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Wedding dresses, movies, loosing inches? Wow lots of stuff going on. People I think I have a problem; I'm a compulsive binge eater. Here's the week's analysis:

 

                    Cal     G         F   C    P
2008-01-04 3,046 1,077 27 618 87 A-
2008-01-05 1,488 1,337 26 278 43 B
2008-01-06 1,719 831 51 248 72 A
2008-01-07 1,607 1,012 51 241 48 A-
2008-01-08 2,282 1,191 84 314 80 B+
2008-01-09 2,212 996 81 310 76 B+
2008-01-10 1,806 1,625 54 245 82 B+

What is this!?!? I saw the cholosteral intake and it said 220mg or something. Is that even good? Uggh I would blame my mom's cooking but honestly people I feel so.. well so fat I guess. My mom cooked these apples with brown sugar and butter copying Rachel Ray and well I tasted a bit and decided to have a cup of it with ice cream on top. Then I binged on cookies, pumpkin pie, it's nuts. Before that I binged on beef vegetable chunk stew my mom made and an apple and half a cookie. I didn't eat anything at school and started eating at 5:30-7:30pm. But even if I have ate like before yesterday I still manage to binge no matter what.

SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME SOME... WELL SOME WORDS FOR ME TO THINK A NEW WAY ABOUT FOOD OR SOMETHING!

I'll post later today. Thanks guys,

-hananabanana 

Banana, it looks like you're cycling calories to me, and making healthy choices given the grades CC is giving your days.  If you're working out alot as you describe, and not gaining, then your food looks like it's what your body wants.  Embrace it, change your attitude towards it from negative to positive.  Eat to live! (don't live to eat...)  Don't buy in to the BINGE culture, there's only eating more, or eating less, and the food choices we make.  Like being hungry is a medical condition to be "fixed," I don't buy it.  Try to be at peace with food, when you're full, leave the table.  Say "no thank you," or ask for low-fat/low-sugar choices.  Be OK with a splurge once in a while.  Love yourself and every little curve, you are a unique being in the world.

Your cholesterol level is fine.  If you're concerned, go get a physical at the doctor and have it checked.  Take your power back over your health and body.

Congrats 4SQ -- I'm feeling you with this week's progress.

SW = 290
G4G SW = 218
Last week's weight = 212
CW = 211.5  (a measley 1/2 pound difference.  That may waver a bit this weekend, if I even decide to wrestle with the scale again.  Maybe not!)
Go4Gold total = 6.5
Overall loss = 78.5

Shrinking report (much better, yes, we like it...)
Bust (small part) -- down another .5 in
Hips (at hip bones) -- down another .5 in
Thigh -- down another .25 in
Calf -- down another .25 in
for another 1.5 inches lost this week!!  That's 3.5 inches just since New Year's, so the hard workouts are giving me results.  I'm just not going to worry about the scale, it will catch up when it does.  (even as much as I want to be under 200, that will just be a surprise present when it arrives.)

Study hard Boots, those times in grad school are intense.  Between MBA and later law school, I was wrecked for reading fiction for about 2 years after graduation.  But it all came back and I am still on a 40 year love affair with the library!  I ordered my dress in my regular current size 12; my mom is a great seamstress if I need it altered closer to the wedding.  I think I'll probably wear a 12 dress at least down into the 180's, I'm 6 feet tall and need the length as much as anything. (Altho' jeans and pants I need a 14, and no "low-rise" evil britches for me, I'm not built for them...) The dress is a sleeveless number so want to keep doing my gym work to have prettier, muscle-ier arms by August.  And still need to get some pretty shoes and underwear. (no easy task w/ the shoes since I wear 10.5 or 11, yes, it's true some call me amazon or Xena, truthfully I kinda like it tho'!)

SO comes back home tonight, yay, no big plans for the weekend, probably some painting, visiting and bike riding.  Also we may meet with a builder to look into doing a new house from scratch. (must explore all the possibilities!)
May your day be filled with possibility.
- RG

My weigh in today is..........................

Last week: 199

This week: 196.5


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2.5 lbs! I worked really hard for it and I did it! Yay!

I have now lost 10.5 lbs!

last week 163.4

this week 161.8

weight lost this week 1.6 lbs.

