ZerasPride
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Good day everyone!
I haven't been around WISH in such a long time. It's like coming "home". I want to get around to become familiar again with other posters so I hope you all don't mind if I hang around a journal or two to get and give support. I realize that support and accountability have been missing from my life for too long now.
A little background on me. I started WISH on December 1, 2003 at 282.5 pounds and wearing size 26/28 and I was miserable. My husband and I followed a low carb plan and were very successful. I lost 109 pounds and DH lost 50. I felt like a million bucks being able to wear sizes 12 and some 10s for the first time in my adult life. Got cocky though and thought I could add sugar back into my diet in "moderation". Well moderation led to a full blown year-long binge fest. I woke up the other day realizing that even though there isn't anything wrong with sugar per se, there is something wrong with me eating sugar. It makes me irritable, bloated, achy and I feel like I'm totally out of control with my eating. Once I start eating refined sugar I simply cannot stop. The result has been that I have gained back 36.5 pounds and none of my clothes fit!
I made several half hearted attempts over the past few months to get back on low carb but I realized something. The things that helped make me so successful on low carb were things like working out everyday, drinking plenty of water, cutting out processed junky carbs, not eating late and journaling on WISH. It wasn't low carb in and of itself. I seem to be the type of person that does not do well when I feel pressure long term. I decided that being the perfectionist (all or nothing) type A personality that I am, dieting was not for me. I don't want to have to worry about cheating or not cheating and wondering if did it "perfect" for the day. I'm not using this as an excuse to have a food frenzy free for all, I know I still have to set limitations and boundaries on my eating, but I want to focus on taking smaller baby steps if you will and doing the things that made me so successful when I low carbed for 3 years.
So today starts a new chapter in my life. I am a little under three months away from my 40th birthday and I want to celebrate life in a healthy and non-destructive way in my 40's and beyond. Diets are not for me. I realize that now. Please don't think I'm putting down diets (low carb or otherwise). I have realized that the program that will work for you is the program you work faithfully. Any of the mainstream and even extreme weight loss programs will work as long as you stick with the program. I know and believe that I have the tools from all the reseach I have done the past year in my desperate attempts to find the right pill, shake or strategy to loss this weight that there is no substitution for the old fashioned calories in/calories out and exercise. I need to eat vegetables, fruit, lean meats, low fat dairy and good complex carbs. It's not rocket science but I think sometimes that unless I make it hard and painful, it ain't working and weight loss and living a healthy lifestyle does not have to be a doom and gloom proposition.
I hope some of you join me on my journey and I look forward to getting to know some of you.
Here is the jist of my program:
I am basing my eating plan on the "superfoods" list trying to eat as many items from the list as possible per day while staying away from fast food and other junk that is not good for me;
I am committed (or recommitted should I say) to working out everyday (twice per day if I can make it happen);
I am determined not to let obstacles get in the way of my self care;
I will drink plenty of water each day;
I will get sufficient rest each night - six to eight hours of sleep;
I will find a way to take 1 hour per day for some "selfist" not selfish time. I need to find ways on a daily basis to de-stress that are not self destructive but self nurturing;
I will weigh daily. I know it doesn't work for everyone but I am the type that can easily get off track if I don't keep up with where I am on a daily basis;
I will NOT eat late at night. Late night time binges have been my downfall the past year; and finally
I will commit to journaling my feelings instead of eating because of them. I need to come to this journal on a daily basis and take it to the next level by giving support to others on their journey.
So there we have it. Me in a nutshell. I weighed this morning and was only mildly shocked to see my brand new digital scale/fat monitor read 210 pounds and 43% body fat. I'm not going to look back with regrets. I am focused on my goals and looking forward. I would like to weigh somwhere between 150-165 pounds when it's all said and done. At 175 pounds I was wearing 12s so another 10 to 15 pounds should put me in a solid size 10. Most important, I want to be healthy, happy and comfortable in my skin. I know I can do it. I did it before. I just have to be committed and expect I will have days when I won't feel like eating right or exercising. But most days I don't feel like cooking, cleaning or paying bills but I do all those things because I have to do them. I need to start looking at my self care from the standpoint that it is vital to my survival and well being!
Thanks for listening to me!
I will log my meal and exercise plans here as well:
Menu:
Breakfast: 1/2 cup of oatmeal with 1 tablespoon of raisins and 1/2 tablespoon of walnuts sprinkled with splenda and cinnamon
Lunch: 1/2 turkey sandwich with light mayo, lettuce and tomato, 2 cups of vegetable soup and 1 bottle of Lipton's diet green tea
Mid-Afternoon snack: 6 ounce container of yoplait blueberry orchard yogurt
Dinner: 1 bbq boneless pork chop, 1 cup of whole wheat mac & cheese and 1 cup of homemade cole slaw
Evening snack/dessert: 1 Pria Grain Select powerbar (chocolate almond bliss) and 1/2 cup of vanilla soy milk
Exercise: (early morning) 35 minutes on the treadmill (3,900 steps; 201 calories; 1.71 miles) and (afternoon) 30 minute weight lifting class
Have a wonderful Monday everyone!
