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Hey everyone, I've been skirting the Beach for the last 1.5 months, but am ready to take it a little more seriously! Basically, I'll be very strict on Phase 1, go crazy after adding in the first carb on Phase 2, gain back 5 pounds, and then do Phase 1 again.
I've been tracking my food on Fitday.com, but think the fear of public shame after posting here might keep me on track! I felt very antisocial amongst my single 20-something friends who love to drink, so I'm going to do a modified Phase 1.5 with the Phase 1 foods and allow moderate amounts of low or no carb drinks.
About me: 24 y.o., 5'9" and 153 currently, goal weight is 140. I wear a size 8 and am generally happy with my body, but want to lose that fatty layer over the muscles I've worked so hard to define. Pre-SBD I went to the gym at least 4 times per week for 2+ hours a visit, but I haven't had the energy since. I also walk 1 mile each way to/from work each day and often go out dancing on the weekends for hours. Despite all of this exercise, I can never break my "plateau" weight of 150. I know muscle weighs more than fat and that I should focus on measurements rather than pounds, but I do have some pudge to lose.
I'm going to grocery shop tonight so I can have a fresh, healthy, and serious South Beach start tomorrow. |
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Tue May 25, 2004 9:42 pm |
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| Abs by summer
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Last night I hit Trader Joe's and my neighborhood grocery store and stocked up on easy to prepare veggies, meats, beans, cheeses, etc. I bought precooked frozen shrimp, scallops, and chicken strips at TJ's - those should make meal prep after work much easier (I usually don't get home until after 8:30). I also bought the Uncle Sam's cereal and some really wretched-looking low-carb bread. I grabbed a low-fat pepper jack cheese and didn't realize until I got home that it's made with rice milk instead of dairy...guess that's not allowed yet.
Last night I cooked up a ton of food to pack for meals this week. I toted a huge bag with me to work with enough to last for the rest of the week: chickpea salad, fat free cottage cheese, SF Jell-O, garden salad, string cheese, celery, low fat american cheese, fat free luncheon meats (turkey & ham)...think that's it! |
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Wed May 26, 2004 1:30 pm |
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| Darlene
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Great work!!! You sound so prepared...Ive found that preparing like that for each week helps sooo much! Its way easier to stay on a diet if you have everything planned out and pre-made!
Good luck and welcome to the beach!
Darlene |
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Wed May 26, 2004 2:41 pm |
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I received some (undesired) bonus motivation last night when I went out with my boyfriend and a few of his friends to celebrate their law school graduation. I didn't want to carry a purse and my skirt didn't have pockets (damn you makers of women's clothing!) so I asked him to carry my ID and $ for me. Well, the little darling was a bit wasted and looked at my licence and shouted (no concept of volume control!) "You weigh 150 pounds? That's a lie! There's no way you weigh that much! Can girls even weigh that much? That's a lot...like soooo much! I thought you were like 105...did they get the numbers backwards?"
Normally I would have just laughed this off as typical guy stupidity (sorry to offend male readers, females aren't perfect either), but I was having a really horrid fat day anyway (that time of the month and I'd been eating really bad food all weekend at his different graduation festivities), so I got really angry and tried to explain that I'm tall and therefore I weigh more than other girls and then asked him how much his male roommate weighs who's the same height as me (trying to prove my point that tall people weigh more). He started laughing and said "you don't want to know how much he weighs. It will just make you more angry!" Turns out his 5'9" male roommate weighs 135! He hides it well beneath the layers of clothes he wears.
Anyway, that was the bonus motivation I needed to lose a little. Not because of his words or because I want to impress him (he gets really upset when I mention the word 'diet' because he doesn't think I have anything to lose), but because I want to be comfortable with the weight number because it goes along with a killer body! So now I'm munching on cucumber slices. Yum...
And a final word: before I get tons of concerned posts about verbal abuse, etc., please know that he's the sweetest guy in the world and always treats me like royalty, and the only reason he reacted that way was because he thought I was smaller than I am...which I really can't be angry at him for! =) |
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Wed May 26, 2004 3:14 pm |
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| paiger81
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I'm with you there. Last week I weighed myself at GNC(in our mall) and was soooo excited about the 10 pound weight loss that I ran to show Kirk. Now the last time I showed him my weight I was around 150-so a good 3-4 years ago. He looks at it, and says- in the crowded mall "Wait, that means you were 190 last week- that's alot. You must really hide it well" Umm this is a guy who's seen me naked so really not a lot of hiding.
