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About portion control. My daughter would give me a large amount of ice cream every night when she was getting some for herself. I never said it was too much. I just ate it. When I started tracking my foods on my armband website last fall, I knew that I could not eat a huge bowl of ice cream, just one serving of ice cream, only 1/2 cup. The calories in half a cup of no sugar added ice cream are 140 calories, which is well within my calorie budget. After a few times of getting out the kitchen scale to weigh 70 grams of ice cream or the half cup measuring cup, I stopped eating ice cream. At first I berated myself and thought I am just so lazy that I can't get my own sugar free ice cream from the freezer. Then I realized that I am not a lazy person, I've become a much more active person. I just do not crave ice cream like I used to. The reason that I was fat was because I ate without thinking, without considering nutrition, I did not control my portions, and I did not walk unless I had to. With nutrition in mind and with portion control, along with daily walking, I have been able to lose weight. Everyone can do this. You have to make the changes that you can live with and get active.
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153.4 lb
Lost so far: 48.6 lb.
Still to go: 17.4 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 30 July 2014:
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1355 kcal
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Fat: 57.13g | Prot: 69.43g | Carb: 156.34g.
Breakfast: Black Tea, Black Pepper, Friendly Farms 1% Cottage Cheese, Green Tea, ProGrade Nutrition whey protein powder vanilla, Red Delicious Apples, Glucerna Homemade Vanilla Shake, Water, Brazil Nuts, Nuts.com Hazelnuts Raw Filberts (No Shell). Lunch: Water, Unsweetened Iced Tea, Fit & Active Peach iced tea (Fit&Active), Trader Joe's Chia Seeds, Black Pepper, Trader Joe's Roasted & Unsalted Sunflower Seeds, Wheat Montana milled flax seed, Southern Grove Dry Roasted Unsalted Peanuts, Dried Whole Sesame Seeds, Millville Old Fashioned Oats. Dinner: Happy Harvest Cut Asparagus Spears, Tap Water, Equate Sugar Free Fiber Therapy, Celery, Baby Carrots, Grandessa Roasted Red Pepper Hummus, Greek yogurt Plain 0% milkfat, Erin Farm Chicken Franks, Aldi's Croissant. Snacks/Other: Wrigley Orbit Sugar Free Chewing Gum - White Spearmint, Fit & Active Peach iced tea (Fit&Active), Great Value Decaffeinated Iced Tea with Peach Drink Mix, Brach's Cinnamon Hard Candy Sugar Free, Ice Breakers Ice Cubes Sugar Free Gum Cool Lemon, Wrigley Extra Dessert Delights Sugarfree Gum - Peach Cobbler. more...
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1719 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 20 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 40 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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losing 1.4 lb a week
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30 Jul 14 by member: kristyanne3
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Excellent way of viewing healthy living.
30 Jul 14 by member: jwill77nc2
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You did it again! Great job!
30 Jul 14 by member: toppy24564
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that's great deb! how much do you walk every day? you are doing so well!
30 Jul 14 by member: Tulipgirl6
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Deb, you've definitely got it right now - your weight loss is excellent and consistent - well done!
30 Jul 14 by member: SilverFork5
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Wow! Everyone needs to read your blog, as that what you said is sooooo true!
30 Jul 14 by member: toppy24564
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Thanks, everyone! My daily goal is to walk 2000 steps but my average this month has been 3000. When the weather is nice in the Spring, I try to walk 5000 steps, but it's just hot these days. I can improve on this, but I really hate to suffer. :)
30 Jul 14 by member: Deb_N
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Congrats on your success so far! It's amazing what you managed to accomplish with portion control, nutrition, and walking :)
30 Jul 14 by member: Yourebffjill
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Im Proud of your awesome Braveness <3 thanks Deb_N Im sure the air deal will be fixed once my supervisor finds out as no one before me was able to deal with that rout <3 and I am very proud that I got all my exercising done today <3 sweet dreams to you Miss Deb_N <3 I pray your well <3
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30 Jul 14 by member: dreamcatcher10
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this is what we are trying to do every day , to control our energy input.
Great Work Deb :)
31 Jul 14 by member: ahmedmdiab
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Before I found fatsecret my portions were way out of control. I would also think, this is healthy so it doesn't matter, wrong. You are right everyone can do this.
31 Jul 14 by member: skwhite
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Great post. I also do that. And, at, particularly work, functions I eat whatever they put out -usually cold fried unidentifiable protein, in some unthinking way even though I dint like them.
31 Jul 14 by member: PaigeAarts
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Couldn't agree more.. plus i am startting to realize that we can do with less sugar than i used to think so too..
31 Jul 14 by member: draculinavamp
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Well done :D yup our eating IQ has gone up ;)
31 Jul 14 by member: fatihaji02
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I agree with you on portion control. It was shocking to me to measure what a serving was of anything and then compared it with what I thought a serving was, boy was I fooled. Like Ruhu says, mindful eating. I agree it starts and ends with the mindset. I think it is great the amount of activity you do. I am working on it but haven't programmed myself to be consistent with it. I got back from the gym, first time after my orientation. gonna try to make it routine.
31 Jul 14 by member: CCerza
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Thank you so much for this wonderful, eye-opening post Deb! It confirms some ideas that I've had but hadn't put into concrete thoughts yet. I greatly admire your consistent weight loss, & all the walking you do. I'm wondering about trying to count my pedal revolutions when exercycling, as if they were walking steps. My exercycle has a mileage counter, but counting rev's might be more motivatonal for me than just reading numbers on a gauge. Hmmm... Anyway, have a great, healthy day! Hugs, Glammer
31 Jul 14 by member: GLAMMER
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O M G for realllll GOT AN AIR BUS NEW VERSION YAHOOOOO Thanks so so Much MY FS FAMILY your kick butt awesome thanks for the Prayers and kind words of support ,, Deb_N & MomjjaLou & C67241 Im very greatful for your presences in my Life ... many times I have gone through stuff that was very painful that turned into a blessing I so agree <3 have a blessed day <3
01 Aug 14 by member: dreamcatcher10
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