This is still small for me but it is bigger than what they have been for a few weeks so I am grateful.

GREETINGS from the Land of OZ...!!!

(Rough weather with hail and tornadoes in Mississippi yesterday... During Hurricane Katrina I lost a pet parakeet when wind and rain blew through our home and dropped a couple trees in my gym in the top of it... We said that, like Dorothy, he was off to see the wizard.....of Oz! The joke was increased by the appearance of a large white homing pigeon...which we claimed was our parakeet returned in better shape, thanks to the wizard's care...! After resting up, he flew away to find "home" again and we wished him well, hoping he had a "home" to go back to!)

Now that the storms and wind are finally over...

Did you know they've got internet in Oz now?

Dorothy says "Hi!," and wants me to ask Molly if she can PLEaaseee  borrow Molly's red shoes...??? (After she's used them first, of course! )

They would help her out a LOT with a certain unreliable wizard and an obnoxious witch...!!! If Molly wouldn't mind...???

Since I'm claiming to be away from home today-- that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!!! lol!-- I'm also claiming to be unable to check an annoying scale... till I feel it can be trusted! It was cranky all week, so I'll wait till I get back home...

As an exercise feature I've finally got my pedometer back from my daughter, and I'll now include my daily steps as a daily goal for me. I've heard that 10,000 steps a day is good... I'll see how it works for me. Should be a good time, with all the walking I'll need to reach home again...! I won't ask to borrow Molly's red shoes since I need the exercise, lol!!!

Love the Great reports today- I've been Lurking today... Exercise and losses galore in this Gang!!! Wooo Hooo!

Hope everybody is stocking up for our Golden end-of-the-year party!!!  I don't drink alcohol, but I LOVE sparkling red grape juice, so I'll bring that- and balloons... I want a helium balloon for each pound I lose...!!!! Sooo, by the end of this year, we'll need a bunch of those!!!

And remember to collect extra's for our Dear Lurkers-- don't want to leave them out! I'm sure they'll be celebrating a successful year, too, after Lurking around a winning Gang like ours!!!

Ain't it GREAT in 2008???

Friday morning and I had an unofficial sneaky weigh in day (USWID) this morning and I am down 1.2 pounds from last week. Hmmm... I am getting kerflummoxed here.... with a 950 calorie per day deficit (and the addition of some walking), I was hoping to see at LEAST a 2 pound per week loss. At least last week it was a 1.6 pound per week loss. (gripe gripe gripe gripe gripe gripe)  Oh well, there's still Saturday and Sunday ... maybe I will lose a bit more so this week doesn't feel like 2 failure weeks in a row.

I do know that my body seems to be making some adjustments, diabetically speaking, this last week or so ... and I am starting to see more blood sugar lows (not super lows, but lows) ... so I'm increasing my carbs from 50% to 55% to see if that helps. I was actually bummed yesterday afternoon around 3pm because I wanted to get on the treadmill, but my blood sugar was in the 70s, so I had an apple and retested. While that raised my blood sugar some, it didn't raise it enough to let me exercise without risking another low ... so I had to wait until after dinner and then didn't get in as much as I wanted. Oh well. (And I wasn't hungry for that snack, so I am a bit annoyed that I had to eat 72 calories THEN when I would've rather saved them for later.)

Gosh, I am grouchy today, aren't I?

=^..^= MOLLY

IRL = In Real Life 8)

Hey, let's all go to the Alabama Gold Coast to celebrate our G4G year! A coupla a condos, a beach, some fizzy lifting drinks, I'M IN!! OK, a virtual party is fun too.

Everybody say it with me for our girl Molly "I will not stress out about that which I cannot control," and a pat and a hug. She's reprogamming her whole body chemistry (though aren't we all!) It takes trial and error. It takes discipline. It takes faith!

We ain't skeered of a little bit o' crabby, bring it on!!

(ooh, UPS man just brought the dress, must go do a try on and then finish working for today... will post this evening!)

- RG

Hey G4G, Just thought I would check in. Couldn't drag myself out of bed for the life of me today, got over 10 hours of sleep--yea I love sleep! If I could sleep for a living I would do it and love it!

