Posts by trcyh

START     June 25-27: 265.0
Week 1.   July 2 - 4:  264.6
Week 2.   July 9-11:  263.0
Week 3.   July 16-18: 262.2
Week 4.   July 23-25: 262.4
Week 5.   July 30-Aug1: 261.4
Week 6.   Aug 6-8:  260.8
Week 7.   Aug 13-15:  260.4
Week 8.   Aug 20-22:
Week 9.   Aug 27-29:
FINISH.   Sept 3-5:

Glad to be at 260 still and not higher. 

Sometimes it's easier to find the approx. calories for the ingredients rather than the whole dish together.  If your mom is ok with it, ask her for the recipe...or talk with her about what she uses to make those dishes for you.  You can then figure it out by typing in the amount of each ingredient and adding it up.  Make sure you account for your serving size and don't count the whole recipe in your calories....It does take some basic math, but it is all pretty much an estimate anyway.  Then you can tag the items in your food log to use for next time you eat it.  It definitely takes more work to count calories of food that you do not make yourself.  You can also Google "calories in Curry" and other foods you eat to....not an exact science...but there are some interesting sites out there that can give you a calorie range. 

Good luck.

START     June 25-27: 265.0
Week 1.   July 2 - 4:  264.6
Week 2.   July 9-11:  263.0
Week 3.   July 16-18: 262.2
Week 4.   July 23-25: 262.4
Week 5.   July 30-Aug1: 261.4
Week 6.   Aug 6-8:  260.8
Week 7.   Aug 13-15:
Week 8.   Aug 20-22:
Week 9.   Aug 27-29:
FINISH.   Sept 3-5:

I just keep a 500 to 800 calorie deficit and wait it out.  Even without making a huge change...if my weight loss stalls and I am eating well, getting physical activity....I just wait it out for a week or so and I start to lose again.  It's really hard to be patient with my weight loss....I have to calm myself down and realize that putting time restrictions on it doesn't help me any. 

Good Luck to you.

START     June 25-27: 265.0
Week 1.   July 2 - 4:  264.6
Week 2.   July 9-11:  263.0
Week 3.   July 16-18: 262.2
Week 4.   July 23-25: 262.4
Week 5.   July 30-Aug1:
Week 6.   Aug 6-8:
Week 7.   Aug 13-15:
Week 8.   Aug 20-22:
Week 9.   Aug 27-29:
FINISH.   Sept 3-5:

No change this week.

Bubbles - I hope all goes well with the doctor.  You are doing so well....and have been through so much.  ..../hugs, lots of positive thoughts and support sending your way. 

My Food Weakness:

Oh Boy xCathyxx - I am right there with you on the Nutella.  That stuff is sooooo addicting....but I can't afford to eat it when it's 200 calories a tbsp.....because who can eat just ONE??? lol.  Once I start with a taste....I am a gonner and can't stop.  It's pretty high in fat to....just not a thing I can eat a little bit of. 

Creamy, chocolatey goodness.....I once ate chocolate frosting right from the can...like almost the whole thing...LOL.  Wow...I would definitely make myself sick if I did that now...yikes!  (Ok...I have probably done that more than once in my lifetime ...heehee.)

It's not even in my house....lol  I babysit my friends 3 little boys on Mondays and I go to their house....where the dreaded Nutella is. There is plenty of good healthy food over there....it should be easy to NOT eat if I just don't tempt myself with even a tiny amount.

I have also had a rough time with pizza...I just can't buy any...or I eat whatever I have.  It's easier to avoid though.

"I, Tracy, do hereby promise to NOT eat any Nutella for the rest of July, until August 1, 2009."

START     June 25-27:  265.00
Week 1.   July 2 - 4:  264.6

I don't mind if it's only .4 lbs...I'd be happy with a .1 loss...as long as the scale keeps moving in the downward direction.  It's a long journey from 288 lbs. to 190lbs.  

Measurements
Chest: 48.5  
Waist:  45
Hips:   52
Upper Arm: 16
Thigh:  28.5

The Best Things About Me

• I am pretty smart and I have a good amount of "common sense".
• I am always learning and moving forward in life.
• I have a very loving and supportive family and extended family.

START     June 25-27:  265.00

I can relate to your stories....and I am sure some people can and some people can't. 

