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December 2005 - Posts
This one is all about temptation and control. I let myself eat whatever
I wanted on Christmas Eve - that's the big "party" day in my family.
And overall I didn't eat too badly; certainly not at all like I used to
eat years ago. But I did indulge in
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Weight: 149 (+1)
Gained a pound again. Since I only worked out four times this week and
ate a lot over the weekend, it's not hard to see why. But the last few
days have been good and I'm going to start January strong and under
150.
I'm on restriction
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I have several, so I'm going to separate them into a few posts. Here's
the first one. Almost all of the members of my immediate family -
grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings - have
struggled with weight issues at some point in their
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I'm exhausted and heading to bed but just wanted to check in really
quick. I didn't restrict myself yesterday and of course ate way too
much junk, but not to the point where I felt sick or anything. I'm
going to post more abuot temptation and willpower
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Happy birthday Gary!
Weight: 148 (+1)
I am not bothered in the least at gaining a pound; my trainer had told
me I would gain a little at first by adding the extra calories, and I
know I've been way over trying to get everything right, so to only
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I'm posting this now basically so that I can link to it in my "Old
Posts" section. It will get buried soon enough but I figure once my blog gets up and running on PEERtrainer, people probably want to know who I am and how I got here. So here's the quick
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I'm doing fine with all the calculations; it takes some time and energy
to look everything up, but I can handle that. The hard thing is that
now that I'm supposed to eat 6 times a day and get this
fat-carb-protein balance, I'm having trouble with my
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So today at lunch I threw a pizza party for my journalism students; we
were celebrating finishing half of the yearbook. Besides the pizza and
sodas, a couple of students brought in homemade cookies and brownies.
Not to mention that since today was
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Weight: 147 (-4)
Well, realistically, it's a loss of 0.5 lbs. over the last two weeks. I
think I have to look past that binge-induced spike from last week. It was a
real wake-up call, though; I mean, what if I hadn't bothered weighing myself
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December 14th, 2005
Duh.
My 7th grade math skills need a little work, I guess! I didn't realize
that I wasn't supposed to do just straight percentages of fat, protein
and carbs; it's a little more complicated than that.
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December 11th, 2005
Ha
ha! Well, what I discovered this weekend while calculating my
nutritional data (I feel like a mathematician) was that I do not eat
nearly enough fat. This is really no big surprise because one of my
main goals over
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December 10th, 2005
Had
my first session today with Shane at my gym. He's a really cool guy.
Looks and talks exactly like you expect a personal trainer to: really
buff, gung-ho about fitness, but he's very warm and personable, not
standoffish
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December 9th, 2005
Weight: 151 (+3.5)
I
know there are some people on PEERtrainer or people who do Weight
Watchers who actually won't weigh in if they had a bad week and they
fear they'll gain. I understand that,
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December 5th, 2005
My
poor kid is home sick with a cold & fever for the last couple of
days. I am eating fine during the day with her but as soon as she goes
to bed I'm pigging out. And it's the same old thing
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December 2nd, 2005
Weight: 147.5 (-1.5)
I
have now tested and proved the theory that two good days more than make
up for one bad day. I'm going to do measurements later.
I can't
even believe I'm saying this, but
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December 1st, 2005
The
reactions to my new plan were divided right down the middle. My
PEERtrainer pals were all totally behind me - "Go for it, you can do
it, great idea," etc. etc. The few friends I told in real life? Exactly
the opposite.
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November 30th, 2005
I
think part of the problem is that for so many years I had 150 in mind
as my "ultimate" goal, and once I hit it I didn't really know what to
do about it. One side of me said, "Great, let's keep
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November 25th, 2005
Weight: 149 (-0.5)
Happy
Thanksgiving! A day late, but close enough. We had a really nice small
Thanksgiving with close family. My mom is awesome (which will come as
SUCH a shock to those of you
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November 29th, 2005
OK,
maybe I didn't eat 20 but it sure felt like it. One of those school
meetings where they have the treats out on the tables RIGHT in front of
us, and it was after school and I hadn't eaten anything in 3
hours...anyway,
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November 21st, 2005
Lest
any of my cyberpals were worried, I have been doing great the last few
days. I was really disappointed in myself on Friday so I totally
refocused and have been 100% committed to getting back on track. I've
had three
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November 18th, 2005
Weight: 149.5 (+-0)
I'm
fine with not losing as long as I didn't gain. I look at it as my
second week under 150. I was only able to get in 3 workouts this week,
but last week I only did 2, so I did better. I am definitely
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October 28th, 2005
Happy birthday Mom!
