sunshine25's Journal

170's !!!! Still
Nov 27 2009 18:55

So weighed in today at 170.30 lbs. It has now officially been since October 9th when I first hit 170 and it has been up and down since then. It's getting a bit ridiculous now. I would of had to eat at maintenance every day in order for the scales to not move. I'm far from that I have deficit's of over 500 4 times a week, if I go out that night I make sure I burn in the morning, just so I can eat a little more than 1200 calories.  I exercise 4 days a week for 30-45 minutes.  I have never gone over my burn meter in 14 months. I have decreased my calories as 1400 and 1500 I was gaining daily. I'm full on 1200 calories as long as I plan my day and eat the right foods.

Breakfast: Special K and 1 cup of 2% milk. Cup of tea, no sugar (of course)

Snack: Usually yogurt or some baby carrots (lots).

Lunch: Tortilla with either tuna or chicken breasts ( small slices) land lettuce. No dressing, no mayo. 1 cup of mixed veggies. 1 cup of diced cantelope, blackberries and yogurt poured over ( Yummmm).Snack: Usually a fibre 1 bar, or melba toast with a bit of humus or apple.Supper: Chicken breast, broccoli, salad, someimtes I'll add the potatoes (just a bit though), whole wheat roll. Supper is easy, Salmon, Shrimp, Sole ( can you tell I love my fish), even slip in a pork chop, small 3 oz steak the odd time.Snack:  Love my night time snack, maybe popcorn (air popped and 3 cups), fruit with yogurt or sugar free jam on my ryvita crackers. (85 calories)So I know I am not overeating and exercising to make sure I have 500 deficit. This month I have not lost an inch, not even a cm. Not sure what is keeping me motivated I guess I'm just strong willed.I know you guys are all hanging in there and praying I will finally drop on the scales and I thank you for being so supportive of me,  so trust me, you'll be the first to know when it happens.  Calories Eaten:  1252  -  Calories Burned 1820  =  -568

Tuesday!
Nov 24 2009 22:04

Feeling sore today when I got up. Yesterday started doing some High Intensity Interval Training. Felt great, did 30 seconds at 7.5, 90 minutes 3.5 and repeated this until 30 minutes was up. Time went by fast, but ohhh those muscles are hurtin today. My treadmill said I burned 240 calories in 30 minutes, so not bad. Feel stiff and sore in the arms, I guess I was pretty intense with my workout. Didn't go to Zumba class tonight, should have, but felt sore and no other reason really, just didn't feel like going. I'm bad, I know.

Tomorrow I have plans of getting up and doing a good workout on the treadmill and universal. Hopefully I can burn about 400 calories. Going to a buffet for supper and then a Christmas show after that. I have to burn that many in order to enjoy supper. A buffet is my weakness, but I do try and stick to the salads, shrimp and salmon. It's the 45 different kinds of dessert that I loose all self control with.   Hmmmm. Going with 13 other members of my family so it should be a fun night. Just what I need a buffet and a few drinks. Hmmmm, on second thought I think I need to burn more like 4000 calories.

Calories Eaten:  1102 - Calories Burned 1630 =  -528

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Nov 23 2009 19:10

Fat - 19.1% (24 grams)
Protein - 25.7% (73 grams)
Carbohydrates - 55.1% (157 grams)
Alcohol - 0%
Other - 0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,555 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 29 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 88 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 3 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 12 grams

Felt alot better today with cutting back on my carbs and getting back to watching what I eat. Carbs are still a little high, but working on it. Low in calories, but little upset stomach.

Calories Intake: 1103- Calories Burned 1870 = -767

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Nov 20 2009 07:43

Just thought I would inform you that I did move the scale, but gained, I am now up to 170.90. Wow, after this week, I thought for sure I would drop at least .50 lb. Very disappointing.

Stats for a S L O W Metabolism !!
Nov 19 2009 19:06

So have been working on some stats just so I can figure out just how consistent I have been with my weight loss.

January I weighed 191.40 today I weight 170.30 that a loss of - 21.10 lbs.  So 21 lbs. over 11 months and that makes an average loss of 2 lbs. a month or .50 lb. a week. So I guess when I work it out that way, hope I'm correct in how I have figured this out, then things don't look so bad. I have learned that my body doesn't loose weight from one week to the next, it drops once a month and makes up for it then. I have seen my weight drop 2.3 lbs. over night and then nothing for the next 3-4 weeks. It's very frustrating, but looking at the big picture, I am loosing. Just not as quickly as I had hoped.

The worst part of this is I have another 20 lbs. to loose, so at this rate, I have another 11 months before I reach my goal. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, and that's considering I loose at the same rate that I have these past 11 months. Oh, geez, I wanna play a new game, this one's to hard to play and I'm not winning.  

Calories eaten: 1214 - Calories burned  1630 = - 416

No exercising today, hurt to much from yesterday, so had to cut back on calories eaten today.

Feels like I burned a Zillion calories
Nov 18 2009 17:41

So started the day with weighing myself, (even though I promised myself I wouldn't) and you'd never believe it but the scales said 170.30. They have not moved since November 9th. It really is hard to believe and just about every day have a deficit of over 500. I cannot believe how many days in a row the same number comes up 170.30 without fail. Now, how could your body day after day stay the exact same weight with eating different foods. I even had a treat day in there. What do ya wanna bet tomorrow it will be the same.

Talked to my husband over our morning tea about how I would like to see a dietician, or someone that can help me, cause I really think this is crazy. I can see a few days with the same weight, but this  is really weired.  I have tried to contact " Ask Mary" twice now and no reply, so I don't even have her I can ask.

