good morning everyone. It's a nice day, I'd rather be exercising, but I am finishing up studying today - before my finals tomorrow morning. After tomorrow, my plans include a FAST initial weightloss with dedication to my goal until the end of the school year, followed by emphasis in maintaining my goals throughout the summer so that I can enter my Radiography program in September feeling the best I can. For two years, I'll be in school and I need to keep my fitness at a higher level so that when I finally enter the workforce I have the stamina for this somewhat physically demanding job, I feel good, and so that I would be most desirable to any employer!!!
I know weightloss shouldn't be approached whimsically or rushed. But, other than work, I have no huge engagements for the rest of this year, although it may include a job interview for summer. yuck. But i'm not worried whatsoever.
Goals for the next 6-7 weeks: exercise daily even if I am tired. Give it my all for this period of time. Reintroduce body to yoga and stick with it although I'm not happy about how I appear in yoga clothes in the mirror right now! Calories 1200-1500 per day. I think I'm ready to just accept the fact that if I want to loose a lot, I have to eat less. The pressure of life in general is off. I will have no anxiety about tests so I can just eat less and not have to worry about performance issues on tests and "needing enough energy" to study.
Has anyone ever felt like that? Many times, I feel the need to binge more so due to anxiety than anything else when I study. Since I will NOT be studying, I think major binge issues will be put to rest for the time being. I know so, in fact. It is a goal of mine to exit this school year the same way I came in, 115 pounds. I will be SUPER excited if I meet this goal. SUPER excited. If i don't, but I am close, I will be happy too.
I have 7 weeks until the absolute last day of school. 2 lbs a week would be about 14 lbs. I will NOT weight myself until the last day of school. There's nothing I can do other than stick to my goals to reach them. Weighing will not change anything. I want it to be a surprise. I will continue to keep doing yoga all summer and through the fall.
I am rambling, I know.
In the fall, I will ONLY go to school for at least the first semester and not work. School is from 8-4pm. Weekends will be free and I will try to emphasize the need to continue with yoga on those days. What else can I say except that I am ready to leave teaching and refocus on a new leaf, a new choice for life.
I'm ready. Who knows what I weigh now or until I end school. I am excited...let these tests pass tomorrow. The best is yet to come. My birthday is in September and 26 is going to be a great year! (and so will be this portion of being 25 yrs old!)
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 20 lbs to go!
Your goals sound wonderful and I REALLY am looking forward to seeing you achieve them...
yesterday i ended up having an apple at night, but still good calories.
early breakfast: cereal, strawberries, milk: 200
later breakfast: roll with peanut butter and milk: 410
snack: pineapple cottage cheese: 110
snack: pineapple cottage cheese and fruit, diet coke: 200
while shopping: low cal soda 20
snack after school: cereal/milk...later veggies and dressing:310
dinner: salad/dressing, tuna and bbq sauce, apple: 320
total: 1570 very good day, no exercise, kinda tired and i don't want to overdo it and not enjoy the weekend...some mints later on.
I am home from work, 3:41pm. I'm not hungry. I may go out to the store and to blockbuster. I don't have an urgancy to go to the gym - but if i skip it, that's not good either. We'll see. haha, i'm just thinking as I type.
funny story: I entered the office to assist the reading teacher and all of a sudden I saw something fluttery and I looked again and there was a large looking gray bird ready to attack me! I screamed and got to the floor...only problem was, she had no idea what was going on! The reading teacher didn't realize there had been a bird in her office until I entered and it started flying! haha. It was pretty funny! We had to call the custodians to get it out!
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 20 lbs to go!
Hope your evening fairs out well and your weekend is wonderful!
