karlam
05-08-04, 07:08 PM
This is my journal , foods, goals and life.
a little about me ok
I am a mom of 3( 2 my own and 1 my grand child who I adopted) I am single now and loving it, and do home health care 7 days a week. my children are 25, 9 and 3 years of age.
I started dieting seriously for the first time in my life on March 5th of this year because I decided I was not going to get old and let life pass me by any longer. I have always ran and when I could no longer run I left my first love slip away. I ran every where,ran to the store, ran to the corner. ran as much as I could,and soon could not run any longer. I miss being able to run, and to run with my kids is my life's dream.
I am 45 been heavy off and on most of my life and most of my childhood was spent eating or sneaking food. I have always put food center stage, and both my husband and I and kids ate out almost daily. I had really not cooked a home cook meal by maybe 1 time a week or less in 7 years. My kids loved the chinese resturants, the variety of foods, and of course eating at many different resturants every day of the week.
I am grateful now that my children did not become over weight from this, and that I can not be blamed for there weight in the future as I began on March 5th to start new and re do my whole way of eating and for the whole family as well.My kids never had a sceduled meal, we ate when we wanted, and the kids snacked non stop.I think if it was not for the fact my daughter was on a swim team she would in fact have been a heavy child.
She was in the water every day for 3 hours so much of her excercize was done with laps and such so her weight was under control.
But back to me, and my problems, I decided food was no longer going to be an issue with me and I was going to eat to live, not live to eat as I had done my whole life.
The day I started my diet (63 days ago) I weighed in at 315 at my doctors office, Today I am down to 270 with 5 laps in my dieting days. Seems when I get my period I tend to fall and fall hard, but I am learning to do more excercize and less cravings.
Last week I fell hard for 3 days and gained 5 pounds because I ate everything in site, when I finally got my head together I was 5 pounds heavier and very mad at my self for falling so hard. I know we all do it, so I picked my self up and lost this week the 5 pounds I had gained.
I only do 1,100 calories a day, or less, between 64 and 100 oz's water and of course I drink green tea like its going out of style!
I am determined to lose 100 pounds by the years end, and praying for at least 40 more off before we go to Disneyland in August ( 24-30th )
I will be posting my before, during, pictures as soon as I learn how, and my ups and downs as they happen.
I do my treadmill everyday until I can no longer do it ( 10 minutes of very fast walking) and hope toget up to 15 minutes on the next 10 pound loss. I have problems with my feet so this is painful but I am notgoing to let this stop me!
I have been off all diebetic meds since March and my blood sugars are normal, except for the dumb days when I ate everything in site!
I no longer take my arthritis meds, I take an asprin and my thyroid meds and thats it! I refuse to be tied down to blood sugar pills, arthritis meds, blood pressure meds and any other meds I have been on. I am sure with the losses I will feel better and better.
my goal for May is 10 pounds off, to be 260 by May 30th.
my daughter has lost several pounds and is so slim and pretty, but believe me this came with much fighting for both my little ones. Both rebelled first because I stoped all eating out.They were mad believe me! Next came no snack foods in the house, only fruit. That was the next hurdle. My three year old came unglued when he could not have chips, cookies etc.
My daughter could not have school lunches any more and this was also hard on her until she relized she loved ,bolied eggs ,turkey sandwitchs, and yougert, and fresh fruit for lunchs.
She bagan to weigh her self like me in the mornings and found she was losing weight.
She is very tall for her age and I think this helped as if she was shorter she would be pudgie. She has maintained her loss for 4 weeks and now can eat school lunches at times and maintain good eating habbits. She will not eat the lunches on days there is grill cheese, or anything fried. She is happier and she is so pretty! (This is her and my 3 years old picture above )
The 3 year old and I bucked every step of the way, but to my amazement his temperment changed, he became more even tempered and less fussy.
I also put him on a restricted diet and did not let him have any snacks at school unless fruit or some cheeses. we found out 2 years ago he was alergic to wheat rice, soy, peanuts and eggs so we had to rethink his whole eating.
YOu see he was diagnosed as Autistic from the age of 5 mon ths old, but if you could see him now you would never have guessed. I have lost much sleep over his 3 years of life becuase he either fussed day in and day out, could not handle any stimulation or noises and so we had a very hard time for a very long time. He would throw up to a hundred tantrums a day, or more, over anything. But since being on this diet ( life change) his problems seemed to slowly disapear. The school called and asked me one day " is he on meds? NO I replied He is better because of his diet. together we managed to stop all the bad eating, and re construct a better habbit of eating fruits. Before he hated any kind of fruits, and you could not get him to even eat peaches.
