This is day 12. I started back on March 5 wieghing in at 248. Today was the first time in over 12 years that a I put on a pair jeans and felt comfortable in them. I could actually sit in my car without feeling like I needed to un-zip them. :tongue:
Well I've made it through one more day :) Today I began to seriouly track what I'm eating. I've kept the fat low and stayed just under 1200 calories for the day. :o I do need to find a way to up my dairy.

[ 03-16-2001: Message edited by: vtmom13 ]

Today was day 14 into my new life. It was also wieght day. Drum roll please...I am 10 pounds lighter today that I was a week ago. I have today eaten a graden omlete with on slice of rye toast lightly spread with fat free cream cheese. Lunch was 1 cup of grapes with 1 wheat english muffin lightly spread with fat free cream cheese. Dinner tonight was a salad with 2 oz of spegetti a 1/2 cup sauce and 3 ozs of skinned chicken breast. I believe I will treat myself to a slice of watermelon before bed.
I'm still trying.

I missed the last 2 days of posting. I can't that. I feel very lonely when I don't stop and it's harder for me to focus on the positive feelings. I've been hovering at about 1275 calories a day, which seems to work alright for me. At reaching my first goal last week of 10+ lost, my husband and I are going to buy a tread mill this weekend. My next goal is 20+ at which time I'm getting an under the cuboard mounted CD player, so I can dance around the kitchen. I'm feeling depressed about having to loose wieght, but I'll get over it. Heck today I relized that my jeans are getting even looser, and what more could I ask.

I guess that I've hit some kind of a new point in this whole diet thing. I find my self having to force myself to eat. I just don't seem to be hunger much any more. That doesn't mean I'm getting cravings for food. I've even been dreaming about what I eat lately :o What I mean is that I've lost those Oh my God I hope no one else can hear my belly growling. This is a good thing.
I've added a cup a green tea to my diet. I read somewhere that something in the tea help your body to use up the fat you eat. If nothing else the hot tea seems to make my body think I've eaten something, and it seems to really help me get past those mid afternoon munchies ;)
Today has gone by pretty well. Tomorrow I'm going to buy tread mill, which is my gift to myself for loosing that first ten pounds. I had a garden omlete for breakfast made with fake eggs. Lunch was a turkey sandwich on 1 slice of rye toast with lettuc and a lite spread of fat free Mirical whip, fat free cottage cheese, aspragus, and beets. Dinner tonight was fish tenders, vinergret potatos, peas and a salad. Not to bad
:o

[ 03-23-2001: Message edited by: vtmom13 ]

Today was tuff. We were on the road all day which my emnt I had to eat two meals out. Have you ever tried to find something good for in the road side eating places. I think I did alright lunch was at Applebee's, I had their low fat chicken quasadia. Dinner tonight was at a pizza place, I had one small slice of pizza with sauge :( onion, pepers and mushrooms. I am striving, and as I write this I am in room with all the left over pizza 8-| God give me stringth.

This was a very good day :tongue: I lost 3 pound this week :) :) :) Breakfast was a garden ommlett 240 calorie. Lunch was a big salad with turkey cut in it 200. Dinner was 3 oz pepper rubbed steak with rosemary potatoes, and a salad about 420. I have done 12 glasses of water and I'm going to treat my self to some frozen strawberries. ;) I also used my treadmill for the first time tonight. I did a half hour on the low impact setting, which works out to about a mile and a half B-)

I brought you a star, Vtmom; you certainly have earned it! I've been peeking in on your journal each day and thought I'd stop long enough this morning to say "GOOD JOB"!

Hugs,
ThinLynn

This was a great day. I walked for 45 minutes on the treadmill. Breakfast was a whole wheet waffle, sugar free jelly and cantalope [205]. Lunch was salad and one Pizza Hut Bread stick [185]. Dinner was pepper sauce over 3oz chinken breat, 1/2 cup pasta, garlic toast and a salad [591] :( Grand total for the day 981 calorie :) :) I guess I can have a dish of sugar free jello with cut up strawberry in it.

Today in day 24 on my diet. I didn't get on line yesterday, I've got to lear that I can't do that. I really the support I find on this forum. Anyhow I 30 minutes on the treadmill cover 1 mile and 3/10. For breakfast I an egg sandwich [185]. Lunch was mashed potato [100], tuna sandwich [185] and cottage cheese [70]. I had a snack at about 3pm of a fruit pop [25]. Dinner was a veggie ziti [237], salad [80] and bread [80]. Grand total for the day 962 calories. I will be giving myself a treat of either an apple or a dish of strawberries. I'm still hanging in there :)

Yesterday was a great day, even though I was coming down with a cold I felt well enough to up my treamill walking time to an hour and did very well on my calories :D
Today has been a diferent matter. I feel awful. It's been storming here and the power has been off must the day, so I haven't felt safe using the treadmill, although I did sneak in 20 minutes. Breakfast and luch went alright breakfast was an orange, a wheat english muffin with fat free cream cheese, lunch was 2 apples. I didn't do well with dinner. Because I'm feeling well hubby [who is an angel] fix hamburgs and chicken noodle soup with fresh cut up veggies. I'm probable still with in my target calorie range, but I really feel like I ate to much at dinner :(
Biggest problem today is that I'm stuck in the house and not feeling good. Tommoroe has got to better.