Exercise: 20 minutes of cardio with personal trainer on treadmill:very intense went up to a incline of 20 (20!!!!!!!!!!!) I didn't even know treadmills went that high! And then I walked at a pace of 2.9mph--crazy crazy--I did this on and off for 20 minutes

Breakfast/Late Snack: Low-sugar cereal, 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1 cup blackberries, 1 cup of low sugar yogurt

Plans for the day: Must go to the store and restock fridge full of vegetables and fruits; clean apartment and study study study!

Wow, everyone is doing amazing I'm so jealous! I'm so glad to be apart of this all! Remember ladies one day at a time and hey even one bite at a time! Your all doing great!

Happy for you, Rivergrrrl!!!

It must be really hard for Molly to be crabby-- even while ranting she's sunny and funny! They oughta' post warning signs on her stuff though, as the laughter she generates, (and provokes out of others!), can be painful to the ribs and cause falls and loud whoops to startle innocent nearby folks...!!!!

Forks-- I've been thinking of another no-nonsense approach for you to consider as you follow the good advice you were given and experiment with the tools...

I found I could determine my future maintenance calorie burns by putting in my goal weight for when I finish. Mine is 1400 if I'm sedentary, at 106.5 lbs. and 5'2", small frame. 1200 is fine for me, as 1400 is my future daily need.

(I played with my age, too...as I have an independent, still-qualified-to-drive,  Grand-Aunt living in Florida at 96 years old. She's always been active and small, and only now gained weight... If you put my stats in and add age to 96... my sedentary burn--according to CC-- would be 1000. I understand her weight gain that way- and want to stay active to avoid that gain!)

If you want to know your future calorie needs, play some more with the tools... the Nutritionist confirmed my 1400 future is accurate for me. I began at 206.5 lbs. and burned 1900 or so daily for maintaining. Now, at 171 lbs. I use only 1750. If I wanted to just live like I will eventually need to-- and lose gradually-- I could begin eating 1400 now and wait till the weight comes off slower. Simply "Feed" the "Me" I intend to "Keep!"

That idea might be another one for you to consider when you feel too hungry! If you put in your stats and 160 lbs. sedentary you have 1700 vs. my 1400! You WOULD be hungrier than me now-- as well as then, lol! At 160 light activity, you show 2000... Find what satisfies you and maintains your daily life best, and continue being the smart not-too-fast example you've been... and find that scale, lol!!! It's making it too foggy for you when you have to keep going by guesses!!! Arrrgh! I'd go "stark-raving-CRAZY" if I couldn't see my progress reliably!!!

Wishing you peace! (And a GOOD SCALE...well-trained and well-behaved! lol!!!)

Report fo January 11, 2008.

Calories consumed= 1,544
Grade= A-
Calories burned= 2,310
Calorie Deficit= 766

  Fat - 16.3% (28 grams)
Protein - 32.3% (124 grams)
Carbohydrates - 51.4% (197 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,825 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 223 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 31 grams

Good day!!!

I watched Charlies Angels and walked on the treadmill for 87 minutes!

Original Post by melaniearriaga:


I watched Charlies Angels and walked on the treadmill for 87 minutes!

Lol melanie!!  I went and bought some more dvd's today so I can watch them. One of them is called "150 Cartoon Classics". I watched it for the last hour of my walking. I watched"2Fast 2Furious" for the first half hour and got bored!! I can watch the cartoons for a week and not view one of them twice, love it!  I am getting my fill of Popeye at the moment, only 20 more episodes to watch....whew!!

So there you have it I walked for an hour and a half again and I really want to do the strength training before I crash tonight.  Only problem is my DH is watching "Young Guns", I bought it for him while I was shopping for mine. I wonder if he will let me use the tv for half an hour??

Nutrition Report

    Fat - 27.6% (51 grams)
 Protein - 24.8% (102 grams)
 Carbohydrates - 47.6% (197 grams)
Daily Sodium Intake - 1,854 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 64 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 54 grams
 Nutrition Grade A

calories burned after more exercise: 2,210 
calories eaten: 1,505
deficit: 705

Hey all, Just wanted to check in. I made today my day where I eat something I have been craving but eat it in moderation, I won't list it here because I don't want to tempt anyone! But here are my calories. I also signed up to do an exercise class for tomorrow morning it's called Turbo Kick Box so that should be fun!

