The Intuituve Eater

So yesterday I experimented with eating and I'm reminded there is no one size fits all for weight loss.  Yes at the end of the day it calories in vs calories out, but my body does different things from others and something from what I think it will do. Anyway, so I had gained 1.6 lbs in a day after staying on plan.  I ate late in the night, so Thursday I did pretty much the same thing except I didn't eat after 4pm. I usually weight myself as soon as I get up a 4am so that is a solid 12 hours for my body to deal with everything. I had my usual breakfast, tunafish for lunch.  I had a hunger headache again, which I thin is related to my homemade ice coffee. Its made up of 3 cups of coffee.  I think its supressing my appetite and then when it finally wears off all the hunger comes shooting back.  I am going to try and go back to the star bucks stuff I can buy at the super market. I didn't eat lunch till 1 or 2 and then I was ravenous.  The tuna fish took ...

So yesterday I had lunch with my best friend.  She's smaller than me, but still heavy.  We went out to an Indian Buffet and I should have just ordered something from the menu, but I didn't want to spend to much since we were splitting the bill and had the buffet BAD MOVE.  It was all creamy sauce stuff which really begs to be poured over rice.  I was trying to pour it over the cauliflower dish, but that had potatoes in it.  I ended up just saying eff it and eating the cauliflower with a little potatoe.  Then my flawles logic *heavy sarcasm* said well if I'mma cheat go ahead and have the rice too.  I then had like 4 glasses of water.  I don't feel like I ate alot, the problem is I ate because of self peer pressure. I think of course wanted to punish myself and was going to make myself to a really hard workout today, but thought.  Ok I don't really want to do it...and I don't want to NOT workout because I don't want to do the work out.  ...

So I haven't posted in a bit, but I've stayed the course.  I hit my exercise goal kind of early so I kinda of slacked off. I'm back at it this week primarily because of my work out buddy at work.  She mentioned we were supposed to work out and that got me back into the swing of things.  I was thinking I should tell her I don't want to work out anymore, but seems to be a good way to make me accountable.  I've been tracking my calories half heartedly, well mostly carbs and sodium and how much water I am drinking.  My ankles swelled up which surprised me, but I think it was due to my TOM.  I also didn't get on the scale because emotionally I just couldn't deal with seeing the scale go up.  Today was interesting I left my lunch at home and thought oh I can order something now, but I ended up running to a supermarket and picking up a smart one. Which leads me to an article on who the obesity epidemic is caused by ultra processed foods, which I totally b...

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So some interesting things have and haven't happened. Last night I went out to dinner for the first time since starting to try and lose weight again. I had been thinking, planning (obsessing) about going to applebees and not trying to inhale everything on the menu. So here is how it went down. I ate fine all day, but I'm used to eating dinner at around 7 when I get home. dinner wasn't till 8 and even then i would have to wait for the food tome come....Not gonna happen, so I went to wendy's and had 2 orders of chicken nuggets. No sides and I drank water. It took the end off. At the restaurant I had a steak and some potatoes (not mashed potatoes) with onions and mushrooms, and Seltzer water. Oh yeah for an appetizer I had the little chicken tacos with Asian slaw. At the end of this I didn't feel full and I was satisfied. No idea what the calorie count was, but I feel like it was a step in the right directions. Usually I would have had 2 mini cheese burgers a...

So I'm still focused. My eating has been pretty good. I had a few hiccups 2 pastries on Monday and mini ice creams yesterday. They weren't whole meals or me overeating so I'm not going to pile on the guilt...It happened lets move on. I haven't been counting calories. I pack my food for the day and stick to that pretty much. If I'm hungry I eat something. I usually have 1-2 left over. I usually pack 1 lean cuisine 2 pieces of fruit and 100 cal snack(sometimes 2). If is mon,wed, or fri I pack a homemade salad and if its tue or thur I pack a frozen breakfast and ice coffee(yeah I'm not giving up the ice coffee) and I pick up toast and a croissant. If I pack 2 snacks I don't eat the second one and I haven't been eating both piece of fruit. Anyway, I think the first big test will come tomorrow when I have to go out to dinner. I don't think I'll do horrible since I'm dying to get on the scale now and I don't want any issues friday morni...

Well summer is over and from my last post till now. I partied alot and also sprained my ankle so no movement on the weight front. I am supposed to stay off of it, but my knees are starting to hurt and I can feel the aches and pains creeping back in. So I am doing walking and weights, all low impact stuff. We'll see how it goes. 23 min drop it in 30 20 min total body toner.

So things are moving right along. I get on the scale friday. I don't feel any lighter, but my body seems alot happier. Some of the issues was huffing and puffing up a small hill I have to work to work in the subway station, my ankles and feet swelling, back hurting, no energy. All of that has changed. Ankles have gone down, feet are good. Its even easier to put on sandals because they aren't so swollen. I can see the difference walking up steps. I mean I running, but I am not sitting wondering if my heart is ok or not. Me eating for the most part has been pretty ok. My eating plan is eat like I have some damn sense. So breakfast at home, which mean I'm not eating the really high calorie and expensive breakfasts I was. Right now there isn't anything I want to bring for lunch and I'm tired of frozen meals. So I have given myself 10 bucks a day to eat lunch, and preferably no fast food. So I think alot more about what I'm eating. I think I'll end up ...

