Anyways, here's my food journal for the last two days.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
170.8 to 172.8 and back again
I've heard about yo yo dieting, but this is ridiculous. To top it off, the scale in my doctors office said I'd gained 2 lbs since last week. At this point I'm not sure what to believe. Though I'm feeling a little discouraged about being hungry and not eating what I really want, I will keep working at it. I think I will lighten up a little on holding back food though. Maybe I'll try to spread my 35 points over the week.
Anyways, here's my food journal for the last two days.
Anyways, here's my food journal for the last two days.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
170.8!
I woke up this morning hoping that I wouldn't be penalized for going over my target points twice but instead I was reminded of why I loved WW's. Today I will be better and plan my meals before I count up my points. Hooray! Here I come 169!
Monday, June 1, 2009
My food journal for sunday 5/31 and today
Well so far I'm 5 points in the hole each day ): I was trying to be good too because the amount of food that I've eaten is definitely less than I've been used to lately. I think I've definitely pinpointed the problem. Snacking on edamame helps too! I've been experimenting with excel and have tried to find the quickest way to organize and calculate how many point I actually ate so these first journals may look funky.
Dropping my winter weight
Hi all,
I started a new blog to food journal of 10-15lbs. Last summer, when I traveled to Nigeria, I lost about 12lbs in three weeks! That put me at about 155lbs. I found that this weight was really not sustainable because I'd have to do the same things here in america, that I did over there and that was not happening. Mostly because we walked all over the place, ate fresh fruits and vegetables and ate rice, fu fu and meat from animals that were recently sacrificed. Unfortunately, its unsustainable because we have tons of preservatives, extra fat and extra sugar in our foods, and this eating pattern could be pretty boring. Plus, I didn't eat any dairy, bread, eggs, peanut buttter (which is a must!) and there were hardly any opportunities to snack.
So when I got back (~August 2009), I slowly got used to eating food here but I was so paranoid at first, I kept noticing how much fat and sugar is in our food. But apparently I got over that pretty quickly--with the help of a co-worker who said "You're making me uncomfortable with all this talk about how many calories/fat/sugar is in our food". It made me realize that I needed to chill out and so I did. I found that staying around 160lbs was good for me and for a while that worked out.
But then you know what happens. It gets cold here in the fall and winter and I hate the gym so my sometimes weekly salsa dancing nights were my main exercise. Plus I started dating again and we like to eat out. Fast forward to last week (May 2009). I have a WW (weight watchers) scale it's been talking but I'm wasn't listening. At first I was 160, then 162, then 165, in the heart of winter I was around 168. For the last few months I've been 170 and then last week I went to my annual doctor's appointment and I weighed 175.5. Yep, that was the wake up call. You see, I knew that my weight was up there but I figured that once it warmed up, I would go back to exercising and things would get better. I've been biking and running off and on for about 1.5 months now and I only see my weight going up.
So I knew that I had to change my eating behaviour. If its not the exercise, its the eating and I guess the portion control techniques that I learned with WW were lost in the snow. So I've been food journaling for two days now and I realized that I've been eating a bit much but I know what I have to do so here we go!
Current weight: 173 (as of this morning)
Target weight: 160 (ish, if it goes below that's great but I want to enjoy my life too--I like food!)
Target event: I have two, 1) I'm on a jean quest. I bought two size 8 Gap jeans that I could wear last summer. I can wear them today too. . .I just can't leave the house! Wish me luck
2) Going to a pool party in July for a wedding, it would be nice to wear a bikini. The party is on July 10th. I think that it would be reasonable to drop 10lbs by then (at least I hope so!)
Wish me luck!
Chi(:
I started a new blog to food journal of 10-15lbs. Last summer, when I traveled to Nigeria, I lost about 12lbs in three weeks! That put me at about 155lbs. I found that this weight was really not sustainable because I'd have to do the same things here in america, that I did over there and that was not happening. Mostly because we walked all over the place, ate fresh fruits and vegetables and ate rice, fu fu and meat from animals that were recently sacrificed. Unfortunately, its unsustainable because we have tons of preservatives, extra fat and extra sugar in our foods, and this eating pattern could be pretty boring. Plus, I didn't eat any dairy, bread, eggs, peanut buttter (which is a must!) and there were hardly any opportunities to snack.
So when I got back (~August 2009), I slowly got used to eating food here but I was so paranoid at first, I kept noticing how much fat and sugar is in our food. But apparently I got over that pretty quickly--with the help of a co-worker who said "You're making me uncomfortable with all this talk about how many calories/fat/sugar is in our food". It made me realize that I needed to chill out and so I did. I found that staying around 160lbs was good for me and for a while that worked out.
But then you know what happens. It gets cold here in the fall and winter and I hate the gym so my sometimes weekly salsa dancing nights were my main exercise. Plus I started dating again and we like to eat out. Fast forward to last week (May 2009). I have a WW (weight watchers) scale it's been talking but I'm wasn't listening. At first I was 160, then 162, then 165, in the heart of winter I was around 168. For the last few months I've been 170 and then last week I went to my annual doctor's appointment and I weighed 175.5. Yep, that was the wake up call. You see, I knew that my weight was up there but I figured that once it warmed up, I would go back to exercising and things would get better. I've been biking and running off and on for about 1.5 months now and I only see my weight going up.
So I knew that I had to change my eating behaviour. If its not the exercise, its the eating and I guess the portion control techniques that I learned with WW were lost in the snow. So I've been food journaling for two days now and I realized that I've been eating a bit much but I know what I have to do so here we go!
Current weight: 173 (as of this morning)
Target weight: 160 (ish, if it goes below that's great but I want to enjoy my life too--I like food!)
Target event: I have two, 1) I'm on a jean quest. I bought two size 8 Gap jeans that I could wear last summer. I can wear them today too. . .I just can't leave the house! Wish me luck
2) Going to a pool party in July for a wedding, it would be nice to wear a bikini. The party is on July 10th. I think that it would be reasonable to drop 10lbs by then (at least I hope so!)
Wish me luck!
Chi(:
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