Calories: 1539 (I got to eat what I wanted, like sweets but in moderation)

Fat - 39.8% (68 grams)
Protein - 23.9% (92 grams)
Carbohydrates - 30.8% (118 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 5.6%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,221 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 165 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 14 grams

Thanks so much rivergrrrl; you're much inspirational.

Today I like consumed a total of about 1,600 calories; I drank so much water it was ridiculous I was so full when I went out running.

I looked myself in the mirror and realized I sort got out of hand with the eating.... today my dad brought pizza and banana cream pie and all I had was 1/2 a slice of pizza. I also had some cookies for tea. Better than before but I should change a bit.  

danceswithforks you have such a good additude with all this I love how you are like "I'm going to improve my exercise, hopefully loose at least 1 pound a month, stay healthy..." reading yours and other's posts really helps in getting some tips you know?

molly... 950 cal. a day deficit?!?! WOWWW that's so... wow how do you do that? I'd be starving. Way to go! You have diabetes? Type 1 or 2; my dad has type 2... it gets annoying for him but now he's improving health.

booster way to go with the incline of 20!! Is that like walking up a steep hill?? I love how you have all these plans and your meals seem so healthy. You ate the sweets you wanted in moderation? That's what I need to learn... moderation

2BB your aunt still living at age 96? Woa... what a healthy aunt. I like the idea of gradually eating at a maintainable calorie intake... that makes sense rather than just automatically going straight to minimum required calories; did I get that right? 

Mel I'm jealous that's about how many calories I'm supposed to consume. And you walked for like 87 minutes.

 
You guys are doing awesome! Today I was just thinking to myself about this whole life style change; like have you guys ever were like "I look so ugly in the mirror" or like "I'm so fat"? I'm assuming we all have and I was thinking about when I was reading this article it was like you shouldn't be mean to yourself about this and that if you realize the problem but don't beat yourself about it and have the pure desire to loose weight you'll do it.

I'm always tempted by sweets; that's just me I love anything sweets. But maybe I need to eat slower and limit junk food to 200 calories of my total day. I seriously want to make a list of all the junk foods and how much of each to have 200 calories. That's a good idea! 

I don't know about you guys but I'm tired of feeling horrible day by day looking at myself at the mirror and pretending like I really didn't gain too much weight but knowing in the back of my mind my stomach is hanging out a little and my arms are a little chubby (it's only my legs that are fit... so I'm like an apple with legs). I look at myself in the mirror then I feel guilty because I'm over obsessing with it all and well I still haven't really solved the whole food issue; I know it's something mental that I have to sort of just figure out how I feel about food and why and what to do with it. 

I sometimes eat when I'm not hungry and I feel like having a certain taste; sometimes I eat because it's right in front of me and sometimes because either my mom wants me to try it or I feel like I forgot to eat something healthy so then I eat that then I want a certain taste and then before I knew it I'm binging on all these foods.

I find myself eating a lot when I'm introduced to a variety of flavors from plain healthy like salad to the sweets to sauces and main dishes, beef, and what not.

Why do I eat when I'm introduced to a variety of flavors? That's something to figure out.  So what's food as a connection as? I don't know for me it's almost like something new and comforting; when my stomach is full I feel relaxed but then if I need to run I feel so uncomfortable. It's like a new experience every day with food... right?

Sorry I'm talking all about me I sort of need help answering these questions. They say the 3 important questions are:

What do I eat?

When do I eat?

Why do I eat?

Well I hope I find the solution soon. As always I need some MENTAL HELP with this.

Thanks guys for tolerating me,

-hananabanana 

HB,

Just a thought. Have you tried 100 calorie packs? They come in oreo cookies, crackers, little 100 calorie debbie cakes,  ice cream etc etc. They have it all. So that way you have more portion control. That's what I do. So like tonight, I was craving ice cream so I don't bring a whole ice cream tub into my house because I would eat it all. So they make 100 calorie ice creams packs and I love them! I'm just wondering if that would help with your portion control--it really helps me. Good luck and you are doing great by the way!

Wow!!! Forks!

That's like after my house burned... whenever you apologized for the soot you kept finding, lol!, you would hear of other family's who, "Lost it ALL... on Christmas Eve...With little children to explain it to...!" It was humbling to see how little your great loss was...compared to others...!

