I was able to lose just over 20 lbs ince Nov of last year. I did so by walking.. eating healthy...
My diet consists of eating fruit in the morning until noon.
Lunch and dinner I can have what I want but i eat mainly vegitables.
I don't mix carbs and protiens
I choose which kind of day I am having and so I will have a baked potatoe and roll .. but no steak..
or have the steak and some vegitables but no roll and baked potatoe.. that sort of idea.
just choose to have a carb day or a protien day.
this helps the body go through digestion better and you can dispose of food easier.
it's working for me.. and it's sooooo simple.
no need to measure or count calories.. although I often do track.. just cause I tend to UNDEREAT on this method.
Can't complain about that.
If I could give one piece of advice to anyone that asks what I have done... I would say, eat fruit in the morning from the time you wake up until noon.... at the very least.
hey yall... i been gone so long.. yet the journey still continues. I've lost a bit of weight and still going at it. Every week im lighter. It's nice.
Winter always gets harder. Cravings come up when it's colder and I can't do my most favorite things like walk outdoors.
I need to get back on my gazelle again. It worked before and it's gonna have to work again :)
yeah dumb me sold my treadmill lol I was not using in the summer.. cause I adore the outdoors and hate treadmills. OH well. I rather walk in place then on that dumb thing anyways.
I could use motivation and support durring the winter months so I'll give this a little try and see how it goes. I'm on youtube also.. www.youtube.com/sabrinasa21 my videos are all weight loss related.. not sure if I will keep posting once this current challenge is over.. but hopefully I can join another one when this is over. New years always brings new challenges and im sure a lot of new people will be joining here with the resolutions and all.
trying to be as active as i can== walking when I don't have a naturally active day.
moving has been the activity lately.. heavy lifting boxes.
Realizing it's hard to be around people that gravitate towards food and meals as a hobby or main daily events..
I was that way.. always thinking about food, the next meal. It's difficult to watch others that are still in that pattern.
I eat only for survival.. very little for enjoyment anymore.
lately I have been having a platue but it's slowly dropping off.. about one lb a week I think and talking to others that had the procedure they are all doing about the same and if feels like a platue and nothing is happening but it is still working.. slow but sure.. harder work but worth it.
taking pictures every month around my procedure date.. i'm due to take another tomorrow.. since I didn't take one today.
people tell me they see the difference and so do I.. confidence building.
my size 22 clothes fit well instead of me bulging out of them now. I was probibly supposed to be wearing a 24 or 26 for the last year. but I was still wearing 22's tightly. now they are lose or fitting :) soon I will need to rid of my huge wardrobe for smaller clothes. I'm happy an scared about that at the same time.. I had spent a lot of clothes and since was the same size for so long I have a lot of them. Good to have change though.. will be so weird to go into normal peoples departments for the first time since HS..
i can wear xl shirts ..some of them as well as some sweats in xl depending on the store. it's exciting!
well i was overdue for an update so that is a good start..
I'm shocked that the weight is falling off. Lost 18lbs since my first weight in at the drs (pre procedure). Friday is my 4 week follow up, it will then be 24 days out.
I've started to feel some hunger or cravings and have tried my best to keep it under wraps.
I haven't had any recent episodes of food not going down. I think because I have not pushed the limit and tried to eat anything that doesn't agree. Chewing a lot is important... and seems to do the trick.
Chicken seems to help with the weight loss quite a bit.. as well as exercise. This week I have gone for a long walk with the kids and the rest has been yard or house work. Hope to keep it up..
My one goal this week was to try and find something at home that I can do when it rains. I have a pretty large collection of work out videos that could deffinately work for that. Also the sparkpeople page has a lot of strength training for the weights that I can utilize as I have in the past.
Eventually once I am employed and on my feet financially I hope to be able to get a wii and wii fit.-- reward time.. right?
:)
Well I have classes today so i better put some fire under my butt.
Tuesday I had my two week post op. I lost around 12 lbs. Most of that was in the first 3 days. It's hard to eat much with this procedure. Maybe 1/4 cup at each meal and I try to eat every 3 hours. Lots of Water. Everything has been going well. My goal this week is to find something I enjoy doing activity wise indoors. I always sabotage myself when the weather is bad and so I want to get that out of the way right now.. even though the sun is shining. I have the P90X program, which I may try to incorporate. It's an intense work out for fit people. I'm not quite fit.. but if i just do my best to keep up and keep moving it's better than sitting in a chair and doing nothing. I think that might be my solution. If I were working and wasn't behind on bills I would most definitely invest in a Wii + Wii Fit. It's on the wish list. Perhaps once I reach a particular goal I will use it as a reward.
