Diet getting a bit boring.
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Tina, you mean that gorgeous creature in the photos is no longer you? Thank goodness. I was sooo jealous.
I have started a diet every single Monday for the last 4 weeks. I can't make it past the afternoon. I get so hungry and headachy and I never feel like eating cottage cheese instead of something aromatic and I never feel like fussing in the kitchen when I'm hungry NOW and I have so much other work to do.
What did you guys do to get yourself psyched? I need some help. I have half again of me to lose.
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Susan, for me it was being sick and tired of being sick and tired of being tired and sick. Plus seeing the progress Ross made helped me to start.
It all came down to a decision. Was I hungry at first? There were times yes but it all boiled down to my attitude towards it: "I am hungry now, but will I pass out or cause damage to my body by not eating for another hour? No!"
I started by kicking caffeine, that was it. I did not go "cold turkey", I kicked the hardest thing first. After the headaches subsided the first week I started to cut out dairy and sugar. It was amazing, the first week of giving up caffeine... I lost 5 pounds. I still ate whatever I wanted that week but I was not as hungry.
Then reading resources that Ross and Craig provided as well as some I had I began to work on what I could manage, not try something that seemed impossible. I gave up milk in my cereal for soy or almond milk. I gave up the cereal with tons of preservatives and went with millet flakes or Kashi. I ate quite a bit of salads with low calorie dressing, mostly on the side just dipping my fork in the dressing prior to taking a bite (that cut more than half the amount I usually put on a salad). And the salads... I made them big so I would feel more full.
There are lots of ways you can go about it Susan, just keep trying. I, like you, tried for years to diet but it always did not work because I did not want it bad enough.
I hope this helps.
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Same for me/us... Just tired of looking and feeling they way we did.
We started by cutting out soda/carbonated anything and immediately noticed a difference in how we felt and had lost a couple of pounds. Now we've started changing our eating habits and adding exercise.
Ask yourself this... Do I want this hamburger or do I want to stay fat? At least that is what we ask ourselves....
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Thank god I never eat hamburgers. Never liked it.
And I kind of stick to my diet 23/24.That one hour is enough for everything!
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I am not super-fit or anything like it, but there are so many diet choices we can make to help ourselves...
I sometimes skip breakfast, but when I do make breakfast, it is oatmeal, or fiber one w/ honey and cinnamon or grits,
My lunch is the open menu, If I have time and an appetite I go out to eat, at one of the buffets for under $10 all I want. But I don't gorge myself.
the final meal of the day, there is the customary drink, I like white eine or a redbull and vodka if I am still working >), or the bloody mary; but the local grocery store has an excellent salad bar with fresh veges, fruits and the best couton toppings u could imagine, there is real crumbled bacon, sunflower seeds, sesame sticks, bread (dont care for this), and with a little oil and vinegar for dressing, these things are munchable! I use the home dressings, but frequently forget to add anything...the fruits and veges are so good!I will admit, if the kids didn't want to eat, I would have cheese and crackers & wine for dinner every night.
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I never have more than two meals a day.
I start the day with strong coffee from freshly ground beans around 6am. It's the only coffee I have all day usually. I have a brunch around 11am and a main meal later in the evening with wine. I never eat the whole meal. I love cooking and eat whatever I like, but I'm a taster, not an eater.
That way I keep my weight around where it should be for my height. We eat too much IMO.
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Okay, I've started in earnest. The last time I dieted successfully, not only was I working out 1-1/2 hours a day I also ate really very little. I know it isn't the healthiest thing but it was the only thing that worked for me ever. I find if I have a "proper" breakfast, it sets me up to be hungry the whole day. A smaller breakfast works better for me.
I just have an apple and a decaf coffee with 1% milk.
When I get hungry mid -morning I have another large decaf ( water-pressed) coffee with 1%. That fills me up.
I was working in a large corporation so there was a cafeteria and I had the same thing every day using only the variation offered in the salad bar and the choice of soup. I had a soup every day, the less fatty of the 2 daily choices, and from the salad bar I chose mostly broccoli or cauliflower flowerets with a little low fat dressing for dipping and then the rest of the plate may have had some small bits of cottage cheese, and/or tinee bit of pasta salad, some beets, some carrots, some other kind of salad thing, maybe bean, or green beens, maybe tomatoes. Mostly the big filling hunks of the raw broccoli and cauliflower.For dinner I alternated between a toasted bagel with tomato and sharp cheddar cheese, or zuchini and potatoe soup ( from the Fit for life recipe book) or some whole wheat pasta with fresh chopped tomatoes that had been mixed with a small amount of olive oil, basil and garlic.
If I was dying of hunger at some point I'd have an apple or another decaf coffee. Lost 35 pounds in less than 3 months.RECIPE: part of the problem with a diet is that we often don't provide ourseleves with a lot of "eye- candy" in the food. Much of the enjoyment of food comes from the "look". and it hardly seems worthwhile to fuss for one person, particularly when you are starving and in a hurry.