I think that's great that you had that insight at 13 helionix.  I would love to have had better self awareness and insight into why I was the way I was as a young teenager.  We aren't all that lucky to learn, what might seem like simple life leasons, at the same time in our lives.  I feel that we all need to be more patient with each other in that we learn lifes lessons when we are ready...and we are all ready at different times. 

To share a little of my own chubby kid story - My mom always said great things about me, but she never said great things about herself.  She was always on a diet and complaining about how fat she was....yet she was smaller than me.  For me, it was more powerful to see how my mother treated herself...than it was to hear her saying good things about her daughter...which I know she thought...because she was my mom....but it didn't make sense for me to be ok...if she was so "fat" and I was bigger than her.  She really wasn't very overweight.

When I got pregnant and found out I was having a daughter...I cried...oh my god...how am I going to raise her to not feel so bad about herself ...like I did for so many years????  That's when I really came to the realization that as a mom...modeling good self esteem is just as or more important than telling your daughter she is great.  They are both necessary. I worked on my self esteem and I never said outloud that I felt fat...or that I hated myself....and I made my mom promise to do the same lol.  My daughter is 12 now...and her sense of herself is far beyond what I was at that age...far better.  She is not overweight....and she also doesn't think she is overweight...which even skinny tweens and teens often think they are.  So far so good...I know I have to keep up working on myself and modeling good ways to treat yourself...eating, thinking, saying things outloud about yourself....as we are hitting the teens here soon and I want to see her get through that without a crappy self esteem.

It's a combo of nature and nurturing....our genetics play a factor...but so does our environment...and our genetics help us cope with our environment....we are not all the same. 

btw...I love this thread.   The discussion, the flaming...interesting stuff.

So....the op says in her post that we shouldn't hate ourselves because we are obese and that there are some psych./behavior studies that don't show obese people in a totally negative light.  How in the world is this caused so much negativity?  Where does it say in her post that she doesn't want to lose weight?  Where does it say that she is promoting people to stay obese?

What is the point that you are trying to make Musicalfishmich?  Other than that you don't like the tone that she wrote the post with.

I agree with theholla...I don't understand the anger over this post.  I read it and saw someone writing about how guilt and feeling bad about ourselves for being obese doesn't help us lose weight.

Isn't it possible to NOT be in a cycle of feeling guilty about what we eat, hating the way we look, and yet still want to improve the way we look and make ourselves healthier? 

Snacks:

Lots of good suggestions so far.  It's hard to find one that hasn't been mentioned yet.

How about a simple hard boiled egg or two....not every day, but once or twice a week would be ok.

1 large hard boiled egg = 78 cal., 6.3 grams of protein

1 Mission Life Balance Plus Tortilla = 110 cal., 4.0 grams of protein + some lowfat cheese or lunch meat of your choice.

Any low cal. tortilla would work, but those Mission Life Balance Plus are great.

These tortillas are great for snacking....i just put a little turkey meat in it and roll it up....don't really need any sauce or spread or anything....but you could put low fat or non fat cream cheese in there with a little low fat turkey lunch meat....YUMMY and not too full of calories for a good snack.  Easy to eat to.

Week 8:

I could never pick one song to represent my life or to use as a theme for my life.  There are songs that fit parts of my life, but those change with time.  These are a few I listen to when I need music to help bring me back up from not feeling so good…or to help me distress. 

Prince – His music is about peace, spirituality, love, sex and a funky dance beat.  I am not always sure of the meaning of the songs…but many are uplifting and sexy.  Some Prince songs I really like are;  7, Computer Blue, Lets Go Crazy,  1999.

(To continue my 80’s music theme …..yes I was a teenager then …lol)

Depeche Mode – The first music I really liked as a teenager….still like those songs to relax to.  Walking in My Shoes, Never Let Me Down Again, Halo,(even their new music is good) – Moody 80’s alternative music – it’s almost hypnotic.  I love it.

Pink – U & Ur Hand (Girl power song when you feel men are too much to handle.)

Elton John – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Powerful song…one of my all time favorites…almost makes me cry every time I listen to it.)

I also have Rhianna and Lady GaGa on my Mp3 player right now…good upbeat dance pop songs. (Not 80’s music…lol  Silly lyrics on most of the songs really….but fun to listen to and gets my body wanting to move and dance.)

Upbeat music brings my energy and spirits up.  Not all upbeat music works though…I just know it when I hear it. 

Ugh!  My digital scale when haywire....I can't seem to fix the dang thing.

Going to get a new one and report my weight tomorrow morning.