BeckyAnn

I gave up on buddy slim awhile ago. I think my last posts were from August.  I decided to come back because I enjoy having somewhere to write my daily complaints and food logs.  At my heaviest I was 202.  That was January of 2008.  For my wedding in April, I was 196.  At my lowest, about 3 weeks ago, I was 179.  I have had a bad couple of weeks recently.  I have not been doing well and the fruits and vegetables have slowly disappeared from the kitchen.  Ive been eating lots of whatever I want which normally includes chips.  Currently, there are 3 bags of chips in the house and lots of chocolate.  I love Halloween!!! How can we resist those aisles and aisles of fun, decorated halloween candy bags!  I did brave the scale this morning.  I was close to 187, so we’ll just say that. I am ashamed!!!!!  I think the main culprit is something called tator tot casserole, which ive been eating for….like 4 days and there are still leftovers! (For those who don’t know, tator-tots, french onion dip, and cheddar cheese - like all my favorite things!)  However, when I really think about it, my body has not felt good recently.  I feel sick when I go to sleep because I’m so full and my belly is full of yucky, unhealthy things.  I went from feeling good to feeling like I was going to throw up if I bent over - thats way too full!!!

 Usually I am not any type of promoter of low carb diets but I feel like my diet needs a complete overhall and cleanse from the crap ive been putting into it.  SO I am going to try a couple weeks on the south beach diet.  Im just doing phase one, where I eat lots of protein and vegetables and cut out the carbs. It will be good because I need to learn to eat more protein -  I don’t have near enough of that in my diet. Plus i will feel like im getting a clean start and i think my belly will like not being crammed with heavy, greasy, fatty foods. My goal is one week on it and then evaluate my weight loss.  If im back down to about 181, like i was before, i will add in fruits and my whole grains because i would rather pick up where i left off then to go for a larger weight loss and fall off the band wagon and eat even more food. 

My husband and i went grocery shopping last night.  i should have made some menus prior to shopping because im not sure ill have a lot of options on what to eat. but i bought fat free cheese and cottage cheese, fat free lunch meat, lots of veggies like lettuce, asparagus, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and frozen broccoli and frozen green beans.  i also bought pinto beans, though im not sure what im going to do with them. we had to reorganize our freezer to fit in all the lean ground beef, chicken, and salmon (mmmm salmon). so wish me luck and hopefully, hopefully ill keep on it this time, and keep the lines of communication open on my progress:)  I love this community and have missed its support.

I think it would be good for me to actually write in this once in awhile. At the very least, I would be here, instead of wandering around the kitchen! So, nothing of real importance, just rambling.  When I weighed in this morning, I was 183.8! That makes me very happy! Especially because I’m just starting that wonderful time of month where we bloat up like a balloon! If I keep up on it this week, I may see the mid 180’s gone.  I was thinking of my past dieting attempts, and how some occasion or breakdown would always happen with enormous amounts of food. I would get on the scale the next day, say wow I gained 7 pounds, why even try? and continue on my eating binge. 

I’m glad that I know a little more now about nutrition! If I didn’t, I never would have gotten this far.  For example, my husband is so terrible for my diet. We help each other out, but if either of us has a weakness, then the other gives in.  He wanted pizza this weekend. I said, well I’d rather eat something else. He was like ‘you sure?’ and I said no! Ha, oh well there is a good ending. Well, it comes later. So we went out and demolished an entire medium pizza, an unopened bag of cheddar sun chips, and a six pack each. So Bad!!!!! When I got on the scale the next morning I had literally gained over 7 pounds! It made me laugh with how bad it was. BUT the difference between me now and back in the day when I didn’t stick to a diet for more than a couple weeks is that I know if I get back on, it will even out. I’m just beginning to realize the effect sodium and water has on your body and I drink 2 liters of water a day. Imagine how much water I had sitting in my body because of all that salt! The next day, I make sure to drink my water and eat a little lighter and within 3 days I’m usually showing a loss bigger than  before.  Yesterday morning I was 187.4, just to show how well that worked.  I feel so much better now that I have control over my eating habits and don’t beat myself up over it.  As long as we stick with it, we’ll get their eventually! I don’t care if I’m the last one across the finish line as long as I’m healthy and wearing some cute new workout clothes I’ll be smiling!

 I’m also a big book lover and was wondering if anyone had any good books to recommend? Any books that motivate you or help you stick with it?  Any humerous books about weight loss or dieting?

 Well it’s my goal to keep track of my foods on here for the rest of the week.  I have a weight watchers journal that I use everyday but I enjoy the buddyslim system because it has a more intricate breakdown of all the nutrients. (One of my biggest pet peeves about weight watchers is they completely ignore protein)

All right, thats it for now! I feel better now that I typed some randomness out.

All right, buddies….

 I am new to the site, and after my initial exploration I feel I will enjoy it here a lot! A couple of weeks ago, I decided to go online with my weight loss efforts so I will feel more accountable for my actions and also find support.  I joined thoughts.com, which was a fun site, but there was not much support because everyone was there for different reasons.  I love that this site is tailored to people trying to live a healthy lifestyle and I love all the tools that come with it.  I am excited to read other people’s blogs, try recipes, and continue to publish my feelings and milestones. 

 A little about me….

My name is Becky and I am currently living in Connecticut.  I was married on April 19th of this year in Michigan (my home state) and packed up to live with my husband’s family on the east coast.  My husband has recently started work for a police department and is in the academy for six months.  I felt this would be a perfect time for me to embark on a weight loss journey that has been on my mind for years.  His hours are crazy, he is usually gone from 5am until 5:30pm, but this gives me plenty of time to huff and puff in front of the TV in privacy and not have any bad influence on my food choices during the day.

I have been slightly overweight most of my life.  However, looking back now, I realize that I was actually quite healthy, just never comfortable.  When I entered college, I was about 163 pounds.  Graduating college I was 202 at my heaviest.  College was definately bad for my weight!  My weight loss attempts were never that serious, as I would always go back to my diet of the bar and pizza.  Now it is time to grow up, though, and make some healthy choices if I want a good future for myself.

I am counting calories and doing weight watchers.  The reason I do both is because I really enjoy the weight watchers system and its tools, but I have found that my caloric intake just doesn’t add up sometimes.  Some days, the foods I eat will fall at 26 points, but be less than 1000 calories.  Another day, I will have 25 points and eat 1900.  I like to write the calories on the sides so I know if I am hungry later on whether I can have another snack or whether I need to cut back for the rest of the day.  So far my system has been working good - I have lost 9 pounds!  One thing I need to add to my routine is exercise! I have gotten lucky so far, but I know my metabolism will begin to slow with calorie restriction and plus I want to tone up that body, not be a skinny flabby person.

My general goals for this week are:

1. Stay within my points limit, which is currently 25 (I also keep this between 1200 and 1500 calories if possible)              

2. Get at least 10 exercise points through weight watchers

3. Drink two cups of tea per day

4. Drink two liters of water per day

5. Take multivitamin

Yesterday I weighed in at 187.2 and I am glad that the 190’s are gone! I do wish you could record one decimal place with your weight calculator. I have a digital scale and have come to like seeing 188.4 as lower than 188.6. I am excited to post my efforts and hear from all of you! Good luck to you and you’ll hear from me again soon:)