Here is something I really enjoy as a lunch or a dinner,and it looks pretty with little fuss and is just so fresh
On a flat plate place 1-1/2 teaspon of extra virgin olive oil
Add balsamic vinegar to taste and mix.
Cut some smallish plum tomatoes in circles and place the circles around the plate. You might want to turn the pieces to coat with the dressing.
Use 2 large bocconcini balls or 4-5 tiy ones, and cut those in circles too. Place a circle(s) of bocconcini on each tomato circle.
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So heres my deal,
20 years old, 5'9" 155 lbs
during the week I have probably 2 beers with dinner and on weekends, it can get up to around 20 beers/hiballs (sometimes more, often less).
I eat whatever I feel like, pizza, hamburgers, perogies, subs/sandwiches etc.
I excersize around 3 times a week (20-70km on my bike each time depending on how much time I have)
I have started to get a little chubby (big surprise, I know lol) and my question is this, how can I keep my weight down (I'd like to be around 150 lean, or 160 muscled) without a lot of change, coupled with the fact that I cannot cook, at all.
any suggestions? I know I should up the excersize a bit, and I've got a gym membership starting next week, but I need some motivation to go, or I just know I'll never make it...
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I just thought I'd say, I have the exact same hairstyle as Tina, with the similar level of thickness bit shorter, but same colour. Please note I am indeed a dude.
@will03 said:
So heres my deal,
20 years old, 5'9" 155 lbs
during the week I have probably 2 beers with dinner and on weekends, it can get up to around 20 beers/hiballs (sometimes more, often less).
I eat whatever I feel like, pizza, hamburgers, perogies, subs/sandwiches etc.
I excersize around 3 times a week (20-70km on my bike each time depending on how much time I have)
I have started to get a little chubby (big surprise, I know lol) and my question is this, how can I keep my weight down (I'd like to be around 150 lean, or 160 muscled) without a lot of change, coupled with the fact that I cannot cook, at all.
any suggestions? I know I should up the excersize a bit, and I've got a gym membership starting next week, but I need some motivation to go, or I just know I'll never make it...
I'm not to knowledgable on the subject, but I'd have to say mix up yor exercise routine a bit. I used to do nothing but jog and swim with similar eating habits to you and guess what happened, I ended up having really well muscled legs and decent arms, but I was fatening up in the middle. Now I try to do 50 pushups/sittups(25 of each in the morning/ 25 before bed) a day and some weights maybe 3 times a week, seems to be fixing things up.
Oh didn't read the last part of your post, well I find that it just becomes part of your routine, just as regular as brushing your teeth(I'm really bad at brushing my teeth twice everyday lol). If you are planning on going to the gym however, find a buddy to go with you.
I found cutting out the subway from my diet wasen't an option, cold cut trios = to delicious give to me now rawr! Of course even when you eat bad you can make good choices, get a water instead of a pop, if you don't want to spend $ on a bottled water just ask for a glass. Ask yourself do you really need to have chips with that sandwhich, yes you do must have delicious crunch with sand... ahem please ignore that the point is theres ways to avoid calories even when eating fast food, also try sushi or organic restaurants for a change some of the stuff is actually pretty delicious, especially sushi
.Sigh @ being concerned with this stuff when I'm not even 17 yet, shoulda played more team sports lawls.
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I was a little surprised at your hairstyle comment, until I noted that you are from BC lol!
Thanks for the tips on the switching it up idea, I think that might be the trick to it, because I'm getting the dreaded biker legs, with little to no upper body lol... and you're right about the fact that you just have to have certain things with other things, like pot and pizza 73, one doesn't come without the other... lol!
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@will03 said:
like pot and pizza 73, one doesn't come without the other... lol!
Hahaha, that reminds me of a great time me and my buddy once had. Well a great time I had, him not so much lets leave it at that
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Have you maybe considered cutting back on the beer. That's a whopping load of calories there. Why do you think they call it a beer belly? And you're only 20. You have no idea what's in store for you. Your body is going to betray you, believe me, like it does for all of us. I was a skinny minny and I was called the carbohydrate kid. It caught up with me. It will with you.
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It caught up with me as well.
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would you suggest more rum? or just cutting back all together... lol
The bad part is, I can't stand any light beers, In fact, I can't think of a single (true) Canadian brewery that sells light beer... we leave that to the Americans (which do sell really well up here, tonnes of bud light, coors light, etc.)
That said, don't tell me that Molson is a Canadian company, those hypocritical backstabbing traitors sold out in the worst way possible, to Coors. ew.
Also with all that said, I could stand to cut the beer back a little... but hey, I'm still young, if I'm not dumb now, when will I have time to be?
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Low-cal solution: Guinness.
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