Guy's just don't think sometime. |
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Wed May 26, 2004 3:19 pm |
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Breakfast: 1 cup cottage cheese, black coffee
Snack: cucumber slices
Lunch: 3 slices ff turkey each wrapped around 1/3 string cheese
Snack: chickpea salad, garden salad w/balsamic vinegar
Dinner: chicken sausage, black beans, slice 2% American cheese, few bites ricotta, cucumber slices
Dessert: peanut butter w/few chocolate chips
Post "few chocolate chips" eating binge: 4 oreos, several tablespoons of chocolate chips :oops:
Workout: (one hour during lunch) 20 min stairstepper, 20 min stationary bike, 10 min situps
Thoughts on eating today: I did so well all day and then I wasn't able to get home until 9:30pm, when I was absolutely starving, so I grabbed everything in sight that was easy to reheat and power-chowed so fast I didn't have time to realize how full I was until my stomach was aching. I also resisted killer chocolate cravings all day (that T.O.M.) but finally broke down and justified putting three chocolate chips on a spoonful of natural peanut butter. It tasted AMAZING, so I grabbed another couple of chips, then noticed my roommate's bag of oreos...and my willpower fled.
So, tomorrow I'm going to keep a snack on hand in case I don't get to eat until late and I'm not touching any chocolate at all because I can't stop after one. |
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Wed May 26, 2004 8:55 pm |
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| gnat45
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You put your real weight down on your license?!?
Anyway, if people don't believe that you weigh and much as you do that probably means that you have more muscle (as muscle is more dense than fat).
Wasted boyfriend is funny.
I've got about as much to lose as you. I'm at 135 and want to be in the low 120s (I'm 5'5"). |
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Wed May 26, 2004 10:34 pm |
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Paiger81 - You're so brave to get on the GNC scale! Congrats on the loss - 10 pounds is awesome! As to the "hiding"...again, boys can just be dumb!
Gnat45 - I had lied in high school and my license said 125 so I figured it was time to boost it up a bit. When I listed my "honest" weight, I was about 10 pounds heavier. I can't wait to be below my license weight - that's the exciting mini goal!
And drunk boyfriend is usually highly entertaining...especially when he start playing the Sesame Street "Near.....Far...." game. Don't ask... :D |
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Thu May 27, 2004 2:10 pm |
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Breakfast: cup FF cottage cheese, 1/2 cucumber, black coffee
Snack: 2 TBS PB (sugared version - all I had at work)
Lunch: Huge garden salad (spring greens, tomato, green pepper, mushroom, cucumber, onion, turkey pepperoni, FF ham, Newman's vinegrette)
Snack: Chick pea salad (chick peas & chopped peppers in little italian dressing)
Dinner?
I have to go to two birthday happy hours tonight, so I hope I can very sneakily drink a water w/lime and pass it off as a gin&tonic so no one tries to buy me a drink. At least these are both friends who rarely eat, so we won't have any bar food on the table, just lots of tempting cocktails. I'm going to try to leave each one early and then head home to get ready for the long weekend.
I feel totally bloated and got on the scale last night to discover that I managed to gain back 10 of the 11 pounds I lost on SBD - and I gained this in less than a week! To top it off, the boy just surprised me a few minutes ago and told me that he's taking me to the beach this weekend with a group of friends, not to the remote camping spot we'd talked about. So now I'm having the lowest esteem day in months and have to put on my bathing suit (and my game face) tomorrow. Any suggestions on how to quickly get back down? If I could gain it that fast, I should be able to lose it too...
No more salt today and lots of water! |
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Thu May 27, 2004 4:53 pm |
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Grrr! I just wrote the longest entry and when I hit 'submit', it disappeared into cyberspace. So now I'm posting a very abbreviated version.
I was bad this weekend...horribly wretched really. I was staying at a beach house with my BF and a group of friends who've never considered dieting in their lives and I didn't want to deal with them rolling their eyes every time I passed up a beer or hamburger bun, so I decided to eat...and eat I did.
In the spirit of total disclosure, here is what I did to my poor body since the last time I posted:
Thursday night: No dinner, just booze. 3-4 Caipirinhas and mojitos, 2-3 tom collins, perhaps a shot or two... But I did resist jumbo slice pizza from the street vendors on my way home!
Friday:
B: Skipped breakfast because I was running late.
L: BF had lunch waiting for me when I picked him up for the beach - a huge sandwich swimming in bread (roast beef, lettuce, tomato, horseradish, multigrain loaf) and diet coke.
D: 1/2 small Hawaiian pizza, 1/2 pitcher beer
S(?): 2 margaritas, 2-3 Jack&diets, ice cream cone...
Saturday: (donned a bikini completely bloated from the previous day - eww!)
B: Skipped it, busy working on the tan
L: frozen custard cone, 1/2 ham italian w/ham picked out (too slimey)
D: toasted cheese sandwich on WW
D: 3 lite beers, small bowl ice cream
Sunday:
B: Omelet with chicken sausage, onions, peppers, jalepeno cheese
Cooked key lime cheesecake and chocolate cookies from "Desserts with Splenda" cookbook - awesome!! Licked my fingers/sampled a lot!
