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katesmith
San Francisco Peninsula, CA
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"28 pounds since joining PEERtrainer."

Kate's blog

I have ultimately lost 88 pounds, but I have lost almost 30 since joining PEERtrainer in May, and I think my biggest successes have been the good habits I have formed as a DIRECT RESULT of belonging to this community and being accountable to myself as well as others by maintaining my logs. These are the habits that have made all the difference (and I did not go cold turkey; I incorporated them slowly over time so they didn't seem like huge
sacrifices):
1. Eating dinner early and not eating or drinking anything after dinner
except water
2. Eating wheat bread instead of white bread whenever I have the choice
3. Not ordering appetizers other than salad in restaurants
4. Ordering the best choice I can find (fish, chicken)
5. Asking for vegetables in place of potatoes or rice when possible
6. Not ordering dessert
7. To satisfy my sweet tooth, I have: low fat/non fat ice cream or frozen
yogurt, a WW Smart Ones dessert, a Slim Fast snack bar, or non fat sugar
free Jello pudding
8. Only drinking water, skim milk, and cutting back to one Diet Coke a day
(I used to drink like 6)
9. Not having mayonnaise on sandwiches, only mustard
10. Not eating cheese on sandwiches or burgers, or at all, really
11. Eating turkey burgers instead of beef
12. Not eating peanuts/peanut butter
13. Choosing pretzels, low fat popcorn or low fat chips (like Baked Lay's)
instead of regular chips or other salty snacks
14. Eating a LOT of salad, with only low fat dressings
15. Choosing low fat cereals for breakfast, like Cheerios or Kelloggs Tiger
Power
16. Exercising 3 - 4 times a week (when trying to lose a lot of weight,
doing 1 hour of cardio; when getting closer to goal, doing 30 min. of cardio
+ weight training to tone up)