QUOTE=Shep03;591672]i'm not a big fan of carrots either, but i like other veggies a lot. my mom got some marzetti's dip for vegetables...i think it's like southern ranch (has a bit of a kick to it) and it makes the carrots a little bit more bearable for me. yet, i can eat any other veggie without any sort of dip or anything. it's weird.[/QUOTE]


Well I managed to eat 4 out of those 6 baby carrots, I made it but it was not a pleasant experience for me. I like veggies like cucumber, tomatoes, potatos, eggplant, spinach, broccoli, onions, mushrooms,etc.
I do hate, celery, carrots , peppers and some others one that I cant think of at the moment, shows how much i know of veggies.

I gotta go pick up my mom from work at 3, so when I return I will go on my treadmill ( how many times has my lazy butt said that so far huh?).
Also I will clean my car today, inside and out, because it is gorgeous outside, even tho it was freakishly snowing yesterday like it was January, ahhhhhh the beautiful Canadian weather.

7.09PM APRIL 8th (wednesday)

Had dinner at 5.30pm, it was a small dinner but nice and filling. A small steak, a smal baked potato and 3 asparagus and before dinner I had a slimfast optima P&J chocolate bar (130cals each). So I think Im set for the day, hopefully.
Todays menu overlook:

Bf: 100% whole wheat toast (1 slice)
P&J (tsp ea.)
small cup of 2% milk

Lunch: two slices of 100% whole wheat toast
tsp of mayo
half a tsp of mustard
4 thick cucumber slices
9 thin slices of cucumber on the sandwich
can of flaked tuna
4 baby carrots
= Tuna sandwhich with veggies on the side
to drink H2O

Afternoon snack : Apple
Had another snack : Slim fast optima bar

hour later
Dinner: Small steak
Small baked potato
3 asparagus
tsp of ketchup
water to drink

so yea, that was my day. Just did the dishes, so I am about to go down and find my suti cases, I want to let my dinner sit a little and then later on Im gonna jump on my treadmill.

Actually, my favorite part about counting calories is that it made it so there was nothing I couldn't eat. Sure, I probably wouldn't eat that 1,200-calorie fudge brownie delight for dessert, but I know exactly what I would need to do if I wanted to eat it (mainly go easy on other things and exercise my butt off for a few days). I can eat chocolate, I can eat ice cream. But I have to count it. If I'm good all day, I usually have enough calories left over for a treat. I don't always eat one, but I know I could if I wanted to.

It's one of those interesting ironies: through discipline and restriction, I find freedom. Counting calories lets me know--not just guess--that I'm doing well. I love that certainty. It means that I can confidently eat that chocolate chip cookie knowing that I earned it.

Hey hey fellow Spartan.

Looks like you're doing a good job with this. Dunno if it's your thing, but I'm using fitday.com to track the calories. It only takes a couple mins to input the foods/activities and you can set weight goals and it suggests calories/day. I find that it actually takes my mind off worrying about what I'm eating if that makes any sense at all.

Also, next time you're tempted in McDonalds, remember this;

12 Year Old McDonalds Burger

Can you just imagine what is in that stuff to preserve it for 12 friggin years? I reckon it's some kind of mad alien burger or something. And remember, Ronald McDonald is NOT a nice person!! http://yourargumentisinvalid.com/wp-...s_children.jpg

Oh btw, I used to hate breakfast and found it difficult to find something too. Now I either stick to good wholemeal break and fruit, yogurt+fruit and nuts and even bran flakes with fruit (the flakes aren't as disgusting as I originally thought). Just a couple ideas.

THanks Fenix ^^^ (yay Im a Spartan)
I do think that at least trying to count them cant kill me , so this morning I did. My breakfast was almost 400cals but that is okey becase I think since I started 4 days ago I always underate and that made me freakishly hungry at night, Ive slipped up the past two nights (specially last night, oh sheesh that was scary). So now I am having lunch at 3pm, i've been cleaning my house for the past 3 hours, I bleached my kitchen lol, it's so clean now I can eat off the floor. I am having

whole wheat sweet onion chicken Teryaki sub (subway) 3inch, because I gave the other half to my brother (im so nice) and also I have a small Italian wedding soup and this is a minus but I did take fruitopia to drink but before you all dice me up, i filled it up with 3/4 ice so really it's not the full cup.