Hey vtmom.
Just thought that as you seemed a bit down, I'd just remind you of how well you've been doing, and how well you still are going. GO GIRL!

First I want to thank MissChuckle for her kind words and support :tongue:
I still have a awful cold going, but my husband gave me a break today by making the boys go to work with him, so I could just veg out on the couch B-) He brought me home a tea that coat the throat and seems to be helping without adding any calories :D
Breakfast was a blueberry yogurt [130], rye toast [55]with 1 tbs of peanut butter [100]. Lunch was a tuna melt sandwich [205]and salad [80]. Dinner was turkey [135], rosemary potato [155], asparagus [20], corn [60], and carrotts [35]. I also had a 16oz bottle of rasberry ice tea [10] and fruit pop [25]. My grand total to this point 1,010 calories. I am going to treat myself to sugar free fuge pop my husband brought, or a dish of popcorn. 8-|
I find that I still need to work on adding dairy to diet.
I also manged to get in 20 minute on the treadmill. 2 minutes of that time I ran :tongue: the rest I walked at about 3 miles an hour :)

You poor thing. Take care of yourself. You do seem highly motivated even though you are sick. Hope you're better soon.

It's been a tough week. I had the cold [which is better now <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0"> ] my husband has been working out of town all week, and leaves me home alone with 2 teenage boys. Normaly when the hubby goes out of town to work, boy and I eat out every night 8-| I can't do that anymore. They aren't all that happy, so I've been trying to make things they really like, but I might just as well have gone out to dinner, as try to stay away from their food X-( ,But they're good kids and quite helpful to me...They eat everything in the house, never anything left over, and if I had reached for any of there food, I'm sure I would have been bitten :eek: Any how I'm really hanging in there. I haven't cheated nor have a gone over my daily calorie in take. I did take the boys out twice but both time I held things in check. {I'm really glad to see what eating at the resturants will do you, it helps make for healthier choices :D I've been walking for at least a half hour every night, and while the hubby is out of town, I have to work with the guy who are still in town working [we have our own masonry business], so I've upped the workout this week. ;) God it feels good to back on line. This helps me stick to thing so much better :x

The hubby is home, and I'm cooking real food again ;) Today in the gorcery story I ran into my sister-in-law's mother, she is the first person I have ran across how has noticed my weight loss :laugh: :laugh: That is real motivation. I am very proud of myself. I have will power that I didn't know about before now. And my teenage son told me tonight after I cane back up stair from doing my half hour on the tread mill that he is proud of me, and didn't think I was going to stick it out befoer now, but that I'm doing really well :) :D :D My body is starting to change now. I'm loving the me that has been in hiding for so long. :x

Hiya

You really are an inspiration - I've got a husband that shows his love with food as well. Well done for surviving fast food restaurants without having anything - that must have been really tough.

I am doing the healthy eating thing (basically the food pyramid) after years and years of yo-yo-ing(!). The way I get dairy in my diet is with milkshakes, blending fat free milk with banana or other fruit, pineapple is nice. A banana milkshake before bed is good because both banana and milk make you feel sleepy.

Keep up the good work.
:) :) :) :) :)

[ 04-07-2001: Message edited by: Sarah from UK ]

First I want to thank Sarah from the UK for her ideas and support. It's knowing that I'm not alone that make staying on track that much easier :x
Good day. I got in my half hour on the treadmill. I'm at about 3.5 miles an hour with an incline of 2.5 <IMG SRC="smilies/cool.gif" border="0"> I'm finding that I'm eating tons more fruit and veggies than ever befoer in my life. I can't waint until summer get here, and get things fresh and local. I hit about 1100 calories for the day :laugh:

I did 45 min on the treadmill tonight. Sunday is my day to eat one thing, anything I want that would normaly be thought of as diet food, and so I do an extra 15 min of walking to pay for the joy 8-|
Really did very well today, even with the treat. Garden omlete for breakfast [230], baked fish, season potatoes and salad for lunch [380], and a home made small ham sub for dinner [237]. That totaled [847]. Than I added to it 8-| 8-| a small half 'n half icecream cone ;) I don't think I went over to bad 8-|

I've been away for a week, which isn't a bad thing, as I've only been away from the puter, not the diet. ;) I'm back and writting tonight, because if I don't, I'll be going to the frigg to pig out :( I've learned a lot about what makes me eat in the last 6 weeks. I've been able to over come them all, but tonight is killing me. After coming home from a great trip with my family the floor has dropped out from under me. My Mother hit me first befoer I even got in the door with her lovely what a awful daughter I am and how she would have been better off to have had a son :-/ Than I'm the player rep for our Little League and the back stabbing and back bitting that is going on is enough to kill you, and wouldn't you know that they [coaches, parents, kids, other board members] all want to drop everything in my lap X-( I am feeling lower than a snakes belly and what I really want to be doing right now is crawling into the bottom of a pint of Ben and Jerry's :( I don't even want any food. I'm not hungery :( I just want to eatfood s that will make feel even worris about myself, and burry all of feelings I'd say 2 pizzas, a gallon of icecream and a pound of choclote would just about right :c( God I hate this :(