Kardiebelle's Journal comments welcome!!

[kardiebelle]

Hi everyone,
I calculated yesterdays calorie intake and it was right around 1700. Better then i thought but not good. But today was great.
Breakfast Strawberry light yogurt, 2 pieces of toast with margarine
lunch mac and cheese and a hotdog
dinner salad with light dressing 50
chicken with rice and gravy and corn
snack a couple of chips with cheese.

total 1350 not bad considering yesterday was my bad day

After doing fitday and calculating the calories one my own there is a difference. My yogurt on the container will say 100 calories and fitday says 230 I dont get it. So I am just going to use fitday when I need to.

Tomarrow I get on the scale I am so afraid beause I cut the calories but I didnt do any exercise. I will let you know tomarrow. wish me luck

 

[kardiebelle]

Hi everyone I got on the scale his morning. It read 198.5 I am so happy I lost 3 pounds this week. I can do better. But I am going to take the 3 that I lost and run away from it so nothing can give it back. I am so excited about it. I need to exercise more that is the goal for this week.

Breakfast 1/4 cup jello
bowl of cherrios 150
two large size strawberries
lunch 2 pieces of sausage pizza 290
apple 80
dinner BLT sandwich 349
salad with ranch 140
snack 1 cup of no sugar added light icecream 240

total 1249

water intake 3 liters

tomarrow me and the kids are going to start to walk in the morning. talk to you later thanks for all the support.

 

[lovinaz]

Hello kardiebelle, I am AmyT. Congrats on the 3 lbs lost! Keep up the good work! I just started a journal and I hope I can use it to keep my snacking under control... Sounds like you should have no problem keeping active looking after 3 little ones! Playing with them burns all kinds of calories! Keep up the excellent work!

 

[kardiebelle]

Hi out there, Today was good. I am not struggling very hard these past few days because I got rid of all of the unhealty food. It is so much easier to do that than to sit there in the kitchen and look at it pick it up and then struggle to put it back down. Instead of chips at the store grab pretzals. There are always a better choice out there it is just what is the right choice for you. I am sure that alot of people out there do the same thing that I do but they choose the chips over pretzals because I used to do it. With that being said here is my day.

Breakfast 2 eggs and a sliced hotdog scrambbled 290
lunch roasted chicken breast subway sandwich 395
dinner salad 50
1 fried chicken breast 390
3 potato wedges and a tablespoon of mashed potatoes with gravy <100

TOTAL-1225 not very much I better eat a little more I have to worry about my son too.

water intake 2.5 liters

talk to you tomarrow kardiebelle.

 

[kardiebelle]

Hi I didn't get to it yesterday because I been busy. But the days are doing great. I am so ready to get on a scale but I have to wait till tuesday because I want to see a big change. I am so excited because I feel good.

Day 16
I can't remember what I ate. The more kids that I have the more I seem to forget. I know that I did good though.

Day 17
breakfast 2 pancakes with TBSP of syrup 150
lunch tater tots and hotdog 350
dinner 2 chicken fajitas (flour tortillas) 420

total 920 calories I knew that I was going to the movies and I knew that I would eat popcorn so I cut back but I didn't eat very much popcorn and soda.

water 3 liters

Talk to you later kardiebelle

 

[kardiebelle]

today I played wih the kids in the backyard and worked in the garden for a while.

breakfast 1 fried egg 1 thin piece bacon and a tortilla 300
lunch grilled chicken lunch with wild rice and veggies 400
dinner salad with dressing 50
small dish of spaghetti 300

snack popcorn

total 1050 plus popcorn

water 2 liters

 

[TigerCheer2009]

You're doing great. But you know what helps me? Thinking of this change as not a diet, but a lifestyle change. Diets seem so temporary, and fake, and it's okay to crash and burn for like three weeks. But a lifestyle change is something you have to maintain, that you will live everyday to your fullest potential (diet- and life-wise) as long as you have the extra weight.

Keep on keeping on! I'm proud of you, your hubby's proud, and your kids are C-u-t-e!!

 

[kardiebelle]

thanks tigercheer2009 you are so right. This in not a diet this is a lifestyle change. I am not only doing this for myself but for my children and DH. It seems that I do everything for them but I have to live with myself for the rest for my life. The support is what I look forward too because it keep me motivated to keep going.

Breakfast yogurt toast with margarine, and an apple 380
lunch McDonalds double cheesburger and a side salad with low fat dressing 390
dinner Nacho supreme (So GOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!) 600 maybe

Total 1370
water 2 liters

hugs

 

[TigerCheer2009]

Good for you! Ta ta for now (TTFN!)