I haven't weighed myself, but i'm putting it at 135. I'll start weighing myself in about a week from now. I don't want so much disappointment by weighing right now- not until after my test is done Sunday! :) My goal is large, but I want to be below 120 when school gets out, June 27. It's about 1.5 months. I will only be working in the summer, but not taking any classes, and I plan to be outside and having fun...and shaping my body! :) And, getting back into yoga with my YEARLY unlimited that I haven't used much since I bought it. I'll make up for that. :)
breakfast: hamburger roll and 2 tb peanut butter, skim milk 450.
snack: pineapple cottage cheese: 120
lunch: pineapple cottage cheese, iced coffee: 200
snack: cereal: 280
snack: tomatoes and asian spray dressing: 80
dinner: tuna with bbq sauce, veggies, rice, clementine, diet soda.
total : 1550 good day.
exercise: 4 mi walk. great exercise! :)
work went well, i stopped by Dunkin Donuts with a coworker and we enjoyed our coffees (and she had a yogurt and i had my cottage cheese haha). we had a slightly extended lunch and enjoyed each other's company! :)
5-6000 calories.
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 20 lbs to go!
I love you all for not just leaving me in the dust despite my inablity to maintain a healthy attitude for more than a day at a time.
Sunday is my last class and I agree that I should start RIGHT now being healthy. I should NOT binge all the way until I take the test. It is not necessary. The next two years, I'll be taking tests upon tests and then job interviews. Oh, and I just realized, the one program I have decided to go to does in fact accept a majority of candidates that are young like myself and in FABULOUS physical shape. I actually remember that quite well from when i interviewed there and also was taken around to observe by some current students. It would be frustrating to enter the program first day in September on a sour, depressed note. I do have a goal to change my attitude and current strategies of dealing with pain, negativity by then. I want to feel my best because this is a new door opening for me. Why would I want the door to close in my face because of my own self destruction.
I would equate my current eating/food/intake patterns to the lifestyle of a drug addict. I'm very serious. I'll do anything to get a "fix." I'll search the cabinets and closets in my house dry. I will find every last treat. Every morsel of anything that tastes good. It's getting very old. I really am an addict and although the feeling of being too full to even sleep is not a good one, my body practicially craves it. I focus on that miserable feeling, but it still blocks out other sad emotional thoughts.
I am just being honest in this entry. I am not very upset right now.
calories around 5,000.
no exercise.
studying.
I have a goal weight. It is not even questionable that it is a healthy one for me. I actually maintained between 110-115 for a least a period of 3 years. I am not weighing now to determine my current weight which is prob around 135.
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 20 lbs to go!
Have a good one H~O~P {*;*}
I am still having a difficult time with binging.
I binged big time...i'm laughing because i know better...sorry to disappoint but i did know this was going to probably be a stressful week. It turns out I didn't get into my top choice for school next year. But, I do know where I'll be going. I was planning on going to school each afternoon to study for my final, but now that I didn't get into the college that I'm taking this class at right now, I have decided that the rest of the week will be spent exercising and not studying as much as I originally thought I had to. My average is already an A and I don't have to be perfect on the last two tests.
Basically, I'm not sure why I thought I needed to actually go to the school to study. I'll just do my best from home. I'm done with this school and I will not be taking a summer course there (because I didn't get into their program so I don't need the course).
Progress as of today: 0 lbs lost so far, only 20 lbs to go!
Hope your evening is a good one!
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Well, you've still got 'room' in calories for 'something else' as long as that something else is a 'smart choice'...
maria777 on 05/13/2008:
How about salad and tuna wrap? And if not full, another apple.
rlovell on 05/13/2008:
i think snacks are great! i find that when i eat the same kinds of things at the same times i do fine- its all about the routine for me. you will get what works for you and DONT keep anything tempting in the house. xoxo
thinnsidenotout on 05/13/2008:
I eat Breakfast @ 7:30-8:00...Snack @ 10:30...Dinner @ 1:30-2:00...Snack @ 4:30...Supper between 6:00 - 7:00 (depends on when hubby gets home)... I try to keep this routine daily, even on the weekends.... Trying to not allow for "triggers" and take time to eat during those scheduled times, while doing NOTHING else, but sitting & eating...When I eat on the go, I don't feel that I have eaten properly and ALWAYS want more.
I will be thinking about you in your interview and hope that all goes smoothly..
rlovell on 05/14/2008:
xoxoxo
legcramps on 05/14/2008:
Come on HoP, day by day, step by step.
mcwoo40 on 05/14/2008:
Hiya,Hope your havin' a good day,Julie