Afternoon: went to cookout- hamburger w/bun, 1/2 hot dog, 2-3 glasses sangria, 4 vodka & diet red bull, chocolate cake, desserts I made...perhaps more, don't remember
Monday:
L:Wasn't hungry 'til about 4pm. Then ate croque madame (egg, ham, bechamel sauce over bread w/melted gruyere cheese - yum!), side mac&cheese, side salad
D: SF vanilla pudding w/crumbled splenda chocolate cookie
So after that caloriefest, I think I need to jump back on the beach! Starting today (for real!).
B: 2 chicken sausage & veggie quiche cups, V8
S: cheese stick
L: PB&J (Arnold low carb bread, natural PB, sugarfree Jelly), raw asparagus w/black bean puree for dipping
S: small piece low fat gouda
D: (will be) grilled scallops, asparagus, side salad
Heading off to aerobics to sweat off the weekend food debauchery. |
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Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:42 pm |
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Okay, I'm so confused! I ate absolute crap all weekend, returned to South Beach yesterday until I got home from the gym voraciously hungry and grazed on the contents of my fridge while waiting for my dinner to cook - peanut butter, chocolate chips, last two splenda chocolate cookies....then I had a tomato-basil-mozzarella salad and scallops broiled in lemon juice and a touch of butter.
But here's the confusing part: I got on the scale first thing Thursday morning and weighed 157, ate all of that junk all weekend, weighed myself today and weighed 153. How is it that I lost four pounds by stuffing my face with reckless abandon? Makes me wonder why I bother to diet at all (I was stalled/gained on Phase 2 for several weeks last month before I gave up and started eating whatever made me happy). Sorry, I'm just frustrated that when I do everything right I don't lose weight but when I give in to tasty temptation, I get results. Whatever.
So here I am contemplating the benefit of eating healthy again...
B: 1/2 Cup eggbeaters scrambled with 1/4 chicken sausage, peppers, onions, spinach, LF cheddar (very little bit)
S: cucumbers and green pepper slices
L: SBD tuna melt (tuna stuffed in hollow tomato, topped with LF mozz cheese and broiled), green salad
S: string cheese or leftover veggies
D: ??
Oodles of water and decaf tea
Boss is out of town so I'm hitting the gym for a couple of hours over lunch |
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Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:32 pm |
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| So, I have no willpower! The caterer in my office came around earlier with a bowl of fruit salad so I had a half-cup (tasty deliciousness!) and then she came around again with her homemade apricot bread, so I took a tiny end slice (I don't like crust, so I figured that would taste the worst to me). That just put me on craving-overload and I ate three mini Special Dark bars before I could stop myself! I just loaded everything I've had to eat into fitday.com and I'm already up to 944 calories and 34 grams fat (70 grams carbs, 11 grams fiber, 83 grams protein). Guess I'll be having a big salad for dinner tonight...after aerobics. |
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Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:30 pm |
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| Wow sounds like you are having one heck of a time on this diet.....just try to stay focused we are here for you and to keep you motivated! Can you tell me how you made that sbd tuna melt in the hollow pepper.....did you blache the pepper first? add anything to the tuna? Sounds good though and wanted to try it. Thanks.....good luck wish you well. |
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Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:35 pm |
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Hey Devon, thanks for the encouragement! I did so well on Phase 1, I feel like I should have just stayed on that forever!
My lunch was sort of experimental, but really tasty! I hollowed out a large tomato (and patted it dry with a paper towel) and then filled it with tuna salad up to about 1/2 below the top, and then stuffed shredded part skim mozzarella cheese to the top. I did this last night and just tightly wrapped it in foil and packed it in my lunch. At work, I just popped it in the toaster over on broil for 5 minutes or so (however long it took me to eat my side salad!) and took it out when the cheese was melted and a little browned. The tuna in the middle was still a little cold so I'll probably microwave it for a bit next time before broiling. Quick and easy! |
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Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:55 pm |
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Aerobics didn't happen last night. As I was leaving the building on my way to the gym, a coworker sidelined me in the elevator and invited me out for happy hour with the CEO, whom I'd never even met, so I leapt at the opportunity and ended up having three tasty cocktails (with a little cranberry juice). I shared a cab back and because the stupid DC cab system charges you separate fares if you get out at different spots - even 10 ft apart - I got out at my friend's house and walked about .8 mile home (that's exercise, right?).
I entered the kitchen absolutely famished and a little drunk (okay, I was drinking Long Beach Iced Teas) but was a good girl and only ate a piece of low-carb grain bread toasted with low-fat cheese and two peanut butter cookies! I actually demonstrated willpower...when drinking!!! (Sorry, I was very proud of myself!). I then went back out to join BF at a bar and nursed one light beer for the entire time we were there and snuck in two big glasses of water!
I woke up at his place this morning and didn't have time to go home and pack my food, so we'll see how today goes.
B: wheat pita and a slice of cheese (all I could find at his house)
L: Will be a salad |
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Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:45 pm |
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