We are on vacation and this time I am trying something new. Instead of letting this be a week of treating myself to food and coming home 10 lbs heavier, I am going to try and come home a few lbs lighter. We have one big group get together this weekend so Friday night I will have a treat night. The rest of the time I am trying to make a good attempt at eating healthy. I have done so lousy on my diet that last 3 years and it shows something horrible. I just keep gaining and my back and knees are killing me. So I here I am trying to make the effort once more.
Trying something new!
09/14/09
Weigh in day is here
10/3/08
I had no major treat nights this week but was over my calories a couple of times. I think I am going to continue not doing a treat night and then just not worry if I go over my calories one ore two nights by a couple hundred. It seemed to work really well this week. I know one night I was over by about 500 and then another by 100.
I lost another 5 lbs this week and am now under 300 once again. I really hope never to see or say that number agian. It is depressing to gain weight and have to take it off again. The whole time your just kicking yourself saying why did not stick with it I could be this or that weight by now. Oh well it’s just something I will have to deal with. I am now at 296 and counting down.
Kimberley is doing really well too. She maintained this week but I’m sure that is just a water retention thing because of what time it is. Anyway we are both eating healthy and getting exercise. Kimberley has went out walking 3 times this past week. She even walked clear downtown. I am so proud of here getting out on her own and walking. Keep up the good work sweetie.
Breakfast needs to be good
09/28/08
I went in a different direction with my breakfast this morning. Even though there was some protien in it I’m already feeling hungry. Our normal breakfast consist of a egg fried with Pam cooking spray and then put on one slice of toast with a half ounce of sharp cheader cheese. This is 245 calories and then a couple hours later I have a banana and an apple. That works really well for keeping hunger away. This morning my breakfast looked good as you can see but it was 470 calories and I ate my fruit with breakfast. I had yogurt walnuts and a banana. I am now hungry 2 hours later but if I eat a couple of pieces of fruit it will put my calories up there for the day.
So I guess what I’m trying to say here is eating in small amounts more often really helps to keep hunger away and helps you to stay within your calories. What I like to do is eat a breakfast under 300 calories then have a mid morning snack of 200 calories. For lunch I try to stay around 300 calories and then again a snack of 200 calories in the mid afternoon. That leaves me 600 for dinner and 200 for a snack at night for a total of 1800 calories for the day.
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Back on the wagon
09/26/08
Well here we go one more time. It seems like a never ending cycle with us. We do good with our eating and then we do bad. I am back up over 300 lbs and can not stand it. I have gained 64 lbs since my lowest in December of 2005. There is no excuse for this! Especially since I have had this wonderful back surgery that I take a chance of messing up with every pound I put on. So no more, the buck stops here. I have already droped 10 lbs Since last weeks weigh in of 311. Which I am very pleased about because before vacation I was 307. So that means that some how I managed to lose 6 pounds over the last two weeks and one of those week was a vacation with lots of bad things to eat. I know when I weighed Sunday that a lot of it was water weight. It will feel so good next week to see that scale say two something again.
I know if you have read my blog your probably saying here he goes again. Why does he keep going up and down? I don’t know the answer to that myself but I know if I just let go I would be back up to 490 in no time and I refuse to do that. So heres to eating healthy and living right. We are going to do it this time no matter what people say or what we say. Because believe me we are our hardest critics. Don’t think that anything you have every thought or said, we have not already said it to ourselves.
Anyway come back and check out the progress. You can look at our weight charts in the links on the side.
Also check out the new season of the Biggest Loser on NBC. This show always helps me to motivate myself.
Four Year Anniversary!
04/5/08
Well here we are in April. That is the month I started this journey 4 years ago. I wish I could say the journey is over but it will never really be over. What I mean is I wish I was at the maintaining stage of this journey. I keep messing around with gaining and losing and more on the gaining side than the losing. I am proud that I have kept my weight under my milestone of being less than 300 lbs. However I have flirted with that number on several occasions. So what I’m saying is I’m here in April ready to keep this journey going and we will see what happens. I’m 290 as of yesterday and I have readjusted my weight chart to start in April and I hope to make goal sometime in October. So wish me luck.