Lookitme! TOV's weightloss struggle diary (posters welcome)

[TheOtherVillainess]

Saturday
Breakfast
1 bowl of reduced sugar maple/brown sugar oatmeal-140 calories
Lunch
1/4 cup of 'seafood salad'--200 calories
Dinner
Grilled Buffalo Chicken Salad (TGIFridays)--500 calories(??)
Snack
1 bag of CrackerJack--140 calories

Total intake for Saturday
980 calories

TOV

 

[Lizzydoll73]

Hi TOV - just stopping in to say hi and see how things are going with you. Hope you have a great day!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Sunday
Breakfast
1 Strawberry shake--200 calories
Lunch none
Dinner
1 bowl soup--200 calories
1 sandwich (wheat bread w/lite mayo and balogna)-350 calories

Tues
Don't remember
Weds
1 piece of toast-140 calories
14 potato chips--140 calories
Dinner
1 hamburger--300 calories
14 potato chips--140 calories

Thurs
Breakfast
2 pieces of toast-220 calories
Lunch
1 tomato sandwich w/lite mayo--300 calories
14 chips--140 calories
Dinner
Chicken Fajitas--500 calories (for 3 fajitas)

Hubby said he wants to try www.ediets.com today and see if that helps us with meal planning. I am HORRIBLE at that.

TOV

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Ok so Fri was totally a bust. I had toast for breakfast and a Jr.Burger from work for lunch topped with spaghetti for dinner.

But that's ok..I needed comfort food yesterday. The weather has been all screwy here and so my sinuses are totally FUBAR. I ended up not getting a lot of sleep last night because I couldn't breathe and my eyes felt like round razorblades. Ugh.

I hate this kind of weather.

TOV

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Saturday was a bust,too. I had two pieces of plain, dry wheat toast for breakfast and then, because I needed to eat and my sinus meds were making me all spacy feeling, I ended up eating an ENTIRE package of crackers which was like 1000 calories all by itself.

Oh well..I'm making up for that today by not eating anything except dinner. I'm going to drink nothing but water all day and wait for DH to get home so I can make dinner.

That oughta even it out,right?

TOV

 

[wilderness01]

I actually thought it was better to eat 3 small meals a day with 2 to 3 snacks to keep your metabolism going. I also read that if you don't eat your body goes into a starvation mode and then holds on to everything so you will not lose weight. Eventually you do lose weight but then I thought I read it will break down your good tissue (muscle) to get it's nutrients. Good luck.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I thought so too until last night when there was a thing on the news saying that you only need to eat 3 meals a day and if you do more than that, you're just making yourself fat.

Also..I have to admit. I caved.

2 hotdogs on wheat bread with mustard--440 calories
20 chips--120 calories

There's half my caloric intake for the entire day!

TOV

 

[wilderness01]

I think it is correct for 3 meals per day but they don't consider a snack a meal. That is at least what a dietary person told me at the hospital. Again what it kind of makes sense.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Well, last night for dinner I had a hamburger on wheat toast (300 calories, I'm assuming) plus a bowl of soup (210 calories).

For my snack I had 20 crackers (110 calories) and a bowl of lime sherbet (110 calories).

So yesterday's total intake was 1390 calories.

Today's diet so far:

3 oz of cheese--200 calories

I'm also starting an exercise program today..walking mostly. But on alternate days, I'm also going to be doing crunches and pushups. So that'll help I'm sure.

TOV

 

[Lizzydoll73]

Hi TOV - Just stopping in to say hi. Good luck with your exercise program.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

My snack today was 4 carrots plus lowfat ranch dip. Yummy!

I just finished my 15 min of walking and boy..was it tough to stick it out! But I did..I just kept telling myself it would only be a little bit longer. I checked my heart rate and it was WAY up there. But aren't you supposed to get your HR into a target range that is like 220-your age? If that's right (and I think it is..I seem to remember th at from HS gym class), then it was where it was supposed to be (around 194 bpm).

TOV

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Yesterday, being a Tuesday, I did my 20 crunches and 20 pushups. That was easy. But today being a Weds, I had to do 15 min of hard walking plus 25 scissorlifts per leg. The walking was easy, but the scissorlifts really got me. When I got towards the last 2 or 3, I had a HUGE stabbing pain in my hip that made me want to quit but somehow I struggled through it. My calves are sore from the walking so I guess I need to apply heat and/or massage them until they feel better.

Gah..this is a lot harder than I thought it would be. It's going to be extremely tough for me to stick it out even though I know it'll be worth it in the end.

TOV

 

[Lizzydoll73]

Good job with the exercise. It is really hard when you first start an exercise program but stick with it and you'll see results in a short time. When I first started on the ski machine I could barely do .5 miles. Now I can go longer. Good luck! Have a great day!

 

[sarahsmom73]

You are right! It is hard!!! you are reprogramming your brain and it will fight you every step of the way! Keep in you mind that YOU will win and have a healthier life! You can do this!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

We popped into Sam's Club today to see if they had something DH was looking for but couldn't find. We ended up doing a walkabout of the place and let me say, the people who make the Reese's peanutbutter cups are EVIL! EVIL I tell you! Now they are making a chocolate covered sandwich cookie with peanut butter in the middle! Of which I just had to try one. Boy those could be addictive.

Today's intake so far:
Breakfast
bowl of lowfat oatmeal and glass of milk: 280 calories
Lunch
2 glasses unsweet iced tea-100 calories (??)
One apple--200 calories-(??)
Dinner
2 hotdogs on wheat buns--360
1 bowl of lowfat New England clam chowder--200

Total intake for today--1140

TOV

 

[sarahsmom73]

Hang in there! I think if you have a treat every once and a while it is not a bad thing!!! Happy Friday!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I actually did ok Saturday. My total intake ended up being like 1200 calories, which isn't TOO bad.

This week is going to be tough. Starting tomorrow, I have to do my heavy walking for 20 minutes and increase the number of crunches/pushups to 20 also. Oy.

But it'll all be worth it in the end,right? Or it'll be worth to see the changes in MY end, rather.

TOV

 

[sarahsmom73]

Defintely worth it!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Monday--didn't work out. Didn't feel like it.
Tues--did my crunches/pushups like I was supposed to but went WAY over in calories. DH brought home a bag of these things by Brach's called Mellowcremes. He KNOWS I can't resist them. So I ate them. A bunch of them. Almost the entire bag. By myself.
Weds--have only consumed about 300 calories so far AND done my 20 min walk/jog. Way to get back on track. Even now, I'm sitting here jiggling my legs up and down. That counts too,right?


TOV

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Last night I was so desperate for something sweet I did something terrible. I..dumped three tablespoons of sugar into a glass of ice water and stirred it up and drank it.

I'll try to do better today. Honest.

TOV