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  • Name: Emma Bella
  • City: Washington
  • Region: Arkansas
  • Country: United States

My Weight Loss

Height: 162.6cm
Start weight: 248.00lb
Current weight: 145.00lb
Goal weight: 145.00lb
Lost to date: 103.00lb
Remaining: 0.00lb

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03/06/2006 19:02

I Need to eat Healthier

 
                   today has been a strange day. i weighed in...229.4!!!! can't believe i broke the 230 mark. i have been close but never below. anyway...i was kinda hungry today...yeah i know no crime but this was a first for how i began to feel.
                   i have been hungry before after i started having some success w/ losing, my stomach even grumbled a little and i played the game of watching and waiting to see if i'd die from being hungry...lol  but today was weird, i felt hungry but not that hungry more so like i wanted to munch on something and it was so annoying!! i'd rather have my stomach banging away like a drum. i think i faced boardum inducted hunger. at lunch i even got a bigger salad but when i began to eat it i barely ate half and have some for tomorrows lunch so i wasn't as hungry as i perceived to be and yet that nagging feeling of wanting to eat hung over me all day. so i gave into a tall skinny glass filled w/ ice to the top and some regular pepsi. i feel pretty good but i'm home and always have tons to keep me busy. we'll see what happens when i settle down for before bed tonight. i can't believe i am as old as i am and as much as i thought i knew me and my body i never really listened or understood whats going on. i'll just have to cont. working w/ myself...ok me...hop on the couch and tell me all about it and how are we gonna handle it...lol  =) 
                        i love the tv show the biggest loser and just recently bought the book. the diet in there doesn't seem to be too bad as far as a diet i think i might be able to follow. yes, i want to be healthy and yes i wanna look good and yes i wanna live a strong health long life...well yes, i'm losing, and yes, i'm still eating what i like just not as much but really am i being healthy? no, not really. i do need to learn to eat healthier. my whole life a vegetable that i eat and only eat is a white potato and corn. starch and starch. i have been know to eat mashed potatos and potato salad. i don't like other veggies. i tolerate green beans drowning in butter sauce. i'm just a mess really. but i think i might try some of the suggestions in the book about trying a new fruit and veggie a week. all i can do is try.  i have always been a poor choice eater. when i was little my mother made dinner for the family but i was spoiled and pickie so for all my youth i ate home made french fries. i was spoiled then and i have always spoiled myself when it comes to food. fruit likes consist of apple, limited orange, pineapple, limited banana, strawberries, and melons. i guess the fruit thing isn't too bad. well if anyone has any suggestions i'm all ears...=)
       

Posted By: Emma Bella
Comments to this post:
03/07/2006 13:09

veggies

Congratulations on your loss. I know you're proud! I wish I had some suggestions about eating healthy. I LOVE veggies and fruit, so I can't relate to not eating them. The biggest problem, it would seem, about eating a diet like yours is not getting enough fiber or vitamins. You can fix that by eating whole grain carbs, like oatmeal, and taking a multivitamin. As for dousing your veggies with fat to make them tasy, DON'T DO IT. The tiny gain you would get from eating the veg. is more than outweighed by the negative impact of the fat on your body. The same goes for salads that are made with iceberg lettuce, which has no nutritional value and does not fill you up.

I don't know if you can learn to love vegetables or not. It might help if I understood what kind of vegetables you have tried to eat. For instance, many people think they hate asparagus or brussel sprouts because they;ve only had ones from a can, which are NASTY. Have you tried grilling vegetables? I can't think of anything that tastes much yummier than grilled asparagus or grilled portabella mushrooms!

Try it!

Posted By: ashleyb
03/07/2006 13:47

I know what you mean....

When you say you hate veggies, I can completely relate.  I have been living on bell peppers, green beans and asparagus since those are the only things I like that are on my plan.  I agree with ashleyb; try a bunch of veggies that you haven't tried before or for a while and see what you think now.  I have discovered that while I used to HATE broccoli, I can now tolerate it, even without a layer of cheese.

With fruits, have you tried any of the berries?  They are rather expensive this time of year, but SUPER yummy and good for you.  Not much can beat fresh blueberries or blackberries for taste, if you ask me!  Good luck!

Sara (aka uncivil)

Posted By: Uncivil
03/07/2006 14:32

love suggestions like that

Try a new fruit or veggie a week - I like that!  I do like fruits & veggies for the most part, but I'm so lazy when it comes to eating them..don't know how to explain it. DH has been in charge of keeping those in the house!  One of my new years res. was to eat a fruit EVERY DAY and of all the major res I made that's probably been the hardest one to keep (shoudln't that be pretty EASY? Asking me to EAT? LOL).  Congrats on hitting those 220's!  Great loss so far - keep up the good work, and good luck finding the tips & tricks that will work for you!

Posted By: LynnAnne



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