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I lost!! Well today is my weigh in day, Monday.  And I did pretty well, however I cheated and weighted myself with my shoes off.  So from now on I will always weight myself with my shoes off to keep it more accurate.  I did find out that my shoes vary in weight from 1lb to 3lbs, so they could have been changing my weight at every weigh in anyway.  I think I am going to keep doing what I have been doing for 3 weeks and then maybe go to OMG and see if it does any better then what I already am doing, which is basically move veggies, more fruit, cut out junk and soda.  I did pretty good today not cheating too much.  The only thing I ate that isn’t on my diet is a piece of garlic bread-not bad for me.  Thanks for all the support on my first blog.  I didn’t expect to get any comments, just thought I would do this for me.  But it was really nice to have the support THANKS.

O.K. so today I weighed in; I only weighed 1lb more then my starting weight (that is suppose to be sarcastic but I don’t think it came across that way, lol)  I will be weighing in on Mondays.I started this blog yesterday after I had been dieting for about a month and at my last weighin I weighed 198.  My beginning weight was 207. Last week I lost my grandmother to pneumonia, she died Sunday the 8th.  I took the entire week off; therefore I wasn’t at work where I have less access to food.  So I ate and I didn’t even walk one day; walking is the only exercise I have been doing.  I have exercise DVD’s but have not been faithful at doing them; in fact I usually do them only once.  But walking works for me, I do it most days; my minimum daily time to walk as I start this new “life style change” is ½ an hour.  I live in
California by the coast and here it is usually 60-75 degrees year round-so walking outside is great.  I also live in a hilly area, so I have some variety of terrain.  I have been working on walking at work on my breaks and ½ or so on my lunch-that way no matter what comes up after work I have still got my min of ½ hr walk in. I am glad to be back to work and hope that I can keep busy enough to not think about brownies, one of which I ate today with frosting, ouch!  What is that like 500 calories?   I am afraid my blogs will be very boring for anyone else to read; maybe it will be basically an exercise and food log.

Thursday at work we will be having a potluck.  It is a going away potluck and we are suppose to bring only the food that the person who is going away likes, in my case my “baked” potato salad.  It is this: boiled new potatoes, raw bacon, and onion, slathered in MAYO and then thrown in the oven until the bacon and potatoes are crispy, then you top it with shredded cheese and put it back in the oven until melted.  The girl that is going away doesn’t like anything low cal.  Another co-worker was going to bring veggies and was told she shouldn’t because the “going away girl” didn’t like them.  Also, if you don’t participate it might make the person who is going away think you have something against her?  So I will bring my very fattening potatoes, stay out of the food room– and eat my grilled chicken salad with salsa for lunch with fruit, yummy.  Wish me luck, that potluck food room is going to be full of desserts too.

Hi, this blog is for me, if it helps you too great.  I am 43 almost 44, have four grown children and a husband we have been happily married for 25 years.  If you’re like me you have spent your life taking care of others and have not spent a lot of time on yourself.

Time for me so, I have been working on eating right to lose weight.

I have lost 8lbs in about 4 weeks.  Goals: lose 1-2 lbs a week, to go from my starting weight of 206 to 145; I am 5’4”.  And now weight 198.-202-I have found that PMS puts my weight up 5lbs, I have found I gain and loss about 5lbs in a monthly cycle.

I do find the PMS is my biggest issue-cravings!  I have almost no will power or control over what I eat at these times.  Even when I eat what I am craving I still crave.  My main foods for this issue is; salsa and chips, olives, and sweets (chocolate cake). Second issue;  I am an emotional eater-this surprised me I didn’t realize I did this but have found I do eat when I am mad, bored or frustrated.  It is almost a form of procrastination for me, a way not to deal with what ever is causing me to be bored or frustrated or mad.

My plan:  eat the same foods for breakfast, and lunch with little variation (from the diet book, You on a Diet) this probably sounds very boring.  But I am a person who likes very little variety in my food.  I am not adventuress at all in that area-so this works for me, except weekends.  Weekends kill me; I have too much time and too many unhealthy choices at home (I can’t get rid of these unhealthy choices without putting my three grown children who live at home on my diet too).  So I could use advice in this area.

Right now I use Sundays to make my first two lunches for the week. 

Here is what I eat during the week:  A cup or one serving of cereal frosted shredded wheat-or Kashi cereal, and a fruit-usually a banana, lunch is a chicken salad, with some cheese 1 or 2oz with salsa-I don’t ever eat dressing, I don’t like it, so going without dressing is not a loss for me. 

Snacks at any time during the day; any fruit or vegetable for snacks and or popcorn.  I don’t limit these items, and rarely can eat as many veggies and fruit as recommended by most diet programs.

Snacks I try to limit-cake.  I try to eat 100 or less calories of junk food a day-I don’t count popcorn in this area. (I am very bad a limiting myself in this area)

Dinner is meat 2 veggies and 1 carb like bread or corn.

Work Out is ½hr -1hr of a walk a day

And I am trying to eliminate soda-or at least drink diet soda.  This is working pretty well

I drink lots of water

Against all diet advice I fast till dinner time on Wednesdays-I expect to fast the full day if I hit a plato-I also find that when I fast I am not any

That’s all for my first blog.  Thanks for reading this far.