Dieting for Cruise

[mormadsmom]

Hi there,

My new year's resolution was to get fit and lose 10 lbs. I happened to find a book at Barnes and noble called The New York fit for life by David Hirsh. I read it and then made a grocery list and went shopping. I did not follow the book word for word, but it was definitely a great motivator. I replaced the excercises with spinning classes and light weight training at the Y 2-3 x's week. The same with the menu. I modified that too. I went for 10 and lost 15. It. was. tough. By the 3rd day, I had some kind of carb withdrawls. I hung in there and I was over it by the 5th day. I still had light wheat toast and high protein cereal every day, so this is not a 0 carb diet.

Anyway, to make this cruise related, I had lost 15 lbs by our April 27 cruise. I ate what I wanted and when I wanted, and was fairly active. I gained 3 lbs by the next weigh in at the Y.

I don't follow the diet in the book anymore, but I keep up the excersising and watch the sugar intake. There a few absolute no-nos in my every day diet.
1. No fast food whatsoever.
2. No soda including the DIET varieties. Stop drinking diet soda and watch your weight go down immediately.
3. no white, processed bread. Only whole wheat.

Hope this helps you all!

 

[Tent Camping Mom]

Hi there,

2. No soda including the DIET varieties. Stop drinking diet soda and watch your weight go down immediately.

This would be water loss not fat loss. Most diet sodas have sodium. EXCEPT, my favorite which is Diet Rite and it has no calories and no sodium. I had it all through my weight-loss after DS was born. 60 pounds lost and kept it off by counting calories and exercising.

If you are losing fat, it's because you are eating less calories and/or exercising more. If you are losing water, it's because you are consuming less sodium. I lost all my weight by counting calories with well balanced meals and exercising. I had my cake and ate it too (just had to count every calorie).

 

[owensjro]

The best diet my wife and I have done was weight watchers (we didn't join, just followed the basic plan). Which, in essence, is all about portion control and watching your calories. My wife lost 30+ pounds on it and was able to keep it off because it really teaches you how to eat smaller portions.

Eat what you want and what you crave, just don't eat so much of it.

Jim

 

[mormadsmom]

This would be water loss not fat loss. Most diet sodas have sodium. EXCEPT, my favorite which is Diet Rite and it has no calories and no sodium. I had it all through my weight-loss after DS was born. 60 pounds lost and kept it off by counting calories and exercising.

If you are losing fat, it's because you are eating less calories and/or exercising more. If you are losing water, it's because you are consuming less sodium. I lost all my weight by counting calories with well balanced meals and exercising. I had my cake and ate it too (just had to count every calorie).

That makes sense. I am just glad I carry no more water weight then.

 

[DisneyCruiseFansMc]

I too have been doing Weight Watchers since last September. I have since lost 48 lbs & counting, achieved lifetime member status & (the BIGGEST compliment) WW has asked me to work for them. If that isn't an incentive, I don't know what is!! On DCL subject, we go every other year and I was 50 lbs
overweight last January 2006. I resolved NOT to be overweight again for our January 2008 cruise, so I gave myself plenty of time to lose it w/o the stress of a few months. Going into the summer almost 50 lbs lighter & buying new clothes w/ the cruise in mind now, I can't begin to tell you how great I feel. I will eat whatever I want for that 7 day cruise, then go right back to it when I get back home. Life's too short not to enjoy a Mickey ice cream w/ sprinkles every night .

 

[Error_kitten]

While I'm not losing weight for our cruise (that I'm not 100% sure were going yet or not) Im losing weight for myself in general.
But yeah I'm down 3 lbs so far (Only like... 67 more to go)
But whats helping tone me is Fencing.
We do the medieval thing (Thus the reason my pirate costume rocks out at MNSSHP)
My DH and I have been doing it for almost 2 yrs now, but I just recently started fighting with a heavier blade.
YAY FOR ARM MUSCLES!
But yeah dieting sucks but fencing rocks my socks so if I lose weight doing both then yay!!
Oh yeah FYI if you want to know more about fencing or the medieval thing just PM me. I love talking about it.