The nutritionist said that I shouldn't worry about the amount of calories I am getting in. Eventually they will increase. Currently I average about 300-400 a day. The weight loss is supposed to be around 2lbs a week, which is a healthy goal and rate of weight loss.
It's very strange how the procedure has changed my mind, it was an instant switch that went off in my head and I no longer have hunger.
This is great, the one dilemma I have with this is that I realized that I used to self medicate myself with food. I would suppress my feelings and when I ate it was the way I would release the feelings I had built up. It was very strange to come to that realization. So now that I no longer crave food- suppressing the feelings- and having no way to release them; I have some spells of unhappiness, crying, etc. I consider it healthy though. We shouldn't be suppressing our feelings and taking on that amount of stress. It should be released in healthy ways. I assume the more I work out and become active that will be the way my feelings are expelled.
Well in past posts I have said if my weight loss efforts don't work or am not able to maintain them then I will consider weight loss surgery.
Well it happend, I gained back everything I had worked so hard to lose plus an additional 30 lbs. very sad.
The good news is that I found out about a clinical trial called TOGA. It's a procedure done through the mouth to make your stomach opening extended and smaller beyond the esophagus (SP). It's not FDA approved yet.
I have been a participant for the last month, went through tests, phsyc eval, spoke with a nutritionist.
On Tuesday I had the procedure. I think..
I say, "i think" because it's a bind study. 1/3 of the participants are a control group and might not have had the procedure but are required to stay on the same diet.
As of today I am down close to 10 lbs since surgery. it's hard to get in 8 cups of water and the 1/4 cup-1/2 cup portions of soup or jello/pudding I am full after only 2 tablespoons so it's been quite an adjustment.
Yesterday I got in about 260 calories and the day before about 41, I figure in time that will increase as I heal more and learn to sip and go slow.
I never do very well after surgery the drugs they give really do a number on me, this time instead of throwing up I have diarhea pretty bad.. I've pooped my pants 3 times since I have been home, simply because I have no toilet in our downstairs and trying to hold liquid in your bumm while going up stairs is not an easy task. (embarassing) -- anyways, I know it's going to be super important to get all my water in today because I don't want to be dehydrated and already feel that I am.
It will be a jorney for sure.. I right now feel that I had the procedure and am very optimistic.
I continue to strugle with food addiction. Watching my kids eat real food like cheez its is pure torture. But If i can't make it into liquid in my mouth I'm not eating it.
Also I have joined a local group of gals looking to lose weight and fight against food addiction wich is huge in my needs so I look forward to continuing with that next week (every thursday).
January start weight 284.00lb
Today: 274.5
Total Loss: 9.5 lbs
Goal met for the month. I'm going to keep going. No sugar and no white flour. I know I have not been perfect with this.. but cutting it down sure has made a difference. I think that the whole corn syrup conspericy thing may be true. Corn syrup makes u more hungry so you eat more. ... the full signal never works.. and man that stuff is in everything.. crackers, meats, candies, you name it.
EVIL!!!
I would love to get back down to where I left off last August.. weight wise.. I remember how hard that was. I was walking 4 miles a day. I am going to walk 1 mile today. Need to gain some muscle mass so don't turn all flabby :)
Doing well, not over eating.. sticking to high protien, no sugar no flour.
Lost 4 lbs since I have been back to EP.. that's a blessing.
I joined the biggest looser support group here at EP. who ever looses the most by March 5, weigh in is every sunday. Although, the blog section is really not organized very well and so I don't see where people have been weighing in or a good tracking system.. so not sure how helpful that is.. I work really good with competition but if I can't see my comp.. I usually don't do well. ugg.. I'm sticking with them for another week.. see if it improves.
I haven't started working out yet.. so my goal is to add that aspect back into my daily life. I think I will start with walking videos on the cable on-demand since I don't have a tread mill and I haven't unpacked the weights from my move.
Goal #2: be consious of what I am eating and drinking
Goal #3: exercise 3x's a week min.
So I am going to do the Atkins diet.. the hardest for me is bread and sweets.. I need to find a way to get past that craving.
I was reading today that sugar is a drug and americans are addicted. which pretty much eplains it. so perhaps natural whole food sugars are better.. sugar cane in the whole form and fruit.. but the start of the atkins u can't have fruit from what I know.. so just meat, cheese, veggies mainly.
no sugar and no bread!
it's weird to go on this diet because meat doesn't make me feel really good.. I rather be a vegitarian.. but if it works.. I'll do it. Perhaps if I lose enough on it then I can change to vegitarian or the zone.