Cardio overdrive 20 total body toner 20 wii ea sport day 2 - 224 calories/21 min So the wii is keeping motivatied....bascailly the excercise are short enough that I by the time I'm tired or annoyed its over. i think the only thing I won't be doing is the inline skating...I also kinda wish there was a setting for bad knees...or in the profile you could request low impact...but I just modify as I go..the inline skating was just a waste...I might see if I can modify it again....Oh yeah and the running never seem to synch with me...maybe because of the size of the thigh..which are pretty big...so I run at my pace...which brings up another point...I would be nice if I could turn off the trainer and just watch the picture or have the words on the screen....I know I am running slow, but the fact I am running at all should be ok lol... Anyway, even with all of my bellaching...it was TOTALLY word the money.

so I bought ea sports active..used it for one day and got ill from bad fish so this is day 2....LOL. I had to reset my goals....so 500 calories in 7 days and 7 hours of excersize and something else I can't remember...i wish there was a way to have the wii upload my info so I can track it online... 29 min of excercise and 300 calories burned. hoping to get in more tomorrow.

Ok, so I have been working out, but not keeping track not sure why, but my eating has been horrible...complete comfort eating. So a friend of mine $50 I would be 329 by May 1. So'll get on the scale April one and work my ass of. I think I've become desensitized to my motivation, or discouraged. will all the ups and downs the scale isn't the motivation it once was. So we'll see how this works so warm up and strength big cut to weight loss jari love, squat/lunge,bent leg deadlift and bicep curl, strangleg deadlife, overhead press. I'll calculate the min later.

So I wasn't supposed to get on the scale until suday, but I jumped on anyway...332...have to say I wanted to cry...Feels nice when all the eating right and excercising pays off. Before I got on the scale my motivation was being able to go to an amusement part and get on a roller coaster. while I was in orlando. So Happy. can't wait to see the 320s You don't have to excercise for 2 hours to lose weight. I did cardio infernio...all the cardio..only one weight section Jari love slim and lean squats and biceps. I will add back next week. I haven't been builind up to my 90 min I used to do and I think those days are gone. I feel like I challenged myself and I got in a good workout which I think it more important that excercising for hours. We'll see.

Normally when I don't post for a while its because I havent been working out or I have been doing badly... but actually I have worked out 4-5 days this month. The rule is basically i do waht I want to do...not forcing myself to do anything to hit my goal for min every month. I think I will go back to it, but I was getting to the point where if I wasn't going to work out for 80 min I wouldn't get up and counting the min was killing me.... So I have been working out, food has been good, I think my only weakness is weekend eating out, but I'll deal with that...so today I am going to cook and life is good oh yeah 338 as of 2-11-09 I would LIKE to get out of the 330 by the end of the month..we'll see

So I had 7 salmon croquette, one sweet potato and i English muffin with butter. I'm ashamed to type the salmon croquette thing, but thats why i am doing this. Broccli and raman noodles. I got snowed in so didn't go shopping so no salad today. I am thinking this might have to be restarted since I'll have the same issue until I get to the supermarket which won't happen till Sunday or Monday. no rice.

So I was in bed this morning thinking i did my abs, but i don't feel anything....well low and behold i got out of bed and stretched and my abs yeah thats what you think. My arms also chimed in. So I was going to do Shortcuts to be weight loss, which is 3 10 min segments, but it seemed to have alot of weight work. I did the first one which is compound exercise without weights and felt li ke I did something....anything this one is good for the days when I don't wanna do 2 seperate DVDs, but I wanna do something. I added the 15 I did, and now I am pretty much 2 workouts shy of my goal...woo hoo Eating was ok, had egg weight omlets with lots of stuff, 2 fiber bars and 2 burrito from baja fresh, but I took them out of their tortillas and make it a bowl which I think probably halved the calories since I know the tortialla is about 300-500 calories. I didn't feel full afterwards, just satisfied....nice.. So something I want to try in decmber is a points system. I want to work ...

Got on the sscale on a whim 336, but I have my persiod so we'll see where I am friday. Cardio overdrive (41min ) and jari love ripped to the core (30 min). Went food shopping yesterday and didn't buy anything sweet (i.e ice cream or danish) Feeling ok. I have to buy a new years eve dress so have more incentive since i haven't really bought clothes in 2 years....So would like to get some stuff in january as well...for a size 24..but we'll see.

So I only worked ounce this week. So that was disappointing. Between warcraft and work just didn't been getting enough sleep and not wanting to get up and do it. So I was avoinding the scale...well I am 332. WOO HOO. So the thing that DID happen was I was pretty consistent on eating. I haven't talked about it in a while but I have been focusing on eating intutively...It doesn't happen all the time, but I try and keep to it. Also i have no idea how many calories I've had, but most of the food I've made myself. When I wanted ice cream rather than buying a pint of ben and jerrys i bought klondike bars. I didn't buy the low cal 100 cal. There were 220 a pop, but even if I ate for which I came close to at one point it didn't add up to the whole ben and jerrys. Also as a rull I tried to have veggies with all my meals. So I went out to dinner yesterday and I did over eat, but I asked them to not give me rice and beans. I had rice and salad with my backe...

Worked out this morning. I need to admit to myself i am never going to work out at night or extremely early in the morning. eating has been ok. So we'lll see where I am friday. slim and lean and the the firm maximum calorie burn Ok so I just ordered 4 new dvds, part of my problem is I think I have been doing the same ones for 3 years, so I'm a lil bored. So If I hit 500 min this month I can buy the 2 yoga ones I want. Added Later: So I was thinking what kind of incentive can I use to get me to work out because losing weight helps but I wanted something none cale related. So since I am into this who sewing thing...I get a pattern for each week I hit my excercise goal. So right now I should be at least at 250 min, which I am not (133) so If I hit my goal this week I get 2 patterns. and a pattern each week I make my goal. Only one patter. I think I might throw in book credit too. We'll see so I need 117 more min this week.