I haven't been around WISH in such a long time. It's like coming "home". I want to get around to become familiar again with other posters so I hope you all don't mind if I hang around a journal or two to get and give support. I realize that support and accountability have been missing from my life for too long now.
A little background on me. I started WISH on December 1, 2003 at 282.5 pounds and wearing size 26/28 and I was miserable. My husband and I followed a low carb plan and were very successful. I lost 109 pounds and DH lost 50. I felt like a million bucks being able to wear sizes 12 and some 10s for the first time in my adult life. Got cocky though and thought I could add sugar back into my diet in "moderation". Well moderation led to a full blown year-long binge fest. I woke up the other day realizing that even though there isn't anything wrong with sugar per se, there is something wrong with me eating sugar. It makes me irritable, bloated, achy and I feel like I'm totally out of control with my eating. Once I start eating refined sugar I simply cannot stop. The result has been that I have gained back 36.5 pounds and none of my clothes fit!
I made several half hearted attempts over the past few months to get back on low carb but I realized something. The things that helped make me so successful on low carb were things like working out everyday, drinking plenty of water, cutting out processed junky carbs, not eating late and journaling on WISH. It wasn't low carb in and of itself. I seem to be the type of person that does not do well when I feel pressure long term. I decided that being the perfectionist (all or nothing) type A personality that I am, dieting was not for me. I don't want to have to worry about cheating or not cheating and wondering if did it "perfect" for the day. I'm not using this as an excuse to have a food frenzy free for all, I know I still have to set limitations and boundaries on my eating, but I want to focus on taking smaller baby steps if you will and doing the things that made me so successful when I low carbed for 3 years.
So today starts a new chapter in my life. I am a little under three months away from my 40th birthday and I want to celebrate life in a healthy and non-destructive way in my 40's and beyond. Diets are not for me. I realize that now. Please don't think I'm putting down diets (low carb or otherwise). I have realized that the program that will work for you is the program you work faithfully. Any of the mainstream and even extreme weight loss programs will work as long as you stick with the program. I know and believe that I have the tools from all the reseach I have done the past year in my desperate attempts to find the right pill, shake or strategy to loss this weight that there is no substitution for the old fashioned calories in/calories out and exercise. I need to eat vegetables, fruit, lean meats, low fat dairy and good complex carbs. It's not rocket science but I think sometimes that unless I make it hard and painful, it ain't working and weight loss and living a healthy lifestyle does not have to be a doom and gloom proposition.
I hope some of you join me on my journey and I look forward to getting to know some of you.
Here is the jist of my program:
I am basing my eating plan on the "superfoods" list trying to eat as many items from the list as possible per day while staying away from fast food and other junk that is not good for me;
I am committed (or recommitted should I say) to working out everyday (twice per day if I can make it happen);
I am determined not to let obstacles get in the way of my self care;
I will drink plenty of water each day;
I will get sufficient rest each night - six to eight hours of sleep;
I will find a way to take 1 hour per day for some "selfist" not selfish time. I need to find ways on a daily basis to de-stress that are not self destructive but self nurturing;
I will weigh daily. I know it doesn't work for everyone but I am the type that can easily get off track if I don't keep up with where I am on a daily basis;
I will NOT eat late at night. Late night time binges have been my downfall the past year; and finally
I will commit to journaling my feelings instead of eating because of them. I need to come to this journal on a daily basis and take it to the next level by giving support to others on their journey.
So there we have it. Me in a nutshell. I weighed this morning and was only mildly shocked to see my brand new digital scale/fat monitor read 210 pounds and 43% body fat. I'm not going to look back with regrets. I am focused on my goals and looking forward. I would like to weigh somwhere between 150-165 pounds when it's all said and done. At 175 pounds I was wearing 12s so another 10 to 15 pounds should put me in a solid size 10. Most important, I want to be healthy, happy and comfortable in my skin. I know I can do it. I did it before. I just have to be committed and expect I will have days when I won't feel like eating right or exercising. But most days I don't feel like cooking, cleaning or paying bills but I do all those things because I have to do them. I need to start looking at my self care from the standpoint that it is vital to my survival and well being!
Thanks for listening to me!
I will log my meal and exercise plans here as well:
Menu:
Breakfast: 1/2 cup of oatmeal with 1 tablespoon of raisins and 1/2 tablespoon of walnuts sprinkled with splenda and cinnamon
Lunch: 1/2 turkey sandwich with light mayo, lettuce and tomato, 2 cups of vegetable soup and 1 bottle of Lipton's diet green tea
Mid-Afternoon snack: 6 ounce container of yoplait blueberry orchard yogurt
Dinner: 1 bbq boneless pork chop, 1 cup of whole wheat mac & cheese and 1 cup of homemade cole slaw
Evening snack/dessert: 1 Pria Grain Select powerbar (chocolate almond bliss) and 1/2 cup of vanilla soy milk
Exercise: (early morning) 35 minutes on the treadmill (3,900 steps; 201 calories; 1.71 miles) and (afternoon) 30 minute weight lifting class
Have a wonderful Monday everyone!
I think that your plans for getting back on track sound really good.
You've done this once before, Lisa and I know that you CAN do it again!
We're here to help you, to listen, and to cheer you on to VICTORY!