I got work tonight at 6 (eek cross ur fingers for me) ....I will try to have a good dinner and I will bring a apple to work and load up on lots of water. Wohooo I can do thissssss.....

I recommend figuring out some specific meal plans for work. Decide beforehand what you're going to eat when you're not hungry, and then stick to it at work. If you're already planning to eat a grilled chicken sandwich and an iced tea, you won't have the dangerous deciding time while you're hungry. You know, the whole "hmmm, what do I want to eat tonight? ooooh, that looks good... and that too!" time? Come up with a few different mix-and-match things you can eat at work so you can mix it up, but decide ahead of time if you can. You can resist the temptations, I know you can.

I am back from work. And I must say very proudly that I had a very good time. For dinner at home I thought hmm why not have a small tiny bowl of already made macNcheese because I had to be work in 40min, by the time I get ready and stuff I wont have time to make anything, so I tried to have the bowl, I had half a bowl, it couldn't fit, it just made me feel yukki and heavy so i tossed that aside thinking that I can be strong at work and have something really healthy at work. And I did. I had a whole wheat bun 100% with a (TAn TAN TAN) veggie burger, ThATS ALL! Oh and about 2 bottles of water with that. I am home now, resting in bed and typing this, I am not full and althought I do feel like I can eat more, I can even more feel the determination not to. I feel better today, today was a good day

Good job! Keep up the great work. Having one good day, makes it easier to build moving forward, so you have more good days.

Thank you Lido for dropping by, lol feels good to pass a day with success
We can do it.....just keep on pushing, as long as you are trying it's all good!

April 10th (Friday)


Woke up at 10am had breakfast.
Little bowl of rice (leftovers from yesterdays dinner which I didnt have coz I was at work), and two small pieces of chicken and a small glass of water. Went and folded some laundry for a good 35-40minutes and then went downstairs and had a 27min jog on my treadmill (burnt 207calories) I made my big fat sweater all wet from sweat woohoo. I then did some crunches, some but crunches and some weights to condition my muscles a little. Got a big ass cramp in my "six pack" ha ha so then I stopped.

It felt so good to run...I tossed aside a lot of energy and stress. I feel lighter on my feet and refreshed specially since I hadn't exercised for the past two days.

I am happy! wow....I'm happy.


Ps: I went on this calorie counter thing on google and it said I should eat 2654 calories and burn 500...that seems like a lot of calories and I know for a fact that I am not eating over 2000 calories a day, is that right. Can someone help me with this please.

I am 5'8, 22 years old, female (duh!!), 274lbs currenty.

I think you should eat 2000-2100 for now. If it says 2654 i assume thats to maintain and from what I have read on here you should drop that by more then 15-20%. 20% = 530 calories. As you lose weight your body will need less and less calories over time. So the only way for you to continue losing weight is to lower calories or increase exercise or as steve says a combo of both! Lets say your eating 1500 a day now.. and you lose 50 pounds over the next 6 months eating that. You still have more weight to lose but you now weigh less and need less calories so you'd have to drop that down. Well before you ever reached a healthy weight you'd be in a very unhealthy range for calories already. Its all about doing it to get healthy.. live well..( and look damn hot in those jeans!!) Start things out on the right foot and you'll have a much smoother journey ahead

And great job on the food at work! I know its rough being around yummy stuff and not touching it. I baked a bunch of food for my hubby's pot luck today and sat there drooling over it. I helped him drop it off at work and I took my butt to the gym. I had one VERY small nibble of a corner of the pb&j doughnut cause I had never made it before and I wasn't going to send it if it was gross lol. Good job on the running to. I hate running.. I tried to run today and just couldn't muster the energy to last more then 2 mins.