 

[kardiebelle]

I am sitting here waiting to take DK's out to watch fireworks in the yard. So I decided to enter in my journal for the day. DH cooked out and the food was so good. It' was just us so it was noce and the clean up was so easy. Happy 4th of july everyone. I hope it was good for everyone.

Breakfast 2 french toast 1 sausage link
lunch chicken and broccoli pot pie
dinner salad, hamburger, hotdog, and corn on the cob. everything was so good I know that I shouldn't have had the hotdog but I thought that it would be o.k. because I earned it. I love grilled food.

tomarrow is weigh day wish me luck. talk to you tomarrow.

 

[TigerCheer2009]

Luck Luck LUCK!!!!!

You did well!

 

[keenercam]

Hi, Kardiebelle! I don't know how you do it, having your hands full with the children and being almost a single parent at times. I just wanted to congratulate you on being so vigilant about what you are eating and journalling it! I hope you see wonderful results on the scale today. But you have to remember that the scale is not the only measure of your success! You are adapting a healthier lifestyle, setting a great example for your children, and taking care of YOU. No one else can do that. You are solely responsible for your physical well-being.

I wanted to respond to a question you had and to make a suggestion. I know you said fitday has yogurt at a lot more calories than your yogurt container says -- I am sure you are eating light yogurt. You might want to use that nutrition information instead. My weight watchers leaders have always said that if there is nutrition information on a package, to use that instead of what on-line nutrition information says.

Second thing -- I LOVE hot dogs, too. Can I suggest either healthy choice or hebrew national reduced fat hot dogs? They are either 50 or 70 calories each with very little fat. I put one of those on a wonder light hot dog roll with ketchup and relish and chopped onion or with mustard and it is absolutely outrageously delicious and satisfying. I can have 2 of them for less calories than one regular hot dog on a regular roll. Much healthier alternative without giving up on the great taste.

Keep up the great work! Have an awesome day! I hope the scale is good to you.

 

[kardiebelle]

Thanks for the everyone. I much need it. This morning the scale read 194. I am soooooooo happy I am down 7.5 pounds since I started this lifestyle change. DH congratulated me this morning. It really helps when you get the support from DH. If there was only one thing that I could tell people out there who are on a DIET. I would tell them to get the support of someone who really loves you for who you are no matter. You know that they are not judging you for eating that extra hotdog but they let you know that you shouldn't eat it. Even though you do. The support that you get from these boards too is great. I could not have done it without the support from all of you out in DIS WISH world. hugs to all DISWISH members and a to make you smile

 

[keenercam]

YIPPEE!!! You GO, Kardiebelle! I bet you are on . Your efforts are paying off BIG time!

Enjoy the progress (Don't celebrate with food, though ). I usually reward myself with some down time (a bath or a walk) or a new "tool", like a cookbook or food scale. Sounds silly, but it really reinforces the good habits.

I am so glad your DH supports you so much. My DH is awesome that way too! It makes such an incredible difference!

Have a great day and keep up the great work!

 

[joelyfaithsmommy]

kardibelle

YOU'RE DOING SO GREAT!!!

I'm so proud of you sticking to your new lifestyle and now losing 7.5lbs...it will be so much more in no time at all!

Hope you have a GREAT and SUPER weight loss day, and know I am backing you 100%

HUGS,
JEN

 

[eeyore25]

Congratulations on the weight loss
That is great news.

Keep up the good work and in no time you will be at your goal weight!

 

[pearlieq]

Yay for you!!! Congrats on the loss!!!

You're doing so well. Keep up the great work!!!

You can do it!

 

[kardiebelle]

What to say. Again had a good day. I am fearing for another bad day soon because I feel all of the urges coming on. Like Today for a snack I did have a larger dinner and a McDonalds icecream cone. It's not as bad as I am saying because my calorie intake was still less than 1500. But I hope that everything is going well for everybody. talk to you later. kardiebelle

breakfast 1 boiled egg, 1 piece of whole wheat toast and butter, yogurt
lunch 1/2 cup mac and cheese, kid size burger with 1 piece of wheat toast
dinner meat with potatoes seasoned with cumin mexican rice and beans 1 tortilla
snack icecream cone McDonalds

Water intake 3 liters

 

[TigerCheer2009]

Good job and congrats at the WI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woohoo! Awesome. Gotta go=dinner!

 

[kardiebelle]

breakfast mcdonalds sausage mcmuffin 370
lunch 2 pieces of sausage pizza 250
dinner 1 c. rice, 1/4 c. corn, 1 mock chicken leg with gravy and salad with dressing 430

total 1050

i know that later i will have a fruit and yogurt parfait 160 cal. because DH brought me one home for breakfast but I didn't eat it because I saw how many calories were in my sandwich

total 1210