I feel that way about your struggle... mine seems smaller after hearing how well you've really fought! I've heard of others, too...  I'm annoyed enough to want to scream myself at times-- like when folks think you pig out to be big, in their ignorance-- I can't imagine how frustrated folks must feel when you're really fighting to be GOOD and still  have a battle on your hands!

With your experience and patience, you make a good, compassionate Boss-- if that's enough consolation...???

One great thing I'm seeing with CC is that we find we are NOT WEIRD, nor are we ALONE in our struggles... We all need more of your healthy self-acceptance and willingness to work-and-wait for results... with the warnings to remind us-- old paths won't work and last any better now than they did before! I wonder how many of us tried the starve method??? I made 107... briefly, lol!!! By wasting muscle, too. Never again!!! I LOVE Dead-lifting 100 lbs... at 45, lol!!!

GO GANG!!! Sweet Healthy Dreams...snacks in your dreams can't get you, lol!!!

booster: They have 100 calorie packs for ice cream?!? I thought it was just the oreo and what not; I'm not much of a fan of those cookies. If they have ice cream calorie packs I'm so buying. With the other stuff it all relies on me measuring what I eat 'cause most of what I eat comes from my mom's cooking. She cooks out of recipe books and food network so it's not too bad I could mostly figure out how many calories it is. Thanks booster and good luck to you too!

danceswithforks: It's amazing how habits change after a while when you start practicing. I like your positivity and everything. I guess with this weight loss journey we're all in it sort of makes us learn a lesson in life; I don't exactly know yet but maybe that you should do what's best for you and no one else? 

My running coach made this analogy a long time ago but I still remember it:

"Hard work is like blowing a balloon; the bigger the balloon the easier it is to blow. Your body could do great things if your mind lets it."

That day we were doing 400 meter sprints and since I was sort of the slowest on the team he was making a  bet for me to go a certain time and I was tired since I already did 3 sprints and so the 4th one I did I went under the time he gave me and it sort of proved his analogy. I guess it's desire for your weight and knowledge too. If we're able to cut maybe a bad habit per month or 3 weeks then maybe weight loss and maintenance would be easy 'cause you did it gradually. Once you get in the habit of it it becomes so natural and easy and you start seeing results and feeling better about yourself. I feel with weight loss that you gain some sort of power/ respect because you're working hard to loose weight and you've gained some sort of wisdom with it.  

Thanks for your experiences danceswithforks that really does help.

2BB: Isn't CC a great place? It's like a place where you could be honest about the health and fitness aspect of your life and not have people be like "we don't care about you loosing weight" or something like that. You used to be 107 pounds?!?! WOA for the life of me I could never do that... ever.   

Yesterday I felt like eating something more at night like pumpkin pie or a dessert but then I ate a little bit of chocolate and 10 baby carrots and that felt great. I also drank a lot of water that day so I guess I wasn't hungry. But then this morning I ended up having a sliver of pumpkin pie and a sliver of banana cream pie and then a potato chip =P. I'm going to type out my bad habits with eating:

1) Eat when food is in front of me

2) Eat when I crave something and going nuts and start binging on junk food

3) Try to fast the whole day then binge eating at the end

4) Have too many variety of junk food through out the day rather than just one for that day only.

5) Snacking and not really organizing with when and what I eat; I just eat what ever is around the house and write it down and log it on CC. I don't necessarily have "meals" I just eat through out the day and write the times I eat.  

6) Eating in front of the tv sometimes

7) Not organized with my eating

I'm going to have to figure out an action plan for all these habits. Do you guys have any bad habits and what are your action plans for them to break them for life?

Thanks everyone,

hananabanana 

 

Oh and I found this http://www.freedieting.com/tools/nutrient_cal culator.htm. It's a free calculator for your cal per meal intake and all that. Check it out it's so cool!

Here's my results:

       &nb sp;               &nb sp;               &nb sp;   carb     protein    fat

g per day:                &nb sp;        187       93       & nbsp;  41

g per 1/5 meal:       &nb sp;        37.4     18.6       8.2

cal per day:       &nb sp;                750      375        375

cal per meal:                     150       75       & nbsp;  75

 

That would mean I'd be consuming 300 cal per meal which makes sense if I would like to be eating five meals a day. Wow it really breaks it down for me.

Hope that helps for you guys

hananabanana