Headed out this morning, was a beautiful day and started my walk. I walked 1.5 miles around town and then headed to the grocery store. It was awesome, sun was bright and it felt so good to walk.  By the time I got to the grocery store I walked (3.25) miles and it was only 11;00 am. Then got home and forgot to get some extra lean hamburg meat for meat balls I was planning on making tonight. Head out to the corner store but took the long way and stopped and had a tea with Mom before heading back (1.5) miles. Had lunch with hubby and then headed outside cause we just had someone come and trim our huge tree we have in the front yard, it has grown so much that it shaded all my ornamental grasses and they definately need lots of sun. That led to another 2 hours cutting all the branches down to little pieces to use for our fires we have at night during the summer. i don't think I have bent over so many times in the last year than I did today. My hands are numb from the cutters, my ear is sore, cause a branch clipped me. My arms are scratched to bits from the branches. But CC told me I burned about (579 calories) so I'll take that. Had dinner and now to get to my laundry that I couldn't do all day. I hurt everywhere, what am I gonna feel like for work tomorrow. No sense complaining cause those meatballs arn't gonna cook themselves if I don't get started. All in all I had a super burn today. Wonder what the scales are gonna say tomorrow !!!! Anyone wanna lay a bet?

Calorie Intake: 1484- Calories Burned 2340 =  - 856

Hitting another stand still !!!
Nov 16 2009 22:19

So haven't been able to do anything on the scales lately and this is the point when I start to get frustrated. Thought increasing my calories would make a differnce, but not so. I just keep loosing and gaining the same few lbs. every week. It's getting frustrating. The last month I keep loosing and gaining the same lb. back and forth, back and forth.

I'm not focusing to much on the Fat, Protein and Carbs or Fibre as much as the calories. Those % seem to always fall in a good range. I am trying to exercise more and eat around 1350 calories. If I exercies more than I eat more, but nothing seems to be happening yet.

Keep getting A's on my calorie intake. I read that at "51" your calorie intake goes down and your body doesn't require a large amount of calories, but 1200 is not enough and I know that. I hate to increase my calorie intake anymore or I will gain weight and it is to hard to get off again.

I am going to try and increase my exercises this week. Try and burn an extra 500 calories if possible when I get home from work and see if this jump starts or changes anything. Hopefully I will be down 1 lb. come my next weigh-in. I have to make 40 lbs. loss by the end of this month for sure (that's a 2.3 lb. loss) to go. I have to get back into the 160's once and for all.

Todays calories ate 1386 burned 1980 = 594 deficit.

That lb. keeps finding me !
Nov 11 2009 18:16

So this week I have been gaining and loosing the same lb. day after day. It just doesn't want to leave. That's the lb. that takes me from 169 to 170. That's a pretty important lb. Just when I think it's gone, the next day it's back again. Boy when I get out of the 170's, I will never look back.

I did increase my calories from 1200 to 1400 and didn't gain so that's a plus. ON my workout days I try to eat around 1500 calories so I feel better about that too. Opened a few more doors as to what I can consume in a day, so I pretty much eat normally and I still stay within my calories. Have come a long way when I think of the foods I used to eat. Both hubby and myself are eating more healthier than ever.

Gonna hold off weighing myself until Saturday morning, hopefully that lb. will be gone forever by then. Seems if I hold off for a few days I have better luck on the scales.  Got my hair cut today ( think I'll loose a lb. for that)  Heading down to burn some calories on the treadmill, have been a bit lazy today.

Had a good week!
Nov 07 2009 09:41

So this week was a good week. I lost 2.10 lbs. That puts me back into the 160's again. Now if I can just hold onto that loss. I've done it before, changed nothing and climbed back in to the 170's, so hopefully that won't happen. Once again my weight takes a fairly big drop and then nothing happens for the rest of the month. Hopefully this week I can change that.

Upped my calories to 1300-1400 and really ate things this week that I haven't eaten in a long time. I haven't concentrated to much on carbs or fat, they just seemed to fall into a good %. Fat is usually 17%, Protein 24%, Carbs 57%. Seems once I didn't obsess so much on getting my exercise in, what I'm eating etc. things happended. Could I have been stressed so much that it caused me not to loose weight. Stress can do funny things! Who knows, i only hope I can repeat this week's loss again.

Went out this week for a new pair of jeans and bought size "10". Love it!! Have a 50th birthday party to go to tonight, think I will celebrate with a few beers! ( Coors Lite of course)

Day #2
Nov 02 2009 19:05

Today I worked so couldn't do any exercising during the day. Man, I hate my job. I wish I had a job that I was moving all day. It really cripples me when I'm sitting at my desk all day, looking outside to all the beautiful sunshine, just wishing I could burn a few calories on a good 2 mile walk, especially when I'm trying to burn as many calories as possible these days. I sit and type all day, are there any calories burned when your fingers are going a mile a minute. (Should be)! 

Came home had supper and went down to burn some calories on the treadmill.

Boss brought all his leftover Halloween candy in for us all to enjoy (yeah right), just what I needed to look at chocolate bars all day ( Reece's pieces, Peanut Butter Cups and Oh Henry bars). I was a good girl today. Not one I just kept thinking about how many more steps I'd have to do on the treadmill, besides I ate enough on the weekend to do me for awhile.

Breakfast: Instant Oatmeal, rye bread with Jam, tea with 1% mild and 1/2 tsp of sugar (281 calories).

Lunch: Small bowl of homemade chili, Yogurt (Source) and two small pieces of multi grain bread (455 calories)

Dinner: 1 chicken breast, 1/2 cup of penne, spaghetti sauce (486 calories)

Snacks: Raw baby carrots, Raisins ( mini-snacks), Jello and 2 cups of air popped popcorn.

( Need to work on eating a few more fruits and veggies)

Total Calories: 1358         &n bsp;   Total Calories Burned: 1870  = 512 Deficit