Weight loss journal

just so everyone knows, nanna is my mother ?

No, I'm going to a weight loss clinic and they put me on 1000 per day. I went there two years ago and lost 40 lbs. They started me off at 930 calories per day for the first month, then moved me to 1,000. Once I hit my goal they put me at 1200 for maintenance. Then due to a series of unfortunate events, I had to quit going and put most of the weight back on. I now weigh 152 lbs. I had lost down to 130, but I had surgery and two weeks later my husband was in a head-on collision and spent months in the hospitals and rehab so with traveling back and forth so much, it was hard to eat the right kinds of foods.

I don't mind posting my weight because it gives me yet another reason to want to lose it. I could see where somebody would be uncomfortable with posting it though. I heard that intaking less then 1200 calories a day is unhealthy. Are you worried you're not getting enough calories a day??

Great to have you join us. As far as excercising, find an activity that you LIKE to do and start with 10 min in the morning and 10 min at night. At least you are doing something. Dance in your living room or something to some great music. I like to work out but find it hard to find the time to do it. Post your daily or weekly rants, accomplishments and what has worked and not worked for you. I've intended this to be a support group of sorts. I think if we girls stick together we can accomplish wonderful things. I'd also like to see if we can do before pics too. Would anyone be opposed to that??

Welcome to the group pammalitta. Before and after pics huh? lol I guess I wouldn't be opposed to that, but I'd have to find a decent before pic.

i have the book and the new job i'm starting i get an hour for lunch so i think february is going to be book month for me beginning with the south beach book. I'm afraid to try it because i LOVE pasta and bread. What are some of the things you can eat on there? Isn't it like the atkins diet?

I'm sick too now! not long after i posted to you, my stomache started to feel a little queezy. Well I started throwing up not long after that. I feel horrible this morning but it's Saint's day at work and someone bought me a t-shirt especially for it so I'm hoping it will go away.

Man. That sucks. you should probably talk to your doctor about what foods are best for you and your stomach. It's more important for you to be healthy than to lose weight. Get with a nutitionalist or something to map out a good plan for you to follow. It will help with your stomache problems. I'm better now that i slept most of the day but I'm wired and can't sleep tonight. I'm sure I'll get to sleep eventually but I hate being like this. At least I've stopped throwing up though :)

Well, I endded up going to the hospital because the pain was way to crazy. I was there forever, and pretty much the lining in my stomach is messed up. I'm producing to much acid, and that's why I'm in so much pain. I'm on a liquid diet for the next two days. I can't eat anything but things like jello. :( The pains have almost gone away, but they are still there once in a while. It's horrible. I hope you feel better!!

you are doing better than me. i found a book today called the carbohydrate addicts diet book and i'm going to read that. i'm holding steady at 202 but not really giving much effort right now. I'm so mad at myself because my husband is giving me a new wardrobe as my birthday gift and i have to spend all my money on fat clothes!! I now have a new problem to deal with and that's buying clothes to flatter a short fat figure. that's not an easy task. I start my new job monday and i want to dress for the job i want not for the job i have. i want to look sharp and professional. i have so much that it's overwelming me right now. i know these things seem tiny but for me they are not. i just cleaned out my closet. i have about 10 peices of clothes if that, that actually fit me. 2 pairs of jeans 2 dress pants and a few skirt suits that look horrible on me--why didn't i get rid of those too???? Anyway, I NEED clothes at this point and i'm just annoyed at myself that another month has come and gone and i've done nothing. I feel hopeless! I've been watching FIT tv and saw something for all star workouts so i'm going to record those to dvr and try doing a few of them. they teach belly dancing and kick boxing and all kinds of a variety of things. i'm pretty excited to do that. oh well. i'll report back in on sunday after i've shopped. we'll see. i'm sure it's just going to be more of a thing for me to say "i need to lose weight" and then fix a big bowl of spaghetti and potato salad. :(

ok! i'm holding steady at 202 still. not great but not bad either. i am swollen and i dont' know why so maybe i weigh less than that when i loose my water retention. I am starting the carbohydrate addicts diet. it seems to be really easy. you eat low carb for breakfast lunch and a snack and then for supper you can eat what you want for 1 hour. the trick is you only have 60 min to complete your meal. after that you have to go back to low carb. the good thing about this that i like is that my husband doesn't eat green veggies so i can still have my carbs at supper time. you are also permitted dessert as long as you eat it within 60 min.

Oh girl, don't get so down on yourself! That's how we defeat ourselves you know? We're going to have bad days, weeks, or maybe even months but we're going to get through this. (you can tell me this when I get down on myself lol) Make a deal with yourself to work out at least three to four days a week. Write down an exersize plan that you will follow. If you're tired one day you have either 4 or 3 free days for your body to rest. I found that writing down an exersize plan really works for me. I'm not wondering what I should do that particular day because it's right in front of me. If you happen to over eat one day you'll have the exersize to balance you out. The weight may come off slow but I know you can do it!

Well, I guess losing weight and keeping it off is more like a lifestyle then a fad diet. I've tried all kinds of diets, and I've realized that I just need to make life long changes with the way I eat. If I'm upset I eat a lot more, and I find myself eatting really bad during the summer. I work a job that is off season during winter and spring. During the summer we're open everyday. That's when I eat out twice a day. I need to stop putting fast food junk in my body, and start working on healthy eatting. Feel free to join us on our dieting journals here. The more the merrier!

Hey, welcome to the group. Reading this intro I have to ask myself, why do they make unhealthy food so easy to purchase but healthy stuff so expensive/ hard? Blah Good luck with the weight loss!

That doesn't sound like a bad idea. I'm heading to the store right now to buy some salad and soup. lol I don't have much money to be going out on lunch everyday at work anyway this week. I already needed to pack my lunch, so why not give this a try? I'll let you know how it goes.

I was sooooo bad today. I had my usuall half a bagel with margerine and jam and 1/2 cup of coffee with splenda and cream. then someone brought cupcakes! yummy little tasty pop in your mouth and eat half a dozen because they are so good cupcakes! so i had about 8 (they were minis but still i know that's alot). then for lunch we decided to order out so I split a roast beef poboy with someone. it was dripping with gravy and mayo and lettuce tomatoes and pickles. it was sooo yummy. then tonight my mother in law made what i affectionately call "monster meatball spagetti" with potato salad. i so gained back any weight i lost. So i'm sitting here drinking my second cozmo regretting what a bad day of great food i had. tomorrow will be better.

it is 2/19/07 and last week today i weighed in at 206.8. today i weigh 201.8!!!! Yay me!!!!!