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Just a hair over ninety-one pounds down total, and just over twenty-five pounds since January 4th. Funny how the scale always seems to move in chunks for me. I've been messing around with these tenth of a pound losses for a couple weeks now, finally seeing something substantial.
Most recently my goals were focused on my reduced calorie intake (1500), exercise sessions and keeping my CHO intake under 150, preferably around 100g/day. For the most part I have done really well. Saturday we ended up ordering from a Mexican restaurant and I had a quesadilla w/ rice so that blew those carbs out of the water but all-in-all no harm, no foul. I wanted to focus on eating out less but I think I still ate out twice this past week. It has been very difficult as I'm juggling my class schedule, my clinical schedule, and my work schedule. (On top of gym time, study time, and caring for two kiddos and a husband). During the work week I'm lucky if I'm home one evening, usually I don't see my kiddos much at all, kisses before bed and up and on the bus. It has been an exhausting sacrifice to get through nursing school, but it's almost over!
I was very successful at weight loss before nursing school. I worked and I focusing on diet and exercise. Those were my two big priorities, my only jobs, and I kicked some serious ass. Once I started school it was a roller coaster. I flirted with the same 25-30 pounds, on then off, then on again. I believe I am finally to a place where I'm learning how to handle all of the stress and responsibility without returning to my old go-to of stress eating. Old habits die hard, really really hard. For me it was almost a year and a half of good solid weight loss; I thought I had kicked those habits for good. It started with a pack of candy from the vending machine at class, to pizza and chocolate pudding at lunch during clinical. I am still successful though, because I am constantly continuing to learn from my experiences and striving to improve. The number on the scale does not accurately paint a picture of all we have learned, our struggles or our successes.
There is more than one way to lose a pound. Some people are really successful on LCHF, that's awesome, more power to you. Some people believe a vegetarian diet is a healthier weight loss option, that's great and I wish you a lot of success. Some are HIIT and others enjoy walking, a calorie burned is a calorie burned. There is no right or wrong way to do this. I have focused on portion control, calorie control, increasing high quality foods. I ate a quesadilla, pancakes, and fried chicken this past week, and I eat bread every day. (where's my millions, oprah?)
Having lost 110+ pounds in the past on my WOE does not make me feel entitled to troll journals telling other individuals what they need to do differently. It does not make me feel better than anyone who is starting at the weight I once was, nor does it make me feel like I know everything about weight loss. We need to remember where we came from and offer the same open minded support we once hoped to receive.
Fatsecret has become a tad negative and this is very disheartening as it has, for the last two years, been my safe place. It seems less supportive and more competitive. Still a lot of good people out there, we just have to be louder than the negative voices.
Hope all of my buddies are off to a great start this week.
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194.8 lb
Lost so far: 91.2 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 14 March 2016:
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1499 kcal
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Fat: 83.67g | Prot: 79.72g | Carb: 95.21g.
Breakfast: Great Value Wheat Sandwich Bread, Dannon Light & Fit Greek Yogurt - Strawberry, Egg, Blue Bonnet Butter, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds), Market Pantry Half & Half. Dinner: Great Value Wheat Sandwich Bread, Beef Chuck (Arm Pot Roast, Trimmed to 1/8" Fat), Chili's Sauteed Mushrooms, Onions & Bell Peppers, Caesar Salad with Romaine. Snacks/Other: General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios, Reese's Miniature Peanut Butter Cups, Market Pantry Half & Half, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds), Nature Valley Protein Chewy Bars - Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate. more...
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2152 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Resting - 16 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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losing 3.4 lb a week
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