neveragain:

all food are good according to me, but we should the quantity only and not abuse of them. like u since years ive been struggling but as i told u u need to look for the motivation.
i dont know for u, maybe by reading success stories of weight loss and also by talking to people like us who have the same problem.

as u proposed,i agree that helping each other by starting wid some petty challenge.

one thing more neveragain, dont hurry too much, try to accept the diet and exercise as a new and healthy life style.

for me to stay motivated,i read out fad diets of personalities but never doing way they do.

i say to myself that they are famous, rich, they do not lack anything, yet they are sacrificing so much. but y cant i simply change my way of eating and b healthy.

dont do drastic diets as well n dont listen to people who advise u to do so. there no short cut in weight loss.

hope we all suceed

I think Sunday's a good idea since usually during the weekend I tend to screw up more - don't know if that happens to you girls - so that's a good way to stay motivated to controle it
*i will notttttt eat that cake, weigh-in's tomorrow* hopefully i'll be thinking like that :P

u are right neveragain coz me too i have the tendency in eating much more during wkend.

the weight in will help us from eating nonsense. and y dont u try not to buy cakes or any high calorie stuff.

i used to buy so many cakes and chocolate before and at night i would stay awake till 2 am eating and watching, lol

I always try to keep healthy stuff around the house but since i'm only 19 and living with my parents (colleges here don't have dorms) I can't keep them from buying unhealthy foods D:, I mean they don't buy that much crap but sometimes during the weekends they buy the ocasional cake or cookies, maybe desserts, etc x_x

omg.. I HAVE EXACTLY the SAME! I lost about 8 kg until now.. but still want to lose like 15 kg more.. I am doing exactly the same.. doing REALLY good some days.. and then some days I eat freaking a LOTTTTTTTT like there is no tomorrow... and then just doing ok again on other days.. we should stop that!! we have to change our lifestyle...
BTW, I think I can add msn on yahoo thing as well? what ur email then?

Sunday weighing.. sounds like a plan we should set goals for urself on each sunday.. and then we have to see if we've reached that!!

sam0803>> good that u didnt eat the dessert Im proud of u!!

oh ok i understand.

then try not to have cakes and cookies or have them only to please urself, i mean have a piece only not the whole of it.i know thats damn difficult coz im not able to do so myself

drink lots of water, 2litres minimu

haha that sounds familiar! im always like that.. ohh one piece of cake is fine.. and then I'll be like.. another piece then.. and then end up eating the entire thing... so bad.. -_-

If you plot your food on FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal it will all start to make sense to you.

The majority of people see the term carbs and think only of "starchy carbs" - things like potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, cereal. The thing is that carbohydrate is a technical term that is misused when used in that manner. It is actually referring to their chemical composition. There is carb content in fruit and veg. I eat a lot of fruit and veg and therefore have a very high carb diet even if I do not touch bread, rice, pasta etc because of all the fruit and veg that I eat.

The forum uses the term properly. If you enter your food in fitday you will probably see that your current food is quite high in carbs if you eat a lot of fruit and veg.

You want to be making sure that you have healthy fats when you do have fats. One of my favourite ways of having fats is that I often have a salmon steak which has been lightly coated in olive spread (to stop it from sticking) and wrapped in foil and baked.

Things like fish and avacados contain healthy fats - as do things like nuts.

Remember that you also can count the oil that may be in any capsules that you take. I take omega3 fish oils, garlic oil, starflower oil for instance...

If I were you I would log your food in fitday and see how your current foods pan out.

Make sure that you are getting at least 25g fibre a day - minimum.
Also 1000mg calcium - minimum
2400mg sodium maximum

If you weigh 200 pounds with a goal weight of 170 - you would want to eat 100g protein minimum (e.g. half your weight in pounds) up to maybe 170g (e.g. goal weight in pounds).
In this example you would also want to drink 100 fluid ounces of water.

I suggest that if you followed the above your diet would be well on its way to being pretty balanced when you checked it through fitday.

xD Yeah I do that, I just usually trick myself into believing that I can handle things that I can't , like the other day someone got me this chocolate bar for whatever reason, and I'd been doing great that day so I'm like "ok i'll have a little" and as soon as I did I just didn't stop, and after eating it I was like "damnit I ruined the day, well might as well eat even MORE if it's already ruined" which ended up in me eating a huuuuuuuge amount of food.

That kind of thinking is what got me to gain weight in the first place or the "I swear today's the last day I eat like a pig and tomorrow I'll be good from now on" but noo, the next day I'd do exactly the same thing so every day was the "last day" and I'd eat as if it were but the good day never came.

I've been trying to control that lately but it's still hard, everyday's a struggle.

Anyway my msn is k-am2@hotmail.com

hey thanks omega for ur help.

thats indeed u superb idea

Added u yeahh im totally the same.. its like if I dont keep up with my 'healthy pattern' and like 1 things thats 'officially not allowed' then I'll be like.. screw it.. I ate junk anyways.. so it doest really matter now.. and then i eat eat eat eat eat eat and not even stop eating when im really full.. and then im like.. tomorrow is another day.. and I do exactly the same thing.. its driving me crazy

Thank you soooooooooooo much, I'll get right on that .


Oh another quick question, what's your opinion on cereal bars, granola cookies, rice cakes and so
on.. They're marketed as somewhat healthy but reading the nutritional labels theyre high on "bad carbs" and sugar sometimes, although calorie wise they're fine. Do you think they're okay every once in a while when in a hurry or as a treat? Or I'd be better just cutting them out of my diet? I usually have them for breakfast sometimes since it's something that I can just take with me while riding the bus or whatever.

Anyway thanks again for your help

SAM> saw u added me on messenger.. but dont know why I accepted but ur not in my list.. now I added u .. but im not sure its the right email.. haha can u add me again?

i think cereal bars are wise as treat as u said urself coz really they are not good wen u are trying to lose weight.

hey guys how are we doing for the weight in this week? n where to write it?
i think we should open a new post only for that purpose.

wat ya think?

thats a good idea.. we're starting this sunday with the weight post thing right? also we can write what goals u want to achieve during that week.. for example min 2x sport, 2L water per day etc.

do u want to open a new post now already.. or just start one on sunday