Today he will acually ask for fruit! Oh he will still test me and cry for crackers and such. but since he has become a different kid I will not go backwards!
Just a few months ago I was told he may not be ready to go to pre school because he was so hard to deal with, now they say he is just like the other kids in that he participates and has a great time.
I took him to the doctors and she said she would not be able to tell he was ever autistic! I told her about the diet my whole family is on, a new way of living so to speak, she told me that when parents find out there kids are Autistic, some doctors put them on special diets to see if this helps with the behaviors. She was not his doctor when he was diagnosed his doctor retired so I never knew of a special diet.
She was amazed I did it on my own with out knowing about the diet, and that he was doing so well.
So you see, this was not a diet for me, but a whole family life change.
I look forward to every day and seeing the pounds come off and staying off.
I never took dieting serious, I just did it for a while until I got bored then when over board again. Now my mind is different.
I no longer plan my meals thru out the day, nor think of what I am going to have in the next few hours and what to do until then.I used to plan every stage of my day, and every little snack.I could not wait to have the next snack, or the next big meal. and I could never make it til bedtime with out another snack. Now I stop eating anything before 5:00 pm. I have only 1 snack a day ,(an apple or orange or other fruit. )
Now I cook several days worth of foods ( stuffed peppers with fat free turkey) or BBQ chicken, or even steaks far enough in advance that I can pop it into the microwave when I get home.
The kids eat pre made meals also if I have time and if not I fire up the grill and make them grilled turkey burgers, or grilled chicken ( they love that) I am so happy to have a gas BBq LOL! It only takes me 15 minutes to make us all dinner and then we all sit down together for dinner.
I also started to make them fruit popsycles. when the ice cream man came by they both were mad at me for not getting ice cream, now I just open the freezer.
well enough about me,
I plan on posting my thoughts and feelings here along with my ups and downs.
The picture I am trying to up load is of me at 275 pounds. taken 2 years ago. I will be posting a recent one of me when I get down 10 more pounds.I also have a 315 pound me but I had that pic taken on film so I must develope it before putting it up here. I am also going to have my nine year old take a new picture of me in the next few weeks when I lose the next 10 pounds.
This picture is not very flattering of me, but I do not feel very flattering right now.
I know with hard work, and a new way of life I will look great again and feel so much better!
a little about me ok
I am a mom of 3( 2 my own and 1 my grand child who I adopted) I am single now and loving it, and do home health care 7 days a week. my children are 25, 9 and 3 years of age.
I started dieting seriously for the first time in my life on March 5th of this year because I decided I was not going to get old and let life pass me by any longer. I have always ran and when I could no longer run I left my first love slip away. I ran every where,ran to the store, ran to the corner. ran as much as I could,and soon could not run any longer. I miss being able to run, and to run with my kids is my life's dream.
I am 45 been heavy off and on most of my life and most of my childhood was spent eating or sneaking food. I have always put food center stage, and both my husband and I and kids ate out almost daily. I had really not cooked a home cook meal by maybe 1 time a week or less in 7 years. My kids loved the chinese resturants, the variety of foods, and of course eating at many different resturants every day of the week.
I am grateful now that my children did not become over weight from this, and that I can not be blamed for there weight in the future as I began on March 5th to start new and re do my whole way of eating and for the whole family as well.My kids never had a sceduled meal, we ate when we wanted, and the kids snacked non stop.I think if it was not for the fact my daughter was on a swim team she would in fact have been a heavy child.
She was in the water every day for 3 hours so much of her excercize was done with laps and such so her weight was under control.
But back to me, and my problems, I decided food was no longer going to be an issue with me and I was going to eat to live, not live to eat as I had done my whole life.
The day I started my diet (63 days ago) I weighed in at 315 at my doctors office, Today I am down to 270 with 5 laps in my dieting days. Seems when I get my period I tend to fall and fall hard, but I am learning to do more excercize and less cravings.
Last week I fell hard for 3 days and gained 5 pounds because I ate everything in site, when I finally got my head together I was 5 pounds heavier and very mad at my self for falling so hard. I know we all do it, so I picked my self up and lost this week the 5 pounds I had gained.
I only do 1,100 calories a day, or less, between 64 and 100 oz's water and of course I drink green tea like its going out of style!
I am determined to lose 100 pounds by the years end, and praying for at least 40 more off before we go to Disneyland in August ( 24-30th )
I will be posting my before, during, pictures as soon as I learn how, and my ups and downs as they happen.