I got a similar number for the number of calories you would eat to maintain your current weight (give or take a bit based on your activity level). If you only restrict 500 calories, that's about 2000 a day. But that's only 1 pound a week.

If you also work out a good amount, you could lose 1.5 to 2 pounds a week.

If you are willing to restrict your calories a bit more, you could lose 2 pounds a week just doing that. Basically, 500 calories less a day = 1 pound lost a week.

Thanks Solty, I needed the extra boost in motivation. I am not so keen on running either but once I get warmed up I do some running and its not so bad afterwards plus it makes me sweat like an animal.

hmm I think Im eating maybe 1800 a day, depends on what I am eating really. But thanks for the info, really helps.

April 13th

The long weekend passed and I cant say I did good or that bad. Saturday me and lots of friends had a huge soccer tourny to go to in London, many MANY good looking fellas there hehe. That morning I had no breakfast because we had to get up at 7 to leave for 8, we decided that none of us were hungry so lets just get to driving. It was a 2 hour drive and all I had was water. When we arrived at the stadium at about 10.20, we sat down found our team thats playing, sat down and rested. At about 12-12.30 the guy started calling. They had a little kiosk outside of the stadium where ppl can get their drinks and food. THey had these tiny subs which I was going to initially buy but then I found out it was assorted and I don't eat pork at all, never. My friend bought herself fries, so i was like whatever and I got them too. They were a big serving too. We then also bought a tuna sandwhich (white bun,lettuce,mayo,cucumbers,tuna) and a bottle of water. I started eating and about 4 fries in my stomach started to hurt really bad. I ate a little more fries and half the tuna sandwich. Afterwards I threw out almost all my fries and kept the other half of my tuna incase i get hungry again, I was full from a few fries and half a sandwhich, world record for me . Anywho, about 4 hours later I got hungry at the rest of my tuna, with a box of chocolate milk. We started driving back at around 6pm, came home at 8pm, my girlfriend was hungry and honestly I was starving. She wanted TacoBell so i was like what the hell, I ate maybe 400 calories all day today, so lets do it. I had 2 burritos a fries supreme and a 7up I was so fulllllllllllllllll and i felt like shit but hey, it happens.
Sunday, I had a light breakfast( cant remeber what it was) for dinner I had a bowl of cream of brocolli and I made sure my mom made the light cream, so thats a plus. I was full from the soup so I decided that i was enough only to realize that in about 40min I gotta run to work (nooooooooooooooo) the temptation of fast food. I came to work and 2 hours in my stomach was growling, I thought that the best idea would be to just eat something healthy now so this way i dont go nuts at home and eat really late. I had one grilled chicken on a whole wheat bun with mozzerella cheese and some sauted mushrooms and a G2 gatorade (only 30cals) it was gross tho Here comes the hilarious part. I came home, hungry? I know I SO overate on sunday maybe 800 calories in total, I dont know what I was thinking, I think i was trying to avoid food. Then, when I got home at about 12am????????????????????? I had a bowl of soup, and of course dumb me budged and had a sandwhich of chocolate spread on it. Then I went to bed, no exercise all weekend But today is monday and I am actually proud of myself for still being motivated and for at least knowing that I didnt do as bad as I thought I would on this long weekend. You guys know how hard it can get with friends around, and then a roadtrip, and the usual things ppl do is eat like crazy, have fun and forget about everything, and it was hard but I somehow kept my head always focused.

Awww don't feel bad. You went out with friends and had a good time. Don't let food ruin that for you. I'm proud of you with the french fries... I would have probably eat them regardless of my stomach hurting. I didn't exercise this weekend either, but today is Monday.. and I can start fresh!!

I have started bringing snacks with me when I go anywhere to try to avoid buying crap. The hungry all the time thing happens. Happened to me this weekend.. no amount of food could satisfy the hunger I had. I ate and ate and my stomach felt empty and growled a few mins later.

Also I really hope your eating more then 800 calories!! You gotta feed your body to get the engine running fast, give you energy, and burn off the fat.