Weight: 150.5 (-1)
Naturally
I'm very happy and I know I worked my butt off this week. The last two
days especially, I was incredibly conscious of everything I put in
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October 27th, 2005
I
have decided to relax my personal ban on peanut butter. I have been
reading a lot about healthy fats and realized that while I am keeping
my diet very low-fat, the fats I actually do eat aren't
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October 26th, 2005
And not in that order.
The Bad:
I
was doing so well this week until last night. I was tethered to the
couch for three hours grading essays, and got the munchies around 8:00.
I knew I was full
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October 24th, 2005
I
can't say enough how HARD these last few pounds are. My husband was
saying tonight that it really shouldn't stress me out; I've come so far
and what's the big deal about a few more pounds? And to a point I
agree. It's
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October 23rd, 2005
The
competition aspect is definitely a great motivator. I am very pleased
with how I ate this weekend and I really feel confident that I can
easily continue to do well all week.
Someone on PEERtrainer
posted a study
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October 21st, 2005
Weight: 151.5 (+0.5)
I'm
disappointed but not surprised. I ate a couple of snack packs of
M&Ms yesterday plus a couple of pieces of chocolate candy at work,
and that's kind of the story of my week. I'm upset with myself
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October 19th, 2005
This
has been a hard one lately, especially this week. I've always had a
sweet tooth - nothing fancy, just good old brownies, cookies, ice
cream, things like that. One of the reasons
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October 19th, 2005
I've
gotten some great food/snack ideas from parenting magazines. Over the
summer I read an article in Good Housekeeping about getting kids to eat
healthier foods, and they had a lot of suggestions
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October 16th, 2005
Are
SOOOO weird. I remember when I was shopping for my wedding dress; at
the time I was about a size 14 and I had to get the dress in an 18
because they run 4 sizes bigger than normal clothes.
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October 14th, 2005
Weight: 151 (-1)
I'm
getting there, slowly but surely. Glad to see a change this week. I
think I'm finally starting to win the battle over temptation. We went
out to dinner with my dad and stepmom
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October 12th, 2005
I've
already talked about exercise not being the most important thing in
weight loss, but as you lose, it's helpful to keep things rolling, it's
good for your heart and your energy, and it tones
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October 10th, 2005
Hello, my name is Kate...and I'm a size eight.
Several
people have commented to me lately that my pants look too big on me, so
I decided to go give size 8 a try, and lo and behold, I bought
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October 8th, 2005
Someone
asked me this question in the comment section. It was a combination of
things. When I got pregnant with my daughter, I was very sick the first
few months and actually lost about 15 pounds.
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October 8, 2005
At
the gym today they had a machine hooked up to calculate all of these
things for you. Naturally I jumped at the chance. I have no idea what
my BMI or body fat percentage used to be; it's been years
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October 7th, 2005
Declaration #1: There is NO way I could have come this far without
Weight Watchers. I didn't go to meetings, I just did it online, but
learning the Points system was the number one catalyst in starting and
keeping me on the right
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October 7, 2005
Weight: 152 (+-0)
Very
strange thing about weight. It fluctuates so much, even over the course
of a couple of hours. I woke up at 5:15 because we were planning to go
to the gym, but we decided
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October 6, 2005
Well, I'm back and blogging again, but with a brand new focus. I'm just
a few pounds away from reaching my ultimate weight and size goals, and
these last few pounds are by far the hardest. I have a lot of support
on PEERtrainer.com,
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November 15th, 2005
One of my friends asked me this today to get meal ideas. This is what I responded:
OK,
this is actually easy for me because my diet hardly ever changes. I am
one of those people who has my favorites and eats them almost
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November 7th, 2005
Today
someone (after telling me I was an "inspiration," which I really
appreciated) asked me how I control urges when I'm stressed or feeling
down. I have kind of touched on this topic over the last couple of
weeks when
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November 7th, 2005
Today someone (after telling me I was an "inspiration," which I really
appreciated) asked me how I control urges when I'm stressed or feeling
down. I have kind of touched on this topic over the last couple of
weeks when I've had
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November 4th, 2005
Weight: 150 (-0.5)
I
am really shocked that I lost this week. I didn't necessarily think I
did that much damage with those two days of sweet snacks, but every
morning I weighed myself and I was
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November 1st, 2005
Can
anyone help me solve this? WHY, when I give in to temptation or allow
myself a treat, does it snowball and turn into a huge splurge?
Yesterday was Halloween, so naturally I was around candy all
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