I do my treadmill everyday until I can no longer do it ( 10 minutes of very fast walking) and hope toget up to 15 minutes on the next 10 pound loss. I have problems with my feet so this is painful but I am notgoing to let this stop me!
I have been off all diebetic meds since March and my blood sugars are normal, except for the dumb days when I ate everything in site!
I no longer take my arthritis meds, I take an asprin and my thyroid meds and thats it! I refuse to be tied down to blood sugar pills, arthritis meds, blood pressure meds and any other meds I have been on. I am sure with the losses I will feel better and better.
my goal for May is 10 pounds off, to be 260 by May 30th.
my daughter has lost several pounds and is so slim and pretty, but believe me this came with much fighting for both my little ones. Both rebelled first because I stoped all eating out.They were mad believe me! Next came no snack foods in the house, only fruit. That was the next hurdle. My three year old came unglued when he could not have chips, cookies etc.
My daughter could not have school lunches any more and this was also hard on her until she relized she loved ,bolied eggs ,turkey sandwitchs, and yougert, and fresh fruit for lunchs.
She bagan to weigh her self like me in the mornings and found she was losing weight.
She is very tall for her age and I think this helped as if she was shorter she would be pudgie. She has maintained her loss for 4 weeks and now can eat school lunches at times and maintain good eating habbits. She will not eat the lunches on days there is grill cheese, or anything fried. She is happier and she is so pretty! (This is her and my 3 years old picture above )
The 3 year old and I bucked every step of the way, but to my amazement his temperment changed, he became more even tempered and less fussy.
I also put him on a restricted diet and did not let him have any snacks at school unless fruit or some cheeses. we found out 2 years ago he was alergic to wheat rice, soy, peanuts and eggs so we had to rethink his whole eating.
YOu see he was diagnosed as Autistic from the age of 5 mon ths old, but if you could see him now you would never have guessed. I have lost much sleep over his 3 years of life becuase he either fussed day in and day out, could not handle any stimulation or noises and so we had a very hard time for a very long time. He would throw up to a hundred tantrums a day, or more, over anything. But since being on this diet ( life change) his problems seemed to slowly disapear. The school called and asked me one day " is he on meds? NO I replied He is better because of his diet. together we managed to stop all the bad eating, and re construct a better habbit of eating fruits. Before he hated any kind of fruits, and you could not get him to even eat peaches.
Today he will acually ask for fruit! Oh he will still test me and cry for crackers and such. but since he has become a different kid I will not go backwards!
Just a few months ago I was told he may not be ready to go to pre school because he was so hard to deal with, now they say he is just like the other kids in that he participates and has a great time.
I took him to the doctors and she said she would not be able to tell he was ever autistic! I told her about the diet my whole family is on, a new way of living so to speak, she told me that when parents find out there kids are Autistic, some doctors put them on special diets to see if this helps with the behaviors. She was not his doctor when he was diagnosed his doctor retired so I never knew of a special diet.
She was amazed I did it on my own with out knowing about the diet, and that he was doing so well.
So you see, this was not a diet for me, but a whole family life change.
I look forward to every day and seeing the pounds come off and staying off.
I never took dieting serious, I just did it for a while until I got bored then when over board again. Now my mind is different.
I no longer plan my meals thru out the day, nor think of what I am going to have in the next few hours and what to do until then.I used to plan every stage of my day, and every little snack.I could not wait to have the next snack, or the next big meal. and I could never make it til bedtime with out another snack. Now I stop eating anything before 5:00 pm. I have only 1 snack a day ,(an apple or orange or other fruit. )
Now I cook several days worth of foods ( stuffed peppers with fat free turkey) or BBQ chicken, or even steaks far enough in advance that I can pop it into the microwave when I get home.
The kids eat pre made meals also if I have time and if not I fire up the grill and make them grilled turkey burgers, or grilled chicken ( they love that) I am so happy to have a gas BBq LOL! It only takes me 15 minutes to make us all dinner and then we all sit down together for dinner.
I also started to make them fruit popsycles. when the ice cream man came by they both were mad at me for not getting ice cream, now I just open the freezer.
well enough about me,
I plan on posting my thoughts and feelings here along with my ups and downs.
The picture I am trying to up load is of me at 275 pounds. taken 2 years ago. I will be posting a recent one of me when I get down 10 more pounds.I also have a 315 pound me but I had that pic taken on film so I must develope it before putting it up here. I am also going to have my nine year old take a new picture of me in the next few weeks when I lose the next 10 pounds.
This picture is not very flattering of me, but I do not feel very flattering right now.
I know with hard work, and a new way of life I will look great again and feel so much better!